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 to God's praise. Now to begin our worship in Psalm 86. Psalm number 86, this is in the

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 Scottish Psalter version, page 341, and we're singing verses 12 through to the end of the psalm.

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 O Lord my God, with all my heart, to Thee I will give praise, and I the glory will ascribe unto

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 Thy name always. Because Thy mercy toward me in greatness doth excel, and Thou delivered

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 hast my soul out from the lowest hell. Verses 12 to 17, actually it is, in Psalm 86, to God's

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 praise.

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 O Lord my God, with all my heart, to Thee I will give praise, and I will give praise, and I will

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 give praise, and I the glory will ascribe unto Thy name always. Because Thy mercy toward me,

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 in greatness doth excel, and Thou delivered hast my soul out from the lowest hell.

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 And Thou delivered hast my soul out from the lowest hell. O God, the Father, the Father,

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 knowing that, and Thou relationships be right, and Thy environment.

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 and the head

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 that for my soul

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 hath so done thee

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 before them

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 hath not said

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 but thou art full

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 of faith ye Lord

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 a God most gracious

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 from suffering

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 and in thy good

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 and mercy plentious

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 O turn to me

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 thy countenance

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 and mercy on me have

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 thy servant strength

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 and the son

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 of thine own hand

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 may save

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 show me a sign

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 for good God

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 may

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 wish to be

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 in his ear

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 and be a ship

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 because the Lord

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 is

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 self

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 and

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 comfort

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 let's now call upon the Lord in prayer

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 we'll join together in prayer

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 gracious and eternal God

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 as we gather once again here in your presence

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 we pray for your help

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 we pray for your help that we may worship you as we ought to

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 that our minds may be focused upon

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 those things that are glorious

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 in your work and in your person

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 we pray for grace O Lord

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 to focus upon your word

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 which we find so central

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 to our worship

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 and we pray that you would enable us O Lord

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 to not only read your word

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 and hear it being expounded

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 help us as speaker and hearers alike

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 to take your word to heart

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 apply it to our hearts we pray

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 by your Holy Spirit

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 to enable us thereby

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 to give you the glory

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 and the praise

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 that you are worthy of

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 in a due reception of your word

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 we know Lord

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 that when we receive your word

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 as your word

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 we thereby honour you

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 we honour your name

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 and we give thanks for

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 the word that you have given us

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 we ask O Lord

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 that you would enable us

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 in our understanding of your word

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 to increase in that understanding daily

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 we know that your word

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 has so many aspects to it

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 so many depths

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 that we can find ourselves

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 drawn into

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 and even though some

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 we cannot fully understand

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 and comprehend

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 yet we thank you

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 for the benefit nevertheless

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 of giving our minds to them

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 we thank you

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 for the plain message

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 of your word

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 in regard to our redemption

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 we give thanks O Lord

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 that your word

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 shows us the way

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 of salvation so clearly

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 and that there are no

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 aspects of that left

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 as mysteries to us

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 and Lord we thank you

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 that as Jesus Christ

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 is presented to us

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 in your word

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 in the message of the gospel

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 we give thanks

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 that thereby you speak to us

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 you call us to yourself

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 you impress upon us Lord

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 the need to turn our back

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 to sin

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 to a life of selfishness

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 which we are all O Lord

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 by nature

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 so much prone to

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 we thank you tonight

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 Lord for being together

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 we thank you

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 for the improvement

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 in our situation

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 with regard to the

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 COVID pandemic

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 and we thank you

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 that we are able

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 to express ourselves

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 in song

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 in praise

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 in singing your praises

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 in a way that is

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 O Lord

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 not hampered by

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 even though the necessary

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 masks were in place

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 for some time

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 we pray O Lord

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 that for all of these

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 good things

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 and for everything good

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 that comes from you

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 we may tonight

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 be thankful

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 and we may be

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 the more dependent

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 upon you

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 your word tells us

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 we live and move

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 and have our being

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 in you

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 however Lord

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 we may progress

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 in this world

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 however much we may have

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 of worldly success

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 and however legitimate

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 these things

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 may be in themselves

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 yet Lord

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 we are reminded

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 so frequently

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 in your word

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 that they are all

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 from you

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 as regards

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 the good things

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 that we enjoy

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 and that it is

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 by your power

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 and by your might

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 by your grace

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 that you have given

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 them to us

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 help us to honour you

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 with our daily lives

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 help us to take

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 O Lord

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 from our worship

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 this evening

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 that which would

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 follow through

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 into the rest

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 of the week

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 for us

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 and help us

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 to be concerned

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 in our daily life

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 to manifest

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 the glory

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 of Christ

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 and to show

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 ourselves

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 as willing

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 servants

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 of the Lord

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 and to commend

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 him to those

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 that we meet

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 with on a daily

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 basis

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 Lord forgive us

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 we pray

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 for our failures

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 in regard

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 to this

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 we regard

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 even the best

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 of us

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 Lord

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 as not fully

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 committed

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 to this

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 in the way

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 we ought

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 we confess

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 O Lord

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 we let many

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 opportunities

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 pass

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 that they're

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 gone

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 before we

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 realise

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 that we

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 ought to

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 have made

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 the most

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 of them

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 we pray

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 your forgiveness

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 Lord

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 in regard

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 to all

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 our sins

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 the sins

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 that are

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 obvious

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 in our lives

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 sins of speech

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 and of behaviour

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 as well as

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 those that we

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 find in our

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 own hearts

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 may not be

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 known to any

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 others but

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 ourselves

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 and you

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 you are the

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 God who

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 looks into

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 our hearts

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 keenly

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 and perfectly

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 and O Lord

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 we know

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 that we

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 cannot hide

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 from you

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 and cannot

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 hide anything

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 else from you

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 that we

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 find in

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 ourselves

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 or in

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 all that we

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 think or do

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 we give

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 thanks for

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 this

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 but it is

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 thereby Lord

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 that we can

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 come and

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 place our

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 entire selves

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 our lives

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 in your hand

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 knowing that

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 you are able

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 to provide

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 against all

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 our need

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 in all its

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 variety

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 in all its

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 extent

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 so bless us

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 Lord we pray

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 tonight as a

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 congregation

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 bless all the

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 gatherings of

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 your people

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 in this town

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 and beyond

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 enable Lord

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 your people

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 tonight to

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 know the

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 empowerment

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 of your

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 Holy Spirit

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 oh we thank

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 you for your

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 Holy Spirit

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 we thank you

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 for the

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 ministry that

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 your spirit

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 exercises

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 in bringing

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 us oh Lord

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 to know

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 ourselves as

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 sinners

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 destitute of

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 righteousness

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 we thank you

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 for the

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 ministry of

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 your spirit

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 convicting us

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 of our sin

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 and of our

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 misery

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 we thank you

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 for the

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 ministry of

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 your spirit

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 in directing

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 us to the

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 saviour and

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 in enabling

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 us to embrace

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 you as the

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 living God

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 the living saviour

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 of his people

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 Lord we ask

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 for your spirit

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 to guide us

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 in our

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 Christian walk

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 we give

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 thanks oh

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 Lord for

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 all that you

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 have been to

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 us thus far

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 we pray that

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 whatever age we

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 may be

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 our lives may

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 be directed

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 by your

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 holy spirit

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 day by

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 day

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 we give

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 thanks for

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 the work of

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 your spirit

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 and sanctifying

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 your people

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 and preparing

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 them to be

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 with you in

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 heaven

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 and Lord we

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 pray that

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 tonight each

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 of us may

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 know that

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 influence in

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 our own

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 lives

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 our hearts

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 being directed

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 towards you

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 and made

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 conformable to

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 you in your

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 own will and

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 purpose

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 remember us

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 Lord we pray

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 in all that we

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 seek to do

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 throughout each

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 week in your

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 name both in

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 regard to our

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 young folks and

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 other age groups

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 too we pray for

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 our young people

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 and ask Lord as

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 we are thankful

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 for them we

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 pray for each

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 and every

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 individual we

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 pray for all the

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 families that

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 have young people

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 that belong to

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 us as a

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 congregation

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 Lord remember

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 them we pray

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 at this time

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 and establish

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 them in your

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 ways we ask

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 your blessing

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 for youth

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 fellowship this

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 evening and

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 pray that you

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 would bless

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 them as they

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 meet together

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 we pray for

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 Reverend Ferrier

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 as he speaks

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 to them we

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 pray that that

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 will be a

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 blessed occasion

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 to all

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 concern and

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 we ask oh

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 Lord that you

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 would continue

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 to provide for

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 our Sunday

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 school or our

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 creche for our

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 tweenies for

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 other groups

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 Lord that

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 involve our

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 young people

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 bless your

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 own gospel to

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 them and grant

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 to protect them

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 and show them

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 the things that

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 are in this

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 world designed

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 in themselves

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 from the evil

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 one to lead

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 them away from

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 your truth

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 we pray that

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 you would make

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 them wise

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 unto salvation

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 remember those

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 tonight whose

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 hearts are heavy

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 with mourning

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 Lord remember

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 all who mourn

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 the passing of

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 loved ones

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 each and every

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 week that goes

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 by recently

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 we know that

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 those belonging

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 to our

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 congregation have

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 experienced

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 bereavement and

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 loss

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 Lord we pray

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 for each and

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 every family

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 and each

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 individual

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 we pray for

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 those who are

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 still waiting

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 for preparations

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 regarding the

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 funeral of

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 loved ones

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 we ask that

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 you would give

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 them grace

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 Lord to

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 wait upon you

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 and to know

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 your direction

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 and your

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 comfort at this

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 time

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 we pray for

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 the outcome

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 of the elections

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 both locally

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 and nationally

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 oh Lord our

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 God we pray

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 for those

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 in our own

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 locality who

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 have been

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 elected to

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 council

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 those returning

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 and those who

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 are there for

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 the first time

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 we pray for

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 them and ask

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 that you would

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 show them your

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 ways and bless

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 them especially

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 Lord we pray

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 that you would

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 bring to them

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 the sense of

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 the sufficiency

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 of your word

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 of your own

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 laws of your

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 precepts

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 help also those

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 who offered

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 themselves but

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 ended up without

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 being elected

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 help them we pray

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 to deal with

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 that we thank

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 you for the

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 interests of so

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 many and we

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 pray especially

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 for those of

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 your own people

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 who gave

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 themselves to

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 election but

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 weren't elected

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 yes Lord we

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 we do pray for

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 them and ask

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 that you would

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 be pleased to

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 draw near to

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 them at this

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 time and so

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 we ask that in

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 all aspects of

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 our life

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 individually and

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 congregationally and

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 in our locality and

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 nationally Lord our

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 God be merciful to

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 us show us your

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 ways direct us away

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 from the ways of

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 sin and hear us

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 we pray now and

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 pardon us for

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 Jesus sake

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 amen

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 let's now read

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 God's word as we

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 find it this

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 evening in 1

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 Timothy

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 1 Timothy in

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 chapter 6

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 we'll read

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 through the whole

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 chapter from the

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 beginning

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 1 Timothy in

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 chapter 6

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 let all who are

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 under a yoke of

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 slaves regard their

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 own masters as

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 worthy of all

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 honor so that the

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 name of God and

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 the teaching may

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 not be reviled

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 those who have

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 believing masters

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 must not be

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 disrespectful on the

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 ground that they are

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 brothers rather they

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 must serve all the

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 better since those

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 who benefit by their

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 good service are

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 believers and

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 beloved

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 teach and urge

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 these things

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 if anyone teaches a

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 different doctrine

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 and does not agree

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 with the sound words

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 of our Lord Jesus

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 Christ and the

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 teaching that

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 accords with

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 godliness he is

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 puffed up with

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 conceit and

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 understands nothing

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 he has an

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 unhealthy craving

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 for controversy

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 and for quarrels

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 about words

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 which produce

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 envy

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 dissension

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 slander

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 evil suspicions

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 and constant

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 friction among

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 people who are

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 depraved in mind

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 and deprived of

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 the truth

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 imagining that

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 godliness is a

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 means of gain

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 now there is

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 great gain

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 in godliness

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 with contentment

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 for we brought

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 nothing into the

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 world and we

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 cannot take anything

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 out of the world

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 but if we have food

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 and clothing

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 with these we will

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 be content

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 but those who

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 desire to be rich

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 fall into temptation

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 into a snare

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 into many senseless

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 and harmful desires

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 that plunge people

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 into ruin and

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 destruction

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 for the love of

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 money is a root

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 of all kinds of

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 evil

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 it is through

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 this craving

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 that some have

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 wandered away

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 from the faith

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 and pierced

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 themselves with

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 many pangs

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 but as for you

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 oh man of god

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 flee these things

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 pursue righteousness

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 godliness

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 faith

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 love

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 steadfastness

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 gentleness

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 fight the good

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 fight of the faith

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 take hold of the

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 eternal life

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 to which you are

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 called and about

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 which you made

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 the good confession

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 in the presence

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 of many witnesses

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 i charge you in

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 the presence of god

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 who gives life

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 to all things

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 and to jesus christ

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 and of jesus christ

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 who in his testimony

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 before pontius pilate

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 made the good

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 confession

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 to keep the

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 commandment

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 unstained

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 and free from

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 reproach

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 until the appearing

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 of our lord jesus christ

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 which he will display

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 at the proper time

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 he who is the

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 blessed and only

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 sovereign

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 the king of kings

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 and lord of lords

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 who alone has

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 immortality

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 who dwells in

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 unapproachable light

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 whom no one has

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 ever seen or can

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 see

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 to him be honor

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 and eternal dominion

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 amen

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 as for the rich

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 in this present age

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 charge them

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 not to be haughty

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 nor to set their

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 hopes on the

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 uncertainty of

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 riches

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 but on god

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 who richly provides

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 us with everything

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 to enjoy

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 they are to do

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 good

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 to be rich

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 in good works

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 to be generous

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 and ready to share

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 thus storing up

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 treasure for

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 themselves

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 as a good

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 foundation for

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 the future

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 so that they may

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 take hold

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 of that which

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 is truly life

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 oh timothy guard

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 the deposit

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 entrusted to you

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 avoid the irreverent

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 babble and

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 contradictions

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 of what is falsely

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 called knowledge

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 for by professing

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 it

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 some have swerved

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 from the faith

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 grace

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 be

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 with you

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 amen

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 may god bless

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 again a reading

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 of his word

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 to his own

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 praise

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 and glory

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 i'm going to sing

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 again in psalm 68

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 now it's 68

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 in the

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 scottish psalter

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 version

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 not the

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 sing psalms

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 version

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 that's on your

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 bulletin sheet

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 so it's psalm 68

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 verses

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 7

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 through to

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 11

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 o god

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 what time

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 thou didst

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 go forth

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 before thy

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 people's face

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 and when

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 through the

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 great wilderness

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 thy glorious

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 marching was

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 then that

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 god's presence

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 shook the earth

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 then drops

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 from heaven

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 fell

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 this sinai

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 shook before

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 the lord

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 the god

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 of israel

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 through to

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 verse 11

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 the lord himself

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 did give the

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 word

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 the word

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 abroad

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 did spread

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 great was

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 the company

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 of them

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 the same

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 who published

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 that's psalm 68

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 on page

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 302

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 in the scottish

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 psalter

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 singing from

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 verse 7

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 to verse 11

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 o god

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 what time

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 thou didst

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 go forth

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 o god

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 what time

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 thou didst

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 go forth

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 before

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 thy

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 people

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 face

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 and

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 when

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 through

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 the

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 great

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 wilderness

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 thy

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 glorious

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 marching

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 voice

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 then

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 at

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 god's

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 presence

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 shook

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 the earth

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 then

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 drops

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 from

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 heaven

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 fell

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 this

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 sign

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 i shook

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 before

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 the lord

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 the god

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 of

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 israel

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 o god

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 the

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 who

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 do

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 thy

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 heritage

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 should send

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 a

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 plenteous

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 rain

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 whereby

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 the

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 wrennage

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 weary

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 walls

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 didst

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 it refresh

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 again

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 thy

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 my congregation

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 then

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 did make

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 their

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 habitation

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 there

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 of

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 thine

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 own

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 goodness

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 for

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 the

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 food

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 o god

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 thou

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 didst

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 prepare

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 the

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 lord

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 himself

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 did

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 give

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 the

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 word

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 the

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 word

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 abroad

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 did

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 spread

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 great

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 was

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 the

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 company

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 of

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 them

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 the

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 same

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 who

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 publishes

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 let's

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 turn

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 once again

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 this

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 evening

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 to the

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 epistle

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 to the

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 philippians

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 paul's

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 letter

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 to the

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 philippians

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 it's

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 some time

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 since we

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 had our

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 last study

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 in

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 philippians

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 chapter 4

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 and we're

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 going to

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 continue

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 tonight

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 chapter 4

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 verse 10

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 and looking

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 at verses

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 10

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 to 13

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 that's

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 philippians

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 chapter 4

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 and reading

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 from verse

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 10

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 i rejoiced

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 in the

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 lord

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 greatly

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 that now

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 at length

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 you have

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 revived

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 your

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 concern

00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:02.319
 for me

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 you were

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 indeed

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 concerned

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 for me

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 but you

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 had no

00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:06.719
 opportunity

00:21:06.719 --> 00:21:07.959
 not that

00:21:07.959 --> 00:21:08.479
 i'm speaking

00:21:08.479 --> 00:21:08.979
 of being

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 in need

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 for i have

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 learned in

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 whatever

00:21:11.299 --> 00:21:11.939
 situation

00:21:11.939 --> 00:21:12.459
 i am

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 to be

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 content

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 i know

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 how to

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 be brought

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 low

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 i know

00:21:16.159 --> 00:21:16.539
 how to

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 abound

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 in

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 everything

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 in

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 every

00:21:19.500 --> 00:21:19.979
 in

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 any

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 and

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 every

00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:21.639
 circumstance

00:21:21.639 --> 00:21:22.879
 i have

00:21:22.879 --> 00:21:23.139
 learned

00:21:23.139 --> 00:21:23.579
 the secret

00:21:23.579 --> 00:21:24.299
 of facing

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 plenty

00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:25.799
 and hunger

00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:26.939
 abundance

00:21:26.939 --> 00:21:27.859
 and need

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 i can

00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:29.419
 do

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 all

00:21:30.219 --> 00:21:30.699
 things

00:21:30.699 --> 00:21:30.939
 through

00:21:30.939 --> 00:21:31.299
 him

00:21:31.299 --> 00:21:32.459
 who

00:21:32.459 --> 00:21:33.240
 strengthens

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 me

00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:38.379
 well we're

00:21:38.379 --> 00:21:38.859
 living as you

00:21:38.859 --> 00:21:39.359
 know in very

00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:39.759
 challenging

00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:40.459
 times

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 challenging

00:21:42.139 --> 00:21:43.019
 times not

00:21:43.019 --> 00:21:44.019
 only in

00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:44.579
 a way that

00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:45.240
 the gospel

00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:46.699
 is being

00:21:46.699 --> 00:21:47.240
 challenged

00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:48.059
 but challenging

00:21:48.059 --> 00:21:49.419
 too in a

00:21:49.419 --> 00:21:49.939
 more ordinary

00:21:49.939 --> 00:21:50.679
 sense if you

00:21:50.679 --> 00:21:51.399
 like challenging

00:21:51.399 --> 00:21:51.979
 times with

00:21:51.979 --> 00:21:52.759
 regard to

00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:54.719
 prices increasing

00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:55.160
 in the

00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:55.980
 aftermath of

00:21:55.980 --> 00:21:56.680
 the covid

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 situation and

00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:58.380
 the worldwide

00:21:58.380 --> 00:22:00.019
 effects of

00:22:00.019 --> 00:22:00.360
 that

00:22:00.360 --> 00:22:01.779
 challenges

00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:02.400
 regarding

00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:03.819
 inflation and

00:22:03.819 --> 00:22:04.920
 the increasing

00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:05.819
 inflation that

00:22:05.819 --> 00:22:06.259
 we're hearing

00:22:06.259 --> 00:22:07.140
 about and

00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:07.539
 that we know

00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:08.240
 about in the

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.220
 prices themselves

00:22:09.220 --> 00:22:10.339
 as you see

00:22:10.339 --> 00:22:10.940
 that in your

00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:11.400
 shops

00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:12.700
 challenging

00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:13.299
 times with

00:22:13.299 --> 00:22:14.039
 regard to

00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:15.500
 closures of

00:22:15.500 --> 00:22:16.180
 businesses

00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:17.640
 challenges for

00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:18.079
 those who have

00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:18.640
 lost their

00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:19.519
 work and

00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:19.900
 are now

00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:20.620
 unemployed

00:22:20.620 --> 00:22:21.960
 and some

00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:22.299
 who find

00:22:22.299 --> 00:22:23.799
 difficulty in

00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:24.259
 seeking

00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:24.879
 alternative

00:22:24.879 --> 00:22:25.700
 employment

00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:27.319
 this is

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:29.019
 an environment

00:22:29.019 --> 00:22:30.500
 for much

00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:31.200
 anxiety

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:32.740
 an environment

00:22:32.740 --> 00:22:33.480
 in which some

00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:35.139
 find a degree

00:22:35.139 --> 00:22:36.200
 of hopelessness

00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:36.740
 and feeling

00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:38.019
 just sidelined

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:39.559
 an environment

00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:40.500
 in which we

00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:41.720
 find an

00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:42.539
 increase in

00:22:42.539 --> 00:22:43.659
 substance abuse

00:22:43.659 --> 00:22:45.039
 and alcoholism

00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:46.180
 and those

00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:46.659
 sort of

00:22:46.659 --> 00:22:47.599
 excesses

00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.680
 how can

00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:50.240
 anyone be

00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:51.019
 content

00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:53.399
 in circumstances

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:54.380
 like these

00:22:54.380 --> 00:22:56.060
 where do you

00:22:56.060 --> 00:22:57.019
 find the

00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:57.580
 secret of

00:22:57.580 --> 00:22:58.380
 contentment

00:22:58.380 --> 00:22:58.660
 what the

00:22:58.660 --> 00:22:59.680
 apostle is

00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:00.420
 calling here

00:23:00.420 --> 00:23:01.500
 the secret of

00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:02.120
 contentment

00:23:02.120 --> 00:23:02.540
 that he has

00:23:02.540 --> 00:23:02.980
 learned

00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:03.840
 how can

00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:04.400
 anyone be

00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:05.019
 content

00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:06.560
 surrounded by

00:23:06.560 --> 00:23:07.259
 and affected

00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:07.980
 by sometimes

00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:09.160
 affected directly

00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:09.880
 as most of us

00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:11.060
 are by these

00:23:11.060 --> 00:23:11.960
 issues that

00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:13.180
 prove so

00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:13.700
 challenging

00:23:13.700 --> 00:23:14.480
 for our

00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:14.820
 day

00:23:14.820 --> 00:23:16.700
 well Paul is

00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:17.280
 dealing here

00:23:17.280 --> 00:23:17.980
 with what

00:23:17.980 --> 00:23:18.519
 we're calling

00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:19.560
 the contented

00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:20.140
 life because

00:23:20.140 --> 00:23:20.920
 that's essentially

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:21.980
 what these

00:23:21.980 --> 00:23:22.700
 verses are

00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:23.120
 about

00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:24.539
 and not

00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:25.500
 only are

00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:26.299
 we facing

00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:26.900
 challenges

00:23:26.900 --> 00:23:27.599
 we're facing

00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:28.579
 this challenge

00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:29.140
 as well

00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:30.140
 to live

00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:31.200
 a contented

00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:31.640
 life

00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:33.160
 irrespective

00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:33.500
 of what

00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:34.460
 our circumstances

00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:35.279
 may be

00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:35.940
 because it's

00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:36.420
 not just

00:23:36.420 --> 00:23:37.460
 in times

00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:38.480
 of difficulty

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.960
 times of

00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:40.480
 challenges

00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:41.099
 such as we

00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:41.559
 mentioned

00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:42.559
 that living

00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:43.299
 a contented

00:23:43.299 --> 00:23:43.680
 life is

00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:44.339
 important

00:23:44.339 --> 00:23:45.420
 it is

00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:45.819
 important

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:46.279
 at all

00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:46.740
 times

00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:47.299
 to seek

00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:48.279
 to live

00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:48.839
 a life

00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:49.860
 of contentment

00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:50.679
 to have

00:23:50.679 --> 00:23:51.559
 a contented

00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:51.959
 heart

00:23:51.959 --> 00:23:52.639
 to have

00:23:52.639 --> 00:23:53.439
 a contented

00:23:53.439 --> 00:23:53.879
 mind

00:23:53.879 --> 00:23:54.659
 to have

00:23:54.659 --> 00:23:55.039
 a mind

00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:55.459
 that is

00:23:55.459 --> 00:23:56.339
 well and

00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:56.679
 truly

00:23:56.679 --> 00:23:57.619
 content

00:23:57.619 --> 00:23:58.679
 with our

00:23:58.679 --> 00:23:59.339
 circumstances

00:23:59.339 --> 00:23:59.819
 with our

00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:00.519
 situation

00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:01.659
 with our

00:24:01.659 --> 00:24:02.240
 relationship

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.939
 with God

00:24:02.939 --> 00:24:03.839
 whatever it

00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.240
 is you're

00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:04.899
 thinking about

00:24:04.899 --> 00:24:07.119
 and this

00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:07.699
 was important

00:24:07.699 --> 00:24:08.099
 to the

00:24:08.099 --> 00:24:08.439
 apostle

00:24:08.439 --> 00:24:09.319
 not just

00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:09.719
 in writing

00:24:09.719 --> 00:24:10.059
 to the

00:24:10.059 --> 00:24:10.519
 Philippians

00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:11.240
 it was

00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:11.599
 important

00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:11.919
 to the

00:24:11.919 --> 00:24:12.299
 apostle

00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:13.439
 not just

00:24:13.439 --> 00:24:13.719
 for his

00:24:13.719 --> 00:24:14.259
 own life

00:24:14.259 --> 00:24:14.659
 as well

00:24:14.659 --> 00:24:15.000
 and those

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:15.259
 of the

00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:15.779
 Philippians

00:24:15.779 --> 00:24:16.439
 it was

00:24:16.439 --> 00:24:17.059
 important

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:18.279
 pastorally

00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:19.079
 for the

00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:19.480
 apostle

00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:20.399
 as we

00:24:20.399 --> 00:24:20.839
 read in

00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:21.500
 chapter 6

00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:22.859
 of 1st

00:24:22.859 --> 00:24:23.180
 Timothy

00:24:23.180 --> 00:24:24.079
 you can

00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:24.399
 see there

00:24:24.399 --> 00:24:24.680
 in verses

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.240
 6 to

00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:25.639
 10

00:24:25.639 --> 00:24:26.759
 how important

00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:27.440
 it was

00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:28.579
 for the

00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:28.960
 apostle

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.940
 to commend

00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:30.980
 contentment

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:32.539
 and how

00:24:32.539 --> 00:24:33.119
 one comes

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.619
 about to

00:24:33.619 --> 00:24:34.339
 be content

00:24:34.339 --> 00:24:35.319
 in his

00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:35.700
 preaching

00:24:35.700 --> 00:24:36.720
 it's something

00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:37.180
 obviously

00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:37.879
 built into

00:24:37.879 --> 00:24:38.579
 his preaching

00:24:38.579 --> 00:24:39.480
 it's something

00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:39.920
 obviously

00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.339
 that should

00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:40.920
 be important

00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:41.539
 to us

00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.200
 in our

00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:42.539
 preaching

00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:42.879
 of the

00:24:42.879 --> 00:24:43.240
 gospel

00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:44.259
 where does

00:24:44.259 --> 00:24:44.740
 a person

00:24:44.740 --> 00:24:45.960
 get contentment

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:46.379
 from

00:24:46.379 --> 00:24:47.299
 how does

00:24:47.299 --> 00:24:47.700
 a person

00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:48.160
 come

00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:48.660
 to be

00:24:48.660 --> 00:24:49.140
 content

00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:49.700
 in their

00:24:49.700 --> 00:24:50.140
 lives

00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:51.340
 in the

00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:51.620
 world

00:24:51.620 --> 00:24:52.040
 in which

00:24:52.040 --> 00:24:52.320
 we are

00:24:52.320 --> 00:24:52.800
 placed

00:24:52.800 --> 00:24:54.000
 and you

00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.259
 look at

00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:54.440
 the

00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:54.920
 verses

00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:56.140
 17 to

00:24:56.140 --> 00:24:56.460
 19

00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:56.980
 of that

00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:57.400
 chapter

00:24:57.400 --> 00:24:58.180
 where he

00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:58.680
 talks there

00:24:58.680 --> 00:24:59.220
 about the

00:24:59.220 --> 00:25:00.060
 danger

00:25:00.060 --> 00:25:00.759
 of seeking

00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:02.779
 to follow

00:25:02.779 --> 00:25:03.240
 riches

00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:03.620
 for their

00:25:03.620 --> 00:25:04.300
 own sake

00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:06.060
 he says

00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:06.580
 for the rich

00:25:06.580 --> 00:25:06.880
 in this

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:07.460
 present age

00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:08.140
 as for

00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:08.400
 them

00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:09.100
 charge them

00:25:09.100 --> 00:25:09.480
 not to

00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:10.140
 be haughty

00:25:10.140 --> 00:25:10.960
 or set

00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:11.400
 their hopes

00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:11.680
 on the

00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:12.200
 uncertainty

00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:12.820
 of riches

00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:13.259
 but on

00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:13.640
 God

00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:14.900
 who richly

00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:15.759
 provides us

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.540
 with everything

00:25:16.540 --> 00:25:17.900
 to enjoy

00:25:17.900 --> 00:25:18.880
 there to

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:19.480
 be good

00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:20.140
 to be

00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:20.700
 rich

00:25:20.700 --> 00:25:21.540
 in good

00:25:21.540 --> 00:25:22.100
 works

00:25:22.100 --> 00:25:22.519
 you see

00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:22.800
 the way

00:25:22.800 --> 00:25:23.860
 Paul plays

00:25:23.860 --> 00:25:24.100
 on the

00:25:24.100 --> 00:25:24.700
 word rich

00:25:24.700 --> 00:25:25.340
 and riches

00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:26.100
 throughout that

00:25:26.100 --> 00:25:27.240
 passage there

00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.060
 they are not

00:25:28.060 --> 00:25:28.580
 to set their

00:25:28.580 --> 00:25:29.040
 hope on the

00:25:29.040 --> 00:25:29.640
 uncertainty

00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:30.780
 of riches

00:25:30.780 --> 00:25:31.420
 but rather

00:25:31.420 --> 00:25:32.080
 to look to

00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:32.840
 God

00:25:32.840 --> 00:25:33.840
 who richly

00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:34.620
 gives

00:25:34.620 --> 00:25:35.660
 good works

00:25:35.660 --> 00:25:37.200
 and is

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.019
 therefore able

00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:38.620
 to give

00:25:38.620 --> 00:25:39.580
 the contentment

00:25:39.580 --> 00:25:40.560
 that we

00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:41.200
 require

00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:41.560
 and that's

00:25:41.560 --> 00:25:41.880
 really what

00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:42.140
 you have

00:25:42.140 --> 00:25:42.500
 in the

00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:43.280
 Philippians

00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:43.780
 passage

00:25:43.780 --> 00:25:44.360
 as well

00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:45.479
 what is

00:25:45.479 --> 00:25:46.659
 a contented

00:25:46.659 --> 00:25:47.099
 life

00:25:47.099 --> 00:25:48.559
 how do you

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:49.179
 experience

00:25:49.179 --> 00:25:49.979
 contentment

00:25:49.979 --> 00:25:50.339
 where does

00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:50.740
 it come

00:25:50.740 --> 00:25:51.139
 from

00:25:51.139 --> 00:25:52.139
 what are

00:25:52.139 --> 00:25:52.799
 the elements

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:53.859
 of contentment

00:25:53.859 --> 00:25:54.519
 for yourself

00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:55.379
 for myself

00:25:55.379 --> 00:25:55.819
 tonight

00:25:55.819 --> 00:25:56.579
 if you ask

00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:57.179
 yourself the

00:25:57.179 --> 00:25:57.519
 question

00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:58.479
 how can I

00:25:58.479 --> 00:25:58.819
 have a

00:25:58.819 --> 00:25:59.619
 contented

00:25:59.619 --> 00:26:00.019
 heart

00:26:00.019 --> 00:26:00.939
 if I'm

00:26:00.939 --> 00:26:01.859
 surrounded by

00:26:01.859 --> 00:26:02.639
 challenges

00:26:02.639 --> 00:26:04.039
 and uncertainties

00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:05.119
 if I know

00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:05.819
 of changes

00:26:05.819 --> 00:26:06.740
 in my life

00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:07.219
 if I know

00:26:07.219 --> 00:26:07.799
 of things

00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:08.139
 that I'm

00:26:08.139 --> 00:26:08.599
 struggling

00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:09.059
 with

00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:09.899
 where can I

00:26:09.899 --> 00:26:11.179
 find contentment

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:11.940
 how can I

00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:12.860
 possibly have

00:26:12.860 --> 00:26:13.860
 contentment

00:26:13.860 --> 00:26:15.600
 true contentment

00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:16.759
 in that

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:17.440
 situation

00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:19.600
 well Paul

00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:20.060
 gives us

00:26:20.060 --> 00:26:20.320
 here

00:26:20.320 --> 00:26:22.240
 three main

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:22.720
 elements

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:23.140
 to it

00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:24.120
 I'm going

00:26:24.120 --> 00:26:24.400
 to take

00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:24.860
 these in

00:26:24.860 --> 00:26:25.220
 turn

00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:26.080
 he talks

00:26:26.080 --> 00:26:26.440
 first of

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:26.880
 all about

00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:28.039
 thankfulness

00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:29.279
 you can see

00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:29.720
 that from

00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:30.299
 verse 8

00:26:30.299 --> 00:26:30.660
 onwards

00:26:30.660 --> 00:26:31.500
 and especially

00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.259
 in verse 10

00:26:32.259 --> 00:26:33.400
 I rejoiced

00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:34.480
 in the Lord

00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.019
 greatly

00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:35.940
 that now

00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:36.480
 at length

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:36.880
 you have

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.620
 revived

00:26:37.620 --> 00:26:39.080
 your concern

00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:39.759
 for me

00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.299
 you are

00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:40.600
 indeed

00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:41.060
 concerned

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:41.480
 for me

00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:42.240
 but you

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:42.700
 had no

00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:43.519
 opportunity

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:44.619
 you can

00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:44.960
 see

00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:45.960
 how he

00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:46.460
 is later

00:26:46.460 --> 00:26:46.919
 on in the

00:26:46.919 --> 00:26:47.259
 passage

00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:47.919
 that follows

00:26:47.919 --> 00:26:49.059
 talking about

00:26:49.059 --> 00:26:49.539
 the gift

00:26:49.539 --> 00:26:49.919
 that they

00:26:49.919 --> 00:26:50.819
 have sent

00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:51.359
 to him

00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:52.299
 verse 18

00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:52.799
 I have

00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:53.299
 received

00:26:53.299 --> 00:26:54.019
 full payment

00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:55.039
 and more

00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:55.659
 I am well

00:26:55.659 --> 00:26:56.179
 supplied

00:26:56.179 --> 00:26:57.359
 having received

00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:58.500
 from Epaphroditus

00:26:58.500 --> 00:26:59.579
 the gifts

00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.059
 that you

00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:00.440
 said

00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:01.379
 so he is

00:27:01.379 --> 00:27:01.899
 thankful

00:27:01.899 --> 00:27:02.740
 to the

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:03.559
 Philippians

00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:04.119
 thankful of

00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:04.759
 course to

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:05.399
 God most

00:27:05.399 --> 00:27:05.720
 of all

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.059
 but he's

00:27:06.059 --> 00:27:06.399
 thankful

00:27:06.399 --> 00:27:07.159
 that the

00:27:07.159 --> 00:27:07.599
 Philippians

00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:08.259
 have shown

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:08.720
 themselves

00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:09.119
 in their

00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:09.539
 kindness

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:09.940
 to him

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:10.980
 by sending

00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:11.599
 gifts

00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:12.019
 we're not

00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:12.480
 told what

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:13.079
 they were

00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:15.079
 but Epaphroditus

00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:16.220
 came with

00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:16.720
 this gift

00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.299
 to Paul

00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:18.400
 and he is

00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:19.279
 truly thankful

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:19.860
 for it

00:27:19.860 --> 00:27:20.559
 now that's

00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.319
 an essential

00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:22.180
 element

00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:23.180
 of a

00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:23.940
 contented

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:24.259
 life

00:27:24.259 --> 00:27:25.039
 you and I

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.519
 will never

00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:25.940
 have a

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:26.599
 contented

00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:26.960
 life

00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:27.819
 if we are

00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:28.620
 not thankful

00:27:28.620 --> 00:27:29.339
 to God

00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:30.339
 if we are

00:27:30.339 --> 00:27:30.940
 not thankful

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:31.660
 even for the

00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:32.240
 least of his

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:32.819
 mercies

00:27:32.819 --> 00:27:33.660
 because

00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:34.620
 thankfulness

00:27:34.620 --> 00:27:36.259
 is such

00:27:36.259 --> 00:27:37.039
 an important

00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:37.660
 ingredient

00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:38.680
 in a

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:38.980
 life

00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:39.320
 that's

00:27:39.320 --> 00:27:39.860
 in tune

00:27:39.860 --> 00:27:40.700
 with God

00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:41.500
 and in

00:27:41.500 --> 00:27:41.680
 tune

00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:42.380
 with God's

00:27:42.380 --> 00:27:42.860
 providence

00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:43.420
 and God's

00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:43.820
 wisdom

00:27:43.820 --> 00:27:45.660
 so thankfulness

00:27:45.660 --> 00:27:46.540
 is the first

00:27:46.540 --> 00:27:46.980
 element

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:47.779
 in a

00:27:47.779 --> 00:27:48.420
 contented

00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:48.820
 life

00:27:48.820 --> 00:27:50.040
 and then

00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:50.560
 secondly

00:27:50.560 --> 00:27:50.980
 you find

00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:51.240
 verses

00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.279
 11 to

00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:52.820
 12

00:27:52.820 --> 00:27:53.640
 or 11

00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:54.340
 to 13

00:27:54.340 --> 00:27:55.940
 the second

00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:56.300
 element

00:27:56.300 --> 00:27:56.600
 is

00:27:56.600 --> 00:27:57.500
 dependence

00:27:57.500 --> 00:27:58.740
 Paul says

00:27:58.740 --> 00:27:59.380
 he's thankful

00:27:59.380 --> 00:28:00.460
 for the gift

00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:00.860
 but he's

00:28:00.860 --> 00:28:01.340
 saying not

00:28:01.340 --> 00:28:02.180
 that I

00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:02.540
 really

00:28:02.540 --> 00:28:03.340
 was in

00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:03.620
 dire

00:28:03.620 --> 00:28:04.080
 need

00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:04.539
 of it

00:28:04.539 --> 00:28:05.159
 because

00:28:05.159 --> 00:28:05.439
 I've

00:28:05.439 --> 00:28:05.839
 learned

00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:06.019
 in

00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:06.379
 whatsoever

00:28:06.379 --> 00:28:07.039
 situation

00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:08.000
 I am

00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:08.419
 to be

00:28:08.419 --> 00:28:08.839
 content

00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:09.960
 I know

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.220
 how to

00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:10.619
 be brought

00:28:10.619 --> 00:28:11.000
 low

00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:11.720
 I know

00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:12.099
 how to

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:12.659
 abound

00:28:12.659 --> 00:28:13.599
 in every

00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:14.399
 and any

00:28:14.399 --> 00:28:15.000
 circumstance

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:15.599
 I have

00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:15.919
 learned

00:28:15.919 --> 00:28:16.579
 the secret

00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:17.799
 of facing

00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:18.299
 plenty

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:18.819
 and hunger

00:28:18.819 --> 00:28:19.419
 abundance

00:28:19.419 --> 00:28:20.019
 and need

00:28:20.019 --> 00:28:21.139
 I can do

00:28:21.139 --> 00:28:21.639
 all things

00:28:21.639 --> 00:28:22.059
 through him

00:28:22.059 --> 00:28:23.139
 who strengthens

00:28:23.139 --> 00:28:23.279
 me

00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:23.559
 in other

00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:23.779
 words

00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:24.359
 he's saying

00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:25.500
 my contentment

00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:26.579
 actually comes

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:27.639
 as he's

00:28:27.639 --> 00:28:28.179
 speaking to the

00:28:28.179 --> 00:28:28.619
 Philippians

00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:29.119
 and setting

00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:29.659
 these things

00:28:29.659 --> 00:28:30.439
 forth for them

00:28:30.439 --> 00:28:31.220
 to follow

00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:31.879
 and to apply

00:28:31.879 --> 00:28:32.319
 in their own

00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:32.619
 lives

00:28:32.619 --> 00:28:33.759
 his contentment

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.259
 is not just

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:36.519
 something that

00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:37.660
 involves thankfulness

00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:38.160
 to God

00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:39.240
 it involves

00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:39.920
 dependence

00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:40.960
 upon Christ

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.819
 dependence

00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:42.640
 on God

00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:43.519
 he looks

00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:43.859
 for his

00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:44.379
 sufficiency

00:28:44.379 --> 00:28:45.559
 in Jesus

00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:46.140
 himself

00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:46.720
 in God

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:47.160
 himself

00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:48.960
 there's

00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:49.619
 thankfulness

00:28:49.619 --> 00:28:50.779
 there's

00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:51.420
 dependence

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:53.299
 and thirdly

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:54.420
 there is

00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:55.279
 strengthening

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:57.480
 because ultimately

00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:59.359
 his contentment

00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:00.240
 comes from

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.259
 Jesus himself

00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:02.619
 comes from

00:29:02.619 --> 00:29:03.140
 God

00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:04.060
 as you see

00:29:04.060 --> 00:29:04.400
 in verse

00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:05.040
 13

00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:05.740
 I can

00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:06.320
 do all

00:29:06.320 --> 00:29:06.840
 things

00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:07.980
 through him

00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:09.220
 who strengthens

00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:09.440
 me

00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:10.300
 so it doesn't

00:29:10.300 --> 00:29:10.740
 matter whether

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.200
 Paul is

00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:11.900
 experiencing

00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:12.880
 what he calls

00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:13.460
 being brought

00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:13.880
 low

00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:14.880
 or what he

00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.300
 calls

00:29:15.300 --> 00:29:16.160
 abounding

00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:16.840
 whether it's

00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:17.780
 really something

00:29:17.780 --> 00:29:18.420
 in which he

00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:19.140
 lacks certain

00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:19.660
 things

00:29:19.660 --> 00:29:20.680
 physically

00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:21.420
 or financially

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:22.200
 or whether he

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:22.620
 is actually

00:29:22.620 --> 00:29:23.640
 full of as

00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:24.020
 much as

00:29:24.020 --> 00:29:24.800
 possible he

00:29:24.800 --> 00:29:25.120
 could have

00:29:25.120 --> 00:29:25.420
 in this

00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:25.780
 life

00:29:25.780 --> 00:29:26.780
 he's saying

00:29:26.780 --> 00:29:27.640
 I can

00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:28.120
 do all

00:29:28.120 --> 00:29:28.620
 things

00:29:28.620 --> 00:29:29.360
 through him

00:29:29.360 --> 00:29:31.020
 who fills

00:29:31.020 --> 00:29:31.660
 me with

00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:32.060
 strength

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:32.339
 that's what

00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:32.659
 he means

00:29:32.659 --> 00:29:33.819
 who strengthens

00:29:33.819 --> 00:29:34.119
 me

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:35.519
 his contentment

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:36.480
 comes from

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.579
 the supply

00:29:37.579 --> 00:29:38.960
 that Jesus

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:39.639
 gives him

00:29:39.639 --> 00:29:40.200
 on a daily

00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:40.819
 basis

00:29:40.819 --> 00:29:42.599
 and that too

00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:43.819
 is in many ways

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:44.579
 the key to

00:29:44.579 --> 00:29:45.480
 contentment for

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:46.240
 ourselves

00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.460
 the contented

00:29:48.460 --> 00:29:48.899
 life

00:29:48.899 --> 00:29:50.119
 is the life

00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:51.159
 that comes

00:29:51.159 --> 00:29:52.220
 to be supplied

00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:53.179
 by Jesus

00:29:53.179 --> 00:29:54.379
 on a daily

00:29:54.379 --> 00:29:54.799
 basis

00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:56.220
 with the grace

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:58.000
 with the ability

00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:58.919
 with the

00:29:58.919 --> 00:29:59.659
 mindset

00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:01.120
 with everything

00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:01.800
 that is to

00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:02.180
 do with

00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:02.900
 contentment

00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:04.120
 I can do

00:30:04.120 --> 00:30:04.740
 all things

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:05.340
 through him

00:30:05.340 --> 00:30:06.640
 who strengthens

00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:06.800
 me

00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:07.440
 and he lies

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:08.040
 content

00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:09.759
 in the supply

00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:10.620
 that Jesus

00:30:10.620 --> 00:30:11.100
 brings

00:30:11.100 --> 00:30:11.540
 because

00:30:11.540 --> 00:30:13.040
 it's not just

00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:13.660
 a matter of

00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:14.720
 those who

00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:15.279
 are facing

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.220
 deprivation

00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:16.779
 that have a

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:17.259
 challenge

00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:17.980
 of being

00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:18.640
 content

00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.000
 those who

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:20.500
 are facing

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:21.400
 poverty

00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:22.060
 for example

00:30:22.060 --> 00:30:22.680
 in Paul's

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:22.880
 day

00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:23.240
 and he

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:24.640
 very much

00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:25.180
 is aware

00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:25.519
 of that

00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:25.720
 as he

00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:26.160
 writes his

00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:26.560
 letters

00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:27.839
 it's

00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:29.039
 a challenge

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:29.559
 how to

00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:30.279
 be content

00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:31.500
 if we're

00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:31.779
 on the

00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:32.279
 breadline

00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:32.619
 if we're

00:30:32.619 --> 00:30:33.059
 facing

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:34.119
 though many

00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:34.460
 of us

00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:34.779
 aren't

00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:35.240
 of course

00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:36.139
 nevertheless

00:30:36.139 --> 00:30:37.220
 those in

00:30:37.220 --> 00:30:37.500
 the world

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:37.919
 that's a

00:30:37.919 --> 00:30:38.619
 difficulty

00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:39.079
 for them

00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:39.379
 but it's

00:30:39.379 --> 00:30:40.039
 equally so

00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:41.059
 for those

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:41.460
 who are

00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:42.039
 millionaires

00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:42.980
 where does

00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:43.440
 a millionaire

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:44.740
 find contentment

00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:45.759
 because they

00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:46.279
 will tell you

00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:46.700
 themselves

00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:47.220
 mostly

00:30:47.220 --> 00:30:48.159
 that although

00:30:48.159 --> 00:30:48.859
 their millions

00:30:48.859 --> 00:30:49.819
 bring them

00:30:49.819 --> 00:30:50.919
 a luxurious

00:30:50.919 --> 00:30:51.599
 lifetime

00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:52.339
 a comfortable

00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:52.960
 lifetime

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:54.079
 it does not

00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:54.579
 guarantee

00:30:54.579 --> 00:30:55.579
 contentment

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:56.879
 contentment

00:30:56.879 --> 00:30:57.179
 is not

00:30:57.179 --> 00:30:57.559
 the same

00:30:57.559 --> 00:30:57.939
 thing

00:30:57.939 --> 00:30:58.819
 as comfort

00:30:58.819 --> 00:31:00.559
 contentment

00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:01.319
 in the

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:01.939
 apostles

00:31:01.939 --> 00:31:02.519
 terms

00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.480
 is being

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:03.879
 thankful

00:31:03.879 --> 00:31:04.539
 to God

00:31:04.539 --> 00:31:05.740
 being dependent

00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:06.399
 on God

00:31:06.399 --> 00:31:07.859
 being strengthened

00:31:07.859 --> 00:31:09.259
 by Christ

00:31:09.259 --> 00:31:09.779
 let's look at

00:31:09.779 --> 00:31:10.699
 these briefly

00:31:10.699 --> 00:31:11.419
 in turn

00:31:11.419 --> 00:31:12.960
 here is Paul

00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:13.480
 saying to the

00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:13.899
 Philippians

00:31:13.899 --> 00:31:14.439
 here in verse

00:31:14.439 --> 00:31:14.819
 18

00:31:14.819 --> 00:31:16.399
 I have received

00:31:16.399 --> 00:31:17.079
 full payment

00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:18.399
 I didn't seek

00:31:18.399 --> 00:31:19.019
 this gift

00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:20.039
 but I seek

00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:20.639
 the fruit

00:31:20.639 --> 00:31:21.319
 that increases

00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:22.699
 to your credit

00:31:22.699 --> 00:31:23.519
 I have received

00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.259
 full payment

00:31:24.259 --> 00:31:25.400
 and more

00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:26.700
 I am well

00:31:26.700 --> 00:31:27.299
 supplied

00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:28.640
 having received

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.660
 from Epaphroditus

00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:30.200
 the gift

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:30.759
 you sent

00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:31.900
 a fragrant

00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:32.440
 offering

00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:33.779
 a sacrifice

00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:34.480
 acceptable

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:35.779
 and pleasing

00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:37.039
 to God

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.720
 he uses

00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:38.319
 very strong

00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:38.740
 terms

00:31:38.740 --> 00:31:39.779
 to show

00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:40.519
 the extent

00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:40.920
 of his

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:41.299
 thankful

00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:42.240
 now he is

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.700
 treading a

00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:43.200
 very fine

00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:43.879
 line here

00:31:43.879 --> 00:31:45.200
 and it is

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:45.559
 a line

00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:47.140
 that many

00:31:47.140 --> 00:31:47.460
 of us

00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:48.039
 actually know

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:48.920
 for ourselves

00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.079
 he doesn't

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:51.599
 want in

00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:51.980
 any way

00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:52.559
 to appear

00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:53.440
 ungrateful

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.279
 and so

00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:54.680
 he is

00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:55.180
 thankful

00:31:55.180 --> 00:31:55.940
 for the

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:56.220
 gifts

00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:56.480
 the

00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.519
 Philippians

00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.039
 have sent

00:31:58.039 --> 00:31:58.240
 him

00:31:58.240 --> 00:31:59.039
 but at

00:31:59.039 --> 00:31:59.400
 the same

00:31:59.400 --> 00:31:59.640
 time

00:31:59.640 --> 00:31:59.880
 on the

00:31:59.880 --> 00:32:00.059
 other

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:00.440
 side

00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:00.840
 of things

00:32:00.840 --> 00:32:01.580
 he doesn't

00:32:01.580 --> 00:32:02.000
 want to

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:02.720
 make it

00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:03.380
 appear

00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:03.820
 that he's

00:32:03.820 --> 00:32:04.740
 being covetous

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:06.019
 that he really

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:06.799
 wanted such

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:07.779
 things for himself

00:32:07.779 --> 00:32:09.019
 and that is

00:32:09.019 --> 00:32:09.519
 something that he

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:09.900
 would seek

00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:10.420
 from them

00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:11.120
 in the future

00:32:11.120 --> 00:32:11.600
 it's that

00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:12.360
 fine line

00:32:12.360 --> 00:32:12.720
 between

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:14.100
 being thankful

00:32:14.100 --> 00:32:14.620
 for what

00:32:14.620 --> 00:32:15.340
 they've sent

00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:16.140
 and yet at

00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:16.500
 the same

00:32:16.500 --> 00:32:17.160
 time saying

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.539
 not that I'm

00:32:18.539 --> 00:32:19.360
 speaking of

00:32:19.360 --> 00:32:20.519
 being in need

00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:21.400
 I didn't

00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:22.039
 seek this

00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:22.799
 I don't

00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.279
 necessarily

00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:23.960
 want any

00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:24.639
 more but I'm

00:32:24.639 --> 00:32:25.680
 thankful for

00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:26.279
 what you've

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:26.720
 sent

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.559
 and if we

00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:30.319
 speak personally

00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:32.180
 I know this

00:32:32.180 --> 00:32:32.579
 is something

00:32:32.579 --> 00:32:33.720
 that we find

00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:34.420
 ourselves in

00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:34.879
 in ministry

00:32:34.879 --> 00:32:37.519
 we are so

00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:38.240
 dependent in

00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:39.180
 many ways on

00:32:39.180 --> 00:32:40.539
 the church's

00:32:40.539 --> 00:32:41.180
 givings

00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:42.319
 we're paid

00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:42.920
 out of the

00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:43.700
 contributions

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.619
 in our

00:32:44.619 --> 00:32:45.220
 stipends

00:32:45.220 --> 00:32:47.019
 from your

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:47.720
 givings

00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:48.860
 and believe

00:32:48.860 --> 00:32:49.240
 me we're

00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:50.000
 grateful for

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:50.220
 that

00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:50.519
 I know

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:50.960
 our

00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:51.579
 thankfulness

00:32:51.579 --> 00:32:52.140
 ultimately

00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:52.559
 is to

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:53.000
 God

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:53.860
 who

00:32:53.860 --> 00:32:54.420
 supplies

00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:54.680
 all

00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:54.980
 things

00:32:54.980 --> 00:32:55.400
 for us

00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:56.620
 but that's

00:32:56.620 --> 00:32:57.160
 where we

00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:57.860
 are placed

00:32:57.860 --> 00:32:58.500
 as preachers

00:32:58.500 --> 00:32:58.799
 of the

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.180
 gospel

00:32:59.180 --> 00:33:00.120
 and it's

00:33:00.120 --> 00:33:00.640
 that fine

00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:01.259
 line between

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:02.140
 saying we're

00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:02.920
 really grateful

00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:03.579
 to you

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.400
 but we're

00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:05.240
 not seeking

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:06.480
 we're not

00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:07.100
 covetous

00:33:07.100 --> 00:33:07.480
 we're not

00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:07.839
 actually

00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.220
 living so

00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:09.620
 that you

00:33:09.620 --> 00:33:10.039
 will keep

00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:10.539
 on giving

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:11.339
 to us

00:33:11.339 --> 00:33:12.559
 it's that

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:13.180
 line that he's

00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:14.019
 following here

00:33:14.019 --> 00:33:15.039
 where he wants

00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:15.559
 them to be

00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.420
 truly aware

00:33:16.420 --> 00:33:17.180
 of his

00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:17.700
 thankfulness

00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:18.880
 and yet

00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.960
 he is

00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:21.440
 not at all

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.220
 saying that he

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:23.059
 is being

00:33:23.059 --> 00:33:23.680
 covetous

00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:24.640
 in regard

00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:25.220
 to it

00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:26.039
 now

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:26.900
 thankfulness

00:33:26.900 --> 00:33:27.299
 therefore

00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:28.259
 is something

00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:29.039
 that's so

00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.100
 crucial to

00:33:30.100 --> 00:33:31.259
 our contentment

00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:33.019
 if we're going

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:33.840
 to be content

00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:34.519
 with what we

00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:35.059
 have

00:33:35.059 --> 00:33:36.840
 it doesn't

00:33:36.840 --> 00:33:37.240
 mean that you

00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:38.319
 don't improve

00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:38.840
 life

00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:39.960
 it doesn't

00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:40.259
 mean it's

00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:40.900
 wrong to

00:33:40.900 --> 00:33:41.759
 seek an

00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:42.840
 increase in

00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:43.460
 your wealth

00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:43.860
 or things

00:33:43.860 --> 00:33:44.340
 like that

00:33:44.340 --> 00:33:45.000
 just to have

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.080
 something in

00:33:46.080 --> 00:33:46.880
 hand by

00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.040
 which you're

00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:48.640
 able to

00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:49.260
 have more

00:33:49.260 --> 00:33:49.800
 comfort

00:33:49.800 --> 00:33:50.400
 or be

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:51.200
 more assured

00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:52.020
 and so on

00:33:52.020 --> 00:33:52.780
 doesn't mean

00:33:52.780 --> 00:33:53.120
 that that's

00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:53.600
 wrong

00:33:53.600 --> 00:33:55.220
 but it is

00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:55.960
 and

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.020
 but

00:33:57.020 --> 00:33:58.560
 thankfulness

00:33:58.560 --> 00:33:59.520
 and

00:33:59.520 --> 00:34:01.140
 contentment

00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:02.080
 is the

00:34:02.080 --> 00:34:02.640
 enemy of

00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:03.480
 covetousness

00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:03.940
 or you can

00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:04.260
 put it the

00:34:04.260 --> 00:34:04.640
 other way

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:05.740
 covetousness

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:06.140
 is the

00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.580
 enemy of

00:34:06.580 --> 00:34:07.280
 contentment

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.059
 if we

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.460
 have a

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:08.960
 coveting

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:09.199
 heart

00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:09.380
 if we

00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:09.519
 have a

00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:09.739
 heart

00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:10.119
 that really

00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:11.079
 reaches out

00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:11.599
 and wants

00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:12.579
 for its own

00:34:12.579 --> 00:34:13.500
 sake more

00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:14.179
 of the things

00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:14.579
 of this

00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:14.940
 world

00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:15.619
 whether it's

00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:16.599
 material issues

00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:17.820
 other than

00:34:17.820 --> 00:34:18.440
 finance or

00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:18.840
 whether it's

00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:19.519
 money itself

00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:20.039
 or whatever

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:20.599
 or the

00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:21.320
 applause of

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:21.980
 human beings

00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:22.860
 everything to do

00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:23.320
 with this

00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:23.679
 world

00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:24.199
 and its

00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:24.759
 worldiness

00:34:24.759 --> 00:34:25.480
 is something

00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:25.980
 that we

00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:26.360
 could

00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:26.900
 covet and

00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:27.340
 sometimes

00:34:27.340 --> 00:34:28.119
 do covet

00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.000
 covetousness

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:31.440
 is the

00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:32.360
 enemy of

00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:33.119
 contentment

00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:33.679
 if you and

00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:34.039
 I are

00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:35.039
 coveting

00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:35.340
 something

00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:35.800
 for its

00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:36.059
 own

00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:36.519
 sake

00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:37.139
 even if

00:34:37.139 --> 00:34:37.320
 it's

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:37.759
 good in

00:34:37.759 --> 00:34:38.300
 itself

00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:39.259
 that

00:34:39.259 --> 00:34:40.199
 covetousness

00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:41.279
 that drive

00:34:41.279 --> 00:34:41.599
 of our

00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:41.840
 hearts

00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:42.159
 which is

00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:42.360
 there

00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:43.019
 naturally

00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:44.000
 will

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.400
 actually

00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.219
 be at

00:34:45.219 --> 00:34:45.599
 odds

00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:46.079
 with our

00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:47.119
 contentment

00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:48.420
 the

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:49.139
 contentment

00:34:49.139 --> 00:34:50.300
 for example

00:34:50.300 --> 00:34:51.940
 that the

00:34:51.940 --> 00:34:52.559
 people of

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:52.940
 Israel

00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:53.360
 it's very

00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:53.759
 interesting

00:34:53.759 --> 00:34:54.340
 comparison

00:34:54.340 --> 00:34:54.659
 let me

00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:54.920
 just

00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:56.139
 refer to

00:34:56.139 --> 00:34:56.779
 first of

00:34:56.779 --> 00:34:57.059
 all

00:34:57.059 --> 00:34:57.880
 Exodus

00:34:57.880 --> 00:34:58.340
 chapter

00:34:58.340 --> 00:34:59.159
 17

00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:00.239
 and

00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:00.719
 verse

00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:01.779
 7

00:35:01.779 --> 00:35:02.380
 especially

00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:03.400
 remember

00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:04.000
 that incident

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:04.539
 very well

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:04.860
 it's

00:35:04.860 --> 00:35:05.660
 the waters

00:35:05.660 --> 00:35:05.860
 of

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:06.440
 Meribah

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:06.820
 where the

00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:07.160
 people

00:35:07.160 --> 00:35:08.160
 murmured

00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:08.460
 against

00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:09.120
 and complained

00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:09.579
 about

00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.360
 their

00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:10.980
 situation

00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:11.500
 complaining

00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:11.900
 against

00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:12.340
 Moses

00:35:12.340 --> 00:35:13.039
 but

00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:13.460
 ultimately

00:35:13.460 --> 00:35:14.079
 complaining

00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.019
 against

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:15.579
 God

00:35:15.579 --> 00:35:17.019
 where

00:35:17.019 --> 00:35:17.720
 in

00:35:17.720 --> 00:35:18.039
 Exodus

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:19.559
 chapter

00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:20.120
 17

00:35:20.120 --> 00:35:20.340
 and

00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:20.599
 verse

00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:21.000
 7

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:21.980
 he

00:35:21.980 --> 00:35:22.320
 called

00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:22.500
 the

00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:22.760
 name

00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:22.920
 of

00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:23.059
 the

00:35:23.059 --> 00:35:23.320
 place

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:23.880
 Massah

00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:24.559
 and

00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.320
 Meribah

00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:26.079
 because

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:26.480
 of the

00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:26.920
 quarreling

00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:27.320
 of the

00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:27.640
 people

00:35:27.640 --> 00:35:28.140
 of Israel

00:35:28.140 --> 00:35:29.200
 and

00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:29.820
 because

00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:30.079
 they

00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:30.740
 tested

00:35:30.740 --> 00:35:31.039
 the

00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:31.340
 Lord

00:35:31.340 --> 00:35:31.620
 by

00:35:31.620 --> 00:35:32.079
 saying

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:32.680
 is

00:35:32.680 --> 00:35:32.840
 the

00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:33.120
 Lord

00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:33.480
 among

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:33.720
 us

00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:33.900
 or

00:35:33.900 --> 00:35:34.220
 not

00:35:34.219 --> 00:35:34.379
 you

00:35:34.379 --> 00:35:34.539
 see

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.019
 their

00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:35.559
 situation

00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:35.879
 where

00:35:35.879 --> 00:35:36.019
 they

00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:36.279
 couldn't

00:35:36.279 --> 00:35:36.559
 find

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.059
 water

00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:37.679
 not

00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:37.899
 that

00:35:37.899 --> 00:35:38.179
 long

00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:38.439
 after

00:35:38.439 --> 00:35:38.779
 leaving

00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:39.239
 Egypt

00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:39.859
 and

00:35:39.859 --> 00:35:40.000
 their

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:40.299
 hearts

00:35:40.299 --> 00:35:40.480
 were

00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:40.759
 really

00:35:40.759 --> 00:35:41.319
 hankering

00:35:41.319 --> 00:35:41.719
 back

00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:41.980
 after

00:35:41.980 --> 00:35:42.159
 the

00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:42.379
 things

00:35:42.379 --> 00:35:42.539
 of

00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:42.879
 Egypt

00:35:42.879 --> 00:35:43.299
 and

00:35:43.299 --> 00:35:43.439
 this

00:35:43.439 --> 00:35:43.519
 is

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:43.659
 what

00:35:43.659 --> 00:35:43.759
 they

00:35:43.759 --> 00:35:43.859
 were

00:35:43.859 --> 00:35:44.079
 really

00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:44.379
 saying

00:35:44.379 --> 00:35:45.019
 complaining

00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:45.879
 against

00:35:45.879 --> 00:35:46.299
 Moses

00:35:46.299 --> 00:35:46.619
 and

00:35:46.619 --> 00:35:47.039
 ultimately

00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:47.419
 against

00:35:47.419 --> 00:35:47.659
 God

00:35:47.659 --> 00:35:48.059
 why did

00:35:48.059 --> 00:35:48.159
 you

00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:48.399
 bring

00:35:48.399 --> 00:35:48.559
 us

00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:48.719
 out

00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:48.859
 of

00:35:48.859 --> 00:35:49.199
 Egypt

00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:49.679
 to

00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:49.879
 kill

00:35:49.879 --> 00:35:50.079
 us

00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:50.219
 and

00:35:50.219 --> 00:35:50.379
 our

00:35:50.379 --> 00:35:50.779
 children

00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:51.179
 and

00:35:51.179 --> 00:35:51.339
 our

00:35:51.339 --> 00:35:51.719
 livestock

00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:52.139
 with

00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:52.519
 thirst

00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:54.980
 and

00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:55.839
 this

00:35:55.839 --> 00:35:56.039
 is

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.299
 what

00:35:56.299 --> 00:35:57.919
 the name

00:35:57.919 --> 00:35:58.379
 was called

00:35:58.379 --> 00:35:58.980
 Meribah

00:35:58.980 --> 00:35:59.719
 because

00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:00.599
 of that

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.659
 they were

00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:01.920
 really

00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:02.360
 quarreling

00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:02.719
 with the

00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:02.960
 Lord

00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:03.539
 ultimately

00:36:03.539 --> 00:36:05.559
 discontentment

00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:06.099
 with their

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:06.519
 lot

00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.019
 discontentment

00:36:08.019 --> 00:36:08.480
 with the

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.659
 providence

00:36:09.659 --> 00:36:10.159
 of God

00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:10.799
 for them

00:36:10.799 --> 00:36:12.400
 discontentment

00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:12.579
 and

00:36:12.579 --> 00:36:13.860
 impatience

00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:14.519
 which also

00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:15.279
 very often

00:36:15.279 --> 00:36:15.759
 is along

00:36:15.759 --> 00:36:17.079
 with discontentment

00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:18.039
 seeking

00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:18.519
 that

00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:19.559
 they would

00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:20.039
 actually go

00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.559
 back to

00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:20.839
 Egypt

00:36:20.839 --> 00:36:21.239
 would not

00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:21.779
 be better

00:36:21.779 --> 00:36:22.759
 but what's

00:36:22.759 --> 00:36:23.239
 interesting

00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:23.779
 it's saying

00:36:23.779 --> 00:36:23.960
 there

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:24.500
 that

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.420
 they

00:36:25.420 --> 00:36:26.099
 tested

00:36:26.099 --> 00:36:26.400
 the

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:26.839
 Lord

00:36:26.839 --> 00:36:27.460
 they

00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:27.759
 put

00:36:27.759 --> 00:36:27.960
 the

00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:28.279
 Lord

00:36:28.279 --> 00:36:28.480
 to

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:28.659
 the

00:36:28.659 --> 00:36:29.139
 test

00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:30.279
 quarreling

00:36:30.279 --> 00:36:30.559
 with

00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:30.779
 him

00:36:30.779 --> 00:36:31.219
 but

00:36:31.219 --> 00:36:31.380
 when

00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:31.480
 you

00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:31.579
 go

00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:31.699
 to

00:36:31.699 --> 00:36:31.799
 the

00:36:31.799 --> 00:36:31.960
 book

00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:32.119
 of

00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:32.779
 Psalms

00:36:32.779 --> 00:36:33.440
 you

00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:33.639
 find

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:33.940
 another

00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:34.440
 angle

00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:34.679
 on

00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:34.900
 this

00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:35.559
 in

00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:35.880
 Psalm

00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:36.420
 81

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:38.119
 and

00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:38.279
 in

00:36:38.279 --> 00:36:38.460
 Psalm

00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:38.799
 81

00:36:38.799 --> 00:36:39.139
 the

00:36:39.139 --> 00:36:39.339
 same

00:36:39.339 --> 00:36:39.719
 incident

00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:39.900
 is

00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:40.239
 referred

00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:40.519
 to

00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:41.420
 giving

00:36:41.420 --> 00:36:42.079
 that

00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:42.440
 other

00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:42.860
 angle

00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:43.079
 on

00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:43.199
 it

00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:43.380
 if

00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:43.559
 you

00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:43.980
 read

00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:44.219
 Psalm

00:36:44.219 --> 00:36:44.599
 81

00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:44.799
 and

00:36:44.799 --> 00:36:45.039
 verse

00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:45.440
 7

00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:46.579
 God

00:36:46.579 --> 00:36:46.759
 is

00:36:46.759 --> 00:36:46.940
 here

00:36:46.940 --> 00:36:47.299
 speaking

00:36:47.299 --> 00:36:47.480
 to

00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:47.639
 the

00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:47.960
 people

00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:48.400
 in

00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:48.980
 distress

00:36:48.980 --> 00:36:49.259
 you

00:36:49.259 --> 00:36:49.819
 called

00:36:49.819 --> 00:36:50.679
 and

00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:50.920
 I

00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:51.380
 delivered

00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:51.719
 you

00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:52.719
 I

00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:53.119
 answered

00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:53.539
 you

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:53.920
 in

00:36:56.099 --> 00:36:56.339
 I

00:36:56.339 --> 00:36:57.059
 tested

00:36:57.059 --> 00:36:57.579
 you

00:36:57.579 --> 00:36:58.739
 at

00:36:58.739 --> 00:36:58.900
 the

00:36:58.900 --> 00:36:59.420
 waters

00:36:59.420 --> 00:36:59.759
 of

00:36:59.759 --> 00:37:00.319
 Meribah

00:37:00.319 --> 00:37:01.480
 hear

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:01.719
 O

00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:01.900
 my

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.259
 people

00:37:02.259 --> 00:37:02.539
 while

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:02.719
 I

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:03.219
 admonish

00:37:03.219 --> 00:37:03.500
 you

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:04.179
 O

00:37:04.179 --> 00:37:04.619
 Israel

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:04.839
 if

00:37:04.839 --> 00:37:05.019
 you

00:37:05.019 --> 00:37:05.199
 would

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:05.380
 but

00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:05.739
 listen

00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:05.980
 to

00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:06.279
 me

00:37:06.279 --> 00:37:07.199
 there

00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:07.400
 shall

00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:07.539
 be

00:37:07.539 --> 00:37:07.759
 no

00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:08.239
 strange

00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:08.519
 God

00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:08.819
 among

00:37:08.819 --> 00:37:09.039
 you

00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:09.539
 you

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:09.679
 shall

00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:09.900
 not

00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:10.139
 bow

00:37:10.139 --> 00:37:10.440
 down

00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:10.619
 to

00:37:10.619 --> 00:37:10.799
 a

00:37:10.799 --> 00:37:11.059
 foreign

00:37:11.059 --> 00:37:11.579
 God

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:12.239
 and

00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:12.440
 there

00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:12.599
 he

00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:13.440
 would

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:13.599
 have

00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:13.819
 fed

00:37:13.819 --> 00:37:14.019
 them

00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:14.420
 with

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:14.579
 the

00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:14.880
 finest

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:15.099
 of

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:15.219
 the

00:37:15.219 --> 00:37:15.400
 wheat

00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:15.579
 with

00:37:15.579 --> 00:37:15.860
 honey

00:37:15.860 --> 00:37:16.099
 from

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:16.259
 the

00:37:16.259 --> 00:37:16.559
 rock

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.159
 I

00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:17.380
 would

00:37:17.380 --> 00:37:17.920
 satisfy

00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:18.099
 you

00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:18.219
 know

00:37:18.219 --> 00:37:18.339
 you

00:37:18.339 --> 00:37:18.460
 see

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:18.619
 the

00:37:18.619 --> 00:37:18.940
 change

00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:19.139
 the

00:37:19.139 --> 00:37:19.400
 subtle

00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:19.799
 change

00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:20.039
 there

00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:20.720
 in

00:37:20.720 --> 00:37:21.039
 Exodus

00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.600
 17

00:37:21.600 --> 00:37:22.220
 the

00:37:22.220 --> 00:37:22.580
 emphasis

00:37:22.580 --> 00:37:23.100
 is on

00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:23.340
 them

00:37:23.340 --> 00:37:23.840
 testing

00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:24.220
 God

00:37:24.220 --> 00:37:24.640
 them

00:37:24.640 --> 00:37:25.000
 putting

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:25.400
 God

00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:25.560
 to

00:37:25.560 --> 00:37:25.700
 the

00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:26.019
 test

00:37:26.019 --> 00:37:26.460
 them

00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:26.960
 complaining

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.320
 about

00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:27.700
 God

00:37:27.700 --> 00:37:28.080
 and

00:37:28.080 --> 00:37:28.340
 God

00:37:28.340 --> 00:37:28.500
 is

00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:28.760
 actually

00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:29.060
 saying

00:37:29.060 --> 00:37:29.320
 Psalm

00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:29.660
 81

00:37:29.660 --> 00:37:30.420
 actually

00:37:30.420 --> 00:37:30.580
 it

00:37:30.580 --> 00:37:30.680
 was

00:37:30.680 --> 00:37:30.820
 the

00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:31.160
 other way

00:37:31.160 --> 00:37:31.440
 about

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:31.680
 though

00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:31.880
 they

00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:32.220
 didn't

00:37:32.220 --> 00:37:32.480
 see

00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:32.720
 it

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:33.740
 it

00:37:33.740 --> 00:37:33.940
 was

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:34.200
 they

00:37:34.200 --> 00:37:34.400
 who

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:34.539
 were

00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:34.800
 being

00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:35.280
 tested

00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:37.580
 in

00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:37.700
 the

00:37:37.700 --> 00:37:38.140
 situation

00:37:38.140 --> 00:37:38.480
 God

00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:38.700
 brought

00:37:38.700 --> 00:37:39.000
 about

00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:39.620
 whether

00:37:39.620 --> 00:37:39.880
 they

00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:40.060
 would

00:37:40.060 --> 00:37:40.220
 be

00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:40.500
 true

00:37:40.500 --> 00:37:40.700
 to

00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:40.880
 him

00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:41.000
 or

00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:41.260
 not

00:37:41.260 --> 00:37:41.840
 whether

00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:41.960
 they

00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:42.120
 would

00:37:42.120 --> 00:37:42.500
 believe

00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:42.680
 in

00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:42.800
 him

00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:43.000
 not

00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:43.400
 whether

00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:43.539
 they

00:37:43.539 --> 00:37:43.640
 would

00:37:43.640 --> 00:37:43.980
 accept

00:37:43.980 --> 00:37:44.220
 his

00:37:44.220 --> 00:37:44.620
 wisdom

00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:50.340
 that

00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:50.560
 was

00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:50.740
 the

00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:51.080
 test

00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:51.200
 that

00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:51.360
 was

00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:51.620
 going

00:37:51.620 --> 00:37:52.120
 on

00:37:52.120 --> 00:37:53.720
 they

00:37:53.720 --> 00:37:53.920
 were

00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:54.260
 being

00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:54.720
 tested

00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:55.880
 and

00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:55.980
 they

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:56.120
 were

00:37:56.120 --> 00:37:56.400
 found

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:56.760
 out

00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:58.120
 because

00:37:58.120 --> 00:37:58.440
 they

00:37:58.440 --> 00:37:58.620
 were

00:37:58.620 --> 00:37:59.580
 discontent

00:37:59.580 --> 00:38:00.440
 with

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:00.860
 God's

00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:01.440
 arrangement

00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:05.180
 thankfulness

00:38:05.180 --> 00:38:06.380
 was

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:06.880
 missing

00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:07.220
 from

00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:07.420
 their

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:07.960
 program

00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.760
 and

00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:10.660
 thankfulness

00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:11.080
 for you

00:38:11.080 --> 00:38:11.360
 and for

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:11.560
 me

00:38:11.560 --> 00:38:12.039
 tonight

00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:13.420
 is

00:38:13.420 --> 00:38:13.640
 such

00:38:13.640 --> 00:38:13.800
 an

00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:14.220
 important

00:38:14.220 --> 00:38:14.780
 ingredient

00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:15.300
 in

00:38:15.300 --> 00:38:16.240
 being

00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:16.940
 content

00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:19.559
 are

00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:19.740
 we

00:38:19.740 --> 00:38:20.139
 thankful

00:38:20.139 --> 00:38:20.579
 tonight

00:38:20.579 --> 00:38:20.840
 with

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.019
 our

00:38:21.019 --> 00:38:21.440
 lot

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:22.840
 are

00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:23.019
 we

00:38:23.019 --> 00:38:23.360
 thankful

00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:23.639
 that

00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:23.960
 God

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:24.119
 is

00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:24.300
 in

00:38:24.300 --> 00:38:24.639
 charge

00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:24.820
 of

00:38:24.820 --> 00:38:24.980
 our

00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:25.500
 lives

00:38:25.500 --> 00:38:26.940
 are

00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:27.099
 we

00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:27.400
 thankful

00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:27.599
 that

00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:27.760
 he's

00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:27.940
 not

00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:28.260
 left

00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:28.460
 us

00:38:28.460 --> 00:38:28.639
 to

00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:29.139
 ourselves

00:38:29.139 --> 00:38:29.380
 to

00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:29.559
 our

00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:29.740
 own

00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:30.139
 wisdom

00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:31.659
 are

00:38:31.659 --> 00:38:31.820
 we

00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:32.179
 thankful

00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:32.460
 for

00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:32.619
 the

00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:33.019
 things

00:38:33.019 --> 00:38:33.280
 that

00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:33.480
 he's

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:33.700
 given

00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:33.940
 us

00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:34.059
 in

00:38:34.059 --> 00:38:34.200
 his

00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:34.679
 providence

00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:34.960
 even

00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:35.200
 though

00:38:35.200 --> 00:38:35.460
 others

00:38:35.460 --> 00:38:35.659
 may

00:38:35.659 --> 00:38:35.820
 have

00:38:35.820 --> 00:38:36.039
 many

00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:36.300
 more

00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:36.740
 things

00:38:36.740 --> 00:38:37.760
 even

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:37.960
 though

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:38.240
 others

00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:38.460
 may

00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:38.659
 have

00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:38.960
 more

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:39.119
 of

00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:39.240
 the

00:38:39.240 --> 00:38:39.480
 things

00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:39.700
 that

00:38:39.700 --> 00:38:39.840
 we

00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:40.079
 have

00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:40.280
 from

00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:40.500
 day

00:38:40.500 --> 00:38:40.619
 to

00:38:40.619 --> 00:38:40.900
 day

00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:42.280
 are

00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:42.440
 we

00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:42.840
 thankful

00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:43.639
 for

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:47.420
 certainly

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:47.880
 it seems

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:48.159
 to me

00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:48.300
 in

00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:48.679
 times

00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:49.579
 gone

00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:49.940
 by

00:38:49.940 --> 00:38:50.300
 that

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:51.519
 people

00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:51.720
 in

00:38:51.720 --> 00:38:51.920
 our

00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:52.880
 own

00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:53.599
 situation

00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:53.820
 in

00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:53.920
 our

00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.019
 own

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:54.579
 locality

00:38:54.579 --> 00:38:56.079
 had

00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:56.980
 more

00:38:56.980 --> 00:38:57.619
 thankfulness

00:38:57.619 --> 00:38:57.780
 for

00:38:57.780 --> 00:38:57.980
 what

00:38:57.980 --> 00:38:58.139
 they

00:38:58.139 --> 00:38:58.460
 had

00:38:58.460 --> 00:38:58.720
 than

00:38:58.720 --> 00:38:59.619
 we

00:38:59.619 --> 00:38:59.960
 tend

00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:00.159
 to

00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:00.440
 have

00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:00.960
 today

00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.380
 friends

00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:02.539
 we

00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:02.960
 live

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.619
 in

00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:03.820
 a

00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:04.300
 world

00:39:04.300 --> 00:39:04.880
 that

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.099
 has

00:39:05.099 --> 00:39:05.360
 so

00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:05.840
 little

00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:06.880
 thankfulness

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.200
 that

00:39:08.200 --> 00:39:08.539
 hardly

00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:08.820
 ever

00:39:08.820 --> 00:39:09.220
 stops

00:39:09.220 --> 00:39:09.420
 to

00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:09.720
 thank

00:39:09.720 --> 00:39:10.220
 God

00:39:10.220 --> 00:39:11.599
 how

00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:11.820
 many

00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:12.099
 people

00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:12.400
 say

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:12.780
 grace

00:39:12.780 --> 00:39:13.119
 before

00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:13.340
 they

00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:13.720
 eat

00:39:13.720 --> 00:39:14.900
 how

00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:15.099
 many

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.360
 people

00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:15.840
 think

00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:16.119
 of

00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:16.659
 who

00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:16.940
 has

00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:17.299
 actually

00:39:17.299 --> 00:39:17.880
 ultimately

00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:18.480
 provided

00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:18.859
 for

00:39:18.859 --> 00:39:19.159
 them

00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:19.599
 the

00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:20.039
 resources

00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:20.339
 that

00:39:20.339 --> 00:39:20.480
 they

00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:20.739
 have

00:39:20.739 --> 00:39:20.980
 whether

00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:21.159
 they're

00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:21.599
 small

00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:21.819
 or

00:39:21.819 --> 00:39:22.299
 great

00:39:22.299 --> 00:39:23.039
 whether

00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:23.239
 they

00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:23.659
 compare

00:39:23.659 --> 00:39:23.980
 with

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:24.679
 others

00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:25.339
 acceptably

00:39:25.339 --> 00:39:25.559
 or

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 not

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:28.359
 tonight

00:39:28.359 --> 00:39:28.719
 one of

00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:28.839
 the

00:39:28.839 --> 00:39:29.099
 things

00:39:29.099 --> 00:39:29.319
 that

00:39:29.319 --> 00:39:29.559
 should

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 characterize

00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:30.920
 us

00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:31.099
 from

00:39:31.099 --> 00:39:31.359
 day

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 to

00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:31.739
 day

00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:32.559
 is

00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:33.059
 thankful

00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:34.299
 be

00:39:34.299 --> 00:39:34.679
 thankful

00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:34.960
 to

00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:35.239
 God

00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:35.480
 every

00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:35.900
 morning

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:36.119
 you

00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:36.519
 wake

00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:37.559
 be

00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:38.000
 thankful

00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.839
 that

00:39:38.839 --> 00:39:39.039
 he's

00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:39.339
 kept

00:39:39.339 --> 00:39:39.539
 you

00:39:39.539 --> 00:39:39.739
 through

00:39:39.739 --> 00:39:39.920
 the

00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:40.259
 night

00:39:40.259 --> 00:39:41.199
 be

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:41.539
 thankful

00:39:41.539 --> 00:39:41.819
 as

00:39:41.819 --> 00:39:41.960
 you

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:42.239
 take

00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:42.400
 your

00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:43.059
 breakfast

00:39:43.059 --> 00:39:44.019
 be

00:39:44.019 --> 00:39:44.339
 thankful

00:39:44.339 --> 00:39:44.579
 that

00:39:44.579 --> 00:39:44.920
 you have

00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:45.119
 that

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:45.400
 to put

00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:45.539
 on

00:39:45.539 --> 00:39:45.679
 your

00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:46.099
 table

00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:47.239
 be

00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:47.539
 thankful

00:39:47.539 --> 00:39:47.819
 if

00:39:47.819 --> 00:39:47.960
 you

00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:48.119
 have

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:48.539
 work

00:39:48.539 --> 00:39:49.599
 that

00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:49.880
 God

00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:50.059
 has

00:39:50.059 --> 00:39:50.299
 given

00:39:50.299 --> 00:39:50.699
 you

00:39:50.699 --> 00:39:51.699
 a

00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:51.920
 way

00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:52.159
 of

00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:52.839
 earning

00:39:52.839 --> 00:39:53.259
 income

00:39:53.259 --> 00:39:53.480
 for

00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:53.659
 your

00:39:53.659 --> 00:39:54.079
 family

00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:55.079
 be

00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:55.359
 thankful

00:39:55.359 --> 00:39:56.079
 if

00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:56.799
 you've

00:39:56.799 --> 00:39:56.940
 been

00:39:56.940 --> 00:39:57.239
 seen

00:39:57.239 --> 00:39:57.799
 through

00:39:57.799 --> 00:39:58.179
 work

00:39:58.179 --> 00:39:58.839
 successfully

00:39:58.839 --> 00:39:59.779
 if

00:39:59.779 --> 00:40:00.019
 you're

00:40:00.019 --> 00:40:00.539
 retired

00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:01.400
 if

00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:01.559
 you've

00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:01.799
 come

00:40:01.799 --> 00:40:02.239
 to

00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:02.940
 enjoy

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:03.139
 the

00:40:03.139 --> 00:40:03.619
 benefits

00:40:03.619 --> 00:40:03.859
 of

00:40:03.859 --> 00:40:04.420
 retirement

00:40:04.420 --> 00:40:05.460
 even

00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:05.639
 though

00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:05.779
 you

00:40:05.779 --> 00:40:06.000
 might

00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:06.219
 not

00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:06.359
 have

00:40:06.359 --> 00:40:06.500
 a

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:06.880
 massive

00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.779
 retirement

00:40:07.779 --> 00:40:08.179
 pot

00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:08.380
 like

00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:08.500
 you

00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:08.679
 might

00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:08.880
 see

00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:09.179
 others

00:40:09.179 --> 00:40:09.579
 have

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:11.059
 shouldn't

00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:11.179
 we

00:40:11.179 --> 00:40:11.380
 be

00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:11.880
 content

00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:12.779
 if

00:40:12.779 --> 00:40:12.900
 we

00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:13.059
 have

00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:13.339
 food

00:40:13.339 --> 00:40:13.519
 and

00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:13.880
 clothing

00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:14.199
 as

00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:14.699
 we

00:40:14.699 --> 00:40:14.960
 read

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:15.139
 in

00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:15.380
 1st

00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:15.740
 Timothy

00:40:15.740 --> 00:40:16.579
 with

00:40:16.579 --> 00:40:17.019
 these

00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:17.980
 let's

00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:18.180
 be

00:40:18.180 --> 00:40:18.840
 content

00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:20.680
 thankfulness

00:40:20.680 --> 00:40:21.240
 to

00:40:21.240 --> 00:40:21.460
 God

00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:21.800
 remember

00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:22.400
 back

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:22.559
 in

00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:23.000
 Philippians

00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:23.220
 we

00:40:23.220 --> 00:40:23.559
 saw

00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:25.059
 how

00:40:25.059 --> 00:40:25.300
 in

00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:26.039
 verse

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 6

00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:26.539
 of

00:40:26.539 --> 00:40:26.740
 this

00:40:26.740 --> 00:40:27.000
 same

00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:27.400
 chapter

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:28.420
 rejoice

00:40:28.420 --> 00:40:28.619
 in

00:40:28.619 --> 00:40:28.720
 the

00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:28.960
 Lord

00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:29.380
 always

00:40:29.380 --> 00:40:29.680
 again

00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:29.880
 I

00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:30.119
 say

00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:30.880
 rejoice

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.380
 you

00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:32.500
 see

00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:32.760
 that's

00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:32.900
 the

00:40:32.900 --> 00:40:33.159
 same

00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:34.340
 alongside

00:40:34.340 --> 00:40:34.619
 of

00:40:34.619 --> 00:40:35.200
 thankfulness

00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:35.320
 you

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:35.519
 have

00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:35.619
 the

00:40:35.619 --> 00:40:36.220
 rejoicing

00:40:36.220 --> 00:40:36.400
 in

00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:36.519
 the

00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:36.840
 Lord

00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:37.400
 the

00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:37.760
 provision

00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:38.019
 of

00:40:38.019 --> 00:40:38.360
 the

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:38.539
 Lord

00:40:38.539 --> 00:40:38.940
 himself

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.119
 but

00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:39.200
 he

00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:39.340
 went

00:40:39.340 --> 00:40:39.500
 on

00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:39.599
 to

00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:39.740
 say

00:40:39.740 --> 00:40:39.960
 don't

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:40.099
 be

00:40:40.099 --> 00:40:40.500
 anxious

00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:41.159
 about

00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:41.619
 anything

00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:42.539
 but

00:40:42.539 --> 00:40:42.680
 in

00:40:42.680 --> 00:40:43.059
 everything

00:40:43.059 --> 00:40:43.420
 by

00:40:43.420 --> 00:40:43.940
 prayer

00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:44.180
 and

00:40:44.180 --> 00:40:44.980
 supplication

00:40:44.980 --> 00:40:45.800
 with

00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.700
 thanksgiving

00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:47.639
 let your

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:48.079
 request

00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:48.500
 be made

00:40:48.500 --> 00:40:48.840
 known

00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:49.099
 to

00:40:49.099 --> 00:40:49.500
 God

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:49.920
 if

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:50.019
 I

00:40:50.019 --> 00:40:50.119
 were

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:50.260
 to

00:40:50.260 --> 00:40:50.400
 come

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:50.860
 before

00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:51.400
 God

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:51.840
 and

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:52.200
 plead

00:40:52.200 --> 00:40:52.380
 with

00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:52.480
 him

00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:52.659
 to

00:40:52.659 --> 00:40:52.860
 give

00:40:52.860 --> 00:40:53.000
 me

00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:53.340
 certain

00:40:53.340 --> 00:40:53.680
 things

00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:03.680
 to me, or for my family, or for whatever else. But if I do that without a word of thankfulness,

00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:07.800
 God is saying, do you really think that you're praying as you should be?

00:41:09.860 --> 00:41:16.980
 Because if I'm missing out to thankfulness, then I'm being selfish. And if I'm being selfish,

00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:23.539
 I will never be content in the contentment that God commends to me here in the gospel.

00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:29.539
 So there's the first thing, thankfulness. We could elaborate on that in many ways,

00:41:29.619 --> 00:41:36.039
 but let's move on secondly to dependence. Here he is in verse 11, not that I'm speaking of being in

00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:41.820
 need, for I've learned in whatsoever situation I am to be content. And he goes on, as we saw

00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:48.739
 through, to saying I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Now the first thing of interest

00:41:48.739 --> 00:41:57.959
 here is that he's saying, I have learned to be content. And that shows you that this contentment,

00:41:58.479 --> 00:42:05.019
 the contented heart, is not something that comes all at once. It's something that Paul himself had

00:42:05.019 --> 00:42:10.119
 to work at. We mustn't think that somebody like the Apostle Paul from the day that he was converted just

00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.259
 lived a completely contented life, that he didn't have to work at any of the things that he's actually

00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:21.400
 saying to others when he's writing these epistles to them. No, he's saying, I learned in whatsoever

00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:29.840
 situation I am to be content. And in verses 11 to 12, he tells us, I know how to be brought low.

00:42:30.140 --> 00:42:37.180
 I know how to abound in any and every circumstance. I've learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger,

00:42:37.580 --> 00:42:41.640
 abundance and need. You see, he's saying it again. I have learned. I have learned.

00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:49.759
 Contentment. It's something that he himself came by process of experience to learn and to increase

00:42:49.759 --> 00:42:56.400
 and to grow in. And where do you learn contentment? Well, he's telling us here it's in the things of

00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:04.019
 providence from day to day in our daily lives. I have learned in whatsoever my circumstances are,

00:43:04.299 --> 00:43:10.539
 whether it is indeed being brought low or abounding, I have learned therein to be content.

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:18.279
 Friends, tonight, providence, as we call it, the way that God has arranged our life, which will be so

00:43:18.279 --> 00:43:25.320
 different one person from another in many respects, but providence, that arrangement that God has of

00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:32.159
 our lives is our school. It's our college. It's our university. It's where we learn the things of God

00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:40.019
 himself. And it's where we learn contentment. That's where our contentment is learned. Just as you learn

00:43:40.019 --> 00:43:46.239
 so much else that's true of a Christian life, that's where it's actually learned. That's where

00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:51.159
 it's tested. That's where it's practiced. That's where everything to do with the life of a Christian

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:56.679
 is really worked out. It's not in the privacy of your own home, though it is there as well,

00:43:57.340 --> 00:44:02.159
 but it is in the public sphere. It's where people see you. It's where you interact with them. It's where

00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.679
 you work. It's where you go to school. It's all of those things on an everyday basis.

00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:14.419
 I have learned to be content. And indeed, he uses here in verse 12, he says,

00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:19.960
 I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger. Now, it's interesting that he uses that

00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:27.000
 word because scholars tell us that this was a word that was used by the philosophers in the Greek world

00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:33.379
 in the mystery religions of the time. Certain philosophies that, like the Stoics, for example,

00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:38.220
 they were a prime example of this, and their approach to life was, well, here are your

00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:43.280
 difficulties. Here are your challenges. Here are all the different aspects of your experiences day

00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:48.920
 by day. And when you're really facing a time of challenge and difficulty, steal yourself against

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:54.740
 it. Close it off from your mind. Close your mind away from it. Look into yourself and just

00:44:54.740 --> 00:45:01.380
 build yourself up against these things as if they're not there. Well, that's not what the apostle

00:45:01.380 --> 00:45:06.519
 is saying, but he is using a word probably deliberately just by way of contrasting the

00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:13.460
 Christian approach. I have learned the secret of being content. But the secret of being content for

00:45:13.460 --> 00:45:19.619
 the apostle is not to steal himself against or firm up himself against the things that are happening

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:24.559
 in his life, his experiences, as if they are just closed out and he doesn't want to know about them

00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:31.000
 or deal with them and just try and move on and build himself up. No, he says, I accept them.

00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:40.880
 And I accept them as God-given. And I accept them as God-arranged. And I accept them as the wisdom

00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:49.039
 of God has arranged for me. Whatever I may think of them, whatever I may make of them, however I may

00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:56.619
 complain about them, however they may hurt me, however the challenges of these come my way, saying,

00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:07.539
 I have learned the secret of facing hunger and abundance and need. Because I'm not looking to

00:46:07.539 --> 00:46:14.599
 my own resources, to my own abilities. He's looking to Jesus. He's looking to himself. So, well, Paul,

00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:19.339
 it's a deliberate contrast. You see the things that come in your providence day by day.

00:46:20.699 --> 00:46:27.679
 As we say, that's the school where you're set in order to learn contentment, where you learn

00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:35.500
 the wisdom of God in arranging your life the way it is. But it's where you learn dependence upon God

00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:43.779
 as well. And in order to be content, you need to be dependent. You need to rely on Christ himself.

00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:53.900
 You need to find him in all the different changes of life as being your sufficiency at all times.

00:46:54.779 --> 00:47:01.079
 I'm sure you all know the story, the true story of Horatius Spafford. I think I've mentioned this

00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:11.619
 before. The man who wrote the hymn, It Is Well With My Soul. Well, in 1871, Stafford's four-year-old son

00:47:11.619 --> 00:47:19.099
 died. And that same year, there was a great fire in Chicago in the USA that seriously affected his

00:47:19.099 --> 00:47:26.739
 property, his business, and devalued so much of what was left of his business after the fire.

00:47:27.219 --> 00:47:35.679
 And he sent his wife and four daughters across the Atlantic to England. And he was going to join

00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:41.419
 him after he had seen to some of the business interests that he had to deal with. And they

00:47:41.419 --> 00:47:48.059
 went across on a ship called the SS Ville du Havre in 1873. And in the middle of the Atlantic,

00:47:48.699 --> 00:47:55.599
 that ship collided with another ship called the Loch Erne and sank very soon afterwards with a great loss

00:47:55.599 --> 00:48:04.159
 of life. And Spafford received a very sad telegram from his wife, Anna. And all it said on the telegraph

00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:16.079
 was, Saved alone. Their four daughters had been drowned in that tragedy. Saved alone.

00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:27.179
 And he set off to cross the Atlantic to join his wife and to try and bring her home. And on the way

00:48:27.179 --> 00:48:33.199
 across, Stafford was summoned up to the bridge by the captain. And the captain said to him,

00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:41.460
 as far as we can reckon, this is exactly the location or the place where the Ville du Havre went down,

00:48:41.460 --> 00:48:51.059
 where his daughters were lost. So he returned to the cabin. And later that night, he wrote these words,

00:48:51.059 --> 00:48:58.920
 which became the hymn, It is well with my soul. When peace like a river attendeth my way,

00:48:59.740 --> 00:49:08.400
 when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, it is well,

00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:18.000
 it is well with my soul. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blessed assurance

00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:26.780
 control that Christ has regarded my helpless estate and has shed his own blood for my soul.

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:37.260
 It is well, it is well with my soul, with my soul. It is well, it is well with my soul.

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:47.160
 Can you and I say that tonight? The variety of circumstances in this church tonight is significant.

00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:55.420
 Nobody may even share the experience that you're going through right now.

00:49:56.440 --> 00:50:01.760
 The providences that God has given you may be significantly different to anyone else's,

00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:10.220
 and it may be the same for me. But can I say and can you say, are we glad to be able to say,

00:50:11.140 --> 00:50:18.580
 whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.

00:50:18.579 --> 00:50:29.900
 I have learned, he said. Paul said, the secret of contentment. The key to it is Christ himself.

00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.980
 And that's the third point. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:42.679
 The things that he mentions here in verse 13, I can do all things, are obviously the things

00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:49.760
 that are specifically mentioned in verse 12. The ways in which he's brought low, the way in which

00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:54.679
 he's abounding, whatever actually may have been involved in that, these were his circumstances,

00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:00.420
 generally speaking. But this is the key to his contentment more than anything else.

00:51:00.420 --> 00:51:07.180
 Yes, the contented life involves thankfulness. The contented life involves dependence upon God.

00:51:07.740 --> 00:51:15.700
 But the contented life itself is not something which rests on these. They are but the expressions

00:51:15.700 --> 00:51:22.860
 of a contented life or the means towards being content. But contentment itself comes

00:51:22.860 --> 00:51:30.400
 from the filling that Christ fills our souls with, who fills me with strength. I can do

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 all things through him or in him who fills me with strength. What is the cause? What is the ground

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 of Paul's contentment? Where does he find the key to his contentment? It's not in his own thankfulness.

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 It's not in his own dependence. So that's part of the whole package. The key to it is what Jesus is,

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 who Jesus is, what Jesus is doing in his life. And the word strengthens is an important verb. It's

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 what grammarians call a causative verb. It's something in which there is a source involved.

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 And he's talking here about God or about Jesus. I can do all things through him who strengthens,

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 who causes me to be strengthened, who fills me with strength. That's his daily experience. That's his

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 daily desire. That's his daily walk after contentment, looking for contentment. The secret,

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 the key to his contentment is that Christ fills his soul with strength. How can you face the

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 challenges of today? How can you face the challenges of this present time? How can you actually live a

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 contented life amongst the things we mentioned at the beginning of our study tonight? Well, this is the

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 key to it. This is the key that opens the way to a contentment and a contented life. I can do all

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 things through him who fills me with strength. Christ pouring his power into the apostle's life.

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 Is that where you're looking for your contentment? As you listen to the world, as you listen to the

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 voices of the world, as you listen to the philosophies of the world and the religions of the world,

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 as you face all of these alternatives to Jesus and to the gospel, here's the question for me tonight.

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 Here's the question for you. What am I seeking contentment from? Where is my contented life to

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 be based? How can I reach more contentment than I have? Well, not in the things of the world.

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 Not in the things Paul mentioned in his letter to Timothy, as we read. Your contentment must surely

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 come from knowing Christ, from Christ filling your life with his strength. From being able to say with

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 the apostle in 2 Corinthians 12, my grace is sufficient for you, God said to him, for my strength is made

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 perfect in weakness. Much more then, said Paul, will I glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ,

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 the strength of Christ may rest upon me. For when I am weak, then I am strong. You hand your life over

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 to Jesus. And when you hand your life over to Jesus in faith and in trust, what happens? It means that

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 you're not relying on your own strength. It means that you're not seeking contentment from the things

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 you're able to produce yourself. It means that your contentment doesn't come from your own ability

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 to create contentment. It doesn't come from the things of the world. It doesn't come from anything

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 other than from Jesus himself. I can do all things through him who fills me with strength.

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 The thankfulness is important. The dependence is important. But the source of all things,

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 the key to the contentment is really Jesus himself. When you find a ship in rough seas,

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 obviously plowing its way through a rough sea, that ship needs a captain. That ship needs a knowledgeable

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 crew, officers that will actually take their own place in what needs to be done. They all have an

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 important work. But whatever you say about the captain, and it may be the most skilled captain in the world,

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 and it may be the best crew a ship could ever have. And they have their own work to do, but they are not

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 the cause, the actual cause, the physical cause of the ship's progress through the rough seas.

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 The cause is in those engines down below. These are the engines that drive the ship.

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 The engines need the engineer. The ship needs the captain. But it's the working of the engines that

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 empowers the vessel and drives it through the waves. And it is too with a Christian life.

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 We need prayer. We need thankfulness. We need dependence. We need fellowship.

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 We need all of these things and more. But our progress and our contentment is the energy of Jesus

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 himself. That is the key to a contented life. And if we have that in place, then we can follow the

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 words of the psalmist in Psalm 4. You remember these wonderful words, though we're not going to sing

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 them tonight, but these words where David is saying in his dealings with God,

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 Lord, there are some who say, who will show us some good? There's the question that's in everybody's

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 minds. Who's going to show us any? Where does my contentment come from? Where can I find that which

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 is truly good? You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound?

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 The joys of the harvest, the contentment of seeing the harvest safely home. But he said,

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 you have given me more joy than even they have at the height of their harvest joy. So he says,

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 in peace, I will both lie down and sleep. For you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

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 That's your contented life. The life that lies willingly in the hands of God. Let's pray.

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 Almighty God, we give thanks for your strength. O, we confess, Lord, our own weakness, our inability.

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 We confess our unworthiness. Confess that we are not deserving that you should show us

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 any comfort or mercy day by day. But we thank you that there is forgiveness with you.

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 We thank you for all that flows into the lives of those who live by faith, of those who trust in you

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 and have given their life over to you. We thank you for the enabling grace. We thank you for the daily

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 grace that enables us, Lord, to look for contentment in yourself alone. We ask that our lives may be

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 lives that are truly content. We ask that our witness to the world may be a witness that we are

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 content with our God, that we are content to be his people and to live by faith and dependence and

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 in thankfulness to him. And so receive us now, we pray. Receive our worship. Cleanse all that is of sin.

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 For Jesus' sake. Amen.

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 We're going to sing now in conclusion this evening in Psalm 28. Psalm 28 in the Sing Psalms version on page 33.

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 Psalm 28 verses 6 to 9.

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 Praise to the Lord for he has heard the plea for mercy which I made. He is my strength. He is my shield.

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 I trust in him who sends me aid. My heart uplifted leaps for joy. My thanks to him I gladly sing.

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 The Lord God is his people's strength, a saving fortress for his king.

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 O Lord, save your people, your own flock. Be pleased your heritage to bless.

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 Be their good shepherd. Carry them forever in your faithfulness.

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 Verses 6 to 9, page 33. Praise to the Lord.

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 Praise to the Lord for he has heard the plea for mercy which I made.

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 He is my strength. He is my strength. He is my shield. I trust in him who sends me.

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 My heart uplifted leaps for joy. My heart uplifted leaps for joy.

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 My thanks to him I gladly sing. The Lord God is his people's strength, a saving fortress for his king.

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 Lord, save your people, your own flock. Be pleased your heritage to bless.

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 Be their good shepherd. Be their good shepherd. Carry them forever in your faithfulness.

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 Now I went to the main door last week so I'll go to the door to my right here this evening.

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 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit

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 be with you now and evermore. Amen.