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We're doing a series 3 
Ecclesiastes. 

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If you're visiting, if you're 
not visiting, you're probably 

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worried about my mental health 
after last week. 

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I'm fine. 
Some of you like really got it 

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and sent me these beautiful 
emails and I've got a whole lot 

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saying are you OK? 
Like, are you all right? 

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One of my son's friends came to 
me said why did your dad groan 

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when it actually says Jesus 
side? 

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Why didn't your dad just go? 
Why did you? 

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It's the same word. 
They find it in Romans 8. 

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And you should be fortunate that
you've got somebody who loves 

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you enough to groan, and we love
you enough to groan deeply. 

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I got a call from a young lady 
in Durban who lost her sister, 

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and she said, I didn't know if 
somebody could get underneath 

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the pain. 
God can get underneath your 

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pain, get to the bottom of it. 
It's nice to have you. 

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I'm going to just give you a 
little exercise to do when you 

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go home is just to download your
last three months bank 

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statements. 
And next to them either write me

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or we, me or we or me and my or 
we. 

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And see how much of your 
expenditure has gone to you and 

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to your family and to your 
education of your children and 

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to the clothing of your wife and
to the Botox injections and all 

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those things that happen. 
Just see how much is me and my 

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and how much is we, how much has
gone to other people because 

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we're not actually here to be 
entertained. 

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We're here to be taught the ways
of God. 

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And this book is a very 
challenging book. 

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I walked through this auditorium
this week and I thought, God, if

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we attract people that are going
to stop us from doing what you 

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called us to do, it's better we 
give this away and go back to 

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your school hall. 
Because we cannot be so consumed

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within ourselves that this 
becomes the destination of our 

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Christianity. 
And I thought, I wonder instead 

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of another church down the road 
who can't afford a building, I 

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wonder if we should open up our 
12:00 Sunday slot for somebody 

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else who doesn't have to go 
through the project that we've 

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been through. 
Or whether we're going to just 

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keep this because it's ours. 
And so we're going to just keep 

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enjoying it amongst ourselves 
because we paid the price for 

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this thing and now it's mine. 
Or we're going to maybe open it 

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up and give it to another 
congregation who don't have to 

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pay the expense and can see 
their church grow without paying

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rent. 
I wonder if that's should be in 

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order, something we should be 
thinking about or whether we're 

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going to settle down into some 
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Christianity. 
And actually, I realized at the 

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bottom at the end of it, I'm 
just a very selfish man. 

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It's most of my thoughts every 
day are about myself and my 

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family and getting ahead and 
making plans and all those kind 

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of things. 
And I think all of us are like 

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that. 
If we genuinely honest, a lot of

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our time during the day is about
ourselves, it's about our 

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children, it's about how they 
get ahead, how they get 

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educated. 
It's about how we plan our 

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holidays. 
I mean, if, if we're brutally 

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honest and, and, and 
Ecclesiastes coming and saying, 

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actually, if you live your life 
like that, you're going to 

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actually end up quite lonely and
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But if you invest in your life 
and other people, you will 

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actually start to find there's 
an actual reason and a joy to 

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live beyond yourself. 
And, and the reality is that we 

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spend a lot of time looking at 
our own belly buttons and we've 

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got to lift our eyes and look 
around a little bit. 

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I put up some figures here last 
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I'm not going to look at now. 
And it's not for guilt, but I 

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was in a after last Sunday. 
I went to a conference in 

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Joburg. 900 babies are abandoned
every single month in South 

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Africa. 903 hundred of them get 
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of them die. 
The girl who got up and told the

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story tells her she's just got a
safe built into the wall of her 

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care center. 
It's like a drop safe and when a

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wait comes onto that drop safe, 
an alarm goes off and it's just 

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it's a very anonymous way of 
giving your child away. 

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Just put them in a drop safe. 
You close the safe and you walk 

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away and you say, Roy, don't put
that guilt on us. 

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Well, friends, we so we so 
cushion ourselves against any 

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form of pain that we're actually
not living with the reality of 

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the nation that we live inside 
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And actually, the only solution 
to South Africa is the church. 

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We can see what's happening with
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Trump comes into power. 
The markets do this and the 

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markets and we don't actually 
have control. 

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We don't. 
That's what Ecclesiastes is. 

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We don't have control of our 
lives. 

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Two weeks ago, our family was 
doing unbelievably well, 

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unbelievably well. 
My wife was well, ours well. 

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My kids were well. 
Everything was going right. 

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And I found myself 48 hours late
in the dentist's chair having a 

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wisdom tooth pulled out. 
The dentist's here. 

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My tooth is recovering, but my 
chest is so sore where the 

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dentist's knee went. 
It's unbelievable. 

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I'm bruised as they, as they 
pulled this thing, I said your 

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bones are very strong. 
I said, well, exactly. 

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And then my wife had a cancerous
growth cut out of her arm. 

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And my one child got COVID and 
the other one has had a biopsy 

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on a growth inside their body, 
which we're waiting results for.

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That happened in 48 hours. 
We don't, we can, we can have 

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money, we can have, but we don't
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And Ecclesiastes saying you can 
do whatever, like you can buffer

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the thing, but you don't have 
control. 

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I was at a wedding last night 
and my friend, I've got a dear 

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friend who's the South Coast. 
He leads the church. 

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He's a fit, healthy guy. 
He got on his bicycle a couple 

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months ago and he fell over and 
he died and his brother-in-law 

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found him in the garage. 
So, so the brother-in-law is now

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looking after his sister and I 
keep finding the assistant 

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seeing all right, because he was
my mate and and last night's got

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an SMS to say the brother-in-law
passed away last night. 

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You see things happen quickly 
and we think that we are 

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perfectly in charge. 
You've got no charge of your 

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next day's breath. 
And it's just saying you need to

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make sure that you've just 
giving yourself to the right 

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things. 
Amen. 

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So, so that's where we are. 
There's no heavy, but I do think

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we need to do the let's do the 
maths, ask ourselves the 

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question. 
So we're going to read 

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Ecclesiastes 4. 
We're going to read the whole 

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chapter and and then we're going
to make a few points again. 

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I looked and I saw all the 
oppression that was taking place

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under the sun. 
I saw the tears of the 

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oppressed. 
And they have no comforter. 47 

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children raped every single day 
in our country. 51 children 

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kidnapped every single day in 
our country. 26% of children in 

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our nation are sexually 
molested. 

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By the time they're 18, they 
have no comforter. 

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Power was on the side of their 
oppressors, and they have no 

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comforter. 
And I declared that the dead who

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had already died, or happier 
than the living were still 

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alive. 
That's a major statement, eh? 

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But better than both, say 
better, better, better than both

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is he who has not yet been born,
who has not seen the evil that 

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is under the sun, Solomon, the 
great king, saying it's better 

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not to be born than to live in 
some of the conditions that the 

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people in South Africa are 
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I don't live there. 
I don't even hear the cry most 

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times. 
And I saw that all labor and all

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achievements spring from man's 
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They say the capital countries 
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This too is meaningless. 
And if you're asking what are we

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on about, Rory, why are you 
giving us so much negative news?

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We just got to ask the question.
We just got to ask the question 

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what is really important? 
He said. 

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We've been going on this for a 
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You have to ask three questions.
Where do I come from? 

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Why am I here? 
Where am I going? 

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Where do I come from? 
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Where am I going? 
And that word hebble is that 

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the fool folds his hands and 
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Better say better, better. 
Better one handful with 

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tranquility than two handfuls 
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And chasing after the wind 
again, I saw something 

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meaningless under the sun. 
O, that's how it goes. 2 

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handfuls with toil working 
working, working working emails 

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late night come to home working 
working working MBA degree to 

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get ahead of the person so you 
can get a promotion while your 

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kids are crying for your 
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He said, but this is the only 
way that I can get ahead working

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working, working, working, 
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It's the only way I can get 
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I'm working, working, working, 
working, working. 

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And he says but actually there's
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And actually, The thing is, you 
might as well eat his hands 

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because actually laziness is 
self destruction anyway, he 

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says, but there's a better way. 
What happens if you just work 

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with one hand and the other 
hand's free to bless people? 

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He says that's a better way. 
But you say, no, but I'm busy. 

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And then you've got this other 
generation, you know, just lazy 

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eating their hands, he says, But
there's a better way with 

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tranquility. 
There's a there's a better way 

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with peace. 
How many of you have lost your 

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peace friends? 
Seriously, ICP, I just like 

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their piece is gone because 
they're too busy. 

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They, they, they're rushing, 
they're busy. 

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There's meetings, there's 
emails, there's demands, there's

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time restraints. 
It's just go for what? 

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To get ahead of what? 
So that you can do what? 

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Educate your kids to do what? 
To get a bigger degree to get 

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ahead of what? 
What about if you just let go 

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one hand and God says that's 
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Again I saw something 
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There was a man all alone. 
He had neither son nor brother. 

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There was no end to his toil. 
Yet his eyes were not content 

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with his wealth. 
For whom am I toiling? 

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He asked. 
And why am I depriving myself of

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enjoyment? 
This too is meaningless. 

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You see, this is anti we. 
It's all about me. 

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It's envy, it's oppression, it's
greed. 

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It's me, Me. 
I want my 13th check, my 14th 

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check, my 15th check, my 16th 
check, my 70 check. 

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I've got a friend who spends 2 
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think. 
When? 

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When are you going to have 
enough? 

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This too is meaningless. 
A miserable business. 2 are 

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better than one say that 2 are 
better than 1/2 are better than 

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one doesn't say 2 are easier 
than one. 

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It says 2 are better than one. 
It's twin PLA. 

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Life has many luxuries. 
Twin PLA is one of them. 

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I grew up in my house like this.
My wife grew up like this. 

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Oh, I see. 
We've been married for 32 years.

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And I come and I turn it around 
and she comes and she turns it 

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around. 
I grew up the right way with 

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toothpaste. 
You squeeze it in the middle. 

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You just squeeze in the middle. 
If you squeeze in the middle, it

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comes out the top. 
She grew up from the bottom. 

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You squeeze it from the bottom. 
Now we have 2 separate 

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toothpastes. 
I said buy your own toothpaste. 

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I mean TVTV is simple. 
TV is easy, isn't it? 

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I like to watch sixteen programs
in one hour. 

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It's just away from the snake 
catcher to the this thing. 

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It's so that's the way TV was 
designed. 

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My wife likes to watch the 
program from the beginning to 

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the end. 
It's so wrong, but you are 

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better than 1/2 are better than 
one. 

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So. 
So we've got to work out what 

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the toothpaste tube and the 
toilet holder looks like and the

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TV looks like. 
Because now we've got about two 

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and a half thousand in here and 
we've got to say to be here is 

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better than not to be here. 
But we've all got stuff, All got

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stuff because they have a good 
return for their work. 

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If one falls down, his friend 
can help him up, but pity the 

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man who falls and has no one to 
help him up. 

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Also, if two lie down together, 
they will keep warm, but how can

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one keep warm alone? 
Call me a Lafrikaners visually 

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help for an Edie's story. 
What's the person that comes to 

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your mind when you read the 
scripture Rachel Ki de Beer? 

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Scott it Cup? 
I was reading the scripture. 

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I haven't thought of Rachel Ki 
de Beer for 20 years. 

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I read the script and I thought 
there's a school in this city 

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called Rachel de Beer. 
This was a little girl who gave 

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up her life. 
In your Afrikaans culture, in 

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the very roots of your 
existence, was a little 12 year 

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old girl who took off her 
clothes and put her brother in 

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an antique to keep him warm. 
And I'm thinking in this 

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auditorium today, there's a 
whole lot of rock cookies 

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sitting here today. 
We need to keep each other warm.

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People are under pressure. 
They're cold. 

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Though one may be overpowered, 2
can defend themselves. 

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A cord of three strands is not 
quickly broken. 

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Better say better, better poor 
but wise youth than an old but 

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foolish king who no longer knows
how to take warning. 

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It's better to have a young guy 
who's teachable than an old guy.

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I was sitting in a business 
meeting about 3 weeks ago or two

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weeks ago on a Monday and we we 
were expecting an answer on one 

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of our businesses in December. 
On the 2nd of December we were 

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told we'll get an answer. 
It didn't come then we would be 

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told after the holidays on the 
12th of January, we'll get an 

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answer and it didn't come. 
Now when somebody promises me an

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answer, I start to get agitated.
And the older I get, the more 

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agitated I've become. 
And now we're sitting on the 3rd

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of March, 4th of March in a 
meeting and the answers still 

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not come. 
And I said, but now we need to 

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take action. 
And my partner said to me, you 

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need to be patient, Rory. 
And, and I was reading the 

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scripture and I said, but I feel
that we need to act decisively. 

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And he said, no, you need to 
please listen to me. 

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And I did. 
And two days later, we got the 

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answer. 
If I'd stepped in, I believe I 

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would have spoilt it. 
But this scripture which says, 

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listen here, Rory, you're 57 
years old. 

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You know a lot. 
You think you know a lot, but 

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you actually have to take off 
your teacher's hat, and 

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sometimes you've got to put on 
your student hat. 

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You're not an expert on 
everything. 

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And better to listen to a young 
guy who's seeking God than an 

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old guy who's trusting his 
experience. 

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Amen. 
I can lead meetings. 

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I've LED church meetings for 35 
years, but I know this. 

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When Chad woke up this morning, 
he would have waited on God. 

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He would have prayed. 
He would have trusted God. 

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He would have asked God for 
directions. 

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Better to listen to that than a 
man who relies on experience, 

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who set in his ways. 
Are you with me? 

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How are we doing? 
The youth may have come from 

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prison to the kingship. 
We may have been born in poverty

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within his Kingdom. 
I saw that all who lived and 

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walked under the sun followed 
the youth, the King's successor.

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We'd like young leaders. 
There was no end to all the 

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people who were before them, but
those who came later. 

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We're not pleased with the 
successor. 

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This too, is meaningless or 
chasing after the wind. 

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You know what's happened in the 
church. 

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We elevate leadership to this 
unbelievable position. 

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And all of you go to leadership 
conferences all the time. 

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And the Bible says, actually at 
the end of the day, leadership's

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not really that important 
following Goddess, because 

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actually if I asked you, most of
you who led this church before 

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me, you wouldn't know his name. 
And who led the church before 

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him, you wouldn't know his name.
If you people said to you who's 

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Rory? 
They say actually he's 3 CR. 

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But in 10 years time, nobody 
will know me. 

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And so I must not put extra 
importance on this position 

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because actually this position 
is temporary. 

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And so I mustn't take glory and 
I mustn't over exercise 

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authority because this too is 
meaningless. 

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It's going to pass away and we 
spend our whole lives to get 

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positions and CEO and CFO and 
the only we know. 

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We know because the moment you 
get the position that goes onto 

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your business card and God says,
you know what, whether you're 

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old or you're young and you're 
flexible and you try actually, 

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all of it is just going to pass 
away and they won't remember 

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you. 
Who was the president before 

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Trump, last sex, George Bush and
before that. 

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Well, history will tell us, but 
your memory won't. 

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He was a rugby captain, that guy
of springback's. 

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Andre. 
Andre, what is his name again? 

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Andre the flank #6 I'd remember.
And so we spent our whole lives 

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going for this thing. 
And he said, listen, it's better

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to be teachable than to be 
grumpy. 

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But actually, at the end of the 
day, this is meaningless. 

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So don't build your identity 
here because it's going to just 

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pass away. 
Amen. 

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OK, a few things are we done. 
This scripture can be broken 

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into two I hate for your 
neighbor and a love for 

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yourself. 
A love for your neighbor, which 

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means you'll end up loving 
yourself. 

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Neighborship is good, but most 
work comes from the envy of my 

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neighbor. 
Most of it comes from the envy 

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of my neighbor. 
You know what we can actually so

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easily witness with people who 
are weak? 

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Because when people are weak, we
can console them easily because 

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it makes us feel strong. 
But when people are successful, 

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it's hard to share their joy 
because it makes us feel weak. 

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And I'll tell you the only 
reason I'm I've gossiped. 

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I don't gossip much anymore. 
I really don't. 

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I really don't. 
I don't think I gossip. 

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I've never heard my wife gossip.
But you know what gossip is. 

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Gossip is making another person 
look worse so that you look 

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better. 
That's what gossip is. 

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Simple as that. 
And you've got to ask yourself 

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just this very question. 
Are there any decisions in your 

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life now that are driven by 
envy? 

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Envy of another success, Envy of
another's looks, envy of 

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another. 
They'll always be a prettier 

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girl. 
They will always be a more 

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successful man. 
There will always be a more 

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qualified woman. 
There will always be because God

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wants to know what drives you. 
There will always be somebody 

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who outperforms. 
And seriously, it's wonderful to

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come top 10 in your school, but 
in five years time no one will 

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remember. 
Of course you must achieve your 

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goals and you must achieve your 
potential because God gave it to

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you. 
But the motivation is what the 

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book of Ecclesiastes says. 
What motivates you? 

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What, what what? 
What motivates you? 

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Can you imagine, for instance, 
if it talks about giving, 

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closing this hand? 
Can you imagine? 

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Because in Pretoria E, 
satisfaction is derived from 

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acquiring more and more. 
That's how Pretoria East works. 

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Can you imagine if satisfaction 
was acquired by lowering our 

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desires? 
Can you imagine that? 

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Can you imagine that we found 
peace not by the addition of 

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stuff, but by the subtraction of
stuff? 

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Why don't you give some of your 
stuff away? 

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There's not enough room in your 
garage for the stuff. 

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Why don't you give some of the 
stuff away and see what I mean? 

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This is a very wealthy man. 
He's getting 140 million Rand 

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every hour coming to his bank 
account, Solomon, And he's 

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saying, actually, you know what?
It's worthless. 

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So why don't you just live 
slightly simply simpler, Amen. 

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And how much of it is done by 
greed? 

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Just this man who just works all
night works. 

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And we're why friend to please 
your boss or to make yourself 

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look successful amongst your 
peers. 

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And we go back to our school 
reunions and say, hey, check the

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car I drive. 
Why don't you just drive a 

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lesser car and spend more 
quality time with your children?

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David was a bad father. 
Solomon was a worse father. 

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I want to be a good dad. 
So I want to just share with you

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5 very simple things about the 
blessing of loving my neighbor. 

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The 1st is simply this 2 is 
better than one. 

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That's just the way God says it.
2 is better than one community 

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is better than being alone. 
If you sin in this nation and 

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you go to court, what do they do
with you? 

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If you've sinned, the punishment
that you get is to be taken out 

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of society. 
So you're not worthy to be a 

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member of society. 
So we will take you out of 

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society. 
That's the punishment. 

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And inside of that new 
institution, what's the greatest

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punishment, isolation or 
solitary confinement? 

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Solitary confinement is the 
greatest punishment. 

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And yet depression pushes us 
outside to the edge. 

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We sit by ourselves. 
I want to say to your community 

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is better than sitting depressed
in your home. 

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It's better Solomon. 
Solomon went through the whole 

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lot and he said, I'm telling you
to be together is better than to

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be alone. 2 are better than one.
So when your mind says but I 

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don't, I don't don't leave 
because you squeeze a toothpaste

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tube differently or you watch TV
differently or as Christian said

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to us when he preached one day, 
he says, you white guys name the

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fish as black oaks. 
Eat the fish. 

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He says, why do you spend so 
much time naming the thing? 

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Just eat it. 
That's why you caught it. 

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Quite practical, isn't it? 
See Christian, how are we going 

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to work this thing out together?
Bro? 

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We have to work it because 
because two, it's better than 

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one. 
Do you believe that? 

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If you believe that, then you 
have to invest. 

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Just look at your look at your 
bank statement and see whether 

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it's true for you or if 
everything is going into your 

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own family. 
I want to love my neighbor. 

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Our neighbor you saw last week 
bought me bread like a 

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sourdough. 
Afrikaans bread tastes better 

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when Afrikaans make it. 
I don't know why. 

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English oaks weren't meant to 
make like, stuff in the kitchen.

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So when a Buddha brings a 
sourdough, it's lacquer. 

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English oak brings. 
It's not so lacquer. 

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So I've got a little Rachel Kita
beer there and then I'm a 

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commissioner of Oath so I can 
actually stamp. 

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I can stamp and say that it's 
legitimate. 

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So my next door neighbors needed
a stamp because they've got some

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documents that need to go in. 
So so they came across and I 

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stamped it Signature pay back 
for the sourdough. 

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No money joking. 
It's just we, we together 2 is 

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better than one. 
And then our lawnmower broke 

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last week. 
And you know, when you pull that

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thing into just, you pull the 
whole thing. 

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Now you're left with this thing 
and Mel doesn't phone me because

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if I can't fix it with pre stick
or with super glue, I'll call it

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expert. 
So Mel, they're like, what 

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should I do? 
Like 2 are better than one. 

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Those Afrikaans soaks across our
don't know what to do the 

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sourdough guys. 
So Mel says, listen, our 

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lawnmower is broken. 
I don't worry. 

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We'll send our gardener with our
lawnmower to your house because 

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2 is better than one. 
Amen. 

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Now you imagine if we could take
that and harness that into this 

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community and get out of our 
self hatred, oppression, control

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oppression. 
We love to control, stop 

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controlling and actually just 
started serving one another like

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Clint did today with his 
sidekick. 800 cappuccinos came 

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out of that machine. 
I don't know how many came out 

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of that machine. 
And you know, last week there 

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was a man standing here. 
He went to the cappuccino 

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machines and he just spent how 
much He bought 650 cappuccinos 

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because he's busy and he's 
working and he's got a big job. 

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So he just said the next 650 
cappuccinos are by them. 

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They went today, Boo. 
Because 2 are better than 1/2 

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are better than one. 
Amen. 

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You're with me to get that in 
your mind 2 are better than one.

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I love to be my myself because 
my opinion always wins. 

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Snake catcher rebuilding a model
house Golf, New CNN Bible 

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programs Creflo Dollar TD Jakes,
Joyce Meyer. 

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Andrew Womack with that 
fireplace in the back, that's 

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not a proper fireplace. 
Great teaching, horrible 

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fireplace. 
I think if I could combine your 

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teaching with my fireplace, we 
could make a good combination, 

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Andrew. 
Because they show a good, they 

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show a good return for their 
work. 

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They show a good return. 
The 1st is community is good. 

451
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,040
The second it increases 
productivity. 

452
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,440
Let me talk to you about my wife
and I. 

453
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,840
Now we've all got different and,
and, and many of you, we have to

454
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,160
work now because the economy is 
so tough. 

455
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,720
Most of you have to work. 
So they're both people working. 

456
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,360
But when when we got married, we
decided she had her own 

457
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:12,520
business. 
She was delivering to 

458
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,920
restaurants. 
She had a successful business. 

459
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,000
She used to wake up at 4, bake 4
restaurants. 

460
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,440
She was cut. 
And then we got married and we 

461
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,320
both worked and then we had 
children and we used to counsel 

462
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,840
together. 
We got pictures of our kids 

463
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,960
lying under dining room tables, 
counselling people married. 

464
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,640
And then when our kids got 
slightly older, we thought, 

465
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,080
actually, you know what we need 
to do. 

466
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,520
We need to separate our roles. 
I'll play an executive role. 

467
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,800
You play a domestic role, the 
away game and the home game. 

468
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,680
But you have to put the same 
value on them, otherwise the one

469
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,640
that makes money gets power and 
the one that doesn't make money 

470
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,240
gets subjected. 
And so we said we will play 

471
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,080
different roles, but they'll 
have the same value. 

472
00:28:54,200 --> 00:29:00,520
It has to, but we are so 
indoctrinated by the world that 

473
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,400
we start becoming contractual 
and say but I did this and I 

474
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,360
earned this and you did that and
I bought you this and you and 

475
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,200
before you know it, 2 are no 
longer better than one. 

476
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:14,280
We're starting to fight now 
because the enemy's got in and 

477
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,400
I've got 18 months left until my
last son leaves school and my 

478
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,680
first son will turn 30. 
That means for 30 years she's 

479
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,040
played a domestic role, a home 
game, and I've played the away 

480
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,000
game. 
And we've been sitting down over

481
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,560
the last few weeks and say, what
does it mean for our 

482
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,720
productivity now, sweetie? 
So I said, what can I do? 

483
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,720
She said, well, I think what you
can do, you can come closer to 

484
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,680
me in the home. 
Why don't I teach you how to 

485
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,800
cook? 
I'm, I'm being dead serious. 

486
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,600
And I said, what, what did you? 
She said, why don't you teach me

487
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,520
how you study the Bible? 
And so so we've bought some 

488
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,720
books now on on a book that I 
won't tell you because because 

489
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,160
she needs to come into my world 
now because our kids have left. 

490
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,240
Now we no longer have this dual 
role. 

491
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,880
They so she has to come into my 
world, but I have to come into 

492
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200
her world too, because we 
because 2 are better than one. 

493
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,680
Does it make sense? 
And friends, we've got these 

494
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,560
things in our partnerships that 
are completely differently 

495
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,880
valued and it's causing tension 
instead of building bridges. 

496
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,800
Amen. 
Built together. 

497
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,360
You know, they say if you're my 
kids can do 150 KG bench press, 

498
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,280
I can too if I've got a 
pneumatic drill underneath it. 

499
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,400
But if you can push 1:50 and 
another person could push one 

500
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,400
5300, if you put them under the 
same bar they push 400. 

501
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,440
So don't fight with the 
leadership of the church. 

502
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,760
Work together because 2 are 
better than one. 

503
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,320
They have greater productivity 
for their work. 

504
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:04,360
We get more stuff done. 
If one falls down, his friend 

505
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,600
can help him up. 
But pretty the man who falls and

506
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,360
has no one to help him up. 
It brings us stability, brings 

507
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,440
us stability. 
Also. 

508
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,520
If two lie down together, they 
will keep warm. 

509
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,240
But how can one keep warm alone?
I want to call every Rokuki de 

510
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,280
beer inside of this auditorium 
to use the warmth of your body 

511
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,560
and the warmth of your money and
the warmth of your qualification

512
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,520
to come close to people who are 
cold and to help them to 

513
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,880
survive. 
When times are tough and the 

514
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,360
snowstorms are hitting and they 
inexperienced and young and 

515
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:46,400
stupid and isolating themselves,
use your warmth to keep them 

516
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,640
warm. 
Though one may be overpowered, 2

517
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,720
can defend themselves. 
A court of three strands has not

518
00:31:54,720 --> 00:32:00,840
quickly broken a security. 
My dad was once attacked by 8 

519
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,040
people in Durban surrounded him.
I said dad, what did you do? 

520
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,680
He said China. 
I put my back against the wall, 

521
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,280
so now I was facing all eight. 
I found out who the leader was 

522
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,160
and I told him that if anybody 
does anything, I'm going to go 

523
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,040
for him and I'm going to kill 
him. 

524
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,440
I said, what do they do? 
You said they all ran away. 

525
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,200
I said, why did you do that? 
They said because you just got 

526
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,600
to pick the leader. 
But you see friends, it's the 

527
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,360
Bible says it's better to have 
another man standing behind your

528
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,360
back, not a wall because you can
see that side. 

529
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,880
And then it says a three 
stranded chord is not it's not 

530
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,680
just for marriage. 3 is better 
than two, and four is better 

531
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,360
than three. 
And five is better than 4. 

532
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,840
And 6 is better than 5. 
And 7 is better than 6. 

533
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,880
And 8 is better than 7, and 9 is
better than 8 and 10 is better 

534
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:05,080
than 9. 
But we are rugged individualists

535
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:15,320
and Solomon says you're going to
die horrible lonely lives if you

536
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:20,760
do not invest in people and most
of them will never be able to 

537
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:27,800
pay you back. 
Do the maths on your bank 

538
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,000
account and ask yourself this 
question. 

539
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,520
Who are you living for? 
God bless you.