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Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.

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bless. The Lord be

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with you. And with you, too. In

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reading from the Holy Gospel according to John, Chapter

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10, verses 11 through 18, Jesus

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said, I am the good

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shepherd. A good shepherd lays

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down his life for his sheep. A

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hired man who is not a shepherd and whose sheep

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are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves

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the sheep and runs away. And

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the wolf catches and scatters them. This

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is because he works for pay and has no concern for

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the sheep. I

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am the good shepherd. And

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I know mine. And mine know me,

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just as the father knows me and I know the father, and

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I will lay down my life for the sheep. I

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have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.

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These also I must lead, and they will hear my

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voice, and there will be one flock, one

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shepherd. This

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is why the father loves me. Because

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I lay down my life in order to take it

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up again. No one takes it from

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me, but I lay it down on

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my own. I have

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power to lay it down and power to take

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it up again. This

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command I have received from my father. The

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Gospel of the Lord. I

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miss you, Lord Jesus Christ. I should have a

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seat. So

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I was thinking about this question, the question of who

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is the most courageous person that you know? Like

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just that, in that sense of like, I think a lot of

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times when we think of like, okay, who is the most courageous

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person that you know? It's typically someone you think of like. someone

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who puts their life on the line, right? Someone who's like

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a firefighter or a police officer, someone who's a soldier, someone

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who goes into battle, someone who might

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be facing some significant illness and does that

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with this incredible bravery. That could be the

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most courageous person we know. Someone who stands

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for the truth, or stands against injustice. I

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think sometimes if you ask the question, who's the most

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courageous person you know, it

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makes sense that we automatically think of big things.

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Like we automate, our minds automatically turn to like,

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you know, saints and heroes. In

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fact, even when I was pondering the question,

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most craziest person I know, or most craziest person I've

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heard of, I thought of a saint who was a

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hero. You probably know Saint Joan of Arc, right? So

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Saint Joan of Arc, her story is, you know, she

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lives, she's a young and courageous military

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leader that during the Hundred Years War, she

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was, I think 14 when she had this first vision, and

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this vision called her to do

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this work, that

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she believed that God had commissioned her to

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convince the Dauphin to become the King

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of France, and to reign.

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And so basically she started acting

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on what she believed God was calling her to

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do. At one point, people

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were skeptical, which kind of makes sense. And so

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they tested it, one of the ways they tested

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whether this was real or not, is

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when Joan was 17, they

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sent her to the Battle of Orléans, which had been

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going on for months and months and months, this impasse

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and no one was winning, no one was losing, it

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was just this constant battle, and stalemate

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within days of her arriving and

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leaving these troops, day

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one. And so it was kind of all

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this, well, maybe this validates that maybe she has been sent

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by God to do this kind of thing. Now, ultimately, if

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you know anything about Joan's story is I think by the

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time she was 19 years old, she

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was captured and she was tried

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in a very unjust civil and

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church court by unjust civil and

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church authorities, and declared guilty and

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burned at the stake. 20

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years later though, she was given a real trial after

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her death, 20 years after her death, and she was

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vindicated, she was declared innocent. And

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her life, even though short, is not only

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tragic, but also is courageous. And I've

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been thinking about, like, what is it about Joan's life

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that's so courageous? And not just because of what she

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did on the battlefield, but if you read the details

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of her life, there were so many obstacles, there were so

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many things that had to

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get done that were bigger than her. There were so

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many things that got in her way. There was so

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much potential for discouragement. And

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yet, Joan never gave in to discouragement.

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That this whole second half of her life, almost,

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was what you might call a season of discouragement.

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And yet, in the midst of discouragement, Joan chose

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two things. She chose

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humility and she chose hope. And

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just bring that up, bring that notion of, like, the

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question of who is the most courageous person. They've grown

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courageous people, the people who in seasons of discouragement, they

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choose humility and they choose hope. Because

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here we are, we're on campus, and

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this is a season where, as we

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mentioned last week, this is

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the season, it's the end of the semester. And at the

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end of every semester, the truth is revealed, right? The truth

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of, like, how did I do this semester is revealed.

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Whether it's, like, no, I would stay on top of my

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studies or I did not stay on top of my studies.

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I mean, deadlines are all happening

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this week and next week for all of our

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students. And so there's a reason they call them

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deadlines, because it's just, like, that is, it's death.

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It's that's what it feels like, because there's so

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much to do and so little time to do

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it. Everything is due. And again, the truth is

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so fully revealed of whether I'm prepared or unprepared,

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whether I did this well or didn't do this

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well. This can be, for many students, a season

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of discouragement, or even it's one of those seasons

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where it's like, I have a semester,

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I have everything left to do. Like, there's so many things.

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I don't even, I don't even know where to start. Do

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you have some students who are like, no, I've done that

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before. This is not my first finals week. This is not

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my first end of a semester, but it's

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their last one. And

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there can be this season of discouragement because it's

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like, I have no idea what comes

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next. I have no

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way, like life, like all through school,

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it was no, I'll

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come back next fall. I know exactly what's going to happen. I'm going

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to have a summer and then I'll come back. back and more

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school and now there's this

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uncertainty and in the midst

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of uncertainty one of the

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things that can happen is it can

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become a season of discouragement and again

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this isn't just for students this is

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life especially when life feels like too much for

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any one of us oh there's too many obstacles

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or there's too many things to do and there

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or there's just too much that's unknown whenever

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we're faced with uncertainty we're

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faced with fear we're faced

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with failure we're faced with this potential

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for a season of discouragement which is why last week

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we started the series my series

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is based off of this two-word Latin phrase

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a three-word English phrase by a man named

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man named Bruno Lantere and that Latin phrase

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is nuke chepi and nuke

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chepi is simply in English it means now I

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began and so remember Bruno Lantere's quote last week

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was he said if I were to fall even

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a thousand times he said I

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will not lose courage I will

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not be troubled but I will

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always say immediately with peaceful repentance nuke

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chepi now I begin if I

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were to fall a thousand times I will

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not lose courage I will not

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be troubled and

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a season of discouragement is

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really easy to lose courage and

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what is it to lose courage what is it to be discouraged

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I mean the word courage even you

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know the who most gracious person the word courage

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comes from the Latin word core COR which means

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heart to lose

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courage is to lose heart to

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be discouraged is to lose heart and whenever I think

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of that that phrase to lose heart I always think

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of there's a movie came out in the 90s called

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Brave Heart you guys heard of Brave Heart? Have you

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ever seen Brave Heart? Okay yes and no so Brave

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Heart is a story I

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don't know how much of it is historically accurate but

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here's the story of a man named William Wallace and

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William Wallace in the in the movie in the story

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is like the epitome of virtue he's the epitome

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of honesty the epitome

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of nobility he's just he speaks and

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lives the truth so so clearly and

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there's this There's a number of characters,

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but this other man named Robert the 16th

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Earl of Bruce. And Robert the Bruce, he's

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a politician. He's a son of politicians. He's

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the 16th Earl of Bruce. And

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basically William Wallace sees in Robert the

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Bruce the potential to unite the clans,

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right? He sees in Robert

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the Bruce the potential to... You could actually be

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the one. He goes, I'm just William Wallace. I'm

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just some guy. But you

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are Robert the 16th Earl of Bruce. And

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there's something in you that

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William Wallace sees and says, I believe in you.

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I trust you. At

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a critical moment in the movie, don't mean to

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give everything away, but it's like a thousand years

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old, the critical moment of the movie, Robert

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the Bruce betrays

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William Wallace. And

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they're on this battlefield in Falkirk, I

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believe, this battlefield. And there's a moment

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in the movie where William

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Wallace, the men around him are dying because they've

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been betrayed by Robert the Bruce. And

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he's about to be captured and almost killed.

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And he sees that this man's

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eyes, he sees Robert the Bruce's eyes and

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realizes, you're the one. You're

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the one who I trusted.

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And now all of

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these, my friends, my family, everyone

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near me is dying now because of you. And

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this convicts Robert

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the Bruce, right? So after this

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moment, he has a choice. And the choice is

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he could either say, yep, that's how it goes.

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I'm a politician. You know what?

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You make deals with whoever you make deals with, make

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alliances with whoever you make alliances with, or he could

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actually say it's time to change. So there's this scene

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after this where Robert the Bruce is talking to his

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father. Now his father's been pulling the strings behind the

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scenes for this because his brother has this skin disease.

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He's about to die. So he's like, I'm panning the

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baton to my son, Robert the Bruce. And Robert, he's

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saying his father says, Robert, this is the deal. You've

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done this. You made this agreement. you

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want. You're going to be the king. And

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Robert the Bruce says, lands, titles, nothing.

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It means nothing. And

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his father says, what do you mean nothing? And he

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says, Men fight

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for me because if they do not, I

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kick them off my lands and I starve their wives

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and children. The

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men fight for William Wallace because

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he believes and he

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has something and I took it from

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him, he says I took it from him and

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I saw it on his face in the battlefield and

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I betrayed him. And his father in

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this moment, see here is Robert

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the Bruce's chance, he

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can either stay in the

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dark, he can stay in

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this discouragement or he can step

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into the truth, he can step into humility and

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hope. And his father even

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tries to get him to stay in the dark. So this

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is listen, all men betray, all men

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lose heart and this is the

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moment where Robert the Bruce erupts and he makes

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his decision to

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not stay in this season of discouragement but

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to choose humility and to choose hope and he erupts

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and he says I don't want to lose heart. I

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want to believe like William

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Wallace and

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he makes the decision I will never be on the

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wrong side again. This is the two steps, right? The

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two step of humility and hope, the first step of

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humility is I'm going to acknowledge the truth, I'm going

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to step into the light and the second step of

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hope is I'm going to do something about it. This

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is for every one of us. If you find yourself

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in a season of discouragement, the two steps are humility.

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I'm going to step into the truth, I'm going to

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walk in the truth, I'm going to live in the

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truth and the second step of hope is I'm going

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to do something about it. This is so key for

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every one of us because humility, especially humility

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is to come to the truth that having fallen is

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not final. Humility

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is to say okay I've realized that I've

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failed but I'm not going to

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hide. The recipe for discouragement is to realize

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the truth and

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then to ignore it. The

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second step for discouragement is to realize the truth and

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then to hide from it. That's why I love in

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the first reading today. Here's Peter and

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John and they're preaching to the Jews in Acts

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chapter 4 and they're basically they're

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bold In fact, the rest of acts chapter

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4 says that they saw Peter and John

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and saw how boldly they proclaimed the name

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of Jesus But they're proclaiming

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this truth And Peter

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says he says here's Jesus. He was the

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stone rejected by you. He's telling them the

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truth And they have

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the opportunity. He's a stone rejected by you, rejected

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by you and he is the name He's

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the one to which all people will be

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saved. There's no other name given to human

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beings, but humanity will be saved That's that's

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the truth and Every person listening to

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that has the opportunity. I can either ignore that truth.

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I can hide from that truth I can deny that

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truth. I can run away from that truth Or

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I can accept that truth and I can live in that truth And

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this is the same thing is true for all of us the

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truth is that

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by my sins I Have

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rejected the only one who's ever really loved

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me The truth is that by my sins

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I have actually made myself an enemy of God

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himself And

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I can either hide from that truth and run from that

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truth and live in the spirit of discouragement and a season

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of discouragement That will last my entire life life or

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I can step into that truth And

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I can do something about it But

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here's the important thing. I Need

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to have the whole truth. I think

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too often too often we hear the gospel. We only hear half

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truth Half truth is like oh

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no because of my sins Here is Jesus

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who died or as Peter is

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proclaiming to these Jews in Acts chapter

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4 You rejected

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the stone But

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Peter tells the whole truth and we need to know the

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whole truth The whole truth

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is this I have failed. I have

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sinned. I betrayed and he loves me

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That I failed and he wants to reconcile me.

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I have betrayed and he wants to restore me

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This is this is the thing that every one

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of us we need to if we're truly going

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to be humble We're truly going to live the

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truth. We need to be convicted of this double

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truth this double conviction first. I'm convinced by

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my sins and secondly I'm convinced of his

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love for me. Every one

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of us needs this. I mean for

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crying out loud, here's Peter who's courageous in this

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day. Why? He's courageous in this day because he's

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experienced that himself. He's courageous

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because remember we all know the story. We

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all know the story that at the moment

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when Jesus needed Peter the most what happens?

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He denies knowing him. Imagine that moment when

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the cock crows and Peter looks up and

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he sees Jesus across the way looking straight

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at him. That's the moment that Peter knew

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like I didn't just break a rule, I

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didn't break a law, I didn't break a

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commandment. I broke my

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best friend's heart. Jesus

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trusted in me and

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I betrayed him and I saw

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it in his eyes. That's

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the truth. The

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whole truth is a number of days

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later after Jesus rose from the dead, Peter

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with a couple of the people are fishing on

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the Sea of Galilee and on the shore of

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the Sea of Galilee is Jesus once again and

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as they get to shore and they're sitting across from

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each other over a charcoal fire,

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Jesus with those same eyes looks at Peter and

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he asks him, Simon son of John do you

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love me? And

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Peter has a choice. He was

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convicted by his sin. I

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saw it in his eyes when I betrayed him. Will

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he tell the whole truth and live

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the whole truth and be convinced of his love?

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And would he say, he says, yes, Lord, you know I love you and

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Jesus says what he says, then feed my sheep. This

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is so important for every one of us because

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unless we're going to actually enter into humility, like

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truly enter into the truth that I'm convicted by

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my sin but I'm also convinced of his love

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for me in the midst of my sin, we

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will never ever be able to escape discouragement. This

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is what happens for every one of us. When

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Jesus knows us, then

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we don't have to be afraid to come to him. And

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that's the truth. That's what the gospel says, right? Here is

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the gospel. of John today, and here is

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Jesus who says, I'm the good shepherd, I'll lay

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down my life for my sheep. But

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he goes on to say, these words that

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just are so powerful, he says, and I

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know mine, and mine know me.

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What's that mean? What does it mean

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for Jesus to say, I know you? I

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think it means a lot of things, but one of the things it

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means is that he's not surprised by

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your weakness. One

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of the things it means when Jesus says, I

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know you, is he's not shocked

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when you've fallen or failed. I

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think oftentimes we are though. I

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think when we encounter our weakness, we

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get discouraged because we're surprised. There's

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a man, his name's Kajatin of Bergamot, he

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said it like this, he said, said those who are

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humble, right, the honest steps in the truth, he says,

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he was humble even though he failed through frailty, soon

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repents with sorrow and implores the divine assistance

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to help him amend, he goes on to say, nor is he

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astonished at having fallen, because he

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knows that of himself, he's only capable of evil and

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would do far worse if God did not protect him

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with his grace. Think

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about how often we are

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discouraged because we're surprised at our weakness.

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The Kajatin says, now you're not

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astonished at having fallen, the humble person, the

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one who tells the truth isn't astonished. She

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goes on to say, however upright

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we might be, we must

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never be scandalized or amazed at the conduct

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of others or consider ourselves better than them

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because we do not know what is ordained

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for them or for us in

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the supreme disposition of God. A

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mark of humility is that willingness

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that I'm not gonna be shocked at my

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weakness, I'm

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not gonna be surprised when I fail.

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A mark of humility is I'll never be discouraged and

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I know that's hard, it's

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really hard actually. I was debating whether I

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was gonna say this or not, but I'll say it. So

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last Sunday night, in

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the midst of mass, I had this spirit

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of discouragement that just really attacked me. That's

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what it felt like. That's what it felt like. It was

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just one of these things where I was preaching, I was

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doing mass and stuff, and I just felt like, okay, I'm

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not being clear. I feel like I'm yelling at everybody. I

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was just like, it feels like all

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this, everything I wanted

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all the students to hear that night, it's

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just like nothing is resonating, nothing's landing, and

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I'm just completely bombing. I'm completely failing. And

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it was one of those situations where, even

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during mass, I'm like, I just want this to be over.

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Like I wanna pray, I wanna just get to the end

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of mass, and I wanna sneak out the side. I don't

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wanna say hi to anyone. I don't wanna greet anyone. I

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don't wanna talk to anyone. I just want to go hide.

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And like all night, all night, and even

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the next day, it's only kind of shaken

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off a little bit now. This spirit

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of just this discouragement and sadness. And

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I realize this truth

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that Kajita Nurburgamal points out, that

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the painful truth is that it's not

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sin that leads us to discouragement. I

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mean, it's not in the midst of all your work,

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it's not all the stuff you need to do that leads

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to discouragement. It's not failure that leads to discouragement. It's

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not, it's

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pride. If

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you experience discouragement, it's actually

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all just comes from pride. It

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comes from this place of, oh,

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I should be better. Because what

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comes from this, comes from this place of, I

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shouldn't need God's help this much. Every

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time you and I experience discouragement, really

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the source is, I

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should be able to do this on my own. I

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shouldn't fail. I shouldn't fall. I

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should be stronger. I should be better than I

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actually am, as opposed

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to just standing in the truth. saying, God,

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this is me as I am.

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Please God, come to help me as

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I am. The

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recipe to get out of that

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season of discouragement is

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to choose to enter into the

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truth. Jesus is not surprised by

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your sins, neither should you be. Jesus

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is not surprised by your weakness,

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and neither should you be. So

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humility and hope, right?

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To acknowledge the truth and then to do something about

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it. Again, venerable Bruno

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Lantieri, if I should

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fall a thousand times, I will not

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lose courage, I will not be troubled.

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I will simply immediately say with peaceful

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repentance, now I begin, just begin

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again. That's the secret for hope. Like

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I don't feel hopeful, doesn't matter. You

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could live hope. I don't feel

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like there's a lot of hope

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for the future. Listen, there's

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too many things to do. Do

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one thing. Do you feel like you're

20:59

behind the eight ball? Like I'm trapped and I'm stuck?

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Just do one thing. You sometimes feel

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so completely overwhelmed by all the things that have to get done, and

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they're not gonna get done, and they're not gonna be done perfectly, and

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they're not gonna be done the way I want, and they're not gonna

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get the grade I want, I'm not gonna get the job I want,

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I'm not gonna have the teacher I want. Simply

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acknowledge the truth and then

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do something. What

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do I do? Well, it's really simple. Just

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simply do the next right thing. That's

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it. When

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you find yourself in that season of discouragement, okay,

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I'm gonna step into the truth, knowing the truth

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of I've fallen, but also there is a God

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who loves me. I

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wish I was stronger, but there's a God

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who loves me in my weakness. That's the

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truth of humility, and now I'm

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gonna move. We realize this,

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pride loses its power the moment we

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turn to God, and

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discouragement loses its power the

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moment we move, because

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you're not alone. And

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just simply doing the next right thing is the

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only thing that you're being asked to do. So

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St. Joan of Arc, at one point, St. Joan of Arc

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was asked the question if she was afraid. That

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someone had said, you know, basically, you're going to

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be amongst all these soldiers, all these people who

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could actually do you grave harm. And

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St. Joan of Arc, in response to this question, are

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you afraid, she said, essentially,

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she says, I'm not afraid because

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God is with me. And

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I was born to do this. She

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didn't say, I'm not afraid because I'm super strong,

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I'm super good at what I do. She didn't

22:38

say, I'm not afraid because I got this taken

22:40

care of. She didn't say, I'm not afraid because

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I'm going to do this perfectly. I'm not afraid,

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two reasons. Because

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God is with me. That's the truth.

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And she also said, I was born to do this. And

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that's the truth. So

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what is this? In

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her case, this was to go to the Dauphin and convince

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him to be king. What

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is your this? Like

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when it comes to life, when it comes to the thing

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you were born to do, what

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is your this? It's

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really simple. Today,

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your this is simply the next

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right thing. So

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for our students, it's okay, the

23:26

assignment, just start writing. For our

23:28

students, it's, it's, I need to

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study, okay, just open the book. For

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students, it's okay, I experienced this sadness

23:35

for myself the other night, like, experience the sadness, okay,

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just go to the chapel. For

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any of us who find ourselves in a spirit or

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season of discouragement. But

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you want to be the kind of person who's the

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most courageous person that you know. What

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do we have to do? It's

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overwhelmingly simple. Do

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not lose heart. But

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be brave. Be

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courageous. Stand

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in the whole truth that this is the truth

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about my weakness and this is the truth of

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God's love for me. This is the truth of

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how I've failed and this is the truth

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of how God is strong. And

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then move and simply

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do the next thing. And

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even if you fail again, even

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if you fall again, even if

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you struggle again, even if that

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season, that temptation for a season

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of discouragement persists, simply

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stand in the truth. Do

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the next right thing and simply

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say once more, nukhjepi.

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Now I begin.