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Good morning. 
So this one, we can all you. 

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Here we go. 
I'm going to use this one 

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because I'm prone to wander 
Lord. 

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I feel it. 
New building. 

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We're finally here, right? 
Yeah, it's amazing as it, you 

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know, like any project on this 
scale, you know, you get 

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everybody together and say, what
do you want? 

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And we end up with a less like 
this and then we go. 

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Yeah. 
But the budget is this, right? 

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And then you got to try and 
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know, the priorities and all 
that kind of stuff, and make it 

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fit the budget. 
Some very smart people at hook 

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and we have done that and done 
an incredible job of that. 

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And I God has been abundantly 
gracious and I think that what 

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we've ended up with is just 
spectacular, I keep wandering 

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around the place and I think 
they thought of everything here,

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you know, it's just great. 
So once we iron out all that, 

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all that all the bugs and make 
sure all the light switches work

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and all of that. 
And when everyone is back from 

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holidays, we'll do a big, a big 
launch on February, the 12th and

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Invite everybody around and and 
do a big big kind of public 

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event and it'll be really cool. 
There's still a few, you can see

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still a little few little bits 
and pieces to do these. 

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Big Windows mother took above me
here. 

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Need replacing, they're not 
windowing anymore and so when 

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they were replaced in these 
screens will go up on the wall. 

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And so there's lots of little 
bits and pieces like that, but 

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III Max, I'm so excited the 
other elders and I are very 

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excited really about what the 
future holds for us as a church.

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And And as a church family in 
this facility. 

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And so I want to say a very big 
thank you to those who hosted 

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our church groups while we 
didn't have this facility. 

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You know, had lots of delays due
to covid and covert supply chain

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things, and, and all of that. 
And so it's taking longer than 

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we wanted. 
And so, thank you so much for 

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your perseverance. 
You know, there's a lot involved

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in that and so I want to thank 
you for that. 

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And you know, it's true that the
last couple of years Actually, I

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shouldn't do this first. 
A happy New Year, happy New 

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Year. 
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actually been really difficult 
to predict what's going to 

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happen next. 
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before, you know, we were going 
to a new year kind of look into 

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the Shadows. 
It's kind of difficult to know 

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what's coming up. 
And I've been rereading this 

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book that I read about five 
years ago, and it's called the 

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principle of the path. 
And once you a couple of points 

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out of that, that I thought 
really cool. 

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And the idea here is, wouldn't 
it be really cold if you could 

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predict your future, if you 
could predict your future? 

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Wouldn't that be awesome? 
What we're going to do is I want

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to spend a few minutes kind of 
laying out some ideas and asking

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some questions and then we'll 
get into Matthew 7 and we'll see

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what sort of Jesus said about 
that, right? 

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And so I want to the intros got 
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So I don't want you to think. 
Is he going to use any Scripture

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at all? 
Yeah, we're going to get there, 

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right? 
Jesus is going to answer the 

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questions for us, but This idea 
of predicting the future in 

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2012, our family was living in 
Scotland and we were doing some 

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church, WIll glitch planting 
house churches and our oldest 

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son, went to Bible College in 
the US and so we would send them

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money each month about, you 
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horrendous fees, you know, for 
those International transfers. 

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And so I was looking at trying 
to figure out a way to avoid 

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those charges, all right. 
And so I looked at all these 

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different kind of options and 
one of the things I Continue was

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this really new thing called 
Bitcoin, right? 

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And these things cost 70 cents 
and you know you sort of by 

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these. 
And I thought now I can buy like

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a whole bundle of those and just
send them some of those every 

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month and then he could change 
them into money in the feasible 

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way lower than the banks are 
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That might be an option, right? 
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but it was kind of, I don't know
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new and so I never bought them. 
They were 70 cents. 

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Each. 
This is what I looked up on 

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Friday. 
That's how much they get with 

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it. 
The moment. 

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Thousand two hundred and forty 
dollars and 89 cents. 

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New Zealand. 
Each I could put in for 70 cents

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but like my wife tells me once I
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solve them all on got. 
Whoa. 

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Double my money, huh? 
You know so it doesn't matter. 

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So I don't tell you that to tell
you to buy Bitcoin don't do that

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like you know like it and that's
their thing's crazy right? 

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What I'm telling you that for is
just to tell you I'm really 

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really bad at predicting the 
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You're right. 
And I think a lot of us are but 

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I am getting better at it right.
And I think you You are too and 

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and this is the reason I think 
you're getting better at it 

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because all of us have said 
something like this at some 

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point, right? 
Why didn't I see that coming? 

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All right. 
Oh, I should have known. 

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That was going to happen, right?
Have you ever said that? 

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You found yourself saying that. 
Maybe you haven't, but maybe 

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you've you've found yourself 
saying this. 

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Why didn't you see that coming? 
All right. 

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You should have known. 
That was going to happen. 

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All right. 
And so we're going to kind of, 

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you know, look at this is, you 
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you're you know, why didn't you 
see that coming? 

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It's kind of like watching a 
train, wreck happened, isn't it?

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You know, in slow motion and you
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he broke up with me. 
Right. 

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And you think really he's been 
breaking up with you for three 

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months you know who will be when
you watch it. 

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You know I don't know how I got 
in this much debt. 

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That is not a surprise to any of
us who know you. 

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You know, it's just it's just 
been Ticking along, right? 

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You are able to predict their 
future, right? 

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But here's what we're going to 
talk about, right? 

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So here's a question. 
Why is it? 

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You can see what they can't see 
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what you can't see, you know. 
Here's the crazy part of this, 

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right? 
Sometimes I think we do see we 

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just don't want to look. 
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this is heading you have 
financially or academically or 

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you know, was a relationship or 
morally or spiritually, whatever

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it is, we sort of, we kind of 
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And every now and again, 
somebody drops a hint or two, 

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right? 
All circumstances drop a hint or

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two and we kind of go. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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See that, right? 
We kind of look the other way. 

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We kind of face the other way 
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right? 
It's sometimes it's a little bit

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like this, right? 
I'm going to use the pointer 

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here. 
So we're all we wear over here 

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in Hamilton somewhere over this 
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And so we're in Hamilton and so,
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of scenario where you like me, 
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And you really struggle with the
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And so you think this winter, 
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What I'm going to do is I'm 
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and that you know, maybe up to 
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Cooper's Beach or one of those 
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what those ones way up the top 
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the Colleen. 
I go to the winter list North, 

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right? 
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kind of the plan. 
But I've got this chair that I 

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want to buy a sword on Facebook 
Marketplace, it's down in 

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Rotorua. 
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to Rotorua, and grab that chair.
And you get that chair, and then

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you go. 
Actually, I've got a cousin that

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lives in taupo. 
I wouldn't mind just spending a 

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couple days with him and so. 
So you head down to taupo, and 

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then and then you Go actually, 
it's Gumboot day in Thai. 

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Happy always. 
Always wanted to see that, 

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right? 
So you hit down the tire, be. 

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All right. 
And before you know it you're 

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standing in Wellington and as a 
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And you think man, how did I get
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This is not what I wanted to 
apologize. 

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If you visiting from Wellington.
This is just this is just a 

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hypothetical scenario, right? 
Can't be Wellington on a good 

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day. 
Yeah. 

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And so yeah, just called 
something by any think? 

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This is not what I wanted, 
right? 

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This is not what how did I end 
up here? 

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Right. 
How did I how did I end up here?

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And we finally arrived at this 
destination and we're so shocked

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and surprised but the truth is 
you kind of saw this coming. 

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Yeah you kind of saw it coming 
you knew and you and I have the 

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ability in most cases probably 
more than we like to admit to 

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predict our own future. 
All right? 

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So there's some good news in 
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that, right? 
The bad news is this start with 

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the bad news? 
My Personal problems, can't be 

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quickly fixed. 
Right, my special problems can 

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be quickly fixed right? 
If you fix a computer or in oven

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or a car or something like that,
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Like men that this lady out east
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We were living, is her car got 
T-boned right? 

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And they took it to the panel 
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going to replace the panels and 
match the paint, and all that 

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sort of stuff. 
And you look at that and it's 

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like, a brand new one, right? 
You can't tell, right? 

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We look at it and go it's like 
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It's like it never happened, 
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It's like it's brand new, but 
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know, computers have memory and 
stuff, but we have memories, 

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right? 
So when you fix our car or a 

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computer, or oven, or whatever, 
it can be, like, it never 

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happened. 
But God made us far more 

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complicated in that far, more, 
complex than that for far more 

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complex and something that, you 
know, can just be unplugged and 

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plug back in again, right? 
And that's a good thing. 

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So, in terms of personal 
problems, we can cope with them,

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we can overcome them, we can use
them teach other people, we can 

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use them to show a bad example 
sometimes right, we can decide 

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not to do them again but our 
pastors, our past right now, 

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becomes part of our story, a 
little bit for the rest of our 

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lives. 
So that's kind of the bad news, 

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but the good news is well, just 
carrying on and they just sort 

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of summarizing that a bit more, 
right? 

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You can't fix. 
It's a person like you can fix a

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car or computer, right? 
We're it's done and it's never 

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going to affect you again, 
right? 

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Because we're more complicated 
in that, right? 

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But here's the good news, right?
Most personal problems can be 

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avoided, can be avoided there. 
A lot of painful things in life,

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that can't be avoided, you know,
some stuff just happens but but 

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some things can be so why we 
want to bring extra things into 

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our life that will cause us more
pain, right? 

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So this message and we're going 
to see this is we get into Jesus

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words in Matthew 7, it's kind of
based around a principle and we 

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have to kind of explain what is 
a principle because Principal is

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not like a rule or a law that 
you can break, you know, like a 

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speed limit, you know, is a law 
and you could, you can break 

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that, or not break it, or 
whatever principles kind of a 

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little bit different to that. 
The good way to explain. 

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This is Archimedes. 
Some of you might remember 

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Archimedes from high school, 
right? 

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You know, the guy that jumped in
the bath and then jumped out and

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went Eureka right Archimedes 
around 250 BC and Archimedes 

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figured out this principle of 
why rocks usually a sink and 

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ships usually float, right? 
It's a lot more complicated than

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that, but you know, I'm thinking
back a long time to high school 

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but right, but it be, he worked 
out this principle of how these 

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way. 
This thing works. 

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How this thing works. 
So the principle is not just 

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kind of a law that you choose to
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something that's just their 
right and it affects you whether

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you know about it or not, right?
You think that's kind of unfair.

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But, you know, that's that's 
kind of how principles work. 

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But if you understand how the 
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leverage it, right? 
You can, you can use it to your 

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advantage or you can ignore it, 
which will probably be a bad 

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thing, right? 
So we're going to look at this 

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principle of the path. 
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kind of like this, right? 
When we get lost, we need 

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directions, we need to reactions
and you need to know two things,

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right? 
If you get lost, right? 

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What are two things? 
You need to know. 

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Shout it out. 
Where you are? 

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You got to know where you are. 
It's just that we've got to 

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figure out where you are and 
then what do you need to know? 

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Yeah, we want to go ahead 
directions, right? 

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To get to, to get to where you 
want to go. 

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When we first moved to Korea, we
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wouldn't have data on our phones
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And our daughter went for, I 
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local neighborhood and then she 
found out and said I'm lost, 

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right? 
And so, the first thing we had 

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to do is try to figure out where
she was, right? 

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So we said, what can you see 
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I can see a pizza place. 
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figure out there and then once 
we worked out, wish you was, 

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then we could figure out how to 
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right to us. 
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it works. 
Now, when people see a counselor

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or a pastor and or whatever, you
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my problem right? 
Here's what's happening with, 

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you know, my marriage or my work
or, you know, my alcohol 

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addiction or drug addiction or, 
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Or here's what's happening with 
my finances or whatever, that 

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is, whatever. 
The problem is the, the the 

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counselor or the pastor can't 
fix the problem. 

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Are they can't fix the problem. 
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traveling in the wrong 
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All right, so they can only 
provide a path that will take 

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you in the direction that you 
need to be going. 

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That makes sense. 
Yep, so but here's the thing 

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with it, with the principle of 
the path, you can be living your

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life, hit it in the wrong 
direction, and you might be the 

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happiest you've ever been, you 
can be moving in that direction 

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that you don't want to be going 
in and have no idea. 

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I have no idea by the time. 
You know, you realize you lost 

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your really lost it, you know, 
it's going to how it works and 

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and sometimes you can be a 
living in the wrong direction 

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and it's not going so well. 
Oh well, you know he seemed like

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a dream guy, right? 
Or this thing like a dream job 

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or this seemed like the most fun
thing and your friends are all 

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jealous. 
But now it's looking a little 

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bit wobbly. 
Right. 

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You know, it was a really nice 
car but now you're struggling 

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for to pay for it and things are
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And you think, man, I need to 
get this fixed. 

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I need a solution. 
But there isn't a quick fix, 

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because you living in the wrong 
direction, you're moving in the 

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wrong direction. 
All right, here's the good news 

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though. 
If you change direction, things 

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will eventually change. 
If you change directions, things

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will eventually change. 
Now, Jesus often talked about 

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this and Jesus tells a parable, 
a parable is kind of a story 

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that has a meaning to it. 
Right. 

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As a something to teach us this 
is part of what's called The 

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Sermon on the Mount. 
We Jesus is kind of teaching his

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sort of go to sermon and and at 
the end of it, Jesus does a 

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summary. 
And he says, this is from 

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Matthew 7:24. 
And this is fairly well-known 

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passage. 
If you've been in church for a 

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long time, or even if you went 
to Sunday school, when you're 

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young, you probably. 
There's a song that goes with 

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it, which I'll try not to sing. 
Right? 

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But here's what he said, he 
said, therefore everyone who 

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hears these words of mine or 
anyone who listens to my 

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teaching and obeys me is wise 
like a person who The house on 

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the rock. right, so he says 
anyone who listens to my 

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teaching and does them right 
now, that's important, right? 

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You know, I think for a lot of 
people, you know, they're 

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they're a lot of people's kind 
of religious experience is to go

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to church and feel bad about 
themselves so that they could 

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feel close to God from Fright. 
But that's not only says right. 

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He says, you know, here's these 
teachings and puts them into 

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practice and doesn't so right he
said, therefore everyone who 

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hears these words of mine and 
puts them into practice will 

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experience, immediate relief, 
relationally financially 

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etcetera, That's not what he 
said but that's not what he 

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said. 
Always read your Bible, right? 

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I could put anything up here, 
right? 

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Yeah, it was for like, but 
that's how I sometimes. 

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I think we want to read it. 
We kind of want to read it like 

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that. 
There are many religious people 

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who will tell you we'll just 
just pray and boom, right? 

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All your problems will be fixed,
right? 

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But you don't see Jesus teaching
that right? 

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He invites people to live in a 
different direction. 

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He points the way 40 points the 
way out Matthew 7:24. 

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Anyone who listens to my 
teachings and obeys me is wise 

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like a person who builds a house
on Solid Rock, right? 

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I've just highlighted a couple 
of words there, right? 

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Why is what it, what is it? 
What is a wise person, right? 

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When you kind of get into it, 
you get into especially the Old 

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Testament. 
Solomon had a lot to say about 

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that. 
He was very wise, a wise person,

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may not necessarily be a smart 
person. 

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Like they might be. 
I met some very smart people who

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weren't very wise, all right. 
They may not be even that 

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talented, right? 
But a wise person is just 

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somebody that understands that 
things are connected, right? 

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The things are connected that 
our, that our past affects our 

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present and our prison is a good
predictor of our future, right? 

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And all these, all these things 
kind of connect together. 

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The wise person, right? 
Is like a person who builds A 

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house, right builds. 
It's a process. 

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It takes time, right? 
We should. 

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We can see there. 
And I saw that it's taking more 

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time than we wanted. 
But, but it's a process right to

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build something to build a 
house. 

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We are renovating the house just
across the are, right? 

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It's it takes time. 
Takes time to do these things. 

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Now, in this Parable house is 
kind of a is like a life. 

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But it's your relationships, 
it's your money, it's your 

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hobbies, it's anything. 
That's important to you. 

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So, building on a rock right, 
building on right now, in the 

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first century, this was really 
difficult. 

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This was the hard way, this was 
the really difficult way, right?

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So Paul Tim Randall, in Jonathan
Linton working on the house over

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there. 
They got those saber sores and 

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those things are amazing. 
Right piece of wood, you know 

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steel pole. 
Yeah that's cut through 

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anything, right? 
Damages for lunch just, you 

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know, whatever you want. 
That's these amazing bright in 

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the first century, none of that,
right? 

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So when you're building on a 
ride, you're talking about 

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chiseling, it out of stone takes
a long time. 

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That's the hard way. 
That's the expensive way, right?

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But in the story, he also talks 
about a second person in verse 

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26 says this but anyone who 
hears my teaching and ignores it

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is foolish like a person who 
builds a house on sand All 

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right, so a foolish person 
opposite of a wise person, 

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right? 
Foolish person lives their life 

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like it's disconnected like life
is disconnected that now and now

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is now, and later is later. 
And nothing's going to happen, 

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but even if it does, I'll just 
unplug myself. 

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I'll just count to ten and I'll 
put myself back in and it'll be 

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good, right? 
I'll just restart. 

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I'll be fine. 
I'll just remarry or I'll just 

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get a new job or all get a new 
hairstyle. 

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I'll declare bankruptcy, you do 
it'll be fine, right? 

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But that's not how life works, 
right? 

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We understand that, right? 
That's not how life works. 

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And so our heavenly father who 
made ourselves look, you're not 

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like a toaster or a, or a car or
computer, you more complicated 

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there than that. 
You are very precious and so 

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there's not an instant fix, but 
I'm giving you a change of 

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direction, right? 
Building a house on Sand, right?

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And so this is the quick in the 
cheap in the immediate way. 

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But everyone and listening to 
the story knows that the story 

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is not going to end well, right?
And the foolish person thinks 

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well the weather tomorrow will 
be the same as the weather today

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but it's very solid. 
Ms. And in this case, it wasn't 

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this 27. 
When the rains and the floods 

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came and the wind's beat against
that house, it will fall with a 

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mighty crash and it's almost 
it's almost killing me. 

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Not to sing the song. 
You Know rains came down and 

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floods him. 
Yeah the implication here is 

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that there is no quick fix. 
So hey can you fix this? 

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My house fell down. 
Can you fix this? 

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It's like, no, we just have to 
do what you probably should have

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done to begin with, but we have 
to rebuild old. 

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With the rebuild. 
You can't instantly fix a house,

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right? 
It's going to take time now we 

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have to do what you really 
should have done from the 

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beginning. 
You really should have seen this

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coming. 
You really should have seen this

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coming. 
When the rain came down in the 

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wind beat against the house, you
know? 

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I we do this and I do this 
sometimes, you know, we catch 

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ourselves doing this, we go, you
know, the rain came down and the

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floods came up and and that 
house on the rock Stood Still 

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because they were so lucky. 
You know that we would we do 

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that. 
When we go on man, things just 

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work out for him. 
Things just always work out for 

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her, you know, not me, you know,
I think maybe God doesn't love 

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me, you know, you ever catch 
yourself in that mode. 

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And Jesus like, come on, you 
know, that's not how things 

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work, you know, that's not how 
things work. 

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We jump back to verse 25. 
This is this and the rain 

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descended and the floods came 
and the winds blew and they beat

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on that house and it did not 
fall for it was founded on the 

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rock. 
In this story, The Rock 

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represents doing the things that
Jesus said to do. 

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Doing the things, the way Jesus 
said to do them, right? 

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It's cause and effect, right? 
Sowing and reaping, it's the 

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principle of the path, right? 
And I love the way the story 

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ends up, right? 
Jesus, just finished. 

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Preaching this long message and 
it says this is number 28 since 

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after Jesus finished speaking. 
The crowds were amazed at his 

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teaching for he taught as one 
who had real Authority quite 

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unlike the teachers of religious
law. 

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You know it's it's 
heartbreaking. 

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We all know this, right? 
It's heartbreaking. 

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This is to watch someone living 
their life in a direction that 

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you know, is not going to get 
them where they want to go. 

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Right, it's not going to get 
them the life they want. 

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It's not going to bring them the
joy that they're seeking. 

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Because we know this, right? 
We can't wish our way. 

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We can't talk our way. 
We can't. 

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Pray our way back in time. 
So, the principle of the path is

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simply this. 
Direction. 

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Determines destination. 
Direction. 

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Determines destination. 
The best way to predict your 

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future is to pay attention to 
where you're headed. 

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Right now, we've all been on 
tracks, we've been heading in 

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the wrong direction many years 
ago, I was down at Dunedin and 

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outside of fish and chip shop 
and it was a no, you turn Zone 

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and there was a lady park 
outside the fish and chip shop, 

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and she just did a big U-turn 
right in front of a motorbike 

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bang. 
He hit the side of that car and 

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he went over the Bonnet and and 
we were sort of watching this. 

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You know, how you see it. 
And it kind of goes into slow 

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motion and think of this is not 
going to be good. 

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Fortunately, he was okay. 
He just turned out, he just 

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bought about a hundred dollars 
worth of fish and chips for a 

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party. 
So he had all these fish and 

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chips, stuffed fish, and chips 
saved his life, right? 

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Is there anything that fish and 
chips can't do so. 

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He was actually okay. 
But the woman you know, when it 

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happened got it and she was 
distraught right? 

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And none of the people watching 
this looked at that woman went 

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well why does she expect she 
should have seen this coming 

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right she got what was coming 
right? 

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Nobody thought that right? 
Everybody's very upset for this 

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woman and it's the same that's 
the way God. 

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Feels about us as well, right? 
We take these wrong turns, we go

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in the wrong direction, right? 
And God really cares, right? 

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Because like, you know, just 
like for us, you know, it breaks

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your heart when you see someone 
living their life in the 

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direction that, you know, is not
going to get them the, the life 

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that they want, right? 
And it's the same for God, and 

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that's why he invites us to 
change our Direction and follow 

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him. 
Yep, there's a good 

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old-fashioned word. 
It's just going to become a 

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religious word now, but it's the
word, repent, and repent. 

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Simply means turn, around, turn 
around. 

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And so, maybe you've been 
hitting in a different direction

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from God, and you've never 
connected with God, right? 

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You'd a new year, right? 
Good time. 

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Turn around connect with God. 
So, you're sorry, right? 

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He's a forgiving God, he's 
compassionate God. 

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Make that connection, maybe 
you've done that but, you know, 

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maybe you're just you've gone 
off on a track on a direction 

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that you kind of know, but you 
kind of ignoring it, you kind of

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think. 
Yeah. 

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And some of your friends are 
kind of dropping hints. 

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And circumstances are dropping 
hints. 

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You know, but just kind of not 
looking right heading in the 

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wrong direction and you kind of 
know it and it's not going to 

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end. 
Well, it's not going to get you 

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the life that you want new day. 
New Year. 

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Right? 
Good time to turn around. 

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Get back on that track 
Direction. 

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Determines destination 
Direction. 

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Determines destination. 
Let's pray. 

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Father, we thank you so much for
your loving grace to us for the 

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fact that you are a 
compassionate. 

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God. 
The fact that you you care, 

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intensely about us more than we 
can know. 

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And we just we thank you for 
that and we just sort of stand 

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in all of just who you are. 
Lord, thank you for this amazing

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opportunity to be here this 
morning in this building for the

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first big service. 
Lovely. 

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Thank you for Yeah you blessing 
Your Grace fourth, the people 

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that you've blessed us with that
that have all the knowledge and 

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the skills to make this stuff 
happen. 

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Lord, we look forward to this 
this new year and we know 

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there's going to be some 
incredible highs. 

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There's also going to be some 
very difficult times but thank 

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you for just the comfort of 
knowing that you're with us Lord

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help us to admit when we're off 
track to realize it, in turn 

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back to you, Lord. 
Thank you again. 

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Yeah, like to say, for your, for
your, your forgiveness and that 

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you love the so much. 
You sent your only son to die to

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get that forgiveness for us. 
We thank you for that Lord. 

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Thank you for our church family 
here at Oak Noe and Lord. 

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Thank you for you know just the 
joy of corporately worshiping 

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you together. 
There's just something about 

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that and they're just being able
to sing together this morning. 

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It was incredible to be able to 
remember you through the Lord. 

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So their Lord, we thank you for 
that Lord as we go through this 

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year Lord we just pray for each 
of us as individuals that we 

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will seek you out and as a 
church family that will seek you

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out as well and seek to do what 
you want us to do and impact the

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community and the world around 
us and we just pray these things

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in Jesus name, amen.