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Christine Caine | Christine Caine - Wisdom For Life (Part 10) | December 4, 2024
- - paul states that his intention is to finish his race well.
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- He is not interested in slowing down.
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- There are no retirement plans in his future.
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- He only has one life,
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- And he intends to run his race every day on this earth
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- For the glory of god.
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- He knows that his race will not be over
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- Until he goes home to heaven.
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- That is his finish line.
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- And that, my friends, is our finish line.
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- It's not over until we get home.
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- Until then, we keep pressing, we keep pushing.
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- We keep fixing our eyes on jesus and running our race
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- Until we finish our course in jesus' name.
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- [warm upbeat music]
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- Hi, my name is christine caine,
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- And i am just so grateful that you've joined me
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- For today's episode of "equip & empower."
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- Now, the truth is that our world is full of knowledge
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- And information and technology and even lots of opinion,
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- But i have to tell you,
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- There seems to be a wisdom deficit everywhere we turn.
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- You and i need wisdom to know what to do and how to do it
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- And when to do it so that we can live the lives
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- That god has called us to live.
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- Now, i'm believing that today we'll ignite within you
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- A passion to seek out wisdom,
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- Which solomon tells us is the supreme thing.
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- Let's dive right in.
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- [lively upbeat music]
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- Hey, i am so grateful that you've joined us today.
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- I know that god has a powerful word for you.
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- You have jumped in to an awesome series
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- Where we are unpacking the necessity
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- Of walking in the wisdom of god in the 21st century.
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- Man, our world is spiraling out of control.
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- There are so many opinions, there is so much information,
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- There is so much knowledge out there.
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- But man, we need the wisdom to know what is worth knowing.
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- And we need the wisdom to know how to make right choices
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- And how to make choices
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- That are going to take us into the purposes
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- And the future that god has for our lives
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- So today we're going to look
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- At the apostle paul's farewell letter.
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- I love this letter so much
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- And because i love it, you're gonna love it.
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- And it's written in acts 20.
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- Now, listen, this is the only message in acts
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- That's actually given to a christian audience.
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- Now, this letter that we're about to read,
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- And i love letters and you're going to love this letter,
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- It's jam-packed full of wisdom.
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- But just before we dive into the text,
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- I want to give you a very, very brief biography
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- Of the apostle paul because basically his resume,
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- His salvation story and the assignment that god has for him
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- Is absolutely mind-blowing.
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- And the best part of this,
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- If god could use someone like him,
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- Then god can use you and god can use me.
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- You know, paul was born in a place called tarsus,
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- Which was the capital city of the roman province of cilicia
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- In southeast asia minor.
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- I wish i had a map so i could show you all of this.
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- Now, he was extremely well-educated,
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- And he was tutored under the legendary gamaliel.
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- Now, this guy, he was a lover of god.
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- He was a strict pharisee and a zealous protector of judaism.
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- Now, he personally instituted a vicious campaign
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- Of persecution against christians because he truly
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- Believed that he was protecting the one true faith.
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- So in fact, paul was right there when stephen,
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- Who was the first christian martyr,
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- Was being stoned to death,
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- And paul watched and approved of the whole thing.
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- Well, one day when he was on the road to damascus
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- In order to continue the persecution against christians.
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- So remember, this dude lived to persecute christians.
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- So he's on his way to more persecutions.
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- Well, what happened? it was so supernatural.
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- He saw a blinding light.
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- He literally fell to the ground
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- And then he audibly heard jesus speak to him.
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- He was then led by the hand, and he was blind, remember,
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- To a place called damascus
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- Where a christian named ananias met him.
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- Now, he was healed of his blindness
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- So he believed in the name of jesus and he was baptized.
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- I just want us to pause.
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- If this was anybody else, maybe you could say to me,
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- "well, chris, you're making this stuff up.
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- Chris, this is just a myth.
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- Chris, this is just like an old wives' tale."
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- But this man, the pharisee of pharisees,
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- Highly educated, influential in society,
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- Standing there when the first christian,
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- Stephen was martyred.
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- When the first martyr was stephen, he was standing there.
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- He approved of it.
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- He was now going out to persecute more and more
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- Christians. he wanted to shut this thing down.
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- Now, if what i just told you wasn't real,
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- This man's life would not have turned upside down.
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- He sees a blinding light, he hears an audible voice.
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- He's blind, he's led into damascus,
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- And literally everything changes.
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- This is one of the most radical conversions
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- That we see recorded in scripture.
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- And eventually, it's this same paul,
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- This kind of killer of christians,
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- This same paul is the one that is sent out
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- By the church leaders as an apostle to the gentiles.
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- I mean, wrap your head around it.
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- Paul traveled prolifically,
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- And he actually completed three missionary journeys.
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- I love to do this.
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- I love to go overseas
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- And follow what we call the steps of paul on a tour
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- And visiting the cities, these journeys, they helped
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- To spread the gospel throughout the then known world.
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- Now, what happened was paul also planted many churches,
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- And he ended up writing a good 2/3
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- Of what we today call our new testament.
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- So the letters that he wrote to churches,
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- Well, they address specific christian discipleship issues.
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- He was masterful at teaching in both the synagogue
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- And in the marketplace.
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- And he was masterful in proclaiming the gospel
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- To both jewish people and gentiles.
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- So what happened was paul ended up enduring a lot
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- Of persecution because he took the gospel to the world.
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- And let me just say, it didn't come easy for him.
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- He suffered numerous beatings.
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- I mean, shipwrecks, imprisonments.
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- Look, i've had some missed flights and canceled hotels
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- And a few inconveniences, but there haven't been beatings
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- Or shipwrecks or imprisonments, hardships,
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- And heartaches, that i can connect with.
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- So, to say that paul's life was eventful and intense,
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- Now, man, that is a massive understatement.
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- Okay, having given you that brief autobiography,
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- 'cause you just need to know context is everything.
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- Context is everything.
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- So with that brief autobiography, we're now going
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- To acts 20, where we're going to meet paul
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- At the end of his third missionary journey.
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- So he's already done two.
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- He's just coming now, wrapping up around
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- At the end of his third missionary journey.
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- Now, you have to understand he had been in ephesus.
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- Now i've been to ephesus. i've seen the ruins at ephesus.
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- I actually had a massive encounter with god at ephesus.
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- It was so powerful.
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- But he'd been in ephesus for three years,
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- Which was the longest time he had spent in any city
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- On any of his missionary journeys.
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- And he'd been run out of town when riots started
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- After he confronted their idols,
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- Which had impacted the bottom line of those
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- That were involved in the business of making idols.
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- So he got up in their business. he's confronting idols.
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- They're saying, "hey, this is costing us money."
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- So they ran him out of town. so what happened?
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- After he left ephesus, he spent three months in greece.
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- And when we pick up this story in verse 17, what's happening
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- Is paul is now on his way back to jerusalem,
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- And so we're going to pick up the text from there.
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- I just wanted you to understand
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- Where this is in paul's lifecycle.
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- Now, this is the word of the lord. it says:
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- Now from miletus, he sent to ephesus
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- And summoned the elders of the church.
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- When they came to him, he said to them,
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- "you know, from the first day i set foot in asia,
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- How i was with you the whole time,
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- Serving the lord with all humility, with tears,
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- And during the trials that came to me
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- Through the plots of the jews.
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- You know that i did not hesitate to proclaim anything to you
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- That was profitable and to teach you publicly
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- And from house to house.
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- I testified to both jews and greeks
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- About repentance toward god and faith in our lord jesus.
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- And now i am on my way to jerusalem,
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- Compelled by the spirit,
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- Not knowing what i will encounter there,
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- Except that in every town the holy spirit warns me
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- That chains and afflictions are waiting for me.
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- But i consider my life of no value to myself.
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- My purpose is to finish my course
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- And the ministry i received from the lord jesus,
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- To testify to the gospel of god's grace.
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- And now i know that none of you,
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- Among whom i went about preaching the kingdom,
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- Will ever see me again.
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- Therefore i declare to you this day
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- That i am innocent of the blood of all of you
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- Because i did not avoid declaring to you
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- The whole plan of god.
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- Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock
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- Of which the holy spirit has appointed you as overseers,
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- To shepherd the church of god,
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- Which he purchased with his own blood.
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- I know that after my departure
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- Savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
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- Men will rise up even from your own number
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- And distort the truth
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- To lure the disciples into following them.
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- Therefore be on alert,
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- Remembering that night and day for three years
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- I never stopped warning each one of you with tears.
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- And now i commit you to god and to the word of his grace,
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- Which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance
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- Among all who are sanctified.
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- I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.
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- You yourselves know that i worked with my own hands
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- To support myself and those who are with me.
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- In every way i've shown you that it is necessary
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- To help the weak by laboring like this
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- And to remember the words
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- Of the lord jesus, because he said,
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- 'it is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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- After he said this,
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- He knelt down and prayed with all of them.
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- There were many tears shed by everyone.
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- They embraced paul and kissed him,
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- Grieving most of all over his statement
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- That they would never see his face again.
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- And they accompanied him to the ship.
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- As you can see, it was on his way to jerusalem
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- That paul stopped in miletus, which is a small coastal town,
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- About 30 miles southwest of ephesus in modern-day turkey.
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- And he sent for the ephesian elders to come
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- And to meet him there.
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- Now, you might be thinking,
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- "well, why didn't paul just go and visit them in ephesus
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- Instead of getting them to come to him?"
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- Now, most commentators agree that paul seemed
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- To be in a hurry to get to jerusalem before the passover.
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- And if he went to ephesus, where he had so many friends,
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- He would have stayed much longer than he wanted to.
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- And of course, there were also plenty of people
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- That did not like him in ephesus,
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- And it might have been very dangerous
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- For him to go back to ephesus.
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- Now, he was also carrying an offering
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- That he'd gathered from the churches
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- To take back to jerusalem so he may also have been concerned
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- About being robbed along the way.
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- This was literally going to be paul's last time
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- With these elders, and he loved these guys so dearly.
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- And what this speech is actually called,
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- It's actually called the miletus address.
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- Now, i don't know of anything that would be more personal
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- Or vulnerable, maybe meditative or reflective and weighty
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- Than a speech that is given
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- When you knew that you would never see the people again.
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- Paul had been compelled by the spirit to go to jerusalem
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- And that in every single town,
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- Chains and afflictions were waiting for him.
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- Now, it takes a lot of faith and it takes a lot of courage
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- To follow the leadership of the holy spirit
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- When you know ahead of time
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- That it's going to be extremely costly.
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- Paul could have resisted this compulsion.
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- Man, he could have settled into a nice retirement community
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- On the aegean sea where he could play golf every day
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- And feast on spanakopita and baklava,
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- But he chose to go to jerusalem, the scripture says,
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- "not knowing what he would encounter there."
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- I often think we sometimes don't really pause and go,
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- "what must it have been like for paul to keep going?
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- To have gone through so many shipwrecks
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- And to have been so cast out and so slandered and lied about
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- And gossiped and standing up for righteousness,
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- Getting kicked out of cities and being shipwrecked
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- And being beaten and being imprisoned?"
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- I mean, it all sounds awesome, but i've got to tell you,
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- As someone that travels the world and ministers the gospel,
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- It is very convicting to me
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- To think this is what he went through.
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- And i could really understand if the dude just thought,
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- "you know what, i'm going to chill out."
- 00:13:45.180 --> 00:13:46.415
- I have gone to greece at a21.
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- Our headquarters are in thessaloniki, greece.
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- We have an office in athens,
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- And you all know that i'm greek
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- And so i spend a lot of time in greece.
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- And i'd be thinking, "well, do i want to go to jerusalem
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- Where chains await me?
- 00:14:00.195 --> 00:14:02.231
- Or would i rather be having a nice piece of baklava
- 00:14:02.231 --> 00:14:07.269
- And i can just pray for everyone from a distance?"
- 00:14:07.269 --> 00:14:11.840
- I tend to think that maybe i would choose the latter.
- 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.777
- But what paul shows me is that, man, we got to keep running.
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- We've got to stay faithful,
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- That god was not done with him yet.
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- And that even though he didn't know the breadth
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- Or the magnitude of what was waiting for him, he knew.
- 00:14:23.786 --> 00:14:27.256
- The holy spirit had said, this is not going to be easy.
- 00:14:27.256 --> 00:14:29.758
- This is going to be extremely costly.
- 00:14:29.758 --> 00:14:31.260
- And he didn't pull back and say,
- 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:32.594
- "you know what, i've paid enough price.
- 00:14:32.594 --> 00:14:34.630
- I've done enough."
- 00:14:34.630 --> 00:14:36.865
- But he leans in and follows the leadership
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- Of the holy spirit and keeps saying yes to god.
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- I think that's a lesson for all of us.
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- ♪ i'll put a smile on your face ♪
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- - no one can deny the goodness of god.
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- You love one another as i have loved you.
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- - be honest and truthful and move forward.
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- - all of his promises are yes and amen.
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- We're all going to sound like you.
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- - everyone is called.
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- Everyone has something that you were born to do.
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- - belief in jesus. - yeah, belief. i believe.
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- - welcome to "the rosenberg report."
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- [mike laughing]
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- - there is a hunger for the gospel.
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- - it was amazing to see how the lord was working.
- 00:16:10.492 --> 00:16:14.096
- - there's still so much to be thankful for.
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- - how did this happen?
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- - let's get serious for a minute. it's god.
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- - in christ, we have all that we need.
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- - i've got some big stories to share with you today.
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- - there is a single thread that runs
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- Through all the scripture.
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- It all points to messiah jesus.
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- - i just want your heart.
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- - god, this is in your hands.
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- - god has got a great future planned for you.
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- - 'cause there's one thing i believe is
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- You've got to keep going.
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- - that was an awesome plug.
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- [warm upbeat music]
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- - will we keep saying yes to god
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- Or do we sort of achieve some sort of state,
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- Some place of comfort, some place of ease, and we go,
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- "you know what, i'm going to stop pressing in now,
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- You know what, i'm going to stop paying a price now.
- 00:16:55.404 --> 00:16:57.840
- You know, i just think my comfort, my ease, my security
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- Is going to override the call of god, the purpose of god."
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- And sometimes we do that.
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- When we get to a different stage of life, we think,
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- "well, you know, maybe i'm too old for that now."
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- Or we start thinking, well, you know, we get comfortable
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- In what we've acquired or what we've amassed
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- Or what we've accumulated, but i need you to know
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- That while there's still breath in our lungs,
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- While our heart is still beating,
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- While blood is still pumping through our arteries and veins,
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- God still has a plan.
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- God still has a purpose. it's not over.
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- We've got to press on and we've got to cross that finish line,
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- Look him in the eyes and hear,
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- "well done, good and faithful servant."
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- There is no stopping this side of eternity.
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- We press in and on to the purpose of god.
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- Paul writes, "but i consider my life of no value to myself.
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- My purpose," listen to what he says,
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- "my purpose is to finish my course."
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- This is a guy that's written 2/3 of the new testament,
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- Planted churches, is an apostle,
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- Moves in the gifts of the spirit,
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- And he says, "my purpose is to finish my course
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- And the ministry i received from the lord jesus
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- To testify to the gospel of god's grace."
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- You know, i mean, obviously from genesis to revelation,
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- There are so many scriptures.
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- And the bible that i preach out of, this is,
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- Acts 20:24 is the scripture
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- That i have in the front of my bible
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- Because this is my purpose too.
- 00:18:21.657 --> 00:18:23.292
- He, paul summarizes the priority and the purpose
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- And the passion of his life.
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- I want it to be mine.
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- He says, "you know what, this is what i exist for."
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- It's deeply confronting and convicting for me.
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- But i see the phrase that he writes then,
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- "but i consider my life of no value to myself."
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- What a statement to make.
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- In our very individualistic culture,
- 00:18:48.250 --> 00:18:51.687
- This statement actually sounds so foreign.
- 00:18:51.687 --> 00:18:55.190
- It actually sounds jarring to people.
- 00:18:55.190 --> 00:18:57.059
- They go, "what do you mean?"
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- In fact, in our world system, we are encouraged
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- To prioritize ourselves, to find ourselves,
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- To gratify ourselves, to maximize our pleasure,
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- To find our fulfillment, to live our best life,
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- To feel our dreams, to have our desires.
- 00:19:15.577 --> 00:19:18.947
- Above everything else, that's what we're told to do.
- 00:19:18.947 --> 00:19:22.251
- But paul turns the world's wisdom upside down
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- Because he says that his life and that his wants
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- And that his desires are going to be subordinated
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- To this primary purpose,
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- The purpose of fulfilling the will of god for his life.
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- Listen, i don't want to be the kind of chick
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- That when i was 21 and 22 and 23,
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- I was going to be full-on for god.
- 00:19:44.673 --> 00:19:47.042
- I didn't want it to stop then.
- 00:19:47.042 --> 00:19:49.144
- I remember people used to say to me,
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- "you know, christine, you are just passionate because like,
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- You're just in your early 20s and you're single,
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- As if somehow you're not allowed to be passionate
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- When you're married or when you have kids
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- Or when you get older.
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- And they used to say things to me like,
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- "christine, just wait.
- 00:20:02.924 --> 00:20:05.227
- Just wait till you get married and then you'll settle down."
- 00:20:05.227 --> 00:20:09.698
- I'm like thinking, "and you wonder why
- 00:20:09.698 --> 00:20:11.700
- I didn't want to get married for so many years
- 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:13.502
- Because i didn't want to settle down."
- 00:20:13.502 --> 00:20:15.103
- I wanted to be passionate for jesus.
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- I wanted to fulfill the purpose of god.
- 00:20:17.072 --> 00:20:18.407
- Well then, when nick and i got married,
- 00:20:18.407 --> 00:20:20.175
- Everyone said, "well, you know,
- 00:20:20.175 --> 00:20:21.443
- That's just because you're still passionate, christine,
- 00:20:21.443 --> 00:20:24.146
- But because, you know, you're just married,
- 00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:25.747
- You just wait till you have kids."
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- As if somehow that's got to quench my passion.
- 00:20:27.749 --> 00:20:30.152
- So, you know, we had catherine,
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- And then we went from what was then just a state ministry
- 00:20:32.788 --> 00:20:36.291
- To a national ministry, all through the country.
- 00:20:36.291 --> 00:20:38.994
- And everyone's like, "well, you know,
- 00:20:38.994 --> 00:20:40.362
- That's just because you've got one kid, chris.
- 00:20:40.362 --> 00:20:42.698
- You know, one kid is just an accessory. you just wait.
- 00:20:42.698 --> 00:20:46.635
- You just wait till you have another kid
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- That that's going to just calm you down."
- 00:20:49.104 --> 00:20:51.673
- You know, i've got to say to you guys,
- 00:20:51.673 --> 00:20:53.408
- I think sometimes you don't even need the devil
- 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:55.410
- When you've got some christians.
- 00:20:55.410 --> 00:20:56.812
- They're going to try to quench you
- 00:20:56.812 --> 00:20:58.013
- And thwart the purpose of god.
- 00:20:58.013 --> 00:20:59.848
- Well then we have sophia, and by the grace of god,
- 00:20:59.848 --> 00:21:02.351
- We got a international, intergalactic ministry.
- 00:21:02.351 --> 00:21:05.854
- And here i am now, by the grace of god,
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- At 58 more passionate than ever, more hungry than ever,
- 00:21:07.923 --> 00:21:10.992
- More committed to finishing that race
- 00:21:10.992 --> 00:21:12.928
- That god has put me in than ever.
- 00:21:12.928 --> 00:21:15.364
- You do not have to stop this side of eternity.
- 00:21:15.364 --> 00:21:19.034
- You don't have to let life and the disappointments
- 00:21:19.034 --> 00:21:21.903
- And the discouragement and the pain and the suffering
- 00:21:21.903 --> 00:21:24.239
- And the offenses and the bitterness and the hurt,
- 00:21:24.239 --> 00:21:26.274
- You don't need to let that stuff take you out.
- 00:21:26.274 --> 00:21:29.544
- You bring that stuff to the feet of jesus.
- 00:21:29.544 --> 00:21:32.280
- You get that stuff out of you, and you take on his love
- 00:21:32.280 --> 00:21:36.017
- And his grace and his mercy and his goodness
- 00:21:36.017 --> 00:21:37.819
- And his kindness, and you finish your days here on earth
- 00:21:37.819 --> 00:21:41.189
- Fixing your eyes on jesus.
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- He is the author and he is the finisher of our faith,
- 00:21:43.692 --> 00:21:47.329
- And he is the one we're running for.
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- He is the one that is worthy.
- 00:21:49.464 --> 00:21:51.466
- And so what we have to understand,
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- And i think what we learn from paul
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- And a wisdom lesson that we get from this passage
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- Is that the completion of god's purpose for our lives
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- Must be our priority, no matter what the cost is.
- 00:22:03.645 --> 00:22:08.116
- And nick and i, as we continue on in our race,
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- We continue to say, "what do we need to lay down?
- 00:22:13.288 --> 00:22:16.658
- What price do we need to keep paying?"
- 00:22:16.658 --> 00:22:19.895
- Because we made a commitment when we follow jesus
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- Not to have a comfortable lifestyle,
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- But to be followers of jesus.
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- And daily, we have to make a decision to deny ourselves,
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- Take up our cross, and follow him.
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- That's what this looks like. there's always a cost.
- 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:35.477
- So paul is comparing living out our christian lives
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- With running a race.
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- And this particular analogy
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- Was not uncommon in his writings.
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- In fact, in his final letters to timothy, he declares,
- 00:22:45.587 --> 00:22:48.056
- He goes, "i have fought the good fight.
- 00:22:48.056 --> 00:22:50.325
- I have finished the course. i have kept the faith."
- 00:22:50.325 --> 00:22:54.830
- And in 1 corinthians 9:24, he wrote,
- 00:22:54.830 --> 00:22:57.466
- "don't you know that the runners in a stadium all run,
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- But only one receives the prize.
- 00:23:01.470 --> 00:23:03.605
- Run in such a way to win the prize."
- 00:23:03.605 --> 00:23:06.875
- So this picture of running in a race would have resonated
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- With his first-century audience who were familiar
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- With the isthmian games held in corinth
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- And the olympic games that were held in athens.
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- Like many of us today, his audience were sports
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- Enthusiasts and in this text, paul ensures that we know
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- That the race he was running was the ministry
- 00:23:25.727 --> 00:23:28.396
- That he had received from the lord jesus christ,
- 00:23:28.396 --> 00:23:31.366
- Which he described as his testimony
- 00:23:31.366 --> 00:23:34.202
- To the gospel of god's grace.
- 00:23:34.202 --> 00:23:37.339
- Paul states that his intention is to finish his race well.
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- He is not interested in slowing down.
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- There are no retirement plans in his future.
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- He only has one life, and he intends to run his race
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- Every day on this earth for the glory of god.
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- He knows that his race will not be over
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- Until he goes home to heaven.
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- That is his finish line.
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- And that, my friends, is our finish line.
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- It's not over until we get home.
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- Until then, we keep pressing, we keep pushing.
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- We keep fixing our eyes on jesus and running our race
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- Until we finish our course in jesus' name.
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