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The Grace of God, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There's a man in the Old Testament with a name
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  Speaker 1: quite tough to pronounce. Mephibosheth was a nobody living in obscurity,
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  Speaker 1: lame in both feet. Tragically, he expected to be executed. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: a king invited him to the royal table for life
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  Speaker 1: and Today, on Insight for Living, Chucks Mondall says his
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  Speaker 1: story is actually our story, because grace isn't God helping
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  Speaker 1: those who help themselves. It's God seeking out the helpless,
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  Speaker 1: the sinful, the enemy, meeting us with arms wide open.
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  Speaker 1: Today's message on God's grace is part of Chuck's twelve
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  Speaker 1: part series called How Great is Our God?
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  Speaker 2: Today, on the Grace of God, we're going to look
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  Speaker 2: at Mephibosheth. Second Samuel, Chapter nine, David has come to
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  Speaker 2: the throne. His predecessor, King Saul has died. The family
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  Speaker 2: of Saul have fled away, though David exterminated none of them.
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  Speaker 2: But when Saul died, Zeeba, his servant, as well as
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  Speaker 2: a nurse who was helping with the children, took up
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  Speaker 2: this little boy maphibus Chef, and ran for their lives
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  Speaker 2: to hide. In the running, she dropped him and he
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  Speaker 2: was crippled in both his feet. Now that's the background
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  Speaker 2: of the story. Mamphibis chef here in Second Samuel nine,
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  Speaker 2: and David is now in his palace. And David, as
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  Speaker 2: he's sitting and musing, remembers a promise before his dear
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  Speaker 2: friend Jonathan died in the same battle as Saul his
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  Speaker 2: father had died in. David promised Jonathan he would take
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  Speaker 2: care of his family. Jonathan said, just make that covenant
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  Speaker 2: with me, and David said, I promise. Suddenly the promise
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  Speaker 2: comes back to his mind and he thinks, this is
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  Speaker 2: I've got to make that promise good. Because of his
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  Speaker 2: relationship with his friend Jonathan and Jonathan's father, Saul King,
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  Speaker 2: David initiates an act of grace. Look at it, so,
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  Speaker 2: David said, is there yet anyone left of the House
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  Speaker 2: of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
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  Speaker 2: Think of grace, grace, grace, God's treatment, sovereign, free sovereign
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  Speaker 2: favor to the ill deserved. Is there anyone to whom
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  Speaker 2: I might show free sovereign favor. So he meets a
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  Speaker 2: man named Zeba who is from the House of Saul,
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  Speaker 2: and Zeba said, I know where there is one I'm
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  Speaker 2: just a servant. But verse three concludes, there's still a
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  Speaker 2: son of Jonathan David.
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  Speaker 3: He's a cripple, he's disabled.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sensitive point, but we need to stay here
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  Speaker 2: at the text long enough for you to feel it.
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  Speaker 2: What does zeba thinking David? Look around? This is a
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  Speaker 2: place for the wow, the brightest, and the best.
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  Speaker 3: You need those with high SAT scores.
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  Speaker 2: You need those with IQ's that are almost off the chart.
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  Speaker 3: You need the.
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  Speaker 2: All and handsome and brod's from the sun. You need warriors.
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  Speaker 2: This fellow I have in mind is a he's crippled
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  Speaker 2: in both feet. By the way, Zebra overlooked one word
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  Speaker 2: that David used, is there anyone? Is that good or what?
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  Speaker 2: Sometime I'm in my study and I'll go on, is
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  Speaker 2: that good or what?
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  Speaker 3: I just got?
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's around?
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  Speaker 2: So I said, yeah, that's good. Yeah, this is one.
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  Speaker 4: Of those moments. This is a this is is there anyone?
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  Speaker 4: Put your name there? I put mine? There is there anybody, Zebra.
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  Speaker 2: That I can show grace to. I'm doing it for Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not handing out a life achievement award. This is
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  Speaker 2: about grace.
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  Speaker 3: Zebra didn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a fellow's crippled on both his feet.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you love David's response? Where is he?
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't say, now you think he'll ever get better?
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  Speaker 2: Or does he like walk with crutches? Or can you
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  Speaker 2: get around without somebody being there to help him? You
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  Speaker 2: and I do that because we're sinful and proud and
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  Speaker 2: we're not disabled. We think we're all disabled. That's where
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  Speaker 2: I'm going. I just can't wait to get there, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm take you the end of it before I get there.
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  Speaker 2: We're all disabled. I mean, the king says, where is he? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's living in low de bar. It's a little ambiguous
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  Speaker 2: by the way, and the Hebrew. It's hard to trace
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  Speaker 2: what that word means. Geographical locations often had etymologies that
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  Speaker 2: were interesting and symbolic. The word low and Hebrew always
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  Speaker 2: means no or not, but dbar debatable. Some suggest it
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  Speaker 2: means pasture, as in no pasture land, a barren place.
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  Speaker 2: He's living in a wilderness. I like the one that
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  Speaker 2: seems a little more reliable. He's living in a no place.
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  Speaker 2: And we would say the ghetto.
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  Speaker 3: The dump.
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  Speaker 4: You can't use it nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: There's a place named the dump here where you buy things.
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  Speaker 2: But forget that. That fouled up my illustration. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden I realized it. But the kind of dump
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  Speaker 2: you thought of when you were kids.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, he lives in the ghetto. He's nothing, living in
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  Speaker 4: a no place.
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine said, I was so far out
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  Speaker 2: in the country we had to go toward town to hunt.
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  Speaker 2: That's where That's where my Febishev was living. David the
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  Speaker 2: cause of nobody living nowhere. David is go get him?
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  Speaker 2: You know why, because it's grace. That's why he didn't
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  Speaker 2: miss you.
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  Speaker 5: Or me.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting it, aren't you. There are times that overwhelms me.
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  Speaker 2: It literally overwhelms me that he would choose me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so in this story, I can hardly believe it. Analogy
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  Speaker 2: number one. Write it down. David out of sheer grace
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  Speaker 2: extended his love to a nobody, just as God.
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  Speaker 3: In sheer grace.
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  Speaker 4: Extended it to you and me.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he?
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  Speaker 2: Go get him? Okay, now the story gets really good. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: says Zeba, We'll go get him.
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  Speaker 3: Verse five.
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  Speaker 2: The king sent and brought him from the house of Maker,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Amiel, from no place you imagine.
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  Speaker 4: Mamphibischef Mamphibichef, we know you're in there, phil Chef.
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  Speaker 2: He sees the horses outside, he sees the chariot that's
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  Speaker 2: come from the king's palace. What are they gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: What would you think they're gonna kill me?
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  Speaker 2: The nurse who would carried him and dropped him when
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  Speaker 2: she was running from the new king, and he became
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  Speaker 2: lame on both his feet. She's now nervous. But you
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  Speaker 2: can't hold back the king's guard. The door bolts open.
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  Speaker 2: The king wants to see you, mamphib Chef, and he
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  Speaker 2: pulls his crutches under his arms and plump, scrape, scrape.
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  Speaker 2: They help him into the chariot. Second analogy. Write it down.
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  Speaker 2: Just as David sought and found this undeserving man, so
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  Speaker 2: God sought and found us. David said, where is he?
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  Speaker 2: And he sent people to find him Verse five, And
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  Speaker 2: they found him, just as God found you and God
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  Speaker 2: found me. He pursued us. He and the words of
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  Speaker 2: a poet, set the hounds of heaven against us. Remember
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  Speaker 2: their bark, Remember they were and they were nipping at
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  Speaker 2: your heels. Remember when you thought you could outrun him
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  Speaker 2: or out fox him. No one said Maphiba Cheth clean
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  Speaker 2: yourself up, take a shower. You're getting ready to go
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  Speaker 2: before the king. Come now, wow, just as you are,
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  Speaker 2: come on the fibushet. So with gentleness they take him
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  Speaker 2: to the chariot. He's never in his life been in
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  Speaker 2: the chariot. There's a wonderful story of how they rescued
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  Speaker 2: the Jews over in Israel. The Jews had come from Africa,
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  Speaker 2: and they had never seen any place but where they
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  Speaker 2: were living. And to preserve their lives, Israel flew planes
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  Speaker 2: in and picked up these dear people, these Africans, and
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  Speaker 2: they put them on the plane for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in their life.
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  Speaker 4: They're sitting on the plane, they take off. Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa?
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  Speaker 4: Then they land them in.
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  Speaker 2: Israel, free, free, How gracious of that country, How gracious
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  Speaker 2: of David, How gracious of our God to take us
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  Speaker 2: from the ghetto of our existence and put us on
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  Speaker 2: his chariot. Now he stands before the king. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine how scared he must have been. Verse six, Mamphibichef,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David
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  Speaker 2: and fell on his face and prostrated himself. That means
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  Speaker 2: he fell on his face, face down belly touching the floor,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely flat, prostrated before the king. David said, mamphibieth, he said,
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  Speaker 2: here's your servant. He's probably thinking it's curtains, and David
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  Speaker 2: says to him verse seven, do not fear.
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  Speaker 3: Do not fear.
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  Speaker 2: I will surely show usted to you. I will show
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  Speaker 2: grace to you for the sake of your father, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: How good did that sound about like when you heard it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't die to ruin your life. I died to
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  Speaker 2: rescue you. Here's the third analogy. Has David restored this
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  Speaker 2: man to a place of honor? God has done that
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  Speaker 2: for us. If he would give us what we deserve.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even want to know what the place looks like.
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  Speaker 2: We'd give new meaning to the word ghetto. There would
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  Speaker 2: be breath taken from your lungs before you could take
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  Speaker 2: a third or fourth deep breath. That God doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: He restores us to a place of honor. How great
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  Speaker 2: of him. That's called Greece. And don't you love this?
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  Speaker 2: Verse seven continues, and will restore to you all the
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  Speaker 2: land of your grandfather's saul, and you shall eat at
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  Speaker 2: my table regularly, meaning what he's adopting him fourth analogy,
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  Speaker 2: has David adopted Maheba chef from the place of emptiness,
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  Speaker 2: So God has adopted us and to his forever family.
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  Speaker 2: Now your mine, don't you know if Methhipish must have thought,
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  Speaker 2: if not said look, look, King David, look.
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  Speaker 3: At me, Look at me.
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  Speaker 4: There are thousands of others you could choose. Look at me.
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  Speaker 2: I love the humility of Memphippishev. He just bows before
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  Speaker 2: the king and bows. There is no pride, there is
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  Speaker 2: only amazement. And David says, now your mind. Now you're
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  Speaker 2: under my care. You're not going to drop in for
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  Speaker 2: a snack once a month. You're one of my own.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chair for you, there's a place for you.
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  Speaker 2: He tells zeb all about it, says, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: set this up so that his land will be his
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  Speaker 2: Saul's land will be brought to his grandson. It's all
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  Speaker 2: going to work out great. Za says, yes, sir, We'll
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  Speaker 2: do it that way. Verse eleven. So Mamphibish hath eight
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  Speaker 2: at David's table as one of the king's sons. Pause
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  Speaker 2: and think, Pause and think. One of the king's sons
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  Speaker 2: set alongside Solomon, set alongside Absolom, who by the way,
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  Speaker 2: was handsome, from the crown of his head to the
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  Speaker 2: sole of his feet. Set alongside Tamar Absolom's blood sister
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  Speaker 2: Killyab probably Joe Ab came in for a meal rather often.
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  Speaker 2: The chairs empty, they wait for him to come. The
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  Speaker 2: dinner bell rings, everybody's at the table. Chump scrape, chump, scrape, chump, scrape,
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  Speaker 2: and the tablecloth covered his feet.
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  Speaker 3: That's also a great thought.
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  Speaker 2: And I said in my study, Oh, that's good, And
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  Speaker 2: there was nobody around to say that is good. The
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  Speaker 2: tablecloth covered his feet.
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  Speaker 4: How good is that?
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  Speaker 2: Surrounded by this royalty and nobody from nowhere. It's sitting
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  Speaker 2: at the King's table that brings us to the fifth
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  Speaker 2: mamphibis Chef's disability was a constant reminder of the King's grace,
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  Speaker 2: just as mamphibis Chef's disability was a constant reminder of
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  Speaker 2: the King's grace. So our disabilities remind us of that,
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  Speaker 2: our failures, our faults, our times of coming up short.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're still undeserving, we're still insufficient and weak.
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  Speaker 2: And in spite of all of that, were one of
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  Speaker 2: his We've been adopted and we eat regularly.
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  Speaker 3: At the king.
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  Speaker 2: How's the meal this morning? You're feasting at his table,
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  Speaker 2: But you don't need to be here to feast. You
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  Speaker 2: can feast at his table tomorrow afternoon, or late tonight
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  Speaker 2: or next Saturday morning. His word is open and truth
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  Speaker 2: flows like great food from a banquet hall. How gracious
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  Speaker 2: of our God. I love it that he says you
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  Speaker 2: will you will be verse eleven, You will eat as
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  Speaker 2: one of the king's sons. The end of that verse.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that mathibush hath eight at David's table as
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  Speaker 2: one of the king's sons. By the way, he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: instantly healed. He was never healed. Take note of that.
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  Speaker 2: People have the idea that they'll bargain with God. They'll
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  Speaker 2: come to God if he'll heal them. You're never going
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  Speaker 2: to be healed of sin. We're forgiven of sin. But
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  Speaker 2: when never told, we're healed of sin. Oh, that comes
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  Speaker 2: when we move into eternity, when we die, the same
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  Speaker 2: thing is over. Until then, we've got the disability number six.
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  Speaker 2: When he sat at the king's table, there was no
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  Speaker 2: status or rank in the family. They were all the
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  Speaker 2: king's sons and daughters. You want a great thought, they're
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  Speaker 2: sitting at the supper table, and David says to mamphibisheth
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  Speaker 2: you ask the blessing? Probably would be nothing but weeping.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, how gracious you are to find me when
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't even.
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  Speaker 3: Looking, and to give me a place. He's at the
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  Speaker 3: table of the king.
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  Speaker 2: Another great thought, someday we'll be at the table like that,
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  Speaker 2: and nobody will.
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  Speaker 4: Say, Hey, that's possile Paul's seat.
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  Speaker 3: Don't sit there.
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  Speaker 4: Why not Peter's seat?
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  Speaker 2: You don't you know that the pecking order, Paul Peter,
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  Speaker 2: that's James s that's Martin Luther's seat you sit on
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  Speaker 2: at the table, Sit on, brother Martin. There's a stool
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  Speaker 2: over there, he sit right down. Or some great church
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  Speaker 2: father or some great author you've read, or some great
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  Speaker 2: singer of yesteryear, or your mom or daddy, somebody who
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  Speaker 2: meant the world to you. They're waiting for you at
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  Speaker 2: the table. Final thought. You know how we'll often say
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  Speaker 2: there's an old saying, when you see someone that's in trouble,
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  Speaker 2: there but for the grace of God, go I.
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  Speaker 3: When I think of I think they're.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the grace of God, go iye, why because
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  Speaker 2: we are all disabled? May God, never let us forget
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  Speaker 2: a phibish heath. And every time you are with someone disabled,
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  Speaker 2: think of a phibish heath. There will be no place
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  Speaker 2: for impatience, misunderstanding, expectations. They can't keep up. You wait
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  Speaker 2: for them, you encourage them, you love.
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  Speaker 3: Them, You show grace to them, just like Corey Tenboom
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  Speaker 3: when she shook his hand. Let's power hearts together.
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  Speaker 2: How great of the King to reach out to one
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  Speaker 2: who really was undeserving. How great of God to send
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  Speaker 2: his son for you and for all of us lame, awkward, backward, broken, inconsistent, unloving, unkind, impatient, profane, vile.
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  Speaker 3: But we have a place at the table.
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  Speaker 4: Your chair is empty.
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  Speaker 2: If you've never trusted Christ in today's the day to
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  Speaker 2: reserve your spot.
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  Speaker 3: I urge you to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Father, that in the shattered condition of both
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  Speaker 2: mind and body, this man was found, and his lameness
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  Speaker 2: and awkwardness never turned the King away. How great is
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  Speaker 2: our God, how full of grace? Forgive us for even
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  Speaker 2: the moment of pride or arrogance or impatience, And remind us, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: in our load of our existence, that you have graciously
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  Speaker 2: chosen us.
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  Speaker 3: To be yours.
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  Speaker 2: Father, Thank you for your grace to us and your
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  Speaker 2: mercy that is new every morning. Thank you for loving
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  Speaker 2: us even though we are by nature forever helpless, sinful, rebellious.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for looking through and beyond all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and by your grace choosing us and using us. How
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  Speaker 2: humbled we are today to acknowledge that we identify best
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  Speaker 2: with Maphibosheth in the story.
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  Speaker 3: Keep us from ever forgetting that.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of the one who loved us and
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  Speaker 2: gave himself for us, Christ, who though he was rich
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  Speaker 2: yet for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
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  Speaker 2: might be rich. Even Jesus, we pray everyone said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: David didn't search for the brightest, the strongest, or the
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  Speaker 1: most deserving. He asked, is there anyone? And grace found
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  Speaker 1: a nobody in a no name place, lame, forgotten and afraid,
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  Speaker 1: and seated him at the king's table as one of
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  Speaker 1: his own sons. That's the gospel in a story. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't earn our chair. Neither did Maphibisheth. And if today's
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  Speaker 1: will help you go deeper into the grace that found you.
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  Speaker 1: Just before we hear a closing word from Chuck, let
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  Speaker 1: And now here's Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for almost twenty years a colleague of mine
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  Speaker 2: did the same thing every single Sunday, Right before I
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  Speaker 2: stepped up to preach, how we would lean over and
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  Speaker 2: whisper a few words into my ear, the same words
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  Speaker 2: every time.
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  Speaker 5: Preach Grace, Chuck, preach the Cross. Oh my, I can
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  Speaker 5: still hear his voice. And here's what I've learned after
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  Speaker 5: more than sixty plus years of standing behind a pulpit.
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  Speaker 5: Those four words are the whole ball game. Everything else
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  Speaker 5: is just noise. The Cross isn't a decoration, It isn't
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  Speaker 5: the introduction to a better topic. It is the topic,
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  Speaker 5: always has been, always will be. The Apostle Paul said
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  Speaker 5: it plainly. I determined to know nothing among you except
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  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's not a modest man
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  Speaker 5: under selling himself. That's a brilliant man who finally understood
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  Speaker 1: Chuck says there's a better way to live, and it
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  Speaker 1: begins at the foot of the Cross, where all the
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