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 Well, I do hope that you are well and your life is good at the moment, that things are going well.

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! But as I say that, it is not always the case, is it, that life is peachy, that life is easy.

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 Often life throws a curveball at us. Life is full of hardship and difficulty.

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 The question is, how do we respond to life when it goes bad?

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 I want to say that this passage that we've got in front of us is about that issue of coping with hardship and of difficulty.

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 It's about endurance, particularly in the Christian life, in following Jesus.

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 The word endurance appears four times in the section here, doesn't it?

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 It's written to a group of Christians who, if you go back in your Bible at home maybe, look at chapter 10,

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 that you can see what kind of experience they've had recently.

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 They've suffered public attacks.

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 They've suffered affliction of various kinds.

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 They've been imprisoned, some of them.

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 They've had their possessions stolen.

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 They are in trouble in the world.

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 And there seems to be no let-up.

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 But the command of verse 2, if you look there, is pretty clear, isn't it?

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 Despite the hardships, they should run with endurance the race that is set before them.

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 They must keep going in the hardship.

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 They must persevere to the end.

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 We must endure the Christian life as well as enjoy the Christian life.

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 And we might ask ourselves, why does it have to be like that?

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 Why can't I go through the Christian life like a walk in the park?

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 Why is it such hard work?

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 The Apostle Paul calls Christians, he describes them as soldiers.

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 Doesn't he?

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 And as hard-working farmers.

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 Or as marathon runners.

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 Just picture those people, the soldier crawling through the mud with bullets flying overhead.

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 Or the exhaustion of long-distance running and the perseverance that that takes.

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 Or the back-breaking work of labour in the fields.

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 And we can get to the point, can't we,

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 if we've been a Christian for a long time,

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 if we've been following Jesus for a while,

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 maybe the initial excitement of faith has kind of waned a little.

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 And we're just trudging through from one day to the next.

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 So why all of this endurance?

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 God, why don't you just take away the difficulty

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 if I'm trusting in you and I'm following you?

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 Well, he gives us three reasons why, I think, in Hebrews 12 today.

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 Why does it have to be so hard?

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 That the writer to the Hebrews says, first of all,

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 the endurance of the Christian life,

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 the hardships are for your discipline.

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 For your discipline.

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 Just look at verse 7.

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 It is for discipline that you have to endure.

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 He tells us, doesn't he, that there is a reason behind the hardship.

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 The reason for the struggle of enduring to the end.

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 There is a purpose behind that.

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 There is a godly design in that.

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 It is discipline.

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 He wants to really drill this in.

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 Did you hear that word?

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 It's just repeated over and over again in the passage.

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 Don't regard lightly the discipline of the Lord.

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 The Lord disciplines the ones he loves.

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 What son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

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 He goes on, discipline, discipline, discipline.

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 Your life, if you are facing opposition and hardship because you are following the Lord Jesus,

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 is not out of control.

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 Things are the way they are for your discipline.

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 That is the explanation.

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 So, the writer wants to say, don't take your hardships the wrong way.

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 Don't view them in the wrong way.

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 Neither should you despise them, nor should you be overly discouraged by them.

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 If you look at verse 5 and 6 there, he quotes a verse from the book of Proverbs.

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 And in that verse in Proverbs, there are two warnings about how we deal with hardship.

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 Warning one, my son, don't regard lightly the discipline of the Lord.

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 In other words, don't despise what is happening to you.

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 And don't despise the Lord for it.

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 When we have hardships coming to our lives, the temptation is to grow cynical, isn't it?

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 Maybe there are folk who did once trust in God and had great hope in him,

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 and yet hard things come and they grow bitter towards God.

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 Because they despise what is going on in their lives.

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 He says, no, we shouldn't do that.

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 We shouldn't forget and fail to recognise that God is using these things for some greater good,

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 for our discipline.

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 Don't despise it.

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 And then warning number two comes.

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 Don't be weary when reproved by God.

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 Don't be discouraged when difficult times come.

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 Because, he says, for the Lord disciplines the ones he hates.

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 No.

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 He disciplines the one he loves.

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 Often, much hardship and much difficulty in the Christian life

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 is a sign of much discipline,

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 which is a sign of much love from God.

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 in him being persistent in his intention for your good.

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 And if you think about it, that is completely upside down thinking, isn't it?

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 It's just totally counterintuitive.

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 That sometimes the greater the hardship,

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 the greater display of love from God,

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 sometimes when the world is hardest against God's people,

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 it is a sign that he is most for his people.

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 You may have heard of the Baptist preacher John Piper.

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 John Piper is pretty popular, isn't he, in the States.

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 And a few years ago, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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 And in the time of his treatment, over a couple of years,

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 he thought a great deal about the issue of suffering

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 and of hardship in the Christian life.

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 He wrote many things over that time,

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 but one article really jumped out where he entitled it,

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 Don't Waste Your Cancer.

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 Don't Waste Your Cancer.

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 He was saying, wasn't he,

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 that counterintuitive way of thinking of hardship

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 is don't waste the things that make you suffer in this life.

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 Don't take them the wrong way.

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 Don't waste the opportunity that God is giving in this moment

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 to discipline you and to grow you and to teach you things

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 that otherwise you wouldn't have learnt about yourself and about him.

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 We should never say, should we, if we're following Christ

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 and we trust in him, that God is punishing me

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 if I'm suffering for some reason.

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 God is punishing me for something I've done

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 and I'm paying back in this suffering.

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 I want to say Christians are not punished.

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 Jesus Christ, as we trust in him,

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 as he dies on the cross,

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 he endures, doesn't he,

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 the suffering that we should have endured,

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 that we deserve.

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 He takes every ounce of punishment

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 that we deserve

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 for rebelling against God.

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 But,

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 we are rebuked

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 and we are chastened

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 and we are put back in line.

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 Christians are disciplined.

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 But,

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 what sort of discipline is it?

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 If you think about that word,

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 we just don't like it, do we?

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 The word discipline.

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 The more I've said it,

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 I wonder whether you want it to move away.

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 Does it make us think of

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 old-fashioned public school lashings?

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 Is this a brutal,

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 cold,

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 systematic kind of discipline

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 like SAS selection?

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 God is going to thrash

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 all of the impurities out of us

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 like some evil schoolmaster.

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 Well, no,

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 because the example he uses

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 of this discipline

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 is the caring and loving discipline

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 of a good father,

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 isn't it,

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 in verse 6.

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 The Lord disciplines

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 the one he loves.

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 He chastises every son

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 whom he receives.

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 He uses the illustration

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 later on

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 in verse 9

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 of an earthly father

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 who loves his child

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 and who disciplines them.

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 So, endurance

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 is there in the Christian life

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 for discipline,

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 but secondly,

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 it is there for

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 fatherly discipline.

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 not just any old discipline,

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 fatherly discipline.

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 The writer's aim here

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 is to get us

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 to move from

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 despairing

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 and despising

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 God

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 in the hard things

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 to loving him

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 for them

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 and taking advantage

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 of them in our lives

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 to be subject

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 to him

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 for change,

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 to almost value

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 these opportunities

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 that suffering brings.

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 So, what he does here,

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 he argues from the lesser

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 to the greater example,

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 doesn't he?

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 He uses the lesser example

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 of a good earthly father.

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 This might not be

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 the experience

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 of everyone

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 in this room

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 of having a good

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 earthly father,

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 but we know,

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 don't we,

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 what a good earthly father

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 should do.

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 That he disciplines

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 his child

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 and the child respects

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 and loves him

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 for that.

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 The word in the original

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 Greek language

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 means to correct

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 or to educate.

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 And an earthly father

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 does that

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 for the child

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 that he loves.

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 He would be a bad father

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 if he neglected

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 to do that,

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 wouldn't he?

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 So that the child

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 develops and grows

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 and moves from

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 childish things

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 to grown-up things

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 so that they can live

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 a bigger and fuller life

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 so that they can engage

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 with the world properly.

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 The father teaches

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 the child

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 so that they can

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 experience life

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 to its fullest.

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 Our little two-year-old,

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 we're trying to teach him

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 not to say,

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 I want,

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 but please may I have

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 every single time

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 he forgets it.

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 Please may I have,

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 not I want.

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 Why do we do that?

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 Is it because I'm a stickler

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 for politeness

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 and for doing the right thing?

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 Well, actually, yes.

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 But it is for the purpose,

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 isn't it,

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 of him knowing

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 how to engage

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 with people properly,

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 of honouring his father

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 and his mother,

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 and engaging

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 in good relationships

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 with people

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 and eventually

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 enjoying life more.

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 It's not because

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 I want to come down

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 on him and tell him

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 he's always doing

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 the wrong thing

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 all the time,

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 but that he will enjoy life.

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 Discipline is for the

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 grace

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 and benefit of life,

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 isn't it?

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 And his argument is that

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 if earthly fathers

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 know how to do that,

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 how much more

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 good

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 in your life

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 will God's discipline

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 do for you?

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 Just look at the comparison

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 in verse 10.

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 They disciplined

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 earthly fathers

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 us for a short time

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 as it seemed best for them,

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 but he disciplines us

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 for our good

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 that we may share

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 in his holiness.

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 Earthly fathers

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 can discipline us,

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 can't they,

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 to give us a well-rounded

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 character

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 for earthly life.

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 But do you see

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 what God is aiming

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 at here?

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 He disciplines

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 his children

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 to share

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 his holiness

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 for a heavenly life.

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 Hardships come

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 to develop us,

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 to make us holy

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 and to make us

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 fit for heaven

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 for a much

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 fuller life

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 than we know now.

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 Hardships come

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 in God's

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 plan

00:13:41.899 --> 00:13:42.279
 that

00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:43.340
 we will become

00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:44.320
 more like him

00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.940
 in building

00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:47.700
 our spiritual

00:13:47.700 --> 00:13:48.419
 maturity.

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 So since

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 God

00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:53.139
 does this

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 for his children,

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 notice

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 in verse 6,

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 he does it

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 for every

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 son,

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 that is the one

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 who receives

00:14:00.259 --> 00:14:00.860
 the inheritance,

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 he does it

00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:01.919
 for every

00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:02.720
 believer

00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:03.720
 who is a son

00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.000
 whom he

00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.060
 receives.

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 It's not a sign

00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:09.180
 of his rejection

00:14:09.180 --> 00:14:10.259
 when difficult

00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:10.879
 things come,

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 but of his

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 reception

00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:13.060
 and of his

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 love.

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 Saying to us,

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 you are in

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 my family

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 and you are

00:14:18.899 --> 00:14:20.360
 going to enjoy

00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:21.580
 heavenly life.

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 And if we

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 are expecting

00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.920
 a life of

00:14:25.920 --> 00:14:26.340
 roses

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 and if that

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 is what we

00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:28.520
 are experiencing

00:14:28.520 --> 00:14:29.540
 all of the

00:14:29.540 --> 00:14:30.300
 time and we

00:14:30.300 --> 00:14:30.820
 think that is

00:14:30.820 --> 00:14:31.280
 normal,

00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:32.860
 we've got to

00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:33.100
 wonder,

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 haven't we,

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 what claim

00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.160
 have we got

00:14:35.160 --> 00:14:36.320
 in the

00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:36.860
 family of

00:14:36.860 --> 00:14:37.180
 God?

00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:39.240
 He uses the

00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:40.280
 word illegitimate,

00:14:40.379 --> 00:14:40.840
 doesn't he?

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 If we're not

00:14:42.259 --> 00:14:42.860
 disciplined,

00:14:43.020 --> 00:14:43.720
 then we're

00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:44.480
 illegitimate,

00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:44.800
 sons,

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 we're not in

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 the family.

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 But when

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 things are

00:14:49.379 --> 00:14:49.759
 hard,

00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:50.560
 it is a sign

00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.099
 that God

00:14:51.099 --> 00:14:51.619
 is making

00:14:51.619 --> 00:14:52.219
 us holy,

00:14:52.439 --> 00:14:53.039
 preparing us

00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:53.500
 for heaven.

00:14:54.859 --> 00:14:55.199
 So the

00:14:55.199 --> 00:14:55.919
 endurance is

00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:56.559
 for discipline,

00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:57.159
 it is for

00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:57.839
 a father's

00:14:57.839 --> 00:14:58.259
 discipline.

00:14:58.839 --> 00:14:59.459
 Thirdly and

00:14:59.459 --> 00:14:59.819
 lastly,

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 the endurance

00:15:01.779 --> 00:15:02.659
 is for

00:15:02.659 --> 00:15:03.639
 momentary

00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:04.279
 fatherly

00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:04.779
 discipline.

00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:06.479
 It is for

00:15:06.479 --> 00:15:07.319
 momentary

00:15:07.319 --> 00:15:07.919
 fatherly

00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:08.339
 discipline.

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 Just drop

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 your eye

00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:10.619
 down to

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 verse 11.

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 For the

00:15:13.579 --> 00:15:14.239
 moment,

00:15:15.119 --> 00:15:16.159
 all discipline

00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:17.479
 seems painful

00:15:17.479 --> 00:15:18.359
 rather than

00:15:18.359 --> 00:15:18.719
 pleasant,

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 but later

00:15:20.940 --> 00:15:22.180
 it yields

00:15:22.180 --> 00:15:22.800
 the peaceful

00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:23.379
 fruit of

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 righteousness

00:15:23.899 --> 00:15:25.180
 to those

00:15:25.180 --> 00:15:25.560
 who've been

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 trained by

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 it.

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 Let's be

00:15:29.019 --> 00:15:29.460
 honest about

00:15:29.460 --> 00:15:29.580
 it,

00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:30.820
 no discipline

00:15:30.820 --> 00:15:32.019
 is pleasant,

00:15:32.180 --> 00:15:32.639
 is it,

00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:33.840
 in the

00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:34.180
 moment.

00:15:36.180 --> 00:15:36.940
 But isn't

00:15:36.940 --> 00:15:37.500
 it true that

00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:38.100
 often the

00:15:38.100 --> 00:15:38.899
 best things

00:15:38.899 --> 00:15:39.879
 for us are

00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:40.420
 the most

00:15:40.420 --> 00:15:40.899
 difficult

00:15:40.899 --> 00:15:42.840
 things in

00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:43.540
 our lives?

00:15:43.539 --> 00:15:46.120
 when I was

00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:46.319
 a little

00:15:46.319 --> 00:15:46.539
 boy,

00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:47.039
 it's a

00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:47.379
 trivial

00:15:47.379 --> 00:15:47.899
 example,

00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:49.059
 when I was

00:15:49.059 --> 00:15:49.279
 a little

00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:49.500
 boy,

00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:49.919
 there was

00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:51.159
 a bowl

00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:51.839
 of grapes

00:15:51.839 --> 00:15:52.399
 on top

00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:52.599
 of the

00:15:52.599 --> 00:15:52.879
 piano

00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:53.339
 in the

00:15:53.339 --> 00:15:53.500
 living

00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:53.839
 room,

00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:55.559
 and I

00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:56.000
 tried to

00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:56.659
 steal some

00:15:56.659 --> 00:15:57.000
 grapes

00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:57.379
 once,

00:15:58.279 --> 00:15:58.799
 and my

00:15:58.799 --> 00:15:59.120
 dad

00:15:59.120 --> 00:15:59.579
 called to

00:15:59.579 --> 00:15:59.759
 me,

00:15:59.939 --> 00:16:00.120
 and I

00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:00.399
 got a

00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:00.620
 wallet

00:16:00.620 --> 00:16:01.079
 around the

00:16:01.079 --> 00:16:01.339
 back of

00:16:01.339 --> 00:16:01.740
 the legs,

00:16:02.219 --> 00:16:02.439
 and it

00:16:02.439 --> 00:16:02.860
 wasn't

00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:03.319
 nice,

00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:03.679
 it was

00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:04.159
 painful,

00:16:04.459 --> 00:16:04.980
 but I

00:16:04.980 --> 00:16:05.699
 learnt

00:16:05.699 --> 00:16:06.839
 then not

00:16:06.839 --> 00:16:07.500
 to steal.

00:16:08.179 --> 00:16:08.459
 It's a

00:16:08.459 --> 00:16:09.099
 really trivial

00:16:09.099 --> 00:16:09.599
 example,

00:16:09.719 --> 00:16:10.039
 isn't it?

00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.879
 in all

00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.199
 seriousness,

00:16:13.439 --> 00:16:14.459
 it hurts

00:16:14.459 --> 00:16:15.699
 to have

00:16:15.699 --> 00:16:16.559
 our weaknesses

00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:17.179
 and our

00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:18.079
 impurities

00:16:18.079 --> 00:16:18.959
 exposed.

00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:21.399
 As God's

00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:22.299
 purpose is

00:16:22.299 --> 00:16:22.860
 to make

00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:23.459
 us more

00:16:23.459 --> 00:16:23.879
 holy,

00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:24.399
 and that

00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:25.779
 indwelling

00:16:25.779 --> 00:16:26.559
 rebellion

00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:27.399
 against him

00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:27.980
 is still

00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:28.500
 there,

00:16:29.319 --> 00:16:30.379
 his concern

00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:30.919
 will always

00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:31.299
 be to

00:16:31.299 --> 00:16:32.179
 expose it

00:16:32.179 --> 00:16:32.539
 and to

00:16:32.539 --> 00:16:32.959
 deal with

00:16:32.959 --> 00:16:33.120
 it,

00:16:33.219 --> 00:16:33.639
 and that

00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:33.980
 is going

00:16:33.980 --> 00:16:34.599
 to hurt

00:16:34.599 --> 00:16:36.019
 in life.

00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:37.459
 It will

00:16:37.459 --> 00:16:38.199
 hurt to

00:16:38.199 --> 00:16:38.559
 have the

00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:39.379
 impurities

00:16:39.379 --> 00:16:40.960
 burnt

00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:41.539
 away.

00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:43.639
 God

00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:44.179
 may end

00:16:44.179 --> 00:16:44.539
 up dealing

00:16:44.539 --> 00:16:44.860
 with us

00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:45.100
 quite

00:16:45.100 --> 00:16:45.939
 harshly

00:16:45.939 --> 00:16:46.679
 in life.

00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:48.000
 He may

00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:48.700
 take things

00:16:48.700 --> 00:16:49.100
 away from

00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:49.480
 us or

00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:50.320
 put things

00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:50.720
 into our

00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.120
 lives that

00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:51.679
 we didn't

00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:52.220
 welcome and

00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:52.659
 we didn't

00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:54.159
 want to

00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:54.659
 shake our

00:16:54.659 --> 00:16:55.439
 self-confidence.

00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:57.659
 But the

00:16:57.659 --> 00:16:58.080
 point of

00:16:58.080 --> 00:16:58.759
 verse 11 is

00:16:58.759 --> 00:16:59.600
 that that

00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:00.279
 pain is

00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:01.439
 only momentary,

00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:02.039
 isn't it?

00:17:02.939 --> 00:17:03.580
 It will

00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:04.740
 be slight,

00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:06.140
 like the

00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:06.559
 blink of

00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:07.240
 an eye in

00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:07.680
 the grand

00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:08.220
 scheme of

00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:08.680
 things.

00:17:09.380 --> 00:17:10.060
 It's like

00:17:10.060 --> 00:17:10.280
 when a

00:17:10.280 --> 00:17:10.600
 doctor

00:17:10.600 --> 00:17:11.740
 pushes on

00:17:11.740 --> 00:17:12.620
 the wound

00:17:12.620 --> 00:17:13.860
 to find

00:17:13.860 --> 00:17:14.180
 out where

00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:14.660
 the source

00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:15.100
 of pain

00:17:15.100 --> 00:17:15.500
 is.

00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:16.520
 It hurts

00:17:16.520 --> 00:17:16.800
 for that

00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:17.100
 moment,

00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:17.460
 doesn't it?

00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:18.500
 He does

00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:20.080
 that as

00:17:20.080 --> 00:17:20.540
 he seeks

00:17:20.540 --> 00:17:21.120
 to heal

00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:21.440
 it,

00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:23.160
 not to

00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:23.820
 irritate

00:17:23.820 --> 00:17:24.040
 it,

00:17:24.120 --> 00:17:24.300
 God

00:17:24.300 --> 00:17:24.540
 isn't

00:17:24.540 --> 00:17:24.900
 just

00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:25.780
 throwing

00:17:25.780 --> 00:17:26.220
 things

00:17:26.220 --> 00:17:26.640
 out in

00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:26.820
 our

00:17:26.820 --> 00:17:27.220
 lives

00:17:27.220 --> 00:17:27.980
 to wind

00:17:27.980 --> 00:17:28.420
 us up

00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:28.580
 with

00:17:28.580 --> 00:17:29.000
 hardship,

00:17:30.060 --> 00:17:30.780
 but to

00:17:30.780 --> 00:17:31.360
 draw out

00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:31.540
 our

00:17:31.540 --> 00:17:31.940
 weaknesses

00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:33.060
 and heal

00:17:33.060 --> 00:17:33.420
 and to

00:17:33.420 --> 00:17:33.660
 make

00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:34.100
 holy.

00:17:35.420 --> 00:17:36.240
 And it's

00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:37.120
 momentary.

00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.719
 if we

00:17:38.719 --> 00:17:39.159
 think about

00:17:39.159 --> 00:17:39.619
 it in

00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:40.899
 60 billion

00:17:40.899 --> 00:17:41.859
 years time

00:17:41.859 --> 00:17:42.779
 in eternity,

00:17:43.959 --> 00:17:45.439
 if Christ

00:17:45.439 --> 00:17:46.500
 has returned

00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:47.359
 and we're

00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.500
 all in

00:17:48.500 --> 00:17:48.959
 heaven by

00:17:48.959 --> 00:17:49.279
 then,

00:17:50.019 --> 00:17:51.039
 with new

00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:51.659
 resurrection

00:17:51.659 --> 00:17:52.519
 bodies and

00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:53.239
 our bodies

00:17:53.239 --> 00:17:53.739
 are glorious

00:17:53.739 --> 00:17:54.119
 and there's

00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:54.579
 no more

00:17:54.579 --> 00:17:55.879
 pain and

00:17:55.879 --> 00:17:56.299
 no more

00:17:56.299 --> 00:17:56.799
 suffering and

00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:57.239
 we're in

00:17:57.239 --> 00:17:57.879
 the presence

00:17:57.879 --> 00:17:59.399
 of God.

00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:01.099
 60 billion

00:18:01.099 --> 00:18:01.759
 years time,

00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:02.379
 will we

00:18:02.379 --> 00:18:03.039
 have a

00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:03.400
 second

00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:03.900
 thought

00:18:03.900 --> 00:18:04.400
 for the

00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:05.259
 70,

00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:05.720
 80,

00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:06.740
 90 years

00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:07.859
 of suffering

00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:08.259
 that we've

00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:08.599
 had in

00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:09.180
 this life?

00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:11.160
 Maybe it'll

00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:11.779
 be a little

00:18:11.779 --> 00:18:12.940
 pinprick on

00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:13.420
 our minds

00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:13.819
 by that

00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:14.079
 point,

00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:14.579
 won't it?

00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:16.019
 It'll be

00:18:16.019 --> 00:18:17.019
 momentary and

00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:17.779
 we'll see it

00:18:17.779 --> 00:18:19.099
 then for

00:18:19.099 --> 00:18:19.440
 what it

00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:19.920
 is.

00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:23.000
 He says,

00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:23.539
 then we

00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:24.299
 will enjoy

00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:25.059
 the peaceful

00:18:25.059 --> 00:18:25.720
 fruit of

00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:26.240
 righteousness.

00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:29.099
 I think

00:18:29.099 --> 00:18:29.640
 now we

00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:30.920
 don't enjoy

00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.460
 this peace

00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:33.880
 because

00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:34.660
 actually the

00:18:34.660 --> 00:18:35.940
 fruit needs

00:18:35.940 --> 00:18:37.880
 to mature,

00:18:38.019 --> 00:18:38.440
 doesn't it?

00:18:39.660 --> 00:18:40.420
 We don't

00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:41.160
 enjoy that

00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:41.960
 fruit fully

00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:42.539
 because there

00:18:42.539 --> 00:18:43.200
 is still

00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:43.800
 things in

00:18:43.800 --> 00:18:44.200
 our lives

00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:44.680
 which need

00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.060
 sorting out

00:18:46.060 --> 00:18:47.960
 our own

00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:48.640
 pride and

00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:49.440
 our self

00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.140
 concern.

00:18:50.320 --> 00:18:51.560
 They destroy

00:18:51.560 --> 00:18:52.360
 that peace

00:18:52.360 --> 00:18:53.140
 as it should

00:18:53.140 --> 00:18:53.519
 be.

00:18:54.900 --> 00:18:55.480
 But to

00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:56.039
 those who

00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:56.920
 are trained

00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:57.560
 by these

00:18:57.560 --> 00:18:58.140
 discipline

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 issues,

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 to us

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 if we

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 are willing

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 to consider

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 the hard

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 things in

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 our lives

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 as part

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 of God's

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 discipline,

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 if we

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 don't

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 despise

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 those things

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 and as we

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 ask God

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 to help us

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 understand what

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 he is doing,

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 to have our

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 pride dealt

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 with,

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 well,

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 then there

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 is a day

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 when with

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 perfect peace

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 we can enjoy

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 the fruit

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 of those

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 things,

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 that we

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 will be

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 perfectly

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 righteous

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 and we

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 will be

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 holy.

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 And

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 hardships

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 will come,

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 won't they,

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 for all of

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 us,

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 if they

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 haven't

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 already,

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 many of

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 you are,

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 I know,

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 suffering with

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 many hardships.

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 We are to

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 expect them,

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 but Hebrews

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 12 tells us

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 we should

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 expect them,

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 but we

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 should not

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 dread them.

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 We need

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 not fear

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 them and

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 always be

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 paranoid and

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 always be

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 anxious about

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 future hardship.

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 The message

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 is don't

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 fear

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 hardship,

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 actually,

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 don't fear

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 hardship,

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 don't waste

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 hardship as

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 well.

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 Don't miss

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 the opportunities

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 that they

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 bring.

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 Christians,

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 we want to

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 be more

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 holy,

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 don't we?

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 I want

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 that,

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 I struggle

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 with many

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 things,

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 but I want

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 to be more

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 like Jesus

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 and God

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 in his

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 grace uses

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 hardships in

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 that struggle

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 all.

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 Let me

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 close with

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 a quote

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 from J.I.

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 Packer.

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 He says,

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 God seeks

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 the fellowship

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 of his

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 people and

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 will send

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 them as

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 gifts,

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 both joy

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 and sorrow,

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 to detach

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 their hands

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 from the

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 things of

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 this world

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 and to

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 attach those

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 things to

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 himself.

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 They are

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 put in our

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 lives to

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 make us

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 fit for

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 heaven,

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 for fellowship

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 with him,

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 aren't they?

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 so don't

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 despise

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 hardships in

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 your life.

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 Ask God

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 to mould

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 you in

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 his

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 fatherly

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 discipline

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 that you

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 will enjoy

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 this peaceful

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 fruit of

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 righteousness

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 as you are

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 trained by

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 his discipline.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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