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 In 1624 John Donne wrote Meditation number 17 which most of you will probably know as his famous poem No man is an island.

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! No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,

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 Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manner of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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 No man is an island, he says. I am part of mankind. We were made for community. We were made as individuals to be part of a whole, hardwired for community.

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 We know that, don't we? Loneliness is not a good thing. But the preacher, the writer of Ecclesiastes asks us, do we really believe that?

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 Does this world behave like it believes that? We met the preacher, the writer of Ecclesiastes a few weeks ago. He's the godly realist.

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 He warns us about the danger of trying to break away from the limits that God has placed on us in this life under the sun. Creaturally limits.

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 He warns us of treating life as if it is a project for gain, rather than a gift from God.

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 And in this section in Ecclesiastes chapter 4, he warns us of trying to pull away from others.

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 Of the temptation of pulling away from the whole.

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 Of being an individualist. Of going it alone.

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 Of saying in life, me first.

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 In verse 9 he says, two are better than one.

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 Deep down though, our problem is treating life as if we are on a kind of private TV show where we are the star.

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 Guests come and go maybe, but I am the regular.

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 And it comes down to me and to me alone.

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 Saying of my life, me, not us.

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 Me first.

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 So in this passage the preacher wants us to warn us of the folly of going it alone in life.

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 When God has made us for community.

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 For each other.

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 He says three things to us.

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 First of all he says, look at the ugliness of going it alone.

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 Look at the ugliness of going it alone.

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 If you just drop your eye down to verse 1 to 3 there.

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 The preacher starts off here, doesn't he, by becoming a news correspondent.

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 He goes out into the world and he watches the world.

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 He sees what goes on in the world and he journals it down.

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 And there's his headline in verse 1 at the top there.

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 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun.

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 He sees a world where people are living for me, not for us.

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 People treading on other people to break away from the whole and to rise up above everybody else.

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 Of oppression with no one to comfort those who are being oppressed.

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 And as he looks out over the world it's just story after story after story.

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 Of oppression.

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 Of child abuse.

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 And of murder.

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 And of human trafficking.

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 And of rich tyrants.

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 And warlords.

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 And refugees.

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 And unfair trade.

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 And abusive fathers.

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 And prostitution.

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 And poverty.

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 And unfair society.

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 A world that we see so clearly today.

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 And he sees so many sickening things in the world.

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 Do you remember the story of baby P.

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 Peter Connolly.

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 A 17th month old baby who was killed by his parents after abuse.

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 My little boy is 24 months this week.

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 And that story just sickens me to the stomach.

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 He was beaten violently by his parents.

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 And he died from his injuries.

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 Because at the heart of it they were saying in their lives.

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 Me.

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 Not us.

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 See the ugliness.

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 Apparently they pulled out his fingernails.

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 They knocked his teeth out.

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 They broke his back.

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 It's an extreme case isn't it.

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 But this is where it goes.

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 Where it leads.

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 This is what living for me looks like.

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 In full force.

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 This is a showcase of where it goes.

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 Left unrestrained.

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 When it's me.

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 Not us.

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 And he is crushed by this vision.

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 In verse 2 to 3.

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 I thought the dead who are already dead.

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 More fortunate than the living who are still alive.

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 He says I looked at the world.

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 And I thought you know.

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 It would be better not to be born.

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 Even.

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 How can a man of God say that?

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 Well remember he is a realist.

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 He doesn't just give us the trite answers.

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 He doesn't whitewash over the world as it is.

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 He may say to us.

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 Well do you think I'm being over the top here?

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 Well just look at the world as I have seen it.

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 Try and watch the world as I have watched it.

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 Watch children in need without the funny bits.

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 Watch comic relief without the comic relief.

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 He makes us watch everything.

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 He gives us the detail doesn't he?

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 Of the tears of the oppressed.

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 Feel the injustice.

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 Feel the ugliness of selfishness and where it leads.

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 This is the ugliness of me, me, me.

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 Not us.

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 Jesus Christ summarised the law of God.

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 And he said the Lord our God the Lord is one.

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 And you shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength.

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 And you shall love your neighbour as yourself.

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 God's law underpins all of life.

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 And when we break it, the world becomes an ugly place.

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 When I don't love my neighbour as I love myself.

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 And life is about me, not about us.

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 As you listen to the preacher, maybe you're thinking,

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 this is all a bit extreme.

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 This is not who I am.

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 Just think for a moment.

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 Which person have you thought most about since we last met?

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 Who have you filtered everything that you've seen or heard in the last week for?

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 As you sit here right now, isn't there one person in the room

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 who you see everything through and for?

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 Who you process everything for?

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 The one person that you spend most of the time thinking about

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 and wanting to keep happy?

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 One person, me.

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 As we've gone through Ecclesiastes,

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 hasn't that been the way that we've all thought?

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 My repetitious life.

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 My fleeting pleasures.

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 My season of life.

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 Last week if you were here.

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 We filter everything in life through and for ourselves.

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 That is the central process of all that we do, isn't it, naturally?

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 Now can I say that is good on one level.

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 As I listen to God and apply his word,

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 I must apply it to myself, mustn't I?

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 No one else can believe for me.

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 No one else can come to God with my sins and my guilt

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 and repent on my behalf, can they?

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 I must do that myself.

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 One theologian said that if I deal with the gospel at all,

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 I must deal with it as if there are no other people in the world.

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 Martin Luther said that the only two things a man must do alone

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 are his believing and his dying.

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 But at heart, if we're honest, we know that we are like this.

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 Our hearts run on me fuel.

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 We are more often than not excited by me things

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 rather than us things.

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 We don't just watch the oppression through a window.

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 We are little oppressors ourselves.

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 We enjoy it.

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 Don't we, if we're honest, when we feel better than others?

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 There is the thin end of the wedge.

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 We are part of what makes this world ugly.

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 Going it alone is ugly, he says.

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 Second of all, though, he says that going it alone is self-destructive.

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 It's self-destructive.

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 The problem with living the kind of private TV show, star show life

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 is that it oppresses others, it's ugly.

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 But he goes on to show that if you hate your neighbour,

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 you are also hating yourself, ironically.

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 Ironically, the oppressors are the ones destroying themselves.

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 Just look at verse 4 and 5.

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 I saw that all the toil and all skill in work

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 come from a man's envy of his neighbour.

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 This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.

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 When the engine of life is me, not us,

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 when the focus is me,

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 all that I do inevitably will destroy me.

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 I will be driven by jealousy

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 and the need to better others,

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 to compare myself with others,

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 to rise above them.

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 And all of my work and my skill

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 will only come from that desire

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 to break away from community,

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 to stand out and to rule the world

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 in my own little way,

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 to live on an island.

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 And we all do it, don't we?

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 We all have that impish, perverse thing in us

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 that rejoices at others' misfortune.

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 We enjoy sympathising with others

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 in their misfortune.

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 We can put our arm around them

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 because there is something in us

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 that feels better about ourselves in comparison.

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 We're driven by envy

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 and not by genuine love.

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 Someone said,

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 a true friend is someone who weeps when you weep,

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 but who rejoices when you rejoice.

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 We're more sympathetic

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 with those who weep

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 than we are rejoicing

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 with friends who rejoice, aren't we?

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 We don't get as excited

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 about people's success and happiness

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 as we do about their misery.

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 Because we love to be in a pecking order.

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 We love to see others lower than ourselves.

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 It's why we, people watch

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 Jerry Springer, isn't it?

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 And Jeremy Kyle,

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 to get that feeling,

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 myself rising up.

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 And that will either lead, he says,

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 to manic busyness,

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 working and toiling in envy,

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 or to bone idleness,

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 folding his hands,

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 the fool.

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 Going it alone

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 will either burn you out

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 or it will eat you up.

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 Verse 5 is weird, isn't it?

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 If you look at that.

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 The fool folds his hands

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 and eats his own flesh.

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 Cut off from the community.

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 It's a very strong image,

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 isn't it?

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 A fool chews his own fingers off.

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 A fool eats his own flesh.

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 We often hear about

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 those who suffer

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 at the hands of oppressors.

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 But here the preacher

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 shows us

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 the suffering of the oppressors

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 themselves.

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 An envy that eats away at life.

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 An attitude of comparison

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 eats away

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 at everything in life.

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 The Proverbs say that

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 whoever isolates himself

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 seeks his own destruction.

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 He breaks out

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 against all sound judgment.

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 Going it alone

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 is self-destructive.

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 Some people

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 can't afford community.

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 They can't afford

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 to invest in relationships

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 of any kind

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 because they can't afford

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 the time.

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 They can't afford

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 the money they will lose.

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 or they can't afford

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 to work less.

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 But the preacher says

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 that is

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 an unhappy business.

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 You'd be like the guy

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 in verse 7 and 8 there

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 who has

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 no

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 relationships

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 but has

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 many riches.

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 He could buy

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 as someone

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 puts it

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 everyone a meal

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 in the restaurant

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 but no one

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 wants to sit with him.

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 And he doesn't want

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 anyone to sit with him

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 either.

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 He hasn't stopped

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 to ask

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 what am I doing

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 all of this for?

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 Virginia Woolf said

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 no pleasure

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 has any relish

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 unless we share it.

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 The ugliness of it

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 the self-destructiveness

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 of it.

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 And thirdly

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 and lastly

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 community

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 is a mess

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 worth making.

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 Community

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 is a mess

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 worth making.

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 And looking at

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 verse 9

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 to the end here

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 the truth of this

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 passage is that

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 living for us

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 and not for me

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 is actually

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 always going to be

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 better for me

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 in the end.

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 And he gives us

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 some scenarios

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 to prove the point

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 doesn't he?

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 Living in community

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 is better.

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 Verse 9

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 work is better

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 in community.

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 You can get

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 more done.

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 You can get

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 more fruit

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 for your toil

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 more work

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 with others.

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 Hard times

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 are better

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 in community.

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 You can lift

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 one another up.

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 You can

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 encourage one another.

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 You're safer

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 in battle

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 in war

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 with someone else

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 fighting next to you.

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 You can

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 prevail over

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 the man

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 who attacks you.

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 When I start

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 thinking

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 us

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 more than

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 me

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 when I start

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 living for us

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 we find a contentment

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 that we cannot

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 find on our

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 island on our

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 own.

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 And that's his

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 point in verse 6.

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 Better is a

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 handful of

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 quietness

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 than two

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 hands full

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 of toil

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 and a

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 striving

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 after a

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 wind.

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 He says

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 there is a

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 choice here

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 isn't there?

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 He makes

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 a comparison.

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 He says

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 you can

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 either be

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 driven by

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 envy

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 living the

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 me

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 first life

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 or you

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 can be

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 driven by

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 something else

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 driven by

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 community

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 by others

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 but some

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 choose

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 money

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 over

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 people

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 some

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 choose

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 isolation

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 over

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 community

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 some

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 are too

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 busy

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 to invest

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 in people

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 and he

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 says

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 you will

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 be rich

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 in that

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 case

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 you'll

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 have

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 your

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 hands

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 full

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 but

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 you will

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 have

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 your

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 hands

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 full

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 in life

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 life

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 will be

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 a

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 constant

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 toil

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 and it

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 will

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 eat

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 you

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 up

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 inside

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 we

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 may

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 only

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 get

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 one

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 handful

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 he says

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 there

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 rather

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 than

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 two

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 of

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 riches

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 but

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 believe

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 me

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 he

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 says

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 community

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 is

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 better

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 the

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 one

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 handful

00:17:59.639 --> 00:17:59.859
 that

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 we

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 have

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 will

00:18:00.439 --> 00:18:00.559
 be

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 a

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 handful

00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:01.199
 of

00:18:01.199 --> 00:18:02.119
 quietness

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 when

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 we

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 say

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 it

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 is

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 okay

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 that

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 my

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 neighbour

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 has

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 more

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 than

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 me

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 it

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 is

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 okay

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 that

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 someone

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 else

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 is

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 higher

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 up

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 than

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 me

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 that

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 they

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 are

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 more

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 fortunate

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 than

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 me

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 that

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 they

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 are

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 enjoying

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 things

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 that

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 I

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 am

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 not

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 and

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 with

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 that

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 comes

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 a

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 quietness

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 comes

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 an

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 enjoyment

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 of

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 what

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 we

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 do

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 have

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 in

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 thinking

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 us

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 rather

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 than

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 me

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 contentment

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 as we

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 go to

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 bed

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 at

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 night

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 as we

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 put

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 our

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 heads

00:18:35.179 --> 00:18:35.319
 on

00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:35.460
 the

00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:35.700
 pillow

00:18:35.700 --> 00:18:35.980
 when

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 we

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 are

00:18:36.539 --> 00:18:37.120
 worrying

00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:37.480
 not

00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:37.880
 about

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 me

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 but

00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:39.059
 about

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 others

00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.000
 and how

00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:41.339
 they're

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 doing

00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.079
 living in

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 community

00:18:44.660 --> 00:18:45.380
 can bring

00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:45.920
 a peace

00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:46.360
 that I

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 would

00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:46.980
 never

00:18:46.980 --> 00:18:47.220
 have

00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:47.400
 had

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 even if

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 I

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 was

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 the

00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:48.920
 ruler

00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:49.259
 of the

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 world

00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.720
 God's

00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:53.620
 design

00:18:53.620 --> 00:18:54.900
 is this

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 that we

00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:55.720
 are

00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.759
 individuals

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 we're not

00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:57.960
 to become

00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:58.620
 kind of

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 homogenous

00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:00.319
 thing

00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.039
 but

00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:02.439
 not to

00:19:02.439 --> 00:19:02.619
 be

00:19:02.619 --> 00:19:03.779
 individualistic

00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:04.019
 he

00:19:04.019 --> 00:19:04.339
 made

00:19:04.339 --> 00:19:04.539
 us

00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:04.720
 for

00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:05.460
 community

00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:07.679
 now

00:19:07.679 --> 00:19:07.939
 we

00:19:07.939 --> 00:19:08.399
 know

00:19:08.399 --> 00:19:08.799
 that

00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:09.139
 don't

00:19:09.139 --> 00:19:09.299
 we

00:19:09.299 --> 00:19:09.539
 we

00:19:09.539 --> 00:19:09.980
 know

00:19:09.980 --> 00:19:10.220
 what

00:19:10.220 --> 00:19:10.399
 the

00:19:10.399 --> 00:19:10.720
 preacher

00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:10.939
 is

00:19:10.939 --> 00:19:11.220
 saying

00:19:11.220 --> 00:19:11.480
 here

00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:11.659
 is

00:19:11.659 --> 00:19:12.179
 true

00:19:12.179 --> 00:19:13.519
 and

00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:13.679
 we

00:19:13.679 --> 00:19:14.179
 try

00:19:14.179 --> 00:19:14.419
 and

00:19:14.419 --> 00:19:14.960
 find

00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.859
 community

00:19:15.859 --> 00:19:17.819
 social

00:19:17.819 --> 00:19:18.480
 media

00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.039
 clubs

00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:20.399
 and

00:19:20.399 --> 00:19:21.099
 societies

00:19:21.099 --> 00:19:21.500
 and

00:19:21.500 --> 00:19:22.379
 organisations

00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:22.799
 we

00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:23.379
 join a

00:19:23.379 --> 00:19:24.139
 music

00:19:24.139 --> 00:19:24.500
 group

00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:24.899
 or a

00:19:24.899 --> 00:19:25.139
 book

00:19:25.139 --> 00:19:25.559
 club

00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:25.759
 we

00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.259
 join a

00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:26.720
 charity

00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.299
 group

00:19:27.299 --> 00:19:28.980
 we

00:19:28.980 --> 00:19:29.139
 have

00:19:29.139 --> 00:19:29.299
 a

00:19:29.299 --> 00:19:29.619
 street

00:19:29.619 --> 00:19:30.079
 party

00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:30.339
 we

00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:30.839
 already

00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:31.259
 know

00:19:31.259 --> 00:19:31.480
 the

00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:31.799
 wisdom

00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:32.099
 of

00:19:32.099 --> 00:19:32.500
 this

00:19:32.500 --> 00:19:34.039
 we

00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:34.559
 try

00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:34.839
 and

00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:35.259
 do

00:19:35.259 --> 00:19:36.039
 community

00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:36.700
 in our

00:19:36.700 --> 00:19:37.039
 own

00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:37.539
 way

00:19:37.539 --> 00:19:38.319
 but

00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:38.619
 often

00:19:38.619 --> 00:19:39.079
 as soon

00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:39.500
 as we

00:19:39.500 --> 00:19:39.919
 get

00:19:39.919 --> 00:19:40.259
 into

00:19:40.259 --> 00:19:40.500
 a

00:19:40.500 --> 00:19:40.960
 group

00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:41.279
 we

00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:41.720
 find

00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:41.919
 that

00:19:41.919 --> 00:19:42.299
 those

00:19:42.299 --> 00:19:42.960
 communities

00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:43.379
 are

00:19:43.379 --> 00:19:43.859
 still

00:19:43.859 --> 00:19:44.279
 run

00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:44.599
 by

00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:45.259
 egos

00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:47.019
 we

00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:47.539
 find

00:19:47.539 --> 00:19:48.319
 village

00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:49.119
 politics

00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:49.460
 that

00:19:49.460 --> 00:19:49.819
 wherever

00:19:49.819 --> 00:19:50.339
 people

00:19:50.339 --> 00:19:50.599
 get

00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:51.019
 together

00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:51.379
 don't

00:19:51.379 --> 00:19:51.700
 we

00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:52.960
 and

00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:53.119
 we

00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:53.440
 find

00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:53.659
 the

00:19:53.659 --> 00:19:54.099
 same

00:19:54.099 --> 00:19:54.700
 hurts

00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:54.980
 in

00:19:54.980 --> 00:19:55.279
 those

00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:55.680
 groups

00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:55.899
 that

00:19:55.899 --> 00:19:56.059
 we

00:19:56.059 --> 00:19:56.399
 felt

00:19:56.399 --> 00:19:56.619
 when

00:19:56.619 --> 00:19:56.799
 we

00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:56.980
 were

00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:57.139
 on

00:19:57.139 --> 00:19:57.359
 our

00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:57.819
 own

00:19:57.819 --> 00:19:59.980
 but

00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:00.099
 in

00:20:00.099 --> 00:20:00.220
 the

00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:00.440
 rest

00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:00.559
 of

00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:00.680
 the

00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:01.019
 Bible

00:20:01.019 --> 00:20:01.379
 our

00:20:01.379 --> 00:20:01.700
 need

00:20:01.700 --> 00:20:01.899
 for

00:20:01.899 --> 00:20:02.500
 community

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:02.799
 is

00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:03.159
 only

00:20:03.159 --> 00:20:03.960
 satisfied

00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:04.599
 in

00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:04.899
 the

00:20:04.899 --> 00:20:05.359
 one

00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:06.059
 community

00:20:06.059 --> 00:20:07.319
 that

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 God

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 has

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 created

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 the

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 one

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 community

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 where

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 he

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 has

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 brought

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 his

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 people

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 together

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 some

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 of

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 you

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 might

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 be

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 listening

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 to

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 this

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 and

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 thinking

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 you

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 just

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 don't

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 know

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 how

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 I've

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 been

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 hurt

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 by

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 others

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 you

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 don't

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 know

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 how

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 badly

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 I've

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 been

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 burnt

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 by

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 other

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 people

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 and

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 I

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 don't

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 want

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 to

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 go

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 through

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 that

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 again

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 but

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 there

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 is

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 one

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 community

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 on

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 earth

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 only

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 one

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 community

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 where

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 hurting

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 people

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 and where

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 sinners

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 are brought

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 together

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 by something

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 much

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 greater

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 than

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 themselves

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 where

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 done

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 rightly

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 egos

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 those

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 are

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 left

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 at

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 the

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 door

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 Paul

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 the

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 apostle

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 says

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 to

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 a

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 church

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 that

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 he

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 writes

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 to

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 in

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 Philippi

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 he

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 says

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 that

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 we

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 are

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 all

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 partakers

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 together

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 of

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 grace

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 we

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 are

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 brought

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 together

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 by

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 a

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 mutual

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 undeserving

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 of being

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 together

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 by an

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 understanding

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 that

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 none

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 of us

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 deserve

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 to be

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 in

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 God's

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 church

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 we're

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 all

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 sinners

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 we're

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 all

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 broken

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 people

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 we're

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 all

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 people

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 who

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 tend

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 at

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 heart

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 to

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 think

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 me

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 rather

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 than

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 us

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 but

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 God

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 has

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 made

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 his

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 church

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 one

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 body

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 joined

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 in

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 Christ

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 joined

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 with a

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 bond

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 closer

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 than a

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 family

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 member

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 the

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 preacher

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 is not

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 saying

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 that

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 church

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 will

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 be a

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 bed

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 of

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 roses

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 and

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 community

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 is

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 perfect

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 under

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 the

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 sun

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 but

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 he's

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 seen

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 the

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 alternative

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 hasn't

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 he

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 the

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 church

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 of

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 Jesus

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 Christ

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 is

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 the

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 one

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 community

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 that

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 one

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 day

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 will

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 be

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 without

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 sin

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 and

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 without

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 ego

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 where

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 everyone

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 thinks

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 and is

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 learning

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 to think

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 you

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 first

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 us

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 so

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 he

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 says

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 to us

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 today

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 don't

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 destroy

00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:21.680
 yourself

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 come

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 to

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 this

00:22:24.180 --> 00:22:24.940
 oasis

00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:26.240
 in

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 this

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 ugly

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 world

00:22:27.620 --> 00:22:28.019
 of

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 me

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 me

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 me

00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:31.120
 start

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 thinking

00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:32.299
 us

00:22:32.299 --> 00:22:33.360
 not

00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:33.700
 me

00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:34.200
 start

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 living

00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:34.940
 for

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 us

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 and

00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:36.840
 not

00:22:36.840 --> 00:22:37.320
 me

00:22:37.320 --> 00:22:38.640
 come

00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:39.039
 to

00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:39.600
 the

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 church

00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:41.519
 come

00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:41.920
 to

00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:42.640
 Christ

00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:44.240
 because

00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:44.640
 living

00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:45.200
 for us

00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:45.660
 and not

00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:46.259
 for me

00:22:46.259 --> 00:22:47.240
 is

00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:47.720
 always

00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:48.120
 going

00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:48.400
 to be

00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:48.700
 better

00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:49.319
 for me

00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:50.259
 in the

00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:50.660
 end

00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:51.799
 let's

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 pray

00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:52.660
 together