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I just want to tell you a story 
quickly about this tent. 

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We bought a tent while we're 
building this building and we 

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have some friends down in in the
tail who have now bought a piece

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of land and they need a tent. 
And so we decided that we would 

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donate. 
We're going to sell the tent and

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but actually God has been good 
to us. 

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So we didn't need to sell the 
tent. 

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And somehow Eugene, through a 
set of relationships, realize we

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can actually sow the tent to 
them. 

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But it's quite a thing to take 
your tent down and transport. 

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It costs a lot of money. 
Time you can imagine, goes into 

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containers, goes by truck. 
And there's a man in this 

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church, many of you will never, 
ever meet him, but he is in this

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church. 
He said, I don't want to be a 

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lead in this church. 
I don't want to be a worship 

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leader. 
I want to be a Home group 

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leader. 
But he's a practical man. 

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And we, when we originally had 
our tent, we had a a generator 

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from China, which we thought was
like a good idea to buy. 

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But the generators from China 
don't last that long. 

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It's just like era one O 1. 
Don't buy a generator from 

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China, China, but we bought a 
generator from China. 

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You're the most amazing thing. 
Our generator never broke down. 

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It just kept working and 
working. 

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And every time we looked at the 
generator was like in peak 

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working condition. 
It was like unbelievers, like 

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God thought, I will look after 
your generator. 

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But God doesn't do it. 
He works through people. 

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And one day Eugene arrived here 
and he found this foreign guy 

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who's not a worship leader 
working on a generator. 

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He said, what you doing? 
He said, well, the only thing I 

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can do in the church is look 
after generators. 

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So what I did is I imported all 
the parts from China and every 

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month I service your generator, 
which we were completely 

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oblivious. 
We just thought we had this 

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unbelievable Chinese, this 
unbelievable Chinese generator. 

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It was like absolutely 
unbelievable. 

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And then we had to phone this 
guy because the crane broke down

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to say, hey, listen, the crane 
is broken down. 

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He said, how are you getting the
tent down to Natal? 

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He said, well, we, we, we have 
to hire it. 

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He said, no, no, I will take the
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got a flatbed that can load the 
container to take. 

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The church is built in very 
amazing and beautiful ways. 

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So there are heroes in this 
church that we'll never know. 

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And so the heroes are not the 
guys who fool the pulpit or the 

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guys who lead the band. 
The heroes are people who fix 

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generators. 
Yeah, and and the heroes are 

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Barry and Liesel and Ella. 
Because last week Barry got onto

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the stage and by the end of 
Sunday his ex-wife had SMS me to

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say thank you for honoring my 
ex-husband. 

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That's how the church works. 
And then three days later we got

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a message from Australia, from 
his daughter-in-law to my wife 

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saying thanks for honoring my 
father-in-law. 

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That's how the church works. 
It works in funny and amazing 

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ways. 
This beautiful young lady here, 

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I dedicated her as a child in 
their home. 

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They were the first people who 
taught me about biblical 

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generosity. 
This couple, I dedicated this 

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little girl and then I did her 
wedding to this beautiful man. 

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I did her wedding. 
And 15 minutes before the 

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wedding, which was meant to be 
on the Leisure Isle beach, this 

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massive storm came through and 
literally blew everything. 

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And we sat there and thought, I 
remember walking into their 

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house and one of the bridesmaids
looking at me at like, you're 

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thinking what now? 
And I thought this is God, This 

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is God because they were all in 
the upper room, They were in the

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upper room, she was in her 
parents bedroom waiting to walk 

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down the aisle on this beach. 
And this wind came and destroyed

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the place I went to me and God 
completely redesigned the 

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wedding and her mum, who is this
absolute hosting queen, had put 

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together these floral 
arrangements in her home. 

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And so her daughter and said 
again made on the beach, got 

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married amongst these flowers in
their home. 

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And God took that which could 
have been an absolute disaster 

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and turned it into something 
absolutely beautiful in the most

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amazing way. 
And so I get to do church with 

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these people. 
And then I went and had 

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breakfast with some people from 
the church afterwards down in in

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in George and they said, how did
the wedding Guy said the wedding

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went amazingly. 
It was a fun Rensburg who 

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married an English girl and and 
and I said, but actually his his

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maiden name was base And the guy
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was base and we realized that 
they were cousins. 

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They would just like to know why
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wedding. 
But, but, but, but be that 

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anyway, be that as it may, I 
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this church, a lady, She's 30 
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She's one of my very dear 
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And I got invited to a 30th 
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And it was on a Sunday, which is
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preach on a Sunday morning. 
I'm up early normally at 5:00. 

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And I saw my neighbors. 
Yes, I see you here today. 

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And I saw you were running at 
5:00. 

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I saw them go out and they came 
back at about 6:45. 

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The wife was in front of the 
husband. 

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But anyway, so, so nice to have 
you. 

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So nice to have you. 
And she had finished stretching 

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before he made it up the hill. 
But you know, it's so nice to 

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have you. 
And so I don't like to have 

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functions on on Sundays because 
it's busy. 

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I get up at normally 4:30 five. 
I prepare, I come and preach, I 

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go home, have something to eat, 
have a sleep and then come and 

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preach in the evening. 
But now I had this 30 year 

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function of a black girl. 
So I arrived there on time, or 

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my time, my time and African 
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And to my absolute horror, I 
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girl who's having her 30th never
had a watch on. 

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So I thought, Oh my hat, he's 
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proceedings. 
And then the mother didn't have 

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a watch on either. 
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who was quite instrumental. 
She looked sort of matriarchal 

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in the whole process. 
She never had a watch on either 

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and nor did the sister and the 
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And I thought, Oh my head, this 
is going to be a long afternoon.

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So I'm just looking at my 
because we all live by time, 

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don't we? 
We all woke up today by time. 

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I never woke up on purpose at 
5:00. 

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I woke up on purpose because of 
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We all work with time, don't we?
Time completely and utterly 

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dictates our lives. 
Yes or no completely. 

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I mean, psychologists charge per
hour, yes or no. 

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Doctors charge per appointment. 
It's amazing how many 

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appointments they can fit in an 
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Advocates charge per second. 
It's, it's just the whole, the, 

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the whole thing is, I mean, the 
whole thing works. 

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The whole thing works on the 
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All works on time. 
And now I'm, I'm looking at this

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event and I'm thinking it's 40 
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But they're not worried about 
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their daughter. 
This is not a time event. 

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This is an honouring event. 
So we're not on the watch. 

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We're here to experience 
something different. 

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We are here to experience 30 
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wonderful, creative geniuses 
life and it's not going to be 

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rushed by the clock. 
So the dad got 7 minutes and he 

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spoke for 20. 
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no, I'm going to put my watch 
away and I'm going to enjoy what

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God is doing here because this 
is tov. 

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This is good. 
To eat and drink together is 

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good. 
So what we do is we just shorten

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all these things because we've 
got time issues already. 

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You're worrying and thinking 
what time I'm going to get out 

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here because I've got to rush to
my booking, which is at 

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Voivatello because that's what I
do every Sunday on my clock 

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according to time. 
And we have become slaves to 

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time and lost the value of 
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Yes or no. 
And so we're going to look at 

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the next little verse of 
Ecclesiastes, which is all about

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time. 
And I can tell you, when I left 

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that lunch, I got into my car 
hours after I thought I would 

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leave. 
And in my heart I felt this 

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unbelievable satisfaction. 
I thought I saw a girl honored 

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today, freed up from the tyranny
of the clock. 

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Freed from the tyranny of the 
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And just when I thought it was 
all coming to an end, her dad 

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stood up again. 
He had seven. 

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He took 20. 
Then he stood up again because 

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he's her dad. 
And I want to tell you, there 

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are thousands of people in this 
auditorium that wish their dad 

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would stand up again. 
That just wish that maybe their 

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dad would stand up and say, I 
want to say one more thing. 

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I just want to say one more 
thing about you. 

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And then the aunt stood up and 
she started to sing. 

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It wasn't her turn. 
It wasn't according to the 

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order. 
And then she stood up and she 

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started to sing. 
And the presence of God came 

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down. 
And then I think I almost had to

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leave, but she's my friend. 
And then she looked at me. 

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She said, you're not leaving 
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but I'm running out of time. 
Said no, but you're going to 

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speak because you're now friends
and I want to hear what you have

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to say over me. 
That's the next part of 

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Ecclesiastes. 
And so, friends, maybe some of 

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you will not remember this song,
but most of you, you will. 

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There's a guy who made millions 
of dollars from adding three 

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words to a scripture, and the 
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just turn, turn, turn. 
And the rest of it is the Bible.

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We're going to listen to the 
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Some of you remember it, the 
rest of you just get stuck by 

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it, and then we're going to read
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There is a season, time to turn 
to and play, a time to every 

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purpose under heaven, a time to 
be born, a time to die, a time 

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to bed, a time to be, a time to 
kill, a time to heal, a time to 

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have. 
A time to be to everything. 

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Turn, turn, turn. 
There is a season, turn, turn. 

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And there time to every purpose 
unto heaven. 

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A time to build. 
A time to bring out. 

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A time to dance, A time to buy. 
One time to castaway stones, one

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time to gather stones together 
to everything. 

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Turn. 
Turn. 

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Turn there is a season, turn, 
turn, turn and there time to 

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every purpose of our time of 
love, our time of hate, our time

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of war, our time of peace, our 
time you may embrace our time to

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you pray that embracing. 
They feed the Bible, so that is 

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the number one song that hit the
American charts in 1962. 

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So let's read it straight from 
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There is a time for everything. 
Say that with me. 

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There's a time for everything 
and a season for every activity 

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under heaven. 
A time to be born and a time to 

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die. 
A time to plant and a time to 

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have root. 
A time to kill and a time to 

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heal. 
A time to tear down and a time 

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to build scripture that we 
always read at funerals. 

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Isn't it Funerals of Christians 
and non Christians? 

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Funerals of statesman and 
paupers? 

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Time to tear down and a time to 
build. 

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A time to weep and a time to 
laugh. 

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A time to mourn and a time to 
dance. 

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A time to scatter stones and a 
time to gather them. 

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A time to embrace and a time to 
refrain. 

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I've not understood that just 
yet. 

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I just think we shouldn't hug, 
would have prevented COVID and 

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most people can say no you don't
like to hug but it's a time to 

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refrain and all your dealings 
with me refrain and I'm a pastor

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to refrain. 
There's a time to search and a 

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time to give up. 
I'll never forget as I was 

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reading this, we had a very dear
friend, Elliott Sangeka, Zulu 

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man used to be on our team and 
he adopted a little boy, Elijah.

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We had a home for abandoned 
babies and he adopted this 

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little boy, Elijah, whose name 
was Tulani, the quiet one who 

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never ever spoke because he was 
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road. 
And Elijah grew up into this 

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magnificent young man, broad 
shouldered, good looking, looked

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just like his dad. 
And in COVID, his dad died. 

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The time to be born and the time
to die. 

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I remember his friends, one of 
our friends who owns Thirsty 

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Water, sent his airplane up to 
Joburg to pick up Elijah to fly 

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him down so he could be with his
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And then he was with his mum and
the family mourned the loss of 

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their dad. 
And then a group of friends went

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down to the coastline to go and 
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And in one freak wave, Elijah 
got sucked out to the sea. 

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And for 10 days I watched that 
family searched the coastline 

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and my friend who owns Thirsty 
sent his aeroplanes down and the

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aeroplanes were going up and 
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There's a time to search. 
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remember Dolly, his mum, saying 
to everybody and it's now a time

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to give up searching. 
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brokenness in her voice, but she
resigned herself to the 

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sovereignty of God, knowing that
they'll never find her son. 

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And somewhere out there, we 
don't know what happened to him.

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But in that absolute question 
mark, she never questioned the 

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goodness of God. 
She just put that understanding 

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of that season into the nature 
of God. 

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And friends, this is what 
happens. 

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This is five and a half thousand
pieces. 

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This took five people 10 hours 
to build. 

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And you cannot build this 
without a plan because if you 

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get 5 1/2 thousand pieces put 
into your lap and you get told 

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to build this thing, you'll 
build something that looks 

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absolutely grotesque. 
It doesn't matter how much this 

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thing is built according to a 
plan. 

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And that plan has got place. 
That plan has got relationships.

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That plan has got time. 
That plan has got processes and 

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in those processes the time to 
search and it's time to give up.

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And sitting in this auditorium 
today, because we're here 

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together, we are on the journey 
together. 

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Theology has worked out 
together. 

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We are individualistic, but 
theology has worked out 

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together. 
Sitting in this auditorium is a 

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woman who has lost a very loved 
one to suicide recently and is 

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sitting here wrestling with the 
goodness of God and battling to 

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see the end product of what God 
is doing. 

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And the only way, the only way 
that we can put those five and a

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half thousand pieces together is
by going back to the plan. 

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It's going to take time, it's 
going to take energy, it's going

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to take effort, It's going to 
take perseverance. 

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The people who built it are 
already crossed with me. 

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But many of your lives are 
sitting like this and we're 

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looking at it and thinking, God,
where are you? 

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And you say, I am in with you in
my time. 

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You say, but God, how, how are 
we going to put this all back 

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together? 
So I've got a plan for you. 

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I've got a plan for you, sick. 
But she left. 

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She walked out. 
She left him with the kids. 

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He walked out, said Rory. 
You don't know. 

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You don't know what my son is 
going through. 

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You've got no idea as you preach
this perfect picture of a space 

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shop. 
You've got no idea. 

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I have every idea, friends. 
I'm just a earthly pastor. 

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Can you imagine my heavenly 
pastor looking down at this and 

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saying, Hey guys, I'm perfectly 
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There is a time to be born and a
time to die, a time to kill and 

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a time to heal these 
unbelievable extremes. 

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You know when you do weddings, 
you stand in front of people and

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you say, say your vows for 
better, for worse. 

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We say that in front of 
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But when worse happens, we think
your better is better, worse not

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so Lacquer for richer for 
poorer. 

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Rich is better. 
I mean, Dolly Parton said I've 

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been rich and I've been poor. 
She's rich is better. 

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But we get married for richer 
for parents. 

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And when we go through stuff, we
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I'm going to swap him out for 
another one because actually the

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reason I married him was for for
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To become this perfect thing 
that God wants to design with 

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time and experience and 
intervention and relationships. 

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And yes, we can't fix that. 
It might not be this week, but 

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it'll be fixed In sickness and 
in health. 

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In sickness and in health. 
Married, 42 years, healthy, 

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running, successful operator, 
doyen of the insurance industry,

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self-made man in a 1300 Corolla,
travelling all over the country,

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building a building and in one 
moment of putting a heart stent,

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there's a stroke that takes 
place that incapacitates him and

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absolutely wrestles his way 
through health. 

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In and out of hospital, blood 
transfusions, in sickness and in

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health. 
It's much better when he's 

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healthy. 
But I've watched your tests and 

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I'm proud of you. 
You should wrestle this thing 

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through. 
And then I'm about to marry 

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them, about to marry this little
girl, and the beach has been 

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blown away. 
The beach venue has been blown 

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away. 
And we never knew if he would 

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make the wedding. 
He was in hospital just a few 

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weeks before. 
Touch and go, touch and go, 

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touch and go. 
And then as the marriage 

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officer, I watched him walking 
this beautiful girl down the 

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stairs of his house. 
And I think, my God, you've just

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invaded time. 
Guys, this is Ecclesiastes is is

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this just put your watch away 
and, and let, let her dad speak 

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again. 
Let her dad stand up again, let 

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her dad stand up again and enjoy
the company of the people that 

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used to take her to school when 
she was at Junior School. 

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And the and the young lady who 
came and sat next to me. 

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I grew up with her in the old 
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And she told me her one 
brother's in Los Angeles, her 

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other brother's in New York, her
other brother who sister's in 

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Sweden. 
And we had a chance to talk. 

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We never we just greet each 
other at church. 

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We don't have a chance to just 
sit. 

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And he says this time thing. 
You see what happens friends in 

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Ecclesiastes, is it 2 times? 
There's this time which we get 

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trapped in and there's the 
eternal time of God and we get 

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trapped here and we think what 
happens when it doesn't go well 

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here, we start to blame God. 
He says, but you're trapped by 

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time. 
I'm not trapped by time. 

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One of the commentators said. 
It's like watching a rag parade.

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You can only see the float that 
is in front of you. 

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And he says, when the rag queen 
comes, you sort of follow that 

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one, he says, but actually God's
perspective is he comes out of 

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the parade and he watches the 
whole thing, all 50 floats on 

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the top. 
And the Bible says he sees the 

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end from the beginning. 
He sees the end from the 

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beginning. 
And so I want to just share 3 or

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4 things with you today because 
I see, oh sheepish creepers, A 

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time to embrace and a time to 
refrain. 

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A time to search and a time to 
give up. 

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Can you give up some things 
today and give them to God? 

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Time to keep and a time to throw
away my dad's jerseys. 

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My dad's smell was caught in the
fragrance of a Pringle jersey. 

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I remember getting invited by 
Jag to go to that uphill race in

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Nazna. 
All happens in Nazna. 

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I just want to thank the Clack 
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Pansy shells in an amstel. 
Yeah, in an Amstel thing. 

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Thank you very much. 
Thank you very much. 

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Thank you very much. 
Have time to all happens. 

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All happens in Nazna. 
Please collect the Pansy shell. 

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And I remember, I remember so, 
so it's a it's a Jag function 

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and I've got my dad's Jeep 
jacket on because it smells like

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my dad and and I just wasn't 
aware. 

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I know it's not right to wear 
Jeep to a Jag function, but I 

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walked in there and the dealer 
principle, he said, why do you 

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wear Jeep flipping jacket to a 
Jag function? 

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And I thought because it reminds
me of my dad and relationships 

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are more important to me than 
brands, and actually the smell 

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of my dad right now is what I 
need. 

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It's a time to keep and then 
it's a time to give away. 

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And some of you have to clear 
out your cupboards now. 

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You've got too much stuff in 
your cupboards, you've got too 

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many old clothes, you've got too
many old memories, you've got 

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too many old things that you've 
got to give them away. 

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And I remember the last jersey I
gave him, my dad was a Pringle 

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jersey which which which smelt 
like him. 

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And on the anniversary of my 
dad's death, my mum put some 

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money in each of the children's 
accounts. 

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I think my son was 12 or 
13/12/13. 

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My mum just put some money. 
He said just just a blessing. 

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Buy something that will remind 
you of Pops and this little 12 

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year old 13. 
I said to Mel, can you just drop

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me at Woodlands? 
He said, but what are you going 

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to do? 
He said no, just drop me at 

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Woodlands. 
Dropped her at Woodlands and he 

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came back and he had bought a 
Pringle jersey. 

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Said what boy? 
He said said, hey dad, this 

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reminds me of pops now when I 
see him wear that jersey. 

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Doesn't smell like my dad 
anymore, smells like my son. 

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Because the season has changed. 
The season has changed, season 

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has changed and the Bible says 
God makes everything beautiful 

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and it's time. 
Everything. 

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I haven't even touched my notes 
and I'm not going to get there. 

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I don't know how I'm going to 
build this for tonight to break 

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it again. 
When your engine feels like it's

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been disconnected from 
everything else, I just want to 

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tell you, Solomon is wrestling 
with all this stuff. 

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Wrestling, but he's saying God's
going to put this all back 

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together again. 
I want to show you a painting 

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that looks like a potato. 
It's a cross painter. 

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Then I'm going to pray and we're
going to be finished. 

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So what is your talent? 
What will you be performing 

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today? 
I'm a speed painter and I'm 

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going to do a painting in a 
minute and 1/2 or less, all 

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right. 
Here we go. 

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Let's hear for D Westream have. 
You had about two. 

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All right. 
Do you have one minute left? 

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Here we go. 
What? 

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Do you think it is? 
I don't know. 45 seconds Ding 

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and. 
Not even a tree, I've never got 

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some color going on. 
OK, 30 seconds. 

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Ding, you've seen something. 
Before Come on guys, we can 

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figure this out. 
I don't think he has too much. 

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Time. 
No, it looks like a pair. 

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OK, A. 
Potato. 

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All right, it's coming down to 
the wire. 15 seconds D. 

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Come on. 
Give us 232 one. 

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Let's see. 
It looks like a potato. 

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That's what they said. 
It looks like a potato. 

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But the Bible says God makes 
everything beautiful in its 

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time. 
You say, Rory, my stuff. 

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Yep. 
Everything beautiful in its 

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time. 
Ben, bring your daughter up 

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here. 
Please. 

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Let the microphone, Clint. 
Let me sit with him here. 

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This is the man who services 
Chinese generators, and he calls

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this church home. 
And we love having you in this 

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church and the way you look 
after your family and treat your

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children. 
It's phenom, you know. 

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Pray for us. 
Once we all mark the Hohotin's 

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father here was donkey here that
he can deal with was a good 

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familiar donkey for our work 
here that Ian from Dwarin unos 

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layers and recurse for this he 
met Elkin and he has no more 

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men. 
God's busy with you. 

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He's in your time. 
He's in your time, giving away 

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dying time, suicide. 
God's with you. 

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He's busy with you. 
He's working with you. 

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God bless you. 
Amen.