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 Well, my thanks to Tommy for his welcome and his invitation in the first place to come and join with you this evening service.

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 I will do my best to speak clearly in this foreign language that you can hear, which is British English instead of your kind.

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 Especially, I think, as some of you have been listening to lots of the word being preached over this weekend already.

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 But it's a great privilege to me to come and be here with you this evening.

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 And to turn your attention back to part of the Old Testament reading that we heard a little while ago.

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 I'll tell you what it is in due course.

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 But you may have noticed from your order of service that the subject is preach on me.

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 It doesn't actually mean preach on me, and that means me.

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 It has to do, though, with the Old Testament reading, which was familiar to me from a fairly recent experience.

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 Because this time last week, I was in Pittsburgh, and I was preaching there also in a church.

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 That was the Church of the Incarnation.

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 Which, like the Church of the Advent here, is in league, I understand, with the Anglican Church in North America.

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 And I guess with good reason.

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 Some of you know the ins and outs of church politics that lie behind that.

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 But it's a great privilege, as I say, to be with another congregation of the same kind.

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 They use a lectionary, a list of Bible readings, just as you do here.

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 And one has this experience sometimes, if one is a preacher of the Word of God.

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 You turn to a part of the Bible which may be familiar or unfamiliar, and something jumps out at you.

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 A text is right there in front of you, and it says,

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 Preach on me!

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 Numbers 11, I thought.

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 What's there in Numbers 11?

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 There it was, if you've got your Bibles open still.

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 Numbers chapter 11.

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 Preach on me, it said, and it was Numbers 11, verses 4 and 5.

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 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving,

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 and the people of Israel also wept again and said,

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 Oh, that we had meat to eat.

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 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing,

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 and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

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 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manner to look at.

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 What on earth caught my attention about those verses?

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 Well, that was the reason for the verses.

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 Well, that was the reason for the verses.

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 And to explain that, I have to go back in a little bit of personal history.

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 My father was employed for 40 years by a mission agency as a missionary,

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 but not a missionary in another country than England.

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 He was a missionary in London, and he worked with the London City Mission.

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 His job was on every weekday of the week to go out in one or other of the blue-collar areas of South London with the gospel,

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 going from door to door with the Bible in his hand and the gospel in his heart.

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 And on Sundays, he also had the care of a little church in South London, and there he would preach.

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 And as I look back over his ministry, I've come to the conclusion that he was a very good evangelist and a very good preacher.

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 That's to say that he had a very good God who gave him those gifts, and he taught him how to use them.

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 An evangelist, but also a preacher.

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 And sometimes in much more recent years, because I've been a preacher myself for quite a while now,

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 I have sometimes found myself arriving at a church where my father preached many years before me.

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 And quite often, an older person in the congregation has come up to me and said,

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 We knew your father.

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 He preached in this church.

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 And we still remember what he preached on.

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 I said, Oh, yes.

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 We remember the onions.

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 We remember the onions.

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 That's right, it's a verse in the book of Numbers.

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 We just heard it.

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 We remember the onions.

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 Well, they remember the onions.

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 Well, they remember the sermon, which was more than I did, because I never heard it.

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 But although I've got some of Dad's sermons still around the place, and I still think they're pretty good.

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 This one I never located.

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 But what would it have been?

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 We remember the onions.

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 That's why I chose the title, Preach on Me, because it was a verse that leapt off the page, demanding it to be preached on.

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 And that's why I chose that verse.

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 Because Dad had preached it, and it stuck in somebody's mind that way.

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 Well, I don't know what he would have said.

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 As I say, I never heard it.

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 But I do believe that I know what he wants me to say to you about it.

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 That it's a word for all of us in this particular place at this particular time.

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 And I want to turn your attention back there to Numbers chapter 11.

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 And I want to take a verse out of that chapter and link it with a verse in the next book of the Bible, in the book of Deuteronomy.

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 And draw your attention to the fact that in each of these two verses, you're going to hear something about a forward march.

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 And something about a backward look.

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 First of all then, Numbers 11, verse 5.

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 If you have the Bible open in front of you, you may like to look at it.

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 The people of Israel wept again and said,

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 Oh, that we had meat to eat.

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 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt that cost nothing,

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 and the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks.

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 We remember the onions.

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 And we remember the garlic.

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 What was the forward march?

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 The great interest of this particular chapter is that it's part of the long, ongoing story of the life of the people of God,

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 as God calls them to come from where they've been for a long time,

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 into a journey, and at the end of the journey, a new land, which he has prepared for them.

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 And that's a story that will take up quite a chunk of the Old Testament.

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 It's the forward march of God's people at this early stage of their history as a company of those who believe,

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 or who at any rate say that they believe, in him.

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 I guess a number of you will know the writings of Eugene Peterson,

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 who was for many years, I understand, a pastor of a church not all that far from here,

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 and whose works many of you may know and value.

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 His translation of the entire Bible, which he calls The Message,

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 has a very interesting introduction to each book of the Bible,

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 and in his introduction to the book of Numbers, he speaks like this.

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 He says, here is a company of believers,

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 quite near the beginning of its journey,

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 and they are gradually learning to look to God for,

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 this is the theme he draws out of Numbers,

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 they are learning to look to God for

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 organizational help,

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 and for relational help.

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 They need organizational help,

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 so that they learn how to work together.

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 They need relational help,

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 so as to learn how to live together.

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 And the greater part of the book is taken up,

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 with God's people being taught those two great truths,

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 to learn from the Lord.

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 And on the story goes,

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 it's a very exciting story,

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 a very romantic one,

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 but what Eugene Peterson says about this particular part of it,

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 it says, well, exciting and romantic it may be,

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 but it's important to grasp,

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 I quote,

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 some of these less than romantic details

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 by which we are formed into the people of God.

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 In other words, this is about the nitty-gritty

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 of learning to belong to the people of God.

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 It's not always easy.

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 It's not always lovely.

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 Some of it is hard graft.

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 But that's the forward march,

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 and that's something they have to begin to learn at that stage,

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 and then go on learning all the time they are journeying

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 on the way to the promised land,

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 and indeed once they get there,

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 as they continue to be the people of God,

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 and eventually become the Church of Jesus Christ.

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 And here is this nitty-gritty stuff

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 as they march forward

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 into the future that God has prepared for them.

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 Lessons that are going to hold good

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 for the rest of their march through history.

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 So that out of this one verse in Numbers

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 has to do with the forward march.

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 It's all part of the forward march.

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 We belong to the people of God.

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 We step forward together.

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 We have to learn to walk together

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 as we move towards his goal.

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 Along with that,

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 what you find here in Numbers 11, verse 5,

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 is the backward look.

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 Here's the forward march.

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 Hope you're all moving forward together.

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 Says Moses, follow me.

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 This is the way we're going.

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 And then he hears about this backward look.

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 This is where we arrive at our text.

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 The people of Israel wept again and said,

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 Oh, that we had meat to eat.

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 We remember the fish we had in Egypt.

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 It cost nothing.

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 The cucumbers, the melons, the leeks,

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 the onions, and the garlic.

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 But now our strength is dried up.

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 Nothing at all but this manner.

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 The backward look.

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 We remember the old days.

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 As things are just at the moment,

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 they say,

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 God or no God.

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 Journey towards something better or not.

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 All we've got to eat day by day

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 is this manner.

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 We're sick and tired of it.

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 We remember the onions.

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 We remember the good old days

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 before we embark on this dreadful journey.

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 Well, when the day is demanding

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 and the way is difficult

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 and, well, demanding, difficult,

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 you might say just plain dull.

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 Many of those days traveling through the wilderness

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 must have been very dull days.

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 And food becomes

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 a matter of great concern to them.

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 A focus of

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 all their attention.

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 And the backward look

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 as they're moving, we hope,

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 on the way forward

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 that God has planned for them,

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 the backward look is for some of the good things

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 that they seem to have left behind.

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 And God has said,

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 you had to leave them behind.

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 You're not going to find

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 onions in the wilderness.

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 You're not going to find

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 any of the goodies of Egypt

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 on the way that I am taking you.

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 And that's when

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 the manner for all it

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 had kept them going for so long

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 and would continue to do so for 40 years.

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 And it was good to eat.

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 But all the onions.

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 And how selective was their memory.

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 How extraordinary

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 that as they look back

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 to those early days

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 in that land of slavery,

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 the one thing they isolated

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 as a memory they cherished

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 was the onions of Egypt.

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 Is that all you remember about Egypt?

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 The onions and the melons

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 and the garlic and all?

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 Come on.

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 You were there for 400 years

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 and you know

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 the conditions you suffered under.

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 They got worse

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 and worse

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 and worse.

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 And the day you came out of Egypt,

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 you yourselves were celebrating

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 your deliverance.

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 and here you are

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 and all you can think about

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 is the onions

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 you left behind.

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 The forward march

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 of the people of God

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 which continues

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 through the whole

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 of the Old Testament

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 and on into the New

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 and is still the journey

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 that lies before us.

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 That's what we're

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 looking forward to.

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 The Lord taking us on

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 whichever way

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 he intends to lead us.

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 It'll be the right way

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 and the best way

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 and the straightest way

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 though it may sometimes

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 not seem so

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 the straightest way

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 home to heaven.

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 But the backward look

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 always still occasionally

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 hanker

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 for the onions.

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 Now it seems to me

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 that that's

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 not unrelated

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 to where many churches

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 in America are

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 at the present time.

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 I'm not quite sure

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 if we in Britain

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 are quite in the same position

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 but

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 there are sorts of things

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 that we move forward

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 towards

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 and other things

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 that we seem to be

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 leaving behind

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 and there are difficult

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 decisions

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 to be made.

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 How are the people of God

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 going to follow

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 in his way

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 especially

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 when we're in this

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 very curious

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 and anomalous position

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 which is not quite

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 like where I come from

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 of the Anglican church

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 in North America.

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 I imagine

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 that most of you

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 will know something

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 about the politics

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 of the church

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 that lie behind all this.

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 And it seems

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 to you

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 as it certainly

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 seems to me

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 looking on

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 as an outsider

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 that there are

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 certain things

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 that you are going

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 to be glad

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 to be rid of

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 in the Anglican church

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 you grew up in.

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 That is still so

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 in Britain.

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 It's just that we

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 haven't yet reached

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 the parting of the ways

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 and we hope

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 there may be

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 no parting of the ways.

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 But as you reach

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 that point

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 it's all very much

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 a matter of

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 the forward march

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 which way are we going

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 and what lies ahead

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 and the backward look

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 as to what we're going

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 to have to leave

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 behind us.

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 all these are

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 difficult decisions

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 to be made

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 and things

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 to be weighed up.

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 And I want to take you

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 on to the other verse

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 I've got

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 the other one

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 of these two

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 the first is there

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 in Numbers chapter 11

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 verse 5

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 and the other one

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 is in the very next

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 book of the Bible

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 in Deuteronomy

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 this time it's chapter 8.

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 Deuteronomy chapter 8

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 and again

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 it's

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 a verse which

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 says something about

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 the forward march

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 and something about

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 the backward look.

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 But I'll be wanting you

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 to notice the difference

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 between the forward march

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 in Numbers 11

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 embarking on that great

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 spirit led journey

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 into the new life

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 and the forward march

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 here in Deuteronomy

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 and similarly

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 the contrast

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 between the backward

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 look of the folk

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 who couldn't forget

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 the onions

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 and the backward

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 look of the people

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 in Deuteronomy.

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 Let's have a look now

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 if you've got a Bible

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 open in front of you

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 it's Deuteronomy

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 chapter 8

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 and the beginning

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 of the chapter.

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 I'll start at verse 1

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 the whole commandment

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 that I command you

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 today

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 you shall be careful

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 to do

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 that you may live

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 and multiply

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 and go in

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 and possess the land

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 that the Lord swore

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 to give to your fathers

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 and you shall remember

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 the whole way

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 that the Lord your God

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 has led you

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 these 40 years

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 in the wilderness.

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 the forward march

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 well

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 we're looking at it now

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 from God's viewpoint

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 the pattern

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 of the whole story

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 of that forward march

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 it's the story

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 of the church of God

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 in the Old Testament

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 and of the church of God

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 in our New Testament days

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 and the Lord is saying here

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 at the beginning

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 of Deuteronomy

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 chapter 8

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 the Lord was leading you

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 for these 40 years

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 in the wilderness

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 in order to humble you

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 to test you

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 to know what was

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 in your heart

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 whether you would keep

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 his commandments

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 or no

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 and he humbled you

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 and let you hunger

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 and fed you with manna

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 which you didn't know

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 nor did your fathers know

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 so that he might make you know

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 that man does not live

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 by bread alone

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 but by every word

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 that comes

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 from the mouth of God

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 so what's the forward march

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 in the eyes of Deuteronomy

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 chapter 8

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 from God's viewpoint

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 it's his plan

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 for that onward march

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 and it's the fact

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 that he has it all organized

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 in advance

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 and every step of the way

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 including

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 that mere 40 years

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 in the wilderness

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 with nothing to eat

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 but manna that came from heaven

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 and brothers and sisters

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 no onions

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 and all that

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 they had to do with

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 why

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 you see

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 what they were focused on

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 was something

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 that they missed

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 and couldn't see

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 why they should be

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 deprived of it

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 wasn't it cruel of God

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 to take them on

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 the terrible journey

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 without any onions

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 and he says

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 don't you realize

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 that the entire

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 it's going to be 40 years

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 the entire 40 years

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 is part of my plan

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 every detail of it

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 is there

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 I fed you with manna

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 for 40 years

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 to teach you

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 that man does not live

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 by bread alone

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 but by every word

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 that proceeds

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 from the mouth of God

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 there was a purpose

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 in that setup

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 it was on purpose

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 that I gave you

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 manna

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 and not onions

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 you had that

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 narrow backward look

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 to one particular thing

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 that you really

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 it was about the only thing

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 you did like about Egypt

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 wasn't it

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 if you're honest

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 you seem to forget

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 that the whole thing

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 that was there

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 was part of slavery

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 and I brought you out of that

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 and everything

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 that happens to you

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 from this point on

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 including the lack

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 of the onions

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 is designed to teach you

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 they had that

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 very narrow view

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 of what had been

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 going on hitherto

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 and God has this

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 extraordinary

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 all embracing

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 panoramic view

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 of where he's

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 leading them to

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 and every detail in it

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 is to be for their blessing

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 as well as for his glory

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 that was the forward march

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 as Deuteronomy

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 describes it

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 from God's viewpoint

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 it's all for your benefit

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 in the long run

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 why did he treat you

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 like this

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 so that he might

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 humble you

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 and test you

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 and know

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 what was in your heart

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 there was a purpose

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 all the way through

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 and what should be

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 your backward look

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 is something

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 well

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 much bigger

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 than the onions

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 what I want you to realize

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 he says

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 is not just

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 focusing on

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 certain things

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 you've had to give up

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 in order to follow me

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 but what I was

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 actually doing

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 when I brought you

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 out of Egypt

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 what I was doing

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 was bringing you out

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 of a place

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 to which I had

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 taken you

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 in the first place

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 and even your being

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 there was part

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 of my design

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 I want you to learn

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 the enormity

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 and the extraordinary

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 detail

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 of my plans

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 for my people

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 please do not focus

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 on the minutiae

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 on the tiny things

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 on the particulars

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 which is about

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 all you can remember

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 that you did enjoy

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 in Egypt

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 how they've grown

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 how they've been

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 magnified in your memory

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 come on

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 get it in proportion

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 they were only onions

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 for heaven's sake

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 and what I have

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 in store for you

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 is a land

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 flowing with milk

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 and honey

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 out of whose hills

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 you may dig brass

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 and we'll never want

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 for anything

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 come on my children

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 he says

00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:55.259
 what I want you

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 to have

00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.240
 is a true view

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 of what you've

00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:59.079
 left behind

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 and a true view

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 of what you're

00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:03.299
 going towards

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 move please

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 move please

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 out of Numbers

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 chapter 11

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 into Deuteronomy

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 chapter 8

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 and I think

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 that the present

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 turmoils

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 in Anglican churches

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 worldwide

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 which are

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 quite extraordinarily

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 interesting

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 and one of the

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 interesting things

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 about them

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 if I may say this

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 in brackets

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 is that

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 I find churches

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 here are looking

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 to

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 Anglican archbishops

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 in sundry places

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 on the face

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 of the globe

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 and they include

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 and have included

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 over recent years

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 as my memory

00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:41.480
 goes back a few years

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 not just to

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 archbishops

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 in Rwanda

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 and Burundi

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 and Uganda

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 or even to

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 the Archbishop

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 of Nigeria

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 which has more

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 Anglican Christians

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 than the whole

00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:53.019
 of Britain has

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 and Drexel

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 of the West Indies

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 Akinoli

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 of Nigeria

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 an old friend

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 of mine

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 who was

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 Archbishop

00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:03.859
 of the Southern

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 Coney

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 in South America

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 and all these

00:23:06.139 --> 00:23:06.460
 folk

00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:07.639
 who've got the goods

00:23:07.639 --> 00:23:08.419
 brothers and sisters

00:23:08.419 --> 00:23:09.119
 they've got the goods

00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.519
 which is more

00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:11.039
 than I can say

00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:11.480
 of some of our

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 bishops in England

00:23:12.259 --> 00:23:16.339
 but you see

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 through all this

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 denomination

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 as well as in

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 every other

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 denomination

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 that you have

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 folk who've got

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 their priorities

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 right

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 and when they

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 look backwards

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 they say

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 now

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 one or two

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 things good

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 but we're glad

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 to leave those

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 things behind us

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 and God has

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 opened up for us

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 something really

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 exciting and

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 interesting

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 in the years

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 that lie ahead

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 and we say

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 yes

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 and here in the

00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:38.540
 United States

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 it's come to a

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 crunch

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 am I right

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 and the Anglican

00:23:43.780 --> 00:23:44.320
 church is having

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 to say

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 well now

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 do we stick

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 with the people

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 who've still

00:23:46.840 --> 00:23:47.420
 got the vision

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 or do we stick

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 with the people

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 who haven't

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 it's not for me

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 to answer that

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 question

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 but it hasn't

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 come to us yet

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 in Britain

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 maybe it's on

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 its way

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 I think it's so

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 interesting when the

00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:03.720
 Archbishop of

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 Canterbury is torn

00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:05.080
 two ways

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 and has two lots

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 of bishops

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 one on either

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 side

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 putting him in

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 two different

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 directions

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 I find it so

00:24:11.900 --> 00:24:12.539
 exciting to be

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 here

00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:14.299
 among your

00:24:14.299 --> 00:24:14.880
 congregation

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 at the Church

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 of the Advent

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 as at the Church

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 of the Incarnation

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 down there in

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 Pittsburgh

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 last Sunday

00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:22.900
 to see that

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 out of a mess

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 God is saying

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 come on my

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 people

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 leave the

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 melons

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 the onions

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 the garlic

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 and all that

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 stuff

00:24:33.040 --> 00:24:34.240
 they were just

00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.040
 the condiments

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 I've got something

00:24:36.540 --> 00:24:37.720
 much nicer for you

00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:39.020
 that lies ahead

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 and follow me

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 through the wilderness

00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:42.520
 40 years of it

00:24:42.520 --> 00:24:42.840
 maybe

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 but you'll see

00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:44.880
 it's worth it

00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:45.560
 in the long run

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 let's pray together

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 our gracious

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 father we do

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 thank you

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 for the

00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:58.180
 onward call

00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:58.440
 to your

00:24:58.440 --> 00:24:58.840
 people

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 always at

00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:00.940
 every stage

00:25:00.940 --> 00:25:01.220
 of their

00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:01.680
 history

00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:02.779
 to be able

00:25:02.779 --> 00:25:03.240
 to leave

00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:03.900
 behind the

00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:04.320
 things that

00:25:04.320 --> 00:25:04.880
 need leaving

00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.340
 behind

00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.700
 and to

00:25:06.700 --> 00:25:07.220
 follow through

00:25:07.220 --> 00:25:07.920
 forwards to

00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:08.560
 those things

00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:09.500
 that need to

00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:09.960
 be reached

00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:10.460
 out to

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 teach us a

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:12.900
 sense of

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 proportion

00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:14.180
 we pray

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 that the

00:25:15.779 --> 00:25:16.380
 things that

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 don't really

00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:17.240
 matter

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 and the

00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:18.700
 things we

00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:19.100
 can afford

00:25:19.100 --> 00:25:19.400
 to leave

00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:19.780
 behind

00:25:19.780 --> 00:25:20.200
 are left

00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:20.620
 behind

00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:21.580
 the things

00:25:21.580 --> 00:25:22.020
 that do

00:25:22.020 --> 00:25:22.660
 really matter

00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:23.580
 the things

00:25:23.580 --> 00:25:23.800
 that we

00:25:23.800 --> 00:25:24.340
 need to

00:25:24.340 --> 00:25:25.140
 reach forward

00:25:25.140 --> 00:25:25.460
 to

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 are the

00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:26.560
 things that

00:25:26.560 --> 00:25:26.840
 we do

00:25:26.840 --> 00:25:27.360
 reach forward

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 to

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 we ask

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 all this

00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:30.120
 in Jesus

00:25:30.120 --> 00:25:30.560
 name

00:25:30.560 --> 00:25:31.320
 amen