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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the. 
Everlasting mercies which? 

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Sent you to us, O Christ, the 
light of the world and the life 

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of all. 
Give us wisdom by your law and 

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enlighten our impulses by your 
knowledge. 

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Sanctify our souls by your 
truth, and grant that we may be 

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obedient to your words and may 
fulfill your commandments at 

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every hour. 
O you who? 

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Enlightens the rationale with 
the knowledge of your greatness.

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Do enlight, O my Lord, our 
thoughts that we may meditate 

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upon your holy and divine 
scriptures at all times, O Lord 

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of all Father and Son and Holy 
Spirit. 

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Forever. 
Amen. 

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sometimes feel that when we 
speak about suffering, 

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persecutions and death, the 
message may come across somehow 

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a little confusing and maybe 
even non realistic. 

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Although sufferings, 
persecutions and death are to be

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tolerated as an element of faith
in our Lord God, Jesus Christ, 

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in this most wicked and twisted 
world, it is by no means 

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justified in its essence. 
We are not to entice suffering 

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and persecutions. 
We are not to provoke them. 

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Let's look at suffering and 
persecution. 

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I pose you to this question. 
Do you think that God had in his

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plans, in His perfect kind, 
loving holy will and in His 

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perfect purpose the idea and 
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and persecution when he created 
all things visible and 

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invisible? 
Do you think Genesis chapter one

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verse 31 doesn't indicate that 
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heaven and earth and all that we
see and don't see, tangible and 

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non tangible. 
God saw everything that he had 

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made, everything that he had 
made, and behold it was good and

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pleasing. 
Good according to the standards 

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standards of our perfect God and
pleasing in the eyes of God. 

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Do you think in the goodness and
pleasure of God there was an 

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element, an intention of 
suffering and persecutions? 

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For His creation? 
Wasn't God's act of creation an 

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act of love in the 1st place? 
That in His power and wisdom He 

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created the universe and all 
that is in there to share that 

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love with us and with His 
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After all, in the first Epistle 
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Paul to the. 
Corinthians, the Church. 

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In Corinth, chapter 6, verse 13,
it is said that love rejoices 

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not in evil, and yet suffering 
and persecutions are evil. 

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So suffering and persecutions 
are not to be justified, though 

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tolerated, persevered, and 
accepted joyfully for Christ's 

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sake. 
Some people question that as 

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well. 
Why? 

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Why does Christ want me to 
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And why does Christ want me to 
be persecuted? 

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Well, it wasn't Christ that in 
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suffer and be persecuted. 
To answer your question, let me 

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give you this equation from 
where it all began. 

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Once Upon a real time there was 
man who was created by God, 

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disobeyed the God that created 
him, and this was sin against 

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the God that created him. 
And that sin brought curse in 

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the eyes of God that created 
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And from that point suffering 
and persecution were born. 

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So suffering and persecutions 
are a product of the fall, a 

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consequence of human 
disobedience, which is sin 

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against God the Creator. 
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not to be justified, as I said, 
though tolerated and accepted 

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and persevered joyfully for 
Christ's Christ's sakes. 

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Why? 
Because Christ suffered so that 

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our suffering will not be in 
vain. 

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So we dropped the ball in the 
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Our race, our kind dropped the 
ball in the 1st place. 

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Through that suffering and 
persecutions and death that 

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we're talking about sufferings 
and persecutions, we'll cover 

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death. 
Soon we're. 

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Introduced, We're born. 
Christ, then, this is the glory,

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the love, the grace and mercy of
Jesus, our Lord God, which 

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you'll find in no other person 
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earth, no other religious leader
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earth. 
Beloved, they did not suffer for

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mankind, and even if they did, 
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There was it was it was invalid.
It didn't bring you and I any, 

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any grace, any mercy, any 
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Christ suffered so that our 
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That's why, excuse me, the 
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we introduced in the world 
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need to tolerate and accept and 
persevere in joyfully is because

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Christ through his suffering 
made our suffering not to be in 

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vain. 
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Saint Peter Simon the Rock 
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18. 
For it is profitable to you, not

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for God, not for Jesus. 
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is glorified, God is Almighty. 
Praise be to His name, for it is

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profitable to you that you 
suffer evil while you do good 

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deeds, not suffering, because 
you provoke. 

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You entice, and you brought it 
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and sin, no suffering while you 
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the pleasure of God. 
So if God allows you to suffer 

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and to be persecuted, not 
because it was in His plan, but 

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because of your free will, our 
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mankind, suffering and 
persecutions entered, I have to 

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continue to reiterate, because 
we point the finger at God 

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pointed back to yourself, 
there's a three fingers pointing

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at yourself. 
So now that suffering and 

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persecutions are in the world, 
and God through His pleasure 

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allows you to go through those 
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It's because it will not be in 
vain, because Christ suffered 

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for us when we do good. 
That is by the way, and not 

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while you do evil deeds. 
For the Messiah also once died 

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for our sins, the righteous for 
sinners that he might bring you 

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to God and he died in body but 
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So our sufferings and 
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will to disobey God are fruitful
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That's why we need to tolerate 
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and say it's OK God gave us 
suffering. 

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You know we say in Assyrian this
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this. 
I've mentioned it in a in a 

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funeral sermon and what have 
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We say Allah, Allah. 
God has given us illness and 

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sicknesses and he also has given
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God did not give illness and 
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No, we did. 
We brought it upon ourselves. 

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But God was there to grant us 
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It was because of our 
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So let's not be LAX and 
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suffering and persecutions. 
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one thing that is, learn from it
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that is the severity, the danger
and destruction of sin, that is 

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disobedience to God. 
Our God is not the cause, nor 

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did he bring to effect, nor was 
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diseases, and sufferings and 
persecutions in general, but 

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rather the provider of remedies.
Praise be to his name. 

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So as we don't wish sufferings 
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others, so too we don't pray for
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persecutions for ourselves. 
We pray. 

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And the Lord taught us to pray. 
Deliver us from evil. 

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Not please, allow us to go 
through persecutions. 

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Oh please. 
I want to provoke and entice 

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persecution upon myself so that 
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not. 
No, no, we don't ask for that. 

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Jesus has taught us to deliver 
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You see, let me give you an 
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I have a dog, Thor. 
I call him Torah, which is. 

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Equivalent to. 
The Assyrian Thor. 

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Now when he goes out in the in 
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outside, he has this territorial
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I think he, he, he, he. 
The message he gives is when I'm

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outside no other neighbors are 
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because he'll start barking and 
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That's what dogs do, right? 
But he goes on, I don't like 

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that. 
So that's his nature. 

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Now someone said oh he's being 
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protect you bro. 
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I'm in the house. 
I'm even protected by my house. 

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He just likes barking. 
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bark. 
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I've never heard of a dog chirp.
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approach Larissa, my daughter, 
pretending that I want to strike

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her. 
He'll bark and then I say my 

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wife will say, well, you 
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Don't do that. 
You know, she doesn't say. 

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She says it in love. 
You know that he barks. 

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So what are you doing that? 
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Let's not provoke, entice and 
wish suffering and persecution 

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about it upon ourselves. 
No, but when they do come in 

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this wicked world, they are 
bound to come. 

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We must tolerate and accept and 
receive them. 

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It's like considering and 
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It's my racist fault. 
Now As for death, God didn't 

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create us and breathed the 
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so that he would one day put us 
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That would be first degree 
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Premeditated right? 
Or God didn't do that? 

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Praise his name in Romans 
chapter 5, verse 12. 

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As by means of one man, sin 
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disobedience to God, sin entered
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sin, death, we brought death 
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And so death passed upon all the
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all have sinned. 
We don't wish death upon 

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ourselves. 
Yes, we we confidently and you 

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know, being encouraged of the 
resurrection, we say, oh, I wish

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I could go now and be with my 
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But just by saying that, 
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death is justified. 
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It was the misuse of the free 
will of man that brought sin and

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sin brought death into the 
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But we tolerated, we accepted, 
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And we'll talk about that. 
Why? 

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So who then is the murderer? 
Beloved, Now the crime is sin. 

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But who enticed the sin and 
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It was Satan. 
So it's the doing of Satan and 

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also the dropping of the ball. 
They're letting down the guard 

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of mankind that sin entered 
through sin, sufferings, 

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persecutions and death. 
Jesus says to the Jews in John 

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chapter 8, verse 44, You are of 
your father, the liar and the 

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lust of your father You are 
disposed to do he was from the 

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beginning and Manslayer A 
Manslayer A manslaughterer, an 

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abode, Not in the truth, for the
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And when he speaks a lie, he 
speaks from himself, for he is a

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liar and the father of it. 
He's talking about Satan. 

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How can God, beloved, who does 
not desire the death of a 

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Sinner, but that he would return
from his evil way and he will 

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live? 
According to Ezekiel chapter 18 

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verse 23 be blamed for murder 
and wants us to justify death. 

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That's what we imply ignorantly 
when we state that God caused 

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death, suffering and persecution
henceforth. 

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That's why we have to prey it 
upon us and and provoke it so 

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that it can't may come on upon 
us. 

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For example, suffering. 
You can't go to a place. 

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You go somewhere with the 
intention that I'm going to go 

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there so that I can suffer, so 
that I can I can experience 

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suffering. 
No, you cannot put yourself into

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situations where you will be 
persecuted. 

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It's my will that I go to this 
place to be persecuted. 

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No, you cannot take on your 
life, your own life. 

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Suicide. 
You can't do that because, oh, 

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death is great. 
I'm going to go to God. 

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No, but we accept those. 
We tolerate them, and we 

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persevere in them. 
Beloved, beloved, Death is a 

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thief, an enemy. 
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chapter 15, verse 26, Actually 
the last enemy which will be 

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abolished. 
Can we at any time justify a 

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thief pronounced he or she? 
We may be affected, we may 

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suffer, we may be inconvenienced
by his or her theft. 

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However, we cannot justify his 
or her deeds, can we? 

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We're affected by it because 
theft is destructive. 

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But as with a thief, and This is
why we need to tolerate as with 

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a thief and his or her theft, we
are protected by one thing, our 

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insurance policy right to be 
compensated or have our property

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reinstated. 
So too. 

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Beloved with suffering and 
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this is our insurance policy. 
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assured comfort and healing by 
Christ's promises and the 

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Scripture relief and Christ's 
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In Matthew Chapter 11 verse 28, 
Jesus invites Jesus is inviting 

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you. 
Stop cooking. 

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Stop vacuuming. 
Give or get off the the 

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keyboard. 
Pull to one side and listen to 

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this. 
Please listen to this. 

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Don't just shake your head and 
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Listen to this. 
This is an invitation. 

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Come on to me, all of you who 
labor and are forced to bear 

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burdens and I shall give you 
rest. 

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Where did labor and burdens come
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It was the produce of the 
disobedience of man, our 

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disobedience. 
And yet God is extending this 

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invitation. 
Come to me in the Second Epistle

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of Saint Paul to Timothy, 
chapter 2, verse 12, we read And

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if we suffer, we shall also 
reign with him. 

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But if we renounce him, we will 
also he will also renounce us. 

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That's why we tolerate, we 
accept, and we, Sir, persevere 

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because the suffering that we 
brought upon ourselves and 

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Christ pay the debt, that 
suffering that we are permitted 

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to go through. 
Now look at what it ends up in 

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reigning with Jesus Christ. 
Praise be to his name. 

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Now As for death, we have the 
insurance, the assurance, the 

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promise of the resurrection from
the dead. 

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We have the participation in the
resurrection of Christ. 

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We are candidates of the 
resurrection of Christ from the 

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time of our rebirth in the 
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That's why we tolerate, but we 
do not provoke and entice 

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suffering and persecution and 
death upon ourselves. 

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But we tolerate according to 
God's perfect plan, perfect 

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will, when He allows us to go 
through that in Romans chapter 

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6, verses four and five, 
worried. 

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For we are buried with him in 
baptism unto death, that as 

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Jesus the Messiah, arose from 
the dead into the glory of his 

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Father, so also we to walk in a 
new life. 

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For if we have been planted 
together with Him into the 

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likeness of his death, so shall 
we also into his resurrection be

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in John chapter 6, verse 40, 
when Jesus is talking about 

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himself being the bread of life.
That bread we celebrate Christ 

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with every time we break it at 
the altar. 

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Yes, the Korabana Kadisha, the 
Holy Eucharist. 

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Look at what Jesus is saying, 
for this is the will of my 

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Father. 
Everyone who sees the Son and 

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trust in him shall have eternal 
life. 

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And I shall raise him in the 
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This is a promise of 
resurrection. 

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So you see, beloved, we are not 
called to justify, to provoke, 

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to entice, and OK suffering and 
persecution and death, which 

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were not good and pleasing to 
God when creating the world. 

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But because of the fallen and 
corrupted state of man, we are 

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now tolerant, accepting, and 
persevering. 

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Why? 
Because of the remedies and 

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promises of the Christ. 
Yes, the Christ, the Son of the 

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one true God. 
To him be glory, honor, 

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Thanksgiving, and worship, now 
and at all times and forever. 

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Amen. 
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