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October 25, 2025 | Luke 10
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:03 Fall Fest Preparations

00:19 Purpose of Fall Fest

01:22 Engaging with the Community

02:10 Effective Evangelism Strategies

03:53 Challenges in Evangelism

07:03 The Sending of the 72

10:17 The Parable of the Good Samaritan

14:29 Concentric Circles of Responsibility

19:18 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up?

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It is Fall Fest Eve today.

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That's right.

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It is, yeah.

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Which means tomorrow's Fall Fest

and four to 7:00 PM at the church.

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I know a lot of you are serving and

some of you're gonna be on setup.

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I think setup has taken

place at two o'clock.

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I think we've got other people

working on balloon arches and

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stuff like that before that.

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There's a lot going on, but it's

probably helpful for us to revisit

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why we're doing this in the, why are

we doing this in the first place?

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That's a great question

People have been asking.

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Everybody wants to know.

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We're doing this because part

of our job as the church is to

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make an impact in our community.

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Part of our job as the church is to

have a presence in our community.

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And while that is not event

driven, it certainly does not

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exclude us doing events like this.

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This is a way for us to bless our

community through having a free

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event, a safe event for parents and

families to bring their kids to that

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they're not having to walk through

and see a bunch of scary stuff.

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I dunno about you, but my neighborhood

man has some pretty gnarly goly

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stuff that are in people's yards.

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My neighbor.

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Directly behind me.

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Put up their Christmas tree there.

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I don't know what neighbors you got.

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They're blessed mine.

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Or celebrating Christmas already.

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Well, good on them.

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Neighbor.

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Similar line.

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Seriously what though?

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That was October 22nd when

I first saw their tree.

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That's insane.

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They beat everybody.

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That's crazy.

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You should give them , an award.

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You know what?

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They don't open the door

to us, so we might have.

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You should just get a trophy.

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Just put it on their door and just put

it on their door, their door, their

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door, stop and attach a note door front.

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But we're doing this to bless

our community, but we're

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also doing this as a witness.

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And so as you're there know that this

is for you and it's not for you at the

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same time, this is for you in the sense

that, hey, we want your kids to be there.

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We want to you to have a great time.

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We want you to grab a pumpkin,

grab candy, play some games, send

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your kids through the inflatables.

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But it's not for you in the sense that

we also want you there on mission.

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We want you there ready to

have conversations and to greet

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people and to talk to them.

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And so as you're talking with people,

some questions that you can have in

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your mind and questions to ask are,

Hey, so and so Nice to meet you.

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I'm such and such.

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You know, we go to church here.

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Do you go to church anywhere?

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And maybe you're gonna run into

somebody who is of a different

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religion that's gonna say no.

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And a follow up question that

you could ask that I think is

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really helpful is, oh, why not?

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Yeah, exactly.

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Why not?

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No, but you can ask the question.

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Ha have you ever been to church?

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I found that on college campuses, we

used to go out and do evangelism back

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in California on college campuses.

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And a lot of times we'd lead with the

question, have you ever been to church?

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And sometimes they would say no.

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And or do you go to church?

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No, I don't.

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Well, have you ever been to church?

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And that's a great question.

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'cause some of 'em will say,

yeah, I've been a couple times.

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Oh, well what did you think about it?

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There's ways for us to get into these

conversations with people to invite

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their and they're disarmed there

because they're, you're not saying,

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Hey, why don't you go to church?

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Why don't you like church?

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What's wrong with you?

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Or.

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You know, if you got somebody from

another religion, maybe they're

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gonna say, I've never been to church.

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Would you ever consider coming?

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Would you be interested to

know what it's like, what we do

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there and what we're all about?

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We'd love for you to come and visit

and come see what we're about.

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That's a non-threatening way for you to

engage somebody who maybe a part of a

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different religion, to invite them to

come and see what our church is like.

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Just like if they were to say,

Hey, would you be interested in

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finding out what we're about?

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That might not be a bad idea either.

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Not in the sense that you're gonna be

con converted to a different religion,

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but to say, Hey what is this about?

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So that I have some knowledge

and awareness of that.

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But there's questions that you can ask

and you can get into other questions too.

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The question, those questions

can lead to questions about God.

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Hey, do you believe in God?

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And you might think, wow, these are

really intense questions to talk about.

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But if you start small

with a question like, Hey.

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Have you ever been to church?

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Then you can quickly get to those

questions and people are willing to talk.

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I think that's the thing that we need to

remember is people are willing to talk if

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we approach them with a winsome attitude.

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Yeah.

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When I learned the way the master method

years ago, I really appreciated the

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starting question, which is, would you

consider yourself to be a good person?

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And because, yeah, most people do.

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Say yes to that.

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It's a really great starting place to

say, okay, well let's talk about that.

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Let's define that.

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And I know a couple of our evangelism

team people will be on the premises

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and they'll be talking to different

people, probably using that method

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or some combination thereof.

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But don't look down on

opportunities like this.

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Now, one of the most challenging,

I think, opportunities that we have

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is because we have so many Hindus

and Muslims in our neck of the woods

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you're starting from less than zero.

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Zero would be they don't know

about the Christian Church.

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They don't know about the gospel.

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Great.

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Let me tell you about that.

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Less than zero is someone who

has a framework of thinking

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about the world around us that

is so contrary to what we think.

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We have to start by building common

vernacular ways to talk about God.

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And sin and righteousness and judgment.

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That's gonna take time.

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And perhaps you don't have a good

six hours to develop a framework

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with your Hindu or Muslim friend

where you can develop those ideas.

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That's okay.

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Put a rock in the shoe as as

some apologists have said before.

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I know Great Coco in

his book, what was that?

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Tactics?

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Tactic.

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He says something to that effect.

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You're not gonna be able to do.

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All the salvation that

you want to accomplish.

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Sometimes you're the beginning person,

sometimes you're the last person,

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you're the one who harvest the soul.

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Other times you're just a contributor to

what God is doing in that person's life.

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And I'd say just be okay with

whatever part God has for you.

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Be friendly, be welcoming, be kind.

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Talk to people.

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Show them kindness and love.

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Don't see them as projects.

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They're people care about their

lives and not just the fact that you

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want to share the gospel with them.

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That's an important part of that.

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But don't see that as

an end in and of itself.

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You're trying to build

relationships with our community.

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These are people that maybe some

of them are Christians and they do

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know exactly what the gospel is,

and they're just here enjoying the

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premises and enjoying the candy.

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Fantastic.

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That's okay.

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But our job at this point with a situation

like this is to give you opportunities

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to talk to people in a way that's

productive, in a way that's intentional.

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And I know that you're not gonna

do this at the grocery store.

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You're not gonna go to Kroger

and say, Hey, would you consider

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yourself to be a good person?

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Probably, but you could do it here.

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And it makes perfect sense because we're a

church hosting an event, and this is part

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of the territory, part of the process.

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So take advantage of it's dress in

something that you know isn't super

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scary and have some fun with their

kids and talk to your neighbors.

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It'll be a great experience for you.

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We'll be there too.

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Our goal just as, just so you

know, as the pastors, we wanna

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talk to lots of strangers.

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So if you don't see us talking to you,

it's not 'cause we don't like you, we're

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trying to talk to everybody really.

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But we do want to have some conversations

with unbelievers, if at all possible.

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So if you see that, you see us

talking to someone you don't

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recognize, pray for them.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's very likely that we're

having a spiritual conversation.

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That is our intention.

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And if you can.

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Come ready with that in mind, that'll do

you a lot of good, and I dare say, it'll

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be one of the best nights of your life.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Also, just be praying

for the practical things.

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Pray for the weather, number one.

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We're recording this on Thursday.

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We're supposed to get

some pretty bad weather.

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We're Friday night into Saturday.

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Not to have this true, but

we're planning to have this on

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a field, on the athletic field.

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So if that field turns into a cesspool.

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That's not a good thing.

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So bring your waterproof boots.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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So pray for that.

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Pray for safety.

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That's another big thing.

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And we don't wanna take that for granted.

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Yeah.

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That is something that,

that is on our minds.

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I know we've got gatekeepers

and I know it's on their minds

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and I'm thankful for them.

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There have been a lot of bad

things happening in different

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areas and we don't wanna be.

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Sinfully anxious about things

like that taking place.

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But we also do wanna be prepared.

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We wanna be shrewd, we wanna be

wise as serpents, and so pray

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for safety at this event as well.

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And yeah, pray for people to get saved.

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Pray for those gospel conversations

to happen and for God to save people.

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How cool would it be at our next baptism

to have somebody say, well, I showed up

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at Fall Fest and I had a conversation

with this person, and God opened my eyes.

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That would be pretty awesome.

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Let's jump into our DBR.

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We are in Luke chapter 10 today.

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So just one chapter today,

and that chapter begins with

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the sending out of the 72.

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So this is similar to when Jesus

sent out the 12 back in Mark six.

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In Matthew 10.

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Similar instructions are given

but one of the interesting

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things was that these 72 are.

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Sent out to, to prepare these

towns for Jesus himself to follow.

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So they're going kind of as the

forerunners and Jesus is gonna come

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after them, and Jesus is gonna preach

and teach in these same towns so

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that these towns have a foundation

under them before Jesus gets there.

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But they're also sent out and they're

giving these instructions to pray

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earnestly to the Lord of Harvest,

to send out labors into his harvest.

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And so Jesus is already sending them

out and at the same time telling

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them to pray, that more will be

raised up to be sent out as well.

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And so just that evangelistic

mindset, something that's good for us,

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sometimes we'll read that and be like,

oh, good, I don't have to be sent.

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I can be one of the people that

prays for more people to be sent.

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And here it's Jesus.

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Saying, no it's both.

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And go and be the person that's having

the conversation, be the person that's

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sharing the gospel and at the same time

pray for more people to be sent out.

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I feel that as we were just talking

about this we live in an area with

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a lot of people that need Jesus.

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And we need to be pursuing them

and we need to pray that God will

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bring others to pursue them as well.

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That's right.

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The 72 are given.

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Again the authority and the power

to do some pretty miraculous things.

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And we look at that and we say

should we expect the same thing?

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And we would say no.

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As cessationists, we would say,

this is unique to this time period.

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In part because remember,

they're not going out with the

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New Testament in their hands.

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They're not going out with the

church the canon of scripture.

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At their disposal.

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They're not even going out

with the Old Testament, which

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certainly was available to them.

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They had it memorized, probably a lot

of them did, or large portions of it.

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But they're not going out with

it tactically in their hands

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to be able to preach from.

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And so as they're going out and calling

for repentance some of the question is

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gonna be asked by those that they're

talking to, Hey, who gives you the

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authority to be able to do these things?

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And so the, these miracles that were

done, part of the purpose of them

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being able to cast out demons and other

things was that they, the miracle would

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validate the message and the messenger.

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And so as they then proclaimed it,

people would say, okay, I'm gonna

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listen to what they have to say

because of what I just saw them do.

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There's something beyond just mere

human wisdom in what these guys are

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saying and yet then Jesus tells them

when they come back and they're telling

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Jesus, how great is this Jesus look,

here's everything that's able to happen.

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I love what he says in verse 20.

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He says, do not rejoice in this.

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In other words that the, he says

that the spirits are subject to you.

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But instead, rejoice that your

names are written in heaven.

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Rejoice.

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That's the biggest thing.

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That's the most significant thing

that you have is not the power to cast

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out demons, but the fact that you are

saved, that you are a child of God.

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And he says that's where you

should really find true joy There.

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End of chapter 10, he prays a, again,

one of those difficult things where

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he addresses his father, or I guess

not the end of chapter 10, but about

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halfway through here, and he just

prays and he says I'm thankful that

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you've not revealed these to the wise

of the world, but to those that are.

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More of the children, the childlike

faith there, which we've talked about

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a couple times, but this is similar I

think to one Corinthians chapter one as

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well, where Paul talks about the wisdom

of God as foolishness to the world.

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And so Jesus is saying it's a

good thing that God has exalted

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that his name is exalted because

he's revealing these things to the

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people that you would least expect.

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From here, we get one of the more.

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Well-known parables that Jesus

tells throughout his ministry.

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And that is the parable of the

Good Samaritan because a teacher

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approaches him, an expert in

the law and says, teacher, what?

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What do I have to do to be saved?

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And Jesus tells him, well, you

should do what's written in the law.

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How do you read it?

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And the main answer is, love the Lord your

God, with all your heart, with all your

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soul, with all your strength, and with all

your mind and your neighbor as yourself.

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This is Deuteronomy six, the Shema.

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And Jesus said to him,

you've answered correctly.

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Do this and you will live.

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And then the man it says in the

text, wishing to justify himself.

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He wants to know how little he has to

do here, says, well, who's my neighbor?

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And Jesus then tells the parable and the

Samaritan is the hero or the parable.

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And that would've caused.

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This man, in fact, this man at

the end when Jesus says, which

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of these three was the neighbor?

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The man can't even say

the words Samaritan.

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He can only say the man

who showed him mercy.

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And Jesus said, you go and do

likewise and you will live.

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This is, this would've been shocking and

it loses his impact for us because we.

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Have heard the story from the

time that we were little, but the

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Samaritan would've been the vile one

in the eyes of the Jewish people.

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And that's Jesus' point there.

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The one that you least think is

the person worthy of being a good

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neighbor is the good neighbor here.

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And as we read this

we're not the Samaritan.

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We're the guy beaten and

bloodied on the side of the road.

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Jesus is the good Samaritan.

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Jesus is the one that loved

us to this full extent and at

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such a great cost to himself.

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And he's calling us essentially to

go and love as we've been loved.

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Does someone qualify as a neighbor?

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Any, anywhere at any time.

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Jesus is not speaking to us in the

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I, I do think that there's a serious

question in many people's minds about,

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am I responsible, for instance, for

the Nigerian Christians, and if so,

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to what degree they're my neighbor and

they're more than my neighbor, they're

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my brother or my sister, presumably,

what is my responsibility then?

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To people across the globe.

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What's my responsibility to Ukraine?

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Mm-hmm.

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What's my responsibility to

Russians, especially those

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who are Christian Russians?

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What is my responsibility to the Uyghurs?

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Is there a responsibility?

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Does the fact that I know about a need

mm-hmm mean that I should meet the need?

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And if so, where do I draw

the line, if anywhere?

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I mean, I don't wanna violate

what Jesus is saying here.

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'cause he's trying to overcome this

teacher's justification of himself by

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saying, look, let me give you a story.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the story's supposed to illustrate,

there's the guy that came across the

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road and this guy was a good dude.

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What is our expectation as

Christians in:

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access to every part of the world?

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Basically, almost instantaneously.

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What is the expectation of a Christian

who's trying to love their neighbor?

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Well, I think we have to

admit our finitude and the

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finitude of our resources.

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And so when you're thinking about.

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Financial needs.

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Right.

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You have a stewardship that's been

given to you by God, that if you

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love your neighbors so well, that

you empty your bank account to be

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able to financially support, people

that need that across the world.

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And yet doing so has put your family

in need and been detrimental to

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your family and not wise as far

as you being able to steward the

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responsibilities that you have here.

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You're trading one wrong

for another mm-hmm.

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In that instance.

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But one of the resources that we have

in abundance is our ability to pray.

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And I think we do have.

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The obligation to do that when we're

aware of the needs and even that

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we've got a limited amount of time

in our day as far as how much time

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you've got responsibilities that you

need to do, even as pastors, right?

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Like we have to spend time

doing things like sermon prep.

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We have to spend time doing things

like having meetings about planning

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for Fall Fest to make sure it's a

good event and things like that.

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So we can't say, I'm gonna spend 24

hours a day praying for all the needs

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that I know that are out there, but.

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You can be intentional to say, okay,

maybe on Thursday I'm gonna pray

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for international needs that I have.

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Maybe on Friday I'm gonna pray

for local needs that I know of.

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Maybe on Saturday I'm gonna pray for

my neighbors and my neighborhood.

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And so you can begin to methodically

pray through things that's

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good, that I think are helpful.

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And yet at the same time recognize

the finitude of our resources and

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our ability to love everybody to the

extent that maybe we would want to.

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And maybe that's even a problem too.

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I think maybe our prayer begins

with, Lord, give me a greater

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compassion for people as my neighbor.

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Help me to see people as my

neighbor that I'm not naturally

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inclined to see as my neighbor.

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In fact, I was gonna say,

that's a great point.

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If you even feel that, if you feel the

impulse to say, I wanna love my neighbor,

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that's a really great place to start.

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I think God can use that.

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And would that more of our people feel

that impulse to say, I wanna love people.

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Well, mm-hmm.

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Let me encourage you to take

responsibility by using concentric

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circles of responsibility.

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The smallest concentric circle that

you have responsibility for is you.

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You need to take care of yourself.

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You can't take care of others if

you're not taking care of yourself.

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And that's gonna look like you

being a good neighbor to yourself.

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And I know this is not the point

of the text, just hear me out here.

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You should be spending time with the Lord

in the morning or afternoon, whenever it

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is that you spend time with him praying,

seeking his face, studying his word,

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learning about that because you need to

be able to do that to make the decisions

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that you're gonna need down the road here.

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So concentric circle

number one, you concentric.

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Circle number two, your family.

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This is the.

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The closest neighbors that you have,

they are physically next to you.

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Most of the time they see you

at your best and your worst.

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You have a responsibility to them.

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So the second circle is your family.

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The third circle, I would argue, even

though you have physical neighbors, I

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would say your church is there and whether

sometimes it's two for or three or three

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and two, I think the church family is.

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Meant to be a significant part of your

consideration when you think about what

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God has for you to do in the world.

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So concentric circle three, just

for the sake of clarity here,

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let's just call that your church.

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Four.

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I'd put your neighbors, five, your city,

six, your state, and on and on it goes.

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The greater the concentric circle,

the larger and further it goes out,

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the less responsibility you have.

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I would argue from this text here.

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The Good Samaritan shows us that

the person nearest to you is the

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one that God gives you to care for.

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Yeah.

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And he does it by providence.

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People that are next to you,

people that are near your

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vicinity, your neighbor is nearby.

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They're the people that you're

to give priority of care for.

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And again, again, I would start

with yourself and the Lord.

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That's the first place that's

gonna control and help you

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understand the rest of it.

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But I would use concentric circles

of responsibility to help you

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make some of these determinations.

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Well, and even to that point, even as

Lieutenant ends with the story of Martha

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and Mary, you've got Martha who's.

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Busy.

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She's doing things.

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Yeah.

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She's caring for her neighbors.

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Yeah.

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You could argue.

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And yet Mary is there sitting

at the feet of Jesus, and Martha

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is indignant about this, saying,

Lord, help, she needs to help me.

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And Jesus says she's chosen the better

thing, not because what Martha was doing

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was wrong, but because to your point,

if we're not being filled up, then we've

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gotten nothing from which to pour out of.

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If we're gonna pour out into the lives

of other people, starting with our family

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and then those exec concentric circles,

but we're not filling up our tank with.

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Time with Christ.

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Yeah.

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Then we're not gonna be

effective in what we're doing.

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Right.

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'cause we're gonna be serving

from our own power, which we're

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not gonna be able to do well.

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Can't pour out if you

haven't been poured into.

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Yeah.

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That story of Martha Marriot,

it's one of my favorites.

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I love this particular story 'cause

I resonate with Martha so much.

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Yeah.

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It's like, Lord, there's things to do.

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Tell this buffoon to get up and help me.

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But as one commentator pointed out,

one is being instructed by the Lord,

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the other one is instructing the Lord.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which one do you think is

the better position to be in?

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That'll preach.

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And of course it's gonna be Mary

Mary's doing the right thing.

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Yeah.

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We need to be filled up by the Lord.

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Yeah.

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We need him to teach us to

help us understand life.

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Yeah.

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We can't interpret our lives properly

apart from the Lord helping us to see

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and say even here's your priority.

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The church is your priority.

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In fact, I know it's probably

sounds controversial for us to say,

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but the church should be a high

priority on your agenda For sure.

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Caring for his people.

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Gathering with the saints, sitting under

good preaching, worshiping with the body

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of Christ, caring about the needs of

one another, sacrificing for their good.

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Jesus calls us to, to

prioritize the church.

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In fact, to the point where

he says, look, my family, my

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physical family in the flesh, yep.

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Not as important to me as

those who obey God's word.

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Yep.

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Oof.

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Yep.

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Like talk about a slap in the face for

an honor, shame culture for Jesus to say

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that is making a big statement bigger

than what you and I might feel because

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we live in a culture where individual.

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Identity is more important than

the corporate one, but Jesus

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did not live in that culture.

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His culture was very much

tied up into the tribe.

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They're people, and so for Jesus to

say, look, who are my mother and my

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brothers right here, these people

who were obeying the word of God,

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these are my mother and my brothers.

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Wow.

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Yep.

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Wow, what a big thing to say.

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So all that to say I think the good

neighbor or the good Samaritan teaches

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us that neighbors are, I think, a

concentric circle of responsibility.

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Your job is to discern that and as you

have resources as to your point, PPJ,

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your limited resources as you have

available, resources for the furthest

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the furthest neighbors use that.

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If you feel the compulsion, if you

feel the call to do that, fantastic.

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Pray, give, do all the things,

but make sure you're taking.

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Consideration and care of the

earlier, smaller concentric circles

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around your life's responsibilities.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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And that may even be what he was after,

at the beginning of Luke 10, when he sent

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out the 72 and he said, pray for more too.

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'cause the harvest is white and that's it.

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Like the people that are in Ukraine, the

Nigerian Christians we need to pray that

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God will raise up people there where they

have the proximity and the resources to

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be able to help in situations like that.

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Right.

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And hopefully that the

Muslims won't kill them.

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Right.

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That too, right?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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We should care about that man.

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And if it's been on your heart

to pray for them or to give

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to that, like, yeah, do it.

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Please don't tell, don't hear me

saying Stop giving, stop caring.

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Only pray for your family or your church.

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I'm not saying that right.

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I'm just saying make sure you

have those earlier places covered.

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Yeah.

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We should care about the others.

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But don't go and solve their

problems without looking at your

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own backyard or your own front

yard and saying, am I caring for

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the people that God has given me?

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Who are nearby.

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Yeah, well, let's pray.

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God, we confess our finitude and

the magnitude of the need that

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exists in this world and even

the need to love our neighbors.

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And so help us as pastor was just saying

to, to think through things in that

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concentric form and be able to really make

sure, first and foremost, we are leaning

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into our relationship with you, and that

we are being filled up by you so that we

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will be able to then pour out to others.

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And so, God, I pray that we would be

effective in that, that you would give

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us Lord, families that love the Lord,

neighborhoods that love the Lord, a church

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that has committed to you, that loves

the Lord that we would be just seeing the

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fruit of investing in these relationships.

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Well, we do pray for tomorrow's

event, for Fall Fest.

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We pray that it would go well.

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We pray for protection.

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We pray for a lot of people to

come through and to interact with

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our people and to be able to have

conversations about Christ in the gospel.

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And so we thank you for this.

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We praise you for this

in Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep new Bibles y'all tuning

into tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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about our Church at compassntx.org.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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