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Welcome to Faith Is.
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I'm Pastor Rick Stevens.
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So pleased for you to join us this
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week on Faith Is.
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This is the place, probably the only place
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that you will hear that faith is absolute
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confidence in the trustworthiness of God.
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And we got a few things to talk
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about today.
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And as you know, I've been trying to
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encourage us, prod us, challenge us, stretch us,
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maybe all those things and more to make
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sure we think about the things that we
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see going on around in the world through
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a Christian lens.
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Now I realize that you might disagree with
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some of my perspectives through a Christian lens,
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that's fine, but make sure if you do,
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do it through the lens of the Bible.
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Just make sure you understand that it's Christians
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can differ on things, but we want to
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make sure we think about things through the
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lens of the Bible.
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So we think Christianly about things.
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I'm not here to require you to think
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like I do or to have the same
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opinions, but I am here to challenge and
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stretch, encourage, prod, cajole, whatever you want to
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think of it.
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I want us to take seriously our responsibilities
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to engage the world around us from a
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Christian perspective.
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And so we want to talk about a
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few things.
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There are some things in the news relative
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to life-wise and free speech that I saw.
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And I think we need to revisit that
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a little bit to make sure we understand
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what it involves and how significant that it
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is.
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And I want to talk about that a
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little bit and encourage you to go find
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that article.
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But I want to start with this is
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the weekend on Sunday, May 17th, that our
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nation pauses to rededicate itself as one nation
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under God.
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This is no small thing.
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And I believe we as Christians need to
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support and participate as best we can in
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this rededication of our country.
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The theme of the idea is rededication at
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the 250th anniversary of the founding of the
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nation.
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And the headline on the website, Freedom250.org, that
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talks about this, says it's a national jubilee
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of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving.
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It's going to be an all-day long celebration
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on Sunday, May 17th, and it's going to
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feature a lot of different kinds of activities,
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all taking place on the National Mall in
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Washington, D.C.
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Now, you've probably been there, maybe many of
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you have visited the mall.
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It is a large area, and this is
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going to take place approximately in the midpoint
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between the Lincoln Memorial on one end and
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the Capitol Building on the other end.
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You look at the map, you can see
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that they they advertise that the main stage
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is going to be at the 12th Street
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location, so you can kind of tell where
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that's going to be.
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And people will be attending from all over.
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People will be participating as speakers and singers,
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representing a huge variety of Americans and American
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perspective.
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And I think we as the church should
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be supportive of this.
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Now, some people are going to make something
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of this that it's not.
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We won't be at our church.
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But we are going to at least make
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the effort to recognize that God has given
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us something special here, and it's based upon
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the Bible.
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Our understanding of law and government comes out
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of the pages of the Bible, and we
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need to give thanks for that.
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And I hope you will in your way.
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Let's gather together, gather around, and let's thank
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God for what He's given us.
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And let's rededicate ourselves to being one nation
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under God.
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One nation under God.
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I don't think I can quote him exactly,
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I don't think I can quote him exactly,
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but you may remember that it was President
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but you may remember that it was President
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Ronald Reagan who said something like this: that
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Ronald Reagan who said something like this that
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if we're not a one nation under God,
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if we're not a one nation under God,
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we're going to be a nation gone under.
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we're going to be a nation gone under.
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And I think that's exactly right.
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And I think that's exactly right.
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And we need to have a moral awakening
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And we need to have a moral awakening
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in this country.
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in this country.
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One of the things that's often said about
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One of the things that's often said about
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the country is we get demoralized.
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the country is we get demoralized.
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Well, if you're demoralized, that means you don't
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Well, if you're demoralized, that means you don't
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have a moral moral compass.
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have a moral moral compass to guide you.
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And so we need to re-establish that and
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together look to God as our moral compass
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so that we can be the people that
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we can that we aspire to be based
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on the ideals of our founding.
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So this is a great weekend.
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I think it's absolutely terrific, and I urge
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you to support it.
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Now, along the line of government and the
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fact that we have such a great nation
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to be thankful for.
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They agree to do this, and so during
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the school day, usually once a week, the
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students leave the school with the permission of
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their parents and under the supervision of Lifewise
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personnel from Lifewise Academy.
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They leave school, and sometimes they ride a
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bus.
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The one I recently visited, the students just
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walk across the street to a church, and
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they have about an hour of religious instruction.
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They read the Bible, they talk about it,
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they have adults that lead them through it
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that teach the lessons, and they even have
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a snack.
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What can you do with kids and not
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have a snack, huh?
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So it's a simple process, it's a simple
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idea.
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It doesn't cost the school district anything.
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It provides an enrichment for these students to
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actually encounter the Bible, and they love it.
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And the people that work with them love
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it.
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Well, uh, all is well and good except
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apparently in Washington state.
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Let me just read a little bit of
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this article that I found on Fox News
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website.
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A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary
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injunction against Everett Public Schools in a lawsuit
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accusing the Washington School District of discriminating against
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LifeWise Academy, a national nonprofit that provides off-campus
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religious instruction to public school students.
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In an order issued April 4th in the
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U.S.
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District Court for the Western District of Washington,
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U.S.
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District Judge Lauren King said that LifeWise and
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co-plaintiff Sarah Sweeney, a parent and lifewise staff
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member, were likely to succeed on key First
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Amendment claims, challenging the district's restrictions on the
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group.
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Well, the district had put in some restrictions
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on LifeWise and their function.
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They wouldn't allow them have a to have
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a booth at a community resource fair, for
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example.
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They were trying to restrict them when it
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came to printed flyers where other organizations might
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print flyers.
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They didn't want lifewise to have the opportunity
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to distribute their flyers.
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They wanted to make them have a, if
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I remember correctly, that detail, a permission slip
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every week.
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And the court says, no, while this is
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going forward, they need to have semester-long permission
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slips.
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Well, those are the kinds of things that
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are designed to inhibit the rights of these
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students.
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Now, you may be wondering, is this separation
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of church and state?
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Well, yes, it's complete separation.
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And by the way, the separation of church
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and state is a completely misunderstood and scrambled
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idea.
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You need to look into that if you
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have not and try to understand it.
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I believe if you look into it, you
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will understand it better than the court did
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when they made their comments about it many
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years ago.
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But this is clearly not a violation of
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separation of church and state because Lifewise Academy
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meets off campus.
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It's fully funded by private donations, and it's
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done with the permission of the parents.
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So it's completely completely not a violation of
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the separation of church and state.
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What seems to have happened is that someone
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didn't like what LifeWise is was doing.
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And in fact, that was clearly recognized in
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the arguments before the court because a board
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member in the school system out there in
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Washington said he held animus toward the group.
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He made it clear he did not even
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try to hide that he had a personal
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beef with them.
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He didn't like what he thought were some
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of their activities.
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They clearly are not involved in the things
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that he said, but he had a uh
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a clearly personal vendetta against them, and so
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they were trying to stop LifeWise and deprive
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these children of the opportunity to hear what
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God says.
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And this is clearly a violation.
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I have a lot of certainty that this
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case will be resolved completely in LifeWise's favor.
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In a similar situation in Georgia, at Vidalia
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High School, some students took courses at Sweet
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Onion Christian Learning Center.
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I love that name, Sweet Onion Christian Learning
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Center, and they're we're having a conflict over
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some things that were going on, and then
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it turns out that the founder of the
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learning center, Reverend Humans criticize the school board
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because they wanted to raise taxes, and he
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didn't like that.
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So in retaliation, as it turns out, these
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school board or these school officials were pulling
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the plug on this learning at the Sweet
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Onion Christian Learning Center.
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Well, the results in a lawsuit that will
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That results in a lawsuit that will almost
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almost certainly be resolved in favor of the
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certainly be resolved in favor of the Christian
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Christian learning center.
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learning center.
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And here's what the legal counsel for them
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And here's what the legal counsel for them
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said.
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said.
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Every American has the right to publicly criticize
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Every American has the right to publicly criticize
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the government.
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the government.
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That's what makes the First Amendment guarantee of
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That's what makes the First Amendment guarantee of
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free speech so special, and the envy of
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free speech so special and the envy of
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the world.
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the world.
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He continued, Vidalia city schools can't punish Reverend
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He continued Vidalia City Schools can't punish Reverend
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Humans.
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Humans or his ministry, providing high school students
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with free religious education for simply sharing his
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opinion of a proposed tax hike.
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We are urging the court to reinstate Sweet
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Onion's release time and restore Reverend Newman's constitutional
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freedoms.
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Well, it's the same idea as life wise.
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Students have the opportunity to leave school to
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have religious education.
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In this case, the pastor, the founder of
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the Christian center, didn't like a tax hike
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and spoke out against it, and the school
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retaliated against him by shutting down this release
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time religious education.
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You can't do that.
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And the thing that you and I have
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to realize is that the United States has
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established freedoms and our rights come from God.
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And it's entirely appropriate and entirely necessary to
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push back when government officials violate that freedom.
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And so that's what's happened in the Everett
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School District out in Washington, and in this
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case in Georgia, that the people that have
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been harmed by inappropriate, illegal, unconstitutional government actions
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are pushing back against that.
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Now, every now and then I pick up
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on the idea that some Christians don't like
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the idea that we have to fight for
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what God has given us.
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I understand that.
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Churches, Christians are good hearted people.
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We don't usually want to have to fight
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about things, or in the words of some
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cause trouble.
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Well, you gotta understand in these situations the
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Christians didn't cause the trouble.
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It was the government that overstepped its limitations
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and caused the trouble.
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And therein is a major misunderstanding.
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And we need to understand that our laws,
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our constitution that guarantees religious liberty and guarantees
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freedom of speech, are limitations on the government,
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not limitations on us.
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That's very important.
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People have lost track of that, I think.
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We've gotten the idea that the government can
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do what it wants, and we just have
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to cooperate.
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That is absolutely not what our nation was
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founded on.
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And we need to make sure government lives
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within its boundaries and doesn't step over the
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line.
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Many people think that Christians are becoming too
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political these days.
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I don't think that's it at all.
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I think what happened is the government has
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overstepped its authority and gotten into theological issues
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and tried to push us around, and we're
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not going to be pushed because God has
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given us this liberty, God has given us
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these instructions, and we're going to follow him.
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So I think both those cases are going
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to be easily won by the people involved,
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and I think it's a great thing that
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they're pushing back.
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We must do that.
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Now I'm sorry to have to draw your
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attention to this other story.
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Sorry on one level because it's absolutely horrible.
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And I want to caution you that if
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you go read this, which I think you
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should, you're going to have to be prepared
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because it's it's brutal.
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The information is just awful.
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There's an article posted on CNN.com that talks
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about a report of systematic rape and sexual
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violence during Hamas' attack on October 7th on
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Israel.
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It is how should I say it is
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plain spoken and it tells you what's in
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the report.
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It does not sugarcoat it, but it does
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not try to make it sensationalized either.
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But sometimes you and I, who are good
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hearted people, have trouble facing up to dealing
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with sometimes I think Christians even have trouble
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acknowledging how evil some uh actions, events are
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clearly this documents without a without a doubt,
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this report that they re that they're talking
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about here in this article on CNN.com.
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They document without a doubt the horrific things
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that were done to these young men and
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women at the music festival at that site
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in southern Israel on October 7th of 2023.
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There's a link in the CNN article to
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the actual report.
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I would encourage you to go there and
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check it out.
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I looked at that report a little bit.
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Frankly, I just could not bring myself to
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read it at this point after reading the
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CNN article and realizing what these young people
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were put through, the absolute uh sadistic torture
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that they endured the pain, and then to
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be summarily killed.
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It's just it's it's almost beyond comprehension.
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And I know people just don't want to
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face up to this, and I know there's
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been a lot of talk about what's true
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and what's false.
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This particular report that CNN talks about has
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been well established with absolutely irrefutable evidence, and
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we now know in great detail what happened
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on October 7th.
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And you and I have to come to
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grips with black-hearted people, because we see evidence
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of absolute evil here.
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Now, I didn't get exposed to the worst
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of things when I visited Israel back in
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December.
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We did visit the site of the music
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festival.
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We walked those grounds and we saw the
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pictures of the students that were killed, the
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young men and women, not all of them
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students, but the young men and women.
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Well, we heard the story of one young
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man and what happened.
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He was there and he survived.
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We later heard the story of a father
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and his young daughter whose village was attacked,
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and how they managed to survive.
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Absolutely horrific things.
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We visited a kibbutz.
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We stood in the in the driveway, I
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We stood in the in the driveway, I
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guess you'd say, of that kibbutz, and listened
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guess you'd say, of that kibbutz and listened
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to the woman that was that was welcoming
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to the woman that was that was welcoming
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us there, tell the story of what happened
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us there, tell the story of what happened
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on that awful day of October 7th.
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on that awful day of October 7th.
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And as we were standing there, I could
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And as we were standing there, I could
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look across, and it wasn't very far to
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look across, and it wasn't very far to
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the fence that separated Israel from Gaza.
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the fence that separated Israel from Gaza.
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Large chain-link fence, tall chain link fence.
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Large chain link fence, tall chain link fence.
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And then farther in the distance, I could
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And then farther in the distance, I could
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see a city.
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see a city in Gaza.
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This was real stuff that happened, and they
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told us the stories of what happened there
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on that kibbutz.
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The stories of both heroism and horror that
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took place that day.
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People were killed.
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Families were badly separated.
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In one case, one young man was the
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only survivor, one young teenager from his family.
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Because he was out for a run, and
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he took shelter in a place that was
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spared, but his whole family back at home
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was killed.
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I mean, these are just unbelievable actions that
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took place on that day.
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And that's why I think it's important for
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us to read these accounts.
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Now, if you may not have the stomach
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to read the full report, I expect I
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will go back and read it at some
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point.
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I think I need to just to to
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make sure that I understand fully the situation.
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I don't want to.
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I can tell you that for sure.
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I'd absolutely resist it.
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Everything in me says I don't want to
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read it, but some things you just have
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to do to know what's going on, what
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went on.
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And I want to encourage you to at
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least read the CNN article today.
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So many people are saying Israel is the
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aggressor here.
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Israel is treating these people badly.
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You read this article, and you understand what
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was done to young Israeli men and women,
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and you will understand why Israel took action,
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military action against Hamas.
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Hamas is not a benign bunch.
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They are not simply another group that that
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was elected to office in Gaza.
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They are a terrorist organization bent on destruction,
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and we need to understand what's going on.
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Let me give you an example about how
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you need to believe certain people and don't
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believe others.
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Whenever you hear about somebody speaking from Gaza,
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maybe they're a journalist, maybe they're some kind
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of public official, and they're making a statement,
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and you would expect that they would tell
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you the truth.
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But you need to understand if they're a
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public official of any kind in Gaza of
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journalists, anything like that, anybody speaking about what
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happened in Gaza, they are a mouthpiece of
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Hamas, and they are telling you what Hamas
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wants you to hear, and they're absolutely comfortable
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lying because they believe that to advance Islam
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and to lie are perfectly acceptable.
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Anything is acceptable to advance Islam.
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And you and I in the West need
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to understand this.
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Some of us are old enough to remember
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the old Soviet Union, and we knew when
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we heard propaganda coming out of the old
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Soviet Union not to believe it.
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Well, we need to be just as aware
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of what comes out of places like Gaza
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and understand that they are not telling us
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the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
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the truth.
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They are telling us what they want us
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to believe.
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And we need to push back against that
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and make sure anything you believe about what's
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going on over there is verified.
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That's why this report matters so much, because
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it demonstrates the absolute savagery of that attack.
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And we, the people of God, need to
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recognize evil and call it what it is,
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and pray like a house of fire, as
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my friend used to say, that God would
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deliver us from evil.
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That's inherent in the prayer Jesus taught us,
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deliver us from evil, and we need that
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deliverance today.
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So think about the world through Christian eyes,
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and don't be deceived.
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Even when it seems unbelievable, like this report,
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we as Christians need to face evil and
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recognize that evil was defeated at the cross,
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and we are going to be faithful to
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the one who is the way, the truth,
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and the life.
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I'm Pastor Rick Stevens, and this is the
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We accept his challenge to stretch in his
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direction.
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We pay attention to the truth.
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So remember, faith is absolute confidence in the
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trustworthiness of God.
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And that definition really wraps up a lot
32:03
of what we mean by having faith in
32:05
God.
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Is it everything?
32:08
I wouldn't defend it as everything.
32:10
Is it something?
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Yes, it is.
32:11
Is it helpful?
32:12
Well, it helps me.
32:13
I hope it helps you.
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Well, last week we talked about some things
32:16
from John chapter 14, and I want to
32:18
revisit that.
32:20
Perhaps go over some of the things we
32:23
touched on last week, but then go into
32:25
some other things as well.
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And maybe we should start by reading a
32:29
portion from John chapter 14.
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I'm not going to read the whole chapter.
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We read the first few verses last week.
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John 14, starting with verse 1.
32:38
And I want to start with verse 18
32:41
this time and read a few words.
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Now these are these are Jesus' words.
32:46
It's a statement he's making.
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It's preparation for them for his coming crucifixion,
32:55
the death, burial, and resurrection.
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And in a sense, it's also pointing toward
33:02
the time that he would leave and go
33:04
back to be with the father.
33:07
So it's preparation for these things, but it
33:09
gives us some really important hooks to hang
33:12
our lives on and some important things for
33:14
us to think about.
33:17
So let's read this and then let's talk
33:18
about a few of the things.
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We can't cover everything that's in here, but
33:22
I want to pick up and read a
33:24
little bit from John chapter 14, beginning with
33:27
verse 18 from the Christian Standard Bible.
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Jesus words.
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In a little while, the world will no
33:37
longer see me, but you will see me
33:39
because I live, you will live too.
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On that day you will know that I
33:43
am in my father, you are in me,
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and I am in you.
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The one who has my commands and keeps
33:49
them is the one who loves me.
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And the one who loves me will be
33:53
loved by my father.
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I also will love him and will reveal
33:57
myself to him.
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Judas, not a scariot, said to him, Lord,
34:02
how is it you're going to reveal yourself
34:04
to us and not to the world?
34:07
Jesus answered.
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I've spoken these things to you while I
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remain with you, but the counselor, the Holy
34:30
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
34:32
name, will teach you all things and remind
34:35
you of everything I have told you.
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So you get a little flavor of what
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Jesus is saying and how he's preparing his
34:43
followers for his death, burial, and resurrection, and
34:46
then for his return to heaven, where he
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will rule and reign with the Father.
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So one of the important things is that
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Jesus says that he's essentially going home.
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And earlier in the chapter, he talked about
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And earlier in the chapter, he talked about
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how he was gonna make a place for
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how he was going to make a place
35:05
us to go home with him.
35:05
for us to go home with him.
35:08
Well, I was thinking about home and going
35:08
Well, I was thinking about home and going
35:09
home.
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home.
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And home has a special place in a
35:11
And home has a special place in a
35:13
lot of people's hearts.
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lot of people's hearts.
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I lived in Owensboro, Kentucky when I was
35:15
I lived in Owensboro, Kentucky, and when I
35:17
going to high school.
35:17
was going to high school.
35:19
And I don't remember if I ever talked
35:19
And I don't remember if I ever talked
35:20
to anybody about this, but I heard about
35:20
to anybody about this, but I heard about
35:21
it.
35:21
it.
35:23
That there were people that had lived in
35:23
That there were people that had lived in
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that county all their lives, and they never
35:25
that county all their lives, and they never
35:27
went any place else and had no desire
35:27
went any place else and had no.
35:29
to go any place.
35:31
That was home.
35:32
They were going to stay there.
35:34
Well, that's all well and good, but Jesus
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didn't talk about a home where we are
35:38
now where we'll stay.
35:41
He's talking about a home he's preparing for
35:42
us.
35:44
So I was thinking about home a little
35:45
bit, and I live in Southwest Florida, Cape
35:47
Coral, where I'm the pastor of a diplomat
35:49
Wesleyan Church.
35:52
And in Southwest Florida, and I'm not an
35:54
expert on Southwest Florida.
35:57
I've only lived here almost 30 years now.
35:59
People have lived here a lot longer than
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I have.
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But I have noticed that a lot of
36:03
us aren't from around here.
36:05
So when you meet somebody new, one of
36:07
the first things that you say is, Well,
36:09
where are you from?
36:11
And we're all from almost always someplace up
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north, the way we say it.
36:17
Well, sometimes people will ask me, Well, where's
36:18
home?
36:21
And through no fault of anyone's, no fault
36:23
of mine, or it just kind of seems
36:24
that way.
36:26
I don't know how to answer that question.
36:29
I know that I lived in two places
36:30
that I can remember.
36:32
I lived in a couple more, I think,
36:34
but I was a baby at that point.
36:36
I know two residences, I and I know
36:37
where those are.
36:39
One is in Owensboro, Kentucky, and one is
36:41
in Milford, Ohio.
36:43
And I know where those are.
36:45
I was thinking about home, and I was
36:47
thinking, how do I answer that question the
36:48
next time somebody asked me about it?
36:50
And I still don't know.
36:52
But I do know this.
36:54
I can find my way back to either
36:56
of those houses.
36:58
I wouldn't need a map.
37:00
I wouldn't need anything.
37:01
I could just drive there from here.
37:03
Now I live in Southwest Florida, and it's
37:05
a few hundred miles to either one of
37:07
those places, but doesn't matter, I still know
37:09
the way.
37:11
I could get there.
37:13
Now part of that's because I've always paid
37:14
attention to maps and I'm interested in that
37:16
sort of thing, so it kind of sticks
37:17
in my mind.
37:19
But part of that is I just know
37:22
because I lived there, and yes, the roads
37:24
have changed since I lived there, particularly in
37:27
Ohio, very much change, but still I've been
37:29
there enough since those days that I could
37:32
find home.
37:34
I could get there.
37:36
Well, Jesus' disciples were concerned when Jesus said,
37:38
I'm going to prepare a place for you,
37:41
that how would they know where he was,
37:43
and how would they know how to find
37:45
him?
37:47
And Jesus assures them that if he goes
37:51
away, he'll come and take us, them and
37:54
us with him home.
37:58
Now, what does that mean?
38:01
Well, first thing we would say is that
38:03
sounds like the second coming of Jesus, and
38:05
I think it does.
38:07
We all talk about how Jesus went to
38:09
be with the Father, and he will come
38:11
back one day for all of us.
38:14
Well, what does that mean?
38:15
And how do we understand this?
38:18
Now, I looked at several academic sources, and
38:21
none of them seem to pick up on
38:24
this idea that I think explains what Jesus
38:27
is talking about here very well, with great
38:30
clarity, and could be easily understand understood by
38:33
anyone in his audience.
38:36
I got this idea years ago from a
38:39
man named Zola Levitt, who was a teacher
38:42
and who connected the stories of the Bible
38:45
to the Jewish cultural practices.
38:49
And as I understand it in those days
38:52
that when a young man and a young
38:54
woman wanted to get married, there were certain
38:57
things that took place to prepare for that.
38:59
Now, those days were usually arranged marriages between
39:02
the families, maybe between the fathers.
39:05
Certainly my understanding is that the other parties
39:08
were involved, including the prospective bride and the
39:11
prospective groom.
39:14
But they would work this out.
39:17
It wasn't like we do where a young
39:19
man finds a young woman or a young
39:20
woman finds a young man, or they find
39:22
each other.
39:24
It was a little bit more involved than
39:25
that.
39:26
Well, when it seemed to be the time
39:29
to get the ball rolling on this uh
39:32
coming wedding, shall we say, the families agreed
39:35
to a meeting.
39:38
And so the prospective groom and his parents
39:42
would arrange a time, and the bride and
39:45
her parents would host them at her home.
39:49
And they would go in and they would
39:52
talk about these things, and they would make
39:54
known the intentions of this young man to
39:57
marry this girl.
39:59
He would like her to agree to that.
40:02
And she had the opportunity to agree to
40:04
it.
40:05
Now, I guess she could have said no,
40:07
but I think it's pretty certain we can
40:09
tell that they wouldn't have even gone this
40:11
far if she wasn't interested.
40:13
But anyway, they go through the formalities.
40:17
They agree to a kind of covenant arrangement
40:20
for what's going to result from this marriage
40:23
and leading up to it.
40:27
And they come to the conclusion of the
40:29
meeting, and the young man says to the
40:31
girl, I go to prepare a place for
40:33
you.
40:35
Now, if you remember in the first part
40:38
of John chapter 14, Jesus said very similar
40:41
words.
40:44
Verse 2, I'm going away to prepare a
40:46
place for you.
40:48
If I go away and prepare a place
40:50
for you, I will come again and take
40:52
you to myself, so that where I am
40:54
you may be also.
40:56
You know the way to where I am
40:58
going.
40:59
Well, that was statement was what prompted Thomas
41:02
to say, Well, we don't know where you're
41:05
going, and how can we know the way?
41:08
Well, I think this idea of marriage answers
41:11
that question.
41:14
So the young man says to the girl,
41:16
to the family even, but mostly to the
41:18
girl, I go to prepare a place for
41:20
you.
41:22
They would leave then, he and his parents,
41:25
and go back to their home where he
41:28
would prepare a place to bring his bride.
41:31
Now, it could vary the kind of place,
41:34
maybe based on the means of the family,
41:37
the space they had available, but he would
41:40
prepare a room or maybe add a room
41:43
to the house, but he would prepare a
41:46
place to bring his bride.
41:49
Now, it doesn't take too much imagination, and
41:53
I don't think it is too out of
41:56
order to to imagine that a young man
42:00
having gotten this close to becoming an adult
42:00
This close to becoming an adult male in
42:03
male in his world and having a bride.
42:03
his world and having a bride.
42:08
He would hurry up and get something put
42:08
He would hurry up and get something put
42:09
together as quickly as he could, and by
42:09
together as quickly as he could, and by
42:11
the next afternoon he might say to us,
42:11
the next afternoon he might say to us,
42:13
I'm ready to go, and his father would
42:13
I'm ready to go, and his father would
42:15
say, Not so fast.
42:15
say, Not so fast.
42:17
You see, the next piece of that puzzle
42:17
You see, the next piece of that puzzle
42:20
was he could not, the young man, the
42:20
was he could not, the young man, the
42:22
prospective groom could not go claim his bride
42:23
prospective groom could not go claim his bride
42:24
until his father said, Okay, you have the
42:26
until his father said, Okay, you have the
42:27
place.
42:29
place properly prepared.
42:32
So that required the young man to do
42:34
his due diligence and make the room what
42:37
it was supposed to be to satisfy his
42:39
father.
42:42
Now you remember Jesus said that his return
42:44
only the father knew.
42:46
Well, that's a clue of what of how
42:49
he was helping people understand this dynamic is
42:52
the connection to this wedding practice.
42:56
So the day would come, and no one
42:58
really knew when it would come because it
43:00
was up to the father.
43:02
When the father knew the young man was
43:05
ready, and maybe if he was a really
43:07
wise father, he also knew that it involved
43:09
more than just getting the room ready.
43:12
He needed to make sure the young man
43:13
was fully ready.
43:15
And at the appropriate time, he would give
43:18
permission for the young man to go claim
43:20
his bride.
43:23
And so the young man and his friends
43:26
would go tearing through the streets over to
43:28
the girl's house to claim his bride.
43:31
Now, sometimes this happened late at night.
43:34
Different ways this happened, but they always made
43:36
a lot of noise so the girls would
43:37
know they were coming so they could be
43:39
ready because it was the bride's responsibility to
43:41
be ready when the groom arrived.
43:44
Oh, you remember how Jesus said to us,
43:46
be ready, because you don't know when I'm
43:48
going to be back.
43:51
It's up to the Father.
43:52
So, okay, so they're ready now.
43:54
And they go claim the girl.
43:56
Now the groom then shows the girl and
44:00
her attendants the way back to home now.
44:05
So when Jesus says, You know the way,
44:08
you'll know the way because I'm coming and
44:10
I will show you the way.
44:13
So it's not really complicated when you think
44:15
about it through those terms, and that's how
44:17
I think it helps us understand what Jesus
44:19
is talking about.
44:22
That He is going to come again for
44:23
us, and He's going to show us the
44:25
way home.
44:27
Now, another important theme in this passage, and
44:30
you picked up on that probably a little
44:33
bit as I read it, is that this
44:36
idea that Jesus and the Father are one.
44:40
And this is important for us to remind
44:43
ourselves because we live in a time when
44:47
people have trouble realizing that when we talk
44:50
about God, and when we talk about God
44:53
in a Trinitarian sense as Father, Son, and
44:57
Holy Spirit, people want to separate those three,
45:00
and forget or overlook or maybe minimize the
45:03
oneness of the three.
45:07
You can't separate Father from Son, Son from
45:11
Father, Father from Spirit, Spirit from Father, Son
45:14
from Spirit, Spirit from Son.
45:17
They are a unity, a one.
45:21
This goes all the way back to the
45:24
Old Testament that when they prayed the Shema.
45:26
Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the
45:28
Lord is one, and you shall love the
45:30
Lord your God with all your heart, all
45:32
your soul, all your mind, and all your
45:34
strength.
45:36
So it goes back, the Lord is one.
45:41
It was the idea of one true God.
45:45
In a world of many gods, God's people
45:48
recognized one true God.
45:51
And what's important for us to remember is
45:53
in our day is that people sometimes read
45:55
the Bible and they think they know everything
45:57
God knows.
45:59
Now hear what I said there very carefully
46:01
there.
46:02
People read the Bible and they think they
46:04
know everything there is to know about a
46:06
situation.
46:08
And so when God tells his people to
46:11
do something about a certain situation, people think,
46:14
well, how could God, for example, God commanded
46:17
his people to kill all of the people
46:19
in certain areas.
46:23
That upsets some people these days.
46:25
I understand that that's kind of unsettling.
46:28
I agree.
46:29
But I don't know what God knows, and
46:31
I don't know what evil those people had
46:34
been practicing that caused God to say they
46:37
cannot survive.
46:39
I do know that God said in Genesis
46:43
that he was sorry he had made people
46:46
because of how bad they had become.
46:58
That's pretty horrific.
47:00
But I don't know all that God knew.
47:02
I just know that at that point God
47:03
said he was sorry he made people because
47:05
people had gotten so bad.
47:07
Well, we see evidence in our world, and
47:09
I talked about that with the the Hamas
47:11
attack of October 7th of how bad people
47:13
can be.
47:15
And so if God says, Something's got to
47:17
be done about this, like the flood, God
47:20
knows better than I do, and he knows
47:22
a lot more than I do.
47:24
But people today want to reject that God,
47:26
and they want to look at the New
47:29
Testament in Jesus and say, Well, I like
47:31
that, so I'm gonna accept that and not
47:33
the other.
47:35
Well, this idea that God is one doesn't
47:37
give us that option.
47:40
The God that we see revealed in Jesus
47:43
is the same God that's revealed in the
47:45
pages of the Old Testament who took care
47:48
of business when it came to evil.
47:50
It's the same God that we read in
47:52
the pages of Revelation, that one day will
47:55
judge evil.
47:57
Now, people get a little nervous about some
47:59
of those kind of things, but frankly, I
48:01
think we should be glad that there is
48:04
a God who will judge evil.
48:06
Otherwise, evil gets away with it.
48:09
And I don't want evil to get away
48:10
with it.
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I want God to make the wrongs right,
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and one day he will.
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So that's another theme of this chapter 14,
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and really of the whole Bible, but it's
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specifically mentioned here, and we need to remind
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ourselves that we think of them as Father,
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Son, and Holy Spirit, but it's one.
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They are one.
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I found this, this is a different place.
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I didn't read this earlier, but I I
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found this quite striking, is that Jesus talked
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about how he would send what's often referred
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to as another counselor, meaning the Holy Spirit.
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Let me read you just a little portion
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from John chapter 14, starting with verse 15.
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Jesus words again, if you love me, you
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will keep my commands, and I will ask
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the Father, and he will give you another
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He will give you another counselor to be
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counselor to be with you forever.
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with you forever.
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He is the Spirit of Truth.
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He is the spirit of truth.
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The world is unable to receive him because
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The world is unable to receive him because
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it doesn't see him or know him.
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it doesn't see him or know him.
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But you know him because he remains with
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But you know him because he remains with
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you and will be in you.
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you and will be in you.
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Now it really struck me.
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Now it really struck me.
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Um again, some of these things that occur
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Um again, some of these things that occur
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to me, I think, man, you really are
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to me, I think, man, you really are
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in the slow group if you didn't think
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in the slow group if you didn't think
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of that before.
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of that before, but I didn't.
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But I didn't.
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So here we are.
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So here we are.
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But he talks about the spirit of truth.
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But he talks about the spirit of truth
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as a description of, or a some people
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would say a name for the Holy Spirit.
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And he goes on to say, did you
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catch this?
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The world is unable to receive him.
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And I got to thinking all of a
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sudden, we live in a world that doesn't
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want the truth.
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That's trying to make things in the way
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they want them to be rather than in
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the to recognize the truth.
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We see that with the gender confusion.
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And truth solves all that confusion.
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You see, we live in a time of
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real moral confusion.
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People just want to change what's wrong to
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what's right and what's right to what's wrong.
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It's unbelievably confusing.
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And the gender identity crisis, you could call
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it.
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It's maybe improved a little bit, but it's
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still out there is an example of moral
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confusion.
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See, truth is that which corresponds to reality.
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That's a simple way to think about truth.
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Truth corresponds to reality.
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The gender confusion nonsense, yes, I said nonsense,
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doesn't conform to reality.
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It denies reality and wants to reshape reality
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in its own image.
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And isn't that really the temptation that we
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all face is wanting to shape life into
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our image instead of recognize that we are
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to follow what God has established.
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It's an attack on the image of God
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in people because God said he created us
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people, you, me, men, women, in his image,
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and we reflect his image, and it's moral
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confusion to deny that.
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So we need to we need to take
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a serious look at that reality.
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And when you when you think that people
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are rejecting God, and particularly as it relates
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here to what Jesus calls the counselor or
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the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Truth,
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I guess it shouldn't surprise us so much
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that people reject God because they reject the
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truth.
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They just don't want to face up to
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that which is true.
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And one day, God, who is the way,
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the truth, and the life will make all
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the wrongs right, and people will come to
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understand that which is true, that which is
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right, and they will not have any choice.
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And they will have to acknowledge that.
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The Bible says at some point they will
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acknowledge it.
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I don't think it's acknowledged under coercion.
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I don't sense that at all.
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But the Bible says every knee will bow
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and every tongue will confess that Jesus is
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Lord.
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So why don't you do it now?
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Why don't you hear the truth that he
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gives us and acknowledge that and surrender to
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it, submit to it, recognize that God knows
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what you can never know, and he has
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offered you forgiveness of sins, he's offered you
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the spirit of truth so you can understand
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right from wrong, so you can choose right.
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And of course, that's what Jesus also says
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in this passage.
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He says, if anybody loves me, he'll do
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what I say.
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And that's part of what defines Christian.
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Do we do what he says?
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And do we recognize that the spirit of
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truth comes so we will know right from
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wrong, because we'll know the truth.
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And of course, the Bible also says you'll
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know the truth, that it will abide in
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us and it will set us free.
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And it does.
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You don't have to worry about what you
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believe and what you're doing or what you're
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saying or where you're going or any of
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the rest of the stuff when you follow
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the truth, and especially when you follow the
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one who is the way, the truth and
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the life.
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So the spirit of truth versus moral confusion.
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We live in a world that's terribly confused,
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and that also relates to the Israel situation
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right now and the rise of anti-Semitism, Semitism,
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and the desire to blame Israel for what
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happened in Gaza and what happened on October
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7th when the Israelis were attacked.
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We need to we need the spirit of
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truth to clear up the moral confusion, and
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God comes to provide that.
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And the last thing that we learn in
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John chapter 14 is another portion I didn't
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read, where Jesus said he was giving us
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peace.
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We live in an age of characterized by
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anxiety, and Jesus says, I'm giving you peace.
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Now, what does he what did he mean
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by that?
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He meant he's giving us a state of
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blessing or favor from God.
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We might say it a different way.
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Now you might say your life's all chaotic.
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Well, how do you receive the gift of
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peace?
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Well, several ways.
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One is recognize the truth.
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We talked about that.
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One is do what Jesus says.
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How many people, maybe you live in a
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state of anxiety, confusion, turmoil.
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Maybe you could fill in some other blanks
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because they refuse to do what Jesus said
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to do.
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Now you might say, My life's in such
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a mess, I don't even know where to
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start to do what Jesus said to do.
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Well, you came to the right place.
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I can help you with that.
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Let me tell you where to start.
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The spirit of truth can guide you to
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where you need to start.
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You may have a lot of things to
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fix.
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Okay, fine.
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Just start where the spirit of truth guides
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you.
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And even as I'm talking, if you're concerned
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about that, the spirit of truth may be
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giving you direction on what you need to
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correct.
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And so you take that step of obeying
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Jesus' commands, and you begin then to order
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your life in such a way that it
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reflects the grace of God and the favor
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of God and the blessing of God.
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So many people think God is supposed to
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do something for them, but they live like
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the devil and they ignore God.
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So don't ignore God, do what he says.
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If you want to know where to start,
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I'll give you another place to start.
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Maybe you think this is unnecessary, but it's
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not.
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It's absolutely essential.
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Go to church.
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Go to church every week.
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Don't miss an event.
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Join a Bible study.
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Bible study, get involved.
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Get involved.
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You might say, Well, it's just church.
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You might say, Well, it's just church.
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No, it's not just church.
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No, it's not just church.
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When you go to church, you gather with
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When you go to church, you gather with
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the people of God, and God is there.
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the people of God, and God is there.
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You want to find God, go to church.
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You want to find God, go to church.
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You want to meet God, go to church.
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You want to meet God, go to church.
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You want to have peace with God, go
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You want to have peace with God?
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to church.
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Go to church.
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Surrender your life to Him.
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Surrender your life to Him.
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Allow Him to give you the gift of
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Allow Him to give you the gift of
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grace, the peace of Christ.
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grace, the peace of Christ.
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I offer it to you today.
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I offer it to you today.
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Will you receive it?
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The peace of Christ.
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I'm Pastor Rick.
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Go in peace.