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I am going to start a new series
today kind of really actually 

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really excited about this. 
You know, I think we we often 

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feel, you know, I think if we're
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times feel insecure. 
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people that can hide their 
insecurities, the best are often

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the people Well, that feel it. 
The most is that you found that 

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to be true. 
Yeah, a few people nodding. 

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It seems to be the way it is. 
Why are we so insecure, right? 

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And I think a lot of the time, 
it's because we believe things 

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about ourselves that just aren't
true, right? 

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Because after all, were made in 
the image of God, right? 

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And he's not insecure, you know.
And anyway, so the question is, 

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What did he create us to be? 
Like what are we supposed to be 

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like, what are The Lies? 
We believe about that and about 

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ourselves. 
And how do we get past those 

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wrong beliefs and become more 
like the people that were meant 

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to be that we've designed to be.
And so that's what we're going 

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to be looking at in our new 
series which is called who are 

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we, who are we? 
And so we're going to look at 

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about a look at a few different 
things that we mentioned this 

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before, but we're going to look 
at who are we as I like, what 

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does that even mean? 
We look at that this morning 

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then we're going to look at who 
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So what are we supposed to do, 
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As a local body of Jesus Christ,
you know what, what are we 

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supposed to be doing? 
What is what does that even look

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like? 
Yeah, then we can look at, who 

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are we as individuals, you know,
who does God say that we are? 

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And how does that affect the way
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And the way that we relate to 
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look at what does God want us to
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Both both as individuals and as 
a, as a corporate body what does

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God want us to be right? 
What needs changing in Us and 

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how do we make those changes? 
And so I'm excited about this. 

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It's going to be really good so 
we're going to begin this 

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morning with this. 
This question of what is a 

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Christian, right? 
And I need to apologize a little

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bit to the linton's house Church
cost because we looked at this 

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about a year and a half. 
Go. 

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And some of you might remember 
that and I keep going off and on

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different tangents looking at 
this and I keep coming back to 

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the same thing. 
So there's going to be a lot of 

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review in this for you guys. 
That's right reviews. 

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Good for us. 
It was found that really good 

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for me because it's really 
important to to lay this 

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Foundation. 
All right? 

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So this year is a census year. 
We haven't had one for quite a 

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while. 2018 was the last time we
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Remember, filling out all these 
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stuff. 
So in the 2018 census 37% of the

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population in New Zealand 
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Christian. 
Let's say, take Christian on the

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Christian box on the census from
37 percent. 

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Right? 
About 12% of the population said

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that they are turn they attend 
church regularly That's quite a 

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disconnect there, isn't it? 
A huge number of people who said

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they were Christians. 
Don't go to church. 

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Yeah, that's quite a disconnect 
when I was in Scotland. 

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That was you. 
We used to do just panting there

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in Scotland and it was even more
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There are about 60 percent ticks
Christian on the census form and

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about three and a half percent 
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Yep. 
So just yeah, massive 

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disconnect. 
So when you start analyzing this

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you realize that the the 
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How do you define Christian? 
What do you mean when you say 

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that right? 
If we ask this question you know

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what is a Canadian we asked him 
people that question you 

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probably get 10 similar answers 
right it Canadian someone from 

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Canada. 
Oh you know something something 

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like that right? 
But you ask 10 different people.

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What is a Christian you might 
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Yeah, true, right? 
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well you know, it's just kind of
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into, right? 
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belief would say you know 
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like I used to be Christian but 
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It's about. 
Jesus Christ has died and paid 

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the price. 
That was ours to pay, right? 

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And so we turned it, turn to him
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we've done and we accept his 
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Salvation, right? 
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Christian is. 
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it's more than that, right? 
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So it's about dedicating your 
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what he wants us to do, right? 
So like I say yes, 10 different 

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people, you get 10 different 
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And so, here's the thing about 
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The term Christian. 
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appears in the Bible three 
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In the whole Bible. 
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some Clues as to what it means, 
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great detail. 
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it was a derogatory term, right?
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It was. 
Is it Des? 

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All right, that was sort of 
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outside of mainstream Judaism. 
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teachings of Jesus Christ, but 
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never never called themselves 
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They never use this term to 
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It's kind of like, you know, the
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redneck or something like that. 
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You know, if you think about 
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I such a geek right? 
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kind of embraced this term. 
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this right, where the Geek Squad
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And that's kind of what we've 
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It was a, it was a - derogatory 
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But over time we've kind of we 
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that's us. 
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we see the term Christian used 
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Outsiders to describe this group
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that in the same way and 
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Right now years ago, when I have
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looked at what a lot of other 
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and they sort of we're trying to
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extract some Clues from the 
different text with the Swede 

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Christian appears. 
Let's see if they could figure 

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it out. 
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sermon that sort of dealt with 
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not. 
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it it had a profound impact on 
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shared it with Outhouse Church 
in Scotland, they had a profound

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impact on them. 
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off in Acts chapter 11. 
If you want to turn your Bibles 

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there or Point your app there 
Acts chapter 11, we're going to 

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look at this will be in about 
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Five. 
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background to hear. 
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huge persecution broke out 
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Jesus teachings, and they were 
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the way. 
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in the book of Acts, the 
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a lot of them fled Jerusalem for
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persecution was pretty intense 
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moved to two other. 
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a bunch of them ended up living 
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southern turkey and it said he 
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the way now, living in Antioch 
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Jewish people that live there. 
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Antioch. 
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Right. 
And a man actually rose from the

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dead and we saw him and and we 
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did too and and they shared that
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and all that and her. 
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greek-speaking Roman minded 
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idea, right and embrace this 
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sect of Judaism if you like at 
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that, you know, this Jesus back 
in Jerusalem, your rose died and

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rose. 
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sins of everyone in the world 
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a church gets established at 
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And so back in Jerusalem, a bit 
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point this out. 
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bottom of your screen, is there 
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And so back in Jerusalem, you've
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there and you've got James and 
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brother of Jesus, and you've got
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of provide some, some teaching 
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and support for the Believers up
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And so one of us gets up there 
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realizes there are so many 
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to need some help. 
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Paul was just around the corner,
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Tarsus right visiting his 
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and bring him back to Antioch 
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help. 
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So actually after live invest 
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Barnabas do. 
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he had found him, he brought him
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So it was that for a whole year,
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and they taught a great many 
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greek-speaking people who have 
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check this out and the disciples
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Okay, now they didn't call 
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was a label that was put on them
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Look at this. 
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that's not actually in the 
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Some of you may have heard of 
this guy Roman historian by the 

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name of Cornelius tacitus. 
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tacitus and Cornelius, tacitus 
wrote In the late, first 

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century. 
He died about, I think I got the

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117 ad, he died, but he lived a 
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lots and lots of different about
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A. 
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of what we know about these 
Emperor's is written by tacitus 

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from the writings of testers and
he wrote about one particular 

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Emperor called Nero. 
And actually, most of what we 

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know about Nero comes from from 
Tessa, this is writings, because

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in 64, ad Nero did something 
extraordinary, all right? 

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Narrow looked out at the city of
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Yeah, they liked it so much. 
I think we need a new one and 

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so, he decided to burn the The 
old one down. 

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And that's what he did. 
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And so, you know, pretty crazy 
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didn't go down too. 
Well, you know, when you burn 

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down people's homes and their 
businesses and all that, and 

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they tend to get upset so Nero 
decided to blame the fire on who

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On the Christians. 
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You know how, you know that from
a piece of writing that I'm 

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about to read you from written 
by test of this. 

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Here's what he said, listen, 
listen to how test this 

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describes this in the first 
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He says, consequently to get rid
of the report, right? 

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This is the report that Nero 
himself burn down the city Nero,

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fastened, the guilt and 
inflicted the most Exquisite 

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torches on a class, hated for 
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Christians. 
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Okay, they didn't call 
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Christians didn't call 
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interesting, right? 
That the word Christ is actually

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a title. 
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The the Hebrew word Messiah 
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appointed one, the anointed one,
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the same kind of meaning it. 
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bit like, you know, those 
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little their name will be Fred 
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tightly, the quaint, the Queen's
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Caicedo bkc Fred Smith Casey, 
right? 

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And so that that is a title, 
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Like me. 
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Jesus Christ, right? 
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understand that, we kind of 
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Christ, you know, and they had 
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Christ family, you know, but 
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title but evidently tested as 
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of one of our procurator's 
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corroborating evidence for the 
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the New Testament, right? 
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Tiberius was the emperor Jesus 
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The the extreme penalty. 
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there's a bunch of Outsiders 
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Christians, the Christians 
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disturbing and far more 
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persecuted as a Christian, he's 
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front of a king and he's just 
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But if you look at the New 
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especially, in the book of Acts,
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It's a terrifying term, and it 
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Disciple. 
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because it's so clearly defined 
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because you can it's not 
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can do all kinds of things and 
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it and mystifying it undefined 
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All kinds of stuff was Christian
but I'm telling you what, you 

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you lock in To this word your 
and you get into the New 

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Testament and all my goodness, 
right? 

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So here's a few examples, right?
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looked at acts 11:26 and the 
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Christians in Antioch and now so
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of Jesus, what they call 
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I'm a disciple. 
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Christians at Antioch. 
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mean? 
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the same thing as the Greek 
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Translated from my feet. 
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It means a learner, a pupil, and
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follower of someone's teaching, 
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The disciple is someone who says
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How would you handle this? 
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right? 
I'm trying to decide how to 

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respond to the situation. 
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respond? 
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I'll do it, right? 
We would you go because that's 

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where I'll go. 
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me? 
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going to do. 
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How would you live your life, 
how would you manage your 

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relationships? 
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do it. 
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Does it disciple is someone 
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and Direction on how to live 
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How would you do this in before 
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My answer is yes. 
Right. 

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I'll, I'll do like what you tell
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I'm your father, I am your 
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That's very different. 
Justin, isn't it? 

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That we give very broad. 
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well defined. 
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is. 
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the end of this, that I'm not 
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Let's not call ourselves 

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Christians anymore. 
I let's just guys that which, 

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you know, which is kind of the 
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That'll be a little bit hokey 
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to dodge the word disciple and 
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examples and you'll find these 
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This one's from Acts chapter 6. 
Verse number 7, then the word of

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God spread and the number of the
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Jerusalem and a great many of 
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faith. 
Right? 

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So this thing is spreading more.
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Savior and connecting to the 
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disciples. 
It's pretty this one's 

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interesting. 
This is just just acts chapter 9

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chapter 9, but I accept a 9 
verse 26. 

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And remember, Paul, originally 
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thought it was kind of a, some 
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He was trying to stamp it out 
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right? 
And now he's become one of them 

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and it says watch their reaction
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Jerusalem X. 
I'm 26. 

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And when Saul did come to 
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Apostles, they're also called 
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much wider group than that. 
This is, but they were all 

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afraid of him. 
It did not believe that he was a

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disciple, right? 
They thought he was trying to 

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infiltrate, this was some kind 
of trap right to arrest them 

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and, you know, put him in prison
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whatever, you know. 
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So he tries to join the 
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They didn't believe that he was 
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chapter 9, verse 36 at Java. 
There was a certain disciple 

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named Tabitha which is 
translated Dorcas, okay? 

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If you translated into Greek, 
its Dorcas, you translate it 

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into English Gizelle. 
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A nice name. 
Isn't it? 

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Gazelles a nice name. 
I'm not sure. 

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You know. 
Here's my daughter Dorcas. 

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Yep. 
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lady who's a disciple and says, 
nice things about her carries on

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this woman was full of good 
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she did okay. 
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right there were disciple. 
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Yep and women were disciples to 
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know we can sort of hide behind 
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look into the New Testament, you
ask, What were these people 

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really about? 
How did they, how did they 

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describe themselves? 
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each other as disciples. 
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a terrifying and disturbing 
question, which is this I'll we 

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disciples. 
We disciples. 

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Right? 
Well we just Christians. 

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Yeah a lot of people tick that 
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Are you a disciple of Jesus? 
Are you a follower of Jesus is 

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your answer? 
Yes. 

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Jesus. 
Right? 

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Doesn't matter what the question
is, you know, how would you do 

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this? 
Because we're however, you tell 

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me that's what I'm going to do. 
Are you the sample? 

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That's that's kind of a lot more
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There's a lot more 
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So what I want to do now is just
take us quickly to a passage 

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where Jesus talks about talks to
people who want to be his 

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disciples and he gives them the 
okay if you're going to be 

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disciples and and you know not 
just something more vague. 

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Here's the bottom line, right? 
He says if you don't hear 

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anything else that I say or do 
anything else, I do, here's 

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here's your specific marching 
orders. 

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Yes. 
And this isn't going to be new, 

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right? 
If you've been in church for any

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length of time, you're not going
to hear this ago. 

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I didn't know that was in there,
right? 

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It's not a new thing, but if the
followers of Jesus had followed 

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just this one instruction that 
he gave them, you know, not not 

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the whole new testament or 
anything like that. 

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Just everything the Apostle Paul
taught but if you just if we 

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just followed this one, teaching
Jesus and got this right now and

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Entire world would be an 
entirely different and better 

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place. 
So we're going to be injected in

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Book of John Chapter 13 and and 
here's what happens here in it's

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the last passover, right? 
And, and Jesus is going to be 

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meeting with his disciples and 
Judas has already left to go and

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betray them to have them hand it
over. 

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And so this is his last Jesus. 
Last moment to give his 

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disciples, some advice. 
Right before the whole 

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crucifixion thing, you know, 
gets into motion, and what's 

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going to tell them? 
You know, what advice? 

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Do you give last piece of 
advice? 

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He's going to give them here it 
is. 

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John Chapter 13 Verse number 33.
Says, this is what he said, 

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little children. 
I shall be with you a little 

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while longer you'll seek me, and
as I said to the Jews where I'm 

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going, you cannot come. 
And so now, I say to you, so 

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when he says, look, I'm leaving 
and you can't come everybody 

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kind of freaks out as you can 
imagine, you know, they put 

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their life into this and Peter 
in particular, you know, there's

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this kind of freaks them out and
you can imagine that would be 

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the case and you can imagine 
Kind of a kind of imagine the 

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thoughts are going on in their 
heads, you know. 

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And Peter says, what do you 
mean, you're going? 

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And we can't come and I can't 
come. 

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There's Andrew going. 
Are you just leaving me out? 

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What's, you know what? 
What's the deal here? 

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You know, it sort of starting to
panic and so, Peters kind of 

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obsessed with this idea that 
you're going somewhere, we can't

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go. 
But Jesus just kind of moves on 

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and he says this. 
A new commandment. 

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I give to you now. 
The Little Greek word there, 

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that's translated new can mean 
new but it means new. 

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That's a good translation but it
means new in the terms in the 

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sense of unusual, right? 
Strange, little bit odd may be 

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impractical. 
Even the kind of the idea of you

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never really thought of this 
before and sitting here most of 

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you know what's coming next, 
right? 

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You've probably heard this 
before. 

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And even at the time, this 
wasn't that new on the surface. 

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Oh Jesus like okay. 
Linen guys. 

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We had 12, we're down to 11. 
Listen up, you ready? 

452
00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:25,800
And here's what he says. 
A new commandment. 

453
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I give to you that you love one 
another and the disciples will 

454
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be thinking. 
Well it's not really new. 

455
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I don't think that's in the Old 
Testament and actually we've 

456
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heard you say it before. 
Love one another right B says a 

457
00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,300
new commandment. 
I give to you that you love one 

458
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another and he goes on. 
You love one another. 

459
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As I have loved you, That you 
also love one, another. 

460
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I want you to love one another. 
The way that I have loved you. 

461
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:03,900
I know Jesus didn't do this but 
he could easily have gone around

462
00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:07,300
the room, couldn't he? 
And he could have said, Matthew,

463
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do you remember what we were 
doing when what you were doing 

464
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when we met and Matthew would 
have gone tax collector? 

465
00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:17,900
You know, is that that was 
pretty bad, bad thing to be 

466
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,900
right in Jesus because said yeah
that's right. 

467
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,300
You are you betrayed your 
people, everybody hated you 

468
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,200
Peter. 
You remember what happened? 

469
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When we met Matthew Peters like,
yeah, you took us to a party at 

470
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:32,600
his place where there was a 
whole bunch of those kind of 

471
00:26:32,608 --> 00:26:39,700
people so, you know, and they 
didn't like, to be around Tax 

472
00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:41,200
Collectors. 
There was sort of Sinners and 

473
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then there was Tax Collectors, 
right? 

474
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And that's Matthew. 
And you can say, Matthew, 

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remember how I treated you, 
That's what I want you to do. 

476
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Remember to the others. 
You know how I treated Matthew? 

477
00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:57,200
That's that's how I want you to 
treat each other. 

478
00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:00,300
I want you to love one another 
Nathaniel, right? 

479
00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:03,000
Remember, you know his brother 
came to him and said, hey, we 

480
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,200
think we've found the Messiah 
comes out of Nazareth and 

481
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,200
Nathaniel said, what good thing 
could come out of Nazareth? 

482
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,300
Nothing, nothing good. 
Can come out of Nazareth, right?

483
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,500
He just dissed, Jesus whole 
family, right? 

484
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,100
That's quite disrespectful, 
isn't it? 

485
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,800
You know, you know, if someone 
just kind of does that to you we

486
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,300
are from Yeah, but how did Jesus
treat him? 

487
00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:25,900
He said come be one. 
My follower and he could have 

488
00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:28,700
gone around the rooms. 
He every one of them and done 

489
00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,600
that, right? 
The way that I loved you. 

490
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,800
That's how I want you to love 
each other, right? 

491
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,400
That's what I want. 
I want that to be the thing that

492
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characterizes your relationship 
with each other. 

493
00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,300
One another. 
And then he says this by this, 

494
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,600
right by this kind of one 
Dynamic, this one, relational 

495
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,200
breakthrough. 
By this all will know that you 

496
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,200
are my what's the next word? 
Disciples. 

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Disciples. 
If you have love one for 

498
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,500
another, See, it's easy to say 
you a Christian because you can 

499
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give that a fairly wide 
definition. 

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Yeah. 
But a disciple means love people

501
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,800
the way Jesus loved them. 
Right? 

502
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,200
And now we're in a much smaller 
box on. 

503
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,800
WE it's a much tighter category 
when we, when we get to that. 

504
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That's, that's a lot tougher. 
Here's my favorite part about 

505
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,900
this passage, right? 
This is big, right? 

506
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,600
It's not how much you know about
stuff or how much you know about

507
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,300
the Bible. 
It's not, you know, how many 

508
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:39,300
things you're involved in and 
how many moral actions you 

509
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:43,900
appear to have the litmus test? 
Jesus was saying, you know, the 

510
00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:47,200
the The bottom line 
characteristic that defines my 

511
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:52,200
disciples is not going to be, 
you know, how loud they sing and

512
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,900
pray or anything. 
It's going to be how much they 

513
00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,500
love each other. 
How much they love each other 

514
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,000
and Peter raises his hand. 
And Jesus says yes, Peter and 

515
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,600
Peter says, so a decision. 
Well, we going there was just 

516
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sort of stuck in his head, you 
know, I can imagine going. 

517
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:14,100
Okay. 
Okay. 

518
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:15,900
Did you? 
Did you not hear what what I 

519
00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,700
just said and people would be 
like, yeah, no, that's cool, but

520
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,800
but I want to go with you. 
I want to be seen with you. 

521
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,500
I want to die with you and 
Jesus. 

522
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:26,500
The key look, Peter and a few 
hours, a teenage girl is going 

523
00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,000
to intimidate you It's saying 
you don't even know me. 

524
00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:34,900
I a like, no, no, I'm I'm 
willing to die for you, right? 

525
00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,100
And, and, and Jesus saying, 
look, Peter, I don't want you 

526
00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:42,600
right now to go where I'm going 
or Die For Me. 

527
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,800
Yeah, that would come, you know,
but he said, you know, I want 

528
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,200
you to do something far more 
important than that. 

529
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:53,600
What does that? 
I want you to love these guys 

530
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:59,100
for the rest of your life. 
I want you to love them in such 

531
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,700
a way that when people from the 
outside looking in and they sit 

532
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,500
and they see the way they that 
you guys relate. 

533
00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,400
And, and the way you love each 
other, I want them to be drawn 

534
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,100
to the edge and peer in and go. 
Look at the way they love each 

535
00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:16,300
other. 
You know, I want you to create a

536
00:30:16,308 --> 00:30:20,000
community of people who are 
defined and characterized by 

537
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,800
that kind of unconditional 
compassionate ridiculous. 

538
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:32,000
Who would do that kind of love. 
I want people from the outside 

539
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:38,100
to, to look in unafraid that 
they're going to be dragged into

540
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,400
something and unafraid that 
you're going to accuse them as 

541
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,900
something. 
I want people to be able to come

542
00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:44,900
to the edge of your T looking 
and go. 

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00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:49,000
Look at the way the men treat 
the woman, right? 

544
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,900
Look at the way they treat 
widows. 

545
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,400
All right, look at how they 
treat sick people. 

546
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,800
Look at how the weight the way 
the woman. 

547
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,000
Honor their husbands. 
Look at the way the woman care 

548
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,700
for each other. 
Look at the way, they honor 

549
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:10,200
children how, you know, all of 
that, look at what they do with 

550
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,700
their money, look at how they 
handle Oh my goodness, it's like

551
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:16,500
they don't even fear death, 
right? 

552
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,800
Look at them. 
Love And she said, I want you to

553
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,900
go out and I want you to build 
communities like that. 

554
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,500
And they got to grow and expand 
and grow and expand and people 

555
00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,300
from the outside of going to be 
drawn to the edge and - that 

556
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:31,300
offer going to say, you know, I 
don't know if I want to become 

557
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,400
one of those, but I certainly 
would like to work for them. 

558
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,400
We for one of them, you know, I 
don't know if I want to become 

559
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:43,200
one of those, but I actually 
wouldn't want employing them. 

560
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,000
You know, when they mess up, 
they let you know, they're 

561
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,600
honest, you know, to a fault 
right that willing to do the 

562
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,000
right thing, even if it's going 
to cost them, Financially. 

563
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,900
You know I don't know if I want 
to be one but I wouldn't mind my

564
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:02,500
daughter marrying somebody like 
that or my my son marrying you 

565
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:06,600
know. 
One of the women like that and I

566
00:32:06,608 --> 00:32:11,300
thought I'd be one but look at 
the way they love, right? 

567
00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,300
And eventually they just kind of
draws people in. 

568
00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:18,300
Can you imagine in our community
or in our neighborhood in our 

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workplace or schools or 
whatever? 

570
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,900
Even if we just got this one 
thing, right? 

571
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:26,400
What a difference? 
It would make, if we decided 

572
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,600
forget Christian, we're going to
be disciples. 

573
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:33,900
We're going to love people, the 
way Jesus loved us, write the 

574
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,700
way Jesus loves them. 
Could you imagine what impact 

575
00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:38,100
that would have on our whole 
country? 

576
00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:43,200
If we did that and I love the 
people around me, just like 

577
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,800
Jesus, loved the people that 
followed him and Jesus knew 

578
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,100
right? 
He knew that he could have 

579
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:50,100
talked about anything. 
This was his last moment he 

580
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,400
could have talked about marriage
or honesty or anything else. 

581
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,100
But this was the one thing that 
he said was going to be the 

582
00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:00,300
distinguishing feature that 
people would know. 

583
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,200
They were a follower of his, 
okay. 

584
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,300
So conclusion, Try this out this
week. 

585
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,200
All right, try this out this 
week and you're surrounded by 

586
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,900
idiots. 
I know that, right? 

587
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,400
But Jesus was God in a body, 
right? 

588
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,800
And he had to put up with Peter 
going. 

589
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:22,300
Wait, where are you going? 
And Jesus, still loved like this

590
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,100
right now. 
It won't come back to you. 

591
00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:27,900
You know, let's just not like 
one of those self-help books, 

592
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:31,600
you know, we, you know, I did 
this for 10 days and now my 

593
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,500
husband is a different person, 
right? 

594
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,700
Nothing like that. 
All right, people won't treat 

595
00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:40,600
you any. 
There they crucified, Jesus, 

596
00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:41,600
right? 
Get ready. 

597
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,300
Gary. 
But this is what it means to be 

598
00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:49,800
a disciple. 
This is Way Beyond the kind of 

599
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,600
broad definition of Christian, 
right? 

600
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,200
This is how the world changed. 
This is how an empire was 

601
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,800
toppled without an army does. 
Because people crept to the edge

602
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,100
of these churches, right? 
These ridiculous, Jesus 

603
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,800
communities. 
And and went look at the way 

604
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,300
they treat each other. 
I'm not sure yet. 

605
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:10,600
If I want to be a part of that 
but I you know, you know, I'm 

606
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,500
not sure. 
But yeah, my baby. 

607
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,100
I do want to be a part of that. 
Not sure I believe yet but I am.

608
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,800
You know, there's just something
about that that draws people in.

609
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,000
We learn to love. 
Like that from Jesus who loves 

610
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,100
so much. 
The Bible says he loved them to 

611
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,800
the end. 
They can literally be translated

612
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,100
as he loved them to the 
uttermost. 

613
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,699
Right, he went to the wall for 
us, right? 

614
00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:41,900
Yeah, that's pretty sobering 
isn't in calendar. 

615
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:45,100
The fantastic job, you know, 
wanting us to that it communion 

616
00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:47,900
this morning. 
Now, some people have a very 

617
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:52,300
negative view of Christianity 
and, and it, if I'd seen the 

618
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,000
things that you've seen in an 
experience, you know, maybe I'd 

619
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,500
feel the same way, but all of us
feel full short, not only of 

620
00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:05,000
God's standard, but, you know, 
we've talked about this before 

621
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,800
Ava understands, we set 
standards for ourselves, and 

622
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,900
don't meet him, you know, And so
we need to figure out what we're

623
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,900
going to do with our failure. 
And I would hate you to miss 

624
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:18,700
that because Christianity has 
been poorly represented to you 

625
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:23,400
in some way, right? 
And that, and it's been so badly

626
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,600
represented to you, that you 
miss, what it is that Jesus has 

627
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,300
done for you, right? 
Tortured to death, right? 

628
00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:38,000
A punishment, you should have 
taken, that's how much he loved,

629
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,600
that's how much you love. 
If you, if you haven't ever 

630
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,100
gone. 
I got, I'm sorry. 

631
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Please forgive me. 
You know, you know, thank you 

632
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,800
for doing that. 
For me now is the time now is 

633
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,300
the time if you want to talk to 
somebody about that find meal or

634
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,200
one of us and and have a chat do
that. 

635
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,900
If you've done that right 
disciples right? 

636
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,600
That's how we Define ourselves. 
Love people like Jesus loved us.

637
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,500
You know, a lot of people like 
keep pointing to that one. 

638
00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:11,700
And he runs an illness like 
that. 

639
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,400
Yeah. 
I love people like Jesus loved 

640
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,400
us. 
Yeah. 

641
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,600
Whoa, it's big, isn't it? 
All right, let's pray and then 

642
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,400
I'll him back over to to create 
a father. 

643
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:29,800
Again, we thank you for that 
love we thank you for What it 

644
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,900
took for you as a father to give
up. 

645
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,800
Your only son. 
We thank you for Jesus coming in

646
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:41,000
instructing and teaching us and 
coming, knowing that he was 

647
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,700
going to go through that. 
And even when he had options to 

648
00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,600
to not go through that, he did 
it anyway. 

649
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,100
He looked he loved us to the 
uttermost and we thank you for 

650
00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,300
that this morning. 
Well, we just pray that we would

651
00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:55,100
be a people who would be so 
impacting by that that it would 

652
00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:56,800
affect every relationship we 
have. 

653
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,100
And that we would love each 
other with that. 

654
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,400
And of love, and that people 
would see it be affected, be 

655
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,100
drawn in and be changed. 
Let's separate this morning. 

656
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:08,700
We just pray these things in 
Jesus name. 

657
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:09,900
Amen. 
Right. 

658
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,500
So we're going to carry on with 
the series will go will be and 

659
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,900
going to start next week, Baro 
is going to give us an overview 

660
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,500
of Peter and then we're going to
get into first Peter and pull 

661
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:19,900
out because what does it mean to
love like that? 

662
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:24,100
How do you how do you draw out? 
The you know, we can say I love 

663
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,800
each other but how do we draw 
that and Peter defines out 

664
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,400
really well for us. 
So we go through the book, 

665
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,100
exciting stuff.