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It's certainly a privilege to be
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It's good to see everybody 
smiling face. 

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It's an honor to stand before 
you and affirmation of God's. 

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Holy word. 
We trust that we will say 

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something that will benefit you.
I want to talk a little bit 

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about attitude. 
You know, Talent is never 

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enough, In fact, numbers are not
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Education is not enough, a good 
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You got to have the right 
attitude. 

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In fact, really the right 
perspective is given to us as 

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Christians, if will allow the 
Lord to lead us properly, you 

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know, in the book of 
Philippians, the Apostle Paul 

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writes a lot about attitude and 
he writes all the things that he

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writes there in Philippians 
while he's in prison, Now, if I 

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were Paul, it'd be pretty tough 
to Rejoice. 

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Well, I was behind bars. 
But he could do that and he 

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could do that because of his 
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Now he didn't do that because it
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liked being a prisoner. 
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because of Any wrongdoing, he 
did, he did, he was there 

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because doing, right? 
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matter what his state was in 
this world. 

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His citizenship, his mind was 
set on heaven and Eternity. 

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He Is that Jesus had gone to 
prepare at home and that home 

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was now ready and all he had to 
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And so that's what he did. 
Well, Solomon said, a long time 

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ago as a man thinks in his 
heart, so is he? 

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Now, listen to me. 
Happiness is not something that 

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you decide to have at 5:00 in 
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It's not something you decide to
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Once a week, happiness is a 
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decision listen to me. 
If you're not happy, it's your 

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choice. 
See, happiness is the byproduct 

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of choosing to do the right, 
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And then, knowing with 
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surpasses all understanding. 
So we're thinking about the 

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attitude of Our Lives. 
The attitude that is the 

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paintbrush of our minds. 
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The writer says, a wise man's 
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a Fool's harp at his left. 
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difficult for me to understand, 
so I like to read it from this 

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version. 
I want you to listen to what he 

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says. 
Why is thinking leads to write 

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living? 
Listen, stupid thinking, Leads 

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to wrong movie. 
Now, that's pretty plain. 

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And that's the truth. 
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change, if you want to change 
your life that you have to 

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change your mind, have to change
your thinking. 

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See that's that's by Design. 
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therefore If any man be in 
Christ he is a new creation. 

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God has designed the church, he 
has designed the spiritual life 

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that we're live to change our 
thinking. 

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Paul said, if you then be risen 
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spoke of baptism. 
The fact that we are buried with

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Christ in baptism and he says we
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He says if you then be risen 
with Christ seek those things 

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which are above where Christ 
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God. 
So thinking you know one of the 

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problems I think that I've had 
through the years, I didn't 

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think before. 
I talked, I didn't think through

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what was going to happen before 
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And right thinking will lead us 
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be what we ought to be for as he
fixed in his heart. 

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So is he Proverbs 23 and verse 
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Now in Philippians chapter 4 
verses 1 through 7 Paul tells us

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he gives us gives us a 
prescription of how to be happy.

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He gives us a prescription of 
how to have the right 

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perspective, the right attitude.
Paul admonishes us on how to 

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live a fulfilled. 
Now listen to me some folks live

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but they don't live. 
They can't see the forest for 

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the trees because they haven't 
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What real living is all about, 
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life when I worried about 
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And you little bible says be 
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You know what that means it just
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saying there. 
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little bit couched with with the
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Now, that's a command none of 
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people who worry about 
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Paul, admonishes us on how to 
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tells us how it can be different
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1 through 7. 
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Brethren at Philippi. 
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In fact, you know, that's the 
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Sometimes you're closer with 
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other folks. 
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Good person that I'm not all 
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grew up together. 
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his house at Cottage, Grove my 
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Grove reads to see each other 
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So we're close. 
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connection there that I don't 
have anybody else you know, wave

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grew up. 
In my absence, I left California

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25 years ago. 
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21 for see him born after I 
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So I hardly know way. 
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his parents, but I'm going to 
connect it to wait now. 

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Paul loved everybody, he did 
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anybody, but there was a special
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between he and the Philippian 
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He had lived there and had spent
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financially even helped him upon
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They had seen to his Necessities
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with them. 
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closeness and he tells me says 
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full, if you want to really live
then the first thing you've got 

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to do is Stand Fast. 
You know my grandpa pointed out 

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to me what it says in Ephesians 
chapter 6 and number of years 

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ago just kind of stuck in my 
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noticed how many times Paul says
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Therefore stand up. 
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our job is to stand at. 
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By that? 
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faith. 
Don't just show you ignorance 

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and stain on something that is 
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But stand on the word of God. 
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you have a conviction. 
Does it mean it comes from the 

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work God. 
Because we're all biased, so be 

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careful. 
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steadfast in the faith, it could
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gospel. 
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spiritual principle, don't just 
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but unless it's in the Bible 
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about. 
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and you can have personal script
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that's what Paul is talking 
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says, keep that Faith to 
yourself, But here, he's talking

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about the faith that Jude says 
earnestly, we are to contend for

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Jude verse 30, he says Stand 
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fulfill life, then live, 
according to Bible, the Bible is

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not written to plague our lives 
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In fact, sometimes when I sit in
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and preachers, get up and 
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It almost seems like the Bible 
is filled with all kinds of Thou

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shalt not do this. 
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that's true. 
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says that but listen to me 
forever - there's a positive and

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less you put some things in your
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I bet you to say that Linwood 
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He wrote a bunch of zeros. 
You don't have not an adulterer.

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I'm not a liar. 
I'm not Steve thief and wrote 

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all those zeros on the board and
said what happens when you add a

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bunch of Zeroes? 
He said that's what happens to 

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your faith. 
When y'all you all went all in 

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the mounts to is the negative 
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You see we did have to get some 
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have to realize there are some 
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but listen to me. 
Christianity is not just - in 

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fact, Christianity is the 
greatest life that you will ever

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live. 
If you live to the Lord and 

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dedicate your life to him, even 
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Today, it doesn't matter. 
Because you're going to live 

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forever. 
Jesus said, if you believe in 

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God believe also in me for my 
father's house are many 

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mansions. 
If it were not, so I would have 

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told you I go to prepare and he 
went, he prepared it's ready and

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the decision is yours. 
You see, you got to have the 

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right perspective. sometimes 
we're guilty of say, oh Wallace 

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me and we get on our pity pot 
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think that our faults, our 
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Our difficulties are worse than 
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But you know what? 
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Everybody has problems. 
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Why do we have to have somebody 
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Why do they have to be so many 
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But you know what? 
I realized one day the Lord is 

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preparing me to go to heaven. 
In fact, there's an interesting 

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word found in Romans chapter 12 
in the English Bible, it says 

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transform or it speaks of 
transformation will talk about 

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that in just a moment. 
So the first thing you got to do

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is Stand Fast in the Lord. 
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irons, you also True Companion. 
Help these women who labored 

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with me in the gospel with 
Clement also and the rest of my 

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fellow workers whose names are 
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Now, how can you really live 
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You see, first you stand in the 
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First, you stand in the word of 
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to others. 
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Paul said in the second chapter.
Let each one live for others, 

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see every day. 
When you get up you need to ask 

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yourself what can I do to help 
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And then before you go to bed at
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the question. 
What did I Day to help others. 

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I'm serious. 
The first thing, Jesus said, you

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have to do, if you want to go to
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yourself. 
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Now, hear the gospel is 
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first thing you have to do. 
If you want to be a Christian, 

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you got to deny yourself. 
That's what he said. 

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Selfishness will not be found in
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we have responsibilities to add 
value to others to pass on what 

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we had. 
And I listen, you can't give the

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people what you don't have. one 
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tried to help him out and 
teachers, get up on Sunday and 

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tell about how important was to 
be at Wednesday night and then 

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not want them to come. 
I'm going to tell you something,

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you can't tell people something 
to do, unless you do it 

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yourself. 
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That's why Paul said take heed 
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them. 
That's what he was speaking to 

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Timothy. 
He said continuing in them and 

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he says it was as a result of 
that, you'll save yourself and 

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those that hear you. 
You see, if you want to add 

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value to others, you got to 
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And you know, you're pretty, 
you're pretty important. 

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In fact, your real important. 
The Bible says for God, so loved

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Tina that he gave his only 
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You know, I could go around this
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If I can remember everybody's 
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But I'm not going to lie about 
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I can't. 
And we could put your name in 

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that verse for God, so loved 
Sandra. 

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For God, so loved Carl. 
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So loved Chris. 
That he gave his only son, you 

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think about that, the god of the
universe, the God, who spoke 

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everything into existence. 
Was willing to offer his love 

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and wants to save you. 
So desperately that he gave his 

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son. 
Think about that. 

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You're valuable and so because 
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is placed on us. 
We need to walk in his steps and

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we need to add value to others. 
Now listen, you know, I can Pat 

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Terry on the shoulder. 
Might say Carrie I love you 

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brother. 
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If he has a need And I see that 
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help him. 
Pat him on the shoulder and says

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I'm saying, I love you don't 
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See, that's not a guide people, 
whatever you have and all of us 

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have something. 
Now if I sit back and think like

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the one Talent, man, I don't 
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that for an excuse and don't 
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Jesus is going to pronounce Upon
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Thou, Wicked, and slothful 
servant. 

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So whoever you are today doesn't
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If you're a subject to the king 
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If you're a subject to Jesus 
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offer and God has given you 
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Now sometimes we throw our hands
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disillusion. 
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I'm going to tell you something,
if you don't know what to do, 

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you got some breath in here that
are experienced some that are 

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younger and they can help you if
they can't help you shape along?

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Yes, sir. 
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brother, shame on you. 
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Great Value and if you're going 
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live a life that is fulfilled. 
You got to learn to add value to

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others. 
Now Paul said in verse 4 rejoice

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and he's in prison, how did he 
say that rejoice in the lord 

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always? 
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But I want you to know Brethren 
that the things which happened 

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to me have actually turned out 
for the furtherance of the 

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Gospel. 
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In fact, he mentions in the book
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guard or maybe it's in the book 
of Romans that says even the 

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guards in the palace now know 
about Jesus because of my 

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imprisonment. 
Now when you have a tragedy, are

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you have a great trial or you 
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dealing with while it's going 
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You can't rejoice when you lose 
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dad, lost my mom, a couple of 
months ago and when he goes to 

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church is so hard. 
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together for 65 years. 
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And she's not that many more. 
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If my dad lives long enough, 
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his life when he helped somebody
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Understand. 
That this world is not my home. 

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I'm just passing through. 
My treasures are laid up 

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somewhere beyond the blue. 
Doesn't have been grow sweeter 

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every day. 
Don't you get tired of all? 

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The hustle and bustle of this 
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I'm telling you. 
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What Paul understood? 
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He could Rejoice not because of 
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joy that set before him, the 
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The Shame of the cross. 
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Now, that means he hardly can 
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he endured it. 
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before him, because he knew 
there was more to this life than

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the physical life that he was 
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And even when he died, he knew 
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That didn't always fix 
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If you're Christian there, your 
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high all the time. 
Sometimes you're going to be in 

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the valley. but if you can tell 
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That there's a something better 
coming God's in control. 

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I don't understand. 
Everything is happening, I can't

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comprehend why things are like 
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My situation seems awfully gray,
you know, our daughter and her 

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husband had five children under 
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forward with the fourth ones 
twins. 

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So they had five under five and 
she asked Lord one day. 

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She said, mom does God, is it 
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gives you more than you can 
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Well Lori said, I don't think 
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But you know what? 
Someday you're going to have 

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five weddings. 
Probably one year. 

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If you think things are hard 
today, they can get harder 

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tomorrow. 
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you've got to have the right 
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even in tragedy. 
Now, you don't Rejoice over the 

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tragedy. 
All sometimes, somebody will 

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say, well, hey, if the wife's 
going to be a better person, 

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going to get to be a better 
person. 

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I'm going to treat her me. 
I'm going to tell you something.

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That's all. 
That's a terrible attitude. 

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You don't create or cause 
problems for anybody. 

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You won't be justified and 
you'll be judged for it. 

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But sometimes things come. 
Things happen. 

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families just face more than 
than any person should have to 

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bear. 
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In spite of it. 
You can get through and there's 

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glory in future. 
There's glory in the future for 

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you. 
The Bible speaks of member. 

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I mentioned a while ago. 
The word transform that original

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term comes from the Greek word 
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metamorphosis. 
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the worm that becomes a 
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There's a transformation that's 
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We're worms, but he wants us to 
be a butterfly. 

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It's sort of like the great of 
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That grain of sand is an 
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would that or stir would like to
remove and he works at it and 

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strives to remove it, but it 
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It remains there and it becomes 
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Girl, you see your suffering 
today because God wants you to 

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be a pulley. 
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there's a reason for that. 
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writer. 
Use the concept of 

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metamorphosis. 
He's transforming you. 

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When you face trials, while you 
grieve, while you endure the 

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trial, it may appear. 
It may seem that you just can't 

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stand it anymore, but you hold 
on. 

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You hold on. and on the other 
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in a deeper way. 
You'll learn how to comfort in a

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special way. 
You know, on somebody. 

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Loses a child. 
My heart goes out to them. 

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How he had handle that? 
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It took Ed Daniel seven years. 
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He could look at a picture of 
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in his sleep. but now, add Holds
his head high and he can Comfort

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like nobody else when somebody 
loses her spouse. 

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Are they lost a child? 
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He's done that. 
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anybody. 
I would wish problems on 

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anybody, but I'm telling you 
when you face trial, God's 

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working on your heart. 
He's working on your life and 

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you can keep from being angry. 
Now, listen to me, angers the 

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monster. 
If your child makes you angry. 

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If your problem makes you angry 
and you hold on to that anger, 

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it will grow and it will destroy
you. 

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And bitterness But if you can 
control that anger, now you 

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might be angry for a while, but 
you can control that anger and 

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get rid of that anger. 
You can do like Joseph said, God

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was there working in my life all
the time. 

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I'm telling you. 
There is no life. 

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Worth living and the Christian 
Life. 

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And someday. 
We're going to go home, I'm 

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telling you. 
We need to keep that in our 

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hearts, we need to remember 
everyday this world is not my 

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home. 
Don't get so wrapped up in 

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school or, or a job or even your
family that you forget that. 

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Because I'm telling you there is
anything in this life. 

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That's not Temple and you're 
going to lose it sooner or 

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later. 
Some of it. 

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You might even retain till you 
die but when you die, you lose 

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it rest of it. 
But you're hoping heaven. 

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Your home in eternity. 
It's forever and ever, think 

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about that. 
You see, you've got to have the 

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right perspective. 
And if you have the right 

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perspective, God will make you 
perv. 

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God will transform your life, 
your attitude. 

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Everything about you, my 
brethren, count, it all joy, 

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when you fall into various 
trials, and he didn't mean to 

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that, that the trial itself is 
joyous but he says you count his

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joy. 
In other words, you 

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intellectually. 
Remember You intellectually 

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remember that when this grieving
process is over and you're on 

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the other side because of this 
trial, you're going to be a 

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better and a different person. 
And that will help you get 

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through the problem. 
Listen, be anxious for nothing 

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and other words, don't let your 
thought, take away your 

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strength, but in everything by 
prayer and supplication with 

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Thanksgiving, let your requests 
be made known to God and the 

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peace of God, which surpasses 
all understanding will guard 

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your hearts and Minds through 
Jesus Christ. 

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He says, this is how you live 
the fulfilled life. 

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You stand fast in the faith. 
You follow the Bible, you live. 

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By the Bible, it becomes a part 
of your being becomes a part of 

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your thinking. 
If it comes apart here, walking 

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You add value to others, you 
reach out to others. 

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You rejoice even in spite of the
problems. 

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And you never stop praying. 
Did you pray since Wednesday 

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night or last Sunday? 
Did you pray besides just 

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offering? 
Thanks for your food. 

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You know, sometimes we don't 
even do that. 

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When was the last time you just 
got on your knees and just 

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poured your heart out of the 
god. 

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You see, if you want to live a 
fulfilled life, you not only 

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have to know what God's word 
says because that's how he talks

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to you through the Bible. 
But you talk to him in prayer. 

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Prayers, not only a powerful 
help, but listen to me, it's a 

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work. 
We need to be, we need to have a

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Praying life. 
Paul is telling us how to live. 

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I want to ask you this morning, 
is your life complete. 

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Do you have the right attitude? 
Will Paul gives us the 

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prescription? 
Now I want to look at for more 

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things and I'm going to close I 
hope I'm not like Glee and my 

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wife gets on me sometimes, you 
know, Glen can tell you if he's 

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fixing the closing might be at 
our later. 

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Now, that's an exaggeration. 
I loved when I said that carries

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benefit, but these are four 
things that you got to have. 

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Possess a teachable spirit. 
If you want to be you'll live to

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live a fulfilled life. 
You never stop learning doesn't 

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matter how old you are, do no 
matter how higher education is. 

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It doesn't matter how many books
you've read. 

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You've got to continue to learn 
and anybody can teach you when 

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you get to the point that you 
think somebody can teach you, 

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then you got bigger problems 
than maybe it you had before. 

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You need to keep a teachable 
spirit possess a teachable 

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spirit. 
Do you see a man wise in his own

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eyes? 
There is more hope for a fool 

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than for him. 
Solomon said, without counsel 

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plans, go awry, but in the 
multitude of counselors, they 

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are established. 
Have you ever noticed how much 

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we talk? 
Sometimes, in fact, it's hard to

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talk to others, because they're 
talking so much themselves or 

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it's hard for them to talk 
because I'm talking so much. 

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You see? 
But if you want to be a 

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teachable person, if you want to
have that attitude, you have a 

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listen. 
You gotta be willing to hear 

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others. 
You know, we're guilty of of 

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listening to answer. 
But really, what we need to do 

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is learn how to listen. 
Just to hear, not the answer. 

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but to hear and sometimes when 
we're getting ready to answer, 

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if we had to sit and listen, The
person might have answered 

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themselves, you know my children
used to love to punch my 

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buttons. 
They knew just exactly what to 

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say and my son and I sometimes 
will getting such disagreements.

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But you know, it was all said, 
and done. 

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He heard every word. 
I said he just didn't want me to

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know that. 
Sometimes people talk out loud 

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because they need to be heard 
because they're really saying 

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something that you have to worry
about. 

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They just need you to here. 
I'm telling you. 

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You'll never live a fulfilled 
life unless you, you remain 

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teachable. 
Because you say, I am rich and 

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have become wealthy and have 
need of nothing. 

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That was the attitude of the 
laodiceans and Jesus said your 

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wretched. 
Miserable poor blind and naked. 

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Well number to take 
responsibility for your 

453
00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:14,700
attitude, stop passing, the buck
just a month or so ago. 

454
00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:18,400
Maybe maybe six weeks ago I was 
talking to a fellow that's was 

455
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,500
renting my house about coming to
church used to come to church. 

456
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,400
At all, he had such a hateful 
attitude to the church, blame 

457
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,600
everybody for everything blame 
God, because he's dad died, 

458
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,000
blame God, because the people 
work friendly. 

459
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,700
You know, he died with covid 
about 3 weeks ago. 

460
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:40,300
And he died while he's blaming 
everybody else for his problem. 

461
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,700
I will tell you something 
blaming people will not help you

462
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:50,800
or anybody else. 
What we have to learn if we want

463
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,700
to live a fulfilled, life is 
take responsibility ourselves. 

464
00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:58,700
You see with somebody even 
wrongs us. 

465
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,000
Somebody says something sharp. 
Just our something ugly to us 

466
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,700
when we get angry, that's our 
fault. 

467
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,000
That's her choice. 
You see what we're doing. 

468
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:12,400
When we get angry at how people 
treat us, is we're actually 

469
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,800
allowing that person to make us 
have the wrong attitude. 

470
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,800
Now I don't mean that people are
justified in treating us wrong. 

471
00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:27,600
With the point is you don't have
to allow that to influence your 

472
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:33,100
head to you can live above that 
and if you want to, if you want 

473
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:36,100
to be the kind of Christian that
God wants you to be. 

474
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,900
If you want to have the right 
attitude, then you've got to 

475
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:41,400
learn to take responsibility for
yourself. 

476
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,600
Fill your mind with good things,
meditate on, good things, 

477
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,400
practice, good things. 
You must take. 

478
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,800
Oil responsibility. 
You cannot change the 

479
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:56,200
circumstances the seasons or the
wind, but you can change 

480
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,100
yourself. 
That is something you have 

481
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,400
charged up and that's what you 
got to. 

482
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,600
Remember, when you face 
difficulty in this life. 

483
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:14,000
Well in Romans, it says that 
tribulations work, produces Pate

484
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,400
perseverance, and perseverance 
character, and character hope, 

485
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,000
you know, one time I was talking
to my grandma on and I told her,

486
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,700
I said, why do I have to be 
somebody problems? 

487
00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:25,100
Why is it when you try to do the
right thing? 

488
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,200
People who claim they're doing 
the right thing create such. 

489
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:31,900
She said well son. 
Don't you want to go to heaven? 

490
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,100
Well, I was going to take it 
back by that, of course I want 

491
00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,100
to go to heaven, the trying of 
your faith. 

492
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:44,200
Worketh patience. 
You see you have trials. 

493
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,500
And those trials have the power 
to change your life. 

494
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,600
If you have the right attitude, 
one thing I learned when I was 

495
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,400
Learning to Fly, I got a soldier
on 16 and got my pilot license. 

496
00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:03,000
When I was 18, I don't fly 
anymore that I have my own 

497
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,500
personal reasons for that, but 
but I love to fly. 

498
00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:11,200
And one thing that I learned, 
what when I slime is, there are 

499
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,500
so many variables, and so many 
things coming at you, the wind 

500
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,200
and, and up, currents and down 
currents. 

501
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,800
You know, sometimes you're 
flying in the mountains that the

502
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,600
right place, the wind would be 
going over the mountain. 

503
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,200
Pull you down into the canyon. 
You had to prepare for that 

504
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,300
before you cross the ridge. 
When you flew from point A to 

505
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:34,300
point B, you had to recognize if
you if you had a crosswind and 

506
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:38,100
you had to figure that your 
magnetic course. 

507
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:41,700
Against that, we honor you drift
off course. 

508
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:47,500
Sometimes the updraft would 
raise you higher than you wanted

509
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,100
to be. 
Sometimes it would cause you to 

510
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:52,500
be lower than you want to be. 
So what I learned was is if 

511
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:55,400
you're going to fly and do well,
you got to correct all the time.

512
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,400
Well, that's a little bit like 
Christianity. if you want to be 

513
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,500
successful, you got to make 
Corrections all the time. 

514
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,700
You got to keep at it. 
You got to stay on it. 

515
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,300
The Bible says, if we walk in 
the light even as he is in the 

516
00:34:10,308 --> 00:34:13,699
light, we have Fellowship one 
with another and the blood of 

517
00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:16,400
Jesus Christ. 
His son cleanseth us from all 

518
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,199
sin. 
The listen folks, Why did he 

519
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:20,900
tell us that we need the blood 
of Jesus? 

520
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:26,699
If you're walking in the light 
to walk her to the line, you're 

521
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:29,600
not a sitter. 
But see the problem is, we're 

522
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,000
human. 
And sometimes we're going to 

523
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,800
fall. 
But Paul John says when you saw 

524
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:42,000
you just get up, you seek 
forgiveness. 

525
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,300
He said in verse 10 if we 
confess our sins he is just and 

526
00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:49,600
faithful to forgive us our sins 
and to cleanse us from all 

527
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,199
unrighteousness. 
So that means as you walk in the

528
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,699
light you walk along, sometimes 
you may take a step to the left 

529
00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:58,700
or step to the right settings. 
You may fall flat on your face. 

530
00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:02,000
Well, what do you do? 
You get up You make a 

531
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000
correction. 
And the blood of Jesus Christ 

532
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,800
continually cleanses you as long
as you walk in the light. 

533
00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:17,900
You know, I guess, maybe it's 
preacher. 

534
00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:20,500
Some of the, some of us as 
preachers fault. 

535
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,600
But people sometimes act like 
that they can just barely live 

536
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,100
the Christian Life, you know. 
In fact I've heard people pray 

537
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,200
Lord. 
If there's any signal him to 

538
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,600
this prayer I listen to me just 
because you committed a sin 

539
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:36,900
yesterday, doesn't mean your 
prayers here today. 

540
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,500
The prayer that's hindered is 
the prayer that the person has 

541
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:46,400
lived in Rebellion when he prays
and knows he's a sinner knows 

542
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,000
he's wrong, and he won't repent 
of You see if you're a Christian

543
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,600
you're a priest and the priest 
can go to God through Jesus 

544
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,300
Christ and seek forgiveness. 
And one Sins not going to hinder

545
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,400
your prayer. 
It's a bitch will soon when he's

546
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,000
talking about, it's, if you're 
in, Covenant relationship with 

547
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,900
the Lord, that's what he's 
talking about when he says, he 

548
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,500
heard not Sinners. 
He's not talking about. 

549
00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,800
Just anybody who says we're all 
sinners in that respect, but 

550
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,500
he's talking about those who are
not in Covenant relationship 

551
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:17,800
with the Lord. 
If you're in Covenant 

552
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,000
relationship with there or you 
could speak to him at any time 

553
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,900
and seek forgiveness, God will 
hear you. 

554
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,500
But when you live in rebellion 
and you ignore his word, then 

555
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:32,000
he's not going to hear you. 
He's not going to forgive you 

556
00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:39,300
unless you repent in your heart.
So possess a teachable spirit, 

557
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,600
take responsibility for your 
attitude. 

558
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:44,300
Travel, the high road know what 
does that mean? 

559
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:48,300
You see, if you travel to Lower 
Road, you treat people worse 

560
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,600
than they treat you. 
Now, they're so people even the 

561
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,000
church like that, I regretfully 
must say. 

562
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,700
The middle row. 
Now there's a lot of us like 

563
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:03,500
this treat people. 
The same way they treat me, you 

564
00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:07,100
know, that brother said people 
weren't friendly, well, we're 

565
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:12,100
you friendly. 
Sure, people have responsibility

566
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:15,200
to be friendly to others, but 
tell me friend. 

567
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:20,700
That does not excuse you from 
being friendly from your 

568
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:24,000
perspective. 
Even if nobody talks to, you can

569
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,300
talk to me. 
And most of the time, almost 

570
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,800
without exception, when you talk
to them and smile, people enjoy 

571
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,600
that and I'll talk back to you. 
We'll talk with you. 

572
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:42,300
But the third roads where we 
need to be the high road, If you

573
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:45,300
want to be successful, if you 
want to live a fulfilled life in

574
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:47,900
Christ, then he got to walk the 
high road. 

575
00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:50,900
What's that mean? 
Treat people better. 

576
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,200
Than they treat me. 
See it's easy. 

577
00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:57,400
It's easy. 
It. 

578
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,600
Did he walks up to me after 
church and says you're fat? 

579
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,500
Well, that's true. 
But I don't have to let that 

580
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:10,400
bother me. 
Some folks have told me that you

581
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:18,900
didn't see, I really worried 
about it. but the point is, No 

582
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:22,500
matter what, somebody says to 
you, you don't have to allow 

583
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,000
that to destroy you or to make 
you negative. 

584
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,400
Because you're not serving them,
you're serving the lord. 

585
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:36,400
The Lord's on your side. 
And I have false and I have 

586
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,000
problems. 
And I have difficulties But the 

587
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,300
Lord's Everett my side, you 
know, it's like that proverbial 

588
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,300
poem Footprints in the Sand. 
The man said why I noticed there

589
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:52,000
were two Pricks in the, in the 
sand, all along till I had a big

590
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,600
problem and then the other one 
other set of prints disappeared.

591
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,300
He said, I want to know why you 
left my side when I needed you 

592
00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:02,700
most. 
Do you ever feel that way? 

593
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,700
The Lord said why sir? 
That's when I was carrying you. 

594
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,500
And there was only one set of 
prints in the sand. 

595
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,700
I'm telling you, he don't need 
you. 

596
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:22,500
You may feel forsaken. 
You may feel unappreciated, but 

597
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:26,200
the Lord's ever at your side, 
listen to me friends. 

598
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,900
When we live in this world, we 
need to treat everybody, like 

599
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,900
they're the most important 
person on the planet, you know, 

600
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:37,700
years ago, George Hogan? 
Well, maybe some of, you know, 

601
00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:41,800
him from Lubbock, Texas, sent me
some tapes that Earl Nightingale

602
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:46,500
had made and one of the things 
that, that really Shook Me, is 

603
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:49,100
he said you treat everybody, 
like they're the most important 

604
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:51,600
person on the life, even the 
elevator operator. 

605
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,400
And he said, first of all, 
because that's really what they 

606
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,800
believe anyway. 
But secondly. 

607
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,600
That's the way we're supposed to
treat each other. 

608
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:10,800
You know, I thought about that a
lot. it's so easy to bite back 

609
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,200
when somebody barks at you, It's
so easy. 

610
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,400
To treat others as they treat 
you. but, you know, if we would 

611
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:27,000
treat each other Like the other 
propellers, the most important 

612
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,600
person on the planet, how would 
the church change? 

613
00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:35,400
How about my home? 
You know what I found when? 

614
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,200
I'm treating my wife, like she's
the most important person on the

615
00:40:38,207 --> 00:40:40,600
planet. 
We don't even have an argument. 

616
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,600
The problem is sometimes, it'll 
treat her like that. 

617
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,300
Then we argue. 
You see, we need to take the 

618
00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:57,800
high road, we need to travel the
high road and finally we need to

619
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,400
understand the value of 
attitude. 

620
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,200
Talent is Never Enough. 
Knowledge is not the all answer.

621
00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:11,700
Now knowledge helps no doubt 
about that. 

622
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,300
But knowledge is not all of it, 
you know. 

623
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:17,800
Some people seem like sometimes 
there's too smart for the long 

624
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:23,800
britches. 
Sometimes people are pretty is 

625
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:25,600
pretty. 
Does, you know, my mom used to 

626
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:33,000
say But all of that is nice. 
But it's not the most important.

627
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,500
It's not the all-encompassing 
answer attitude. 

628
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:44,400
Attitude is the maker. 
Or breaker of Our Lives. 

629
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,900
You see, if you could Master the
right attitude, that will make 

630
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:53,400
all the difference in the world 
Zig. 

631
00:41:53,400 --> 00:42:00,800
Ziglar said your attitude, not 
your aptitude will determine 

632
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,700
your altitude. 
And buddy, that's true. 

633
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:12,000
You want to live a fulfilled 
life, then change your attitude.

634
00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:16,900
That's what it takes. 
That's what the Lord demands of 

635
00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:19,500
us your attitude. 
Teddy Roosevelt said your 

636
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:24,300
attitude about who you are and 
what you have is a very little 

637
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:30,100
thing that makes a very big 
difference. and you don't tell 

638
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:35,200
you Roosevelt was crippled when 
he's a kid and doctors and and 

639
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,500
people who are supposed to know,
told me he'd ever amount to 

640
00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:42,500
anything and he became president
In fact, he became one of the 

641
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:47,300
Rough Riders. 
He became a man who could mix 

642
00:42:47,300 --> 00:42:49,800
and mingle with those New 
Yorkers too. 

643
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,700
He became a lot and they said 
he'd be nothing. 

644
00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:58,300
I'm telling you, your attitude 
makes all the difference in the 

645
00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:02,300
world in conclusion. 
Listen to what this verse says. 

646
00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:06,000
Hearing take it home today and 
read it again, and think about 

647
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,100
it. 
Talk about it. 

648
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:11,500
Finally, Brethren whatever 
things are true, whatever things

649
00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:16,100
are noble, whatever things are, 
just, whatever things are pure, 

650
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,000
whatever things are, lovely, 
whatever. 

651
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,600
Things are of good report. 
If is if there is any virtue and

652
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,100
if there is anything 
praiseworthy, praiseworthy 

653
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:30,600
meditate on these things. 
Now listen, what Paul. 

654
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:35,200
I said in the last verse there, 
the things which you have 

655
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:43,900
learned and received and heard 
and saw in me these do and the 

656
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:49,300
God of Peace will be with you. 
I'm going to tell you this 

657
00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:52,200
morning if you're not a 
Christian. 

658
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,300
Then you're letting slip by the 
greatest life that you could 

659
00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:00,500
live. 
If you're in this audience 

660
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:02,700
today, you never obeyed the 
gospel. 

661
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,100
Jesus came and died for you. 
The Bible says the grace of God,

662
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:12,100
which is Jesus Christ, hath 
appeared to all men. 

663
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:19,000
If you're in this audience, 
God's grace can cover your sin. 

664
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,800
And the Bible tells us that by 
hearing the gospel, it is 

665
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,600
necessary to believe that gospel
vulnerable Hearts. 

666
00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:31,900
Jesus said he that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved. 

667
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:35,500
You believe in Jesus? 
Surely you do repent of your 

668
00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:40,800
sins recognize that Jesus Christ
died on the cross because of 

669
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,900
your surname? 
And change your mind. 

670
00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:45,300
That's what repentance is. 
You see? 

671
00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:47,700
You got to understand what 
repentance is our you're not 

672
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:49,800
going to be baptized, you just 
couldn't take a bath. 

673
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,300
Repentance means you change your
mind. 

674
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:57,400
You turn about face as a result 
of repentance the change of. 

675
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:02,400
Will you change your life? 
Then you got to confess him. 

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Now, I love this, this part. 
Jesus made a promise. 

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He said, you confess me and I'll
confess you. 

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You think about that? 
Can you imagine? 

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Can you imagine Jack holiday be 
confessed to God? 

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The father and the Holy Angels. 
And yet, if you confess him with

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your mouth, On the salvation. 
That'll happen and then we 

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buried him, baptism. 
Why you have your sins washed 

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away. 
Baptism saves you. 

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First Peter 3 verse 21, that's 
not the figment of some 

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preachers imagination. 
That's the inspired Apostle. 

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Peter, he says, baptism saves us
here in this audience, you will 

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bait that gospel and you allowed
to see him to come back into 

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your life. 
Don't let another moment pass 

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you by, get on your knees and 
seek God's forgiveness. 

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to make your wishes known to us 
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together won't you come? 
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