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Faith That Moves Us · Relish: a Christian podcast

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  Relish pleasing or zestful flavor a quantity
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  just sufficient to flavor to be pleased or
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  gratified by enjoy we are hoping that what we bring to your table today might
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  add some spice to your life welcome back to another episode of relish i am roan
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  miller this is pastor don patterson how are you doing don i'm doing good yeah
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  and this is the time of year that my mom used to make relish. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah.
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  So it was the green tomatoes, the pickles, and the things that came out of the
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  garden. They'd usually sit in the back porch for a week or two or three after the frost.
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  And then we would grind them all up and make relish.
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  Yeah, have them all ready for winter and cold months. Mm-hmm. Hot dogs.
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  Right. Got to survive the miserable Midwest winter somehow. That's right. Yeah.
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  And I wasn't even in Iowa then. It was in Kansas. Right. But we had winter in
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  Kansas, believe it or not.
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  And yeah, hamburgers with relish on it. Oh man, that does sound good.
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  Yeah, until I'm hungry. You don't get too many hamburgers in the winter, but. Oh, you don't?
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  Not as many as I might like in the summer. Okay, that's true.
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  Yeah. Not grilling out quite as often. Right.
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  That's true. Here's my question for you. All right.
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  What has been your approach to reading the Bible, and has it changed over time?
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  Yeah so um there was
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  uh in the like january
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  february usually our church would even before you
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  had come we'd do like community readings so we
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  would i would usually join the church for
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  those cool and then when i was younger i kind
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  of i was kind of only did in january february
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  i didn't necessarily have a
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  set plan or make a point to read every
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  night or every morning when i woke up but kind of
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  grown into that more and uh ben gifton's
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  gifted several devotional books oh that kind of work through i know our youth
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  group went through one of the rooted oh yeah and And see read a page or two
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  and have some short question answers and discussions.
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  I enjoyed that. So, yeah.
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  Good. Somewhere, yeah. Usually the devotions will have a set of verses or whatever that go with them.
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  So then I'll jump into the chapter or section that the devotion came from,
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  kind of read that further.
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  I did read through the Bible once. You mean you read farther than it said?
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  Yeah. Okay, cool. Usually I would, but read through the Bible once. Excellent.
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  I don't. And you understood it all. Well, most of it.
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  But when you're reading through the Bible, I wouldn't recommend it for somebody
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  that's like just getting to know the word. Right.
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  Starting at the beginning of the Bible isn't necessarily where you should start. Usually it's weird.
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  If you're picking up any other book, you'd either start at the beginning and
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  if you don't like how that is, you might skip to the end and see how it ends.
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  But you wouldn't be very pleased with the Bible necessarily if you did that.
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  So you've got to start in the middle.
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  Yeah, it can start in the middle. Maybe John or something like that.
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  That's interesting. The Bible is different than any other book because starting
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  at the beginning, oh, yeah, that's all good. You get to history and then you
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  get to Numbers and Deuteronomy and Leviticus.
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  And you go, sort of go, oh, and then, yeah, so. Right.
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  I think that the time, overall time spent reading the Bible has definitely gone
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  up over my years. So. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
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  And now you're doing a broad podcast.
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  Right. About the Bible and Christian faith and things like that.
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  Yeah. Try to get to share with all of you guys out there, so. Yeah.
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  Yeah, all those guys out there.
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  I was wondering what you're doing there. I'm looking out there to see all the
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  guys, all the people out there. Right.
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  We'll jump in. I believe you have a faithful fruit of the Spirit with us. Right.
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  And so Ron called me the other night and said, are you going to have the faithful
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  ready for the fruits of the Spirit this week?
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  And I, oh, thank you for reminding me. Yeah, we can do that.
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  And yeah, so when we talk about these fruits of the Spirit, We're talking about
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  Galatians, and we're in chapter 5, verses 22.
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  The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
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  goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. So we're winding down.
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  And I was talking to Rowan before.
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  Interestingly, these are all separate words in the Greek language.
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  But when we talk about it in the English language, you know,
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  gentleness and kindness, it's a sort of goodness.
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  Yeah. They sort of mesh with each other in the English language.
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  And so just be aware that we do have a word for each one.
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  But translating from the Greek to the English isn't always easy.
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  Here's another one when we talk about faithfulness.
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  Faithfulness is not actually the word in the Greek. It's just faith, histos.
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  It uses that one word. And so when we talk about a fruit being one of these,
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  faithfulness, well, it's just faith. fruit of the Spirit.
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  The fruit of the Spirit is faith.
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  And so that's the bottom line when we get to this part. It is the word faith.
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  What's nice about this is I don't have to define faith because the Bible itself defines faith.
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  So when we go to Hebrews 11, verse 1, faith is being sure of what you hope for
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  and certain of what you don't see.
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  And then the entire passage in chapter 11 of Hebrews is talking about people of faith.
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  And so, yeah, we'll just turn there because that might be easier. Yes.
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  So we talk about by faith, Abel, by faith, Enoch, by faith, Noah,
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  by faith, Abraham, by faith, Abraham.
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  Again, Abraham's the biggest one. He's got three of them. and then Isaac and then Joseph and Moses.
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  So then you have to realize, okay, what is it that by faith,
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  These guys did. And look at these acts.
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  Look at these things that they did because they had faith. Okay.
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  Abel offered a better sacrifice. Okay.
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  That seems to be one of the main
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  hallmarks of difference between Cain's sacrifice and Abel's sacrifice.
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  That Abel's sacrifice was anointed by his faith, if you will.
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  And Enoch had such faith that he didn't even experience death.
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  And so God, he had so much faith in God that he didn't die. He was just taken up.
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  That's so cool. You think we could achieve that? I hope just working on it all
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  the time. Yeah, that'd be fun.
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  I don't fear death The dying part's what gets me,
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  That just looks awful painful sometimes And long sometimes Noah, by faith Noah,
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  When warned about the things not yet seen Holy fear, in holy fear Built the
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  ark to save his family By faith By his faith he was,
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  By faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that was to come by faith.
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  Okay, let's put that one in perspective.
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  Because that's probably most helpful to us, as well as what happens with Abraham.
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  When faith powers us, if you will, to do things that are beyond what reason can imagine.
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  It's real stuff. Okay, so Alex had faith. He developed a podcast.
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  And then he got us in the podcast. And that's faith.
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  It moves you to do something outside your comfort zone, but it moves you to do it.
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  Noah was moved to spend over 100 years and a lot of manpower to build a boat,
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  when there'd never been a boat before for a rain when there'd never been a rain before.
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  I mean, all these things, it's sort of, he's doing this by faith.
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  So then when you go down and you look at Abraham,
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  what he did by faith, he left his homeland, his cousins and all of his family,
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  and he moved to a distant land because God wanted to create a people for himself.
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  And he was going to start with Abraham.
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  So he does it. He leaves all those things that we normally find comfort in,
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  home, mom and dad's country cooking or mom and dad's Thanksgiving cooking,
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  you know, it's getting right really close to that.
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  And they give us comfort and we feel good about it. But by faith,
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  these guys went towards what God was asking them to do.
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  So, if a fruit of the Spirit is faith, we'll know that we have a fruit of the
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  Spirit by the fact that we're going to do those kinds of things that God uniquely
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  asks us to do. And we're going to do it,
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  Like Noah did. I mean, he went right at it. Got all that gopher wood, put it together.
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  He was also, like you compared him to us, he was also like publicly ridiculed.
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  Oh my. Constantly being criticized for what he was doing.
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  And I mean, we haven't experienced that for doing a podcast.
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  Not yet, no. We haven't even.
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  There might be somebody out there going to do that this week,
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  but yeah. But yeah, we haven't got a lot of that. Not near the time that he
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  was either. Right. So. Yeah.
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  So it would be, faith would being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see.
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  So, I mean, he hoped.
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  I mean, God told him there was going to be this flood. He told him what was
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  going to happen and gave him a solution.
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  And he worked on that. So what do we hope for?
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  I mean, I still hope for renewal in our community.
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  That's one of the things I've prayed for, that in this home community,
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  maybe even beyond that, now that we're on the World Wide Web with a podcast,
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  that there would be some kind of renewal of an interest in what Christ is wanting to do,
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  an interest in the church, interest in the things of faith, and such a renewal
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  that lives are being changed.
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  I want to see lives changed. yeah i like like i've seen god work in my own life
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  i i want to see other people's lives changed,
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  and find let them have faith so they have that fruit of the spirit in their lives,
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  and i found that those people who have been uh touched by god often are able
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  to touch people i can't get to you know all of a sudden they've been moved from
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  one place to another because of their faith in God, and.
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  All their friends go, what happened to you? And when they say, what happened to you?
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  It gives an opportunity to share their testimony, what God really did in their life.
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  And it's inspiring to people who are looking for that.
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  You get a pastor who sat in the pulpit for 40 some years, you know, not near as exciting.
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  You've already been there. Yeah. Kind of thing.
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  But a fresh work of the Spirit, let's just put it in that light,
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  a fresh work, a fresh fruit of the Spirit, often really gets people's attention.
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  Yeah. And that's what I pray for. I'm hoping for that. I'm hoping it happens
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  in my lifetime. Maybe it'll happen in yours. Right. Hopefully.
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  Yeah. I know that for the younger upcoming generations,
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  they feel that more of a connection and more open to people and leaders that's closer to their age.
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  No offense, but somebody who's been around and has lots of experience.
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  We'll just say lots of experience. Well, I'm a fossil, yes. But yeah, hopefully I can help.
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  Younger people. Yeah. Right. I'm willing to share everything that I know with
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  somebody else. Right. Because I can't take it with me.
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  That's true. Yeah. I can't. Yeah. I can't. I might try, but I can't take it with me.
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  It'll be gone when I am. Right. I can't take it with me.
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  But yeah, I hope. I hope for revival. I hope for new things in communities.
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  And I'd like to be a part of it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Why wouldn't you? I,
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  timestamp.
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  All right well I believe that would that'll wrap it up for our episode,
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  hope you guys enjoy continue to enjoy the fruits of the spirit but yes in real
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  time yeah yeah this was faithfulness next week so,
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  stay tuned for that next one and let us know if you have any other special episodes
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  that you want Don to be able to prepare for ahead of time. Oh, that's true.
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  So, cause we like to keep him on his toes and Like it's very hard to do that. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Keep me on my toes. Yeah. See how fast I fall off.
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  That is it for this episode. We'll see you next time. Thank you for joining us for this podcast.
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  Our goal is to help each other grow deeper in our understanding of who God is
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  and his calling to us in our daily lives.
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  Thank you again for joining us and may God bless your day.