10 Minute Bible Studies

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central? So what do
I get for going live and I'm nowhere

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near ready? Do it? Do
I win an award for foolishness? Do

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I win an award for going live
before you're ready? Do it? Do

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I get an award? Now?
I'm gonna sit here and and and and

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make and waste some time? Here? You see what time? Did this?

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Is this? Oh no, that's
not the one? Oh wait here

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it is? Okay, I'm gonna
load. Okay, I found it?

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All right, good, all right, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize.

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I was not ready. I was
not even close to ready. But I

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have the audio ready to go.
So now so now I can now do

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we just do we pretend that that
wasn't there? We just do we just

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pretend that wasn't there? Can we? Can we do? We can't pretend?

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But I wasn't ready. I look
full transparency. As soon as I

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as soon as I hit our intro
music, I was like, what have

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I done? The audio that I
need? That file is not loaded?

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What am I doing? So I
played the intro and I just full I

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just I just you know. I
just told you I was fully transparent that

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I wasn't ready. But good evening
everyone, I hope you're ready. It

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is Thursday, July the eleventh,
twenty twenty four. It is currently eight

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forty three pm Central Time, and
I am coming to you live from the

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Theology Central Studio located right here in
Abilene, Texas. Now, I do

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something in this studio that many of
you strongly disapprove of. Many of you

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criticize me for it. And what
I do is I turn on this microphone

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and I do broadcast that are just
fifteen minutes long, Are not just thirty

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minutes long, are not just forty
five minutes long, are not just an

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hour long? But in some cases
they go in hour fifteen to say an

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hour and a half. I have
a tendency, especially lately, that almost

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everything is going over an hour,
almost every it doesn't matter what I'm doing,

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reviewing something, not reviewing something,
it's almost an Ever, it just

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feels like it's almost a guarantee.
Now it's going over an hour. There

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are some rare exceptions, and I
don't know exactly why. I think part

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of the reason, and I could
be wrong. Now I know I'm making

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excuses here, but this is really
not trying to make an excuse. It's

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kind of an explanation. Remember for
twenty three years, for twenty three years,

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with just rare exceptions when I would
miss a Sunday, maybe because I

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was on vacation, but that would
only be like, you know, one

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Sunday. I mean when I took
a vacation, I always tried to work

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it where I missed as as as
less of church as possible, because you

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know, if I wasn't there,
in many cases there was no one to

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preach. But for twenty three years, I taught for an hour Sunday school.

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I taught for an hour Sunday morning, So every Sunday morning between Sunday

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morning would be the Sunday School hour
in the morning Worships hour hour. Those

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would be two hours of teaching,
two hours plus of teaching, come back

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Sunday night, teach another hour.
That's three hours of teaching, and then

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come back Wednesday night and teach an
hour. So that would be four hours

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a week teaching from behind a pulpit. That doesn't even count all of the

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hours of broadcasting. And I did
that for twenty three years. Hour after

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hour after hour, week after week, month after month, year after year,

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teach, teach, teach well.
Now, because of circumstances and things

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changing, I don't do that anymore. So now when I turn on the

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microphone, I think I'm just like, I haven't. I haven't taught near

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as much as I typically have in
the past, so that each week is

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not filled with as much teaching,
and so maybe now I'm trying to.

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It's just it's almost inevitable it's going
to go that long. I don't know.

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I know some of you don't like
it. I know many people have

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criticized. To be fair, the
well, I don't think the criticism has

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been that I don't want to,
you know, exaggerate it. There have

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been some who say I go way
too long. Usually it's on YouTube.

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They'll say I'm not going to listen
to all of that. I listen to

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fifteen minutes and I stop. You
repeat yourself too much, or whatever the

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criticism is. And I'm always like, well, okay, thank you for

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telling me. There's plenty of other
podcasts that will be much more in your

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willhouse, so you go find them
if you need to. I'll find them

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for you, Okay, but thank
you for telling me that I talk too

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much. So I know I do
that. And look, let me be

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honest with you. It bother there's
me sometimes, right, Sometimes I know

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I've gone too long. Sometimes I
know these people are busy. They got

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life to live, they got things
to do, they got hobbies, they

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they got responsibilities, they have a
lot. They can't listen to me all

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the time. I know there have
been times in my brain like, you

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know, do five hours in a
day? Well, why didn't they listen

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to all five hours? I know
that's kind of ridiculous and naive, but

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I mean there's probably been times I've
thought that way. But I'm very aware

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that people are busy. So there
have been things that you know, I

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created the Today's Focus, you know, series, because the goal was to

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try to just turn on the microphone
and do ten fifteen minutes, you know,

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of just giving someone some kind of
spiritual food and move on. But

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I'm so bad at that, right. See, I can't just I can't

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just open the Bible. I'm like, all right today for your Today's Focus.

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Blessed as a man who walks not
in the Council of the Ungodly.

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I saw chapter one Verse one.
A part of verse one, blessed is

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the man who walketh not in the
council of the ungodly. So for today's

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focus, how can you not walk
in the council of the ungodly? You

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know, for me, I'm gonna
be like, well, wait a minute,

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so can we do that? How
can we do that? What does

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that actually mean? What does that
not mean? Can anyone actually accomplish this?

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Christ accomplish this? Is this law? Is this gospel? And then

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I just go on and on and
on and on and on, and I

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can't just stop myself and go no, no, no, no, this

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is only supposed to be ten or
fifteen minutes. Because I feel like I'm

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ripping you off. I feel like
I'm I'm not only do I feel like

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I'm ripping you off. I feel
like I'm being disrespectful to the scriptures.

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I feel like that I'm not handling
the scriptures accurately. Right. So I

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always envision, well, ooh,
I could just find like maybe something from

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a devotional It's just a quote,
and I just turn on the microphone like

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today for today's focus is this.
But I never was able to pull it

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off because I would be like,
today's focus is this, And as soon

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as I read the quote or any
the next thing I know, I want

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to start talking about this and adding
this, and then putting forth a hypotheses

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and then testing their theory and oh
and next thing you know, it's turning

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into a fourteen month series. What
am I doing? Okay, I'm not

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capable of doing. I'm just I'm
trash at that. Look, there's no

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way to get around it. I'm
just I'm just not I'm I should be

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better, but I'm not. And
at this point, look like I guess

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you know they always say you can't
teach an old dog, you know,

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new tricks. Well, maybe there's
a little bit of truth to that.

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At this point, I don't think
I can ever really give people something that

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could be very beneficial in a short, concise way. I just don't think

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it's my strength. Now. I
know what they say, if you want

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to be able to determine your skill
as a public speaker, if you really

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want to be able to determine your
skill as a public speaker, what you

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will be able to do is you'll
be able to say very important things in

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a very concise and succinct way.
If you can do that. That shows

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your skill as a public speaker,
because you communicated this in a very compact

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and clear and effective and powerful way. So I think it does make me

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doubt my skill as a public speaker. But I think my approach just does

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not lend itself to that where other
people can say, hey, here's what

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you need to know today. In
ten minutes, I'll be like, no,

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no, no, no, no
no no no no no no,

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no, no no no. I
can't do that. What about this?

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And what? Because my mind gives
me forty questions that we have to ask.

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So but at the same time,
I feel bad. And here's the

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reason I feel bad, because we
know, as we all struggle with this

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right, since I have some one
open blessed as the man who walks not

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in the council of the ungodly,
nor stands in the path of sinners,

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nor sits in the seat of the
scornful. But his delight is in the

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law the Lord, and in his
law he meditates day and night. So

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this talks about meditating on God's word
day and night. Now we know,

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on one hand, this is law. We know we will never truly ever

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come close to obeying this, But
Christ did for us. So in Christ,

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his obedience to meditating on God's word
day and night is accredited to my

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account is imputed to me and in
Christ. In Christ, spiritually speaking,

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I'm like a tree planted by the
river of water that bringeth forth its fruit

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in its season, whose liaf also
shall not wither, and whatsoever you do,

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it shall prosper. This is all
true of me positionally and Christ,

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because Christ did all of this on
my behalf. But we know we are

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still called to try to meditate on
God's word day and night. So a

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great thing to have is you know
a number and I will refer to them

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as podcasts, but it's good to
have in your podcast app or whatever app.

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You're using a lot of these ministries
that do provide you five minute devotionals

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or ten minute devotionals or fifteen minute
Bible studies, and there are countless ones

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out there that accomplish that, and
having them are great because sometimes you can't

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listen to me. You're like,
look, my commute to work is fifteen

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minutes. It would take me,
like, I can't listen to you because

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I'm already at work. In fact, by the time you're done, I've

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already driven to work, had a
full day of work, getting off work,

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I've driven home and you're still talking. So you're not Your program is

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not really compatible to when I can
listen. And I look, I understand

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that you can start listening to me
at the beginning of your lunch hour,

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your lunch hour would be over and
I would still be talking. And that's

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not always advantageous or beneficial to people. And I'm very aware of that,

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so I'm always trying to you know, I'm always looking at things out there,

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and when I can find things that
I think will be beneficial to you,

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then I like to bring them to
your attention. So we know my

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failure. And I'm very aware of
your life and you not always having the

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time. That's perfectly okay. That
doesn't make you less spiritual, just means

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you have a life. So what
can I do? Well, I stumbled

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upon something and I'm gonna share it
with you now. Before I get to

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it, here's what I want you
to do. Remember all of this year,

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all of twenty twenty four, it's
really about the sermons two point oh

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app. So I have found something
that's available on the sermons two point oh

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app that will allow you to listen
to a Bible study. They refer to

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it as in fact, let me
refer to pull up the series. They

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refer to it as where's their series
Daily Bible Studies? Daily Bible Studies,

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which would seem to imply they currently
have one thousand, six hundred and ninety

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one of them. And here is
the description. We all need encouragement along

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the journey. The Bible provides the
only true roadmap, and Jesus Christ is

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the only faithful companion for the journey
of life. In this ten minute daily

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study, evangelist Scott Polly shares truth
from the Word of God for enjoying the

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journey. Please note, in this
ten minute daily study, every single one

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of us, no matter how busy
we may be, can you say stop,

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pause, time out. I need
ten minutes, and you grab a

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Bible you listen to it for ten
minutes. So I'm going to tell you

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about this, and I want you
to follow this now. Before I give

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you more information, I do want
to challenge you on the sermon's two point,

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Oh app, I do want to
challenge you to follow broadcasters that you

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find interesting, that you find challenging, even if you disagree with him,

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you find it to be beneficial to
you spiritually have I think you should probably

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be able to find about you want
to kind of shoot for twenty, right,

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twenty different ones. If you can
have a good, solid twenty that

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you follow, and here's the reason
why. Then on a somewhat daily basis,

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you can go to your feed tab, right, your feed tab,

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and the ones you follow will be
right there. Right, the ones you

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follow will be right there in the
feed tab, and you can refresh that

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throughout the day to see if any
broadcasters have given you new content. Right,

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So, before we tell you about
this ten minute Bible study, I

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want you to follow and we're going
to listen to part of one. Before

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we do that, I'm just going
to take a quick journey through my feed

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on the Sermon's two point oh app. All right, so I've told everyone

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about the Sermon's two point oh app. You can go to the Google Play

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Store, Apple App Store just type
in Sermon's two point oh. There it

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is. You should download that app
and you should be utilizing it because it's

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spiritual food. It's a spiritual buffet, it's a spiritual feast. Whether you

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agree or disagree, you can find
something every single day that will get you

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into God's word challenge you. And
then of course what you do with what

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you hear really determines the benefit you
gain from it. You can just listen,

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or you can take what they say
and then do some work on it.

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All right, but here we go. Here's what's in my feed.

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First, some weird person did a
program entitled Christians and Memento Moriy. What

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is that Christians and Memento Moriy.
I don't know who that ridiculous podcaster is.

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Okay, that's me? All right
now, you say, but oh,

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you follow yourself. Oh how narcissistic, how egotistical? Oh what is

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wrong with you? You think you're
So I'll get some email that will say

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that you think I'm joking. I
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it's showing up in the feed.
It's another way for me to monitor,

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to make sure everything is working.
Okay, So there's momento morey underneath that

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they shall come as a cloud Bethel
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him in the nations. Westover Baptist
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six hours ago. When I see
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either that may maybe there's some kind
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I don't know. Then underneath that
thy Rod and thy Staff radio program,

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Torches and Lanterns dropped nine hours ago. Daily United Prayer dropped nine hours

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verses ten through twenty. Oh that
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yes, I'm on there twice,
getting ready to be in my feed three

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times, you'll please. You'll note
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more than other broadcasters. Hint,
hint, hint, hint hint. That's

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because we're better. Now I'm joking, it's just because I talk a lot.

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See going to my opening illustration,
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right, here we go. Next
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God confronts religious pride Luke fourteen one
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Baptist Church ten hours ago. Then
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Part two from Church of Christian Liberty
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the suffering of our Prophet, Priest
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foundation and goal for education, the
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Barabbas versus Jesus, the Church of
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to update, all right, So
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there's there's probably a conference. And
look what happened. See, as soon

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as I make the joke that I'm
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someone just blew me out of the
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Now here is the one that I
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one was posted thirteen hours ago.
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The Joy of God's Presence. If
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Presence, it will show up the
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that it has the speaker Scott Polly, and then underneath that it has the

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broadcaster enjoying the journey. Enjoying the
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journey as a Christian? I think
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you scroll down, you'll notice they
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us a little bit about us.
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others, but they only have one
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Scott Polly. And then recent series
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say are ten minute Bible studies.
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look up and enjoying the journey,
enjoying the journey, and you should just

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follow the ministry itself, not just
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their content will show up on your
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using that feed tab that feed though. I like it that it's called your

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feed tab, what's going on in
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as this is kind of your spiritual
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that term a couple of different ways, like feed, like you're being fed.

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This is where you can go to
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and you should and you should use
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attention so tonight this is the challenge
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Central, which why wouldn't you not
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Why are you not following us?
That's insane? Okay, But if

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you're following us, let me know
how quick when this message is uploaded,

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how quickly it shows up in your
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paid attention to see how quickly.
I just always look to make sure it's

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there, but I never pay attention
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course, one of the frustrating parts
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that doesn't have a notification system.
I think everything in my feed I should

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get a notification for everything that appears
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think you should be able to set
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someone goes live, whether it's your
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it would improve the chances of people
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I digress. But the point is
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you to follow it. And the
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because, look, I want to
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really do. I really Oh.
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I just don't know if I ever
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content. I doubt we will.
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what if they give If every day
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no matter what's going on today, no

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matter what's going on tomorrow, no
matter how busy I may be, no

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matter how I am feeling, I
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Listen, right, we can all
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here we go. This is the
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presence. It sounds like that for
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doing a lot of talk about joy, because here's what they have here,

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the root of joy, the joy
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we need to go listen to that, all right. So, but obviously

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the root of joy, the joy
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and the joy of work. I
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I don't always find joy and work. Okay, but that's a that's the

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point is enjoying the journey. Go
why are you not following? Come on,

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why are you not Go follow them? Okay, all right, get

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and see and once you follow them, go check your feed and the newest

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one will be there. Go follow
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The new one will be there,
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ways down based on because your feed
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was added, all right, so
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go do that, all right.
Now, let's see what a ten minute

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Bible study sounds like, and we're
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our world, there is so much
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see indicators all around us that reveal
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something, anything, that can bring
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Joy, Scott Paul will take us
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source of true, lasting joy.
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we will find that God's joy is
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the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the
Aliah. That's a nut nice intro,

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and it's a voiceover. Very it's
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a voiceover that is specific to the
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pretty interesting. That's that's that's well
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work, right, You gotta you
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the music under it, and you're
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one and you never have to do
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every time you do a new series. Hey, it sounds good, sounds

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professional. Now you know what I'm
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minute Bible studies? Are these just
simply going to be You take a sermon

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and you just chop it up into
little ten minute bits and it's just edited

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sermons. Now, hey, it
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to. The only reason I don't
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already been preached. I would rather
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you're actually turning on the microphone and
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if you do it this way,
you can probably it's easy to break it

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down into ten minutes segments. You
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you. Right. If you're trying
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that's a whole different ballgame. All
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happens here. Places do not bring
joy. People do. So you may

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be in the most beautiful place on
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The place is not nearly as wonderful
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who love you, and people that
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little trip together with our family and
we spent several days together, and we

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enjoyed the place where we were,
but we especially enjoyed one another. There's

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something about Okay, so it's not
an edited sermon, all right, that's

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all right. So now I'm even
more intrigued. I'm more intrigued, right,

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aren't you? Aren't you more intrigued? It's not an edited sermon.

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minutes. All right. So the
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may still be empty. It may
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something else, like the presence of
loved ones, then there's joy. Okay,

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I think I see where he's going. Do you kind of see where

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he's going? I think I'll back
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Here we go, Let's let's let
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But the place is empty. The
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if you had people there with you
who love you, and people that you

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love. Recently, we we had
a little trip together with our family,

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and we spent several days together,
and we enjoyed the place where we were,

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but we especially enjoyed one another.
There's something about being in the presence

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of those you love. Well,
if that's true humanly, how much more

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is that a reality? In the
presence of God. We returned today to

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the Psalms, to Psalm sixteen to
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no joy like being consciously in the
presence of God. Now we are in

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the presence of God because God is
everywhere. If you're a believer, you

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are in the presence of God because
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forsake you. If you know Christ
is your savior, you will be in

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the presence of God forever. Someday
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But I'm talking about living consciously each
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now see how for me? I
don't know what that would do for you.

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I would already if I was like
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work, I would already just stop
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a good theological question. The presence
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dwelling presence, but he's talking about
living consciously in his presence. Have you

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ever experienced living consciously in his presence? Is that a real thing or is

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it something you convince yourself is happening
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and as a result, I have
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How do you know when you're living
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off feeling? Oh? Oh?
Is it based off a feeling? Because

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I've seen that so many times in
Christian Oh, you should have been there

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last night during the praise service.
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felt it, so so you can
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and then you go you look at
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lighting, there was you know,
praise music, and then the music got

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low and then everyone started singing a
cappella. Sounds like the feeling of God's

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presence was more the feeling that the
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words. It seems like that created
the feeling, not God. So how

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do you know you felt God's presence? And what if you felt God's presence

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but the person next to you didn't
feel God's presence? Are they wrong and

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you're right? Or are they right
and you're wrong? Can you supposedly feel

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God's presence but it's not you're wrong
about it. And someone may not feel

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anything and they're actually right because there
is no special presence present other than just

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his omnipresence. Oh, we could
have a long discussion one see why I

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can't do things in ten minutes.
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I would immediately go into, Okay, how do we understand all of

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the different quote unquote presences, all
the different ways God is present? How

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do we understand his presence? And
then I would probably go through there's this

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view, there's this view, there's
this view. How do we determine based

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off this this? And then next
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Okay, we're gonna be doing a
series on God's presence and this will

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be thirteen episodes long. And now
we're going to be listening to random sermons

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on the topic, and then we're
gonna be listening and now we're going to

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create our own hypotheses, and then
we're gonna test it. And then I'm

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going to have you look up every
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and then ask yourself is that applicable
for us today or no? Because

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in the Old Testament God presented himself
in a way. Clearly he's not doing

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so today, right, So well
then can we? Oh? No,

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now we what do we do?
All right? Well, let's see where

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he goes, practicing as they used
to say of old practicing the presence of

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God. There's a definite joy there. There's a verse I want you to

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see in Psalm sixteen and verse number
eleven. This is a psalm of David.

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But it's not about David. It's
about Jesus. This is a Messianic

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psalm. In fact, you should
read the entire psalm because it references the

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death of Christ and the burial of
Christ and then the resurrection of Christ.

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In fact, if you back up
one verse verse ten, for thou wilt

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not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer Thine Holy One to

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see corruption. And here's our verse
Psalm sixteen, verse eleven, Thou wilt

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show me the path of life in
thy presence is fullness of joy. At

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thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Now we know that this verse is

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about Jesus because it is quoted in
Acts chapter number two on the day of

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Pentecols from Peter stands up in his
preaching and he's preaching about Christ, the

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death, the burial, the resurrection
and ascension of Christ. He quotes it

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Acts chapter two, verse twenty seven
and twenty eight. See if they sound

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familiar. Because thou wilt not leave
my soul in hell, neither wilt thou

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suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the

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ways of life. Thou shalt make
me full of joy with thy countenance,

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So the joy. Now wait a
minute here, If this is a Messianic

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psalm pointing to Christ, and if
Christ then here is speaking to the Father.

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You will not leave my soul and
shield or hell, depending on your

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translation, nor will you allow your
Holy One to see corruption. This would

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be Christ speaking to God. So
then Christ would be saying, you will

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show me the path of life,
and your presence is fullness of joy at

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your right hand or pleasures. Ever
more, would this not be Christ speaking

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about the Father? Now, then
do we take that and then make us

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this about us? Now, if
we make this about us, what presence

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Is this referring to that if I'm
conscious of His presence now that there's fullness

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of joy? Or is this referencing
that in this life I have God's omnipresence,

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maybe his indwelling presence, But really
the fullness of joy will never be

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fully known until I am in His
actual presence, when I am glorified,

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then I will have the fullness of
joy, just as Christ experience this joy

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at the right hand of the Father. Maybe, what do you think?

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Do you think my hypothesis? See
why I can't do ten minute Bible studies?

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See why I can't do ten minutes
because the minute I read that,

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I would be like, wait a
minute, I got questions. If this

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is messianic? Is that speaking of
Christ being in the presence of God,

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the Father, one God, three
distinct persons, co equal, co eternal.

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Or is this about me finding joy
and the presence of God. If

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this is messianic, then it's got
about Christ and God, not about me

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and God. Right, And if
I'm going to apply it to me,

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would this not then reference not me
now, but would be referencing me in

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glory and heaven. Oh, inquiring
minds would like to know see if I'm

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not careful, you see what this
is going to turn into. This ten

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minute Bible study is going to turn
into, you know, the summer of

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Psalm sixteen. We're already in the
summer of Psalm eighty three. This may

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turn into the summer of Psalm sixteen. Don't you have questions? I've got

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questions. But you see one ten
minute Bible study. If you'll do something

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with it, see how much spiritual
food we're getting. Even though I'm whether

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I agree or disagree, it's very
it's irrelevant. Let's listen to a little

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bit more. It is connected to
Jesus. The joy is connect to our

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risen ascended, reigning Christ. The
joy, of course, is found in

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the presence of Almighty God. The
immediate interpretation of the passage is that our

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Lord Jesus, who was separated at
that moment on Calvary from the Father because

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of our sin, who then died
and was buried, and went and took

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the keys to death hell and the
grave, would not stay there. He

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would get up from that grave alive, very much alive. He would return

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to Heaven and sit down on the
right hand of the Father, which for

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the record, he has now done. And the prophecy, of course in

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Psalm sixteen is that this would be
his great joy. I'm reminded of the

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phrase will come to later in our
study in Hebrews. He went to the

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cross for the joy that was set
before him. What was the joy?

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I believe the joy was the completed
work of redemption and entering back into the

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presence of the Father in heaven.
Wow. I love this. He he's

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literally acknowledging the immediate context and how
the interpretation of the immediate context. Now

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he may be applied, and he
may try to apply this, and we

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can argue about the application, but
his acknowledgment of what the text is actually

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saying, Man, I love Hey, Hey, I'm telling you right now,

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go put this in your feed.
Go go find enjoying the journey and

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follow them on the sermon's two point. Oh, app go do it right

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now. Because hey, I thought
this is going to go in a direction

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and I was going to try to
make something from having a major disagreement.

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That is awesome. He immediately brought
it back to it. But in the

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immediate context, this is what it's
saying. That is absolutely handled the text

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there perfectly, and that's good.
Now we may question the application. We

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will see where it goes to be
with the Father. Tell you, if

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that is Jesus great joy, that's
our great joy. It is the joy

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of God's presence. So how can
you enjoy him today? Now? Where

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the only place I would I'm struggling
is Okay, our joy is found in

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God's presence, just like Jesus.
Right, but this, this is referencing

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Jesus being back actually in the presence
of God. Completely true. My joy

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will be complete and full when I
am actually in His presence. But for

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now, I live in a world
fielded with pain, sorrow, death,

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trouble, difficulty, you know,
situations you don't even can't even imagine you

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ever found yourself in. How to
deal with it? How to you?

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Just? You struggle, You make
bad decisions, good decisions, wrong decisions,

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you commit, sin, you stop, you all the different things you

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go through in life. But when
I get into Heaven, my sin nature

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is gone full the full joy of
my redemption will be known. So that

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to me is more the application.
Right, But now this is where I'm

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gonna struggle. He wants to talk
about how we can experience the presence now,

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Now he talked about practicing the presence, practicing the presence. Now,

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I'm not gonna look this up.
I'm gonna leave this in your hands.

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But when you hear that phrase practicing
the presence of God, practicing the presence

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of God, I believe. Now, I don't know where the phrase was

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first used, but it should take
you. I believe to a Catholic monk

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by the name of Brother Lawrence who
wrote a book or a book was entitled

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Practicing the Presence of God. I
believe he was Catholic, and I don't

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remember the year. I'm just I'm
gonna I'm gonna ask Ai, Okay,

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I'm gonna ask what can you tell
me about the phrase practicing the presence of

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God. Let's see if it leads
me to Brother Lawrence in that famous book.

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I believe that's the name of the
book. I'm going from memory here,

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Oh yeah, here we go.
Practicing the presence of God is a

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spiritual phrase that originated from the teachings
of Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth century Carmelite

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monk. Brother Lawrence emphasized the importance
of cultivating a continual awareness of God's presence

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and every aspect of daily life,
whether work, prayer, or mundane activities.

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The idea behind the practicing the presence
of God is to maintain a sense

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of spiritual mindfulness and connection with the
Divine throughout the day. This practice involves

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seeking God's presence and all circumstances,
acknowledging his companionship, and living in a

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state of constant communion with Him.
By practicing the presence of God, individuals

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strive to deepen their relationship with the
Divine, cultivate a spirit of gratitude and

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humility, and find solace and strength
in God's presence. It is viewed as

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a way to experience God's love,
guidance, peace in the midst of life's

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challenges and joys. Ai takes it
right back to where I thought it would

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take me a Catholic. So when
we say we need to practice the presence

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of God, are we borrowing from
Catholic spirituality. There's a Caramelite monk.

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I don't know if brother Lawrence will
be classified as a Catholic mystic. I

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don't know if he'd be classified in
that category, So I don't want to

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go. I would have to start
looking into the categorization the different categories.

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If I can speak correctly. Did
that give you a little pause? Hey,

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I want to practice the presence of
God and the term originates with a

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Catholic monk. I mean, does
that give you a little bit like no,

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no, no, I don't know, I don't know. I know

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you probably don't say it that way, but you know it does it?

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Now, let's see, he's gonna
tell us how we can how we can

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do this, how we can do
I love the fact that he acknowledged Psalm

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sixteen is Messianic and when it talks
about in your presence is fullness of joy,

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that is speaking of Christ and the
presence of God the Father, that

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is we've got to be dogmatic about
that. He even admitted that. Now

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he's going to take an application.
I don't know if the application. If

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the text is about Christ, if
you're going to apply it, then I

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think it applies to us. When
we get into God's presence, then the

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fullness of joy is known. I
don't know if I can apply this to

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my everyday life by practicing the presence. I think that becomes a very subjective,

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and I have a feeling it's going
to be feeling base, but I

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could be wrong. Let's see what
he has to say. Can you enjoy

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the presence of God not just when
you die, but while you're living.

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It is a living joy, and
it is a full joy, and it

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is an available joy. Well,
let me give you two or three thoughts.

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First of all, is it a
full joy? Can you experience the

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full joy of God? Can you
fill the full joy? Now? And

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a fallen, broken world where you
maintain a sinful nature and you're constantly in

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sin. I struggle a little bit
here. I struggle. Let's see what

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steps, because this is gonna turn
into you know, three steps do these

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things? It's gonna you know,
it's all. That's the only problem I

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have with so many things with christian
It always turns into like if you write

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down everything you're supposed to do as
a Christian, I'm telling you you there

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would not be enough volumes of books
on this planet to fill all the things

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you're told, do this, don't
do this, do this, don't do

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this, do this, don't do
this, do this, don't do this,

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don't do this. Your life is
a Christian Sometimes it's just a never

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ending list of dos and don'ts that
you never are going to be able to

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pull off. Let's see what I'm
supposed to be able to pull off.

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So I can be practicing or living
in the presence of God, then I

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can have joy. So let's see
what I have to do to get this

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joy, because I have a feeling
it's going to be things I have to

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do. Paul, Remember the resurrection. The Bible says that will show me

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the path of life. The whole
passage is a passage about life, not

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Let me back that up a little
bit. I feel like we miss something

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there. I'm going to back that
up a little bit. Right here we

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go, Joy, Well, let
me give you two or three thoughts.

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First of all, remember the resurrection. The Bible says that will show me

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the path of life. The whole
passage is a passage about life, not

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about death. The Cross was not
the end of the story. Calvary was

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not the climax when Christ said it
is finished. It was just beginning.

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Go to the tomb. He's not
there, he's risen. As he said,

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Do you need joy today? All
right, then think on the resurrection.

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Now, I agree, we need
to remember the resurrection because by remembering

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the resurrection, we know that God
accepted the sacrifice of Christ, that our

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redemption is finished, the work of
redemption is done, and that in Christ

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all my sins are forgiven. And
if Christ rose as he rose from the

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dead, is the first fruits,
then I too will raise from the dead,

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and I will have joy evermore.
That has nothing to do with living

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in the presence of God. That's
living in a reminder of the completed work

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of redemption. Now that should give
me joy. But I don't know where

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that has anything to do with the
presence of God. That the resurrection of

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Christ. He's the first fruit.
Meaning if heroes from the dead, we

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will be raised from the dead after
him. He is like our guarantee.

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He's like our down payment. And
so guess what, I too will be

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raised from the dead. I will
rise in Christ, and then my joy

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will be complete ever more. So, I think this seems to point to

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a future joy. And it may
give me joy in the presence or give

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me hope. I think it gives
me hope in the presence, but I

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don't think that. I don't think
that helps me practice the presence of God

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or anything along those line. Let's
see what number two is, at least

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in your mind and heart. Use
your sanctified imagination. And walk into that

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empty tomb where the stone was rolled
away, and remember he is alive.

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If he's alive, you have caused
rejoice because if he lives, we live.

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Remember you have a risen Christ.
Remember the then number two. If

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you want to live in the joy
of God's presence today, consider the ascension.

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I don't think we talk enough about
the ascension of Christ and all that

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it meant. We speak of the
death balin resurrection of our Lord. But

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look at him rising up into heaven
in those clouds, being received back to

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the right hand of the heavenly Father. This is so important. Listen to

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Psalm sixteen again, Thou wilt show
me the path of life. There's resurrection

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in thy presence, is fullness of
joy at thy right hand. There are

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pleasures forevermore. Where's our Lord now? When he ascended, he sat down

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at the right hand of the heavenly
Father. He went there to prepare place

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for us. He went there to
pray for us. He ever lives,

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making intercession for us. But what
is the right hand? I was reading

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today just devotionally in another place.
In scripture and the Bible talks repeatedly about

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God's right hand. His right hand
is exalted, His right hand will do

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valiantly. Is right hand is the
place of victory. I may I tell

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you that the Lord Jesus Christ is
the right hand man. He is seated

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at the right hand of the Father. What is the right hand? It's

612
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the place of access, and it's
the place of authority. If you need

613
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.360
joy today, and instead of looking
at where you're sitting right now, look

614
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where Jesus is sitting right now.
Okay, this has nothing to do with

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presence. Here's what I would say. You need joy today, Remember where

616
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Christ is seated, and then remember
you are seated with him in heavenly places.

617
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That in your position, you are
at the right hand of the Father.

618
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You're seated in Christ Jesus. That
means you are your eternity is guaranteed.

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You are already there. Positionally,
you're at the right hand of God.

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You're right there, You're right at
You're right with Christ and Christ.

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You're not at the right hand of
the Father in a practical sense and in

622
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a positional sense, meaning you are
in Christ Jesus. We're seated with him

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in heavenly places. No matter where
you are in life, you may be

624
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in sin, you may be discouraged, you may be frustrated, you may

625
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be hurting, you may be dying, you may be going through horrible things.

626
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But in your position, you're at
the right hand of God the Father,

627
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in Christ Jesus. So I positionally
I'm already in his presence in a

628
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special way, but practically that gives
me hope that I will one day and

629
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experience that presence in a true,
full way. I don't know what this

630
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has to do with living in his
presence now or like none of that.

631
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Really, I don't know how you
apply that to presence. The presence here

632
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is Christ is in the presence of
God the Father, and one day I

633
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will be there practically, but currently
I'm there positionally. I mean, that's

634
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the way I think to approach this
and realize you're seated with Him in heavenly

635
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places. Your divine representative is praying
for you. He is seated at the

636
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right hand of the Father, and
he has all access to all the resources

637
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:22.639
that you need. Rejoice and be
exceeding glad. Robert Murry McShane said,

638
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if I could hear Jesus praying for
me in the next room, I would

639
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not fear a million enemies. And
then he paused and said, but the

640
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distance makes no difference. He is
praying for me. If you want to

641
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live in the joy of God's presence
today, then remember the resurrection and consider

642
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the ascension, and then thirdly,
live in anticipation. Do you understand that

643
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Psalm sixteen, verse number eleven is
prophetic? It is it was looking ahead.

644
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We have a lot to look forward
too. There's a future tense to

645
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this. Let me read the verse
again. Thou wilt show me the path

646
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of life in thy presence is fullness
of joy. At thy right hand,

647
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there are pleasures forevermore. There is
a present tense to our joy. There

648
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is also a future tense to our
joy. He will show us. He

649
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will let us see the pleasures at
the right hand. Yeah, I would

650
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argue the joy in the present.
The joy in the present time is me

651
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.840
remembering my position in Christ, and
because of that position in Christ, what

652
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:39.360
I will experience in His presence and
the present. I find joy because I

653
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am guaranteed and I can have the
hope and assurance of the full joy that

654
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I will experience in His presence.
In the present, I experience some joy

655
00:50:53.159 --> 00:51:01.480
by remembering my position in Him which
guarantees the full joy I will have in

656
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the future practically in His presence.
I don't think this has anything about me

657
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:13.760
living or in the presence of God. This is all about me in the

658
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:22.199
present remembering what my position is,
which guarantees my practical my practical reality of

659
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:29.320
being in His presence. Then there
will be fullness of joy. I don't

660
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:32.360
I'm kind of like I know he
got caught up on the phrase the joy,

661
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:37.280
Uh, in your presence is fullness
in the In your presence is fullness

662
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of joy. But once he established
this as a messianic psalm talking about Christ,

663
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then the application here is not about
the presence. It's about me being

664
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reminded of these truths which speak of
my of a positional reality, which then

665
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:57.400
points to the presence I will experience
in a practical way in the future.

666
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Live every day in anticipation that the
same Christ who rose from the dead and

667
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.880
ascended to the right hand of the
heavenly Father is coming again for you.

668
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.199
And when he comes, He's going
to take you to live with him forever.

669
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You can live in God's presence today
until the day that you enter into

670
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:22.960
God's presence perfectly forever. I love
the closing phrase of Psalm sixteen eleven.

671
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:29.519
It says pleasures forevermore? Is hear
the plural? The pleasure of sin last

672
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:32.320
only for a season. That's singular. Oh, but with God, it's

673
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:37.840
not pleasure, it's pleasures, and
His pleasures do not last for a season.

674
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:45.920
His pleasures last forever more. What
is this? This is the joy

675
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of God's presence. And my prayer
for you today is that the joy of

676
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:57.800
the Lord will be your strength.
Oh, that we would share Christ with

677
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our sad searching world. We encourage
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678
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:08.079
for how to enjoy the Journey.
This five minute video is a great way

679
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to share the Gospel of Christ with
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680
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683
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May the joy of Jesus overflow in
our own life and into the lives

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of those around us? And kind
of ironic, but I guess it's right

685
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:59.920
on point. To prove my introduction. This episode is now fast approaching fifth

686
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fifty five minutes. So if my
episodes of fifty five minutes, sixty minutes,

687
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an hour and a half, an
hour and forty five minutes, I

688
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always go way long. If that's
too much or you just don't have time

689
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during the day to listen, well, since we're focusing on the sermons two

690
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point oh app all of twenty twenty
four, then on the sermons two point

691
00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:27.280
oh app right now, please go
look for Enjoying the Journey and follow them

692
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:32.320
and they will give you daily ten
minute Bible studies. We just reviewed one.

693
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.000
There was much good in that.
We have somewhat of a difference there

694
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in the application of I don't know, I think, yeah, so we

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already covered all of that. But
please note that was ten minutes. Now,

696
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of course, I now what you
get out of that ten minutes is

697
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:51.920
what you're going to put into it. You get you listen to that for

698
00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:54.159
ten minutes. Hopefully all the things
I discussed would be things you would be

699
00:54:54.199 --> 00:55:00.559
thinking and meditating on throughout the day. Then that's spiritually atifying and benefit you.

700
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:07.599
Please go follow them and again try
to find twenty broadcasters that you follow

701
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:13.880
so that your feed tab on the
sermon's two point oh app Not only is

702
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:19.880
that what's new in my feed,
but that's where you go for spiritual food.

703
00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.920
That's where you go to be spiritually
fed. Right, that's where you

704
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:29.480
go for your spiritual feed. All
right? Utilizing using that is and every

705
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.480
way I can possibly utilize it to
get the point across. Try to find

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00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:37.840
twenty broadcasters. Obviously Theology Central should
be number one. Okay, I'm joking.

707
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:42.280
Find twenty doesn't have to be me, but one of them, and

708
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:47.000
I will strongly recommend this. Make
it enjoying the journey those ten minute Bible

709
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.599
studies. You're busy every day,
you don't know time, you may not

710
00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:54.960
have time to listen to anything.
You got ten minutes, listen, get

711
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:58.639
something from it, and move on. Don't worry about what it's only ten

712
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.760
minutes, take it and then do
something with it, all right, so

713
00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:06.159
please go follow that. I just
wanted, well again, my goal,

714
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this was going to be like a
fifteen thirty minutes you know, I just

715
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:13.159
wanted to share this with everyone,
kind of like a FYI. But I

716
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but it, you know, turned
into an hour. But hopefully you got

717
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:19.320
something out of it. But hopefully
the main thing you take from it is

718
00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:23.440
my long sixty minute things don't always
work for you ten minutes. You've got

719
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:30.360
ten minutes every single day enjoying the
journey. Make it a priority, follow

720
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.559
it, make sure it's in your
feed. If you follow it now,

721
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.239
the latest one will be in your
feed all right now. Also, the

722
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.880
thing I'm going to ask everyone to
do is be check if you follow Theology

723
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.920
Central. Okay, here's what's going
to happen. As soon as this broadcast

724
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:49.719
is over. The first thing I
have to do is upload this to all

725
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:52.440
of the podcasting apps. Boom,
it goes out, It'll be out.

726
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.960
It'll be available in almost all podcasting
apps, and within the next five to

727
00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:00.800
ten minutes. As soon as that's
uploaded. Then I go to my podcasting

728
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:07.840
hosting site, download the audio,
run over to the Sermon Audio platform and

729
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.280
upload it. So, in other
words, it will be uploaded to sermon

730
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:16.199
Sermonadio and probably about ten minutes.
I want you to be checking your feed

731
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:22.519
if you follow Theology Central, and
tell me how quickly does the broadcast show

732
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:27.920
up in your feed? How quickly
after I've uploaded it, so you can

733
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:35.800
email me newsif at yahoo dot com
newsif at yahoo dot com NEWSI f at

734
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.679
yahoo dot com, and let me
know if you already listen or if you've

735
00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:43.559
already got enjoying the journey in your
feed and you listen to them on a

736
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:46.519
regular basis, let me know what
you think. Is there a favorite broadcast?

737
00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:50.400
How long have you been listening to
them? How did you discover them?

738
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.800
Anything along those lines. Because uh, and again, if you,

739
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:58.199
if you, whoever you have in
your feed, please do this, whoever

740
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:01.559
you have in your feed on the
sermon's two point, oh, app the

741
00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:07.119
ones you really enjoy, the ones
that help you spiritually, encourage you,

742
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.039
challenge you, even if it's challenging, because it's frustrating. If there's any

743
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:17.760
spiritual benefit, contact them, let
them know, let them know they get

744
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:22.360
the negative emails, give them a
possible or just leave a comment. Right,

745
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:27.960
there's a comment section there. Leave
a comment and just encourage them.

746
00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:30.280
Hey, thank you so much for
what you do. I appreciate it because

747
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:36.199
broadcasting is a lot of work and
sometimes you have to question if what you're

748
00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:38.599
doing is even worth it. So
encourage someone else. Look, you may

749
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.480
say, well, I'm a nobody, quote unquote, it's the nobody's who

750
00:58:43.519 --> 00:58:47.679
take the time to encourage the quote
unquote somebody's the broadcasters that in many cases

751
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:54.920
keep those broadcasters motivated to keep broadcasting. So don't ever forget that. All

752
00:58:55.000 --> 00:59:00.800
right, thanks for listening. You
can give me your thoughts on Psalm sixteen,

753
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.119
on everything we just discussed, whatever
you wanted to discuss. You can

754
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:08.559
email me newsif at yahoo dot com
newsif Yahoo dot com. Thank you everyone,

755
00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:14.159
have a wonderful rest of your Thursday
evening. And uh, well there

756
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.320
you go. Now my sixty minutes
it's maybe too long. I've given you

757
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:23.559
a ten minute daily Bible study to
subscribe to make use of it. God bless