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  OK, I want to thank you for joining me and allowing me to
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  make this presentation to you. Paper 195 has been one of my.
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  Favorite ever? Since I started reading.
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  The book because it's really the.
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  One part of the book. Where they they predictably talk
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  about what? We're going through right now.
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  It's very important. And I want to start off by this
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  quote which is from Paper 50. 4. And they define what?
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  Liberty really is. And they say.
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  That liberty is a. Self destroying technique of
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  cosmic existence when its motivation is unintelligent,
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  unconditioned and uncontrolled. True liberty is progressively
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  related to reality. And is.
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  Ever regardful of social equity. Cosmic fairness, universe,
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  fraternity and divine obligations.
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  And I believe in the context of what they're saying is humans
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  are operating on a very limited. Scope they.
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  Have no idea that the universe is filled with living populated
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  planets and it's guided by intelligent spiritual ministry.
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  So to us, liberty is about free speech.
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  It's about human rights and all these other things, but.
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  True liberty. Takes into account.
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  Your. Cosmic obligations and fairness
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  and the fact. That we are part of.
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  God's universe and we are supposed to be doing his will.
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  Humanity can no longer remain stable.
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  And progressive. And this is what I think the
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  revelators are warning us. About SO.
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  We know that secularism. Started about. 300 years ago and
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  science began its pursuit of unlocking the mysteries of the
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  universe. And what started out?
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  As. A protest against religious
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  tyranny has morphed into a form of cultural tyranny.
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  Spiritual. Realities are ignored.
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  Materialism is the. Ideology being celebrated by the
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  West because of this I believe that it has created.
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  A stabilizing an unstable influence because religion is no
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  is no longer acting like a. Break spiritual values.
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  No longer guide human behavior. Moral Relativism.
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  Rules the day. And the results of.
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  All of this. Embrace of materialism and
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  secularism. Is that we have a.
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  Rise in crime, drug dependency, commercialized human trafficking
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  on a global scale, and the rise of mental illness and war a
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  deeply. Material Ideology.
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  That is completely void of moral clarity, and that is.
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  What plagues society today? On a grand scale.
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  All are direct results. Of the new materialistic
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  philosophy. The UB talks about.
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  In Paper 195, let us remember that in Section 4.
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  Five and. Six on secularism, materialism
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  and totalitarianism. The.
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  Revelators warn us of the dangers.
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  Of these ideologies which are destructive.
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  To human progress. And they write a lasting social
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  system without a morality. Predicated on spiritual
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  realities. Can no more be maintained than
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  could the solar system without gravity.
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  That's from Paper 195, section 9.
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  They also. Write in that same paragraph
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  that. Without God.
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  This is only the beginning of the.
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  Dire Harvest. Of materialism and secularism
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  still more terrible destruction is yet to come now the.
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  Urantia book says that. Secularism, Science, the
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  Industrial. Age has brought us a lot.
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  Of beneficent gains, we've eliminated a lot.
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  Of diseases, our food. Production.
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  Our infrastructure. The way that.
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  We are more literate than we were, say, 2-3 hundred years
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  ago. All of that is.
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  Vastly improved, but religion and.
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  Spiritual Faith has. Sort of taken aback seat and as
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  a result of. This loss of religious faith or.
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  Confusion. It's prompted scientific
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  nihilism, the belief and accidental causation that there
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  is no universal plan. Moral Relativism.
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  That allows for the idea that good.
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  Is based on the immediate and temporal needs.
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  Without regard for. Cosmic relationships or
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  responsibilities, and today materialistic emphasis is on
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  things instead of knowledge and personality growth and spiritual
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  growth. In.
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  Fact, it writes from paper 111. Any civilization is in jeopardy
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  when 3. Quarters of its youth.
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  Enter upon materialistic professions and devote
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  themselves. To the.
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  Pursuit of sensory activities in the outer world when we.
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  Are obsessed. With things instead of.
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  Ideals. Science has also adopted an
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  antagonistic approach to. Religious faith.
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  And this has a destabilizing effect on the human condition
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  quote the violence swing from an age of miracles to an age of
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  machines has. Proved altogether upsetting.
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  To man, the pursuit of mere knowledge without the attendant
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  interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious
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  experience eventually leads to pessimism and human.
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  Despair and. Those are quotes from Paper 195,
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  section 6A. Little knowledge is indeed
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  disconcerting. I say I.
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  Recall as. The quote that comes after this.
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  Paragraph Today's. Scientists views natural law as
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  inherent and automatic. It was the same mistake that
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  Lucifer made as well and his proclamation, for example, The
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  Big Bang is without. A real purpose.
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  It's really up to us to decide. And it's us to speculate on the
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  truth of creation. But.
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  What is truth? That's a.
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  Good question and the Urantia book answers it from paper. 34.
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  Section 6. We're told contrary to secular
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  perspectives. Quote there truly.
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  Exists within you a conspiracy of?
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  Spiritual powers whose exclusive purpose is to.
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  Affect your final deliverance from material bondage and finite
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  handicaps. So it's saying that there is.
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  A. Thereafter.
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  There is something next that comes.
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  This is not all there. Is.
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  And the. Secular perspective is.
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  You only live once and that's it.
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  The Urantia book. Disputes that.
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  And says no, you continue living, but in order.
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  To get. Deliverance from material
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  bondage that. Requires spiritual.
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  And living faith. But what are the fruits of
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  religious faith? Well, number one, as we just
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  discussed, salvation, escape from material death and enduring
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  values, enduring personality, another aspect.
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  Of the fruits of religious. Faith increased wisdom and
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  insight through prayer and meditation and worship.
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  The growth of the personality, the.
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  Enhanced relationship. With God the Father.
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  An even more meaningful and close.
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  Relationship. With Christ, Michael and there's
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  also the components of anxiety and stress reduction.
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  We have more than enough scientific evidence that shows.
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  That religious faith. Is medicinal as well.
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  As practical. And then of course, there is the
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  connection to the Supreme. It's like.
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  We're all connected with. Each other.
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  But are we connected to the Supreme?
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  What? Are the.
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  Solutions that the urantia. Book revelators offer us.
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  In dealing with materialism and totalitarianism and secularism,
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  Well, from Paper 96. We read.
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  The time is ripe to witness the figurative resurrection of the
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  human Jesus from his burial tomb amidst the theological
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  traditions and the religious dogma of 19th centuries.
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  In other words, it's time to. Upgrade our religious software.
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  What a transcendent service. If through this.
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  Revelation, the Son of Man. Should be.
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  Recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be
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  presented as the. Living Jesus to the Church.
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  That bears his name and to all. Other religions, so here
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  they're. Specifying what's in this.
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  Book is. Going to help you from paper 196
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  Section 2. Paragraph 3.
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  The great mistake that has been made.
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  By those who have. Studied the master.
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  'S life. Is that some have conceived him
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  as entirely human. While others have.
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  Thought of him as only divine throughout the entire
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  experience. He was.
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  Truly both human and divine, even.
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  As he yet is. It's a wonderful quote.
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  It is indeed a pity. That his followers failed to
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  create a unified. Religion which might have given
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  proper recognition to both the human and the divine natures of
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  the Master, as they were inseparably bound up in His
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  earth life. And so gloriously set.
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  Forth in the original Gospel of the Kingdom, indeed.
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  The Social. Readjustments, The economic
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  transformations, the moral rejuvenations.
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  And the religious? Revisions of Christian
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  civilization. Would be a.
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  Drastic and revolutionary change if the living religion of Jesus
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  should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus.
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  That's a direct call. To Western civilization, it says
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  that everything could change. Quickly, if we would adopt the.
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  Living Religion. Of Jesus.
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  And what? He taught.
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  And the Arantia book gives. His whole life, the.
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  Life and teachings. Of Jesus.
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  So in our conclusionary summary, what is?
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  What is the meaning of all of this?
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  Well, the. Revelation alerts us to the
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  dangers of materialism in society, which we can.
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  Clearly. See.
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  They tell us a new. Perspective of Jesus's.
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  Teachings offers humanity the. Surest path to.
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  Restoring stability. It says the tenets of Jesus's
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  teachings are faith in God. Is a valid truth.
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  Materialism without religious. Faith is destructive to society.
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  And religious living as Jesus. Taught.
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  Provides incentive for putting the Golden Rule into action,
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  which benefits everyone. I think those are pretty
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  important statements and proclamations.
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  To follow. Jesus means to personally share
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  his. Religious faith.
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  And to enter into the. Spirit of the Master.
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  'S life of unselfish service for man.
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  One of the most important things a human being is to find out.
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  What Jesus believed to discover his ideals.
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  And to strive for the achievement.
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  Of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge.
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  That which is of greatest value. Is to know the.
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  Religious life of Jesus. And how?
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  He lived it. And that's from paper 190.
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  Six section. One paragraph.
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  Three, Jesus said. Regardless of.
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  Who I am and what power I may or may not wield, I have always
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  been and always will. Be subject to the will.
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  Of my. Paradise, Father.
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  I think. That's a pretty great.
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  Way to end this presentation. Could it really be?
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  So simple. So let's talk about.
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  It thank you for listening to my presentation.