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 Let's pray.

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 God, as you led me in my preparation,

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 would you take the reins now and speak through me?

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 Would your Holy Spirit have its way in this service?

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 And would your will be done?

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 And at the end of it, would you be glorified?

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 Amen.

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 Longer than I can remember,

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 people have said to me,

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 don't judge a book by its cover.

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 Yet when you walk through a bookstore like Borders

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 or if there's a bookstore left in your neighbourhood,

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 how frequently you don't get past the cover

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 when you're trying to decide which book you're going to buy.

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 Every book is literally covered in things

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 designed to entice us to purchase.

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 There's reviews, there's decoration and art,

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 a short blurb, even a sticker

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 indicating that it's one of Oprah's favourite things.

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 All of these parts of the cover

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 very much drew us to judge the book,

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 yet still we preach the proverb,

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 don't judge a book by its cover.

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 Similarly, when we choose a piece of fruit

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 or vegetables at the supermarket

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 or at the farmer's market if you're cool,

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 we are naturally drawn to better looking pieces of fruit, yeah?

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 The ones that have symmetry,

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 the ones that don't have any blemishes

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 and there's lots and lots of colour.

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 Even though the funny looking one

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 that you probably grew yourself

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 has just as much nutritional content

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 and just as much flavour.

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 Still we say, don't judge a book by its cover.

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 Let me posture this idea.

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 What we see compels us to choose.

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 I'm going to say that again

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 because I'm trying to make a point.

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 What we see compels us to choose.

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 I was recently standing,

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 enjoying the last of the summer fruit,

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 picking myself out a couple of peaches.

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 I had this grand scheme of taking the wife

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 to the beach for a peach.

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 It's a cheap, simple date.

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 Boys, I don't have a patent on it.

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 You can use that.

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 Go for it.

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 A peach at the beach.

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 It's good value.

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 As I was trying to choose the best peach

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 from the selection,

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 a lady who was a little older than myself

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 decided she wanted to stand between me and the peaches.

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 She wanted to sidle in sideways.

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 Problem was,

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 there's about six inches between me

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 and the peach display, yeah?

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 I had to get out of her way

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 and I was quite excited to go

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 and tell Tanya the story of this lady

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 just having to squeeze in

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 to get to the peaches first.

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 I couldn't stop her.

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 The peaches were very compelling.

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 They were very good looking.

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 And as I said earlier,

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 what we see compels us to choose.

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 Sadly, I was not compelled to befriend this lady.

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 Yeah?

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 Instead, I just quickly went and told Tanya,

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 you won't believe what just happened at the peaches

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 and pointed the lady out.

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 Good or bad,

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 what we see compels us to choose.

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 I grew up on a small farm

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 about 30 minutes south of Dubbo.

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 Everybody say Dubbo.

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 Good.

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 Just checking.

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 I had an amazing childhood.

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 I have two older brothers

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 who are very musical

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 and a little sister

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 who was different

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 for all sorts of non-tonka truck

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 girly playing reasons.

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 Right?

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 I sold my cows

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 and I moved to Sydney

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 the day after my final HSC exam,

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 taking on the apprenticeship

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 as a cabin maker in Bankstown.

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 I wanted to live in this mystical land

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 my brothers had told me about

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 called Castle Hill.

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 Even though I understand now,

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 geographically,

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 they're very far apart,

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 from a country boy,

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 I thought I'd just live in Castle Hill

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 and commute to Bankstown every day.

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 And I did for four years.

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 This magical place,

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 Castle Hill,

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 was a mystical land

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 my brothers had told me about,

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 filled with big adventures

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 and pretty girls

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 and big houses

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 and all those sorts of things

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 a 17-year-old boy

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 leaving home

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 wants to experience.

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 I was there,

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 I wish I was there

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 for a more spiritual explanation,

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 although in hindsight,

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 I see God's hand

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 weaving a path

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 through my life,

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 which included leading me

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 to my wife in the hills.

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 Just saying that now,

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 though,

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 actually is quite funny.

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 It makes me laugh out loud.

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 Being a country boy,

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 you don't have the faintest idea

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 beyond school

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 or beyond my barbed-wired imagination

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 that I was very quickly

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 out of my league

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 once I arrived in Sydney

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 and I quickly started to miss home.

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 I even drove home for weekends

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 with boots full of fireworks,

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 things you can buy in Bankstown,

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 whenever I could afford.

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 As much as I enjoyed

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 the adventure of living in Sydney,

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 I felt as if it was living

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 in somewhere very unfamiliar

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 and for the first time ever

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 in my life,

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 I felt like I was in exile.

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 And maybe you felt

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 something similar.

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 Maybe you've worked abroad.

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 Maybe you've studied abroad.

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 Maybe you've taken a contract

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 away from loved ones.

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 The whole time,

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 you just can't wait

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 to come home, yeah?

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 In the first of today's scriptures,

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 the author speaks

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 to a people in foreign lands

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 longing for home,

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 longing for their promised land.

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 Except instead of mentoring

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 through the steps

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 to urgently return home,

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 they do something else.

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 Gordon Fee puts it,

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 the book of Jeremiah

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 is a collection of oracles,

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 mostly poetry,

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 mostly against Judah and Jerusalem.

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 This is a crazy time

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 for Judah and Jerusalem.

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 And there isn't a time

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 for a full history lesson

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 or a mansplaining.

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 But Jeremiah and,

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 but Jerusalem and Judah

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 found themselves

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 a soccer ball

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 between Egypt and Babylon.

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 As the both of them

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 were jockeying

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 for the possession

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 of all the lands

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 along the Mediterranean there.

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 Jeremiah 29

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 is written shortly after

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 as the scripture gave us

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 the context

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 in the first section.

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 Nebuchadnezzar just brought

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 an end to the three-month reign

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 of Jehoiakim

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 and carried off

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 the people to exile.

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 Jehoiakim was one

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 we didn't spend much time on

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 in Sunday school, right?

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 I think he was in

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 the flannel board collection

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 of characters.

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 Jehoiakim was only there

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 for three months

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 as the ruler.

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 What's really interesting

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 is that the exiles

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 long for home.

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 And Jeremiah speaks

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 in this instance

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 of God's pro-exile stance.

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 Spoiler alert,

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 the pro-exile bit

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 is contrary

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 to a couple of prophets

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 from the earlier chapter

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 who died.

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 Double spoiler alert.

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 Jeremiah comes out

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 very strong in verse 4.

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 Let me read for you.

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 This is what the Lord Almighty,

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 the God of Israel,

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 says to all those

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 I carried into exile

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 from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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 Build houses

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 and settle down.

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 Plant gardens

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 and eat what they produce.

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 Marry and have

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 sons and daughters.

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 Find wives for your sons.

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 Give your daughters

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 in marriage

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 so that they too

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 may have sons and daughters.

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 Increase in number there.

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 Do not decrease.

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 Also,

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 seek the peace

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 and prosperity

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 of the city

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 to which I have carried

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 you into exile.

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 Pray to the Lord

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 for it

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 because if it prospers,

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 you too

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 will prosper.

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 God carries them

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 into exile.

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 I love that.

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 God carries them.

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 On the eve of a federal election

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 here in Australia,

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 Facebook news feeds

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 are being filled

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 with many Christian friends

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 of mine

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 crying at the death

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 of our Christian governance

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 and laws.

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 Does it scare you

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 that God could carry us

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 as a nation

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 into exile?

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 Into a country

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 that could be different

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 to what you grew up in?

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 I actually get excited

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 and draw hope

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 from the practical application

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 of verse 7.

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 Seek peace

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 and prosperity

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 for where God

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 has carried you.

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 Pray to the Lord

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 for it

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 because if your city

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 prospers,

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 you too

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 will prosper.

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 As Streetwork,

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 we work

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 to help young people

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 turn their life around.

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 We do whatever

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 it takes.

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 Whatever it takes,

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 we'll do it.

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 A recent review

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 of the work

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 we do at Streetwork

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 by PwC,

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 if you're cool,

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 but Price Waterhouse

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 and Coopers,

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 if you don't know

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 who PwC is,

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 show that the work

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 we did in that one year

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 here in the North Shore

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 of Sydney,

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 mostly Chatswood,

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 saved the local community

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 just over $8 million.

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 And we did that

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 on a shoestring budget.

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 Youth Week

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 is cheap.

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 I'm regularly reminded

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 when I open

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 my bank balance.

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 We see young people

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 starting on the

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 trajectory of life

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 of crime

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 transform into

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 contributing members

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 of the community.

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 It's a really

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 rewarding job,

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 but it's also

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 a living testimony

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 of how

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 seeking for peace

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 and prosperity

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 in your local area

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 brings prosperity

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 for all the community.

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 I've moved

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 by the ongoing support

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 of so many

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 in the community,

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 many of whom

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 aren't even church people.

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 They're just motivated

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 to see this community

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 prosper.

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 Also,

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 I think the idea

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 of exile

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 can be strangely

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 foreign to us

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 as many of you

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 will have grown up

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 here in the North Shore,

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 lived your entire life

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 here in the local area.

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 Maybe you were even

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 here at St. Paul's

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 in 1980

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 when Peter Hobbs,

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 a member of this church,

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 birthed Street Work

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 with the help of

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 many members

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 of this church,

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 I believe.

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 See,

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 when I moved to

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 Castle Hill

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 back in 1999,

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 the Young Adults Ministry

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 was called Embassy.

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 I loved this so much.

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 I shared earlier

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 how much I liked,

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 I felt like I was

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 in exile moving to Sydney

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 from my homeland

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 of Dubbo,

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 which sounds funny

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 to say.

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 Here was a community

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 that acknowledged

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 as citizens of heaven,

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 we were all exiles

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 in a strange land.

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 And the Hills District

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 definitely qualifies

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 as strange lands.

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 But here on earth,

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 here in Chatswood,

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 was where God

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 had carried us.

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 And while our citizenship

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 was secured

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 by what Christ had done

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 on the cross,

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 our job was not yet done.

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 We were in exile

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 and it was a good thing.

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 Being a part of Embassy

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 was what got me involved

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 in volunteering

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 with young people

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 17 years ago now.

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 and it's led me

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 to being involved

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 with youth ministry

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 and youth work

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 ever since.

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 My experience

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 as a young adult

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 in that ministry

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 was one of two

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 defining experiences

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 God carried me into

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 in that season.

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 The other was

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 as an apprentice.

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 As an apprentice

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 cabinet maker,

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 I also became friends

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 with a guy named James.

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 And James was

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 from Lakemba.

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 And James,

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 which is a much more

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 sensible place

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 to commute from,

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 yeah,

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 to Bankstown.

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 James was from Lakemba

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 and James had

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 daily normal habits

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 the likes of which

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 most of us in this room

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 would rarely encounter.

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 From substance abuse,

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 he collected weapons,

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 he had an inappropriate

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 expertise

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 in hydroponics

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 and what I can only

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 describe as a genuine

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 sex addiction.

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 James was the polar

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 opposite of my upbringing

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 and my church world

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 and we strangely ended up

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 the best of friends.

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 James used to steal my phone

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 on lunch breaks

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 and he would call

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 the girls from my church

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 that I liked.

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 He would ask them

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 why we hadn't had sex

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 and if I was gay.

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 Stuff that probably

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 shocked them

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 and if I'd been able

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 to stop him,

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 I would have.

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 But they were genuine

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 questions he couldn't

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 make sense of

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 because of how different

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 our lives were.

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 I think my world

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 was as confusing to James

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 as James was to me.

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 I even brought him

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 to church once

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 and he genuinely

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 was too afraid

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 to come in.

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 He sat in the car,

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 both of us sat in the car

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 while he smoked

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 some cigarettes

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 and we listened

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 to the singing inside.

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 Later that night,

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 James rang me

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 and said,

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 Tim,

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 can you go back

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 to church

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 and light a candle

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 for me?

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 I said,

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 James,

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 you should have

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 come in,

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 mate.

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 It's really not

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 that kind of church.

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 I still haven't

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 had the privilege

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 of introducing

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 James to Jesus.

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 We talk regularly

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 over Facebook

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 when we don't

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 see each other.

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 I know he's

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 going to meet Jesus.

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 He's been looking

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 for him

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 but he's still

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 not ready to let go

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 of some of those

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 things that hold

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 him back

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 even though

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 he knows

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 they heard him.

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 It was great

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 being carried

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 into exile

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 into a place

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 like that

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 and meeting

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 someone like

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 James.

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 For a good

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 little church

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 boy like me,

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 James was

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 unique but

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 the reality

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 is,

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 our city

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 is full

00:12:16.899 --> 00:12:17.439
 of Jameses.

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 I pastored

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 with Tanya

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 here in Chatswood

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 for many years.

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 I was a youth

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 pastor.

00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:23.439
 Tanya was the

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 worship pastor

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 at a church

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 the other side

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 closer to Willoughby

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 and we worked

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 on the same

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 streets I now

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 work on as a

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 youth worker

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 except now

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 the cafes

00:12:32.580 --> 00:12:33.639
 that I always

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 used to have

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 my pastoral

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 meetings in,

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 I know the

00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:37.000
 kids that deal

00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:37.600
 drugs in them.

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 Sometimes they're

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 armed.

00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:42.559
 Apparently they'd

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 always been there.

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 They'd been there

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 for years and years

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 and years but I

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 just didn't

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 recognize them

00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:46.419
 before when I

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 was busy with

00:12:46.939 --> 00:12:47.600
 my flock and

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 my songs and

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 my sermons.

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 They were

00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:52.279
 invisible to me.

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 Please don't

00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:56.199
 think that's a

00:12:56.199 --> 00:12:56.639
 cheap shot at

00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:57.299
 clergy either.

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 Each has our

00:12:59.659 --> 00:13:00.480
 crucial role in

00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.120
 this God-ordained

00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:01.919
 exile, yeah?

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 Clergy and you.

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 My point is that

00:13:06.299 --> 00:13:06.899
 on the North Shore

00:13:06.899 --> 00:13:07.559
 we don't think we

00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:08.080
 have a problem.

00:13:08.299 --> 00:13:08.840
 We don't talk

00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:09.279
 about it.

00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.179
 Our leading

00:13:10.179 --> 00:13:10.819
 politicians are

00:13:10.819 --> 00:13:11.299
 from here and

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 we don't know

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 why our issues

00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:13.819
 are invisible.

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 I keep dragging

00:13:15.220 --> 00:13:15.780
 out crazy

00:13:15.780 --> 00:13:16.700
 conspiracy theories

00:13:16.700 --> 00:13:17.260
 about house

00:13:17.260 --> 00:13:17.800
 prices and

00:13:17.800 --> 00:13:18.260
 things and why

00:13:18.260 --> 00:13:18.760
 we don't talk

00:13:18.760 --> 00:13:19.120
 about our

00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:19.500
 problems.

00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:22.100
 Here in

00:13:22.100 --> 00:13:22.600
 Chatswood we

00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:22.940
 have some of

00:13:22.940 --> 00:13:23.360
 the highest

00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:23.920
 incidents of

00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:24.360
 shoplifting,

00:13:25.160 --> 00:13:26.180
 drug use and

00:13:26.180 --> 00:13:26.940
 sexually transmitted

00:13:26.940 --> 00:13:27.600
 diseases among

00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:28.820
 young people per

00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:29.560
 capita in the

00:13:29.560 --> 00:13:30.180
 entire country.

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 We think those

00:13:32.680 --> 00:13:33.160
 problems are out

00:13:33.160 --> 00:13:33.680
 west or in

00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:34.160
 Dubbo, right?

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 Not only are we

00:13:37.060 --> 00:13:37.780
 seemingly unaware

00:13:37.780 --> 00:13:39.140
 but when preparing

00:13:39.140 --> 00:13:39.700
 this sermon I

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 spent ages praying

00:13:40.520 --> 00:13:41.080
 about whether it

00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:41.400
 was even

00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:42.840
 appropriate to

00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:44.059
 share this with

00:13:44.059 --> 00:13:44.639
 you from the

00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:44.980
 pulpit.

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 Would it be a

00:13:47.199 --> 00:13:47.699
 cool thing to

00:13:47.699 --> 00:13:48.500
 tweet and go

00:13:48.500 --> 00:13:49.139
 back to normal

00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:50.360
 or is it

00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:50.720
 something that

00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:51.379
 might touch a

00:13:51.379 --> 00:13:51.980
 nerve and call

00:13:51.980 --> 00:13:52.559
 you to action?

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 Some of you

00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:55.139
 might be

00:13:55.139 --> 00:13:55.679
 interested to know

00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:56.539
 that within 500

00:13:56.539 --> 00:13:57.100
 metres of the

00:13:57.100 --> 00:13:57.799
 train station in

00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:58.259
 Chatswood there

00:13:58.259 --> 00:13:59.179
 are 16 illegal

00:13:59.179 --> 00:13:59.659
 brothels.

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 Does that

00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:02.759
 terrify you?

00:14:03.699 --> 00:14:04.379
 That's a stone's

00:14:04.379 --> 00:14:04.860
 throw from here

00:14:04.860 --> 00:14:05.220
 literally.

00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:09.720
 Thankfully Jesus

00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:10.440
 calls us not

00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:11.379
 just share the

00:14:11.379 --> 00:14:12.200
 BuzzFeed article

00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.779
 about him but

00:14:13.779 --> 00:14:15.240
 into action and

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 doing something.

00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:17.139
 In today's second

00:14:17.139 --> 00:14:17.680
 scripture from

00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:19.340
 Matthew 5, you

00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:20.740
 are the salt of

00:14:20.740 --> 00:14:22.300
 the earth but if

00:14:22.300 --> 00:14:23.200
 that salt loses

00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.300
 its saltiness how

00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:24.960
 can it be made

00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.840
 salty again?

00:14:26.620 --> 00:14:27.580
 It is no longer

00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:28.700
 good for anything

00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:29.899
 except to be

00:14:29.899 --> 00:14:30.740
 thrown out and

00:14:30.740 --> 00:14:31.600
 trampled underfoot.

00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:33.920
 How good is salt?

00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.240
 Tanya and I

00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:37.479
 lived nearly

00:14:37.479 --> 00:14:38.299
 three years in

00:14:38.299 --> 00:14:38.919
 exile in

00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:39.620
 Southern California.

00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:41.360
 The whole time

00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.279
 we took Australian

00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:43.019
 salt with us.

00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:44.919
 You can laugh at

00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:45.559
 that because it's

00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:46.219
 funny that we did.

00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:47.379
 They have every

00:14:47.379 --> 00:14:48.059
 kind of salt you

00:14:48.059 --> 00:14:48.759
 can imagine there.

00:14:48.839 --> 00:14:49.240
 In fact the

00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:50.000
 supermarket had a

00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:50.879
 whole aisle of

00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:51.299
 salt and

00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:52.379
 variations of salt

00:14:52.379 --> 00:14:53.919
 but we liked

00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:54.519
 this pink

00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:55.379
 Australian salt

00:14:55.379 --> 00:14:55.819
 which I can't

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 even remember

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 the name of.

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 Yeah, the Murray

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 River salt and

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 it's complicated but

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 it was our little

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 bit of home and

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 dinner every night

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 while we were in

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 exile.

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 Good salt,

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 there's nothing

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 better than it.

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 Salt comes in

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 different shapes,

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 sizes, different

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 colours, different

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 origins, textures,

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 you name it, it

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 exists, you can

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 find it.

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 The important

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 character of salt

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 that defines it as

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 good salt though is

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 its saltiness,

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 yeah?

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 Salt's ability to

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 taste salty.

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 Added to a soup,

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 it goes from bland

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 to I need more of

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 that, you know.

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 Tanya likes to

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 sprinkle it on top

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 of her cheese on

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 toast which turns a

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 lazy dinner into oh

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 my gosh can I

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 have more of

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 that, it's

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 delicious.

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 Good salt has

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 that effect.

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 Jesus continues in

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 514,

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 you are the light

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 of the world,

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 a town built on

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 a hill cannot be

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 hidden, neither do

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 people light a lamp

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 and put it under a

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 bowl, instead they

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 put it on its stand

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 and it gives light to

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 everyone in the

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 house.

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 In the same way

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 let your light shine

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 before others that

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 they may see your

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 good deeds and

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 glorify your

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 father in heaven.

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 I'm going to be

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 really honest with

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 you here, when I

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 read this I don't

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 see a call for me

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 Tim to go and

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 enroll in apologetics

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 class.

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 You might and

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 that's good if you

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 hear that, go do

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 that.

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 I see a call to go

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 do something salty,

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 something seen,

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 something that

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 glorifies our

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 father in heaven.

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 I think in 17

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 years of youth

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 ministry I'm now

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 full of stories of

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 young people I've

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 been blessed to

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 introduce to Jesus.

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 Ironically, I was

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 recently going over

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 my transcript from

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 my Bachelor of

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 Theology and I

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 failed apologetics

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 the first time

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 around.

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 I'm terrible at

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 it, the theory,

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 but I'm sorting

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 that out at the

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 moment, second

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 time around.

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 Right back at the

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 start of this

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 sermon I talked

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 about books and

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 fruit and veggies

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 and I postured this

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 point, what we see

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 compels us to

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 choose, yeah?

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 But let me add,

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 what they see out

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 there will compel

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 them to choose.

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 I think if you're

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 prepared to embrace

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 that we're living in a

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 post-Christian society,

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 you can then also

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 embrace that this is an

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 exciting time for the

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 church in this

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 country.

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 We shouldn't be

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 crying that it's

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 harder to get a

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 table at a cafe on a

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 Sunday morning than a

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 pew in a church.

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 We should be excited to

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 actually face that

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 challenge and do

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 something about it,

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 yeah?

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 See, I believe

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 loving God and

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 loving others is

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 things we have to

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 do.

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 They're verbs,

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 doing words.

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 That's how I was

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 brought up in

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 Dubbo in primary

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 school, right?

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 A verb is a

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 doing word.

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 We need to be

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 salty.

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 We need to go and

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 do salty, yeah?

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 Like salt is salty,

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 we need to be

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 loving, we need to

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 be seen.

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 that what we do

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 may glorify he who

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 is worthy of all

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 glory.

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 And what they see

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 will compel them to

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 choose.

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 You can have an

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 impact on what they

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 see.

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 You don't need to

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 wait for church to

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 present you with an

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 opportunity to do

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 something.

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 You just have to do

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 something.

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 One thing you could

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 do is to come and be

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 a part of what we're

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 doing at Street

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 Work, particularly if

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 you failed apologetics

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 class like me.

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 And we need people

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 to sit in prison

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 cells with young

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 people that have

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 just been arrested.

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 We need mentors for

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 young people that are

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 doing it tough.

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 I really need people

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 who are happy just to

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 turn sausages on a

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 barbecue.

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 You don't have to do

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 everything.

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 In fact, if the

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 recent movie is any

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 indication, Superman

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 really are unhelpful.

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 We just have to do

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 something.

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 Something salty.

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 If you want to talk

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 more about it, let's

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 come back this

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 afternoon at 3.30 and

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 Hugh and I are going

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 to talk to you about

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 that.

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 I also ask that you

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 would pray for us at

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 Street Work, as we

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 did this morning.

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 Hold us on your

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 prayers.

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 We regularly

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 encounter dangerous

00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:06.079
 situations.

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 Yeah?

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 My staff, I'm the

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 manager.

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 My staff are really

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 skilled, but we

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 frequently have weapons

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 and things involved in

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 what we're doing.

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 And please hold them

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 up in your prayers.

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 As I come to a

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 conclusion with this

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 short message, I

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 actually want to sing

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 a song.

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 And then I want to

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 give the microphone

00:19:30.420 --> 00:19:31.019
 back to Steve.

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 this is a song that we

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 sung in my youth

00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:37.400
 ministry in Southern

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 California while I was

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 in exile there, while

00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:40.139
 Tanya was doing her

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 PhD.

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 And this song is about

00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:44.879
 this very topic.

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 And it's a song we used

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 to sing in worship.

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 And God used to do

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 something in the youth

00:19:52.379 --> 00:19:53.200
 ministry when we sang

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 this together.

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 Now, you don't know it,

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 so I'm sorry.

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 If you do know it,

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 please sing with us.

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 My prayer for you today

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 is that this song will

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 have a similar impact

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 in you.

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 That on Pentecost

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 Sunday, the Holy

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 Spirit will touch you

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 in a way that inspires

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 you to do something

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 salty.

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 Do something.

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 And what they see will

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 compel them to choose.

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 after serious

00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.460
 the time

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 is

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 that

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 the

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 who

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 heard

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 them

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 ano

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 myths

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 the

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 clip

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 fall

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 or

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 nad

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 Heute

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 little

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 month

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cado

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