In All Things Give Thanks | 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and 7:37-39

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So Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving.

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You went up to, you went to West
Virginia, is that?

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West Virginia Take Me Home
Country Rd. you know.

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And I didn't.
So I'm learning more and more

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about your your family.
Yeah.

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So some in Kentucky or you were
there for a little bit when you

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were a.
Kid Yeah.

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So my mom and dad were both born
in the Huntington area of West

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Virginia.
They both went to like Marshall.

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From West Virginia.
They're from there.

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They were not.
They were not from Memphis.

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No, not from Memphis.
Oh, OK.

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OK, so my dad, he did Med school
at Marshall University.

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We like of we are.
Marshall, we are Marshall.

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That's, that's the school.
Yeah.

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Yep.
My my grandfather.

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Was he there when that went down
or?

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No, that was a little before.
Worst time.

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My grandfather went there and he
was for, I think for a little

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bit, he was like a Dean of
education at Marshall.

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So I think he was, he was
affiliated around, I think it

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was like 70s or something.
I don't know.

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It was a long time ago.
They were born there and then he

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did his residency in Pittsburgh
at a Children's Hospital, then

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did his fellowship in Memphis at
Saint Jude's and just kind of

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like stayed and then like took a
job at University of Kentucky

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for a couple years, but came
back to Saint Jude's got you

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kind of thing so that.
Pittsburgh must have been the

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worst.
I mean, their football team,

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just just one of the worst.
But go ahead.

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I'll just, I'm just going to
keep moving on.

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But my family, my mom on my
mom's side, my grandparents have

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since passed away on that side.
But my cousin, basically, they

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used to, it's like, you know,
just this little mountain and

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it's like every, you know, every
little bit you go up, someone's

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got a house and it's all he's,
he's just, you're called.

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Mountain Mama.
They call it Coplin branch

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holler but but I like it Mom
from the song Jordan.

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He just belts that out mountain
Mama really loud and so that

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that was my Thanksgiving was
good.

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I saw my grandmother who's still
alive there and that was great.

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Saw some aunts and uncles, that
kind of thing.

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Well, you went not to West
Virginia, not to West to Bama.

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To Alabama, Yeah.
So, yeah.

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So for the past two years,
instead of Tommy and Judy,

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Jill's parents coming all the
way out here, we've met in the

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middle.
So last year was just outside of

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Atlanta, and this year we found
an Airbnb in Lionville.

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We think that's how it's
pronounced.

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Tommy and Judy were campaigning
for Linville.

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I don't know, it seems like it's
Lionville.

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But if you're from Alabama and
you know how it's pronounced,

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you know, leave us a comment as
to.

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That's good.
Maybe, maybe, maybe there's a

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huge following in.
That town or city?

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Yeah, but it was a little bit
adventurous getting there.

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What happened?
Well, so about a week before

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Thanksgiving, we had some
misfiring in our van and it was

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actually after impact.
We were talking to Christopher

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about it and we're like, do we
get it towed?

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And Christopher was like, what
is it Like I'm pretty sure it's

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the number 3 spark plug because
that's the shop had said that

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that was kind of acting up.
He's like, let me look at a

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YouTube video And he's like,
yeah, it's not going to be hard.

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Like the YouTube video is only
20 minutes.

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That means it's an easy job.
And so he's he's like, yeah,

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it's not hard.
There's Advance Auto or AutoZone

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open like 2 minutes away from
our church.

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I will get the stuff.
If you want me to do it, I'll,

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I'll do it.
And I was like, sure, yeah,

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that'd be great.
So the good thing was he

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replaced it and that stopped the
misfiring then.

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But the even better thing was he
talked me through like, this is

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how I'm doing.
This is what you do because.

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I've never done.
That kind of thing.

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So it starts misfiring again and
I'm like, maybe it's that, you

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know, because we didn't replace
the ignition coil that goes on

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top of the spark plug.
I was like, you know what, I'm

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just going to do all six, even
the one that he did because it

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because we are, we are thought
maybe the ignition coil was

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hurting that spark plug.
So I was like, I'm just going

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to, you know, buy a pack of six,
buy a packet of both of those.

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And I did and was moving through
them and it was fine.

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And I was like, OK, look at me.
I'm, I'm changing the spark

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plugs on the side of the road at
a pilot, you know, until I got

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to the fifth one and the there's
like a little seal that the

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ignition coil seals on top of
the spark plug.

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And when I pulled the ignition
coil out, that seal stayed on

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there.
It had like gotten stuck to the

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spark plug.
I couldn't get my ratchet, my

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socket on the spark plug to get
it out.

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I got some pick tools from
Lowe's nearby and that did not

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do it.
I was like, we were kind of in

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this.
We spent like 4 hours on the

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side of the road working on
this.

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But thankfully a A-Team member
from AutoZone, we called like,

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is there a way, like you could
run us a tool 'cause we're going

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to need something to help get
this out.

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He's like described what's going
on to my friend because I don't

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know anything about cars.
Here's the phone.

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I described it.
He's like, oh, yeah, yeah.

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And he's like, I know exactly
what you need.

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He, I paid him, he bought the
tool, he brought it out.

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It actually did not work.
It was too large to get into,

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but he like made two trip 2, two
or three trips back to help get

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it out.
Got it out.

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We got all of them in, fixed it.
So we were late when later

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Wednesday than what we were
planning on, but we got there

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safely and it was it was.
AutoZone to the rescue.

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First thing is the one guy knows
nothing about cars.

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Maybe work anywhere else.
I don't know.

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I guess maybe they pay.
Maybe it's just hard to hire

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people.
So there you go.

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You take what you can get.
AutoZone.

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Yeah.
Yeah, this guy was a senior in

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high school.
OK, Yeah.

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Worked at his school's bus shop.
Wow.

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Yeah.
And he said he got into, like,

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just doing computer hardware
when he was, like, in middle

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school and went from there to,
like, building stuff and getting

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his hands dirty.
Brighton.

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And he had a very Polish last
name, like Madeski or something

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like that.
Madreski something.

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So that's him.
Shout out.

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Shout out to him.
Thanks for, you know, it's

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pretty cool.
Yeah.

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For helping us out.
Don't, I don't go to AutoZone a

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lot, but they were the sponsor
of the Redbirds Stadium, which

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was the AAA team in Memphis for
the Cardinals, AutoZone Park,

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you would go to the, you know, a
little baseball game.

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So that's great.
Glad.

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So your card's good now.
Yeah, like all of the lights

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went off.
It seems to be running fine.

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That's great.
So yeah.

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Hey, when we were West Virginia,
we saw my kids were pumped, we

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saw some snow.
They were they didn't like stick

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to come, but it was like pretty
good flurries going on.

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So that was fun and just a lot
of how how far away is Linebill

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or Linnaea Bill?
Linneville.

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From, from us, yeah, yeah.
It's like exactly 6 hours.

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It was really cool.
It's like it's actually 6 hour

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+4 if your car breaks down, but
exactly 6 hours from us and from

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Arkansas.
So it was like really halfway.

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Yeah.
And it was very nice.

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It was on a lake, although the
lake was probably 20 feet down.

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They said that in the summer it
comes up because it's a lake

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that's fed by a river, which is
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I'm not.
I'm not seen that type of water

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topography, but it because it's
trying to figure it out.

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Like how does this water stay in
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But you know, it was really
weird.

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I know we could we could talk
for hours about water

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topography, but we will move on
to Pastor Jill sermon leading

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into Thanksgiving titled and all
things Give thanks.

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A little detour from Romans, but
hope you guys enjoy this.

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So 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, so this, so we

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normally record like a week,
week and a half in advance.

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We took some time off for
Thanksgiving, so we're getting

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caught up.
So this is actually Joel's

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message before Thanksgiving.
That's right.

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What you're going to hear
slightly after Thanksgiving.

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But you know, The thing is we're
only thankful on one day of the

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year and that right, well, in
fact, our passage is going to

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say basically pray, always give
thanks and everything.

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So it's timely.
It's always timely, but.

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If someone asks you what's God's
will for like, I can't figure

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out God's will be like, I know
what it is.

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Look at this.
Passage.

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That's right.
That's right.

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All right.
So Joel starts us off with this

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illustration.
Gypsy Smith.

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I mean, just a common household
name, but I guess he was over in

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New, not, not New England.
Old England I think was what I

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got, was he was in the UK and he
had been visiting some

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infirmaries with children.
And there was one with this kid

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who had the sickness and he was
about to leave.

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And the kind of the guy in the
Infirmary, Mr. Penny says, you

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know, before Mr. Smith, 'cause
this was Gypsy Smith's real

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name.
Mr. Smith goes, once you were

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going to sing something for me.
He says, yes, Sir.

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And he says, what do you want to
sing?

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He says, count your blessings.
And kind of the similar, you

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know, just like, kind of helped.
Wow.

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It was a game changer for his
mind because here's this girl

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who's sick in the hospital and
here she is singing Count Your

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many blessings.
Yeah, that perspective and and

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from what I gathered, too, this
was like a brand new song.

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It's like Chris Tomlin, just put
this out.

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Count your many blessings.
I do want to know, like, how do

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you get the nickname and Gypsy?
Like, what do you have to do?

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Like take that nickname.
But Gypsy Smith counts too many

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blessings.
I don't know.

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Did you grow up singing this at
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Like it was, it was, it was like
a class.

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It was.
And we had like, the tenor and

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the bass lines going on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So when we sang it our
Thanksgiving, I had to go.

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No, you're singing the melody.
You can't go to the No, no, no,

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no, no.
Yeah, all the.

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That's that's what I was
thinking too.

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Like I'm, I know, like, yeah,
choirs would sing.

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It's just like, man, one of the
one of those hymns that is, it's

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up there, you know, everyone
knows counts her many blessings.

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But you're right.
The point being, man, what, how

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does this little girl have this
perspective in light of all of

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this?
And I think that, you know,

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really sets the stage for this
passage.

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Pastor Joe's bouncing around a
little bit between a couple

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passages, but he's going to
anchor at least the beginning of

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the sermon in First
Thessalonians 516 through 18.

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So I don't know, Michael, do
you?

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Do you want to read this for us?
I absolutely will 516 through

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18, rejoice always pray without
ceasing in everything, give

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thanks.
And as you alluded to earlier,

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Zach, for this is God's will for
you in Christ Jesus.

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So this is God's will.
So we do those three things.

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But I probably don't have to ask
this.

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This is probably one of those
verses you memorize for points

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in your little like growing up.
Rejoice always got one.

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Right.
Yeah, yeah.

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No, that, no, that's these are
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You want to feel accomplished,
Rejoice.

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Always memorize a verse.
Keep that with you, you know,

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and not that much more work to
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passage.
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rejoice always Paul is going
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final instructions getting
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bunch of imperatives one after
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boom boom.
The Amplified Bible for verse 16

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where in most translation says
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Bible says be happy in your
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hearted continually always.
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because they really just throw
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That's right, all the shades of
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It helps you know, okay, what
would be there and happy is this

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there is this idea that we
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in those words.
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frowned upon in in the
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because like, you know,
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have joy cause joy is this, you
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But it we could also be happy.
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Yeah, I, I think that's good
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like the, you know, pious
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but happiness is this brevity.
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Alcorn arrest this heaven book,
right?

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Maybe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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He writes a book about joy and
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Guess what?
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He kind of like hits that.
That's good, that's good, that's

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Verse 17 pray without ceasing.
And Joe made a mention of this

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is like, you know, the
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thanks.
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you're giving thanks.
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possible by what's in the
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we're giving thanks, it's going
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it's going to show up in how we
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regular basis.
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you're in a bind, if you're in a
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a trial or something that's
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Praying's a good solution here
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towards being a little bit more
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joyful.
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prayers.
We were talking about me and

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Jill when we were on the side of
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I was praying.
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little church.
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like on the side of the road be
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someone's phrasing kind of goes
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Here Paul writes rejoice in the
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rejoice.
What's your gentle spirit be

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known to all men.
The Lord is near be anxious for

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nothing, but in everything by
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Thanksgiving.
Let your requests be made known

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to God, and the peace of God,
which surpasses all

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comprehension, will guard your
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Jesus.
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beats rejoicing.
Don't be anxious, but instead

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turn to prayer.
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just in First Thessalonians, but
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Yeah, and there's a song that
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at our church that Tim often
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it is Just Rejoice.
I don't know the artist 'cause I

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haven't LED it, but it basically
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that you just read.
So, you know, I, I know all of

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us have our, our strengths and
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than others.
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one of those, or even if you're
not, this rejoice song is good

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because it just puts into music
this verse that we just talked

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about.
And it's good to have kind of

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that in your thought pattern
because it can really change

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your emotions, which our
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and direct our emotions.
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way.
So if you find your emotions

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need check, this is a good song
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So that's 16, that's 17.
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yourself, man, you know that
these are some, if you're going

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to like exegete a passage, these
are good 2 verses to start with

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because you're like, oh, I'm
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We get to a little bit longer of
a verse in verse 18, in

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everything, give things for this
is God's will for you in Christ

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Jesus.
Pastor Joel made this

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distinction.
You don't have to give things

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for everything.
If something tragic really does

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happen, you don't have to say
thanks for that, but in

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everything we can have this
thankful spirit to God and that

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it is the will of God.
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pivotal books for me was
Trusting Jesus by Bridges.

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Right to your bridges.
It was so good because it helped

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me, you know, 'cause you always
think, oh, I know what's best.

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Oh, why is this happening?
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stuck out to me out of that was,
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God's wisdom, God's power.
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are true, He wants what's best
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He knows what's best for us.
He's able to bring about what's

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best for us.
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'cause you know there are bad
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moral will.
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give thanks 'cause we know God
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for a greater good, for His
glory, and for our

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sanctification, for our being
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there's probably a few go to
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and Silas in prison singing.
I'll read the passage verse as

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22 through 25 says.
The crowd rose up together

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against them, and the chief
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and proceeded to order them to
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prison, commanding the jailer to
guard them securely, and he

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haven't received such a command,
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and fasten their feet in the
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singing hymns of praise to God,
and the prisoners were listening

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to them.
What I like about this is it

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connects those things to prayer
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Those things go together here as
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I just wonder why it took them
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Like why'd they wait till
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They could have started like 8.
That's good about one of those

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questions we can ask Paul, Paul
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You know, I wonder what what
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singing?
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they're talking about songs
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name.
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this passage too.
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right.
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is it possible?
Even though it's God's will for

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us, how is it really possible
for us to rejoice always, to

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pray without ceasing, to give
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though that's God's will for us?
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I don't know if he coined it, he
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impossible for us in our flesh,
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I love those kind of things.
It's so good.

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So good because when we are in
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are in the center of his will
and, and, and as we're working

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through that.
Man, that that's so, so good.

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When we go to this illustration
about Norman Rockwell and his

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famous paintings, you might
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but I feel like Norman
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even if you don't know Norman
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recognize that picture kind of
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He's got these famous war
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freedom of speech, religion,
freedom from fear, Feast of

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Booths, and he kind of
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this Thanksgiving scene that if
you saw that you you, you know

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we.
Can put it up.

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Here.
Oh, there you go, the green.

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Screen, so you'll have to go
look at it if you're at the

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podcast, but if you're on
YouTube, you'll see this

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painting and well, well, it's
right there and you can describe

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it.
The, the, I think it's like the,

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the matron, the the matriarch is
like delivering a Turkey to the

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the table.
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kind of looking on and it's this
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I didn't mean to interrupt the
demonstration.

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Yeah, that was great.
I'm like losing my voice anyway.

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And Pastor Jill pointed out the
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that everyone's not like looking
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definitely a highlight of of the
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But they're all like conversing,
enjoying each other, the people

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around.
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uses this illustration of it's
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possessions.
It's about friends and family.

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This lesser to the greater
that's you know, we can rejoice,

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we can pray, we can do these
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God in Christ Jesus.
Yeah, and so he moves on from

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there to Sukkot Sukoot.
How do you know how to?

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Pronounce it.
I don't know.

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It's Sukkot.
Sukkot.

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Yeah, I think it is.
It's more, yeah.

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There you go.
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Booths, and it was similar to
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So it was this time, this
festival, they looked to the

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past, they looked to the
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future.
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celebration ceremony.
So that's where our second

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passage is.
So we're in First Thessalonians

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now.
We're going to shift over to

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John 737 through 38.
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now on the last day of this
festival, the great day of the

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feast, Jesus stood and cried
out, saying, if anyone is

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thirsty, let him come to me and
drink.

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He who believes in me, as the
Scripture said, from his

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innermost being will flow rivers
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Man, I, I like that he made this
connection between Thanksgiving

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and the feast of of booth.
I know it's not the exact same

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thing, but that does give you
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Oh, I get that.
People go around the table

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sometimes talk about things
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This culture would think all the
way back to the exodus and they

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were building these little
booths in the wilderness and

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man, this is it.
And I I was ignorant to some of

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this water celebration ceremony
and how that all tight.

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And it's pretty amazing because
I think you asked the average

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Christian Feast of Boots, we're
all like, yeah, we've heard of

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it, but we don't know anything
more than the name.

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It's like we Passover, we kind
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So this this was really helpful
to kind of give a little more

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flesh to what we hear all the
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I think that's good and so I did
grab a short description of the

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ceremony.
It this says the water

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celebration, share ceremony or
the Simchat be it hot show of

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ya, there you go kiss.
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So any of our folks who speak
Hebrew, please correct us in the

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comments.
Was part of the Sukkot festival

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in the 1st century.
Israel Priest would draw water

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from the Pool of Siloam in a
golden pitcher and bring it to

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the temple with great rejoice.
And they poured it on the altar

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along with wine as prayers were
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The ceremony included music,
dancing and light symbolizing

448
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,280
joy and dependence on God for
sustenance.

449
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,440
Man that, that that helps paint
a picture and it's like our

450
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,600
culture is so different,
especially like traditional

451
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,920
evangelical Christian culture.
It's not a lot of dancing, like

452
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,000
even our celebrations are like,
maybe you'll get a little

453
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,640
clapping, but it's like even we,
we had like a Cuba missions

454
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,240
update today and it's like just
a different culture.

455
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,040
And the, you know, pastor girl
is really trying to bring the

456
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,360
energy of the rejoicing and the
shouting.

457
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,240
He had this quote by David Stein
that said the Mishnah said that

458
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,960
he who had never seen this,
which was accompanied by

459
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,760
dancing, singing and music, had
never seen true joy.

460
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:25,760
That's like how of a event, a
spectacle, This was that.

461
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,360
I just think it's hard, hard to
get because on our Thanksgiving,

462
00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:29,720
there's probably not as much
dancing.

463
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,040
It's like, you know, it's like,
we don't get that.

464
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,280
I.
Don't remember any dancing that

465
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,800
we did last Thanksgiving.
Yeah, all of our dancing was

466
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,400
done.
We had, we had Jordan singing,

467
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,600
you know, Take me, You know,
Almost seven, you know, but

468
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,080
that's about it.
All right, another quote says

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00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,680
the mixture of the water and the
wine at the altar symbolize the

470
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,320
life and joy associated with the
Holy Spirit.

471
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,200
So that was Peter Cohen.
Maybe the take away yes,

472
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,880
Baptist, just get a little more
get a more wine and.

473
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,560
Then that'll help.
That'll help us out.

474
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,440
Yeah.
So we don't know.

475
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,200
We're not told for certain, but
we are told it's the last day of

476
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,280
the festival of the Feast of
Boots, this Sukkot, Sukkot

477
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,120
festival.
And it's, it's, I think it's

478
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:12,400
reasonable to assume that it was
during this ceremony of the

479
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,560
water that Jesus would stand up
and say what we just read, which

480
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,400
was just as a reminder if anyone
of Cersei let him come to me and

481
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,280
drink a bold statement in the
middle of this huge festival.

482
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,520
I guess it's, it's not, it would
be bold for you or me to say it.

483
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,440
But I guess if you're a young
creative creator in Incarnate,

484
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,480
then it's it's OK for you to say
that he who believes in me, as

485
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,280
the Scripture says, from his
innermost being will flow rivers

486
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,480
of living water.
So you have all this joy, all

487
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,880
this hype, this dancing, and
Jesus makes this proclamation

488
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,400
that you know if anyone starts
to come to him.

489
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,080
Wow, I, I think that's good.
Pastor Joel really brought

490
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,400
brought the heat here that this
is their Thanksgiving feast and

491
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,080
that in this you know, thinking
along these lines, we're going

492
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,520
into Thanksgiving put Christ at
the center of our Thanksgiving

493
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,480
feet of your thirsty for the
activity of God.

494
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,320
You want activity.
The spirit you need to come to

495
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,760
Christ and really gave us some
practical application.

496
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,120
Even thinking about the I am
statements of Jesus.

497
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:14,160
We see a lot of these and John
chapter 6 talks about Jesus

498
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,800
saying I am the bread of life
Chapter 7 that we are

499
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,480
referencing now I'm building
water.

500
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,480
Chapters 8:00 and 9:00 I am the
light of the world.

501
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,040
Chapter 10, I'm the Good
Shepherd.

502
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,280
Chapter 11, I'm the resurrection
and the life.

503
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,280
Chapter 14, I am the way, the
truth, and the life.

504
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:33,920
Chapter 15 I am the true vine,
not an accident that John's

505
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,800
recording these that all these,
you know, come about that this

506
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,600
is a a theme and something
Pastor Joel says.

507
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,120
Hey, I reflect on these often.
This is a good practical way

508
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,520
just to reflect on Christ.
No, that's good.

509
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,080
And they're those are like the
seven I am the fill in the blank

510
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,480
statements.
But he also, John records to

511
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,680
what I would call alone, stand
alone or naked Iams where Jesus

512
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,880
just says I am.
And often, unfortunately, a lot

513
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,120
of your translations will put
the word he in there, try to

514
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:03,720
help you understand the sentence
because we don't normally go

515
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,280
around just saying I am in the
end of the sentence.

516
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,120
But that's what Jesus said.
So I think it actually confuses

517
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,160
the situation.
I agree and even like reflecting

518
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:19,200
on these a lot, thinking about
how great Christ is, It's, it's

519
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,600
just, these are weird things to
say if you're not the savior,

520
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,440
like someone's like, hey, how
I'm Pete, what's your name?

521
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,320
I'm the light of the world.
You're like, that's weird,

522
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,280
that's alarming, that's strange.
And unless you are Christ, it's

523
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,400
just a weird thing to say.
That is a good point.

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00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,600
And so we have those the couple
other like John 858.

525
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,800
So at the end of chapter 8,
Jesus has been arguing back and

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00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,400
forth with the Jews.
They, you know, it says at the

527
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,960
beginning of this section that
they believed on him.

528
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:48,360
But Jesus, like, he's like not
trying to win friends and

529
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,720
influence people in this.
He's like kind of telling them,

530
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:52,520
you know, you think you believe
in me.

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00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,560
But and he starts kind of doing
these subtle jabs and the tenor

532
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,160
of the conversation goes up and
up and they start saying, you

533
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,440
know, who are you?
And he says, you know, Abraham

534
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,560
rejoiced to see my day.
And they're like, you're not

535
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,240
even 50.
And then Jesus replies, Jesus

536
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,360
said to them, truly, truly, I
say to you, him to you before

537
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,000
Abraham was born, I am.
And that that's when they picked

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00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,600
up stones to kill him.
So they there was no mistake.

539
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,960
So there's lots of places, you
know, you'll see people say

540
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,200
Jesus never claimed to be God
like he is claiming to be

541
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,280
Jehovah here in this statement.
A very extreme statement and and

542
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,000
all you know, you put all of
this together, it's just hard to

543
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,880
like, yeah, why are they picking
up stones?

544
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,840
It's just hard to connect all
the just because maybe I could

545
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,560
see that if their reaction was
like, hey, don't say that again,

546
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,200
but it's like no so, so much
stronger than that's Judas's

547
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,000
betrayal.
Is this a take?

548
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,520
Is this a take two spin off or
is this from the?

549
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,160
Oh this is the the second
standalone I am so.

550
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:50,640
Gotcha.
I see.

551
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:51,080
I see.
I see.

552
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,560
Yeah.
So when Judas comes up, you want

553
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:53,680
to read.
It I'll, I'll read it.

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00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,760
That sounds good.
John 18, two through 6.

555
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Now Judas also who was betraying
him, knew the place, for Jesus

556
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,120
had often met there with his
disciples.

557
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,560
Judas then, having received the
Roman cohort and officers from

558
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,800
the chief priest, and the
Pharisees, came there with

559
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,520
lanterns and torches and
weapons.

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00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,600
So Jesus, knowing all the things
that were coming upon him, went

561
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,400
forth and said to them, Whom do
you seek?

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00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,960
They answered him, Jesus the
Nazarene.

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00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,600
He said to them, I am He.
Probably what you're saying with

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00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,880
the translation.
So should just read I am.

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00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,400
I am, thanks a lot, New American
Stander and Judas also who is

566
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,160
betraying him was standing with
them.

567
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,720
So when he said to them, I am
he, they drew back and fell to

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00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,400
the ground.
So we see it kind of twice and

569
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,280
again you see that their
response.

570
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,760
Yeah, they fell back, you know,
So there's power in these words.

571
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:45,080
And it's unclear to me who all
this, The Who all was there with

572
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,000
Judas.
Some people will say it was a

573
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,160
small band of Roman soldiers
along with temple guard.

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00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,240
Some people just say it's it's
just the temple guard.

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00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,680
Just the temple guard seems to
make more sense to me because it

576
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,680
seems odd that the Romans would
get involved at this early

577
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:00,200
stage.
Yeah.

578
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,640
That's right.
But whoever it was, these were

579
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,040
people.
This was a guard of of soldier

580
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,880
like guys.
And in response to Jesus saying

581
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:13,080
I am, they like they fall back,
you know, it's like the it's the

582
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,640
real, you know, when Benny Hen
hits you with the coat, make

583
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,720
people fall down, that this is
the real version of that.

584
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,840
Yeah.
And so, yeah, so I like your

585
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,480
point.
You got these two standalone

586
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:28,080
Iams that are very significant.
So yeah, add these to the other

587
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,560
classic I am statements and it's
man all throughout throughout

588
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,200
John so that that's really the
meat of the passage.

589
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,960
We turn towards application just
like that classic hymn says

590
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,640
couch your Blair said blessings.
Good time just to reflect name

591
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,600
some specifics because that does
man help you see wow, God has

592
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,640
been good.
Yeah.

593
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,480
And and I don't.
No, I'm not trying to call you.

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00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:53,520
Out.
Oh yeah, go for it.

595
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,040
But.
The Mott family, we read through

596
00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:00,400
Psalm 100, like we said on our,
our, our Thanksgiving podcast.

597
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,640
So maybe I don't know if y'all
did or not, but it was good.

598
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,400
So we read through Psalm 100, we
talked about chiasms, and then

599
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,400
we did our we, we went around
the table and we counted our

600
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,440
blessings and said, you know,
some things that we are thankful

601
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:12,640
for.
And then all of you guys, like

602
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,800
you took the baseline, everyone
took the parts and like sang

603
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,480
that song.
That's good.

604
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,600
So that goes along with
application #2 share your

605
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,520
blessings that there's something
about, you know, testifying of

606
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:28,400
God's goodness that that is that
is so good to to speak of of

607
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:34,280
Jesus and pastor referenced, you
know, people being a part of

608
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,680
these miracles like that.
Their response is just

609
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,320
gratitude, you know?
Yeah.

610
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,520
So yeah, they were, they were
saying I will tell your name.

611
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,480
And that was their way of saying
thank you because they didn't

612
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,920
have.
Like a like a word in their

613
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,080
language or whatever.
Thank you, but they did have the

614
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,200
language.
Oh yeah, this was like a someone

615
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,440
who did eye surgeries.
Or something.

616
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:53,280
That was it.
OK.

617
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,080
So he was basically saying the
same way we should be going out

618
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,520
and telling people the name of
Jesus.

619
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:58,640
Yeah.
All right.

620
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,080
And then finally, wherever you
are, whether you're here in CBC,

621
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,640
but if you're part of a church,
I assume that you're probably

622
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,080
going to have some holiday
festivities.

623
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,880
So this is applicable to you
whether you're home church's CBC

624
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,040
or not.
Pray for three people.

625
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,640
Serve openly too.
Could be two different people.

626
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,160
So it could have 5 people all
together.

627
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,280
It could be two of those
reasons, you know, but at least

628
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,720
pray diligently for three.
Serve 2 and invite one out to

629
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,400
your, your church's festivities.
Share the gospel.

630
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,840
That's great.
What what a great passage,

631
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,960
whether it's before Thanksgiving
or after Thanksgiving, a good

632
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,480
one.
And it's like it's one of those

633
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,200
you could write this on a 3 by 5
card.

634
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,240
It's short like where it's like
so powerful and just a few

635
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,640
sentences here to think on these
things because it is it is the

636
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,480
will of God.
Any parting words, Michael?

637
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,560
No, that's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

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00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,760
Two.
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639
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,280
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640
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