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Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Here you'll find practical, relevant, biblical information.

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The Bible will be broken down verse by verse so that you get the full context of the scripture

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to better grow in your relationship with Jesus.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the sanctuary.

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It's great to have you with us.

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Now this weekend we're looking at Memorial Day.

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Memorial Day of course is actually Monday this year here in the US.

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And it is a day that is set aside to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice

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for our way of living and our way of practicing our faith.

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Now to some, the way that they might recognize it, it is a day off for most people.

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That's recognized, you know, a day for barbecuing, picnics, going to the lake, you know, and

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several other things.

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You know, other people, they could care less.

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That's fine.

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However, it is a day of remembrance.

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And remembrance is very much a biblical concept.

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You know, I had to look it up and the results I found varied.

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But the word remember and referring to things, you know, to remember things in the Bible,

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it's actually used well over a hundred times.

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Everything that I found is looking at 170 to well over 300.

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It just kind of depends on the translation.

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But not only that, not only is it just, you know, that we've been told to remember certain

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things, but God has actually given us a multitude of things to help us to remember a lot of

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the things in the Bible, other things that we've been told, commandments and so on.

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Right.

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The easiest things to remember really are the tablets that the Ten Commandments were

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written on.

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Right.

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That's kind of, that's kind of immortalized, you know, with Charlton Heston decades ago,

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you know, that image of Moses coming down the mountain with the tablets in hand and

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everything.

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Right.

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So that's kind of engraved in the minds for a lot of us.

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And not only that, but you know, a lot of churches, you know, a lot of places that you

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go to, they have the commandments up somewhere, you know, on a wall or a pennant, something.

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Right.

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But there's other examples and it goes all the way back, you know, through other parts

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of Genesis even when we look at, for example, Genesis chapter 28, where Jacob placed a stone

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to make a pillar in the place where God's house was going to be built.

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And in Joshua four, where 12 stones were picked up from the bed of the Jordan River, you know,

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on each of those stones, they were all different and they each represented a different tribe.

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Looking at the word in second Peter chapter one, verses 12 through 15, the word says,

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so, I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established

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in the truth you now have.

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I think it's right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,

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because I know that I will soon put it aside as our Lord Jesus Christ has made it clear

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to me.

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And I will make every effort to see that after my departure, you will always be able to remember

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these things.

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Now, even in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, Christ reminds us of so many things.

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Just the imagery of his life, death, and resurrection reminds us of so many things.

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So, it's fitting that we remember the past, and we should, that we remember the sacrifices

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made by the few for the many.

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The brave men and women who answered the call of service by their nation.

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Isaiah chapter six, verse eight, the word says, then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

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whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

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And I said, here I am, send me.

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It takes a certain breed to step forward to that calling.

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It's not for everybody, okay?

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It's not Disneyland.

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And in John 15, verse 13, Jesus said, greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay

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down his life for his friends.

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And that is exactly what it is.

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In the heat of battle, your reasons for serving, your reasons for being there, very quickly

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take a back seat to the person that you're fighting with, because the safety and survival

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of that person you're with becomes paramount, and their life suddenly means more than your

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own.

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That's just a fact.

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You know, not just in the military, but even a first response.

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We see that firefighters, police officers, EMS, in some cases even security, right?

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On May 31st, 1982, at Arlington National Cemetery, Ronald Reagan said this, the United States

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and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper.

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Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply.

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It has a cost.

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It imposes a burden.

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And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we, in a

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less final, less heroic way, be willing to give of ourselves.

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Donald Patton is credited with saying, it is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who

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died.

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Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

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And many others have been credited with stating, although the true origin is unknown, the price

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of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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So as we look to this day that has been set aside to remember our fallen warriors, our

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fallen heroes, let's be careful not to let the past be erased.

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That we reflect and are grateful for what these great people did as they answered the

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call and followed the very example set by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who took

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on the cross for each and every one of us.

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So that each and every one of us, and for that matter, everyone in the world, can know

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the Lord and know what the ultimate freedom truly is.

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And as much as our feelings and memories really, they get stirred up in this whirlwind of emotions

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that just powers through us, wave after wave, sad and happy.

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We can take heart as we mourn and remember the loss of all these people, as we continue

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to mourn for the loss of the world that we live in.

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In Corinthians chapter one, verses three through four, the word says, blessed be the God and

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Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts

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us in all our tribulation.

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That we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with which, excuse me, with

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the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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For we know God is with us, he's holding us, he's guiding us as we deal with the very pains

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that we have inside.

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Well, when we trusted him and we truly lean on him, unfortunately, many of us try to do

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it ourselves and you can't.

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And when you try to do it yourself every day, every week, every month, every year, especially

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come to anniversary time, becomes a trial and tribulation for you.

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And it becomes painful and hard because it's a reminder that you need to lean on Jesus,

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that we all need to lean on Jesus.

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Let him be our comforter.

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Revelation 21 verse four, the word says, and God shall wipe away every tear from their

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eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, no crying, neither shall there be

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any more pain for the former things are passed away.

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And this goes for all the loss and pain that we will encounter in our lives.

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So by all means, take time to shed tears when they come, let them pour out to wash away

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the pain that's inside of you as you lean into Jesus for your comfort.

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For while many things may hurt for a while and occasional aftershocks may strike in your

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life, the pain is temporary.

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Psalm 30 verse five, the word says weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in

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the morning.

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Joy is on the horizon for the day that we are reunited with Jesus in heaven when we

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are fully healed and living in the joy and comfort of our Lord.

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Until then, don't let the sacrifice of Christ and don't let the sacrifice of our beloved

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warriors be in vain.

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Remember them and remember Christ for what they did and pass it along to the next generation

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so that the memory lives on and each generation can continue to learn from these lives that

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have done so much and paid such a heavy price for us.

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Live a life worth their sacrifice.

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Live a life worth the sacrifice of Jesus and let every sacrifice be a compass that points

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the way to Jesus.

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Remember you are blessed and you are loved.

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Now go and be the church.

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Thank you all for joining us here today at Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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God bless.