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 Good morning.

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 I don't feel like I really need to say anything now after Yidi and Julie.

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 I think they've just spoken the sermon for me, so I think I'll go and sit down.

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 But I prepared something, so maybe...

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 Let me just pray, actually. Let me just pray.

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 Father, thank you that you're a God of love.

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 Thank you that you know us.

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 Thank you that you know where we're up to.

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 Thank you that you know our hearts.

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 And I pray you'd speak to us this morning.

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 Challenge us with this, what I find, a very painful and difficult passage,

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 even though it's an amazing passage.

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 And just help us to see how beautiful you are.

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 In your name. Amen.

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 I wonder if there was one thing that you would want to be known for in your life, what would it be?

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 If it comes to your funeral and people are talking about you,

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 I wonder what you would want to be known for.

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 When you get back on your deathbed and you say,

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 I lived life well without regrets.

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 What kind of life would you have lived?

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 Because perspective is an amazing thing.

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 You know, if you could see what was truly valuable in the future,

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 you would make some incredibly different decisions today.

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 Just think about it.

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 If you knew that horse Clippity Clop was a thousand to one,

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 but was going to win,

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 you would place all your money on Clippity Clop.

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 Would you not?

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 If you knew that shares in Watermark were going to go through the roof,

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 and there are no shares in Watermark, I'm afraid,

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 but then you'd bank all your money on it.

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 Because perspective changes the way you live today.

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 I don't know if you've seen,

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 there's a Mr. Bean episode where,

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 it's very profound.

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 Mr. Bean sits an exam,

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 and he, I don't know if you've seen it,

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 but he goes in,

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 he goes down, sits down,

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 opens the exam paper,

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 and he starts kind of,

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 he's a bit confused at the beginning,

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 and then after a while,

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 he starts kind of furiously writing the exam,

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 gets to the end of the exam,

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 puts it down,

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 relieved, thinking,

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 okay, I've done it.

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 And then the examiner says something like,

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 so those of you who are meant to do the green paper,

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 and he looks down,

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 and he's done the pink paper,

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 and suddenly he realized,

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 he did completely the wrong exam.

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 Can you imagine what that feeling is like?

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 If you get to the end of the day,

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 and you realize,

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 you did the wrong exam.

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 And we've been looking in 1 Corinthians,

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 at this passage,

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 where Paul is basically talking to this church,

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 and he's trying to give them perspective,

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 that if he doesn't want the Corinthians

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 to get to the end of their lives,

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 and to say like,

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 one of the students,

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 a 70 year old student that I once taught said,

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 I've wasted my life.

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 I've wasted it.

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 He doesn't want them to go there.

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 Because Paul is trying to tell us,

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 listen, the paper that you should be taking in your life,

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 is love.

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 Because love lasts.

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 At the end of the day,

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 love counts.

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 And this church in Corinth,

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 well,

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 they thought they had made it.

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 You see,

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 they were a highly talented,

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 gifted church.

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 Right at the beginning of the book,

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 in chapter 1,

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 Paul says,

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 you've been blessed with every spiritual gift.

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 And you know,

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 they had the greatest preachers,

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 they had the greatest children's workers,

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 they had the greatest tongues,

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 they had all these miracle workers,

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 they had the hottest band,

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 and it was the greatest,

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 hottest,

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 most exciting church out there.

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 They thought they'd arrived.

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 They thought they'd made it.

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 They thought they were mature.

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 And Paul comes along,

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 and in chapter 3,

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 he tells them,

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 do you know what guys?

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 You're just spiritual infants.

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 You're babies.

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 And he says,

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 your spirituality is self-focused,

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 and self-focused spirituality is childish.

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 You need to grow up.

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 Now,

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 I wince a little bit at that,

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 because he's saying,

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 you need to stop sucking your spiritual thumb,

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 and learn what maturity really means

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 in the Christian life.

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 And maturity means having an outward focus,

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 and an outward perspective of love.

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 So we're going to look through this passage,

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 have it with you in front of you.

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 I'm going to kind of move around a little bit,

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 but Tobin started looking at this,

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 and we're just going to look one more time

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 through this passage.

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 There is so much in here.

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 And we looked last time,

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 verses 1 to 3 of this passage

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 are very much about how the necessity of love.

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 You know,

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 you can have all the tongues,

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 all the gifts,

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 everything you like,

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 but without love,

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 they're just noise.

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 Verse 4 to 7

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 is about the character of love.

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 It's like,

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 what does love look like?

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 And we'll come back to that

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 and look briefly at that at the end.

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 And verse 8 to 13

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 are about the permanence of love,

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 love that lasts.

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 And we're going to look particularly

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 at those last verses.

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 And I pray that God would give us

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 that sense of perspective on our lives,

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 right where we're up to at the moment.

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 So we're going to look at love realizes,

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 first of all,

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 love realizes what the time is.

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 Love realizes what the time is.

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 Verses 9 to 12.

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 Paul,

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 he describes

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 a number of things.

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 He says,

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 we know in part

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 and we prophesy in part.

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 But when the perfect comes,

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 the partial will pass away.

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 When I was a child,

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 I spoke like a child,

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 thought like a child,

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 I reasoned like a child.

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 When I became a man,

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 I gave up childish ways.

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 For now,

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 we see in a mirror dimly,

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 but then face to face.

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 Now I know in part,

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 then I shall know fully

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 even as I have been fully known.

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 What he's saying is this,

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 there are two kind of periods in life.

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 There is now

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 and there is then.

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 It's not complicated.

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 Okay?

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 Now and then.

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 And he uses three images

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 to describe these two periods of life.

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 He uses the image of something

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 which is partial and incomplete

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 with something which is complete and perfect.

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 He uses the imagery of childhood and adulthood.

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 He uses then the imagery

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 of looking into a mirror

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 and seeing a reflection

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 as opposed to seeing a person

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 in person,

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 in the flesh.

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 And so he says,

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 you've got to get this idea.

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 What is now?

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 Because the Corinthians thought

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 then was now.

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 They thought heaven was now.

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 But now is the time

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 when you actually don't get

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 the full picture,

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 even of God.

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 Life is frustrating.

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 Life is under the curse of sin.

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 It's a broken world.

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 It's a world where there's sin abounds,

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 there's injustice,

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 there's suffering,

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 and you know it

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 when you go out into the world,

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 when you watch the news,

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 you can see

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 now is filled with pain.

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 There's great things,

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 but there's also hardship.

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 And sometimes God doesn't always

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 seem so clear either.

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 I don't understand

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 why God sometimes

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 does the things he does.

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 Like really, I don't.

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 I don't understand

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 why did he let my brother die?

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 I don't understand

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 why did he let my parents

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 suffer for health issues

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 for most of their lives

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 when other people

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 seem to have just

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 a cushy life?

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 I don't understand.

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 And I don't know about you,

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 but there are times

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 when we feel lost.

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 We just don't know

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 the direction

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 we should be going in.

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 We don't know,

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 as parents,

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 how do I deal with my kids?

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 We don't know my studies.

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 Where am I going?

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 We live in a sense

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 of lostness sometimes,

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 even in our relationship

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 with God.

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 We sometimes,

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 God, where are you?

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 Now, maybe that's just me.

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 But Paul is saying

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 there is something

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 about now

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 which is partial,

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 which is incomplete.

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 God is here.

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 We can know him,

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 but it's not complete.

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 And he goes on to say

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 that our human experience

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 is not just partial,

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 but it's also like

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 this childhood image.

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 You know,

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 Corinthians were so fixated

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 on gifts,

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 but Paul says to them,

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 now is like a child.

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 You know,

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 when I was a kid,

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 I would cry

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 if I didn't have

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 my little comfort blanket.

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 And I used to have

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 to carry around

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 this little comfort blanket.

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 Child by child,

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 I mean like three.

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 I don't mean like 12.

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 Okay?

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 And I couldn't go anywhere

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 without it.

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 But now,

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 imagine me as an adult.

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 If I stand up here

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 and I have to have

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 my little comfort blanket

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 with me,

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 otherwise I feel insecure,

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 you would probably

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 start calling a doctor

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 or psychologist

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 or something.

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 Right?

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 Because for a child,

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 a comfort blanket

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 is perfectly good.

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 But for an adult,

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 you don't need it.

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 What Paul is saying is

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 the gifts

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 that the Corinthians

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 had thought

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 were just the be-all

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 and end-all,

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 he's saying,

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 if you get some perspective,

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 you see it's just like

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 what a child needs

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 at the moment.

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 They're good for this stage.

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 But at the end of the day,

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 that's not what it's all about.

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 He's saying to Corinthians,

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 stop thinking so childishly

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 about so fixated

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 with these gifts.

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 Paul then goes on

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 with his third image,

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 the image of a mirror.

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 And he's saying,

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 now is when you look

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 in a mirror

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 and all you see

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 is a reflection.

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 That's what he means

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 by dimly.

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 It's indirect.

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 You don't see

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 the full picture.

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 It's a bit like me

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 Skyping my parents.

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 You know,

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 I see them.

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 I see something.

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 It's good.

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 But actually,

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 it's so different

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 from when I go

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 and I meet them

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 in the flesh.

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 You can actually touch them.

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 You can feel them.

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 There's such a different vibe.

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 And it's a bit like

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 now

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 God is kind of online

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 in a little way.

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 We see him.

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 We feel him.

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 We experience him.

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 That's now.

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 But then,

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 when Christ returns

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 and restores creation,

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 I won't just be looking

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 at a kind of screen.

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 I'll be bathing

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 in the warmth

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 of his presence

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 next to me.

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 Now,

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 though I can know God,

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 it's incomplete.

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 Then,

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 we'll be like

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 an intimate old couple

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 who nod and smile

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 when something happens

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 because they know

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 exactly what each other's thinking.

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 Because they've been

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 with each other.

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 They know each other.

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 That's what it'll be like

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 with God.

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 We'll know his heart

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 like he knows my heart

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 right now.

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 He knows what I'm thinking.

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 He knows my fears.

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 He knows my thoughts.

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 He knows why you put

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 your Facebook profile

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 picture on there.

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 He knows everything.

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 And we will know him

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 with that intimacy.

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 And Paul is saying,

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 that's the goal

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 of the Christian life.

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 That's where it's going.

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 It's about him.

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 Not about yourself.

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 So that's now

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 and that's then.

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 But what happens

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 if you don't realize the time?

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 I mean,

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 if you don't realize the time,

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 I mean,

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 what's the time now?

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 Sorry?

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 Sorry?

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 Great.

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 It's time to end,

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 according to John.

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 You see,

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 we think of time

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 in just minutes

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 and hours.

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 But God thinks

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 in terms of seasons.

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 So think about it.

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 If you don't realize

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 that this season

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 is the now,

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 if you don't realize

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 that spiritual gifts

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 are given to you

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 for this season

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 because God wants

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 to show his love

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 through you

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 in the fog of here,

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 he wants to show

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 his light,

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 cracks of light

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 in the midst

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 of the fog.

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 Think about it.

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 In the now,

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 we don't see

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 everything clearly.

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 Why do we need

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 a gift of healing?

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 Have you thought about it?

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 Because there's sickness.

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 And God,

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 at specific times,

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 wants to show

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 a glimpse

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 of his love

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 to you

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 by providing people

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 with gifts

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 of healing.

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 Then,

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 in heaven,

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 do you need healing?

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 There's no sickness.

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 Why do you need

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 the gift of encouragement?

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 Because life

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 can be so discouraging.

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 You know,

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 some of you

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 are so discouraged

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 by work,

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 discouraged by your grades,

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 discouraged by other people,

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 discouraged by your kids.

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 And we look at

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 everybody else around us

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 and compare us.

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 And God provides

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 people in his church,

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 in his body,

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 to come alongside you,

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 to encourage you,

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 to lift your eyes up

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 in the midst

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 of the fog

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 so that you begin

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 to see him

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 through it all.

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 He wants to give you

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 hope in now.

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 That's what gifts

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 are for.

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 We could go through

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 all of them,

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 but we don't have time.

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 because he wants

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 other people

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 to experience

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 God's love

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 through you.

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 Spiritual gifts

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 are simply tools

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 to enable you

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 to love

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 in the now

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 of life.

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 Okay?

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 If you don't

00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:48.719
 use your gifts,

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 this body

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 will not experience

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 the love of God

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 as God intended it.

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 Did you get that?

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 If you don't

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 use your gifts,

00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:02.060
 this body

00:15:02.060 --> 00:15:03.200
 will not experience

00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:04.360
 the love of God

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 the way he has

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 designed it for now.

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 Do you know,

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 the word in Greek

00:15:08.940 --> 00:15:10.040
 for spiritual gift

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 comes from the word

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 grace.

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 And that's what gifts are.

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 Gifts are simply

00:15:15.300 --> 00:15:16.400
 gifts.

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 It means you give them

00:15:17.860 --> 00:15:20.180
 gifts of grace.

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 So I give a gift

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 of grace to you

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 and through it

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 you experience

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 God's grace

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 coming to you

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 as you're encouraged,

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 as you're healed,

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 as you speak a word

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 which just brings

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 light to your darkness.

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 It's like my mom

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 when we were kids,

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 she used to buy us

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 presents

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 because we weren't

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 kind of old enough

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 so that we could give

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 my dad

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 on his birthday.

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 Right?

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 I don't know if some of you

00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:52.620
 had that as well.

00:15:52.700 --> 00:15:53.220
 Maybe you do that

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 with your kids.

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 Okay?

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 You know,

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 it's like surprise.

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 But what would happen,

00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:01.840
 so my mom

00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:02.560
 wants my dad

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 to experience love

00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:04.740
 and so she gives

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 a gift to the child

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 and wants the child

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 to give it to my dad.

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 But what happens

00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:10.299
 if I say,

00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:11.419
 I'm not going to give it.

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 I'm going to keep it

00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.000
 for myself.

00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:18.299
 My dad would not

00:16:18.299 --> 00:16:19.480
 experience the love

00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:20.060
 that my mom

00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:21.480
 wanted him to experience

00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:22.259
 through his children.

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 That's why spiritual gifts

00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:25.759
 are meant to work.

00:16:26.019 --> 00:16:27.259
 If you don't give

00:16:27.259 --> 00:16:27.899
 your gifts

00:16:27.899 --> 00:16:28.799
 to other people,

00:16:29.319 --> 00:16:30.779
 you will not

00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:31.679
 help them

00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:32.539
 to see the love

00:16:32.539 --> 00:16:32.960
 of God

00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:33.659
 that he wants

00:16:33.659 --> 00:16:34.299
 them to know

00:16:34.299 --> 00:16:35.500
 in now.

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 So my challenge is,

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 do we do that?

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 Do we do the same

00:16:45.100 --> 00:16:47.480
 to our church family here?

00:16:48.439 --> 00:16:49.360
 Do we do that?

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 Because Paul's point is,

00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:54.000
 if these spiritual gifts

00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:54.559
 are meant to be

00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:55.720
 cracks of light

00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:56.679
 in the midst

00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:57.539
 of the fog,

00:16:58.019 --> 00:16:59.620
 when the sun rises

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 and Christ comes back,

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 then you don't need

00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:02.759
 light again

00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.299
 because you've already

00:17:04.299 --> 00:17:05.480
 got the greatest light.

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 Because when then comes,

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 I won't need anybody

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 to point me to Christ

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 because I'll see him

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 face to face.

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 I will know him

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 perfectly.

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 Love realizes the time

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 that means

00:17:24.360 --> 00:17:25.980
 you cannot walk alone

00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:26.860
 as a Christian

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 because if you're not

00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:30.599
 involved in relationships,

00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:32.420
 you are going to be

00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:34.620
 withholding love

00:17:34.620 --> 00:17:36.880
 that God wants

00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:37.680
 to give to others

00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:38.920
 and also you will not

00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:40.079
 receive the love

00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:40.980
 that God wants you

00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:42.339
 to receive from others.

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 So love knows the time.

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 Secondly,

00:17:46.779 --> 00:17:47.439
 love

00:17:47.439 --> 00:17:51.139
 is about character

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 and the greatest

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 of these

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 is love.

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 Okay?

00:17:57.059 --> 00:17:58.319
 What makes it through

00:17:58.319 --> 00:17:59.299
 to the final round?

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 What makes it

00:18:00.899 --> 00:18:01.679
 all the way

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 it's love.

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 Okay?

00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.839
 What counts

00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:05.299
 isn't the great gifts

00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:06.039
 that you have.

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 You know,

00:18:06.699 --> 00:18:07.359
 there are many

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 fabulous Christian

00:18:08.879 --> 00:18:10.239
 speakers and writers

00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.039
 who end up

00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:12.819
 causing damage

00:18:12.819 --> 00:18:13.599
 in the church

00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:14.740
 because they were

00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:15.539
 so gifted

00:18:15.539 --> 00:18:17.400
 but they didn't

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 have the character

00:18:18.700 --> 00:18:19.460
 to go along

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 with their gifts.

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 People thought

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 they were mature

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 because they could

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 give a good sermon.

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 Listen,

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 I'm not mature

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 because I'm speaking

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 to you in front of you.

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 That is not what

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 counts

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 because the Bible

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 says

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 just having knowledge

00:18:35.420 --> 00:18:35.960
 of the Bible

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 doesn't make you mature.

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 You can be nothing.

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 That's what Paul says

00:18:39.339 --> 00:18:40.859
 in the first three verses

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 unless you have love.

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 Ayah.

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 That's

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 So am I using

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 my gifts to love

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 or to exalt myself?

00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:54.059
 But he says now

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 there are three things

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 which count.

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 Faith

00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:57.559
 counts.

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 This is something

00:18:59.119 --> 00:18:59.640
 that counts

00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:00.660
 in Christian maturity.

00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:02.119
 Love counts.

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 Hope counts.

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 This is what counts

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 in God's eyes.

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 Colossians 1 verse 3

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 says this.

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 We always thank God

00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:10.480
 for you

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 since we've heard

00:19:11.660 --> 00:19:12.480
 of your faith

00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:13.339
 in Christ Jesus

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 and of the love

00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:15.819
 you have for all the saints

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 because of the hope

00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.400
 laid up in heaven.

00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:20.299
 Paul's explaining

00:19:20.299 --> 00:19:20.859
 what he means.

00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:21.440
 He's saying

00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.639
 faith

00:19:22.639 --> 00:19:23.839
 growing up

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 as a Christian

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 means you stop

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 trusting in yourself

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 and you start

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 trusting in God.

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 You start trusting

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 yourself

00:19:30.139 --> 00:19:32.379
 to sort out

00:19:32.379 --> 00:19:32.879
 your world

00:19:32.879 --> 00:19:33.519
 to sort out

00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:34.000
 your kids

00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:34.639
 to sort out

00:19:34.639 --> 00:19:35.180
 your issues

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 and you say

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 God I need you.

00:19:36.740 --> 00:19:38.559
 I need you.

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 I trust you

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 with my world.

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 That's what counts.

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 It also means

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 in the now

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 hope

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 counts.

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 It means

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 fixing our eyes

00:19:48.819 --> 00:19:49.400
 on the then

00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:50.500
 of seeing God

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 face to face

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 and we invest

00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.980
 in that relationship

00:19:53.980 --> 00:19:54.599
 with God.

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 In Hong Kong

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 I think we have

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 our now and then.

00:19:58.200 --> 00:19:58.420
 You know

00:19:58.420 --> 00:19:59.680
 now is study

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 work

00:20:00.299 --> 00:20:00.940
 suffering

00:20:00.940 --> 00:20:01.440
 pain.

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 Then

00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:03.340
 is my holiday.

00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:04.279
 Then

00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:05.480
 is retirement.

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 Okay

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 this is where

00:20:07.140 --> 00:20:08.400
 we put our hopes in

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 but he says

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 if you put your hope

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 in those things

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 do you know what

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 it's not going to last

00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:14.360
 you're not going to be

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 mature

00:20:14.860 --> 00:20:15.840
 you're going to be

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 childish.

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 Can't you hope

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 for something

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 greater

00:20:20.100 --> 00:20:21.880
 to know

00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:23.120
 the living God

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 face to face

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 that is so much

00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:26.299
 better than a holiday

00:20:26.299 --> 00:20:26.980
 in Thailand.

00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:29.720
 Holiday in Thailand

00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:30.299
 is not bad

00:20:30.299 --> 00:20:30.899
 but you know

00:20:30.899 --> 00:20:32.799
 it's better.

00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:35.639
 Could I sacrifice

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 the holiday in Thailand

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 because I know

00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:38.159
 that I have a bigger

00:20:38.159 --> 00:20:38.960
 holiday with the

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 King of Kings.

00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.339
 Where's my hope?

00:20:43.419 --> 00:20:44.319
 The third thing

00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:45.059
 which counts

00:20:45.059 --> 00:20:45.879
 as maturity

00:20:45.879 --> 00:20:47.619
 is love

00:20:47.619 --> 00:20:49.000
 and love

00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:49.619
 is the greatest.

00:20:49.819 --> 00:20:50.359
 Why is love

00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:50.799
 the greatest?

00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:51.759
 Well think about it.

00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:52.639
 Faith.

00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:54.839
 Now

00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:56.059
 we walk

00:20:56.059 --> 00:20:56.919
 by faith

00:20:56.919 --> 00:20:58.419
 but when we

00:20:58.419 --> 00:20:59.159
 see Christ

00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.060
 we'll see him.

00:21:03.540 --> 00:21:04.460
 We'll see him.

00:21:04.540 --> 00:21:05.420
 We don't need

00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:06.500
 that same sense

00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:07.120
 of faith.

00:21:07.860 --> 00:21:09.160
 When we see Christ

00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.040
 our hope

00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:11.860
 will be fulfilled

00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:14.560
 but love

00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:17.180
 doesn't stop

00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:19.180
 when we see Christ.

00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:20.340
 You see

00:21:20.340 --> 00:21:21.420
 that word love

00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:22.220
 never ends.

00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:23.360
 It means love

00:21:23.360 --> 00:21:24.279
 is not a flower

00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:25.180
 that wilts.

00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:26.279
 Love is not

00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:27.340
 an iPhone battery

00:21:27.340 --> 00:21:28.259
 that runs out.

00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:29.240
 Love is not

00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:29.920
 an employee

00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:31.099
 who is replaced.

00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:32.599
 Love is better

00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:33.619
 than Duracell.

00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:35.119
 Love doesn't

00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:36.180
 have a shelf life.

00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:37.000
 Love

00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:38.539
 never

00:21:38.539 --> 00:21:39.759
 ends.

00:21:41.779 --> 00:21:42.319
 And he's not

00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:42.759
 talking about

00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:43.559
 just any love.

00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:43.839
 You know

00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:44.640
 in culture

00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:45.640
 we have all you need

00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:46.220
 is love.

00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:47.920
 And Forrest Gump

00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:49.119
 says I may not

00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:49.839
 be a smart man

00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.000
 but I know

00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:51.500
 what love is.

00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:51.859
 you know

00:21:51.859 --> 00:21:54.559
 but that's not

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.119
 the kind of love

00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:55.980
 he's talking about here.

00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:57.039
 He's talking about

00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:58.400
 an earthy love

00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:59.480
 for the people

00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:00.220
 of God

00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:00.759
 the love

00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:01.619
 for the saints.

00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:05.460
 At a previous church

00:22:05.460 --> 00:22:05.880
 I was

00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:07.500
 leading a group

00:22:07.500 --> 00:22:08.140
 where there was a lady

00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:09.380
 who was suffering

00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:10.559
 from a severe depression

00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:11.319
 at the time.

00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:12.880
 And one day

00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.400
 I remember

00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:14.299
 deciding

00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:15.859
 for some reason

00:22:15.859 --> 00:22:16.599
 that

00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:18.399
 I would make

00:22:18.399 --> 00:22:19.459
 a shepherd's pie.

00:22:19.980 --> 00:22:21.159
 That's the easiest dish

00:22:21.159 --> 00:22:21.719
 I don't know if you know

00:22:21.719 --> 00:22:22.079
 what it is

00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:22.599
 but it's like

00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:23.879
 the idiot's guide

00:22:23.879 --> 00:22:24.359
 to cooking.

00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:25.099
 And

00:22:25.099 --> 00:22:26.539
 do you know

00:22:26.539 --> 00:22:26.859
 and

00:22:26.859 --> 00:22:28.699
 I was a little nervous

00:22:28.699 --> 00:22:29.279
 because

00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:30.959
 cooking is not

00:22:30.959 --> 00:22:32.039
 my greatest strength

00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:32.679
 and I didn't want

00:22:32.679 --> 00:22:33.459
 to poison her

00:22:33.459 --> 00:22:34.319
 that's not love.

00:22:34.959 --> 00:22:35.079
 Okay.

00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:36.079
 And

00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:37.459
 but I went

00:22:37.459 --> 00:22:38.000
 I cooked it

00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:38.980
 gave it to her

00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:39.879
 forgot all about it

00:22:39.879 --> 00:22:40.799
 carried on

00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:41.500
 you know

00:22:41.500 --> 00:22:42.139
 when I was teaching

00:22:42.139 --> 00:22:43.179
 I was leading in the group

00:22:43.179 --> 00:22:44.099
 three four years later

00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:44.759
 she gets married

00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:45.539
 she invites me

00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:46.480
 to the wedding

00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:47.779
 and her parents

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:48.500
 I see her parents

00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:49.339
 I go up to introduce

00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:50.120
 myself to them

00:22:50.120 --> 00:22:50.980
 and they said

00:22:50.980 --> 00:22:52.440
 oh we know you

00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.839
 that's a scary one

00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:57.620
 it's like okay

00:22:57.620 --> 00:22:58.740
 what did I do wrong

00:22:58.740 --> 00:22:59.059
 you know

00:22:59.059 --> 00:23:00.299
 they said

00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:02.039
 you're the shepherd pie guy

00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:05.799
 and I'm like

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:06.940
 I don't normally

00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:08.059
 get addressed like that

00:23:08.059 --> 00:23:08.860
 and so

00:23:08.860 --> 00:23:11.299
 because I'd forgotten about it

00:23:11.299 --> 00:23:12.400
 and then they reminded me

00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:13.099
 of that day

00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:14.740
 and

00:23:14.740 --> 00:23:15.779
 and the strange

00:23:15.779 --> 00:23:16.579
 thing was

00:23:16.579 --> 00:23:16.920
 that

00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:17.839
 I had

00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:18.740
 been teaching

00:23:18.740 --> 00:23:19.339
 and leading

00:23:19.339 --> 00:23:20.460
 and doing all these things

00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:21.180
 all the time

00:23:21.180 --> 00:23:22.960
 thinking these were the great things

00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:24.279
 but it was that one

00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:25.359
 tiny action

00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:26.880
 that actually touched her life

00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:27.720
 and had stayed

00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.839
 in her memory

00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:29.700
 all that time

00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:32.259
 because she experienced

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:32.839
 God's love

00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:33.500
 through my

00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:35.559
 total inadequacy

00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:38.480
 and I'm not

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.399
 saying that story

00:23:39.399 --> 00:23:40.399
 just show how wonderfully

00:23:40.399 --> 00:23:41.079
 loving I am

00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:41.740
 because actually

00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:43.039
 this shows me so often

00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:44.419
 how lacking in love

00:23:44.419 --> 00:23:45.839
 and I really realize that

00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.859
 even as I look at that passage

00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:49.119
 and Tobin challenges you

00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:49.759
 I look at it

00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:50.200
 and I say

00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:50.619
 wow

00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:52.440
 I fall so far short

00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.059
 because I'm so wrapped up

00:23:54.059 --> 00:23:55.919
 in the issues of now

00:23:55.919 --> 00:23:57.619
 I'm so wrapped up

00:23:57.619 --> 00:23:58.700
 with all the tasks

00:23:58.700 --> 00:23:59.299
 I've got to do

00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:00.159
 all the problems

00:24:00.159 --> 00:24:00.879
 I've got to solve

00:24:00.879 --> 00:24:01.799
 all the projects

00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:03.159
 that I have in my mind

00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:05.200
 that I think

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.660
 that if I can just

00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:07.500
 get those done

00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:08.320
 then later

00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:08.980
 I'll have time

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:09.840
 to love people

00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:12.380
 the problem is

00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:15.740
 that's just kidding myself

00:24:15.740 --> 00:24:17.740
 if you don't love people

00:24:17.740 --> 00:24:18.240
 now listen

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.220
 you're not going to be

00:24:19.220 --> 00:24:19.720
 loving people

00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:20.519
 20 years later

00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:25.700
 and the challenging thing

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:26.920
 that Paul would say is

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:28.759
 if I do that

00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:31.400
 I'm actually wasting my life

00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:32.519
 on something

00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:33.740
 that doesn't last

00:24:33.740 --> 00:24:37.400
 now is the time

00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:38.099
 to love

00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:40.539
 Dr. Hannah

00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:42.039
 who some of you know

00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:42.859
 who was here earlier

00:24:42.859 --> 00:24:44.379
 he once said

00:24:44.379 --> 00:24:46.119
 something that really

00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:46.879
 struck in my mind

00:24:46.879 --> 00:24:47.599
 he said

00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:49.779
 I could have been promoted

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.639
 in my field

00:24:50.639 --> 00:24:51.500
 far more quickly

00:24:51.500 --> 00:24:52.079
 than I did

00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:54.180
 everyone else around me

00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:55.000
 was progressing

00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.259
 at a stage in my life

00:24:57.259 --> 00:24:58.180
 I had a clear decision

00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:59.759
 whether I prioritized

00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:00.480
 my family

00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:01.379
 or my career

00:25:01.380 --> 00:25:02.920
 I thought about it

00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:03.420
 long and hard

00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:04.180
 and I realized

00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:05.800
 if I chose career

00:25:05.800 --> 00:25:07.460
 I could lose my family

00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:08.720
 and grow old lonely

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.040
 but if I chose my family

00:25:11.040 --> 00:25:13.100
 then I'll always have my family

00:25:13.100 --> 00:25:13.920
 to look after me

00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:14.620
 in old age

00:25:14.620 --> 00:25:16.780
 he chose love

00:25:16.780 --> 00:25:17.960
 because love lasts

00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:19.300
 that doesn't mean

00:25:19.300 --> 00:25:20.340
 you can't be involved

00:25:20.340 --> 00:25:21.020
 in work

00:25:21.020 --> 00:25:22.060
 doesn't mean

00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:22.760
 but actually

00:25:22.760 --> 00:25:23.600
 it's the attitude

00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:25.080
 with which I do it

00:25:25.080 --> 00:25:26.660
 which is what counts

00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:28.680
 and I think

00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:29.759
 the same is true

00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:30.420
 in church

00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:31.360
 the people

00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:32.040
 who've had the biggest

00:25:32.040 --> 00:25:33.140
 influence on me

00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:34.040
 in my life

00:25:34.040 --> 00:25:35.019
 have not been

00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:36.240
 the really gifted people

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.940
 they've just been

00:25:37.940 --> 00:25:38.519
 the people

00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:39.700
 who have loved me

00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:41.680
 because love

00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:42.700
 lasts

00:25:42.700 --> 00:25:45.700
 love knows the time

00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:46.860
 love

00:25:46.860 --> 00:25:48.580
 is about character

00:25:48.580 --> 00:25:50.060
 which lasts

00:25:50.060 --> 00:25:51.240
 third thing

00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:52.700
 love is uncomfortable

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:55.539
 have you ever thought

00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:56.799
 what a ridiculous idea

00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.500
 church is

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:58.980
 have you ever thought

00:25:58.980 --> 00:25:59.400
 about that

00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:01.440
 I mean it's completely nuts

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:02.720
 I mean think about it

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:03.400
 you get a bunch

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:04.900
 of self-centered people

00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:06.539
 who have come from

00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:07.660
 perhaps previously

00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:08.539
 no relationship

00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:09.340
 before

00:26:09.340 --> 00:26:10.319
 okay

00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:11.319
 from different backgrounds

00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:12.279
 different nationalities

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:13.340
 different personalities

00:26:13.340 --> 00:26:14.600
 and then you put them

00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:15.500
 all in the same group

00:26:15.500 --> 00:26:15.920
 and you tell them

00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.539
 to love each other

00:26:16.539 --> 00:26:18.039
 it's insane

00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:18.620
 I mean

00:26:18.620 --> 00:26:19.500
 who would have thought

00:26:19.500 --> 00:26:20.100
 up that idea

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:21.000
 I mean you've got

00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:21.959
 the entrepreneur

00:26:21.959 --> 00:26:23.659
 who just can't sit still

00:26:23.659 --> 00:26:24.559
 charges in

00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:25.859
 feet first

00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:26.519
 into everything

00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:27.079
 then you've got

00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:28.159
 the laid back Aussie guy

00:26:28.159 --> 00:26:28.500
 you know

00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:29.379
 he just sits still

00:26:29.379 --> 00:26:30.159
 and you can't get them

00:26:30.159 --> 00:26:30.579
 to move

00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:35.000
 then you've got

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:36.059
 you've got the kind of

00:26:36.059 --> 00:26:36.740
 techie geek

00:26:36.740 --> 00:26:37.679
 in the corner

00:26:37.679 --> 00:26:38.099
 you know

00:26:38.099 --> 00:26:39.259
 who's as socially adept

00:26:39.259 --> 00:26:40.019
 as like a rhino

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:40.619
 doing ballet

00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:41.019
 you know

00:26:41.019 --> 00:26:41.639
 that kind of thing

00:26:41.639 --> 00:26:42.699
 and then you've got

00:26:42.699 --> 00:26:43.500
 the chatterbox

00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:44.799
 who just won't stop talking

00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:45.259
 and then you've got

00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:46.099
 the sensitive guy

00:26:46.099 --> 00:26:46.819
 who just won't say

00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:47.480
 boo to a goose

00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:47.939
 and then you've got

00:26:47.939 --> 00:26:48.959
 the emotional ones

00:26:48.959 --> 00:26:49.659
 and then you've got

00:26:49.660 --> 00:26:50.380
 the ones you haven't

00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:51.019
 seen in emotion

00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:51.620
 for years

00:26:51.620 --> 00:26:52.900
 and you put them

00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:53.800
 all together

00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:56.580
 and what do you get?

00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:57.660
 Church

00:26:57.660 --> 00:27:00.700
 now whose idea

00:27:00.700 --> 00:27:01.300
 was that?

00:27:02.980 --> 00:27:04.060
 I mean it's a recipe

00:27:04.060 --> 00:27:04.740
 for disaster

00:27:04.740 --> 00:27:06.560
 and it gets worse

00:27:06.560 --> 00:27:07.519
 because the people

00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.080
 that you're supposed

00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:08.600
 to be with

00:27:08.600 --> 00:27:10.000
 are actually sinful

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.600
 they get impatient

00:27:12.600 --> 00:27:13.600
 they say things

00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:14.060
 they shouldn't

00:27:14.060 --> 00:27:14.759
 they're annoying

00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:16.600
 maybe I shouldn't

00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:17.000
 say that

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.279
 but

00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:20.000
 and I mean

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:20.839
 I used to

00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:21.960
 just a silly example

00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:22.500
 I used to be

00:27:22.500 --> 00:27:23.220
 in a community group

00:27:23.220 --> 00:27:23.940
 back in the UK

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:25.119
 and it was filled

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:25.940
 with introverts

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:27.740
 but it wasn't just

00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:29.400
 ordinary introverts

00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:30.079
 they were socially

00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:31.380
 awkward introverts

00:27:31.380 --> 00:27:35.280
 all of them

00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:38.540
 now I'm an extrovert

00:27:38.540 --> 00:27:39.100
 generally

00:27:39.100 --> 00:27:41.440
 and so people

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.560
 like we'd sit around

00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:43.040
 in the group

00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:44.180
 and no one would speak

00:27:44.180 --> 00:27:46.400
 and I would invite

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.400
 a friend to come

00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:48.340
 into this group

00:27:48.340 --> 00:27:50.120
 and no one would

00:27:50.120 --> 00:27:51.080
 speak to them

00:27:51.080 --> 00:27:53.760
 and it would drive

00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:54.580
 me nuts

00:27:54.580 --> 00:27:56.280
 and the thing was

00:27:56.280 --> 00:27:57.040
 I would

00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:58.099
 I would be telling

00:27:58.099 --> 00:27:58.579
 people

00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:00.099
 church is all about

00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:01.019
 loving people

00:28:01.019 --> 00:28:01.399
 you know

00:28:01.399 --> 00:28:02.379
 we're just a community

00:28:02.379 --> 00:28:02.980
 of love

00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:04.200
 and they'd come in

00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:05.339
 and they'd get

00:28:05.339 --> 00:28:06.539
 as warm a welcome

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:07.440
 as a block of ice

00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:08.099
 will give you

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:09.079
 I mean it was

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:09.940
 just terrible

00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:11.740
 and what's my

00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:12.539
 natural reaction

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:13.420
 my natural reaction

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:14.740
 is get me out of there

00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:16.639
 because I want to

00:28:16.639 --> 00:28:17.319
 find some people

00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:17.759
 that I actually

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.079
 like being with

00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:21.319
 and

00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.059
 the thing is

00:28:24.059 --> 00:28:25.159
 what Paul is saying

00:28:25.159 --> 00:28:26.099
 in this passage

00:28:26.099 --> 00:28:28.119
 is really quite

00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:28.599
 challenging

00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.279
 because he says

00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:33.480
 my natural reaction

00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:33.980
 which just wants

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:35.219
 to get out of there

00:28:35.219 --> 00:28:37.740
 is not love

00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:40.959
 because love is patient

00:28:40.959 --> 00:28:43.079
 love is kind

00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:45.779
 love is not irritable

00:28:45.779 --> 00:28:46.619
 or resentful

00:28:46.619 --> 00:28:49.719
 love does not rejoice

00:28:49.719 --> 00:28:50.519
 at wrongdoing

00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:51.519
 that means that love

00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.279
 doesn't count up wrongs

00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:54.779
 love bears all things

00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:55.559
 believes all things

00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:56.379
 hopes all things

00:28:56.379 --> 00:28:57.480
 endures all things

00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:58.940
 and when you start

00:28:58.940 --> 00:29:00.259
 putting it into reality

00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:01.440
 you suddenly go

00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:02.679
 ah

00:29:02.679 --> 00:29:07.000
 because at first sight

00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.079
 it sounds like a beautiful

00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:09.799
 kind of Bruno Mars

00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:10.299
 and Paul

00:29:10.299 --> 00:29:11.000
 kind of together

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.619
 kind of song

00:29:11.619 --> 00:29:11.839
 you know

00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.899
 love bears all things

00:29:12.899 --> 00:29:13.220
 patient

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:13.679
 but

00:29:13.679 --> 00:29:14.159
 but

00:29:14.159 --> 00:29:15.839
 but when you come

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:17.299
 to the reality of it

00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:19.980
 it is so hard

00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:21.759
 it is the hardest

00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:22.220
 it is the hardest thing

00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:23.279
 you will ever do

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:24.220
 in your life

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:25.460
 any of you

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:26.019
 who have got kids

00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:26.779
 know this

00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:28.660
 but it is also

00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:29.519
 the most rewarding

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:30.420
 thing you will ever do

00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:31.079
 in your life

00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:33.140
 because you know

00:29:33.140 --> 00:29:34.220
 that group of people

00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:36.480
 I actually did stick

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:36.880
 with them

00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:37.860
 I had to

00:29:37.860 --> 00:29:38.420
 I was the leader

00:29:38.420 --> 00:29:38.900
 of the group

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:39.180
 so

00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:39.860
 I mean

00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:43.839
 but you know

00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:44.940
 six months later

00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:45.319
 you know

00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:46.679
 God did something

00:29:46.679 --> 00:29:48.819
 because God worked

00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:49.639
 in that community

00:29:49.639 --> 00:29:50.599
 and they became

00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:52.460
 the most loving

00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:53.839
 welcoming community

00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:54.839
 that I have ever

00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:55.339
 been in

00:29:55.339 --> 00:29:56.619
 in my entire life

00:29:56.619 --> 00:30:00.139
 and if I had

00:30:00.139 --> 00:30:00.819
 bailed out

00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:01.500
 at that moment

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:02.200
 when I really

00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:02.879
 wanted to

00:30:02.879 --> 00:30:04.099
 then

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:04.899
 I would never

00:30:04.899 --> 00:30:05.879
 have experienced it

00:30:05.879 --> 00:30:08.559
 that's God

00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.419
 because love

00:30:09.419 --> 00:30:10.319
 is forged

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:11.619
 in the pain

00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:12.460
 of friction

00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:14.179
 and difficulty

00:30:14.179 --> 00:30:15.159
 love is made

00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:15.860
 in the gritty

00:30:15.860 --> 00:30:16.840
 ups and downs

00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:17.480
 of being with

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:17.920
 the people

00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:18.700
 who are flawed

00:30:18.700 --> 00:30:21.480
 is when you go

00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:22.200
 through the fight

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:22.840
 and you come

00:30:22.840 --> 00:30:23.900
 through the other side

00:30:23.900 --> 00:30:24.300
 you know

00:30:24.300 --> 00:30:25.100
 relationships

00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:25.600
 friendships

00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:26.440
 which never have

00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:26.960
 conflict

00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:27.720
 you know

00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:28.360
 they're superficial

00:30:28.360 --> 00:30:29.180
 right

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:30.720
 until you have

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:31.120
 conflict

00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:31.840
 and you work

00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:32.820
 through the conflict

00:30:32.820 --> 00:30:35.380
 and you get through

00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:36.259
 with forgiveness

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:37.160
 and love

00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:38.140
 and a lot of crying

00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:39.100
 then

00:30:39.100 --> 00:30:40.600
 God begins

00:30:40.600 --> 00:30:41.600
 to work something

00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:43.920
 now sometimes

00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:45.100
 people don't respond

00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:45.779
 as we want them

00:30:45.779 --> 00:30:46.059
 to be

00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:46.519
 but you see

00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:47.519
 what God does

00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:48.339
 through these things

00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:49.159
 is he means

00:30:49.159 --> 00:30:50.299
 to make you

00:30:50.299 --> 00:30:52.379
 who he wants

00:30:52.379 --> 00:30:52.939
 you to be

00:30:52.939 --> 00:30:54.099
 he begins

00:30:54.099 --> 00:30:55.299
 to mature you

00:30:55.299 --> 00:30:56.779
 through these things

00:30:56.779 --> 00:30:58.000
 and you grow up

00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.819
 when love

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:01.480
 when the going

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:02.199
 gets tough

00:31:02.199 --> 00:31:02.980
 love doesn't

00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:03.539
 get going

00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:04.619
 it sticks in there

00:31:04.619 --> 00:31:08.000
 now

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.960
 I know

00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:10.140
 I know that

00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:10.599
 there are some

00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:11.099
 people who've

00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:11.740
 had a lot

00:31:11.740 --> 00:31:12.319
 of pain

00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:13.660
 and I'm not

00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:14.319
 talking about

00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:14.960
 abuses

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.140
 cases of abuses

00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:17.480
 or serious sin

00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:18.140
 where sometimes

00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:18.779
 you actually have

00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:19.240
 to get out

00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:19.900
 of a relationship

00:31:19.900 --> 00:31:21.339
 but I'm talking

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:22.079
 about everyday

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:22.680
 love

00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:23.519
 in messy

00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.400
 church

00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.099
 with messy

00:31:25.099 --> 00:31:25.759
 people

00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.839
 love is

00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:28.339
 patient

00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:30.319
 think about it

00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:30.779
 how do you learn

00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:31.339
 patience

00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:33.439
 it's with

00:31:33.439 --> 00:31:34.299
 an irritating

00:31:34.299 --> 00:31:34.919
 annoying

00:31:34.919 --> 00:31:35.539
 people

00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:37.839
 right

00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.399
 you want

00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:40.659
 to learn

00:31:40.659 --> 00:31:41.259
 patience

00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:41.959
 listen

00:31:41.959 --> 00:31:42.359
 God will

00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:42.720
 teach you

00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:43.259
 patience

00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:44.079
 he'll put

00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:44.359
 you in

00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:44.759
 church

00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.319
 listen

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:49.319
 love does

00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:50.199
 not rejoice

00:31:50.199 --> 00:31:50.720
 at wrong

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:51.579
 doings

00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:52.159
 it doesn't

00:31:52.159 --> 00:31:52.699
 count up

00:31:52.699 --> 00:31:53.119
 wrongs

00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.439
 like an

00:31:53.439 --> 00:31:53.819
 accountant

00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:54.220
 that's what

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:54.699
 it means

00:31:54.700 --> 00:31:56.400
 because when

00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:56.799
 do you count

00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:57.539
 up wrongs

00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:59.960
 when you

00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:00.299
 have been

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:00.819
 wronged

00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:01.279
 and hurt

00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.059
 it's painful

00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:04.340
 it's painful

00:32:04.340 --> 00:32:06.400
 but in a

00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:06.900
 world where

00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:07.640
 wrong happens

00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:08.519
 all the time

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:10.019
 love actually

00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:11.080
 liberates you

00:32:11.080 --> 00:32:11.620
 from the

00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:12.180
 resentment

00:32:12.180 --> 00:32:13.519
 and the things

00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:13.920
 which actually

00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:14.500
 hold you

00:32:14.500 --> 00:32:15.080
 in a prison

00:32:15.080 --> 00:32:16.819
 because all

00:32:16.819 --> 00:32:17.220
 this stuff

00:32:17.220 --> 00:32:17.640
 is going

00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:18.019
 on in

00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:18.480
 Corinth

00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.120
 all this

00:32:20.120 --> 00:32:20.500
 stuff is

00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:21.000
 going on

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:21.480
 in Corinth

00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:24.019
 and he

00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:24.480
 says

00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:25.799
 listen

00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:27.460
 you

00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:29.180
 will not

00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:30.519
 grow muscles

00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:31.380
 without lifting

00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:31.819
 weight

00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:33.200
 you will never

00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.920
 give birth

00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:34.680
 without feeling

00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:35.240
 pain

00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:36.259
 you will never

00:32:36.259 --> 00:32:37.180
 grow mature

00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:38.099
 in character

00:32:38.099 --> 00:32:41.440
 to be somebody

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:42.039
 that people

00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:42.740
 will look up

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:43.660
 to and at the

00:32:43.660 --> 00:32:44.200
 end of your

00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:45.360
 life they

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:45.920
 will say

00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.860
 I want to

00:32:46.860 --> 00:32:47.640
 be like you

00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:49.880
 if you haven't

00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:50.559
 been through

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:51.860
 that friction

00:32:51.860 --> 00:32:53.720
 that relationships

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.380
 and love

00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:55.760
 causes you

00:32:55.760 --> 00:33:01.540
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

00:33:01.540 --> 00:33:01.900
 a German

00:33:01.900 --> 00:33:02.300
 pastor

00:33:02.300 --> 00:33:02.920
 in the time

00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:03.300
 of Hitler

00:33:03.300 --> 00:33:03.940
 said this

00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:06.160
 and this is

00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:06.620
 profound

00:33:06.620 --> 00:33:07.160
 he says

00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:08.320
 those who

00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:08.980
 love their

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:09.360
 dream

00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:09.640
 of a

00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:09.940
 Christian

00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:10.480
 community

00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.140
 more than

00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:11.300
 the

00:33:11.300 --> 00:33:11.620
 Christian

00:33:11.620 --> 00:33:12.120
 community

00:33:12.120 --> 00:33:12.720
 itself

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:13.500
 become

00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:14.360
 destroyers

00:33:14.360 --> 00:33:14.660
 of that

00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:15.060
 Christian

00:33:15.060 --> 00:33:15.620
 community

00:33:15.620 --> 00:33:16.860
 even though

00:33:16.860 --> 00:33:17.540
 their personal

00:33:17.540 --> 00:33:18.100
 intentions

00:33:18.100 --> 00:33:18.700
 may be ever

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:19.360
 so honest

00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:19.940
 earnest

00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:20.860
 and sacrificial

00:33:20.860 --> 00:33:22.140
 those who

00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:22.680
 dream of

00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:23.800
 this idealized

00:33:23.800 --> 00:33:24.380
 beautiful

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:25.040
 community

00:33:25.040 --> 00:33:26.100
 demand that

00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:26.800
 it be fulfilled

00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:27.360
 by God

00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:27.960
 by others

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.300
 and by

00:33:28.300 --> 00:33:28.759
 themselves

00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.640
 they enter

00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:30.240
 the community

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:30.920
 of Christians

00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:31.700
 with their

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:32.240
 demands

00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:32.860
 set up

00:33:32.860 --> 00:33:33.279
 their own

00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:33.580
 law

00:33:33.580 --> 00:33:34.340
 and judge

00:33:34.340 --> 00:33:34.860
 one another

00:33:34.860 --> 00:33:35.340
 and even

00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:35.720
 God

00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:36.319
 accordingly

00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:37.680
 excuse me

00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.980
 he goes on

00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:39.339
 to say

00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:40.160
 like Paul

00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:40.740
 says

00:33:40.740 --> 00:33:41.880
 because God

00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:42.480
 has already

00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.000
 brought us

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.319
 together

00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:43.980
 as a body

00:33:43.980 --> 00:33:46.200
 before we

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:46.539
 even

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.620
 joined the

00:33:47.620 --> 00:33:48.079
 church

00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:50.120
 he brought

00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:50.640
 us together

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.960
 and we

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:52.839
 enter

00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:53.720
 into this

00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:54.259
 community

00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:55.339
 not with

00:33:55.339 --> 00:33:55.960
 demands

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:56.980
 but thankfully

00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:57.759
 receiving what

00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:58.380
 God has given

00:33:58.380 --> 00:33:58.819
 us

00:33:58.819 --> 00:33:59.860
 even the

00:33:59.860 --> 00:34:00.180
 annoying

00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:00.680
 person

00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:01.420
 next to you

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:03.400
 we do

00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:04.019
 not complain

00:34:04.019 --> 00:34:04.500
 about what

00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:05.200
 God doesn't

00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:05.940
 give us

00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:07.800
 rather

00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:08.240
 we are

00:34:08.240 --> 00:34:08.820
 thankful for

00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:09.440
 what God

00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.200
 does

00:34:10.200 --> 00:34:11.079
 give us

00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:13.099
 what he's

00:34:13.099 --> 00:34:13.300
 saying

00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:13.760
 and I

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.420
 just find

00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:14.920
 this difficult

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.940
 because

00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:16.760
 he's saying

00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:17.480
 church is a

00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:17.920
 bunch of

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:18.480
 sinners like

00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.000
 you and

00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:19.260
 me

00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:22.280
 and if

00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:22.519
 you're not

00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:22.820
 a sinner

00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:23.320
 then you

00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:23.800
 shouldn't be

00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:24.440
 here so

00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:25.260
 please leave

00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:26.019
 okay

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:28.780
 but love

00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:29.059
 is not

00:34:29.059 --> 00:34:29.420
 found

00:34:29.420 --> 00:34:30.000
 waiting for

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:30.219
 you on

00:34:30.219 --> 00:34:30.679
 a plate

00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:31.039
 to kind

00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:31.259
 of

00:34:31.259 --> 00:34:31.759
 okay

00:34:31.759 --> 00:34:32.400
 come and

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:32.699
 get your

00:34:32.699 --> 00:34:33.159
 love

00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:34.659
 you'll never

00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:35.079
 love the

00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:35.420
 church

00:34:35.420 --> 00:34:35.880
 you'll never

00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.199
 love the

00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:36.599
 people in

00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:37.000
 the church

00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:37.320
 if you

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:37.980
 simply come

00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:38.400
 thinking

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.079
 community

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:40.059
 should be

00:34:40.059 --> 00:34:40.539
 a certain

00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:40.900
 way

00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:41.199
 and if

00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:41.340
 your

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:42.099
 expectations

00:34:42.099 --> 00:34:42.639
 aren't

00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:42.900
 met

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:43.239
 then you

00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:43.599
 withdraw

00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:45.460
 because

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.360
 I know

00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:46.639
 this

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:47.719
 personally

00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:48.239
 this is

00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:48.659
 one of the

00:34:48.659 --> 00:34:49.000
 hardest

00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:49.300
 things

00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:49.559
 I think

00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:49.980
 even being

00:34:49.980 --> 00:34:50.099
 an

00:34:50.099 --> 00:34:50.539
 international

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:50.960
 church

00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.320
 here in

00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:51.519
 Hong

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:51.800
 Kong

00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:52.980
 people

00:34:52.980 --> 00:34:53.480
 come and

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:53.719
 go

00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:55.019
 you know

00:34:55.019 --> 00:34:55.579
 we've

00:34:55.579 --> 00:34:56.319
 many of us

00:34:56.319 --> 00:34:56.559
 have been

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:57.019
 in churches

00:34:57.019 --> 00:34:57.579
 from different

00:34:57.579 --> 00:34:58.099
 backgrounds

00:34:58.099 --> 00:34:58.420
 I know

00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:58.840
 I have

00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:59.079
 and you

00:34:59.079 --> 00:34:59.460
 come with

00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:00.239
 expectations

00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:00.779
 what you

00:35:00.779 --> 00:35:01.319
 think church

00:35:01.319 --> 00:35:01.599
 is and

00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:02.099
 what church

00:35:02.099 --> 00:35:02.519
 isn't

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:03.139
 and then

00:35:03.139 --> 00:35:03.739
 you arrive

00:35:03.739 --> 00:35:04.019
 and then

00:35:04.019 --> 00:35:04.360
 you get

00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:05.779
 disappointed

00:35:05.779 --> 00:35:06.759
 by certain

00:35:06.759 --> 00:35:07.199
 people

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.079
 and

00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:11.880
 often what

00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:12.340
 happens is

00:35:12.340 --> 00:35:12.699
 we begin

00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:13.279
 to withdraw

00:35:13.279 --> 00:35:15.420
 from others

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:16.019
 because it's

00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:16.500
 not the way

00:35:16.500 --> 00:35:16.880
 we thought

00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:17.219
 it should

00:35:17.219 --> 00:35:17.519
 be

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:19.299
 and what

00:35:19.299 --> 00:35:20.480
 Bonhoeffer

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:21.039
 is saying

00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:21.460
 is

00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:22.759
 do you

00:35:22.759 --> 00:35:23.219
 love your

00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:23.819
 dream of

00:35:23.819 --> 00:35:24.319
 community

00:35:24.319 --> 00:35:24.799
 or your

00:35:24.799 --> 00:35:25.199
 past

00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:25.779
 experience

00:35:25.779 --> 00:35:25.980
 of

00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:26.519
 community

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.619
 or do

00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:27.919
 you love

00:35:27.919 --> 00:35:28.279
 the real

00:35:28.279 --> 00:35:28.639
 people

00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:28.980
 that God

00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:29.379
 has placed

00:35:29.379 --> 00:35:29.879
 around you

00:35:29.879 --> 00:35:30.159
 now

00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.379
 because the

00:35:32.379 --> 00:35:32.799
 problem with

00:35:32.799 --> 00:35:33.199
 a dream

00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:33.659
 is this

00:35:33.659 --> 00:35:34.119
 A they're

00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:34.639
 not real

00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.319
 B they're

00:35:35.319 --> 00:35:35.699
 over when

00:35:35.699 --> 00:35:36.039
 you wake

00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:36.379
 up

00:35:36.379 --> 00:35:38.099
 can you

00:35:38.099 --> 00:35:38.599
 thank God

00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:38.899
 for the

00:35:38.899 --> 00:35:39.399
 people he's

00:35:39.399 --> 00:35:39.819
 given you

00:35:39.819 --> 00:35:40.480
 around you

00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:41.219
 can you

00:35:41.219 --> 00:35:41.879
 invest

00:35:41.879 --> 00:35:42.799
 and begin

00:35:42.799 --> 00:35:43.519
 to devote

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:44.119
 yourselves

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:44.739
 to some

00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:45.299
 people in

00:35:45.299 --> 00:35:45.879
 relationships

00:35:45.879 --> 00:35:46.439
 in this

00:35:46.439 --> 00:35:46.980
 church

00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.939
 even the

00:35:47.939 --> 00:35:48.279
 annoying

00:35:48.279 --> 00:35:48.599
 ones

00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:49.259
 because that's

00:35:49.259 --> 00:35:49.599
 the way

00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:49.919
 you're going

00:35:49.919 --> 00:35:50.399
 to grow

00:35:50.399 --> 00:35:50.899
 into

00:35:50.899 --> 00:35:51.480
 maturity

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:56.340
 now

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:58.099
 nearly

00:35:58.099 --> 00:35:58.380
 done

00:35:58.380 --> 00:36:00.280
 do you

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:00.719
 know what

00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.800
 the biggest

00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:03.340
 problem with

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:03.840
 everything I've

00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:04.240
 just said

00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:04.500
 is

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:06.420
 it's

00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:06.880
 impossible

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:09.119
 it's

00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:09.599
 impossible

00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:11.659
 I challenge

00:36:11.659 --> 00:36:12.000
 you

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.019
 go out

00:36:14.019 --> 00:36:14.360
 there

00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:15.319
 and try

00:36:15.319 --> 00:36:16.059
 to love

00:36:16.059 --> 00:36:16.519
 people

00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:17.079
 perfectly

00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:17.719
 this week

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:18.559
 I challenge

00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:19.099
 you to go

00:36:19.099 --> 00:36:19.619
 and love

00:36:19.619 --> 00:36:20.139
 the annoying

00:36:20.139 --> 00:36:20.739
 person

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:21.639
 next week

00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:22.019
 go on

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:22.880
 try and do

00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:23.599
 it

00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:25.079
 dare you

00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:28.239
 okay

00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:29.819
 because

00:36:29.819 --> 00:36:30.440
 loving your

00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:31.179
 own family

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:31.639
 is hard

00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:31.839
 enough

00:36:31.839 --> 00:36:32.239
 loving

00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:32.900
 people in

00:36:32.900 --> 00:36:33.659
 the church

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.659
 is like

00:36:34.659 --> 00:36:38.799
 but the

00:36:38.799 --> 00:36:39.099
 thing is

00:36:39.099 --> 00:36:39.579
 here's what

00:36:39.579 --> 00:36:39.980
 Paul is

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:40.339
 trying to

00:36:40.339 --> 00:36:40.519
 do

00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:40.819
 you know

00:36:40.819 --> 00:36:41.159
 that's

00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:41.480
 why that

00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:42.099
 bookmark

00:36:42.099 --> 00:36:42.739
 is so

00:36:42.739 --> 00:36:43.079
 helpful

00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:43.519
 because what

00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:43.880
 it's trying

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:44.159
 to do

00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:44.480
 is trying

00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:44.860
 to show

00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:45.119
 you

00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.960
 your love

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:46.699
 is inadequate

00:36:46.699 --> 00:36:48.000
 my love

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.719
 is inadequate

00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:49.739
 and if you

00:36:49.739 --> 00:36:50.360
 think trying

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:51.059
 a bit harder

00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:51.719
 or feeling

00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:52.400
 a bit guilty

00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:53.099
 is going

00:36:53.099 --> 00:36:53.539
 to get you

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:53.759
 there

00:36:53.759 --> 00:36:54.500
 forget it

00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:54.920
 because that's

00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:55.299
 just all

00:36:55.299 --> 00:36:56.039
 about yourself

00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:58.739
 the place

00:36:58.739 --> 00:36:59.519
 to start

00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:00.360
 with love

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.199
 is to look

00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:02.659
 here

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:05.239
 at the cross

00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.339
 because you're

00:37:07.339 --> 00:37:07.619
 going to look

00:37:07.619 --> 00:37:08.279
 at Christ

00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:08.820
 and you're

00:37:08.820 --> 00:37:09.360
 to see

00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:09.840
 actually

00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:10.540
 he is

00:37:10.540 --> 00:37:11.220
 the perfect

00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:11.900
 embodiment

00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:12.400
 of all

00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.180
 that patience

00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:13.860
 kindness

00:37:13.860 --> 00:37:14.420
 goodness

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:14.980
 love

00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:15.880
 towards us

00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:17.300
 and I

00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:18.000
 have failed

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:18.560
 to love

00:37:18.560 --> 00:37:18.980
 him

00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:19.700
 the way

00:37:19.700 --> 00:37:20.360
 he calls

00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:20.660
 me to

00:37:20.660 --> 00:37:20.940
 love

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:21.960
 I have

00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.200
 failed

00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:22.600
 to use

00:37:22.600 --> 00:37:23.120
 his gifts

00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:23.460
 the way

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:23.860
 he called

00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:24.120
 me to

00:37:24.120 --> 00:37:24.340
 use

00:37:24.340 --> 00:37:24.880
 these gifts

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:25.720
 I have

00:37:25.720 --> 00:37:26.300
 not loved

00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:26.700
 the people

00:37:26.700 --> 00:37:27.200
 around me

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:27.480
 the way

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:27.820
 he's called

00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:28.100
 me to

00:37:28.100 --> 00:37:28.280
 love

00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:28.560
 them

00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:30.240
 and yet

00:37:30.240 --> 00:37:30.560
 on the

00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:31.100
 cross

00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:34.300
 he covered

00:37:34.300 --> 00:37:34.620
 me

00:37:34.620 --> 00:37:36.920
 he bore

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.580
 my sin

00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:39.680
 he doesn't

00:37:39.680 --> 00:37:40.100
 count up

00:37:40.100 --> 00:37:40.820
 my wrongdoing

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:41.539
 he throws

00:37:41.539 --> 00:37:41.900
 it into

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.420
 the depths

00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:43.019
 of the sea

00:37:43.019 --> 00:37:44.539
 he is

00:37:44.539 --> 00:37:45.300
 patient

00:37:45.300 --> 00:37:45.980
 with me

00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:48.260
 even with

00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:48.780
 my lack

00:37:48.780 --> 00:37:49.480
 of love

00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.760
 though he

00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:53.539
 loved more

00:37:53.539 --> 00:37:54.080
 than anybody

00:37:54.080 --> 00:37:54.560
 else

00:37:54.560 --> 00:37:55.100
 he was

00:37:55.100 --> 00:37:55.620
 abandoned

00:37:55.620 --> 00:37:56.140
 by his

00:37:56.140 --> 00:37:56.519
 father

00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:57.300
 so that

00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:58.220
 I could

00:37:58.220 --> 00:37:58.840
 become

00:37:58.840 --> 00:37:59.640
 you

00:37:59.640 --> 00:38:00.000
 could

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.600
 become

00:38:00.600 --> 00:38:01.860
 his

00:38:01.860 --> 00:38:02.340
 child

00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:02.940
 and know

00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:03.340
 him

00:38:03.340 --> 00:38:03.980
 intimately

00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:06.260
 and so

00:38:06.260 --> 00:38:06.800
 God is not

00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:07.220
 saying to

00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:07.519
 you now

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:07.880
 okay

00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:09.480
 try harder

00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:10.579
 he's saying

00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:11.039
 to you

00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:11.840
 come to

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.100
 me and

00:38:12.100 --> 00:38:12.500
 repent

00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:14.200
 say God

00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:14.800
 I can't

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.539
 forgive me

00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:16.640
 I can't

00:38:16.640 --> 00:38:17.079
 do it

00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:18.900
 but then

00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:19.820
 if you think

00:38:19.820 --> 00:38:20.539
 you've earned

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:20.820
 it

00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:22.320
 you're going

00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:22.700
 to make it

00:38:22.700 --> 00:38:23.160
 all about

00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:23.440
 you

00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:23.920
 but if you

00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:24.579
 realize that

00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:25.000
 Christ

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:25.460
 earned it

00:38:25.460 --> 00:38:26.220
 for you

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:29.399
 he will

00:38:29.399 --> 00:38:29.899
 change you

00:38:29.899 --> 00:38:30.119
 you know

00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:30.379
 like

00:38:30.379 --> 00:38:31.500
 Yiddy said

00:38:31.500 --> 00:38:31.759
 as she

00:38:31.759 --> 00:38:32.279
 saw

00:38:32.279 --> 00:38:33.039
 the way

00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:33.480
 Julie

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:34.419
 and Edmund

00:38:34.419 --> 00:38:35.179
 loved her

00:38:35.179 --> 00:38:36.379
 it changed

00:38:36.379 --> 00:38:36.799
 her

00:38:36.799 --> 00:38:38.319
 when you

00:38:38.319 --> 00:38:38.759
 see the

00:38:38.759 --> 00:38:39.000
 way

00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:39.539
 God

00:38:39.539 --> 00:38:39.919
 loves

00:38:39.919 --> 00:38:40.239
 you

00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:40.739
 it

00:38:40.739 --> 00:38:41.279
 changes

00:38:41.279 --> 00:38:41.719
 you

00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:42.419
 if you

00:38:42.419 --> 00:38:42.719
 see that

00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:43.419
 he delights

00:38:43.419 --> 00:38:44.000
 in you

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:44.899
 in spite

00:38:44.899 --> 00:38:45.519
 of you

00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:47.799
 in spite

00:38:47.799 --> 00:38:48.079
 of all

00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:48.399
 the stuff

00:38:48.399 --> 00:38:48.699
 that you

00:38:48.699 --> 00:38:49.039
 haven't

00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:49.219
 done

00:38:49.219 --> 00:38:49.859
 this week

00:38:49.859 --> 00:38:50.639
 that

00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:50.939
 then

00:38:50.939 --> 00:38:51.319
 takes

00:38:51.319 --> 00:38:51.500
 you

00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:51.739
 out

00:38:51.739 --> 00:38:51.859
 of

00:38:51.859 --> 00:38:52.299
 yourself

00:38:52.299 --> 00:38:52.500
 to

00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:52.779
 begin

00:38:52.779 --> 00:38:53.099
 looking

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:53.379
 at the

00:38:53.379 --> 00:38:53.639
 people

00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:53.939
 around

00:38:53.939 --> 00:38:54.099
 you

00:38:54.099 --> 00:38:54.480
 in your

00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:54.879
 community

00:38:54.879 --> 00:38:55.339
 group

00:38:55.340 --> 00:38:56.440
 and start

00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:56.740
 loving

00:38:56.740 --> 00:38:57.019
 them

00:38:57.019 --> 00:39:00.460
 you

00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:00.720
 have

00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:00.900
 on

00:39:00.900 --> 00:39:01.059
 your

00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:01.380
 sheet

00:39:01.380 --> 00:39:05.460
 a

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:05.720
 list

00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:05.960
 here

00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:06.820
 here

00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:06.940
 are

00:39:06.940 --> 00:39:07.059
 some

00:39:07.059 --> 00:39:07.160
 of

00:39:07.160 --> 00:39:07.260
 the

00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:07.579
 needs

00:39:07.579 --> 00:39:08.220
 that

00:39:08.220 --> 00:39:08.400
 we

00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:08.620
 have

00:39:08.620 --> 00:39:08.760
 in

00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:09.180
 Watermark

00:39:09.180 --> 00:39:10.039
 as a

00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:10.280
 church

00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:10.720
 family

00:39:10.720 --> 00:39:13.320
 have a

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:13.440
 look

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:13.700
 through

00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:13.980
 them

00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:16.079
 because

00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:16.440
 here

00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:16.579
 is

00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:16.800
 some

00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:16.920
 of

00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:17.039
 the

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.320
 ways

00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:17.480
 that

00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:17.760
 actually

00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:18.100
 you

00:39:18.100 --> 00:39:18.260
 and

00:39:18.260 --> 00:39:18.440
 I

00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:18.660
 can

00:39:18.660 --> 00:39:18.920
 take

00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:19.140
 some

00:39:19.140 --> 00:39:19.660
 practical

00:39:19.660 --> 00:39:20.180
 steps

00:39:20.180 --> 00:39:20.380
 to

00:39:20.380 --> 00:39:20.600
 actually

00:39:20.600 --> 00:39:20.860
 think

00:39:20.860 --> 00:39:21.079
 what

00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:21.220
 does

00:39:21.220 --> 00:39:21.559
 love

00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:21.880
 look

00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:22.200
 like

00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:22.579
 now

00:39:22.579 --> 00:39:23.559
 for

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:23.980
 us

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:26.760
 have

00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:26.880
 a

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.059
 look

00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:27.219
 at

00:39:27.219 --> 00:39:27.519
 them

00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:27.800
 and

00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:28.199
 consider

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:28.820
 how

00:39:28.820 --> 00:39:29.039
 can

00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:29.199
 I

00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:29.519
 take

00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:29.860
 a

00:39:29.860 --> 00:39:30.500
 step

00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:31.639
 to

00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:32.119
 love

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:32.460
 not

00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:32.599
 a

00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:32.860
 giant

00:39:32.860 --> 00:39:33.240
 leap

00:39:33.240 --> 00:39:33.460
 it's

00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:33.619
 a

00:39:33.619 --> 00:39:34.139
 step

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:34.380
 to

00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:34.699
 love

00:39:34.699 --> 00:39:36.599
 but

00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:36.740
 we

00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:36.940
 don't

00:39:36.940 --> 00:39:37.099
 want

00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:37.199
 you

00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:37.380
 to

00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:37.639
 serve

00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:37.920
 because

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:38.059
 you

00:39:38.059 --> 00:39:38.199
 feel

00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:38.639
 guilty

00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:41.460
 we

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:41.599
 want

00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:41.740
 you

00:39:41.740 --> 00:39:41.860
 to

00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:42.039
 serve

00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:42.320
 because

00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:42.840
 that's

00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:42.980
 how

00:39:42.980 --> 00:39:43.219
 you'll

00:39:43.219 --> 00:39:43.420
 be

00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:43.639
 who

00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:43.820
 God

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:43.960
 has

00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:44.199
 made

00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:44.340
 you

00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:44.480
 to

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:44.740
 be

00:39:44.740 --> 00:39:45.679
 that's

00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:45.820
 how

00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:46.079
 you'll

00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:46.360
 live

00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:46.679
 without

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:47.139
 regret

00:39:47.139 --> 00:39:48.559
 that's

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:48.820
 how

00:39:48.820 --> 00:39:49.039
 the

00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:49.599
 community

00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:50.179
 around

00:39:50.179 --> 00:39:50.380
 us

00:39:50.380 --> 00:39:50.719
 which is

00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:51.000
 longing

00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:51.260
 to

00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:51.460
 see

00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:51.820
 love

00:39:51.820 --> 00:39:52.000
 will

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.380
 see

00:39:52.380 --> 00:39:53.380
 this

00:39:53.380 --> 00:39:54.180
 loving

00:39:54.180 --> 00:39:55.099
 community

00:39:55.099 --> 00:39:55.519
 and

00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:55.900
 God's

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:56.099
 love

00:39:56.099 --> 00:39:56.340
 through

00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:56.740
 us

00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:59.559
 maybe

00:39:59.559 --> 00:39:59.800
 just

00:39:59.800 --> 00:39:59.980
 have

00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:00.240
 a

00:40:00.240 --> 00:40:01.920
 let's

00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:02.140
 just

00:40:02.140 --> 00:40:02.700
 stop

00:40:02.700 --> 00:40:03.460
 for a

00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:03.660
 minute

00:40:03.660 --> 00:40:04.680
 and

00:40:04.680 --> 00:40:04.740
 I

00:40:04.740 --> 00:40:04.860
 want

00:40:04.860 --> 00:40:04.940
 you

00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:05.019
 to

00:40:05.019 --> 00:40:05.160
 just

00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:05.280
 to

00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:05.500
 ask

00:40:05.500 --> 00:40:05.820
 yourself

00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:06.000
 the

00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:06.420
 question

00:40:06.420 --> 00:40:07.180
 before

00:40:07.180 --> 00:40:07.519
 God

00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:11.360
 who

00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.039
 am

00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:13.200
 I

00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:13.480
 loving

00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:13.960
 in

00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:14.160
 this

00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:14.619
 community

00:40:14.619 --> 00:40:17.820
 are

00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:17.960
 there

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:18.300
 people

00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:18.500
 that

00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:18.740
 I'm

00:40:18.740 --> 00:40:19.480
 withdrawing

00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:19.880
 from

00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:20.400
 in

00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:20.599
 this

00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:21.039
 community

00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.860
 other

00:40:23.860 --> 00:40:24.400
 people

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.059
 that

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:27.500
 I

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:28.500
 am

00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:28.759
 running

00:40:28.759 --> 00:40:29.099
 away

00:40:29.099 --> 00:40:29.559
 from

00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:30.099
 in

00:40:30.099 --> 00:40:30.300
 this

00:40:30.300 --> 00:40:30.759
 community

00:40:30.759 --> 00:40:32.940
 are

00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:33.179
 there

00:40:33.179 --> 00:40:34.179
 resentments

00:40:34.179 --> 00:40:34.559
 that I

00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:34.920
 have

00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:35.239
 in

00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:35.420
 this

00:40:35.420 --> 00:40:35.880
 community

00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:40.920
 and

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:41.099
 just

00:40:41.099 --> 00:40:41.340
 bring

00:40:41.340 --> 00:40:41.559
 those

00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:41.880
 before

00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:42.179
 God

00:40:42.179 --> 00:40:42.519
 now

00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.279
 because

00:40:46.279 --> 00:40:46.579
 God

00:40:46.579 --> 00:40:46.759
 has

00:40:46.759 --> 00:40:47.079
 brought

00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:47.779
 people

00:40:47.779 --> 00:40:48.059
 into

00:40:48.059 --> 00:40:48.279
 our

00:40:48.279 --> 00:40:48.679
 lives

00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:48.920
 so

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:49.039
 that

00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:49.179
 we

00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:49.340
 may

00:40:49.340 --> 00:40:49.699
 become

00:40:49.699 --> 00:40:50.199
 mature

00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:55.539
 just

00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:55.699
 want

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:55.799
 you

00:40:55.799 --> 00:40:55.939
 to

00:40:55.939 --> 00:40:56.159
 think

00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:56.519
 about

00:40:56.519 --> 00:41:02.039
 am

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:02.179
 I

00:41:02.179 --> 00:41:02.579
 really

00:41:02.579 --> 00:41:03.960
 investing

00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:04.219
 my

00:41:04.219 --> 00:41:04.679
 life

00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:05.699
 in

00:41:05.699 --> 00:41:05.919
 something

00:41:05.919 --> 00:41:06.139
 that's

00:41:06.139 --> 00:41:06.619
 lasting

00:41:06.619 --> 00:41:11.659
 just

00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:11.839
 come

00:41:11.839 --> 00:41:12.059
 before

00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:12.299
 God

00:41:12.299 --> 00:41:12.719
 now

00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:18.599
 just

00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:18.959
 pray

00:41:18.959 --> 00:41:33.099
 Father

00:41:33.099 --> 00:41:36.940
 everyone

00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:36.960
 everyone

00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:37.179
 is

00:41:37.179 --> 00:41:37.539
 in a

00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:37.779
 different

00:41:37.779 --> 00:41:38.299
 place

00:41:38.299 --> 00:41:42.539
 some

00:41:42.539 --> 00:41:42.739
 of us

00:41:42.739 --> 00:41:42.940
 feel

00:41:42.940 --> 00:41:43.519
 overwhelmed

00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:45.619
 by now

00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:47.059
 the

00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:47.440
 issues

00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:47.759
 that we

00:41:47.759 --> 00:41:48.099
 have

00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:51.159
 some

00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:51.380
 of us

00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:51.559
 feel

00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:52.039
 guilty

00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.519
 because

00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:54.920
 we feel

00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:55.279
 we don't

00:41:55.279 --> 00:41:55.880
 measure up

00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.480
 and we're

00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.480
 we're just

00:41:58.480 --> 00:41:58.920
 stuck

00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.360
 some

00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:01.599
 of us

00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:01.700
 are

00:42:01.700 --> 00:42:02.019
 hurting

00:42:02.019 --> 00:42:04.200
 and we

00:42:04.200 --> 00:42:04.340
 don't

00:42:04.340 --> 00:42:04.660
 know how

00:42:04.660 --> 00:42:04.980
 we could

00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:05.140
 ever

00:42:05.140 --> 00:42:05.380
 love

00:42:05.380 --> 00:42:05.720
 again

00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:06.039
 because

00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:06.360
 people

00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:06.519
 have

00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:06.720
 hurt

00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:07.079
 us

00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.559
 but

00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:10.780
 Father

00:42:10.780 --> 00:42:10.980
 I

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:11.220
 pray

00:42:11.220 --> 00:42:11.440
 that

00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:11.660
 you

00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:11.940
 would

00:42:11.940 --> 00:42:13.820
 show

00:42:13.820 --> 00:42:14.320
 us

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:15.860
 your

00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:16.140
 love

00:42:16.140 --> 00:42:16.539
 for us

00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:16.980
 first

00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:20.760
 I

00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:20.960
 pray

00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:21.140
 that

00:42:21.140 --> 00:42:21.260
 you

00:42:21.260 --> 00:42:21.400
 would

00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:21.700
 show

00:42:21.700 --> 00:42:22.240
 us

00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:24.280
 that

00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:24.840
 you

00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:25.760
 have

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:26.039
 brought

00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:26.240
 us

00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:26.420
 into

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 this

00:42:26.700 --> 00:42:27.240
 community

00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:29.500
 for a

00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:29.919
 reason

00:42:29.919 --> 00:42:31.119
 and there

00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:31.619
 are people

00:42:31.619 --> 00:42:32.139
 you want

00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:32.659
 to love

00:42:32.659 --> 00:42:33.019
 through

00:42:33.019 --> 00:42:33.519
 us

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:36.219
 I

00:42:36.219 --> 00:42:36.379
 pray

00:42:36.379 --> 00:42:36.559
 that

00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:36.679
 we

00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:36.879
 would

00:42:36.879 --> 00:42:37.359
 see

00:42:37.359 --> 00:42:40.919
 that

00:42:40.919 --> 00:42:41.079
 we're

00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:41.239
 not

00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:41.479
 called

00:42:41.479 --> 00:42:42.039
 to be

00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.419
 doing

00:42:45.419 --> 00:42:45.899
 what is

00:42:45.899 --> 00:42:46.319
 just

00:42:46.319 --> 00:42:47.839
 self

00:42:47.839 --> 00:42:48.279
 focus

00:42:48.279 --> 00:42:48.739
 but we're

00:42:48.739 --> 00:42:48.979
 called

00:42:48.979 --> 00:42:49.439
 to do

00:42:49.439 --> 00:42:49.919
 what is

00:42:49.919 --> 00:42:51.579
 going

00:42:51.579 --> 00:42:51.719
 to

00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:52.159
 last

00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:59.619
 I

00:42:59.619 --> 00:42:59.859
 pray

00:42:59.859 --> 00:43:00.059
 that

00:43:00.059 --> 00:43:00.239
 we

00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.519
 would

00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:03.599
 we

00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:03.759
 would

00:43:03.759 --> 00:43:03.960
 have

00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:04.699
 lives

00:43:04.699 --> 00:43:07.559
 that

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:07.759
 would

00:43:07.759 --> 00:43:08.199
 be

00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:08.599
 a

00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:09.219
 community

00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:10.239
 where

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:10.699
 people

00:43:10.699 --> 00:43:11.379
 even

00:43:11.379 --> 00:43:11.599
 though

00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:11.759
 they

00:43:11.759 --> 00:43:11.960
 may

00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:12.420
 disagree

00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:13.059
 with

00:43:13.059 --> 00:43:13.519
 us

00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:13.980
 even

00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:14.199
 though

00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:14.399
 they

00:43:14.399 --> 00:43:14.920
 may

00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.759
 reject

00:43:17.759 --> 00:43:18.339
 us

00:43:18.339 --> 00:43:18.940
 they

00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:19.259
 still

00:43:19.259 --> 00:43:19.739
 say

00:43:19.739 --> 00:43:20.739
 it's

00:43:20.739 --> 00:43:21.019
 hard

00:43:21.019 --> 00:43:21.239
 to

00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:21.679
 argue

00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.179
 with

00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:23.359
 the

00:43:23.359 --> 00:43:23.779
 life

00:43:23.779 --> 00:43:24.159
 well

00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:24.579
 lived

00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:24.839
 that

00:43:24.839 --> 00:43:25.139
 you

00:43:25.139 --> 00:43:25.739
 have

00:43:25.739 --> 00:43:26.219
 lived

00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:29.399
 help

00:43:29.399 --> 00:43:29.559
 us

00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:29.679
 to

00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:29.819
 be

00:43:29.819 --> 00:43:30.019
 that

00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:30.539
 community

00:43:30.539 --> 00:43:32.759
 which

00:43:32.759 --> 00:43:32.960
 is

00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.539
 gritty

00:43:33.539 --> 00:43:34.139
 in

00:43:34.139 --> 00:43:34.339
 our

00:43:34.339 --> 00:43:34.699
 love

00:43:34.699 --> 00:43:38.199
 let

00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:38.339
 us

00:43:38.339 --> 00:43:38.500
 not

00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:38.659
 be

00:43:38.659 --> 00:43:39.039
 people

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:39.279
 who

00:43:39.279 --> 00:43:40.359
 just

00:43:40.359 --> 00:43:40.819
 run

00:43:40.819 --> 00:43:41.099
 to

00:43:41.099 --> 00:43:41.319
 and

00:43:41.319 --> 00:43:41.639
 fro

00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:42.000
 to

00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.659
 try

00:43:44.659 --> 00:43:44.819
 and

00:43:44.819 --> 00:43:45.019
 find

00:43:45.019 --> 00:43:45.239
 just

00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:45.399
 what

00:43:45.399 --> 00:43:45.559
 we

00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:45.859
 want

00:43:45.859 --> 00:43:46.099
 but

00:43:46.099 --> 00:43:46.839
 realize

00:43:46.839 --> 00:43:47.219
 what

00:43:47.219 --> 00:43:47.399
 we

00:43:47.399 --> 00:43:47.679
 want

00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:47.919
 is

00:43:47.919 --> 00:43:48.259
 actually

00:43:48.259 --> 00:43:48.940
 found

00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:52.659
 as

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:52.800
 we

00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:53.139
 trust

00:43:53.139 --> 00:43:53.460
 you

00:43:53.460 --> 00:43:55.500
 and

00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:55.760
 take

00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:55.980
 just

00:43:55.980 --> 00:43:56.139
 the

00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:56.380
 next

00:43:56.380 --> 00:43:56.579
 little

00:43:56.579 --> 00:43:57.059
 step

00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:59.559
 thank

00:43:59.559 --> 00:43:59.659
 you

00:43:59.659 --> 00:43:59.800
 that

00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:00.000
 you're

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:00.260
 good

00:44:00.260 --> 00:44:00.579
 Lord

00:44:00.579 --> 00:44:01.820
 thank

00:44:01.820 --> 00:44:01.920
 you

00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:02.019
 for

00:44:02.019 --> 00:44:02.159
 your

00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:02.679
 grace

00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:04.380
 you're

00:44:04.380 --> 00:44:04.880
 amazing

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:06.539
 amen

00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:07.960
 that

00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:37.940
 Thank you.