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No, this morning. 
I want to leave just a thought 

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with the boys and the girls and 
the young people and I've 

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discovered. 
That. 

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There's a word in the Bible 
That's only used once. 

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Last week. 
We were looking at the word 

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Apple. 
Today, I want us to think all 

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this vegetable. 
Can anybody tell me what this 

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vegetable is? 
Who knows? 

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Sarah Jean? 
It's an onion. 

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That's right. 
Did you know that the Bible only

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mentions the onion wants to let 
me read the reference in numbers

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11 verse 5. 
We remember the fish which we 

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did eat in Egypt, freely, the 
cucumbers, and the melons, and 

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the leeks, and the onions, and 
the garlic, young people. 

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The word onions is only 
mentioned in the bible once and 

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I want us to think today. 
They just very quickly, briefly 

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think of the character of 
onions. 

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Onions. 
Cumin different shapes and 

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sizes. 
And this RC Regina said as a red

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onion, and did you know that 
onions can grow and grow? 

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There's a mr. 
Glover won a prize for growing 

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onions, and his onion grew to 18
pounds. 

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And we hit that that's the 
equivalent to name bags of 

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sugar. 
Onions can be planted in any 

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type of soy so they can grow 
anywhere all over the world in 

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different places. 
And what an onion needs is the 

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right amount of sunlight and the
right amount of water and it can

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grow in any soil and, you know, 
boys and girls, young people. 

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The Bible tells us something 
about being a Christian that 

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were to grow in Grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior

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Jesus Christ, and maybe 
sometimes you're thinking well, 

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how can I be a Christian at 
school? 

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There's nobody else in my class 
saved. 

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How could I be a Christian? 
In in the workplace may be of 

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gone into the world of work and 
you discovered how Wicked and 

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ungodly individuals can be with 
their language and their 

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lifestyle. 
Maybe you're thinking, well, I'm

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off to University and I'm 
worried about the drug culture 

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and the drink culture. 
And how is that going to impact?

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And me, and I could experience 
that peer pressure to go along 

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with that crying. 
Well, can I encourage you if you

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have the right amount of light 
on the right amount of water? 

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Her, you can be a Christian 
anywhere. 

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The workplace home school 
University. 

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Even in the most difficult 
places that you can imagine in 

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the whole of the world brother. 
Graham was praying for North 

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Korea. 
And I'm sure it'd be very 

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difficult to be a Christian in 
North Korea. 

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But even there if you have the 
right amount of light on the 

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right amount of water and I'm 
thinking, of course of the water

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of the word of God, I'm thinking
of the light of God in the soul 

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through the instrumentality of 
His Holy Spirit. 

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And I have discovered something 
about an onion that I didn't 

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know at all the deeper, you 
caught into an onion. 

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The stronger, the smell of the 
onion s that the stronger and 

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sent that gives off, and of 
course, isn't that true for 

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ourselves and for the grew in 
Greece, the knowledge of Christ,

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then we must dig deep into the 
word of God. 

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And an in fact if I took this 
onion and cut it and put it into

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my fridge, everything that was 
in my friends. 

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Let's say my steak and my harm 
and my bacon and sausages and 

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and maybe even some other things
that it pineapple buns that are 

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there. 
Well, they'd all be attacked by 

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The Onion over time such as the 
strong scent that the onion 

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gives off the smell of the onion
goes into other food and doesn't

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other even the lesson for us and
relation to its character. 

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The deeper, you caught the 
stronger, it has and the deeper 

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you go into Christ and then to 
the word of God, and get into 

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the very heart of the gospel and
try to understand who God is and

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understand the gospel. 
Then the stronger you'll be and 

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the more fragrance of Christ. 
Will you give out and you'll be 

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in able to do exactly as the 
Bible says, to grow in Grace and

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in the knowledge of Christ? 
Now, I've brought a knife with 

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me here and I'm going to cut 
this onion and we're going to 

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have a little look at it. 
If they don't cut my fingers 

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now, with the sand for the 
ambulance, or the doctor. 

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Okay. 
Now you can all see cutting into

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the onion. 
You see if I was to peel off all

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this skin and began to cut the 
onion into little bits for the 

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fryin pan. 
The onion would release us 

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sulfur that Sent to the A's. 
And it would open my tear ducts 

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and it would make me cry. 
In fact, I can smell of sulfur 

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right now. 
So we could talk about the 

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calling of the onion. 
And here's the children of 

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Israel and they're in the 
wilderness for a number of 

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years. 
And God has given them at the 

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start. 
All this lovely manner. 

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It came as a gift of God, but 
over time they get so used to 

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it. 
They started to completely in 

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and Mumble and murmur and then 
they started saying to God, but 

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we remember the fish. 
Shhhh, we remember the 

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cucumber's, the melons the 
leeks. 

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We remember the onions. 
You see? 

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They were thinking of the 
onions. 

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Supposed to be a high source of 
vitamin C help with stomach 

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ulcers, lower your cholesterol. 
If they get stung with the bay, 

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they could rub the sulfur of the
onion onto that. 

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It's supposed to be a good 
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Oxen. 
They saw the onions or something

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was good for them. 
Rightly, so, but the cutting of 

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the onion. 
Brings us to tears. 

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And in life's journey, we have 
many things at Regis has to 

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tears as we're going to learn 
later on in the sermon. 

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The last thing I want you to 
learn to put the onion, has this

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the consistency of the onion. 
If you look very carefully, you 

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can see the many, many layers. 
And if I was to peel off one 

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layer and another, their eight 
Slayer would be the sium. 

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So I could go from the outside 
right into the N side and it's 

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all See him consistent all the 
way through. 

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Could I just asked how 
consistent are? 

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You boy, or girl, or a young 
person as a Christian? 

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You see there's many that 
profess to be Christians in the 

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outside, like the Pharisees. 
They're cleaning the outside. 

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They pray, they read the Bible, 
to go to church and they say all

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the right things. 
But in their heart, they've 

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never had a new heart. 
They're not clean, from the 

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inside out. 
They're not consistent rate down

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to their heart. 
It's all artwork. 

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And remember the Bible tells us 
that God requires truth in the 

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inward parts. 
Now, I've discovered this that 

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over in the town of boundary, 
which is in Lisbon not too far 

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away, that used to be famous for
Onions. 

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And in fact, the used to be a 
sin as strong as a voluntary 

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onion. 
Wonder if anybody's ever heard 

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of that a strong as a voluntary 
onion you see? 

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And it's not what we want. 
If you're going to be strong in 

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the Lord and you're going to 
trust in him, then we've got to 

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remember to do exactly as the 
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And God will, I praise his word 
and God, have I put my trust and

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in every situation in life. 
Journey of you're going to be 

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strong in the Lord and have that
consistency. 

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Then you must allow the Lord to 
be your strength and to be your 

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help. 
And I leave that little fought 

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with you today. 
Onion is only mentioned once in 

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the Bible, the character, The 
Cutting, and the consistency. 

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Well, the Lord bless you have to
be careful for time.