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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun in practical
ways. Hey, everybody, Howdy,

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howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy. Hey, I'm in a

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how name the movie? He says, Hey, howdy, hey, I

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have no idea. It's Woody from
Toy Story. Oh okay, hey,

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howdy, hey, good hey,
right, how do you hey? Yeah,

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hey, howdy hey, okay.
So not that you know, well,

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it mattered, It mattered a lot. I'm almost positive I'm right that

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that's Woody. And by the way, speaking of naming things, we're going

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to do a segment from Desiree called
Bible verse or not. Oh no,

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these are these are hard sometimes.
By the way, this is this,

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this is this could be potentially I
haven't even read these, but they could

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potentially be my favorite that she's chosen
because it says, let's see if Jeff

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can figure out these five quotes,
if they're verses from the Song of Solomon

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or lyrics from One Direction song.
Oh wow. Well, if you've never

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read the Song of Solomon. Song
of Solomon is the PG. Thirteen plus

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book in the Bible. Yes,
it's there's a lot of intimacy between a

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husband and a wife, and yes, all that stuff. So, oh

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my goodness, so this is all
going to be romance kind of lyrics.

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Yes, okay, okay, so
seeing you can get more than Jeff at

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home, here we go. Okay, ready, you've stolen my heart with

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one glance of your eyes. I
don't know, I know, I know

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because she uses paraphrases a lot of
times as opposed to or a transition like

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that's English standard or something like that. Right, okay, So you've stolen

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stolen my heart with one glance of
your eyes, With one glance of your

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eyes, I'm gonna say one direction. No, Song Solomon, is it

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really chapter four, verse nine,
one of your eyes looking up right now,

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right now? So Solomon, you
can do that quickly? Right,

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yes, yep. Song of Solomon, chapter four, verse nine, And

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tell me how a new Living translation
reads. Yeah, So we'll see if

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it's because because one glance of your
eyes sounds so it does. It just

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doesn't sound. It doesn't sound like
it's from Song of Solomon. What four

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nine, four nine? What does
it say on the songs four? We'll

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go to verse nine. It says
you have captured my heart, my treasure,

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my bride. You hold that hostage
with one glance of your eyes.

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Oh that's pretty close. It's just
it's just condensed. Yeah, but the

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one glance of your eyes. See
if it said you hold you hold it

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hostage with one glance of your eyes, I wouldn't known. No, No,

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you wouldn't have. You wouldn't have. Okay, all right, here's

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the next one. I know that
in the morning, I'll see the light

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upon the hill. See this sounds
like Song of Solomon? Is it one

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direction? Laughing because it sounds like
both? What is it? Solomon?

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It is one direction for today,
the story of my life. That's their

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song. That's apparently that's in that
Okay, okay, all right, so

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you're over. So here's number three. Okay, Yes, there is no

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way I can explain your love song
of Solomon. It's what dire. There's

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no I can't. I don't know. It's from the song that is better

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than words. Okay, there's no
way you explained your love Okay, okay,

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okay, you're going to redeem yourself. I'm sure of it. Well

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I don't know, okay, So
so you're oh for three? Yes,

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but here might be this is the
worst performance in the history of the Bible.

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Guys, Well, to be fair, this is really hard for you.

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You know all the no I do
not, Well, you know more

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than I do. You just sang
one. You don't know the story of

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my life. Well, I've heard
the tune. Okay, all right,

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here we go. But if you'd
ask me who sang that song, will

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say, oh, really, yeah, Okay, here's here's the next one.

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You are so beautiful, my love
in every part of you. I'm

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gonna say, song of Solomon.
You are correct. Okay, you are

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correct, But I'm glad to cut
off there because I still have chapter four

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up. That's verse number seven,
Verse number seven. Oh no, no,

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don't read it. Don't read it, Okay, don't read it.

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Okay, Okay, here's the last
one. Let's read it later, Okay,

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Okay. The last one says,
we'll finish this last one. As

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soon as I left, I found
the one I love. As soon as

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I left, I found the one
I love. I'm gonna say song of

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Solomon. Yes, because it's the
same verse, which is why I didn't

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want you to read it. Oh
no, that's chapter four, Verse seven,

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okay, so read read verse seven. You are all together beautiful,

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my darling, beautiful in every way. Yeah, that's verse seven. What

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oh, she might have copy pasted
and forget to change it or something.

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Yeah, as soon as I left, I found the one I love.

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It said four to seven. Look
see. Okay, so it's a different

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one. But either way though,
it's Song of Solomon. Yeah. For

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those of you who think that the
Bible is boring, read Song of Solomon.

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Yeah that's uh just maybe not with
the kids, right right, right,

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Yeah, the rest of that chapter. That's why I was. I

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was glad we cut it off at
that point that because the rest of that

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chapter gets a little descriptive. Yeah, yes, so there you go.

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Hey, romance between a husband and
a wife. Yeah, not that beautiful

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thing. It's a gift from God. That's a gift from God. And

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so that's what that book's all about. So okay, so my wife is

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like, of course, the Bible
guy, the Bible guy I'm married to,

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doesn't know any of the song as
Solomon versus. I'm not sure very

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good at that. There's a lot
of things, uh value and a lot

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of pastors memorizing that unless they're to
use it for their wives, right,

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like be clever and cute and maybe
maybe romantic, I guess. Yeah.

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But well there's a lot of a
lot of application, a lot of foreshadowing

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towards Christ there in the church,
and a lot of those things. There's

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a lot of things to teach from
Long as Solomon. It's not a throwaway

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thing. It's just it's not it's
not a significantly doctrinal book. It's a

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poetic book, right. Yeah,
well, so that's the I haven't taught

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a message out of Song of Solomon
since I've been a youth pastor. Oh

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really, Oh, we did a
whole series on Song of Solomon a couple

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of years ago before you came here, Mile Cool kept having to put up

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every service on the screens. We
put up this a PG. Thirteen message.

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It was a marriage message, right, it's all love bringing romance back

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into oh into the marriage. Yeah. Wow, good for you. Yeah,

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so you haven't preached on it in
years. But well if you would

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have won that one, because you
know all the one direction songs, right,

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But I should I should have known
this other piece. So here we

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go. So, uh, it's
interesting that we did that one song of

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Solomon's because us we're talking about Jesus
tells a parable about ten bridesmaids. Yeah,

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there you go, and so that's
the connection. Hey, we're gonna

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give you a mission project to do. Would you like us follow us on

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Facebook and would you then share us
on Facebook with all of your friends and

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family, because we know Facebook needs
Jesus. Facebook needs a little bit of

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the Bible, guys, so make
sure you do that today, Matthew,

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Chapter twenty five one through thirteen.
It says, then the kingdom of heaven

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will be like ten bridesmaids who took
their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

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Five of them were foolish and five
were wise. The five who were

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foolish didn't take enough olive oil for
the lamps, but the other five were

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wise enough to take along extra oil. When the bridegroom was delayed, they

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all became drowsy and fell asleep.
At midnight, they were roused by the

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shout look the bridegroom was coming,
come out and meet him. All the

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bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps, and then the five foolish ones to

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ask the others please give us some
of your oil, because our lamps are

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going out. But the others replied, we don't have enough for all of

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us. Go to a shop and
buy some for yourselves. But while they

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were gone to buy oil, the
bridegroom came. Then those who were ready

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went with him to the marriage feast, and the door was locked. Later,

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when the other five brides maids return, they stood outside calling Lord Lord

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opened the door for us, but
he called back, believe me, I

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don't know you, so you too
must keep watch for you to not know

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the day or hour of my return. So he's talking about being prepared again.

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Yeah, it really is. It's
just a very extensive parable And obviously

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there's some sad news for those who
aren't prepared. Huh yeah, sure,

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yeah, for those who you know. And by the way, but there's

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good news for those that are,
yes, right, And I was just

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going to say, by the way, he uses a wedding on purpose,

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right. So oftentimes in the New
Testament and Ephesians, when he talks about

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brides and you know, husbands and
wife, he says, this is a

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great mystery, right, because he's
really talking about Christ in the church.

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So so you know, in the
Bible, we are. We are told

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that God created the institute of marriage, institutional marriage to be a reflection of

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our relationship with our heavenly Father,
right, and so think about that.

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It's just think about how unbelievable that
is in the depth of it. And

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then so Jesus uses this illustration to
talk about you know, him and his

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church and the ones who were there
prepared and waiting, meaning they did everything

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they could to anticipate and receive the
bridegroom, and these other ones did not.

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They were they were careless, they
were foolish. And that's supposed to

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indicate that people didn't get enough,
give enough attention to it. They didn't

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give enough you know, belief that
you know, it was important enough.

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And uh. And those are the
ones who reject Christ. Those are the

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ones who go through the world and
and they you know, they and their

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lives for themselves and at the last
minute they're like, whoa, whoa,

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whoa, you know, hurry up, let me let me come in,

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even though I don't have the right
ingredients here. Yeah, the other theologically,

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the main point he's making here is
being prepared and understanding nobody else's faith

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prepares you for when the bridegroom arrives. Right, So it's a personal faith.

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Right, we're responsible for our own
spiritual condition. And how often have

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I heard people so many times tell
me, you know, if you ask

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them, hey, if you died
today or him person, I'm sure you

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go to heaven, which I ask
people often and they'll often go, oh,

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well, you know, I came
from a Christian family, so yes,

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what right? The fact that your
mom and dad are Christians doesn't get

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you into heaven. The fact that
your family has always believed in Jesus doesn't

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get you there. Right, So
you are personally responsible for your spiritual condition

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to be prepared for when the Holy
Spirit comes. This is when Jesus returns,

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when the bridegroom comes. This is
what Remember when we read in John

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chapter three and Jesus talking to Nicodemus
and he said you must be born again.

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He goes, what are you talking
about? Right? You couldn't put

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all that together entering my mother's room. Yeah, yeah, right, And

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so what he's saying is, listen, it's on you, you personally to

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have a personal birth. Even twins
are born separate, right, So he's

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saying you have to have a personal
birth. In the Kingdom. This is

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a very similar illustration. Tomorrow we're
going to read about Jesus. He's talking

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about loaned money, he talks about
final judgment. He's got all these illustrations

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that are coming up, and they're
all the same, all of them.

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Are you are personally responsible for your
spiritual condition to be ready when Jesus comes

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back, And so so often I
encourage people, man, don't risk eternity

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on the fact that you come from
a religious family, or from the fact

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that you've always kind of known about
Jesus. All right, the devil is

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always known about Jesus, right,
but he doesn't have faith in Christ.

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And so this is one of those
illustrations where there's a lot of people who

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think that they should be allowed in. Right. Half the group here thinks

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they should be allowed in, but
they're not. He goes, listen,

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I don't even know who you are, right, you weren't ready, and

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now I don't know who you are. Hey, earlier, you know how

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we had said it's very appropriate and
kind of cool that he uses the illustration

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of a wedding, you know,
in a marriage this life application study Bible

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No says, this is really cool. It says this parable isn't actually about

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the wedding ceremony itself. Right on
the wedding day, the bridegroom went to

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the bride's house for the ceremony.
Then the bride and groom, along with

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a great procession, returned to the
groom's house, where a feast took place

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and then often lasted a full week. These ten bridesmaids were wanting to join

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the procession, and they had hoped
to take part in the marriage feast,

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but when the groom didn't come at
the expected time, five of them were

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out of lamp oil. By the
time they had purchased oil, it was

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too late to join the feast.
When Jesus returns to take his people to

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heaven, we must be ready.
Spiritual preparation cannot be bought or borrowed at

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the last minute. A relationship with
God must be our own. Which is

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what you said. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. It's really well

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written, and I love I love
the way that it puts it together like

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that for you, because now you're
thinking, big procession, Why were they

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sitting there with what was the significance
of having lamp oil? Is because they're

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supposed to be you know how today
in our in our world, people get

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married and after the reception they get
in the car and there's cans on the

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back and driving around honking horns and
right, all that kind of stuff you're

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throwing. Well, you're not allowed
to throw rice anymore. What do we

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throw now? Right? Yeah?
Bird seed or whatever. And so have

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that mind or that concept, and
just understand it was before the wedding,

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on the way to the big feast, and they would do this where there

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would be the lamps. It would
be a nighttime procession. It would get

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the attention to be like a parade
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idea is we are going going to
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And they weren't ready. They ran
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prepared, and then they missed out. And that's what he's that's what he's

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highlighting. It's not about the wedding, it's about missing out. Well,

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can you imagine tying cans behind a
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invented after the car was invented.
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know, can you imagine used to
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no, I'm joking the but can
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tying cans or something, and then
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thousand years later, somebody, you
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cars anymore, and everybody teleports everywhere. Remember you know Star Trek cars are

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a thing of the past. Yes, then they would read that and go,

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what's with the cans? Yeah?
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right, because because tradition states this
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right, that's something we wouldn't necessarily
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have you ever seen a wedding in
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the streets and everybody's blowing the horns
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not fireworks, but they're like handheld
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and so crazy but fun. Like
you just get get sucked into this craziness

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of the pageantry of all that.
That's what's happening here, and that's that's

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the image. And so what happened
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this party so great were not prepared. So the bridegroom clearly wanted these bridemaids,

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a part of the wedding right wanted
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want these five, don't want these
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invited, only some were prepared.
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You and I know everybody we know
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And so one of our jobs is
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families prepared, our friends prepared,
the people that God has put us around

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are prepared for when Jesus returns.
That's that's a big deal. And that's

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all about sharing the Gospel and inviting
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themselves. Invite Jesus and the life, repent of your sins turn to Christ.

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Yeah, and you know it's it's
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the Gospel. You know, it
doesn't matter what kind of conversation you're having

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with anybody, doesn't really matter if
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or it's never been on God.
There are ways you you literally learn ways

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to bring up the conversation and spirit
word God. And when you when you

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sort of learn those Yeah, I
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well. When you know scripture everything, This Scripture covers almost all of life,

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right, So when you really spend
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know it, the Holy Spirit has
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Situation we were talking about. One
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to share the Gospel with a young
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baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the

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baby, and the baby got sick, you know, like they do,

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burped up all a formula or whatever, and so there, oh my goodness,

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and then stuff. And then I
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Did you know the Bible says that
when we become Christians were like babies

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to Jesus. And they were like, no, no, we didn't know

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that. And I was like,
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in all of our in our infancy, we wind up spitting up on Jesus

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all the time. They're like what, And so it turned into this conversation

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about and it went by the way
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how do you become it? Literally, how do you become a Christian?

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What's the question? It's because they're
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hey, we need to turn our
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right. There was it, but
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knowing that the Bible says we are
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it. Yeah, you just turn
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everything in life. If you know
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Well, I was going to say, it's not necessarily a tactic,

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although there are tactics, but I
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happen is the Holy Spirit will just
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the words to say. And there
have been so many times where we're just

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talking with somebody and all of a
sudden, I just felt like God's like,

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bring this up, and you're like, I don't want to that up,

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you know, But in God,
in his wisdom, we'll just sort

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of guide the conversation and the next
thing you know, you're talking about Him,

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You're talking about you know, the
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remember a couple days ago when we
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of you are going to be arrested
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governors. Don't worry about what you're
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tell you right, that's right.
It's the same thing when you're standing in

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front of your friends and family.
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Holy Spirit has all the tools he
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know, get the Gospel to your
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to worry about what you're going to
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don't know, four hundred ish people
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to you, and Pastor is okay
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oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm
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know, bring this home. And
then sure enough, she ruined it for

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me. She's like, so I
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get to heaven. I'm like,
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must I do to be saved?
But be saved sir? So it was

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just pretty awesome. But I had
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just told her. I just said, hey, I'll just give you my

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my story. And what I did
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was like when somebody told me first
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me they said, hey, pretend
I'm gonna buy you a gift. I

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would earn it, I would go
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you believe this gift is for you, but it's not yours till you reach

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out and you take it. And
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to her and and sure enough,
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That's great, And that was the
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story of salvation and somehow give the
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right, yeah, which is really
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it's not too difficult to learn a
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that direction. John three sixteen super
useful to be able to say God loved

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the whole world so much gave his
one and only son, Everyone who believes

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in him will not perish but have
everlasting life. If you can't memorize any

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other verse, that's one. Right. What you're saying is you're going to

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put your faith in trust in Jesus
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Paul and Peter both answer questions when
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saved. They would talk about repenting
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sin, turning to God and believing
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and you will be saved, right, they say. Peter also adds in,

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you have to believe that Jesus is
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from the dead. Right. So
there's a few of these little elements there

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that if we just understand how to
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it's not a works thing, and
that Jesus paid the price I love using

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Romans six twenty three. Right,
the wages of sin is death. Right,

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that's the bad news, But this
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good news is right that wages says
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is eternal life through Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Sometimes it's just that one

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verse. Sure, our sins have
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about. God's not about the consequences. God's about rescuing us, and Jesus

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paid the price. It's just a
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the free gift? You accept it? Right, So there's lots of times

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I've only just used one scripture combined
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and yeah, people respond because you're
not it's not your words and it's

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not your work. God loves them
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Spirit has already been doing work on
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it's just about offering a path for
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Spirit is the one is drawing them, right, And so you God's using

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you to use some words, but
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them to Christ. And so it's
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the words. Yeah, well,
this this parable with the ten Bridesmaids reminds

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us that we should always be alert
and be ready. So whether whether you

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know, death ends an opportunity for
any of us to make a decision forever,

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right, So either either either James
tells us, Hey, our life

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is but a vapor. It's like
a mist. It's here for one minute,

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it's gone the next. We don't
know about tomorrow. Don't ever brag

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about tomorrow because because you're not guaranteed
tomorrow. So so death is around the

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corner at any moment. Uh,
Jesus can come at any moment, and

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both of those things should have us
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you know he's coming. Uh,
you know, life, life is

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short. He's the answer. Be
ready. Yeah, today's the day of

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salvation. You don't want to be
caught on the outside looking in. That's

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right, right, that's good.
Well, hey, that's our time,

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so hopefully we will see you tomorrow
on the Bible guys, h