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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, good morning or

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afternoon or evening. We are the
Bible Guys. You do that all the

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time. I do. I do
because I want to say good morning,

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good morning, Yes, good morning. Yeah, there you go. Somebody

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just sent it to me the other
day. They sent me the clip of

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Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly saying good
morning, singing good morning. I watched

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the whole thing. Well, this
is it right here. This is your

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last chance. Good morning, good
morning. We talked the whole night through

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good morning, good morning to you, and I say, granted that being

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Louisiana, I say, this is
your last chance. It's not that we're

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ending the Bible Guys podcast. No, it's just this is the end of

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the two hundred and fifty or two
hundred and some odd major events in the

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life of Jesus, which is crazy
that it's been two hundred and fifty.

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Yeah, yeah, isn't it incredible? Yeah, a long series. So

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anyways, that's the end of this
series. Yes, and so you got

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to squeeze in one more good morning. There you go, and you know

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what, before we jump into that, Jeff, could you sing good afternoon,

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good afternoon, good afternoon that.
Okay, we're we're going to play

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guess the word, which is our
version of taboo. So if you are

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a watcher and you're watching on video, we're going to try to put these

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words on the screen for you,
the words that I cannot say, because

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that's really the fun of the guests. The game. The game is me.

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It's harder for me than it is
for you. So here we go.

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We're going to try to here doing
nothing nothing but again it's just you

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all you carrying this whole segment,
all right, So the first one is

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the hardest one. Ready, okay, okay, So you're you're you're when

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you you're raised to walk as a
as a what you're raised to walk?

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Baptism? Yeah? Uh what's the
next phrase? Newness of life? Yeah?

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Yeah, okay, So I'm about
to say the word new because you

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said new. Okay, So when
you say uh blank spanking new brand yes,

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brand brand new, yes, there
you go. Okay, all right,

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so I had to I had to
get you to say the word.

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Okay, all right, Now the
next word, ready, we're gonna put,

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We're gonna put. By the way
I should say, I wasn't allowed

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to say new or name. I
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yes, but I wasn't allowed to
say new or name or product or label

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or export. So I was trying
to really get around new. Okay,

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now this this, this next one
is gonna be very funny. Okay,

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here we got ready. What was
our theme for Easter Resurrection? New Day,

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a new day? The word was
new. The next word was new

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new again, so we weren't allowed
to say new. That was though,

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the other one was brand new.
And then this one's new. Yeah.

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The first word was brand and then
this word was new new yes, okay,

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and so and so new day.
Well yeah, so I wasn't allowed

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to say old, fresh, brand, or recent or change. Okay,

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okay, all right, good job, Chris, thank you. Here we

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go. Here's number three. Did
Jesus say that is our next series?

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There it is? Which which again
when they hear it, we're gonna be

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a couple weeks into it, that's
right. But I wasn't allowed to say

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television set, episode numbers or arithmetic, so I went with the with the

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church angle. Yes, Okay,
uh, here we go. This is

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gonna be really hilarious. Okay,
did Jesus say that is our blank series,

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new series or next next? Yes? Oh wow? Okay, so

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they're all related. Yes. So
I wasn't allowed to say last beside door

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after or year, so pretty much
I could have said a new day is

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our brand new next series. Well, think about this, the first four

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words brand new, brand new series
next. Okay, yeah, so here's

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the last words. Okay, all
right, ready, there's fifty two of

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them in a year weeks yes,
or singular week yes. So the words

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they gave me were brand new series
next week. There you go. So

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how clever this is awesome? Yeah, very clever. And I forgot to

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say for the word next, I
wasn't allowed to say last beside door after

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or year. It was not to
say the word year. There, Chris,

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if the ministry doesn't work out for
you, I think you would make

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an amazing game show host. And
then for a week I wasn't allowed to

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say day, Wednesday or Sunday.
I actually think a talk show host is

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something that I would actually very much
enjoy. Talk show host game show hosts.

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Oh well that too, Yeah,
yeah, I think I would enjoy

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it. Like on Family Feud,
the question is whether I would enjoy it.

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The question is when people enjoy me. Because I know that's a question

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that most of us are asking to
answer you, because I know I would

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enjoy it. I would love to
be a game show. Yeah. I

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think you do a good job.
Yeah, I think I just heard that.

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Did Pat say Jack just die?
What? I think? So?

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What how old is Pat say Jack? Pat Say Jack is seventy seven years

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old. Oh, okay, he
didn't die. Okay, Okay, it

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must have been a spoof. Well
I was gonna say, is this breaking

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news? No, it must have
been a spoof. Saw. I think

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that comes up on social media all
the time. You know, you know

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those two guys, How would you
like to be the guy that he keeps

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coming up that you're dead? I
know, you know those guys on Saturday

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Live. They give each other the
news to read. Yeah, they make

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fun. They get each other to
say things that are going to get him

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killed or whatever. Well, the
guy gave the other guy, it's the

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guy who's married to Scroll Johansson.
It's that guy anyway, he said,

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famous famous game show host Pat say
Jack dies at ninety seven. Of course,

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I know it's spoof now because only
seventy seven. But he goes famous

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game show host dies at ninety seven, and all of the fans watching who

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are avid watchers of the game show
said, wow, that's young. Yeah,

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there you go. So you just
you just took a shot at all

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of our listeners that also like I
didn't Saturday Life. Okay, all right,

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well you made us all laugh about
it. Yes, that's true.

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Okay, Well, now we're going
to remove you from your role as game

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show host. You demoted. Oh
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very long at all. Okay,
Well, hey, this is it right

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here. This is the final event
in the Gospels, and so it's in

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the extended ending of Mark chapter sixteen. And we're also going to look at

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Luke chapter twenty four, and then
we're going to take a peek into Acts

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chapter one. So you gotta remember, as is Luke part two right?

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In other words, the author of
Acts is Luke, right, And he

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really wrote him as you know,
back to back stories. Yes, okay,

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it's like the sequel to his first
book. His first book did so

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well, he wrote a second book, and they're thinking we can make this

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into two movies, okay. So
Mark chapter sixteen, verse nineteen says,

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when the Lord Jesus had finished talking
with them, he was taken up into

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heaven and sat down in the place
of Honor at God's right hand. And

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the disciples went everywhere and preached,
and the Lord worked through them, confirming

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what they said by many miraculous signs
straight into the point. And Luke chapter

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twenty four, verse fifty says,
then Jesus led them to Bethany, and

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lifting up his hands to Heaven,
he blessed them. And while he was

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blessing them, he left them and
was taken up to heaven. So they

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worshiped him and then returned to Jerusalem
filled with great joy, and they spent

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all of their time in the Temple
in God. And then in Acts chapter

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one, verse six so, when
the disciples or the apostles were with Jesus,

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they kept asking him, Lord,
what Lord has the time come for

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you to free Israel and restore your
kingdom? And he replied, the Father

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alone has the authority to set those
dates in times, and they're not for

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you to know. But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon

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you and you will be my witnesses
telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem,

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through Judea, in Samaria, and
to the ends of the earth. And

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after saying this, he was taken
up into a cloud while they were watching,

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and they could no longer see him. As they strained to see him

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rising into heaven, two robed men, white robed men, suddenly stood among

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them, men of Galilee. They
said, why are you standing here staring

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into heaven. Jesus has been taken
from you into heaven. But someday he

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will return from heaven in the same
way you saw him go. And that's

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it. You know what I can't
get out of my mind. When I

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was a very young Babba college student, and you know those family entertainment videos,

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they were just they were like cartoons
vhs. Yeah, I think some

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old Disney employees, yes, yes, from that company, Yes, who

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worked on the Black Cauldron in Disney. Anyway, Uh, there's a scene

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in the Ascension of Jesus where he
flies up into the clouds and then the

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angels, you know, two men
robed in white Uh said those phrases,

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and then they did they did this
dramatic ending where uh, you know,

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like Oliver, you know, please
say, can I have some mole?

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You know, like this little kid, this little kid who like tugs in

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your heartstrings. So so this little
cartoon ends. Jesus goes into heaven,

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angels speak and then they zoom in
on this little boy and he's got one

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single tear and he goes, come
soon, Lord Jesus will always be watching.

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Then that's it. That's the last
line. Okay, you know,

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just yes, because it's in my
mind every time I read the scriptures,

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every single time. It's in my
mind because it's says that even so come

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quickly, Lord Jesus. Yeah.
Yeah, And it's the declaration that we

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should have, right, So it's
the idea that we should, you know,

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look look for the second Coming and
expect it at any given moment.

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And they just tagged it right onto
the ascension. When you get to Heaven

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and you meet Luke, you can
say, hey, I liked your books,

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but you know what you should have
done. You should have had a

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little boy at the end with it. Come soon. You can straighten him

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out, straighten him out, Come
on, Luke. All right, So

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anyways, here we are. Jesus
ascends back to Heaven. Yes, and

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his disciples begin to go. But
I think my favorite thing, and it's

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just so human, is Jesus literally
has told them how many times in these

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last forty days. Now, listen, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit.

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And then I want you to go
everywhere and tell everybody. Right,

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go everywhere. He says it in
Matthew, he says it, Mark,

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he says it in Luke, go
everywhere, tell everybody. They're like,

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okay, okay. Then he ascends
to heaven. And then they're just standing

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there watching. They couldn't even see
him anymore. They strained to see him

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rising into heaven, these two white
robed men. Suddenly God has to sant

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angels. They go, men of
Galilee, why are you standing here?

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Right? You're just standing into heaven. He was taking from you. He's

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coming back. Get back to work, right, And and isn't that just

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the typical Christian? God says,
Okay, here's what I want you to

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do. Do this, okay,
yeah, and then we just stand there

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and do nothing. Right. Yeah, No, I mean I mean,

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go do it. Okay, we
should, you know, we should do

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it. Let's have a Bible study
about how we should do this. Let's

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stand around and talk about it.
Hey, Jesus is coming back at any

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minute. Let's just stand and watch
Jesus coming back. Now he has us

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on mission. We're supposed to be
on mission telling everybody everywhere that he's coming

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back and they need to be ready. But nope, we're just going to

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stand there and look. You know
what that reminds me of is when I

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was working at my very first church. This was in the early nineties.

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I was going down how we won
thirty eight in Jonesborough, Georgia, and

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there was a huge, massive typhoon
rain. I mean it was just like

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a white rain, huge heavy rain, and we were backed up in traffic,

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bumper to bumper for like I bet
it was forty five minutes, and

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we finally get up to the actual
like thing. You know how people they

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rub their neck and they turn and
they look at recks. Well, this

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wasn't a wreck. This was a
simple refrigerator box. Theyn't have a refrigerator

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in it. It was just a
box weighed like probably three pounds, five

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pounds whatever it was, and it
was actually soaking wet, but it was

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huge, and it was right in
the middle of the lane and people had

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to stop and slowly go around it, and then and it was it caused

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this massive block up, you know, for like, you know that forty

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five minutes. So finally when we
got up there, we saw the problem.

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And as we're going around this refrigerator
box, my boss Chuck, who

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was with me in the car,
looks at me and he goes, oh,

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man, he goes, somebody could
take care of this if they just

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go out there and just simply just
pull that box off the side of the

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road. He goes, somebody ought
to do that. I said yeah,

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as we passed it and kept on
going right, and then we looked each

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other and we just cracked up because
we knew that we weren't going to do

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it. And there's thousands of other
people who drove past it saying the same

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thing. Yes, somebody should get
that box right, right, and yet

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we just drove past it. And
then we just cracked up because we were

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like, oh my goodness, look
who we are. We're the people who

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said we should do it. We
didn't do it right. God believes in

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us more than we believe in us. Right, So God says, okay,

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listen, through his son, We're
going to give you power and We're

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going to give you a mission.
Go tell everybody everywhere. Okay, okay,

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And then he has sense literally he
just said, didn't he just say?

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When Jesus had finished talking to him, finished talking about what right before

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that, he says, I'm going
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I want you to go everywhere and
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the ends of the earth. Your
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Father alone has the authority to choose
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I'm gonna do these things. But
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on you. You'll be my witnesses. Okay, okay, and break just

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stand there and break right. It's
us man, but it's symbolic of a

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lot of Christians. Okay, I'm
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the Lord leads me, I'm going
to do it. Right. How often

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you hear people go you ask them
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and it's an easy yes or an
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just gonna pray about it. I'm
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in this thing. Just do something. How about that? I really feel

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like when I come to the end
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just do something. Have a predisposition
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waiting for some super calling, just
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in the seventies and eighties named John
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name John Rice. I feel like
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of the Lord. Remember that,
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in America. Very very conservative guy
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student of the Bible. Anyways,
I can remember him. He was in

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he's probably seventy five seventy seven,
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of pats a Jack roughly yeah,
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in your mind, same right.
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point he said, you know,
I never he said, I kept waiting

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and waiting and waiting for God to
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because he would hear preachers talk about
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would you know, there was an
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and the angels spoke, the clouds
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in the ministry. He said,
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like some significant earth shattering moment in
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me the ministry. But he said, I wanted to serve God so bad

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and I never got the call.
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me if you wanted me to quit. And then he was fifty years later,

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having served, led tens of thousands
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every state in the country, had
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had helped transform, you know,
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said, you know, basically,
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of the Gospels and he said go. So I just went and figured if

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he didn't want me to go,
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we are fifty years later, and
what he's saying is, you don't need

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a mountaintop experience to obey. Just
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Just do something. What are you
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are you doing specifically to bring lost
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some kind of angelic message from heaven, Jesus told us. And yet most

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of us are just standing there looking
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comes back soon, right, Yeah? And you know, it also reminds

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me of I was a part of
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not important, but basically there was
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to us and discipleship, and one
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when God speaks, and basically it
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know, speaking, or you know, you read his word and it feels

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like he's encouraging or challenging something whatever, whatever it is. If God feels

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like he's getting your attention, he
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need to ask yourselves, God,
what are you saying? And what do

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you want me to do? That's
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what you're supposed to do is you're
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trying to figure out, okay,
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saying? And then it breaks that
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first half of that question would be
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and say, Okay, what did
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and then to discuss with people?
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God, what do you want me
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says to uh account in other words
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an account. And there was another
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it was uh and then it was
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you're saying? Okay, now that
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He gives us the mission? And
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Judea, Samaria in the Ends of
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specific city that they start in,
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a region, and then Samaria is
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cross cultural, yeah, and cross
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the Earth is even further. So
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middle in Jerusalem and it just goes
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do your part and wherever you go. And by the way, I also

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love an old time preacher. I
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remember this old time preacher talk about
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was it literally translates into as you
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as you are going, that's right, And so it doesn't just it doesn't

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mean go. And then once you
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gospel. It says as you are
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journey, wherever you are, which
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get that as you are going,
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it's a way that you can translate
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Samaria and the ends of the earth, not then, right. It doesn't

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right, which is which is a
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go. It's not like evangelism is
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on a missions trip. All mission
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Christians are everywhere, and so we
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we understood that it's not an event
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So yeah, yeah, I went
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my family. They were playing the
Cleveland Browns, and I had this big

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ordeal where I was. I was
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in a daily Oh you told it
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I wasn't planning on going into details, but basically I ended up walking all

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the way to the to the stadium, forgot my tickets, went all the

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way back. I was well into
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to ruffle and shuffle, uh,
the guy who is parking the cars and

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watching the parking lot saw my Bible
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and go back to the stadium to
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the person know for certain they can
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I was like, oh, is
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well, I guess my time with
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walking away from this right, And
it's just the it's the idea of like,

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as you are going, right,
and so here I am in the

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middle of doing whatever. Yeah,
but you know it's the mission. Here

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I am in the middle of this
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you know, it's not as if
I could lead him to Christ in twenty

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minutes. This poor guy, you
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you know, to say, hey, that's a great question. Let's put

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that question to the side, and
let's talk about salvation, right, and

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then let's talk about the message of
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that, let's answer your question.
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questions. Did dinosaurs roam the earth? Right? You know that kind of

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thing. But this guy, you
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it was all mission from that point
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up. I love how the Book
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asking Jesus, when are you coming
back? So the things Christians want to

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talk about, when's Jesus come back? When's Jesus coming back? When's Jesus

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come back? When's Jesus coming back? And he goes, it's none of

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your business. He literally says,
it's not for you to know, right,

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So it's not your business. So
get to work, right, get

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to work. Go share the gospel. The work he gave us is go

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tell everyone everywhere. All the rest
of the things we do, passing out

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programs and passing out coffee in church
and making sure the floors are vacuumed,

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all those things are nice things,
they're important things, but they're only for

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the purpose of being able to share
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So you go share the gospel.
Learn to share the gospel personally.

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How do you close the deal with
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you share the gospel with your neighbors? How do you bring up a gospel

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conversation? With your coworker. God
called you to go, But I know

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so many Christians who are obsessed about
end times, obsessed about end times and

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never share the gospel right, right, And so Jesus said, it's none

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of your business. Go, And
then there's still standing there looking up and

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having going. I wonder when he's
coming back, right, And so the

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angels have to remind him again.
And so I think it's important that we

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be reminded over and over and over
and over, because I think the hardest

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thing for Christians to do is to
get up and go, whether it's across

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the office or across the street or
ass over the world. Yeah, and

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you don't have to have a Bible
degree. You don't have to know theology.

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You don't have to just like I'm
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You don't have to know the answer
to every question that every agnostic has.

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The only thing you have to know
is I once was lost and now

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I'm found. Yeah, you need
to know your story, that's right,

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who you were before you became a
Christian, What was the event or the

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things God used to catch your attention? And what did you do? Right?

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Hey, I confess my sin,
accepted Christ my savior, and then

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what has happened afterwards? And if
you know your story and you can learn

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how to tell God's story, the
fact that God made us to love us,

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but we are sinners and Jesus paid
the price for our sin and salvations

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by grace through faith. If you
can figure out how to tell those things,

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your story and God's story, you're
qualified to share the gospel. Right

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And I always advise people just re
memorize John three sixteen. God loved,

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God gave, We believe we have. Those forwards are in that verse.

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Yep. So hey, that looks
like our time. So as we read

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it, that is it. We
wrap up this series. And so we

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will see you for great new information. Well tomorrow, tomorrow we're doing an

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entire day of stump the pastor.
That's great. Yeah, so it's gonna

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be fun. All right. We'll
see you then on the Bible, guys,