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The family is a donation there to the beauty of this day from just this week in memory of

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Velma Williamson and I do give thanks to everybody who has helped with the food and who has done

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so many things and any for the beautiful music that came through like a clarion silver bell

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and I'm just proud of the body of Christ and also our condolences go out to the Patrick family

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as he's lost his sister and we pray for them going through the same thing this next week and you

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just remember God sticks closely to those who pay attention to him and I also wanted to thank

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Ray for the wonderful job of doing the carpet work at the gymnasium it just looks like a million

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dollars drive by and see we're just about done with that and it has been an ordeal but it's an

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ordeal accomplished just about done so I pray that everyone who has contributed will be blessed

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you know up in the mountains of Yellowstone is a phenomena that turns me to God you know

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that I've been studying science all my life and I've given my life to the word of God and putting

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them together has been my sheer joy in life and there is a marvelous mystery up there in the old

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jellystone country it's a place called Castle Geyser and you know that's testing when the

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Bible says it's black soil above and fire underneath and the black soil brings bread but

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the fire brings the soil and it's a mystery it's hard to understand there is a place called Castle

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Geyser maybe some of you have been here every 11 and a half hours it blows its stack it runs 80 feet

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high a shrieking screaming fire and steam and the most marvelous pressure and testimony that the

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earth is just a shallow eggshell beneath our feet and there's a wonderful symbiosis that there you

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know in a country that's 50 below zero is a very ecological rare niche that God has allowed to happen

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and you know little spiders eat the flies that live there and flies don't live all year round at 50

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below but because of the heat they can they feed on the bacteria they put larvae into it the flies

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and the spiders provide food for the little trout and so it's a marvelous little trout stream and

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it's such a wonderful rich relationship I know that there is a Panto creator or that as I know

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that there's a god of all things and that he runs in his universe and that we get in trouble when

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we don't run the same way that God does and that delicate symbiosis is just simply saying to me

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many are the plans in a man's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that will ultimately prevail and

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that's really the thing in it as long as we are in God's purpose that will be the triumph of part of

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our life Proverbs 19 verse 21 the theme for today though is not that particular subject but it has

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to do with our first love and Revelation 1 for Jesus said this yet I have something against the

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and that ought to scare the britches off those are pretty tough you know if he says well I've got

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something to talk to you about something against the and I'll tell you that's going to be a long

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27 years immediately after that isn't it for you have forsaken your first love we're mostly

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Christians here today and so unfortunately that is the case but I'll tell you what we need there

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once while evaluate have we left our first love it's so easy to do in this day in this age why

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just like that we leave our first love it's been my joy to marry over 20 300 I could say 320 but

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little over somewhere between 350 and 320 couples once three times in a Saturday that's a bit much

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bit overdone and there's no more joyous time than to see the pretty girl walking down the aisle with

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the tall handsome fellow beside her and the smile on the mama's faces and it's just a marvelous time

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and it's easy to say I love you with all my heart but then I've also heard a year two or three or

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five or ten years later someone say but honey I don't love you anymore I don't love you anymore

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and Jesus is kind of looking at us in that aspect you know you ever sometimes run a little bit luke

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warm so to speak you ever get a little bit tired sometime of that love you know love is a matter

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of priorities getting set straight isn't it who's most important you or me in the marriage and if

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you both consider the other important you're going to make it all right now not to say that loving

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couples don't get in troubles and don't have problems and don't need mediators from time to time but

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hey if they'll just stick to one another they will not have left their first love and you know I see

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it's a matter of priorities because what happens is you begin to lose your love for someone why you

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begin to criticize them pick at them a little bit and after a while you begin to ignore them and

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leave them and finally eventually leave them don't you and that's the sign of mixed up priorities see

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criticize and deemphasize see and before long we've left our first love and that first love has

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grown cold we are at a time of years when we're not only voting November the 5th but we the church

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will be picking men and women who will be serving us boy we need teachers who have not left the

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first love we need elders and we need deacons who have not left the first love but still hanging

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in their faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ now I sometimes wonder isn't it easy for any of us not

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a one of us is above the potential of leaving our first love or he wouldn't have told us about it

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obviously this jaded church this church is called a sweetheart church a little darlin church if you

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will Ephesus in Revelation 2 verse 4 they had a love at one time or he wouldn't have chided them a

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little bit for losing that love see and it can happen and I might ask myself well fat Albert is

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your spiritual of jaded from time to time you get tired of doing your duty when I was in the army

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you know the sergeant would say now I want to encourage you men to show up for inspection tomorrow

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they didn't say that he said be there be square be early side walls white side walls and I want

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your shoes shine and I had a man look at the back of my belt buckle and I said sergeant that's a

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little bit frivolous don't you think looking at the back and you know he didn't care for that

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evaluation he wanted to see what the back of my brass belt buckle looked like because if you get

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careless you don't shine the back after all it seizes your navel that isn't too pretty either is

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it but you know what he had a priority he knew what he wanted from you stand tall soldier you be

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square you be there and you know it's hard to participate if your heart isn't in what you're

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doing if you've left your first love I guess you're not going to participate in that relationship

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but tall are you you won't you won't at all and perhaps one way to have this happen is to forget

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the excitement of what's really going on in the kingdom of God there are some marvelous things you

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all in Colossians 1 verse 13 he said translate it all King James is delivered from the kingdom of

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darkness and transferred into the wonderful light of the Son of God's love and here was a dichotomy

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black white good bad positive negative I tell you you don't do any good in algebra if you put a

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negative we're a positive odd to be and there's a great difference in the polarity of that feeling

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in there love and hatred whatever it might be and you know that's the same passage just in verse 18

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when he spoke about his body the church his body the church and it's just as black and white it

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either is the church or it's nothing at all you've heard me say that it either is the kingdom of

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God or it's nothing at all positive or negative see and I hope that you see the kingdom of God is

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blackness and is and it's light one or the other it's going to be right or wrong there's no shades

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of gray in between the joy of knowing Velma was that we often would pray together and she and I had

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one young person we were concentrating on and we made this little covenant that we would continue

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to pray for a young man who would rise out of the little house of paradise and would become a word

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weaver unto the world and would go out into the night and preach to a world those who were dwelling

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in darkness that there was a better life I'm still praying for that young man maybe you are too may

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not be the same guy that you're praying for but I'm praying for the word weaver who is represented

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in some of the people that we have here this very day Ephesians 4 10 says this his intent was now

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that through the church the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and to the

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authorities in heavenly places isn't that a wonderful passage of scripture what is it the

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church the manifold wisdom of God can you see that what the world need is I don't think the world's

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going to get straightened out by politics this November the fifth I would wish it could happen

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but I doubt if it's going to happen but maybe I'm just negative I don't know maybe you feel more

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up about it praise the Lord that it should happen if it does not if politics doesn't make the world

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a better place or standing armies or the right kind of protection from our enemies both within

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and without then the power of prayer can do it and you know it's a wonderful thing to really

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believe that God believes the church is the manifold wisdom and that's not a big word manifold simply

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means multifaceted wisdom there isn't any wisdom lacking here in this little bit of the kingdom

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of God but what we would have the seeds to save the world and when the Germans crushed that the

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Russians crushed the Germans there on the east side East Berlin with the great great concrete

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curtain there and they finally broke through the passage that was written on the signs was

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danke Kerke which in German simply says thank you church thank you I've often wonder why do

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pagans why do atheists hate and despise the church because believe it or not and I think some of

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you don't really believe there's there is a power in the word of God and there is a power in the

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manifold wisdom of God that's called the church that's what we are looking for and that's what not

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entertainment he didn't say a word about entertainment did he not a word about entertainment as a

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matter of fact he makes a wondrous argument in Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 for the supremacy of

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the Lord Jesus Christ beginning in 1st 15 he says he is the image of the invisible God the first

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born over all Christ you want to see God see Jesus you study Matthew Mark Luke and John for by

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him all things were created things in heaven and on earth visible and invisible whether

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thrones or powers or rulings or authorities all things were created for him and by him

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well that's a marvelous testimony isn't it want to see God see Jesus study him know him be close

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to him see the word weaver must talk about one thing not of himself not of his church but he

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must talk about the creator the panta creator the one who is the power behind all things the one

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who created this marvelous and unique world he's before all things and in him all things are held

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together oh King James says and in him all things consist and I'm reading from the nearly inspired

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version and it sounds a little different than the King James notice what it says in him all

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things are held together by him do all things consist in another version good as gold sin of

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stealing it's tacky stuff it's a Elmer's glue did you know that the things that hold the atoms

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together is the power and the authority of Christ himself the bonds of love that holds the whole

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universe together he's the head of the body the church he's the beginning of the first born

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from among the dead so that in everything he might have the supremacy for God was pleased to have

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all his fullness dwell in him and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether things on

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earth or things in heavens by making peace through his blood that was shed on the cross isn't that

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a wondrous thing that means sinners are reconciled to God that's the clarion call that's the reason

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we're part of the church and that's why there's hope in the kingdom of God we're not talking about

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entertainment factors we are talking basically about a church which is the manifold wisdom of

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God and those people out there in high places and in dark spots around the world they need to hear

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about the body of Christ they need to hear about the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ for where

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it was for them you know there's a supremacy in Christ I never get tired you know I can't say I

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really like duty in the dungeon downstairs all the time but I had 10 little kids two weeks ago and

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it was such a privilege to me the squirmy little kids after being at school all day would come and

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sit with an old grandpa college professor droning and moaning on about the supremacy of God I don't

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apologize for that really and you know what a delight for in there were two or three word weavers

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who will go out into the darkness of the night and spread the gospel of light and you see I'm a

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tiny tiny part of that that's a joy in serving and being able to do such a thing well it says that

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there's life eternal if you return to your first love I mean we if we love the Lord we'll stick

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with him to the end if we return to our first love but I tell you what there is death in it if you

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do not I've heard so many dialogue I I can't fall back in love honey yes you can I just can't love

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her anymore oh big boy yes you can and if you're jaded with the church is probably because maybe

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you're not doing anything in the kingdom God it's easy to be critical you see and that's part of the

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story isn't it part of the story you get more critical and then you get away and you finally

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leave the attendance at the body and of the blood of the Lord Jesus ultimate blasphemy that is death

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if you do not say what is that judge 523 and it speaks of this cursed be ye maros declared the

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angel of the Lord cursed twice cursed for you came not against if not for the Lord against the enemy

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and then he repeats this against the enemies of the Lord that were mighty and and he got to say hey

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it's a tough fight some people were saying what fight is there a fight going on is there a fight

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tonight hey is an old boy today you got to get in on the message you got to hear the throngs

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don't you got to hear the swords clashing you got a smell of blood you got to know that people are

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dying and that takes the jaded nature the church away there's an essence here Maudi Muller on a

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summer's day done rake the matter wheat with sweet with hey hey there's not forever to just

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dally dally dilly do we need to look up unto the harvest for its ripe unto the harvest and I think

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if we start doing something for our sweetheart it'll make it easier to stay in love with her

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boy I tell you on the honeymoon honey I think I'd like to go out and eat tonight not rather

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not now come on on your honeymoon you kind of go along with what your sweetheart wants to do the

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trouble is the honeymoon ends doesn't it ladies from time to time it ends but if you are doing what

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you want God wants you to do you pay attention to what your sweetheart and her ever desire is that

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it might be fulfilled Debbie spoke of this because she gave out a little Valentine I suppose now

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she this would be sexual harassment in today's idiot world of government but she gave a little

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boy I think she was eight or nine she gave a little boy a Valentine and he gave it back he

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didn't like her so Debbie gave him another one see just like her mother and she wrote a little

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picture a postcard with a poem this is Debbie's first poem now y'all this is Debbie's first

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poem so bear with me and it had a little fat puppy in a tiny little tea cup with a spoon in it and

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this is what she said now talk about a devious mind I may not be your cup of tea so baby don't

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you stir up me don't ask me if and I want to spoon because baby you and me is thrown and we're so

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proud of Debbie's poetry but do you see her point she'd had enough with that sweetheart hey you're

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not going to pay attention to her well you can just shove off big boy serve your sweetheart look

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after her there will therefore be no boring or lack of passion in your relationship and I know

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that the honeymoon doesn't last for 65 years but something close to it and far better really does

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and that's a genuine heartfelt love between two people and God's people should stick in there and

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hang in there and not he was addressing a church remember not leaving their first love you remember

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that phrase in Luke 24 when the disciples had just seen Jesus and he had talked to them on the road

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to Emmaus and this is what they said did our hearts not burn within us when we walked along the

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road and he opened unto us the scriptures you know if nothing else y'all that as you read this you

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would be filled with a burning desire to follow its dreams to follow its schemes to follow its

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commandments to know of the one who is called the logos the logical one the personification of

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intellect our Savior and our Redeemer Lord Jesus Christ and how could I want to leave my first

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love my love for him let's turn if we will first Corinthians one four through nine and here's what

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he says first Corinthians one four through nine I always thank God for you because of his grace

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giving to you and Christ he's grace grace is giving us an open door hadn't it for in him you have

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been enriched in every way the word of God enriches us the presence and the living close to God

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enriches us young people and old folks alike see in all your speaking and all your knowledge because

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our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you that's the joy of being a minister of being a

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deacon of being an elder of being a teacher you see that as you talk the talk and do your best to

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walk the walk that people can see in you a kind of Jesus forming it's not just this enough to say

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well go and be fed but you got to feed them don't you and so he says by God's consistency in you

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you are going to prosper and those who hear you see therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift

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as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed hey I'm eagerly waiting for him to be

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revealed aren't you he will keep you strong to the end so that you will be blameless on the day of

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our Lord Jesus Christ who has called you into his fellowship with his son Jesus Christ our Lord for

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he is faithful that a wonderful passage of scripture we talk about the supremacy of Christ

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now we see fulfilled here about ways that supremacy can be used for the power of the church

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and for those who are members of the church and those who are believers and ultimately then for

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the wicked world who needs to see that this is the manifold wisdom of God shining out there this

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thing that's called the kingdom of God the church verse seven is more important than the rest of it

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therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ

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you do not lack anything and I've heard some people say I just can't serve there there are

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a workers church there are a doers church and I don't like that I just want to sit and listen I

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have no talents I can't do anything I'm not prepared I'm not ready I've had no cemetery degree I

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haven't got anything that I need to do the will of God yes but you do for he says those that make

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up the body have always got enough to get spiritual things accomplished in the kingdom of God

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spiro zodiac he says this about verse seven of first Corinthians one and y'all to write it down

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if you've not remembered it he says this and this makes more sense to me but the manifestation of the

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spirit is given to every man to profit with all and with all if you look it up just means everybody

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the reason to have spiritual gifts is that all in the kingdom of God might profit that all the

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church might profit we want to use Larry in a more powerful way and one of the things that stipulated

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as we begin to agree on how to do this is we want to be equipped to do the ministry of God and we

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want to spend more of his time doing that and that's money well spent we need it and we need it

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and I pray that you make this the day to say hey I want to put Larry to work and I was going to spare

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me any work because I'm going to have to do more work because one man can't do it all

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for a place this big with as many new Christians with as many young people and that's true isn't

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we want him to hone us and equip us to do a more powerful job than we have so that everyone

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might profit with all I'd conclude with this I think the reason that many of us grow cold

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in our relationship with our loved ones and oftentimes in the in the mission of the church

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is the loss of passion the loss of emotion because remember in that passage when he said did our

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own hearts not burn within us that hearts is the word cardiac and you've heard of that some of you

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have dealt with that there are two or three fighting that cardiac cardiac my heart is involved

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and you know that when your heart is involved you don't see the small blemishes you don't see the

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errors of the other fellow you're not trying to get away from and you're trying to get closer to them

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aren't you and passion is a burning not heartburn but a burning within us an emotion and sometimes

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the church lacks emotion and I would pray with all of my heart that we would not for the world is lost

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and I think if it is going to be one it's not going to be one by politics it's going to be one

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by following Romans 12 1 I beg you brothers by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a

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living sacrifice wholly and accepted acceptable which is the will of God see and be not conformed

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to this world but be transformed that you may prove what is that perfect and acceptable

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will of God and I know that there is a burning that makes a sacrifice you can't burn at the altar

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unless the sacrifice is laid on the altar that sacrifice has to be me every once in a while I

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have to think I don't really want to climb up on this shaky scaffold my legs obviously aren't what

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they used to be and I think well you big wimp why would you care that much and I have become more

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wimpy guide me push me challenge me see straighten me up we've got enough wimps in the world

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help me to be stronger than I am help me to have courage help me to be a person of

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cardio true heart involvement the world is lost and I think that if God's people will see that

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they are truly lost then the sacrifice will be a small thing the sacrifice will indeed be a small

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thing I wear this funny little button you've seen me do it it's not ego it's crushed my ego I remember

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what the lovely girl that I baptized one person go 27,000 miles to baptize one person sounds like

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a Wyoming revival doesn't it maybe that's why God chose me to that because I wasn't disappointed I was

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thrilled and she mumbled three phrases here Lanine is looking down you know his collar all

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shined up there Lanine killed more people than anybody since time began Caesar was a two-bit hood

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compared to Lanine he killed millions of people many of them christen he's looking down in this

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little lady being baptized in an old ceramic bathtub and those words when I asked the chancellor

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he said she said something funny I said what was it what was it she said three times bury me

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bury me bury me and she had found the truth hadn't she it was worth going 27,000 miles at least it

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was to me the Russian poet said this without father without mother without god or homeland either

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without crib or coffin cover without kisses or even a lover do you think that this man had any hope or

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salvation why he had nothing can you imagine 74 years without bible 74 years without the church

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74 years without the free assembly of those just like us we can gather today and the music sounds

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so good it was so precious and they've been hiding in the woods for 74 years how hard it

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would be to have a faith and the Slavic poet said this because I did some I always try to do my

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homework and I did some looking into the look of the Russian people why they're different than we

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are and why they're same in many ways and this was said what good is the street that doesn't

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lead to a church when you stop and think about it it's just another dumb street there are so many

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streets in the world that there'll soon be streets over every green meadow if it doesn't lead to a

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church what's it worth let's don't leave our first love and I would add this what good is a job if

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I can't serve God and what good is a talent if it's not used by the church and what good is

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strength and health if God is not served then Romans 12 verse 1 will come to pass and God will

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not say I've something against thee you've left your first love instead he will say well done now

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good and faithful servant in and of the rest which I have prepared for the our hymn of invitation

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is number 438 would you come as we sing

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you