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Every now and then,
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it's very seldom that it's ever happened,
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but every great once in a while,
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just bam! It hits you:
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I'm going to die.
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It's going to happen very, very quickly.
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We're rapidly approaching.
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If you're not a Christian here tonight,
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the time is going to be
there before you know it.
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You know how sometimes like as a student
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I remember I'd study for a test.
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You've got that big test coming up
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you know in two months - it's far away,
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but you're studying maybe.
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And it gets a little closer.
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All of a sudden there you are.
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The hour has come.
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And you know, like I said,
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I can only believe it
every once in a while.
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You know what I'm
talking about right here.
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Every now and then a little glimpse:
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I'm going to die. I'm going to be there.
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You're going to be there.
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And if you're not right with God
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you're in a desperate situation.
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And if you are right with God,
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what in the world are you so worried about
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this thing you're going through right now?
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It's temporary. It's just nothing.
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It's light compared to
this glory that's coming.
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Difficulties are temporary.
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Trials are temporary.
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Setbacks are temporary.
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Sufferings are temporary.
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Soon,
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very soon,
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whatever I'm facing right now -
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you may be weary.
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You may be weary in the battle.
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It's going to be over so fast.
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Soon shall the cup of glory
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wash down earth's bitterest woes.
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I don't think we had that verse
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in "The Sands of Time."
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Soon shall the cup of glory wash down
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our bitterest woes.
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Soon shall the desert brier
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break into Eden's rose.
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Soon.
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Wash down earth's bitterest woes.
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People that are being tortured -
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some people are being tortured to death.
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The instant they wake up,
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it's all washed down.
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Everything's forgotten.
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Washed away in a moment.
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There's a card that we've shared a lot
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with people who have lost a loved one.
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It's entitled, "Absent From the
Body, Present with the Lord."
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It goes like this:
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"Oh think...
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Oh think, to step on shore
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and that shore Heaven,
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to take hold of a hand,
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and that God's hand.
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To breathe a new air."
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You know, you just breathe it in.
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You find it celestial air.
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"To feel invigorated
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and know it immortality.
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Oh think, to pass from
a storm and a tempest
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into one unbroken calm.
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To wake up and find it glory.
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Oh think..."
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To step on a shore.
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All that will happen in a moment.
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The tempest of life will be gone
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and they'll seem like nothing.
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To step on a shore and that shore Heaven.
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Well, what's the shore
of Heaven going to be like?
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Well, it's one unbroken calm.
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Celestial air. Feeling invigorated.
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I can almost imagine that, you know.
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Instantly, you're alive
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and you're invigorated.