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Welcome, all of you!
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Here. This is the beginning point because
Paul was talking about that we are all in
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a race. We are all running a race toward
the goal. As soon as the gun is shooting
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you don't just sit down on a couch and
just laying there and just relaxing.
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No. We have a race to run. I often
have seen that. I have deceived myself
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or people deceive themselves by sitting
and waiting for God.
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"God, what is my calling? I'm waiting
for my special calling."
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It is here.
He said to them all, "Whoever wants to be
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My disciple must deny themselves
and take their cross daily and follow Me."
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Ladies and gentlemen, that is your
calling. God has called every one of us
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to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. We
don't have to wait for the gun to shoot.
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The race has already started. You, who are
designed with your calling, are to become
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like our Master Jesus Christ. Our calling
is to become more like Jesus.
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Jesus said, "Truly, I tell you, no one who
has left homes or brothers or sisters
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or mother or father or children or fields
for Me and the gospel will fail to receive
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a hundred times as much in this present
age, along (together) with persecution.
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We read in the Bible where it says,
everyone who wants to live a godly life
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will be persecuted. Amen?
I didn't hear that so much in my church.
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But that's...this is not my word. This is
the word that we read in the Bible.
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As much as we are called to bear fruit,
because Jesus said, "As the Father
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has sent Me, now I send you. Go out
and bear much fruit."
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How many people love fruit? How many
people would love to see their lives
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bear fruit? I love it. Because it really
encourages me to keep on going.
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But as much as we are called to bear
fruit, we are also called to go through
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hardship, trials and persecution. The
breakthrough, the fruit, will not come
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without hardship and trials. Well, let's
come back to this life. Let's come back
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to this--what we read in the Bible.
Because we are always focusing on
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We need something new. We need something
brand new. We need more things and so on.
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No! We don't need something new.
We just need to come back to this.
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This old thing! This real thing!
