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As you are about to notice, I do not have the artistic ability that Pastor Nan does.

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And what little I did have was cut off at the bottom by the printer.

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So, if you want something fancy and flashy, come back next week and Pastor Dan will draw something for you.

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But for now, we're going to work our way through this worksheet that's meant to help organize my craziness upstairs.

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Let me turn this a little bit.

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So, as I was reading and I was praying about what I wanted to talk about, I found myself over-complicating a lot.

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And long story short, I thought about and I prayed about so many different topics.

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And it came back to, it's a lot simpler than I think it is.

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And I think, and I'm going to get to this point by the end, but I think we all do that a little bit.

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We over-complicate things a little bit more than we need to.

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So, we're going to talk about some simple small numbers.

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Probably the perfect day for that. We have small numbers here.

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But I'm hoping that I can help somebody learn something at the very least.

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And hopefully God will be speaking through me.

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So, starting from the top, what I believe is the simplest, most straightforward is number one.

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Which in my reading, my research, I found it's used upwards of 2,000 times in the Bible.

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Which, you know, one means a lot of things.

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It's used in conversation a lot, but that's a lot of times.

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But there are a few very important instances of the number one symbolism to that in the Bible.

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And to me, the first thing that pops out of me when I'm trying to overthink the number one is

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that there is only one God, right?

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We're Christians, Christians believe in a monotheistic religion, which basically means there's one deity, one God.

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And anyone who cares much for history or pays attention in their history classes would know

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there are a lot of people, mostly in the past, but there have been a lot of people that believe

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there were a lot of gods, especially those that the Jews interacted with.

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Even up to the point of in the Romans, when Jesus was alive,

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believed in many, many gods.

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And so the first verse that we're going to take a look at today and we're going to read is Deuteronomy 4-5.

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I'm going to be reading out of the CSB if anyone is curious or wants to read the same translation.

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It's kind of back and forth.

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I do think some of the verses that we're going to look at today read a little bit

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the irony of this is kind of still funny to me, but you read a little more clearly.

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But I generally read CSBs, that's what I'm going with.

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So Deuteronomy 4-5.

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Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances.

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This is not the right verse.

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I'm sorry.

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Deuteronomy 6-4, I've messed this up already.

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Deuteronomy 6-4.

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Listen Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

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I'm going to read five as well.

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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

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And so that's the blank right under number one there is that reference.

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Deuteronomy 6-4.

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Can you correct on my own paper?

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So that lays it out pretty clearly.

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For anybody who had questions of how many gods there were involved in creating the world,

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the Lord is one.

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And we need to love that one God with all our heart.

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And so those four blanks to the right of the reference, kind of to the right.

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If you tilt your paper funny, is the Lord is one.

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So I'm going to go into the blanks, but one in a lot of the reading I did, one signifies wholeness.

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It has been declared that the Lord is one.

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The Lord is, you know, our whole focus as Christians is to be like the Lord, be like Jesus.

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But as we'll talk about later and most Christians know,

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Jesus and the Father were one.

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So the Lord is one.

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Wholeness is portrayed in that word one.

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And that came a little bit from, I'm no scholar on it, I don't know Hebrew,

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but that came a little bit from the reading that I did about the Hebrew character for one,

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is that it kind of signifies wholeness in the way that it's used.

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And the blanks across the top,

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one cannot be multiplied or divided by itself.

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I left that part out of the blanks, but by itself.

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If you multiply one by one, you still have one.

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If you try and divide the one, you still have one.

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So you're not going to, no matter what you do, you're not going to be able to find God split on an issue.

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You're not going to be able to find a way to spin it that God is more than one.

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Not realistically, not following the teachings that we find in the Bible anyways.

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And that's kind of the simple one, no pun intended.

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So there's not as much to that one, but we'll kind of come back to the number one in a minute here.

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So with the number two, multiplication becomes possible.

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So multiply two by two and you have four. Your numbers have grown.

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So the first verse that we're going to read about the number two is Ecclesiastes 4,

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9 through 11.

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Get my pages to flip.

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So Ecclesiastes 4, 9 through 11 says,

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two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.

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For if either falls, his companion can lift him up, but pity the one who falls without

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another to lift him up. Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm,

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but how can one person alone keep warm?

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And then I want to jump right into the next verse before I talk about that at all.

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Genesis 1, 24 through 31.

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Which is a little bit longer. Arden, you want to read that for us?

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Genesis 1, Genesis 1, 24 through 31.

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Then God said, if the earth produced living creatures according to their kinds,

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livestock, creatures that crawl in the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, and it was so.

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So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their

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kinds, and the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds, and God saw that it was

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good. Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. It will rule the fish

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of the sea, the birds of the sky, and livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on

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the earth. So God created man in his own image, created him in the image of God, created the male

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and the female. God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and

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subdue it. It will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on

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the earth. God also said, look, I have given you every seed bearing plant on the surface of the

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entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you, for all the

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wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth,

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everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food, and so

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God saw all of it being made, and it was very good, eating it in the morning and in the morning.

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Okay, so we have seven blanks over on the right, and I have given you an E in the fourth blank.

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Anyone, any ideas what we might be putting in there based on what we just read? I can tell you that,

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say, my paper says, beasts of the earth created in pairs. I'm, you know, shorthanding it a little

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bit, leaving out some of the small words maybe, but God creates the beasts of the earth. He creates

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them according to their kind, and He creates them male and female. So He creates one male, one female.

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He says, go and multiply and fill the earth, more or less. Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,

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and subdue it, to be more exact. And then in the blank below, I have man also to, mostly is already

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filled in, shed also, which He doesn't create Eve. It does say He created them man and female in this

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verse. So yeah, right there. So at this point, He's already created a man and a woman, two men, humans,

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however you'd like to say it.

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Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, rule over the fish and the birds, and

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you know, it's to go out and fulfill that duty. And it's a command, right? So, and I think as far as that,

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people have generally done a pretty good job. We're all over the place. But the blanks over the left,

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with some arrows pointing up, I just read this straight out of the dictionary. I had read 15

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verses at this point, researching a little bit, and I was like, you know, what does multiplication

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mean? And straight out of the dictionary, there's a couple of definitions, but the most straightforward

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one was increase in number. And so I've got that in that blank there. And so God wants us to go,

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creates us in a pair. There's definitely a meaning there. And then wants us to multiply,

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increase in number. The way that we were designed, we need a pair to increase in number. I think that

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that goes to apply also to ministry, which I'm about to read about in a second. But we aren't

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designed to be alone, designed to be, if nothing else, in the church with those around us that can

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support us, really designed to be in a pair, husband and wife, to multiply, to have children.

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It's commanded right there, very clearly, go for the multiply. But if nothing else, we need to be

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in the church, fellowshipping, because I'm sure that we've all seen the person who's alone,

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nobody to back them up, nobody to talk to, and it puts them in a pretty rough spot.

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Which leads me into the next verse, which is Matthew, or I'm sorry, let me go back to,

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let me go back to Ecclesiastes real quick. Sorry.

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Sorry. So now knowing you were created in a pair, designed to be in a pair, and then we jump forward

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and we hear talking to the Jewish people, I can't remember off the top of my head

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who wrote Ecclesiastes, but two are better than one, because they have great reward for their

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efforts. If either falls, his companion can lift him up. If you're struggling by yourself,

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if you just had somebody with you, they could help you, right? If they lie down together,

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they can keep warm. If a man lies down in his bed every night, or a woman lies down in their bed

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every night, year after year after year by themselves, it gets kind of cold, kind of lonely,

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right? So we were designed to be in a pair. We'll jump to Matthew 18.20 now.

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Matthew 18.20.

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It says, for where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.

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All right, and this is Jesus talking. So we've got some, the blanks across the bottom. There's

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three blanks with a question mark, and then four blanks below. And I've got two or three.

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The Lord is there. And so, this, as I was praying on this, you know, you may come to find different

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meaning in it, or there is a more literal meaning, but as I was praying and meditating on this

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verse, especially in context of the previous passages, I came to realize, which, I mean,

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I already knew to an extent, but I came to know that if we do not go out into the world to minister

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and to visit, to share God with support, even if they're not physically with us, if we have the

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church behind us, or we have a team back in the church that we can come back to and we can bring

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people to, or we have our pastor that we can refer people with complicated questions to,

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hopefully we just know the answer. But if you don't have support of other believers,

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God might not be there to back you up. That's kind of hard to swallow, but it's there, right?

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Now, it doesn't say the Lord won't be with you if you don't have to, but it says if there's two or

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three, the Lord will be there. If you want to know that God's going to be there with you,

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bring your Christian friend, right? Bring your pastor with you.

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Sorry, I lost my spot here.

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I'm going to read Proverbs 27-17. I'm jumping around a lot, but there's a lot of scripture that

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adds context to what I'm thinking about here and what God's been doing for me.

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I'm going to read Proverbs 27-17. I'm going to read Proverbs 27-17. I'm going to read Proverbs

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27-17. It adds context to what I'm thinking about here and what God's been telling me.

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In Proverbs 27-17, it says, iron sharpens iron and one person sharpens another.

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So not only will God be with us if we go as two or more believers out in the world, two or three

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believers, but we will be made stronger. We will be made sharper. We'll be more prepared if we have

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another with us. In the moral of the story, those parts are we got to go together.

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We have the fellowship. We have to work together,

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kind of bounce off of one another, our knowledge or our skills. If say,

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my pipes burst under my house, I'm not going to know what to do. Maybe I could call a plumber,

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but I know that there are people within the church, Tim, probably Tony, I have to call him

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probably Tony. I don't know if I've known you do much plumbing, but I know that there are people

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within the church that I could call. They could give me advice. They could help me.

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If I weren't part of the church, the best thing, the closest thing I could do to get that fixed

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is call a plumber. Maybe watch a bunch of YouTube videos and mess it up even worse.

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We make each other stronger, not only by physically being with each other, but by being able to

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work together, add to each other's knowledge, multiply our skills to use for God,

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and to make an impact on the other people in the church and those who don't know God

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that we want to show. We want to leave an impression that we're living for God.

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I have just above where it says, what is it? Two blanks should be the last two blanks under two,

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I believe. No, there should be one more. The M is for multiplication and the C is for the church.

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So with multiplication, when two or more believers gather, the Lord is there.

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Two or more believers gather and they are on fire for God and they go out and they are telling people,

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you will multiply, you'll have three, four, five, however many believers coming together,

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and you will have a church. The church is the people. They don't need a building.

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This is a big sermon that stuck with me a really long time ago when I do not have all the scripture

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and all of the, I guess, kind of receipts to reference back to, but the church is the people.

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If we didn't have a building and if we met in the middle of the street every week or every day or

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once a month, whatever it was, we would still be the church when we came together and met in that

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street and worshiped God and learned about him together and fellowshiped. That's the church.

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And with multiplication comes the church. With the church, hopefully, comes more multiplication.

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And I have a reference that I'm missing. I spent more time preparing this,

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and I know I'm kind of scatterbrained, it's all over the place, but I still, I'm not very good

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at preparing, but I spent more time preparing this than I've probably gone out of my way to prepare

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anything in the last decade. So I've never studied, I never, I've never done anything

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like I have speech in school, I wing it, but so I really don't know how to prepare,

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just to get that message across.

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Matthew,

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hold on, let me make sure this is actually it before I tell you. Yes, Matthew 28, 18 through 20,

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which is also commonly known as Matthew 20, is the first time I've ever seen a church

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with a church in the middle of the street. And I've never seen a church with a church in the middle

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of the street. So Matthew 28, 18 through 20, which is also commonly known, Matthew 28, 18 through 20,

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I think I misspoke there, which is also commonly known as the Great Commission.

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Jesus came near and said to them, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,

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and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.

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And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.

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And so to me that just wraps this all up nicely to say, it's our job to multiply the church,

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it's our job to multiply more believers, spread the word, and to show people that what God's all

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about. There are a lot of people, maybe they don't want to hear it, but there are a lot of people

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that really need to hear it. Maybe they do want to hear it, maybe they've never heard it,

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whatever their situation is that we need to tell. I think part of the reason why those verses are so

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famous is because it's a clear command. It's very simple. What you need to do, you need to go

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and tell people, say, make disciples of everyone, tell them about God, baptize them in the name of

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the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them everything I have taught you essentially.

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It's pretty obvious to me, right?

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And it's very powerful and it's a great calling for us as Christians and what we need to do.

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I'm going to try and move along through three a little bit faster here. I do unfortunately have

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to leave to go back to work pretty soon here. Like I said, it's been a really crazy day.

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But so, the number three in my reading is also very commonly used.

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And the most common trend I see with the number three, it just made clear nothing that, you know,

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none of these trends that I'm seeing are the only things that these numbers mean in the Bible.

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They're just the things that are being used in the Bible. And so, I'm going to try and move along

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through the three things that these numbers mean in the Bible. There's a lot more, like they're used

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for many things. I read quite a bit about like negative uses of two and three.

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Yeah, I didn't really even touch on it at all when they're using a negative context like

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Peter denying Jesus three times, for example.

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But number three generally symbolizes completeness from what I'm reading to me.

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And what God has told me. I'm not just making this stuff up.

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But so, for the right, Jesus prays three times in Gethsemane.

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I'm going to read Matthew 26, 36, which is where that comes from.

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Sorry, that is not. Maybe it is.

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Yes. So, Jesus came with the disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he told them,

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Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter,

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So couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?

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He said, I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.

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Going a little farther, he fell face down and prayed, My father, if it is possible,

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let this cup pass for me, yet not as I will, but as you will.

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Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping.

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He asked Peter, So couldn't you stay awake with me one hour?

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Stay awake and pray, so that you won't enter into temptation.

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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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unless I drink it, your will be done.

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And he came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open.

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saying the same thing once more.

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Then he came to the disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting?

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See, the time is near. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hand of sinners.

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Jesus is about to be betrayed.

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What from the appearance, actually, he says while he was still speaking.

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That minute, he's about to be betrayed. He's praying and he knows it.

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He gets up and tells the disciples it's about to happen.

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But yet he's still praying.

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If there is any other way, let it be that way.

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Let it be taken away from me.

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But your will be done, Lord.

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So he prays three times in Gethsemane for what is to come to be taken away from him.

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There are three Passover's in Jesus' ministry.

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I'm not going to read all the verses, but John notes all of them, 2.13.

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John 6.4 and John 11.55.

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There are three Passover's from when Jesus goes out into the world with the disciples

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to the time of his death, which roughly is three years that his ministry goes on.

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And then the most, probably the most notable, which I have blanks here for the verse, 1 Corinthians 15.4.

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Jesus rises again after three days.

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So in each of those instances, Jesus is not done praying until he's prayed three times.

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Jesus' ministry is complete after three years.

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Jesus' resurrection comes to be in its fullness after three days.

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I'll touch on that again in a second here.

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In the top left, I have a triangle, which I've marked Trinity for you.

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In 1 Corinthians 8.6, I'm going to use my phone to pull these up, be a little bit quicker.

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In 1 Corinthians 8.6, yet for us, Jesus is not dead.

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In 1 Corinthians 8.6, yet for us, there is one God, the Father, all things are from him, and we exist for him.

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And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, all things are through him, and we exist through him.

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So I've got that top blank as Father, and then 1 Corinthians 8.6, the top of the triangle there.

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And then also they mention one Lord, Jesus Christ.

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for the entire fullness of God's, I'm sorry, not Jesus speaking,

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but it's reiterated that Jesus is, for the entire fullness of God's nature dwells bodily in Christ.

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So reiterating again, Jesus and God are one being, fullness of Christ,

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the fullness of God the Father is in Christ, and they are both one Lord, our one Lord.

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this is now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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Not going to go super in depth about the Holy Spirit, of course, that's a pretty deep topic,

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but the Holy Spirit is the Lord, right? I'm sorry, the Lord is the Spirit,

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is laid out pretty clearly there.

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Holy Spirit is laid out pretty clearly there. And so we have a Trinity, this complete figure head,

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or God head, as I've heard it said, three in one, that our belief is completely revolves around.

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Jesus prays three times, there are three years in Jesus' ministry, Jesus rises after three days.

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And a little fun fact about that, as I was reading, I came to learn that it was like a,

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after three days, Jewish people believed you were, that was when you're fully dead and your spirit

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left the world and what base there is to that, I don't know. I feel that's probably a little

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superstitious personally, but I don't know for a fact how that, how it all plays out. But the Jewish

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people at that time believed that the three days you are fully dead, you're done. So Jesus, after

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three days coming back, even adds, just makes, gives more punctuality to the point that Jesus is

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conquering death. And so we have these numbers, simple one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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eight, nine, ten. Simple one, two, three. One of the first things we learn academically speaking

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as humans. And they all, all of those things, you know, they kind of mean different things

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individually, they tie together to create our beliefs. There's one God, three parts,

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but one God, or three forms I should say, but one God. And if you know our one God,

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and you know that He is one, you love Him with all your heart, then you will go as

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a pair, you'll go as two or more into the world and tell all those in the world that

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are alone, that don't know God, that don't, they haven't seen what we've seen.

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You'll tell them about Jesus. You'll tell them about His three years, His three

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prayers, His three days, and they will hopefully, someone's going to, maybe not,

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definitely not everybody, there will definitely be people that don't want to

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hear it, but they will come and they will multiply and they will join the church,

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and we will fulfill our command from Jesus to make more believers, and it will

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all come full circle today that we go to heaven, and we get to be there with the

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one true God in heaven for all of eternity. And now, that wraps it all up, but I want,

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I'm hoping that someone, at least one person in this room learned something

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from that. I sure learned a lot, but the concepts and the small things I

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learned and the things I remember from studying this, I will apply to many other

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things as I study in the future and kind of build on the basics, and I

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think that sometimes that's what we need to do, is just go back to basics even if

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I can even make the basics very complicated and scatterbrained, but I

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think that these numbers come up so much it would be silly for us not to talk

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about them, at least a little bit. So I'm going to pray and then we'll go to some

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fellowship. I have to leave unfortunately, but I have some fellowship for a few

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minutes and then go home. Lord, thank you for this day. I pray that you are with

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each one of us as we go out into the world and that we can go. We make

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believers, we make disciples of men everywhere we go. Thank you for giving

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us your word, giving us something to study, to learn, so that we can know more,

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so we can draw closer to you. In black and white, it's right there in front of

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us and I'm so grateful for that Lord. I thank you for those of us who are able

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to be here today. I pray for those traveling that you would help them be

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safe, that they would learn something and have a fulfilling experience for you at

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the National Convention, Lord. I just pray that you watch over us, bring us

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providence in our daily endeavors. In Jesus name, amen.