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1 Peter 4:7-11 - Living a Life that Honors God · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to The Bible Explained with Jen Koukl,
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  Speaker 1: a P40 Ministries podcast. Hi, faithful listeners, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: The Bible Explained podcast on this lovely, lovely morning. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you all are ready to discuss 1 Peter 4
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  Speaker 1: with me. This is the chapter where Peter starts talking
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  Speaker 1: about the do's and don'ts. And I feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: one of these lists in pretty much every single New
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  Speaker 1: Testament book that we've come across so far. How do
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  Speaker 1: we live the Christian life? So that's what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today and Peter's advice to the church.
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read 1 Peter 4, 7 through 11.
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  Speaker 1: As always, I'll be reading this from the WEB or
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  Speaker 1: the World English Bible. But the end of all things
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  Speaker 1: is near. Therefore, be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. And above all things, be earnest in your
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  Speaker 1: love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 1: Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. As each has
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  Speaker 1: received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as
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  Speaker 1: good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the
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  Speaker 1: very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be
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  Speaker 1: as of the strength which God supplies, that in all
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  Speaker 1: things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom
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  Speaker 1: belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Starting today in verse 7, Peter says, And what's funny
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  Speaker 1: about that is, you know, Peter wrote.
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  Speaker 2: This, what, like 2,000 years ago?
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  Speaker 1: And yet he was saying way back then that the
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  Speaker 1: end of all things is near. And so people might ask,
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  Speaker 1: did Peter get it wrong? Because he thought that the
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  Speaker 1: end of all things were potentially in his lifetime or
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  Speaker 1: near his lifetime. Well, thankfully, Peter explains what he means
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more in 2 Peter 3, 8 through 10.
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  Speaker 1: He says, quote, don't forget this one thing, beloved. that
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  Speaker 1: one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
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  Speaker 1: and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is
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  Speaker 1: not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness, but
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  Speaker 1: he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish,
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  Speaker 1: but that all should come to repentance. But the day
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,
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  Speaker 1: in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
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  Speaker 1: and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and
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  Speaker 1: the earth and the works that are in it will
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  Speaker 1: be burned up. So Peter answers everybody that has that question.
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  Speaker 1: How long is it going to take for God to return?
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  Speaker 1: Are we actually in the end days? Was Peter actually
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  Speaker 1: in the end days? Was Peter wrong in believing that
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  Speaker 1: the end times was sooner rather than later? Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: because Peter explains that to Jesus, a day is like
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  Speaker 1: a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, because God created time, he is not
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  Speaker 1: constrained to it. He is outside of time. And so
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  Speaker 1: time to him is both like a thousand years and
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  Speaker 1: also like a day. And he's also not slow in
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  Speaker 1: keeping his promises is what Peter says, but he's patient rather,
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  Speaker 1: not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should
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  Speaker 1: come to repentance. So God is not being slow in
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling his promise of having Jesus come back a second time. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: he is patiently waiting. It says not wishing that anyone
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  Speaker 1: should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So
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  Speaker 1: God wishes that all of us, every single human being
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  Speaker 1: would come to repentance in him and finally believe in him.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, God is waiting for the exact
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  Speaker 1: right time in history to have Jesus come back again
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  Speaker 1: for the second time, just as he waited for the
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  Speaker 1: first time around. There's an excellent book written by J.
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  Speaker 1: Warner Wallace called Person of Interest, which talks about why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came at the moment that he did. and why
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  Speaker 1: history was ready for Jesus to come, and how if
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  Speaker 1: he would have come any sooner or later, it just
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  Speaker 1: would not have been as effective as the time period
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  Speaker 1: that he actually showed up in. It's a very interesting read.
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  Speaker 1: It took me only a few days to get through
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  Speaker 1: the book. So that's something that I recommend if you
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  Speaker 1: guys are interested in that subject. But the same thing
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen for Jesus's second return. He is
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  Speaker 1: going to wait for the exact right moment to return.
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  Speaker 1: And to Jesus, who is outside of time, the end
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  Speaker 1: of all things truly is near. It says in scripture
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  Speaker 1: that each one of us, our lives are like a breath,
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  Speaker 1: like a breath of God. He just breathes out and
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  Speaker 1: we're gone. That is how fast our lives are over
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of God. So to Jesus, the end
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  Speaker 1: of all things truly is near. Now to us, it
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  Speaker 1: might seem like it's taking forever, but it will be soon.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to act ourselves as if it's soon.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Jesus actually tells us in Matthew 24, 42
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  Speaker 1: through 44, which says, watch therefore, for you don't know
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  Speaker 1: in what hour your Lord comes, but know this, that
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  Speaker 1: if the master of the house had known in what
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  Speaker 1: watch of the night the thief was coming, he would
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  Speaker 1: have watched and would not have allowed his house to
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  Speaker 1: be broken into. Therefore also be ready for in an
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  Speaker 1: hour that you don't expect the son of man will come.
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  Speaker 1: So even if we don't know what time Jesus is coming,
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  Speaker 1: and none of us do, Jesus himself said that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even know what time he's returning.
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  Speaker 2: Only the Father knows.
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  Speaker 1: So if Jesus, who is God, does not know what
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  Speaker 1: time he's returning, then you and I certainly do not know.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew 24, 36, this is Jesus speaking. No one knows
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  Speaker 1: what day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: but my Father only. So We are never going to
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  Speaker 1: know when Jesus returns until he actually does. So the
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  Speaker 1: goal is to act as if the end of all
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  Speaker 1: things is near.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Technically, the end of all things is near for each
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  Speaker 1: of us because all of us are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: And none of us know the day or the hour
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  Speaker 1: in which we will die. We have no clue. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I could die tonight for all I know. I have
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  Speaker 1: no clue the day that I'm going to meet Jesus
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  Speaker 1: face to face. So we should be acting as if
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  Speaker 1: the end of all things truly is near because in
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  Speaker 1: our own lives, our lives being as fast as a
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  Speaker 1: breath in the eyes of Jesus, the end of all
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  Speaker 1: things really is near. So we need to act as
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  Speaker 1: if it is. And so here's how Peter tells us
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  Speaker 1: to act, knowing that the end of all things is near. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be of sound mind, self-controlled and sober
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. All three of these things, sound mind, self-controlled
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  Speaker 1: and sober. They're related because all three of them have
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  Speaker 1: to do with thinking rationally about something. So in other words,
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  Speaker 1: having a sound mind, that means not being fearful or
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  Speaker 1: anxious over every little thing that comes up in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter tells us also to be self-controlled. That means
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  Speaker 1: not becoming super angry or offended or heated over every
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  Speaker 1: little thing that happens to us, but maintaining self-composure when
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  Speaker 1: somebody insults us or mistreats us or just offends us
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  Speaker 1: in whatever way. And also being sober in prayer. I
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  Speaker 1: think this has to do both with, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: sober in general, you know, not allowing alcohol to affect
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  Speaker 1: our brains. You know, scripture says that We can drink alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with alcohol in and of itself. But
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  Speaker 1: once it turns into drunkenness, well, that's when we start
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  Speaker 1: falling into sin. So we have to be sober physically
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  Speaker 1: and also sober in prayer. So not coming to God,
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  Speaker 1: acting as if we are drunk, acting as if we
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  Speaker 1: have no self-control. In 1 Corinthians, I think it was 15.
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  Speaker 1: I did not look this verse up. Paul was talking
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  Speaker 1: a lot about how Christians need to be self-controlled in
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  Speaker 1: the way that they worship God, because God is not
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  Speaker 1: the author of confusion. And the Holy Spirit does not
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  Speaker 1: cause people to go into a state of disarray. And
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  Speaker 1: he tells the Corinthian church how they should be worshiping
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  Speaker 1: God in a very orderly type of way. So we
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  Speaker 1: should incorporate that orderliness in our prayer lives, especially in
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  Speaker 1: front of other people, especially as a congregation of believers.
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  Speaker 1: Right now in church, it's very popular for people to
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  Speaker 1: not have orderliness in their church services. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't mean we have to be regimented with every
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  Speaker 1: single thing that we do. This doesn't mean we have
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  Speaker 1: to put on a production and only sit there with
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  Speaker 1: our hands together, looking straight at the stage, and we
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  Speaker 1: can't have any emotion whatsoever. That is not what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about when I say orderliness. I'm sure many of
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  Speaker 1: you listening to this podcast have seen videos that are
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  Speaker 1: very popular right now of church services that just seem
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  Speaker 1: almost chaotic, where people are like running up and down
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  Speaker 1: the stage, kind of flying all over the place, maybe
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  Speaker 1: shaking uncontrollably, rolling around on the ground, speaking incoherently, blowing
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  Speaker 1: into the microphone, screaming in the middle of church services.
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  Speaker 1: Just that kind of behavior is exactly what Paul and
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  Speaker 1: Peter did. I think, are talking about here that we
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  Speaker 1: should not be doing in church. Because ultimately, I would
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  Speaker 1: argue that that is putting on a show. It can
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  Speaker 1: go either way. If it is insincere, regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: kind of a church service it is, whether your church
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  Speaker 1: forces you to just stand there like a statue and
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  Speaker 1: not have any emotion whatsoever, or either the other way
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  Speaker 1: of having too much emotion and really trying to make
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  Speaker 1: people feel something that might not necessarily be there, both
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  Speaker 1: of those are insincere toward God. So I would argue
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  Speaker 1: that being sober in prayer just means being sincere toward
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  Speaker 1: God and having that genuine sincerity in before God. And
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  Speaker 1: he says in verse eight, though, above all things, be
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  Speaker 1: earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 1: I've had some trouble with this verse over the years,
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  Speaker 1: because when I was an early Christian, I used to
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  Speaker 1: read this verse thinking that Peter was saying we all
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  Speaker 1: had to be a doormat and let people walk over
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  Speaker 1: us and we have to love them and that love
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  Speaker 1: will cover their sins so that God doesn't judge those
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  Speaker 1: people anymore. But the one thing that I was forgetting
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  Speaker 1: is about my own personal sin. The love covering a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of sins isn't necessarily for the person that hurt you.
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  Speaker 1: If you show love to other people, you might be
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  Speaker 1: covering over some of the sins that you have.
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  Speaker 2: Though it could be for other people as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the one thing I was forgetting is
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  Speaker 1: that I'm also a sinful human being. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: just the people that hurt me that have the sins.
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  Speaker 2: I also.
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  Speaker 1: have many sins in my own life. And so if
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  Speaker 1: I just retaliate against anybody who ever offended me, then
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  Speaker 1: that is me not showing love to another person. And
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  Speaker 1: it could be that that person might not even have
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  Speaker 1: intended to offend me and I flew off the handle anyway,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing the entire situation. Instead of covering over the
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  Speaker 1: multitude of sins in my own life and even in
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  Speaker 1: the person that didn't intend to hurt me, I caused
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  Speaker 1: even more sins by not showing love to that individual
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  Speaker 1: or talking it through with that individual. So Peter says
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  Speaker 1: it's better to show love and stop the sin right
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  Speaker 1: there than adding to even more sins. So love covers
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  Speaker 1: over a multitude of sins. And you can imagine if
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  Speaker 1: the church body showed more love to each other, and
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  Speaker 1: wasn't constantly like backbiting or snipping at each other over
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  Speaker 1: every little thing, then the churches would be in a
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  Speaker 1: much healthier place overall. So now in verse 9, he says,
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  Speaker 1: So Peter talks about these gifts that each and every
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  Speaker 1: one of us have. These are sometimes referred to as
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual gifts, which are talked about in 1 Corinthians 12,
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  Speaker 1: 4 through 11, which says, Now there are various kinds
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  Speaker 1: of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are various kinds
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  Speaker 1: of service and the same Lord. There are various kinds
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  Speaker 1: of workings, but the same God who works all things
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  Speaker 1: in all. But to each one is given the manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit for the profit of all. For to
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  Speaker 1: one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another
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  Speaker 1: gifts of healing by the same Spirit, and to another
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  Speaker 1: workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another
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  Speaker 1: discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and
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  Speaker 1: to another the interpretation of languages. But the one and
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  Speaker 1: the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each
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  Speaker 1: one separately as he desires. Those are called the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: gifts and Paul was arguing right there that there is
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  Speaker 1: not one particular gift that is above another. They all
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  Speaker 1: come from the same spirit. The spirit gives them to
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  Speaker 1: each person that he thinks is the best for that
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  Speaker 1: particular spiritual gift. And so no person that has what
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  Speaker 1: they think is a better spiritual gift should look down
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  Speaker 1: on somebody that doesn't have what they think is a
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  Speaker 1: lesser spiritual gift because they're all one and the same, essentially.
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  Speaker 1: And he mentions all sorts of spiritual gifts. He mentions
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  Speaker 1: healings and words of knowledge and words of wisdom. He
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  Speaker 1: mentions miracles and prophecies and the discerning of spirits, as
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  Speaker 1: well as speaking in tongues. Now, I am not a cessationist.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that straight out. In fact, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's any evidence in scripture that the gifts have ceased,
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  Speaker 1: which is what cessationism means, that the gifts have ceased.
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  Speaker 1: that only certain gifts are still around to this day.
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  Speaker 1: So the cessationist would say the gift of faith is
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  Speaker 1: still around or the gift of knowledge is still around,
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  Speaker 1: but not the gifts of miracles or healings or prophecy
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. But the reason I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: in that is because there's nothing in scripture that says
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  Speaker 1: that the gifts have ceased. The only one that I
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  Speaker 1: could see some argument for is the gift of apostleship,
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  Speaker 1: because the 12 apostles had a very specific function during
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  Speaker 1: the days of Jesus, and they don't necessarily have that
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  Speaker 1: function anymore. Plus, in order to be an apostle, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have seen Jesus. You have to have seen him.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of the requirements of being an apostle,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think in our age today that anybody
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  Speaker 1: really has seen Jesus. So I could see the argument
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  Speaker 1: for apostleship being the one gift of the Spirit that
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  Speaker 1: may not really be around in this day and age
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  Speaker 1: anymore as it was in the days of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as the other gifts go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any biblical evidence for them disappearing. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it says in the end days that people will prophesy,
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  Speaker 1: that people will dream dreams. And so to me, that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the gift of prophecy. So no, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that the gifts have disappeared. But going back to
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  Speaker 1: 1 Peter 4, Peter does say that each person has
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  Speaker 1: received a gift. So each Christian who believes in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: ends up receiving at least one spiritual gift. And Peter
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  Speaker 1: says that we have to employ that gift in serving
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  Speaker 1: one another as good managers of the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: in its various forms. So that's another way that we
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  Speaker 1: wait for Jesus is by serving each other with the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual gift that each of us has. And also in
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  Speaker 1: verse 11, if we speak, let it be as it
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  Speaker 1: were the very words of God. Now, Peter is not
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  Speaker 1: making us out to be like God right here. He's
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  Speaker 1: saying we should be having the same language as God.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking not in a sinful kind of way, not
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  Speaker 1: in the way that James talks about, where James was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tongue is a flame of fire that
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  Speaker 1: consumes everything it touches. One minute it is speaking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pleasant words about Jesus, and the next it's cursing a
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  Speaker 1: brother or sister in Christ. So we can't have our
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  Speaker 1: tongues be like that as Christians. We have to be
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  Speaker 1: speaking the way that Jesus would want us to speak.
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  Speaker 1: And also Peter says in verse 11, if anyone serves,
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  Speaker 1: let it be as of the strength which God supplies,
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  Speaker 1: that in all things, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: to whom belongs the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Lastly,
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  Speaker 1: we serve in the way that we can serve. And
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  Speaker 1: this is really nice because it kind of takes the
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  Speaker 1: guilt off, I think, for some of us who can't
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  Speaker 1: serve as much as we want to, either because God
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  Speaker 1: placed something else in our lives that we have to
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  Speaker 1: focus on right now, or because maybe some of us
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  Speaker 1: are sick and we can't serve to the same capacity
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  Speaker 1: that we would like two that we see other people
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  Speaker 1: serving in, we serve to the best capacity that God
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  Speaker 1: allows us to serve. Now, that doesn't mean being lazy
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  Speaker 1: or making excuses or, you know, flaking out because something
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  Speaker 1: better comes up in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not.
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  Speaker 1: We're supposed to serve God and others with a genuine
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  Speaker 1: heart in all of this. But we serve to the
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  Speaker 1: best capacity that we can, that God supplies right here,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that might look like. You know, I know some
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  Speaker 1: people who really struggle with this, where they're like, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could do more, but I just can't for
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  Speaker 1: whatever various reason it might be. But with the gift
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  Speaker 1: that God gave them, they do what they can. For example,
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  Speaker 1: one of them has the gift of prayer. Like this
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  Speaker 1: person just can pray the most beautiful prayers. And she
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  Speaker 1: loves to pray. If I ever come to her with
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  Speaker 1: any kind of problem or concern, she's always like, let's
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  Speaker 1: pray about it. We got to pray about this. And
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  Speaker 1: even though she can't serve the way that she wants
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  Speaker 1: to serve, that is how she utilizes the gift that
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  Speaker 1: God gave her is she sits and she prays for people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a beautiful way to utilize one of the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual gifts. So basically, Peter is telling us to do
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  Speaker 1: what we can do, to act the way that God
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  Speaker 1: wants us to act, and also to do it in sincerity,
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  Speaker 1: showing genuine love for other people. Because that's not just
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  Speaker 1: going to cover over their sins, but also ours and
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  Speaker 1: not add fuel to the fire, essentially, so that God
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  Speaker 1: can be glorified through Jesus Christ. In verse 11, to
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  Speaker 1: whom belongs the glory and the dominion forever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting because every single New Testament book
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  Speaker 1: that we really study, I feel like has, there's always
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  Speaker 1: like one chapter where there's a list of do's and don'ts.
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  Speaker 2: Do this as a Christian. Don't do this as a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like it's always tied back to Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: return is coming very quickly. So it is something that
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  Speaker 1: the apostles believed very strongly that Jesus told us to
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  Speaker 1: be prepared for. And if there's something about it in
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every letter of the New Testament, then I
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  Speaker 1: think you and I should be taking it pretty seriously
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  Speaker 1: as well as we wait for Jesus's return. All right,
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  Speaker 1: faithful listeners, before I close out this episode, please listen
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  Speaker 1: faithful listeners, you guys know that one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: things to do when I close out an episode is
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  Speaker 1: to give you guys a call to action. So the
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  Speaker 1: call to action for today is to read over 1
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  Speaker 1: Peter 4, 7 through 11 yourselves and think about one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that you can implement today. And also
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  Speaker 1: something that you need to pray about, something you might
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  Speaker 1: struggle with in this list. For example, maybe you struggle
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  Speaker 1: with using your gift, your spiritual gift for the church.
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  Speaker 2: Pray about that today, as well.
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  Speaker 1: As trying to implement something from this list to really
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  Speaker 1: Encourage somebody who is around you, especially if that person
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  Speaker 1: is also a Christian themselves. Even if they're not, try
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  Speaker 1: to encourage somebody today based upon this list from 1
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  Speaker 1: Peter 4. And also don't forget that Jesus's return is very,
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  Speaker 1: very near. Faithful listeners, I hope you all have a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic and wonderful rest of your day. I'll see you
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  Speaker 1: guys tomorrow as we talk through Job chapter 2 and
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  Speaker 1: the second phase of Satan's attack on Job's life. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that chapter tomorrow. Faithful listeners, have a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: and wonderful, wonderful rest of your day. As always, happy
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  Speaker 1: listening and God bless. I just want to take a
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