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 Well, good morning, everyone. It's so lovely to see you here today. Big welcome if this is your first time with us.

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 Great to meet some new folks this morning. Know that you are genuinely so loved and welcome here today.

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 And if there's anything that we can do to help you or serve you during your time with us today, it would always be our joy to help you with that.

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 So let me invite you to come expectantly to God's Word this morning.

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 Why don't you grab your Bible if you came with one? If you didn't, you can grab the Pew Bible, which is, I hope, on the pew in front of you.

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 It's roughly about page 1200 is where you're going. Or you can scroll on your phone if you so desire to the book of Titus.

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 And this is such a brilliant passage. I have loved getting into it this week. And it is so much to teach us, I think.

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 Let's just read this together as we hear God speak to us through his Word.

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 You, however, and this is Paul writing to Titus, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

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 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

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 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

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 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the Word of God.

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 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

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 In everything, set them an example by doing what is good.

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 In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned,

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 so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

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 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them and not to steal from them,

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 but to show that they can be fully trusted so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Saviour attractive.

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 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

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 It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age

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 while we wait for the grace of God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great God our great Savior Jesus Christ

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 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

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 these then are the things you should teach encourage and

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 rebuke with all authority do not let anyone despise you and so father we pray

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 this morning that you would enthuse us as we turn to your words may the

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 challenge may the comfort from this text lord may it hit us square between the

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 eyes and may it settle squarely in our hearts

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 father be by your spirit we ask in jesus is worthy

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 and in his beautiful name we pray amen

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 okay so put your hand up if you put either cream on your face or gel on your

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 hair this morning

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 okay i'm not here to act to the vanity police i promise

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 who let the max factor do the x factor put your hands up i'd say keep them up

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 come on keep them up so i can see okay a number of us did that this

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 morning if you did i want to reward your bravery

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 and i want to say to you you've got a head start on understanding

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 the wonderful truth at the heart of this passage here is the key verse i think at

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 verse nine

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 maybe you took it in as we read it together

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 paul says so that in every way you will make the teaching about god our savior

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 attractive now when you consider that the word that the paul uses at the end there attractive maybe some of your translations run with adorn when you consider that's a translation its root is in the greek word

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 cosmosin which is where we get our english word cosmetics from

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 why does paul want this for this church in crete

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 so that people from the outside world would look in and do you know this to be true in your own life people look in and say we don't get why you believe what you believe

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 we find it if we're honest borderline offensive but we cannot argue with what it seems to do in your life

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 and they see verse 14 christians in the world who are zealous

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 for good works

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 now be clear that we are not saved by our good works

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 that is a foundation of our faith we are not saved by our good works

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 but

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 we have been purposely saved by god

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 for good works

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 now we thought last week about this culture in this island of crete and maybe if you weren't here last week this is a great chance for you to tap into this

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 we saw paul quote from one of crete's leading thinkers this man called epimenides if you see him at verse 12 there of chapter 1

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 this is what he says about the people who live on this island of crete he says

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 cretins are always liars evil beasts lazy gluttons now we thought about the fact that that is a slogan unlikely to make it onto the front page of your visit crete holiday brochure

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 but just to show you that this is not just one man's opinion of these people on crete

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 here's greek historian

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 paul obias i think you pronounce his name as who wrote this he said

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 it's impossible to find conduct more treacherous or public policy more unjust

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 than

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 in crete

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 and onto this island then that's known for its wild living

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 god through the proclamation of the gospel as it's gone forth

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 the message has birthed this church

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 and paul has called them if you remember last week to live lives that are counter-cultural to the people who are on this island who they rub shoulders with

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 every day if by nature cretins are liars evil and lazy

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 how different then are the jesus people on crete

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 going to look

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 as god's grace truth and his truth trains them to live lives that are marked by truth

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 self-control

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 self-control

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 and good works

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 and so as you consider your life this

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 is the question that this week and next week are going to invite us all to think about and consider

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 is what are the good works that god has put in your path for you to do wherever you find yourself right now

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 next week we're going to think about how those good works are going to look out there

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 but this week we're going to think about the place where those good works are developed in us

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 which is

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 in here

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 there's two points in this today here's the first one

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 the church is called to make the gospel beautiful

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 now if you want a strap line here it is

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 the local church is the godliness gym

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 the local church is the godliness gym

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 now here's what i want you to do

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 and we're all in this together as high school musical so beautifully sang

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 why don't you turn around and take in look at the people who are around about you

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 just do it for a minute we're all in this together

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 so it's not weird just look at the people around about you

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 the people that you look at

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 have you ever thought about this

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 are god's gracious gift to you

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 when was the last time you thought about that

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 you might think i've got nothing in common with that person around about you

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 you might be right

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 but in actual fact if you're a christian here today

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 then you've got the biggest and the most important thing in your life in common

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 with these people

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 and the beauty of it

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 is that god has purposefully and perfectly given us

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 each other

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 that you're not here by an accident

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 you are here for a purpose

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 and you're surrounded by people who that for whom that is exactly the same

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 these are the exact people that god knows in his wisdom

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 that you and i need right now

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 if we are to grow in godliness

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 you see titus chapter 2 contains a wonderful picture

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 and did you pick it up as we went through it

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 of an intergenerational church

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 now it's likely that an older person in this context

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 and i think in paul's mind is somebody who's above 40

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 right and i happen just to be the other side of that which is lovely

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 now you might be laughing at that

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 but i think in the context that's true

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 so for the purposes of this older younger thing

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 we're going to run with the track of that

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 okay

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 but let me pitch you a vision

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 of the kind of church culture

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 that we're looking to cultivate here

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 that the grain of the new testament invites us to see and go with

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 and this is why i think this is a wonderful word in season for us

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 at the start of a new year and it's a wonderful opportunity

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 as we demonstrate the power of what god has done

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 to our world right now in this cultural moment

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 you ready for this

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 come on

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 right

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 what's playing out in our world right now

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 and i just took that from a newspaper

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 i quite liked it as i saw it a few weeks ago

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 what seems to be playing out in our world right now

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 is the opposite

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 of what you have in titus 2

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 isn't it generally true that in our world right now

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 where the generation gaps seem ever to be increasing

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 that you have a younger generation

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 who are critical of an older generation

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 you guys are clogging the house and market

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 you aren't being authentic

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 and you also have an older generation

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 who are suspicious of our younger generation

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 you're not committed as we once were

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 you've got an entitlement mentality

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 what you have right now is generations in our world

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 who are not speaking to each other

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 they seem to be speaking over each other

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 does that sound fair?

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 that sounds roughly familiar?

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 God calls his people to do this generations thing

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 radically differently

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 and to lovingly enter

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 each other's worlds

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 now think about the other generation

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 if we're taking 40

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 go with it

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 think about the other generation

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 to the one that you're in right now

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 here's some questions for you

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 as you think about them

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 do you know

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 their biggest struggles and their fears?

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 do you know the things that have influenced them

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 over the years?

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 do you see the unique opportunities

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 that they have right in front of him

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 them

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 and so here's a loving challenge

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 to both generations

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 older generation

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 do you pray for

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 and are you willing to invest yourselves

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 in

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 a younger generation

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 who by the way

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 are the church leaders of tomorrow

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 in a way that communicates to them

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 that we don't just want you

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 to simply keep up the momentum

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 of what we've started

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 no we long

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 that you guys accomplish

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 and see so much more fruit

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 than we ever did in our life

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 as this generation of God's people

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 do you appreciate

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 that they are facing things

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 that you probably never had to face

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 and never had to worry about

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 in your lifetime

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 mounting student debt

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 gender critical

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 and sex saturated places of work

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 online school learning

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 social media

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 mental health worries

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 do you

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 are you willing to

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 enter their world

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 and be their biggest cheerleaders

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 in godliness

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 and younger generation

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 are you sitting here

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 right now

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 deep down

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 thinking to yourself

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 that you have nothing to learn

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 from an older generation

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 do you see

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 that they have so

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 much Christian life experience

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 to share with you

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 people who are in this room

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 who have had marriages

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 that have lasted

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 for longer

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 than I've been alive

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 people who know

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 what it is

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 to live through

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 and suffer bereavement

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 people who know

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 how scary it is

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 to face unemployment

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 and redundancy

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 people who know

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 what it is

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 to be tired

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 and exhausted

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 and at the end of your tether

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 as a parent

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 people who know

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 what it is

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 to run a business

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 and to do that

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 with integrity

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 people who know

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 what it is

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 to be a missionary

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 in a foreign country

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 and experience that

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 when you consider

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 all of what I've just said

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 do you see

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 how the local church

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 is a truly

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 marvellous gift

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 from God

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 that he would put

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 each other

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 all of us

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 in the same

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 church family

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 and here's the challenge

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 what we're called to do

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 is that we are called

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 to help each other

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 figure out

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 what faithfulness

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 to Jesus

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 looks like

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 in our different

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 life stages

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 and so into our world

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 that encourages

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 a culture

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 of dishonor

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 are you up

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 for being

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 a church

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 community

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 who fosters

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 and creates

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 that culture

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 of honor

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 amongst the different

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 generations

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 generations

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 in here

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 two things

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 that Paul

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 tells Titus

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 to foster

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 in this church

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 family

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 in Crete

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 two little

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 sub points

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 here

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 here's the first

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 one

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 it's a culture

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 of modelling

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 do you see

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 the different

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 generations

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 playing out here

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 there's four

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 of them

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 in Paul's

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 mind

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 do you see

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 he's calling

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 older men

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 verse 2

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 to be examples

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 of a dignified

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 life

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 particularly

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 so that the

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 younger men

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 can look at

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 them and think

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 that you are

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 what I want

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 to be

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 when I

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 grew up

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 how many

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 of us

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 did that

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 when we

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 were growing

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 up by the

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 way

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 was it just

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 me

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 who had

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 posters on

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 my bedroom

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 wall of the

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 person I

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 wanted to be

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 when I

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 grew up

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 I think it

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 was Ryan

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 gigs at the

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 time if that

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 mean he

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 means anything

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 to any of

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 you

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 probably not

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 in the later

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 years of his

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 life

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 but older

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 men we need

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 you in this

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 church

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 know how much

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 we love having

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 you as part of

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 this church

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 family

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 hear the

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 encouragement

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 to live that

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 sober minded

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 self-controlled

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 sacrificial life

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 in front of the

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 rest of us

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 because we need

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 you to be

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 setting the

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 pace here

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 we need you

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 by the rings

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 that are on

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 the tree of

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 your life

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 to show us

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 that Christianity

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 still makes

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 sense in your

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 70s

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 can I encourage

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 you not

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 you might be

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 physically taking

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 your foot off

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 the gas a

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 little bit

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 understandably

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 so

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 but inwardly

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 spiritually

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 can I encourage

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 you to live a

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 life in front

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 of the rest

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 of us

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 that shows

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 us that

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 you're putting

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 the gas

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 well and

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 truly on

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 when it

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 comes to

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 your love

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 for and

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 walk with

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 Jesus

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 older women

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 verse 3

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 do you see

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 that be

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 examples of

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 how to use

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 your words

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 of how to

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 conduct

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 yourself

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 socially

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 of how to

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 be with

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 your family

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 which by the

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 way is the

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 thing that

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 makes them

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 perfectly suited

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 to be the

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 ones who

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 do you see

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 it who

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 teach and

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 train the

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 younger

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 woman

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 now that's

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 not saying

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 that men

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 can't meet

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 with women

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 or anything

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 like that

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 understand that

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 I take it

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 that there are

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 so many good

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 and appropriate

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 ways where we

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 can and where

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 we should

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 foster those

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 kind of

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 relationships

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 between the

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 sexes

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 but wisdom

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 would say

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 wouldn't it

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 that the

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 people who

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 are best

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 placed to

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 nurture a

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 younger

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 generation

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 of females

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 are the

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 older women

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 who are in

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 this church

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 family

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 because they

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 just know

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 what it

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 is

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 they get

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 it

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 in a way

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 that I

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 certainly

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 know that

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 I just

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 don't

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 and you're

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 to pass

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 that on

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 as you

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 teach the

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 younger

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 woman

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 just worth

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 flagging there

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 in case you

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 picked up in

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 the reading

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 that working

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 at home

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 just doesn't

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 mean that you

00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:57.639
 can't have a

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 job

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 got to remember

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 then this Roman

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 culture family

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 life work

00:17:01.719 --> 00:17:02.339
 life they all

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 happen in

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 the household

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 so it's not

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 quite a straight

00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:07.740
 line there that

00:17:07.740 --> 00:17:08.680
 you can draw

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 but and yet

00:17:10.259 --> 00:17:11.220
 hear me say

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 and I know

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 this will

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 click with so

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 many in this

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 church that

00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:15.099
 in a culture

00:17:15.099 --> 00:17:15.960
 that subtly

00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:16.740
 undermines

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 family and

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 marriage and

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 spotlights

00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:21.059
 independence and

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 career advancement

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 that if you

00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:24.440
 find yourself in a

00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:25.200
 season of life

00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:25.940
 that is calling

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 you to be at

00:17:26.619 --> 00:17:28.359
 home that if

00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:29.339
 children and if

00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:30.180
 your marriage is

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 just what you do

00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:31.720
 with your days

00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:32.359
 you might be

00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:32.799
 thinking I'm

00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:33.339
 kind of missing

00:17:33.339 --> 00:17:34.019
 out I've had to

00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:34.680
 park things

00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:35.779
 can I just

00:17:35.779 --> 00:17:37.259
 encourage you

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 that what you

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 are doing

00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:40.220
 is a glorious

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 thing in the

00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:41.420
 sight of the

00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:42.220
 Lord please

00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:43.000
 please know

00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.500
 that please

00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:45.100
 know that

00:17:45.100 --> 00:17:47.539
 and younger

00:17:47.539 --> 00:17:48.019
 men do you

00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:48.779
 just see how

00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:50.900
 they are told

00:17:50.900 --> 00:17:51.620
 to be self

00:17:51.620 --> 00:17:53.339
 controlled and

00:17:53.339 --> 00:17:54.319
 just in case you

00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:54.700
 think you're

00:17:54.700 --> 00:17:55.240
 getting off really

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 lightly because

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 there's one thing

00:17:56.460 --> 00:17:57.180
 there this is the

00:17:57.180 --> 00:17:58.019
 equivalent of the

00:17:58.019 --> 00:17:58.819
 personal trainer

00:17:58.819 --> 00:17:59.860
 pointing you in

00:17:59.860 --> 00:18:00.500
 the direction of

00:18:00.500 --> 00:18:01.519
 the gym and

00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:02.299
 saying go and

00:18:02.299 --> 00:18:04.460
 get fit you

00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:05.240
 don't hear that

00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:05.860
 you wouldn't hear

00:18:05.860 --> 00:18:06.420
 that and think

00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:07.000
 I'm just he's

00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:07.660
 just talking about

00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:08.980
 my upper left

00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:11.380
 tricep he's

00:18:11.380 --> 00:18:11.740
 talking about

00:18:11.740 --> 00:18:12.099
 no go and

00:18:12.099 --> 00:18:12.559
 get fit that

00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:13.299
 means all of

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 your life all

00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:16.460
 of you how you

00:18:16.460 --> 00:18:17.220
 spend your money

00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:18.160
 what you look at

00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.120
 online the jokes

00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:19.779
 that you make

00:18:19.779 --> 00:18:20.279
 that's what he

00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:21.019
 means by self

00:18:21.019 --> 00:18:23.559
 control I'll be

00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:24.299
 clear this isn't

00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:25.200
 Paul pushing some

00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:25.819
 kind of first

00:18:25.819 --> 00:18:27.039
 century stoicism

00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:27.980
 saying leave

00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:28.860
 emotions at the

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 side the Bible

00:18:30.819 --> 00:18:31.539
 is full of

00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:34.339
 emotions self

00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:35.180
 control is when

00:18:35.180 --> 00:18:36.019
 we let the Bible

00:18:36.019 --> 00:18:37.420
 inform us as to

00:18:37.420 --> 00:18:38.220
 what the right

00:18:38.220 --> 00:18:39.139
 expression of

00:18:39.139 --> 00:18:39.740
 those human

00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:40.740
 emotions looks

00:18:40.740 --> 00:18:43.559
 like Titus

00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.039
 create a culture

00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.759
 in the church

00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:47.480
 of modelling

00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.400
 and the other

00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:50.099
 side of the coin

00:18:50.099 --> 00:18:50.839
 really create a

00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:51.500
 culture of

00:18:51.500 --> 00:18:53.920
 witnessing so

00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:54.779
 verse 9 Paul

00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:55.700
 addresses bond

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 servants and

00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:58.500
 again this is

00:18:58.500 --> 00:18:59.839
 not slavery as

00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:00.299
 our minds

00:19:00.299 --> 00:19:01.279
 automatically jump

00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:02.059
 to picturing it

00:19:02.059 --> 00:19:03.220
 in our day in

00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:03.900
 this day you have

00:19:03.900 --> 00:19:05.379
 roughly 30% or

00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:06.120
 so of the Roman

00:19:06.120 --> 00:19:06.940
 Empire who are

00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:08.740
 slaves right

00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:09.980
 doctors were

00:19:09.980 --> 00:19:11.340
 slaves lawyers

00:19:11.340 --> 00:19:12.620
 were slaves this

00:19:12.620 --> 00:19:13.540
 is much more you

00:19:13.540 --> 00:19:14.820
 do those things as

00:19:14.820 --> 00:19:15.660
 you work for the

00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:16.500
 family that both

00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:17.440
 employ you and

00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:18.240
 that you stay

00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:21.580
 with slaves

00:19:21.580 --> 00:19:22.260
 perhaps reading

00:19:22.260 --> 00:19:23.160
 this thinking I'd

00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:23.700
 love to make a

00:19:23.700 --> 00:19:24.440
 difference for Jesus

00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:25.220
 where I am but

00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:25.820
 I've got all these

00:19:25.820 --> 00:19:26.700
 work constraints on

00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:27.460
 my life meaning I

00:19:27.460 --> 00:19:28.200
 have to be in a

00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:29.020
 certain place at a

00:19:29.020 --> 00:19:29.740
 certain time doing

00:19:29.740 --> 00:19:31.080
 certain tasks what

00:19:31.080 --> 00:19:32.060
 can I do with my

00:19:32.060 --> 00:19:33.100
 life for the

00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:34.680
 witness of Jesus

00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:35.880
 and Paul is

00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:36.420
 saying don't

00:19:36.420 --> 00:19:37.299
 underestimate the

00:19:37.299 --> 00:19:39.000
 impact that just

00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:40.360
 doing your job well

00:19:40.360 --> 00:19:41.380
 and with integrity

00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:44.019
 the impact that God

00:19:44.019 --> 00:19:45.340
 may have through that

00:19:45.340 --> 00:19:47.220
 increase and I hope

00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:47.940
 that's a word for some

00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:48.920
 of us today if we're

00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:49.820
 struggling with our

00:19:49.820 --> 00:19:51.440
 jobs thinking does

00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:54.380
 anyone see does

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 anyone see this is it

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 making any difference

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 please do not

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 underestimate what

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 God can do with the

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 your faithful witness

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 and love for Jesus

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 wherever you are

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 and in doing so do

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 you see how you

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 will adorn the

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 gospel of God our

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 savior what's the

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 motivation for all of

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 this well the church

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 is called to make the

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 gospel beautiful

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 because the gospel

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 has made the church

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 beautiful that's what

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 the little word for

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 do you see that verse

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 11 indicates it's just

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 the linking words

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 what's the logic of

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 what's gone before it

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 the word for just

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 links it to the

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 section after in other

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 words saying it's the

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 gospel that's created

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 this kind of community

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 the message behind it

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 all is the match that

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 lights the fire of the

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 practice of it all

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 do you see how it's a

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 message with a source

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 verse 11 that source is

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 not our efforts that

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 source is not our

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 feelings no the source

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 is the unmerited

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 grace of God and that

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 grace is not just a

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 message to be

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 proclaimed it's a

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 message that you see

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 the word it it trains

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 us trains us you know

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 my biggest fear every

00:21:13.819 --> 00:21:16.940
 time I go to put gas in

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 my car at a petrol

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 station my biggest fear

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 is I put in the wrong

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 kind of fuel anyone else

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 have that weird thing

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 when you go to a petrol

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 station because I just

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 don't want to be that

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 guy who has to call the

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 AA and says I'm sorry I

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 put petrol in my diesel

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 car can you come out and

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 drain the thing I love

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 that our car has got a

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 big diesel sign at the

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 the where you put the gas

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 in it gets me every

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 single time so I don't

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 know where I'd be without

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 it okay but I've if I

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 were to put petrol in our

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 diesel car the thing

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 would just stutter and

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 stall Paul is saying

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 here that the Christian

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 life we're designed to

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 run on grace that's what

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 we put into our lives we

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 put in this message of

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 grace and what we so

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 often default to doing is

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 that we put into the

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 tanks of our lives our

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 efforts our morals you put

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 that in you put that in

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 solely into your life that

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 will not go far if we want

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 to see growth in godliness

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 we need to fill our tank

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 with the truth of god's

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 grace the truth of the

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 that's why we do this

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 every Sunday we gather

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 together we have scripture

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 readings we have songs that

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 are appropriate all these

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 things are going on are

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 designed to fill our minds

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 with the gospel this message

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 of who Jesus is and what

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 he's done for us because

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 our minds during the week

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 they just drift and you see

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 by god's grace we find

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 ourselves between two

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 appearings in the text the

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 first is when first

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 appearing was when Jesus

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 came at Christmas well we

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 celebrate it at Christmas

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 and his second appearing

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 will be when he returns

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 you see those two

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 appearings and that means

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 that the gospel gives us a

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 hope and a future and that

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 means that we are people who

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 are waiting for Jesus's

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 return now again if you think

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 about Crete if Crete is full

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 of people who are living

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 for the moment if Crete is

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 full of people who are

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 saying life is too short if

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 Crete is full of people who

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 would happily subscribe to

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 Carpe Diem how different

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 are lives of people who are

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 waiting and living not for

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 today but who are living and

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 waiting in light of the hope

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 of tomorrow going to look on

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 Crete

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 big question I asked myself

00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:47.319
 this week and would my

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 friends would my family with

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 those walking who I walk and

00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.940
 talk with every day would

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 they know that I'm a person

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 who's waiting for Jesus's

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 return would they see it in

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 me you know C.S. Lewis I've

00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:01.940
 quoted this guy a few times

00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:03.799
 before he said this if you read

00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:04.899
 history you'll find that the

00:24:04.899 --> 00:24:06.139
 Christians who did most for the

00:24:06.139 --> 00:24:07.799
 present world were precisely

00:24:08.379 --> 00:24:09.879
 those who thought most of the

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 next and I just caveat that

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 and just say as long as what

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 we mean by next is Jesus we

00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:21.380
 think most about not just

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 heaven but Jesus

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 can I just say it's maybe

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 something that's been in my

00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:27.580
 mind this week with everything

00:24:27.580 --> 00:24:28.660
 that's going on in our world

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 maybe particularly in in our

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 countries we think about stuff

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 that's coming up in government

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 and things like that let's

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 remind ourselves what we read

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 we sang at the start that he is

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 in that place of all authority

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 and power right now the risen

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 Jesus we live between these

00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:46.279
 two appearings but don't ever

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:47.519
 doubt the fact that he is in

00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.539
 control every square inch of

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 our existence he is in control

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 of the difference is just now

00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:56.279
 we're living by faith in that

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 truth but then we'll see it by

00:25:00.379 --> 00:25:03.319
 sight in his second appearing but

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:04.959
 never doubt that he's in control

00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.660
 never doubt that he's not sovereign

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 over square every square inch of

00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:14.079
 our existence the gospel gives us a

00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.180
 purpose as well do you see that

00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:18.559
 now you're living in your woman

00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.299
 world you're used to reading that

00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:24.860
 the gods came down to get stuff from

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 us and we thought last week about

00:25:26.940 --> 00:25:30.220
 Zeus apparently he was born on Crete

00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:32.460
 the classic example of might and

00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:34.720
 right the gods come down they demand

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:36.720
 our worship they demand our

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 allegiance and if we obey we get

00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:41.720
 good things in return from them but

00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:46.259
 you see how Paul says Jesus is the

00:25:46.259 --> 00:25:49.059
 complete opposite of that

00:25:49.059 --> 00:25:58.259
 Jesus gave himself for us to redeem

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 us you can remind yourself of that

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 every time you go to buy something

00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:04.319
 at Tesco when you pick up an item

00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:06.740
 you go to the tell you pay the price

00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:08.119
 and now it's yours

00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:13.400
 Jesus paid the price for our freedom

00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:16.440
 not in pounds but with his precious

00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:20.200
 blood on the cross he was humiliated so

00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.059
 that we could be his he was pierced so

00:26:23.059 --> 00:26:25.879
 that we could be purchased that's what

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:28.640
 the word redeemed means he bought us

00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.940
 back for himself and he didn't just

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 do it for individual people just

00:26:34.020 --> 00:26:36.920
 although that is true it is our

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:38.540
 people do you see that in the text

00:26:38.540 --> 00:26:43.800
 it's our people collectively why do we

00:26:43.800 --> 00:26:47.120
 say no to ungodliness because Jesus

00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:50.180
 has redeemed us from ungodliness he's

00:26:50.180 --> 00:26:52.380
 called us out of our old way of life

00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:55.380
 and said I set you free to live for me

00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:56.920
 that was a whole reason that you were

00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:59.260
 created in the first place to know God

00:26:59.260 --> 00:27:02.620
 and walk with him and why do we say

00:27:02.620 --> 00:27:05.480
 yes to godliness because Jesus has

00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:08.080
 purified us he's bought us for himself

00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:13.020
 and we belong to him and so as we do

00:27:13.020 --> 00:27:16.220
 this together do you see how we become

00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:20.720
 proof cases we become exhibit a to the

00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:25.640
 world that the gospel it works

00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:29.579
 now just as we close can I tell you about

00:27:29.579 --> 00:27:30.380
 my friend Doug

00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:35.920
 Doug was an elder at the church I used

00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:37.799
 to go to up in Aberdeen when I was a

00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:38.420
 student there

00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:42.000
 Doug was about 20 years older than me

00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.819
 Doug was an oil and gas lawyer and as

00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:47.140
 someone who was studying law at the time

00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:49.359
 I remember really looking up to him

00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:51.640
 Doug and his wife Ray and their kids

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:52.859
 they used to have me around to their

00:27:52.859 --> 00:27:55.700
 house for lunch I used to send Doug my

00:27:55.700 --> 00:27:58.619
 CV and job applications he used to look

00:27:58.619 --> 00:28:00.420
 over and give me some really sobering

00:28:00.420 --> 00:28:02.380
 words about what I'd written Doug used

00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:04.180
 to tell me what corporate culture was

00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:08.380
 like before I entered it but the biggest

00:28:08.380 --> 00:28:11.800
 thing that Doug did for me was with a 20

00:28:11.800 --> 00:28:15.540
 year gap between us I could see him

00:28:15.540 --> 00:28:19.160
 loving his wife I could see him caring

00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:21.700
 for his children I could see him loving

00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:23.620
 and serving in his local church because

00:28:23.620 --> 00:28:26.560
 he loved Jesus now I moved away from

00:28:26.560 --> 00:28:28.920
 Aberdeen I moved down here and he

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:31.120
 subsequently and his family moved away as

00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:33.700
 well first he worked in America in law

00:28:33.700 --> 00:28:35.580
 then he went to Hong Kong and I think he

00:28:35.580 --> 00:28:37.420
 did a bit in legal banking as well

00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:41.140
 before he retired from law and a few

00:28:41.140 --> 00:28:43.000
 years ago he moved back to Edinburgh I

00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.640
 did not know this at all and he's just

00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:47.740
 taken up the role of executive pastor at

00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:49.580
 Crubber's Christian Fellowship on the

00:28:49.580 --> 00:28:52.500
 Royal Mile now with that skill set talk

00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:54.320
 about the right man at the right time

00:28:54.320 --> 00:28:56.600
 doing the right job as those guys embark

00:28:56.600 --> 00:29:00.300
 on a really exciting building project that

00:29:00.300 --> 00:29:02.820
 they're doing there brilliant guy but I

00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:05.220
 went to to preach recently at Crubber's

00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:11.339
 and there he was with his wife Ray and all

00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:17.160
 I could say was just thank you thank you for

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:21.680
 convincing me as a 20 year old young guy who

00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.380
 thought he had life sorted and actually

00:29:23.380 --> 00:29:26.039
 didn't have a clue what life is all about

00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:29.660
 thank you for convincing me by the way that

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:32.519
 you lived your life in front of me that

00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:34.559
 Jesus was going to be worth following for the

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.119
 next 20 years of my life

00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.799
 thank you for doing that

00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:41.940
 wouldn't it be a wonderful thing

00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:46.680
 if this church community were filled with

00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.460
 more of those kind of relationships

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:53.059
 let me just give you a one and a two as

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:55.220
 really quick fire applications just as we

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:57.160
 finish to do off the back of this here's

00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:00.340
 number one try and speak to one person today

00:30:00.340 --> 00:30:03.200
 who's in the other generation from you

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.519
 right you can use this sermon as an excuse

00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:08.300
 to do it try and speak to one person today

00:30:08.300 --> 00:30:10.840
 who's the other generation to you and I also

00:30:10.840 --> 00:30:13.080
 want you to do is to look in two directions

00:30:13.080 --> 00:30:16.140
 as we think about modeling friends the

00:30:16.140 --> 00:30:18.100
 challenge here is to get on the catwalk

00:30:18.100 --> 00:30:21.560
 who is older than you that you can learn

00:30:21.560 --> 00:30:24.300
 from who is in this church family who is

00:30:24.299 --> 00:30:26.639
 perfectly placed to be the person who comes

00:30:26.639 --> 00:30:29.039
 alongside you and says let's do life

00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.139
 together who's older than you who's younger

00:30:32.139 --> 00:30:35.960
 than you who can you get alongside with the

00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:39.779
 sole purpose of wanting to pass on the

00:30:39.779 --> 00:30:42.839
 things that you have learned in life truth

00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:47.579
 leading to godliness and together let's just

00:30:47.579 --> 00:30:51.659
 be this church community who's helping each

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:55.220
 other in that privilege of adorning the

00:30:55.220 --> 00:30:57.400
 gospel listen at the end of the sermon I'm

00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:58.540
 going to be at the end of the service I'll

00:30:58.540 --> 00:31:01.540
 be at the back and if you're interested in

00:31:01.540 --> 00:31:03.100
 this if you would love to be paired with

00:31:03.100 --> 00:31:05.380
 somebody I love doing that matchmaking

00:31:05.380 --> 00:31:07.160
 thing if you'd love to do that just give

00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.460
 us your name your details and I'll make

00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:11.100
 that happen with somebody in this church

00:31:11.100 --> 00:31:13.019
 grab Kate as well Kate I would love to do

00:31:13.019 --> 00:31:15.240
 Archie anyone you've seen up the front we

00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.560
 would love to foster those kind of intergeneral

00:31:17.560 --> 00:31:19.220
 relationships in our church community

00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:25.960
 let's be those who make the teaching of God

00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:30.900
 our saviour attractive let's pray will we

00:31:30.900 --> 00:31:42.039
 and so this is the words of psalm 145

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.279
 great is the Lord and most worthy of praise his

00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:52.200
 greatness no one can fathom one generation

00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.420
 commends your works to another they tell of

00:31:56.420 --> 00:32:00.359
 your mighty acts they speak of the glorious

00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.859
 splendor of your majesty and I will meditate on

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 your wonderful works so far I just pray that you

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 would thrill each of our hearts here today with

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 Jesus with a wonderful vision of who he is today

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 and his self-giving love for us his redeeming work

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 for us Lord may it cultivate in us that desire to be

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 this community who together are zealous for good

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 works Father would you be prompting our hearts

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 Lord where we need to change would you be

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 installing in us that that rock solid confidence in who you are today

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 Father would you put people on our minds and in our hearts by your spirit who we can draw alongside

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 we just finished by saying thank you for each other

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 thank you Father for this church family here today

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 and Lord I pray that you would help us as we seek to be those who live godly lives for your glory

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 in Jesus name we pray Amen

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 amen

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 call amen

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 amen