2024 Missions Conference | Romans 12:1-2

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Well for everyone out there who
doesn't know, I just recently

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learned this.
I had my wife do some Recon work

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for me.
So it's a little early, but

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better early than late is my is
my motto.

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I just had a birthday, but I've
heard Michael Mott's having a

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birthday later this month when
this airs and maybe later in

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the.
Perhaps.

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Perhaps.
So I'm giving all the listeners

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out there a little heads up
birthday and I did.

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I had a great birthday end of
September last last day of

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summer, great time before fall
got ushered in.

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But I thought in preparation for
Michelle birthday, I would give

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him his birthday present early
on air.

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So tell me what?
You're thinking.

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I don't.
This is completely a surprise to

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me.
I, I, I I saw this bag over

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there and it never.
Cost my mind.

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My birthday was recent so I was
like, maybe he was thinking it

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was like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So this is totally a surprise to
me.

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So am I supposed to open this
now?

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No, no, just put it away.
No, I'm kidding.

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Obviously.
No.

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Open it for the for the people.
Feels.

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Heavy I just I just ordered
these.

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I'm I, I I don't know if you
have any good guesses.

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You probably can guess.
That should, I guess I don't

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know you.
Probably can guess if you're

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feeling it, yeah.
I don't know coasters.

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Oh, you're close.
You're close.

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I still a cylinder.
Oh, it's a coffee cup it is.

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Oh, nice.
Bad.

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Boy out.
Oh man, it's a coffee cup from

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Yeti and it has our logo there.
Thank you, Christopher.

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Take two theology podcasts and
on the back it says taking

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theology to the next level.
Boom, that's very nice.

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I got one for me.
Well, I ordered them not in like

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bulk, bulk, but I ordered three
of them, one for me, one for you

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and then maybe down the road a
little giveaway.

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I don't.
Know there might be a podcast

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where we're doing some giveaways
in the future maybe can we

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figure out how to do maybe some
local giveaways and maybe

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someone online I don't think we.
Should figure something like

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that out.
We need to talk, talk to, but I

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think there's something,
something, something good there.

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Nice.
I thank you they.

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Appreciate don't say never did
anything for.

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You, yeah, yeah, that's, I mean
111 time.

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It just came in, so I was, I was
excited.

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That is very good.
I appreciate that.

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Thank you.
I.

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Didn't know what to get the I
had options.

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You could get I think this is 14
oz.

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Or you could get a 10 oz.
No, that's good.

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And so I, I used mine this
morning and I think this was

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right, but 10 oz.
It would be like up to the up to

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the top.
So I don't know.

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But every now and then yet he
runs these deals where like

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personalization is free.
I was like, oh, I'm gonna jump

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on this.
And then it's like, you know,

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not, not, not too bad.
So be on the lookout.

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Maybe we'll throw in a, a
picture of here.

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I guess you can see it right
now.

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But yeah, giveaway in the
future.

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We've got some fun things lined
up.

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We'll put a picture of me inside
this and you can you can post

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that on your wall, so.
Oops.

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Anything else you want for your
birthday?

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This is your chance to get to
get people and get ahead.

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Of that, you know what I
something I have asked my

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mother-in-law for, for Christmas
is a signet ring that.

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So my clan of Mots hails from
Sussex, southern England.

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And there was someone who had a
coat of arms.

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So a lot of people make coat of
arms, which is fine, I'm not

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taking anything away.
But then there are people who

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are actually awarded coat of
arms.

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And there was a Mott in southern
England who had a coat of arms.

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And I, I don't know for sure
that we are directly linked to

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him, but you know, it's probably
the case because my family came

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over my, my Mott came over in
like 1615.

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Oh yeah.
So anyways, Long story short,

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and, and this guy was awarded
the coat of arms maybe 200 years

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earlier.
So same region, surely, you

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know, family connected.
So anyways, it's got it's a

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shield with three Crescent moons
and Crescent moons are known for

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like there's like there's a
reason, like all those things

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symbolize stuff.
And it's like for service,

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special service to the king.
And it's more of an intellectual

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thing.
I was like, I, I'm pretty cool

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this guy, you know what I'm
saying?

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Like this is.
So anyways, so I'd like to a

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sign, I've asked for a signet
ring that you can actually like

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make wax seals and stuff.
And then, you know, and if I get

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that, we'll send out something.
With the seal hot off the press.

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Yeah, yeah.
Maybe we should get one with our

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our logo as a seal and like.
You know, we can just start

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signing all the there's so much
fan mail we get.

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Just, you know, yeah, that's
what we do before and after.

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It's it's exhausting, really.
Well, great.

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As always, we try to segue this
to what we're going to talk

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about.
We're talking our missions

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conference, which was a
wonderful gift.

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Yes, it was a wonderful gift.
Yeah.

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And it was sealed with holiness.
I don't know.

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I, I love it.
So we will go ahead and take it

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to the next level from the
hearts of the low country in

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South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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All right, Missions conference
released to Wednesday.

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We had a time dedicated to
prayer.

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Were you at that?
I'm not trying to call you out.

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I honestly don't know because I
was.

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So there were some of us.
Wednesday nights also are

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rehearsal time, so some of us
were in the sanctuary

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rehearsing.
So there was a hot dog once.

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You weren't there.
You weren't there either.

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I wasn't.
You were there for that.

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I was there for.
The hot dogs.

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Man I I missed it.
Was it just tell you I had?

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So there were normal hot dogs,
but there were also some

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kielbasa sausages.
That's a gate.

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That's different.
It is.

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It was so good.
It was so good.

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So that's what I had was a
kielbasa sausage with a little

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bit of ketchup, a little bit of
chili, a little bit of.

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Cheese, you know, it's like
offensive to put ketchup on a

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hot dog to like real hot dog
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Yeah, yeah.
No, I, I was.

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It's just supposed to be
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Just if you're in Chicago or
something, it's like just

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mustard ketchups for I.
I just learned this recently.

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Someone was, you know.
I like the sweetness.

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Just like a little bit is is
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I was in Clemson, SC on a work
trip, so I was away, but I

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wasn't there.
It was tough there.

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Wasn't it?
I mean, it was.

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With we, we travelled back up
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The whole the whole trip was so,
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I heard something about like a

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cushy hotel and stuff like that.
It was a cushy hotel until we

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we.
Maybe we'll allude to it later.

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Until we lost power.
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You did with the the hurricane
and all of that, but.

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It was Wednesday night and then
Friday night because we had the

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Knoxes in.
So we were the We, the CBC, were

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the Ascending Church of the
Knoxes 36 years ago 19. 87 or

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maybe.
Yeah, I think that's crazy.

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That is really cool.
And they went to Japan and so we

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had a Japanese inspired meal.
It was.

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Pretty good.
I mean, it was really good.

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Yeah, Yeah.
What was your favorite thing?

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Man, this is a test 'cause I
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so let's see if you picked what
I brought.

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I am a person.
I, I will eat all like the

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chicken and rice in the world
like that, like I'm happy with

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that.
I, I think I got a little bit of

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everything.
What did you bring?

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We we brought that onion soup
like you get that?

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Like the miso soup.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah.
Well, it was labeled miso soup,

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but it's not, so it was.
Tasting and I was like, this is

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not miso soup.
So Mitch had asked Jill to make

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miso soup.
Jill thought miso soup.

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Is that, that oniony soup that
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really called like onion miyabi
onion soup or something like

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that.
And but when she looked up the

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ingredient miso is pretty
involved in making, and she was

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like, there's no way, like, I'm
going to have time between

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school on Friday and getting,
you know, piano lessons and

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stuff to get this made.
So we, with the permission of

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Mitch, switched it out to that
soup that you normally get at A

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at a like a.
I I did not have that soup.

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Actually, I shouldn't say I did
because my wife abandoned me in

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line.
So I was getting food for four

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kids and I did not want four.
I just the IT was too much of A

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risk.
Probably like you abandoned me

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to to Clemson, so now I'm going
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Was payback she she handles it
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So it's good to get a taste of
the the craziness in kids.

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Nothing.
But it was very, very good and

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it was great.
Not only do we have the Knoxes

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in, but I like the direction we
went to a little bit different,

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the Low Country Biblical
Counseling Center.

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That's good.
Who's been around since 2003, so

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21 years.
Should we Should we finish the

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events?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Go through the schedule.
That's fine.

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Yeah.
Sorry, we were we we expanded.

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I was getting tough.
Yeah, so, so we had Wednesday

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night prayer meeting, Friday
night we had that meal and then

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like you said, some Tim and.
Michael.

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I have his name down here,
Gallian Galliano.

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Galliano was in from Miami, so
they presented a little bit

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Saturday night prayer meeting
from six to seven.

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There was no child care and I
had Phoebe by myself, so we

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didn't make that, but we did
come in at 7 and really just

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kind of the Knoxes presented
their ministry kind of the

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pictures.
And then this morning we had a

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little bit more from LCLCBCC at
Sunday school and then John

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preached for us.
So those are the events.

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So no.
No, no, it was great.

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So we talked a little bit about
the Knox's.

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They are in Japan for 37 years,
kind of coming home, retiring,

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but as we learn, not not just
kicking up their feet at the

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beach.
No, yeah, I, I was surprised

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because he was talking about, I
mean, but not spring chickens.

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You know, they, he told us he
was born in 56.

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So like most people that were
born in and around that time,

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they are looking for, you know,
a little bit slower pace, like

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so like they're moving from
Japan.

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And he, he told us like, oh, and
these are the things that we're

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doing.
And it's not, it's not really

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all that slowing.
Sounds like it's doing a lot,

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which is great.
And then on the Low Country

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Biblical Counseling Center side
of things, Tim, one of our

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elders started that in 2003.
And really this, this, you know,

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local ministry here.
I think when Tim said when he

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brought it here, no biblical
counseling in the area.

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And, and really since COVID, I
think they've been doing a lot

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more online, that kind of thing.
He's kind of run into people

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like Michael and then a couple
other guys.

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Latin America has kind of taken
off when it translated a lot of

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his materials.
Same thing with China, it

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sounded like too.
So very exciting how this local

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ministry is flourishing as well
through biblical counseling.

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So it was really cool to have
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And he has kind of his flagship

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curriculum called Change That
Sticks and that he was

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presenting in that in Miami and
he noticed this Michael guy,

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Michael Galliano, really like
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He would write something down in
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are you doing?
He's like, oh, I'm translating

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what you're telling me so that I
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speaking people, which really
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Now they moved to a formal thing
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translating Change That Sticks
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Nice like that.
That was that was solid.

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permanent change or change that
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beginning of Sunday school.
I'm I'm missing because I'm

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finalizing songs in our proclaim
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Any changes that were made in
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So I missed the beginning, but
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same thing for this.
Some of his curriculum into

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Chinese as well, which I mean
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you've covered a lot of the, the
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Arabic and Hindi.
You get those.

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I mean, but.
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English now.
I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's

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pretty, pretty impressive.
That's a high percentage of the

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world.
It's, it's pretty amazing where,

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where some of this, what this is
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heard it a lot being at CBC.
It what Tim does really well is

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he takes normal topics that
everybody know, like very

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familiar things, but he makes it
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Like everyone knows God is
omnipotent, but he's like, OK,

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what's this look like?
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And that's something I think is
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And it's, it's, it's meaningful
and salient and just, it changes

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lives.
It's using the Bible to do that

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kind of thing.
Yeah, and just one a concrete

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example of what you're saying he
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working with.
I don't younger guy, 910.

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I don't know who, you know, you,
there's a lot that's being said

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about health.
And somehow, you know, guys can

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struggle with anorexia too.
And he had decided he needed to

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stop eating for his health,
which is actually not healthy

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and was, you know, getting down
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And and so, you know, one of the
things he's talking about was

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this passage towards the end of
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This is like, don't worry.
God feeds the sparrows.

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I'm like, listen, God feeds the
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They need to eat, right?
That's how they get their glory.

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Like you need to eat.
You need to trust in God's

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provision for you and just kind
of relating that to him and you

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know, God's using his word and
and Tim and ministering that

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word to to help this guy out.
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Yeah, it's it's pretty amazing.
I forget the numbers, but their

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ministry is is growing.
It's really great to be a part

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of that and seeing where God
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So that's a little bit about Low
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Center.
Do we want to pivot back to the

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Knox's retirements?
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Or where do we want to hit?
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Well, I would just say we can
kind of give an overview of the

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Knox's.
So I don't know, somehow they

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came here to CBC in the 1980s.
I don't know if one of them had

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family here or how they got
landed with us.

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That's a good question.
I know.

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I think, I think they went to
Bob Jones.

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I think there's probably a Bob
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then to where maybe that was the
connection.

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I would guess I don't.
Know and then one or both of

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their parents were missionaries
to Japan and they had gotten

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married didn't really
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to be missionaries kind of
related that, you know, they

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were just open to where God
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And then after a few years felt
burden for Japan.

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There was some land there that
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owned.
And so they're like, hey, this

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land is there.
We feel burdened.

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Looks like God's, you know,
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So they raised support.
They were commissioned by our

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church in 1987, and then they
stayed for 36 years, retired

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this January 2024, and, you
know, have been back in the

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States since then working.
They actually live up in

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Greenville.
And we're recording this three

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or four days after Helene has
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And as you know, Helene, you
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Appalachian Mountains, I think,
you know, made the clouds rise.

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You know, when clouds rise, they
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So it just exacerbated the
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communities in that area that

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are are dealing with stuff.
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But they were basically driving
through that to get into to us

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on Friday.
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Yeah, it cool.
Hurricane Helene.

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So, so much so it's.
Incredible.

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So much.
Damage there.

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I'm looking at, you know, their
retirement, which like you said,

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it's not really retirement.
They're going to continue some

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of these relationships with
those in Japan to disciple, you

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know, get on these Bible
studies, whether they're

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individual or maybe small groups
or something like that, with

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their expertise in the Japan
culture and Asian culture.

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They're going to connect with
Japanese people here in the

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States.
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I think that's a great
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I've had the opportunity
probably a little bit longer

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than you.
It seems like, well, they were

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here on furlough, but I think
probably before you were here.

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So I got to meet them then too.
But so much of the difficulty is

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the Japanese culture.
And so they're saying, you know,

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it's a great opportunity when
there's a company here and they

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bring in some, you know, native
Japanese people that they're in

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this culture like they behave a
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And it kind of opens the door a
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And then caring for other
members of the missionary

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community who are retired, kind
of keeping people connected,

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helping make sure their needs
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And so, yeah, so they're
retiring from active duty

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missions, but they're, they got
their hands full.

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They're still, they're still
working for the Lord.

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Yeah, that, that's, that's
great, Great.

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Great to see just continuing on
fighting the good fights.

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And so a lot of that he shared
this morning as he was getting

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into getting into his message,
he was talking about this

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pivotal year, 1956, which
coincidentally year that he was

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born, but also kind of kind of
this moment, not even just for

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America, but for the world at
large with Jim Elliott and Nate

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St. the other missionaries that
that were trying to reach the

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Alka Indians and and they were
they were murdered and it made

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headlines everywhere.
He shared this quote.

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You know, there's a lot of
quotes that you hear all the

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time.
He didn't go with like some of

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the go to's, which which I like.
I like that this quote consume

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my life for it's not mine.
I seek not a long life, but a

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full life for you.
And he kind of mentioned that,

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you know, he's growing up in
this context.

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He was born in this year that,
you know, impacted his life

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pretty tremendously as along
with so many others, you know,

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he mentioned that had this great
missionary movement.

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It's kind of waning now, but but
so many missionaries rose up

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specifically from America, I
think over the last, you know,

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hundred, 200 years.
And then he says, let's open

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Scripture to a, a, a book.
You may not have heard of it

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before.
It's the book of Romans.

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So he went to Romans 12/1 and
two and you know, we we are

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predominantly NASB at CBC.
He.

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Had my back.
But he read it out of ESB, but

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also quoted it from some from
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So I have all three of them
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Zach, I'll let you.
I'll let you choose which one

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you want to read it out of.
You know what you know we go ESB

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every time, even though the KJV
is the one that's burned into

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this passage, burned into my
head.

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I don't know the NASB quite
quite as well, but the ESB goes.

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I appeal to you there for
brothers, by the mercies of God,

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to present your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and

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acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual worship.

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Do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the

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renewal of your mind, that by
testing you made a certain what

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is the will of God, what is good
and acceptable and perfect all.

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Right.
So that's good because all of

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the quotes further on are going
to be from NASB, so.

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Great.
So we bounced off.

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I did mention at the top John
Knox Strong name, Strong name.

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Yeah, that is good.
All right, So the living Word of

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God and John mentioned, and I
think we've all experienced

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this.
You read the you read a passage,

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you've read 100 times before and
maybe someone's teaching out of

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a passage and you go, Oh, I've
never seen that before.

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So learning the word, living the
word, it's a lifetime pursuit.

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It is a living word because
we're always learning and seeing

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more stuff.
And no, it shouldn't be not

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trying to find novel things in
there, but just way the things

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that are connected and and the
way God is is talking to us.

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No, I, I, I think that that is
something that we all, we all

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can resonate with.
So kind of keeping that inner

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mind as he, he gets to the
introduction of, of these

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verses, it starts out, I appeal
to you, brothers.

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You know, he's speaking to the
whole church there, not just men

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specifically, but, you know,
general term for, for the entire

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body of Christ.
And he's got this, this desire

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for what he's about to say to be
accomplished.

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And I wonder if Pastor Joel's
going to go here when he

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introduces this next section.
But this is coming on the heels

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of this great declaration in
Romans 11 that really helps us

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get our bearing.
Yeah, and and the common phrase

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is, well, Paul uses there for a
lot in his in his letters.

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And so the whenever you see one,
especially when Paul is there

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for it's a it's a cliche by now,
but you should ask what is the

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therefore therefore, and as you
mentioned, coming on the heels

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of Romans 11 and really, you
know, you could say all of

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eight, 9:10 and 11:00, how God
is sovereignly moving through

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individuals and nations and how
he's grafted Gentiles into this

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tree.
And and and he ends Chapter 11

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with these verses 33 through 36
O the depth of the riches, both

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of the wisdom and knowledge of
God.

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How unsearchable are his
judgments and unfathomable his

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ways for who has known the mind
of God of the Lord or who can

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became his counselor or who has
first given to him that it might

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be paid back to him again for
from him and through him and to

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him are all things to him be the
glory forever.

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Amen.
And verses right above this talk

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about the mercy that God has
showered on us.

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So all of that together, with
that in mind, Paul's going to

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make an appeal to the church at
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And, and what John did was kind
of speak into really the

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missionary movement,
missionaries, you know, today

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that, that this movement,
there's been less and less,

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there was this boom and it's
really declined.

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And, and really you, you want to
encourage this kind of thing.

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You want to raise your young
people up.

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And the how you do that is by
having exposure to missionaries,

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have them in, let them speak,
you know, go back and forth,

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write them, encourage them, read
these great missionary

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biographies.
I think these are all things

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that we try to do really, really
well.

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We're even if we can't
physically have people and we'll

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try to zoom them.
We'll correspond.

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We have groups, if you want to
meet with Katie, you can meet

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with Katie or these different
people.

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And I think ever since I've been
going to Charleston Bible

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Church, it seems like we're like
on rotation, just going through

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missionary biographies with
children.

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It seems like that's like always
what's happening, you know?

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But I think there's a really
good way to put this in people's

451
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,160
minds where it's not this like
far off concept that

452
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,720
missionaries are over here, but
we're over here.

453
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,400
But we're we're being very
involved.

454
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,000
Yeah, I think we, it's at least
on our minds now.

455
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,920
Maybe we could stop back and go,
are we achieving what we hope to

456
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,400
accomplish?
But we, I, I think we're very

457
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,480
mission minded at CBC.
And, and so then getting back to

458
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,800
the passage he appeals.
Paul is appealing to us

459
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,320
therefore, that we would be
living sacrifices.

460
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,520
And if you've been through this
passage and spent some time in

461
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,040
there, surely someone has
pointed out, you know, this idea

462
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,000
of a sacrifice, which most of
the time we think of someone,

463
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,120
someone or something dying.
You know, compared to the Old

464
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:08,040
Testament sacrifices, there were
animals dying, but we're called

465
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:13,320
to be a living sacrifice.
And you know, Galatians 220

466
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,000
would talk about us being
crucified in Christ.

467
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,640
So that's a death.
So that's kind of that

468
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,080
sacrifice.
But it's not no longer us that

469
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,120
live, but we live.
But Christ lives in US in a life

470
00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,200
that which we now live in the
flesh.

471
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,240
I live by faith in the Son of
God who loved me and gave

472
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,000
himself up for me.
So there's this idea that, you

473
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,000
know, in one sense, you know,
and this is what Paul says in in

474
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,040
Romans 2, you know, we're dead,
we're died to sin, we're risen

475
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,040
in Christ.
And so that kind of gives this

476
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,360
idea of a living sacrifice, but
really kind of even going lesser

477
00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:48,800
to the greater here.
A bigger example of this is

478
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,520
Christ himself.
He sacrificed himself on the

479
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,520
cross and yes, he died there,
but now he's living.

480
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,640
We see that Hebrews 926
Otherwise he that would be

481
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,480
Christ would need to suffer
often since the foundation of

482
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,200
the world.
But now once at the consummation

483
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,480
of the ages, He has been
manifested to put away sin by

484
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,320
the sacrifice of Himself.
So Christ is an awesome example

485
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,680
of a living sacrifice for us.
Yeah, and we're, we're to

486
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,040
present our, our bodies.
Most people care about their

487
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,400
their bodies.
You have some extremes.

488
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,120
I think you have these like very
health conscious people that are

489
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,000
doing everything they can.
They're writing down what they

490
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,360
eat, you know, And then on the
other side, even if they're not

491
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:30,600
taking good care of their
bodies, they are usually living,

492
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,720
you know, with their pleasures
in mind.

493
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,600
And they just want to, you know,
those kind of things.

494
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,720
So I think no matter who you
talk to, people care about

495
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,120
themselves a lot.
I like this note you have about

496
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:44,160
PT Cairo PCPS.
You know, people there are

497
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,360
professionals people go to to
get your body back on track with

498
00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:51,320
it when it's a little bit out of
whack or you're running in into

499
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,120
problems that you know, that
that's our lives here on earth,

500
00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,640
that that's what we are
day-to-day, everything that that

501
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,800
we're doing.
He mentioned that, you know, at

502
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,280
least his immediate family or
immediate friends, a lot of

503
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,280
people impacted by this
hurricane, but very thankful, no

504
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,440
loss of life that that people
physically were were doing OK,

505
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,400
even if it wasn't ideal.
It's like that's something we

506
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,040
cling to, hold onto.
And it demonstrates this idea

507
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,240
of, you know what?
I like my car, I like my house.

508
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,440
But you know what I like even
more?

509
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,920
I like my body.
I like my life.

510
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,360
And so, you know, I hate to see
a, a tree fall into a bedroom,

511
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,760
but I'm glad, you know, thankful
that no one lost their life,

512
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,560
that contrast.
And so the question is, you

513
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,760
know, how do we practically work
this out?

514
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,920
How do we present our bodies?
I think that's a good question

515
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,120
to to to think about and one
that as we kind of go throughout

516
00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,360
this passage, it kind of helps
answer.

517
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,240
I think so.
So we're to present our bodies,

518
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,640
living sacrifice.
And the next phrase here is

519
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,200
acceptable to God.
And really the idea is here is

520
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,960
God's not looking for our second
best, our second fruits.

521
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,760
And he used an example of people
reading through magazines and

522
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,840
then shipping them over to
missionaries.

523
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,680
And he's like, that's fine.
But this idea of, you know, you

524
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,560
should be giving God your best,
not your, your second best, not

525
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,560
your used magazines.
And so just, you know, kind of

526
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,320
taking stock of your life.
Are you kind of putting God

527
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,480
first in what you're saying and
doing and how you're structuring

528
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,840
your life?
Where are you getting him

529
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,240
second?
Because he's not really going to

530
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,760
settle for a second.
Yeah, it's a good mentality.

531
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,720
Kind of change your paradigm.
I've read this article one time.

532
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,960
He he kind of mentioned this
idea too, with your time.

533
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,040
Everyone's so busy, they've got
soccer practice or whatever.

534
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,960
No time.
If I ever I don't tell this.

535
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,320
I don't have any soccer
practice.

536
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,600
I'm not.
I'm not coaching any soccer this

537
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:42,960
fall.
Oh man.

538
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,560
Keep going, keep going.
I did that.

539
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,880
I did that to myself where, you
know, if if I tell someone, hey,

540
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,960
I'm too busy, I can't do
something in my mind, what I try

541
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,600
to tell myself what I'm telling
them is you're not a priority.

542
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,720
And so much that to me that, I
mean, I don't have hard

543
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,800
feelings, but I'm basically,
this is not important to them.

544
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,240
And that's really a good way to
look at it.

545
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,720
Like what are your priorities?
Because you will make time, you

546
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,440
will elevate those things that
that really, really matter.

547
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,760
And I'm sure he's got just
great, great examples of, you

548
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,120
know, sure, people gave some of
these things out of the

549
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,800
abundance of what they, and
that's all they had.

550
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,000
And then some people are
probably like, yeah, we got this

551
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,160
that, you know what I mean?
It's it's all it's it's really

552
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,040
more of the mentality than the
actual physical thing that they

553
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,320
get.
But I'm sure he's experienced

554
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,800
that in spades.
I remember reading this and

555
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,600
those long same same idea but
Joe gave this illustration about

556
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,600
this woman who called into the
the Butterball Turkey hotline.

557
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,040
Do you remember this
illustration?

558
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,480
And she was like, hey, and
there's this hotline's there to

559
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,920
help you if you to solve
problems with the Turkey, you

560
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,320
know, like if you're something
goes wrong, whatever.

561
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,800
She's like, we have this Turkey
that's been in our freezer for

562
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,840
three years.
Is it going to be OK?

563
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,680
And the person was like, well,
you know, as long as you haven't

564
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,240
had any power outages and stuff,
it'll be OK.

565
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,120
Like maybe some of the flavor
or, you know, it might taste a

566
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,240
little bit off.
And she's like, yeah, that's

567
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,680
what we're thinking.
We're probably just going to

568
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,120
give it to the church.
That's, that's so true though,

569
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,400
you know, with some of these
things, it's like man, people

570
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:14,320
aren't usually like giving,
giving their number one I items.

571
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,360
So these kind of things so
acceptable to God.

572
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:22,240
What, what should be acceptable
point #2 don't be conformed to

573
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,040
this world.
And he had some great, this top

574
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,360
notch analogies here.
He was like, he's in California

575
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,680
out of, you know, a church that
supported them speaking.

576
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,160
And he's like, warnings are
everywhere.

577
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,320
He's like, you go in the parking
garage and they're like may

578
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,360
cause cancer from the fumes.
And he was kind of like, why

579
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:39,120
even have a parking garage if
it's that dangerous?

580
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,280
And, you know, I think even, you
know, in the last 10 years, I

581
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,520
feel like these warning labels
pop up more and more.

582
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,760
Probably some for really good
reason, and probably some are.

583
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,760
They're probably in the spirit
of of good for the most part.

584
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,160
But you'd be like, OK, is this
the worst thing in the world?

585
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,640
Talk about plastic bags and.
It's great.

586
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,720
And I think like this is going
way back, like McDonald's and

587
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,200
stuff, they have to put their
copies hot because they don't.

588
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,960
They get sued for millions of
dollars.

589
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,000
You know someone spills that.
Yeah, well, you know, I have.

590
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,280
This is a short side because
I've, I've read something and

591
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,960
someone's like this was the best
PR stunt that McDonald's ever

592
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,400
did because the the coffee in
there was like upwards of like

593
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,280
160° way hotter.
Than watching this, yeah, yeah,

594
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,760
yeah.
Yeah, so they try to spin it off

595
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,680
like they gave like all these
news releases to people like

596
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,880
yeah, of course coffee is hot,
but most of the time we expect

597
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,920
our coffee to be like in the
105110.

598
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,760
It's like this lady like had
lasting like crazy degree, third

599
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,080
degree burns.
She was like, it should not be

600
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,200
so hot that it does this.
That's what that's what they got

601
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,880
sued for.
So yeah, McDonald's don't don't

602
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,680
don't be doing that to to your
people.

603
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,280
All right, so back, Andre.
So all of these warnings and

604
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,160
we're not to be conformed to
this world.

605
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:04,160
We're to be transformed and
these warnings we should take

606
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,520
seriously God's warnings for us,
right.

607
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,080
And so, you know, he also asked,
you know, what is this world?

608
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:16,080
Because if we're going to be,
you know, transformed and away

609
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,800
from that, we and not conformed
to it, We kind of got to know

610
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,720
what that is.
And I I like how he says he's

611
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,120
not asking us to leave the
world.

612
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,640
That's not possible.
But we don't need to be

613
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,720
conformed.
We don't need to be imprinted.

614
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,640
You know, we're talking about
that wax seal.

615
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,040
We don't want to be imprinted,
you know, with that conformed to

616
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,840
it and but we want to be
transformed by it.

617
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,440
So I don't know if there's
anything else you want to say

618
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,640
on.
This world, I think that's

619
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,320
great.
He kind of pointed out this

620
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,920
Ephesians 5 verse that we need
to keep our desires in check.

621
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,920
Try this this verse in Ephesians
5 says trying to learn what is

622
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,880
pleasing to the Lord and and
he's talking about people of all

623
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,120
these different conclusions, but
about what is the right call.

624
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,080
But that would be narrowed a
little bit if we tried to desire

625
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,200
what what the Lord desired and
and kind of grew grew in that.

626
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,400
It's good.
I think a good thing to keep to

627
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,200
keep in mind.
And that leads to what you're

628
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,200
saying be trade formed what
we've talked about on the

629
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:15,840
podcast many times.
Yeah.

630
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,800
And he mentioned that the Greek
underlying is Metamorphosis and

631
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,520
it's really talking about a new
form.

632
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,440
So it's A and and for Greeks
form was huge.

633
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,120
Like it it's kind of lost how
big of a deal it was kind of

634
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,160
like that a type of word.
But you know, there would be a

635
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,200
form of a tree, a form of a man.
And so the form of something

636
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,960
really determined what it was
like what type of thing it was.

637
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,720
And so for Paul to say that
we're to be transformed, we're

638
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,240
really moving from this form of
the sinful man into a new thing.

639
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,760
It's to the form of a believer
who's in Christ.

640
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,720
And and so we really should see
that change that that we've

641
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,200
talked about in the past.
And you know how?

642
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,600
How does this transformation
happen?

643
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,440
Well, and in part by the
renewing of your mind.

644
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,240
When when you're filling your
mind with with the word that

645
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,880
that should lead you to repent,
to rethink things.

646
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,280
The the mind's an important
important they're gonna be

647
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,840
filling your mind with the right
things.

648
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,560
It goes right along with not
letting the world influence you

649
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,000
influence you, but being someone
who who's in the world.

650
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,120
We we talked about this in a
recent podcast, but it's, you

651
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,560
know, these means of grace, like
these things are good.

652
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,480
And just by doing these things,
you're just filling your mind

653
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,200
that's going to change how you
think and change how you act.

654
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,680
That's going to renew your mind.
That's good.

655
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,960
And when that happens, we're
able to know what the will of

656
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,040
God is.
And, and I've got here because

657
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,960
we've talked about this, this is
the moral will of God, right?

658
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,680
It's not like if you live in
Christ, you're going to know.

659
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,600
It's not guys going to tell you,
OK, now you marry Angela and you

660
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,520
go live in Nashville and you
take a job as you know,

661
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,280
whatever.
It's not that type of thing.

662
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:57,480
But it's that we can prove what
is good, acceptable and perfect

663
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,800
according to gods.
And so that, like I said before,

664
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,360
God's much more interested in
how we live out our moral

665
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,000
day-to-day lives then whether
you're a lawyer or a doctor or

666
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,760
even something as weird as a
physical therapist.

667
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,720
You know what I'm saying?
I know out of all the things

668
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,760
that's great he got us to look
at John chapter 4 where Jesus

669
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,800
said said to them woman at the
well talking to his disciples.

670
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,440
My food is the will of him, my
father who sent me and to

671
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,680
accomplish his work.
Do you not say there yet four

672
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,000
months and then comes the
harvest.

673
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,960
Behold, I say to you, lift up
your eyes and look on the fields

674
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,000
that they are white for harvest.
I think you made a passing

675
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,320
comment like I could preach a
sermon on this, but I'm not

676
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,760
going to don't, don't worry.
Yeah, and then another verse he

677
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,200
referenced in talking about the
will of God.

678
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,920
The world is passing away and
also it's lust, but the one who

679
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,320
does the will of God lives
forever.

680
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,440
So this idea of, you know,
really working out what God has

681
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,960
for us.
We don't have to get into.

682
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:01,920
He got a new car.
He was kind of talking on it.

683
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,600
And I, I tell you, if I was a
pastor or missionary, I think it

684
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,920
would be challenging, even if
you're spending your money

685
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,880
wisely, just because people are
like thinking things and asking

686
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,280
things that it's.
Like always in the spotlight.

687
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,960
You're always.
Oh yeah, you've got enough money

688
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,080
to buy a new car.
Must be nice.

689
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,920
Maybe we're spending too much
money there.

690
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,560
And he was saying like, he he
drove these, you know, beat up

691
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,719
cars for 20 years, saving money.
He was like breaking down

692
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,800
places.
So anyway, neither here nor

693
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,360
there talking about missions.
John Piper got a lot of shout

694
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,960
out at at the missions
conference, which I loved every

695
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,120
second of it.
But he says this, it's really

696
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,880
good that when it comes to the
Great Commission, you only have

697
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,440
three options.
You can go do what the Knoxes

698
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,280
did, go to Japan, you can send,
we can send the Knoxes, send

699
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,280
missionaries or choose
disobedience.

700
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,199
Those are your options.
There's nothing, nothing really

701
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,400
in between those options that's.
Good.

702
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,560
I think this is a reasonable
take.

703
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,920
And we've had people in the past
that I thought was a little bit

704
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,000
more on the unreasonable side
because I don't know that every

705
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:15,960
single person is called to go.
Even if you are, you know, able

706
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,760
to, you're healthy and you're
young.

707
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,800
That does like if we all got up
and left America, well, who's

708
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,160
going to evangelize America?
Because, you know, America has

709
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280
lost people too.
But so I think this is a good

710
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,040
reasonable take.
Like we're either sending or

711
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,960
we're going and we need to be,
you know, some have talked about

712
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,440
holding the line for the
missionaries.

713
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,400
Like what does that look like?
How how does that look?

714
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,160
And I think probably we can look
back at our lives and we can all

715
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,800
do say, OK, we could do better.
Like, I could have written more

716
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,680
notes to stay in touch with
missionaries.

717
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,840
So, you know, this is an
encouragement to you, a

718
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,160
challenge to you.
If you're listening, if your

719
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,640
church, wherever it has
missionaries, sit down and write

720
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,560
them a note.
Becky had mentioned last night,

721
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,080
Becky is John's wife.
Just a note saying this is

722
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,640
what's going on in our lives.
This is what's happened.

723
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,000
Because that helps those
connections help them feel like

724
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,760
they're not so far away.
It doesn't have to be, you know,

725
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,040
some 15 page treatise on some
theological topic.

726
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,400
It can just be, hey, this is
what's happening.

727
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,120
We're thinking about you, We're
praying about you.

728
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,480
Tell us what's happening in your
life.

729
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,040
And and if it's a priority, like
you said, we can make time for

730
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,640
that.
And so that that brings us to

731
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,560
the end of the sermon
application.

732
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,480
Number one, are you believer?
I, I appreciate he was sharing

733
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,080
the gospel and in his sermon.
That's a really good place to

734
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,400
start because all of this
doesn't really apply until

735
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:44,840
you've made made that decision.
Repent of your sins, trust,

736
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,120
trust in Christ.
And then a follow up, what's

737
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,720
going to happen if you are a
believer?

738
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,920
The question is, how's your
transformation going?

739
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,960
You know, are you, are you
walking in the spirit?

740
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,280
Are you growing in Christ?
You got to work at that.

741
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,200
God's going to work in you to
work, but you're going to work

742
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,640
too.
It's it's, it's built a little

743
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,080
bit of effort on everyone's part
there.

744
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,200
And then this question, are you
going sending or are you being

745
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,560
disobedient?
Where, where are you at on that?

746
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:14,040
And if God's calling you to go,
then then go, obviously you're

747
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,440
going to want to get some wise
counsel, help do that the right

748
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,040
way.
There's some resources out there

749
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,880
for you, but you know, dream
big.

750
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,720
And then no matter where you
are, whether you're going or

751
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:29,720
you're sending this idea of
being prepared, prepare now to

752
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,320
to meet God.
If you're an unbeliever, like if

753
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,960
you're not a believer, you need
to get prepared.

754
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,720
If you are a believer, how do we
prepare to serve God?

755
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:41,000
And he had this a pretty
striking illustration.

756
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:43,840
That was good.
I guess this summer there were

757
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,120
some big earthquakes.
Was it this summer or last?

758
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,760
Time I I don't know the date.
I was almost thinking it was

759
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,320
like a while ago, but I don't
know.

760
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,600
So they experienced regular
earthquakes and he was

761
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,400
referencing this one where it
shook for 5 minutes.

762
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,080
That's a that is like most
earthquakes are like around 30

763
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,880
seconds.
And that's long enough.

764
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,560
Like you think, you know, set a
timer, 30 seconds of shaking,

765
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,240
That's a lot of shaking, 5
minutes of the ground moving

766
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,320
beneath your feet.
There's got to be terrifying.

767
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,080
But he's like, you know, most of
Japan, they're good.

768
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,880
They, they build with
earthquakes in mind because it's

769
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,880
just a, it's a fact of life.
And then of course, another

770
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,040
worry with earthquakes is
tsunamis.

771
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,000
And he's talking about this
village that right, like right

772
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,640
during this earthquake
happening, they were getting

773
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,160
instruction from someone like
this is what you do if there's

774
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,000
an earthquake.
And they were saying, you know,

775
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,000
if an earthquake happens, don't
try to, I understand if it's a,

776
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,120
a big or small, like if there is
an earthquake happening because

777
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:52,120
you, where you are, you are in a
zone for a tsunami, you grab

778
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,880
someone's hand and then you run
for the hills.

779
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,840
And you can't wait and see if
your friends, your mom, your

780
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,800
dad, everyone runs and he's like
teaching this curriculum.

781
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,640
And this 5 minute earthquake
starts and what do they do?

782
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,080
They all start running.
And no one in that village was

783
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,040
lost to the tsunami because
they're prepared.

784
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,040
This is a long restoration.
So I'll let you, I'll let you

785
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,800
talk.
Well, I'm glad I got the the not

786
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,640
so great.
So you got the good side, a

787
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,600
village 100 miles away, which he
said.

788
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,280
When you're along coastal Japan,
like these tsunamis go for 1000

789
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:24,760
miles.
Sometimes if if it's a major

790
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
tsunami, it's kind of the other
side of that that this village

791
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
was not prepared.
They kind of hemmed and hide

792
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,800
like should we go?
Is it that was it that bad kind

793
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,200
of was bad?
Maybe we should go And

794
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,800
eventually they're like, OK,
maybe we should start going.

795
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,200
I don't know if he said 1/2
hour.

796
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,360
It wasn't really that long, but
it was too late.

797
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,160
And some people as they saw it
come and made it safe.

798
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:48,320
But since 75 children killed
because they did not look at the

799
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,880
warnings, they did not get out
of there and and head to the

800
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,560
hills right away.
I think that is a really good

801
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,240
illustration.
Just the gravity of that

802
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:00,480
situation.
Prepare now.

803
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,760
Yeah, prepare.
All right, Great Missions

804
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,320
conference.
We'll do it again next year.

805
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,040
We'll have some other
missionaries in from someplace

806
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,360
or, or something.
So if your church doesn't have a

807
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,560
missions conference, maybe you
should talk to them about that

808
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,880
and maybe you can see how you
can get missions featured on a

809
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,040
more regular basis where you
attend.

810
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,880
Like it one more John Piper
quote.

811
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:28,320
He says, you know, missions
exist because worship doesn't

812
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,400
that that's the point to, you
know, get get the world to

813
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,960
worship you.
Think he was talking about that

814
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,840
song that we sang, the clothes,
the missions.

815
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,000
Flame.
Every time I see that, I think

816
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,400
of John Piper and his book Let
the Nations Be Glad.

817
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,880
It's so good, based on that
Psalm.

818
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:44,880
And it's like, just really,
yeah, that song is a really,

819
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,360
really good song for permissions
conference.

820
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,280
That's our take.
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821
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,480
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822
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,000
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823
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