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Good morning and it's wonderful 
to be with you today. 

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It's an honor for me to be 
invited to come and to stand 

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before you and to speak for you 
today. 

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And to open the word of God, I 
have never been here before. 

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This is my first time, so it's 
a, it's a delight. 

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It is an honor, it's a joy. 
And I've anticipated this look 

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forward to this for some time, 
glad to have my wife and one of 

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my daughters with me and then 
When a young man who is aspiring

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to be an evangelist named Darcy 
with with us today and, of 

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course, those of you who may not
know me, my name is Jimmy cating

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and I am working with the 
congregation in Oakdale 

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California. 
My my family and I we moved here

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about two years ago to 
California from the big state of

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Texas. 
And before that we lived in 

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Oklahoma, And we live there 
worked with the church there. 

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For three years, then we worked 
with the church in Texas for 17 

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years. 
Where pennies brother goes to 

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church David Tate and so had 
wonderful, wonderful 

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opportunities. 
And this is a, this is a great 

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blessing to be here. 
We love California. 

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Actually, we've enjoyed the work
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foundation. 
That has been laid before we got

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here, much, thanks goes to 
brother Frank and the work that 

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he has done with the leadership 
there at Oakdale. 

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So I'm humbled to be here. 
I'm thankful, I'm grateful to be

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here and anytime I'm invited to 
speak to someone about the 

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gospel of Christ. 
That is the greatest blessing. 

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There is that is the, the joy of
my life and I hope and I pray 

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that that I will never take that
for granted. 

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This morning to introduce our 
thoughts. 

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As you can see on the screen, 
I'd like to take our reading 

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from John chapter 5. 
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1, an incident that occurred in 
the life of Jesus, that is 

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really profound powerful. 
After this, there was a feast of

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the Jews and Jesus went up to 
Jerusalem. 

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Now there is in Jerusalem by the
Sheep gate, a pool, which is 

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called in Hebrew, Bethesda 
having five, porches in these 

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lay a great multitude of sick. 
People blind lame paralyzed, 

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waiting for the moving of the 
water for an angel, went down at

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a certain time into the pool and
stirred up the water. 

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Then whoever stepped in first 
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was made well of whatever 
disease he had. 

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Now, a certain man was there who
had an infirmity thirty eight 

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years. 
When Jesus saw him lying there 

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and knew that he had already 
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time, he said to him, do you 
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Well, the sick man, answered 
him, sir. 

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I have no one, no man to put me 
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stirred up. 
But while I am coming another 

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steps down before me. 
And Jesus said to him, rise, 

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take up your bed and walk and 
immediately the man was made. 

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Well took up his bed and walked 
and that day was the Sabbath. 

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Wow. 
What a what a great record of an

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amazing miracle. 
That was performed on a man, 

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that was in a condition. 
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So this morning, I want to talk 
about this story and make some 

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application in the less. 
It'll be years before we go into

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it any further though. 
We want to pause to pray many on

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our hearts no doubt and then our
minds that need our prayers. 

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So let us humble in some fashion
while we pray together, it's too

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late. 
It's too late. 

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It's too late. 
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most effective tools. 
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destructive lies. 
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it, the truer, it seems to be 
The phrase it is too. 

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Late has been declared by the 
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It is said by the couple who 
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they're having problems. 
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And they have what seemed to be 
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But instead of getting help, 
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had for divorce saying it's too 
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Two grown adults, sisters. 
Who haven't spoken to each other

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in years. 
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schedules and coordinate their 
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While their mother is in a 
hospice care as to avoid talking

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to each other. 
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another. 
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don't you talk? 
Why don't you reconcile? 

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Let's say it's too late. 
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A 19 year old young man. 
Struggling with a serious 

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addiction. 
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When he's encouraged to talk to 
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overcome the same problem, he 
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19 years old. 
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That's the response of many who 
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neglect of rebellion who are now
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guilt. 
And shame because of their sins 

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but they feel like it is too 
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And so, this lie, it is too 
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It is resounded Into The Echoes 
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And it it creates a helpless 
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perspective. 
The kids are too old. 

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The marriage is too cold. 
And our friend is too angry, the

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debt is too overwhelming. 
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the reputation. 
It is to shot the sin, it's too 

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great. 
It's too late, and that's a lie.

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And that's a lie that the word 
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through. 
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God is bright enough to 
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hopeless condition. 
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that it is not too late. 
It is not too late to start 

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over, it is not too late to make
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It is not too late to say, I'm 
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It is not too late to be 
forgiven. 

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And for the sins to be 
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It's not. 
Too late. 

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Well, in John chapter 5, Jesus 
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A man who is in a situation that
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late to change. 
He Jesus entering Jerusalem 

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arrives at a pool called 
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And this is where a multitude of
sick people would lay around and

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wait in the hopes of healing 
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Lame paralyzed. 
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for the moving of the water. 
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Would come down at a certain 
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up the water. 
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Here in the text to me it seems 
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believe that John is actually 
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explain a local Superstition or 
an expectation. 

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John is letting us understand 
the mindset of the multitude and

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thus this is merely an 
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that these Waters of Bethesda 
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Some believe that they did some 
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Merely a Superstition Kaufman 
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any virtue in the waters of the 
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that they should have been 
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indeterminate intervals only for
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only for the person who got into
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That seems to make sense to me. 
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Holy and loving and fair God, 
would he would allow such a cure

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only for the first one in and 
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people to rush and push and make
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unfair, a little dis organized, 
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whatever the case is, Regarding 
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This was a place where people 
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Hope. 
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help. 
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have this insertion as well. 
Now, a certain man was there who

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had had an infirmity for 38 
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years, just look at your life, 
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maybe you are. 
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how old you are 38 years, that's
a long time, 38 years that's 

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nearly 14,000 days, 14,000 days 
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things haven't changed very much
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He had this problem and he was 
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Days and I'm not sure exactly 
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But after enough days and weeks 
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he would lose optimism. 
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That, anything would ever 
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but what's surprising to me is 
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pessimism, he is still at the 
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he is still there holding on 
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had been there for so long. 
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of hope, there's always a chance
to Build a Bridge of Faith and 

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this man is going to experience.
Even though he had been 38 years

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in this condition, on this day, 
it's going to be different 

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because on this day, Jesus is 
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And Friends whenever Jesus 
passes by, it can make a 

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difference. 
It can make a world of 

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difference. 
It can change everything, does 

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it always but it most certainly 
can And in verse 6, Jesus when 

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he saw him lying there and knew 
that he had already been in that

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condition a long time, he said 
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now that is probably one of the 
most intriguing questions we can

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read from the lips of Jesus. 
Do you want to get well, what 

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kind of question is that? 
Because it doesn't it seem a 

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little unnecessary. 
Why, why in the world would a 

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man who is lame be at a pool of 
healing? 

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Don't you want to get? 
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The question seems fairly 
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But this question is far from 
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In fact, this is the common 
methodology that Jesus utilizes 

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in his approach with people in 
Mark, chapter 10 and verse 51. 

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He says to a blind, man. 
What can I do for you? 

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Isn't that obvious? 
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Do you want to get well? 
Unnecessary. 

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Not at all. 
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more, I preach, the more I can 
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Because here's what I've learned
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There's a lot of people who like
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they don't really want to get 
better. 

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There's a lot of people who want
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But they don't want to change. 
There's a lot of people who 

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don't mind opening up their 
Bibles reading, it makes them 

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feel good. 
They even like to listen to 

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sermons, but they're not 
interested in doing anything 

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different. 
There's a lot of people who like

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the lifestyle, but they don't 
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And so do you want to get well? 
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because Jesus knew that a person
who doesn't want, help can't be 

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helped. 
Now, that seems cold and 

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calloused, but that's really the
truth. 

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And there's nothing. 
That a preacher can do. 

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There's nothing that a family 
member can do. 

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There's nothing the church can 
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And yay, even Jesus. 
There's nothing that Jesus can 

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do if a person doesn't want. 
To get well. 

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But that raises the question. 
Why wouldn't anyone? 

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Why wouldn't everyone in such a 
sickening? 

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Sad State want to be made? 
Well, why is this question 

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necessary? 
Well, let me give you a couple 

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of possibilities. 
This question is necessary 

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because we can live in such a 
situation for so long that we 

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began to deny the reality or we 
began to unknown, we begin to 

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not notice. the seriousness of 
the situation that we're in, I 

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suppose this is probably the 
case for a man that had been 

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sick for 38 years denying, the 
seriousness of the situation 

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after that long of time, it is 
likely that he lost sight of 

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what life could be like what 
life could actually feel like if

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he were better after all, he was
surrounded day after day, by 

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people who were sick and in 
difficult circumstances and this

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became his All this, became his 
life. 

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This became his identity. and 
when something becomes normal, 

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and something becomes your life 
and your identity, Well, it's 

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kind of difficult to see things 
the way it ought to be and the 

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nature of sin. 
Can cause us. to be lulled into 

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a sense of comfort, a new 
normal, a situation that we 

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don't necessarily like but We're
used to it. 

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And it can deceive us and Lowell
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security. 
The Hebrew writer would tell us 

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in Chapter 13 and verse 13 of 
chapter 3, brother, verse 13, it

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speaks of the deceitfulness of 
sin. 

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We grow accustomed to it, we 
settle with it. 

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I saw a documentary one time. 
I think it was on The Learning 

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Channel, maybe the History 
Channel, one of those 

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documentary channels and it was 
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A man who had a 600 pound tumor?
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psychology of the man who 
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something that could be 
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leave it alone, it would just 
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that's the way it can be with 
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just stay where it is and time, 
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homes, or even in our hearts. 
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realized that it was not going 
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reached the point that he was 
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let things become. 
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help because he was ashamed that
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the shame. 
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well. 
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bad the tumor is in our lives. 
It's much easier to buy into the

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lie that it's too late than to 
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That that things have become so 
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It's much easier to say it's too
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your struggle. 
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too late than to try to 
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that's work and it can get 
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It's a lot easier to say it's 
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and to get the help that you 
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or alcohol addiction, or a 
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gambling habit. 
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ashamed of how our condition has
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just allow it to become our new 
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and seeking help. 
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reality of what is and we stop 
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It's a lot easier to say, I 
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I can never change things. 
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never be forgiven. 
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necessary. 
For repentance. 

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So, do you want to get well, 
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For all of us to ask necessary 
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and most of us is because we 
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because we're afraid of it, 
we're afraid to change. 

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We're afraid because change is 
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Jesus taught us in John 3, and 
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Everyone practicing, evil hates 
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the light. 
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exposed. 
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word. 
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the Gospel to a light in the 
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that does, how painful that can 
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understand your sleep in the 
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light on, you don't like it. 
You went you squit, you throw 

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the blanket over your face. 
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because light Painful to the 
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accustomed. 
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And yet in our own lives and in 
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In our darkness, when others try
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humble and loving in their 
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We don't much appreciate because
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It challenges us. 
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we don't like that. 
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One man said, we can easily 
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the dark. 
The real tragedy of life is when

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men are afraid of the light. 
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Is painful. 
Earl Nightingale wrote, you will

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remain the same until the pain 
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greater than the pain of change.
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also risky. 
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Because in our normal and in our
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expect. 
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are and so it can be risky when 
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steps to change our lives or to 
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There's a lot of benefits to 
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So we don't change. 
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quo, do you know of somebody who
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They kind of like it the kind of
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kind of like the perks that come
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They like the low expectations. 
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sympathy not having to try so 
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spiritual health, so many of us 
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You know, it's not the way that 
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and you're comfortable though 
and you remain in that situation

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because it takes too much risk 
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But Jesus asked the man, do you 
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to notice his response. 
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I have no one. 
I have no man to put me into the

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pool when the water is stirred 
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He doesn't answer the question 
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He answers the question with I 
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I can't do you want to get well?
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explain the excuses as to why he
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In a book written by doctors 
Frank minnerath than Paul Meyer.

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Entitled happiness is a choice. 
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thought was interesting to me 
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psychiatrist we cringe when 
Christian patients used the 

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words I can't and I tried Any 
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can't. 
And I've tried are merely lame 

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excuses. 
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Stop saying can't, and say, 
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evidently when somebody comes 
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some help and they say, I can't 
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make them rephrase that, and 
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along with my wife. 
I can't break this Habit to I 

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won't break this habit. 
I can't get my spending under 

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control to. 
I won't get my spending under 

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control and they have learned 
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the point to where they changed 
their cats to wants, they stop 

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making excuses and they stop 
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They look at their problem in a 
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And for some of us, that is the 
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We just say, I can't. 
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something I've noticed about 
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observation about other people 
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You can correct me if I'm wrong,
it may be your observation to, 

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but people will do. 
What they really want to do. 

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They really want to they'll do 
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They'll find a way. 
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way they'll find a way to do it.
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of things in life in general, 
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our spiritual health and our 
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we want to do, when we see when 
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And when we are inspired, To 
change. 

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Now, here's the problem with 
this man, though he says, I 

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can't and, you know what? 
He can't. 

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He really couldn't get to the 
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there to help him. 
Until Jesus came. 

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And when I look at this story, I
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Gospel itself. 
It is a situation that we all 

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face. 
In reality. 

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We had a crippling and 
debilitating problem called sin,

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that we couldn't fix on our own,
and no one could help us until 

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Jesus. 
And First Corinthians chapter 1 

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verses 18 through 20 60, not 
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But you'll see where Paul talks 
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How that, not many wise, not 
many noble, not many mighty are 

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called By the gospel, they all 
hear the same gospel, but not 

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all respond to it. 
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the noble, the wise, why don't 
the mighty Noble and wise 

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respond to the gospel? 
Those educated folks that know 

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more than those who are on the 
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Why, why don't they? 
Because they're too busy 

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getting. 
To the pool on their own or 

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those that. 
Don't even think they need the 

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pool. 
The message of the Gospel, the 

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message of the Cross? 
Yes, it's perishing to those who

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are or it is a foolishness 
rather to those who are 

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perishing, but it is the power 
of God to those who are saved. 

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The gospel will only save those 
who are humble enough to admit 

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that they are lost and they 
can't do it on their own. 

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There are people who will never 
obey the gospel because they 

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will not acknowledge. 
They need the gospel. 

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The reason it is good news is 
because there's bad news and 

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most people don't really 
appreciate or are aware of the 

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bad news that there are lost and
they'd be separated eternally 

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from God. 
If they died in such a Tate. 

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And there's nothing. 
They could have done, they 

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could, there's nothing they 
could do to fix their problem 

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separate and apart from a holy 
pure atoning, sacrifice that God

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would make for them through his 
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This man acknowledges, his need.
And he learns that with Jesus. 

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It's not too late. 
And Jesus after he brushes aside

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all of the excuses that he is 
made he basically is standing 

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before this man to say, I am 
your answer. 

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I can tell you what you need to 
do it. 

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Here's what it is. 
Rise up, take up and walk. 

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He doesn't just leave the man. 
But he gives the man, something 

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to do something that would 
require. 

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Yes, trust and faith in an 
attempt to do exactly as Jesus 

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said, and after 38 years, after 
nothing had changed all this 

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time. 
This man's life. 

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Changed and he met Jesus, he 
learned that it was not too 

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late. 
To get up, take up and walk. 

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For the woman of John 8, who was
caught in adultery, she had 

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learned that it was not too late
for Jesus said, neither do I 

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condemn, you go and sin? 
No more. 

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For Simon Peter, who denied the 
Lord three times and in his 

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shame weeping bitterly, no doubt
thought. 

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How could I ever regain my 
footing? 

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How could I ever be restored? 
How could I ever regain the 

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trust of the Lord? 
And yet the Lord reaffirms gives

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Peter the the opportunity to 
reaffirm his love when he said 

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feed my sheep. 
And for Saul of Tarsus who 

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Persecuted innocent Christians 
can sending at their deaths. 

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He learned that even for him, it
was not too late. 

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For he was told to arise and be 
baptized and wash away your 

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sins, calling on the name of the
Lord and maybe you need to learn

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it to maybe that's the case with
you. 

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You don't have to settle you 
don't have to be put into that 

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box of identity of who you've 
always been. 

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You don't have to, you don't 
have to be that way. 

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You don't have to live that way.
You don't have to let the past 

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Define you. 
But the question is, do you want

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to get well? 
John 14 of in John 5:14 

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afterwards, Jesus found him in 
the temple and he said to him, 

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see you have been made. 
Well sin, no more. 

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Lest a worse thing come upon 
you. 

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Jesus is telling him you've been
healed physically. 

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There's something more 
important. 

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And there's something worse than
physical. 

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Problems and physical sickness. 
He says, you need to make sure 

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you don't sin. 
Lest a worse thing come upon you

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this morning as we look at this 
concept, I don't, I don't want 

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to leave the impression that 
it's it's never too late. 

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Because it is. 
The Bible teaches us that we are

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to number. 
Our days, ask God, teach us to 

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number our understand that we 
have limited opportunity, 

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limited time. 
Psalm 139 verse for the Lord 

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make me to know my end and what 
is the measure of my days that I

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may know how frail I am. 
It's good for us to understand 

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that we have the precious gift 
of time, but it's also equally 

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important for us to know that 
time is precious because it is 

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limited. 
It is not going to stay and it's

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not going to last Forever. 
We see it. 

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Jesus teaches that. 
Parable in Luke 16. 

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The rich man and Lazarus. 
Where this man had lived, his 

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life fairing sumptuously every 
day. 

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Whining, whining himself and 
dining himself and everything 

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that he needed, everything that 
he wanted and the Comforts of 

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his mansion. 
And then he dies. 

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And he ends up in torment. 
And he sees the beggar who had 

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laid at his gate beg who had 
begged day in day out for the 

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crumbs, that would fall from his
table, and he sees him in 

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Paradise, Abraham's bosom. 
And now, the tables of God's 

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justice have turned. 
And instead of the beggar, 

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Desiring a crumb. 
Now the rich man begs for a drop

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of water off the tip of another 
man's finger. 

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He can't get it. 
Father Abraham said, Son 

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remember that in your lifetime, 
you received good things, 

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likewise Lazarus evil things, 
but he now is comforted and you 

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are tormented and besides this 
between us and you there is a 

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great Gulf fixed. 
It is a separation. 

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It is not just a separation but 
it is a permanent stable fixed 

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deep. 
Eternally settled separation, it

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is too deep to be filled. 
It is too wide to be crossed. 

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It is fixed. 
It is unalterable in its nature.

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Those who are here. 
Cannot go to there and those who

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were there. 
Cannot go to here. 

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There is no hope. 
And once we end up there, it is 

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too late. 
That's the message. 

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It's too late. 
There's no hope of ever getting 

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out. now today, It's not too 
late. but what we do with the 

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time and what how we make the 
most of it, Is up to us. 

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It's not too late, is it until 
it's too late. 

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And maybe you're here this 
morning and you're not yet A 

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child of God, maybe you have 
been sitting in your denial. 

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Maybe you have been just then 
content. 

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To stay where you are afraid to 
change to take the risk. 

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To do anything different. 
Maybe you haven't grown like you

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need to maybe you are a 
Christian but you haven't grown 

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like you need to. 
You haven't haven't matured like

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you anything. 
Well, Nothing's Gonna Change. 

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Nothing's ever going to change 
for me. 

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Well, it's up to what you want 
and what you make of it. 

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The one who can change you is 
standing before you asking you. 

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Do you want to get well? 
And it's up to you and he says 

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Rise Up. 
Take up. 

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And walk. 
And if you've never obeyed the 

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Gospel of Jesus Christ, what 
don't you do? 

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That today, come believing in 
him repenting of your sins, 

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confessing your faith and be 
baptized to have your sins 

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washed away and you'll have the 
opportunity to go on your way 

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rejoicing, not healed, from a 
physical infirmity, but that 

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which is going to cause you to 
be eternally separated from God,

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taken away, forgiven, and wiped 
out, blot it out, and remember 

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it again. 
You know, more. 

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And if we can assist you, if 
you've never taken that step, 

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what are you waiting on? 
I don't know the audience. 

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This is my first time here. 
Maybe you have, maybe you have, 

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if you have it. 
What are you waiting on? 

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We thank you for listening to 
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Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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