Your Labor Is Not in Vain in the Lord | 1 Corinthians 15:58

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Well, everybody, the saga
continues.

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Michael versus Zach another
another round in the books.

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Hey, the the real question is am
I coming out victorious or not?

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That's the real question.
Well, I would say you got the

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victory this morning with the
old I I do announcements from

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time to time at our church and
I'm just gonna this is how I

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perceived the situation, you
know, playing it back got got

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up.
Give your side and let me give

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myself.
OK, let the viewer decide which

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which way sounds, sounds right.
So first of all, a little bit of

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chaos, a lot going on.
I get up, I turn on the mic 97

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times out of 10 it's good right
out of the gate.

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It's like 4 minutes after I need
to get I, I'm going to get

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things rolling.
So I put the mic up to my face

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and I go good, nice, Hardy, good
morning.

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Nothing.
I look back at the sound booth

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like, what's going on?
I'm not even paying attention.

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Not paying.
You're like, you're like typing

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something or like looking over
and I'm like, oh, we're still

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trying to like figure it out.
There's stuff that needs to be

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done.
Oh, it takes like 20 seconds.

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No big deal.
Michael looks at me.

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Maybe even give me a a thumbs
up, a head knob.

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You were like, and I was like,
Oh yeah.

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So I did.
I did push a button to unmuted a

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mic on the board.
It, it apparently it wasn't my

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mic 'cause I, I go for it again,
Nice, good morning.

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Nothing and but then we then we
got it fixed and then I came in

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really strong, good boarding.
And it was, you know, so I, I,

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yeah.
Michael just had to, you know,

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let let me know that he's got
the power to turn, turn the mic

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on and off.
So don't.

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Cross it.
Yeah, yeah, don't if you're no,

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we switched the power streaming
our services, we're going

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through this black magic ATIM.
And if you're out there and

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you're a black magic ATIM mini
pro expert, Aaron, if you're

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still listening to the podcast,
I may have questions 'cause

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we're trying to get everything
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The stream seems to work now but
the sound input is like got this

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high frequency hiss that I was
trying to get out and it's like

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honestly.
That's what you get for tried

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black magic at church.
I feel it's true.

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I didn't name the product.
Yeah, so, but you know, the kind

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of the second part of this is, I
think Zach, you were like

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talking to the Northwood Lower
School people and you're like,

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hey, there's this guy that I
keep getting paired up with

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coaching.
I was successfully able to cut

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him out of soccer this season,
but we gonna have to do

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something about basketball.
Let's let's change the

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basketball ways because I don't
want to have to coach with this

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guy again.
Is that what is that what

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happened?
Did you did you go to the lower

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school principals like?
It's not.

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Save me.
Save me.

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It's not true.
What Michael is saying is, you

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know, normally parents can
volunteer and, and coach their

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little ones and looks like
basketball are taking it away

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from me.
You know, I'm, I love coaching

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basketball, honestly love
coaching the kids.

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But I do like getting some shots
up too.

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You know, you get a little
exercise up there as well and

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they play on like 8 foot goals
so you can dunk, which is always

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fun.
So it'll be, it'll be sad, but I

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I think their heart's in the
right place, but I hope they

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don't do it.
Yeah, yeah.

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So, yeah.
So probably this year I'd be off

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anyways again 'cause I don't
have a kid playing.

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If you.
If you I mean, maybe.

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Maybe, maybe, maybe one of these
podcasts will ask you live on

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the air, you know, put a lot of
pressure on you.

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You.
Can't say no.

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Yeah, yeah.
Because I, I feel like, you

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know, you've coached a lot with
your kids.

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I've coached a lot with their
kids.

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I don't know if you ever feel
that your labor's been in vain,

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that your coaching really hard
is always worth it.

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I feel like you know.
I think it's generally worth it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you?

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Well, I think it's worth it.
Maybe what I'm trying to say is,

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for example, I will spend like 5
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specific tactic we're going to
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We were all we were working on
quarter kicks and I was like,

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hey, you're going to line up at
the near post and the far post.

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Just be ready to tap it in.
Game time happens.

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We don't know what's going on.
It's OK, they're little kids.

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Halftime happens.
That's all we're going to have

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to.
I'm walking over to the spots.

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Still don't get that's my goal
for the year to know some of

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those things.
So that's your goal.

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I like that it works on multiple
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So I would agree it's worth it,
big picture.

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But sometimes when you're in the
midst of it, you're like, which

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I think that's a good analogy,
big picture.

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It can be worth it.
Yeah.

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So similar to us, like yelling
stack, stack, stack, stack.

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We just went over this, like we
spent 40 minutes going over how

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to inbound the ball underneath
the goal.

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And people are like, what?
What?

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What?
Yeah.

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That's that.
That's the best.

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SO youth sports, always a good
time, yeah.

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And maybe, who knows, maybe
Michael's friendship and I will

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be reconciled for some from
coaching if Northwood let's us.

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Right, right.
If, if, if it's all in your

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hands, Northwood.
A lot of pressure is writing

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into it, but the sermon this
morning, the title of it was

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Your labor is not in vain in the
Lord.

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Those last three words are are.
Important.

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Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, so.

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Oh.
Oh, I see.

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I mean, yeah.
Yeah.

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You can make it a Segway you.
Make it a Segway.

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I I I pulled a fast one on me
well.

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Hopefully at the end of it we
can kind of come, come back

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around and we can, you know,
whether it's you sports, whether

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it's whatever, if, if it's in
the Lord, it's not in vain.

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So hang in there with us as we
go ahead and take it to the next

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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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Your labor is not in vain.
And it was a good, good title.

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And I, I, even though it clearly
says First Corinthians 1558

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underneath it, I thought we were
spending there most of the time

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in Ecclesiastes and then we were
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I was like, Dang, let's get back
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And then I was like, Oh no, his
root passage is First

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Corinthians 7.
Yeah, the the answer that that

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that's great.
And, you know, big picture,

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we're we're not in Romans.
This week, so if.

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You're, you know, open up your
Bible, you're following along,

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you're ready for Romans.
You gotta wait one more week

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'cause I know we're getting into
the some heavy stuff into

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Romans, but today, really great,
great sermon.

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Tough passage to sum up in that
First Corinthians 58, but I

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think Danny Danny did well
jumping around everywhere to

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make it work.
But we did start with

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Ecclesiastes.
We did start with Ecclesiastes

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and if you've read through
Ecclesiastes, it can be it can

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be hard to understand what
exactly are you trying to say

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because there may be passages
that say everything is vanity

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depending on your vapor,
meaningless depending on your

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translation.
Or there be times where talks

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like maybe everything's not
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And how I was instructed to
interpret Ecclesiastes when I

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was young when our preacher
preached through it was that

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these phrases under the sun and
under heaven and under the sun

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is used a lot.
It's like less trick.

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It's a little tricky to see the
under heaven parts, but when

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he's talking about under the
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from an earthly perspective.
And then in that case, it is all

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meaningless.
Like if this is all there is,

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it's meaningless.
But if there is an afterlife, if

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there is a God, then our labor
wouldn't be in vain.

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And that was Denny's point by
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Yeah, I think those are great
categories to think.

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And you've got under the sun and
in the Lord, and that makes

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everything that that that is the
difference.

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And so the passage that he
appeals to to kind of kick off

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the sermon is Ecclesiastes 215
through 22.

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I'll read that quickly here.
Then I said to myself, as is the

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fate of the fool, it will also
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Why then have I been extremely
wise?

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So I said to myself, this too is
vanity, for there is no lasting

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remembrance of the wise man.
It's with the fool.

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And as much in the coming days
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How the wise man and the full
like die.

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So I hated life, for the work
which had been done under the

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sun was grievous to me, because
everything is futility and

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striving after.
When thus I hated all the fruit

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of my labor for which I had
labored under the sun for him,

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as leave it to the man who will
come after me, and who knows

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whether he'll be a wise man or a
fool, yet he will have control

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over all the fruit of my labor
for which I have labored by

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acting wisely under the sun.
This too is vanity.

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Therefore I completely despaired
of all the fruit of my labor for

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which I labored under the sun.
When there is a man who has

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labored with wisdom, knowledge,
and skill, and he gives his

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legacy to one who is not labored
with them, this too is vanity

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and a great evil.
For what does a man get and all

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his labor, and in his striving
with which he laborers under the

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sun?
Like you said, a lot of these

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phrases, even that short
passage, were repeated over and

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over and over again.
Wise people die, fools die.

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I could be wise, maybe my son's
not wise.

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All this worked.
Everything under the sun.

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What's the point?
Yeah, and I'm really surprised

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Danny did not go to 50 Cent here
as an illustration, because I

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don't know if you caught it, but
recently $0.50 put in his $0.50

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put a tweeted about his son not
working expecting to get Liv off

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of his dad's money and like
$0.50 called him out publicly.

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He's like, this is part of the
problem of having a lot of

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wealth because your your
prodigy, your children think I

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don't have to work.
And so it kind of hinders them

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from doing the work that they
should.

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And he's like, and I'm calling
him out publicly as maybe as a

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motivation, like I set him up
with the job that he could have

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potentially earned a million a
year and but he didn't want to

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put in the work, which I thought
was OK a lot of.

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People in that position probably
take the easy way out to keep

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people happy.
I, you know, quote, UN quote,

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you know, love my son.
Here's money.

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There's some joke in here.
I can't find it.

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But you know, when 50 Cent
started with inflation, that's a

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lot of money.
Now I'm not landing it.

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And I also in my head, it's just
like Danny's got this book on

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his, you know, library.
That's like modern analogy to

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explain the Bible and it's like
got $0.50.

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He's like looking for like how
to connect with the audience.

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That's like, really?
Good, his 50.

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Cent illustrations aren't aren't
super deep.

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No, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.

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That's good.
So Danny's core passage, the

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core text for the sermon is
First Corinthians 1558, which is

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in in steep, sharp contrast to
what we just read because

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Solomon would say it's all
meaningless, it's all vanities.

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You know what?
What's the point in all the

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labor?
But Paul's gonna come in and

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he's gonna say, Therefore, my
beloved brothers, be steadfast,

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immovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, knowing

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that in the Lord your labor is
not in vain.

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Yeah, I, I, I like, I like that
huge contrast.

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And the encouragement is because
it's not in vain.

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Keep at it.
Don't move off of this.

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Always abound.
That's always is, you know.

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Pretty consistently, right?
And so I like that he hung these

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two concepts in in the balance
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you if you do it for any amount
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cool.
Little preview, little interview

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with Greg Alderman coming down
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But we've done ministry for for
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and downs.
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ministry, if yours are living
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doing, is it worth it is in
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You need perseverance.
You need some perspective.

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does seem like it just falls
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way from God's perspective.
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Yep, Yep, that's good.
So the first word in this verse

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is therefore.
And if you've listened to us, if

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you've been under any Bible
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you know, you should always go
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the therefore is there for.
It's a little cliche, but it's

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it's easy to remember.
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scholar, wants to go over kind
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like how did Paul land 'cause
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beginning of the beginning of
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we're at the, we're at the
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So there's a lot of context to
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Yeah, Yeah, there could, yeah,
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reasonably all of for everything
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But so we didn't do that, but
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Corinthians 15.
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Corinthians 15, we've talked
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It is a long chapter.
It is all about the

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resurrection.
The key verse is the last verse

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in the chapter.
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Paul is talking to them about
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resurrection is central to all
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And I'll just read this first
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He has it under the title The
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reality of the resurrection.
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first importance what I also
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That is a rabbinical formula.
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to you what I received.
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That Christ died for our sins
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that he was buried and that He
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to the scriptures.
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then to the 12.
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people that he appeared to, but
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importance to us.
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fact.
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that that's a problem.
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look across some of these other
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low hanging fruit, but you'll
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and these things and you're
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believe this stuff like it's
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historically these things really
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facts behind.
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think of a historical event
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resurrection too in First
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Paul continues, right?
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resurrection of the dead, not
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vain.
Your faith is also vain.

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Everything actually is, is
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This is factual.
This is something that has

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happened.
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say, you know, argue for
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testable.
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falsifiable.
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prove that Christ did not raise
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Christianity's gone.
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point.
And then because of that, we

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have this victory because if
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death and then he can give that
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fear?
Because death is like the, you

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know, the big thing.
But if, if we can live this life

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without fear of, you know,
there's going to be ups and

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downs in life and maybe our
death could be horrible and

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tragic, but that's the worst
it's going to get because after

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that, you know, we're with
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So then he'll continue on. 1st
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the end when he hands over the
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and Father when he was has
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and power.
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put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that will be

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abolished is death.
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I think he mentioned that he was
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in First Corinthians 15.
I feel like it should be an

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Easter servant that's like one
of those you hear like, you

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know, you start talking about
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and death and all all these
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He uses this illustration, which
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know, communism in China when
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ramping up, you know,
missionaries were deported out

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of the country.
You can't, you can't do this

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here.
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invested a lot of time and
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built.
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to go backwards, all this for
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It's going to fall apart.
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this is not unique to to China,
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places under the threat of
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Christianity, you see the rise
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persecuted church actually
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Christ is Lord that that's a
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Christ is reigning as king.
He has, you know, conquered

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death.
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live life in our perspective, I
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about this as an already, not
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He's already reigning.
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reign?
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reigning.
He is winning.

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Things are going according to
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going to bring it about to a
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final victory is assured.
The dead are going to be raised,

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whether they are eventually
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everyone, everyone's being
raised death will be defeated

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and then we will either go on to
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Lord or into eternal punishment.
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right before what we read say it
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will have put on the
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will have put on immortality,
then we'll come about the saying

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that is written, death is
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Oh death, where is your victory?
Oh, death, where is your sting

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kind of taunting Death and
saying, hey, we don't have to be

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afraid of you anymore?
And then then Danny has this

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early church quote and you know,
it's a good quote when it's in

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all caps when you're like, and
it like fits the occasion and

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it's like, you know, really
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Point Yeah well so how the the
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will occasionally take a picture
and then I you can iPhones will

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let you copy the text off of it
I Androids probably do that too

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they probably did it before
iPhones I don't know but I know

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iPhones do so then I paste it
but he had it in small caps so

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it just pasted it in his long.
Caps what I heard you say is

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iPhones are better than Android
Clay I'll just shout it to you

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had had this quote from this
early early shirt like the way

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Michael put it in the notes
early dude in Rome.

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This this code speaks to this
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maybe the late 3 hundreds.
Was that what I was gathering

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so.
From what I understood, he was

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after kind of Constantine that
that's what I thought Danny was

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saying 3. 51 And then a little.
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in some respects Christianized
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of pushback there.
He, he writes, he that was taken

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by death has annihilated it.
He descended into Hades, and

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took Hades captive.
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When it tasted his flesh.
It took a body and met God face

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to face.
It took earth and encountered

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heaven.
It took what it saw, but

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crumbled before what it had not
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O death, where's thy sting?
O Hades, where's thy victory?

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Christ is risen, and you are
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Christ is risen, and the demons
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Christ is risen and the angels
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Christ is risen and life reigns.
Christ has risen, and not one

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dead remains in a tomb.
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dead has become the first fruits
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To him be glory and might unto
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Amen.
There you go.

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I'm not.
How do you say this guy's last

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name?
I think it's just Christen

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Chrysoatum Chrysoatum.
And I, I've seen John a lot in

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different, I mean, over time, I
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I mean, that's just, I have

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not heard it pronounced.
That's just me guessing it's not

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it's probably wrong, but all
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So that kind of what we covered
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That's the therefore, that's the
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So the gospel is the hope of our
reality.

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It's a fact and it in the gospel
of the the resurrection of

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Christ, we have our victory.
So then moving on to the next

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part of the verse, it says,
Therefore, my brethren, be

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steadfast.
Immovable, always abounding in

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the work of a Lord.
I like I like that a lot of good

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descriptors there of how how we
are to act because there's work

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to do a verse you passage you've
probably heard on this podcast.

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Very frequently lately, maybe
maybe even misquoted every now

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and then.
Ephesians 28 to 10 and Danny

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made the point that made
Ephesians 2 this great passage

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that that's about grace and now
salvation, but doesn't stop with

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justification but continues on.
I'll I'll read it here for us

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for by grace you have been saved
through faith and that not of

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yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not as a

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result of works so that no one
may boast and so that I think

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8-9 gets most of the credit.
I think 10 gets good recognition

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but 8-9 like that's what
everyone.

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Hangs their hat on.
We get to verse 10 for we are

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His workmanship created in
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which God prepared beforehand so
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there is work to be done.
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Paul says, we could be steadfast
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this work.
He prepared it.

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We can walk in these works.
Yeah, while we were reading that

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short aside, you know, we were
talking about basketball

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earlier.
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Yeah.
This should be like the key

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phrase for every post, every
center.

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Be steadfast, immovable, always
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Always.
Someone put that on AT shirt.

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Actually, don't we?
That's our idea.

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Don't steal it.
That's actually pretty good.

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All right, so God is crafting us
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good works.
That was just what we saw in

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Ephesians 289 through 10 and the
work is not really our work.

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We're we're doing the work, but
it's God's work and he goes

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Danny goes to John to to kind of
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So John 519 through 20 Jesus is
talking and he says, therefore

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Jesus answered and was saying to
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I say to you, the Son can do
nothing of himself unless it is

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something he sees the Father
doing for whatever the father

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does these things, the Son also
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And so, you know, the father is
kind of the orchestrator of all

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of this work.
The son does the father's work

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and then we do the work that the
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He continues in John 12/26.
If anyone serves me, he must

448
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,160
follow me.
And where I am, there my servant

449
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,320
will be also.
If anyone serves me, the father

450
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,960
will honor him.
So in the same way, you know,

451
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,600
you kind of see this, the
Father, the son, the son to us.

452
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,280
We have these works to to walk
through.

453
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,960
That that is, that is really
good that these works are

454
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,720
they're God's works that we can
walk in.

455
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,880
So what's it look like?
How do we discern these things?

456
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,920
And this is where Danny Scott a
bajillion passages that.

457
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,520
He had a lot in the notes.
I put him all the references

458
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,960
here, but he didn't preach
through all of his references.

459
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,720
Yeah.
That that that's correct.

460
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,720
And so he get he encouraged us.
Hey, you know, take some time.

461
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,480
You can work through.
There's a lot of places that

462
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,960
that you could go.
He hung out at the parable of

463
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,040
the talents.
This this familiar parable we're

464
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,480
we're not really told.
It wasn't like, hey, take, take

465
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,600
this talent to Chase Bank.
It's like, hey, here's a high

466
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,000
yield savings account or invest
in this fund.

467
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,480
But we were told these people
were told to invest.

468
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,560
And the only one who who failed
this test entirely was one who

469
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,040
just sat there and didn't do
anything.

470
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,360
Even the one who did minimal
investing was a was a good, good

471
00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,440
servant.
And so I think in that give you

472
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,720
some freedom there, you know,
it's encouraging.

473
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,720
I've not heard someone make that
point before.

474
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,920
And I was like, oh, that's a,
that's a, that's a comforting

475
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,640
point.
Like, Hey, I may not be the

476
00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,800
Moses, I may not be the Abraham,
I may not be the Zach, you know,

477
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,600
those levels up there.
But as long as you know, I am

478
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,720
doing what I can with what's
God's given me.

479
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,760
And I'm not just like sitting on
it.

480
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,160
I'm going to be considered good.
Sorry, that's that, that's

481
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,400
amazing, 'cause you can be, can
be paralyzed that, that is very

482
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,760
comforting.
And then on the other side of

483
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,520
things, he talks about Peter.
And we've got this great passage

484
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,440
where Peter is commended, makes
his great confession.

485
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:30,720
And then in Matthew 16, I'll
just go ahead and read, read

486
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,200
some of this and we'll we'll
talk about it.

487
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,760
Peter said to them, or Jesus
said to them, but who do you say

488
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,760
that I am?
And Simon Peter answered, You

489
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,880
are the Christ, the Son of the
living God.

490
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,920
And Jesus said to him, Blessed
are you, Simon Barjona, because

491
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,360
flesh and blood did not reveal
this to you, but my Father, who

492
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,520
is in heaven and so.
Therefore, you're the first

493
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,600
Pope, Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's in the.

494
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:52,840
What version is that?
That's great.

495
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:58,040
Catholics. 101 that's great.
So we we see this just connect.

496
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,520
This was revealed from the
father to Peter, Peter's riding

497
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,960
high and then verse 23 not not
too many verses later, Jesus

498
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,920
turned and said to Peter, get
behind me, Satan.

499
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,720
You are a stumbling block to me
for you're not setting your mind

500
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,400
on God's interests, but man's
and you hear something like this

501
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,920
and you know, you can see that,
that that that that's pretty

502
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,480
startling.
And we all, you know, have our

503
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,360
ups and downs.
We're not unique or Peter wasn't

504
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,920
unique either.
You know, some of this stuff, I

505
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,760
think it's good to good to keep
in mind.

506
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,400
No, that's good.
Yeah.

507
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,560
We're going to have our ups and
downs through life, and we're

508
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,400
going to.
I mean, there's been times when

509
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,680
I've been like, everything is
perfect.

510
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,480
And then, you know, two days
later, you're like, man, just

511
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,120
two.
Just a couple days ago, I

512
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,760
thought everything was perfect.
Now it seems like everything is

513
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,640
crumbling like what's what?
What gives, Lord, Like what?

514
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,160
What are you trying to teach me
here?

515
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,720
But I think that is the kind of
the walk that we we have.

516
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,720
We can, we all have that, but
that doesn't mean that we don't

517
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,920
go back to what we're supposed
to do and be steadfast,

518
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,480
unmovable, always abounding in
what we know to be true like we

519
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,160
got.
We have to make our emotions

520
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,080
follow our intellect, what we
know to be right and not the

521
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,040
other way around.
Yeah, easy.

522
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,040
We'll, we'll kind of even talk
about that about that pretty

523
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480
soon.
Are you OK if we skip down to

524
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,280
.3?
Yeah, that I think so there

525
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,320
there are a lot of other.
He ends kind of with the the

526
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,640
Great Commission.
You know what is what is that

527
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,680
unbound, You know that always
abounding and good works.

528
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,840
But there's lots of places in
Scripture to Danny's point, and

529
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,160
these are all just in Matthew.
Yeah.

530
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,480
Yeah, right.
That's true.

531
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,480
That demonstrate what good works
might look like and I I think we

532
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,120
could we could spend for a long
time a long time talking about

533
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:44,840
those yeah so yeah we'll.
We'll go to .3 under the sun.

534
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,480
It's vain in Christ.
It's not.

535
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,680
So we're coming back to this
paradigm and and really the

536
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,080
encouragement there is set your
minds on the things above that.

537
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,640
If we camp out there even
thinking about Peter that that

538
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,600
in the positive light, you know,
the father revealed is that

539
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,560
that's where we want to be.
And So what you were saying this

540
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,040
life here is a fog.
Then he made this point that

541
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,960
emotions we can get up and down
in that.

542
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,240
And he made this, this analogy
to a pilot and they have to rely

543
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,600
on their instruments, what they
know is true.

544
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,360
And people that don't, they
think it's one thing and they

545
00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,200
rely on their side that that's
bad news.

546
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,720
Yeah, yeah, I was just actually
watching a video of this guy

547
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,760
that kept lowering his altitude,
kept lowering altitude.

548
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,760
The the tower is like, what's
your altitude at?

549
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,040
And it's like it says 2250 and
like you have to, I, I need you

550
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,320
to increase your altitude now
increase your altitude.

551
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,840
And like he eventually crashes
the plane and it's like he got

552
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,440
where his senses were messed up
and he thought he was flying too

553
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,480
high and and he crashes.
So we don't want that to be,

554
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,960
that's like a literal thing.
We don't want that to like

555
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,720
happen to our lives either,
where we are going off of what

556
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,360
we kind of see and sense instead
of what we know to be the truth

557
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,160
from God's Word.
Yeah, easier said than done, but

558
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,920
so important to be tethered to
the word of God.

559
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,160
Then he makes the point that
Church militant is made-up of

560
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,760
the same people as the church
triumphant.

561
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,040
He takes a takes a page, talks a
little bit about Jim Elliott and

562
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,640
those missionaries that that
gave their lives.

563
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,120
And it was interesting.
Maybe you can fill in the gaps

564
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,120
because I'm I'm going to butcher
the story wrong, but I'll

565
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,640
actually just how can get to you
because we get the details of

566
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,360
the Angel singing.
They're like, oh, I remember as

567
00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:24,480
Stephen Curtis Chapman's in
there.

568
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,160
There's a lot going on, you
know, so I don't want to mess up

569
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,240
the timeline here.
Yeah, well, it all started back

570
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,960
with Adam and Eve.
No.

571
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,360
So we, I think we're pretty
familiar with Nate St.

572
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:34,880
Jim Elliot, others who are
there.

573
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,320
Peter Fleming, Roger Jordain, Ed
Mcculley went to this tribe down

574
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,000
in South America.
You may remember their name.

575
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,040
Alka.
Yeah.

576
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,360
The Alka tribe, the Alka
Indians.

577
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:50,920
What we and but years later, you
know, their, some of their wives

578
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,360
went down there, you know, they
were saved, they learned

579
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,240
English, they were talking to
them and they were telling them

580
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,720
the like they're recounting what
happened that night.

581
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,560
And it's like they're using a
language that's not their mother

582
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,400
tongue.
And so it seems a little weird

583
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,280
because like we saw lights in
the trees and there was noises

584
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,960
and so like the and so some of
them actually went to America.

585
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,360
I remember one of them.
That's right.

586
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,600
Yeah.
It was went to America with

587
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,560
like.
Nate Nate.

588
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,840
Saints kid.
Yeah, Yeah.

589
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,200
And they were buying something
and he was like, here, you don't

590
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,760
give any anything, you know,
like when we trade, we trade,

591
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,480
you know this for that.
And he's like, no, I gave him

592
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:30,760
the card.
He's like, yeah, but they give

593
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,720
the card back to you.
Yeah.

594
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,920
Yeah.
So he's confused on that.

595
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,240
But they went to a church
service and he saw the choir.

596
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,200
He was like, this is what we saw
in the trees the night that we

597
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,280
killed your, your dad.
And so as their English got

598
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,080
better and they had more
references that we don't know

599
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:53,760
for sure, but it seems like they
had some vision of heaven, some

600
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:59,280
angelic vision of angels or past
Saints who were there welcoming,

601
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:05,080
welcoming these missionaries in
to be with Christ.

602
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,640
And just a foreshadowing we saw,
you know, just a crazy, not

603
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,000
crazy, but a very stirring
testimony on in our interview.

604
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,240
That's going to be out the
Thursday after this airs you.

605
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,120
Know yeah that that that's good
this glimpse of where, you know,

606
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,680
the real reality of heaven kind
of intersects with with our

607
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,520
reality here.
And so that is first Corinthians

608
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,640
1558.
We're going to move to

609
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,280
application here.
And and he he writes it.

610
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:38,560
What if dot, dot, dot, if we
walk in Christ, these sufferings

611
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,400
will be our healing and these
good times will be our foretaste

612
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,600
of victory.
Our victories are better marked

613
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,160
by suffer, by our sufferings,
than by our own comforts.

614
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,120
Kind of bringing it all back
together, that big, big way to

615
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880
look at things in Christ.
Things are not in vain under the

616
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,200
sun, things are very much in
vain.

617
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,200
And just looking at that, you
start to see things a little bit

618
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,880
differently.
Yeah, this is a huge question

619
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,400
for everyone because everyone at
some point asked what's the

620
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,720
meaning of my life?
What's the what am I doing?

621
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:12,480
Am I making a difference?
And if you are working in and

622
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:18,200
through Christ, those Ephesians
210 type of ideas, then it will

623
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,960
be meaningful, even though
sometimes it feels like it's not

624
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,560
meaningful here.
Yeah, I, I think, I think that's

625
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:24,760
so good.
It's just, it's so easy.

626
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,840
My, my, I know for me
personally, my personality is

627
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,800
more of the I get does I can get
discouraged very easily or I'm

628
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,320
always like worst case scenario
or I'm always like always

629
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,880
thinking like glass half empty
sometimes when I should be, you

630
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,240
know, it's like, wow, what what
great, what great perspective.

631
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,240
Next week, I assume we'll be
back in Romans. 9 Romans, Yeah,

632
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,360
could be our most sovereign
grace.

633
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:50,480
Could be.
That's right.

634
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,680
Podcast ever, I don't know.
And sermon, maybe, I don't know.

635
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,960
Have to have to tune it find
out.

636
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,880
All right, that is our take.
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637
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,080
Two.
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638
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639
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