Put on the Armor of Light | Romans 13:11-14

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Surprise, surprise, surprise,
surprise.

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I got a surprise for you.
It was a surprise for me.

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You're going to have to fill
about 15 seconds of every time

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here.
I didn't think this through, but

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if I was going to surprise, if
you were going to surprise the

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day, what kind of surprise would
you think you would get?

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I don't know a special Oh, I
don't know.

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It's a it's coming in a box.
Let's see, you have to another

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Yeti.
You have to guess.

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That's not a bad guess.
I got a gift.

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Oh, does it say give hate a
chance?

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I I wish that'd be.
Hilarious or or hate needs

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better PR this is.
It does not.

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That's a very good guess.
This was a gift I got from my

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mother-in-law.
She sent me, but she sent me two

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of them, with one of them
supposed to go to you.

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Oh, thank you.
So check it out, I should have

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got this.
Oh yeah, I think I already

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opened.
It all right.

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Nice, nice.
See what you see I.

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Always love opening things on Oh
wow this is huge, huge coffee

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cup.
Oh, nice, got that you.

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Will have to unwrap it.
To yeah, yeah, yeah, there it

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is.
Oh, that's nice.

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So the bubble wrap, you can
probably see through the bubble

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wrap.
It's our logo.

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But what you what you didn't see
on the back was it?

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Says Zach Hale, Michael Mott and
Greg Cokel.

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So Greg Cokel getting getting a
shout out.

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Thank you that that's from.
Ken, my mother-in-law.

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Nice, very nice.
So.

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I thought that would be good.
Alive on box cut me.

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I was dying laughing in the same
way you and I was like, I know

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what to expect.
And I saw our logo first.

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Yeah, yeah.
And I was like, oh, I'm back.

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I was like, I just like, oh,
Coco.

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That's very nice.
That's very cool.

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Very much appreciated.
Yeah.

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You know, after a long day,
Michael's been on the road all

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day.
Yes, we went up to Anderson,

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left at 5:30.
So I'm going to try to bring the

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the energy the best that I can.
But if I do fall asleep, you

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just, you'll just have to carry
it, OK?

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We'll do it well, you know,
we'll stay away from from the

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dark.
We'll get the we'll get the

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lights.
On Be sober.

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That that's right, and the the
sermon title is put on the Armor

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of Light.
Yeah, there we.

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Go.
So let's go ahead and take it to

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the next level from the hearts
of the low country in South

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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, if I'm counting
right, this can't be 40th.

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Except I posted 40s.
This must be 41.

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I think I'm off again.
This must be 41 when when we but

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so this is we're going to 2nd
sermon in Romans 13 and title

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comes out of the passage put on
the armor of light and have you

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heard of this doomsday clock?
I have.

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I have heard of this.
I don't understand it because it

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seems like we're always right
there.

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Yeah, I think it's one of those
things that it's just a bunch of

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fear mongering people who want
to tax you more.

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That's that's my standard.
Taxes, man, I do.

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And it's like, this is maybe not
the doomsday clock.

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This is everything.
I feel like there's so much data

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that's like in 1995, we're gonna
run out of resources.

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In 2003, there's too many people
or it's like, and it's like, OK.

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I just saw, and Speaking of
that, I just saw a reel with Al

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Gore talking about Mount
Kilimanjaro and he was like,

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look at this picture.
Now look at this picture 10

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years later.
Look at all the snow.

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He's like, in five years there
will never be snow on Mount

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Kilimanjaro again.
And then like, they showed a

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picture from like 2023 and it's
just like, covered, packed with

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snow.
I don't like that fear

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mongering.
It's easy to do.

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And I think you just, I feel
like you just prey on these

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people that I mean, if that is
true, you should have a lot of

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fear.
I'm not saying that we

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shouldn't, we shouldn't think
about things, but it's like if

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you were like, oh, the world's
ending in six years, like

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definitively because of XY and
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And we can make it not like by
just doing a couple of things.

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Yeah, and I was going to say, if
the governments of the world

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knew definitively that an
asteroid was going to hit us,

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they wouldn't tell us.
You know, why would you tell

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everyone that's the number one
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not happening is where they say,
you know, So when when they're

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like, oh, everything's fine.
Just keep on with your family

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while these important people
leave and try to go to Mars real

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quick.
Right, right.

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Like nothing to worry about.
But I'll tell you what.

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What can you do about this
doomsday clock?

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We're only 89 seconds to
midnight.

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That's less than a minute and a
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We're getting there.
I'm like, I don't know what this

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means.
That's right, Yeah.

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And some of the things, what
were the some of the things that

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nuclear weapons is, I mean, is
that really like we've had

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nuclear weapons since, you know,
1944?

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I don't know.
Maybe I just would not consider

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them a factory in where we are
on the doomsday climate crisis

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clearly made-up.
Can I say that on this podcast?

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I you heard it here first.
I think that's pretty safe.

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Artificial intelligence,
infectious diseases, conflicts

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with Ukraine, the Middle East,
these are the things they listed

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to let us know that we had 89
cent, 89 seconds until the world

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was destroyed, which I wasn't
convinced reading it, not from

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that.
And, and their point is they're

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trying to say now, now it's time
to act together.

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You know, with all these
threats, if we come together, we

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can, you know, reverse this or,
you know, give us some more

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time.
We need some leadership, some

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partnership of global.
Proportions only we had John

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Lennon singing Imagine man it
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Great.
I love it when, yeah,

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celebrities do that, but every
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Pastor even did his best Spanish
impression, which I appreciate.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Juan Manuel Santos had that and

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and the Cata Segundo cuenta
cuenta every second counts.

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Boom.
And you know, maybe we don't

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agree with everything on the
Doomsday Clock, but Paul had his

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own Doomsday Clock of sorts.
It's different, but.

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Yeah, I mean, as Christians we
know we are getting close to in

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the world God's sovereign over
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And maybe so I, I think in one
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most concerned about the
environment and also the least

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concerned about the environment,
the most concerned that we

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should be good stewards of what
God's given us, the least

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concerned in that ultimately we
know it's going to burn and

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God's in control of this and
it's not set up to be perfect.

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Like, there's no system that's
going to give us the perfect

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food to the perfect people
without any dyes or out any, you

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know, gluten and stuff.
Like, there's going to be bad

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stuff.
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Because we live in a fallen
world, right?

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Yeah, can't get away from
gluten, right?

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That's one of the, I think it's
in Genesis three with the curse.

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And there will be gluten for
your gun.

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That's right.
So I'm not saying, you know,

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let's do our best, let's put our
minds together, let's figure

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out, you know, let's optimize
the best we can 'cause I think

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that's what we're called to do.
But at the end of the day, we

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recognize this is not meant to
be a permanent, perfect home.

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That, that's a good, that's a
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If anyone's interested, Doug
Moo, who write 20s commentators

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on Romans, he he spends a lot of
time developing things about

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what you just said.
He thinks Christians either, you

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know, you don't have to be, you
know, environment's such a

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political thing.
So people are like, I'm just

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gonna drive my F1350 everywhere
and or I don't know, I'm gonna

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purposely.
Are you trying to hit on people

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who Dr. F1 fifties?
No, I'm just, I think, I think

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there is an air of certain
Christians that they're like,

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I'm intentionally gonna like do
what I can to not care for the

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environment.
And that's like their attitude.

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Not loving your neighbor who has
to live in that environment,

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whether they're your current
neighbor or your future

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neighbor, you know, and it's
also not being obedient to God's

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mandate to, you know, take hold
of the world, create, you know,

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and.
It's not.

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Yeah, But we will get to the
passage.

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Roman 13, Romans 13.
We're going to close up this

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chapter, Paul writes in verses
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Do this 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 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 light.

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Let us behave properly as in the
day, not in carousing and

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drunkenness, not in sexual
promiscuity and sensuality, not

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in strife and jealousy, but put
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and

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make no provision for the flesh
in regard to its lusts.

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All right, so first we're told,
do this knowing the time.

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That is already the hour.
This is first for you to waken

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from sleep.
For now salvation is nearer to

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us than when we believed.
And there's this idea of knowing

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the time.
Now I know that we can't really

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know the time because Jesus said
no one knows the hour, not even

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the Son of the angels.
So clearly we can't have any

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indication that we're getting
closer to the end times.

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Is that is that right?
That is wrong.

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And even by deduction, I like
the way Paul Paul thinks.

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He's like, hey, we're now a
second closer.

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I mean, the math checks out.
It's true.

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You really can't, you know,
refute that.

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And I think we talked about this
last week.

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We talked about another podcast.
It's like this call to be

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vigilant, to be paying
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You just don't want to have your
head in the sand.

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Totally.
It's like we're eagerly, you

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know, expecting and looking for
things.

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We're not just, you know,
forgetting about all these

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things.
There.

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We are getting closer.
Yeah, so go read Matthew 2425

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First and 2nd Thessalonians.
You'll see Jesus and Paul both

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giving us indications of how we
can know when the end is near.

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Jesus is going to tell his
disciples like you know when to

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harvest fruit.
Why?

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Why you you should also be able
to read these times

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appropriately.
And I think he said that both

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about his coming right then,
like, hey, you should know that

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it's the time for the Messiah,
but also he uses that, you know,

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for when the end's going to be
near.

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And so we'll move on to verse
12.

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The night is almost gone and the
day is near.

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Therefore, what are we to do?
We're to lay aside the deeds of

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darkness and put on the armor of
light.

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I really like the way it's
contrasted.

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We got the dark and the light,
but not only that, it's like the

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armor of light.
It's not just like don't do

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darkness, walk in the light, you
know?

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It puts a little bit more to it,
you know?

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Yeah, yeah, What kind of armor
is that?

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Oh, it's like, it's like the
heavy.

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Armor.
Oh, OK, it's heavy.

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It's not like mitral armor like
Bilbo gave it to Frodo.

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Oh, I should have seen it
coming.

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Joel makes this point.
It's important to study Christ's

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return, and it's important for
Christ's return to impact how we

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live our lives right now.
So both of those are important.

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Going back to Matthew 2425, you
know, if you get through 24,

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it's a lot of, you know,
warnings, reading the times you

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get to 25, a lot of parables
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alert, being vigilant.
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it's, it's so important 'cause
you can just look, I'm gonna

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know every detail Christ
returns, but it should motivate

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you to live differently.
And Paul does a good job of

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laying out these contrasts
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We kind of mentioned night and
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There's darkness, light, put
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You can see that there's one way
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They're, they're very different.
And the take away is change your

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clothes, change your dirty
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Jolf went off here, awake and
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Boom, there you go.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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First, John 39 says no one who
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Not that he doesn't sin, but it
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It can't be a steady practice of
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because his seed abides in him
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born of God.
So if you're, you know, this is,

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you know, just to bring back,
you know, Greg Kulpol, you

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always say if you're living like
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you're headed.
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marked by this trajectory of
sin, that's not, that's a bad

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become as clean as as possible.
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aside the deeds of darkness.
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these deeds?
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going to start, you know,
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behave properly as in the day,
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drunkenness, not in sexual
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in strife and jealousy.
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some things.
And I think Pastor made this

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note, too.
It's interesting the different

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groupings that he pairs
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Yeah, yeah.
So, and not to reduce or

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diminish, you know, some of the
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the lust is having on our
society, but those are listed,

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you know, kind of in this
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sensuality, strife, jealousy.
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So those those can all be
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Now that that's great, Pastor
Joel takes us to Proverbs 6.

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This a prominent passage that we
probably heard a lot talking

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about.
These six things the Lord hates.

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Yes, 7 which are an abomination
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Then they're listed out.
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

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hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked

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plans, feet that run rapidly to
evil, a false witness who utters

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lies, and one who spreads strife
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That last one that closes it out
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strife.
If you really want to get into

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it, you know, three out of these
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say.
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your words, that's a, that's a
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It's mentioned a lot, which if
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the top six or seven things, you
might not be like, oh, these are

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the, these are what's going to
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Yeah.
And did you ever play football

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or sport in the mud?
Maybe soccer in the mud?

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Yeah.
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What did you like playing in the
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rain?
You know, I typically would not

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like it, but it was literally
like one or two practices a year

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that were like pretty, pretty
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And it was always good if I if
you were, it's always I was

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enjoyed bad weather when we were
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But if we were the good team, I
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Play bad weather, Yeah.
Mux it up, you know.

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Yeah, So Pastor relates to the
story of some guys playing and

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it was raining and there was
this ditch that had collected

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this water.
So it was like, I'm guessing it

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was like a broad ditch, you
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They're playing football and
I've played football in the mud.

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It, it's like I'm a kind of a
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So it takes it like once, once I
get over that hump, I'm like,

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OK, let's just go for it.
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But then, you know, all the, all
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everywhere.
But they were enjoying it.

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They're having a great time.
And this guy you know goes for a

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pass or something and comes up
out of the water and a friend

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notices something on his
shoulder and they begins to like

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smell and not it is raining but
with this rain it looks like a

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sewer pipe head.
Don't like?

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Up and had gone into that ditch
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playing in poo water.
Yeah, You know, I walked into

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the sermon thinking, what's the
over under that pastor is going

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to say poop water.
And I thought maybe would be 3.

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But man, he, he really, he kept
saying it.

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Yeah, he said it over and over
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Yeah, he's.
And so Joel's, you know, just

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like when, as soon as they
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Water that changes.
That changes everything and they

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they got to get out of that and
he's like so the same way

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Christian, you once you realize,
OK, this lifestyle, this thing

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I'm doing, it's basically poop
water.

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We got to get out of there.
We got to we can't.

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We can't be a stench in the the
nostrils of Christ.

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Oh man, that it's a It's a very
pungent, vivid analogy.

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First John 32 to 3:00, he says,
beloved, now we are children of

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God and it has not appeared as
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We know that when he appears, we
will be like him because we will

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see him just as he is.
And everyone who has this hope

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fixed on him purifies himself
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So we receive about this purity
and that's in relation to fixing

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your eyes on Christ.
You're going to live in, in a

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way, if you have this hope,
you're going to realize exactly

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what you said, Michael, that and
this world, it really perils in

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comparison to what we have and
we're going to change the way we

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live.
It's it's really the ultimate

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motivation.
That's good.

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And then the last part of that
verse says and put on the armor

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of light.
And so really like, what is the

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armor of light?
Because where I find it, do I

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have to like find a blacksmith
or something like, you know, put

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it together.
But armor has this idea of

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protection, of going into
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And it's a war, you know, of, of
holiness.

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And like, if, if you live a
Christian life like me, you

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know, like you win a battle and
guess what?

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The next day you got to fight
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You got to fight another battle
against, you know, the sin that

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wants to overtake you.
And so it's this, it's not a

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Sprint, it's, it's a marathon
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And you need this armor to help
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Great.
And yeah, it's it's different

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than our justification where
it's just like this battle up

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and down.
Hopefully we're trending in the

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right direction.
Ephesian 610 through 17 familiar

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passage talks about the armor of
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Really I feel like that that's
the go to for good reason.

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It's like, man, I think a lot of
VBSS have just leaned into that

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because it's like, that's the,
that's a great thing to keep on

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your mind, you know?
I've been in more than one class

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where they've talked about like
every day you need to pray like

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I'm, I'm putting on my belt the
truth, I'm putting on my and I,

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I don't think that's how it
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Like I think if you are a
believer, you have some level of

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all all of this armor.
You know, like left my belt at

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home again.
I have no truth.

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Everything else is good, but
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Right, right, right.
So I think the goal is, as a

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believer, that you would level
up your armor like, no, you

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know, the more you know truth,
the better your belt is, the

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more assured your salvation is.
You know, the bigger your faith

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is, you know all those pieces of
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We might have talked about this
and this is an aside so it won't

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stay on this long, but Pilgrim
Progress, great book, a lot of

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respect.
John Bunyan, well done.

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Al Gore is just too on the nose
for me where I'm pretty.

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I might be making this up, but
it's like, am I saved?

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Am I saved?
And he's like found note my

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pocket.
I'm saved.

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I'm like, I don't know.
I just, you know, but it's good.

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Ephesians 6 and 17.
I like that.

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About 1/3 of the book I like and
then I'm like okay, good, that's

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good, I'm done.
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Pastor Jewel uses the analogy of
his dad fought in World War 2,

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was in the Navy, he was a net
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He was on a net.
Tender.

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He was on a net tender.
OK, I'm just reading notes.

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Yeah, yeah.
So it was the type of boat that

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they would.
Touch the old or make sure you

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can say it submarine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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They put Nets down.
It would like stop submarines

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from getting into harbors and
stuff.

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And I guess he did not talk a
lot about his experience

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anymore.
But there was one story that he

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would tell about this guy being
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His name was Ernie.
Ernie Meister, I believe.

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What a name Ernie Meister that
just not evilly like stuck his

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head out of the foxhole, which
hard to imagine, but I guess you

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get comfortable.
I'm like, I don't understand.

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I I feel like war.
I don't know.

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I'm not I've not been in there.
But, and maybe everyone's wired

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differently and it did not go
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Right.
Yeah, yeah, he, yeah, he he got

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shot.
And the point was, I think

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Joel's dad's point was he was
naive about the realities of

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that war.
Yeah, that's pretty.

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That is pretty naive.
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And then so Joel's point to us
is we as Christians, we can be

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naive about the reality of the
spiritual holy war that we're in

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to fight against, you know, all
those principalities and, you

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know, sin that's in us, in our
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And so we got to take it
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And in doing that, Paul is going
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he's saying that we need to put
on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Pastor Hill takes us to John 15,
this classic passage on abiding

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in Christ where Jesus says in
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You are the branches.
He who abides in me and die in

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him.
He bears much fruit for apart

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from me you can do nothing.
And that I like just again, very

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stark contrast.
You're either abiding in Christ

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or without Christ you really
can't do anything and and that's

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really essential to all of this
is putting on the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Yeah, I want to look up the name

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to be be sure, but I want to
give a shout out to Aaron

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Williams song Abide.
So if you're at CBC, you we've

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sang it twice now.
But if you're not at CBC, you

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know, go put that on your
playlist 'cause I really like

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it.
It's, it really motivates me

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because I'm not, you know, I'm
more of the, I want to read

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Romans and you know, I'm going
to read.

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But this really kind of speaks
to me on the affective emotional

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level to like, hey, you just
need to stay, abide, stay in

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Jesus, you know, just be with
him and depend on him.

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Like, you know, you're thinking
about all those things, really.

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Good.
Simple, yet very, very

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challenging.
John Piper's got this quote.

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He says the way to fight lust is
to feed faith with the knowledge

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of an irresistibly glorious God.
Do you know God this morning?

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Are you growing week by week in
the knowledge of God's

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greatness?
Do you meditate on His word day

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and night?
Do you ponder the pictures of

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His Son and the Gospels?
Do you look at everything in

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your day as His creation?
Do you pray for a sensitive

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heart that can be ravished by
the revelation of His glory?

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I call you to make those
commitments now for the sake of

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your own soul and for the glory
of God, where that that stuff is

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00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:01,680
really good to do to take the
time.

446
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,080
And it's hard because it's not
really a productivity thing.

447
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,440
And I'm, I feel like a lot of
us, I'm like, just like, man,

448
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,120
give me a list.
Let me get after it.

449
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,800
And it's hard to like, you know,
do that.

450
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,320
And it's so good for you and
necessary and needed because if

451
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,440
you don't look at creation, see
as glory, or, you know, look for

452
00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:21,040
Jesus and the Gospels and all
these things, man, you're

453
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,320
really, really missing out.
All right, 14 second-half of

454
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,040
that verse says and make no
provision for the flesh in

455
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:34,160
regard to its lust.
I remember when I was probably

456
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,240
10th, 11th grade, there was this
guy who was from Russia who went

457
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,520
to I think Dallas Seminary, some
seminary and came and preached

458
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:48,560
series of passages.
And he was talking about how we

459
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,360
get saved.
And then like we have this

460
00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:53,800
garden and it's immediately kind
of turned, you know, it's got

461
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,160
new life in it that it could
never have out before.

462
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,480
But the garden still has stones
in it that you, you got to get

463
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,400
those stones out for it to be a
healthy garden.

464
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,880
He's like, you know, some of the
stones are easy to get out.

465
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,040
You know, you just pick them up,
throw them.

466
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,400
Some are big and they take a lot
of work to get out.

467
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,600
And he was kind of using that as
comparison for this, some of

468
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,240
these things.
And he said.

469
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,920
But the sad thing is, sometimes
in the middle of the night, we

470
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,360
go out and we get those stones.
We.

471
00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:17,200
Come back in the garden and go
back to.

472
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,120
That, yeah.
And so you know, wherever you

473
00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:23,440
know, you know where you
struggle.

474
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,640
We all have, I think, different
struggle areas.

475
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,400
Confession time.
I was on the phone today I.

476
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,440
Was confessing to our deepest
star I could send you first.

477
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,480
I was on the phone today and,
you know, you've been on the

478
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,720
phone with someone and, like,
basically their job is to tell

479
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:38,280
you no.
Oh yeah.

480
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:39,520
Yeah.
Yeah.

481
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,800
And my job at that point in time
is like, no's not going to be an

482
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,480
acceptable answer here.
And here's why.

483
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,160
And we were driving back from
Anderson and Jill was like, you

484
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,600
were being very rude with that
woman.

485
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,080
I'm like, was I really though
like?

486
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,240
And I think looked back and I'm
like, OK, probably I was being

487
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,600
rude.
And it's hard to when you're

488
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,200
over the phone and.
You were telling me it was like

489
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,600
a woman.
So like she should have

490
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,160
submitted to you.
No, I'm just kidding.

491
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,600
He didn't say that.
Just kidding.

492
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,160
Just kidding.
Yeah, but you know, so like I'm

493
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,600
thinking, you know, how do I,
how do I still 'cause as a

494
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,520
consumer I still need to build a
kid across?

495
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,720
No, not an acceptable answer in
this case.

496
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,280
And here's why it's not an
acceptable answer.

497
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,080
How do I do that in a way that's
not committing strife, not

498
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,160
that's not being, you know, you
know, that's a good witness, you

499
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,880
know, So like I probably I was
thinking about what I, what I

500
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,880
want a recording of that
conversation to, to play.

501
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,320
Probably not not I didn't cuss
her out or anything.

502
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,000
I was just like, like, no, let
me explain it to you again, you

503
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,560
know?
Yeah, yeah, I can relate for

504
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,520
sure.
Pastor goes to the Sermon on the

505
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,280
Mount, Matthew 527 through 30
where Jesus talk.

506
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,680
He says you've heard that it was
said, don't commit adultery.

507
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,200
But I say to you that everyone
who looks at a woman with a lust

508
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,640
for her has already committed
adultery with her and his heart

509
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,720
and then talks in this
hyperbole.

510
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,360
If your right eye makes you
stumble, tear it out and throw

511
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,360
it from you first.
Better for you to lose 1 of the

512
00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:00,120
parts of your body than for your
whole body to be thrown into

513
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,200
hell.
If your right hand makes you

514
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,920
stumble, cut it off and throw it
from you.

515
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,760
If it's better for you to lose 1
of the parts of your body than

516
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,520
for your whole body to go into
hell.

517
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,040
And you know, maybe it's not
literal, but it's not

518
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,280
unimportance.
Right.

519
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,520
Yeah, yeah.
So if you find that there are

520
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,440
certain triggers to your sin
areas and Jill mentioned like,

521
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,800
you know, especially when he was
younger, I, I, I don't know now

522
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,840
if it's like different or if
they find a different spot of

523
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,600
the beach but just didn't go to
the beach because, you know,

524
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,320
there's people who are not
necessarily dressed

525
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,920
appropriately.
You know, we've even tried to

526
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,120
have baptisms out at the beach
'cause we're trying to do it

527
00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,320
public, but you know that that's
gonna be difficult sometimes.

528
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,160
Social media platforms could be,
you know, a trigger.

529
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,000
Just different.
Friends.

530
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,600
Yeah, we're talking about
confession time.

531
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,240
Michael.
No, you're my friend, but I've

532
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,120
got to catch out of my life.
No, yeah, that that's good.

533
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,200
Pastor made a good point.
Like, man, that's that really

534
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,920
shapes your life.
Who do you spend time with?

535
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,960
So really, really good sermon.
We get into the conclusion and

536
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,520
Pastor makes this this quote a
couple of quotes by Jonathan

537
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,000
Edwards.
I think it's just one long two

538
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,280
different.
Paragraphs.

539
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,440
Well, take take it away, Mr.
Audio Book.

540
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,360
All right, there we go.
Holiness is a most beautiful and

541
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:17,440
lovely thing.
We drink in strange notions of

542
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,160
holiness from our childhood, as
if it were a melancholy, morose,

543
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,960
sour and unpleasant thing, but
there is nothing in it but what

544
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,840
is sweet and ravishingly lovey,
loving, lovely.

545
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,800
Tis the highest beauty and
amiableness vastly above all

546
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,600
other beauties.
Tis the divine beauty makes this

547
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,040
soul heavenly and far purer than
anything here on earth.

548
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,680
This world is like mire and
filth and defilement to that

549
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,400
soul which is sanctified.
Tis of a sweet, pleasant,

550
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,400
charming, lovely, amiable,
delightful, serene, calm and

551
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,480
still nature.
Tis almost too high a beauty for

552
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,280
any creatures to be adorned
with.

553
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,960
It makes the soul a little sweet
and delightful image of the

554
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,960
blessed Jehovah.
That's Holiness.

555
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,160
Jonathan Edwards, I'll tell you
what we should bring tis back.

556
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,960
Tis.
Tis had its day and I feel like

557
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,520
it's, you know, I don't know
when it went out of style, but

558
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,640
maybe we'll bring it back.
Tis the day.

559
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,600
Yeah, there was some song or
something that came on that just

560
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,040
reminded me of it.
And it had a, it had a slant

561
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,160
rhyme in it.
And Chloe's like, don't let Zach

562
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,120
hear it because he does not like
slant rice.

563
00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,920
I'm just like, what's the point?
Yeah, I'm about I'm getting

564
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,760
fired up already, but we'll talk
about what holiness is really

565
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,840
like this.
This quote by Jon Bloom, it's

566
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,080
really good.
He says if we want to know the

567
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,440
essence of the health of
holiness, we need to look

568
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,560
elsewhere, like Psalm 1611.
In your holy presence, there's

569
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,440
fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures

570
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,800
forevermore.
That it's what holiness is

571
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,120
really like.
It's much joy and pleasure that

572
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,320
we can contain for as long as is
possible, which, because God

573
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,840
grants it, is forever.
Do you see it?

574
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,800
Holiness is not a state of
denial characterized by

575
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,120
abstaining from defiling
thoughts, motivations,

576
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:08,960
behaviors, true holiness.
It's a state of delight and the

577
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,160
more true holiness we
experience, the fuller our joy

578
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,880
and greater our pleasure.
Sounds a lot like John Piper's

579
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,600
book Desire and God.
And it's, it's a whole just mind

580
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,960
shift where Christian life's
complicated.

581
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,240
There are things you take up
your cross, you die, you deny

582
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,440
yourself, but it's not like it's
the worst thing in the world.

583
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,080
And actually there there's great
joy in in that sort of thing.

584
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,960
We can delight.
It's it's a really good thing.

585
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,520
Right.
And unless you remember this

586
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,080
Constantine, I mean this
Augustine story.

587
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,720
I do remember he asked Hartnett
how to pronounce the name.

588
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,400
He said either way.
I know man.

589
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,840
I was gonna skip over 'cause I
don't remember the details on

590
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,760
this one.
Let's let's skip over it.

591
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,800
I think the take away was he was
living a very simple life, like

592
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,080
promiscuous guy and then he
turned and changed and said hey

593
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,000
it's great.
Yeah, I've thought he was going

594
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,880
to tell this story, so we'll
tell this story instead.

595
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,120
There we go, there we.
Go that there was some lady that

596
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,640
he had been promiscuous with in
his former life and then he was

597
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,000
saved and he she saw him later
and was like, it's me.

598
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,600
And he was like, but it's not me
anymore.

599
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,440
I'm not the same guy anymore.
That's good.

600
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,760
Yeah.
So that's good, but.

601
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,760
It's not me.
We're at the point of

602
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,760
application.
Application #1 I forgot to stir

603
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,120
your heart to motivate you
because of his mercy showed in

604
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,320
Christ and because of the hope
of Christ's return.

605
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,200
Paul talks about this a lot.
There's a reason most of the

606
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,960
time it's for motivation. #2 Are
there provisions for the flesh

607
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,000
in regard to its lust that you
need to be removed?

608
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,840
Are you willing to deal with it?
Do you need help?

609
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,280
You know, if you need
accountability, that's something

610
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,760
that you call out, someone
that's trusted to help you

611
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,480
remove those provisions of the
flesh.

612
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,360
Then think about that quote by
Jonathan Edwards.

613
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,280
Michael, read earlier.
You know, how do you view

614
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,600
holiness?
What comes to your mind when you

615
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,840
think of holiness?
Is it, you know, a beautiful

616
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,160
thing?
Like like it really is.

617
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,240
And then #4 how do you respond
to those who spread strife among

618
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,480
brothers?
I normally just hit them, slap

619
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:10,400
them, you know what I'm saying?
Little.

620
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,560
Little right hook does the
trick.

621
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,200
I think his point was if
someone's gossiping to you, you

622
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,000
need to be like, hey, yeah, have
you talked to that other person?

623
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,840
You know you need to let's let's
follow the proper procedures.

624
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,320
What if it's gossiping in the
form of prayer requests?

625
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,880
Please pray for Margaret.
She stole my recipe and has been

626
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,080
making it and telling everybody
it's hers.

627
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,760
Got.
To love it man 13 chapters in

628
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,640
the books.
That's right, that's right.

629
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,680
I I think next one we're on to
chapter 14.

630
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,800
Right.
And we're covering a good chunk

631
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,800
of it, so we're moving right
along.

632
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,200
That's what I think.
Thanks for listening to Take 2.

633
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,520
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634
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