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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Buying into the Vision, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Some Christians talk a good game, they say they're right words,
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  Speaker 1: and they show up at church, but when it's time
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  Speaker 1: to roll up their sleeves, they're nowhere to be found. Today,
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  Speaker 1: on Insight for Living, Chuck Swyndahl asks, a harder question
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  Speaker 1: is that you? He's teaching from Second Thessalonians three, where
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul confronts idle believers. In this passage, Paul
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  Speaker 1: challenges us to examine whether we've truly bought into Christ's
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  Speaker 1: vision for the church or just borrowed a few of
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  Speaker 1: the bumper stickers. Chuck titled today's message buying into the vision.
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  Speaker 2: Great leaders have powerful vision. They see the way things are,
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  Speaker 2: but they also imagine the way things could be. They
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  Speaker 2: skillfully communeate their ideas to others, and people follow them,
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  Speaker 2: often sacrificially, because they buy into their vision. During his ministry,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus set forth a vision of the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere he traveled, Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: You'll read of that in Matthew four twenty three. Through
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  Speaker 2: his miracles, he offered SIPs of the coming Kingdom, quenching
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  Speaker 2: parched lips and whetting people's appetites for a new world
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  Speaker 2: free from sin and pain and death. As Jesus disciples,
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  Speaker 2: we have tasted the life he offers, the eternal, abundant
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  Speaker 2: life available to those who submit to the King's authority.
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  Speaker 2: We believe in Jesus Christ and his vision for us
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  Speaker 2: and our world. But what does the Lord expect from us? Now?
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  Speaker 2: What are the practical implications of embracing his vision? The
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  Speaker 2: passage we're looking at today gives us some of the
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  Speaker 2: answers to those questions, so we can buy into his vision.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read it together. Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verses six
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  Speaker 2: through fifteen. Locate that in your bible, will you, we'll
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  Speaker 2: read Second Thessalonians three six through fifteen. Now we command you, brethren,
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  Speaker 2: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
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  Speaker 2: keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life,
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  Speaker 2: and not according to the tradition which you receive from us.
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  Speaker 2: For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example,
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  Speaker 2: because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
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  Speaker 2: nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it.
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  Speaker 2: But with labor and hardship we kept working night and day,
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  Speaker 2: so that we would not be a burden to any
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  Speaker 2: of you, not because we do not have the right
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  Speaker 2: to do this, but in order to offer ourselves as
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  Speaker 2: a model for you, so that you would follow our example.
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  Speaker 2: For even when we were with you, we used to
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  Speaker 2: give you this order. If anyone is not willing to work,
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  Speaker 2: then he is not to eat either, For we hear
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  Speaker 2: that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing
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  Speaker 2: no work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such
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  Speaker 2: persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.
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  Speaker 2: But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of
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  Speaker 2: doing good. If anyone does not obey our instruction in
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  Speaker 2: this letter, take special note of that person and do
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  Speaker 2: not associate with him, so that he will be put
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  Speaker 2: to shame. Yet do not regard him as an enemy,
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  Speaker 2: but admonish him as a brother.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Second Thessalonians on your own, be sure to purchase our
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  Speaker 1: Searching the Scripture's Bible Study workbook by going to insight
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  Speaker 1: dot org. Slash offer chuck title Today's message. Buying into the.
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  Speaker 2: Vision Christianity is an active and involved faith. Those who
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  Speaker 2: model the message of Christ are not known as people
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  Speaker 2: who are passive and mediocre and uninvolved. Down through the centuries,
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  Speaker 2: they have been the people who have changed the direction
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  Speaker 2: of life and altered the shape of history. That's the
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  Speaker 2: way it was with Christ himself. Those of us who
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  Speaker 2: have studied his life know that he was a model
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  Speaker 2: of such things as change, and diligence and determination. I
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  Speaker 2: looked over his life this past week and was impressed
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  Speaker 2: once again and with how he never lost sight of
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  Speaker 2: the big picture, and yet he was never uninvolved in
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  Speaker 2: the little snapshots of life. The big picture for him
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  Speaker 2: was to come and seek and save those who were lost,
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  Speaker 2: and he did that, and he accomplished that to the
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  Speaker 2: point where at the end of his life he was
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  Speaker 2: able to say, with true authenticity, it is finished. The
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  Speaker 2: job is done. And yet when you look back over
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  Speaker 2: his life and you study the little vignettes where he
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  Speaker 2: placed himself, he never took his hands off and yawned
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  Speaker 2: over people's problems. When he was surrounded by the diseased
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  Speaker 2: and the dying, he healed them. When he faced the
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  Speaker 2: enemy Satan himself and was forced to stand alone. He
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  Speaker 2: stood alone and withstood the attacks of Satan. When he
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  Speaker 2: found the Pharisees and scribes involved in heresy and hypocrisy them,
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  Speaker 2: when he saw the disciples in a room with dirty feet,
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  Speaker 2: he washed their feet. When he realized that it was
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  Speaker 2: time to give up and surrender himself to the cross,
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  Speaker 2: he yielded without a fight. And when he came back
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  Speaker 2: from beyond, he spoke to more than a few people
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  Speaker 2: of the hope that there was in him all the
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  Speaker 2: way through his life. You see that he is actively
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  Speaker 2: involved in the moment. Those who walk in his steps,
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  Speaker 2: those who follow his examples, those who model his message,
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  Speaker 2: remain involved and active. Now, the sad part of this
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  Speaker 2: is that there are always some who choose not to
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  Speaker 2: do that. There are always a few Christians in every church,
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  Speaker 2: and our church is not an exception. Always a few
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  Speaker 2: Christians who choose to remain aloof safe and uninvolved. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they know the language, but they choose not to act
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  Speaker 2: upon what they know. Reminds me of a very familiar
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  Speaker 2: philosophical event that occurred in the lives of Charlie Brown
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  Speaker 2: and Lucy thanks to Schultz, their originator. The scene is
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  Speaker 2: one that you have seen on a number of occasions.
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  Speaker 2: As Charlie and Lucy are talking about the values of life,
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  Speaker 2: and Lucy says to Charlie, life, Charlie Brown is like
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  Speaker 2: a deck chair, like a what asked Charlie Brown, Lucy continues,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever been on a cruise ship? Passengers open
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  Speaker 2: up their canvas deck chairs so they can sit in
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  Speaker 2: the sun. Some people place their chairs facing the rear
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  Speaker 2: of the ship so they can see where they've been.
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  Speaker 2: Others face their chairs forward so they can see where
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  Speaker 2: they're going on the cruise ship of life. Charlie Brown,
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  Speaker 2: which way is your deck chair facing? Looking up? Somewhat bewildered,
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  Speaker 2: Charlie says, I've never been able to get my deck
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  Speaker 2: chair unfolded. Oh, there are a lot of Christians that
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  Speaker 2: never quite get their deck chair unfolded. They know there's
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  Speaker 2: a deck, and they know there's a ship, and they
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  Speaker 2: know there's a sun, and they know there is a
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  Speaker 2: place to sit in it and enjoy life. But they
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  Speaker 2: spend all their lives unfolding their deck chairs. Some people,
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, unfold their chairs quickly and set
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  Speaker 2: them up hurriedly and get involved in the life that
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  Speaker 2: is temporal, which is about like reshuffling the deck chairs
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  Speaker 2: on the Titanic, for what good? For what eternal purpose?
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you directly, as friend with friend, have
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  Speaker 2: you got to chair unfolded? I mean, would anybody know
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  Speaker 2: who becomes a bug on the wall of your home?
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  Speaker 2: Would they know by the way you're living that you
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  Speaker 2: truly are marked out as a believer in Christ whose
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  Speaker 2: life is counting for eternity? Would that show up? What
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  Speaker 2: if they watched you when you paid your bills and
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  Speaker 2: they saw the priority you placed on the part that
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  Speaker 2: God gets in the giving of your life, would they
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  Speaker 2: know by the amount that you gave that your life
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  Speaker 2: was marked by integrity in the area of finances. Don't
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  Speaker 2: dodge those questions. What about the service of your life,
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  Speaker 2: that part which you voluntarily turn over to Christ to
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  Speaker 2: use for His glory? Could they tell by watching your
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  Speaker 2: service that your life is marked by commitment to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I found when I read through some of the letters
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  Speaker 2: of the New test that there is a recurring theme
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  Speaker 2: that appears again and again through these letters that have
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  Speaker 2: to do with active involvement. You don't find passivity marking
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  Speaker 2: the life of the committed believer. Never. Oh, there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we may wait on God, but that isn't
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  Speaker 2: a passive waiting. That is actively praying, actively trusting, never
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  Speaker 2: doubting that God's at work, and always being ready to
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  Speaker 2: move when he says it's time. Let me show you
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  Speaker 2: several of these passages of active involvement. Let's take the
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  Speaker 2: last verse at the end of chapter fifteen of First Corinthians.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a Bible handy turned to First Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: fifteen fifty eight, I'm going to point out three or four,
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  Speaker 2: maybe five passages in the New Testament letters and one
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  Speaker 2: in Revelation that seems to set forth this whole idea
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  Speaker 2: of activity fifteen fifty eight. Therefore, my beloved brethren, this
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  Speaker 2: is to the believer. You see the Christian be steadfast,
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  Speaker 2: be immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I love that Versus Scripture. Notice the words steadfast, immovable, abounding,
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  Speaker 2: And how can you live a life like that while
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  Speaker 2: you know that your toil is not in vain in
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  Speaker 2: the Lord? JB. Phillips paraphrases, let nothing move you as
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  Speaker 2: you busy yourselves in the Lord's work. There's another one
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  Speaker 2: in the Letter to the Galatians, chapter six. Again, the
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  Speaker 2: last chapter of that letter, verse seven through verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: turn there Galatians six seven through nine. Do not be deceived.
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  Speaker 2: God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this,
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  Speaker 2: he will also reap. For the one who sows to
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  Speaker 2: his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. But
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  Speaker 2: the one who sows to the spirit shall from the
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  Speaker 2: spirit reap eternal life. And he doesn't stop there, because
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  Speaker 2: when you sow in the spirit, you will often be
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  Speaker 2: involved in exhausting labor. Your enthusiasm will begin to run dry,
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  Speaker 2: run low. The next verse says, and let us not
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  Speaker 2: lose heart in doing good, for in due time we
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  Speaker 2: shall reap if we do not grow weary. There's a
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  Speaker 2: word or a term that's come to be known as
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  Speaker 2: popular words in our days to describe the tired. They
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  Speaker 2: are the words burn out. You who suffer from burnout
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  Speaker 2: need a big dose of Galatians six'. Nine don't lose
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  Speaker 2: heart in doing, Good you who labor in obscure, Places
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  Speaker 2: you who serve the cause Of christ without public, Applause
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  Speaker 2: you who give, yourself you who give of your, money
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  Speaker 2: you who give of your, energy your, vision your, leadership
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  Speaker 2: your time to the service of the. King don't lose,
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  Speaker 2: heart you'll. Reap don't. Faint there's another one In philippians
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  Speaker 2: chapter three that you'll be familiar. With we've talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: earlier and just a reminder Of philippians, three verse. Twelve
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  Speaker 2: not THAT i have already obtained, it that is the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate goal of. Life not That i've already obtained, it
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  Speaker 2: or have already become. Perfect, no not. That BUT i
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  Speaker 2: press on in order That i'm ay lay hold of
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  Speaker 2: that for which ALSO i was laid hold of By Christ. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: BRETHREN i do not regard myself as having laid hold
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  Speaker 2: of it. Yet but one THING i, do forgetting what
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  Speaker 2: lies behind and reaching forward to what lies, AHEAD i
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  Speaker 2: press on toward the. Goal one man renders, THIS i
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  Speaker 2: go straight for the goal for the prize of the
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  Speaker 2: upward call Of god In Christ. Jesus look at this
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  Speaker 2: PASSAGE i mentioned In revelation, Earlier revelation chapter, three way
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  Speaker 2: over at the end of Your. Bible these are words
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  Speaker 2: addressed to a church in the first century known as
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  Speaker 2: The church At. LAOTICEA i think IF i had been
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  Speaker 2: a member of any first century. Church the ONE i
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  Speaker 2: would least want to be a part of would have
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  Speaker 2: been the church At. Laodicea i'd rather be in one
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  Speaker 2: that was ice cold and frozen over than one that
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  Speaker 2: was dripping with, hypocrisy as it was just warm enough
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  Speaker 2: to keep the wolf away from the, door but just
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  Speaker 2: cool enough not to get too excited about spiritual. Things revelation,
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  Speaker 2: three verse, fourteen addressed to The angel some would say
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  Speaker 2: to the leader of the church At, laodicea The, amen
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  Speaker 2: the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation Of,
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  Speaker 2: god says, This those are all descriptive terms Of jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Himself Jesus christ says, THIS i know your deeds that
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  Speaker 2: you are neither cold nor. HOT i would that you
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  Speaker 2: were cold or. Hot so because you are, lukewarm neither
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  Speaker 2: hot nor, COLD i will spit you out of my.
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  Speaker 2: Mouth forgive. Me but the literal word is. Vomit because
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  Speaker 2: you are, lukewarm you make me sick to my. STOMACH
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  Speaker 2: i think it's amazing That verse fifteen, SAYS i wish
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  Speaker 2: you were either ice cold or fiery. Hot i'd rather
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  Speaker 2: you be frozen. Over then this tippid lukewarm talking a
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  Speaker 2: good fight and doing none of. It but because you're,
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  Speaker 2: that you make me want to. Vomit years, ago our
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  Speaker 2: younger daughter swallowed a large number of aspirin by. Mistake
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  Speaker 2: she got her little fingers into the top of that
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  Speaker 2: bottle and popped it off and dropped him right. Down
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  Speaker 2: and we found the bottle, empty and we were faced
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  Speaker 2: with a very difficult task of getting those aspirin that
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  Speaker 2: had just settled into her stomach out of her. Stomach
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  Speaker 2: cynthia had found a product called. Epicac you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to mess around with epicac in a, crowd believe. Me
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  Speaker 2: and with lukewarm water and a little epichac up came
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  Speaker 2: the aspirin all over the bathtub and part of the.
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  Speaker 2: BATHROOM i, mean we got rid of the aspirin. Quick
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  Speaker 2: there's something about that, lukewarm, tepid tepid temperature that just
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  Speaker 2: makes you sick to your. Stomach and that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it is with lukewarmness in the. Church face. It some
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  Speaker 2: of you were. Lukewarm, oh you don't look like. It
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  Speaker 2: lukewarm people don't look. Lukewarm wonder how lukewarm person would look.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway but we usually look hot For, god we usually
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  Speaker 2: look enthusiastic and, excited and we got Our, bible and
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  Speaker 2: we got our notebook and we're ready to. Go and
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  Speaker 2: as soon as it's, over it's so see me next.
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  Speaker 2: Week don't bother me with. That don't press the, Issue,
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  Speaker 2: chuck you're getting a little crotchety on some of these.
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  Speaker 2: Points just live and let. Live that's What jesus. Said
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  Speaker 2: where Did jesus say, That i'd like to know. That you,
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  Speaker 2: see some of the people In thessalonaika really bought into
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  Speaker 2: the idea that if you really look For christ, coming
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to get involved in. Life you can
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  Speaker 2: start a free load off of. People there are enough,
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  Speaker 2: active Diligent christians in the church to support those that
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  Speaker 2: have their hearts set On christ. Coming and, so as
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  Speaker 2: one man put, it with excited, idleness they bailed out
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  Speaker 2: in The essentials Of. Life let's look at those, folks Tewod,
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  Speaker 2: thessalonians chapter. Three while you're finding your way, There i'm
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  Speaker 2: reminded of a line that came out of the journal
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  Speaker 2: of the Late Jim. Elliott one of my heroes in
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  Speaker 2: life is the martyred missionary who died on The Koureiraya
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  Speaker 2: river in the interior Of. Ecuador he had written earlier
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  Speaker 2: in his, life wherever you, are be all. THERE i
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  Speaker 2: love that ever been with people who aren't all there
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  Speaker 2: when they're. There some dads aren't all there when you're. There, right,
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  Speaker 2: kids don't say, Amen you've got some folks that are
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  Speaker 2: just in another. World they're not all. There and then he,
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  Speaker 2: says live to the. Hilt every situation you believe to
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  Speaker 2: be the will Of god is this year? Now then
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  Speaker 2: live it. Up you have small, Children give it all you've.
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  Speaker 2: Got children have now left the. Nest give it all you've.
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  Speaker 2: Got you're in your sixties seventies of. Life give it
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  Speaker 2: all you've. Got be all. There don't let your theology
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  Speaker 2: get in the way of your. Enthusiasm that's what had
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  Speaker 2: happened In thesalonaika indecision regarding ethical and moral, issues remaining
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  Speaker 2: neutral on matters that call for, action leaving the workload
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  Speaker 2: and responsibilities for others to take care, of keeping a
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  Speaker 2: tight selfish rap on my wants and my comfort and
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  Speaker 2: my desire and my profession and my, future looking the other.
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  Speaker 2: Way When god taps me on the shoulder saying it's your.
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  Speaker 2: Turn this is for. YOU i notice another thing about
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  Speaker 2: in different. People they always refer to the church as their.
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  Speaker 2: Church THCHEI. R it's their, church it's his. Vision now
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  Speaker 2: in a, family it's our. Church in a, church it's our.
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  Speaker 2: Vision we're a part of. It take away those other
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  Speaker 2: words and replace them with we and our and even.
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  Speaker 2: Mine this is my, church this is my. Family now
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  Speaker 2: what do we do with those who want to dream
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  Speaker 2: their way into eternity as they look for the coming Of.
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  Speaker 2: Christ paul speaks rather strongly in verse. Six he gives a.
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  Speaker 2: Command in, fact you're going to be shocked at how
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  Speaker 2: strong he. Is we command, you, brethren in the name
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  Speaker 2: of Our Lord Jesus, christ that you keep aloof from
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  Speaker 2: every brother who leads unruly, life not according to the
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  Speaker 2: tradition which you receive from. Us that says it all
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  Speaker 2: in a, nutshell doesn't. It? Notice it's Between. Christians we command, you,
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  Speaker 2: brethren to keep aloof from every. Brother you will never
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  Speaker 2: find a lost person looking forward to the coming Of.
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  Speaker 2: Christ you will never find a lost person preoccupied With
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  Speaker 2: christ so much so that he or she isn't concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: Life as a matter of, fact some lost people Put
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  Speaker 2: christians to shame when it comes to being active and
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  Speaker 2: involved in things that, matter don't They but this is
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  Speaker 2: A christian. Malady, brothers take a look at every brother
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  Speaker 2: who leads an unruly life and mark that. Person see
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  Speaker 2: the word. Unruly you'll be surprised at what it means
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  Speaker 2: in the. Original it means to play, truant to skip.
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  Speaker 2: School it's the idea of being idle when you ought
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  Speaker 2: to be actively engaged in getting an. Education in my,
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  Speaker 2: LIFETIME i was truant on a couple of three. Occasions
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  Speaker 2: i'm now able to say that now That i'm in
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  Speaker 2: my nineties and no one will catch up with. Me
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  Speaker 2: but back THEN i led my mother to believe THAT
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  Speaker 2: i was in school every, day faithfully committing myself to
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  Speaker 2: a great, education when in, FACT i was swimming in
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  Speaker 2: the creek on a couple of three. Occasions and WHAT
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  Speaker 2: i found, was at about ten o'clock in the, MORNING
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  Speaker 2: i was absolutely. Bored being truant wasn't nearly the FUN
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  Speaker 2: i thought it was going to. Be and if you
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  Speaker 2: involvement of the. Education you see when you are. Truant
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  Speaker 2: you think that you're going to be involved in something,
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  Speaker 2: else but in fact you become, unruly and as we
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  Speaker 2: will see in a, moment, undisciplined, bored and a. Busybody
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  Speaker 2: this word unruly has in mind the idea of living
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  Speaker 2: an idle, life spending our days watching the skies For christ's.
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  Speaker 2: Return and he says that wasn't according to the tradition
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  Speaker 2: you received from, us Meaning paul's own. Life and with
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  Speaker 2: that in Mind verses seven through, ten present us with
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  Speaker 2: the example You, thessalonians you people In, america you folks
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  Speaker 2: scripture namely the Apostle. Paul look at his. Life you
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  Speaker 2: yourselves know how you ought to. Mimic is the word
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  Speaker 2: mimic our, example because we didn't act in an undisciplined,
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  Speaker 2: manner same word as earlier rendered. Unruly when we were,
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  Speaker 2: there our lives weren't marked by a lack of. Discipline
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  Speaker 2: the same term to play truant is used By, demosthenes
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  Speaker 2: The greek, poet to describe being as a military and
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  Speaker 2: being out of the action because of indiscipline and. Desertion
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  Speaker 2: that's the term used. Here when you think of the
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  Speaker 2: Discipline you think of someone whose life was marked by
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  Speaker 2: to any of. You we weren't out of, order we
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  Speaker 2: weren't absent from you when you needed. Us and, furthermore
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