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 Well, it really is great to be with you. Thank you for the warm welcome. And thank you very much for your prayers for us in Chester. We really do appreciate you praying for us.

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 We're looking at this passage that Paul read for us in Luke chapter 18. And do turn back there if you've got a Bible with you, Luke 18, and the Church Bibles, that's page 877.

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 I don't know whether you might follow professional boxing at all. It's an interesting time in professional boxing in the heavyweight division. There's the American fighter Deontay Wilder, who's got an incredible right hook, right punch.

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 There's Tyson Fury, who I'm sure you've heard of, even if you're not interested in boxing. And no matter what your assessment of him, everybody agrees he's an incredibly talented boxer.

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 And then you've got Anthony Joshua, who won gold at the Olympics in 2012 before he became professional. Everybody loves Anthony Joshua.

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 But a couple of years ago, he was fighting what everybody thought was going to be a fairly routine fight. There was no big hype before it. It wasn't a big box office fight.

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 He was fighting a Mexican boxer called Andy Ruiz Jr. And everybody thought Joshua would win. It wasn't really any question about it before the fight, but he went on to lose.

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 And with it, he lost his undefeated records. And it was interesting reading and listening to the pundits and the analysts as they wrote and spoke about the fight after it had happened and gave their reasons why Joshua might have lost this fight.

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 There were some people who were saying, well, something must have gone wrong in Joshua's camp in the week before the fight.

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 There were some reports that he'd been knocked out in training, so he wasn't really fit for the fight.

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 There were some people who had always doubted Joshua's boxing ability, and they were using the opportunity to say, we told you so.

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 Joshua really isn't that great of a boxer.

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 But there were some people who were analyzing the last round before the fight ended.

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 And they were watching Joshua.

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 And he wasn't knocked out.

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 The ref didn't have to step in and stop the fight.

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 He just walked back to his corner quietly, and his corner threw the towel in.

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 And people were analyzing this, and they were saying, it seems like Joshua just gave up.

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 He didn't have the stomach for it.

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 Well, we don't know for Joshua whether the issue really was that he gave up.

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 But we're looking at a parable this morning in Luke 18, in which giving up very much is the issue.

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 Luke tells us that in verse 1.

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 It says, and Jesus told them, that's the disciples, a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart, not give up.

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 And so here is a parable Jesus told for his disciples, not for the Pharisees, not for onlookers.

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 It's for the disciples, and its purpose is to encourage the disciples not to give up.

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 Luke tells us that explicitly in verse 1, but we also see it in the parable itself.

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 This parable, it's become known in the parable as the parable of the persistent widow.

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 Jesus describes in this parable a widow who does not give up in her petition for justice.

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 So here is a parable designed by Jesus to encourage Christians, his followers, not to give up.

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 Now, before we get into the detail of the text, it's worth, at this point, just pausing to acknowledge

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 that Jesus here knows that his followers will, at times, feel like quietly walking back to their corner

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 and throwing the towel in.

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 Why else would he carefully design a parable that would have the effect of encouraging his followers

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 not to give up?

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 In fact, the temptation to give up is acknowledged to be a very real temptation for Jesus' followers

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 all the way through the New Testament.

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 Twice in 2 Corinthians 4, Paul says that because of the great hope that we have in the gospel

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 and because of the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

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 Why would he write that unless there is a very real temptation, a very real danger that we might

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 lose heart?

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 Lose heart.

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 He writes, Paul writes to the Ephesians in chapter 3, verse 13.

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 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

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 Hebrews 12, 3 says,

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 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

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 And so again and again, the writers of the New Testament refuse to hide the fact that as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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 we will at times feel like losing heart.

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 Giving up.

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 Some of you don't need much convincing of that this morning.

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 You've been there.

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 You've wanted to give up.

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 You've weighed it all up.

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 You've wondered whether it's all worth it.

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 But here in this parable in Luke 18, as Jesus acknowledges this reality,

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 he doesn't respond in a number of ways that he might have responded in.

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 He doesn't respond, for instance, with a heavy hand.

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 He doesn't say to his disciples,

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 If you find yourselves at a time and you want to give up,

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 then you've failed me.

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 And I don't want to know about it.

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 He doesn't respond with indifference.

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 He doesn't shrug his shoulders and say something like,

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 If you feel like giving up, then what's it got to do with me?

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 I've done my part of the deal.

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 No.

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 He knows that his disciples are going to find themselves at times where they want to give up,

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 and it matters.

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 It matters so much to him

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 that he wants to equip his disciples with the resources to persevere

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 and to overcome the temptation to give up.

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 He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray

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 and not lose heart.

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 And so the main point of this parable, then, is to answer the question,

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 What will keep us from giving up?

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 But before it answers that question, it answers two other questions.

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 Firstly, what does it mean to give up?

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 And secondly, what might cause us to want to give up?

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 So first of all, what does it mean to give up?

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 Well, there are two things in the text that help us to answer this question.

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 The first is in the context of this parable.

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 Immediately before Jesus tells this parable to his disciples,

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 Luke gives us a record of something else Jesus told his disciples.

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 The subject there is Jesus' return.

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 And so look down at chapter 17, if you've got a Bible open, verse 22.

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 And he said to the disciples,

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 The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man,

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 and you will not see it.

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 And they will say to you,

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 Look there, or look here.

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 Do not go out or follow them.

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 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other,

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 so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

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 So Jesus is talking there about the day of the Son of Man.

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 The Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, he says.

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 And this day that he's referring to isn't the day of his crucifixion,

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 because he goes on to say,

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 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

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 And when he says that, it's clear there that he's talking about his crucifixion.

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 And that is something which is going to happen before this day of the Son of Man that he's talking about.

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 And so the day that he's referring to is the day of his return.

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 The day we sometimes refer to as the second coming.

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 Which this world is still waiting for.

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 The rest of chapter 17 makes it clear that he's talking about his return.

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 And then in the last line of this parable that we read,

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 this passage in Luke 18 in verse 8,

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 He says,

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 However, when the Son of Man comes,

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 will he find faith on earth?

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 As Jesus' followers, we live out our short lives

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 in between Jesus' two great comings.

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 On the one hand, his incarnation, his becoming man,

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 his death, his resurrection, his ascension.

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 On the other hand, his promised glorious return.

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 And so we live in light of his first coming

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 and we live in anticipation of his second coming.

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 And Jesus is acknowledging here that in between,

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 as we live out our lives,

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 there are going to be times where we want to give up.

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 And so we see how the context helps us to answer this question.

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 What does it mean to give up?

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 When Luke writes that Jesus told this parable

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 so that his disciples might not lose heart,

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 he's not referring to Jesus' disciples

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 losing heart in their efforts towards certain tasks

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 or certain endeavors.

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 He's not saying that Jesus told this parable

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 so that Christians might always keep their word

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 and follow through on their resolutions

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 and not lose heart with them.

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 As good a thing as that might be.

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 Now the context helps us to see

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 Jesus told this parable

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 so that his disciples might not lose heart

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 on a bigger scale.

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 So that they might not give up before Jesus returns.

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 So that they might not stop trusting in him.

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 So that when he returns,

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 he might find faith on earth.

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 That's the context.

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 The second thing that helps us understand

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 what it means to give up

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 is found in what Luke writes in verse 1.

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 Luke tells us that Jesus wanted his parable

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 to have this effect on his disciples,

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 that they ought always to pray

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 and not lose heart.

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 And do you see how closely there

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 losing heart is connected with prayer?

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 That's interesting.

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 And what Luke is doing here in his explanation,

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 what Jesus does in his parable,

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 which he implies in his parable,

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 is that prayer and not losing heart

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 go hand in hand.

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 They belong together.

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 Prayer and not giving up

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 are two sides of the same coin.

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 One can't exist without the other.

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 To pray is to not give up.

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 To give up

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 is to stop praying.

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 That means that according to the teaching of the Bible,

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 to give up as a Christian

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 is not firstly

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 to backslide into some huge moral failure.

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 To give up as a Christian

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 is not fundamentally

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 to stop attending church

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 and to start cutting out

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 all your Christian friends

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 from your life.

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 To give up as a Christian

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 is to stop praying.

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 He told them a parable

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 to the effect that they ought always to pray

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 and not lose heart.

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 Is that how you view

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 what it is to give up

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 as a Christian?

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 When you hear

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 of a professing Christian

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 making a mess of their life,

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 do you look

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 at their moral failures

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 and think to yourself,

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 well, it's clear

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 that that person

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 has given up on their faith.

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 And when a friend

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 who professes to be a Christian

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 starts to pull away from church

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 to cut out their Christian friends

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 from their life,

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 do you look at their withdrawal

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 and think to yourself,

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 well, it's clear

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 that that person

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 has given up on their faith.

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 Well, in a sense,

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 that might be true,

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 but what brought them

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 to that point,

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 what caused them

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 to walk away,

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 seemingly,

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 from the faith they professed,

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 one answer the Bible gives

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 is that they stopped praying.

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 And that's a sobering thought

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 for us, isn't it?

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 It causes us to reflect

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 on our own praying.

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 Have I stopped praying?

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 I mean, I pray

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 when I come

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 to the church service.

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 I pray

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 when I'm in a desperate situation.

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 Do I really pray?

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 And if we're going to know

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 whether we really pray,

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 then we need to know

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 how the Bible

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 defines real prayer.

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 And it's interesting,

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 we didn't read it,

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 but the very next parable

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 after the one

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 we're looking at today,

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 Luke records

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 Jesus' teaching

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 on prayer.

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 So we can read it

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 from verse 9.

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 He also told this parable

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 to some who trusted

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 in themselves,

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 that they were righteous

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 and treated others

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 with contempt.

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 Two men went up

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 to the temple

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 to pray,

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 one a Pharisee

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 and the other

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 a tax collector.

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 The Pharisee,

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 standing by himself,

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 prayed thus,

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 God, I thank you

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 that I'm not like other men,

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 extortioners,

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 unjust, adulterers,

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 or even like this,

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 tax collector.

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 I fast twice a week,

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 I give tithes

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 of all that I get,

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 but the tax collector,

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 standing far off,

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 would not even lift

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 his eyes to heaven,

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 but beat his breast,

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 saying,

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 God, be merciful to me,

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 a sinner.

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 I tell you,

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 this man went down

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 to his house justified

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 rather than the other,

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 for everyone who exalts

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 himself will be humbled,

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 but the one who humbles

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 himself will be exalted.

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 See, the prayer

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 that Jesus holds up there

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 as an example

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 of real prayer

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 is the prayer

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 of the tax collector.

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 God, have mercy on me,

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 a sinner.

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 And we can break it down

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 a little bit.

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 What do we find

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 in that prayer?

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 What we find in that prayer

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 is a simple expression

00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.400
 of total dependence

00:14:20.400 --> 00:14:21.200
 on God,

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 exalting God,

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 and humbling himself.

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 And that

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 is what prayer is.

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 A prayer is expressing

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 to God how totally

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 dependent we are

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 on him

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 with God

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 at the center

00:14:39.160 --> 00:14:39.700
 of our prayer.

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 God is the focus

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 of our prayer,

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 viewing ourselves

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 in light of who

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 he is.

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 We could say

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 so much more

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 about prayer,

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 but in one sense,

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 there's no need

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 to complicate prayer

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 any more than that.

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 when the disciples

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 asked Jesus

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 to teach them

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 to pray

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 in Luke 11,

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 we've prayed it

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 already in the service,

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 but when they asked him

00:15:03.539 --> 00:15:04.480
 to teach them

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 to pray,

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 Jesus didn't enroll them

00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:07.220
 on a 10-week course

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 in how to pray.

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 He simply

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 instructed them

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 and he gave them

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 the Lord's Prayer,

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 Father,

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 hallowed be your name,

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 and so on.

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 And that was it.

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 A simple expression

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 of our dependence

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 on God

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 with God

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 at the center,

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 viewing ourselves

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 in light of who

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 he is.

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 And so as we come

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 face to face

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 this morning

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 with this sobering

00:15:29.439 --> 00:15:29.979
 reality

00:15:29.979 --> 00:15:32.620
 that to stop praying

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 is to give up

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 as a Christian,

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 this is what we're

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 talking about

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 when we talk about

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 prayer.

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 Do you know,

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 I think sometimes

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 we're guilty

00:15:43.739 --> 00:15:45.459
 of defining real prayer

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 as something more

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 than this.

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 Real prayer,

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 we think,

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 is full of

00:15:50.740 --> 00:15:52.019
 passionate pleas

00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:53.179
 and heartfelt

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 cries.

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 Real prayer

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 lasts for a long

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 time.

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 It's full of

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 intense experience,

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 we think.

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 And perhaps

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 sometimes

00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:03.720
 prayer is like

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 that and that's

00:16:04.379 --> 00:16:05.000
 a great thing,

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 but it's not

00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.220
 to say

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 that simple

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 daily praying,

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 even for just

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 a few minutes,

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 isn't real

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 prayer.

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 God,

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 have mercy

00:16:18.059 --> 00:16:18.439
 on me

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 as sinner.

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 Father,

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 hallowed be

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 your name.

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 If you're here

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 this morning

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 and as you reflect

00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:26.340
 on this passage,

00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:28.019
 you wonder

00:16:28.019 --> 00:16:28.860
 whether you've

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 stopped praying

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 really recently,

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 then don't go

00:16:32.820 --> 00:16:33.940
 home this afternoon

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 resolved to get

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 up tomorrow morning

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 at 5am

00:16:36.700 --> 00:16:37.879
 and to spend

00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:39.060
 an intense hour

00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:39.800
 in prayer.

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 Go home this

00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:42.700
 afternoon resolved

00:16:42.700 --> 00:16:44.080
 to spend just a few

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 minutes,

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 just five minutes

00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:45.820
 in prayer,

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 simple prayer,

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 tomorrow morning,

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 expressing your

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 dependence on

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 God,

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 calling on

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 his mercy.

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 And do the

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 same tomorrow

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 evening and

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 tomorrow morning

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 and the following

00:16:59.519 --> 00:16:59.980
 evening.

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 Keep going,

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 keep praying,

00:17:03.819 --> 00:17:04.759
 keep humbly

00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:05.920
 calling on the

00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:06.220
 Lord.

00:17:07.339 --> 00:17:07.960
 So what does it

00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:09.079
 mean to give up,

00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:10.359
 to lose heart?

00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:12.599
 To give up

00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:13.480
 is to stop

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 praying before

00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.319
 Christ returns.

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 Secondly,

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 what might cause

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 us to want

00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:22.240
 to give up?

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 So stopping

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 praying and

00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:25.160
 giving up go

00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:25.960
 hand in hand,

00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:26.539
 but what might

00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:27.440
 cause us to

00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:28.079
 stop praying?

00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:29.599
 Well,

00:17:29.819 --> 00:17:30.359
 the answer

00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:30.680
 that this

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 parable gives

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 is a specific

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 one.

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 What causes

00:17:34.539 --> 00:17:34.900
 Jesus'

00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:35.559
 followers to

00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:36.119
 want to give

00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:37.720
 up is

00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.720
 experiencing a

00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:40.220
 lack of

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 justice in

00:17:41.619 --> 00:17:42.359
 their lives.

00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.220
 Justice is a

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 prominent theme

00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:46.640
 in this parable.

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 Jesus began

00:17:47.320 --> 00:17:48.040
 in verse 2.

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 In a certain

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 city there

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 was a

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 judge.

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 The role of

00:17:52.860 --> 00:17:53.600
 the judge is

00:17:53.600 --> 00:17:54.259
 to administer

00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:55.320
 justice.

00:17:56.380 --> 00:17:57.100
 In verse 3,

00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:57.720
 the plea of

00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:58.240
 the widow who

00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:58.880
 kept coming to

00:17:58.880 --> 00:17:59.480
 the judge is

00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.080
 give me

00:18:00.080 --> 00:18:01.180
 justice

00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:02.420
 against my

00:18:02.420 --> 00:18:03.080
 adversary.

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 When the

00:18:04.340 --> 00:18:05.000
 widow persists,

00:18:05.100 --> 00:18:05.680
 the judge says

00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.440
 in verse 5,

00:18:06.840 --> 00:18:07.600
 because this

00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:08.120
 widow keeps

00:18:08.120 --> 00:18:08.640
 bothering me,

00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:09.380
 I will give

00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:10.740
 her justice.

00:18:12.620 --> 00:18:13.420
 What might

00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:13.940
 have caused

00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:14.640
 this lady,

00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:15.259
 this widow,

00:18:15.259 --> 00:18:15.980
 to give

00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:16.379
 up?

00:18:17.379 --> 00:18:18.119
 Experiencing a

00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:18.640
 lack of

00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:19.259
 justice,

00:18:19.879 --> 00:18:20.720
 perhaps for

00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:21.559
 a long time.

00:18:22.700 --> 00:18:23.920
 Justice is

00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:24.599
 at the center

00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:24.980
 of this

00:18:24.980 --> 00:18:25.420
 parable.

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 And justice

00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:26.839
 is at the

00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:27.240
 center of

00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:27.460
 Jesus'

00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:28.440
 explanation of

00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:28.799
 the parable

00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:29.140
 in verses

00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:29.920
 7 and 8.

00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:30.799
 Jesus says,

00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:31.119
 and will

00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:31.759
 not God

00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:33.039
 give justice

00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.180
 to his

00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:34.740
 elect who

00:18:34.740 --> 00:18:35.240
 cry to

00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:35.660
 him day

00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:36.019
 and night?

00:18:36.099 --> 00:18:36.339
 Will he

00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:37.000
 delay long

00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:37.480
 over them?

00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:37.859
 I tell

00:18:37.859 --> 00:18:38.079
 you,

00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:39.039
 he will

00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:40.099
 give justice

00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:40.779
 to them

00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:41.519
 speedily.

00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:42.500
 Nevertheless,

00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:43.140
 when the

00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:43.339
 Son of

00:18:43.339 --> 00:18:43.740
 Man comes,

00:18:43.819 --> 00:18:44.099
 will he

00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:44.740
 find faith

00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:45.700
 on earth?

00:18:46.019 --> 00:18:46.599
 What might

00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:47.420
 cause God's

00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:47.920
 people to

00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:48.440
 want to

00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:48.960
 give up?

00:18:50.019 --> 00:18:50.660
 A lack

00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:51.460
 of

00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:52.400
 justice.

00:18:53.619 --> 00:18:54.220
 Experiencing

00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:55.420
 injustice.

00:18:57.500 --> 00:18:58.359
 Notice again

00:18:58.359 --> 00:18:59.019
 that Jesus is

00:18:59.019 --> 00:19:00.240
 assuming something

00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:00.660
 here.

00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:02.259
 In the same

00:19:02.259 --> 00:19:02.640
 way that he

00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:03.660
 assumed Jesus'

00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:05.000
 followers would

00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:05.559
 want to at

00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:06.539
 times give up,

00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:07.920
 he also assumes

00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:08.660
 that his followers

00:19:08.660 --> 00:19:09.960
 will suffer

00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:10.759
 injustice

00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:12.100
 before he

00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:12.539
 returns.

00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:13.840
 He doesn't

00:19:13.840 --> 00:19:14.519
 qualify what

00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:15.039
 he says in

00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:15.600
 verse 7 with

00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:16.100
 an if.

00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:16.660
 He doesn't

00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:16.940
 say,

00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:17.779
 and will

00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:18.140
 not God

00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:18.500
 bring about

00:19:18.500 --> 00:19:19.180
 justice for

00:19:19.180 --> 00:19:19.680
 his elect

00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:20.660
 if they

00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:21.740
 suffer injustice

00:19:21.740 --> 00:19:22.340
 before the

00:19:22.340 --> 00:19:22.539
 Son of

00:19:22.539 --> 00:19:23.059
 Man returns.

00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:23.259
 No,

00:19:23.340 --> 00:19:24.160
 he sees it

00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:24.840
 as a given

00:19:24.840 --> 00:19:25.900
 that his

00:19:25.900 --> 00:19:26.779
 followers will

00:19:26.779 --> 00:19:27.900
 suffer injustice

00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:29.000
 and that when

00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:30.259
 his followers

00:19:30.259 --> 00:19:31.059
 suffer injustice,

00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:32.299
 they might

00:19:32.299 --> 00:19:32.720
 well find

00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:33.440
 themselves wanting

00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:34.059
 to lose

00:19:34.059 --> 00:19:34.920
 heart and

00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:35.600
 give up.

00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.039
 Christians

00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:39.559
 suffer

00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:40.399
 injustice all

00:19:40.399 --> 00:19:40.779
 around the

00:19:40.779 --> 00:19:41.379
 world today,

00:19:41.639 --> 00:19:42.059
 don't they?

00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:43.200
 And some

00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:43.599
 of it can

00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:44.740
 feel quite

00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:45.700
 far removed

00:19:45.700 --> 00:19:46.419
 from us.

00:19:47.099 --> 00:19:47.440
 A friend

00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:47.819
 of mine was

00:19:47.819 --> 00:19:48.259
 telling me

00:19:48.259 --> 00:19:49.599
 that some

00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:50.379
 missionaries

00:19:50.379 --> 00:19:51.519
 were giving

00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:51.980
 an update

00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:52.799
 at a conference

00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.599
 he was at

00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.059
 recently.

00:19:54.419 --> 00:19:54.980
 These people

00:19:54.980 --> 00:19:55.559
 were missionaries

00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:56.139
 in India

00:19:56.139 --> 00:19:57.099
 to a particular

00:19:57.099 --> 00:19:58.179
 people group

00:19:58.179 --> 00:19:59.339
 and they

00:19:59.339 --> 00:20:00.159
 spoke of how

00:20:00.159 --> 00:20:01.500
 because of

00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:02.299
 their work

00:20:02.299 --> 00:20:03.399
 to this

00:20:03.399 --> 00:20:03.919
 people group

00:20:03.919 --> 00:20:04.859
 their wives

00:20:04.859 --> 00:20:05.179
 had been

00:20:05.179 --> 00:20:05.839
 abused

00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:06.940
 and they'd

00:20:06.940 --> 00:20:07.639
 been imprisoned

00:20:07.639 --> 00:20:08.899
 without

00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:09.620
 explanation.

00:20:10.820 --> 00:20:11.300
 It's

00:20:11.300 --> 00:20:11.680
 horrific

00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:13.180
 and it

00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:13.500
 can leave

00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:13.980
 us wondering

00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:14.680
 whether we

00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:15.780
 here in this

00:20:15.780 --> 00:20:16.080
 part of the

00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:16.600
 world suffer

00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:17.160
 at all for

00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:17.519
 the cause

00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:17.720
 of the

00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:18.100
 gospel.

00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:19.880
 But it

00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:20.180
 would be a

00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:20.740
 mistake for

00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:21.100
 us to think

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 that we

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 don't suffer

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 at all for

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 our faith.

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 There's the

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 Christian at

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 work who

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 because of

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 his faith

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 he works

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 with utter

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 integrity

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 and instead

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 of being

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 rewarded

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 he's denied

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 promotions and

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 he's stifled

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 in his

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 career.

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 There's the

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 Christian at

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 work who

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 feels unable

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 to express

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 her views

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 on certain

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 subjects

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 because of

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 how it would

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 ostracize her

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 from her

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 colleagues and

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 seemingly

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 inevitably have

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 a detrimental

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 effect on

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 her career

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 too.

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 There's the

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 Christian who

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 has been let

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 down and

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 messed around

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 in relationships

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 really through

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 no fault of

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 their own.

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 There's the

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 Christian who

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 experiences a

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 distance in

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 relationships with

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 family members

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 and friends

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 who they

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 were previously

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 closest to

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 because they

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 no longer

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 share their

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 faith.

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 Then there's

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 all the

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 injustices that

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 come with

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 life in a

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 fallen world.

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 An unbalanced

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 world in which

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 the scales are

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 broken.

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 Unbearably

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 ill health.

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 Inconsolable

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 loss.

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 Daily

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 frustrations

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 and struggles

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 that sometimes

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 mean we just

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 don't want to

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 get out of

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 bed in the

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 morning.

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 And all of

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 these injustices

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 bring with

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 them the

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 power to

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 cause us to

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 sigh.

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 I give up.

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 I give up.

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 What will

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 those

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 need a

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 need a

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 need a

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 need a

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 need a

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 need a

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