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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We are grateful that

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Speaker 1: you are here. My name is Rick Burgess, host of

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Speaker 1: The Bible study has been something we've been doing for

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Speaker 1: about eleven years in various studios. It all started as

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Speaker 1: just a men's Bible study with the local church and

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Speaker 1: then that grew into the Manchurch dot com, which we

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Speaker 1: launched in twenty twenty. And if you want to find

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Speaker 1: out about the strategy that we provide, this is part

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Speaker 1: of it. This is the high equipping where men get

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Speaker 1: into smaller groups and study the Word of God. We

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Speaker 1: also have a forty week curriculum. We have six of those,

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Speaker 1: and then also we have other resources in the forms

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Speaker 1: a full length book, Men Don't Run in the Rain

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Speaker 1: that is also a resource for resource for individual men.

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Speaker 1: So all of that is at the Manchurch dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can find it there. Also, if you look at

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Speaker 1: our media button, you can get archives of this Bible

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Speaker 1: study over the last eleven years, various books of the

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Speaker 1: Bible that we've studied, and you can find all that

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Speaker 1: either in a video archive or an audio archive there

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Speaker 1: at the Manchurch dot Com. You can plug into our

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Speaker 1: strategy all over the country by looking at events. If

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Speaker 1: one of our speakers is speaking at an event somewhere

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Speaker 1: at the local church, that means you could be at

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Speaker 1: that event and then get plugged into the strategy. There

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Speaker 1: high challenge followed by equipping. We also do conferences. We

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Speaker 1: do those every year. We've already done the ones for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, but if you'd like to find out

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Speaker 1: more about those conferences when they make their way to

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Speaker 1: the website for the next year, those will be there

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Speaker 1: at the same resource. So let's open up in a

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Speaker 1: word of prayer. Today we continue our study of the

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Speaker 1: Book of Ephesians. We will be in chapter six today,

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Speaker 1: will be going verses one through nine, and we'll cover

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Speaker 1: application in our everyday life. So let's open up in

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Speaker 1: a word of prayer. Lord, thank you for today, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the opportunity to come together and study your

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Speaker 1: Holy Word. I pray today, Lord that you'll speak to

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Speaker 1: here in the room Lord, as we continue to work

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Speaker 1: us all over the country and even around the world,

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Speaker 1: either live or archived on various technology. And Lord, we

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Speaker 1: just asked that your Holy Word will continue to produce

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Speaker 1: the Holy name of Jesus, Lord, we pray and beg

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Speaker 1: for your guidance. Amen. So so here's where we are.

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Speaker 1: So last week we talked about if you missed that,

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Speaker 1: And I got news for you. Every single one of

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Speaker 1: that I think of all of them right now, probably

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Speaker 1: is the furthest along with his spiritual maturity. He said,

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Speaker 1: so we can say that, and I said, absolutely you can.

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Speaker 1: He said. He said, when you come downstairs in the

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Speaker 1: basement and we've got empty water bottles laying around and

436
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Speaker 1: we haven't picked him up. When you told us to

437
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Speaker 1: clean up the first time, we got it. And I said,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? He goes, no, the

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Speaker 1: first time you told us to do it, we cleaned

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Speaker 1: it up. But then you went on to give a

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Speaker 1: speech about how mama's not a maid and how you're

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Speaker 1: sick and tired of that, and I don't know, these

443
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Speaker 1: things lay here, and you just started going on and

444
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Speaker 1: on and on and ranted and raved and paced around

445
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Speaker 1: and went up the steps, came back down, said it again.

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Speaker 1: We got it the first time you said it, and

447
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Speaker 1: that's what he's talking about. Hey. We went from hey,

448
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't have done that, to wow, dad's being a jerk,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and saying, now I'm exasperating. I won't

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Speaker 1: let it go. I'm just going on and on and

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Speaker 1: on about it. And uh, and I was, And I

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Speaker 1: was glad he told me that because I realized I

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Speaker 1: violated what God said, that that even though he was

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Speaker 1: a teenager, he'd actually been used by God to tell me,

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Speaker 1: that's the really not the way you should parents. Come

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Speaker 1: down here and tell us to clean it up, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and tell us why we should clean it up, and

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Speaker 1: tell us you don't want to see that again. That's great,

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Speaker 1: But man, we didn't have to have that that that

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Speaker 1: rant that you went on. And he was right. So yeah,

461
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Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. We don't

462
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Speaker 1: want to be dads that our children and our wives

463
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Speaker 1: are walking on eggshells because they think we're gonna implode

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Speaker 1: and go on some ridiculous rant that we won't let

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Speaker 1: go that we keep harboring over and over again. So

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Speaker 1: discipline your children, but do not exasperate your children. Always

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Speaker 1: stay in control. And if that means that you're upset

468
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Speaker 1: with everybody and you need to go off for a

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Speaker 1: minute and calm down, never parent out of anger, calm down,

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Speaker 1: come back, and then walk through what you're gonna do

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Speaker 1: to correct it. And uh so that that that's honoring

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Speaker 1: the Lord. And then here's the next one. But bring

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Speaker 1: them up in the discipline and instruction of what of

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm gonna raise my hand and underline that one.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times my discipline instruction comes from Rick,

476
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Speaker 1: not the Lord. H And so what God is saying is,

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Speaker 1: even when you're discipling your children and you're correcting them,

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Speaker 1: do it in the way that I would do it

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Speaker 1: under my authority. I hope you're in here. I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you to raise your hands. But you were

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Speaker 1: beautifully parented if you had a man of God or

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Speaker 1: a woman of God that every time you were disciplined,

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Speaker 1: they explained why it was happening. Here's why we're doing this,

484
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Speaker 1: here's why you need to be corrected, And they came

485
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Speaker 1: to you with correction through the filter of the word

486
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Speaker 1: of God. That's really good parenting. Here's why that was

487
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Speaker 1: the wrong thing to do. Here's why you're about to

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Speaker 1: be disciplined. Here's what we're hoping to accomplish. Because you know,

489
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Speaker 1: I think what happens too many times, and I wish

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Speaker 1: that my parents were great parents. But I would say

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Speaker 1: if there was anything that I would go back and say,

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Speaker 1: this is something that I had to kind of do,

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Speaker 1: had to kind of correct. Is a lot of time

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Speaker 1: I was told not to do something because there would

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Speaker 1: be bad consequences from an earthly standpoint, not because I

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Speaker 1: was violating God. I think it would have had a

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Speaker 1: lot more impact on me if less. And no, I'll

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Speaker 1: be delicate with this because I know there's women out

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Speaker 1: there and there's whatever, So I'll be very delicate with this.

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Speaker 1: I wish that I had been told when when I

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Speaker 1: started getting the teaching about sexual purity, is I would

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Speaker 1: have the approach that would have had more impact on me.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what. It doesn't work. Okay, don't

504
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Speaker 1: do this because you'll end up getting somebody pregnant, or

505
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Speaker 1: if you're if it's a daughter, you're gonna get pregnant.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't work. Don't do this because you're gonna catch

507
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Speaker 1: some kind of disease. That doesn't work. Okay. What we

508
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Speaker 1: need to be teaching is don't violate God's standard for

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Speaker 1: sexual purity. God has called us to stand on our

510
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Speaker 1: wedding day for our husband and our wife to be

511
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Speaker 1: sexually pure. Certainly, there's grace and forgiveness for those that

512
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Speaker 1: didn't do that, and you can pent of that and

513
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Speaker 1: be made pure again. Certainly, But when we're talking to

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Speaker 1: these children, when they get to the age that this

515
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Speaker 1: is a problem, trying to scare them with bad earthly

516
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: consequences just doesn't work because they always think, yeah, I

517
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Speaker 1: know that could happen, but it's not gonna happen to me.

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Speaker 1: If they think that's the only reason why they shouldn't

519
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Speaker 1: do it, it's not gonna have any impact. We should

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Speaker 1: sit down with them and talk about God's standard. And

521
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Speaker 1: if you violate your sexual purity, you are actually doing

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Speaker 1: this to God, not just to another person, not just

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Speaker 1: to yourself, but you are violating God's standard. You're violating

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Speaker 1: something that he calls holy. It is a gift for

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Speaker 1: him for your spouse period. And when when you violate that,

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Speaker 1: you actually blaspheme God's standard. See that that has much

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Speaker 1: more impact. And that's the approach that we should be

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Speaker 1: taking on items like that, and that that's what this

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Speaker 1: scripture is saying. Bring them up in the discipline and

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Speaker 1: the instruction of the Lord. We need to let our

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Speaker 1: children know the instructions we're passing along are not just

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Speaker 1: something we came up with because we won't let anybody

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Speaker 1: have any fun. We We actually are letting them know

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Speaker 1: what the Lord God Almighty commanded that that's the way

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Speaker 1: you handle that. And Scripture is confirming that here. So

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Speaker 1: there's there's there's children, there's parenting. Now we move into

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Speaker 1: the final verses of what we're going to cover today.

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Speaker 1: Now we're moving into something that really needs some correction,

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Speaker 1: and that is what does a follower of Christ look

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Speaker 1: like when they are under somebody's authority in the workplace?

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Speaker 1: Moving now to UH to verse five. This is now

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Speaker 1: talking about our material relationships out in the world. Out

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Speaker 1: in the world, men and their their human masters are

544
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Speaker 1: are losses and what is the standard there? Now understand

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Speaker 1: when Paul is writing this particular letter the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 1: At one time, the Roman Empire, they estimated the Roman

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Speaker 1: Empire had sixty million people enslaved sixty million, So to

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Speaker 1: be a slave was not uncommon, and there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of people that were living either as indentured servants,

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Speaker 1: meaning they're paying off some debt that they owe someone

551
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Speaker 1: or this word here a bond servant, which means they

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Speaker 1: have no rights whatsoever. They're under the authority of whoever

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Speaker 1: enslaved them. So you're thinking, I don't really like that

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Speaker 1: Paul is going to tell someone who's a slave how

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Speaker 1: to act. Well, you cannot like it all you want to.

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Speaker 1: But what the apostle Paul is doing is saying, when

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Speaker 1: you're in these situations, you are there to glorify God,

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Speaker 1: and the way that you act, you might even you

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Speaker 1: might even call someone who's a pagan or someone who

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Speaker 1: has enslaved you to see something in you that might

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Speaker 1: bring them to redemption. Now we would apply it today, think,

562
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Speaker 1: by the grace of God, slavery is all but eradicated

563
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Speaker 1: from the earth. But it's when you look at world history,

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Speaker 1: people enslaving each other is a mighty part of it.

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Speaker 1: And it's not It didn't just happen here in the

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Speaker 1: United States of America. It happened around the world. As

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Speaker 1: I just chold you, the Romans enslaved every race of

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Speaker 1: people you can think about about to the team of

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Speaker 1: about sixty million. So if you were in this situation,

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Speaker 1: which some of these people might have been, that we're

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Speaker 1: reading these letters, Paul says, bond servants, obey your earthly

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Speaker 1: masters with fear and trembling with a sincere heart, as

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Speaker 1: you would Christ. What we're to exemplify a witness for Christ?

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Speaker 1: We should work, no matter how we ended up having

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Speaker 1: to work. We should work in a way that stands out.

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Speaker 1: And you're saying, well, who what Joseph. Somebody remember Joseph

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Speaker 1: at all? Joseph got enslaved. I mean, and really in

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Speaker 1: a bad way. You know about being bitter. You weren't

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Speaker 1: a slave and your brother sold you into slavery. You

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Speaker 1: think that would have been a good place to go

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Speaker 1: pout and say all I'm gonna do is pout and

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Speaker 1: complain and groan, and I'm gonna do the bare minimum

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Speaker 1: because I shouldn't even be here. That's not what he did.

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Speaker 1: Joseph was so excellent as a slave, so excellent that

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Speaker 1: all he got all that happened for him with his excellent, excellent,

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Speaker 1: excellent behavior and his incredible work ethic. As he started

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Speaker 1: getting more and more responsibility, got got all got into

588
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Speaker 1: Potterphar's house, had had had got a pretty good gig,

589
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Speaker 1: got got accused of something he didn't even do, got

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Speaker 1: put back in jail again, uh, and then found his

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Speaker 1: way back out of that. So, yeah, Joseph is a

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Speaker 1: great example. And you know the Roman Empires, I said,

593
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Speaker 1: was full of slaves and all that comes with that

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Speaker 1: is slavery. Wrong. Yes, is it an evil that that

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Speaker 1: we wish had never happened. Of course, but in this

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Speaker 1: particular time, Paul saying, if you're in this situation, well,

597
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Speaker 1: what a great opportunity to glorify Christ. And so don't

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Speaker 1: be the kind of slave that causes trouble, that rebels

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Speaker 1: against the authority the whole time. You obey your earthly

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Speaker 1: masters with fear and trembling. And the fear and trembling here,

601
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Speaker 1: by the way, is not a fear and trembling of

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00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: the human if you look at the scripture. What Paul

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Speaker 1: is saying is, wherever God has placed you, fear his

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Speaker 1: authority and be acting in a way that he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be disappointed in. Right. To fear God is to have wisdom.

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Speaker 1: What what does Paul talk about to his church, to

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Speaker 1: the Philippians. We'll study that in this series. He said

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Speaker 1: that he's working out his salvation with fear and trembling.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he hasn't been justified. It means the

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Speaker 1: sanctification process. He's constantly concerned about disobeying God during the

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Speaker 1: sanctification process. He's saying, now that I've been redeemed, that

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Speaker 1: salvation I've been given, I take that very seriously, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do anything to blaspheme, the very

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Speaker 1: God who has redeemed me. So I'm now being sanctified

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Speaker 1: by God with fear and trembling of what He's called

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Speaker 1: me to do, of his call to holiness, his call

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Speaker 1: to obedience. Jesus said, if you love me, you'll obey

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Speaker 1: my commands. So Paul saying, you take that attitude if

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Speaker 1: you've been redeemed, and there were slaves that were able

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Speaker 1: to go into these church services, come back to work

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Speaker 1: that had been redeemed, and he said, when you go

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Speaker 1: back out there and start working for this guy again,

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Speaker 1: you be so excellent. He can't help. But see, Jesus, now,

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Speaker 1: we're not none of us slaves. Some of you may

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00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: work for people that make you feel like that sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but we're not official slaves anymore. Praise God for that.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, this applies to us

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Speaker 1: as well. There's nothing that nauseates me more than for

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Speaker 1: somebody who claims that they're part of the church and

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00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: they're terrible workers, they got a terrible work ethic, they're lazy.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, I've even had people say this before.

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Speaker 1: It's a terrible thing that they said, based on the

633
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Speaker 1: things they've seen in the church, that most people who

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00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: want to go in vocational ministry, I think they're doing

635
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: it because they think they can lay around and be lazy.

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Speaker 1: They didn't go into vocational ministry because they felt called

637
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: to it. They went to vocational ministry because they thought

638
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: it'd be an easy job. Now, I hate to say that,

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00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: but I've heard I can't tell how many times I've

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00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: heard that. But you know why, they say that, They've

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00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: looked at a lot of church staffs and they don't

642
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: see it very good work ethic. And I remember a

643
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: friend of mine that couldn't believe. One time he couldn't

644
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: find his wife and he said, hey, I was trying

645
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: to find you. You know, I was taking some time

646
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: off work as we'll see if we could have lunch.

647
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: And she said, well, I can't because i'm down here,

648
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, watching I won't get real to tell here.

649
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: A certain responsibility of the church, and he says, well,

650
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: don't we have staff for that. That's not something that

651
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: they've asked for volunteers for. That's supposed to be run

652
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: by full time staff members. She said, well, I was

653
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: approached by them and they asked me if I could

654
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: come sit in where they could all go lunch together.

655
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: He said, they can't split up and some of them

656
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: go to lunch and then come back and the others

657
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: go to lunch. They're getting paid by the church from

658
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: the tithes of the people, and they can't just sacrifice.

659
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: They can't all go to church go to lunch together.

660
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 1: They got to have you go over there and sit

661
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: and cover their jobs so they can all eat together

662
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: when there's when they're they could do you to stay here,

663
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: to go to come back then to go to lunch.

664
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: And it made it mad. He was like that, yeah,

665
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: he said, what is that. You know, everybody, I guess

666
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: wishes they could all go to lunch together if it

667
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: was possible, But you wouldn't pull that off at the office.

668
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: You wouldn't go to a real business and then say, oh,

669
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: by the way, could you bring some volunteers in to

670
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: cover our responsibilities so we can all go to lunch

671
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: at the same time, and so it infuriated it. So

672
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: that is an attitude that I that you've seen far

673
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: too many times. And really what the apostle ball apostle

674
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Paul's telling us, And he says it again in Colossians

675
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: three twenty three. When we go to work, wherever we work,

676
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: under what, no matter what condition it is, we the

677
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: followers of Jesus are not working for that person. Ultimately,

678
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: we're they're working for Jesus. And he says, does your

679
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: work ethic please Christ? Or is your work ethic and

680
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: embarrassment to Christ? We should be the best of the best,

681
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: whoever is our employer, should never want for anything. We

682
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: should never Well, there's two kinds of people I don't

683
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: ever hire at my company. Somebody doesn't do what they're

684
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: told to do and somebody who won't do anything till

685
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: they're told what to do. I don't like either one

686
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: of those extremes. I like self starters, and I like

687
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: people that do what they're supposed to do, do what

688
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: you're told to do, and don't sit around and say

689
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do anything until I'm told what

690
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: to do, be getting after it and be getting your

691
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: job done. You know what your job is, get it done.

692
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: Our attitude at our company is this, do your job,

693
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: be a pro And if you don't see that, and

694
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: a follower of Christ, it's an embarrassment to the faith.

695
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Paul is saying. He said, Now, look,

696
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: he even makes it clear and six, don't don't do

697
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: this as I service. Look not by the way of

698
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: I service as people pleasers, but as bond servants of

699
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: Christ doing the will of God from the heart. Your

700
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: motivation to be excellent in the workplace is not so

701
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: people will brag on you. It's so God will be

702
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: pleased with you. Right do you ever have you ever

703
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: been around those people? I mean, my buddy, they've got

704
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: it if they if they don't get publicly acknowledged, if

705
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: they if you don't pat them on the back in

706
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: front of everybody and tell the whole wide world what

707
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: they what they did, and they're always pauting. Nobody gives

708
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: me credit, Nobody, Nobody acknowledges the wonderful things I do

709
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: for the company. Nobodynow why am I not being acknowledged?

710
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: And Paul says, you don't do this to be acknowledged.

711
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: You're doing it to please God. How about you just

712
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: be great, whether anybody ever pats you on the back

713
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: public here or not, be great because you're called by

714
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: Christ to be great. Be a great employee, because that's

715
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: a obedient You're doing the will of God. May your

716
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: heart be focused on doing the will of God. Not

717
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: let me do this so everybody will see it and

718
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: everybody will make a fuss over me. That's not the motivation.

719
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: That's the way the world works. I didn't get credit.

720
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: Why wasn't I mentioned? Now? How about this? I went

721
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: and worked hard today and I got after it because

722
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: I'm a foller of Jesus and that's what I'm called

723
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: to do. I'm just being obedient to him. And that's

724
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: exactly what Paul is telling us to do. When I

725
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: talk to people who run businesses in the times we're

726
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: in right now, there are so many businesses that are

727
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: working desperately to staff their business they can't find. Don't

728
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: let anybody tell you that we got job problems. We

729
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: ain't got job problems. We got worker problems. I mean

730
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: there's people begging for people who want to come to work.

731
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: I actually want I was, you know, because sometimes I

732
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: tend to do this, which I shouldn't. You know. I

733
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: don't like when I don't see things running efficiently. That

734
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: bothers me. And I actually asked the person at the restaurant,

735
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing with like twelve tables free?

736
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: And we had a twenty minute way and I was like,

737
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: so do y'all y'all struggling? Was it the pandemic? You

738
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: haven't got back on your feet? Now you don't? You

739
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: can't pay any more people, you know what? They said? Nope,

740
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: they just won't come to work. If I had them,

741
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: we'd open them tables. I'm ready to hire them, I'm

742
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: ready to put them to work. I can't get anybody

743
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: to work. I'm like, wow, And that gave me a

744
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: different attitude about it. I said, this is not them

745
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: trying to cut a corner. That we built this so

746
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: all twelve tables would be in action. We didn't just

747
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: throw them tables over there and say, well we have

748
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 1: too many tables. We don't have enough people to work.

749
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: I don't like having people standing outside waiting when I

750
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: could have them at a table. Ain't got anybody to

751
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: serve them. And then I had a different attitude about it.

752
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: Have you seen let's don't get me started on our

753
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: shortage of plumbers and electricians and and and you really

754
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: they're begging people somebody work and so that this should

755
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: not be Do you realize as many people that claim

756
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: to be part of the church, we got more enough

757
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: people are to be filled every job. Anybody ever I'm

758
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: talking about this happened to me in church. Anybody ever

759
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,479
Speaker 1: tried to help the guy who who can't hold a job,

760
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: and then you help him and get him a job

761
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: and he keeps quitting. Everybody had that. My hands up,

762
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: I've dealt with that and you and this is this

763
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: goes back to that. This guy was I mean, his

764
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: family needed income. I said, I get him a job,

765
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he calls me back and

766
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: he says, I don't think this is gonna work for me.

767
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: And I said, what you mean? I said, I said,

768
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought, well, he goes, well, this is

769
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: an entry level job. I said, what did you think

770
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: they were going to put? Let you run the company?

771
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you you've you've never worked there before,

772
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: you know it, Well, my last job, you know, I

773
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: was in management. Well yeah, but that's time, my check.

774
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: You you ain't working there anymore. You starting at a

775
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: new company, this is your first time in Well, I

776
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: didn't know they were gonna, you know, start me at

777
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: the bottom. Where did you think you were going to start?

778
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: This was not even the field he'd ever even had

779
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: any expertise in. And uh, and you so what was

780
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: it again? It was that that classic thing I'm holding

781
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: out for a management job, you know. Meanwhile, you know,

782
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: here's your wife and kids asking people to you know,

783
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: help them with clothes and and pay you bills. And guys,

784
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: come on, I mean, so are we too proud to

785
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: go work? Let me tell you something I love about

786
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: my daddy. And y'all know I love my daddy. And

787
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: he was not a perfect man. My daddy was the

788
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: most successful football coach so far that the university he

789
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: worked for has ever had Okay Field named after Okay

790
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: when they fired him, and he was fired Okay when

791
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: they changed divisions, when they fired him in the same town.

792
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: Now you name me a man that would do this.

793
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: It's humble enough to do this in the same town

794
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: where he won the national championship, got all these Coaches

795
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: of the year. He's now in their Hall of fame.

796
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: All that okay, in the same town until they worked

797
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: out his compensation and it went into a legal battle,

798
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: so there was no money coming in. My daddy went

799
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: to work at Walmart in the same town where he

800
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: won the national championship and has a field named after him.

801
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: Now you tell me another man that would have done that.

802
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: And you know why I did it, He said, because

803
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: we need to be sure we got some money coming

804
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: in so all this gets figured out. Most men would

805
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: have said when the look, you know, I said, for

806
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: a coach, I'm not going to work at Walmart afraid

807
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: somebody might see me. You don't think people walked in

808
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: and said, what's coach Bridge's doing at Walmart? Do you

809
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: think he cared about that? Never? He said, a man

810
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: is supposed to work, and right now I don't have

811
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: a job, so I'm gonna work, so I have another one,

812
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: and and and and see that's the attitude. You do

813
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: whatever you got to do. And I'll tell you one thing.

814
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: Walmart had a great employee for a short period of time,

815
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: but they had a horse. You know it, because he

816
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: went after that like he did everything else. And uh,

817
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: and so that's the attitude that we should have and

818
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: it's not to be noticed, it's to be obedient. Next,

819
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: it says, knowing that whatever good anyone else does, that

820
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: he will receive this back from the Lord, whether he's

821
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: a bond servant or free. You know, he's saying, if

822
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: you think you think the only people they're going to

823
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: get a reward from God are the people that are free,

824
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: that that are working jobs that they actually wanted to

825
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: work and are getting paid for. You think that that

826
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: only the slave is going to get a well done,

827
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: good and faithful servant from God. Everybody who works the

828
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: way God says to work is going to get a

829
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: well done from God, whether you're a slave or whether

830
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: you're free. See, a lot of us think I need

831
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: to have a I can see where God want me

832
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: as a slave to have a really good attitude and

833
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: be a good worker because that would bring glory to

834
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: him because I'm in a tough situation and I'm suffering,

835
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: so I glorify God. But this job they pay me

836
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: to do, I'm just gonna kind of phone it in. No,

837
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: he's saying, we should have the same attitude whether we

838
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: get in a check or we're not. If we're working

839
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: for somebody because it glorifies him and both will get

840
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,959
Speaker 1: a well done, good and faithful servant. Now he goes

841
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: to us, as employers masters, do the same to them,

842
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both

843
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: their master and yours in heaven and that there is

844
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: no partiality with him. So he's talking about employers. Now, Okay,

845
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: we've been told if we're working for somebody, that we

846
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: yield to the fear of compromising. Jesus be excellent, never

847
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: making Christ look bad. And now he goes on to say, now,

848
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: those of you that that are actually in authority, you

849
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: need to be reminded that those in authority, it's a

850
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: two way street. You know. You you you pay these

851
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: people that work for you according to their worth. Don't

852
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: treat people differently with partiality. Now, I thought this was

853
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: a great statement. We interviewed Jared Hudson, former Navy seal.

854
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Speaker 1: He's running for Senate now, and he said, I've gone

855
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Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. And I'll tell you it's it's

856
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: probably the darkest place I've ever been. Now, this is

857
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: the guy that's been fighting in the Middle East. Okay,

858
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: and goes into rescue people and in his ministry Covenant

859
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: rescue from the Slave from the sex straight. He's gone

860
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: in and killed these people, He's rescued people. He's been

861
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Speaker 1: at war in the Middle East. And he said, Washington

862
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Speaker 1: is the darkest place I've ever been. And he said,

863
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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. The sin of partiality. I mean,

864
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Speaker 1: that's the whole thing's based on that. Nobody does anything

865
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Speaker 1: for anybody unless it can help them. You know what

866
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: was it? Adrian Rogers said this others had If you

867
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Speaker 1: want to see the integrity and character of a man

868
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: or woman, if you truly want to know their integrity

869
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: and their character, watch how they treat people that can't

870
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: do anything for them. You ever been around those people?

871
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: If somebody can do something for them, or the people

872
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: of influence, they get treated different than people that can't

873
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: do anything for them. If you ever heard the reputation

874
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: this guy only associates with people as it serves him.

875
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: People are only for his benefit, I've heard that be

876
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: said about people for well, that's exactly what Paul is

877
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Speaker 1: being told to tell us by God, is that if

878
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Speaker 1: you are in authority, you treat everybody the same. Now,

879
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you motivate everybody the same. That's another

880
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: great leadership thing that I was taught by my dad

881
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: as well. He said. Everybody abides by the same rules.

882
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: There's no partiality there. You know, just because you might

883
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Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback, you get away with stuff that

884
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Speaker 1: the scout team guy won't get away from. He said,

885
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Speaker 1: you never be like that. Everybody's treated the same. And

886
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: he would he would fire a starter as quickly as

887
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Speaker 1: he would get rid of a Scout team guy if

888
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: they didn't follow the rules. However, he said, but understand

889
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: people aren't motivated the same way. That goes back to

890
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: discipline your children. But don't exasperate them. He said. There's

891
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: some people that if you ride them too hard, it

892
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: breaks them. They need encouragement, and you got to recognize that.

893
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: Then there's other people like you, Rick, that if you

894
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: don't ride them hard, you don't get anything out of them.

895
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: And uh, and he said, you know, but I knew

896
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't break, and you wouldn't get mad, and

897
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: you wouldn't lose it. You'd rise to the occasion to

898
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: prove me wrong. But now I go over here and

899
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: get on your brother. He's got a temper he's gonna

900
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: quit on me. So y'all both by the same rules.

901
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: But I motivated both of you differently, So understand what

902
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: makes somebody tick and not everybody responds to the same

903
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,959
Speaker 1: type of motivation. That's different. But what he says, don't

904
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: you ever treat somebody who's a star of the team

905
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: differently than you would treat someone who's not. They're all

906
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: equal in their value, And so that's the way we

907
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: should be as employers too. We treat everybody the same,

908
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: and and what else should we do. We don't ever

909
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: ask anybody to to adhere to a standard that we

910
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: don't adhere to in authority. That's that's another thing. I

911
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: don't ever ask any body who works for me to

912
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: do anything that I would not also do, and that

913
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: there has to be that standard. I may be the

914
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 1: president of this company, but I fill up the drink

915
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: cooler just like everybody else when it's my turn. Okay,

916
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: I don't sit here and wait on somebody else to

917
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: do that. Okay, that nobody has to wait on me

918
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: hand and foot. When the guys are here with me,

919
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: I take the trash out, I fill up the water cooler,

920
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: I do whatever needs to be done just like everybody else,

921
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: because I'm not any better than everybody else. All we've

922
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: done is been put into position to lead, but that

923
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: does not make us of more value. You know, we

924
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't have trade unions today if employers would follow this

925
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: biblical mandate, but they don't because we're in a falling

926
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: creation and people have to find a voice to stand

927
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 1: up for them the workers. Never abuse your power, don't

928
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 1: abuse the position, because when you're in a place of authority,

929
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: you know what he says, masters, do the same thing

930
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both

931
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: their master God and yours, is in heaven and there's

932
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: no partiality with him. You know he's saying, you might

933
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: be the president of such and such company, and there

934
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: may be human beings that are so impressed. You know

935
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: what he's saying. God's not impressed with you. I assure you,

936
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Speaker 1: no matter how much you may have been elevated in society,

937
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: when you stand before the Great I Am, He's not

938
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: going to be impressed. And the only authority that you

939
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,439
Speaker 1: have has been allowed by him, and he's as much

940
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: a master of you as he is of your employees.

941
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: You both will have to answer to him. So don't

942
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,439
Speaker 1: think too highly of yourself, think of them more, think

943
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 1: of yourself less, and treat everybody as far as their

944
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: value equally. Now that doesn't mean that you don't reward

945
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: those that go above and beyond. But what he's talking

946
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: about is if you've got the same work out of

947
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: the same two people, don't pick your favorites, and don't

948
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: treat some people some way who might be a little

949
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: more talented than you would someone else because you enamored

950
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: with them. So if we were to take these things

951
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: just like we talked about with marriage last week, and

952
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: we would actually apply them to parenting. If children would

953
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: apply this to their role with their parents, if employees

954
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: would apply this to themselves, if employer employers would apply

955
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: this to themselves, we would probably have a lot less trouble.

956
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: As Solomon taught us so beautifully in his Book of

957
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: Repentance and Ecclesiastes. At the end of it all, he said,

958
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: I have discovered the whole role of mankind is to

959
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: fear God and do what he says. And I bet you,

960
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 1: all of you could raise your hand as high as

961
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: I'm raising mind. If I look back in my life,

962
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: if I had done things the way God said to

963
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: I would have avoided a lot of problems. A lot

964
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: of problems in my life are simply because I didn't

965
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: do what God said to do. I've done his way.

966
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been in that situation. So let me

967
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: say this as we close in prayer. No matter how

968
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: you feel about these standards, we are fools. If for

969
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: any moment we've let creep into our minds and our

970
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: spirit that somehow God doesn't know what he's doing, that's

971
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: a really, really foolish statement. Fear him and do what

972
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: he says so that it might go well with you.

973
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for

974
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 1: those that have made the effort to be here today.

975
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: I pray you bless this time we have together, So

976
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: grateful for you, Lord, and thank you for the grace

977
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: and the mercy that you've shown us all. Thank you

978
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: for teaching us, thank you for laying out a standard.

979
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: Whether we ignore it or not, it's still right. And

980
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 1: I thank you Lord that even when we don't listen

981
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: and we don't do what you say, how gracious and

982
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: merciful you are when we come crawling back and we

983
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry. Forgive me for that you are faithful

984
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: to forgive all of us that have a sincere heart

985
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: and repent and take ownership of the things we've done wrong. Lord,

986
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: I pray that your Holy Spirit will be on all

987
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: of us as we go here from this moment until

988
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: we get together again. In your holy name, we pray Amen.

989
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: Thank you guys.