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All right, so I'm sure your 
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chapter 8. 
If not, turn there with me. 

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I'd love for you to see for 
yourself what we're going to be 

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covering this morning. 
Martin Luther made a statement 

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that I discovered recently that 
has gotten behind all my 

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defenses, has really messed with
my days today. 

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And this is his statement. 
He says he only has two dates in

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his diary today and that day. 
Thank you, Martin Luther. 

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I need 2 dates in his diary 
today and that day. 

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In other words, everything he 
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today, he does it in light of 
that day. 

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Now, if you're new to church and
you're not familiar with what 

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we're talking about when we talk
about that day, the Bible says 

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that it's appointed for man to 
die once and then comes that 

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day. 
Then comes judgments, the 

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moments where you will stand in 
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of judgments. 
I accidentally read through that

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again this morning in 
Revelations chapter 20. 

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It's terrifying. 
The earth gives up the dead, the

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ocean gives up the dead. 
And we will stand in front of 

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that judgment seat of God. 
And he opens up the book of 

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life, and he calls us to account
on the way that we have lived. 

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But Martin Luther's not talking 
about that day. 

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See that day if you're a 
believer, if you're a Christian,

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not if you call yourself a 
Christian, if you have 

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surrendered your life to Jesus, 
if you have accepted his death 

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on the cross for you and on your
behalf, you don't stand in front

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of that white throne of 
judgment. 

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Jesus stands in front of that 
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If you call yourself a Christian
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all the right things, but you 
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Jesus, you, Sir, will stand in 
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judgment. 
Sucks to be you because you will

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face the wrath of God, but 
that's for another day. 

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That's not the day that Martin 
Luther is talking about. 

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Martin Luther is talking about 
the day that we as Christians 

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face and it's the day when we 
stand in front of the Bama 

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seats. 
Bama is a Greek word that refers

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to that seats. 
That's where this is a like a in

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a court in front of the judge. 
Hopefully you've got a great 

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lawyer like Chad next to you on 
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It's more like someone who's 
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you know, we give you a nine out
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This this famous seat is a seat 
of reward. 

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And the Bible will take a look 
in one Corinthians 3 in just a 

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second. 
The Bible says that Jesus is our

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foundation, but then we're 
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foundation. 
So Jesus is does the work of the

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cross, but then we're called to 
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when we then breathe our loss, 
we stand in front of the Bama 

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seats and this is what happens. 
1 Corinthians 312 If anyone 

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builds now and what Jesus has 
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precious stones or wood, hay or 
straw, their work will be shown 

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for what it is for the day. 
We'll bring it to light. 

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So it will be revealed by fire 
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quality of each person's work. 
What has been built survives. 

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The builder will receive a 
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If it is burnt up, the builder 
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But yet will be saved. 
And so Mont Luther says I have 

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two days dates in my diary today
and that day. 

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And I want to tell you that and 
I want to start there because I 

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firmly believe that if you lay a
hold of what we cover today, it 

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will have a direct influence on 
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It is that weighty that 
important. 

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So if you're not taking notes, 
maybe today's a good time to 

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start. 
No takers get gold, silver and 

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precious stone. 
No, no, no takers would have 

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stubble, but use it. 
Don't use it because today I'm 

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going to be talking about work. 
Hooray, Monday's coming. 

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Romans 819. 
Creation waits An eager 

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expectation for the children of 
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For the creation was subjected 
to frustration, not by its own 

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choice, but by the will of the 
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that the creation itself will be
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decay and brought into the 
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children of God. 
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has been groaning as in the 
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the present time. 
Not only so, but we ourselves 

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who have the first fruits of the
Spirit grown inwardly as we wait

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eagerly for our adoption to 
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bodies. 11 verse 19 stars. 
Creation waits an eager 

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expectation for the children of 
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Now when you talk about 
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narrative look at this because 
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the first pages of scripture we 
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and having created all things. 
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puts Adam in the garden to 
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I don't know about your opinion 
on WIC. 

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It wasn't because of sin that 
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and go to work. 
I don't know if you know that. 

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It wasn't like Adam and Eve 
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said that's it. 
No more pina coladas for you. 

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Get off the beach, get out the 
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Here's a suitcase and a tie. 
You will pay for your sins. 

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I know sometimes it feels like 
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timeline, Tim Keller says in the
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of Eden wasn't paradise until 
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See, this is our mandate to take
what God has created and to work

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it to his glory. 
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look at that. 
There's so much that we can 

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cover when it comes to work. 
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three things that I really feel 
that I need to lean on this 

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morning as a pastor. 
For those who have to wake up on

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Monday and go to work, I want to
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I want to look at your work 
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worship and wonder. 
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Why worry? 
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Romans 8 and this wasn't my 
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Williams was talking about the 
highest of heights when it comes

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to Romans chapter 8. 
Romans as a book is like the 

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entire Bible in one letter. 
And Romans chapter 8 is a 

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condensed version, a distilled 
version of everything that we 

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have in Christ. 
It's the the highest of hearts 

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when it comes to your salvation,
when it comes to rescuing you 

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from the great throne of 
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You know, we've got this. 
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it starts and there's no 
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And in between it's adoption and
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redemption and groaning. 
I'm like Paul, this, this, this,

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like, you know, glass half full 
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And so I did a little bit of 
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say groaning. 
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of childbirth right up to the 
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That's right up to the future 
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present time. 
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a not yet to this groaning. 
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And it talks about in the Greek,
the image is like an anxious 

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longing, a persistent pushing, 
an intense waiting in suspense 

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for something. 
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waiting for? 
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Creation waits, an eager 
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God to be revealed. 
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it's like creation is groaning. 
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reveal yourself, show yourself, 
child of God, take up your 

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responsibility, behave like one,
claim what's yours, Walk into 

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the chaos of work and do what 
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hovered over the deep and bring 
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Walk into the brokenness of your
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and restore into the chaos and 
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politics and bring integrity and
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You're beautiful saying Wackers 
Wack. 

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It's groaning and instead of 
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children of God who also 
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Instead of finding workers, it's
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Instead of finding workers, 
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You're so good, Steven. 
Not so good, Annie, because I 

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don't know if you know this, but
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Houses for a quote. 
Nothing else. 

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Nothing. 
Nothing else, including the 

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planets and the bug that died on
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Nothing else is consumed by 
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Nothing else is consumed by 
worry except the ones God has 

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revealed himself to. 
The ones God said I will 

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resource. 
The ones God said I will rescue 

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you. 
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And I was thinking, you know, 
looking at my notes, there's so 

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much I can draw out of ChatGPT 
when it comes to the medical 

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implications of worry. 
But you can chat that for 

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yourself. 
I just wanted to pick up on one 

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thing. 
I found a study that says worry 

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is killing your body and brain. 
And sort of like the tagline is 

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worry is simply a faster way to 
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Worry is a faster way to die. 
You know what happened when Adam

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and Eve sinned? 
Death entered. 

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Apparently worry can shorten 
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But I'm not going to go into the
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I'm going to go into one 
statement. 

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I believe worry is practical 
atheism. 

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Not so good at any worry is 
practical atheism as a Christian

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worry ends up in wood, hay and 
straw. 

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See the Bible says do not worry 
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Comma says do not worry about 
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Thanksgiving, bring your prayers
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Amen. 
The doctor that looked after my 

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daughter when she was had kidney
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him as God. 
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Almighty. 
I love it. 

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Don't worry about anything 
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Almighty. 
Martin Luther said I'm so busy 

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today, I cannot spend only one 
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I must spend 2. 
Isaiah 62, talking to the 

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Watchmen and the workers that 
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listen to this. 
Give him no rest. 

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When last did you do that with 
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with your employee? 
You go for God and you gave him 

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no rest. 
Or you're a practical atheist 

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drowning in worry. 
Isaiah 64. 

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Four since the creation of the 
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Remember, we're talking about 
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Since the creation of the world,
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heard. 
A God like you who works for 

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those who worry? 
No, for those who wait. 

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Who works for those on this 
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anything, but in everything, 
waiting on God, giving him no 

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rest, demanding. 
So that's a heavy word, that he 

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is faithful to his reputation as
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whispered about as being Pele. 
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That's which requires God as its
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And he's saying, come. 
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heaven's sake, come, give God no
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Come and discover. 
The God is described as Pele who

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will look after over your chaos 
and your situation and your 

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department and your hemorrhaging
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And you lay it at his feet, you 
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knows? 
There's an answer to pray. 

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You stand back and you that 
which requires God as its 

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explanation. 
So that's work as worry. 

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On the other side is work as 
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We're going to do a little bit 
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Can I ask everyone here to 
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Everybody here to stand? 
Can I ask everyone here to 

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stand? 
Everyone here up in the leases 

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as well? 
No, no, not everyone up at the 

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top as well. 
Everybody stand and that 45°, 

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you guys can stand as well. 
OK, we just got these. 

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Now look around you guys as 
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Oh my gosh, yeah, you can leave 
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my illustration. 
Come on. 

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So they did a study and if this 
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everyone who's standing hates 
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Before you sit, babes, would you
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OK, these this this half you can
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I don't know the ox in the 
queue, but I don't have a 

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camera. 
But you can stand Clint 50% if 

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they have to extrapolate that of
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saying I do the least possible, 
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keep my job. 
And you guys in that section and

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on the floor can sit. 
And my friends that refuse to 

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stand. 
You can be the bad guys today. 

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25% are ashamed at the work they
produce. 

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But the Bible speaks about work 
as worship. 

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Thank you. 
You can sit down. 

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The Bible talks about work as 
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high and daughters of the most 
high, those who have access to 

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God. 
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those categories, then work is 
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There's a very broad semantic 
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Thank you for everybody who 
stood a very broad semantic 

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range when it comes to that word
worship. 

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And by that semantic range is, 
you know, if I say, oh shucks, 

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it's 10:00, I need to bounce. 
You know, you're not thinking I 

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need to pop my way out of here. 
You there's, there's a different

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element to the word bounce, 
right? 

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So that's, that's a semantic 
range. 

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It's used differently. 
So worship when you find it 

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throughout Scripture, the the 
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Abad, when it's translated into 
English is often translated 

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differently. 
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times it's prayer and worship. 
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purpose and fulfillment or 
service and sacrifice. 

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That's what the Bible says work 
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Imagine work as pray and 
worship. 

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I challenged a room full of 
executives saying have you ever 

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driven home and before you drive
through and into your garage 

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just go on Lord, I bring today 
as an evening sacrifice, 

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worship, pray. 
Oh, were you the ones standing? 

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87% I hate my job. 50% say I'd 
rather do bare minimum quiet 

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quitting or 25 actually. 
I'm ashamed of the measure that 

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I'm producing or meaning and 
purpose. 

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I heard, and I haven't been able
to verify it, but I heard that 

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apparently Alexander the Great's
having conquered the then known 

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world at the age of 30, went 
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depression. 
He would mope in his tent. 

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They would find him weeping 
because like, what must I do 

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now? 
Apparently he LED armies for 10 

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years and never lost a battle. 
30 now what? 

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Like meaningless? 
Meaningless. 

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Everything is meaningless. 
Conquered the known world, the 

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30, Dead at 32. 
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to be fulfilling and giving 
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honor, supposed to be service 
and sacrifice. 

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What's his name? 
John. 

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Papa says God is most glorified 
in us when we are most satisfied

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in Him. 
God is most glorified in you. 

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You want to add meaning to your 
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God will be most glorified when 
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So where do you fall when it 
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the Pele side, that which 
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Where do you fall when it comes 
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87 percent, 50 percent, 25% on 
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Whereas an evening sacrifices 
day by day. 

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You recognize the privilege of 
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Father. 
You see, you might say, well, I 

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don't really think it matters to
quote John Tyson. 

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All you need is bad customer 
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lecturer, bad installation. 
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someone who has quite quit their
job to realize what a gift to 

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the world is. 
It is when you when someone 

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works is unto the Lord bad 
installation. 

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Am I the only one that can go 
like yes, and I meant to this 

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man. 
We had bad installation once. 

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Oh my gosh, I'll try cover his 
shame. 

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Actually, no one exposes his 
name. 

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I've got his photo. 
No, I'm just kidding. 

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I did consider it. 
But you know, when you do a 

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friend a favor, a Christian 
friend. 

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Hey, I felt that pain. 
Who was that? 

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Yeah. 
You know, it's like, hey, but 

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can you help me with this? 
Installation gives you a quote 

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and it's a little bit more, but 
you know you want to help a 

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brother out, so you do that and 
next thing like you're losing 

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power to your electric fence and
your gates don't open anymore. 

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True story. 
We had water coming through the 

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roof because he drove through 
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And then months later you 
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your outside fridge isn't 
keeping that meat cold anymore 

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is because he cut that off as 
well. 

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And you're not just throwing the
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the whole fridge away. 
And you're thinking like all you

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need is bad customer service, a 
bad dentist, bad lecture. 

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But installation, all you need 
is to encounter someone who's 

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quite quit their job to realize 
what a gift to the world it is 

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when someone works as unto the 
Lord. 

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You don't think it matters 
today, It'll matter that day. 

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Work through the lens of worry. 
Work through the lens of 

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worship. 
How do we get there? 

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I think what we need to do is we
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place. 
Let me explain what I mean. 

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I don't know if you know the 
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The Inklings were a group of 
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many, many years ago. 
And what they would do, they'd 

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get together and they would 
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faith. 
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statement, to discuss each 
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So JRR Tolkien, I don't know if 
you've heard of him, he wrote 

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that little booklet Lord of the 
Rings and CS Lewis, you know, 

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single handedly changed 
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theology over the past 100 
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They were some of the Inklings. 
But there's a book, I think the 

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book is called The Fellowship. 
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Zelensky, say the Inklings. 
This is the group of literary 

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students. 
People like poems. 

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The Inklings were a circle of 
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incendiaries. 
That's a fire starter meeting to

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take a look at this urge one 
another on in the task of 

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redirecting the whole currents 
of contemporary art and life. 

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When last did you get a whole 
bunch of teachers together? 

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So guys, we're going to redirect
the whole currents of 

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contemporary art and life. 
Doctors, nurses, dentists, 

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policemen. 
That was their primary purpose. 

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And history would record that. 
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passed away on the eve of the 
21st century, the group had 

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altered, in both large and small
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literature, Christian theology, 
and philosophy. 

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They had fashioned a new 
narrative of hope amidst the 

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ruins of war, industrial 
uncertainty and cultural 

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disintegration, forging new ways
to convey all themes such as sin

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and salvation, despair and hope,
friendship and loss. 

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And it's not in the book, but I 
put it in my notes with a pen. 

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They did that with a pen, Not an
apple pen, just a pen urging one

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another on to redirect the whole
currents of contemporary art and

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life. 
See, they were simply captivated

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by the wonder of a God who's 
described as Pele. 

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And they believed them to be 
true. 

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And they would bend their 
industry one person at a time in

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a gospel direction. 
Yeah, we've lost the wonder in 

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our pursuits of power and 
prestige and home in Silver 

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Lakes and the holiday home in 
Hermanus, because that seems to 

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be trending in three CR. 
We've lost the wonder and the 

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weights of that day. 
So this Martin Lloyd, Martin 

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Luther quotes today dates in the
diary today and that date that 

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day and this verse finished me 
off. 

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It's Jeremiah 33. 
Three call to me and I will 

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answer you and tell you great 
and unsearchable things. 

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You do not know the word great 
and the word unsearchable is the

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Hebrew word to the NTH degree of
greatness and to the NTH degree 

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of unsearchable. 
Call to me and I will answer and

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tell you great and unsearchable 
things. 

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You do not know, you could not 
know, you would not know. 

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And in light of that day, this 
is a really good promise, which 

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is why a friend of mine, I've 
mentioned him before in the 

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nuclear field and he did just 
this call to the Lord. 

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Because the Hadron collada 
requires 27 kilometers of of 

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magnetic magnetic inserts, 
incredibly long engineering 

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words here to get a particle to 
accelerate to a certain point 

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that when it hits a certain 
substance that can get the 

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certain result, 27 kilometers of
engineering genius to get that 

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done. 
And he's like, surely it can, we

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can do that a little small. 
And God gave him a 2 step 

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process. 
And we, he cannot do this, not 

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the Hadron Collider thing, but 
he can create the energy, the 

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clean energy he needs and, and 
the unit the size of a small 

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garage. 
And he Daisy chains them and 

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sends them off to mines so that 
mines can run indefinitely on 

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this inexhaustible power. 
Because he said, Lord, I'm 

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crying to you, would you show me
great and unsearchable things 

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that I do not know? 
And God did just that. 

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Well, the friend down in 
Glenridge, 3 CI was planted out 

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of Glenridge. 
This guy down there who God gave

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him a dream to be able to pack 
transport vehicles in a certain 

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way. 
And by doing so, they're saving 

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these logistics companies 
something like 20% on their fuel

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bill. 
Call to me and I will answer 

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you. 
I will tell you great and 

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unsearchable things you do not 
know. 

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Or you can navel gaze and sit 
and wonder and worry. 

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I wonder if I'll ever get out of
here. 

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Or you can sit an utter sheer 
mind blown wonder at the God of 

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all creation. 
He says. 

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I've got some thoughts on that. 
Friend of mine comes to three CR

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doesn't have a standard 6 but he
God has shown him how to refine 

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mind dumps and the technology 
and the ability that he does. 

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It's like sometimes twice as 
much minerals that they're able 

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to get out of the mine dumps. 
And he talks not hundreds of 

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millions, but billions of rands 
worth of minerals that he's able

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to extract from mine dumps and 
there are 6000 of them in South 

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Africa. 
Call to me and I will answer you

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and I'll tell you great and 
unsearchable things you do not 

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know with your standard 5 or one
as a small business owner that 

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was actually a furniture store 
that was kind of going under and

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the husband and wife were really
praying like Lord, you've got to

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give us a solution. 
You know, we want to say Pele 

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over our business that which 
requires God as its explanation 

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and he did just that. 
The wife was driving home from 

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work and God said pull over 
right now. 

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And so she pulled over to the 
side of the road and said get 

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out the car. 
She climbs out and he says buy 

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this land. 
Now the business is floundering.

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So they're going like, are you 
crazy? 

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One thing led to another, God 
stepped in, they got 

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confirmation, they went to the 
banks, they got the money and 

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that quotes 40 years later, they
were sitting on the richest 

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metallurgical coal deposit in 
the Northern hemisphere. 

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Call to me and I will answer and
I'll show you great and 

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unsearchable things you do not 
know. 

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I'm not telling that. 
So you can be the head, not the 

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tail. 
Let's receive it. 

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Land Cruisers for Jesus. 
I'm telling you that because you

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have access to future glory, non
Christians do not. 

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You have God's spirit living in 
you, but you are living like an 

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atheist. 
What makes your encounter with 

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hard times at work any different
to the guy who hates God? 

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You should be the most creative 
being in the world, solutions 

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driven, value adding, world 
changing department, rescuing, 

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because the God who created you 
and created the universe from 

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black holes to mega stars says 
just call to me and I will 

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answer and show you great and 
unsearchable things you do not 

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know so that you can bend your 
industry one person at a time in

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a gospel direction. 
Worry worship, wonder, worry 

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worship, wonder for Tom's sake. 
I'm going to I'm going to land 

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with this. 
I'm going to talk about that 

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day. 
And I want to talk to the older 

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generation here today, those who
are my age and older. 

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I'm 50 and I want to talk to 
those who are older and I want 

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to please hear my heart. 
I want to be respectful, but I 

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also want to ask some really big
questions. 

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So the MacArthur study found 
something, I think the study was

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called successful aging, and 
they published this study where 

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they were saying, and this is 
what I want to lean on. 

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They say that if you had to 
guess, looking at the decades of

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your life, which decade would 
you say is the number one when 

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it comes to effectiveness, 
fruitfulness, importation? 

453
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,880
Which decade would you, you say 
if I look in, you know, zero to 

454
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,280
10 to 20s in my 50s would be the
decade that they say would is 

455
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,040
most likely to produce gold, 
silver and precious stones. 

456
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:45,000
The answer 60 to 70 and the 
second decade most likely to 

457
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,480
reproduce fruitfulness, 
effectiveness. 70 to 80. 

458
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,760
The 3rd, 50 to 60. 
Have I got your attention? 

459
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:05,200
So now I'm going to be cheeky. 
Imagine Rory on her 60th 

460
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,280
birthday says, listen, guys, can
I just tell you what I have 

461
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,320
achieved? 
I mean, Glen Ridge is pumping, 3

462
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,880
CR is alive. 
We've got church plants and 

463
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,520
everything like it said. 
I know, I know there was that 

464
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,720
moment I mentioned collecting 
shells, but I was just being 

465
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,240
facetious. 
You know, actually, I've turned 

466
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,280
60 now and I'm going to retire 
and I'm going to go collect 

467
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:34,560
shells, hopefully in one of your
Hermanus holiday homes because 

468
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,120
he's a pastor. 
And he's a pastor, Sir. 

469
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:44,200
Yeah, Here's my question. 
In light of that day and in lot 

470
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:52,040
of successful aging, 2 decades 
of the most, do you think that 

471
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:58,840
would be a wise thing to do? 
I heard Andy Stanley, he's 

472
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,520
considered the foremost 
communicator in the church 

473
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,800
world. 
He was telling the story of one 

474
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,800
of his professors who is now in 
his 60s and he's thinking of 

475
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,680
retiring. 
And this professor at this Bible

476
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,480
college is good friends with 
Andy Stanley. 

477
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,720
I don't know if you know the 
name, but Andy sort of 

478
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,880
challenged him because what 
happened was because this guy's 

479
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,680
raised up so many preachers 
through his his professorship, 

480
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:29,080
whenever these guys are sick or,
you know, the snow day, wherever

481
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,920
they're at and they can't get 
back to the church, he's on 

482
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,640
standby. 
You can phone him like Thursday,

483
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,320
Friday, Saturday, he's there and
he'll preach in your state. 

484
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,480
This is a wonderful relationship
that they've had all these years

485
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,720
since leaving Bible college. 
And he said that the problem is 

486
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,760
when that guy preaches, the 
whole city descends on their 

487
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,240
tiny little church like standing
room only people standing there 

488
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,200
looking in to hear this guy 
preach. 

489
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,040
He is such a gift. 
And so and he said to him, 

490
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:57,040
listen, and at your age, why 
don't you just plant a church? 

491
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,920
It will be a mega church like 
that. 

492
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,360
You know, you can go out in 
flames. 

493
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,560
And he said something that's 
ties in with a study. 

494
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,160
He said, you know, if I do that,
I could plant 1 mega church. 

495
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,320
Sorry for the Chris explanation.
A mega church, see. 

496
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,280
But if I do this, I could plant 
1000 mega churches. 

497
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,800
And that is what scripture asks 
of you in your fifties, 60s and 

498
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,920
70s. 
See the world would say, hey raw

499
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,360
kick back. 
I mean, look what you've done, 

500
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:41,280
but creation groans. 
What if what if your finest 

501
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,760
years lie ahead of you now? 
Now what? 

502
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,440
You're thinking like, yeah, you 
must tell those pastors, you 

503
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,240
know, because the ministry is 
important. 

504
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:57,800
Yeah, We fabricate panty liners.
Don't think it's the same thing.

505
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,240
They did a study on those of you
who want to get out of work and 

506
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,120
do something meaningful like 
ministry. 

507
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,320
They did a study on the pastors 
in South Africa. 

508
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,120
Now, the real pastors, not those
weird ones that spray doom to 

509
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,800
get rid of demons. 
Like, really? 

510
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,040
Yeah. 
So I've had very little sleep. 

511
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,680
I apologize. 
We're going to have to do lots 

512
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,600
of editing. 
But like real passes they so we 

513
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,360
got to watch 60 million S 
Africans. 

514
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,800
They looked at us and our 
effectiveness. 

515
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,240
Did you know we only have access
to 1.6 million of those 60 

516
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,760
million S Africans, 1.6 million 
non nominal or non Christian S 

517
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,760
Africans, 1.6 million. 
And talk about influence. 

518
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,720
Who We've got 8 hours of 
influence in each life per year,

519
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,320
8 hours. 
And you see you are wanting to 

520
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,960
get out of your industry and 
come into ministry where it 

521
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:14,400
really counts. 
But they did the same study on 

522
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,040
you, on those in the sweet 
spots. 

523
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,800
We're talking CEOs, directors, 
MD's, business owners, 

524
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,480
entrepreneurs, people who have 
sort of reached the spot where 

525
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,520
they're able to now important to
other laws and they found this. 

526
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,560
Whereas as pastors only have 
access access to 1.6 million and

527
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:39,640
8 hours of influence, you 
collectively have access to 22.1

528
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,640
million nominal and non 
Christian S Africans. 

529
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:56,320
And your influence averages at 
1080 hours a year, 1080 hours a 

530
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,520
year. 
And you say I must really get 

531
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,520
Johnny to church because 
somewhere in the midst of those 

532
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:08,320
8 hours maybe, and God is 
saying, I've placed you there to

533
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,719
turn your business around, your 
department around lives, around 

534
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,800
families and friends. 
The downstream influence that 

535
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,440
you can have single handedly is 
so disproportionately greater 

536
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,440
than ministry. 
But the enemy would have you 

537
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,560
think that you're dabbling in 
the shallows. 

538
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,920
And one day maybe, just maybe. 
And the enemy would have you 

539
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,719
say, well, you've had your time 
at the crease. 

540
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,639
Hand over to the younger 
generation. 

541
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,880
Go collect your shells. 
But Scripture says there is a 

542
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:44,320
day coming when the children of 
God will be required to wake up,

543
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,760
lay their hands to the plough 
and serve their king and worship

544
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:55,600
and wander in the workplace. 
And so this morning I've come to

545
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,640
start a conversation, to ask you
where you fall. 

546
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Do you fall on the worry side? 
Can I wake you up to the 

547
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:11,240
revelation, the God of heaven 
and earth in scripture that says

548
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:15,680
give this God no rest? 
Maybe fall on the side? 

549
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Were you part of that 87% who 
just hate their jobs? 

550
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,520
Could a call on you to 
reconsider in light of that day?

551
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,360
But on the morning service, 
where our demographic is way 

552
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,280
higher than the evening service,
can I ask you to consider what 

553
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:41,240
lies ahead? 
Maybe, just maybe the next 20 

554
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:45,280
years, Me years of gold, silver 
and precious stones. 

555
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,040
Because you've got a God who 
says, place it in my hands and I

556
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,520
will show you great and 
unsearchable things you would 

557
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:59,400
not know. 
One more sleep and then it's 

558
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,400
Monday. 
And then you've got to put this 

559
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,280
into practice. 
Thank you.