Foundations for Christian Unity: Truth & Humility

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So why?
Why the new prescription?

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Just time something precipitate
this.

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Well, it's just my annual
checkup and I was going to get a

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new pair of glasses regardless.
My last pair of glasses was for

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2016.
I don't even wear them in the

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evening normally unless I have
like a pink eye or something.

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So then you don't wear contacts?
But yeah, but happened to be

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that I did need a new
prescription, so my contacts

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prescription got a little bit
weaker because as you get older,

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you know, your vision goes out
some.

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So I am nearsighted.
So I don't need as strong a

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strength anymore.
But I have, you know, I can't.

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I know that, you know, there
were some fires that were

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started up around Myrtle Beach
that.

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Yeah, that.
I know too much.

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But you know, when I couldn't
wear my glasses in the National

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Forest when it when it, when
there was a burn ban, just cause

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of how strong they were.
You know, that sun instantly

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light fire.
So that's that's a joke.

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Not really true, but yeah.
So what's yours?

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You wear contacts.
I do.

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I'm like my left eye.
I think I get mixed up.

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I'll try.
It's like -3 and negative, like

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2-5, yeah.
So before my prescription change

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it was -5 in my right eye and
-4.25 in my left eye.

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But both of them click back by
1/4, so now it's negative 425

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and -4.
So.

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Yeah, it's, it's pretty bad.
She always laughs when, you

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know, she has to like, I guess
by law get my, you know, can you

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what you can, what you can see
without any correction.

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And I'm like, she's like, I know
you can't see this, but go ahead

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and give it your best shot.
So.

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But yeah, so I got some new
glasses.

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Oh, let's, let's see what we're
working with.

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These were wow so so it's like,
you know, negative, you know 8

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now that I'm getting corrected
so it's.

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Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause it's my contacts so

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I can't see this on very long,
but.

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I love it man.
We were just one podcast away

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from syncing up the glasses I.
Know yeah, you were yours last

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time but so I I had three pairs
of glasses on my shortlist and I

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was like this I'll probably get
this one but yeah I'll just ask

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the family and they'll all the
family was like don't get this

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one for sure this one no, no,
the one I had on my shortlist I

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was like whatever, it doesn't
matter so this is the one that

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they've done.
I I would have what a power move

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would have been.
If they're like, don't get this

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one.
You're like, too bad.

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Sorry, this is the one I'm
getting.

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Well, you look very smart and so
I'm going to put they.

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You cannot come off 'cause
you're as we all know, if you

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take off glasses, you are
instantly less capable.

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You wouldn't hit a man with
glasses, would you?

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It just changes.
It changes everything.

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So I don't know I'm going to
phrase this.

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I think this is something very
achievable.

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We'll make it easy and if you're
nailing it, we'll circle it in.

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But think of the top ten sports
in the world by fans, by people

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who say with their fans, And
then I if you can get we'll see

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if you can get six out of the 10
you win.

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I think that's doable, but it
but but it might some of these

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might surprise you.
So if you're now on them, we

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might keep going up.
So let's let's.

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See, and this is just.
Worldwide.

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Well, I mean like if I say
association football slash

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talker, I don't need to
differentiate between American

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soccer and FIFA Cup like it's
soccer is just like one of them.

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Right.
You need a different.

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Yeah, yeah.
Soccer's great.

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That's great, yeah.
So soccer.

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Nope.
We were looking for FIFA.

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No, I'm just getting you soccer.
That's number one, yeah.

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Soccer, yeah, I would say.
This one 3.5 billion.

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Yeah, that's that's and then
basketball.

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Basketball is on there.
I will say basketball is #7 on

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the.
List.

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Which it it is also a global
sport in China and stuff, so you

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would think it would.
Be because I was.

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I was because I was thinking,
well, I mean, American football,

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gridiron football.
So basketball seven with 800

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million football is on the list.
So we're going to be 3 strikes.

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That's one strike because it's
not on the.

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List it's American football is
not on the.

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List.
I'm going to review the list.

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American Football.
Gridiron football.

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Classic, classic American thinks
the world revolves around him.

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I'm just kidding.
No.

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Well, I just thought, you know,
you have lots of folks and it's

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broadening like they're they.
They they play in England, they

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play in Germany like one game a.
Year whatever.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

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So, so to give you context,
basketball is 800 million #7

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because when I think of
basketball like Kobe Bryant

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shoot Yao Ming, like really it's
like that's pretty global.

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And that's only that's all the
way down 7.

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So some of these are obscure
sports slash.

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All right, all right not.
Obscure, but.

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And so you're just saying if
they have fan, fan.

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Bases Yeah, I I just googled
this so I don't I mean, this

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might be.
All right, I get 3 strikes.

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You get 3 strikes.
That's just one strike.

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You're good.
Tennis.

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Tennis is number four with 1
billion fans.

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So now, yeah, I think you're
thinking in the right direction.

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Some of these like weird ones
like that.

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I mean, I got to go with America
and Latin America and say

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baseball.
Baseball is number 8, just under

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basketball, 500 million.
Japan's huge with baseball.

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OK, cricket.
Cricket is number 2, right

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behind soccer. 2.5 billion.
That's like the big one between

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Asia, Australia, the UKI.
Want to say one that I think is

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crazy.
Live a little.

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You got 2.
More strikes.

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OK, golf.
Golf is number 10, but that's

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right, 450 million.
You're like golf who?

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Because there's people that like
golf much less that would say

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they're golf fans.
Like it's different golfing than

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like it's.
Crazy to me that worldwide there

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are more golf fans than American
football fans.

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Yeah.
I'm hey, don't hate the player,

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hate the.
Game I I still got 2 strikes.

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So yeah, I.
Mean you can live rugby.

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Rugby is number 9, just above
golf 435,000,000 really big in

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South Africa, Oceana and
England.

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Polo.
Polo, that's a good guess 'cause

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that's off the beaten path a
little bit.

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That is not on the list, that is
trick #2.

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So let me see.
So you've gotten soccer, I may

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have cricket, tennis,
basketball, baseball, golf.

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And what?
And you did just now?

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Rugby, rugby, Yeah.
So you've got 7.

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So you're just playing with
house money here.

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So you, you get the challenge.
You only have three more 1 one.

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I want to Fact Check like.
I don't believe this at all.

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Well, so I I'm not making any
guesses, but here's some of the

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forces that are going through my
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The cross was going through my
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cross and polo.
Kind of.

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Kind of together, I mean,
swimming, I don't think.

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Oh well, Northern climbs could
be ice hockey could could be

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something that's in there.
I can't imagine swimming would

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be there.
I don't see gymnastics as a

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sport that would be listed here.
I wish you would.

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I don't view gymnastics as a
sport.

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I just want to make a judgement
call there.

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I'm going to go with the
northern climes.

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This is risky.
I'm going to say ice hockey.

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So I this is the one I want to
Fact Check.

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This is number 3 on the list, 2
billion.

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It's it's and they're saying
because almost so much of Europe

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is into hockey, right?
Like Scandinavia, you know these

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north.
And it's like, I was thinking

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like, you got all Canada, all
the Scandinavians.

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And this also says hockey is
big.

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This, I want to Fact Check this.
It basically says everywhere,

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Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia,
I don't know, but the list says

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it, so we'll give you that.
So that was a good guess.

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So you've got 1234 78910.
You're missing right in the

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middle, the center port of the
chiasm 5. 6 I will, I will.

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It's probably wrong.
I'll hazard lacrosse.

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Not right, but a good guess the
the two sports 1.

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I don't think you would ever
guess.

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I would say this.
This is probably really big in

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Asia.
It is.

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Oh, table tennis table.
Tennis, that's the number six

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and then #5 this is a global
sport.

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I see highlights of this, like
on social with sports stuff.

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Your daughters probably
participate in some capacity.

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Volleyball, volleyball.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Volleyball.

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Sorry, sorry.
I.

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Love it.
That was pretty good though, you

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know, so the glasses work now
that's.

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Right, that's right.
All right.

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So I can take them off and be be
able to see against my eyes.

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You lost a lot of IQ points just
now.

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Just kidding.
Well, let's find a way to

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connect.
This with I think you're, you're

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gonna say like a wise man knows
how to be humble, right?

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That's that's exactly what I was
gonna say.

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Mailed it that.
That's our sermon.

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Hang in there.
Because it's not Romans.

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It's not Romans.
Let's 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, but
we take theology to the next

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level.
OK, Zach.

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So we just came off of what we
just alluded to, two sermons in

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Romans talking about weaker
brother, stronger brother.

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And of course, everyone knows
we're both stronger brothers.

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You know, we're not.
We're never going to be the

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weaker brothers.
That's what, that's what, that's

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what everyone thinks.
They're this.

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No, no one.
Yeah, That's that's so funny.

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But both of you know the
conflict that Paul was talking

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about.
Well, the the strife was over

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this conflict of differences and
thought about, you know, meat or

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alcohol or, you know, these
various things that some people

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might say, oh, it's fine.
Some people might disagree with.

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Well, right on the heels of
that, we have the sermon by Tim

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talking about how can we
basically still get along and,

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and it still kind of has an
idea, but it's shifting the

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focus to humility.
How can I, through my humility,

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you know, maybe see where
better, better understand where

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our differences are and then be
able to look at myself and then

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maybe help you see some places?
Yeah, very timely.

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Because if you are gonna, you
know, be that stronger brother,

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or you're gonna, you know,
humility comes in handy.

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So this is great.
And Tim has this counseling

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perspective and I like, I like
where he started identifying

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where people, you know, don't
see an eye.

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Where is there these discords?
He's got it mapped out nice and

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neatly about these three
different types of Discord.

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Yeah.
And so I thought we could start

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there.
The kind of the 1st and maybe

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maybe the most difficult is what
he calls fundamental Discord.

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That that sometimes that's hard
to see, see hard, hard to get

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through some of that depending
on how fundamental these things.

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Are right and and kind of the
Cliff Notes is our standards are

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different.
So I just believe something

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different about the world than
you.

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I you know, maybe this is the
weaker, stronger brother.

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I believe drinking alcohol is
wrong.

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I believe drinking alcohol is
OK.

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That's a that's a foundational
difference.

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I believe reading about elves
not OK, you know, So it's one of

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those fundamental differences
now.

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I'm just kidding.
So then after that, then maybe

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just it's a factual discord.
And I find this a lot in

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politics, like you, 'cause
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different sources.
And I've, and I've slowed my

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roll some 'cause, you know, I,
it's just, it's too much

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sometime to try to, you know,
like I just realized it's not my

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job to try to help everyone see
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I see.
But you talk about like, you

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know, someone that people don't
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Trump and you know, people like,
well, you know, dot dot dot.

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I think that was all made-up
like So then so the the kind of

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the shorter text for this is our
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Like we, it's not like, you
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Christians, we believe the same
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wrong and that, you know, you
shouldn't do these things and we

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should do these things.
But we misunderstand, we, we

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don't agree on what the facts of
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So then we have a disagreement
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politician is OK, or he's the
best you know, or the you know,

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the least evil or the best you
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I think is a good example.
Someone's like man, someone

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seems like they love Trump with
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It's not true, but that's what
seems one person, the other

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person's like I really like his
policies.

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Don't like the guy.
That's probably what the other

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guy's thinking.
It's like you're closer than you

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think, but your stories are a
little off and it like maybe you

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come up like I'm a huge you
might, and the other guy almost

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comes off like he hates Trump.
It's like, no, actually, or I

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don't know, but you're actually
like kinda on the same closer

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than you think.
And so, yeah, just in

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transparency, I think there's
enough evidence to discount the

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Russian dossier.
I talked to Christians who to

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buy into that.
And so like, you know, how could

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you vote for a guy who did all
these things?

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Like, I don't think he did those
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If he did those things, then
that would give me further

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pause.
And and, and and and at some

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point, if everything's like
totally different, you're

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operating on off different stand
like you're, you're thinking

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different stories rather than we
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That's like a whole different
conversation and you're aligned

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on that.
Side of stuff yeah, like if he

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did the things that are in the
Russian dossier, we would say

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yes, that is wrong.
All right, so that so that's

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that next level like and and
maybe, you know, maybe in your

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everyday relationship with your
spouse, your children, you're

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not talking about Trump, but
maybe you're you've had

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arguments where well, you said
this and then they're like, that

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is not what I said at all.
And so you have, like, a

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misremembering of the facts.
And there are people in my

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family, probably in your family
that have a reputation for being

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able to just, like, almost like,
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This is how the conversation
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That's so funny.
Yeah, frustrate.

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Those people who.
Yeah, who were like, oh, OK,

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maybe I just said I don't know.
And then the last kind of

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functional discord.
So we're getting more similar,

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you know, along and this one is
our styles are different.

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You know, it's like maybe you
have the same standards, you

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know, have the story the same
way.

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But yeah, maybe you have a
little different flair.

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You like cargo pants.
They like to wear jeans.

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It's like you're both like
wearing clothing, which is good,

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but you have like a different,
different style.

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Yeah, I, and I think there was a
recent, we even talked about

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this in the podcast a while back
where I was calling in to get

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this form signed by a doctor and
my style of how I was handling

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that completely different than
how Jill would handle it.

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And she's like you.
You know you can't.

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That's a good example.
And I'm like, well, I basically

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had to let her know that no, was
not going to be an acceptable

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answer, and here's why.
And I told her afterwards, like,

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if she had said these things,
I'd been like, yeah, you got a

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good point.
But she wasn't saying that she

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was just like, our policy is no,
because of such and such.

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And I was like, well, This is
why the policy doesn't count

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here.
So, but you know, I'm defending

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myself but.
You agree with that?

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No.
Yeah, that's a good example.

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And we probably run into that
more than anything with people

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at your same church.
Like some of the styles might be

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different on certain things
where you probably aligned in a

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lot of stuff.
You probably even have a lot of

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the same story, maybe not all
the time on some things, but

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it's like some of the the way
you would do something like the

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way I prefer worship or the way
I, I would rather us do this

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fellowship event here, or I
would rather do a Bible study

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this way or this topic.
It's like we're on the same

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team, but there's a little bit
of difference.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so as as we progress those

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three, obviously style should be
the easiest to overcome.

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Right, we agree.
On the, the, the facts, we agree

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on the the fundamental stuff, we
just, you know, you prefer this

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type of music.
I prefer this type of music,

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those types of things.
So given those types of discord,

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now we're going to move into
really 2 broad topics in any

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type of discord that are
foundational for Christian

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unity.
And the first is truth.

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I, I, I love this because this
is what makes Christianity

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great, is that you're appealing.
Hopefully you're appealing to

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the same authority where we
don't agree on something.

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Let's see what scripture says.
That's so much better than some

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arbitrary, this is good today.
This is not good tomorrow.

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So I know it that's, it's not as
easy as just that, but that kind

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of helps.
We're all looking at the same

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place, you know.
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No, that's good.
And so here in his notes, Tim

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has Christians have a greater
potential for unity because

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Christians have the same Lord
and the same source, source of

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truth to build upon.
He and he recounted this story

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of this man who came in and was
drinking.

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And I just so you know, I don't
think this Colossians 1-6 is a

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good reference.
That's what he said.

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And I wrote it down and I was
going to go back and look it up,

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but I don't think it is the.
You can look at it and see if

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somehow.
But he had a guy in the

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counseling and by, you know,
allegedly by reports of his mom

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and his mother-in-law, he was
drinking too much.

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And Tim, it was pretty funny.
He's like, you know, I'm not

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picking on them.
I have a Chicago accent.

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That's where I grew up.
This guy definitely had a

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Southern accent.
And he's came in.

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He's like, she can't tell me
what to do.

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My mother-in-law can't tell me
what to do.

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And you can't tell me what to
do.

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And Tim's like, you know, OK.
And he's like, and I just leaned

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in and I was like, can Jesus
tell me what to do?

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And he said that the guy was
like, yeah, yeah, He's like, OK,

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well.
We can work with.

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That now we can work with that.
Let's see what Scripture says.

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And if we disagree with
Scripture says, it's fine.

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Let's let's figure out what what
you know Scripture says and why.

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I think, I think that's good.
I do have this Colossians 16.

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It ends talking about grace and
truth.

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That's a little.
Awkward coming, so maybe it is.

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Right, so it might be I'll, I'll
back up to verse 5.

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Paul is talking, he's opening up
with this prayer and he says

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because of the hope laid up for
you in heaven with this hope

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you've heard before the word of
truth, the gospel which has come

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to you as indeed in the whole
world.

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And it's bearing fruit and it's
increasing, as it also does

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among you since the day you
heard it talking about the

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gospel and understood the grace
of God in truth.

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And so, you know, Paul, Paul's
appealing to to this, you know,

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Andrew.
Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.
So very good.

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There you go all.
Right.

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And then next one, Ephesians 417
So this I say, and affirm

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together with the Lord that you
walk no longer, just as the

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Gentiles also walk in the
futility of their mind being

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darkened, in their
understanding, excluded from the

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life of God because of the
ignorance that is in them,

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because of the hardness of their
heart.

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So if you got, if you're walking
according to ignorance, you

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don't have the truth, it's gonna
be hard for you to walk in an

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enlightened way.
So that's great.

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Colossians 316 starts out
appealing to the truth.

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It's saying let the word of
Christ, the truth, dwell on you,

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richly teaching and unmatching
one another in all wisdom,

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singing psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs with

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thankfulness in your hearts to
God.

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It all kind of starts with the
word of Christ dwelling in you

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in all things.
Whether it's teaching,

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exhortation, whatever, it all
starts there.

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All right, and then Second
Timothy 27, Paul writes,

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consider what I say for the Lord
will give you understanding and

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everything, and so that
understanding can help you

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discern what the truth is.
And then James 121 and kind of

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in the section where it talks
about, you know, not just being

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hearers but doers of the word,
it says, therefore, and some of

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this practical, practical
application, put away all

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filthiness and rampant
wickedness and receive with

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meekness the implanted word, the
truth which is able to save your

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souls.
I like that you're receiving the

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word and you're receiving it
with meekness.

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That that kind of, you know,
foreshadowing ahead.

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So unfortunately, it's not like
you get saved in day one.

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You know, all truth.
There's a sanctification

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process.
As we grow to be more like

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Christ, and then as we grow to
be more like Christ, the truth

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that we know we understand
increases.

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That's why I talk about the
spiritual, you know, armor.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, if you're a believer, I

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think you basically have all
parts of the armor, but how

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strong is it?
How ready for battle is it?

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Is it the level 1 belt or do
you, you know, you got to level

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that that armor up?
Level that bad boy up.

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Yeah, I like, I like that
analogy.

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I like the analogy of a stock
market that's going well.

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You got ups and downs.
Hopefully you're not like, you

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know, Tesla stock right now.
It's like a drop.

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You like really backslid.
You got to keep you know, you

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might have ups and downs, but if
you look step back, hopefully

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your bad day today is better
than 20 years ago.

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Even a good day, you know, maybe
maybe something's happening.

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So that that is good.
And one of these central

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passages Michael read part of
Ephesians 4 that that's like a

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foundational text.
I'll read verses 11 through 13,

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it says, and he gave some as
apostles and some as prophet and

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some as evangels, and some as
pastors and teachers for the

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equipping of the Saints, for the
work of service to the building

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up of the body of Christ until
we all attain to the unity of

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the faith and the knowledge of
the Son of God to a mature man,

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to the measure of the stature
which belongs to the fullness of

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Christ.
So it's kind of talking about,

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it's something to be attained.
It's not that everything's

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perfect, this unity now, but we
we want to be mature and that

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comes through things like
knowledge and truth.

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Yeah, and just two verses later,
verse 15, same chapter, it says,

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but speaking the truth and love,
we are to grow up in all aspects

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and to him who is the head, even
Christ and almost every

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spiritual gift other than, you
know, serving has some type of

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speaking component to it.
And so oftentimes we're called

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to speak the truth and love.
And sometimes even in serving

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you, you, you can be speaking.
Maybe it's, you know, private or

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you're helping to, you know,
lead some servers or something

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like that, but you know,
speaking the truth and love.

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No, I like it.
I like that Tim LED with truth

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because I think, I think
humility is very important.

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We talk about it a lot and
everyone needs humility.

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But if you, if you're not being
humble, like first foremost to

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the truth, you, you could be.
I think there's a lot of well

452
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meaning people and it's like,
man, you're just like ducking

453
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the issue.
Even if you're not meaning to.

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It's like, wow, we these two
things go together.

455
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So, so foundation for unity #2
is humility.

456
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He's got parentheses, IE, the
mind of Christ.

457
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And we'll have some good
passages to talk through

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Ephesians chapter 4.
Man, if you're just going to

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spend some time, that's the
place to be.

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The first point he has is that
humble thinking breeds unity in

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relationships.
Do you have that passage?

462
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I do and I'm going to just start
back at verse one in this

463
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passage because it's so good.
You know, we've talked so much

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about, you know, how big a
chapter Romans 12 is because

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it's this divide from the
doxology nor orthodoxy to

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orthopraxy.
And we had that same divide in

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Ephesians cause chapters one
through three were orthodoxy.

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Now it's like in light of that,
how do we live?

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And a huge theme of Ephesians is
unity, especially between Jews

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and Gentiles.
So given that he says,

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therefore, I, the prisoner of
the Lord, implore you to walk in

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a manner worthy of the calling
which you have been called, with

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all humility and gentleness,
with patience, showing tolerance

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for one another and love.
And then here's the key verse,

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being diligent so that takes
work to preserve the unity of

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the spirit in the bond of peace.
Man, it's it is Humility is a

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tough thing, huh?
Today at work, it's like got a

478
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couple of different situations
where it's like people just

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don't get along.
I'm just like, can't, can't we

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00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,320
just get along?
It's like I get along with this

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00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:49,440
person.
I get along with this person.

482
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,720
These two people don't get along
with each other.

483
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,760
It's happening in two different
locations.

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00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,200
I'm just like, what what's going
on?

485
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A lot of it is we, we don't, we
don't, they don't communicate

486
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,960
well with each other.
But more than that, they don't

487
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,840
see the same reality.
Like they don't have the same

488
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,440
truth.
It's like, at least we can

489
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,160
appeal to things like the
scripture.

490
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,880
It's like they're seeing
different things and not the

491
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same thing as a God.
We're not.

492
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It's going to be it's going to
be a fun it's going to be a fun

493
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,720
week.
Proverbs 1310, the tagline here

494
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that Tim has is proud thinking
breeds conflict in relationship,

495
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,760
kind of the opposite of humble
thinking that breeds unity.

496
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,920
Proverbs 1310 says by insolence
comes nothing but strife.

497
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But with those who take advice
is wisdom.

498
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It can be hard to take advice
and you, I've been in a

499
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,280
situation where someone says
some really good advice, but I'm

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too proud.
I'm too proud to acknowledge.

501
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,000
I'm like, I'm not even after the
fact, not even in front of them.

502
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I'm not going to listen to that
even though it's like the right

503
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:49,000
thing because it's like I just
can't bring myself to be humble

504
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,160
and instead, you know, want to
be insolent, you know,

505
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,080
disrespectful, rude, these kind
of things.

506
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And that's just going to
unnecessarily, you know, bring

507
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,680
strife.
That's great.

508
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,960
All right.
So truth, Humility, kind of, you

509
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,720
know, maybe rebranding of grace
and truth, cause humility is

510
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kind of like grace, you know?
Yeah.

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So if you have those as their
foundation now, Tim's going to

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spend the next the most of the
sermon on how to deal with

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fundamental discord 'cause that
was the bulk of his time and

514
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kind of left factual and
functional discord for us to

515
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,080
review.
But so we have this scripture

516
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again in Timothy Paul's writing
to Timothy, Timothy's younger,

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he seems to be, from what we can
get, a little bit meeker in

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spirit.
And so he is going to basically

519
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,720
tell him you have to preach the
truth, but not be quarrelsome

520
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,880
while you're doing it.
So Second Timothy 222 through

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24, the Lord's bond servant must
not be quarrelsome, but be kind

522
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,080
to all able to teach.
So you got to know what the

523
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truth is in order to teach it
patient when wronged with

524
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,280
gentleness, correcting those who
are in opposition, if perhaps

525
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,520
God may grant them repentance
leading to the knowledge of the

526
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,200
truth, and they may come to
their senses and escape from the

527
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,680
snare of the devil, having been
held captive by him to do his

528
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,360
will.
He's got this great

529
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,000
illustration.
Children are good for

530
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,600
illustration.
You know, two of his kids.

531
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,960
I plan I took this to be freeze
tag or some sort.

532
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,880
You said some sort of freeze
game where it's like someone

533
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,920
tagged someone and they froze,
but then the other person tagged

534
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,000
the other person.
They didn't freeze.

535
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,520
They're like he's not, she's
not, you know, there's not

536
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,200
freezing.
I feel like this is totally

537
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:39,480
unfair and Tim Peruge is like,
let's have it's like full house

538
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,280
Bob Saget.
Let's get on one knee and have

539
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,640
like the perfect answer.
Like does Jesus want you know

540
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,360
what wants you to treat your
brother or sister better instead

541
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,640
of being like just just freeze
Jayden, come on, listen to him.

542
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:51,600
I'm trying to get some work
done.

543
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,480
It's like they're great.
Great answer, but leaning into

544
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,120
this, you know how, how would
you want to be treated?

545
00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,080
Like can you see?
Can you step back and see this?

546
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,920
I know it's a little brother or
little sister that's hard to see

547
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,040
for them, just like it's hard to
see for us sometimes.

548
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,600
Yeah.
And I think what even in telling

549
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,800
that story, what he did a good
job is sometimes you have to

550
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,800
peel away some of the layers
that are hiding.

551
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,720
This foundational.
Issue because he's like, well,

552
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,200
the first thing was that, well,
didn't Timmy tell you the real

553
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,480
story?
Like because he doesn't always

554
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,360
freeze either.
Like the stories are different.

555
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:24,280
So that would be the factual
difference.

556
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,320
And then the next thing was,
well, he's just a little too

557
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,920
whiny about it.
That's the style difference.

558
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,840
Like, you know, too emotional
about it.

559
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,840
And but then he like cuts right
to the heart with this question.

560
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,960
You already, you already had
like, well, you know, how would,

561
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,360
would Jesus want you to treat
your, your brother better?

562
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,320
And I think that's good modeling
for, you know, the we, we talked

563
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,320
about Old Testament wisdom and
we had this proverb that says

564
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,680
answer a fool like a fool.
It's easy to, well, don't answer

565
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,040
is a fool.
And, and I think sometimes, you

566
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,120
know, it's hard to wage, but you
know, kind of being able to

567
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,600
wisely go through these layers,
kind of get to the heart of the

568
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,400
issue, 'cause if you stay up,
you know, arguing about this

569
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,480
stuff with your kids, you're
kind of bringing yourself down.

570
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,800
But if you just like cut to the
heart, like what's the issue?

571
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,240
Does God tell you to obey your
parents?

572
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,800
OK, obey your parents.
Does God tell you to love your

573
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,760
brother?
OK.

574
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,360
And then so we are really
getting to that foundational

575
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,600
issue, helping to mature them.
That's great.

576
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,680
And some 3 sub points to help
you think along these lines

577
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,040
straight down this passage, you
know, in second Timothy, Paul is

578
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,240
writing and saying that Timothy,
you're, you're a servants.

579
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,360
If you view yourself as a
servant of, of the Lord, that's

580
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,640
a good place to show some
humility.

581
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,800
You're not, you know, you're not
the king of everything.

582
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,840
You've been entrusted with
responsibility maybe, but and

583
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,840
ultimately you're serving the
king.

584
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,400
And that in and of itself, I
think show will just instill

585
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,360
some humility naturally.
Yeah.

586
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,640
And then the next one, I don't
know.

587
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,720
I put this here because we all
do this so well.

588
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,880
View your opponent with
sympathy, right?

589
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,280
You always, when you've been
wrong, you're always like, oh, I

590
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,320
understand you've had a hard
day, right?

591
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,080
Yeah, Right.
No, I mean, that's not that way.

592
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,720
We always kind of demand that
justice.

593
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,640
But that's not what Scripture
tells us to do.

594
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,280
To to love our enemy.
To bless our enemy.

595
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,600
Yeah, that's tough.
And then view the Lord as as

596
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,160
sovereign of God to rely in
control.

597
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,400
You can do your part.
And even in this passage it does

598
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,760
say correct those who are wrong.
Just do it gently.

599
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,640
Like it's not saying you don't
assert yourself, but you do it

600
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,400
gently and you do the right
thing.

601
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,000
And at some point, you know that
God is sovereign and you can you

602
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,280
can live in that.
It's not saying don't do

603
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,640
anything.
It's like, yeah, correct,

604
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,960
gently.
And then you can kind of say,

605
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,640
hey, I'm doing my job.
And then finally, we view our

606
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:46,040
tool ourselves as tools.
So we're we are there to be used

607
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,720
of God and we're not.
It's not our, you know, it's not

608
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,000
us.
It's just like, hey, God, if you

609
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,560
can use me, use me.
I'm happy to be, you know,

610
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,680
humble and seek after the truth
in this.

611
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:03,080
Sometimes, you know, when you're
trying to restore unity,

612
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,040
sometimes you kind of have to,
you know, there's some problems

613
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,600
that say the wound of a brother
is faithful.

614
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,920
So you sometimes it's lovingly
like, hey, this is going on and

615
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,280
it's bothering me.
And then here on their side, you

616
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,400
may go, oh, I never, I never
knew you saw it that way.

617
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,640
That helps me understand.
So sometimes you have to lean

618
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,400
into these things where there is
some conflict and maybe make it

619
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,120
a little bit awkward at first,
but then hopefully out of the

620
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,440
end of it, it's your
relationship's restored.

621
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,120
Yeah, and I think if you do
that, even if you're do, you are

622
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,840
delivering hard news or
something that the other

623
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,560
person's not going to want to
hear.

624
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,720
If they can see that you're just
trying to understand, you're

625
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,920
trying to do the right.
It's, you're not just having no

626
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,880
sympathy like you mentioned and
attacking them.

627
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,760
You're like, see, this is not
great.

628
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,800
This is what I'm seeing.
Can you help me understand this?

629
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,800
And maybe they're like, man, I
don't have a good excuse here.

630
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,280
Or maybe they're like, oh, have
you ever seen this like

631
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,520
illustration where it's like
someone's about to stab someone

632
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,600
is what the shadow looks like?
And then it's like, oh, they're

633
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,560
giving someone something nice
or, I don't know.

634
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,680
It's like you didn't see
everything.

635
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,880
I think usually that's like
saying truth is relative.

636
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,720
Like maybe it's like not always
a great illustration, but you

637
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,040
know, there's different sides.
There is a truth, but maybe you

638
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,840
didn't see the real reality.
There's another facet to the

639
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,680
truth that once you understand
that, you get a better overall

640
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,120
picture of what's going on.
Yeah, I think, I think that's

641
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,960
good skipping down to response
time.

642
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,960
Yeah, we can put these other
notes in there, but we really

643
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,840
kind of skipped over them during
the sermon.

644
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,800
And so I mean, we could go out
on our own and just read them,

645
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,440
but we'll give them to you to
read.

646
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,880
I can, I can do that in the the
notes if you want to and then

647
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,800
response.
So number one, you want to read

648
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,800
that one for a SEC?
Yeah, this little this is good.

649
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,760
What two or more biblical
concepts do you need to remember

650
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,480
this coming week?
And what two or more actions do

651
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,880
you need to take this week based
on what the Lord has revealed to

652
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,720
you during this session?
If anyone comes to mind or a

653
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,800
situation, what kind of things?
And I like it.

654
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,280
You got to think you can't just
be like, oh, this one.

655
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,960
It's like think 2 or more,
right?

656
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,480
I'm sure there's plenty of
situations we can apply this to.

657
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,560
And then #2 write a prayer of
dependency upon God, asking for

658
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,600
His help and thanking him for
his help.

659
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,320
As you review those Bill
concepts that you wrote down and

660
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,720
choose to be obedient to those
actions that you wrote down, You

661
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,920
know, it's sometimes obedience
is just, you know, I'm going to

662
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,320
choose this because I know it's
right.

663
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,160
It's I know what God has what's
best in mind for me may not

664
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,120
always feel good, but I want to
choose obedience.

665
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,480
And I think I've told this story
before, but you know, I'm, I'm,

666
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,560
I have been outed as an old
Earther.

667
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,200
Yeah.
And I was teaching a class, this

668
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,320
was years ago, maybe like 2012.
And someone in the class said

669
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:47,080
something like, don't you think
that all goes back to people not

670
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,640
believing that God created
everything in seven days?

671
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,840
And I was like, I felt like it
fronted, like, you're just

672
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,600
trying to stir strife because
this person knew that I was an

673
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,440
old Earther.
And I was like, I'm just going

674
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,480
to have to talk to Joel about
this.

675
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,080
I was, I was kind of upset.
Kind of.

676
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,480
Like, you know, this isn't
helpful.

677
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,760
Why can't we all get along type
of thing.

678
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,080
These are all things.
And I said, well, you know what,

679
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,280
I'm going to be obedient to what
the word says.

680
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:18,800
Keep it small, go to that person
first one-on-one and and then if

681
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,000
you want your brother.
So I did.

682
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,840
I went to that person after the
and I was like, Hey, I don't

683
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,000
know if you meant anything when
you said this, but it really

684
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,880
kind of bothered me.
And like, I'm trying not to make

685
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,960
that, you know, a focal point of
this class.

686
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,800
You know, I know there are
differences and that person was

687
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:41,520
like, I totally forgot, like I
did not mean at all to do that.

688
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680
And it's like, and it's like,
how much heartache did that save

689
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,080
than me saying, you know, Joe,
you know, this is back when I

690
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,760
was, you know, not even elder, I
was deacons.

691
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,360
So I, you know, but you know,
supposed to be going Joe, we had

692
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,960
to have a meeting, you know, sit
down and like, you know, it just

693
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,280
was taken care of because what
we I obeyed not because of not

694
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,080
because of my wisdom, because.
Of God's wisdom.

695
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,120
Because I didn't want to do
that.

696
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,440
Because it's not comfortable.
Yeah, now that that's a really

697
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,760
good example and I like this
idea he has write a prayer

698
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,000
dependency.
I'm the kind of person I don't

699
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,520
like doing that kind of stuff.
Like Tim's low is like

700
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,400
withdrawal picture, write a
prayer.

701
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,080
And I'm like, I'm like, that's
good.

702
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,880
It's just not my style.
I'm just like, I just want to

703
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,679
read it and think about it.
But when I've done those things

704
00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,120
in the past, it does help you
think about it better.

705
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,400
I might 'cause I went, I was
like, let's draw these pictures

706
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,800
with Jayden and it was like
really good family conversation

707
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,400
and it's good.
So those those exercises are

708
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,120
good 'cause it kind of forces
you to stay on that topic in

709
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,360
your mind.
That's it.

710
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,719
Anything else?
Man next week.

711
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,719
Next week.
Probably not in Romans either.

712
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,280
Oh, is is that not right?
Well, we're we're next week,

713
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,960
we're celebrating the activity
of God.

714
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,040
Oh well.
And he he may preach something.

715
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,159
That's he.
Might.

716
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So edge of your seat, get

717
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,600
excited.
Yeah, yeah.

718
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,159
We don't know.
It could be, you know, Obadiah,

719
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:58,080
we just don't.
Know we just don't know.

720
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,080
Take it, eat them.
I think that was Obadiah's

721
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,120
about, but close this out,
Michael.

722
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,880
All right.
Hey, that's Arte.

723
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,720
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724
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,080
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725
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