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1 Timothy 2:1-8 - Jesus Died For People You Don't Like · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: How to their friends and faithful listeners. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Bible explained on this absolutely lovely Tuesday morning. Today, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about prayer, specifically prayer for people
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  Speaker 1: that we do not like, and how this is God's
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  Speaker 1: will for us. We'll get into this topic in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Well, I hope you guys have had a
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  Speaker 1: good start to your week so far. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and turn in our bibles to First Timothy chapter two
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  Speaker 1: one through eight, and let's get into this topic of
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  Speaker 1: prayer together. I'll be reading, as usual from the World
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  Speaker 1: English Bible or the Web version, but feel free to
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  Speaker 1: grab the version of the Bible that you prefer this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and also your delicious cup of coffee or your cup
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  Speaker 1: of tea and share that with me as we read
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  Speaker 1: this together. I exhort therefore, first of all the petitions, prayers, intercessions,
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  Speaker 1: and givings of thanks be made for all men, for kings,
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  Speaker 1: and all who are in high places, that we may
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  Speaker 1: lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
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  Speaker 1: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God,
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  Speaker 1: our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and
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  Speaker 1: come to full knowledge of the truth. For there is
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  Speaker 1: one God and one mediator between God and men, the
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  Speaker 1: man Christ, Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for
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  Speaker 1: all the testimony at the proper time to which I
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  Speaker 1: was appointed a preacher and an apostle, I am telling
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  Speaker 1: the truth in Christ, not lying. A teacher of the
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  Speaker 1: gentiles in faith and truth. I desire therefore that the
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  Speaker 1: men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands, without
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  Speaker 1: anger and doubting. So Paul is writing this letter to Timothy.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy was in the area of Macedonia, specifically Ephesus, because
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  Speaker 1: the Ephesian Church had some problems that Paul was not
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  Speaker 1: able to address at this point, and he knew that Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: who had been traveling with him for many years by
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  Speaker 1: this time and history, was ready to do this man
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  Speaker 1: on his own. Even though Timothy, it kind of seems
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  Speaker 1: like it did not want to be on this mission
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  Speaker 1: and sort of wanted to travel with Paul, because Paul
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  Speaker 1: at this time was on his fourth missionary journey. Paul
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  Speaker 1: says to Timothy, no, stay where you're at, because it's
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  Speaker 1: very necessary. Even if you want to be with me,
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  Speaker 1: stay where you are at. So in verse one, he says,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I exhort you that prayers, petitions, intercessions,
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  Speaker 1: and giving of thanks be made for all men. So
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  Speaker 1: this verse means that this was Paul's first priority for writing.
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  Speaker 1: This was the most important thing that he wanted Timothy
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  Speaker 1: to teach the Ephesians was that every single person needed
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  Speaker 1: to pray for all people. And in verse two he
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  Speaker 1: actually gives a list of all of these various people
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  Speaker 1: that should be prayed for, for kings and all who
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  Speaker 1: are in high places. So, in other words, politicians, that
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  Speaker 1: we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all
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  Speaker 1: godliness and reverence. So why do you I think Paul
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  Speaker 1: was commanding Timothy to tell the Ephesians that they need
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  Speaker 1: to pray for all people, including leaders and politicians. Well,
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  Speaker 1: because the obvious answer is that the people didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to pray for their leaders or politicians because they hated them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget who was in charge at this point in time.
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  Speaker 1: It was Rome, and Rome had their fingers kind of
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  Speaker 1: in everybody's business, and so the average person who wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a Roman hated the Roman Empire. This was Jewish people,
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  Speaker 1: the average gentile who was not Roman. Pretty much everybody
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  Speaker 1: disliked the Roman government and probably didn't want to pray
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  Speaker 1: for the Caesar or really any other politician part of
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  Speaker 1: the Roman government. But Paul says, no, we should be
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  Speaker 1: praying for these people. And here's why, that we may
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  Speaker 1: lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence,
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  Speaker 1: for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God,
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  Speaker 1: our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and
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  Speaker 1: to come to full knowledge of the truth. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a few reasons why we should be praying for our politicians,
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  Speaker 1: and this actually applies to today as well. The first
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  Speaker 1: reason is so that we can lead a tranquil and
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  Speaker 1: quiet life in godliness and reverence, so in other words,
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  Speaker 1: that our religious freedom is not taken away from us.
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  Speaker 1: We should be praying that our politicians have a kindness
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  Speaker 1: towards Christianity and a maybe a heart open to Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: so that they aren't irritated or upset over Christians praying
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  Speaker 1: and trying to live out biblical truths. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: first reason we pray for our politicians and president and
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  Speaker 1: king and whoever is over us. We should also be
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  Speaker 1: praying for them because this is good and acceptable in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of God, our savior. So God actually appreciates
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  Speaker 1: when we pray for our politicians. And here's why, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times politicians and our leaders are sort
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  Speaker 1: of against the people. I mean, just look at the
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  Speaker 1: ca kings back in the Old Testament. You know, throughout
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  Speaker 1: all of Israel's history, they didn't have one good king.
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  Speaker 1: This was after the split, you know, when Israel split
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  Speaker 1: into two. Northern Israel didn't have a single godly or
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  Speaker 1: good king in its entire existence, and then South Israel
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  Speaker 1: or Judah only had a handful of good kings decades
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  Speaker 1: apart from each other. So there was not very many
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  Speaker 1: good kings. Those kings were the enemies of the people
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  Speaker 1: who worshiped Yahweh. The bad kings often set up idols
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  Speaker 1: and objects of worship that caused the people to go astray.
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  Speaker 1: They would persecute the true Yahweh followers, they'd put them
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  Speaker 1: to death. Even Judah had several kings that persecuted prophets
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  Speaker 1: and Yahweh followers. So the point is these politicians, if
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  Speaker 1: they are not on the side of Christianity, they are
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  Speaker 1: usually the enemy of Christianity. And God wants us to
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  Speaker 1: pray for our enemies verse three. It is good and
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  Speaker 1: acceptable in the sight of God, our savior, that we
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  Speaker 1: pray for our enemies. That is what God wants us
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  Speaker 1: to do, because when Jesus came to earth, he came
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  Speaker 1: for all people, not just people who he thought were good.
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  Speaker 1: He came for evil people. It actually says in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Romans. I believe it is that we were
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's enemies while he was dying for us, while he
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  Speaker 1: was taking our punishment on himself. We were his enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he demonstrated so much love for us, and
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  Speaker 1: he wants us as his followers to live in a
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  Speaker 1: similar way where we show love to other people who
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  Speaker 1: are not kind to us. So that is the second
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  Speaker 1: reason we pray for our politicians. And the third reason
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  Speaker 1: is because God desires all people verse four to be
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  Speaker 1: saved and to come to full knowledge of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So if we pray for these people, and we pray
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  Speaker 1: that their hearts are changed and softened toward God, it
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  Speaker 1: very well could be that these politicians actually do get
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  Speaker 1: a heart change, do have somebody feeding into them the
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  Speaker 1: Christian principles that they may have not ever understood or
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  Speaker 1: heard before, or cared about. Before God may put people
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  Speaker 1: in these politicians' lives that are constantly pushing them toward
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And so this is why we pray for
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  Speaker 1: our politicians, not because they are nice people that necessarily
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  Speaker 1: deserve kindness or deserve prayer, but because we want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to live out our Christian faith in public
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  Speaker 1: without fear. We also want to be kind to people
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  Speaker 1: who are our enemies, just as Jesus was kind to us.
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  Speaker 1: And also we want these politicians to actually get saved.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a really good thing. I mean, think
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  Speaker 1: about Paul himself, who's writing this letter. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't exactly a politician, but he was part of the Sanhedrin.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was a Pharisee who had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of power back in his day. He was part, I
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  Speaker 1: guess of the Israeli government in a sense. And Paul
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting saved. You know, I bet there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who wished for Paul to be
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  Speaker 1: dead and did not want to pray for him. But
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  Speaker 1: yet Paul got saved. And look at the one eighty
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  Speaker 1: Paul did with his life after meeting Jesus. He fully
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  Speaker 1: changed his tune. He went from persecuting Christians to standing
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  Speaker 1: alongside them being persecuted himself. Paul's a prime example as
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  Speaker 1: to why you pray for your leadership. And this might
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  Speaker 1: be convicting to some of you guys who can't stand
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  Speaker 1: who's in office right now. You might have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hatred for your president or your king or your government.
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  Speaker 1: You might be so hesitant to pray for them. But
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  Speaker 1: this is actually something that God desires you to do.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to pray for these people, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why we should. And you know, this isn't the only
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  Speaker 1: command we get in scripture about respect of leadership. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in Romans, I think it's Romans chapter twelve, Paul talks
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  Speaker 1: about respecting government authorities and actually obeying them and listening
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  Speaker 1: to them, because it's going to go better for you
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  Speaker 1: in the long run if you actually just do what
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  Speaker 1: you're told. Now, it's not to say that if your
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  Speaker 1: government commands you to do something against God that you
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  Speaker 1: do that, but Paul's talking about things like taxes and
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  Speaker 1: irritating laws and just things that we don't really like
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  Speaker 1: that our government is doing. Paul says, obey the government
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  Speaker 1: because God put them in command. God sets kings up
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  Speaker 1: and he takes them down, and so we should be
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  Speaker 1: obeying the people who are in command and also praying
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  Speaker 1: for them as well, as we see here in First
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  Speaker 1: Timothy chapter two. But the other thing that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: interesting is that the reason Paul might be saying this
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  Speaker 1: is not just because you know, the Ephesians hate the Romans,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably the case, but also the Jewish people
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  Speaker 1: hated the Romans too. There was a growing irritation that
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish people had with the Roman government, especially as
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  Speaker 1: we get closer to the year eighty sixty six, which
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been very long after Paul wrote this letter. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: some people say that this letter was written in eighty
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  Speaker 1: sixty six. But the reason eighty sixty six is such
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  Speaker 1: an important year is because the Jewish people actually stopped
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  Speaker 1: the daily sacrifices and this was to show Rome that
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  Speaker 1: they hated them. And a little backstory on that. So
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  Speaker 1: the Roman government was actually somewhat hands off when it
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  Speaker 1: came to what people worshiped. They didn't really care. They
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  Speaker 1: were kind of like, yeah, you can worship your you know, deities.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really give a crap what you worship, but
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  Speaker 1: we want you also to worship Caesar and to worship
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  Speaker 1: the Roman gods as well, and most people did that.
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  Speaker 1: When Rome went into an area, the majority of people
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  Speaker 1: started worshiping the Roman gods and the Caesar as well.
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  Speaker 1: But when Rome went into Israel, it was a very
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  Speaker 1: different situation because Israel was mostly monotheistic. Right, they worshiped
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh and that was it. So the Romans did not
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  Speaker 1: force the Israelites to worship Caesar and the Roman gods,
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  Speaker 1: but they did expect the Jewish people to pray to
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  Speaker 1: God and sacrifice to God on behalf of the Caesar. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, praying to God at the Temple through
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice or something along those lines. You didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: worship Caesar, but you did have to pray to your
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  Speaker 1: God for Caesar if you weren't going to worship him.
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  Speaker 1: And so there are special sacrifices that were done at
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  Speaker 1: the temple specifically to pray for the Caesar's well being.
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  Speaker 1: And in eighty sixty six the Jewish people stop doing it.
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  Speaker 1: They're like nope. And it very well could be that
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  Speaker 1: Paul was hearing rumors of this, or hearing that this
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  Speaker 1: was about to happen, or had just happened, and he's
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  Speaker 1: telling the Ephesians, no, you guys need to pray for
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  Speaker 1: the kings. Don't be rebellious. It is actually pleasing to
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  Speaker 1: God when you pray on somebody's behalf, even if it's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you hate and you think hates you as well.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to pray for every single person. He
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  Speaker 1: desires that all people be saved and come to full
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the truth verse five. For there is one
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  Speaker 1: God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony
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  Speaker 1: at the proper time. So, in other words, because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gave himself as a ransom for all, that means that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus also died for the Caesar, for the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, for the king or Queen of England,
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  Speaker 1: for the prime minister of various countries. Jesus died for
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  Speaker 1: all of these people. And this is why we should
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  Speaker 1: be praying and having mercy for people that we do
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  Speaker 1: not like. I don't know if you guys have ever
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  Speaker 1: heard the song for God So loved by we the Kingdom. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they have a little music video to go along with it.
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  Speaker 1: And I do not like the music video. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to say right now, I think it's a terrible
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  Speaker 1: music video because the only people that it shows that
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  Speaker 1: God loves were people who were very poor, and that
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  Speaker 1: was essentially it. And I'm not saying that Jesus doesn't
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  Speaker 1: love those people, obviously he does. But Jesus loves everybody,
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  Speaker 1: not just the marginalized or minorities or people who are
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  Speaker 1: Jesus loves every single person. And so to me, when
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  Speaker 1: I was watching that music video, I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: how they should have included rich people and politicians and
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  Speaker 1: everybody essentially, because Jesus loves every single person. So long
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  Speaker 1: story short, Yes, pray for your politicians, Pray for the
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  Speaker 1: people who are over you. Pray that they see the light,
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  Speaker 1: that they come to Jesus, because Jesus died for them.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus doesn't want to see a single person perish.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to see it, and so as Jesus followers,
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't want to see it either. Verse eight. I
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  Speaker 1: desire therefore that men in every place pray, lifting up
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  Speaker 1: holy hands, without anger and doubting. So Paul desires that
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  Speaker 1: the men pray with lifted hands. And we talked a
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  Speaker 1: few days ago on the Old Testament side of stuff
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  Speaker 1: about this prayer that Solomon gave when he was dedicating
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  Speaker 1: the temple to God. And it says that Solomon got
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  Speaker 1: down on his knees and actually lifted his hands up
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  Speaker 1: to Heaven to pray. And that is the posture of
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  Speaker 1: prayer that is actually routinely discussed in scripture. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: there aren't any verses that tell us to fold our
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  Speaker 1: hands or put our hands together to pray. Usually when
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  Speaker 1: we see prayer, it's lifting your hands up to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: The reason being is because that's a posture of humility,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very vulnerable as well. You know. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we don't see people do it, because it's embarrassing and
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  Speaker 1: it's vulnerable to lift your hands up to heaven while
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  Speaker 1: you're praying. You're scared of what people are gonna think
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  Speaker 1: of you. But that's the reason Paul desires the men
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  Speaker 1: to pray by lifting up their holy hands without anger
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  Speaker 1: or doubting. I went through the Book of Titus recently
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  Speaker 1: with the youth group student and each of the female
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  Speaker 1: leaders myself included, led a little small group with like
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  Speaker 1: two or three girls just talking about the Book of Titus,
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  Speaker 1: and the Book of Titus has a lot of similarities
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  Speaker 1: actually to the Book of Timothy, because Paul is also
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  Speaker 1: talking to Titus about what Titus should be doing at
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  Speaker 1: the church in Crete. So there's a lot of similarities
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  Speaker 1: between the two books. But the one thing that keeps
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  Speaker 1: coming up in the Book of Titus is how Paul
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  Speaker 1: desires men and women to live. In almost every chapter
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  Speaker 1: of Titus, which there's only three chapters, it talks about
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  Speaker 1: how men need to be free from anger. And so
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  Speaker 1: the girls and I were talking about it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we pointed out that during the youth group games that
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  Speaker 1: we do, the boys get far more aggressive. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like say we're playing Canadian dodgeball, which is like the
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  Speaker 1: favorite game of our youth group. When the kids are
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  Speaker 1: playing Canadian dodgeball, you know, the girls are kind of
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  Speaker 1: like hunk down in a corner, like just sort of
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the ball to get to them so they can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throw it. But the boys they're aggressive, they're
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  Speaker 1: running towards people. They get angry a lot faster. And
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  Speaker 1: that's because God designed men and women differently. He designed
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  Speaker 1: women to not be as physically aggressive, but He designed
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  Speaker 1: men that way, which is why Paul tells these men
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  Speaker 1: you need to lift up your holy hands and pray
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  Speaker 1: without anger or doubting. So don't be angry at God,
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  Speaker 1: don't doubt God, but just trust in Him, trust that
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  Speaker 1: He's taking care of you, and be vulnerable when you're
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  Speaker 1: praying as well. You know, if it's difficult for me
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  Speaker 1: to lift up my hands in the middle of prayer
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  Speaker 1: because I feel it's vulnerable and embarrassing to do that,
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine how much more embarrassing and vulnerable it
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  Speaker 1: might be for a man who is more prone to
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  Speaker 1: being closed off, maybe more own to aggression or doubting.
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  Speaker 1: Doing that kind of posture while praying would probably be
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  Speaker 1: a lot more embarrassing. And that is why Paul commands
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  Speaker 1: it is because it's not easy. You know, I often
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  Speaker 1: say on this podcast, it wouldn't be a command if
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  Speaker 1: it were easy to do. So to summarize what we
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  Speaker 1: talked about today, we are supposed to pray for our leaders,
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  Speaker 1: whether we like them or not. We are to pray
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  Speaker 1: for them to see the light, to protect Christians, to
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  Speaker 1: come to salvation themselves, because that's what God desires for
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  Speaker 1: them and if you're a man listening to this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you have to go to church
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and raise your hands up while the pastors praying.
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  Speaker 1: I am not saying that at all, but you could
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  Speaker 1: try doing it in your own personal prayer life. And
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  Speaker 1: this goes for women as well. Maybe when you're having
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  Speaker 1: a private prayer time with God, you lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: up to Heaven and you just pray to Him in
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  Speaker 1: a much more humble position, and you do it trusting
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  Speaker 1: in God, completely, praying for your leaders, your politicians, whoever
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  Speaker 1: comes to mind. And I wonder if you do this
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  Speaker 1: on a regular basis, how your prayer life might actually change.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've told you guys a million times that
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  Speaker 1: my prayer life is not as good as i'd like
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  Speaker 1: it to be. The prayer is always something that I've
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  Speaker 1: kind of struggled with. I do pray, you know, a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I pray for you guys, but I struggle with
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  Speaker 1: sitting down to pray and not getting distracted immediately. So
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  Speaker 1: I actually do wonder if we took a different posture
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  Speaker 1: of prayer, you know, maybe not just like sitting down
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  Speaker 1: or lying down, but if we physically lifted our hands
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  Speaker 1: up to Heaven. I wonder like if distraction would kind
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  Speaker 1: of go away because you're in a posture that is
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  Speaker 1: ready for prayer. So if you do take a different
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  Speaker 1: posture to pray, let me know how it goes for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about all of that. And also,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a prayer request, please send it my way.
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  Speaker 1: I read all of my emails and I will write
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  Speaker 1: you down in my little prayer journal. Faithful listeners, have
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic and wonderful rest of your day. As always,
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  Speaker 1: happy listening and God bless