Cedric Pisegna - Make The Most Of Your Time

December 29, 2024 | S25:E1

Father Cedric Pisegna is a Catholic priest. His program will inspire and encourage you to Live with Passion.

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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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  • ♪♪♪
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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
  • 00:19:10.562 --> 00:19:23.241
  • Help you to keep moving, to change, to progress.
  • 00:19:23.241 --> 00:19:28.680
  • Long ago, god told me, "cedric, i'm not after perfection, i'm
  • 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.749
  • 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.
  • 00:19:44.195 --> 00:19:46.598
  • Let's talk more about time, the purpose of time which is so,
  • 00:19:46.598 --> 00:19:49.634
  • 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
  • 00:19:58.610 --> 00:20:05.116
  • Your life.
  • 00:20:05.116 --> 00:20:06.651
  • For example, have a dream and a vision, work toward it.
  • 00:20:06.651 --> 00:20:14.158
  • I love what it says in philippians, "work out your
  • 00:20:14.158 --> 00:20:16.628
  • Salvation with fear and trembling."
  • 00:20:16.628 --> 00:20:18.596
  • Yeah, we're saved by grace, but we still got to do good deeds
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  • And accomplish great works.
  • 00:20:24.669 --> 00:20:26.804
  • People say to me, father cedric, you've written 25 books,
  • 00:20:26.804 --> 00:20:29.641
  • That's something.
  • 00:20:29.641 --> 00:20:31.409
  • Where do you find the time to do that?
  • 00:20:31.409 --> 00:20:34.045
  • And i always tell them, "i gotta tell ya, i don't find the time,
  • 00:20:34.045 --> 00:20:37.482
  • It doesn't just magically happen.
  • 00:20:37.482 --> 00:20:40.084
  • I have good habits and i make the time, especially in
  • 00:20:40.084 --> 00:20:46.057
  • The morning."
  • 00:20:46.057 --> 00:20:48.226
  • 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,
  • 00:20:52.664 --> 00:20:58.403
  • Where i disciplined myself.
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  • That's called time management.
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  • You create habits and i write books.
  • 00:21:03.007 --> 00:21:07.145
  • And i'm so glad that i did, because-- and that i continue to
  • 00:21:07.145 --> 00:21:10.114
  • 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
  • 00:21:14.085 --> 00:21:17.121
  • Out to people, but in order to do it, i have to sacrifice,
  • 00:21:17.121 --> 00:21:20.158
  • 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.
  • 00:21:30.835 --> 00:21:34.639
  • But for other people, with time management you have a rudder.
  • 00:21:34.639 --> 00:21:39.744
  • Yeah, you're flowing downstream, but you're steering the ship,
  • 00:21:39.744 --> 00:21:44.982
  • And that's what discipline does, that's what time
  • 00:21:44.982 --> 00:21:47.285
  • Management does.
  • 00:21:47.285 --> 00:21:48.619
  • It helps you to steer the ship, it's very important.
  • 00:21:48.619 --> 00:21:51.589
  • 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
  • 00:21:53.191 --> 00:21:56.127
  • 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
  • 00:22:00.698 --> 00:22:03.935
  • Have much to show for it, where other people control the flow,
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  • If you will.
  • 00:22:08.139 --> 00:22:09.640
  • And time management is important, if you're in
  • 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:11.809
  • Business, you know that.
  • 00:22:11.809 --> 00:22:13.277
  • Then i wanted to tell you, enjoy your life.
  • 00:22:13.277 --> 00:22:17.982
  • Time isn't just about being hard and determined and facing your
  • 00:22:17.982 --> 00:22:24.655
  • Challenges, although we have to do all that.
  • 00:22:24.655 --> 00:22:27.792
  • I really believe that god wants us to enjoy our life.
  • 00:22:27.792 --> 00:22:30.328
  • John 10:10, "i have come that you may have life and
  • 00:22:30.328 --> 00:22:33.264
  • 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
  • 00:22:38.169 --> 00:22:42.206
  • On a golf course, and it's the same with bowling and some of
  • 00:22:42.206 --> 00:22:45.777
  • You like to dance and some of you like to do artistry and
  • 00:22:45.777 --> 00:22:50.882
  • Painting, and whatever your pleasure is, take time to enjoy
  • 00:22:50.882 --> 00:22:55.420
  • Your life.
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  • Then, very quickly, be fruitful.
  • 00:22:56.754 --> 00:22:59.090
  • I'm talking about the meaning of time.
  • 00:22:59.090 --> 00:23:01.526
  • Fruit develops given time, it ripens.
  • 00:23:01.526 --> 00:23:05.930
  • I heard about a priest one time who was changing his tire and a
  • 00:23:05.930 --> 00:23:09.567
  • Car came too close to him and hit him.
  • 00:23:09.567 --> 00:23:12.303
  • He was flying through the air, and he had this thought, how
  • 00:23:12.303 --> 00:23:15.940
  • Have you loved?
  • 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:18.342
  • Wow, that's fruitfulness.
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  • Loving people, forgiving people, realizing your potential, that's
  • 00:23:21.846 --> 00:23:27.852
  • 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
  • 00:23:33.958 --> 00:23:41.032
  • Date, person was born, there's the date that you die, the year,
  • 00:23:41.032 --> 00:23:46.037
  • And right in between us that little dash.
  • 00:23:46.037 --> 00:23:48.439
  • The dash represents what you did with that time in between your
  • 00:23:48.439 --> 00:23:53.010
  • Birth date and your death date, and how are you living
  • 00:23:53.010 --> 00:23:57.215
  • Your dash?
  • 00:23:57.215 --> 00:23:58.783
  • Are you living with purpose?
  • 00:23:58.783 --> 00:24:00.885
  • Enjoying your life meaning?
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  • Are you having a new start?
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  • Changing?
  • 00:24:06.390 --> 00:24:07.758
  • Growing?
  • 00:24:07.758 --> 00:24:09.093
  • Giving yourself to god?
  • 00:24:09.093 --> 00:24:10.628
  • Time isn't something that we philosophically try to
  • 00:24:10.628 --> 00:24:14.999
  • Understand the nature of it.
  • 00:24:14.999 --> 00:24:17.301
  • It's the meaning of time, the purpose of time.
  • 00:24:17.301 --> 00:24:22.039
  • Time flies, therefore, make the most of it, and don't just live,
  • 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:28.679
  • Live with passion.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Father cedric: if you've ever read the book of esther, it
  • 00:24:35.820 --> 00:24:37.922
  • Talks about "for such a time as this, god raised up esther to
  • 00:24:37.922 --> 00:24:42.393
  • Help the jewish nation."
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  • And i believe my ministry is for such a time as this.
  • 00:24:44.362 --> 00:24:48.399
  • 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
  • 00:24:52.803 --> 00:24:56.541
  • Those problems.
  • 00:24:56.541 --> 00:24:57.909
  • My heart is to reach out to the lost.
  • 00:24:57.909 --> 00:25:00.678
  • I'm inspiring believers, but especially those who have fallen
  • 00:25:00.678 --> 00:25:04.482
  • 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
  • 00:25:11.122 --> 00:25:14.125
  • 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.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Fathercedric.org, or simply write me in houston, texas.
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  • Your generosity.
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  • The gospel to every person.
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