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What’s Right about Adolescence │ Msg 1116 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: The captain of the ship looked into the dark night,
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Speaker 1: and he saw faint lights in the distance, and so
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Speaker 1: immediately he told his signalman to send a message, alter
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Speaker 1: your course ten degrees south. Promptly a return message was received,
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Speaker 1: alter your course ten degrees north. The captain was angered
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Speaker 1: his command had been ignored, so he sent a second message,
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Speaker 1: alter your course ten degrees south. I am the captain.
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Speaker 1: Soon another message was received, alter your course ten degrees north.
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Speaker 1: I'm seaman third class Jones. Immediately the captain sent a
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Speaker 1: third message, knowing the fear it would evoke. Alter your
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Speaker 1: course ten degrees south. I am a battleship. The reply came,
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Speaker 1: alter your course ten degrees north. I am a lighthouse.
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Speaker 1: I've told that story over the years, and it never
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Speaker 1: loses its impact. Like few others, that illustration demonstrates the
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Speaker 1: absurdity and the potential horrifying destruction of pride. Pride ranks
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Speaker 1: among the most, if not the most debilitating mark of
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Speaker 1: an immature Christian. Frankly, I've witnessed more marriages, more families,
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Speaker 1: and even whole ministries wind up thoroughly shipwrecked, having been
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Speaker 1: dashed against the jagged edges of just plane, hard headed
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Speaker 1: self sufficiency. Youth al arrogance is only one of several
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Speaker 1: marks of spiritual immaturity I wish to expose and hopefully
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Speaker 1: show the way out of in today's message from our
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Speaker 1: series growing up in God's Family. Often, however, what's needed
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Speaker 1: to reveal blind spots in our spiritual understanding is a test,
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Speaker 1: a particular circumstance presented to us by the Lord, where
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Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to respond, either in stubborn refusal
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Speaker 1: to submit or in delightfully mature and seasoned expression of
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Speaker 1: obedience and trust. Once again, we turn to the Word
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Speaker 1: of God to get us started. So please turn with
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Speaker 1: me to Genesis twenty two, classic passage of Old Testament narrative.
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Speaker 1: I want to read for you this account from the
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Speaker 1: New Living Translation, Genesis twenty two one through seven. Now
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Speaker 1: please listen carefully as I read Genesis twenty two to
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Speaker 1: one begins. Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith. Abraham
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Speaker 1: God called, yes, He replied, here I am take your son,
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Speaker 1: your only son, yes, Isaac, whom you love so much,
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Speaker 1: and go to the land of Mariah. Go and sacrifice
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Speaker 1: him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains,
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Speaker 1: which I will show you. The next morning, Abraham got
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Speaker 1: up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of
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Speaker 1: his servants with him along along with his son Isaac.
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Speaker 1: Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt
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Speaker 1: offering and set out for the place God had told
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Speaker 1: him about.
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Speaker 2: On the third day of.
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Speaker 1: Their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in
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Speaker 1: the distance. Stay here with the donkey, Abraham told the servants.
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Speaker 1: The boy and I will travel a little farther. We
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Speaker 1: will worship there, and then we will come right back.
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Speaker 1: So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on
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Speaker 1: Isaac's shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife.
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Speaker 1: As the two of them walked on together, Isaac turned
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Speaker 1: to Abraham and said, Father, yes, my son. Abraham replied,
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Speaker 1: we have the fire and the wood. The boy said,
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Speaker 1: but where is the sheep for the burnt offering? Most
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Speaker 1: of us entertain two erroneous ideas that need to be corrected.
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Speaker 1: Even though they are commonly held opinions of a number
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Speaker 1: of us, they are nevertheless erroneous. One idea has to
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Speaker 1: do with adults, and the other has to do with adolescence.
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Speaker 1: Idea Number one, All adults are mature, wise and with it.
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Speaker 1: You laugh with me because you know the problem. There
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Speaker 1: is that little first three letter word all some of us,
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Speaker 1: on occasion show a little wisdom on occasion, find ourselves
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Speaker 1: with it. But more often than not, though we are
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Speaker 1: old enough to know better and certainly experienced enough to
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Speaker 1: do better, we find ourselves continuing to be learners more
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Speaker 1: than teachers. I think Job put it best in thirty
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Speaker 1: two nine when he said the abundant in years are
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Speaker 1: not always wise. Second idea that needs correction. All adolescents
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Speaker 1: are immature, unwise, and out of it, you know.
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Speaker 3: I I.
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Speaker 2: Think if we put ourselves.
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Speaker 1: In the shoes of today's adolescent, most of us adults
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Speaker 1: would have to take off our hats and say, for.
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Speaker 2: Power to you.
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Speaker 1: The stress you live with, the pressures you have to
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Speaker 1: deal with, the fractured homes you have to grow through,
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Speaker 1: the decreasing number of models you have to look at,
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Speaker 1: is enough reason to help us understand your difficulty in coping.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the the statistics reveal their own quiet message,
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Speaker 1: don't they. In a book I wish you would read,
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Speaker 1: All grown Up and No Place to go by David
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Speaker 1: ilkind these words appear. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
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Speaker 1: and Alcoholism reports conservatively that one point three million teenagers
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Speaker 1: between the ages of twelve and seventeen have serious drinking problems.
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Speaker 1: Sexual activity, at least among teenage girls, has more than
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Speaker 1: tripled over the last two decades. In contrast to the
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, when only about ten percent of teenage girls
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Speaker 1: were sexually active, more than fifty percent are now sexually active.
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Speaker 1: By the age of nineteen, at least seventy percent, that's
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Speaker 1: seven oh seventy percent of young women have had at
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Speaker 1: least one sexual experience. Among young women who are sexually active,
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Speaker 1: four out of ten will become pregnant before they leave
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Speaker 1: their teens. Crime rates have increased dramatically among juveniles. For many,
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Speaker 1: crime is a regular part of their lives, in both
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Speaker 1: the home and the school. Then he quotes a fact
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Speaker 1: from another source. Every month, secondary schools experience two point
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Speaker 1: four million thefts, almost three hundred thousand assaults, and over
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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand robberies. Criminal behavior starts early, usually in school,
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Speaker 1: and peaks quickly. More seventeen to twenty year old males
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Speaker 1: are arrested for virtually every class of crime, including homicide,
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Speaker 1: than males in any other age group. But the record
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Speaker 1: of children under ten fifty five thousand arrests in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty is itself sobering, and it gets seven times worse
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Speaker 1: by age fourteen. I haven't even mentioned the runaway problem,
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Speaker 1: the problem with drugs, the whole issue of broken homes
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Speaker 1: growing through that latch key kid experience of life. But
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Speaker 1: I've saved the worst part for last has to do
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Speaker 1: with suicide. Still quoting suicide rates, four teenagers have climbed
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Speaker 1: at a fearful pace. Five thousand teens commits suicide every year,
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Speaker 1: and for each of these suicides, fifty to one hundred
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Speaker 1: youngsters make an unsuccessful attempt. In nineteen seventy seven, almost
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Speaker 1: five thousand between ages fifteen and twenty four committed suicide.
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Speaker 1: This is an increase of one hundred thirty one percent
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Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty one to nineteen seventy five. Over the
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Speaker 1: past two and a half decades, suicides have increased dramatically
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Speaker 1: for ages ten through fourteen one hundred sixty six percent
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Speaker 1: increase fifteen to nineteen one hundred ninety two percent increase
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Speaker 1: twenty to twenty four one hundred and ninety four percent increase.
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Speaker 1: It is now the second leading cause of death, second
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Speaker 1: only to accidents. It's not easy being a teenager. Adolescence
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Speaker 1: has a terrible attrition rate, and if you're not in
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Speaker 1: touch with them, then you don't understand. You're yawning about now,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem a big issue. You need to spend
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Speaker 1: a little while on a high school campus. You need
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Speaker 1: to spend a little while on the university campus. You
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Speaker 1: need to step into some homes where pressure is so
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Speaker 1: thick you can cut it with a knife. You need
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Speaker 1: to deal with the raw side of the story a little.
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Speaker 1: And quite honestly, you will be amazed that so few
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Speaker 1: do well. You will be amazed, as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: that those who do well are really outstripping many adults.
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Speaker 1: Just think for a moment of the Olympics. Remember watching
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Speaker 1: the Olympics. Remember seeing the age of some of those
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Speaker 1: who performed.
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Speaker 2: In the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: That's enough to make you feel ancient right there. Those
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Speaker 1: young lives in great fitness are able to set new
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Speaker 1: records every four years, many of them not even yet
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Speaker 1: twenty years of age. And how about the bright minds
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Speaker 1: on campuses today.
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Speaker 2: You who teach know how true that is.
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Speaker 1: Think of those that are cutting new swaths, new vistas
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Speaker 1: of knowledge for us in the future. Think of the
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Speaker 1: leaders that are on the surface of today's horizon. It's
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Speaker 1: marvelous about the time I feel like looking down on
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Speaker 1: them as an adult. I remember what the mother whale
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Speaker 1: said to her young you get to the top and
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Speaker 1: start to blow, that's when you get harpooned. I remember that,
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Speaker 1: which is another way of saying, be thankful. No one
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Speaker 1: has shown up from your high school days and shown
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Speaker 1: slides for everyone else to see.
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Speaker 2: Now, obviously, the problem is the word all.
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Speaker 1: All adolescents are not wrong, All adults are not immature.
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Speaker 1: Those universal statements don't fit. The fact is, and I
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Speaker 1: want to spend some time thinking about it with you.
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Speaker 2: A number of the adolescents are real pacesetters.
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Speaker 1: We can learn from them. If you are going through
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Speaker 1: adolescence right now, there's.
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Speaker 2: Great possibility for you.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I want to mention to begin with four
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Speaker 1: very common traits I find among teenagers who are with it,
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Speaker 1: almost to the embarrassment of adults today. When you find
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Speaker 1: adolescents who excel in these four areas, it is remarkable
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Speaker 1: what it does to an adult crowd, we often get
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Speaker 1: challenged to renewed commitment. The first characteristic I find among
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Speaker 1: teens that are really walking with Christ, whose lives are
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Speaker 1: really with it, is a willingness to risk. There is
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Speaker 1: a willingness to risk among teenagers that you will seldom
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Speaker 1: find among adults. They're willing to try the new, They're
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Speaker 1: willing to abandon the security. They're willing to climb the
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Speaker 1: walls of possibilities, far more than adults twice their age,
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Speaker 1: but with greater wisdom. It's interesting a willingness to risk. Second,
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Speaker 1: a sensitivity to God. How often adults seem to move
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Speaker 1: into an insensitive fog about age thirty or about age forty,
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Speaker 1: and the things of God become old hat rather than
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Speaker 1: remaining fresh and renewed and vital. With adolescence you find
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Speaker 1: them turned on. You'll find that they are often sensitive
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Speaker 1: to God. Third, a commitment to integrity. There is enough
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Speaker 1: idealism in the mind of a teenager to break records
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Speaker 1: in the realm of honesty and integrity. Give them a
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Speaker 1: situation that seems altogether impossible, and that's where those kind
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Speaker 1: of kids seem to flourish. Commitment to integrity and fourth,
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Speaker 1: a determination to stand stand alone. Drop them on a
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Speaker 1: campus where the entire campus, it seems, is walking to
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Speaker 1: a different drum beat, and you get a kid there
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Speaker 1: that is walking with God. It is remarkable how they'll
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Speaker 1: stand fast a determination to stand. I want to illustrate
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Speaker 1: all four from four lives in scripture, First Genesis, chapter
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Speaker 1: twenty two, the balance of our time together. I'd like
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Speaker 1: us to look at these four different lives. They'll only
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Speaker 1: be brief vignettes, but they are illustrations of the four
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Speaker 1: traits we've just presented. First, a willingness to risk is
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Speaker 1: seen in the life of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
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Speaker 1: Most Christians I'm with know the story of Abraham rather well.
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Speaker 1: Remarkable story, especially when you get to chapter twenty two
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Speaker 1: and you read in the first lines, now it came
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Speaker 1: about after these things. When I read that, I ask
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Speaker 1: what things?
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Speaker 2: And you do too, well, let me give it to
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Speaker 2: you quickly.
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Speaker 1: Abraham and Sarah have lived together for years as husband
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Speaker 1: and wife, and they have no children of their own,
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Speaker 1: at age ninety for Sarah and one hundred for Abraham.
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Speaker 2: It's a great story.
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Speaker 1: They've got Ginnis Book of World Records down. They have
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Speaker 1: set the record for parenting at age one hundred and
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Speaker 1: age ninety, they have a baby.
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Speaker 2: It's a miracle baby.
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Speaker 1: God restored the vitality and the virility of their lives,
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Speaker 1: and he gave them the ability to reproduce. And here
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Speaker 1: comes Isaac. The name itself means laughter.
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Speaker 2: It's cach. It's a Hebrew word for laughter.
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Speaker 1: Because that's what both of them did when God told them,
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Speaker 1: and you would have two if God had told.
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Speaker 2: You at age ninety, you're in for a surprise.
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Speaker 1: And so they're they're rocking the crib while other great
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Speaker 1: grandparents are rearing their children. When you get to chapter
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Speaker 1: twenty two, we've come twelve fifteen or so years. Abraham
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Speaker 1: is now one hundred and fifteen. His boy, Isaac, whom
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Speaker 1: he loves with all his heart, is now a teenager.
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Speaker 1: Listen to these words came about after these things that
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Speaker 1: God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, he said,
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Speaker 1: here I am. He said, take now your son, your
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Speaker 1: only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the
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Speaker 1: land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt
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Speaker 1: offering on one of the mountains of which I will
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Speaker 1: tell you I don't know how that strikes anybody else,
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Speaker 1: But I know what that does to my heart. I
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Speaker 1: am instantly he gripped with a lot of emotion. I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking of my two sons or my two daughters. I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking of the joy of our lives with our children.
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Speaker 1: But I know very little of the emotion of a
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen year old dad who waited all
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Speaker 1: his adult life for one son from God, and that
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Speaker 1: one boy given him as a special precious gift, is
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Speaker 1: to be the subject of a sacrifice. Now, the remarkable
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Speaker 1: part of the story is that there is no fight,
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Speaker 1: no fight at all.
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Speaker 2: Verse three.
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Speaker 1: Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey,
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Speaker 1: took two of his young men with him, and Isaac's son.
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Speaker 1: He split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and
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Speaker 1: went to the place of which God had told him.
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Speaker 1: On the third day, Abraham raised his eyes and saw
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Speaker 1: the place.
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Speaker 2: From a distance.
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Speaker 1: And Abraham said to his young men, stay here with
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Speaker 1: the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder,
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Speaker 1: and we will worship and return to you. And Abraham
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Speaker 1: took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it
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Speaker 1: on Isaac. Now it's at this point we understand the
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Speaker 1: Sunday School pictures we were often shown are erroneous.
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Speaker 2: Isaac is often pictured as.
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Speaker 1: A little boy, but little boys don't carry firewood. He
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Speaker 1: puts the stack of firewood in his son's arms. I
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Speaker 1: take it the boy must have been at least twelve
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Speaker 1: to fifteen, perhaps as old as twenty. Picture the father
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Speaker 1: and the son walking toward the mountain peak, the place
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Speaker 1: of the altar, and get this dialogue. Seven Isaac spoke
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Speaker 1: to Abraham, his father, my father, here am I my son.
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Speaker 1: Behold the fire and the wood. But where is the
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Speaker 1: lamb for the burnt offering? This boy had been raised right,
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Speaker 1: perhaps dozens hundreds of times. In his past. He has
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Speaker 1: watched and he's helped in the preparation of an altar.
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Speaker 1: He's seen fire ignite wood. He's seen lambs burnt. He's
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Speaker 1: seen the smoke go toward Heaven and fill the nostrils
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Speaker 1: of God. He has seen it. But there's something missing.
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Speaker 1: Where's the meat? Where's the lamb? I wonder if Abraham's
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Speaker 1: stomach didn't churn when he said, God will provide for
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Speaker 1: himself the lamb for the burnt offering. The two of
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Speaker 1: them walked on together. It's our tendency to hurry on
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Speaker 1: through the story. And I know time is of the essence,
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Speaker 1: but let me force you to wait a moment for
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Speaker 1: the emotions to catch up. A father, a son, a
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Speaker 1: command from God, and the risk of faith. To be
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Speaker 1: very frank with you, I am as impressed with the
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Speaker 1: submission of Isaac as I am with the obedience of Abraham.
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Speaker 1: Abraham didn't wait to gather wood and to go to
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Speaker 1: the mountain. Isaac didn't argue when he saw this thing unfolding.
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Speaker 1: What's the test on Isaac to obey his father? To
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Speaker 1: obey the father? Regardless? The father said, We'll go, we
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Speaker 1: will worship, we will sacrifice, and Isaac carries the wood.
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Speaker 1: Look at verse nine. They came to the place of
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Speaker 1: which God had told him. Abraham built the altar there
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Speaker 1: and arranged the wood and bound his son. You'll read
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Speaker 1: nothing of a fight here or anywhere else in scripture.
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Speaker 1: Bound his son Isaac, and he laid him on the
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Speaker 1: altar on top of the wood. And Abraham stretched out
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Speaker 1: his hand and took the knife to slay his son,
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Speaker 1: right up to the point of the knife piercing the
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Speaker 1: neck of the boy. Abraham followed through and Isaac expected
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Speaker 1: to die. It's going to surprise you when I name
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Speaker 1: some names here. But this illustration reminds me of Ecuador,
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Speaker 1: Jim Eliot, Nate Saint Roger Darien. This illustration reminds me
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Speaker 1: of Congo, Paul Carlson. This reminds me of Hudson Taylor
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Speaker 1: Inland China. This reminds me of Don Richardson Irian Jaya.
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Speaker 1: The youthful willingness to risk. That's the strength of Isaac Dad.
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Speaker 1: If God said do it, I have to do it.
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Speaker 1: In the process of growing older, we lose the desire
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Speaker 1: to risk. That's a tragic loss. We become sophisticated, cautious, careful.
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Speaker 1: We call it wisdom. It's cowardice.
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Speaker 2: It's what it is.
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Speaker 1: We are afraid to take giant steps of faith. We'd
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Speaker 1: much rather stay near the shoreline than cast off into
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Speaker 1: the deep. We want to know what our security will
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Speaker 1: be down at the end of the road. But when
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Speaker 1: you're young, you don't think like that. That's one of
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Speaker 1: the benefits of an adolescent. Drop a challenge in the
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Speaker 1: lap of an adolescent whose heart is right with God.
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Speaker 1: He'll take it, She'll take it. They won't even ask.
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Speaker 1: Many questions. They don't even think in terms of danger. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: I'm impressed with that, and would to God that some
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Speaker 1: of us in our adult years would gain anew.
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Speaker 2: The risk of adolescence.
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Speaker 1: Where we don't have to have everything put together down
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Speaker 1: at the end of the road before we're willing to
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Speaker 1: get in the vehicle and travel. Turn from Genesis twenty two. Oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, he lived through it, in case you
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Speaker 1: didn't know, First Samuel, Chapter three. First Samuel three, we
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Speaker 1: stop off with another man. There's a giant in the land.
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Speaker 1: He's a little boy right now. His name is Samuel.
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Speaker 1: The test of Samuel is an awful home environment. He's
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Speaker 1: being reared by an overweight, out of touch, dull, insensitive
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Speaker 1: man named Eli. He is so neglecting as a father
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Speaker 1: that his grown sons are operating an open carnality and
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Speaker 1: the news of their lifestyle is sweeping the community. It's
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Speaker 1: a scandal, and Eli doesn't do a thing about it.
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Speaker 1: Hasn't ever done anything about it. Oh, he's given a
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Speaker 1: few verbal rebukes, but that simply brought a yawn to
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Speaker 1: the face of his boys. And lifestyle in this country
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Speaker 1: now is tragically low. And to make it even worse.
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Speaker 1: Verse one, the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord
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Speaker 1: before Eli, and word from the Lord was rare.
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Speaker 2: In those days.
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Speaker 1: Visions were infrequent. You can't appreciate that because you have
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Speaker 1: a Bible, and so do I. You and I have
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Speaker 1: a vision from God. We have a word from the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Anytime we want to open these sixty six books. We
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Speaker 1: don't need to read the sky for some special writing
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Speaker 1: in the clouds. We don't need to stay up late
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Speaker 1: at night to get some aperation to come into our
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Speaker 1: home and visit with us. In those days, and they
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Speaker 1: didn't have such a written book as the Bible, so
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Speaker 1: they had to wait on God for his message. Amos
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Speaker 1: says there was a famine in the land, not a
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Speaker 1: famine for bread or thirst for water, but of hearing
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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord, it applied to another ear
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Speaker 1: of an Amos wrote that, but it applies here in
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Speaker 1: this case. They waited in silence for God to speak.
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Speaker 1: We have friends visiting us from Minnesota this weekend, and
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Speaker 1: while talking with them, they mentioned a cruise that they
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Speaker 1: had been invited to be a part of up in Alaska,
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Speaker 1: and they said one of the interesting things about this
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Speaker 1: cruise was that when they came to the area of
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Speaker 1: the glaciers where there was simply no other human life around,
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Speaker 1: the silence was awesome. And they said, when the skipper
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Speaker 1: brought the ship into this region of these glaciers, he
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Speaker 1: put the engines down on on the lowest level so
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Speaker 1: that there was not any grinding or or roaring sound
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Speaker 1: from the ship's engine room. And the wife said to me, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: when I walked out on the deck and I looked
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Speaker 1: out across the blue green waters, and I saw these
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Speaker 1: massive glaciers standing, part of them breaking off and crashing
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Speaker 1: that followed. She said it was awesome. Not another sound,
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Speaker 1: she said, it was deafening. Now, that makes sense in
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Speaker 1: Alaska in those days, it was that kind of silence
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Speaker 1: in the place of worship. God wasn't speaking, His voice
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Speaker 1: didn't thunder through the throat of a prophet. He didn't
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Speaker 1: have his spokesman at that time. There was no scroll
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Speaker 1: being read, there was no truth being declared, and Samuel
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Speaker 1: was all alone in this hang with Eli and these
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Speaker 1: two grown unbelieving sons listening for the voice of God.
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Speaker 1: It happened at that time while as Eli was lying
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Speaker 1: down in his place, his eyesight had grown dim and
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Speaker 1: he could not see well, and the lamp of God
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Speaker 1: had not yet gone out. Samuel was lying down in
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Speaker 1: the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord called Samuel, and he said, here I am.
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Speaker 2: And he thought it was Eli.
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Speaker 1: You remember the story, no reason to go it down
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Speaker 1: through it verse by verse. Finally Eli made it clear
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Speaker 1: to the boy that it might very well be the
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Speaker 1: voice of God. Verse ten. The Lord came and stood
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Speaker 1: and called, as at other times, Samuel, Samuel, and he said, speak,
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Speaker 1: for thy servant. Is listening. What God told Samuel at
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Speaker 1: that point is immaterial for the message today. The point
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Speaker 1: is he listened. Look at the last three verses of
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Speaker 1: chapter three, Samuel grew. The Lord was with him. The
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Speaker 1: Lord let none of his words fail. All Israel from
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Speaker 1: Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a
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Speaker 1: prophet of the Lord. And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh.
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Speaker 1: Because the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by
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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. By now he's a young man.
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Speaker 1: By now he's recognized as a prophet, anointed of God.
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Speaker 1: A couple of.
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Speaker 2: Thoughts stand out in my mind.
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Speaker 1: For those of us who are adults, it's obvious what
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Speaker 1: it's saying to the adolescent today. First is the importance
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Speaker 1: of remaining sensitive to God even though everything around you
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Speaker 1: seems silent with God's voice. And the second is the
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Speaker 1: importance of meeting with God regularly. On a few occasions
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Speaker 1: in our home, I have had the rare delight of
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Speaker 1: stepping into one of my children's rooms and catching them
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Speaker 1: meeting with God. It's as though I've come to a
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Speaker 1: holy place. There was, of course, no desire to flaunt
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Speaker 1: their piety, but it was a marvelous interruption alone with God,
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Speaker 1: perhaps in prayer. On one or two occasions I recall
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Speaker 1: just recently seeing them with the Bible open, meeting with Him.
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Speaker 1: You're still doing that, aren't you. You still do that,
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Speaker 1: don't you? Even though times are hard, and even though
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Speaker 1: the pace is fast, and even though your environment may
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Speaker 1: not be conducive to spiritual things. That's a test, I know,
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Speaker 1: I've said, it's a test. You still have ten to
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes early in the morning with Him, don't you.
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Speaker 1: You still, by the end of the week can stack
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Speaker 1: up forty fifty minutes maybe an hour that you spent
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Speaker 1: that week with him. Can't you see what I mean?
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Speaker 2: See, somehow in the growing up years, it becomes sophisticated,
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Speaker 2: it becomes old hat that sparkle that it used to.
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Speaker 1: Be in our younger years. I love hearing my wife
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Speaker 1: tell the story of when she was first a counselor
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Speaker 1: at a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade. It was the Houston
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Speaker 1: Crusade nineteen fifty three. We hadn't quite met. She was
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Speaker 1: only sixteen, and she tells about how she, in her
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Speaker 1: mid teens, was working in downtown Houston part time and
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Speaker 1: would take a bus to make it to the crusade,
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Speaker 1: should carry another outfit to wear. In fact, she was
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Speaker 1: so believing this might I hope this doesn't embarrass her.
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Speaker 2: She brought her her other outfit with her.
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Speaker 1: And when she changed, she just hung the clothes she
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Speaker 1: had worn all day in the restroom, thinking that no
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Speaker 1: one who comes to a crusade would take her clothes,
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Speaker 1: only to come back and find she had been ripped off.
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Speaker 1: I said to her, that shows you why they needed
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Speaker 1: counselors then in Graham, but sixteen years old, not very
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Speaker 1: far along in the Lord, but absolutely thrilled with the
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Speaker 1: things of Christ. In fact, courageous enough to say, I
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Speaker 1: want to go to the councilor training and I want
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Speaker 1: to be a part of the answer for people. And
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Speaker 1: haven't you seen it? Teenagers working with adults at a
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Speaker 1: crusade sometime that's the only ones that match up, and
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Speaker 1: the crowd's big, and they don't have enough to go around,
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Speaker 1: and it's marvelous. How could they do that? There's something
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Speaker 1: about the courage of adolescence that says, I want to
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Speaker 1: do that. Last summer, our high schoolers at camp were
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Speaker 1: studying about the nation's going hungry, and our youth leaders
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Speaker 1: courageously decided to put together an idea they had never
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Speaker 1: seen done before and I've not heard of it since.
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Speaker 1: But they had the kids fast for a day, our
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Speaker 1: kids who never go hungry. They said, I tell you what, gang,
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Speaker 1: why don't we on this day pass up the meals?
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Speaker 1: Why don't we spend that time in prayer and fasting.
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Speaker 1: Don't make a big deal out of it, no reason
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Speaker 1: to shout it across the valley. How spiritual we are.
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Speaker 1: Let's just do it. They had no resistance from the kids.
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Speaker 1: Why there's something about adolescens that says, if it will
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Speaker 1: help me spiritually, let's try it. Let's do it. When
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Speaker 1: do we outgrow that? What age causes us to say, wait,
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Speaker 1: miss a meal at camp? I mean, let's don't get
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Speaker 1: fanatical about it. It's funny when adolescents really really get
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Speaker 1: turned on, they don't think of fanaticism. They think of commitment.
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Speaker 1: That's why mission boards will tell you all over the
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Speaker 1: country that if they can reach the mind when it's young,
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Speaker 1: they very easily have captured the life forever. It's tough
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Speaker 1: to get the attention of the older person. Look at
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Speaker 1: Second Chronicles, chapter thirty four. Will you Second Chronicles thirty
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Speaker 1: four talk about a low tide time. The test for
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Speaker 1: Josiah was a bad political track record, no integrity in
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Speaker 1: the office, a whole line of unbelieving kings. There's been Manassa,
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Speaker 1: There's been Nassa's son, and even Josiah's daddy. Look at
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Speaker 1: chapter thirty three of Second Chronicles, verse twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Look at this verse.
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Speaker 1: Finally, his servants, that's.
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Speaker 2: Amon, who is the king.
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Speaker 1: Ammon's servants conspired against him and assassinated him in his
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Speaker 2: I wonder if I wonder.
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Speaker 1: If Josiah witnessed the assassination. Terrible thought, But out of
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Speaker 1: the blue, the sword took his head off, and suddenly,
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Speaker 1: in a pool of blood lay the king. The people
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Speaker 1: of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon,
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Speaker 1: and the people of the land made Josiah his son
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Speaker 1: king in his place. You say that's great, and I
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Speaker 1: will put things in order. Well, look at the next verse.
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Speaker 1: Josiah was eight years old when he became king. Now
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Speaker 1: that is scary. Eight year old king.
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Speaker 2: With a track record that was awful as far.
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Speaker 1: As his roots are concerned.
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Speaker 2: What a test.
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Speaker 1: But Josiah in verse two down through verse seven reveals
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Speaker 1: a commitment to integrity like you'll seldom read in scripture.
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Speaker 1: Just let me read it. He did right in the
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Speaker 1: sight of the Lord and walk in the ways of
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Speaker 1: his father David, and did not turn aside to.
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Speaker 2: The right or to the left.
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Speaker 1: In the eighth year of his reign, while he was
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Speaker 1: still a youth so he's now sixteen, he began to
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Speaker 1: seek the God of his father David. And in the
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Speaker 1: twelfth year he's only twenty, he began to purge Judah
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Speaker 1: and Jerusalem of the idle altars called here the high places,
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Speaker 1: the asherom, the carved images, the molten images. They tore
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Speaker 1: down the altars of the veils in his presence, and
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Speaker 1: the incense altars that were high above them. He chopped
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Speaker 1: down into the also the asher room, the carved images,
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Speaker 1: the molten images. He singular masculine pronoun. He personally broke
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Speaker 1: the graves.
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Speaker 2: Verse five.
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Speaker 1: He personally burned the bones of the priests on their altar.
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Speaker 1: Thus would be the false priests. Verse seven, He personally
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Speaker 1: tore down the altars and beat the asherim and the
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Speaker 1: carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense
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Speaker 1: altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good day's work. Go home for supper and
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Speaker 1: start over tomorrow. No, it probably took him months, maybe years,
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Speaker 1: and he ridded the country of false idol worship. Why
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Speaker 1: committed to integrity? How could it be? He was young,
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Speaker 1: He wasn't soured. He believed in integrity. He hadn't become jaded.
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Speaker 1: Foy Valentine in a fine book. What do you do
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Speaker 1: after you say amen? Writes Major General Dean was facing
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Speaker 1: what he supposed was certain death from his Communist captors.
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Speaker 1: During the second winter of his captivity in Korea, he
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Speaker 1: was told that he had a few minutes to write
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Speaker 1: his family a farewell message. Writing eight or nine lines,
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Speaker 1: he directed one to his only son. It read, tell Bill,
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Speaker 1: the word is integrity. I love that. Are you telling
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Speaker 1: your sons that? You're telling your daughters that? Somehow, in
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Speaker 1: some remarkable way, Josiah got the message, even though the
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Speaker 1: test was great, terrible times one in a million possibility
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Speaker 1: of his ever getting on the throne. When he was promoted,
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Speaker 1: he said, we will have integned gritty in this land.
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Speaker 1: Don't knock it, adults. If you see a little idealism
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Speaker 1: in your kids, fan the flame. Vision comes clear when
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Speaker 1: there's enough idealism to push the fog away. Tell Bill
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Speaker 1: the word is integrity. There's one more, And because it's
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Speaker 1: so familiar, it won't take us long. But I do
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Speaker 1: want you to turn Daniel Chapter one.
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Speaker 2: I love these old stories.
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Speaker 1: I'd tell you there's enough kid in me to just
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Speaker 1: relive them and to rethink them. And the scenes are
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Speaker 1: always so vivid in scripture. Now we've come to the
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Speaker 1: end of a nation Judah has fallen into the hands
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Speaker 1: of the Babylonians. The king is Nebuqadneszar, and with heavy
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Speaker 1: boot and with firm iron fist, he moves into Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: He gets the word to Ashpenaz, his right hand man,
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Speaker 1: we want to scrape the cream off the top. We
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Speaker 1: want to get the choice young men who will be
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Speaker 1: able to serve us in our Babylonian government. And we
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Speaker 1: want to bring them out of their monotheistic worship into
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Speaker 1: this broad liberal base and give them a course in
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Speaker 1: our language and in our culture, and then they will
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Speaker 1: become the people who will serve in our court. And
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Speaker 1: sure enough, that's what happened. Look at verse three. The
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Speaker 1: king ordered Ashpenaz, where Daniel one verse.
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Speaker 2: Three, the chief of his officials.
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Speaker 1: To bring in some of the sons of Israel, including
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Speaker 1: some of the royal family. In the nobles. Youths the
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Speaker 1: word is teenagers, those in their mid teens. Is the
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Speaker 1: idea adolescence in whom there was no defect, who were
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Speaker 1: good looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed
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Speaker 1: with understanding and discerning knowledge, who had ability for serving
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Speaker 1: in the King's court. And he ordered him to teach
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Speaker 1: them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans. They
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Speaker 1: were to have a christ course on Chaldean lifestyle. The
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Speaker 1: king appointed for them a daily ration from the King's
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Speaker 1: choice food and from the wine which he drank, and
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Speaker 1: appointed that they should be educated three years, at the
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Speaker 1: end of which they were to enter the King's personal service.
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Speaker 1: So they got underway in their education. They even gave
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Speaker 1: them new names. Instead of Daniel, Hananaiah, Michel, and Azariah,
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Speaker 1: they were given the names.
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Speaker 2: Belta, Shazar, Shadrack, Mishak.
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Speaker 1: And a Bendigo. Remember those names. They were the ones
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Speaker 1: who wound up in the fiery furnace. Daniel was the
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Speaker 1: one that wound up in the lion's den. I read
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Speaker 1: this past week acute comment from one of the popular
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Speaker 1: expositors of our day.
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Speaker 2: Since it's clear to.
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Speaker 1: Me why Daniel wasn't eaten by the lion. He was
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Speaker 1: three horse, gristle and the rest backbone. Thought that's a
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Speaker 1: good comment.
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Speaker 2: How would he know that?
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Speaker 1: What would it be that would cause him to say
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Speaker 1: that about Daniel? Verse eight. Daniel had made up his
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Speaker 1: mind already. He made up his mind that he would
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Speaker 1: not defile himself with the King's choice food. Or with
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Speaker 1: the wine which he drank. So he sought permission from
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Speaker 1: the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.
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Speaker 1: He knew his Bible better than he knew Kaldy and lifestyle,
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Speaker 1: and he knew in his Bible that a Jew couldn't
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Speaker 1: eat the diet of the gentile. So he gave the
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Speaker 1: guy a ten day money back guarantee. In today's words,
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Speaker 1: we'll go We'll eat vegetables and drink water. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: a gagby diet, but it was a good plan. If
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Speaker 1: he wasn't going to eat the he wasn't gonna eat
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Speaker 1: all that rich food, he wasn't gonna drink all that
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Speaker 1: wine from the king's court. He was going to maintain
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Speaker 1: an austere lifestyle, and then he was going to prove
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Speaker 1: to Ashpanaz and ultimately the King that God would honor
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Speaker 1: such a thing. But he didn't tell him all of
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Speaker 1: his game plan. He just said, trust me, How could
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Speaker 1: Daniel do that? By the way, the rest of the
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Speaker 1: story tells us that they graduated top of their class, valedictorian, salutatorian, superhatorian, megatorian,
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Speaker 1: all four right at the top of the class. Why
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Speaker 1: because God honored their decision to stand alone. Let me
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Speaker 1: ask you something.
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Speaker 2: Under the test of peer pressure, do you.
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Speaker 1: Peer pressure doesn't stop when you get out of high school,
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Speaker 1: does it. That's why this may sound like a message
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Speaker 1: for adolescents. It's a message for adults, and adolescents become
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Speaker 1: our key points of illustration.
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Speaker 2: How could he do it? Verse eight?
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Speaker 1: He made up his mind. The way it reads suggests
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Speaker 1: that his mind, his heart had been set in a
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Speaker 1: certain direction before they went into captivity.
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Speaker 2: You know what it was?
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Speaker 1: Somebody had done their homework with Daniel so that when
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Speaker 1: push came to shove, Daniel did neither.
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Speaker 2: He stood.
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Speaker 1: Fast. Are you doing that? Let me tell you something.
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Speaker 1: If Isaac can submit to being willing to risk, if
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Speaker 1: Samuel can hear and be sensitive to God, if Josiah
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Speaker 1: can be that committed to integrity, if Daniel can stand
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Speaker 1: against that kind of pressure and come out on top,
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Speaker 1: so can we. One final thought, are you helping your
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Speaker 1: kids do that? They especially need a model. There's just
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Speaker 1: nothing like having a model. And then once they've got
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Speaker 1: that model in place, they need the message. They need
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Speaker 1: us to carry it out.
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Speaker 2: Some of you may have heard the story.
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Speaker 1: I nevertheless want to read it to you again because
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Speaker 1: it illustrates the power of leadership on the part of
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Speaker 1: the parent. When George Jagger took his three sons and
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Speaker 1: an elderly grandfather out on the Atlantic Ocean for a
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Speaker 1: fishing trip, he had no premonition of the horror that
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Speaker 1: would face them. In a matter of hours before he
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Speaker 1: would step on shore again, Jagger would watch each sun
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Speaker 1: and then his father die, victims of exhaustion and lungs
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Speaker 1: filled with water. The boat's engines stalled in the late afternoon,
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Speaker 1: while increasing winds whipped the sea into great waves. The
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Speaker 1: boat rolled helpless in the water, and then began to
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Speaker 1: list dangerously. When it became apparent that they were sinking,
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Speaker 1: the five Jagger men put on the life vests, tied
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Speaker 1: themselves together with a rope, and slipped into the water.
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Speaker 1: It was six thirty in the evening when the sinking
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Speaker 1: craft disappeared and the swimmers set out to work their
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Speaker 1: way towards shore. Six foot waves and a strong current
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Speaker 1: made the swimming almost impossible. First one boy and then another,
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Speaker 1: and another swallowed too much water. Helpless, George Jagger watched
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Speaker 1: each of his sons and then his father die eight
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Speaker 1: hours later, he staggered on to the shore, still pulling
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Speaker 1: the rope that bound the bodies of the other four
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Speaker 1: to him quote, I realized they were all dead, my
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Speaker 1: three boys and my father. But I guess I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to accept it, so I kept swimming all night,
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Speaker 1: he said to the reporters. My youngest boy, Clifford, was
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Speaker 1: the first to go. I had always taught our children
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Speaker 1: not to fear death because it was being with Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: Before he died, I heard him say, I'd rather be
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Speaker 1: with Jesus than go on fighting. Performance under stress is
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Speaker 1: one of the tests of effective leadership. It may also
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Speaker 1: be the proof of accomplishment when it comes to evaluating
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Speaker 1: the quality of a father. In that awful Atlantic night,
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Speaker 1: George Jagger had a chance to see his three sons
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Speaker 1: summon every ounce of the courage and self control he
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Speaker 1: had tried to build into them. The beautiful way they
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Speaker 1: died said something about the kind of father George Jagger
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Speaker 1: had been for fifteen years. That kind of character doesn't
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Speaker 1: just happen, it's cultivated. Let's bow together, please, just for
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Speaker 1: a few moments, let your life pass and review what
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Speaker 1: are you doing with it? Honestly, now, are you a
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Speaker 1: soldier of the cross, a follower of the lamb? Are
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Speaker 1: you fearing to own his cause? Are you blushing to
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Speaker 1: speak his name? You think you'll be carried to the
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Speaker 1: skies on flowery beds of ease while others fought to
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Speaker 1: win the prize and sail through bloody seas. The only
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Speaker 1: reason I can think of that would be an acceptable
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Speaker 1: excuse for living unto yourself is if you don't even
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Speaker 1: know Christ. And that excuse can be remedied instantly by
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Speaker 1: trusting him. Trust him now, become a soldier of the cross.
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Speaker 1: Our father admitted, none of us starts out intentionally desiring
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Speaker 1: to run our lives aground, to shipwreck our marriages, or
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Speaker 1: to bring devastation to our families or to our ministries.
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Speaker 1: Yet so many have lost their way at times, as
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Speaker 1: that stubborn old root of pride and self sufficiency drives
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Speaker 1: us to run against everything we know from you to
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Speaker 1: be right and good and spiritually healthy, determined to stay
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Speaker 1: our course despite the gracious warnings from your word and
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Speaker 1: from your spirit. And so I pray, our Father, that
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Speaker 1: you would turn us back to a humble willingness to
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Speaker 1: believe you and to trust that your way, your agenda,
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Speaker 1: your plan and vision for us, our lives, for the
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Speaker 1: lives of our children is always best provide for us
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Speaker 1: ways to break free from ourselves, and the process help
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Speaker 1: us learn how to place ourselves in full and glad
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Speaker 1: submission to you and to your gracious purposes and plan.
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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful today, Father, for the memory of such
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Speaker 1: wonderful servants as Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, and even Hudson Taylor,
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Speaker 1: countless others. For those greater lights who pressed on toward
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Speaker 1: growing up in your family, shedding the sins and the
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Speaker 1: patterns of their youth. I'm thankful also for the men
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Speaker 1: and women living today who, in similar ways represent you
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Speaker 1: and stand for your name as they risk everything, remaining
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Speaker 1: sensitive to you, committed to integrity, often in the process
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Speaker 1: standing all alone. May their numbers increase, Father, May they
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Speaker 1: increase among us here in this place, around your great world.
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Speaker 1: Bring us back to that wonderful excitement of young adolescence.
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Speaker 1: Find in each of us a willingness to go at
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Speaker 1: all costs, as you have found in those who have
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Speaker 1: gone before us. Make us like them, strong and brave
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Speaker 1: soldiers of the Cross. I pray in the Savior's Great Name. Amen.
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