Love Without Hypocrisy | Romans 12:9-13

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Michael, I'm I'm a little bit
worried and, and maybe our

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guests, our our podcast viewers,
listeners can, can help us out

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if, if they've been following
the pod, they know at times our

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relationship's been a little
rocky.

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There's been, there's been ups
and downs, You know,

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chiropractors brought in.
It's it's been, it's not all

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been roses.
Not, I mean, we make it seem

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like it's a good professional
relationship, but man.

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Yeah, we don't wanna, we don't
wanna let you in behind the

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scenes you.
Know I, you know, I, I, I felt

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like, you know, well, two things
felt like worship service

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yesterday.
Got a, got a got a indirect

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shout out with a with a tattoo
reference, right, Right.

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Positive.
Did you feel it was positive?

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Right.
It was great.

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Now, did you know that?
Someone else has.

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It Christopher was watching
online and commented.

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I I got a text from Clay where
he took a picture of it and he's

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like I got.
You to get to get you that

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tattoo.
So he, yeah, he's like, I'll

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design that tattoo for you.
Nice.

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That's really cool not to, but
someone come up to me

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afterwards.
He's like, this is a tattoo I

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got when my son passed away.
He's like go get your tattoo.

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Go do it.
I encourage you to go get your

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tattoo.
So that's really cool.

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Next next worship service that's
like your.

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Yeah, I didn't want to.
I didn't know, 'cause I know for

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some people, yeah, I think that
they are fine as long as you use

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wisdom.
Oh.

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Boom, yeah, my, my kids were
like, is he talking about you,

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dad?
Like, like, 'cause they, they

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know.
So that was kind of funny.

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So that's the positive.
Now I get to the negative, the

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hurtful feelings.
I, I, you know, I feel like, you

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know, my Sunday school class was
talked about as not being

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serious.
Oh, did I say that?

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I you know, we might have to
play back the tape.

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Yeah, this.
Is what I'd say.

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We'll just add it.
I'm just documenting this.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I said, you know, over in the

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other Sunday school, they may be
talking about people texting and

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driving, but in this class we're
talking about meditating on

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God's word.
Yeah.

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I noticed that and then after
the service, one of your family

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members looked at me and was
like, I get now we're even.

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Yeah, happened to be one of my
family members who you caught

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texting and driving.
We don't have to say.

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We don't have to say who it was,
but.

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Yeah, and it could be, you know,
but we're all family.

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We're all family in Christ.
Yeah.

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Yeah, we're all family.
Could have been anyone.

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Yeah.
Yeah, anyone at church.

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I don't.
I'm not saying who it was, and I

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did not say who it wasn't.
It might not be your family,

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but, you know, you know, I felt
like, you know, I wanna make

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sure our relationship's OK.
We're taking shots at each

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other.
Good.

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We're good.
That's good.

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That's good.
Yeah, cool.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When when Michael's got the mic,

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he can say he could say
anything.

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Yeah, yeah.
So I I did say that I was

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campaigning for Christopher and
Emily's son to be named Tripp.

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What did it be called?
Tripp.

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I like that.
Yeah, I like that.

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I think it's good.
Trey's already taken.

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Yeah, Trey's vouched for.
Yeah, that so.

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One of the when I went when I
was an undergrad, the chancellor

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at the time was a third, and he
was affectionately known around

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campus as triple sticks.
We would call him trip sticks,

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triple sticks.
We'd be like, hey, triple

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sticks, what's up?
And he was fine.

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He was like, yeah, he.
He I don't I it was AI think it

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was a term they're meant raw.
So yeah, trip sticks, you know?

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So I like trip, Yeah.
And then the other thing that I

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noticed, you may or may not,
maybe you heard.

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It oh, oh, did you you're
talking about your family.

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Yeah, yeah, I got a $50.00 bill
out of that.

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It's great there.
I looked at Phoebe and I said

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when I say when or whoever did
it and offering plate went,

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went, turned.
Over.

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Yeah.
So I'm sitting down like in my

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little seat and I, I, I think
there's a couple of us that like

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to give offering its due.
Like I don't like to sing while

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people are collecting offering.
It's like let people focus on

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getting their money because
people are like, I want them to

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be able to focus on me and focus
on that.

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So I like basically let offering
it done.

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So I'm just sitting there and I
see the offering plate just go

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and over the head.
What I heard later was that

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Phoebe had it and she was trying
and she was trying to pass it,

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but Lydia was right there.
So she was trying to like take

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it over her head.
But it was like, so I was like,

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do I address this?
That just happened.

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And I was like, I, I was going
about to get the gospel and I

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was like, I'll just, I'll just
not address this.

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And it was amazing and it made
me think, how is this not

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happening more often?
I'm actually impressed, but it

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was.
Great said.

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We will not let her ever pass
Communion elements.

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Dude, there's been times when
I'm passing communion and I

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don't know if I'm not doing my
job, but there's like 8 kids in

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a row and I'm just like praying
to God, let's make this.

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And it hasn't.
I'm like, how is this going to

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make it across?
And it makes it across over time

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And they're not little kids.
But in my mind I'm like.

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You know.
Yeah, yeah.

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It is amazing that we don't have
more communion, man.

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I don't know how that hasn't
turned over.

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I have on two separate occasions
seen someone break our little

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plastic cups.
I guess they're just squeezing

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them too hard and it's like.
Yeah, you should put it to the

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pressure test the next time.
Have people with the cups like

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stand up stand down stand like
just really make them move like

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everyone to the middle like to
see if people can like balance

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the.
Right one stomp, left one stomp,

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'cause it's everybody clap your
hands.

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'Cause it is it, yeah.
Do one of that hand clapping

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songs, see what happens because
you know, you never know, never

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know what can, what can happen.
But that was the first time I've

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seen the offering plate just
goes totally.

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I like it.
You can't see it, but you do,

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right?
It was like she was doing like

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an alley.
You were they were you.

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Behind her, No, I didn't see it,
but it was one row in front, so

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I definitely heard it.
And I was like, kids grab the

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money and all before my kids
were on the ground looking for

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it.
We ate good that night.

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I'm just kidding.
I think everything was accounted

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for by the end of it.
We'll, we'll keep an eye.

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On the scouring of the area.
We'll make sure they're not, you

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know, coming into church with
some, like, fancy clothes next

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week.
You know, keep an eye on that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Would you have been upset if I

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had called you?
I went out, if you ever did it

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again as a joke, would it be
funny if I just like walked out,

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walked out the back and made
everyone think like it was

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something terrible?
It's great.

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I was thinking what we should
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We should really not do this
'cause we don't make the focus

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on us and take it off of God.
But I was like, wouldn't it be

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hilarious?
This is really not funny.

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I wanna make that very clear.
But it was like, we should make

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it like the WWE or F or
whatever.

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And it's like, we've got beef
with each other.

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Every time we're up there,
you're like, and Zach, you know,

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and then we're like, and it's
just like an ongoing thing that

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just builds and builds and
builds.

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Like the guy, like where you're
like I'm calling you.

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Out.
Yeah, you'd be like, he's Sunday

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school class.
It's not serious, you know, it's

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great.
And this is like every week,

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it's like it's like, you know,
I'm one of us is the heel.

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It just like, you know, it goes,
you know, there's something

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there.
Probably not the forum for it,

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but you know.
That's good.

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You're not.
You gotta come to Charles and

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Bible Church one of these days,
you know, if you're you're not,

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you gotta, you gotta chime in.
You don't know what you're

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missing.
Yeah.

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And I think we could do do that
without hypocrisy.

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We can do all of that, you know,
being true to who we are.

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I like it.
The sermon title Love without

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Hypocrisy.
Romans 12/9 through 13.

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Let's take it to the next level.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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All right, so again, we are in
chapter 12 of Romans, and we'll

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probably keep reminding you of
this as often as Joel reminds us

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of it, but this is a huge
section break.

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We just covered one through 11,
a lot of doctrine there, a lot

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of theology, and now Paul is
going to start applying that to

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practical implications for how
we live versus one and two.

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We should be living sacrifices
that are transformed, not

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conformed to this world.
And then boom goes into

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spiritual gifts and now we're on
to this section where I I would

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find this difficult to preach
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I thought Joel did a great job
'cause it's a bunch of short

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statements 13.
Man.

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All together of just boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom.

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But the first one that is there
is the Love without Hypocrisy.

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And so Joel took this as kind of
like an organizing theme for the

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other ones.
I thought, oh, that's pretty.

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That is good.
That's pretty good.

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So you know, I thought it was,
was good as far as, you know,

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just providing some
organization.

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Yeah, you can kind of think
through it because it's easy

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just to lose all these and you
walk out and you're like, I

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think I'm supposed to do
something good.

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But like, what is it?
There is a lot going on.

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And, you know, shout out to
Jonathan Compton.

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Got a lot of, got a lot of, got
a lot of air time or, you know,

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time.
You know, yeah.

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So I guess they, he, they call
these their family rules.

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That's.
Cool.

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That's good.
Yeah, I like that.

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Yeah.
And he had his puzzle piece way

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to be on the ball like he was
just nailing.

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It I was like, man, Jonathan,
you know, this is your time to

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shine that that's.
Great he he he did great.

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Well, we can we'll, we'll just
lead off with that verse 9, the

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beginning of it at least let
love be without hypocrisy, as

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Michael said, kind of sets sets
the tone and pastor kind of came

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in and with this great analogy,
like Good Samaritan laws don't

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exist, which if I've learned
anything from Seinfeld, I

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thought that they did exist and
they got in trouble.

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I didn't know.
I didn't, I did not know that

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you could like actively like
watch someone die and do nothing

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about.
Maybe it's different if you're a

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healthcare professional, like
you have an obligation.

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Someone.
I feel like I have to do CPR on

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someone or I have to help
someone.

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And I would be like even if I
didn't have to.

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That's a weird thing to do.
Yeah.

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So I think just to clarify for
our audience, there are some

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laws called Good Samaritan laws
that protect you if you are in

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good faith trying to help
someone in an emergency

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situation.
And it doesn't go great.

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But there are no laws requiring
you to render aid unless you are

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a healthcare professional.
I think that then maybe you have

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a duty to render aid if if it's
feasible, like you probably do

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not have to jump into a
crocodile infested swamp to try

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to help somebody if you know if
that was deemed.

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But this guy, I don't even
understand this was just

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sunbathing and didn't even stop
to help this guy who had fallen

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through the pier.
I just, I don't understand that

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mindset.
Maybe he thought I don't have a

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float 'cause you can get drowned
by someone.

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You know.
You're trying to help somebody

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and you both get drowned.
I don't know.

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If that's it, the story did not
seem like that, but maybe that

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was his thing.
Like I'm like totally out.

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That's true.
I'm not a super strong swimmer.

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I would feel like I would at
least like walk over there and

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like call someone and be like,
hey, buddy, you OK?

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Or, you know, like do something
next Sunday or.

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Try to get like a plank of wood
or something, something.

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But he just sat there and and so
the the idea is that you and I

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have a legal right to mind our
own business or to turn a deaf

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ear to anyone need to continue
sunbathing while someone is

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drowning.
You're not obligated to respond,

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but it so.
And then Swindoll says

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indifference may not be illegal,
but it's certainly immoral.

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So we are to love other people
and to do so without hypocrisy,

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and so that requires us to be
involved at some some level.

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I I like that Pastor Jill said
he was looking at different

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commentaries, listening to other
sermons and what one of the

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sermons he was listening to, the
title of this passage was love

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is a verb.
That action is necessitated by

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love.
I think love is one of these

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things.
It's easy to, I think go far,

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you know, too far.
Either way.

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You're like, oh, it's just a
feeling.

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Or I can think people saying
like it's only action.

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It's like, you know, well, we've
got both of these things, you

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know, that's important.
Yep, Yep.

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And John talks about this first
John, he says little children

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let us not love with word or
with tongue, but in deed, in

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truth.
So again, this idea that but

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love is an action, it is a verb.
It should be motivated by some

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feelings for them, but it's
expressed through action and.

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Then we get to the second-half
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So it kind of, you know, sets
the stage really well.

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You be with that hypocrisy and
then abhor what is evil, cling

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to what is good.
Another way maybe to say this is

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to be very hateful of what is
evil.

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Do you hate evil?
That's a good thing to think.

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Yeah, and it, you know, hate
gets a bad rap in our society,

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but.
We need more hate.

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We.
Do need to hate the things that

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we should hate?
Well.

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It's like, I don't know, I guess
hate just sounds so negative.

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It's hard 'cause I get the
pushback.

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Like you don't want to hate, but
you're like, by definition you

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can't love everything.
Right.

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Yeah.
And I little kids all the time,

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I hate blah blah, blah, blah.
And like we don't use the word

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hate.
We you know, I dislike but like

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you were saying, in order to
love marriage we have to hate

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divorce type of thing.
You know what hate needs better

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PR.
Maybe we're the ones that do it.

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Let's go around like little
kids.

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I think it's more that's more
merch ideas like, you know, give

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hate a chance there you.
Go, you know, we just need to

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get this, get this out.
John MacArthur has this quote.

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I'll go ahead and read.
We can talk about it.

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Someone has said that the only
security against sin is to be

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shocked by it.
I think that's good.

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The constant bombardment of our
senses through TV, newspapers,

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magazines, movies and books with
the immoralities, violence, and

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perversion to modern society
make it difficult to be shocked

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by anything.
Tragically, many Christians

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regularly entertain themselves
with sheer ungodliness, perhaps

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rationalizing that simply by
being a Christian, they are

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somehow immune from sinful
infection.

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And I think he nails it because
it's hard to be shocked by

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something that you're just,
like, regularly taking.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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No, I think that's good.
And it's a good reminder that we

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should sensitize ourselves to
those things so that we're like

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can't, can't.
Yeah, it should shock you that

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that that's good.
We saw these faces of meth, like

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these marketing campaigns to not
not do meth.

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I'm sure he could have found
worse ones that he didn't want.

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And I was like, worse.
I was like, I don't want to

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share those 'cause that would be
so repulsive.

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Yeah, but he showed like, hey,
this is him, you know, five

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years after, you know, before
and after meth and and it just

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changes your face.
And I've tried meth.

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What's that?
You ever tried meth?

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I've not tried meth.
I've not tried meth but a lot of

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people from my hometown have.
Yeah, yeah.

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We, I mean, maybe they do this
today.

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Like I know like in school, like
we had like we had days like not

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just like don't do drugs, but
like devoted to like don't do

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meth.
Like it was all centered around

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meth and faces of meth and these
kind of things specifically.

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Maybe because it wasn't
prominent.

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We had a cop come in.
He's like, they sell you

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cocaine.
You don't know what it is, it

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could be anything, which is
true.

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And they're like, and he took
this white powder and he's like,

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does that look like cocaine to
you?

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And like maybe he's like, well,
what if you snuffed this into

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your nose and he put it into a
cup and poured water into it?

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And especially the powder that's
in diapers, it just.

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Instantly.
Sucks up the water.

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He's like, look at this.
He's like, no, what if you

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sucked that into your nose?
Yeah, I was like, OK, but that

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was that was the bald knob.
But don't do drugs.

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Boom, bald knob getting it,
getting it down and then

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pastoral saying did you know it
was a song?

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Is that you?
Didn't It was a song.

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I did not know.
I know.

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This song either, I've just
heard it quoted a lot.

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Yeah, yeah, Yep.
So you wanna read it, you take

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it away.
Yeah.

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So I heard this a lot growing
up.

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And I wonder if someone wrote a
song after this.

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I don't know which came first,
chicken or egg, but this is the

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song.
As a child I foolishly turned

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God away, not knowing the
heartache a Sinner must face.

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But God in his goodness has let
me return to share with his

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children this lesson I've
learned.

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Sin will take you farther than
the ones you want to go, slowly

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but wholly taking control.
Sin will leave you longer than

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what you want to stay.
Sin will cost you far more than

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you want to pay so.
That that is good.

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And then just like said
something that sticks with me,

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maybe I just heard it a lot, but
it's like it's a good, you know,

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sin.
Sin will take you further than

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than you want to go.
So it is important to abhor what

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is evil because you don't want
to get tangled up in that stuff

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and cling, cling to what is
good.

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I like you got the call back
here.

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I thought we were about to get
the the Rhino story again.

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That's good.
Pastor Joe makes this idea that

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clinging in the Greek has this
idea of, of gluing like sticking

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on, like not not letting go.
And I thought we were gonna get

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the the story about the guy who
glued his hands to the back of

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the rhino, but you know, so I
had rhino.

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Anyone you know?
That that is good.

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Anything else before we jump to
verse 10?

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I think we're good all.
Right, let's keep it moving.

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Verse 10 says be devoted to one
another and brotherly love, give

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preference to one another and
honor.

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I know the ESP says outdo one
another.

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He kind of made that connection,
but that's always a a weird one

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to see, like outdo each other,
you know, like it's a

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competition, you know?
What's the in the first one or

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the second one?
You just read the phrase.

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Let me read 1210.
It says love one another with

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brotherly afflection, outdo one
another in showing honor instead

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of giving preference.
But.

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Yeah, yeah.
OK, good, good.

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And then this idea of, well,
brotherly love, brotherly love

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is like, if you had to read this
in the Greek, it would say

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Philadelphia there.
And we don't want to talk about

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the Eagles bad team, but so but
this idea of who are your

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brothers and sisters?
And I think Jesus answers this

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for us.
He would really say the body of

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Christ is your true brothers and
sisters.

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That's what he's talking about
in this scene from Matthew 12

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where his brothers and his
mother are there basically

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saying, come on, come on, Jesus,
you got to go home.

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Like you got to stop this.
And the, the people are like

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your, your mother and your
brothers out there.

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And he's like, who are my
mothers and my brothers?

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They're these people right here
that, that I'm with.

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And so he says, whoever does the
will of my father, who is in

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heaven, he is my brother and my
sister and my mother.

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So we should be, there should be
a special love and a bond that

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we have with the body of Christ.
Yeah, I like that.

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Be devoted.
Good thing to measure yourself

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against if you're doing that.
And we're just going to keep

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with these quick hitters.
It's like a machine gun, just

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like boom boom, boom, boom, boom
verse 11.

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Not lagging behind in diligence,
fervent in spirit, serving the

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Lord.
So we got some, we got some big

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words that really communicate,
really getting after it here

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with diligence, fervents.
A lot of action is going on.

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Yeah, and that fervent talks
about being very hot, boiling.

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I think of lava like you play
The floor is lava.

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Great.
My household floors lavas big

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time.
But that should be kind of an

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idea of our spirit and diligence
is like not slow moving or

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sluggish, not a sloth.
And he had pictures of this.

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That was great.
He was like.

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How did I survive?
But yeah, yeah.

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How did they live?
But yeah, he was showing us.

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I think that's what you're
doing.

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He's that.
That was great.

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He was like going.
I could tell he acted out the

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sloth.
I was like, so good.

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Yeah, so good.
He probably has not even seen

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Zootopia.
Have you seen Zootopia?

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Yes, with the sloth there.
Oh man, sloth.

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They are just, they are great,
you know, pet sloth, man, but

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very, very so moving.
We don't want to be slothful.

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You want to be diligent.
And then he's got this quote by

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everyone's a great Anglican, JC
Rile, the great Anglican guy.

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He's got a nice beard, you know,
great guy.

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He's got this quote about zeal.
He says zeal is a burning desire

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to please God, to do his will,
and to advance his glory in the

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world in every possible way.
A zealous man is pre eminently a

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man of one thing.
He is more than earnest, Hardy,

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uncompromising, wholehearted,
and fervent in spirit.

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He sees only one thing, cares
about one thing, lives for one

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thing, swallowed up in one
thing, and that one thing is to

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please God.
Whether he lives or dies, has

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health or has sickness, whether
he is rich or poor, pleases

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people or gives offense, whether
he is thought wise or foolish,

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gets the blame or the praise,
whether he receives honor or is

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given shame.
He burns for one thing, and that

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one thing is to please God.
Such a one will always find a

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sphere for a zeal.
He can't preach.

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He'll work and give money.
He will cry and sigh and pray.

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If he cannot fight in the valley
of Joshua, he will hold up the

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hands of Moses until the battle
is won.

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What a Mike.
That last line, too, is like

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just building so good that
you're going to, you're going to

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please God.
If you really have this zeal and

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diligence and being fervent in
spirit, you're going to find a

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way.
Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.
And you know, if we are fervent

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and we are not being sluggish,
we should be in some measure

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trying to to uphold the greatest
commandment.

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Now, I had said in the worship
service just before then, I

450
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,800
don't think any of us actually
do this fully to love God

451
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,400
without your all of your heart,
all of your soul, all of your

452
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,400
mind, all of your strength.
But probably we get close to us

453
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,480
closest to this when we're
recording this podcast.

454
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,320
Do you think so?
Almost there.

455
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,800
Almost.
And then also this admonition by

456
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:58,320
Jesus and the Sermon on the
Mount to seek first, the Kingdom

457
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,080
of God, not second, not third,
not, you know, tied with other

458
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,840
things.
That should be our first goal.

459
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,800
And I think that quote from JC
Rile is, is right on.

460
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,080
Like no matter what our station
in life is where we find

461
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,600
ourselves on the battlefield of
life, if we're seeking first His

462
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,520
Kingdom, if we're kind of trying
to serve Him with all that we

463
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,600
have, everything else is going
to kind of fall in line.

464
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,280
Man, I like that.
Like you can't doesn't work out

465
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,600
in one way.
You keep pushing through 1st

466
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,800
Corinthians 9, we read from
Paul, who Pastor makes the point

467
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,920
that he's talking about
athletics a lot, making these

468
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,760
comparisons, Paul writes.
Do you not know that those who

469
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,920
run in a race all run, but only
one receives the prize?

470
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,960
Run in such a way that you may
win.

471
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,160
Everyone who competes in the
games exercises self-control in

472
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,480
all things.
They then do it to receive a

473
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,200
perishable wreath, but we an
imperishable.

474
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,320
Therefore I run in such a way as
not without aim, I box in such a

475
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,760
way as not beating the air, but
I discipline my body, make it my

476
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:01,280
slaves, so that after I have
preached to others, I myself

477
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,040
will not be disqualified.
You can't read that and think

478
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,320
that you know things just
automatically happen.

479
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,160
Yeah, yeah.
Or you just, I'll just phone it

480
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:10,760
in.
Yeah.

481
00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:13,520
Yeah, that's that, that that is
pushing it to to.

482
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,520
It's taken to the next level.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.

483
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:17,720
That's what the message says.
Take it to the.

484
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,840
Next level, take it to the next
level, All right.

485
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,960
And then so motoring on verse
12, rejoicing in hope,

486
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,880
persevering in tribulation,
devoted to prayer.

487
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:34,720
And you know, this idea that we
of all people should be

488
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,480
optimist.
We know how it ends.

489
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,680
And he goes to this passage.
I go to a lot.

490
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,840
I, I, I go to it so much.
I try not to go to this as

491
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,560
often.
You know, even the other day I

492
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,680
was asking chat, I was like,
what would be a good verse for

493
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,520
this?
That's, that's not, that's not

494
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,200
this 'cause like, I go to this
verse a lot, You know, what are

495
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,000
some other options?
But Romans 828 through 32.

496
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,640
And we know that God causes all
things to work together for good

497
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,280
to those who love Him, to those
who are called according to His

498
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,480
purpose.
For those whom He foreknew, He

499
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,920
also predestined to become
conformed to the image of His

500
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,800
Son, so that He would be the
first born among many brethren.

501
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,240
And these whom He predestined He
also called.

502
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,560
These whom He called He also
justified, and these whom He

503
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,680
justified He also glorified.
What then shall we say to these

504
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,960
things?
If God is for us, who is against

505
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,960
us?
He who did not spare His own

506
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,960
Son, but delivered Him over for
us all, how will He not also

507
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,640
with Him freely give us all
things?

508
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:35,240
So good.
Yeah.

509
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,120
It reminds me of this was you
were saying it.

510
00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:40,840
It's like if you're playing
basketball and there's like this

511
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,520
guy, all I can do is go to his
right hand, but he does it so

512
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,120
good.
Like you can shade, but he gets

513
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,960
it's like, why go to any other
move?

514
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,880
This is like the best person.
It's like, and you're like, he's

515
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,800
not going left, but it's like he
always scores.

516
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:52,840
It's like.
Man, it's working.

517
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,000
That's good.
No, that's good.

518
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,400
And those people are like that.
They like, I'm gonna go left

519
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,240
now.
I'm going right and.

520
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,240
You're like, I'm gonna left.
No, I'm going right.

521
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,160
And you're like ready for it,
but they always beat you and

522
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,040
you're like, how are they
beating me this way?

523
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,960
But be an optimist.
I know I I was trying to

524
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,400
evaluate my life.
I think I am optimistic about

525
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,040
the right things, but I think
I'm a very also pessimistic.

526
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,360
I'm always like worst case
scenario, but I try to be

527
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,920
optimist about that, but try to
be pessimistic about, you know,

528
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,080
other things.
But it's good to be, you know?

529
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,760
About the right things, we in
work, we took this thing called

530
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,280
Clifton strength identifier
adapter.

531
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,720
I don't know Clifton strength
something and basically a lot of

532
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,880
things kind of show you you know
here's where you could here's

533
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,680
here are your weaknesses.
Here's where you can grow.

534
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,800
But they they were saying that's
that is really thinking about

535
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,680
things wrong because you're
gonna spend your whole life

536
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,280
trying to change who you.
Are.

537
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,880
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, so.

538
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,040
Here are your 5 strengths.
Emphasize those strengths.

539
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,600
One of my 4th 1 and they're in
buckets of categories.

540
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,840
They're different colors.
All of mine were red, which is

541
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,400
basically on the intellectual
side except for one was blue and

542
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,920
it's adaptability.
And it basically said that

543
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:06,040
people who with, with this
strength, think through worst

544
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,800
case scenarios to try to pair
beforehand, like if this

545
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,480
happens, then I'll do this.
And if this happens, then I'll

546
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,000
do this.
So I'm, I'm there with you.

547
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,920
Like I I think good things are
gonna happen, but I try to be

548
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,080
prepared for the bad things that
happen.

549
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,480
Yeah, that, that, that's good.
And Barclay, we got a lot of

550
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,320
Barclay's quotes in Romans, and
they're always, always, always

551
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,640
good, except for that one time
when it was heretical.

552
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,320
But like, they're all good.
I can't remember when I was

553
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,800
like, hey, I got a terrible take
on something.

554
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,600
Do you remember this?
Was it Barclay the historic?

555
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,080
I was like something.
He was like, I don't like that

556
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,280
sovereignty is so important or
something like that.

557
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,760
Maybe not.
Around the Romans 10, where he

558
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,120
was focusing on man, man's
responsibility.

559
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,200
Oh, that, that's right.
So besides that, Park Place had

560
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,680
some good quotes.
He has this one here.

561
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,480
The Christian hope is the hope
which has seen everything and

562
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,240
endured everything and is still
not despaired because it

563
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,800
believes in God.
The Christian hope is not hope

564
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,200
in the human spirit and human
goodness and human endurance,

565
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,080
human achievement.
The Christian hope is hope in

566
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,440
the power.
I love God and that's great.

567
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,560
And I think, yeah, maybe that
helps iron enough for me where

568
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,320
it's like I I have great hope in
God.

569
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,040
I have a lot less hope in my
endurance and my goodness and

570
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,520
that kind of thing.
I'm like, God, this is not going

571
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:14,840
to go.
Good.

572
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,120
And Joel didn't say this, but I
was like, how do you not how do

573
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,960
you not say this, but Hope has a
name.

574
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,040
It's this song that we started
singing during COVID and I sang

575
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,320
so much it kind of got
associated with me so.

576
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920
Yeah.
So people, you know, Tim, are

577
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,560
like, oh, let's sing that song
of yours, Michael.

578
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,920
That's.
Great, great name.

579
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,480
All right, so this verse,
rejoicing in hope, persevering

580
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,120
in tribulation to being devoted
to to prayer.

581
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,840
And I think hope gives you that
perseverance.

582
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,400
And if you are truly hoping in a
God who can solve problems, you

583
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,520
should be regularly talking to
him in prayer.

584
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,640
So I think all those things kind
of go together that we can have

585
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,840
a vibrant prayer life.
Yeah.

586
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,440
I love it.
Yeah, when I was teaching

587
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,840
through this part of Romans,
like the commentary I was

588
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,280
reading like gave like these are
like 8 different ways people are

589
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,080
trying to like everyone's trying
to connect them and it seems

590
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,760
like none was like there's
always like something out of

591
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:13,680
place.
But I'm like that you're like

592
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,880
connecting all these things.
So, you know, we get to verse

593
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,840
13.
Contributing to the needs of the

594
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,600
Saints.
Practicing hospitality.

595
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,320
I think you meant hospitality.
Hospitality.

596
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,400
That's right.
That's right.

597
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,880
That's a that's an inside CBC
joke.

598
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,280
Joel, Joel, it comes from Dutch
Michigan, and there's some words

599
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,320
that he just pronounces a little
bit different.

600
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,760
Hospitality.
He pronounces hospitality house.

601
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:40,800
It works, though.
Yeah, it does.

602
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,520
It does.
Work that's good and that, and I

603
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,680
think that speaks for itself.
You know, are you contributing

604
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,640
to the needs of other, other
Christians?

605
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,520
Are you opening up your home?
Are you being hospitable?

606
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,200
Are you doing these things?
Yeah, and he says this word

607
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,560
about practicing hospitality.
Somewhere in there was Filo

608
00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,960
Loving.
Loving.

609
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,760
I don't see a word here that I
would translate so maybe I

610
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:03,920
missed it.
What do you see?

611
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,440
Anything in verse 13 that would
be something with love.

612
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,360
Yeah, that's, that's great.
I, I I do not.

613
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,880
OK, well some word here.
The underlying word is Filozino,

614
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,760
which is loving the stranger or
the the alien.

615
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,200
And then I talked to him on
Wednesday.

616
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,760
He said he was going to end with
this song called What is Love?

617
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,640
And like I was like, What is
love?

618
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,680
What is?
Love maybe don't hurt me.

619
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,720
He's like, no, no, no, not that
one.

620
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,880
The Christian 1.
So that's why I had it down here

621
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,880
twice.
But we were running a little

622
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,840
long in service.
This was our syncity of human

623
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:40,960
life.
Oh yeah.

624
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,040
And I think so it was like a
little longer before he got

625
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,400
preaching.
And then this was a little bit

626
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,640
longer sermon.
Someone knocked over the often

627
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:48,880
play.
It was just a long time.

628
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,720
He just, he just.
Yeah, someone threw a

629
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,480
thoughtful, So I I guess he just
skipped over both of those, but

630
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,440
I was, I was waiting for.
The word as.

631
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,200
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Great, well, let's let's apply

632
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,520
this, you know, wherever you go
to church, you really Christians

633
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,120
at large, but pray for your love
at the local body where you're

634
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,280
at.
Is it being sincere?

635
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,240
Is it without hypocrisy?
Is it being genuine good things

636
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,040
to think through because that
that's what we're called to, to

637
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,120
where our love should be at?
Yeah, and it's good, especially

638
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,720
at this point in time.
If you've been following through

639
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,600
this, or even if you haven't, go
back and read chapters one

640
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,680
through 11.
You're going to see the mercies

641
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,480
of God there.
You're going to see the story of

642
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,360
our need for salvation and how
God brings that about.

643
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,880
He doesn't just leave us at 0,
but he builds into our lives.

644
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,360
And he talks about, hey, not
only can you trust me today, but

645
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,400
you can trust me tomorrow and in
the future.

646
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,880
And let those motivate you to
love others sincerely, Yeah.

647
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,280
If that don't motivate you, you
know really nothing.

648
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:52,960
Well, that that is the the
foundation here.

649
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,640
And then the last one, pray,
thinking through the various

650
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,160
statements, seeking the Spirit's
voice.

651
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,360
We've got a handful of
statements.

652
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,280
Do you love in deed and truth?
Do you abhor evil?

653
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,080
Do you love folks in your local
body as family?

654
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,280
Are you fervent in spirit and
serving the Lord?

655
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,960
Are you an optimist?
Do you rejoice in hope?

656
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,800
How do you respond to
tribulations?

657
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,840
How was your prayer life?
When is the last time you had

658
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,640
someone in your home?
A lot of ways you can apply it.

659
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,680
It's not like how do I apply
this to my life.

660
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,200
It's very, very A.
Lot very very practical.

661
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,880
So anything else on living
without hypocrisy?

662
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:27,200
What?
What?

663
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,120
Do we got we got one?
What do you think?

664
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,720
He's gonna think he's gonna bite
off this whole paragraph or or

665
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,520
break it up.
What's what's your what's your

666
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,400
prediction on verses 14 through
20?

667
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,960
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Let me, let me turn there and

668
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,320
look to them.
I am relegated to my phone for

669
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Bible use.
Oh, yeah.

670
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:51,600
So 14 through 20, I say that's
probably all he could do it.

671
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,040
Yeah.
Because 17.

672
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,320
Yeah, it's all.
It's all kind of.

673
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,840
Yeah, yeah.
About allowing God to have

674
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,480
vengeance, never paying back
evil for evil.

675
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,080
Yeah, I think that's good.
I, I mean, I love burn heaping

676
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,840
burning coals on people's heads
when I do good for them.

677
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,800
Else I love more.
It's great.

678
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,120
You know, we should well anyway,
that I, I've got nothing else to

679
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,160
add.
I shouldn't you know, when you

680
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,280
you're like, I just shouldn't
say it.

681
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,840
It's just going to make things.
The upside is so minimal.

682
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,360
Maybe a couple little laugh
could make a lot of people mad.

683
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,600
So we won't do it.
All right, all right.

684
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,080
Well, that's our day.
Thanks for listening to Take 2.

685
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,400
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