A Minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles | Romans 15:14-21

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Zach, Michael, Zach Spring is in
the air.

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It is in the air.
Should I tell my garden story?

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First, Oh please do.
So when I was a junior.

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OK, in high school.
In high school, OK.

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Going way back.
Jill and I were at the White

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County Fair.
OK.

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We were dressed.
I probably have a picture of

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this.
If I could.

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If I could find a picture, I'll
I'll put it up here.

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We're dressed in our show choir
outfits.

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Show choir I like.
It 'cause we sing there and we

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were.
I have not.

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Jill does not sing in like the
Easter choir stuff, but she was

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in show choir.
She was in madrigals.

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She can sing Alto.
Jill, I can't wait to see you at

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Easter Choir.
You're in now anyway.

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Carrie.
But yeah, she she can sing.

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Yeah, yeah.
But no, tell her, you know, if

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you don't use your talents,
God's going to take them away.

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That's right, don't hide it
under a Bush.

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Oh.
No.

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So we were there and we were
walking through, you know how

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like fairs they have like things
they show off and stuff, huge

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pumpkins.
I was literally amazed by these

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pumpkins that we saw and there
may be even a video of me acting

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funny about it.
I don't know.

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Oh.
Man, I hope you can find that.

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I'd probably not.
Anyways, I that would have been

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fall of my junior year.
So spring of my junior year I

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was like, I am going to grow a
pumpkin, a giant pumpkin 'cause

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this is a specific type of seed
and stuff.

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So I probably had this 4x4 patch
of dirt in our backyard that I

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raked up, put mulch on It turns
out the mulch had a lot of weed

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seeds in it because of like I
got this mulch from and it was

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like all but I I got that down
fertilize.

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It did everything you said.
And I mean that vine was the

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best looking vine.
Huge, huge leaves.

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It probably took AI don't know,
10 by 10 foot section of of our

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yard of leaves and stuff.
Yeah, no pumpkin, no just.

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The all the.
Tree trees for the vine.

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You know.
I didn't even see flowers.

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Yeah, it was even blooming and
stuff.

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No, I didn't.
Oh, you.

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Oh, you didn't even.
See, because I kept on waiting

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for it to flower and then try to
pollinate it and stuff.

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I just saw big vines.
I was like, I don't know.

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So.
That's tough.

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I had in college, I had a friend
who like, grew pumpkins for the

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Michigan State Fair and like,
didn't win, but like place, like

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third.
And he was showing me pictures

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and like, I didn't see you ever
want in person.

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But yeah, they're like giant.
They are giant.

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They are giant.
It is.

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It's methylene pumpkin clay.
That's for you.

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Yeah.
And the, the, the odd things is

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that the northern latitudes are
better to grow those pumpkins in

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because they're turned more
towards the sun and they get

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more daylight than the southern
latitudes do during the summer.

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You know, 'cause like if you're
in that Arctic Circle, you get

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24 hours of, of sunlight.
So like up in Alaska, Michigan

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and those, you know, temperate
places you can grow pretty big

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pumpkins cause those you know,
those leaves are just

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photosynthesizing like.
Crazy.

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It's just, I went, it was a few
years ago, Wayne and I went to

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Iceland and like every place,
every Airbnb you stay has like

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those nightshades that like
block out the light 'cause you

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kind of have to depending on the
time of year, where it's like

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it's 11:00 at night and it's
like bright.

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That's I know you're wanting to
tell your, but that's how it was

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when we went to that Alaska and.
Oh yeah, it, it was on the where

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it's just like how it's just
hard to make sense.

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So it's.
So crazy.

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It is.
Very disorienting.

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It is crazy my gardening story
is not that great of a story.

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I just planted it's spring
planted garden.

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Got the cold plunge out, got the
garden going.

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You should check it out.
The green beans I've already

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sprouted.
I did this like 2 weeks ago and

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this that's up.
Cucumber plant sprouted, planted

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some bell Peppers, no sprouts so
it's not taken.

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So we'll see.
I got to do some work over on

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that side, but maybe, maybe one
future podcast will enjoy the

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bounty of it that.
'D be good, do you?

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Is it in the ground or is it in
pots?

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Or no, it's like in raised
planters, maybe the maybe like

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total size is like size of this
kid, this island.

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So it's very small.
So it's like when when I've

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grown stuff in the past, it's
like, hey, kids, I got 16 green

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beans tonight.
Look at each have 4.

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Like, you know, it's like, it's,
it's not like real sustenance.

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It's just kind of like for fun,
you know where you get, you

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know, get a get a few cucumbers,
that kind of thing and it's kind

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of fun, at least for the first
like it things are always smooth

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sail until like mid June when I
go on vacation come back,

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everything's like burn up and
it's you know, then it looks

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terrible.
Should.

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Pay like one of the hot guys to
come over and give.

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It up for you.
I should, I should I just never

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think about I just need to be.
I'll be more vigilant this time

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'cause I don't pay attention,
but it's like so high.

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It's like you're not on.
Top We talked about doing a

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garden this summer too, but
again, we're going to be gone

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for a couple weeks.
Yeah, that makes it.

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That makes it tough.
Yeah, man.

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So garden, I did the cold plunge
a couple times already this

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year.
I didn't.

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Do it in the winter.
I did not do it in the winter.

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Maybe I I know.
So I know, I know.

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It's like I couldn't bring
myself to it.

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So, you know, getting back into
the swing of things, it's really

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hard to segue into this title, a
minister of Christ Jesus to the

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Gentiles, very specific title.
So I don't know if you got any

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any best guesses.
Here, no, it's.

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I mean gardening food for
gentiles and ministering to them

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maybe.
I don't.

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I don't.
Know boom, that's probably the

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best we're going to get,
honestly.

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Valiant effort.
It's a little bit easier to

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segue in how to get along with
people than minister to the

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Gentiles.
A little bit tougher.

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But hang in there as we go ahead
and take it to the next level

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from the hearts of the low
country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
Missionaries.

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Missionaries.
Good, good thing to, you know,

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read missionary biographies.
We hit this sermon, Romans 15

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verses 14 through 21, hitting
the mission missions hard,

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talking about missionaries left
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Got some of the heavy hitters.
Got some good quotes here.

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CT Stud is quoted as saying some
want to live within the sound of

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a church or Chapel.
Bill.

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I want to run a rescue shop
within a yard of hell.

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Just showing that mindset.
That's good.

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Hudson Taylor.
If I had 1000 lives, I'd give

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them all for China.
Also Barry.

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Barry, man, I feel like.
Did he say China or no?

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You don't think he said that?
That's actually where Trump huge

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Hudson Taylor just really trying
to imitate everything.

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That's that's great.
Jim Elliott a little more modern

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missionary.
Our young men are going to the

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professional fields because they
don't quote feel called to the

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mission field.
We don't need a call.

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We need a kick in the pants and
the Nate Saints said and people

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who do not know the Lord ask why
in the world we waste our lives

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as missionaries.
They forget that they too are

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expending their lives.
When the bubble is burst, they

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will have nothing of eternal
significance to show for the

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years they have wasted.
And all these quotes?

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They're pretty strong
statements, but you can tell

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they put their money where their
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Sometimes their lives.
And, and their lives more than

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their money, right?
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Where it's like a lot of people

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maybe talk that way.
A lot of people also don't talk

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that way, but much less live
that way.

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And, you know, these people
really, really put it to the

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test and lived, lived it out.
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And so if you recall our last
time in Romans, we were talking

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about how can we all get along,
Part 3, we're talking about Jews

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and Gentiles getting along.
So that's kind of the context

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that this next verse hits.
And Paul says, and concerning

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you, my brethren, which is hard
to know.

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Is he talking about the church?
Is he talking about Jews?

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I myself also am convinced that
you yourselves are full of

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goodness, filled with all
knowledge, and able also to

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admonish one another.
I love a good admonishing.

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I don't know about you, I just
love to admonish.

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Do you love to admonish or be
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It's pastor made a good point
that, you know, admonish is not

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a it's not not everyday
verbiage.

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No, no.
We're not.

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We're not out there just saying,
hey, who'd you admonish today?

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So it's good.
I wonder what's the what's the

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ESP say here?
Oh, and the ESP says filled with

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all knowledge and able to
instruct one another.

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Instruct.
It's kind of surprising.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get it.

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I get it.
Yeah.

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So admonish, able to admonish.
Some might translate that

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competent to counsel, able to
admonish, competent to counsel.

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My guy, Jay did it that way.
Jay Adams.

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Yeah.
Have you read a lot of Jay

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Adams?
I've read some of Jay Adams, not

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a lot.
A couple articles that every now

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and then, but I have not deeped
over, but very closely

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connected.
Like I don't know if he was the

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spearhead guy of the biblical
counseling.

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He was OK that, you know, we've
got some biblical counseling at

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our at our church, man.
It's one of those things, this

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is it'd be great to get Tim on
the podcast and talk about it.

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But you know, some people either
like love the idea of biblical

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counseling or hate it.
I'm talking about Christians,

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like a lot of Christians are
like, some people just use the

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this mumbo, this Bible stuff and
it's like they don't really talk

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about this, you know what I
mean?

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And I, I kind of see what
they're coming from and the fact

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that if you like broke your leg,
you need more than Bible verses.

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If your mind's broken, I think
they get maybe the wrong idea

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where it's like, but it's like
it's, I feel like it's easily

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dismissed.
You know what I mean?

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Like you're just going to read
some Bible verses and be fine.

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Yeah, and I think there have
been there.

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I especially when Jay Adams
first came on, there may have

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been this idea that you never
take medicine.

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Like if you have a mental
problem, it's always mind.

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It can never be a physical
problem.

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And I've talked to Tim about it
and yeah, we should have them on

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sometime.
I would like.

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To talk about them because
there's like a fine line there

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and it's like, you know,
everyone lands a little bit

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different where, you know,
people maybe air too far one way

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or the other.
But a lot of like a lot of

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Christians are like biblical
counseling is not, not enough or

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you know what I mean?
Like even just having casual

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conversations, you know?
And the crazy thing is if you go

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to it, not that we need to have
the Tim podcast now.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The crazy thing is if you go to

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a secular council counselor,
often times they're not even

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going to talk about root things
to solve.

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It like anyway right they're.
Going to talk about like, you

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know, they're really going to
help you talk through it and and

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stuff, but they're not going to
say all right, and here's

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necessarily what you need to
change.

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Like what do you?
Feel like there's to change.

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They're like, Michael, why do
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Right.
And so you, you know, with

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biblical counseling, you're
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either you're mad, you're frad
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immoral.
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you can get to those root issues
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itself and then you may have 123
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with people with have depression
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making enough of something.
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easily, like, you know, Yeah,
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the people.
It's like, oh man, you just.

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I would rather have a counselor
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know, nodes there, you know what
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I've heard a lot of that kind of
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So anyway, Jay Adams has this
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and I I I don't I don't want to
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jumped over Romans 1513.
Not us, but we we skipped this

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in our which is our verse in our
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Oh yeah, yeah.
May the God of hope fill you

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with all joy and peace and
believing so that by the power

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of the.
Host, you may get that wrong the

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last.
Podcast I I just looking at it

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now I.
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Exactly like it and we just
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end or something.
You don't like to.

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Bring it.
But anyway, Jay Adams, like you

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said, translated it admonished
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So it was like a little a little
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about it.
Just with some of these words.

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We don't we don't use the lat.
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And then verses 15 through 16
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saw some of that with the
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at the beginning, Paul says.
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to you on some point so as to
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grace that was given me from God
to be a minister of Christ Jesus

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to the Gentiles, ministering as
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that my offering of the Gentiles
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sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Nice Paul does write this all

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very boldly and he's reminding
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the grace he mentions words like
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God.
My offering of the Gentiles may

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become acceptable.
What I like what Pastor Joel

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does sometimes that I like.
I like when we do like the

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application in the middle.
You know what I'm saying?

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It's great.
I like that.

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It's like you talk about
something application, talk

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about it application.
So by way of application, do we

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see our gifts and the
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Lord as a blessing like Paul
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It's it's a that's a great way
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We get opportunities, we have
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Are you using them?
Are our lives and the ministry

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of our lives acceptable to God?
Are we bringing a sacrifice of

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service to God?
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I think this will be a common
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What are you bringing to God?
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their lives.
A lot of times, you know,

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speaking to myself, I'm bringing
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bringing the.
Best No, that's good references

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this passage, Malachi chapter
one, six through 12.

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We won't read all of it, but
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chastising.
He's admonishing.

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There you go.
There you go.

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He's admonishing the Israelites
because they're not bringing

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their best and you know, they're
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and that God's like, I'm not
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And he says at the end, for from
the rising of the sun to its

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setting, my name will be great
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And in every place incense is
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a grain offering that is pure
for my name will be great among

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the nations, says the Lord of
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But you are profaning it and
that you say the table of the

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Lord is defiled.
And As for its fruit, its food

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is to be despised.
Man kind.

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Of this precursor, but what we
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we're the gospel's going to go
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So, you know, you ask a little
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Yes, my kids.
You know, what do you want to be

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when you grow up?
You know everyone's going to say

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pastor makes this, you know,
astute comet sirens, loud

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noises.
That's good.

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You want to.
Be I almost started doing the

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yeah, I was like on the edge of
my seat and I was like, I won't

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do it because, you know, I don't
want people to think I'm just

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trying to draw attention to
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Was asking for people.
To make the sound.

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That's true.
He's mentioned cop, firemen,

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cowboy.
I love the cowboy sirens.

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Oh my God, my, my favorite.
The best, the best kind.

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And then he kind of brought it
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Like, how about us?
We are grown up.

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Like, what do you want to be
when you grow up?

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You're grown up.
You know what?

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What's your life about?
Do you want to fulfill?

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He says.
I want to fulfill his calling on

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my life.
Is that kind of our attitude

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behind this?
That's good, right?

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Verses 17 through 18 through 18.
Boasting.

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Therefore, in Christ Jesus I
have found reason for boasting

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and things pertaining to God,
for I will not presume to speak

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of anything except what Christ
has accomplished through me,

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resulting in the obedience of
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Talk about boasting.
Have you ever met people?

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I don't know where you saw this,
where they're like, hey, I'm I'm

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not going to ever be proud of my
son because we don't have you

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met people like this, like, you
know what I mean?

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Like we.
I grew up in that.

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I grew up where the pastor was
like, I have never, I don't know

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of any good use of the word
pride or proud in the Bible.

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It's always, it's negative.
So here's some words you can use

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instead.
I'm thankful for my son.

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I'm grateful for what happened.
You know, so he, it, it was hard

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for me to say, like the other
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the lower school chess club did.
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And I was like, it's it was hard
for me to say I'm proud of them,

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but I did.
I said it.

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Oh.
Man you.

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You just man boasting.
We've got this definition of

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sorts, this joyful, rejoicing,
enthusiastic, being enthusiastic

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about what God is doing in my
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I like that, Paul says.
I found reason for boasting and

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things pertaining to God.
There should be this joy in

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rejoicing and this enthusiasm
behind this kind of stuff.

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Joel just can't get away from
China in this.

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Did y'all register for China?
We we didn't, but like we were

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gifted by my wife's parents gave
us their like we have their

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China like we didn't register,
but it's like in the.

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Family and do you use it with
Jordy and Joshie?

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Every day we're down to a single
fork where it's like, it's like

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done plate, one plate's left.
I don't know.

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Yeah, we we never ever use it
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Ever.
I think we registered and we may

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have gotten 3 play settings.
And it's like, why don't you do

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3?
Maybe it's four.

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Jill can.
Jill can correct me the next

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time they're on.
Nice.

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Yeah.
But we did inherit.

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Like her mom's mom had China and
I think it's called Autumn this

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name of you.
I think that's right.

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You clip.
It has like some fruit in the

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middle.
It has like this.

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Gold circle.
Around it, it's very pricey and

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it's like it got split up
between her mom and her aunt and

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then I don't think her brother
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So then we got like half of it.
So it's not like it's but it

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just sits in our China cabinet.
We don't do anything with it.

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We don't.
And that's something, it's like

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pretty funny 'cause everything
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I mean, it's got some middle
value, but it's it's so funny to

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have something that's use is
just to be looked at, you know

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what I mean?
But that that makes sense.

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You know, I see there's a lot
of.

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Things, I mean, that's what my
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I am like, my only use is like,
people just want, you know, I'm

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her trophy husband.
Yeah, and you're like not a

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piece of meat to oogle at
people.

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Paul uses this analogy of of
dishes in Second Timothy 2.

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He says now in a large house,
there are not only gold and

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silver vessels, but also vessels
of wood and earthenware, and

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some to honor and some to
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They are for if anyone cleanses
himself from these things, he

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will be a vessel for honor,
sanctified, useful to the

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Master, prepared for every good
work.

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Give some good motivation for
being pure, being cleansed so

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you can be used in significant
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So what I hear Paul saying is
you can go from being a paper

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plate well to China.
China.

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China, if you will cleanse
yourself and you will start

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working for the Kingdom.
Boom.

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Would you like to be fine China?
Yeah.

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In God's house.
Better than you don't want to be

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that.
Yeah.

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Paper plate, man.
Thrown away in the trash.

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Yeah.
I like that.

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Good, good analogy, Paul goes
on.

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Are you going to say something?
Go.

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You go for it.
It's worth it.

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I can tell.
Speaking of paper plates.

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Yeah, yeah, let's talk about it.
We.

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We had home groups at our house
quite a while ago.

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OK, Yeah.
I'm sure it was some kid.

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Probably 1 of mine, yeah.
But we have, you know, like this

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black chest on our back porch
and people want put their plates

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on there.
And it was maybe a week and a

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half, two weeks ago that we went
around and looked on the side of

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it and there was a plate of
spaghetti paper, plate of

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spaghetti that had fallen in
between that and our scream of

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our back porch, just sitting
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And it was like, oh, this has
been here for quite some time.

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It's been here for a minute.
Yeah, that's always the best

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finding food from a long time.
Thankfully it was just dry and

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it just came right up.
It wasn't like moldy or

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anything.
It was good.

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That's it's always man.
Yeah, Phoebe's still in a car

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seat.
Car seats are always.

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You just never know what we're
gonna.

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Crazy.
It's crazy.

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Great versus 18B through 21.
The shift is on conduct how God

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used Paul the means behind it.
We read in verse 18 Paul writes

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by word and deed and the power
of signs and wonders and the

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power of the spirit.
So Pastor Joel does a good job.

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You know, let's talk about about
these means.

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I think by word and deed makes
makes sense.

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Yeah.
And I think what we see there is

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Paul referring to both, you
know, ordinary works that are

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empowered by the Holy Spirit and
all of us are capable of doing

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that, ordinary everyday things
that are empowered by the Spirit

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from our gifting.
So whether it's mercy or love,

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or even if you know just
serving, even if your gift

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doesn't surface, you see a need
and you fulfill, you feel it,

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Holy Spirit can empower that to
be special in their lives.

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I like it.
Then miraculous works empowered

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by the spirit.
When I see power of signs and

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wonders, I'm ready to start
healing people.

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That's right, that's right.
And I was thinking about this

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when he was preaching that, you
know, if those gifts had stayed

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around, some may argue that the
idea, but if those gifts had

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stayed around and had been
regular, I think people would

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have been drawn to the gift.
I think God is using those gifts

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to authenticate the messenger,
authenticate the message.

451
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But once the message has been
authenticated, I don't think he

452
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just wants us to be drawn to the
meal.

453
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,560
Like, like Jesus was saying,
you're just coming to me because

454
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I fed you.
Yeah.

455
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,840
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I want you to be drawn to,

456
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,040
to me, for me, for my sake.
Yeah, I think that's a good

457
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,760
point.
It's something I think about a

458
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,440
lot with like, you know, textual
criticism.

459
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,400
It's like we don't have the
manuscripts.

460
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,480
I bet if we did, there'd be a
Catholic Church somewhere where

461
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,720
people just would be bowing down
and worshipping those things

462
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,240
because that's what we do with
everything else.

463
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,280
You know, it's like, man, it's
probably better that we don't

464
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have like it's gonna be, you
know, a big, a big thing.

465
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,680
So I think you're exactly right
about this.

466
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And 1st Corinthians 2, Paul
writes.

467
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And when I came to you,
brethren, I didn't come with

468
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,520
superiority of speech or of
wisdom, proclaiming to you the

469
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,040
testimony of God.
For I determined to know nothing

470
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,720
among you except Jesus Christ
and him crucified.

471
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,840
I was with you in weakness and
in fear and in much trembling.

472
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,520
And my message, my preaching,
were not in persuasive words of

473
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wisdom, but demonstration of the
spirit and power, so that your

474
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faith would not rest on the
wisdom of men, but on the power

475
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of God.
He's kind of, you know,

476
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,560
comparing, contrasting, you
know, man's wisdom and God's

477
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,560
wisdom kind of back and forth.
And he was saying, yeah, it's

478
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,440
not because I knew everything or
I had everything like nailed

479
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,960
down.
God works in in different ways.

480
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,480
It was all on the power of God.
Yeah, and yeah, and ultimately,

481
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,720
just like you said, that
demonstration of the spirit

482
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,040
through power.
All right, so we talked about,

483
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,280
you know, this section is how
God used Paul and Paul's kind of

484
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,600
referring that.
So the first one was by word and

485
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,640
deed and the next one is, you
know, the extent.

486
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,480
So the extent so that how we use
them and then how how that was

487
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,200
spread out.
Verse 19 B through 21 says so

488
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,880
that from Jerusalem and
roundabout as far as Illyricum.

489
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,320
Is that how it is?
That's a tough one to say, just

490
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,800
with all the L and the R Yeah, I
think he nailed it.

491
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,880
I have fully preached the gospel
Christ, and thus I aspire to

492
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,600
preach the gospel, not where
Christ was already named.

493
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,800
So I not build on another man's
foundation, but as it is

494
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,320
written.
They who had no news of him

495
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,480
shall see, and they who have not
heard shall understand.

496
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,960
Nice.
And so, you know, Paul, as we're

497
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,360
going to, you know, read, he
wants to go to the ends of the

498
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,040
earth.
He's trying to get to Spain.

499
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,440
You know, Pastor Jill threw out
this message would like show

500
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,280
where he's been missionary, you
know, where where he's been,

501
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560
where he's going to go to.
So he's starting, you know, from

502
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,120
Jerusalem, wanting to go as far
and he doesn't want to go, you

503
00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:57,440
know, where Christ has already
been named.

504
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,680
He's going other other places to
really reach all of the

505
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,000
Gentiles.
He probably is going over there

506
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,680
to Moroni on the North American
continent, helping them write

507
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,320
the Book of Mormon, you know
what I'm saying?

508
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:16,720
Do you think that was Paul?
Probably so, Yeah.

509
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,560
If only there is.
Yeah, Roman said.

510
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,600
That's great.
No, didn't it?

511
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,320
Great.
I love.

512
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,200
I mean, you know, it's been so
well documented, all of this,

513
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,480
all of like the historicity of
the book of Mormons, but you're

514
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,720
like this, all of this stuff
just doesn't even make sense.

515
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,680
We have this quote from Isaiah.
Isaiah 5215 says thus He will

516
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,200
sprinkle many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths on

517
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,560
account of him for what had not
been told them, they will see,

518
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,040
and what they had not heard they
will understand.

519
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,200
Another great Old Testament
quote that that's talking about

520
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,080
many nations, kings from
everywhere.

521
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,640
So send me to Spain.
That's what he wants to do.

522
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,160
Yeah, that's good.
All right, so as we often do,

523
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,000
is, you know, Joel is going to
apply this immediately at our

524
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,440
church before big things.
I think Thanksgiving, Christmas,

525
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:11,080
Easter, my birthday.
I think we do this 321 where we

526
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,720
are admonished.
There you go.

527
00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:15,480
To I'm going to try to use that
word often since you said that

528
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:21,600
we, we pray for at least three
people and, you know, serve 2

529
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,080
and invite 1.
And I think Joel kind of thinks

530
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,680
this is a praying 3.
Now two of those serve now one

531
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,840
of those and bite out.
But it could be anyone.

532
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,120
But if your church is having
some type of Easter production,

533
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,880
you can apply this where you're
listening as well, like.

534
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,040
That's right.
That's right.

535
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,480
Yep, and it and it's, you know,
it's not a huge thing.

536
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,600
It's not like you're asking you
to empty out your bank account

537
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,640
or like become the next why
don't you come?

538
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,240
Who's that guy?
I don't remember.

539
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,800
The the the Evangelist Billy
Graham.

540
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,240
Oh yeah.
You're not asking them to become

541
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,280
Billy Graham.
Just, you know, be be kind and

542
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,400
loving to your neighbors.
That that's a really good point.

543
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,320
And Easter is probably the
lowest stakes of them all

544
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,840
because like Eastern Christmas
Eve, like people are hooking,

545
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,240
you know, go to church there one
or two times a year anyway.

546
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,880
So go and do that.
Here's some questions by way of

547
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,240
application #1 it's a convicting
question.

548
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,680
What is your passion level in
making Christ known?

549
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,440
What about Paul challenges you
about your passion level?

550
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:23,960
Are you giving God you know your
best?

551
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,960
And what do you want to do or be
when you grow up?

552
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,880
You adults like, how do you want
to be like Jesus?

553
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,360
Do you want to have this
ministry like Paul?

554
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,800
So where are you wanting to
land?

555
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,720
And then are you using your
spiritual gifts?

556
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,320
Is your service done with
excellence?

557
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,680
That's great.
I think we all probably could do

558
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,440
things a little bit more
excellently.

559
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Really, really serve our very,
very best.

560
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,920
And lastly, consider taking
training at the Low Country

561
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,040
Biblical Counseling Center,
LCBC, c.org.

562
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,480
That's great and no matter where
you are.

563
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,840
That's right, you can.
You can sign up for these

564
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,360
courses and then I'll talk to
you about or teach you how to.

565
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:10,160
Well, two different types of
things and sometimes the same

566
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,240
courses for both.
If you're struggling with

567
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,040
different issues, if you're
depressed, if you're struggling

568
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,760
with anger, if you're struggling
with fear, doubts, depression,

569
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,080
if you're struggling with moral
issues, there's training there

570
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,960
that can help you solve that.
And they can provide counseling

571
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,240
online as well.
But if you're like a person in

572
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,280
church and you don't really
struggle with those, but you'd

573
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,080
want to help, they provide
training for you to help become

574
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,840
a bill counselor.
That can all be done online

575
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,640
anywhere in the world.
Some of it's getting translated

576
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,120
into Spanish right now.
Some of it's getting translated

577
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,360
into Mandarin.
Man, that that is pretty.

578
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,240
Amazing China.
China's, you know, they're

579
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,680
probably listening right now.
That's right.

580
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:57,720
That's Romans 1514 to 21.
A minister of Christ to the

581
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,720
Gentiles.
Last words for Michael Mott.

582
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,880
Anything you got, I got.
I got nothing else.

583
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,720
I have nothing else either.
Love it.

584
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,880
Well, that's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

585
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,080
Two.
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586
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