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the night scripts are eating come from the book of isaiah

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chapter nine vs one to seven

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nevertheless there will be no more gloom

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for those who were industry

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the past the humble to land a zeppelin and land

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of know tali but in the future

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you will honor galilee of the gentiles

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by the way of see along the jordan the

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people walking in darkness have seen

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a great light on those living in the land

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of the shadow of death a light has gone

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you have enlarge the nation and increase their

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j they rejoiced the for you

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as people rejoice at the harvest

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as men rejoice when dividing the plunder

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for ad in the day of millions defeat

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you have shattered the yolk that burdens them

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the bar across their shoulders the rod of

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their oppressor every warriors

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boot used in battle and every garment

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rolled in blood will be destined for

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bernie the be fuel for the fire

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for qs a child is born to

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as a son is given and the government's

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will be on his shoulders and he

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will be called wonderful counsellor mighty

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god everlasting father

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prince of peace this

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increase of his government and peace

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there will be no end you will rain

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on david's throne and over his kingdom

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establishing it and upholding it with justice

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and righteousness from that time

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on and forever is the all

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of the lord almighty will accomplish this

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this got word

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is a very famous passage

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, an old testament profit hebrew

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profit about the com a the messiah and

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others way too much and it to

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expound first by vs

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cena like the meditate on one

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phrase or two words wonderful

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counselor meditate on

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the , wonderful counselor and if we

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consider those two words in

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reverse we

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have his subjects of wisdom

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or council

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wonder

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christmas is about wisdom

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and wonder look

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at these two points as as meditate on his two point

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zero help us i think observe christmas

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is your first of all christmas

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is about wisdom

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jesus the child born in the manger

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is a counselor and a counselor

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is a source

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of wisdom and cities

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like it since he's the mighty god he's the

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source of wisdom and see verse when he

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comes into a world which is dark

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and the whole idea of christmas

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is that god has

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come into the world because the world does not have

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the wisdom resources to deal

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with it's own problems it's

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it's very intriguing people are the

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world kind of embraces christmas

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and a way it has never embraced good friday

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sir because i think over

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the world sees our christmas

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as being rather affirming it's all about peace

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and goodwill and isn't that

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nice actually the the

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, of christmas is incredibly

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confrontational and says

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the reason for christmas reason for world's

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wisdom has failed for

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example i lived in that when

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we live in philadelphia with a two story

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house and the summers of eighty

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five eighty

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five and eighty six i

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my wife kathy went out to work i

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was a professor and so i was kind

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of working at home and i had three little

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boys who were our

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school from out of school so i watch

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them while i was working usually what met

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were met was ah and iran

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are the ages eight

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so i would be upstairs in my study

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and they'd be downstairs

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and i be trying to work and fairly often

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they would fight

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those are the shock to some of you but it that

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is that are fairly often they would fights

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and so the first thing you try to do when your kids

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are fighting europe's are trying to work you hear fighting

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is you you try to get them to six

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it themselves so what you do you

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send your advice down the stairs

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you send your word your worth you send

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down your word and you say things like share

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the toy another the very revolutionary

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idea for ,

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under the age of eight shares

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a toy you know and

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i take turns us another revolutionary

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idea that it has never entered into their minds

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ah but if they're fighting and fighting couldn't

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solve you know i

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know really couldn't get them to solve it themselves i would

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send my word done i send my voice down at

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one point you say of always don't

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make me come down there myself that

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if i couldn't solve themselves eventually

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your word

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my word had become flesh

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and i had it become incarnate in into

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this first floor from the second floor i

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had to my my my i

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had a be there and in the body why because

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i had a fix it they couldn't fix it themselves you

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know it's a message of christmases

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the dot message or christmases got had

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to come downstairs himself

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the message of christmas is nothing less

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than the very presence of god god had a common

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so we have plenty of advice

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we're profits we have wise and weird sages

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we know it was do we think but

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we're so in darkness were so confused were

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so are are are the whispers world

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is so inadequate to deal with the problems

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that we have the i had to come himself

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nothing less than the presence of god the

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incarnation the birth death the resurrection

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of god himself save us

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the christmas is an

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absolute of front to

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the world's wisdom not the world's learning

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or get to that the second to the world's wisdom because the was

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wisdom is a is a worldview

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it's a set of presuppositions that's

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the idea that everything has a natural cause and

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that we can handle it if we just think about it enough

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so for example christmas

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is an absolute affront to the

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the world's idea of power got

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in a manger see think what

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if what if

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one of your you know new yorkers like to think big

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what if you set out your life goal and

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you said this two thousand years from

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now i would like three

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quarters of the human race to know my name

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i did go right okay

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my flacco and and two

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thousand years now i like a quarter of the

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population the the human race to build their it's cent

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of their entire lives around me personally and

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i would like my body of teaching

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material to be the most influential

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body of teaching in the history the human race and i like

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have whole civilizations dependent

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and built on my teacher

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how would you go about it if

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, your goals you might get all the consultants together you

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going to hire some consultants this new york a lot of your

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concerns and you say i would like a

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strategic plans for the two thousand years from now i'd be the

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most influential person has ever lived in the history of the world

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and i can tell you want to things they will not come up with they will

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not say well first of all get born in a stable

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amongst manure and urine

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in a little town in the middle of

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nowhere no course not they're

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going to say you gotta roll this out in a major venue

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in a big city what

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would you said actually what

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they won't tell you they say they will not say be boring

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a major they will not say spend

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your entire life absolutely

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outside all the power networks all

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the networks of economic power

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political power and academic influence

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they out of all of that get know credentials

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get no cache with any of those

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people and then get executed early

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in your career in

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absolute disgrace you

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see them off the world looks at

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this life the

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answers that i'll never ever

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become our world history

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changing life but it did

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why

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because christmas has made foolish

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the wisdom of this world this is god

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when when a gabriel came

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to marry that

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announced christmas server what did she do

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i was listening on the radio

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recently to a minister here

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in new york city who was

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basically giving up as christmas sermon

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or homily or talk at a christmas

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service and he came right out

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and said you know what as modern

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people i'm a modern man i cannot believe

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he said that

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i can't believe i believe the stories of of jesus

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birds reflection yeah

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i don't believe in reincarnation i don't

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believe he was deity i don't believe in the virgin

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preventable even as ama i'm a i'm a modern miss

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if you believe in those things if you take those things literally

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he said your fundamentalist and fundamentalism

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is one of the big problems in the world today

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but then he says our people ask me what was

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you don't believe any of that why

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do you have a christmas tree why

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do you have christmas services secret search

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and he said well you know what you have to do is

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you have to reinterpret the stories

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i do is why reinterpret these stories that's

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why i see jesus born a major i see i'd

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like to work through little the

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like to work through the outsiders

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in the marginal and and that that really warms

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my

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hard

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so you could you know i can't really understood that we

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this this miracle stuff this virgin birth but

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but but i can reinterpret see

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what he's doing his reinterpreting christmas

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to fit in with the wisdom of this world as still

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very meaningful to me but when

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gabriel came to marry and

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said a virgin so conceive

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even though you haven't had sex with anybody even though you're not having

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sex with a buddy you're going to get pregnant what

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did she say you know we're so condescending

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toward ancient people with ah yes

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ancient people are a primitive a naive know

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the world is the world is the world's mary was

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one of the world where people the world and

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when gabriel said to marry in

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our you're going to get pregnant even though you're not having sex

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anybody's did she say the

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true meaning of christmas how

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wonderful that god works through

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little people like me that

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is wonderful know know when

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gabriel said to marry even

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though you're not having sex with anybody you're gonna get

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pregnant she

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said like any modern person she said what

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what and the child that is

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going to be born for me is is gonna be who

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the other is christmas shattered

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her paradigm her worldly

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wisdom what wisdom possible but worse is this is

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puzzle this isn't process this pass when christmas

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comes christmas comes as is god coming so

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gabriel actually said this to her anything's

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possible with

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got nothing is impossible becoming

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human that's impossible but that's what christmas

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says the world doesn't believe it

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the road sex or wife like this couldn't possibly

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produces kind of movement he couldn't possibly

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produce are the most influential

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historic figure in history but it did

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they can't become human the

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into the can't become finite

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impossible

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can't become possible but it did and that's

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what christmas means it

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means christmas has made

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foolish the wisdom of this world now

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look a little caviar before moving

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on her the cabbie out is

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if you've been coming to redeemer you know something we

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have to make a very important distinction we're we're not

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against i'm not against christians

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should not be against

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worldly learning

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if you come here you know that we love philosophy

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here we read it we love literature we love

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the arts when i guess worldly learning

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we , want to just put our heads in the sense i want to know

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what people are thinking and i don't want to reflect on things

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on a want to take you know i to

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take part of part cultural know we're not against worldly

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learning but worldly wisdom but

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wisdom wisdom worldly set of presuppositions of the paradigm

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the as glitz and powers

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what's really important everything is

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a natural cause we're in control

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we a we can deal with our problems on around

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and christmas has made foolish that book

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i do read the philosophers and i do what

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real you know i'd i love science i love

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loss in illinois and me to say what worldly wasn't

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has never been able to do three things the human

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race needs desperately and worldly with some can't

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give it it off didn't even claim to be able

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to get three things you need in

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order handle life as it really is you

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need to be able to face death with

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assurance and confidence and even joy

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do have a the

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one i think you need it yep are you will even

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before you face death your mp facing death

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with people that you love extremely well you've

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got to face stuff with confidence assurance even

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to a second with you gotta be gotta little you've got to be

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able live with your own past you gotta be other

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get absolute piece of conscience you

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gotta have deep self acceptance no matter

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what you've done even if you've murdered people thirdly

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you've gotta be able to forgive your enemies even if they've raped

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and murdered your family we

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gotta be ah the forgive our enemies from the heart

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one hundred percent we've gotta be able to forgive ourselves

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and live with our pasts or gabrielle the face

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death do you think plato can do that you

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think litter

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in theory can do that critical theory could do that

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of course not and that's the reason

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why right now

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in asia latin american africa

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you know it's sweeping you

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know it's sweeping those continents

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you know it's growing fast seven to ten times

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faster than the population even as fast

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growing populated places the

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rest of the earth in the barrios

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and the alleyways and the villages

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the world are not forming little study

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groups to study plato

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are critical

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theory you know what

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they're coming to go to study the bible they're coming together

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study the gospel

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that is was teaching him the face death

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that's was teaching them to deal with are conscious

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that's was breaking their addictive habit

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sets with putting families together to that's what that's

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what's healing whole villages

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and what is it it's this wonderful

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foolishness

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this god and a manger

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this this poor carpenter this

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this god arms stretched out

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dying on the cross life ebbing out sacrificing

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for you

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that gives people

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what all the wisdom the world has ever produce

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has never been able to give them all those things

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have not christmas made foolish

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the wisdom of this world

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christmas

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first of all means that the wisdom

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of this world is foolishness and

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in jesus christ you have the true wisdom he's

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the counselor how

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does that work to slide situations

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and feeling people

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today's teaching

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however secondly and this is actually not

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an equal size point it's it's it's

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it's are symmetrical point i like

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to look at his word wonderful he's not just account

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for he's a wonderful cancer and here's you

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, there's a tendency to look great pass the word like

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that in english to say

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it was of was what he's what wonderful cancer or

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he's a terrific counselor or he's a tremendous

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council the just kind of weasel words aren't

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they they're just sort of i he's a i

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extremely great

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look at that word wonderful you

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know what is really saying seat , you

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take a look at these for terms that

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and they are amazing jesus is

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a wonderful counselor that means it's are born

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in bethlehem was that's

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true source of wisdom okay secondly mighty

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god you know that word mighty means

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that's the word gabor it's a hebrew word

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gabor and it means hero

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happy and knight in shining

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armor the one who

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faces overwhelming odds and saves the town

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says the people and says his friends gives

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his wonderful counselor

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heroic god

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everlasting father which means this

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isn't just a demigod or it for of our

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of you know a second class god but

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this is god himself and he

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brings you into an intimate relationship

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this knight in shining armor is your dad

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he brings you know intimate family relationship with them

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and not only is a wonderful cancer and mighty

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god and everlasting father he's

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the prince of shalom the

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last couple of weeks we look at what that shallow means

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principes it's the hebrew word shalom which means

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for economic

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spiritual

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vivid will flourishing

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it means that jesus is not just here to

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get you a wonderful personal relationship with him

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and deal with your problems on the inside here

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to the eventually create a new heavens new

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worth wherein twelve righteousness and justice

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that is easier to get rid of poverty is you to get

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rid of just injustice of

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get rid of violence get rid of war

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the easier to bring peace and just get rid of disease get

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rid of death

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now

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when you know that that's who the baby was

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born in the major is why aren't you and i living

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that much differently and i've let's let's be honest

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we believe that do we christians

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and yet are we not

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pretty much as anxious as a people who don't

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are we pretty much struggling with self esteem

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as those who don't are we

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as materialistic as those who don't know how can you

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believe in princes shalom and be as materialistic

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as people who think this the was gonna burn up eventually

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and how can you be as happy as can use

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have your feelings hurt as easily and

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how can you be as far as

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upset with criticism and how can you be as

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as struggling to like yourself

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as

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people who say i'm just here by accident

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when you believe the who the blood

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of jesus christ the infinite that it was god's

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bloodshed on the cross pesticide

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for you he loves you that much

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and he brings you into a family relationship now if

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you believe these things wire we different

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and i'll tell you why i think the

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, to making these

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wonderful wise truth christmas

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tells us these truths operative

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in the way in which you live the keys

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wonder you know a wonder is

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send voluntary praise wonder

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is involuntary praise

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now

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if you want understand the importance of praise and i just

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wanted than just a couple of minutes

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pressing you on this

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jonathan edwards look

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at a difference between religious people who

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used god and

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real christians who were born again and

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has experience of grace and he decided

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the difference for one big differences

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at praise

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but everybody petitions god

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everybody says oh god give me this give

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me that i've got a problem help me everybody doesn't

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the only people who want god for himself

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only people that an experience of his grace only people

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who are who are making god not

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a means to other ends but an end in

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himself love to praise

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cs lewis when he was becoming a christian

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but he wasn't quite there yet one of the things he struggled

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mightily with was the fact

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that in the bible over and over again god commands

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people to praise

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what were commanded god commands you

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to glorify him and adore him into praise

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him

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and louis struggle with that because those

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as you know the few people i know i said

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i know people who like to be praised and everybody

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hates them

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what does stuck up goddesses and

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then in a chapter in a book

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of his called reflections on the psalms a life

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changing chapter i think the called

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a word about praising he says this there

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was obvious fact about praise whether of god

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or anything strangely escaped me i

21:06

never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously

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overflows into praise unless

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sometimes even if sinus

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or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought

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into check it

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there is whenever you enjoy something you've got to praise

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it say the world rings

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with praise lovers praising their mistresses

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readers their favorite poets walkers

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praising the countryside praise of whether winds

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dishes actors motors horses

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colleges children flowers mountains i

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had not noticed how than the humblest and

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at the same time most balanced and capacious

21:38

minds crazed

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the most while

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the cranks misfits and malcontents

21:45

the people who were the most self

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centered

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praise the least

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the good book critic always found something

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to praise even an imperfect works

21:55

the bad critics continually narrow the list of

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books that were even allowed to read

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the help him and can enjoy the most modest meal

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the crank find fault with almost every

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dish

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praise i realize almost seemed

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to be inner health made

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audible so the first thing you

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realize, what is praised was was a a sign

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there's something right inside your but

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they more that realized praises

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also, the means

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the get even more health in the heart and

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here's what he said

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i think now we the white to praise

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what we enjoy because the praise does

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not only express but

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it completes the joy it

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is it's simple appointed consummation

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it's my out of compliment that lovers keep

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on telling one other how beautiful they are

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the the light is incomplete

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until it's expressed and

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that's the reason why when you will have a book or you really love

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a piece of music are you will have a piece of already

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real have a place on the on the face of the earth's

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it is desperately want to grab somebody and say

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look at this don't you think it's great

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you're praising it to them why you

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can enjoy it

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holy unless you praises

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the

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we praise or we enjoy because the praises and

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expressed by completes the enjoyment this

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is so even when are expressions are inadequate

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as inadequate course they usually are but

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he said

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what here you could really and fully

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praise even such things to perfection

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what if you could get out in poetry

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or music or paint the upsurge

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of appreciation which almost births you

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then indeed

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the objects would be fully

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enjoyed and are delight

23:38

would have attained perfect development

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it is along these lines that i finally

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found it easy to understand the christian

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doctrine that heaven

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it is stay in which angels now and

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we hereafter are perpetually employed

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and praising god

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the see

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this means you must remember

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that you will be perfectly

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my with god

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drunk with drowned in dissolved

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by that the light which far from remaining

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pent up within ourselves as

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in communicable hence hardly tolerable

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bliss slows out from

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us incessantly again and effortless and perfect

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expression or joy no more separable

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from the praise in which it liberates and

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utters itself than the brightness a mere it

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receives is separable from the brightness

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it sheds when god

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commands us to glorify him he

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is inviting us to enjoy him

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you

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know what the father's on the holy spirit even glorifying

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each other for all eternity so they could not

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god could not have invented us

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and commanded us to praise him because

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he was trying to get it he already had it so

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why would he commands us to praise him because

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he wants us to have the joy of he has and

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until we fix our hearts on the

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ultimate object of beauty dot

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is the ultimate music god

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is the ultimate work of art got is the ultimate

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landscape

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and the thing you love and all other kinds of

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music and all other kinds of stories and all

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other kinds of landscape those things

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are just the tributaries that the headwaters

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is god

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and a thing we most need to be able to

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do as much as they are i believe is this and businesses

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was to wonder

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we have to praise him voluntarily

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in a discipline

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until the praise becomes involuntary

25:29

and i'm with you know that is the main thing you need tonight

25:32

that's the main thing you need

25:34

if it's the sense of wonder if

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the actual experience of his beauty is

25:39

a sort of just feeling overwhelmed

25:41

with overwhelmed that's

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how you handle your past

25:47

until your experience and you can't until

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his joy something so that you can cut it

25:52

you can hear it virtually

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there's something on the hearts you can't deal with your past

25:57

to cancel with your enemies you can't deal with this

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you can't do with your work

26:03

these are not just the believe is wise

26:06

he has to be the wonderful counselor

26:08

you have to wonder yourself into the wisdom

26:12

you have to appraise first of all in

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voluntarily but eventually voluntarily because

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of aren't luthor said and even lewis said

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when you in voluntarily praise the

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do it do it sometime this week

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fifteen minutes i don't mean ten our

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mean fourteen i mean fifteen and

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go through and start meditating and praising

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god for the fact is wonderful

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him

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heroic

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god

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everlasting

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father

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prince

26:46

so long i think

26:48

about drill

26:50

down reflect on

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c

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favre cherished treasure

26:56

ponder and in

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voluntarily that what i what i say volunteer

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with discipline yourself to praise and

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do it do it do it even sixty minutes

27:05

you'll find lot of you you've never done that

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maybe it'll take two days we will take two weeks

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it'll take two months but eventually the involuntary

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praise will come

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you'll feel it it'll become real

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to you

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you'll hear the music as it were

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of god's name and beauty

27:27

then it'll break your heart

27:29

why you say because a sad sad

27:35

the spray

27:36

our father we thank you for giving

27:38

us the the

27:42

gift of christmases of christmases and which the

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whole world stops

27:46

and weekend now sit down and we're going

27:48

to have time and next few days that we ordinarily

27:51

don't have and we pray that instead of just

27:53

being mad , up with with

27:56

activities that we would stop and

27:58

we would wonder

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at the wisdom

28:02

that makes foolish the wisdom of this world

28:04

and wonder at what you have done

28:06

or jesus christ come into the world and rescue

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us and give yourself we pray

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that we will in a voluntary

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and discipline way learned to praise you until

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we wonder and

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our hearts are filled with wonder and amazement

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and ah for the greatness of

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what you are and then will change and

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then we'll live change lives and until then

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we won't so we pray the you'd help us to

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learn how to do this for we asked in

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jesus' name amen

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the gospel in life podcast were preached from

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presbyterian church