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Ed Young - Loving One Another

May 7, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Loving One Another
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Loving One Another | May 7, 2026
  • God, god,
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  • What do you want from me?
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  • Let me tell you something, folks.
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  • That's not a multiple choice answer.
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  • So i did think obscure, hard to understand.
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  • And the old warm phrases i've heard so many times.
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  • Well, there's a lot in the bible
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  • I don't understand.
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  • That's not your problem.
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  • My problem is the part we do understand that bothers
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  • You and me.
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  • Don't.
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  • Don't cop out on that.
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  • We say, god, what do you want from me?
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  • He's written it down.
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  • What do you want from me?
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  • I've been asked that question.
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  • You've been asked that question?
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  • Just what do you want from me?
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  • And sometime we can use the same verbiage
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  • And have totally different meaning.
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  • What do you want from me?
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  • What do you want from me?
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  • What do you want from me?
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  • And many times
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  • We ask that of god.
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  • Maybe not.
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  • In those words we say god.
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  • You know, i've walked the aisle.
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  • I've gone through the motions.
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  • I think i'm a christian.
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  • But somehow all my problems have not disappeared.
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  • God, god, what do you want from me?
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  • Let me tell you something, folks.
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  • That's not a multiple choice answer.
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  • So i did think obscure, hard to understand.
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  • And the old warm phrases i've heard so many times.
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  • Well, there's a lot in the bible
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  • I don't understand.
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  • That's not your problem.
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  • My problem is the part we do understand that bothers
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  • You and me.
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  • Don't.
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  • Don't cop out on that.
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  • We say, god, what do you want from me?
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  • He's written it down.
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  • It's in print
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  • And it's clear.
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  • And nowhere is it clearer than in romans
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  • Chapter 12.
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  • Let love be without hypocrisy.
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  • Abhor hate.
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  • What is evil?
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  • Cling to what is good.
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  • Be devoted to one another in
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  • Brotherly love.
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  • There are four words for love.
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  • We talked about that.
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  • There's agape.
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  • There's arrows, which is romantic love,
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  • Which is not used in the bible.
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  • And there is
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  • Philosopher leo philadelphia, which is a general
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  • Brotherly love.
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  • And there's stargate, which is family love.
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  • And these two verses, verse verse nine and ten, right here
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  • You have all three of the words for love.
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  • Use the new testament right there you have agape.
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  • We've already looked at that. that's the first word there.
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  • And then you have the word story there.
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  • It starts off, it says, and be devoted
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  • That story to one another and brotherly love.
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  • And that's the that's like
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  • Philadelphia love now.
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  • So in the body of christ, paul has introduced
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  • This brotherly love and this other love, those
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  • Who are not the body of christ, as he begins to teach
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  • Exactly what brotherly love is, exactly what
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  • Other love is,
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  • Those who are outside the church
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  • And those who are inside the church.
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  • Now inside the church, the word for love
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  • There, that really is a fabulous word.
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  • It's the word story.
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  • Now, stargate means that you love
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  • Without selecting who you love,
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  • That you love without any exclusivity.
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  • You just love regardless.
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  • You don't pick this one out to love or pick that out.
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  • That one out to love.
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  • It's love a family love.
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  • There are people in your family.
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  • In my family i would never spend any time with.
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  • They're so different from you and different from me.
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  • It's like they came from another planet, right?
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  • And we only relate to them and love them.
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  • They think we're weird, we know they're weird
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  • And they're in our family,
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  • But we love them.
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  • And and the great thing about it is
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  • We learn to love
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  • Not on the basis of their personality,
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  • Even the basis of what they like
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  • And what they dislike.
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  • But we learn to love and accept and regardless.
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  • And when we do that,
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  • In the great diversity of our family
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  • And the great diversity
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  • Of god's family, which we're a part
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  • Of in the church, we are greatly enriched.
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  • I know some people that that i've got to know
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  • That i really love and appreciate.
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  • And i can tell you the
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  • First 4 or 5 times i was around them, i said, good night.
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  • I've got nothing in common here,
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  • But they have greatly enriched my life.
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  • You have the same experience.
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  • My brother, who's going to be the lord, was a great guy.
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  • But i'll tell you, if you gave a variety of 20
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  • Things that i want to do, and he wanted to do,
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  • We would not meet on any horizon.
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  • I wonder whose mother and daddy.
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  • Well, i know, i mean, he's my brother, but my point is,
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  • We're so different.
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  • But i loved him completely.
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  • He enriched my life by by being different.
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  • And i hope i reached his life by being different.
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  • Now we're both christians.
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  • See, now that's that's the word stargate.
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  • So in the body of christ, we're to be none discriminating.
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  • Oh, there's somebody who.
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  • He doesn't even like sports.
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  • I mean, he loves butterflies.
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  • I mean, i'm telling you.
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  • But in the body of christ,
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  • It doesn't make any difference that stargate.
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  • That's family love.
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  • That's what he's talking about here.
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  • Talking about.
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  • And then he said exactly what brother love is.
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  • I'll be rapid.
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  • It's a beautiful, beautiful verses.
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  • He said, be devoted to one another with brother in love.
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  • Give preference to one another in honor.
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  • We honor one another.
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  • We give preference.
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  • There's no what, what
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  • What i dislike about preaching more than anything else
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  • Is having to stand up on this platform.
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  • The ideal place, i think, for preaching.
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  • I ought to be in a whole looking up.
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  • That's where i feel i'm here only for sight purposes,
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  • Sound purposes. so we give preference.
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  • We honor one another.
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  • Did you know in the economy of this church,
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  • We all own
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  • An equal amount of the property
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  • And assets of the second family.
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  • If you're a member, you walk today, become a member.
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  • You own everything i own.
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  • I like that we rule for the bottom up, not the top down.
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  • See that we honor.
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  • We give preference in the body of christ,
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  • Not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit,
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  • Serving the lord.
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  • The word fervent.
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  • That means boiling over.
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  • Are you fervent in spirit?
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  • Colossians three says, when you and i
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  • Go to work in the morning,
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  • We should go to work as if we're working for the lord.
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  • God has hired you.
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  • Jesus christ has put you there.
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  • We go there with fire and with fervency.
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  • That's a part of the contagious brotherly love
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  • We have in the church.
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  • And the witness outside the church.
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  • I love when someone's a member of our church
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  • And they work for someone.
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  • I always expected to say,
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  • You know, that's the most conscientious person.
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  • I have their own time.
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  • They don't look at the clock.
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  • They care about things.
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  • They're on fire.
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  • Boy, i wish i had some more members of your church.
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  • Do you approach work as worship?
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  • That's what we do.
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  • That's what i'm to do.
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  • Verse 12, rejoice in hope,
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  • Persevering and tribulation devoted in prayer.
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  • In other words, when tribulation
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  • Or a tribulation means to shake,
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  • We all tribulation, don't we?
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  • We have problems, challenges, suffering.
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  • We fall, we stand.
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  • It's wonderful that you have people cheering for you.
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  • Often you hope praying for you, caring for you,
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  • Tell you something.
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  • You give this body of christ a chance
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  • And whatever your situation
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  • Is, we'll do everything we can with all we've got to help.
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  • Sometimes we can't do everything.
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  • Sometime we.
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  • It's out of our realm.
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  • Sometimes it's not the realm of the church.
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  • But i'll tell you. we'll love you. we'll care for you.
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  • Get in a bible study class.
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  • Have a problem pregnancy.
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  • And you just watch that class.
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  • Help you with your family when you put to bed.
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  • We do it all the time.
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  • Feed, clothe, house. minister.
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  • Reach out.
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  • Care for love. listen to.
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  • That's what we do when we're tribulation and i.
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  • Tribulation you tribulation.
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  • That's what the body of christ is.
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  • That's brotherly love.
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  • Look at verse 13, contributing to the needs of the saints,
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  • Practicing hospitality.
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  • That's a big word, hospitality.
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  • That's one of the spiritual gifts
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  • We should be have hospitality.
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  • They should be an openness kind of our relationship
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  • Of our time, if possible, of our houses where we live.
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  • Everything has to be straight
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  • And clean, not to have all the right things to serve.
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  • Hospitality.
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  • Who had that in the bible, particularly in acts?
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  • Priscilla and aquila.
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  • Well, that couple kept paul in their home.
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  • Man, how they were blessed by that.
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  • Paul taught them love them, they love paul, man.
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  • They they had the right
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  • Biblical understanding in their lives.
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  • I think it was a wonderful place
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  • To be with priscilla and aquila.
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  • I mean, that was a home. that was a house.
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  • Paul stayed there.
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  • When paul left, apollos moved
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  • In to stay with apollos, begin to teach.
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  • Now, paulus was different from paul.
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  • I think paul, if he were to teach us,
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  • He would talk in very measured,
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  • Profound tones with deep
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  • Understanding of the truth and the revelation of god.
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  • And we would listen on tiptoe to paul.
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  • Put up paolo's would preach,
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  • I'm telling you, he was dynamic.
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  • He was the billy graham of the new testament.
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  • The bible says,
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  • Oh, he was something.
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  • But as aquila and priscilla were listening
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  • To apollos, who was a guest in their home,
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  • They noticed as he was speaking that he had the baptism
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  • Of john mixed up with the baptism of jesus.
  • 00:11:03.341 --> 00:11:06.377
  • You know, a little theological problem.
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  • And so when they went home,
  • 00:11:08.513 --> 00:11:10.615
  • They must have sat down and said, apollos,
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  • Let me tell you what you're missing.
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  • You don't get in.
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  • They walk through that with him.
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  • Apollos, i believe, got it.
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  • And then through the hospitality of that home,
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  • Other people came and came to know christ
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  • And had it and shared it.
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  • The hospitality just flows
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  • Generation to generation, person
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  • To person, individual individual couple,
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  • The couple family.
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  • That's hospitality in the body of christ.
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  • We're talking about brotherly love in the church.
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  • Now we move into another area.
  • 00:11:43.548 --> 00:11:45.950
  • This is a real tough area.
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  • It's other love.
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  • It's love outside the church.
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  • What does it look like?
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  • The word is blessed.
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  • In verse 14, we pray for those
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  • Who do what persecute you.
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  • Are you doing a good job with that?
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  • Are you really?
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  • Are you?
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  • Pray, lord, send fire down on the rascal.
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  • I'm telling.
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  • You, really praying.
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  • Lord bless.
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  • Be with god.
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  • Speak to that person who persecute you.
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  • See, there are three kinds of people that bother us.
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  • Some people just don't like you and don't like me.
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  • I don't know, they just don't.
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  • That's it.
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  • Okay, god, pray for them.
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  • There's some people who've hurt us
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  • And the ways they've hurt us.
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  • Maybe they knew it. maybe they didn't know it.
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  • Maybe they didn't intentionally,
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  • I don't know, but they've heard us.
  • 00:12:35.133 --> 00:12:36.534
  • And there's other people who persecute us, man.
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  • They just stay after man.
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  • Let me tell you about him.
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  • Hey, how about it?
  • 00:12:41.506 --> 00:12:42.674
  • Hey hey hey hey.
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  • I mean, rumors are rampant, by the way, around this place.
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  • It is so interesting that you can't kill the rumor
  • 00:12:49.447 --> 00:12:52.517
  • That i fly around a helicopter.
  • 00:12:52.517 --> 00:12:54.319
  • You can't kill it.
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  • And when i was a boy,
  • 00:12:55.954 --> 00:12:58.356
  • There was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:12:58.356 --> 00:13:02.126
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
  • 00:13:02.126 --> 00:13:06.431
  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
  • 00:13:09.334 --> 00:13:12.637
  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
  • 00:13:32.257 --> 00:13:34.392
  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
  • 00:13:38.296 --> 00:13:41.833
  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
  • 00:13:49.641 --> 00:13:54.545
  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
  • 00:13:55.847 --> 00:13:59.017
  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
  • 00:14:05.056 --> 00:14:13.431
  • So we have to pray for people.
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  • That's part of what we do.
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  • Those outside the church.
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  • Verse 50, it says, rejoice with those who are joyce.
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  • Weep with those who weep.
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  • By the way, the order of that verse, i think, is important.
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  • It's harder to rejoice with those
  • 00:14:26.945 --> 00:14:28.913
  • Who are joyous than weep with those who weep.
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  • Sometimes they rejoice, and they were joining so much
  • 00:14:31.015 --> 00:14:35.219
  • We get a little envious.
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  • We get a little envious
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  • To genuinely rejoice with people.
  • 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.164
  • We learn how to do that.
  • 00:14:46.698 --> 00:14:47.832
  • It's easy to weep with people who weep,
  • 00:14:47.832 --> 00:14:50.902
  • And we want to get in there with them.
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  • We just.
  • 00:14:53.438 --> 00:14:54.405
  • We don't have any words of wisdom. we just we.
  • 00:14:54.405 --> 00:14:56.307
  • But to rejoice with success that challenges us
  • 00:14:56.307 --> 00:14:59.344
  • So we know how to rejoice with those who are.
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  • Joyce man, it's easy.
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  • Not that it's pleasant to weep of those who weep.
  • 00:15:03.982 --> 00:15:06.818
  • The order there is important.
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  • This is that other love.
  • 00:15:08.353 --> 00:15:10.021
  • Look at verse 16.
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  • Be of the same mind toward one another.
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  • Do not be hardy in mind, but associate with the lowly.
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  • Do not be wise in your own estimation.
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  • It is our mind.
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  • Our mind has been renewed.
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  • Now we're not hardy anymore.
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  • Now we know we belong to god.
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  • Now we know he's renewing us.
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  • Look at verse 18, if possible, so far as it depends on you.
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  • Be at peace with all men.
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  • You see, we've come to christ.
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  • We're no longer self-righteous, and hopefully
  • 00:15:37.915 --> 00:15:41.152
  • We are less being self-centered.
  • 00:15:41.152 --> 00:15:44.022
  • Self-righteousness and self-centeredness
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  • Is your problem and my problem.
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  • This helps us.
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  • This helps
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  • Us when we pray for those who persecute us.
  • 00:15:51.896 --> 00:15:55.233
  • And then it really gets tough here.
  • 00:15:55.233 --> 00:15:58.703
  • It says, never take your own revenge,
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  • But leave room for the wrath of god.
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  • You know that verse means you know what
  • 00:16:08.079 --> 00:16:09.414
  • God said to you and me in that verse?
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  • Don't sit in my seat.
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  • That's what god saying.
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  • Well, you don't know what they did.
  • 00:16:17.789 --> 00:16:19.557
  • No. god says i got it.
  • 00:16:19.557 --> 00:16:21.993
  • Well, let me know i got it.
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  • I'm not going to speak to them.
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  • Nope, i got it.
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  • God says, don't sit in my seat.
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  • I'm in charge of this thing.
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  • You're just are to pray.
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  • You're to seek to forgive.
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  • You're seek to bring about reconciliation.
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  • You'll seek to listen.
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  • You're seek to be different.
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  • Because if we do not do this, they have control on us.
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  • As long as that is that thorn of bitterness,
  • 00:16:45.516 --> 00:16:48.519
  • That thorn of hatred, that thorn of desire,
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  • Even when the bottom falls out of
  • 00:16:51.456 --> 00:16:53.458
  • Their life, we don't say, i
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  • Implore.
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  • They got theirs.
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  • Knew it would happen.
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  • See, when we love with our head
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  • And our lips and our heart.
  • 00:17:03.301 --> 00:17:06.471
  • See, we don't try to play god and sit in his seat.
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  • He'll take care.
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  • He will establish justice.
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  • He will handle it.
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  • We don't have to.
  • 00:17:14.579 --> 00:17:16.214
  • But we have another role. what do we do?
  • 00:17:16.214 --> 00:17:18.549
  • Man, paul tells us it gets tougher and tougher for me.
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  • I don't know about you to do this.
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  • He says vineyards is mine, i will repay.
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  • We don't pay back, says the lord.
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  • But if your enemy is
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  • Hungry, feed him.
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  • Poison. no, no, no.
  • 00:17:37.068 --> 00:17:38.536
  • Feed him.
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  • If he is 30, tell him you're out of water.
  • 00:17:41.973 --> 00:17:46.377
  • No. give him a drink
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  • For i'm so doing.
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  • You heap burning coals on his head.
  • 00:17:51.182 --> 00:17:53.417
  • Now it's very clear here, really?
  • 00:17:53.417 --> 00:17:56.420
  • Except the burning coals problem.
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  • We are to find ways to feed, to
  • 00:17:59.223 --> 00:18:01.826
  • Nourish these who despitefully used us.
  • 00:18:01.826 --> 00:18:05.530
  • We would find ways to
  • 00:18:06.030 --> 00:18:07.465
  • Offer them cheering and nurture when they're hungry
  • 00:18:07.465 --> 00:18:11.669
  • Or they're thirsty.
  • 00:18:11.669 --> 00:18:12.870
  • Now the burning coals on their head.
  • 00:18:12.870 --> 00:18:15.039
  • We kind of like that part.
  • 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.942
  • But see, this has a different meaning.
  • 00:18:17.942 --> 00:18:19.677
  • By the way,
  • 00:18:19.677 --> 00:18:20.311
  • Every commentary on this verse
  • 00:18:20.311 --> 00:18:22.213
  • Will give you a different meaning.
  • 00:18:22.213 --> 00:18:24.315
  • Every one of them, you read them. they're so wild.
  • 00:18:24.315 --> 00:18:26.250
  • It's a paraphrase, a quote from proverbs, by the way.
  • 00:18:26.250 --> 00:18:29.453
  • And i think it means that when you do this.
  • 00:18:29.453 --> 00:18:32.657
  • It's like a tradition they had in the middle east
  • 00:18:32.657 --> 00:18:36.093
  • That if someone was repenting,
  • 00:18:36.093 --> 00:18:39.297
  • They would go and they would take
  • 00:18:39.297 --> 00:18:41.232
  • And put a container and put burning coals in that,
  • 00:18:41.232 --> 00:18:44.235
  • And they would walk in the night
  • 00:18:44.235 --> 00:18:46.704
  • With those burning coals, you could see them
  • 00:18:46.704 --> 00:18:48.706
  • Walk in little flame, fire from the cold.
  • 00:18:48.706 --> 00:18:51.375
  • You would say, there goes edwin young.
  • 00:18:51.375 --> 00:18:55.012
  • He's repenting.
  • 00:18:55.012 --> 00:18:56.180
  • See those burning coals on his head?
  • 00:18:56.180 --> 00:18:58.516
  • And what paul is saying, if we feed, if we nourish,
  • 00:18:58.516 --> 00:19:02.220
  • If we help, if we cheerlead those who've just treated
  • 00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:05.823
  • Us like rats,
  • 00:19:05.823 --> 00:19:08.259
  • Man is
  • 00:19:08.459 --> 00:19:09.327
  • Putting it may lead them to repentance.
  • 00:19:09.327 --> 00:19:12.230
  • It may be them to see what's going on.
  • 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:14.732
  • It may them to see the problem as they created.
  • 00:19:14.732 --> 00:19:17.435
  • It may then lead to see how they've been vicious
  • 00:19:17.435 --> 00:19:20.171
  • Or unfair toward you.
  • 00:19:20.171 --> 00:19:21.572
  • And i think that's exactly what this means.
  • 00:19:21.572 --> 00:19:24.342
  • And then it ends up saying something that's way,
  • 00:19:24.342 --> 00:19:28.713
  • Way out of line.
  • 00:19:29.113 --> 00:19:31.182
  • We've got to do all this as christians, to those
  • 00:19:31.182 --> 00:19:33.985
  • Who are outside the church, utterly love.
  • 00:19:33.985 --> 00:19:38.155
  • Now, he says, don't return evil for evil.
  • 00:19:38.155 --> 00:19:41.359
  • Return. overcome evil with good.
  • 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:43.327
  • How the world do you overcome evil with good?
  • 00:19:43.327 --> 00:19:46.897
  • He's already told us,
  • 00:19:46.897 --> 00:19:48.466
  • But now he tells us this is how we do it.
  • 00:19:48.466 --> 00:19:51.535
  • How do we do that?
  • 00:19:51.969 --> 00:19:54.272
  • How do we love like this?
  • 00:19:54.272 --> 00:19:56.941
  • This agape love, this story a love this philadelphia.
  • 00:19:56.941 --> 00:20:01.078
  • How in the name of the planet do we do it?
  • 00:20:01.078 --> 00:20:04.515
  • Where do we get the stuff to do it? who?
  • 00:20:04.515 --> 00:20:07.785
  • Just try harder.
  • 00:20:07.785 --> 00:20:09.120
  • That won't do it with it.
  • 00:20:09.120 --> 00:20:10.554
  • We just determined that won't do it.
  • 00:20:10.554 --> 00:20:13.357
  • Where do we get the stuff?
  • 00:20:13.357 --> 00:20:16.227
  • All the way back in
  • 00:20:16.694 --> 00:20:18.396
  • Romans 12, the very first verse.
  • 00:20:18.396 --> 00:20:21.932
  • Very first, he said, by the mercies of god,
  • 00:20:21.932 --> 00:20:25.569
  • It is the mercies of god in your life
  • 00:20:26.370 --> 00:20:29.173
  • And in my life that gives us the ability
  • 00:20:29.173 --> 00:20:32.476
  • To have this kind of brotherly love in the church
  • 00:20:32.476 --> 00:20:35.613
  • And this kind of utterly love outside the church,
  • 00:20:35.613 --> 00:20:38.616
  • Even when we're despitefully, used and abused.
  • 00:20:38.616 --> 00:20:41.719
  • And paul is simply blowing up and explaining what
  • 00:20:41.719 --> 00:20:45.790
  • Jesus has already taught, primarily
  • 00:20:45.790 --> 00:20:47.758
  • The sermon on the mount, isn't he
  • 00:20:47.758 --> 00:20:50.494
  • Mercies of god?
  • 00:20:50.494 --> 00:20:51.562
  • What is that?
  • 00:20:51.562 --> 00:20:55.533
  • You read in matthew chapter 18?
  • 00:20:56.167 --> 00:20:58.169
  • Jesus told a story about the mercies of god.
  • 00:20:58.169 --> 00:21:01.339
  • Here's a king and one of his servants
  • 00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:04.942
  • Owed him several million dollars.
  • 00:21:04.942 --> 00:21:07.211
  • The king went to him and said, repay me?
  • 00:21:07.211 --> 00:21:09.280
  • The servant said he couldn't.
  • 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:10.648
  • He said, i'm going to put you in jail.
  • 00:21:10.648 --> 00:21:12.817
  • And the servant says, have mercy.
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  • And the king forgave him for a debt of several
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  • Million dollars, 10,000 talents.
  • 00:21:17.455 --> 00:21:20.224
  • Now people read that and say, well, nobody,
  • 00:21:20.224 --> 00:21:22.860
  • No servant couldn't owe a king several million dollars.
  • 00:21:22.860 --> 00:21:25.730
  • I mean, that doesn't make sense.
  • 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:27.298
  • It could
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  • If that servant had to be over one of the provinces
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  • In the kingdom.
  • 00:21:31.635 --> 00:21:32.570
  • Hey, he was a big time guy.
  • 00:21:32.570 --> 00:21:35.039
  • Told that kind of money to the king,
  • 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:37.174
  • And therefore for the king to forgive.
  • 00:21:37.174 --> 00:21:39.677
  • It meant that
  • 00:21:39.677 --> 00:21:40.911
  • The whole province may have economic problems, didn't it?
  • 00:21:40.911 --> 00:21:44.548
  • And then in the story, jesus told the guy
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  • Who'd been forgiven millions of dollars of debt by the king,
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  • Finds a fellow servant who owed him $100.
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  • Several hundred bucks, said, hey, hey.
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  • You owe me. pay me back now. he said, i can't do it.
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  • Give me time. he said, i'm not going to give you time.
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  • He put him in jail.
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  • The guy who'd been forgiven millions put in jail,
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  • Or fellow servant who owed him a few hundred.
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  • Somebody told the king about it.
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  • About this ungrateful, unmerciful servant.
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  • He'd forgiven the big bucks.
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  • And the king says, go get that rattling.
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  • You put him in jail.
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  • And then the last verse of this is a scary verse.
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  • As we read this parable in matthew 18, then jesus says,
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  • My heavenly father, who all will also do
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  • The same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother.
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  • From the heart,
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  • Oh, i forgive my mind.
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  • Oh, no, i told him, i know from your heart
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  • That's scary to me.
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  • Doesn't scare you.
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  • How you doing with that one?
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  • God the father is not going to forgive us.
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  • He's not going to be merciful us
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  • Unless we're merciful toward others.
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  • Therefore, when i realize the great mercy
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  • He has demonstrated to me, and the mercies immigrated to you,
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  • How easy it is to forgive
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  • All these others, whatever they've done
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  • That gives us the capacity to love.
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  • Like this.
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  • Doorbell rang.
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  • Rang.
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  • Mother went to the door.
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  • Two policemen standing there.
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  • They explained to her
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  • Her 16 year old son had been shot and killed.
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  • Some kind of drug altercation.
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  • They found the young man that killed him.
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  • He was 18. she went to trial,
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  • Found guilty,
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  • Sentenced 25 years in prison.
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  • This mother through prayer because she's a
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  • Wonderful christian.
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  • She began to write this young man who killed her son.
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  • And then she asked for permission to go and visit him.
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  • He said, absolutely not. i don't want to see you.
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  • She asked again.
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  • I don't want to see you over a period of time.
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  • Finally he said, okay, come one time, but that's it.
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  • So he came and this young man
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  • In prison for these years saw something in mary,
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  • The mother
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  • Of the boy that he'd kill, that he'd never seen before.
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  • He saw forgiveness. he saw love.
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  • He saw a desire for him to get his life
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  • Straightened out while he was in prison.
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  • And finally she led him to christ.
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  • After a series of visits, he moved away from the gang
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  • Element in prison and got with a christian group.
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  • God began to do things in his life.
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  • He served 17 years and then he was eligible for parole.
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  • And finally parole was granted and he walked out of prison.
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  • He went in a thug 17 years before.
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  • Now he comes out of man and he had no one there for him.
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  • He didn't know anybody.
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  • All of his contacts, all of his family.
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  • He didn't know what in the world happened to them.
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  • The only person he knew was mary,
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  • The mother of the boy had killed.
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  • So he called her.
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  • She was thrilled.
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  • He went to her and he said, i can't get a job.
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  • I've got a record.
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  • I didn't have a place to live.
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  • I can't sign any lease.
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  • And she took care of it and saw that he got a room
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  • Right next door to where she lived.
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  • In fact, the room was in a little playground area
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  • Now where her son had played a little boy,
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  • And now his murder was living in a little room right there
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  • Where the playground used to be.
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  • And mary took that young man,
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  • Got him a job.
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  • She arranged for him to go to college,
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  • And he began to move through life
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  • And became a wonderful, wonderful christian man.
  • 00:25:52.796 --> 00:25:56.066
  • And mary and this murderer became close, close friends.
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  • By the way, his name was israel.
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  • The power to show mercy
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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