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Hi, Oak Ridge friends and family. This is David

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here and I'm with Brad and Teresa Macklemore

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today We're gonna share some scripture readings

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today But before that I would like for them to

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share a little element that points to Christ

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during this season Hi, this is Brad and when

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I think of this season it used to be all about

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Jesus birth but now that we're more into the

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Advent season and a done devotionals and stuff

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it's really to me more about the return of Christ

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and the restitution of all things that's what

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it means to me now and as far as something from

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Christmas of course with me it's all about food

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right so when I was a kid my mother used to make

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cinnamon rolls in a ring she called it a t -ring

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and one year and maybe a couple of years she

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made one of those for every single teacher that

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I might brother and my sister had at the school

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like 17 or 18 of these things and we gave everyone

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that's why we got such good grades and the other

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recipe that that's traditional is on the Christmas

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morning I get up early and make a it's really

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a muffin but it's almost a doughnut it's called

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french breakfast puffs they're basically muffins

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rolled in butter and cinnamon and sugar which

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anything's good your tennis shoe is good if it's

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rolled in butter and cinnamon and sugar so They're

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really good, but I've done that for 20 years,

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made those in the morning. So those are, those

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are some things that I think about. And I guess

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mine is a memory that I had with my extended

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family with all of my cousins. We were a pretty

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large family. My mom had four siblings and we

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had 13 grandkids and it was singing. We would

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either go Christmas caroling. Well, we always

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did that. But then we also would just get around

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together in the head of guitars. We just had

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a good time singing all those Christmas songs.

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This is Isaiah 24, verse 16 verses I'll be reading

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from the easy to read version. slaves and masters

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will be the same. Women slaves and their women

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masters will be the same. Those who buy and those

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who sell will all be the same. Those who borrow

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and those who lend will be the same. Bankers

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and those who owe the bank will be the same.

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Everyone will be forced out of the land. All

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the wealth will be taken. This will happen because

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the Lord commanded it. The country will be empty

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and sad. The world will be empty and weak. The

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great leaders of the people in this land will

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become weak. The people have ruined the land.

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They did what God said is wrong. They did not

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obey God's laws. They made an agreement with

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God a long time ago, but they broke their agreement

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with God. The people living in this land are

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guilty of doing wrong. So God has vowed to destroy

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the land. The people will be punished and only

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a few of them will survive. The grapevines are

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dying and the new wine is bad. People who are

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happy are now sad. They have stopped showing

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their joy. The happy music from the drums and

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harps has ended. They no longer sing as they

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drink their wine. The beer now tastes bitter

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to those who drink it. Total confusion is a good

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name for this city. The city has been destroyed.

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People cannot enter the houses. The doors are

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blocked. People still ask for wine in the marketplaces.

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But all the joy is gone. It was carried off with

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everything else. All that is left is destruction.

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Even the gates are crushed. All over the earth,

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in every nation, only a few people will be left

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alive. Like the few olives left in a tree or

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the grapes left on a vine after harvest. Those

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still living will shout and sing for joy. In

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the West they praise the Lord's greatness. So

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the people in the East should praise the Lord.

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People in lands beyond the sea should honor the

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name of the Lord, the God of Israel. We hear

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songs from everywhere on earth praising God who

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does what is right. But I say enough! I've had

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enough. What I see is terrible. Traitors are

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turning against people and hurting them. First

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Thessalonians 4 starting with verse 1. Brothers

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and sisters, now I have some other things to

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tell you. We taught you how to live in a way

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that will please God and you are living that

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way. Now we ask and encourage you and the Lord

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Jesus to live that way more and more. You know

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all that we told you to do by the authority of

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the Lord Jesus. God wants you to be holy. He

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wants you to stay away from sexual sins. God

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wants each one of you to learn to control your

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own body. Use your body in a way that is holy

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and that gives honor to God. Don't let your sexual

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desires control you like the people who don't

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know God. Never wrong any of your fellow believers

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or cheat them in this way. The Lord will punish

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those who do that. We have already told you this

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and warned you about it. God shows us to be holy.

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He does not want us to live in sin. So anyone

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who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing

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to obey God, not us. And God is the one who gives

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you His Holy Spirit. We don't need to write to

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you about having love for your brothers and sisters

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in Christ. God has already taught you to love

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each other. In fact, you love all the believers

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in Macedonia. We encourage you now, brothers

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and sisters, to show your love more and more.

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Do all you can to live a peaceful life Mind your

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own business and earn your own living as we told

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you before if you do these things Then those

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who are not believers will respect the way you

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live and you will not have to depend on others

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for what you need