शैडोइंग अभ्यास: A Living Sacrifice – Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें
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Peace be with you, friends.
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For this 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, I want to begin with a very brief second reading taken from Paul to the Romans.
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And I've said to you before, Paul, the first great theologian, in some ways all of theology is a footnote to Paul, and then Romans is his greatest work.
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And so it's where all theologians look, it's where all Christian theology begins in a way.
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Well, the little passage today, it's only a few lines, but boy, is it pack a punch.
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And I want to unpack this a little bit now today.
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Let me just tell you now, here's how it begins.
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I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
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Now to get this, we have to go back to the youth of St. Paul.
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So he's Saul, Shaul they would have said in his Hebrew, from Tarsus, so he's a Jew of the Diaspora.
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young man, knows the Hebrew scriptures and also knows Greek philosophy and so on.
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He's then sent to Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish world, to study with Gamaliel, the great rabbi.
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And while he's there in Jerusalem, what would he have known?
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He would have known very well all of the rituals and practices around the holy temple.
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Now, what happened at the temple?
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Well, there's some teaching went on there.
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That's true.
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There were scribes and so on.
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But the main focus of the temple in Jerusalem was sacrifice, largely animal sacrifice.
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Though there was grain sacrifice too, there were thank offerings as well.
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Now, sacrifice—we'll use that word but in a very metaphorical sort of way—the man made a sacrifice,
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or there's a sacrifice bunt in baseball—but sacrifice was so essential to the religious consciousness of the ancient world, and especially of ancient Israel.
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The word, our word, sacrificium in Latin comes from sacrifacere, to make holy.
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All the sacrifices of the temple, thank offerings, offerings of praise, grain offerings, and especially animal offerings,
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holocausts, offered up were what?
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They were attempts to affect a reconciliation between divinity and humanity.
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Now, that word, of course, is very interesting, reconciliation.
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It comes from, the Latin roots are eyelash to eyelash.
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Cilia are the eyelashes.
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So, to be reconciled means brought back eyelash to eyelash.
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So, we're alienated from each other from God, we're wandering in a far country.
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To be reconciled is to be brought now face to face again with God.
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To be made holy, sacrum facere, right?
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To make holy.
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So that was what the sacrifice was all about.
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Now, some of these were relatively, you might say, peaceful and effortless.
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If I just want to offer thanksgiving to God.
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It didn't cost me all that much.
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But a sin offering.
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I know I'm a sinner, and I'm coming seeking the forgiveness of God.
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I'm seeking to repair this broken relationship.
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What did I do?
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I brought an animal to the temple.
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The throat of the animal would be slit, and the animal would die.
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The blood poured out, and the animal's body offered up.
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What was going on inside the psychology of someone making that sacrifice?
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Well, it's, this animal represents me.
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This, by right, should be happening to me.
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In the suffering and death of this animal, I'm offering myself, Lord, painfully back to you.
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I'm being brought back online with the God from whom I have been unreconciled." So,
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sacrifice was all about bringing divinity and humanity together.
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So, young Saul of Tarsus, he gets all this.
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He lives in the shadow of the temple.
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Then he met the crucified and risen Jesus.
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That experience, as he's going to persecute the church on the road to Damascus.
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He's knocked to the ground, and the light shines around him, and he hears that voice, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
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He meets the risen Jesus, and everything changes.
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Or better, I really shouldn't say that, not everything changes.
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Better, everything he knew about his Israelite religion,
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including the temple now has been transposed into a different key.
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It now takes on a new purpose and focus.
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It's been brought into a higher context of meaning.
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What does he see now that he's met the risen Lord?
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He sees that all of Israel, and that means the covenant, that That means Torah, that means the prophets,
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and it means the temple and its sacrifices.
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All have been brought up into Christ.
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Christ recapitulates, draws to himself all the great traditions of Israel.
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So that now, listen, listen, it's the heart of Christianity.
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Now, Jesus in person is the point of reconciliation.
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Don't we say in our theological language that in him two natures, divine and human, come together?
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Right.
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In his person, he is the reconciliation of divinity and humanity.
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He's the fulfillment of the covenant and the Torah, and he is the supreme sacrifice.
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All of the millions of sacrifices made in
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that temple over hundreds of years are now gathered together into his one great sacrifice.
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Jesus is the fulfillment of Israel.
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Now, watch Paul, by the way.
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Shaul has become the apostle Paul, ringing the changes on this idea all throughout his letters.
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Okay?
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Now, let's take one more step before we get back to this little passage.
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One more step.
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When he met Jesus and he heard those haunting words, because they're repeated, Paul, they come up again and again in the Acts of the Apostles.
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Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
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Well, Saul is persecuting the church, right?
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But Jesus so identifies himself with his church that he can say, Saul, you're persecuting me.
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The church, and Paul is so insistent on this, is not just a club of like-minded people,
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not a society of people that love Jesus.
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No, no, much more radical and dramatic than that.
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The church is a mystical body, cells, molecules, organs of the body of Christ,
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which means, the last step.
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The church itself, you and I, all the baptized, we are meant to be the place where divinity and humanity come together.
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We are the sacrifice.
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We are the reconciliation.
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What Jesus effected through his cross and resurrection, now we participate in that.
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Okay, with all that background in mind, listen again to Paul.
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I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
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Now, this is a Jew talking.
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He's not distinguishing body, soul here in the way a Greek might.
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When he says your bodies, he means you.
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He means you.
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To offer yourself as a living sacrifice.
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You become the place where God's will meets the human will.
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God's mind meets the human mind.
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God's purpose meets the human purpose.
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God's will is determining your private life.
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God's will is determining your public life.
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God's will is animating your friendships.
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God's will is what your professional life is all about.
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You see what's happening?
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Becoming a living sacrifice means everything in you is now turned to God.
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May every thought, every action,
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every impulse, every emotion, everything in you directed to God.
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And now, what does this become?
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Listen as Paul goes on.
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You offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.
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What was going on in the temple?
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Worship, by means of sacrifice.
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What's worship?
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I've said to you before from the older English word, worth-ship.
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It's turning to what's of highest value.
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That's worship.
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Now, fellow sinners, we all worship something, right?
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And it's typically something other than God, which is our whole problem.
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What's Paul saying here?
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In making of your whole life a living sacrifice, you are now turned to God in right praise.
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You're not praising anything else, nothing in this world.
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You are praising God, turned in every aspect of your life toward God,
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becoming thereby a living sacrifice.
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Now listen as he goes on.
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Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
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See, what's it mean to be conformed to the age?
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That means I'm worshiping things that every sinner around me worships.
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That means sex and pleasure and money and power and country and family and everything else that gets worshiped.
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When I turn my energies and my powers and everything in me to these false gods, I get off kilter.
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I become sort of cattywampus.
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I'm lost.
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See what Paul's saying is when you worship a right, when you become a rightly ordered living sacrifice, now we're talking.
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listen as he closes this little passage, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
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Now listen, I'm going to give you a model for your whole life.
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Not that I follow this.
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It's very hard for us sinners to follow this.
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But here's the formula.
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What's the will of God?
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Okay, now, is my mind attuned to the will of God?
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is my will attuned to the will of God?
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Are my passions and emotions in service of a mind and will that are attuned to the will of God?
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Are my friendships in line with the will of God?
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Is the way I seek entertainment in accord with the will of God?
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Is my private life in accord with the will of God?
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Is the way I lead my public life in my work?
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You see, you may discern the will of God, and then turn your life in accordance with that will,
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you become a living sacrifice.
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Okay, just a quick word about the gospel, which sheds great light on this.
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So, Jesus now says to his disciples, whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
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take up his cross, and follow me.
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Now, for us, the cross has become a religious symbol.
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We put it up on walls and it probably gives a sense of peace, you know, if anything.
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They knew about crosses.
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The people he's talking to here, they knew all about them.
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They saw them.
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They saw people writhing in their death throes for days at a time on Roman crosses.
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They knew exactly what that meant.
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It meant supreme suffering.
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So when he says blithely, whoever wants to follow me must take up his cross.
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Well, see, why?
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Why?
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because we're off kilter, because our wills aren't properly directed, right?
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Because everything I just named is not ordered to God's will, but to something else.
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Therefore, bringing us back online is going to feel like a sacrifice.
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And I mean now those bloody sacrifices offered in the Jerusalem temple.
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What's happening to this poor animal, his blood poured out, he's dying in front of me, ought to be happening to me.
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Getting online with God is not a walk in the park.
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It's a sacrificial business.
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Listen, whoever wishes to save his life will lose it.
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See, what's the life he's losing?
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That old one, that off kilter, that weird life where I'm worshiping something other than God.
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You got to lose that life, and that's going to be painful.
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But see, when you become everybody a living sacrifice, that means your life is getting back online.
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And God bless you.
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