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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - Make The Most Of Your Time | December 29, 2024
- Father cedric pisegna: make the most of your time.
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- Father cedric: welcome to "live with passion," i'm father
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- Cedric pisegna.
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- I'm so grateful that you tuned into the program.
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- I want to share with you from ecclesiastes chapter 3, you've
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- All heard this, "for everything there is a season and a time for
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- Every matter under heaven.
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- Time to be born, time to die, a time to plant, and a time to
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- Pluck up.
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- A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a
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- Time to build up.
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- A time to weep and a time to laugh."
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- What is the most precious gift that god gives us?
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- Is it money or relationships?
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- You might think about your own body as the precious gift or the
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- Job that you have.
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- Well, those are all good things, and they are a gift, i believe,
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- As you might know from that reading, the most precious gift
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- That god gives us is the gift of time.
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- Time is precious.
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- Talk to somebody on death row, and they'll tell you how
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- Precious it is.
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- Talk to somebody that has pancreatic cancer and has been
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- Given three months to live or visit elderly in a nursing home
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- And they'll clarify exactly what it means to have time and how
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- Precious it is.
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- The most precious gift is time, and it passes quickly.
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- It seems to me that the older i get, the quicker it goes by.
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- One of our priests is 85 years old, and i saw him recently, and
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- He goes, "how did i get here?"
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- And he was talkin' about 85 years old.
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- It happened so-- it's like being in a time machine, and all of
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- Sudden you're thrust into the future.
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- That's exactly what it seems like.
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- Time is tricky, it's slippery, it moves so fast.
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- Now, we're all familiar with the concept of time.
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- We wear watches to tell the time, clock's tick, bells chime.
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- We have a place in new york called time square, and on new
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- Year's day, the ball drops and thousands of people cheer.
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- We measure time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, months,
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- Years, and we have appointment calendars.
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- Even on our iphone, we can tell time on calendars and
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- Different things.
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- We have songs about time.
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- I remember al stewart came out with a song, "time passages."
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- Amy grant, one of my favorite singers, "takes a little
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- Time sometimes."
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- "time is on our side."
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- Pink floyd had a song about time where they just talk about time,
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- But they showed clock's ticking and bells chiming, that was part
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- Of the music.
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- Time, the moody blues, "time waits for no one, no, not
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- Even you."
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- And we even have a time magazine we're all familiar with.
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- Ironically, it's outdated by the time you get it.
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- That's why many newspapers are going out of business, because
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- Of the internet.
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- We also have movies, movies like "back to the future."
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- That was one of my favorites, it was a trilogy, and peggy sue
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- Got married.
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- Was a good movie like that, hg wells, "time machine."
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- Fascinated by time travel, and we have something called-- on
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- Televisions, many televisions have dvrs.
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- Dvrs, i call them time redeemers.
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- When i watch golf, i don't like to watch it live.
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- I usually give it an hour or so and then i can cut out the
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- Commercials very quickly, and if i need to go get up and get a
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- Drink or get some food, i can pause it.
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- It's like time stands still.
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- Dvrs, digital video recorder, amazing.
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- And we have sayings about time.
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- Time will tell.
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- Time heals.
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- Time is money.
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- Time waits for no one.
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- Time flies.
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- We have proverbs like a stitch in time saves nine.
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- There's no time like the present.
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- We're very aware of time.
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- We can measure it, we have music about it, we have movies about
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- It, we have songs about it, and then i think about religious
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- People and philosophers and scientists like albert einstein
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- And this quantum physics.
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- Try to get a grasp on exactly what is the nature of time, how
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- Do we grasp it?
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- And if you want to get into all that, you can endlessly try to
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- Get lost in the philosophy of what time is, but to me, rather
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- Than talk about the nature of what time is, like quantum
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- Physics and albert einstein and some scientists and religious
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- Philosophers, i think it's the meaning of time that's
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- Most important.
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- I said, the purpose of time.
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- We can try to figure out the nature, but it's the meaning
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- That i want to talk about.
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- Meaning is so important.
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- In business terminologies, we say time is money, but for us
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- Time is meaning.
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- Two basic ways of looking at time, number
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- One, chronologically.
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- We've heard of chronos time.
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- That's a greek word, chronos, that means the measurement
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- Of time.
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- We're very familiar with it, we have it-- it's logical, it's
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- Black and white.
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- I notice that time is sequential.
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- Like, on a clock it goes forward logically.
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- It's also simultaneous.
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- Everybody in the world, and there's almost 8 billion people
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- In the world, that's a lot of people, everybody in the world
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- At one in the same time is doing an activity.
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- People are sleeping, people are filming, people are having
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- Sports, it's amazing.
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- On saturday mornings, there's all these college football games
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- Going on at the same time.
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- You can have a field day on television just flipping around,
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- And it all happens simultaneously.
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- And then time is episodical.
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- What i mean by that is that you go from episode to episode.
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- For example, this morning i woke up, took a shower, ate
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- Breakfast, that was an episode.
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- Then i got into a car, that's another episode, driving here.
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- Then i preach and teach, that's an episode.
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- Then i'll be driving-- time is episodical.
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- We go through all these different episodes in the course
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- Of our day.
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- That's one way of looking at time, but there's something
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- Called kairos time.
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- Kairos time is opportune time, opportunistic time.
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- The conditions are right for a new opportunity, and what do i
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- Mean by that?
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- Jesus comes into galilee after his time in the desert,
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- Remember, he spent 40 days, 40 nights in the desert.
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- Comes into galilee, and what does he say?
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- He says the time is fulfilled.
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- Now he wasn't talking about so much chronos time, he was
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- Saying, now is your opportunity, now is your time, now is the
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- Moment for you to make a move.
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- That's how i tie it into new year's day.
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- New year's day is about new beginnings, it's about a new
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- Opportunity, it's about a new chance in your life.
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- People make resolutions, they say, i'm going to change, they
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- Say that it's gonna be different this year.
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- Last year wasn't so good, this is gonna be my best year, yet.
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- And there's something opportune about new year's.
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- And in the catholic church, we have different seasons.
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- For example, the season of lent is an opportune time, and that's
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- When we read that reading from mark chapter 1, verse 15, where
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- Jesus comes into galilee and he says, "the time is fulfilled,
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- The kingdom of god is at hand; repent and believe in the
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- Good news."
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- He was calling people to change, and he's saying that this is a
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- Moment of grace for you, this is a moment of change, this is a
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- Moment of god's help where things can be different.
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- No matter what you're going through in your life right now,
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- You may feel stuck, you may have some bad habits, you may be
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- Addicted, things aren't happening for you, this, right
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- Now, as you're watching this program is kairos time.
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- Yes, we can measure time.
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- It's sequential, it's simultaneous, it's episodical,
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- We know all that.
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- We have time magazine, but what about the mystical nature
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- Of time?
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- What about the reason, the purpose, the meaning of time?
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- That's what i want to get in touch with, and that's what i
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- Want you to know all about.
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- Whatever you are going through at this moment right now, it's
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- An opportune moment.
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- "the time is fulfilled," jesus said when he went into the
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- Synagogue, the synagogue at nazareth.
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- He said, "the time is fulfilled, the spirit of the lord is upon
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- Me," and he said, "this is fulfilled in your hearing."
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- Time has a fulfillment and opportunistic moment, and that
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- Moment is for you right now as you're watching this program.
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- Father cedric: jesus was inaugurating in his ministry
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- Something fresh, something new, something revolutionary.
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- All the prophets had predicted it that it was going to happen
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- In the future.
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- The people were waiting for the messiah, and when jesus
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- Inaugurated it, some accepted it, and others didn't.
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- Paul the apostle put it this way when he writes the corinthians,
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- He said, "now is the acceptable time.
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- Today is the day of salvation."
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- In the catholic church, we have that read on ash wednesday.
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- As i said, the beginning of lent is this inauguration of this
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- Mystical, new moment of grace.
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- Lent is a season of grace.
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- Advent is similar when we talk about time, we talk about the
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- Second coming of jesus and getting ready for it, and that's
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- The purpose of time, isn't it?
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- It's to grasp the moment, to make the most of our time
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- Because we don't know how much we have and to really
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- Bear fruit.
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- This series is called, "be fruitful."
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- Bear fruit, and i'll talk about that more as i go on here.
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- It's time that i'm interested in.
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- Paul, jesus, the prophets, they all talk about time.
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- Now, god is somehow beyond time.
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- We'll get a little philosophical here for a moment.
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- It says in 2 peter, "one day is as a thousand years to god, and
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- A thousand years like a day," wow.
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- And then right after that, and this is what i want you to get,
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- 2 peter 3:9, "the lord is not slow regarding his promise, but
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- Is forbearing towards you, not wishing that you should perish,
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- But come to repentance."
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- I hope you got that.
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- It's simply saying this, that some people think that there's
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- No god because when they do bad things, nothing happens, where
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- This says that god isn't slow, god is giving you time
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- To change.
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- People interpret that as, there is no god, but it's totally the
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- Opposite of that.
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- God is being merciful.
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- Please understand, god is patient.
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- Go to the national parks sometimes, look at the
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- Grand canyon.
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- I remember goin' to arches national park, it takes millions
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- Of years for those arches to form.
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- God is very patient.
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- Before the world began he had you in mind.
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- Fourteen billion years, that is a long time.
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- God is patient, he wants us to come to repentance, to change,
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- To develop our potential, to bear fruit.
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- Jesus put it this way, told a parable, jesus speaks in
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- Parables, tells stories, it's a great way to get people to
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- Listen, he said, there was a landowner one time who planted a
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- Fig tree and it didn't bear fruit.
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- And he waited, he waited, he was patient for three years, and
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- That fig tree still didn't bear any fruit.
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- Finally, he told the gardener, he said, look, i have waited for
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- Three years for this fig tree to bear fruit, nothing
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- Has happened.
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- He said, cut it down.
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- The gardener begged for mercy.
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- He said, wait, let's give it a chance.
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- That's exactly what jesus, our great high priest who intercedes
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- For us, does.
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- He intercede-- he prays for us, he begs god on our behalf.
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- Abraham did the same thing for sodom and gomorrah.
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- He interceded for them.
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- He said, "what if there's only 50 righteous people, will you
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- Still save them?
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- Will you destroy it?"
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- "no, for 50 i'll let it go."
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- "what if there's only 10 people?
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- You still destroy it?"
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- "no, i won't destroy it."
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- And that's what a priest does, he intercedes to god for people.
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- That's what i do for you, that's what jesus does for us.
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- He is our great high priest, he intercedes for god to give us
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- Time to change, and sooner or later, it's gonna be too late.
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- So, there's a warning in this.
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- But anyway, back to the fig tree, the gardener said, let me
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- Put some manure on it and cut around it dig around it.
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- Give it another year, give it another year.
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- Jesus pleads for you to have more time, to change, to
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- Develop, to grow.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric: and then he said, if it doesn't bear fruit, then
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- Cut it down.
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- My series, this series is all about bearing fruit.
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- And i talk about bearing fruit in terms of your relationship
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- With god, that's the first place where you bear fruit, coming to
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- Eternal life, you bear fruit that way, developing in virtue,
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- That's being fruit bearing, and then realizing your potential.
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- Now, we don't bear strawberries and bananas and apples and
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- Things like that, we bear the fruit of the spirit, which is
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- Patience, and kindness, and gentleness, and love, and peace,
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- And joy.
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- That's the fruit that god wants from us, all those things.
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- And he's giving us time to develop.
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- Fruit ripens, it takes time for fruit to ripen, and god
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- Understands that.
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- However, if you're not willing to grow and to become,
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- Then sooner or later you are going to be cut down.
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- There's no other way to put it, this is a warning.
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- All throughout the bible there's warnings.
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- Advent, the season of advent is a warning.
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- Lent is a time where we have time, new year's is a new
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- Beginning, but there will come a time if you do not turn, if you
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- Do not give your life to god, if you do not seek to bear fruit,
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- There will be a time where you will be cut down.
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- All you have to do is look in the scriptures at what has
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- Happened to people that have not repented.
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- Look at sodom and gomorrah.
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- Abraham pleaded for them, but they still didn't listen, and
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- They were cut down.
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- Time, here's my definition, time is the fabric god gives us to
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- Become, to bear fruit.
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- A butterfly needs time to be transformed.
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- A photo needs time to be developed.
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- Wine needs time to mature.
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- Fruit needs time to ripen.
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- A seed needs time to grow and break open and become.
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- In the same way, we need time.
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- In the church year, we are given seasons, as i talked about.
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- Advent, lent, easter, christmas, ordinary time, if you're a
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- Catholic, and in these seasons, especially advent, there's some
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- Key words such as, wake up, be alert, be sober, be on guard,
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- And don't let the day catch you unaware.
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- See, "our salvation is closer now than when we first accepted
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- The faith," that's one of my favorite scriptures.
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- When you're in the program and loving god and journeying
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- Forward, time is on your side.
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- You're making the most of your time, you're bearing fruit,
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- You're getting ready, and salvation is closer than when we
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- First accepted the faith.
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- But for others, time is their enemy, it's working
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- Against them.
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- They don't know where they're going.
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- I remember there was a song by chicago years ago, "does anybody
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- Know what time it is?"
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- Jesus knows what time it is, and the time is now.
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- It's your kairos time, it's your time to make a move.
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- New year's is about new beginnings, and so is
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- The gospel.
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- It's about, no matter what your past has been, about something
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- Fresh, about something new.
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- No matter how stuck you seem, no matter how in the mock you are,
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- You can move and go forward.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric: that's the purpose of these programs, to
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- Help you to keep moving, to change, to progress.
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- Long ago, god told me, "cedric, i'm not after perfection, i'm
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- After progression."
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- The christian discipleship journey is called
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- The pilgrimage.
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- It's a journey of faith, it's a movement, and god gives us time
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- To do all these things.
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- Let's talk more about time, the purpose of time which is so,
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- So important.
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- Time will be on our side if we live with purpose.
- 00:19:51.102 --> 00:19:58.610
- The bible gives us these tips, live purposely, have meaning in
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- Your life.
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- For example, have a dream and a vision, work toward it.
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- I love what it says in philippians, "work out your
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- Salvation with fear and trembling."
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- Yeah, we're saved by grace, but we still got to do good deeds
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- And accomplish great works.
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- People say to me, father cedric, you've written 25 books,
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- That's something.
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- Where do you find the time to do that?
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- And i always tell them, "i gotta tell ya, i don't find the time,
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- It doesn't just magically happen.
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- I have good habits and i make the time, especially in
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- The morning."
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- I have a habit where from about 8:30 after we celebrate mass
- 00:20:48.226 --> 00:20:52.664
- Together, 8:30 to about 11, 11:30, for about three hours,
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- Where i disciplined myself.
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- That's called time management.
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- You create habits and i write books.
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- And i'm so glad that i did, because-- and that i continue to
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- Do so, and same thing with creating scripts for television.
- 00:21:10.114 --> 00:21:14.085
- I'm so glad that i do that because that's my way to reach
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- Out to people, but in order to do it, i have to sacrifice,
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- Create good habits, and have time management.
- 00:21:20.158 --> 00:21:23.628
- For some people time is like they're in a boat on a river and
- 00:21:23.628 --> 00:21:28.533
- The river is just taking them down.
- 00:21:28.533 --> 00:21:30.835
- "time flows like a river," that was a song i heard one time.
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- But for other people, with time management you have a rudder.
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- Yeah, you're flowing downstream, but you're steering the ship,
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- And that's what discipline does, that's what time
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- Management does.
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- It helps you to steer the ship, it's very important.
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- You have to manage your time.
- 00:21:51.589 --> 00:21:53.191
- God gives the same amount of time to everybody, but not
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- Everybody has the discipline and the time management to steer
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- The ship.
- 00:21:59.364 --> 00:22:00.698
- Some people just go along with the flow, and they really don't
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- Have much to show for it, where other people control the flow,
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- If you will.
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- And time management is important, if you're in
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- Business, you know that.
- 00:22:11.809 --> 00:22:13.277
- Then i wanted to tell you, enjoy your life.
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- Time isn't just about being hard and determined and facing your
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- Challenges, although we have to do all that.
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- I really believe that god wants us to enjoy our life.
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- John 10:10, "i have come that you may have life and
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- Life abundant."
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- "my joy may be in you," jesus said.
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- It's hard to imagine how tragic a place the world is when you're
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- On a golf course, and it's the same with bowling and some of
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- You like to dance and some of you like to do artistry and
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- Painting, and whatever your pleasure is, take time to enjoy
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- Your life.
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- Then, very quickly, be fruitful.
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- I'm talking about the meaning of time.
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- Fruit develops given time, it ripens.
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- I heard about a priest one time who was changing his tire and a
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- Car came too close to him and hit him.
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- He was flying through the air, and he had this thought, how
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- Have you loved?
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- Wow, that's fruitfulness.
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- Loving people, forgiving people, realizing your potential, that's
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- The purpose of time, and that's why god is giving us time.
- 00:23:27.852 --> 00:23:33.958
- Heard about a tombstone, and on the tombstone there's always a
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- Date, person was born, there's the date that you die, the year,
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- And right in between us that little dash.
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- The dash represents what you did with that time in between your
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- Birth date and your death date, and how are you living
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- Your dash?
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- Are you living with purpose?
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- Enjoying your life meaning?
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- Are you having a new start?
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- Changing?
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- Growing?
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- Giving yourself to god?
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- Time isn't something that we philosophically try to
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- Understand the nature of it.
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- It's the meaning of time, the purpose of time.
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- Time flies, therefore, make the most of it, and don't just live,
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- Live with passion.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father cedric: if you've ever read the book of esther, it
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- Talks about "for such a time as this, god raised up esther to
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- Help the jewish nation."
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- And i believe my ministry is for such a time as this.
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- People are lost, they're doubting, they're hurting,
- 00:24:48.399 --> 00:24:52.803
- They're addicted, and my ministry is addressing all of
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- Those problems.
- 00:24:56.541 --> 00:24:57.909
- My heart is to reach out to the lost.
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- I'm inspiring believers, but especially those who have fallen
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- Away, or they're lost, or they don't know jesus.
- 00:25:04.482 --> 00:25:07.652
- My programs are going into prisons, they're reaching out to
- 00:25:07.652 --> 00:25:11.122
- Young people, and then i got a letter from a woman from the
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- Ukraine who heard me on the radio, and she said with
- 00:25:14.125 --> 00:25:17.295
- Sincerity, "i want to say that you're one of the best."
- 00:25:17.295 --> 00:25:20.431
- Now, that made me feel really good.
- 00:25:20.431 --> 00:25:22.300
- My programs are goin' out throughout the world.
- 00:25:22.300 --> 00:25:24.936
- They're on the three major christian networks, many
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- Stations, radio, and i can do this because i have partners,
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- Those who are helping me, supporting me financially.
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- Some of you have been watching me for years, and you have
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- Not donated.
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- Please support me.
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- Many of my partners are not catholic.
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- In fact, about 40% of them are protestant, and i welcome your
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- Donations and thank you for that.
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- My ministry is ecumenical, reaching out to all people
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- Everywhere, touching lives, saving souls.
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- Please call 844-fatherc, you can contact me through my website,
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- Fathercedric.org, or simply write me in houston, texas.
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- I see every donation that comes in, and i give praise to god for
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- Thank you, thank you, thank you in advance.
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- Don't just live, live with passion.
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- Female announcer: father cedric's dream is to proclaim
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- The gospel to every person.
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