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Hey everybody, time for a quick coffee break in the Bible.

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Today of course is 9-11, the anniversary of a very tragic event.

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Like many of you who were alive at the time, I remember exactly where I was.

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I was standing watch in Okinawa, Japan where I was stationed in the Marine Corps, there on Camp Panson.

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We were dealing with the fallout from a typhoon.

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If I recall correctly, I believe it was Typhoon Nari.

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I could be mistaken on that, but nonetheless, I remember exactly where I was.

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I was standing watch during that typhoon in Okinawa.

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For many of you, it's the same. You remember exactly where you were.

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This is one of those things that unfell before us.

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It just left us standing there to coin the phrase shock and awe.

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We're just like, wow, what is going on?

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However, Ephesians 5, 16 sums it up nicely.

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The Bible says, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil.

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By referring to the days as being evil, what Paul is telling us is that we need to be on our toes

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because of how hard at work evil is.

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We need to have that sense of urgency as we go and be watchful.

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Things are hard enough as it is, but when we know Satan is coming after us,

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it's all the more reason to keep a high standard,

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to make sure that we're doing things the smartest way that we can,

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the most efficient way that we can, and doing the best that we can,

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treating people the best that we can, doing the most good that we can,

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helping others out. Think about it.

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9-11, yes, it's a horrible, tragic moment.

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It's one of those that sticks with us, just like Pearl Harbor, the Marine Barracks,

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and Beirut and several others, depending on where you were in your life at that time.

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If you think about it, what happened in the aftermath?

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Aside from war, what came of it?

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There was a period of time when color, when race, stopped mattering.

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What political side you fell on no longer mattered.

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All the petty garbage that proliferates things again, none of it mattered anymore.

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It was that time when people, much like now, didn't even know their neighbors,

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but people suddenly came together again and remembered what was important,

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and everyone as a nation came together as one nation.

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It's very important that we remember that, and that we remember this event,

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that we remember how we should act, how we should respond to things,

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not with anger, but with love and with hope.