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 Waiting on God's presence. You know, this autumn we've been following a series, and it's the last in that series today,

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 where we've been thinking about what it means to live with a sense of the presence, the supernatural presence of God in our everyday lives.

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 But one question which I'm not sure we've really dug deep into throughout all of this time, and I think it's perhaps a really important question,

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 is what about those times, those experiences, where we don't feel the presence of God?

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 What about those experiences where that can actually be quite agonising at times?

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 When we cry out, God, where are you? When are you going to move on this? When are we going to see some action?

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 When is the presence of God going to become really apparent?

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 And so today, as we round off this series and we move into Advent next week,

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 we're thinking about that theme, waiting on the presence of God.

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 What does it mean to wait on God's presence?

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 I don't know if you've seen the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

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 Anyone seen that film? Great film. If you haven't seen it, go and watch it.

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 But there's a line in that film. It's often actually attributed to John Lennon.

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 It goes like this.

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 It says, everything will be all right in the end.

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 And if it's not all right, it's not the end.

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 That simple one line carries an enormous weight of theological significance.

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 And I'm quite sure that if it was John Lennon and I said it,

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 or the writers of that film, never actually really kind of intended, but it's there anyway.

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 Everything will be all right in the end.

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 And if it's not all right now, it's not the end.

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 And in a roundabout very different way,

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 that's what the message is in that passage that we just had read to us a moment ago.

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 When we sense that feeling of where is God, we're waiting on the presence of God.

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 We believe in it. We want to believe in it.

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 And our prayers are praying with that sense of anticipation.

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 But somehow it doesn't seem to match our experience.

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 We need to revisit these basic tenets of Christian belief

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 that talk about that sense of the presence, but the not yet presence of God.

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 So when we look at the Christian worldview,

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 we see it very helpfully captures that ambiguity

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 in a way that actually I think makes the Christian gospel

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 and all its claims all the more compelling.

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 Because it engages reality.

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 First, it tells us, the Christian gospel tells us God created the world.

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 That affirms the reality of the presence of God as we experience it in life.

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 But the Christian narrative tells us that we live in a broken world, a fallen world.

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 God gives us freedom and we reject that freedom and we've turned our back on him.

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 We have the reality of sin and brokenness and death and dying in the world.

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 God gives us an experience of God.

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 This experience of, well, where is God?

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 He seems to be absent.

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 And yet it's that the Old Testament points forward to the coming of Jesus

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 and that the gospels tell us how Jesus has come to us, God has come to us in him.

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 It tells us that God is with us.

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 He is present.

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 And yet the gospels then finish by saying that Jesus has returned to be with his father

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 with the promise that one day he will return and make all things new.

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 And so we sense that kind of absence of God.

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 And yet God is an absence because he's here by his Holy Spirit

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 and he gives us that promise that one day the end will come

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 and we don't know how or when or what that will be

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 but it's there in scripture that one day God will bring history to conclusion

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 and all will be well.

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 And therefore we live in that place of tension

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 between the already of God's presence

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 and what God has done through his creation,

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 through his coming to us in Jesus

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 and with the Holy Spirit present among us,

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 the already of God's presence

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 and the not quite yet of God's presence.

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 And it's in that place of tension

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 that we wait upon the presence of God.

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 He is present

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 and yet there's a sense in which he isn't in all his fullness yet.

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 So our calling then is to live in the light of that promise

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 as we wait on God to live in the light of that end which is coming

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 which isn't yet here but one day will be.

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 So what might that look like in practical terms?

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 Well I want you to imagine a picture

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 as we unpack this in a little bit more detail.

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 I want you to imagine that we walk into a restaurant

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 and as you walk into that restaurant

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 you can see three different types of waiting that are going on.

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 The first type of waiting is

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 I want you to imagine that you've gone into this restaurant

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 but you've got limited time.

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 Perhaps you've got tickets to a show that you're going to see in an hour.

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 You've got an hour to order your meal, eat your meal,

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 get out the door and get to the theatre.

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 And as you go in, you sit down.

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 Nobody's said hello to you.

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 You can't even see any members of staff around.

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 You're waiting.

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 You have a look at the menu.

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 You know what you want.

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 You just want something that's quick.

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 But there's nobody there.

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 So you're waiting to be served.

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 And in that place of waiting, it's agonising.

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 You're looking at your watch.

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 You haven't got time.

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 You're getting impatient, frustrated, angry.

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 You start to think,

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 am I just going to give up on this place,

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 walk out and go somewhere else?

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 I want to suggest that that sense of waiting

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 is very much a part of our Christian experience.

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 When, Lord, are you going to intervene in this situation?

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 I've been praying about this for ages.

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 I need to see some action.

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 I want to be reassured of something.

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 I feel like giving up.

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 Trying something else.

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 It's a part of waiting.

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 And these words in 2 Peter that we heard just now

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 were written actually into that experience

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 in that first century.

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 It's the first century of believers

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 who were being persecuted for their faith,

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 whose daily experience is,

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 when, Lord, when are you coming back?

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 Without wishing to oversimplify Peter's response there,

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 but saying we are called to live in the light of expectation

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 involves patience.

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 Now, that, of course, is one thing to say.

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 It's a very different thing to do.

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 There are no easy answers,

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 except that we need to know that God has got it in hand

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 because God is internal, eternal.

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 And God's eternity contrasts radically

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 with our experience,

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 which has only ever been in time and space.

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 And so it is that Peter quotes back to the psalmist

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 who says that, you know,

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 a day to God is like a thousand years.

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 And a thousand years is like a day

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 because God is eternal.

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 He doesn't differentiate between those things,

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 but our lived experience knows of all the difference.

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 And the challenge for us is to come to terms

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 with the fact that God's perspective in his eternity

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 is very different from ours.

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 You may have heard that old joke

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 about the guy that was having an argument with God one day

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 and said, God, is it true that a thousand years

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 is like a day to you?

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 God answered him back and he said,

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 yes, that's true.

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 He wasn't expecting that.

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 So he said, so God,

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 is it true then that one second

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 is like a million years?

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 To a surprise, God answered him back again

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 and said, yep, that's right.

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 One second is just like a million years,

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 a million years but a second to me.

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 Man thought about this

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 and so his next prayer was this.

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 He said, God, if that's the case,

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 is a million pounds to you just like a penny

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 and a penny just like a million pounds?

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 God said, yep, you're right.

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 He said, God, could you give me a penny?

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 God said, sure, just wait a second.

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 That agonizing weight

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 is put into a different frame

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 when we see that God is eternal.

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 It doesn't suddenly make it easy.

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 It in itself doesn't change things

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 but it does change the way we look at things

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 and that is what Peter is urging us.

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 So there is that type of agonizing weight

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 but there's two other types of weight

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 I want to suggest.

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 Let's go back to this restaurant scene

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 and I want you to imagine

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 that now you're in a different situation

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 of waiting.

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 You've gone in.

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 You're not in a hurry

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 but you've gone in.

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 You're just looking for a really lovely evening

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 out in this restaurant

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 and the moment you walk in through the door

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 you just love the atmosphere

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 perhaps there's some lovely music playing

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 the smells coming out of the kitchen

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 are just amazing

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 and as you look around

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 and you see food being taken to the table

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 that others have ordered

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 you think, wow, I cannot wait for this.

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 The staff meet you on your way in

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 they're super friendly

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 you just love them to bits already

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 and you sit down

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 they take your order

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 and you wait for it.

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 Only this time

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 it's not that agonizing, impatient wait

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 it's that wait for the food to come

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 which as your stomach rumbles

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 there's something quite enjoyable about it.

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 Living in the light of God's eternity

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 living in the light of God's promises

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 knowing that it's not alright yet

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 because the end hasn't come

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 but we anticipate it

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 knowing it

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 it's that kind of waiting.

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 There's a story about two boys

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 twins

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 and one of them

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 always seemed to be

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 much more hopeful than the other

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 and their parents

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 were always arguing about this

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 and say, he's always so much more helpful

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 and the other said, no he's not

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 yes he is, no he's not

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 so they decided an experiment

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 to try and settle the argument

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 it was Christmas

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 they bought both of these brothers

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 a bike each

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 except

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 the one that was always

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 the hopeful one

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 they hid his bike

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 out of the way

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 so they wrapped up two things

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 they wrapped up

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 two boxes

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 in one box

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 was a bike

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 and that

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 they were going to present

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 to the brother

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 that was always

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 not so hopeful

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 in fact was quite negative

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 in his thinking

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 and in his approach

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 to life in general

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 to the one who was always hopeful

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 they wrapped up the box

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 as I say

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 there was a bike for him

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 but they put it out of the way

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 and as part of the experiment

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 instead of putting the bike

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 in this box

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 they filled it with straw

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 Christmas morning came

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 brothers ran down

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 the more kind of

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 less hopeful one

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 didn't quite run down

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 more kind of

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 sauntered down

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 ripped open the box

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 pulled out this gleaming

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 brand new bike

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 oh a bike

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 thanks

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 looks like it's raining outside

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 I hope I'm not going to fall off

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 meanwhile the other boy

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 has just ripped open his box

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 and pulled out the straw

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 and he's just shut off

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 and he's looking in all directions

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 mum and dad are getting

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 a little bit worried

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 what's going on

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 so are you okay

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 he said yeah yeah yeah yeah

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 he looks really excited

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 so what are you doing

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 he said I just know

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 there's got to be a pony

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 here somewhere

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 living in the light

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 of God's presence

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 is about hope

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 hope doesn't come easy

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 let's not pretend that

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 but we need to remember

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 that tension

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 that we live

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 between the already

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 of God's presence

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 and that which is to come

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 in all its fullness

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 at the end

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 because

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 Jesus' promise

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 is that

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 it will be alright

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 in the end

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 and if it's not alright now

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 it's because it's not yet

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 the end

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 and in those moments

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 of agonising wait

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 where we just

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 when is this going to sort out

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 when is this

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 when are we going to see

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 some answers to some prayer

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 when is God going to move

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 in this situation

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 we need to hold

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 to that fundamental truth

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 that's what Peter was telling

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 the early church

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 some 2000 years ago

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 and it's what we need

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 to hold fast to

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 now

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 but how do we do that

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 well let's go back

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 to the restaurant

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 because there's one

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 more type of waiting

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 that I want to suggest

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 and that's to do with

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 as the name

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 more than suggests

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 the waiting

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 that we see taking place

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 with a waiter

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 the old

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 apparently the word

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 the English word waiter

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 comes from

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 variations of the old

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 French

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 and German words

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 meaning

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 to attend

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 to stay awake

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 to be alert

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 to attend

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 to needs

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 to wait

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 at tables

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 means

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 literally

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 to do that

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 to be on

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 heightened awareness

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 ready

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 poised

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 in a posture

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 of ready to serve

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 you see

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 to wait on the presence

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 of God

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 is not just a passive

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 consumerist thing

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 it's not something

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 that we do

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 just to

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 sort of

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 make us feel good

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 to make us

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 warm and fuzzy

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 inside

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 when life's tough

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 that call

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 that invitation

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 is a real

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 practical challenge

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 to wait on the presence

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 of God

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 doesn't mean we sit back

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 and we do nothing

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 and we just wait

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 for God to step in

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 zap

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 it's a call

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 to actually

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 actively engage

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 in service

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 again

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 so without wishing

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 to oversimplify

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 if we're serious

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 about wanting

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 to see God

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 happen in our lives

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 he calls us

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 to be a part

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 of that action

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 part of the kingdom

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 and in a way

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 it will be

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 that the very thing

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 that we are agonizing

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 over

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 when will God

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 intervene in this

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 situation

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 we may not see

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 action in that area

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 but part of that

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 bigger picture

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 as he calls us

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 to serve

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 we see action

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 in other areas

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 and the danger

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 can be that we

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 compartmentalize

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 our lives

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 and we angst

00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:18.120
 and we stress

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 over one area

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 where we don't

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 see God moving

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 but meanwhile

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 there are other areas

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 where he can

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 and he does move

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 don't ask me

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 why

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 he does seem to

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 in some

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 at some points

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 and not in others

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 at other times

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 but if we find

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 ourselves agonizing

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 over the wait

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 a question we need

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 to ask ourselves

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 of what are we doing

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 not just about

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 that situation

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 but about the wider

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 picture

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 to actively engage

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 in the work

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 of God's kingdom

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 see

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 that word

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 the phrase

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 to wait

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 on God

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 comes from

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 the psalm

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 from

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 Psalm

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 27

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 verse 14

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 talks of

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 not waiting

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 for God

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 it talks of

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 waiting

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 on God

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 disciples of

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 Jesus

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 in the 21st

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 century

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 disciples of

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 Jesus

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 in any

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 century

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 are called

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 not to

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 wait for

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 God

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 but to

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 wait on

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 God

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 now

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 ultimately

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 only God

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 will shift

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 certain things

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 but he calls

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 us to be part

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 of that bigger

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 picture

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 that bigger

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 journey

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 that kingdom

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 that he promises

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 that is coming

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 in all fullness

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 that we live

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 in that place

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 of tension

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 between the

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 already

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 and the not

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 quite yet

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 but he calls

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 us to play

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 a part in it

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 to be active

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 to be waiting

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 in an active

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 roll up our

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 sleeves and get

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 dirty kind of

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 way

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 what does

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 that look like

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 in practical

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 terms

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 well one last

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 story

00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.319
 John Patton

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 was a missionary

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 who lived in

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 the 19th

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 century

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 he spent

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 some time

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 in the

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 southwest

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 Pacific

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 in some

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 islands

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 called the

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 New Hebrides

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 during his

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 time there

00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:01.559
 John Patton

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 seeked to

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 translate

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 St John's

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 Gospel

00:17:04.139 --> 00:17:05.639
 into the

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 indigenous

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 language of

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 those islands

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 he lived

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 there and he

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 worked on his

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 translation and

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 he got to

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 know the

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 people that

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 lived in

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 that place

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 and it was

00:17:16.360 --> 00:17:16.740
 a dangerous

00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:17.680
 place incidentally

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 he just

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 couldn't find

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 a word

00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:22.580
 that meant

00:17:22.580 --> 00:17:24.580
 faith

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 or belief

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 or trust

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 or anything

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 like it

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 he found

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 that the

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 people that

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 he was living

00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:32.779
 among

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 seemed to

00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:34.460
 be a people

00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:34.920
 who had no

00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:35.600
 faith and no

00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:36.240
 trust in

00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:36.560
 others

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 they were

00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:37.620
 suspicious of

00:17:37.620 --> 00:17:38.180
 anybody

00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:40.779
 so he had

00:17:40.779 --> 00:17:41.560
 to find a

00:17:41.560 --> 00:17:42.300
 word that

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 somehow

00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:43.539
 carried

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 something about

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 believing in

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 something that's

00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:47.299
 different from

00:17:47.299 --> 00:17:47.700
 yourself

00:17:47.700 --> 00:17:48.799
 beyond yourself

00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:49.559
 trusting

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 believing

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 hoping

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 having faith

00:17:52.859 --> 00:17:53.359
 in that

00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:53.680
 other

00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:55.700
 so one day

00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:56.099
 he came up

00:17:56.099 --> 00:17:56.680
 with an idea

00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:57.119
 and he got

00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:57.700
 some people to

00:17:57.700 --> 00:17:58.240
 come indoors

00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:58.659
 and he sat

00:17:58.659 --> 00:17:59.259
 in a chair

00:17:59.259 --> 00:18:01.579
 and he took

00:18:01.579 --> 00:18:02.259
 both feet off

00:18:02.259 --> 00:18:02.579
 the ground

00:18:02.579 --> 00:18:02.960
 and leaned

00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:03.720
 right back

00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:04.779
 into this

00:18:04.779 --> 00:18:05.180
 chair

00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:08.480
 he said

00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:08.860
 to the people

00:18:08.860 --> 00:18:09.279
 around him

00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:09.560
 he said

00:18:09.560 --> 00:18:09.960
 what am I

00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:10.460
 doing right

00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:10.759
 now

00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.940
 and they

00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:13.620
 used a word

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 I don't know

00:18:14.060 --> 00:18:14.500
 what the word

00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:15.220
 was by the way

00:18:15.220 --> 00:18:15.580
 but they

00:18:15.580 --> 00:18:16.400
 used a word

00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:17.539
 that in their

00:18:17.539 --> 00:18:18.240
 own language

00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:18.799
 meant

00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:20.180
 to lean

00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:20.980
 into

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 with your

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 whole self

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 that's the

00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:27.320
 word that

00:18:27.320 --> 00:18:27.799
 went into

00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:28.560
 this translation

00:18:28.560 --> 00:18:29.539
 of St.

00:18:29.580 --> 00:18:30.180
 John's gospel

00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:30.880
 to mean

00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:31.539
 trusting in

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 God

00:18:31.779 --> 00:18:34.359
 to lean

00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:34.680
 into

00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:35.000
 with your

00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:35.680
 whole self

00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.259
 to wait

00:18:38.259 --> 00:18:38.619
 on the

00:18:38.619 --> 00:18:39.099
 presence

00:18:39.099 --> 00:18:39.619
 of God

00:18:39.619 --> 00:18:40.279
 yes at

00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:40.700
 times it

00:18:40.700 --> 00:18:41.039
 will be

00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:41.759
 agonising

00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.099
 at times

00:18:43.099 --> 00:18:43.579
 there will

00:18:43.579 --> 00:18:43.960
 be a

00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:44.339
 sense

00:18:44.339 --> 00:18:45.079
 of joyful

00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:46.039
 expectation

00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.599
 but let's

00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:48.940
 remember

00:18:48.940 --> 00:18:49.279
 that it's

00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:49.700
 never a

00:18:49.700 --> 00:18:50.099
 passive

00:18:50.099 --> 00:18:50.660
 sit back

00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:50.940
 and do

00:18:50.940 --> 00:18:51.299
 nothing

00:18:51.299 --> 00:18:52.940
 but it's

00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:53.480
 a leaning

00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:54.119
 into

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 with our

00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:55.279
 whole

00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:55.960
 selves

00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.559
 we're

00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:00.759
 called

00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:01.359
 to live

00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.139
 expectantly

00:19:03.139 --> 00:19:04.399
 waiting on

00:19:04.399 --> 00:19:04.819
 the presence

00:19:04.819 --> 00:19:05.319
 of God

00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:07.559
 in the

00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:08.339
 light of

00:19:08.339 --> 00:19:08.559
 his

00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:09.319
 eternal

00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:09.799
 promises

00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:13.619
 it will

00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:14.059
 be alright

00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:14.359
 in the

00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:14.579
 end

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 and if

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 it's not

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 alright

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 now

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 it's

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 because

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 it's not

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 yet the

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 end

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 let's

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 pray

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 as we

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 think about

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 this

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 theme

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 of

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 waiting

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 as we

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 come to

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 pray

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 I want

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 to put

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 this

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 question

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 to you

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 and each

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 one of

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 us

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 will

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 probably

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 answer

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 this

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 slightly

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 differently

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 but here's

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 the question

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 what are

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 you

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 waiting

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 for

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 to spell

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 that out

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 in a bit

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 more

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 detail

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 what are

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 you waiting

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 on God

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 for

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 and in

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 response to

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 that question

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 I invite

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 each of us

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 just to

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 build a

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 picture now

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 before God

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 in prayer

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 as to what

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 that is

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 that we're

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 waiting

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 for him

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 on

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 Lord

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 you know

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 that each

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 of us

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 is waiting

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 for different

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 things

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 Lord

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 forgive us

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 for when

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 sometimes

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 we lose

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 the plot

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 we get

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 so impatient

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 and we live

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 lives that

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 are not

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 the kind

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 of lives

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 that you

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 want us

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 to live

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 Lord

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 thank you

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 that

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 you don't

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 look back

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 on the

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 past

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 but you

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 call us

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 to the

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 future

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 that future

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 that one

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 day

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 everything

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 will be

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 made

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 whole

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 and

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 complete

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 we're

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 not

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 there

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 yet

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 but Lord

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 as we

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 pray to

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 you

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 now

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 in that

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 place

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 where we

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 are in

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 tension

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 between

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 what

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 you

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 have

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 already

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 done

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 in

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 Jesus

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 and

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 what

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 you

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 will

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 do

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 at

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 the

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 end

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 we

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 bring

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 our

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 waiting

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 before

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 you

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 Lord

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 in the

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 midst

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 of the

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 waiting

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 help us

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 to wait

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 in

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 hope

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 and help

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 us to

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 live

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 actively

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 in

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 hope

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 help us

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 to lean

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 on to

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 you

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 and

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 into

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 you

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 with

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 our

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 whole

00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:16.799
 selves

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 help us

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 to do

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 that

00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:20.779
 every

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 day

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 in

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 Jesus

00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:24.679
 name

00:21:24.679 --> 00:21:27.000
 Amen