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 Oh, wow. Please, please, please, pray for me. I should always ask you that, but obviously today is a little bit different.

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! I went out with my normal Saturday morning run, and I got back home and my wife said,

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 your phone has been going off. And I said, I know who it was, because I had actually talked to him on Friday, and he could barely speak.

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 And so I actually asked Connie to make a copy of his message that I could take home and look at.

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 And so yesterday afternoon and evening, I spent working on this. And some of you here will say,

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 wow, that sounds just like what Pastor Kenoya would have said. Well, he did, okay?

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 Other parts of it, maybe not so much. But so it's a combination. And one of the things I wanted to do was to keep the slides the same.

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 So the slides are all Pastor Kenoya's slides. So hopefully those will fit in with what I say.

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 But I started with those points and then filled in around it. So if you would pray for me. And I'm going to pray right now.

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 Gracious God and Father, we thank you so much. This is the day we celebrate or think about Thanksgiving.

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 It's easy to be thankful for all the things you've done, all the things you've given us.

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 Help us to be even more thankful for who you are.

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 Father, I do pray that you would be with me today, that I would stick to the text, that I would speak your words and not my own.

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 And Lord, that you would be honored and glorified. It's your name we pray. Amen.

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 Today we are here to celebrate Thanksgiving. It's a day set aside in the United States.

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 And it was actually done by Abraham Lincoln, right, in the midst of the Civil War.

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 And he said there needs to be a day to give thanks.

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 It's celebrated on, we actually, Connie and I looked this up because we were, thought we were missing something.

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 It's actually celebrated on the 4th, Thursday of the month of November.

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 And because of that, it can be as early as, I think it was the 22nd.

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 And as late as the 20, whatever today is, 24th.

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 And that doesn't make sense.

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 It can be some, it can be any, whatever the 4th Thursday is.

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 How about that?

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 Okay.

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 And so, and as I said before, Pastor Sethi, the overall plan for this.

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 And if that was the case, you knew it was going to be in one of two books.

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 And that is either the book of Ephesians, which is his current favorite book.

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 Or the book of John, which is his almost favorite book.

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 Because that's the one he's going to be doing next.

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 So we're going to look at Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 4.

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 Let me read it for you.

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 Let there be no filthiness, nor foolish talk, nor crude joking, which are out of place.

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 But instead, let there be thanksgiving.

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 It's that last part.

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 Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

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 That we're going to focus on today.

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 In the book of Ephesians, it's moved from what God has done to what his actions ought to call and encourage us to do.

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 And it starts in verse 1 of chapter 5.

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 He says, be imitators, walk in love.

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 And Paul gives them lots of examples of how not to do that in these first few verses of chapter 5.

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 And then he sets in contrast this one separate individual idea.

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 But let there be thanksgiving.

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 And so it's the nature of thanksgiving.

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 It's the chief reasons that we have for thanksgiving that we want to spend time thinking about and looking at today.

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 First one is the nature of thanksgiving.

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 The nature of thanksgiving.

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 In order to kind of think through it a little bit, I looked up thankfulness in the dictionary.

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 And it said, thankfulness is expressing or feeling appreciation or gratitude.

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 And I thought, well, that was real helpful.

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 Okay?

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 It's like, it's one of those words you look it up in the dictionary and it says that thankfulness is being thankful.

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 And again, you say, okay, now I know that much.

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 But one thing we can agree on with or without the dictionary, and that is that thankfulness is something that connects or relates us to some other person.

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 Or say it in a little different way.

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 Giving thanks usually happens because of someone else.

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 We're naturally thankful when we receive something from someone else.

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 Yesterday in the evening, I was sitting there and suddenly I decided, wow, I am really, really hungry.

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 And so my wife kindly stopped decorating the Christmas tree and went and fixed me dinner.

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 And I was very thankful.

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 I thought I was going to be famished.

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 I thought I was going to pass out or something.

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 I was so hungry.

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 And then I was thankful for that.

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 See, the thankfulness comes when there's somebody else connected to it.

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 We thank other people for doing something like that.

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 Sometimes you go to get on the freeway and you see there's this long line of cars.

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 And there's an ever-shortening on-ramp.

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 And you're thankful when someone opens up a little space and lets you pull into it.

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 When we receive something from other people, that's when our thankfulness comes out.

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 Being thankful, however, runs contrary to our nature.

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 Whatever else Romans 1 says about the unbeliever and about the world,

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 one of the things that's key in that is that the person is not thankful.

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 Thanksgiving is an expression of unselfishness.

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 The selfish and unloving person doesn't give thanks because they think they deserve it.

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 They think they've got it coming.

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 So when someone gives it to them, they say, okay, yeah, they just do what they were supposed to.

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 It's that selfishness that marks our nature.

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 We're children of our father and mother, Adam and Eve,

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 who didn't see all the blessings and weren't thankful for all the blessings that God had given them,

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 but instead saw the one thing that they didn't have that they thought,

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 wow, that's what I really need to be happy.

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 It's that same kind of attitude that marks each and every one of us.

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 We see it in children.

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 We need as parents to be consistently reminding our children both to be thankful and to express thankfulness.

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 If we want it to happen, we have to over and over encourage them.

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 Now say thank you.

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 Now tell the person thank you.

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 Over and over, we have to tell them that.

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 Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that.

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 Not only do we need to be thankful for what they receive,

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 but they need to be thankful even if it's something that they don't want.

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 If we go to a restaurant that they would not prefer to go to.

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 Not too long ago, we were traveling to Indiana regularly for cross-country meets.

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 And at the last meet of the year, we went over and we went out to dinner with them afterward,

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 and then we're going to come back here real quick.

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 And we went to the place that Joseph, who was the runner, got to choose which place he would want to go to.

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 Well, the place he chose was at the bottom of the list for his brother, who said, oh.

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 And Samuel, in his very engineering-like way, when Peggy was trying to make him happy or be glad about being at Chipotle,

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 he said, well, at least it's fuel for the fire.

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 He said, well, at least he was being thankful.

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 At least he was getting to eat that day.

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 But it's something we have to teach our kids.

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 We have to help them do that.

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 This is going to fall off, so it's okay.

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 And we need to continually to work at them with that.

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 Or otherwise, they will not be thankful,

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 because giving thanks is something that we are taught to do.

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 Well, if that's true, then Scripture teaches us to be thankful to one,

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 and that one is God.

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 When I looked up thankfulness and didn't find much help there,

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 I looked up thanksgiving.

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 And I actually am going to read to you what the dictionary is.

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 The dictionary comes on my iPad, so it's not a Christian dictionary.

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 It's just some app that was free.

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 But I want to read it to you, because it's interesting what it says.

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 It says,

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 The act of giving thanks, grateful acknowledgement of benefits or favors,

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 especially to God.

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 An expression of thanks, especially to God.

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 A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favor or kindness.

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 A day set apart for giving thanks to God.

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 I found it interesting that even our secular society recognizes that the issue of thanksgiving

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 is at the center of our view of God, and who God is, and what He does.

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 What perhaps the secular world doesn't understand,

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 is that thanksgiving is rooted in our view of God, and His undeserved kindness.

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 It's the nature of true salvation that draws thanksgiving out of us.

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 If Christians are known for anything,

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 it should be that we're known for love expressed toward God and others by unceasing thankfulness.

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 I want to just read another passage, a very similar one to you.

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 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 18 says,

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 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

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 You think about that, and so oftentimes, no matter what age we are,

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 but especially when we're younger, maybe a college age or that kind of thing,

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 one of the things that we focus in on, what's God's will for my life?

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 Life.

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 What's God's will for my life?

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 I just want to know what God wants for me.

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 And the passage tells us,

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 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

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 Your and my lives should demonstrate the consistent nature and characteristic of thanksgiving.

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 Of course, that begs the question,

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 is thanksgiving a characteristic of your lifestyle?

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 Something that you're known for?

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 Or is it something that needs to be prompted, like we have to do with children?

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 We're going to talk about what we as believers ought to really be thankful for,

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 and what we need to be thankful for.

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 Before we do, though, I'm going to take this coat off,

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 not because I'm too hot, because I'm just comfortable,

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 but it's fiddling with my microphone, and it's going to fall off.

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 The pastor and I don't have the same ear,

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 and so I need to make an adjustment here.

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 Otherwise, I'm going to be thinking about it all the time.

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 First of all, I want you to think about causes from our past.

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 Being thankful and thanksgiving flows out of a need.

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 You know, if I don't have a need for anything,

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 if I'm not hungry or thirsty,

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 if I'm not trying to get on the freeway and it's packed with cars,

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 then I really don't have any interest or any need in being thankful.

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 It's when I'm running out of the ramp.

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 It's when I'm actually hungry and need something to eat

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 and need someone to help me with it that those are the times.

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 And so we want to look at our past,

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 not because so much the things that we have to be thankful for,

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 but things that drive us or give us that need for being thankful.

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 Ephesians chapter 2.

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 They're almost all in Ephesians,

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 so you can actually flip over to each one of them as I do.

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 And I think they'll be on the slides as David puts them up,

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 although David is also being stressed this morning.

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 So a different set of notes that wasn't written for these slides.

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 Ephesians chapter 2, verses 1 to 3 says,

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 I was dead.

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 I walked in the course of the world.

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 I willingly, willingly followed Satan.

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 I lived out what my own flesh desired.

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 I was a child of wrath.

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 I was in deep trouble.

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 And it was all my own doing.

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 Not only that, same thing is true for you.

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 You were in deep trouble.

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 And it was all of your own doing.

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 You know, being hopeless is much worse than simply being hungry.

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 It's much worse than simply trying to get someplace.

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 It is saying that there is nothing, nothing, nothing that you can do.

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 Ephesians chapter 2, verse 19.

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 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,

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 but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God.

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 So then it says you are no longer strangers and aliens.

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 I was lined up on the wrong side.

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 I was on the side opposite of God.

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 It's like picking the wrong team.

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 It's much worse than picking the wrong team in sports.

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 It's being on the wrong side of the creator.

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 Saying, God, I know that you created the whole universe,

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 but I want to pick a fight.

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 It's like saying, I know that you know the end of times from the very beginning,

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 but I want to challenge you to a little mental game.

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 Let's play a game of chess.

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 We don't fit.

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 We're on the wrong side.

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 It's like being an OSU fan in the big house

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 or being a Michigan fan at the horseshoe.

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 I saw a quote yesterday that Tom Parsons had.

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 He said, this is as close to hell as the believer will ever get

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 and as close to heaven that the unbeliever will ever get.

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 Yeah, I enjoy life.

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 I enjoy so many things.

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 I've already announced my upcoming retirement,

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 and I'm thinking, wow, I'm going to do this,

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 and I'm going to do this, and I'm going to do this,

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 and I'm kind of running out of time,

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 and I haven't even started yet.

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 There are so many things I enjoy doing,

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 but you know what?

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 None of those things, none of this place,

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 is any better than heaven.

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 They don't even compare with heaven.

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 I told you I was out yesterday running,

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 and I love to run.

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 And so I was out, and I was just going along,

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 and I thought, you know what?

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 I don't know if I'll be able to run when I'm in heaven,

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 but I really do enjoy it, so maybe I will get to run.

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 But what I do know is that the wind will be behind you in both directions.

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 And I won't sound like a wheezing steam engine anymore.

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 Some of you might wonder why it would go like that.

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 But I recognize there will be a lot of different things.

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 All the things I like to do,

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 they will be so much better even if I do them.

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 I was an alien.

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 I was an outcast.

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 I was also darkness.

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 Ephesians 5.8.

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 I do want you to look at this one.

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 It's close to where we were anyway.

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 Ephesians 5.8.

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 For at one time you were darkness,

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 but now you are light in the Lord.

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 Walk as children of light.

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 You know what?

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 It doesn't say we were in darkness.

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 If it just said we were in darkness,

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 it would be like Paul saying,

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 you know, you were used to be in darkness,

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 and you couldn't really,

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 you couldn't see very well,

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 but you know,

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 I can kind of maneuver around the chair

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 that sits in the middle of our bedroom floor

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 because Peggy usually leaves it in the same place.

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 So even when it's dark,

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 I know how to avoid that.

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 She ever moves it,

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 I'm in trouble, okay?

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 But I can make my way around that.

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 But that's not what this says.

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 It's not that I was just in darkness.

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 It says that I was darkness.

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 Scripture doesn't support the kind of victim outlook

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 that our world today sees.

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 It's not our broken families.

00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:07.259
 It's not our broken neighborhood.

00:18:07.259 --> 00:18:10.180
 It's not what our parents did or didn't do.

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 It's not your social, economic level.

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 It's not your education.

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 It's that you're darkness.

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 Until you know the Lord.

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 And you know,

00:18:21.539 --> 00:18:23.720
 that doesn't seem like a list of wonderful things

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 that we ought to be thankful for at this Thanksgiving.

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 I don't think that Thanksgiving Day

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 is we're all sharing what things we're thankful for.

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 It's probably not the list that you'll come up with.

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 But what it does

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 is it leads us to Thanksgiving.

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 Because it tells us

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 just where we really were.

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 And the second two of those,

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 you will notice in each one of those,

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 it says,

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 but now you.

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 The change that takes place.

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 These point to the present.

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 And if we consider the present,

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 we have so much to be thankful for.

00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:06.380
 1 John 3, verse 1.

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 So see what kind of love the Father has given us

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 that we should be called children of God.

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 And so we are.

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 We are sons,

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 daughters of the Most High.

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 It's like John is,

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 the wording there is just so interesting,

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 so fascinating to me.

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 It's like John saying,

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 wow, can you believe it?

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 I mean, what kind of love does God have

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 after all?

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 I mean, He's taken us

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 and actually made us His sons.

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 It's mind-blowing.

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 It's also an encouragement to Thanksgiving.

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 That God, in His mercy,

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 in His grace,

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 has chosen us

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 to be His very children.

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 were accepted in the Beloved.

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 Ephesians chapter,

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 back to Ephesians,

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 Ephesians chapter 1, verse 6.

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 I'm going to read out of the New King James,

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 because I like the wording a little bit better,

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 and I'll point that out to you in a second.

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 To the praise of the glory of His grace,

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 by which He made us accepted.

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 The ESV says,

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 blessing in the Beloved.

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 The word blessing,

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 or the translation that I read,

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 the word accepted,

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 is the Greek word for favored.

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 It's the same word

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 that's used by the angel

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 in Luke chapter 1, verse 28,

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 when the angel is speaking to Mary

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 and says,

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 O favored one.

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 Accepted one.

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 It just doesn't,

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 almost doesn't seem like it's enough.

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 It's not like God just saying,

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 well, you know,

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 I've got to let some people in,

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 and hey,

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 I guess I'll have to let you in.

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 It's not that.

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 God has chosen you,

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 and He desires

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 to have you in His presence.

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 He desires

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 to have a relationship with you.

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 It goes beyond just,

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 you know,

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 kind of God

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 just relenting and saying,

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 well, I've got to have some people

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 filling in heaven,

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 so I guess

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 you're not worse than anybody else.

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 You were worse than anybody else,

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 and God said,

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 despite that,

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 I want you

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 in my eternal presence.

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 When I dwelt with the Spirit,

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 and empowered,

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 Ephesians 1, 3,

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 Blessed be the God and Father

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 of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 who has blessed us in Christ

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 with every spiritual blessing

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 in the heavenly places.

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 Not only are we no longer doomed

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 to follow Satan,

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 the desires of the flesh,

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 but we have every spiritual blessing.

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 And there's a parallel passage

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 over in 1 Peter,

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 or 2 Peter,

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 that says,

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 we have all we need

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 for life and godliness.

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 God didn't shortchange us.

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 He didn't save us,

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 but then leave us out on a rope.

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 He didn't say,

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 well, you know what,

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 I'm going to go ahead

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 and forgive you,

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 but from now on,

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 just try a little harder,

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 and maybe you'll please me.

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 He gave us the ability to change.

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 He gave us the indwelling Holy Spirit

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 so that we could change

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 from the people that we were,

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 hopeless, corrupt, sinful,

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 and we could be,

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 act as the sons of God,

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 accepted in the beloved,

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 indwelt, empowered.

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 That gives us great confidence

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 in the future.

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 not only in this life.

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 It says that next week

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 can be different.

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 It says the week after that

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 can be different.

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 It says next month

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 can be different.

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 But it's not just that.

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 It also gives us

00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:10.600
 even more comfort

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 for the future.

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 Turn over with me

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 to 1 John chapter 3.

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 1 John chapter 3.

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 Verse 2.

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 Beloved,

00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:34.400
 we are God's children now,

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 and yet what we will be

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 has not yet appeared.

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 But we know

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 that when He appears,

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 we shall be like Him

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 because we shall see Him

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 as He is.

00:23:47.620 --> 00:23:48.759
 That passage,

00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:50.700
 if you just think about

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 that passage for a moment,

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 it's so encouraging.

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 It's so much

00:23:56.299 --> 00:23:57.460
 to be thankful for.

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 It says that we will be

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 like Him.

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 I don't know what that means.

00:24:03.439 --> 00:24:05.379
 I do not believe

00:24:05.379 --> 00:24:06.460
 that we will be gods

00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:07.619
 like the Mormons believe.

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 But I do know

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 that we will put on

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 eternality.

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 We'll have heavenly bodies.

00:24:15.439 --> 00:24:16.700
 There'll be no more pain,

00:24:17.379 --> 00:24:18.419
 no more sickness,

00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:20.439
 no more sorrow,

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 no more need.

00:24:22.340 --> 00:24:29.519
 We will be like Him.

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 We will see Him.

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 You know,

00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:36.140
 you think about the Old Testament

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 and how often

00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:39.440
 people were protected.

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 Moses.

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 Moses wanted to see

00:24:42.100 --> 00:24:42.980
 the glory of God,

00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:44.320
 and what did God say?

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 No, Moses,

00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:46.400
 you can't do that.

00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:47.980
 You couldn't take it.

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 But what I'll let you do

00:24:49.860 --> 00:24:51.339
 is I'll let you stand

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 here in this little

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.039
 inlet in the rock,

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 and I'll put my hand

00:24:55.539 --> 00:24:56.099
 over you,

00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.339
 keep your face away

00:24:57.339 --> 00:24:57.819
 from me,

00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:58.900
 and I'll pass by,

00:24:58.980 --> 00:24:59.500
 and you'll just be able

00:24:59.500 --> 00:25:00.519
 to kind of catch

00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:01.700
 a little glimpse

00:25:01.700 --> 00:25:04.000
 of me as I pass by.

00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:06.400
 And what did Moses say?

00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:06.940
 That's enough.

00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.880
 Book of Isaiah.

00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:12.259
 And we were just doing

00:25:12.259 --> 00:25:13.299
 the grip by the greatness

00:25:13.299 --> 00:25:13.900
 of God

00:25:13.900 --> 00:25:15.579
 in our small group.

00:25:15.579 --> 00:25:17.419
 And James MacDonald

00:25:17.419 --> 00:25:17.960
 pointed out

00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:19.839
 a really fascinating idea.

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:21.240
 He pointed out

00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.019
 that in Isaiah chapter 6,

00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:24.079
 when the prophet

00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:25.059
 is going,

00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:25.939
 is there

00:25:25.939 --> 00:25:27.259
 in the throne room,

00:25:27.639 --> 00:25:27.859
 okay,

00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:28.960
 it says that

00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:29.740
 the throne room

00:25:29.740 --> 00:25:31.199
 was filled with smoke.

00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:33.460
 And James MacDonald

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:33.819
 said,

00:25:33.919 --> 00:25:34.980
 and I think he may be right,

00:25:35.179 --> 00:25:36.139
 he said the reason

00:25:36.139 --> 00:25:37.279
 it was filled with smoke

00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:38.339
 was to protect

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:39.639
 the life of the prophet.

00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:43.000
 Because seeing God

00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:43.859
 would mean

00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:44.720
 that he died.

00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:47.059
 And so God

00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:48.099
 in his mercy

00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:50.579
 filled the temple

00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:51.240
 with smoke

00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.699
 so that Isaiah

00:25:53.699 --> 00:25:55.159
 could see through it

00:25:55.159 --> 00:25:55.939
 and he could see

00:25:55.939 --> 00:25:56.939
 the grandeur

00:25:56.939 --> 00:25:58.619
 but without

00:25:58.619 --> 00:26:00.879
 being impacted by it.

00:26:01.159 --> 00:26:02.460
 It was God's protection.

00:26:04.439 --> 00:26:05.179
 And here

00:26:05.179 --> 00:26:06.259
 it says

00:26:06.259 --> 00:26:07.379
 that when he comes

00:26:07.379 --> 00:26:09.119
 we shall see him

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:09.539
 as he is.

00:26:09.699 --> 00:26:10.539
 We no longer

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:11.460
 need protection.

00:26:12.460 --> 00:26:13.359
 We no longer

00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:14.279
 need for God

00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:15.539
 to cover himself

00:26:15.539 --> 00:26:16.740
 so that we

00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:17.420
 don't

00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:18.940
 aren't impacted

00:26:18.940 --> 00:26:20.660
 by his presence.

00:26:23.660 --> 00:26:24.500
 It says

00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:25.160
 that we will be

00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:25.839
 with him

00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:27.799
 forever.

00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:29.759
 Not just

00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.639
 a brief visit.

00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:32.859
 Not just

00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:33.500
 stop in

00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:34.339
 for a little while.

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:36.240
 But we will be able

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:36.920
 to be

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:37.980
 with God

00:26:37.980 --> 00:26:39.119
 for all

00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:40.220
 eternity.

00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:42.480
 Do you ever

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.120
 have times

00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:44.440
 where it feels

00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:45.039
 like God's

00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:45.920
 not very close?

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:48.319
 I do.

00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:49.819
 Usually

00:26:49.819 --> 00:26:50.660
 it's my own fault.

00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:52.900
 In fact

00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:53.319
 it's always

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:53.940
 my own fault.

00:26:56.120 --> 00:26:57.259
 But for all

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:57.980
 eternity

00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:59.620
 we will be

00:26:59.620 --> 00:27:00.279
 in the very

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.100
 presence

00:27:01.100 --> 00:27:02.180
 of God.

00:27:02.180 --> 00:27:02.920
 God's

00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:02.920


00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:07.299
 God's

00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:07.539
 God

00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:07.920
 how do we

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:09.640
 come

00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:10.360
 to be

00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:10.820
 thankful?

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:13.560
 How do we

00:27:13.560 --> 00:27:14.180
 have all

00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:14.539
 these

00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:15.240
 precious

00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:15.840
 and great

00:27:15.840 --> 00:27:16.400
 promises?

00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:21.000
 We each

00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:21.620
 have to

00:27:21.620 --> 00:27:22.019
 come to

00:27:22.019 --> 00:27:22.660
 the place

00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:23.900
 of saying

00:27:23.900 --> 00:27:24.740
 I

00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:25.480
 am a

00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:25.740
 sinner.

00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:27.380
 It's not

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:27.779
 just that

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:28.259
 the world

00:27:28.259 --> 00:27:28.960
 is dark

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:29.900
 it's that

00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:30.380
 I am

00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:30.820
 darkness.

00:27:30.819 --> 00:27:32.419
 I have

00:27:32.419 --> 00:27:32.759
 to come

00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:33.019
 to the

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:33.359
 place

00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.179
 of recognizing

00:27:34.179 --> 00:27:35.159
 that it

00:27:35.159 --> 00:27:35.639
 is my

00:27:35.639 --> 00:27:35.980
 own

00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:36.519
 sin

00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:37.220
 that is

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:37.779
 causing

00:27:37.779 --> 00:27:38.279
 the

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:38.819
 challenges

00:27:38.819 --> 00:27:39.179
 and the

00:27:39.179 --> 00:27:39.679
 difficulties

00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:40.139
 in my

00:27:40.139 --> 00:27:40.500
 life.

00:27:42.159 --> 00:27:42.639
 It's my

00:27:42.639 --> 00:27:43.339
 own sin

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 that is

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 making the

00:27:46.299 --> 00:27:46.899
 division

00:27:46.899 --> 00:27:48.000
 between me

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 and God

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 and why

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 isn't God

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 seen very

00:27:50.179 --> 00:27:50.679
 close right

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 now.

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 Recognizing

00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:55.339
 that sin

00:27:55.339 --> 00:27:56.179
 and that

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 that sin

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 provides not

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 only currently

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 but it

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 provides for

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 all eternity

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:02.060
 damnation

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 if I don't

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 turn to

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 him.

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 Second

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 it requires

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 that I

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 come before

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 God and

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 I say

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 and I

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 believe in

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 the Lord

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 Jesus

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 Christ.

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 He gave

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 the penalty

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 he paid

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 the price

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 for us

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 but it's

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 up to us

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 to accept

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 the gift

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 that he

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 has actually

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 provided.

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 We have

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 to actually

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 accept.

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 We have

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 to say

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 yes

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 Jesus

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 Christ

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 paid the

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 penalty

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 for me

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 I accept

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 that

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 and I

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 ask that

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 God

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 you would

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 save me

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 from my

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 sin.

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 It then

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 takes

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 from that

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 point

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 forward

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 believing

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 in the

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 Lord Jesus

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 Christ

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 and what

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 he has

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 done.

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 It's not

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 enough to

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 just say

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 well I

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 know all

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 the facts.

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 I have

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 to actually

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 make it

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 personal

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 by accepting

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 what Christ

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 has done

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 for me.

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 If you've

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 done those

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 things

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 then the

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 issue of

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 thankfulness

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 ought to be

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 the natural

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 outcome

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 of your

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 heart.

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 If not

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 then all

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 you have

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 to do

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 is

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 all you

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 have to

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 go on

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 in this

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 time of

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 thankfulness

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 is

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 well I'm

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 thankful

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 that nothing

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 bad happened

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 this week

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 or at

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 least nothing

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 worse than

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 it could

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 have been.

00:29:26.379 --> 00:29:27.019
 So that's

00:29:27.019 --> 00:29:27.500
 where each

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 one of us

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 has to come

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 down to

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 where are

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 we in

00:29:30.539 --> 00:29:31.079
 terms of

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 our

00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:31.859
 thanksgiving.

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 Do we

00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:33.639
 have

00:29:33.639 --> 00:29:34.139
 thanksgiving

00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:34.539
 for the

00:29:34.539 --> 00:29:35.259
 right things?

00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:36.319
 Is it

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 directed to

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 the right

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.639
 direction?

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 Let's

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 pray.

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 If you've

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 never come

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 to the

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 place

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 where you

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 have

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 something

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 to be

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 thankful

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 to God

00:29:54.860 --> 00:29:55.220
 for

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:58.079
 I would

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 encourage

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 you

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 to

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 in your

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 mind

00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:03.339
 before

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:03.720
 God

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:04.019
 that you

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 would

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 say

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 the

00:30:04.620 --> 00:30:04.839
 same

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 things

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 that I'm

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 just

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 going

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 to

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 say.

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 Father I

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 know I'm

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 a sinner.

00:30:10.860 --> 00:30:11.519
 I know

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 that my

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 sins

00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:13.519
 cause a

00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:14.100
 separation

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 between

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 you

00:30:15.140 --> 00:30:16.319
 and me

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 and there's

00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:18.759
 nothing I

00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:19.039
 can do

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:19.519
 about it.

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:22.119
 But I

00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:22.720
 do reach

00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:24.519
 out to

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:24.980
 your son

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 Jesus Christ

00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:26.139
 who paid

00:30:26.139 --> 00:30:26.599
 the penalty

00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:27.079
 for my

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:27.379
 sin

00:30:27.379 --> 00:30:29.399
 and I

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 rely upon

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 him to

00:30:30.619 --> 00:30:31.279
 provide the

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:31.700
 forgiveness.

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:31.880
 forgiveness.

00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:34.000
 I ask

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:34.200
 that you

00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:34.620
 would save

00:30:34.620 --> 00:30:34.900
 me.

00:30:36.700 --> 00:30:37.460
 If you've

00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:38.160
 done that

00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:39.440
 I just

00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:39.819
 ask that

00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:40.059
 you would

00:30:40.059 --> 00:30:40.680
 encourage you

00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:41.319
 to raise

00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:41.700
 your hand

00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:42.019
 and just

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:43.539
 ask someone

00:30:43.539 --> 00:30:44.039
 to pray

00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:44.580
 for you.

00:30:44.579 --> 00:30:50.059
 maybe I've

00:30:50.059 --> 00:30:50.399
 done those

00:30:50.399 --> 00:30:50.699
 things

00:30:50.699 --> 00:30:53.079
 and yet

00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:55.099
 thankfulness

00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:55.579
 is not

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:56.279
 something that

00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:56.619
 you can

00:30:56.619 --> 00:30:57.299
 recognize

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:58.480
 that marks

00:30:58.480 --> 00:30:59.139
 your life.

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 It's a

00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:01.939
 consistent

00:31:01.939 --> 00:31:02.819
 problem of

00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:03.559
 being unhappy.

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:05.879
 Consistent

00:31:05.879 --> 00:31:07.179
 attitude of

00:31:07.179 --> 00:31:08.079
 sadness.

00:31:10.639 --> 00:31:10.960
 And I

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:11.480
 would call on

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:11.759
 you to

00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:12.379
 recognize

00:31:12.379 --> 00:31:13.220
 the great

00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:14.059
 promises that

00:31:14.059 --> 00:31:14.460
 God has

00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:15.579
 given to

00:31:15.579 --> 00:31:15.879
 you.

00:31:16.639 --> 00:31:17.039
 That he

00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:17.500
 has already

00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:18.119
 fulfilled.

00:31:20.179 --> 00:31:20.879
 And you

00:31:20.879 --> 00:31:21.339
 would cry

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:21.779
 out to

00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:23.059
 him asking

00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:23.539
 for his

00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:24.059
 forgiveness

00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:25.220
 for overlooking

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:25.839
 the great

00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:26.279
 gifts that

00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:26.579
 you've been

00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:26.859
 given.

00:31:28.539 --> 00:31:29.399
 And asking

00:31:29.399 --> 00:31:30.419
 him to

00:31:30.419 --> 00:31:30.899
 help you

00:31:30.899 --> 00:31:31.419
 to grow

00:31:31.419 --> 00:31:31.799
 in your

00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:32.559
 thankfulness.

00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:35.559
 Father,

00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:36.019
 you know

00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:36.599
 our hearts.

00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:38.599
 You know

00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:39.039
 whether our

00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:39.759
 thankfulness is

00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:41.659
 external from

00:31:41.659 --> 00:31:42.220
 our heart.

00:31:43.679 --> 00:31:43.980
 You know

00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:45.099
 whether our

00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:46.759
 thankfulness is

00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:47.140
 for the

00:31:47.140 --> 00:31:47.660
 things that

00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:47.920
 you've

00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.039
 provided or

00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:50.120
 from you.

00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:52.940
 And Lord,

00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:53.420
 we ask that

00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:53.740
 you would

00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:54.740
 bring about

00:31:54.740 --> 00:31:55.400
 the change

00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:55.779
 in our

00:31:55.779 --> 00:31:56.259
 hearts and

00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:56.880
 our lives

00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:57.900
 that we

00:31:57.900 --> 00:31:59.120
 might be

00:31:59.120 --> 00:31:59.720
 able to

00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:00.360
 grow in

00:32:00.360 --> 00:32:00.579
 our

00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:01.240
 thankfulness

00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:01.640
 to you.

00:32:02.579 --> 00:32:03.099
 For it's in

00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:03.539
 Christ's name

00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:03.900
 we pray.

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:04.880
 Amen.

00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:04.940
 Amen.

00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:04.960
 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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