Love One Another | Romans 13:8-14

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Love is in the air.
Love is in the air.

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Yeah.
I mean everywhere I look around.

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Keep it running.
Yeah, I know you.

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You should have sang that when
you MC the old Valentine's

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dinner, you know?
Yeah.

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Should have just started busting
out in some romantic love song.

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Well, we, we, Tim and I keep
having this plan of doing

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something like a gong show where
you sing.

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He's like, people don't want to
hear all of a song, but they

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want to hear a little bit of a
song.

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So we could like, give them a
little bit of a song by like one

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of us hitting a gong in the
middle of it or something.

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But yeah, Valentine's just just,
I mean, maybe some people missed

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it.
They could have missed

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Valentine's.
And and if you did, MM Michael,

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I can help you out.
I I, I wouldn't meant to do more

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provided 0 prep until just now,
but I think we're making it

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happen.
I was thinking maybe we could

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talk about some, you know, good
Christian Bible based pickup.

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Lines.
Yeah, like maybe like I, I don't

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know, like your neck is like the
neck of a gazelle or something

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like that.
Just straight Song of Solomon.

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Just quote some Song of Solomon.
That's good.

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Here.
Here's a, here's a couple.

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I'll, I'll throw your way.
Been reading my Bible, been

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reading the book of Numbers
recently, but I didn't see

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yours.
Can can I get yours?

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You know?
Yeah, no, that's good.

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It's pretty good.
I don't know if this is, this is

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not really a pick up line, but I
saw a mug one time.

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I was like, I need to get this
for Leanne 'cause I think it'd

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be hilarious.
And it says you don't deserve me

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at my Proverbs 31 if you can't
handle me at my judge's 40.

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My goodness.
It's pretty good.

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You know, the whole gamut, gamut
of emotions.

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If I walk around you 7 times,
will you fall for me like

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Jericho?
That's good.

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That's good.
My kids would get that one that

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that's like, that's like right
up, right up there.

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Ali, I'm no Joseph.
Maybe you're Joseph.

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Can you help me interpret the
dreams I've been having about

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you?
Oh yeah, that's not creepy at

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all.
Yeah, yeah, you, you.

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Know.
Use at your own risk.

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Yeah, yeah, I've heard one
that's like, did you fall from

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the sky 'cause you look like an
Angel to me.

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That that's, oh, this one
straight out the Bible too.

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This is great.
Is your name Faith 'cause you're

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the substance of things I hope
for?

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That's pretty good.
That's good.

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That's.
Good man, I'll I'll see if I can

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get.
There's one more.

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I saw in here that I was like,
oh man, this is this is good.

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If I can, if I can find it's,
there's something about grace

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and being irresistible.
Same.

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Same kind of concept, you know,
good, good Calvinist joke

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somewhere in there.
Is your name Grace?

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Because I find you irresistible.
That's probably what it is.

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I think I think that's right.
And she was like, no, no, no,

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no, no.
I'm just pervenient Grace.

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Irresistible Grace is over
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And someone like, yeah, that'd
be great.

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Just keep it the response that
that would be really good.

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Yeah.
I think those are those are some

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pretty, pretty good ones, you
know?

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They all have to do about love.
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And it just so happens that our
passage today is love one

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another, love one another out of
the end of Romans 13.

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So why don't we take that 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.
Who we are, we're getting close.

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Not, I mean we're getting
towards the end of Romans, not

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close to the end, but it's like
you can kind of see it.

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You can see the tunnel.
Yeah, and the lights there.

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Is that the end or is that the
train coming towards us?

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We don't know, Yeah.
But we're we're not closing out

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chapter 13, but we're getting
almost we're getting towards the

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end of chapter 13.
This is this is Sermon 38.

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Maybe I.
Think it's 38.

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That was my rough estimation. 38
or 39.

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Yeah.
Yeah, I had to go back.

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Maybe I'll flash like the last
time you asked me this question,

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I flashed on YouTube what the
number was.

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So for the YouTube followers
you'll see I'll flash what the

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number is.
Get up there.

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Yeah, great.
You mentioned it in the In the

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Open Love One another.
And this he, Pastor Jill

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preached this the Sunday before
Valentine's Day.

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Yeah.
So you gotta talk about Saint

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Valentine.
Yeah, and Saint Valentine's

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obviously associated with love.
My question to you is, have you

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listened?
My guess says the answer is no,

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and that's OK.
But have you listened to the

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Adventures and Odyssey on Saint
Valentine?

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Not recently, no.
There's been a lot of I've

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listened to a lot of as as a a
long time ago, OK.

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So but you don't remember it.
No, I don't.

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I don't.
Well, they, they dramatize St.

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Valentine and they really, they
blend together the two stories

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that Joel tells here, because
Joel was saying, you know, we

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don't really know exactly.
Like there's two different

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stories that kind of surround
him and they, we don't think

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that they are the same 1.
So we don't know which Valentine

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we are, but there was one who is
a priest and I, I don't even

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know what this Caesar or or
general was thinking, but he

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thought it was a good idea to
outlaw marriage.

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Seems weird.
Because that would make your

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soldiers, you know, more
dedicated to fighting.

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Like if you don't have to have a
a family, then you'd just be all

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in in the fighting.
But to me it's kind of the

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opposite because like, if you
have marriages, you have

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something worth fighting for.
You have families worth fighting

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for.
And so there's this priest

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Valentine who refused to get
into that and, you know,

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continued to marry.
And then this is like, so the

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Adventures and Odyssey blends
these together that then there's

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a Valentine that gets put in
prison in Rome, and he falls in

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love and he's broke out and some
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So that maybe those are all the
same story.

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I don't know, But yeah.
And what happened to Saint

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Valentine?
I think he was martyred,

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probably.
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Yeah.
Killed for his love.

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So here's some candy.
So here's.

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Some candy, Yeah.
So I guess it relates to this

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idea of, you know, we should be
loving one another.

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I love it.
Well, should we read verses 8

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through 12 of chapter 13?
I'll go ahead and read that for

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us.
It, Paul writes, owe nothing to

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anyone except to love one
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For he who loves his neighbor
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For this you shall not commit
adultery, you shall not murder,

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you shall not steal, you shall
not covet.

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If there's any other
commandment, it is son, summed

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up in this saying, you shall
love your neighbor as yourself.

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Well, there's no wrong to a
neighbor.

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Therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law.

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Do this knowing the time that it
is already the hour for you to

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awaken from sleep.
For now salvation is near to us

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than what we believed.
The night is almost gone and the

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day is near.
Therefore, let us lay aside the

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deeds of darkness and put on the
armor of lights.

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That's good.
So we'll take these a little bit

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as they go.
So the first part of verse 80,

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nothing to anyone except to love
one another.

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This is a present imperative
command.

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And you know, Paul is talking
about finances.

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He's using the imagery of
finances and I think that he's

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not telling you anything bad
with finances, but I don't think

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finances are his main object
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You know, he's really talking.
He's using the idea of just like

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you shouldn't know anything to
anyone in in your financial

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situation, don't owe anything to
anyone and you know your

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relationship situation.
I feel like someone should call

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in a Dave Ramsey and like be
like, I'm in debt.

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I open and it was like, how much
debt?

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And you just start talking about
Romans 13, you know, catch them

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off hard, You know, seriously
about that.

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Because like Paul said, oh,
nothing.

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Except, you know, you know.
And he would say you would

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really never get out of the debt
of you'll never be able to say

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you're debt free.
That's right.

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No debt free scream from this
passage because yeah, we like

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you said, we can never had us
fight our debt of love towards

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each other.
Pastor Jewel aptly, you know,

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titled this love one another.
And then Paul was just going to

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develop this over and over and
over.

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But I like that he's like using
the finance theme and then boom,

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talking all about love.
Right, second part of verse 8,

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for he who loves his neighbor
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obviously, you know, this is not
a way for salvation.

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Like, hey, just love your
neighbor and you're going to get

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saved.
But if you look at, you know,

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the 10 commandments, you see,
you know, the first four kind of

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verbal towards God.
The last six are horizontal

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towards your neighbor.
And what we would say is that

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all those last six are based on
how do you love your neighbor?

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Well, you don't, you know, lie
to him.

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You don't lie about him.
You don't covet his things.

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You don't steal his things.
You don't kill him.

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You know, all those types of
things.

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Yeah, if you love your neighbor,
don't kill your neighbor.

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That's not a good way of
showing.

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And that that's basically where
Paul goes.

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And verse 9, he just starts
laying them out there.

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He says for this, you shall not
give adultery, you should not

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murder, shall not steal, you
should not covet.

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If there's any other
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this.
So he's basically outlining him

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being OK if you if you don't, if
you don't get the gist here, I'm

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just going to sum it up here.
You shall love your neighbor as

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yourself.
Love does does no wrong to a

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neighbor.
Therefore love is the

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fulfillments of the law.
I like that.

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I like, I like when we use the
terms like fulfillments, you

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know, kind of just summarizes
that, man, if you're doing that,

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all these other things will,
will fall into place.

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That's good.
And, you know, you may be asking

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what love is.
If you were at our Valentine's

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banquet, you've gotten a
definition of love.

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Do you remember what you were
interviewing?

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But where you paint?
Sometimes as an interviewer, you

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don't pay as much attention to
the answers as the people

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listening because you're
thinking about, you know, you,

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there's a lot going on in your
mind.

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But Eddie said love takes
initiative, meets real needs.

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You know, acts sacrificially to
meet real needs, I think.

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Yeah, Yeah, that was exactly,
that was good.

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I like that that that was.
That was good.

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Joel's definition of love is
love is an attitude of the heart

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that acts in seeking acts in a
way that is seeking another

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person's best.
I have some word out of here, so

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I'm trying to piece together
what I typed.

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Trying to make it work.
I, I like this definition

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because, you know, I feel like
people just run what one way or

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the other.
Love is like a feeling or love

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is like only action.
And I like that it's like both

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of these things.
Yeah, I, I think that's good.

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You know, the greatest verse of
the entire Bible, Galatians 5-6,

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end of it, would say that love,
it's faith working through love.

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So it's our faith in Christ that
does good things, that's

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motivated by our love for him
and for others.

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So Paul, Paul is consistent on
that.

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I love it and love is Scott.
I've got a lot to do with doing

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It's a do command.
It's not, and I've really

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appreciated this part of pastor
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steal, yeah, that's the negative
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What's the positive side of it?
It needs to be generous.

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I like that 'cause I think it's
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didn't do that, but like, are
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side of that?
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So that one, well, he was saying

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each command is really a if you
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the do.
So it's not just I don't murder

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you, but you know, maybe I give
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it, that type of thing.
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That I think that's a good
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Go through the commandments and
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of it, that that is good.
Like that a lot.

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I took a little detour.
I can see you flipping some

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Bible pages.
I have it written down here, but

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I don't remember what the
surprise is.

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I cannot.
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It's like, see what's happening.
So Michael is turning to

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Ephesians chapter 4 and verse
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I'm so excited to to see what
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He who stills must still no
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performing with his own hands
what is good, so that he will

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have something to share with one
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So yeah.
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And then and then we get to the
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Jill is just going to throw out
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you just hope he doesn't call on
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And he says, Isaac, what's the
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What's the you know?
What do you think?

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that if you're looking at the
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intends the answer to be.
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this right because I was
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I would have been funny to be
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the Good Samaritan.
I don't know what is it, you

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know, like something like that.
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people think of the Good
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I don't know.
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I.
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been anchored to think of the
Good Samaritan, the Good

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Samaritan.
I actually preached on the Good

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Samaritan.
Hopefully you went back and

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listened to that sermon in
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Did you?
Did you do that?

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I did, but I do remember you
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I do.
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what fits so well with this
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Samaritan, obviously you should
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love people who are my enemies.
But that's not really the point

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of it.
The point is, you know, the Good

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Samaritan is really an answer to
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you know, how do you get to
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Something like that.
We we could probably turn to

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it's in and it's in Luke.
But and Luke says, you know,

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Jesus says, you know, keep the
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How do you read them?
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the greatest commandment?
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of God with all your heart,
soul, mind shrink and love your

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neighbor or yourself.
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you've done well.
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says seeking to justify himself.
He then asked Jesus, who is my

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neighbor?
He wants the list.

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He wants to know, all right, is
it my mom and dad, my siblings,

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my aunt and my uncle, the people
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kids, my spouse, the rabbi I run
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Are those the people I need to
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Good Samaritan parable or true
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You know, it could be a true
story, But and what what I like

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to think it was a true story
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Jesus taking something that
happened that people knew and

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going, let me tell you.
Who your?

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Neighbor is your neighbor is
your enemy that you would not

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even want to.
You know who would have hurt

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you?
Would who have you know, not

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helped you?
And yet you see him in need, and

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you show true love.
Wow, now that that is really,

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really good because that's kind
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pastor went here because it's
like when you think of, you

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know, love your neighbor, it's
like, man, this, this is like

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this is a, this is a go to here.
And look, everything I said, we

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had those verses in the notes,
we could have just read them and

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they they were in the notes.
But yeah, so you got to hear it

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summarized for me instead of
just just reading it.

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But yeah, Luke 10 Go go, go read
that and and freshen up on the

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Good Samaritan.
Great.

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And yeah, Jesus, whole point was
that does that.

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Yeah.
You're not gonna, you're not

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gonna nail this.
You can't justify yourself by,

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you know, OK, it's these three
people.

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It's like, Nope.
Yeah, we're not gonna keep that.

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So we rely on on His Grace.
Great Paul in verse 11.

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Resistible grace.
Continues on and says do this

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knowing the time that it's
already the hour for you to

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awaken from sleep.
For now salvation is near to us

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than what we believed.
The night is almost gone and the

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day is near.
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You know, Paul talks a lot about
eschatology and stuff and it's

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normally not to be like, hey,
are you post meal 'cause I'm on

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meal.
It's most of the time like, hey,

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you know, pay attention, be
vigilant, like we've got it's

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coming, let's be ready for it.
Yeah, yeah.

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And, you know, when I was a kid,
I was really concerned about the

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judgement that we would see.
And I think we've talked about

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this maybe even a little bit.
But I don't think, well, it's

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clear that the judgement that
unbelievers face and what they

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go through is going to be
different than the judgement

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that believers go through.
I think believers, I mean, our

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sins are forgiven.
I don't think that it's going to

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be, you know, and if it were, I
mean, like, what do you do?

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Like that's a, that's a long
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I mean, we got eternity.
But you know every second that

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you're not loving the Lord with
all your heart, soul, mind and

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strength.
That's a sin at some level.

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I know we have doctors before.
I just hate that.

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It's like just such a shameful
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Everyone's going to be.
It's like everyone's watching

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your life on the screen.
You're going to see everything.

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And it's like, I feel like
that's not the tenor of the I.

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Don't think it's the tenor and
and if it would be, it would be

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like, OK, here's God's.
Grace, it'd be positive.

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It's like, yeah, it wouldn't be,
yeah.

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Exactly.
But I think maybe the works that

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we taking off Paul and what what
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below.
I think what happens is maybe

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the things we the good things we
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Paul talks about what were you
building with, you know, these

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materials or these materials and
only thing I can think of and

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maybe you have thought on this.
Sorry, I got a little tickle my

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throat.
Is that our motivations for why

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we did?
This work, yeah, I could see

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that.
Maybe not like the.

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Maybe it is the height of the
good work, the quantity and the

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quality.
I don't know.

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I, I, I I don't think it's just
a straight calculus.

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Yeah, I think that that makes a
lot of sense.

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Well, let's let's read First
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Paul also writing this letter,
says, according to the grace

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which was of God, which was
given to me, like a wise master

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builder, I laid a foundation.
Another is building on it.

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For no man can lay a foundation
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laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay,

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straw, each man's work will
become evidence for the day,

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will show it, because it's to be
revealed with fire, and the fire

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itself will test the quality of
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If any man's work which he has
built on it remains, he will

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receive a reward.
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he will suffer loss, but he
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through fire.
Clearly a book on a verse on

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passage on Purgatory.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I, you know, good red herring
there.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But this is the this is the

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passage that, you know, you
know, that would be a proof text

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for purgatory for Roman
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But so I think what we see here
is Paul laid a foundation of

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Christ to these people and other
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and how they build matters and
not a physical fire.

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But you know, we we have this
figurative language that says,

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you know, it's going to go
through some type of judgement

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That would have been very
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blacksmiths or any type of, you
know, you're putting something

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in the Crucible and the bad
stuff you scrape off and you

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refine it.
It's so it's going to go through

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a fire and the things of value
are going to pass through that

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fire.
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stubble is going to burn up.
And so, you know, this is

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motivation for how we build into
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We should build well.
We shouldn't do things halfway.

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Yeah, I think, I think that's
exactly it because and I like

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some of these notes in here that
you see the materials, their

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value decreasing.
There's some patterns to this,

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but but I think I think you're
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It's, you know, it's not like
say a prayer and then we're

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good.
We're toasting and and

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especially when we're out in
Romans.

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It's like man thing after thing
after thing after thing.

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How do we love others?
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There's a lot of things that we
we can be doing and ultimately

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this passage of points to
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How are we growing?
How is Christ working in US?

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The the changes and transform us
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After this we're we're going to
2nd Corinthians.

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Yeah, it's another passage.
You want to read verses 6

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through 10 of chapter 5.
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Therefore being always of good
courage, and knowing that while

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we are at home in the body, we
are absent from the Lord, for we

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walk by faith, not by sight, we
are of good courage, I say, and

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prefer rather to be absent from
the body, and to be and to be at

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home with the Lord.
Therefore we also have as our

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ambition, whether at home or
absent, to be pleasing to Him.

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For, and here's kind of the key
verses, we must all appear

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before the judgment seat of
Christ, so that each one may be

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recompensed for his deeds in the
body according to what he has

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done, whether good or bad.
Well, yeah, just kind of re says

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in a little bit different way
that's there's going to be some

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accounting at the end.
So, so be be ready.

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We all will appear before the
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And then, you know, looking at
the all of that discourse,

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Matthew 24 and 25, there are a
lot of details to parse out that

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we could spend a lot of time.
We probably have spent some

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time.
Talking about it.

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But again, what what's the
overall message that he's what?

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What's the point he's trying to
make?

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Especially as you move into the
end, which you would think he'd

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put the most important things at
the end.

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Be ready, be on the alert, be
vigilant.

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You're not going to necessarily
know exactly when I'm coming

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back.
So be ready.

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And it's like, OK, what does
that mean?

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I, I think different, how you
understand doctrine might answer

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that differently.
But I, I, I think if you are

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about his work, you know, you
are helping to glorify God by

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bringing sinners to Christ,
Saints to Christ's likeness

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among the nations, among all
nations, then I think you're

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going to be about that work.
And one of the last parables

450
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there, maybe this is his most
famous parable, the one of the

451
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talents.
The guy just buried it in the

452
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,760
ground and he's like, you should
at least put it in the bank.

453
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Do the least that you could do.
But you didn't even do that.

454
00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,080
Yeah, And what I like the pastor
Joel did is he's kind of showing

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us it's not one obscure passage
mentioned this, but there's

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passages.
And it's like, man, you just

457
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need to need to be working now,
not for your salvation, but for

458
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what what you do does does
matter, does counts.

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00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,080
And then we get to Kai Ross
here.

460
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,000
Oh, he's like he's been in
college.

461
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,280
I was like, oh, I thought I
meant the restaurant.

462
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:28,600
I was like, oh, I love that
place.

463
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,120
You did, yeah.
Yeah.

464
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,600
Well, Isaac Bryant did too.
He was like, he was saying the

465
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,000
same thing.
He was like, I didn't, I forgot

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00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,520
about.
My friend was at school.

467
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,800
Yeah, I was thinking and we, me
and Liang, we get there like

468
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,880
once a month or out there 'cause
it's like you get a lot of food.

469
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:43,160
Where is it?
What?

470
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,840
Are we doing, Michael, you got
to go there.

471
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,360
It's so good.
You get a lot of food for a

472
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:50,000
pretty good price.
It's it's like, do you like the

473
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,840
Mediterranean?
I do and I feel healthy eating

474
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,280
it.
On meal you get like it's got

475
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,080
like feta cheese and olives and
onions and you.

476
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,160
Can get these healthiest parts
you can get you can get fries

477
00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,200
with feta fries not healthy but
it's like so good they're so

478
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,760
good feta fries oh feta fries
they're.

479
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,360
So good.
All right, do it so they have

480
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,000
one, do you?
Have to love feta because I like

481
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,320
feta a little bit, yeah, but I
can be overwhelmed.

482
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,200
Like but like if you put too
much on it, I'm like just just.

483
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,920
Give give, give this place a
try.

484
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,280
I think you'll like with.
Give Feta a chance.

485
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,560
But yeah, so I'm, I'm glad I
wasn't alone 'cause I was like,

486
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,000
yeah.
And like then I was like, oh,

487
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,560
it's only like homeschoolers
that are raising their hands.

488
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,960
So I I feel a lot of.
Place on what's going on so real

489
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,960
quickly.
The point here is, the term that

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Paul uses for time here is not
chronos, which is kind of like

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00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,520
the normal term for time, but
it's this other term for time,

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00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,840
Kairos.
And apparently there's this

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00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,600
Greek God, Kai Ross.
Did he looks awesome.

494
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,800
Yeah, he looked ripped.
Among other things.

495
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,920
He had some weird features I
don't remember.

496
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,280
All of it, like his hair was
super long in the front.

497
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,720
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was bald and then.

498
00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:01,440
I mean, whenever there's someone
who has some weird hair pattern

499
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,960
because they're bald, I'm, I'm
for it.

500
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,240
I, I, I want to say honestly.
People should bring the Kai.

501
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,360
You should like you can get the
a Caesar cut, get the Kai Ross

502
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:09,840
cut.
Yeah, yeah.

503
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,960
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, but really the, the image

504
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,800
was that he is basically this
ephemeral evaporating of time.

505
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,960
Like you have this opportunity
and it's it's moving away and

506
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,440
once it's by, you can't seize
it.

507
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,760
Which was why his hair was cut
in the back 'cause like he was

508
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,640
saying like no man would seize
me from behind.

509
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,440
Like you, he had to kind of take
me from the front or you're or

510
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,680
you're not going to see me.
And so Paul is using this

511
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,800
imagery to say that we have
these opportunities that we need

512
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,320
to lay hold of.
So know the time that you live

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00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,920
in and make the most of those
opportunities.

514
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,720
Yeah, Pastor made this
connection that the sons of

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00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,080
Issachar were men who understood
the times.

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00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,360
You find that in First
Chronicles 1232 with the

517
00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:54,960
knowledge of what Israel should
do.

518
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,400
And so, you know, he mentioned
there's like a group in the

519
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,200
Navigators or something like the
Issachar group or something, but

520
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,200
just in line with this.
And then he handed out a round

521
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,480
to it.
Yeah, yeah.

522
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,920
Did you?
Have you seen these before?

523
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,920
I had not seen it before, but I
immediately like when I saw it,

524
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,880
I was like, oh, that's funny.
I was like, oh, it seemed to be

525
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,040
funny if it was like a round to
it, like I didn't know about it,

526
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,480
but I was like, it makes a lot
of sense.

527
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,360
I mean.
I had this magic slash joke book

528
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,880
growing up and it suggested
making these and handing them

529
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,840
out.
So I, I had been, you know,

530
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:31,760
these have been familiar to me
for a long time.

531
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,400
But yeah, obviously the point is
you have your round to it now,

532
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,040
so get to work.
You know you don't have to wait

533
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,760
to to get around to it.
There that that's so good.

534
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,400
Some questions for application.
Question one, do you think of a

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00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,560
coming judgement of your life?
Meditate on passages like First

536
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,240
Corinthians 3 and 2nd
Corinthians 5.

537
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,200
Next application, let's think
about your spiritual gifting.

538
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,960
How are you engaged with yours?
I mean, I think these things

539
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,760
naturally go together.
Paul's talking about them.

540
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,240
At the same time, our gifting is
for the purpose of loving and

541
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,520
serving others so that the
church body more fully reflects

542
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,640
the glory of Christ.
Next one, Are you nursing some

543
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,440
hurt that is keeping you on the
sidelines?

544
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,240
Or maybe it's something else
that's keeping me on the

545
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,760
sidelines?
What do you need to do to move

546
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,920
past it?
When after that?

547
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,040
Do you have a neighbor or Co
worker or someone else in your

548
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,000
life that needs your love?
Are you aware of a specific need

549
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,320
that you can meet?
If so, we'll meet it.

550
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,520
Last one right on your round to
it, how your faith will express

551
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:37,160
itself in love.
Some good application next week.

552
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,360
We're closing out Romans 13, so
get ready.

553
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,120
But that's all I have this
morning.

554
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,680
You got anything, Michael?
That's all I'm done.

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00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,960
All right, that's our take.
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