I Hope to See You – Romans 15:22–33

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All right, Zach.
Yeah, Michael.

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Do you ever are you ever outside
in the in the great outdoors?

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Oh yeah, you know, from time to
time.

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Now you.
I think we've talked.

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Oh, I know.
We've talked about.

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Yeah.
My affinity for snakes.

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Oh, have we ever?
Yeah.

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And spiders don't really bother
me at all.

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Yeah, either you.
Are you into are you?

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I don't care for them.
I mean like don't love them.

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Not the worst thing in the
world.

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I just need to know are you like
relocating spiders as well?

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The hesitation tells tells me
I'm not going to like this

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answer.
I have relocated spiders out of

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my house like I don't, you know.
Don't just kill them.

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Don't just kill them, just just
take them out.

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Yeah, in fact, we had some.
Oh, triangulate cobweb spiders.

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My favorite?
Yeah, and that man, they are the

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best 'cause they just those and
seller spiders, They they have a

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little web, they stay in their
corner and then it's just free

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pest control.
They're not a danger to you.

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So you intentionally, you're
like, you're not, you're not

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cleaning out those cobwebs.
You might even be like, here's

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some food for your spider.
Like, let's keep, let's keep,

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let's keep rolling.
Yeah, in fact, my there there is

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one spider that I do hate and it
is the brown recluse spider.

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Now brown recluse is they get a
a batter rap, a batter worse rap

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than what they they should.
Yeah, misunderstood, huh?

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But my in laws house in Arkansas
was covered.

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Oh yeah.
Brown that that area of the

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country, yeah.
Can be bad, yeah.

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With brown recluses.
Yeah, and I was importing other

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spiders into their house.
I was bringing other spiders

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into the house to oh, because
web spiders will catch and eat

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brown recluses because.
So there's different types of

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spiders like your wolf spiders,
your brown recluses, those are

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hunter spiders.
So they're like out there and

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they're like chasing down their
prey and stuff.

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Whereas, you know, a Black
Widow, false widows, like your

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cobweb spiders, you know just
any of those.

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You know, seller spiders, they
will set up a web and could trap

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and eat bramel clues.
But they also out compete, you

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know, they're competing for the
resources.

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And there was a summer I was
just like, Jill, don't don't say

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anything, but I'm bringing in
every spider that I can.

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I'm bringing them in and I would
go out at night, like with the

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flashlight and because, and I
would kill maybe 10 brown

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recluses every night.
I would get the spider man like

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they like because they would
just get in a little corner and

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that I but I haven't done that
lately because I brought them I

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think a pop I I I single
handedly like help.

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They're not it's not that
there's none of them there, but

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I mean there was a couple
summers.

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It was just.
Ridiculous.

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They're more like, you know,
brown social spiders.

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They're just everywhere.
Yeah.

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So I say all to say, you may
think that there are no pests

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don't bother me, but there are
some pests that bother me that I

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don't like.
It used to be Wasps, but I'm

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I'm, you know, I'm cool with
Wasps now because I I think the

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trigger was the sound of their
wings when I was younger,

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because I would equate the
Doppler like the the like

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they're coming to get me like,
oh, now I'm angry, but it's just

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anyways, but deer flies while
you're walking horrible.

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Have you have you had them like
buzz you or no?

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Oh.
Yeah, yeah.

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And I don't know what kind of
flies these are, but there is

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one summer our church went to a
camp in Wisconsin and these

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flies were like ginormous and
everywhere and terrible.

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And that's where I just remember
it the most.

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Right.
Yeah.

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So I, I think we've talked about
like we recently had a change in

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administration, our government
and so it was teleworking quite

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a bit from home.
But I'm still, even during that

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time where a lot of people were
still working, I was in the

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office three days a week, but
corresponding to like everyone

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coming back to the office, I
also switched buildings and this

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building has a nice walking
path.

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So since, you know, February,
I've been walking this path

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whenever I could at lunch.
It's nice.

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And like I saw some snakes,
they're all dead.

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They're all dead.
But I I still see OK I can see

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what kind of snakes are there.
But this last week I walked and

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I was just harassed and
harangued by a deer fire the

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whole time.
So I was talking to a Co worker.

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This is all leading up to.
I'm on the edge of my seat

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because Michael did say he had
he got something out of his car.

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So I'm like, where is this
going?

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Yeah, yeah.
So my Co worker like none of my

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team now is in the Charleston
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They're all either in Pensacola
or New Orleans.

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And so every day I'm just like
on the phone with him and stuff.

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So I was in the middle of my
walk and one of them called and

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I took it and I was like, he's
like, are you going around?

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I was like, it's fine.
You know, I'm, you know,

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whatever.
I'm just walking.

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I am being harassed.
And he said, well, we have a

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pooper scooper business, his
wife and him on the sides, like

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in the evenings or on the
weekends, they go and they scoop

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poop.
And he said they used to get

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attacked by horseflies.
And he suggested that I

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purchase.
A.

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Dragonfly that you put on your
cap or something like you could

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just walk with it with it on
your cap or.

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Wherever you want to be on
YouTube right now to see this in

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action, you can't just listen.
You have to see it.

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Yeah, but the, you know,
dragonfly is, they are a

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predator of these other flies.
And so he's like, we put them on

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there.
He's like, it looks stupid but

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the horse lines leave us alone
honestly.

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You should just start wearing
this every day.

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That's pretty amazing that
that's great.

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So I'm like wondering like how
effective is it have?

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You tried it out.
Yet, No, not yet.

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It just, it just showed up
yesterday.

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So yeah, I'd, I am gonna, I'm
gonna try out.

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So we'll, I'll get a report back
on how effective it is.

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I wonder, do gnats because they
eat gnats?

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Too.
Yeah.

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I wonder if that maybe this is
what you've needed your whole

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life.
It's like I've been missing the

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dragonfly.
Dude, I, I wonder if like,

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that's pretty great.
I mean, I wonder if you could on

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your old walking path, just like
put little plastic all the way

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along, you know what I mean?
Like like like every 10 feet.

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Maybe that's it would look
weird, but you know.

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I think probably the motion
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Of more realistic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I don't know.
We'll see how it goes.

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I'll report back.
Yeah.

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I I like it, man.
Well, those deer flies, you know

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what they're not saying.
I hope to.

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See you, Hope to see you.
They're not going to want to see

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this bad boy in action.
That is our sermon title today.

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We're in Roman.
It's not much longer.

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So enjoy it while we're here.
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 where
we take theology to the next

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level.
All right, I have a feeling if I

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were to look into the future,
this is the second to last

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sermon in Romans.
You.

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Just got to feel like, I feel
like what Pastor Joel spend more

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time in chapter 16?
You would think, but maybe,

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maybe we're recording this after
the last one has been preached.

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It's possible.
That's great, that's great.

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Well, this sermon title, our
second to last sermon, we find

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ourselves in Romans 15.
This is titled I hope to see you

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and what what's the is it?
We start in verse 22.

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Is it just and it goes through
where's where's this chapter in

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29 or does it go more 33333333?
All right, so we're we're

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getting we're getting to the
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How you feeling nostalgic for
the Roman one days?

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Like where?
Where are you?

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Where you feel yourself.
Well, I mean, if I skip ahead to

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where we were today, 'cause
we're recording this.

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Yeah, that's right.
The Sunday afterwards.

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I wasn't necessarily nostalgic
when he was preaching this, but

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I felt a little nostalgia today.
It was like, 'cause you may or

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may not remember, we had been
talking about doing a podcast.

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Wow.
Yeah.

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And we were coaching basketball
together, 'cause that's what we

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did two years ago.
We didn't do it.

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One, we didn't do it last year,
but we we weren't coaching

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together.
And you were like, hey, what do

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you think about podcasting?
And I was like, yeah, I've

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actually been wanting to do
that.

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So we were trying to get our
plans together.

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And then and Joel's like, I'm
starting a new sermon in Romans.

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We like it's the time.
It's the time.

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We got a strike while the iron
is hot.

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Take 2.
I feel like it came to you very

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quickly.
Yeah, yeah.

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It's like I don't even think I I
wish I could look back.

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We we have any other
workshopping names for this?

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No, I don't.
I mean, I know of SO.

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Pretty, pretty cool.
Well, Pastor Joel starts this by

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taking, you know, looking at
everyone's favorite publication,

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Campus Mic, Campus Life
magazine.

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But here's a story that I think
most of us can resonate with

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where, you know, you're meeting
your boyfriend or girlfriend's

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family for the first time, and
there's this girl meeting a

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boyfriend's parent for the first
time.

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And you know, you, you lay
everything out perfectly, maybe

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in your mind, maybe the
clothing, whatever.

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And, you know, sometimes those
things don't go according to.

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Oh yeah, yeah, it's pretty
crazy.

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And apparently this person's
last name was Mott, like ours,

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because he's read this before.
It's funny.

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And he's, I've heard the Mott
name, but at the end, I don't

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know if you remember, he was
like, yeah, things didn't work

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out for Mrs. Mott.
And but he hadn't put the he

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hadn't made the everyone was
looking at Jill like, what's

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going Jill?
That's great.

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You knew Jills parents from a
young age.

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Absolutely.
Yeah.

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So probably a little bit
different context you already

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knew when you were.
Yeah, that's good.

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But apparently she's wearing a
white dress.

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Man, she orders, you know, she
writes her mom like, hey, I wore

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my nice white dress.
I ordered some food that was

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gonna be, you know, easy to eat,
not messy, like trying to do all

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the things you told me.
They served her her drink.

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And as she went to take a drink,
her arm got bumped and shoved

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the straw into her nose.
Blood starts squirting

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everywhere.
Just just a bad, bad thing.

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Bad thing.
I mean, that's pretty bad.

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Hey, it's a pretty bad bump to
get the straw on the nose.

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That's like a big difference.
And then I've had a straw on my

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nose.
Doesn't bleed like you have to.

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You have to it's.
Kind of up.

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There, that's going to be a bad
day.

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Yeah, Yeah.
No, that would be.

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That would be really bad.
Yeah.

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So the moral of the story is
sometimes you have a vision for

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how things are going to work
out.

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They don't always work out.
And so we see at the end of this

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letter that Paul is writing.
He's writing this from Corinth.

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Right.
I think so, yeah.

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So he's writing this to the
Romans like, hey, I plan to see

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you.
And we know the rest of the

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story.
Paul Harvey Illusion.

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But he is going to get to Rome.
But it's not going to be any way

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that he plans.
It's going to be different.

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Yeah, absolutely.
Well, let's dive into the text

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I'll read starting in verse 22
through 25, Paul writes.

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For this reason I've often been
prevented from coming to you,

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but now with no further place
for me in these regions and

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since I've had for many years a
longing to come to you whenever

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I go to Spain for I hope to see
you in passing and to be helped

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on my where there on my way
there by you when I first

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enjoyed your company for a
while, but now I am going to

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Jerusalem serving the Saints.
So looking at this doesn't take

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you don't have to have a PhD in
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Rex of Jesus.
You can look me up to Paul.

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He's he is like you're saying,
making plans.

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He talks about OK, I'm going to
Jerusalem.

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I want to go to Spain.
Maybe on my way I'll swing

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through.
Say hi to the Romans.

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Yeah, yeah.
And the for this reason, you

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know, if we were to kind of peel
back, you know, he just got

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through talking about, you know,
his ministry for the Gentiles.

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So he's been up in the Asia
Minor, you know, the very

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western edge of Europe up there.
You know, first, second, third

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missionary journeys over there.
He's going to take this offering

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back down to Jerusalem so you
can read the end of Second

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Corinthians.
He's talking about gathering

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this basically relief money for
of the church, the believers in

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Jerusalem who are under
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And he's like, hey, my plan is
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And then I'm I'm going to head
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Yeah, no, I and and this is we
don't, I don't think Pastor Jill

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spent a lot of time talking on
this, but I think it is, you

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know, insightful or something to
think about.

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You know, Paul says in here,
there's no further place for me

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in these regions.
Part of me is like, there's

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probably other places you
haven't hit, but you know, he's

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always pushing.
Like this place is never I.

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Maybe not, I maybe haven't
touched everyone here, but I'm

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moving on to take the gospel to
new frontiers.

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Maybe that informs a little bit
of what we mean when we think of

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missions versus, you know, I
don't know different things.

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Yeah.
And I think the pattern is he

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set up churches and had an
expectation those churches are

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going to reach that local area
and, you know, put people in

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charge and gave them
instruction, gave them some

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reading.
So yeah, I think he expected

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that the gospel would continue
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And he's going to be at the the
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Keep it going.
So, you know, looking at this,

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you know, it's pretty matter of
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making plans is good.
Paul is he's not just saying

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we'll see what happens.
I'll see where the Holy Spirit

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leads me.
Not that that would be a bad

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answer for an apostle to say,
but there is, you know, a method

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where a vision that he he's
casting that that is a good

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model to to try to incorporate.
No, I, I 100% agree there.

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There's got to be a balance
between it's 100% my way and I'm

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going to do all the plans and
this is how it's going to be

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versus I'm not going to do
anything and just wait for God

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to tell me what to do.
There's got to be this.

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I, you know, I think and we see
Paul and we're going to talk

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about James here where you make
plans, but you hold them loosely

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and you allow God to, you know,
dictate or to nuance those plans

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as you walk through them.
Yeah, easier said than done, but

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that is good to be thinking
about.

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Man, how tightly am I holding
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So let's talk about, you know,
how did Paul play and what kind

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of things were going through his
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Well, you know, we're reading
and we see what what are the

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present circumstances look like?
He, he's making his way through,

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like you're saying, setting up
churches.

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So it seems like, you know, the
way things are laid out and

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makes sense, he's got to take
relief money places.

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It just seems like things are
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Yeah.
And then also he speaks about

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what he wants.
Like what you want plays into

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what your plan should be.
I remember when we got out of

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the Navy, We're about to get out
of the Navy and we're looking

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for a job and like, do we go
back to Arkansas?

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Do we stay here?
And Jill's cousin's like, hey, I

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think God puts in our hearts
where he wants us to go and he

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won't honor when you keep that.
And I think in the back of his

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mind, he thought that I was, my
heart was saying go back to

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Arkansas.
So just listen to Arkansas.

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And my heart was saying stay in
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Yeah, yeah.
I was like.

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I know I was like, Jill, that's
what David said.

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I, you know, I think the
opportunities here, you know,

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let's stay here.
And I think God has blessed us

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staying here even though it was
difficult because we were apart

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from family.
But yeah, are not that they are

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the end all be all, but your
desires, you know, as long as

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they're not sinful, should play
a role in your decision making.

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Yeah, I think, I think that's
good.

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It's probably a good time for me
to announce I, I, I feel called

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to be a missionary to the cruise
lines.

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It's just where I thank God.
God wants me.

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But I think God puts desires and
he gives people a certain move

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with certain bends.
Doesn't mean it always works out

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towards that.
But God, God uses those.

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So don't because I think a lot
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like deny everything you ever
have liked and you know, it's

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like everything is just got to
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So put those away.
But that's that's what we see

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Paul doing and then looking at
the needs Spain did not have the

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gospel.
He was going to go there and

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then even talking about the
these needs with relief

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offerings and that kind of
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He saw the need and that's what
he he worked toward.

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It wasn't just what was just
what it's not just what he

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wanted.
It wasn't just the

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circumstances, but it was kind
of like looking at all of these

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things, needs being since the
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So I think that that is
informative when we think about

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how should we plan.
That's very good.

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And of course all of our plans,
like we said, should be held

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loosely.
Here's what James has to say.

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Come now, you who say today or
tomorrow we will go to such and

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such a city and spend a year
there and engage in business and

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make a profit, yet you do not
know what your life will be like

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even tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that

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appears for a little while and
then vanishes away.

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Instead you ought to say, if the
Lord wills, we will live and

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also do this or that.
But as it is, you boast in your

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arrogance.
All such boasting is evil.

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Therefore to one who knows the
right thing to do and does not

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do it, to him, it is sin.
So kind of this double edged

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like hey, you need to hold your
plans loosely, but also go do

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the right thing.
And I think that's also the the

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mindset that Paul had.
That's good.

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And we get this initials DV.
It's like, I just know.

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It's like Deyo.
Volition is the English word.

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I don't know the Latin behind
volition, but that's what I took

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it to.
Be.

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Yeah, yeah.
But they used to like sign their

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letter or whatever they would.
They made it a point to say,

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Lord willing.
And a lot of people talk that

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way.
We probably do all the talk that

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way more often, you know,
because I, I feel like I, you

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know, people used to use it a
lot.

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But we probably, yeah, we
probably could use it more.

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That's good.
All right.

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Well, kind of looking at the,
you know, I, I alluded to the

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the rest of the story, we know
that Paul goes to Jerusalem, he

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delivers that money, he goes to
the temple, he's cleansed

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himself.
So he's done all the things that

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he would you have needed to do
by Jewish customs to enter the

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temple.
He's seen there by some Jews who

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are from the regions that he had
been in and there's an uproar

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and he almost is killed right
then he, the, the guard is there

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that helps save him.
We know he's arrested.

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He's imprisoned.
He has to appeal to Caesar

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because, like, it seemed like
that guy was gonna just for the

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sake of the Jews, hand him over
to the Jews.

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Like what a what a weak spined
guy.

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You know what I'm saying?
It's.

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You know, glad Paul knew his
rights.

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You know, he could like appeal
to it, you know what I mean?

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He's shipped to Rome.
They take off during a bad

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season.
He's like, I don't think this is

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a good season.
The guy's like, yeah, it'd be

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fine.
It'd be fine.

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We know he's shipwrecked.
He's bitten by a snake.

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He's not afraid of the snake.
It was even worse.

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A cat just strolled by some
little kitten cat.

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Oh man.
Yeah, back to snakes being

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terrible, you were saying?
He's bitten by a snake and you

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know he's fine.
Although it was a it was

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apparently a Viper that but
either got either the Viper did

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not invent a mate or God
miraculously detox the the toxin

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and then he gets to Rome and
he's under house arrest.

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Do you?
Know how long, Michael?

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Two years. 2 1/2 years 2 and.
1/2 years.

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I said deja vu.
It's great.

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That's what I said during the.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you like

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nailed it and then.
Yeah, yeah, it's a good guess.

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Yeah, Yeah, it's good.
I mean round numbers 2, 1/2 two,

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two.
Years.

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That was great.
So, you know, yeah, you look at

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back at that list and it's like,
wow, a lot happened.

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Paul probably wasn't penciling
in that snake bite and that

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shipwreck and all those crazy
things.

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Right as as true.
So you know, the question is,

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and I'm sure we have all
experienced this, like what do

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we do when our plans get messed
up a little bit?

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Because we have plans, we make
plans even sometimes they can be

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big term, long term plans that
get messed up.

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They could be medium term even.
Like I think this is how my day

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is going to turn out.
And then one thing after

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another, and you're in a place
that you never expected to be.

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I was just going to say that.
And I think that's that's pretty

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universal where I've never met
one person who's like everything

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worked out perfect all the time,
the way exactly I wanted it went

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that way.
Right, right.

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Yeah, no.
Even people that it seems like

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that it's like my day went this
way or it's not been like the

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best year or or whatever it
might be.

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So we have, you know, lots of
examples of this in the Bible.

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Maybe one of the best is David
in the Psalms.

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We know that he was anointed to
be king, and then he waited a

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long time and from what we can
tell, served Saul to the best of

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his ability.
And maybe out of that, Saul

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recognized, oh, God, his favor,
God's favor is on this guy.

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And of course, he's haunted by
Saul and he's on the run from

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Saul.
What was it, 10 years?

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A decade?
Yeah, a decade, Right.

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So this Psalm 62, I think it's
12 verses, but it it just kind

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of talks about, you know, his
trials through being on the run

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says my soul waits in silence
for God.

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Only for him is my salvation.
He only is my rock and my

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salvation my stronghold.
I shall not be greatly shaken.

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How long will you assail a man
that you may murder him?

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All of you, like a leaning wall,
like a tottering fence.

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They have counseled only to
thrust him down from his high

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position.
They delight in falsehood.

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They blessed with their mouth,
but inwardly they curse Salah.

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My soul wait in silence for God
only, for my hope is from Him.

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He only is my rock and my
salvation, my stronghold.

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I shall not be shaken on God.
My salvation and my glory rest

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the rock of my strength.
My refuge is in God.

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Trust in Him at all times.
O people, pour out your heart

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before Him.
God is a refuge for us.

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Salah.
Men of low degree are only

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vanity, and men of rank are a
lie in the balances they go up.

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They are together lighter than
breath.

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Do not trust in opposition, and
do not faintly hope and robbery.

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00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,840
If riches increase, do not set
your heart upon them once God

448
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,480
has spoken twice.
I've heard this.

449
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,240
That power belongs to God, and
loving kindness is yours, O

450
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,200
Lord, for you recompense a man
according to his work.

451
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,800
Psalm 62.
Man, it's one of those you can

452
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,560
read and doesn't take you long
to know where David's hope lies.

453
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,440
It's like over.
It's like, and, and very

454
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,320
personal.
Some my rock, my salvation, my

455
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,920
God, It's just like it's over
and over and over.

456
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,440
You can see David's response
and, and 'cause I think you can

457
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,280
think of David and be like, man,
that guy had it all.

458
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,640
What a, what a life, you know.
It's like he's just a Kingdom.

459
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,000
It's like, you know, but it's
like, like we were.

460
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,920
Saying had the ladies.
But it's like.

461
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,240
Warrior Singer.
And, and when you peel back

462
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,760
that, that it's, you know, that
decade on there and like, wow,

463
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,520
that's probably tough.
That's probably, you know, a

464
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,000
big, that's a huge part of your
life.

465
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,200
And that's, you know, a lot of
years where it's probably like

466
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,080
the prime of his life.
And it's like, man, so, so

467
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,360
tough.
So reading, you know, something

468
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,640
like that, I think, I think that
that is encouraging and and

469
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,520
instructive for us as well.
Had this quote from Michelle

470
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,440
Bankston that says we hold a
single puzzle piece.

471
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,400
That's all we can see while God
is busy working the entire

472
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,040
puzzle together to create a
beautiful masterpiece.

473
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,000
So, you know, pretty
self-explanatory.

474
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,880
We only have our lives.
We only have our circumstances

475
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,320
that we look at.
And there's this whole tapestry

476
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,080
that God is weaving together to
mix our metaphors between

477
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,320
puzzles and and weaving.
But you know, he, he's weaving

478
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,000
together this tapestry that in
the end is going to be good.

479
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,800
And through that process, we're
going to have our ups and downs.

480
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,440
But just like we can say with
David, God is our strength.

481
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,920
He is our refuge.
It's only him that's actually

482
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,760
going to fulfill us in in the
end.

483
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,480
That's, that's great.
We're going to keep on moving

484
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,440
along into text, looking at
verses 26 through 29, Paul's

485
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:04,800
plans for the Jerusalem church.
Paul continues on as he's

486
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,040
writing and and says for
Macedonia and IKEA have been

487
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,680
pleased to make a contribution
for the poor among the Saints in

488
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,400
Jerusalem.
Yes, they were pleased to do so.

489
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,560
They are indebted to them for if
the Gentiles have shared in

490
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,560
their spiritual things, they are
indebted to minister to them

491
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,000
also in material things.
Therefore, when I finish this

492
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,560
and I put my seal on the fruit
of theirs, I will go on by way

493
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,000
of you to Spain.
I know that when I come to you,

494
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,800
I will come in the fullness of
the blessing of Christ.

495
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,280
So lots of that that we were, we
kind of either hinted at or kind

496
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,120
of outright said some of the the
plans he had makes a little

497
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,240
comment about, you know, the
Gentiles, they shared in these

498
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,000
spiritual things.
Well, you know, they're indebted

499
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,160
to minister.
I'm also on the material side of

500
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,560
things as well.
That's good.

501
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,080
Continue on verses 30 to 33.
This is Paul's appeal for

502
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,720
prayer, for his plan.
So basically it's like, hey,

503
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,440
this is what I want to do.
This is how I'm going to do it.

504
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,800
Now will you join me in prayer
that this would come about?

505
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,600
So he says, now I urge you,
brethren, by our Lord Jesus

506
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,360
Christ and by the love of the
Spirit to strive together with

507
00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,880
me in your prayers to God for
me, that I may be rescued from

508
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,880
those who are disobedient in
Judea.

509
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,640
So almost like a foreshadowing,
like he knows that everything's

510
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,000
going to go, that there are
people that are against them,

511
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,240
and that my service for
Jerusalem may prove acceptable

512
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,520
to the Saints, so that I may
come to you in joy by the will

513
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,960
of God and find refreshing Rest
in your company.

514
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,800
Now the God of peace be with you
all.

515
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,120
Amen.
We so we we try to break down

516
00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,440
this prayer a little bit.
Look at look at some of these

517
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,800
requests he's praying for, you
know, things like safety that

518
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,720
the service he does that be
proved acceptable.

519
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,600
He wants that to be blessed.
And then, you know, has this

520
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,040
salutation to those in Rome, not
a God of peace be with you all.

521
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,640
Amen.
So again, just good, good

522
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,520
patterns to see.
And he's doing everything

523
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,280
saying, hey, let's drive
together.

524
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,760
Let's pray.
Let's pray about these things

525
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,480
because I think he knows like
hinting at some of the stuff

526
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,960
that I want to go this way.
But you know, anything could

527
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,040
happen.
You want to read this next story

528
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,400
or or you or you want to skip
over it?

529
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,160
The Mad Men headed to turn off
iron.

530
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,440
I know I'm even.
I'm not blanking on this story.

531
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,360
You blanking?
I'm blanking.

532
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,280
So this is the guy who was his
wife.

533
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,600
Left I remember.
Now and he was showering and

534
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,000
she's like, oh honey, I think
it'll let the iron on in the

535
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,480
basement.
Can you go turn it off?

536
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,360
And this I guess it's even I I
this was written in these life

537
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,960
in these United States Reader's
Digest.

538
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,240
So Joel rabbit troll here.
Joel always talks about post and

539
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,040
Courier, but we used to get
Reader's Digest and humor in

540
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,040
uniform when I was a kid.
I loved that life in these

541
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,600
United States was another one.
And there was there was a third

542
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,360
one.
I would always read all make

543
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:54,440
sure I read all of those in
there.

544
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,480
So they people would send in
these little clips.

545
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,320
Yeah, hard to verify the
veracity, but according to this

546
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,600
one, he's like getting ready and
she texts them.

547
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,640
Hey, can you or probably not
text them?

548
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,080
Because this was.
That's a good point.

549
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,880
Yeah, yeah.
Somehow she got a message like,

550
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,560
hey, can you, I, I left, can you
come downstairs?

551
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,800
So house is empty, right?
Yeah, what are you going to do?

552
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,720
So I guess he just takes down in
his birthday suit to it's

553
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,880
appropriate, it's his birthday
to the basement and opens it up.

554
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:30,760
And to his shock, there was a
bunch of people there saying

555
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,640
surprise, surprise.
So, yeah, so things didn't turn.

556
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,960
The point is, things didn't turn
out how he thought they were

557
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,200
going.
Going yeah, probably not.

558
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,240
So when you look, look through
this section of Romans 15 and

559
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,480
you know, how do we, how do we
apply this?

560
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,360
A lot of different things we
could apply, you know, when it

561
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,960
comes to planning, when it comes
to prayer.

562
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,120
One application that that Pastor
Jill made was pray for our

563
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,400
missionaries.
You know, in this last section

564
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,680
we read, it speaks about
striving earnestly together.

565
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,040
And so we kind of list all our
missionaries be praying for them

566
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,200
because, you know, they don't
know what The thing is, just

567
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,520
like we don't know how things
are going to unfold.

568
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,720
You know, God willing, we we
pray with them.

569
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,240
Yeah, that's good.
So we have our list of

570
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,320
missionaries and we have some
missionaries that we have sent

571
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,680
out from our own church.
And so hopefully, you know, if

572
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,120
you're part of CBC, you know
those.

573
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,040
If you're not part of CBC,
hopefully your church is sending

574
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,040
some missionaries out, maybe
some ministries that you've

575
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,760
partnered with that are, you
know, in your local area or

576
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,360
maybe they're international.
And then, you know, we said this

577
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:33,760
a couple times, but you know,
Easter is coming up.

578
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,760
It's, you know, Christmas gets a
lot of attention as a Christmas

579
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,000
holiday and it is great.
I love Christmas.

580
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,600
It's probably emotionally my
favorite holiday, but

581
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,280
intellectually, Easter is the is
the best, right?

582
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,720
It's where Christ is shown to be
who he is.

583
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,080
It's like the to use a football
analogy, it's the Super Bowl of

584
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,080
a of a Christian faith, the
Masters.

585
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,040
There you go, ties a timely
reference and we we've got this

586
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,160
emphasis to, you know, pray for
people, serve people and buy at

587
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,240
least one person out since it's
that time of year that, you

588
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,280
know, people guard down a little
bit like, hey, I'll go.

589
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,080
It's the right thing to do kind
of thing.

590
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:11,440
All right.
Anything else?

591
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,160
Man, we're getting there, you
know, next week.

592
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:16,840
Next week.
Roman 16.

593
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,080
Roman 16.
It's going to be a doozy, yeah.

594
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,600
It'll be a doozy.
Some crazy names.

595
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,640
I'll let you read all those.
But yeah, right.

596
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,920
But I got nothing else on my
ends, man.

597
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,400
Yeah, we're getting there all
right.

598
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,960
That's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

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00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,160
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