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JUDAS · Urantia Radio

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Welcome to the ranch Radio podcast.
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It's good to have you here and it's, it's a refreshing to be
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back. I hope you've been enjoying the
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lovely early dawn of spring as we head into the new year and no
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doubt so much to deal with contend with.
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And so, So, thank you to those who have been sending me emails
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letting me know that there and listening and enjoying the
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podcast and the website. And I've been doing a lot of
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work, Shameless plug, but I've been doing a lot of work on the
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Rancho, Radio dotnet website and I hope that you will take an
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opportunity. I've reformatted it to make it
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easier on the eyes when you're either on your mobile device or
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if you're looking at it on the internet, on your laptop or your
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tablet. And it's always got information
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about science. What's going on in the Rancher
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Community around the world, as well as some articles essays
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things that I picked up from the news that I think that are sort
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of part of the modern experience as viewed Through The Eyes of a
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Urantia book reader. And so that's why we're here
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we're here to commensurate and share the Revelation together.
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I've been doing some great reading on Larry Mullins hit
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Three of the Rancho papers and I don't know if you've had an
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opportunity ever to read that, but if you have time, I would
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encourage you to go to Amazon or perhaps even any online
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bookstore candle and download the book and read it.
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Particularly it's interesting to read about the transition that
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William Sadler made because up until a certain point, he really
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just didn't believe that the The your aunt, your papers were
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anything other than some sort of contrivance, like there was
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something that could explain who was producing these papers and
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of course he threw in his intellectual towel as it were.
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Because he realized that the the depth of the papers themselves
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gave testimony to just how the credible, they were authentic I
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guess is even a better word and that's what happens with people
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is that they eventually if they if they give the book a little
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bit of time and they start reading it, there's just
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something magical that happens because what happens is you the
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truth starts to jump out at you and you start to it starts to
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change your way of thinking you'll walk around for a few
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days thinking about a particular passage that you ran across Us.
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And and so it happened to me, it happens to everybody that I know
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that reads the book. In fact I want to add a menu
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item to my website, your answer radio dotnet and have it just be
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testimonials from people and it's called how I met the Rancho
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book. How did you meet the Urantia
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book? How did the Urantia book?
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Come into your life? Because it's a significant
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moment that people have when they first come into contact
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with or they first start to embrace the Urantia book as a
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real revelation. We all love to tell our stories,
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don't we? I know.
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My story is fairly simple ran into somebody.
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We were talking about Adam and Eve one night at work, he turned
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me on to the book. I read a few pages of the
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Urantia book. Look on Adam and Eve.
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It's my favorite. Still one of my favorite
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sections and I went out the next day and I found it.
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It was on a bookshelf and it were plenty of them.
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There was a whole sea of these Urantia books and they were
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expensive to 22 bucks, 22 bucks in 1983.
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That's probably like 60 bucks today.
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Anyway, so Meredith sprunjer one of the early pioneers Of the
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Rancher movement if you will, it was a pastor from South Bend.
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Indiana. Thank anyway.
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He, he went to Sadler's office and he said, well, what
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convinced you that the Urantia book was an authentic
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Revelation. At what point did you throw in
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the intellectual towel? And Sadler said, well I'm a
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psychiatrist. I mean I'm I'm I made my wealth.
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I made my stay. I established myself.
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Self by understanding human beings and I remember that
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Sadler actually trained I believe with Carl Jung for a
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period in Europe during his early training anyway.
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And so he says look, I know human nature and I know how how
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to interpret human nature and when I read the pages on the
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apostles, And when they when I really had a chance to read them
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and this paper, he's referring to paper 139 in the ranch a book
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and he says I had to just confess.
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So there was no way to explain how anybody could know this much
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about human beings. There's no way.
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And the whoever wrote, this knew exactly what was in the hearts
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and minds of these people to it. Nobody today could right.
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That eloquently in explaining the human nature of these twelve
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individuals. Nobody.
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And that is, by the way, a challenge for you.
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If you have not read paper, even if you're a, you know, someone
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who doesn't know anything about this book and you happen to be
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listening to it, I challenge you to just start with paper 139 in
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the Rancho book and if you're any, if you have any kind of
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basic Christian, teaching exposure experience for being
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young, if you were Anywhere near a judeo, Christian family,
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you'll know that this book just shouts out authenticity.
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It screams credibility. So just as an example, I'm just
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going to read one paper. And and then see if you agree
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with me and this is, you know, it's kind of challenging.
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I mean I think I want to read. I'm kind of want tempted to read
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the one on Judas Iscariot because he's obviously the
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besides Peter, the well most well-known.
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And by the way, every one of these Apostles, I found had some
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appeal to me some more than others.
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And I wonder if you feel the same way.
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So let's find one that we want to read.
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I'll read you Dias Judas, Iscariot because everybody knows
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him. He's the one that betrayed
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Jesus. He's the one that went and sold
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them for 30 pieces of silver. So let's, let's read that one.
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Okay, this is from paper 139 and this is section 12 and this is
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a, I guess be paper, 39 paragraph, 12 section one and
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we'll just continue on Judas Iscariot the 12th of apostle was
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chosen by Nathaniel. He was born in kiriath.
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The small town in southern Judea when he was a lad.
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The parents moved to Jericho where he lived and had been
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employed in his father's various business enterprises until he
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became interested in the preaching and the work of John,
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the Baptist, judah's parents were Sadducees Sadducees and
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when their son joined John's Apostles, they disowned him.
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He said you're on your own. When its annual met Judas at
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Tara, Kia, sorta, rakia he was seeking employment with a fish,
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drying Enterprise at the lower end of the Sea of Galilee.
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He was 30 years of age and to unmarried, when he joined the
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apostles, he was probably the best educated, man among the 12.
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And the only Jew day and in the Masters Apostolic family.
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Judas had no outstanding trade of personal strength though.
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He had many outwardly appearing, traits of culture, and habits of
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training. He was a good thinker, but not
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always be truly honest, thinker. Judas did not really understand
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himself. He was not really sincere in
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dealing with himself. Andrew appointed.
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This is, you know, in reference to Sadler.
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Just knowing that little personality trait about somebody
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is pretty insightful. Wouldn't you agree Judas?
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Did not really understand himself.
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He was not really sincere and dealing with himself.
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Who would have access to that kind of information.
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You would ask yourself, right? Going on.
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So now 139 paragraph, 12, Andrew appointed, Judas treasurer of
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The Twelve the position which he Held eminently fitted to hold
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and up to the time of the Betrayal of the master, he
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discharged the responsibilities of his office, honestly,
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faithfully and most efficiently. There was no special trade about
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Jesus, who, which Judas admired above the generality attractive
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or the generally attractive and exquisitely.
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Charming personality of the master Judas was never able to
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rise above his Judean prejudices against his Galilean Associates.
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He would even criticize in his mind, many things about Jesus,
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Him whom 11 of the Apostles looked upon as the perfect, man,
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as the quote, one altogether. Lovely.
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And the chiefest among ten thousand in quote, this
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self-satisfied Judean often dared to criticize in his own
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heart. He really entertaining the
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notion that Jesus was timid and somewhat afraid to assert his
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own power and authority. Judas was a good businessman.
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It required tact ability and patients, as well as painstaking
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Devotion to manage the financial affairs of such a.
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An idealist at Jesus to say nothing of wrestling with the
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helter-skelter business methods of some of his Apostles.
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Judas really was a great executive far-seeing enable
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Finance here and he was a stickler to organization.
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None of the twelve even criticized Judas as far as they
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could see Judas. It was a matchless Treasurer, a
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learned man, a loyal though, sometimes critical Apostle and
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in every sense of the word, a great success, the apostles love
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Judas. He really was one of them.
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He must have believed in Jesus, but we doubt whether he truly
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loved the master with a whole heart, the case of Judas
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illustrates the truthfulness of that saying quote, there is a
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way that seems right to a man but the end thereof is death in
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quote it is altogether. Together possible to fall victim
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to the peaceful deception of pleasant adjustment to the paths
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of sin and death. Be assured.
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The Judas was always financially loyal to his master and his
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Apostles money could never have been the motive for the Betrayal
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of the master. Judas was only or he was the
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only son of unwise parents, when very young, he was pampered and
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petted, he was a spoiled child as he grew up, he had
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exaggerated ideas about his self importance.
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He was a poor loser, he had loose and distorted ideas about
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fairness, he was given to the Indulgence of hate and
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suspicion. He was an expert of
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misinterpretation of the words and acts of his friends.
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All through his life, Judas had cultivated a habit of Getting
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even with those whom he fancied had mistreated him.
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His sense of values and loyalties were defective, To
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Jesus Judas was a faith Adventure.
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From the beginning, the master fully understood the weakness of
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his Apostles and well knew the dangers of admitting to
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Fellowship, but it is the nature of the sons of God to give every
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created being a full and equal chance for salvation and
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survival. Jesus wanted not only The
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Mortals of his world or of this world, but the onlookers of
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innumerable other worlds to know that when doubt exists as As to
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the sincerity and wholeheartedness of a creatures
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Devotion. To the kingdom, it is in
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variable, it is the invariable practice of the judges of men to
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fully receive the doubtful candidate.
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The doors of eternal life is wide open to all Quote, whoever
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whosoever will may come in quote, there are no restrictions
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or qualifications, save the faith of the one who comes And
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so I'm going to end it at that. I think good drop-off moment
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because there's just a little bit more but I think you get the
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sense and the quality and the tone of what Sadler had said
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caused him to throw in the intellectual towel is to trying
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to understand the methodology of how the book came to be and
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instead focus on The credibility and authenticity of what the
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Rancho book has to say and that is an appropriate way to leave
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it this time. And I thank thank you again for
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joining me. I did want to share some of that
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because it's always interesting to learn about new people in the
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ranch of papers. And until next time, don't
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Until next time, God bless