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179. Summer Sermon - 2 Tim 4 - Robert Smith · 4-Freedom Podcast

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  I found my freedom in you. I found a toy I can't lose, and
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  thank God it's true. You wrapped your arms around me
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  and heaven broke through. From the moment she found me.
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  I found. Welcome to the Four Freedom
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  Podcast. This podcast exists to bring the
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  freedom of the gospel for everyday Christians with
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  everyday issues. Now here are your hosts, James
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  Seyfried and Brett Marks. My friend and one of my heroes
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  in the pulpit, Doctor Robert Smith, has asked me just a
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  moment ago to read his passage before he preaches.
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  Please listen to the Word of God, Second Timothy chapter 4,
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  beginning in verse one, in the presence of God and of Christ
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  Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His
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  appearing in His Kingdom. I give you this charge.
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  Preach. The word be prepared in season
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  and out of season, correct rebuke and encourage with great
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  patience and careful instruction.
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  For the time will come when people will not put up with
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  sound doctrine a great instead, to suit their own desires, they
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  will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what
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  they're itching ears want to hear.
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  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to
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  myths. But you keep your head in all
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  situations. Indoor hardship, do the work of
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  an evangelist, discharge all of the duties of your ministry.
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  For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and
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  the time of my departure is near.
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  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race.
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  I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the
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  crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
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  will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to
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  all who have longed for his appearing.
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  Now preach, brother. Even now, Lord Jesus, even now,
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  even now, for I ask this in your name, Amen.
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  The 1968 Summer Olympics were held in Mexico City.
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  The contestants competed. The awards were given to the
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  winners and during that evening, when the closing ceremony was
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  taking place, an unusual thing took place.
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  As the announcer was giving his concluding remarks and the
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  people were prepared to exit, the lights went on.
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  In the back of the stadium. There was a runner making his
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  way into the stadium and onto the track.
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  The competition had ended many hours ago, but this runner,
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  whose name was John Stephen Arari from Tanzania, came into
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  the stadium not running, not trotting, but barely moving.
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  He was a marathon runner. The marathon's were arduous
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  places of extreme strenuous activity and this one arrived in
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  the stadium late. His gait was very slow.
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  He had fallen on hard times, bruising his head, entering his
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  knee. He kept going, and the closer he
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  came to the finish line, the louder the applause got, until
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  he finally crossed the finish line and fell into the arms of
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  medical attendants. They rushed him to the hospital.
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  The next day, the journalists interviewed him and asked him
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  the question that everyone wanted to ask.
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  Why did you continue to run when the race had been over hours
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  before? And he said my country did not
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  send me 11,000 kilometers or 6835 miles from Tanzania to
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  Mexico City to start the race. They sent me to finish the race.
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  The Apostle Paul is familiar with blood.
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  He knew what it was like to be stoned.
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  He knew what it was like to be whipped.
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  He knew what it was like to be beaten.
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  And here he is finishing the race, a race that started 30
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  years ago. And now he is giving his last
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  words. Paul had probably had his
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  initial hearing before the Roman tribunal.
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  They had sentenced him to death, that there was no escape except
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  through death. And Paul gives his last words.
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  For last words are pleasurable, sometimes painful, but always
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  memorable. The last words of my father to
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  me were these words. Little Robert, take care of your
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  mother. The last words of my mother to
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  me were, little Robert, I'll see you in heaven.
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  The last words of Jesus to his disciples in the upper room
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  were, let not your heart be troubled.
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  If you believe in God, believe also in me.
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  For in my father's house there are many mansions and many
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  rooms. And if it were not so, I would
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  have told you, I'd go to prepare a place for you.
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  And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again to
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  receive you unto myself, that where I am ye may be all so.
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  And here Paul gives his last words.
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  I charge you before God and his Son Christ Jesus, who will judge
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  the living and the dead before he is appearing in the coming of
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  his Kingdom. This is the word of solemnity.
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  This is the word of serious oath, giving, charging and
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  commanding by Timothy's father in the ministry, Paul.
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  I charge you before God, before his Son Jesus Christ, who will
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  judge the living and the dead. It is the Father who entrusts
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  the Son with judgments. But that's what Jesus was
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  talking about in John 523 when he said, the Father has
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  entrusted me with judgments. This is exactly what Paul meant
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  when he said in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 10 We all must stand
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  before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account of the
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  deeds done in our body, whether they be good or evil.
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  The ironic thing about Christ's judging is that the one who
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  judges is the one who will be judged.
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  Christ will be judged for our sin.
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  He was wounded for our transgressions.
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  He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of
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  our peace was upon him, and with His stripes we are healed.
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  The Judge is the one who is judged so that we can be
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  proclaimed as innocent and free. He who judges, judges us, and he
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  judges the living in the dead at his appearing, the great blessed
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  return of Jesus. This is so important to Paul
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  that he mentions his appearance a second time in this particular
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  pericope or teaching paragraph, because it says in verse #8 Whom
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  the righteous judge shall give me at that day, and not to be
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  only, but to all those who love his appearing.
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  Maranatha, come, Lord Jesus, He will judge and will be the
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  judge, and He will stand before us, and we will be declared
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  eternal residence at His appearance.
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  But He will come also at the coming of His Kingdom, not only
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  as the judge, but as the king. He is the only king who will not
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  need to be nominated. He is the only king who will not
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  need to be elected. He is the only king who cannot
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  be impeached. In fact, the word there in
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  Exodus 15 and 18, malek, the Hebrew word malek, which means
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  the Lord reigns forever and ever.
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  It really means the Lord succeeds himself.
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  You can't vote him in, you can't vote him out.
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  He just succeeds himself. He is from everlasting to
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  everlasting. I say to you, my brothers and
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  sisters, I want you to be a crystal crack.
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  Doesn't make any difference what your political party is,
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  independent, Republican or Democrats.
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  What you need to be is a Christocratic Republican, a
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  Christocratic Democrat, a Christocratic independent.
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  And when we get to heaven, independents, Republicans and
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  Democrats will drop off. But to be a crystal Crats,
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  heaven knows that language. And if you are a crystal Crat,
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  you will promote principle above anything that's frivolous and
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  temporary. I charge you that you ought to
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  be one who will understand that you stand before Christ, the Son
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  of God, and he will be the one who will judge the living and
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  the dead at his appearing, and at the time of his coming preach
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  the Word. I sometimes think that Moses had
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  it much easier in preaching in Egypt then Jeremiah had it in
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  preaching in Jerusalem. Because Moses told Pharaoh in
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  Exodus 5 and two what the Lord had said to him, Let his people
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  go. And Pharaoh responded, Who is
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  the Lord that I should let his people go?
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  I've checked the directory of deities and I don't see his name
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  there. Who is the Lord?
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  And then the Lord just took 10 plagues to introduce himself to
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  Pharaoh and Egypt. But here, here are prophets and
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  magicians who are preaching from the authority of Rah and Isis
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  and all kinds of pluralistic gods.
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  But Jeremiah, how do you preach when you have an arch prophet by
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  the name of Hananiah who preaches from the same book you
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  preach from? Who says that?
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  The God who sent you, Jeremiah, sit Hananiah as well.
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  Jeremiah said you're going to the captivity, Judah, southern
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  southern Kingdom, and you're going to stay there for 70
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  years. Hananiah says, no, you're going
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  to the captivity, but you only stay two years.
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  How do you preach when people are preaching from the same
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  Bible and saying that God sent them?
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  Jeremiah just kept preaching and the Bible says in Jeremiah
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  chapter 28 verse 17 that that same year in the seventh month
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  Hannah and I died because the Word of God will stand forever.
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  You've got to keep on preaching. You preach the truth in somebody
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  down the street who is not preaching anything at all.
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  Every Sunday the parking lot is field.
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  Every Sunday there are people joining their church and you're
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  standing and preaching the gospel.
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  And it seemed like the baptistry stays dry.
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  I'm going to tell you preach, Let the word convict and let the
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  word do its work. He said to him, preach the word.
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  He says, reprove. That is, you ought to be able to
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  provide some critique and you ought to do it with tenderness,
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  do it with gentleness. One of our students, he and his
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  wife lost their two week old baby.
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  And he came to me for counsel and he asked me, he said, Doctor
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  Smith, how is it? How can I pray to a God who has
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  hurt me? I did not reprove him with
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  harshness. I cried with him and his wife.
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  And then I challenged him. I said you need to preach this,
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  this funeral, because God is asking you, do you really
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  believe in what you've been telling your people?
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  You need to preach that. And I told him what Doctor
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  William Hall, formerly of Southern Seminary and then of
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  Stanford University, had said, and that is this, that tragedy
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  is not redeemed by explanation. Tragedy is redeemed by
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  transformation. You can't explain everything,
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  but when God transforms you, it doesn't matter whether or not
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  you're going to explain it or not.
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  What you have is a God who can take all things and cause them
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  to work together for good. I tell you not that because of
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  what I heard, I know what it's like to be at the bottom.
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  I know what it's like to have a son murdered.
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  I know what it's like to be a young widower.
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  I know what it's like to have three cancer diagnosis.
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  And I've been to the bottom. But I want to tell you the
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  volume is solid because he's at the bottom and God is able to
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  keep you and able to sustain you.
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  And he preached that service and people were amazed.
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  And he was amazed because God showed up to let him know that
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  I'm able to do exceeding abundantly.
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  Above all that you can ever ask to think according to the power
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  that works in you. Reprove rebuke.
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  You may have to beat rebuke the leader of the church, Simon
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  Peter, who would eat with the Gentiles in Galatians 211
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  through 14. But when the Jews showed up, he
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  disassociated with himself, himself with the Gentiles, and
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  Paul called him a hypocrite and withstood him to his face.
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  That may be necessary at times, rebuke, but the same Simon Peter
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  who got rebuked was the same Simon Peter who was a recipient
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  of God's grace. You remember that he denied the
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  Lord not once, twice, but three times.
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  And Jesus fixed him breakfast and asked him three questions.
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  Do you love me? And then Jesus sent a special
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  telegram delivered by Mary Magdalene to the disciples on
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  the resurrection morning. Tell my disciples.
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  And Peter, Peter got a special invitation to let him know.
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  Peter, I haven't given up on you.
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  And Peter went on to preach the church's first revival on the
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  Day of Pentecost because there is no expiration date when it
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  comes to grace. I was walking past a Delta agent
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  who was trying to sell Sky Miles to potential customers and to
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  enroll them in a program. He said, you know when you get
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  Sky Miles, they're with you forever.
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  They never expire. But I know something better than
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  that. Grace never expires.
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  And I don't know why it is that we cannot marry rebuke with
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  grace, rebuke with restoration. God is able to restore you.
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  Or you said I made a mistake. Grace has not expired on you.
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  God can pick you up and turn you around and place your feet on
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  solid ground. Rebuke and then exhorts.
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  That is encouraged. There's so many policies in our
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  churches who don't know anything more than part of the gospel.
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  Apollos in the 18th chapter of the book of Acts, verse 24 and
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  following, preached the baptism of John the Baptist, and Aquila
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  and Priscilla took him aside and to their own home and showed
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  Apollos the word of the Lord more perfectly.
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  And he began to refuse those who did not believe in Jesus and
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  became an effective apologist, an effective preacher.
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  Oh, there are so many in our sanctuaries.
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  Who need to be encouraged and need to know that God wants to
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  use them. Not only that, he says with
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  completes patience and teaching. That is with long-suffering and
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  patience that must be part of our itinerary.
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  It is this long-suffering and patience and this doctrine that
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  we must have as we minister to people.
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  Jesus was so patient with his disciples.
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  He enrolled them in a three-year MDA program in a seminary, and
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  in that third and final year, one of his students by the name
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  of Philip asked him in John 14 and 8, Show us the Father and
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  we'll be satisfied. And Jesus looked at Philip and
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  says, have I been with you this long?
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  Three years and you still don't know who I am.
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  When you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
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  I'm the identical twin of the Father.
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  I'm the human face of the Father.
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  The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
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  We beheld His glory, the glory only forgotten, with the Father
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  full of grace and truth. I'm surprised that you don't
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  know this and yet you hear Jesus saying in the 16th chapter of
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  John. Many things I have to share with
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  you, but you're not ready for them yet.
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  He lovingly and patiently brought them along.
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  I get rather surprised and sometimes dismayed when I hear
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  people who get their PhDs and so forth think that they have now
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  attained all the world's knowledge.
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  When you get a PhD, the last time I checked the alphabet,
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  there were 26 letters. PhD.
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  That's three letters. That means you have 23 more
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  letters to get. None of us know.
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  Oh, and God is in the business of growing us and developing us
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  so that we have an appetite to know more and more about Jesus.
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  He says the reason why you need to do this is because the time
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  is coming when people will not endure a sound doctrine, but
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  they will gather into themselves, heap up into
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  themselves teachers with itching ears.
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  The time is coming. John Wesley used to say, The
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  world is my parish. John Wesley would probably now
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  say the world is in my parish. Teachers and preachers are in
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  the parish preaching heterodoxical and false things
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  that the Bible never approves of.
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  Preachers and teachers with itching ears who say what the
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  people want to hear. My mother was one of God's best
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  cooks. I'm certain to that.
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  But I said to myself, as I grew up in their home, mother and
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  father's home, there'd be some foods that I would never eat
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  once I got out of there. I'd never eat Liva beans, I'd
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  never eat Pinto beans, and I'd never eat squash.
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  I wanted foods that were palatable, that were tasty.
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  She said no, they may be palatable, but they're not
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  profitable for your own health. So she just kept giving us Pinto
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  beans and lime of beans and squash until after a while I
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  develop an appetite and now some of my favorite foods are lime of
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  beans, Pinto beans and squash. Paul understood that there's
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  times the word will not be palatable, but it is always
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  profitable because Paul says that the 20th chapter of Acts
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  verse one, I have not kept anything back from you which was
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  profitable unto you, but I have taught you publicly and from
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  house to house. And there in that memorable
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  verse in Second Timothy chapter 3, verse 16, all scripture is
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  given by inspiration of God, and it is profitable for doctrine,
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  for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
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  that the man of God, the women of God, the people of God may be
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  complete, perfect, fairly furnished into all good works.
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  Oh, I know your people may not always want that which is
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  profitable. They want the palatable stuff,
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  they want the novel stuff, they want the sweet stuff, they want
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  the entertaining stuff. Keep giving them the profitable
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  doctrine so that you're not raising up any kind of nursery,
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  you're raising up an army. The time is coming when they
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  will not endure sound doctrine. They will accumulate for
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  themselves teachers that have itching ears, and they will turn
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  away from the truth and return to fables.
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  That was happening in Paul's day.
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  We see this as given evidence in Second Timothy chapter 2, verse
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  17 and verse 18. Hymenaeus and Philetus.
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  They taught doctrines that resembled Gang Green.
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  Paul talked about. It destroyed the faith of many
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  because they taught that the resurrection had already come.
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  Hymenaeus and Philetus and we've already heard about the
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  importance of theological singing.
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  There needs to be a time that we take a look at church history
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  and as I look at it, we sing more heresy in churches today
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  than they committed in the 1st 500 years of church history.
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  No solid theology. A good tune with a non biblical
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  texts. Sometimes when you hear that
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  kind of singing in some of the churches that I go to that I
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  feel like I have to give the congregation an exegetical ex
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  lacs to clean them out before they can get ready to hear the
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  gospel. Because our people have
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  forgotten what real teaching and preaching is.
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  Well, verse 5 it says now what you need to do is to keep your
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  head steady. You need to stay alert, be clear
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  minded, that is be alert and not be shaken by what takes place.
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  I remember on January the 15th, 2009, it was Chesley
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  Sullenberger who got on a plane as the captain at the LaGuardia
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  Airport, took off with the plane full of people and a few
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  stewardesses and flew the plane and within minutes the plane
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  flew into some Canadian geese that immobilized both engines.
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  He tried to fly the plane without any kind of power,
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  navigating the plane, flying 900 feet over the George Washington
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  Bridge and landing it in the Hudson River.
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  The same number of people that got on the plane were the same
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  number of people that got off the plane.
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  And when they decorated him with citations and commendations, he
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  stopped and said I could not have done this had this not been
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  for my copilot Jeff Styles. While I was navigating the
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  plane, he was flipping switches, and because he was flipping
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  switches, I was free to keep my head and to keep you alive.
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  Old brothers and sisters, time is out for a one person
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  ministry, a solo ministry. You need some switch flippers,
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  some people in the church who will not get credits, who will
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  not have renowned, but you need them behind the scenes, who work
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  in the shadows, who are praying, who are seeking God, who are
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  working in the cry room, keeping the plane in the air and helping
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  us to have a successful ministry.
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  Paul says keep your head in all situations.
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  Paul says you've got to endure hardship.
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  Our preaching must not be the kind of preaching that tells
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  people that your hardships are over once you become a
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  Christian. It is not prosperity theology,
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  it's adversity theology that we must preach.
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  Anyone can do well with prosperity theology.
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  But what do you do when adverse times come when there are no
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  callow in the stall, when there are no crops in the field, when
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  there are no berries on the tree, when there are no grapes
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  in the vine? Can you still say, yet will I
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  rejoice in God my Savior? And when the thorn is not
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  removed from your flesh, and you've asked the Lord three
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  times to remove it, can you still praise him when He says,
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  My grace is sufficient for you? My strength is made perfect in
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  your weakness. Endure hardships because it's
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  not just getting out of trouble that counts.
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  It's what you get out of trouble that counts.
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  How does trouble help you? What do you learn from trouble?
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  You cannot get to verse 5 and Psalm 23, the banquet table that
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  he prepares before you in the presence of your enemies, until
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  you walk to the valley of the shadow of death, and you fear no
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  evil because he is with you. His rod and his staff, they
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  comfort you, Paul says keep your head, Paul says, and do
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  hardship. Paul says do the work of an
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  evangelist doesn't mean just do revivals, but do the work of an
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  evangelist. Share the good news because the
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  Bible presents the gospel not as just good advice, but good news.
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  Paul will tell you it's good news because in chapter 8 of
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  Acts I was the church's number one Public Enemy, but in Acts
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  Chapter 9, I became the church's number one public defender.
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  In Acts chapter 8, I was blind on the inside and could see on
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  the outside. With Acts Chapter 9, I was blind
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  on the outside, but I could see on the inside.
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  In Acts chapter 8. I prohibited preaching, but in
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  Acts Chapter 9, I became a preacher.
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  In Acts Chapter 8, I told people, you have to do this.
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  I'm given orders. But in Acts Chapter 9, I took
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  orders and I said, Lord, what will you have me to do?
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  It's not just good advice, it's good news.
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  And then Paul moves on to tell us that you ought to fulfill
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  your duties as a minister, all of them.
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  You're not just to be selective and do what you want to do.
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  You ought to be one who is to fulfil all that the Lord has
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  given unto you. What Paul says in verse number
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  six, I'm ready to be offered up. The time of my departure is at
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  hand. I fought a good fight, I have
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  finished my course, I've kept the faith.
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  I'm ready to be offered up. He uses 2 metaphors.
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  One of them is a nautical metaphor in which the ship would
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  be tied down with ropes at the iron uprights, but when it came
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  time for the ship to go to the other shore, they loose the
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  ropes and the ship went on to sail.
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  I'm sorry, tonight I'm feeling rather poor.
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  I wish I could. Finish this message.
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  I'm weak. I'm weak.
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  God, you know my heart. Give me strength, help me to
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  carry on what I'm unable to do in my own strength, ready to be
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  offered up. The time of my departure is at
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  hand. I've fought a good fight.
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  I finished my course. I've kept the faith, and there's
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  laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord,
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  the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, but not to me.
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  Only. But all those who love his
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  appearing? Found my new name, Found that
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  good grace, found that healing. And the tears fell down my face
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  when I found my beginning. It has no ending.
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  I found that second chance. Found my best friend, Found my
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  forgiveness, found my happiness. I've been singing ever since I
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  found my freedom. Thanks for listening to the Four
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