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We're gonna be singing grace greater than our sin.

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Song 208.

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John 2-0, let's get together on the first.

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Marvelous grace of our love.

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to the

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Good seeing you, but Ryan could you open us up with a word of prayer?

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Amen. Our second zombie song number 404, when the battle's over.

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Song number 404, Win the Battles Over.

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Song 404.

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["Win the Battles Over"]

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Song 404, let's sing it together on the first.

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Am I a soldier of the cross, a faller of the lamb?

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And shall I fear to own his cause or blush to speak his name?

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a-

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We shall wear a crown, yes, we shall wear a crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown

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in the new Jerusalem.

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Wear a crown.

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Wear a bright and shining crown

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Must I be carried to the skies on fire?

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While others fought to win the prize And sailed through bloody seas

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown Yes, we shall wear a crown

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Yes, we shall wear a crown And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown

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In the New Jerusalem

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Wear a crown

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Wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem.

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Sure, I must fight if my would reign increase my courage, Lord.

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I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,

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and I'll see you next time.

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Goodbye, bye!

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When the battle's over

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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And when the battle's over,

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we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.

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Wear a crown, wear a crown,

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wear a bright and shining crown.

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And when the battle's over,

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we shall wear a crown.

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In the New Jerusalem

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Amen. You can see it this time we'll have our announcements.

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Well, good evening, everyone. The verse of the week is Proverbs 16 verse 2.

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Proverbs 16 verse 2.

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All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord weith the spirits.

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Proverbs 16 verse 2.

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All right. Service times are at 1030 and 330 on Sunday, 630 on Wednesday.

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Sunday Solvely was at 1 p.m.

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and yesterday was at 1230. Salvation for the month had been seven for a total of 108 for the year.

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Upcoming events is the homeschool day on the 28th at 11 a.m. here. Please RSVP

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Please remember to be doing the soul winning awareness challenge of inviting 25 people to church

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Also trying to give the salvation or give give the gospel

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25 times in the next few months outside of soul winning times

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If you haven't received your reward for your Bible memorization, please talk to brother

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Remy.

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He has them available now to give out.

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Alright?

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Kids, your memory verse right now is Galatians 2 verse 21.

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Galatians 2 verse 21.

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I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ

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is dead in vain.

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That is Galatians 2 verse 21.

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Tell you the information is down below, rules are all the same. We sung Happy Birthday to Miss

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Abby this morning. If you have any other prayer requests, please let the Thompsons know they will

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put it into the bulletin. With that, let's turn to Lord in prayer.

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Alright, if you want to take your bibles or your psalm books and turn to Psalm 150.

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Psalm number 150

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Psalm number 150, we'll sing it out on first.

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senpai

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Excellent seeing everybody at this time. We will pray for the offering.

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Wish we get more, wish we have more.

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There will come a day where we can't work in there anymore.

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And we'll be happy to have what we'll do this year.

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Welcome back everybody to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.

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If you could take your Bibles and turn to Proverbs 15.

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Proverbs 15 is our text this afternoon.

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And here at our church, we read the entire chapter

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before the preaching.

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Proverbs 15, the Bible reads, a soft answer turneth away wrath.

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But grievous words stir up anger.

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The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright,

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but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

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The eyes of the Lord are in every place,

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beholding the evil and the good.

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A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,

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but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

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A fool despiseth his father's instruction, but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

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In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

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The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish doeth not sow.

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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord.

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but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord,

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but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. Correction is grievous unto

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him that forsakeeth the way, and he that hateth reproof shall die. Hell and destruction are before

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the Lord. How much more than the hearts of the children of men?

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As scornor loveth not one that reproveth him, neither will he go unto the wise.

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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge, but the mouth of fools feedeth on

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foolishness.

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All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith.

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox in hatred therewith.

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A wrathful man stirth up strife.

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but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.

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The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns,

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but the way of the righteous is made plain.

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A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom.

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But a man of understanding walketh uprightly. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed.

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But in the multitude of counselors, they are established. A man hath joy by the answer of

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his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good is it? The way of life is above to the wise,

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that he may depart from hell beneath.

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The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.

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The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasant

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words. He that is greedy of gain troubleeth his own house, but he that hateth gifts shall live.

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The heart of the righteous studyeth to answer.

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But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. The Lord is far from the wicked,

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but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart,

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and a good report maketh the bones fat. The ear that heareth the reproof of life

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abideth among the wise. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul.

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But he that heareth reproof, geteth understanding.

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The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.

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Brother Jason, could you pray for the preaching?

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Dear Father, I thank you for this day, Lord. I thank the heaven and the devil for us. Lord,

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I pray that you please open our hearts to the preaching of your word, and to fill

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of the power of your spirit as he preaches.

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And yours in the name of the Father.

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Amen.

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Alright, so we just read Proverbs 15 and there's much wisdom we can gain from this, but to

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tell you truthfully, the title of this sermon is, Be Merry.

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Be Merry.

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Like Paul, you are the most somber person I know.

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Well I know.

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So I'm going to work on it, you're going to work on it with me.

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But this sermon is to be merry.

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And what is merry?

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If you're in Proverbs 15, look down at verse 13.

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Look down at verse 13.

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you

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And in verse 13 it says,

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a merry heart maketh a cheerful continent,

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but the sorrow of the heart,

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the spirit is broken.

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A merry heart makes a cheerful continent.

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And for people like me that just,

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they just look miserable.

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Like people are just like,

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what is like that?

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People say I'm very hard to read,

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even at work around people

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that have had really hard lives.

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They say I'm very hard to read, why?

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I probably just don't always have the cheerful continence, as I don't have that merry heart.

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But it is interesting, the Bible does talk about being merry, being jovial.

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You ever say Merry Christmas?

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But they're saying you have a merry heart, like be happy, just be happy, be around people, enjoy life, be merry!

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A merry heart maketh a cheerful confidence, but the sorrow of a heart is the spirit boken.

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And many times in the Bible there's many more hard things, there's so many hard things to go through,

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but you know what? There is a time to laugh.

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There is a time to be mournful, to sorrowful, to be hurt.

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There is a time to dance, there is a time to laugh.

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And sometimes I think we almost have to remind ourselves like,

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oh wait a minute, maybe I just need to enjoy life.

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Maybe I just need to actually enjoy what I'm doing.

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Maybe sometimes, like, look, I could have this,

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I could want this, but sometimes, including myself,

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like, it's actually pretty good.

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Like, a merry heart maketh a cheerful continence.

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And actually, most people, when they're sad and down,

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the whole problem is they just don't enjoy what they have.

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In verse 14, it says, in the heart of him that understandeth,

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seeketh knowledge, but the mouth of fools feedeth foolishness.

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Thanks for watching!

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And then the very next verse says,

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all the days of the afflicted are evil,

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but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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If we learn to be merry in what we have,

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and we just have, we have a merry heart

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and a jovial conscience, like.

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You're just hey, you're basically having a celebration your entire life, and I hope sometime in your life and unfortunately

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I'm not the best example of this you just run to someone's like

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He's always like in a good mood

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And I'm just around him and he lifts my spirit just because he's here why he has that merry heart and you can feel it

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It's not just the salesman trying to get you to buy something like he is actually

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Mary like he's just like man

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You know what's interesting? There was a gentleman, he was like the church creator, the first church I went to.

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Man, I was like, I met him, like he's just always in a good mood. He always think like, man, he must just have an awesome life.

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He was going through cancer. I didn't even know.

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Because he's like, what are my concerns for anyone else? I'm here to make other people feel better.

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I was like, man, to have a merry heart literally could make you just enjoy life more.

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And sometimes we just need to focus on that.

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Proverbs 17 Proverbs 17 in verse 22 it says a merry heart doeth good like a

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medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones and is that almost verbatim from

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Proverbs 13 verse 13 hey you can actually be happy and it's almost like a medicine

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it will actually improve your life it'll improve your health and everyone knows

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this man sometimes when you're down all this it'll be a stupid dad joke or

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something I'll make you laugh also you

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physically feel better. You physically, it is literally medicine to your soul.

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And here's the thing is, man we learn and hey there's more powerful sermons you

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could hear, there are more things we've done, there's more serious topics we've

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told, but let me tell you this, sometimes you know we always say you know the

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spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, sometimes we've got to encourage the

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flesh. And I'm not trying to make this all feel good you know church it's not

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that but hey are you in your body?

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Does not your personality drive your motivation towards life?

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Sometimes you got to remember. Hey have fun

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Along the way don't be waiting. You're like well. You know when I retire. That's what I'm actually going to enjoy life

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You might not make it. We don't know what tomorrow will bring

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Hey, sometimes. It's great. It's like oh

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You know later I'll have fun. Hey, not every day is going to be fun.

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Some days are hard, sometimes they're sad, sometimes not, but hey,

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sometimes you've got to remember, hey, even the Lord put feast days in.

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The Lord even said, you know, hey, He even made it like you come together and actually enjoy time.

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He like, hey, what's the Sabbath for?

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He said, that's for you, it's not for God.

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He gave you time to relax and enjoy because hey guess what?

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Hey we're a serious church. We think you should work hard.

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Whether you're a man at work or your wife at home raising kids.

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Hey there are hard, there's work to be do, but you can enjoy it too.

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Go ahead and turn to Genesis 43.

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43.

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A merry heart doeth good like medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

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And I think that's a very interesting saying.

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You're like, well, what does that really mean?

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I don't know if you've ever gone through bouts of severe depression.

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Your health literally starts to fail.

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Like, I'm not ever saying I was a marathon runner, but when you're going through a very hard time,

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it's not like my physical health improves.

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No, it's like your bones are drying out, your body literally seems to be failing.

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But man, if you just had a better spirit, it would be like a medicine.

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You're like, well, how am I supposed to be?

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Like, there must be some secret. I just don't know what I do.

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How in the world could I be married?

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Like, I'm just happy and that other people could see that I'm happy.

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Well, it's really interesting. Preparing for the sermon, I realized it's actually not hard.

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Which is more embarrassing, because like I said,

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I'm probably the person that has a scowl upon his face more than anyone else in this church.

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I bet most people will look at me and be like,

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that's probably not the best example to be talking about a married, happy heart.

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Fair enough. So here's a personal shame. It's like, what does it take?

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I'm going to tell you that it's a company and food. If we go through the Bible,

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eat with other people. That doesn't make me happy, but it provides the opportunity.

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You're like, that seems ridiculous.

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Well, we'll go through a few verses here,

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but in Jesus 43 and verse 34, it says,

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and he took us and sent messes unto them from before.

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But the Benjamin's mess was five times as much as theirs,

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and they drank and were merry with him.

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Now this is the story of Joseph.

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Joseph, who has all right to hate every one of his brothers,

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except perhaps the youngest,

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who he gives five times more food

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than everyone else for no reason.

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They don't

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even know who he is. He's just this weird Egyptian, you know, Prime Minister, Second

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Pharaoh, whatever you want to call him. And he's like, well, come to my house and eat.

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And for no reason, he lines them up in their age, gives their youngest brother five times

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more than they give him. And they're like, weird. But there wasn't jealousy. And they

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sat around and they just enjoyed each other's company.

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Do you know people at work, your boss that you hate working for?

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You know, you can sit down and have a good lunch with them and talk about your kids,

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the vacation, what you used to do in Boy Scouts, and actually be married.

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I mean, here's brothers that literally threw you into slavery and they were just going to let you

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die in a pit and selling you into slavery was the happier option.

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I mean do you think he didn't have things he could be grumpy about?

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Bitter about? Hardship about? I mean I have some bitterness towards

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people but I had never been left in a ditch to be... And the better off

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to like thank you for not leaving me in the ditch. Thank you for selling me

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as a slave to a foreign people. But it literally says they put around

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and they had they made merry.

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they are able to eat, satisfy, and you know what? Just hang out. Like, well that's not complicated.

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I have to have a boat to be happy. That may help. Here's the thing is, I remember it was sad. I hadn't

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been on jet skis for years and I, you know, we're on a trip. I want to just, let me just add a smile,

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face, I was just so happy. But it's a temporary thing.

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Do you know what's more attainable on day to day?

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You enjoy eating food with people.

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You enjoy talking with the people around.

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You are encouragement to them and you just enjoy your time.

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You turn to Judges 19.

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You turn to Judges 19.

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In Judges 9 verse 27, it says,

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Galat the son of Ebed came with his brothers

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and went out to Shechem.

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And he went out into the fields and gathered the vineyards,

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trawled down the grapes, and made merry,

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and went into the houses of the God,

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and did eat and drink and cursed Amalek.

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Now...

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Basically this the whole story was he basically went over there and they're basically turning against his king and all this

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But what they're saying is they just went out of the fields grab food came together and they're making merry the rest of the story

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Is then basically trash talking who should be their king like but basically there's getting around and they're just

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Making fools of themselves, but they're hanging out. They're eating. They're gathering now here in judges 19 and just as 19

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Now, this is probably the only part of the story where you're like,

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ugh, I hate going there. It's such a horrible event.

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We're not covering the horrible event, but what's leading to it, I guess,

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by happenstance is Judge 19 verse 6.

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Judge 19 verse 6, it says,

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Story did not end well, but, oh, sorry,

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Judge 19 verse 6,

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And they sat down and did eat and drink, both of them together,

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For the damsel's father said unto a man,

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Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night,

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Let thine heart

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be married. Now if you don't know this was the father of the man who had a mistress and

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I guess they're visiting her family. He's like hey why do you leave so soon? Stay! Stay

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eat hang out more! Stay eat hang out more!

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And they do after a night and a night.

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And Judges 19 verse 9, this is the night later,

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And when the man arose into party,

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And his concubine and his servants,

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His father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him,

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Behold now, the day's drawed towards the evening,

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I pray you, tarry all night.

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Behold, the day grows to an end and lodged here,

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That my heart may be merry,

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And tomorrow get ye early on your way,

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That ye may as go home.

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Amen.

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Some of you probably had experience with this.

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Like some people just don't ever want the party to end.

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All right?

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Like they already stayed all night.

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They weren't even planning to.

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They stayed all night.

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They're like, hey, hang out.

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Let's eat some orange.

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Like, it's too late in the day now.

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Just stay another night.

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Just stay another night.

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Hang out.

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Be merry with me.

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Let's just hang out and have a good time.

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And here's the thing is.

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And then they could do it again.

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And Judges 19, verse 20, it says,

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now, when they were making their hearts merry,

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and I'll stop there because the rest of it's not really

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part of the sermon.

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You know what happened.

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Anyone in this church knows what happens after this.

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But here's the thing is, whether happenstance or not,

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you know.

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I'm not going into should they have party for three days, but what were they doing?

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They were just hanging out being married. They're eating, hanging out, telling stories, being with

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family. Could be with family, could be friends. They're just eating and hanging out and this is

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making their hearts marry. Many people probably know like to their grandparents or maybe you visit

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the old. That's all you have to do and it brightens their day. Like their health literally improves.

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Why?

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They get to just tell stories.

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Me and my wife sometimes visit our neighbor who we have in the prayer request.

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They'll just talk about what Spokane was like in the 70s and 80s.

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They're just telling stories, but they literally have more energy and they're just helping.

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Why? Because for them this is a big thing.

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They get to share food and talk and it's literally merry.

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Maybe some of us, we think we're so busy in our life like,

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oh, this is unimportant.

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But it literally makes other people feel better.

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And honestly, if you're honest to yourself,

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I am probably one of the most introverted people here.

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Sometimes I just want to be in a dark room by myself

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and recoup.

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But you know what's interesting is

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when I think through my life, what does my mind even

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hold on to?

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I have zero recollections of the time I have spent alone.

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Now, I've spent decades of my life alone.

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But none of those, it's always like when I went camping,

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when I did stuff, well, I went to this family reunion,

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we did this, I had this conversation all night

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with this guy about gold or gold coins or something.

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And so when I actually was doing something with others,

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my mind even feels that it should remember.

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And now when I look at good times or things I want to tell or the stories I tell,

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it's never about the peaceful time in my room by myself doing nothing.

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Now you ask me right now what I would like to do at this moment,

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it be in a room by myself doing nothing.

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But when I actually think of what's actually benefited me

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or I tell stories about or I have fond memories of, it's not that.

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to be married, to actually enjoy is actually the experience with others to be of a good cheer.

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And here's the thing is, you turn to 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel 25,

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but in verse 3 and verse 7 says,

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and when Bo has eaten and drunk and his heart was merry,

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he went to lie down.

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And at the end of the heap of corn,

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she came softly and uncovered his feet and laid down.

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And most of you know, this is when

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Ruth kind of made her intentions like, hey,

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I would like you to take your inheritance and marry me.

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Now, what's interesting is it says, you know, when he had eaten and drank and his heart

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was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn.

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I actually believe, and this is debatable, it's not important, it's not doctrinal, if

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you go and lay down on a heap of hay, because this man seemed wealthy on field, why would

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you do that?

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I think he was, he had people over at his house, he's like, I'm in such a good mood

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though, I just want to lay down by myself.

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I don't know if you've ever had friends in the barn.

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Going to lay down on the corn in the cool office is normal.

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But either way, I think he was eating and drinking,

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just being merry.

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He was enjoying people's company,

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and then he went to go take a nap.

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And he was startled when he woke up,

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and there was a damsel there proposing to him, which,

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you know, hey, man, you propose first, OK?

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But what do you see?

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Eating and drinking.

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Because I think.

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you

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You know, for us to actually even get in the place where we enjoy,

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hey, your basic needs have to be met, alright?

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Now that people are gonna run into you like,

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man, they've been homeless, they're fat, you know,

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they've gone 30 days without eating, all this, like, no,

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all these people, all their basic needs, all the things you actually need,

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you know, the Lord doesn't even say you need housing,

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you need clothes and you've had bread, you're good.

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Be of the... Yo, have a happy continent.

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Now, I bet the Lord is giving you more than he says you actually need.

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But all I'm saying is why I'm just saying these is, hey, every time Mary is mentioned, you know what?

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It's always, not always, but it's pretty much, they've eaten and drunken and they're hanging out.

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And this is where the Mary heart comes from.

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I ask you to turn to 1 Samuel 25, 1 Samuel 25 verse 36, it says,

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And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was a feast, he had a feast in his house,

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like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was married within him, for he was very

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drunken wherefore she told him nothing less or more until the morning light."

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Now a lot of these stories you're going to see, the feasting is not the main part or

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the having the merry heart is not the main part of these stories.

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So I'm skipping a lot of the lessons you pulled from these, but what was he doing that he

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was merry heart?

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And remember this guy literally had a stony heart here very shortly.

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But what was he doing?

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He had a feast of a king.

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Now a feast, now granted to you sometimes my wife makes really big portions when it's just us,

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but usually when you say a feast, it's a gathering.

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And like a king, you imagine eating by like all the important people, all the well-known people,

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and like as a king, this is irrelevant because it's not doctorally said, it's like he's showing off,

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but he has a big feast and he's going to show people how wealthy he is, and which fits in the story I believe.

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But we won't go into that. But what was he doing?

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Eating and drinking and having people over made even this man who had a stony heart have a merry heart

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in first Kings 4 and first Kings 4 verse 20 says,

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and Judah and Israel were merry, and they which were by the sea,

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by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

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This is just a story, you can turn to first King 21 verse King 21,

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this is just another story where it's like hey, how are the multitude, this is basically

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all the nation of Israel, but it's Judah and Israel together, and how are they all getting along?

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Eating and drinking.

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What are you trying to tell me?

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Hey, maybe just hanging out is like going to McDonald's,

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having a meal together.

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It doesn't need to be.

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But I'm going to tell you this.

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If people aren't fed, I know it's not just my lady.

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We're not having a good conversation.

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We're not focused on anything else

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until the food has come out.

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The kids need to be fed.

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There needs to be drinks.

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Now maybe we can have a pleasant conversation.

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And I'd be like, I'm making kind of light,

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but I think you'll find that when the word comes up,

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that's what they're doing.

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Eating and drinking has been taken care of.

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So now you can go to, I think it's

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called the higher order of pleasures or whatnot.

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Like, if you're just stranded in your cold, heat.

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That's all you care about.

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Food is not even there.

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All right?

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But once you have that,

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you

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Maybe it's, you know, want, like, I haven't, I might die.

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And then food, then other things.

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But you get to a place where you feel safe, all those are satisfied,

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you can start experiencing higher pleasures.

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Baslaw's Hierarchy of Needs.

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Thank you, Baslaw's Hierarchy of Needs.

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But it's an actual thing, and I think it's showing here, like, hey,

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how do you even get married?

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All the base things are settled.

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Well, now you can enjoy it.

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You're like, well, I have those settled, and I'm very grumpy.

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Be merry, that's the title of the sermon. I'm just saying, all you need from what it says is eat, drink, and be merry.

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Alright? We'll finish the line later, but I think I had you go to 1 Kings 21, 1 Kings 21 verse 7, it says,

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And Jezebel his wife said unto him,

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Just thou now govern the kingdom of Israel,

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Arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be merry,

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And I will give thee the vineyard that Nabal the Jezreite.

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Now, as I said, a lot of these times I'm putting in here,

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They're not positive stories, but here's the thing is...

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The flesh is what I'm talking about. This is a very fleshly sermon about if your flesh actually feels pleasure

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I'm hoping you you can actually reach higher because sometimes the spirit wants to but we're so down and

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Hey, I want to give you the medicine of Mary and what's it doing here?

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The wife who's about to go do wickedness evil things and she's so cursed like that. Let's dogs

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basically devour her

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She's like are you down?

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Are you not like, dude, you're the king of this, like you're this high power, you're this high status person.

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Yeah, but the special edition Escalade is sold out, meh.

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Like, does it really matter?

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I, why I say that is I had one friend who was like, I tried a special order but it was sold out.

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I was like, you have the money to do that, like you do not need to be sacked.

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Maybe that's just my mind thinking, but essentially that's the story, it's like...

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Because you didn't get one garden

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Let me tell you have a garden. It's a lot of work and they uh, you gotta be dedicated to that

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All right, no pleasure for gardening. No, I'm just saying like

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But what I'm saying is you're the king of Israel like you're not hurting in life and just because you don't have this one

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Piece of property you're sad. Hey, why don't you arise eat and be merry?

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You know what? Stop crying about it. Put some food in you and move on.

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And here's the thing is, isn't this pretty similar? I know this is a bad, like these are bad people.

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But the principle is this. Even they're like, dude, just get up, do something useful, eat and be merry.

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And hey, what happened to the prophet that called down fire?

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God's like, hey, why don't you eat a snack, take a nap and move on?

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All right?

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I think this is actually, you can say it, you're like, this is not a very deep sermon.

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It's not going to be.

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Alright, I'm coming out of the campground, alright?

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No, but I'm just saying like,

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what I'm saying is, it is something taught throughout the Bible in many different ways.

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You know what? Sometimes we think,

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oh, I just can't do that, I'm too weak, I'm too tired,

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I don't have the energy, I don't have the motivation.

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I think honestly,

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take a quick nap, get some, you know, drink some water,

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have a little snack, move on.

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And that's not just to get stuff done,

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not just for doing the work of Lord,

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amen for that, for the prophet, but hey,

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you know what, in your own life,

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you can be merry after you have that.

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You've satisfied all those things.

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A lot of times it's the made up things we have in our head,

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what we think we could have done,

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what we won't let go, what we won't forget,

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and that's what we say, well, I just can't be happy.

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Well, I just want to show you every time God's book literally says, you know what you all

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you really need?

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The basic things map and then you decide if you want to be married.

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Because a lot of times when you go to do something, a lot of times you pre-decide if you're going

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to have a good time.

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You know, sometimes like you go somewhere and it's like a surprise, like, oh, we got

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you this.

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I wasn't even planning that.

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That's amazing.

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But that's not going to be many times in your life, right?

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Are you really going to wait for other people to make you happy before you feel better?

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Actually, I think a lot of times, because even she's like, hey, you get up, you eat

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something, you be merry.

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Still bad people don't hold that against me, but the principle is this.

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You actually, a lot of times, decide how you're going to take.

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And here's the thing is, if you want to have a good time, do you know you can?

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And I think sometimes you don't know that.

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Hey, sometimes bad things can happen, and it's 100%...

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100%...

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How do you feel that time?

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If you're joyful, and you're just having a good time,

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and something crazy happens,

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you'll be like,

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Oh, dude, that sucks!

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And then you'll tell the story for the rest of your life.

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You're just like,

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Oh, dude, you won't believe that this happened.

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It makes a smile to your face.

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The same thing happens, and you are...

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mad already?

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Now you're just ready to punch holes in the drywall,

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and you're like, ah!

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There's no difference to your attitude.

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Did you want to have a good time and laugh about it?

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Or do you want to be angry and be justified

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in the anger you already have?

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And I think that's why a lot of these times it says,

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be merry.

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You be merry.

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Yay!

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Be happy.

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I think that's just the principal scene here.

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Um...

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Go ahead and turn to 2 Chronicles 7, 2 Chronicles 7.

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It's 2 Chronicles 7 verse 9.

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In verse 9 it says,

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In the eighth day they made a solemn assembly,

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for they kept in the dedication the altar seven days,

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and the feast seven days.

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And on the third and 20th day of the seventh month,

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that he sent the people away to their tents,

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glad and merry in their heart for the goodness

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that the Lord had shown unto David,

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unto Solomon, unto Israel's people.

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Let me tell you this.

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If you were provided a seven day feast

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and you could not go away, merry in your heart,

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so there's probably something wrong with you.

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If you got seven days off to just hang out,

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Be merry. It's a feast. So you're being provided food and drink and ease.

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I mean, it says them around. It says they all they all went to their test, which

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means they went home glad and marry in their hearts.

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You're like, this is not very deep.

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I don't think it is, but I'm just showing you.

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Sometimes we think, man, I need this miraculous thing.

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I just need things to be better than they are now.

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You know what?

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If I get that promotion, maybe.

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Maybe if everything works out in this one situation,

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well, maybe you just need to be married.

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Maybe you just need to actually enjoy life now.

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And maybe if you're like, well, I have all these problems.

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I have all these things.

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I don't know how to let them go.

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Well, if you actually learn to be merry and happy and pleasant

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and joyful to other people in this time,

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well, when things are better, you'll just be happier.

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That's what I see here.

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you

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And here's the thing is, I believe this is taught in the Bible.

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And yes, this is a fleshly sermon because, like I said, the whole point of this is if I can get you the medicine for your flesh,

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hopefully your spiritual self can even do more.

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But here's the thing is, be merry.

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In Ecclesiastes 8, Ecclesiastes 8, Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 15, it says,

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Then I commanded him, because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.

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For that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun."

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So...

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Like I said, this is a fleshly thing. Hey, I hope you have the joy of your salvation.

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And you can pray for that. We see that in the Bible. Hey, God, remind me of the joy of my salvation.

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But here's the thing is, in your flesh, in this half that will decay, get harder, sickly,

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more ill throughout your life, you know what you get? You get to eat, you get to drink,

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and you get to be merry.

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That is the best!

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your flesh is going to be satisfied.

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Your mind, your lust, your wants that really drive,

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because God says it's not what goes into the mouth,

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it's what proceedeth out.

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Now let me tell you this,

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what you feed, because here's the thing,

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you satisfy what your body needs,

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from there your whole life is dedicated.

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If you don't have that, I guarantee you,

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you're not going to focus on work,

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you're not going to focus on your marriage,

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you're not going to focus on a good time,

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you may not even focus on having a bad time,

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you just need, yeah, I just need water.

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I just, you know, I need clothing, like I'm going to freeze.

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Like, I don't know if you've ever experienced that level of need,

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but let me tell you, once those are fulfilled,

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the next thing is, hey, be merry.

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to eat, drink, and be merry.

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And this is the best you're going to get within your flesh.

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And this is Ecclesiastes who's remorseing that all is vanity.

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Anything else above this.

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Hey, well, my whole dream is to build my dream house

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upon this river that I used to go to when I was young.

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My whole thing is I'm going to build a business

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that's better than what my father had.

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You know what?

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My whole dream is I'm going to make it in Hollywood.

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Well, that's all vanity.

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The only thing you're going to get under the sun that is truly enjoyable in a real sense from the flesh,

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and let me tell you, I hope you all have spiritual pleasures, spiritual pursuits,

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but in this flesh is to eat, drink, and be merry based off your own labors.

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That is the height that you're going to get.

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Let me tell you this.

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Sometimes I've got the money, you know, I'm paying, I got waters running, food in the fridge, and I'm not happy.

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Yeah, be merry. Like, the Bible's like, be merry.

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That's a you problem. And you are the only solution.

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And you're like, well, what things could I, like, okay, I can eat, you know, I have something to drink,

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and then I guess hang out with friends or neighbors and have a pleasant conversation.

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Is that really, is that really it?

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You're like, essentially, but there are other things you can do to help this.

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And the rest of the sermon is just kind of going through a few of these.

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In Jeremiah 30, Jeremiah 30, in verse 19.

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It says, out of them shall proceed thanksgivings and the voices of them that make merry.

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And I will multiply them and they shall not be few.

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I will also glorify them and they shall not be small.

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Now this is literally Jeremiah predicting the return of Israel and they'll grow.

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But here's the thing is, it says, out of them shall proceed thanksgiving.

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and the voice of them that make Mary.

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So understand, you know, one way that may, you know,

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actually proceed to show yourself Mary

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and actually to probably help your heart

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is do you vocalize thankfulness?

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Like, are you thankful?

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Are you just known as a thankful person?

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Because this is the thing, I actually find,

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you know, a personal thing like...

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Actually find in my prayer life you whatever works for you great

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I actually find a lot of ways to kind of fix my worldly focused mind at times to get to prayer is I just start

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thanking God I

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Don't know the song you know count your blessings one by one

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You'll be surprised what God has done. I actually that like for me

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That's like one of the best things for me to get myself in a mind to pray is to be thankful because all of a sudden

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Let me tell you, I can tell you a whole list of my woes and ain't nobody gonna care, right?

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But here's the thing is, what do you...

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With my face and my scowl, what do you think I look at?

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The thankful list or my worries more in my back of my mind?

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It's true, it's probably more of the worldly vanities.

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But the Bible is literally, I think, hitting, hey,

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you actually focused on what you're thankful for.

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More if that actually took up more space of your mind more of your internal monologue more of your speech

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I bet you'll find that Mary Hart. That's a medicine far more ready in your life

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How okay, how about Jeremiah? We're in there Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah 31

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This one's not so much prevalent. I think in

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Baptist culture

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But it is in the Bible and you'll see a lot of examples of it.

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But Jeremiah 31 verse 4 says,

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And again I will build thee and thou shalt be built.

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O virgin Rizzo, thou shalt again be adorned with a taprits

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and shalt go forth and dance of them that make merry.

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For my mind, and like I said, I don't have a better visual.

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Like I grew up with old southerners and they do square dancing.

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And I think that's very modest and all that, but it was just fun.

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And I'm not telling you square dancing is what they're doing, but in my mind.

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Because I think a lot of times people think dancing, they think of club life.

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We've got to have lasers, smoke, and not much else.

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That's not what I believe, what it's done.

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But here's the thing is, we all see the kids here.

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Little ones certainly do this a lot better.

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You know, when they're being merry...

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Mean they're just dancing and like, you know, my little one learning to like walk. What's he do? Like you'll grab something. He's like

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He's just happy as can be

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Dancing is literally like hey, you know David got in a fight with his first wife over dancing, but

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Dancing was not the same. All right

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but like

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I believe, you know, it's celebration. You'll see people and hey, it's not the way we do church services,

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but why at concerts or in new age churches, you know, they're just up, they're swaying.

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Like, it does help people's mood.

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Being up active dancing now here's thing is I don't know how to dance

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I'm not gonna give you any tips, but I just want to be honest like you read the Bible

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You cannot tell me you don't see like this is like churches that say no instruments

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No instruments as a sin you're like how do you read the Bible and read get that now?

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I do believe a lot of this comes down to because you know

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I can't say here because I think the movie is older than me but like most people I think think of dirty dancing like even the movie

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You know, that's what they're going against not so much ballroom dancing, which doesn't exist anymore

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And that's why square dancing was the best I could think of that, you know

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Maybe other people have different opinions and hey you do your household

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but it's like I think if I found someone doing square dancing and dresses and full clothes like

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My person here you have a different thing, but I'm just saying this is another thing mentioned towards being married you go out

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You're with people and you're doing stuff with them, you know, maybe even the what is that this?

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The Equinine Oxfam says summer fast where they're just dancing around the pole, you know, they're rapping with batters

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They do a lot like there's a lot of traditional things that we've lost

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I think in the last hundred years where people would do things like this, but

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Dancing was just one of those things mentioned to help be married.

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All right, I mentioned this in Luke 12, Luke 12, Luke 12 and verse 19.

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I think this one's more when we self-reflect what we think will make us happy, but it was mentioned there.

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But in Luke 12 and verse 19, this is the parable of the rich man who stored up so much, but in his mind, what would make him merry?

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And Luke 12 and verse 19 says, And I will say to my soul, soul, thou has much goods laid up for many years.

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Take thy ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

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And I think honestly I

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Mean at least at my work where you know people like I

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Swear 30% of the people I work like 30% of their working day is talking about retirement

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That does not matter if it's one year away five years away or three decades from now. That's like what they talk about

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And they focus on this because they think

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The ease will be there.

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And hey, I know that sometimes, if everything's taken care of, like his,

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I will later this year experience a cruise for the first time.

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But in my mind, that sounds very good.

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I don't have to clean, the food is provided, everything's there, and I don't have to drive.

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I don't have to... I literally just show up and then randomly I do stuff.

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In my mind that sounds awesome. I guess I'll learn if this makes me marry later, but here's the thing is a lot of people dream of doing nothing.

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I think long term that probably won't, but I know probably many times in your life it would be nice.

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You know, hey, someone else is throwing a party, I just show up, they've done the cleaning, they've done the cooking, they've put out the games, they've made the thoughts and all that, and I just show up and enjoy.

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You should have even extra ability to have merry heart

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because you're not even the one putting it on.

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I guess I'm one of those weird people. Sometimes I enjoy to do those things, but I know most people do not.

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You know, it's just extra work and stress. But...

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Hey, ease into something there I think we all at times just dream about.

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And hey, if you cannot think of anything else and you're just so miserable...

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You might get more done in your life if you actually take a day off.

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You're like, that sounds crazy. Well, God

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decided that you had one day off a week. If you're so focused, you're so stressed out,

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you're like, I'm just so far behind. Now a lot of people do the opposite. They just never

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start up again. It's like...

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I'll work one day and rest six days on a pod.

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It's never going to get done.

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So there is a balance here.

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But hey, ease might be the key to help you be merry,

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which is the point of the sermon.

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Me dancing probably not going to make me merry,

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but in your life it might.

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And some of you, it would be, hey, once a month,

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I'm just going to go do a hike.

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I'm just going to drop everything, do a hike,

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and go hang out with friends.

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Because here's the thing is, being married in the flesh will help you in your spiritual

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walk I believe.

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And let me tell you, I've seen this in my life because when I'm super grumpy, I'm probably

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not the best person like when I go soul wedding and I'm like, hey this smile, yeah you know

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I'm just a salesman here because it's not, I ain't feeling that day, I'm just trying

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to go through it.

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But if I'm actually marrying my heart...

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It's way better. I have much better conversations when I'm out because

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I'm actually there wanting to talk to them.

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I'm not just going through the motions.

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So I am, I know this is a very worldly, fleshly idea, but

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I do believe it could have spiritual benefits.

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Luke 15, Luke 15, you're already in Luke 12 if you're following, but Luke 15 verse 23.

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Luke 15 and verse 23.

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And it says,

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And they bring hither the fatted calf and killed it, and let us eat and be merry."

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Now, this is good news.

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You can't always plan for this, but when you receive a blessing, a good thing, do you share

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it with others?

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Because I started off being like, well, you shouldn't wait for things good to happen to

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you before you'd be happy.

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But here's the thing is, I promise you...

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Good things will come.

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Now here's the thing is, we usually let you know,

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we believe we're gonna go through the tribulation.

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Like this church, I think teach you, preps you for life.

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A lot of life is hard.

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A lot of it's stress.

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A lot of it's through your endurance to get through.

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But let me tell you this, there is a balance here.

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Good things will happen in your life.

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But if our mind is so darkened,

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we will take the little bits of light

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and we will just go.

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you

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What the proverbial shade, like the sun's coming up, you're like, I don't want the light.

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You know, you'll close it on it.

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And what I'm saying here is, when you do get good news, are you ready to be married about it?

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Are you ready to even receive good news?

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Now, in this story...

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The wayward son, you know, takes his, basically tells his family off, takes however much money, and then goes away.

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It spends it all, ruins his life.

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And he comes back probably looking like tatters, probably looks like just the, you know, derelict.

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You know, just comes back in absolute defeat and failure, and then what he receives is a merry heart of his father.

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who is ready to celebrate his mere present.

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And the only reason he's returning was he's like,

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if I can eat better than the pigs I'm sleeping with

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with my father's house, I will be a servant to him.

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And yet he's getting a ring and a fag cap

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because the father is just,

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do you think the father is happy

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with what he did with his money?

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Do you think his father is happy with what he did

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with the opportunities in his life?

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Do you think he's happy that he was rejected

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and cast aside by that?

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I bet.

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his father had plenty of things to be upset about and bitter about and to hold

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over his son until the day he died and I guarantee you know someone like that. You

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know there's something there that there's a difference between them and

01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:03.140
their child, them and their parents, them and their cousins, them and their like

01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:07.040
you know brother from another mother like they're just bitter and they are

01:09:07.040 --> 01:09:11.200
not going to change. But yet here's this

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Derelict son that's basically told off his parents misused everything he has and the father is ready to be married by the presence of him.

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Are you ready to receive good news?

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That sounds ridiculous, but if you honestly believe,

01:09:28.700 --> 01:09:31.700
there's times you're probably so down, so stressed out,

01:09:31.700 --> 01:09:34.700
you think you're overworked, you're too depressed, you know that,

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that you wouldn't even receive good news if it happened to you.

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So once again, be merry.

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Be ready to have a good time.

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Be ready to receive good news.

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Because I guarantee you, I don't think I'm the only one up here that would be honest

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and be like, you know what I'm really ready to receive?

01:09:54.360 --> 01:09:55.360
Bad news.

01:09:55.360 --> 01:09:58.120
Because I just feel it's just going to be worse.

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I'm not saying that's how you should be.

01:10:02.320 --> 01:10:06.000
I'm actually preaching against my own attitude up here.

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I'm a pessimist, you know, well, I believe I'm a realist.

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I'm sure you've all heard that.

01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.680
But the thing is, I'm missing the medicine of a merry heart.

01:10:16.200 --> 01:10:19.960
And what I think is interesting in the lesson learned here, be ready to receive good news.

01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:23.800
Now here's the thing is, was everyone married with this story?

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If you followed your Bible reading, you know there was one person who was very upset by

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this.

01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:34.560
And in verse 24, this is the son of the rich man, the brother of the guy returning.

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For this son was dead. Oh, sorry. This is the father explaining why he's happy in verse 24

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says for this is my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began

01:10:46.100 --> 01:10:52.020
to be merry. So like I said, this is just receiving the good news out of nowhere. His son returns

01:10:52.020 --> 01:10:57.780
probably in a state worse than he left, but you know what? He is just happy. He is back.

01:10:58.200 --> 01:11:04.700
He's like probably showered him up, put him in new clothes, even you know, give him the ring, you just, you know like,

01:11:04.700 --> 01:11:07.300
in our culture that wouldn't really be a thing, but what is it?

01:11:07.300 --> 01:11:12.300
This derelict can show he is not, you know, in the gutter. He's not in the pig's pit anymore.

01:11:12.300 --> 01:11:15.100
He actually has a ring, something of value put upon him.

01:11:15.100 --> 01:11:18.400
Let me tell you this, he already blew his inheritance. He's owed nothing of that.

01:11:19.700 --> 01:11:22.500
So he's ready to be a Merry, but...

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Going down to the next verse, and it said, and he answered saying to his father,

01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:36.800
the verse was skipped, so it's somewhere for, I don't know if it's the next one or a few skipped, but thank you.

01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:39.600
And he answered and said to his father,

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Lo, these many years did I serve thee, neither transgress at any time thy commandments,

01:11:46.160 --> 01:11:51.600
and yet thou never gavest me the kid that I may make merry with my friends.

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So understand this, the brother is just like, what?

01:11:57.640 --> 01:11:59.240
He took it as a slap in the face.

01:11:59.240 --> 01:12:01.400
He is not ready to be married at this.

01:12:01.400 --> 01:12:06.840
He's like, this derelict son, the brother who took half of our wealth,

01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:12.600
blew it on whatever, and you never, I have friends here.

01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:16.520
I've never just taken a cap, celebrated with just them.

01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:17.560
And you're doing it for this?

01:12:19.500 --> 01:12:25.500
And here's the thing is, well, in anything you can learn, hey, he was not ready to receive

01:12:25.500 --> 01:12:26.980
what should be good news.

01:12:26.980 --> 01:12:33.500
Like, it's your brother, and his father goes on to explain, everything I have is yours.

01:12:33.500 --> 01:12:36.500
He's like, the rest of everything I have is already yours.

01:12:36.500 --> 01:12:40.740
And obviously there's spiritual lessons from this, and I know I'm skipping a lot of the

01:12:40.740 --> 01:12:42.180
deeper meanings of this.

01:12:42.180 --> 01:12:44.140
But here, what does he dream about?

01:12:44.140 --> 01:12:45.660
Hanging out with friends and eating well.

01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:52.140
Didn't get to do this, but he believes hanging out with friends and eating well would make him marry

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All I'm saying is be ready to receive and here's thing is obviously him

01:12:58.080 --> 01:13:03.500
He has to be thankful and forgiving to have that merry heart because right now in a jovial like what is he mad about?

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People are happy

01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:07.720
That's what he's mad about and let me tell you

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I can relate to that. Sometimes the most angry I've ever been is because of how happy everyone else around me is and I am not.

01:13:16.200 --> 01:13:26.200
And I don't think I'm the only person who's ever experienced that, but hey, that's probably a key that you need the...

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It's not a command in the Bible, but it's guidance I'm giving you. Be merry.

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Because he could have enjoyed in the festivities of his brother and probably, I mean, his father already said,

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you could have killed the cat, this is all yours.

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You're just letting me live here for my retirement, you know, essentially.

01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:47.000
But be ready to receive good news because you could miss it.

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If you are just ready to have a bad time, you will.

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If you're ready to have a good time and good things happen, you're ready to enjoy them.

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Go ahead and turn to James 5, James 5.

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James 5 in verse 13

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And it says in James 5 verse 13

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It says is any among you afflicted let him pray is any Mary?

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Let him sing Psalms

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Now this is again, you know not something we do too much, but it was very common

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I said before electronics before TV before all that

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You would just get along with people.

01:14:28.320 --> 01:14:28.860
And here's the thing.

01:14:28.860 --> 01:14:32.020
It was very common that someone learned some type of instrument.

01:14:32.020 --> 01:14:33.620
Somebody knew how to do it.

01:14:33.620 --> 01:14:38.100
Now it's like a specialty, like if anyone knows how to do anything.

01:14:38.100 --> 01:14:40.620
But at the time before, because you think,

01:14:40.620 --> 01:14:44.940
I think they say the average person, it's like 20 hours, 40 hours,

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80 hours of electronic entertainment.

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We do.

01:14:48.220 --> 01:14:49.580
Imagine you didn't have that.

01:14:50.300 --> 01:14:55.660
Like a lot of people are like, man, they practice like two hours every other day at the piano

01:14:55.660 --> 01:14:56.660
for like three years.

01:14:56.660 --> 01:14:57.660
We're like, man, they're amazing.

01:14:57.660 --> 01:15:02.700
But you do the math, you're like, that's like one month of being bored before electronics.

01:15:03.400 --> 01:15:07.400
Like, you get it, like, I bet there were some really amazing musicians.

01:15:07.400 --> 01:15:11.900
But people get along, like, a few years ago there was a big, like, trend of, like,

01:15:11.900 --> 01:15:15.900
oh, uh, sailor shanties were really popular, you know?

01:15:15.900 --> 01:15:19.900
Because what would people do? When people worked in the field or work all that,

01:15:19.900 --> 01:15:23.400
now when we think of, like, really tough men, you're like, oh no, it's gotta be, like,

01:15:23.400 --> 01:15:26.900
some rock or all this, they would sing out loud.

01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:34.600
Do you know it wasn't that uncommon in America that if you're working a group like loading a boat or something you might just sing hymns.

01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:42.600
You might, and it could be worldly songs too, but like they would just sing shanties while they're working, like they're just singing. How?

01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.600
Do you know if you sing it actually makes your heart marry?

01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:54.200
I don't know what else in here was like in like the army but like the military you've seen probably movies. What do they do when they march?

01:15:55.100 --> 01:15:56.100
They sin.

01:15:56.100 --> 01:16:03.780
Now this is a tradition because can you imagine like being a French person invading Russia?

01:16:03.780 --> 01:16:08.260
You march a thousand miles that way and you lose and you march a thousand miles back.

01:16:08.260 --> 01:16:10.380
You got a lot of time.

01:16:10.380 --> 01:16:15.140
You know what they do to try to keep you happy or like motivated or have a merry heart while

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you're having the worst time of your life?

01:16:17.140 --> 01:16:19.380
You're like, that's dumb.

01:16:19.380 --> 01:16:20.380
They sung.

01:16:20.380 --> 01:16:21.740
They sung.

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Men singing is something I don't like there's not many times. We've broken out in song like a musical at my work

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But believe it or not that was not uncommon and actually you know like

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Sadly in America a lot of times when we think about this only thing that comes to mind is like people have recorded like

01:16:43.300 --> 01:16:48.380
The slave songs which also you because they work together they sung a lot of those have had passed down

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I'm sure if you've heard many of them you would remember them because it's part of our culture

01:16:53.200 --> 01:16:58.000
But the thing is men working and singing now ladies singing is far more common

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But here's the thing is why I'm bringing this up is

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Singing and music and let me tell you most people know

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Music is one thing people really enjoy and that's never changed

01:17:11.100 --> 01:17:17.340
But people used to be involved, and I think that helped with it easy, having a good heart.

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Couple more. Go ahead and do Revelation 11, Revelation 11.

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in Revelation 11.

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Excuse me Revelation 11 verse 10 it says and they that dwelt upon the earth shall

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rejoice over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because

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these two prophets were tormented that they dwelt on the earth now obviously

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once again this is not a good example of

01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:52.600
Hopefully, you know, the Christians there won't be.

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It will be the world because the two prophets have been slain at the end times.

01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.100
But what I thought was interesting here was the idea of Mary.

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People are so happy, they're sending gifts to each other.

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And let me tell you...

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Said don't look into the story not get an idea of what you should do is Christian

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But the idea is this is if you're so happy have you ever just want to give people a lot of times you are so happy

01:18:14.500 --> 01:18:19.280
Like when you think of like the wedding parable where it's like they're so happy to put away

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I just want people here to enjoy it with you know this this example is like eight. They're like what whatever feel

01:18:27.500 --> 01:18:29.000
they're very happy with the dead profits.

01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:30.100
But here's the thing is,

01:18:30.100 --> 01:18:33.400
whoever wins the foosball thing that's going on right now,

01:18:33.400 --> 01:18:35.200
you know there's people that are gonna be very excited.

01:18:35.200 --> 01:18:37.400
They're gonna mail jerseys to each other.

01:18:37.400 --> 01:18:39.300
You know, whoever wins, they're gonna win.

01:18:39.300 --> 01:18:42.200
You know, every time a Super Bowl happens.

01:18:42.500 --> 01:18:48.940
Like you see people with like Super Bowl 970 whatever we're on now like they get

01:18:48.940 --> 01:18:52.340
the champion thing and what do they do they send it to their family members

01:18:52.340 --> 01:18:56.380
they send it to that why they're just so happy that this happened.

01:18:56.380 --> 01:19:00.420
You know is that the most important thing all I'm showing you is this it's like a lot

01:19:00.420 --> 01:19:03.600
of times you know if you are truly in a jovial mood.

01:19:03.900 --> 01:19:05.700
Like, what do people do a lot?

01:19:05.700 --> 01:19:11.820
Like, it would be very common if you got like a promotion that really will, you know,

01:19:11.820 --> 01:19:14.100
maybe economically benefit your life.

01:19:14.100 --> 01:19:15.180
What do you do?

01:19:15.180 --> 01:19:18.700
Maybe you just find someone available and you take them out to dinner.

01:19:18.700 --> 01:19:23.300
Like, you're the one having the event, but you're like, I just want to share it with people.

01:19:23.300 --> 01:19:24.940
I just want to give to people.

01:19:24.940 --> 01:19:26.900
And here's the thing is, I know we've all heard this, you know,

01:19:26.900 --> 01:19:28.460
giving is better than receiving.

01:19:28.460 --> 01:19:30.700
Well, you understand, like, at Christmas, like,

01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:34.200
Or at other times, like sometimes that really helps you be in a better mood.

01:19:34.200 --> 01:19:35.480
You're like, man, I'm in such a good mood.

01:19:35.480 --> 01:19:39.160
I want other people to be happy and you do what you think you will make them happy.

01:19:39.160 --> 01:19:43.640
You give them things so you can be even more merry.

01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:45.880
Because you want other people to be merry with you.

01:19:49.700 --> 01:19:51.700
And go ahead and do judges 16.

01:19:51.700 --> 01:19:52.980
This is judges 16.

01:19:52.980 --> 01:19:54.700
So it's like, hey, we've been going through a lot,

01:19:54.700 --> 01:19:55.820
and I'll just go through one more.

01:19:55.820 --> 01:19:58.460
But it's like, hey, there's things you can do to perhaps

01:19:58.460 --> 01:19:58.960
even help.

01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:00.500
Hey, eat some food.

01:20:00.500 --> 01:20:02.340
Drink some good fluid.

01:20:02.340 --> 01:20:03.260
Get hydrated.

01:20:03.260 --> 01:20:04.980
Hey, I'm going to tell you this.

01:20:04.980 --> 01:20:07.820
After being out and hot, you know what made me feel pretty

01:20:07.820 --> 01:20:09.780
merry was a milkshake.

01:20:09.780 --> 01:20:12.260
Now, probably not made me look merry.

01:20:12.260 --> 01:20:14.860
Well, actually, like the worldly idea of merry,

01:20:14.860 --> 01:20:16.260
a fat, jolly guy, I guess.

01:20:16.260 --> 01:20:16.760
But.

01:20:17.200 --> 01:20:21.760
But here's the thing, it's like, hey, I ate, drank, and I'm ready to, you know, have a good time now.

01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:27.520
Like, made me feel good, but hey, you know, eat, drink, be with friends, be thankful, you know.

01:20:28.160 --> 01:20:31.120
If it's your thing, learn to dance, loosen up a bit, you know.

01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:37.520
Plan some time of ease, you know. Be ready to receive good news. Sing, give gifts.

01:20:38.100 --> 01:20:42.260
And the last thing I'll show here, and this might be a little bit of stretch, but I think it makes sense,

01:20:42.260 --> 01:20:45.300
is in Judges 16 verse 25, it says,

01:20:45.300 --> 01:20:48.420
And it came to pass, when our hearts were merry,

01:20:48.420 --> 01:20:53.060
that they said, Call for Samson, that we may make us sport.

01:20:53.060 --> 01:20:58.740
And they called out Samson in the prison, and made sport, and they sit him between the pillars.

01:20:59.300 --> 01:21:04.060
Now, understand what they mean by here is they're going to play with him and it's probably not a nice thing.

01:21:04.060 --> 01:21:05.740
This is not something you'd want to do.

01:21:05.740 --> 01:21:09.340
But here's the thing is, the idea of sport though,

01:21:09.340 --> 01:21:13.100
we know a lot of people make merry watching sports.

01:21:13.100 --> 01:21:16.420
And here's the thing is, once you've been fed and you have drinks...

01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:19.960
Being entertained is one of the things that will help.

01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:28.040
And I'm sure I'm not the only person that has never, you know, gone to rodeos or like monster trucks or, you know,

01:21:28.040 --> 01:21:33.240
whatever else, you know, boats your float there, you know, float your boat, whatever.

01:21:33.240 --> 01:21:40.360
But it's like, I bet there's something, you know, you have people over, like, I think I've had UFC fights over.

01:21:40.360 --> 01:21:43.160
I feel, whatever else, what do you do? You have sports.

01:21:43.700 --> 01:21:55.200
And let me tell you this, a lot of times, you know, I think we preach like, hey, there's some people that go a little far in their lives, especially when we're focused on spiritual development or church, you know, attendance.

01:21:55.200 --> 01:22:06.200
But here's the thing, be merry, enjoy life. You know, like, I don't think there's anything wrong if you go to a tractor pull or, you know, whatever else.

01:22:06.200 --> 01:22:10.200
You know, I've been to many different performances or whatnot.

01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:14.200
But here's the thing is, enjoy activities.

01:22:14.200 --> 01:22:17.400
Enjoy, hey, if you enjoy sports, like, go see them.

01:22:17.400 --> 01:22:18.880
Go participate in them.

01:22:18.880 --> 01:22:19.600
Bring the family.

01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:24.080
Like, hey, I don't mind the Spokane Chief game a couple

01:22:24.080 --> 01:22:26.080
times a year or whatnot, and take the family.

01:22:26.080 --> 01:22:30.160
Like, you know, the Indians, fine.

01:22:30.160 --> 01:22:33.600
I like the Chiefs too, which is they're a hockey team, right?

01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:37.080
So yeah, I've been to both.

01:22:37.080 --> 01:22:37.580
So.

01:22:39.200 --> 01:22:43.600
You can enjoy it. Here's the thing is, I think the reason why there's so many opportunities for this is, hey,

01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:49.520
what you find, what will get you to be merry, probably is very different from others.

01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:55.040
But here's the thing is, I have gone to events that I do not care at all about,

01:22:55.040 --> 01:23:01.760
but I've gone with friends, and you know what? I was merry about it. I had a great time.

01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:05.200
You know, I've gone and done certain things like, hey,

01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:10.400
If fish is your thing, great, I'll go with you and have a blast.

01:23:10.400 --> 01:23:13.080
You know what I've never done by myself?

01:23:13.080 --> 01:23:15.360
Fish.

01:23:15.360 --> 01:23:18.880
But here's the thing, I can be merry with that.

01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:19.960
I can enjoy that.

01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:22.200
Hey, I bet there's many things like.

01:23:22.500 --> 01:23:25.460
Oh, actually I'll tell you most of you in here

01:23:25.460 --> 01:23:29.220
I know for a fact because one thing I have done by myself is a frisbee golf

01:23:29.220 --> 01:23:31.900
But some of you are very client and you've been married with me to go

01:23:31.900 --> 01:23:37.340
And I certainly know none of you would ever grace the field of frisbee golf course if it was not by invitation

01:23:38.860 --> 01:23:40.860
But here's the thing I

01:23:42.340 --> 01:23:49.060
Appreciate it. Thank you for helping me be Mary and sharing the experience with you. All right, but here's the thing is

01:23:49.600 --> 01:23:51.600
All I'm saying is, be merry.

01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:53.600
Two more places.

01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:56.600
Go ahead and turn to Ecclesiastes 9, Ecclesiastes 9.

01:23:57.600 --> 01:23:59.600
Ecclesiastes 9.

01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:03.600
So here's the thing is, eat, drink, be merry.

01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:06.600
That's really the whole lesson of the sermon.

01:24:07.600 --> 01:24:10.600
And it's really just, I think this focus, like hey,

01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:12.600
there's understandable things, like hey,

01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:14.600
if you have an open wound,

01:24:15.200 --> 01:24:18.640
This is probably not the time for you to focus on being married.

01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:19.760
Alright?

01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:21.640
Probably get that fixed.

01:24:21.640 --> 01:24:24.200
Probably get out of the immediate pain.

01:24:24.200 --> 01:24:28.760
But hey, if all your concerns are eat, drink, now be married.

01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:31.960
It would be medicine to your soul to actually be able to do that.

01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:36.840
In your turn to Ecclesiastes 9, look down at verse 4, it says,

01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:41.000
For to him that was joined to all living there in hope,

01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:44.120
for the living dog is better than a dead lion.

01:24:44.120 --> 01:24:45.400
For the living!

01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:53.200
Knoweth know that they shall die but the dead knoweth not anything neither have they any more reward for the memory of them is

01:24:54.420 --> 01:25:00.920
Forgotten also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished

01:25:01.240 --> 01:25:08.220
Neither have any more portion forever in anything that is done under the Sun go thy way

01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:13.380
Eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry

01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:21.440
heart, for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white, let thy head

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lack no ointment, live joyfully with thy wife of whom thou lovest all the days of thy life

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thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun.

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all the days of thy vanity, for that is the portion in his life.

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And in thy labor, which thou hast taken unto the sun,

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whatsoever thy hind findeth to do, do it with thy might.

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For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom

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in the grave, whereas thou goest."

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What Ecclesiastes and Proverbs I think likes to remind you?

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Have wisdom in your life.

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Sometimes we're so depressed, so angry, so bitter, so focused on something that sometimes we forget, we're going to die.

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Like, Paul, this is about being married.

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This is literally, if you are someone who gets lost in thought, sometimes you need to be reminded.

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It's vanity.

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It's going to pass.

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It's going to end.

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It's going to go away.

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It's going to turn to dust and no one's ever going to remember it.

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Eat, drink, and be of a merry heart.

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You're like, you're talking about death.

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Look, we're all, most of us are adults in here and the kids will learn this with time.

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That sometimes we get so focused, it's so bitter and we're like, it's never going to be better.

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You're going to die. It's going to get better.

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And listen, we're all the people here that's like, that's crazy, but here's the thing,

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saved Christian, it's going to get better.

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But in the time of your vanity, your life, and the concerns and worries you have right

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now, eat, drink, and be merry.

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And hey, you need a little extra help, whatever you're doing.

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And isn't the Bible amazing the way it tells you?

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It doesn't tell you what to do.

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Whatever it is you're doing, just do it with all your mind.

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Hey, if you need ointment, you need a light for your skin, you need a little moisturizer,

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whatever it is, put your ointment on.

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It's basically take care of yourself.

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But as long as you can, the days that you have,

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just do what you do with your...

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heart and try to be married. Be married. And that is the whole sermon.

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You don't need to turn here, I'll just end with this.

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Remember, a lot of times when we turn to Ecclesiastes 3 and Ecclesiastes 3,

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we talk about there's a time of war, there's a time of peace, there's a time of this and a time of that.

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Well in verse 4 it says, there's a time to weep and there's a time to laugh.

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There's a time of mourn and there's a time to dance.

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This may not be the most powerful verse in this, but let me tell you this,

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don't forget that you need and should take time to laugh.

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and dance which I've already said multiple times be merry. Let me tell you if

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anything this sermon was purely for me all right but it's like it is a medicine

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to the heart it is a medicine that if you are merry your confidence is better

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and let me tell you this you could just be a blessing to everyone else and I

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know this church we're not the biggest pusher of lifestyle evangelism but let

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me tell you this

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Know with me I have failed greatly because let me tell you sometimes. I know people look at me

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They're like I just don't want anything yes

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Like my confidence is just not like overwhelmingly Joel

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You know I'm concerned by much worried by many things you know and I know I've shown that throughout my life

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But let me tell you the people I have met the people I do know that truly live with a merry heart

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I mean, if you want to go out in this world and see people that work,

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and people are like, I just want what he has.

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You're like, is it weed?

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Because let me tell you, you laugh, but let me tell you this.

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How many people do you think, see someone smiling, what do they think in Washington State?

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That dude's stoked.

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Most people are, let me say, sorry, this will be a little short-tanted, but it's like this.

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Most people hope that there's a pill, there's an injection, there's, you know, some prescription,

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there's something they can take, there's something they can smoke, just to feel better.

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And here's the thing, Christian, God says it's even easier than that.

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Be married.

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And that's the hardest thing for us to accept, is that actually, how we feel...

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is our choice.

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Yeah, man.

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So, remember,

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yes, there is a time to weep,

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but there's a time to laugh.

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There is a time to mourn,

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but are you taking time to dance?

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So I hope for you,

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this week,

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be merry.

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And with that, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for allowing me to preach this.

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I hope it was edifying. I hope it was true to your word and to your intentions, the spirit of this world.

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And I just hope that it helps raise people's moods, that softens their heart, and makes them happy.

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And Lord, with that, our flesh being happy in itself, that we can move forward in higher spiritual goals.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, good sir. Remember the call our last one was on or 27

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A seven day feast. We gotta implement something like that. That'd be kind of cool.

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Bring it back. Bring it back. Song number 27, the old rugged cross.

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Song number two seven, the old rugged cross.

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Song number 27 the old rugged cross let's sing it together on the first

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On a hill far away, stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame.

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And I love that old cross, where the dearest and best, for a world of lost sinners.

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slain so I'll change

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Cross till my trophies at last I lay down

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So despond-

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attraction for me.

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For the dear Lamb of God left his glory above.

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It's so divine.

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Oh.

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see. For it was on that old cross Jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify me.

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So I'll change.

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I lay down I will

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To the old rugged cross I will...

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It's shame and reproach, gladly beg.

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day to my home far away where is gold

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Don't you lay down

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good scene. Brother Kyle, could you end us a word of prayer?

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And let us remember that you've provided everything for us,

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and all we need to be married is to eat, drink,

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and know that we are provided for you.

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Jesus name we pray, amen.