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Who Is Your Neighbour? | Rev Tryphena Law · Generations Church

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Endeo the Past of Genes Church, and
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  Speaker 1: this is our podcast. Thanks for tuning in. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that this message encourages and inspires you in your work
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  Speaker 1: with God and your journey of faith. Enjoy the message.
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  Speaker 1: God bless.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm entitled. What I want to share today is
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  Speaker 2: who is your neighbor? And I've taken it from a
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  Speaker 2: very common parable that we've always read before for those
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  Speaker 2: of you who have been Christian long enough. It's called
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  Speaker 2: the Good Samaritan. Okay, so let's look at it. It's
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  Speaker 2: found in Luke chapter ten, verse twenty five to verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven. But I just want to start maybe verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty five to verse the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Verse Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: Behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to test.
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  Speaker 2: Now Here, when you talk about put him to test,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually asking a question. Okay, It's not like testing, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: testing Jesus here saying, teacher, what shall I do to
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  Speaker 2: inherit eternal? He said to him, what is written in
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  Speaker 2: the law? How do you read it? And he answered,
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  Speaker 2: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
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  Speaker 2: with all your soul, and with all your strength, and
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  Speaker 2: with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And
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  Speaker 2: he said to and he said to him, you have
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  Speaker 2: answered correctly. Do this and you will live. But he,
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  Speaker 2: desiring to justify himself, say to Jesus, and who is
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  Speaker 2: my neighbor. Jesus replied, A man was going down from
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell, and he felt among roberts,
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  Speaker 2: who stripped him and bad him and departed, leaving him
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  Speaker 2: half date. Now, by chance a priest was going down
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  Speaker 2: that road, and when he saw him, he passed by
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  Speaker 2: on the other side. So likewise a levi, when he
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  Speaker 2: came to the place and saw him, pass by on
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  Speaker 2: the other side. But the Samaritan, as he journey, came
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  Speaker 2: to where he was, and when he saw him, he
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  Speaker 2: had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds,
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  Speaker 2: pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on
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  Speaker 2: his own animal and brought him to an inn and
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  Speaker 2: took care of him. And the next day he took
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  Speaker 2: out to de Nary and gave them to the innkeeper, saying,
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  Speaker 2: take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I
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  Speaker 2: will repay you when I come back. Which of this
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  Speaker 2: tree do you think proved to be a neighbor to
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  Speaker 2: the neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers.
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  Speaker 2: He said, the one who showed him mercy, And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said to him, you go and do likewise. I think
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  Speaker 2: we have heard so much about this. Here you have
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  Speaker 2: a story where Jesus encountered a lawyer. When you talk
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  Speaker 2: about a lawyer means this guy knows the law. And
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  Speaker 2: he went and asked Jesus. Ask Jesus a very simple question,
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  Speaker 2: what shall I do to inherit eternal life? Someone who
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  Speaker 2: knows the law very well is asking Jesus this question.
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  Speaker 2: We think that this is talking about coming to know
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  Speaker 2: Jesus eternal life. It's not about that. It is simply
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  Speaker 2: just Jesus uses this at the end of the day
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  Speaker 2: to answer a very simple question, who is your neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Because this lawyer knew the law, he knew that loving
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  Speaker 2: God is not difficult at all. Honestly speaking, giving our
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  Speaker 2: life to Jesus, knowing him, accepting him is not difficult.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people ask you want to become Christian? Okla,
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  Speaker 2: nothing to lose, right, but maybe everything to gain. So
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  Speaker 2: the same with this lawyer. He knew, he knew that
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  Speaker 2: loving God is not difficult. But the part is is this?
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  Speaker 2: He says, love your neighbor as yourself. Honestly, look at
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  Speaker 2: a person next to you. Loving that person is not easy.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy. So Jesus used this parable to answer
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  Speaker 2: the question who is your neighbor? So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: learn who are our neighbors? Who are those people that
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  Speaker 2: you and I can actually find connection and find help.
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  Speaker 3: It is that simple. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: it's talking about you. Are you a good neighbor? Also?
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  Speaker 2: So here you find that loving God is so easy.
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  Speaker 2: We can actually find a lot of truth from this.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, this is something that I seldom actually preach, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought maybe today it would be good to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. I think first thing first is we
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  Speaker 2: need to do is we need to.
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  Speaker 3: Check on ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I actually ask myself, I journey with broken people. They
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  Speaker 2: those who think that they're in pain. As who broken
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  Speaker 2: are those are not in pain?
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  Speaker 3: Place?
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  Speaker 2: I don't call them broken out you'll be very very offensive. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I journey with those who are very broken. But
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  Speaker 2: every time I need to look at my own attitude,
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  Speaker 2: I have to self check. You all doing this work
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  Speaker 2: for the last twenty years, I can tell you it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy. It was also hard to journey with me.
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  Speaker 2: I actually gave my mentor, I gave my pastors a
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  Speaker 2: lot of headaches. Reason why I say, as I went
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  Speaker 2: and get my recovery my first few years, first five years,
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  Speaker 2: I actually mess up again. I mess out my life.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm very thankful for people.
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  Speaker 2: Those people who are you know, they care for the neighbor,
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  Speaker 2: they care for me, They never let go of me.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we need to check our attitude over here.
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  Speaker 2: You find that it is so important the truth that
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  Speaker 2: we can learn how you and I can love our
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  Speaker 2: LGBT neighbors, How you and I can love them regardless
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  Speaker 2: whether they want to be transformed.
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  Speaker 3: By God or not.
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  Speaker 2: You and I we need to see them as our
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  Speaker 2: neighbors and care for them and love them. And when
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  Speaker 2: you do it the way that Jesus is doing, you
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  Speaker 2: will find that you will have the opportunity to bring
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  Speaker 2: forth a good news to them. At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, you and I can't change anybody and I
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  Speaker 2: we cannot change anybody. Only God can change somebody. But
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  Speaker 2: if you don't even make an effort to bring them
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  Speaker 2: closer to the gospel, they will never have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to hear. I am being transformed because my friends they
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  Speaker 2: see me as somebody worthy, all worthy to be helped.
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  Speaker 2: So let's check our attitude. You find that here, it's
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  Speaker 2: very interesting. I want to ask you no need to
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  Speaker 2: raise of hands. There are a few groups of people
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  Speaker 2: that's mentioned in the story.
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  Speaker 3: Just now, who are you? Who are you? Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: The first group will be those that is insecure, very insecure.
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  Speaker 2: You find that reading in chapter ten, verse thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: it talks about this person. Now you know that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: actually pick up a Talian this story about a man
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  Speaker 2: going from Jerusalem to Jericho. You must understand that that
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  Speaker 2: that journey is a very dangerous journey because there's to
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  Speaker 2: be like you know, like mountain. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 2: here and there a lot of place you can't even
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  Speaker 2: see the corner and so forth, and it's actually very
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  Speaker 2: dangerous the path. So here you have this man who
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  Speaker 2: travels on this dangerous path and then he fell among
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  Speaker 2: the robbers. Now the first group of people is this
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  Speaker 2: the priest, this priest the insecure attitude. Are we insecure?
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  Speaker 2: When we are insecure? You find it very hard to
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  Speaker 2: help somebody because the reason you support somebody. You journey
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  Speaker 2: with somebody is because you want to see your worth.
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  Speaker 2: Your friends will know because you will keep doing things
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  Speaker 2: so that people can notice you. I've been doing for
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  Speaker 2: the last twenty years. Honestly, the first ten years was
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  Speaker 2: pretty quiet. In fact, the first fifteen years I tried
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  Speaker 2: to go under the radar. But the last five years
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  Speaker 2: can't help Bela. You have pastors like Nda keep on
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  Speaker 2: asking you surfay surface. My first ten years, I was
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  Speaker 2: still working on my security even as I was journeying
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  Speaker 2: with people, and I realized that sometimes when people just
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  Speaker 2: see something something negative, you start to feel it. Are
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  Speaker 2: you in this attitude insecure? Then you have the second group,
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  Speaker 2: the curious, but I'm involved, the levice, that's the second group.
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  Speaker 2: Now what do we mean by this? You've got to
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  Speaker 2: understand that it's very important for you and I to
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  Speaker 2: love people. I think loving people is not difficult, lot,
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  Speaker 2: but you have limitation. If you say that you can
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  Speaker 2: continue lover that means you ready fake. No. No, It's
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  Speaker 2: so important to love people because human being, they are
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  Speaker 2: in desperate need. You find that as this guy as
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  Speaker 2: this this guy he was you know he was he
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  Speaker 2: was actually what he was being robbed. He was he
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  Speaker 2: was being kept at the side of the road. There
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  Speaker 2: was desperate need. In fact, there are many people with
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  Speaker 2: desperate need around us. The only thing is that what
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  Speaker 2: is our attitude? Are we insecure? If we are insecure,
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  Speaker 2: we will find it very hard to care for them.
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  Speaker 2: But if you are secure, no matter who they are,
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  Speaker 2: you will rich out and care for them because at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the days their journey as well, you
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  Speaker 2: have your own journey, they have their own journey. So
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  Speaker 2: over here you find that we have the curious but uninvolved,
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  Speaker 2: and then you have.
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  Speaker 3: The third group.
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  Speaker 2: The third group is the one that they would treat
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  Speaker 2: others the way they like to be treated. And that's
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  Speaker 2: where the Samaritan kame comes in.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to bring this story out for you
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  Speaker 2: to see that who actually is our neighbor? Who actually
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  Speaker 2: is the people that you need to care for. But
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  Speaker 2: before you care for them, first thing first is you
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  Speaker 2: need to check your own attitude. If we are not right,
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  Speaker 2: you are going to hurt others. Let me give forwards.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt people, hurt people. Many of us have been hurt,
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  Speaker 2: some of us probably have been hurt in wherever we
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  Speaker 2: go before. But come to think of it, because you
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  Speaker 2: are hurting too, and when you're hurting, you will go
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  Speaker 2: on hurting others. So let's let's look at our attitude first.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let religion get into the way, because you've got
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  Speaker 2: to understand this priest and this Levit today. If we
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  Speaker 2: look at these two words, that means that people who
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  Speaker 2: go to church, the prince and the Livics are the
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  Speaker 2: people that go to church. How come this too grow
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  Speaker 2: of people then want to help this guy that was
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  Speaker 2: bash up, was about to die, really maybe no energy
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  Speaker 2: to even cry out. You can just see from father's
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  Speaker 2: this body lying there. How come that this two group,
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  Speaker 2: Because you've got to understand that for the priests and Levi,
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  Speaker 2: if they happen to see a dead body and they
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  Speaker 2: touch that dead body, they're unclean. Then they have to
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  Speaker 2: go through the whole ceremony again to get themselves clean.
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  Speaker 2: So if I got to touch this person, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of mess to clear. Man, I got
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  Speaker 2: to get myself clean up again. Journeying with people who
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  Speaker 2: are in pain is very messy. I was very messy.
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  Speaker 2: I was a sex addict. I ran out and have
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  Speaker 2: sex with people whom I do not know. If it's
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  Speaker 2: not because the grace of God, I'll probably have HIV today.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to be my neighbor? If you are insecure,
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  Speaker 2: if you are just only curious, or you want to
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  Speaker 2: be like the third group? I want to treat others
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  Speaker 2: the way I like to be treated. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: whether the person comes to generation or not. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to love that person. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to care for that person with no strings attached.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to say today. Check out attitude.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: And how is it that you and I we can
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  Speaker 2: cultivate this attitude? I think first thing first, you need
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  Speaker 2: to start seeing the needs of people around you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about LGBT today, I'm talking about anybody maybe
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  Speaker 2: starts with here, starts here. You may be coming here today.
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  Speaker 2: Is the first time? Would you allow others to see
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  Speaker 2: your needs or not? Or you have been here for
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  Speaker 2: a long time? Is your eyes open to see the
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  Speaker 2: needs of others? You know what keeps us from seeing
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  Speaker 2: the needs of other people? When you look at those
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  Speaker 2: two religious men, the priests and the Levi, actually they
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  Speaker 2: are they are not portrayed in a very nice manner
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  Speaker 2: if you read it, if I thought about just now.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who go to church not being portrayed
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  Speaker 2: in a very nice manner, because they have what we
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  Speaker 2: call the right religion, the right practice. They know how
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  Speaker 2: to say praise the Lord, Hallelujah at the right time,
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  Speaker 2: just like some of us here probably we know when
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  Speaker 2: to jump, when not to jump, when to shop, when
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  Speaker 2: not to shot.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter which church you go to.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who practice. This is what we call
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  Speaker 2: the right religion. That means what happened here, this priest
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  Speaker 2: and this fin very faithfully they carry out their religious duty.
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  Speaker 3: Is it wrong?
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  Speaker 2: No, But sometimes we are too bocked down with some
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  Speaker 2: things that becomes what we call it's not meant to
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  Speaker 2: be in the church. We start to get ourselves bocked
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  Speaker 2: down by it. In fact, their religious duty kept them
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  Speaker 2: from loving this injured men.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, even if I have to clean myself again,
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  Speaker 3: just clean.
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  Speaker 2: But it's because they want to follow that rule so
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  Speaker 2: much soul that they're not willing to give up. What
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  Speaker 2: is it keeping us from seeing the needs of others.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but the Lord has transformed
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  Speaker 2: me and break me in one area.
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  Speaker 3: The word is called pride.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be very arrogant, because what you have
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  Speaker 2: like some body ma, then you do well in certain things.
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  Speaker 2: Then pride comes in our pride and sometimes what keeps
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  Speaker 2: us away our mindset. Some of us are so scared
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  Speaker 2: to mingle with people who are so different than us.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly speaking, all of us are very troublesoman. So when
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  Speaker 2: you look at another person trouble, you look at yourself
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  Speaker 2: like you so more trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Than that person.
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  Speaker 2: So what's wrong with it? Let's not allow our mind
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  Speaker 2: to stop us. That's why today they have this word
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  Speaker 2: called being mindful. Honestly, I think we need to also
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  Speaker 2: go back to the word of God. What does it
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  Speaker 2: mean by being mindful? It's not being arrogant, it's not
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  Speaker 2: being bought down by the religious duty. It's not about
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  Speaker 2: making lots and lots of excuses. When you do live
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  Speaker 2: with somebody, it takes a lot. It takes your time,
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  Speaker 2: it takes your money, young man, sometimes even takes.
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  Speaker 3: A whole lot of your emotion. It takes so much
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  Speaker 3: from you.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I wonder how in the world I keep myself
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  Speaker 2: saying when I hear so much of garbage, I hear
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pain but when you know who is behind,
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  Speaker 2: who is the one that's helping you with this attitude,
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  Speaker 2: then you find that you'll be more mindful, you will
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  Speaker 2: know what to do. You know, when I came out
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  Speaker 2: to a pastor, I told them I'm a lesbian.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very thankful they didn't do this to me.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know a lot of friends when they tell
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  Speaker 2: us our mess that we are like you know in
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  Speaker 2: our stomach is like and then I might start to
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  Speaker 2: think terrible. I'm very thankful they didn't. They did not
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  Speaker 2: allow the religious thing to stop them from journeying with me.
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  Speaker 2: And even the next five years, as I was in
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  Speaker 2: my journey, I fell again. And know what they say, treviina,
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  Speaker 2: where you fall, from where you fall, you just stand
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  Speaker 2: up and you walk again. They actually see beyond my waitnesses.
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  Speaker 2: They see beyond that how to see their needs? Do
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  Speaker 2: you know what she's struggling with? Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: she's struggling with? You might be in the same family,
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  Speaker 2: but do you know what's the next person struggling with?
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  Speaker 2: Because a lot of time we don't ask hard questions.
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  Speaker 2: We only ask questions that we think we can manage.
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  Speaker 2: Just not even ask me a very important question, how
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  Speaker 2: have you been doing lately?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: That is a question that opens to deeper conversation because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time you only ask people, so you
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  Speaker 2: really not. We need ask people, we need ask the stomach.
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  Speaker 2: We don't ask what is in the heart. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: time for us. How do we cultivate this attitude? Let's
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  Speaker 2: look at their needs. Ask the person next to you,
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  Speaker 2: how have you been lately? If they answer you okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's not an answer. Okay, it's not an answer.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people say okay. Then you further ask them,
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  Speaker 2: so what do you mean by okay? Then they will
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  Speaker 2: start to talk I'm fine, I'm all right. What do
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  Speaker 2: you mean by you're fine? And you're alright? It's not
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  Speaker 2: being gay bored. It is going beyond that because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: our pride stoppers from going deeper. When we look at
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  Speaker 2: this story, we look at this Samaritan, you can't help
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  Speaker 2: it but to see what God mentioned in one John
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  Speaker 2: chapter four. If anyone say I love God and hates
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  Speaker 2: his brother, he is a liar. For he who does
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  Speaker 2: not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love
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  Speaker 2: God whom he has not seen. How can we say
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  Speaker 2: we love somebody when we don't even know what is
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  Speaker 2: happening in that person's life. Let's go back when we
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  Speaker 2: look at this story, we begin to see something very
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  Speaker 2: different here because what happened is this. There is this
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  Speaker 2: hero that was introduced by Jesus. This hero is that
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  Speaker 2: one that Jesus begin to tell the lawyer, who is
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus began to.
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  Speaker 2: Introduce a guy, no name was well, just called Samaritan.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got to understand that Samaritan is somebody that
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  Speaker 2: the Jews really don't like. I don't talk about political
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  Speaker 2: right now, who is fighting which country fighting which country?
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  Speaker 3: But you know very well in.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible, the Jews detest the Samaritans. It is like
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  Speaker 2: you have a branded a a good breed dog, and
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  Speaker 2: then you have those stray dogs.
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  Speaker 3: So the Samaritans are like.
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  Speaker 2: The stray one out there. The Jews are so called
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  Speaker 2: the highly breed one. So here Jesus began to introduce
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  Speaker 2: this hero, the Samaritan. I want you to know that
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  Speaker 2: the Samaritan did the right thing. Not only the Samaritan
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  Speaker 2: did the right thing, Samaritans showed compassion. And this Samaritan
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  Speaker 2: loved sacrificially because you saw there's a comparison here. The priests,
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  Speaker 2: the Levi didn't even lift their hands. But Jesus introduced
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  Speaker 2: a hero, and this hero is the Samaritan. This hero
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  Speaker 2: is what we see in verse thirty three. But a Samaritan,
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  Speaker 2: as the journey came to where he was, and when
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  Speaker 2: he saw the LGBT and when he saw those who
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  Speaker 2: are so different, he had compassion. You are here not
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  Speaker 2: by accident. Somebody brought you here because somebody had that compassion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here also, not by accident. The Lord had compassion
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  Speaker 2: on me, and allow me to speak to you.
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  Speaker 3: Here. You find that.
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  Speaker 2: This Samaritan he saw and then he went to this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He bound out his wounds in poor oil and wine.
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  Speaker 2: What is actually wine? Wine today is like that doll,
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  Speaker 2: you know, antiseptic. He pour wine because he saw that
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  Speaker 2: he was wounded, and then he pour oil. Ail is
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  Speaker 2: where you soothe. Came down that person so that you
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  Speaker 2: know you soothe that wound. And then after that you
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  Speaker 2: find that the story say what he sat him on
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  Speaker 2: his own animal. He plays the guy on his animal,
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  Speaker 2: and he started to walk. Can you see the sacrificial thing.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a journey with people. It takes money, it
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  Speaker 2: takes time, it takes you to be sacrificial, and that
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  Speaker 2: person might leave you. That person might not even say
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  Speaker 2: thank you to you. That's where I want to bring
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  Speaker 2: you attention to how you and I can empathize with
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  Speaker 2: people's pain. Please don't ever think about changing any people,
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  Speaker 2: any person. Are you with me here because you and
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  Speaker 2: I have no power and no right to change a
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  Speaker 2: person's life. But what you and I can do is this. Empathize,
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  Speaker 2: empathize and sympathize is different. Man, sympathize, Oh, you know, money,
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  Speaker 2: I keep giving you, keep giving you. I'm not helping you,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, but keep on giving you money. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not helping you because you will never grow. But empathize
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  Speaker 2: is this. I don't know what you're going through, young man,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm here. If you ever need to talk, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: If you ever need food, I'm here. If you really
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  Speaker 2: need support, empathize with the person's pain.
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  Speaker 3: Just seeing is not enough.
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  Speaker 2: One of the biggest challenge in the work that I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing is this. We don't have enough manpower, but people
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  Speaker 2: like to send people to us, and most of my
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  Speaker 2: man power are women.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where are the man.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I pray very hard Amen, so many years
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man a man only one food. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, they are only very small group. Three
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  Speaker 2: of us are full time, but I have a string
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  Speaker 2: of volunteers. How do you empathize this Samaritan? He didn't
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  Speaker 2: just see from far hello or whoah injuredna? He didn't
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  Speaker 2: see seeing the need is just not enough. How do
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  Speaker 2: you empathize? We learn from Samaritan? He go, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: He's not concerned matter, he's going to dirty his hands
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  Speaker 2: and not.
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  Speaker 3: All.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that this person is in pain. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we do. I listen to stories. My job very easy
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  Speaker 2: when I just sit down, drink coffee, listen to story,
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  Speaker 2: listen to their pain. Actually, it's all about listening. It's
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  Speaker 2: all about listening. It's all about.
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  Speaker 3: Doing live right. Young people.
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  Speaker 2: You want people who are real to do live with you,
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  Speaker 2: not the fig one. You want people who are mindful,
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  Speaker 2: and we want to be connected. I'm sure deep down
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  Speaker 2: each one of you here you want someone that you
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  Speaker 2: can talk to, someone who is not just going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you what to do, but someone who just listen
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  Speaker 2: there's one way that you empathize. But of course learning
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  Speaker 2: from this Samaritan. Can I say this, This Samaritan is
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  Speaker 2: exactly like Jesus. Jesus would do the same. I'm here
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  Speaker 2: today because of Jesus. I'm here because there's a group
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  Speaker 2: of them who behave like Jesus, and they brought me
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  Speaker 2: closer and closer to be more like Jesus. I'm still learning,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. I'm not perfect. I would never be perfect,
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  Speaker 2: but I strive to be healthier so that I can
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  Speaker 2: be like the Samaritan to many others, so that I
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  Speaker 2: can listen, I can empathize, and I learned from my struggles.
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  Speaker 3: My struggle is this I learned in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Who, however, people journey with me today I journey with others.
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  Speaker 2: I remember in my early days after when I was
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  Speaker 2: in my process of restoration, I left church. I was
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  Speaker 2: a pastor and I was living a double life. And
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  Speaker 2: because when my partner left me, I was so devastated
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  Speaker 2: to the point where I was about to kill myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I took out my car key and I walked
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  Speaker 2: to the door I was about to open. Somehow, another
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  Speaker 2: supernatural thing happened. I was not able to walk. Don't
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  Speaker 2: ask me what happened, except its God, Who's the one.
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  Speaker 2: I was not able to walk.
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  Speaker 3: For so long.
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  Speaker 2: You know you want to die, so cannot die, or
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  Speaker 2: say them say that very charming. You want to die
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  Speaker 2: so cannot die. It is the most painful thing in
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  Speaker 2: your life because it took it took me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I wish to want to die, mind you, and I
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  Speaker 2: was already a pastor then because my partner left me.
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  Speaker 2: She was my awe in awe and my life was
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  Speaker 2: just so empty. I don't even know who I was anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is this, as I was about to open,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't walk, and I battle with God. I battle
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  Speaker 2: until I say God, you win. Don't ever fight me God,
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you she'll lose it, I say, God,
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  Speaker 2: you win. And the moment when I say God, you win,
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  Speaker 2: I was able to walk. Somebody who has gone true
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  Speaker 2: even to the point where she was about to die.
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  Speaker 2: But God still saved me because he sees beyond my mess.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all can learn something from God and
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  Speaker 2: something from your own life. That's why to when I
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  Speaker 2: journey with people, I know some of them come to
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  Speaker 2: a point where they want to die and I just
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  Speaker 2: sit with them. I don't say anything. Sometimes the more
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  Speaker 2: you say, the more mistakes you make. But I ask
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  Speaker 2: them one important question. Look at me here, What do
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  Speaker 2: you want? What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a very powerful question. What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I want peace. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about you, but I want joy. I want
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  Speaker 2: real love. I want real relationship because I've been chasing
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  Speaker 2: after relationships that.
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  Speaker 3: Are not from God.
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  Speaker 2: So I learned from my struggle. Samaritans came and helped me.
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  Speaker 2: This couple came and walked with me.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I was a pastor ready and I go
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  Speaker 2: to them, I say, Pastor, I need help. And I
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  Speaker 2: left my job as a pastor at Tender in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours resignation and I work with somebody doing
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  Speaker 2: some teaching. Do you know that those first few years
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  Speaker 2: was very difficult for me. I don't even have food
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  Speaker 2: to eat because we just started the business. But I
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  Speaker 2: have Samaritans who carry packets of rice, Samaritans who carry
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  Speaker 2: cans of can food, trays of eggs. All these struggles
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  Speaker 2: has made me to be who I am today. That's
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  Speaker 2: why when I journey with people. There are some people
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  Speaker 2: without food because they mess up their live. They all
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  Speaker 2: banks money they took from AKP no no AKPK credit cards,
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  Speaker 2: rush rush Why because they mess up their live.
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  Speaker 3: I was like that.
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  Speaker 2: Before because I was trying to please my partner. Spend spend,
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  Speaker 2: spend money and Eddie Ann whow lots of loans to pay.
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  Speaker 3: These are people we work with. Are you willing to
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  Speaker 3: dirty your hands?
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  Speaker 2: They just need probably a bowl of rice, maybe a
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  Speaker 2: cup of copy all instead of an Americano, it's chiburma.
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  Speaker 3: They need something.
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  Speaker 2: So when you talk about learning from us struggles, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure all of us here we have struggled before. And
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  Speaker 2: I pray that today you and I will seize that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Many people out there looking for neighbors seince that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear me talk until my lungs come up.
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  Speaker 2: But as good Samaritans, he got involved.
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  Speaker 3: Take action. Don't just talk only talk doc talk, no
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  Speaker 3: use talk and don't do is no use. Take action.
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  Speaker 3: Start with somebody.
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  Speaker 2: The samaritan he went, He actually waned, he started to
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  Speaker 2: put bandage. He got him an inn. Not only did
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  Speaker 2: he pay money some more. We journey with people who
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  Speaker 2: has no money when they came and see earth, no
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  Speaker 2: place to stay, not convenient to stay in my house,
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  Speaker 2: especially if he's a guy. So what we do We
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  Speaker 2: get him a place to stay, get him a hotel,
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  Speaker 2: get him food. I remember there was a trance gender
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  Speaker 2: that came and I was journeying with him. So he
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  Speaker 2: was found in the street, and there was one church
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  Speaker 2: that picked him up and rented a place for him
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  Speaker 2: to slay. The church got in touch with us, they say, Pastor,
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  Speaker 2: this guy needs help because he's a trance transmit, somebody
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  Speaker 2: who dresses differently. So he came and I look at him.
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  Speaker 2: He has no food to eat. I say, why not
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  Speaker 2: We actually we call for him in our office. We
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  Speaker 2: call for him, We get him food first, then after
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  Speaker 2: that and we talk. Then we found that he has
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  Speaker 2: no job, and I purposely intentionally create job for him.
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  Speaker 2: I say, why do not you come to my office
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  Speaker 2: do some cleaning, just clean, and then we will. We
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  Speaker 2: will give you enough for you to have a few
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  Speaker 2: meals per day. You know what, Lo and beho. There
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  Speaker 2: was one day he left and I realized that both
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  Speaker 2: my phones are gone, my hand wounds are gone, and
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  Speaker 2: he never come back after that. So you must be
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  Speaker 2: willing to take the risk when you walk with somebody.
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  Speaker 2: This samaritan, he took that risk, but his compassion was
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  Speaker 2: not just lip service.
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  Speaker 3: He did it.
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  Speaker 2: There was action in him. He get down to that
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  Speaker 2: person's level. He was intentional. Let me give you these
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  Speaker 2: few important words. This samaritan was intentional and he took
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  Speaker 2: time and he used up his resources. Who is your neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Is your neighbor like that? Are you a good neighbor yourself?
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  Speaker 2: This lawyer, honestly speaking, he does not have this kind
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  Speaker 2: of love because this kind of love, it went beyond
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  Speaker 2: what he thinks a neighbor is.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he.
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  Speaker 2: Asks a question who is my neighbor? Because he knows,
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  Speaker 2: he knows the law, and he asks, who is my neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Are you willing to sacrifice yourself? Don't talk about the
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  Speaker 2: LGBT because we like to magnify the word LGBT. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't come to the cross, they all need Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: They all need Jesus, regardless whether they are LGBT or not,
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  Speaker 2: They all need Jesus. Are you willing? Are you willing
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  Speaker 2: to sacrifice yourself? I'm crying out for many who are
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  Speaker 2: in pain because they are looking for Samaritans. Are you
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  Speaker 2: their neighbors. I want to childish this church because you're
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  Speaker 2: very young. All the young people are here, young people.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go where you can go. Even if I
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  Speaker 2: try to dress up like you all, I'm still very different.
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  Speaker 2: But you can go where God wants you to go,
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  Speaker 2: and you reach out to the people that God wants
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  Speaker 2: you to reach out to. You probably can't reach out
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  Speaker 2: to people like my age, but you can reach out
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  Speaker 2: to your friends. And many of your friends are living
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  Speaker 2: a life that is very different, but they all need
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  Speaker 2: one same person. They need Jesus. Serving is very costly.
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this work for twenty years. Sometime I
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  Speaker 2: will ask myself, Trefina, what are you still doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not that younger, but neither am I that old
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  Speaker 2: and feel the tiredness.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing that keeps me.
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  Speaker 2: Going is this the way Jesus loves me. I just
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  Speaker 2: want to love others the way the different Samaritans have
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  Speaker 2: helped me. I just want to go and do what
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  Speaker 2: I can. Because serving is costly, and serving comes to
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  Speaker 2: a stage where you might not even get what you
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  Speaker 2: want to get. You still willing to serve. That's my
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  Speaker 2: question to you. I know today it's very different. I'm
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  Speaker 2: speaking this because this is the church that is growing
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  Speaker 2: to be more like Jesus. You talk about being more
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus. This is being more like Jesus the good Samaritan,
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  Speaker 2: not the levite, not the priest. I was once the
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  Speaker 2: levite and the priest. But it took Samaritans to save
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  Speaker 2: me and transform me to Jesus. And I pray that
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  Speaker 2: this church indeed will be a good Samaritan to many
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  Speaker 2: more So, I just want you to know that, can
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  Speaker 2: I pray for you.
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