Shadowing Practice: 폴 워셔 목사님: '거룩함에 이르는 열쇠 (THE KEY TO HOLINESS)' - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let's open your Bible to Matthew 6.
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While you're looking there, I'd like to just read something from Luke 11 that corresponds with Matthew 6.
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It says, And it happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray,
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just as John also taught his disciples.
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Jesus did a lot of amazing things.
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He was the most outstanding figure in history.
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I've just spent about the last three months just looking at Gethsemane.
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And the only thing I could do when I would come into the office every day was say, He's amazing.
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He's utterly amazing.
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He was amazing in everything that He did.
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He walked upon the water.
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He calmed seas.
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He raised the dead.
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He took on hell without even lifting a finger and defeated it.
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He was utterly amazing.
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But what I find amazing here is that his disciples never came to him and asked this, Lord, teach us to preach.
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Lord, teach us to walk upon the water.
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Lord, teach us how to cast out demons.
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I mean, when I want to know something, for example, if I wanted to know how to become strong,
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I wouldn't go to a 90 pound weakling to find out how to be strong.
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I would go to a power lifter to find out how to be strong.
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If I wanted to know how to play basketball, I wouldn't look in the mirror.
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I'd go talk to Michael Jordan.
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I would pick out people who excelled in a certain area, and they would be the ones that I would draw my advice from.
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Well, looking at Jesus, knowing all the great things that He did, I would try to pick out the greatest thing He did, and that would be the thing I would ask Him to teach me.
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And isn't it amazing that what they asked Him to teach them was how to pray.
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No one prayed like He prayed.
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No one.
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No one prayed as Jesus prayed.
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Have you ever had someone come up to you and say this, Would you please teach me to pray?
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Like you pray.
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Now, let's go look at the prayer in greater extent in Matthew six.
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He says in verse nine, pray then in this way, our father who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name, your kingdom come,
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your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Here we see first of all the perfect psyche, the perfect way to approach God in prayer, our Father.
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It is amazing that a teeming mass of rebels could be so redeemed that they could go before God,
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before whom the seraphim bow and call him Father.
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It's absolutely amazing.
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And so we can go before him secure in his strength and his grace.
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And yet at the same time, the other side of that is acknowledging that our father is in heaven.
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I remember a picture that was taken, I believe, back in the 60s or possibly the 50s.
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Well, when John F.
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Kennedy was in office.
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And the picture is taken
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while he's seated there in his chair in the Oval Office behind his desk
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and you can see through his desk and there is his little child playing there underneath the opening of the desk.
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Here's the most powerful man in the world at the time.
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And yet, because this child is a son, he plays at his feet.
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So we have both of these things.
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We have this idea of I go before my father,
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always remembering that my father is the Lord of heaven and the Lord of earth.
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And so we have both a peace and a trembling.
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We have security and trembling.
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Someone asked me one time, what is it like to pray?
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Sometimes it's like a very, very peaceful, dark night with all the stars shining as you look out the window.
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Sometimes it's like a cool breeze blowing through the room.
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And sometimes it's like kneeling down three feet away from an F5 tornado.
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That's who he is.
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And sometimes you need to understand that the closer we draw to this God,
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the more wonderful and the more dangerous it becomes.
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Our Father who art in heaven.
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Now, what is his first petition?
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Hallowed be thy name.
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What does that mean?
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Hallowed be thy name.
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We could say this separate.
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Be thy name.
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That is so powerful.
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We could say this unique be your name.
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And it may not sound that great to you, but just think about it for a moment.
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Most people, when they think about God as being holy, they think God, it means God is sinless.
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Well, God is sinless, but that's not the primary mean of holiness.
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I think Burkhoff sets it forth really, really well when he talks about an ethical holiness and he talks about a majestic holiness.
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The word holy means to cut.
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And then cutting to be separate, to be unique, to be in a complete category of the other.
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What does it mean that God is holy?
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There is no one like God.
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It's not that He's like us, just bigger.
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He's not like us at all.
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All of us in creation fit neatly into a single category.
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God is not in that category.
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He's entirely other.
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And to treat God as holy is to recognize Him to be in a category,
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a singular category separated from all other things and higher, loftier, and exalted.
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What does it mean when he says, hallowed be thy name?
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It was his desire that every creature in heaven and on earth would see God in that other category.
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That they would esteem God as God esteems Himself.
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That they would place Him there in their own hearts above absolutely everything else else,
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no competing loyalties, which is actually what blessed are the pure in heart means.
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Blessed are those who have no competing loyalties in their heart.
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Hallowed be thy name.
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Had a Greek professor who always said you have to look inward and outward in this text.
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You can't cry out, Hallowed be thy name in all the world, unless first you cry out, Hallowed be your name in me.
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And this is not just about rule keeping or commandment keeping or dressing like a Puritan
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or looking like you stepped out of a Pride and Prejudice movie.
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This is not about looking ancient.
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It's a matter of the heart.
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You may be the wildest man.
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You may be uncontrollable like the sea.
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You may do better in the woods than in a library.
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But if you have known Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead,
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if He has entered into your heart, then He becomes the controlling passion.
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And that is the key to holiness.
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Because I'll be very honest with you.
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To some degree, I guess you could say about me, I'm somewhat wild and profane.
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I don't care about religion.
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I don't like most of it. But there is Christ.
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Crucified and raised from the dead.
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And he is the one who controls the heart.
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Everything for him because of who he is, because of what he's done, because of what he will do.
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That controls us.
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That makes us want him and to seek him and to do his will and to be pleasing to him.
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To be holy.
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If you begin with morality.
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When you talk about holiness, it will always lead to legalism.
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But when you begin relationally.
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Who is this God?
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How holy and beautiful and glorious and worthy is he?
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How has he so won my heart?
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I hear in conferences like these all the time, you know, son, give me your heart.
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When your child's heart has not the father won our hearts.
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And in winning our hearts, he controls the rest of us.
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What does it mean to be holy?
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It is to know more of who God is and what God has done for us in Christ,
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and that captivates our heart and drives us to love him.
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And then everything else falls in place.
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We don't look at how well we dot every I and cross every T, we only look at him.
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And our rule is love to God and love to men. Do everything.
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For those two great loves.
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Now, when Jesus says hallowed be thy name.
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In heaven, on earth.
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There's something that I want you to see.
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This is missional.
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I don't like to use that terminology, but it's a good term to use here.
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It should be your passion that in every place on this globe.
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Men and women and children are separating God in their heart to love him,
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to serve him and to make him known.
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At heart cry, I guess our great motto is from Malachi 1 11 that his name be great among the nations.
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That his name be treated as holy, as distinct among the nations.
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You know, we talk about.
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His brother Pollard mentioned the electric cowboy.
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Someone that just doesn't do ministry anymore, just goes around and preaches in conferences.
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I think he was talking about me.
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I had shared that with him.
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Do you think that getting your name on a website or preaching in a conference means anything to God?
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It doesn't.
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This is just a tiny little world here.
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But there's a great big world outside of the homeschool community, outside of all our doors.
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And this is a time like no other in the history of the world.
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The nations are being moved right now.
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Europe will be changed in the next few months and has been changed in the next few months, more than it was changed by World War II.
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And you can shake your head and say it's all bad.
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I look at a glorious opportunity to witness to people, to make the gospel known.
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What was the heart of our Lord?
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What drove Him?
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It was this.
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He desired that the name of God be great among the nations.
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He desired that the nations would separate the name of Yahweh and set it in a category far above all other things. And you and I.
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No one's ever lived in a time like this.
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I see so many people violating the wisdom of scripture, talking about the good old days.
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There have never been better days to be alive.
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Never.
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With communication, with media, with travel, with the ability, as Dr. Beek, he said, to publish, to make known.
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It's phenomenal the opportunity that has been given to us.
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Yet we must work while it is day for night cometh when no man works.
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I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet, but I would not be surprised if I spend my last days in prison.
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But until the door is slammed.
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I must take this great open door that has been given to me and the rest of the church.
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Look in history, there has never been a time like this.
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It's not a time.
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For tight spirits and narrow minds.
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Greedy hearts.
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It's a time for broad-shouldered men.
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It's a time for strong hearts.
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It's a time for risky men.
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It's a time to go forth in the name of our Lord
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and see that his name be made great among the nations.
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Dear brothers, I.
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I know a missionary, Brother Pollard knows him too.
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He's a reformed Baptist missionary in Asia, maybe one of the greatest missionaries alive today.
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And I don't say that lightly.
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If he came back here to the United States and people have told him this, why do you not come?
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If you came back to the United States, you would have such a platform.
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Your church would be gigantic.
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You're so godly.
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You're such a great expositor, your knowledge of the world.
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And this is what he said.
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Why would I come back to a nation of what?
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Two hundred and fifty, three hundred million people when I can work in a nation with one point two billion people.
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You see, we think somehow that if your name is known here, that then you're on the top of the list.
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That is absolutely absurd.
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Someone asked J.I.
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Packer one time, who's the greatest preacher alive?
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J.I.
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Packer said, you don't know him.
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You don't know him.
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You don't know him.
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It's probably some little man preaching to six people in a hut.
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I'll conclude.
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There's a girl I know.
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She went home to be with the Lord.
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About two months ago.
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We called her Seti.
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And I can say where she was now because no one can touch her where she is now.
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She is in Indonesia.
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Born to a Muslim family.
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She came to know the Lord.
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Her parents imprisoned her.
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And then they decided to execute her.
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Her sister, even though she hated her for being converted, couldn't bear with the fact of having her sister killed by her parents, so she left the door open one night.
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She escaped.
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Then her mother fell into a coma.
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And so she actually came back to the family, knowing that she might be killed because she wanted to minister.
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She wanted to care for her mother.
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And so they basically enslaved her.
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And so she stayed there in the room with her mother who was in a coma, and she was only allowed to eat what her mother vomited on the floor.
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And she lived that way for months.
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Finally, some believers I know were able to get in there, rescue her, sneak her out.
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Then she went with another young lady up to a village To preach the gospel there.
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And why did she go alone with another woman?
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Why was there a Deborah?
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Because there weren't any men courageous enough to go into that village.
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I went to visit her.
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While she was working in that village, this is a village where you can be raped if you're a woman.
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You're not a Muslim.
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And yet when I saw her walk out of her little cement or mud building,
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she was living in, I noticed that there were some young teenagers.
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1920 standing there on the sidewalk, and I thought when she walks out, what's going to happen?
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And when she walked out.
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They greeted her and sort of bowed their head.
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And treated her with honor, she walked by.
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She and the other worker said this, a lot of times when foreigners come here, they lie to people with regard to why they're here.
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And then sooner or later, the people find out why they're really here to preach the gospel and they hate them.
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They don't trust them because they're liars.
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We come into the village and we tell them that we are Christian and they threaten us with our lives.
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They may beat us, pour urine and garbage on our heads, make our lives miserable.
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But if we can sustain, if we can continue walking with Christ, eventually we will win their honor by the way we respond.
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No, no friend, there's no great preachers.
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Here today.
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Not compared to that.
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I could stand here for the next 12 hours and just go down a list.
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of little men and women who if they ate in your house and they were eating chicken, they just throw the bones on the floor, they wouldn't know any different.
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Of one preacher who saw a light in a missionary's house, saw a light and said, can I have one of those?
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And so the missionary gave him a light socket, a light bulb and a cord.
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Then the missionary went to visit that man a few weeks later and the man said the light won't work.
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I hung it up just well, there wasn't any electricity in the house.
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He just thought it would work.
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I mean, what a primitive little man who is worth more gold in glory than a thousand of me.
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For his preaching and his stand for the gospel.
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I want you to realize something.
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Nothing, we don't live in a time where we can cloister ourselves.
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We don't live in a time where we should cloister ourselves.
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We should dwell with God.
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We should be with him.
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We should study his word.
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We should revel in the gospel, but only with this great purpose of taking the gospel in the world, because I want you to know something.
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No one, no one, not the apostles, not the Puritans, not the reformers.
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No one has lived in an age like our age.
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No one.
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I was just discussing with the brothers here.
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There's a Muslim country.
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You wouldn't even believe it.
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And there is a reformed publisher there who has gotten permission to publish.
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All the things that are going on are astounding right now.
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We could use a bunch of really, really strong young men to go over in those refugee camps around the world and preach the gospel.
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There are doors opening up everywhere.
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Everywhere.
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Last thing I'd like to say is this.
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Please understand my heart, I'm just going to say it straight up.
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I'll talk to the young men.
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One of the things.
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That I think has happened in the homeschool movement.
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And I homeschool and I promote homeschool.
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But young men.
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We've raised up a bunch of boys.
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Who buy adventure clothing out of a catalog.
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Dream about swords and dragons and riding horses.
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Buy toys and read books.
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But they're soft.
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Men.
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You may talk about homeschooling.
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Your homeschool dad.
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Are you a homeschool dad or are you just married to a homeschool mom? And have your boys.
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Let me ask you a question, because in public school, people always say this, why don't send my boys to public school?
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One of the reasons I don't want them to be raised by women.
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Yeah, but are your boys being raised by a woman?
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Are they being raised by a man? Can they do calligraphy?
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My question is, can they fight?
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There's a world out there and it's it's ugly and it's bad
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and it hurts and it's wicked and you've got to be tough as nails.
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And we need young men who are going to have wounded knees
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and calluses also on their hands who are not going to play adventure.
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They don't want adventure.
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They just want to go somewhere and die for Christ.
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Men, get more involved in raising your boys.
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Men, get more involved in making them men.
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And you're not going to again make them men by dressing them up in an adventure suit.
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Or just putting boots on their feet.
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Or putting some silly plastic sword in their hand.
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Let them be raised around men, act like a man, teach them to be men, teach them to be soldiers,
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teach them to take this opportunity to go out and do these things that in many ways around the world,
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women are doing because there are not any men brave enough to do it.
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This is the time to have the same passion of our Lord.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “폴 워셔 목사님: '거룩함에 이르는 열쇠 (THE KEY TO HOLINESS)'”. This video has 304 sentences and 3214 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:11. The speaker talks at a steady 133 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hallow verb | /ˈhæloʊ/ | To make holy, to sanctify. |
| preach verb | /pɹit͡ʃ/ | To give a sermon. |
| homeschool verb | To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution. | |
| holiness noun | /ˈhoʊlinəs/ | The state or condition of being holy. |
| disciple noun | /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/ | A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others. |
| preacher noun | /ˈpɹit͡ʃɚ/ | Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman. In a religious… |
| cloister noun | /ˈklɔɪstə/ | such an arcade in a monastery; |
| crucify verb | /ˈkɹuːsɪfaɪ/ | To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross. |
| packer noun | /ˈpækɚ/ | A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation |
| sinless adjective | /ˈsɪnləs/ | Without sin; never having sinned. |
| tremble verb | /ˈtɹɛmbl̩/ | To shake, quiver, or vibrate. |
| coma noun | /ˈkoʊmə/ | A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma. |
| esteem verb | /ɪˈstiːm/ | To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. |
| prophet noun | /ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/ | Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. |
| utterly adverb | /ˈʌtɚli/ | Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| pick out verb | To remove by picking. |
| walk out verb | To stage a walkout or strike. |
| blow through verb | To expend or waste rapidly. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| come up to verb | To approach. |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Someone asked me one time, what is it like to pray?
- He's not like us at all.
- Because I'll be very honest with you.
- How has he so won my heart?
- My question is, can they fight?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've just spent · have known · has entered |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | will be done · was taken · is taken |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who excelled · loyalties, which is · those who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, ethical /ˈɛθɪkəl/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- Long words — get the stress right: calligraphy /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/, relationally /ɹəˈleɪʃənəli/, terminology /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, phenomenal /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hallow, preach, homeschool.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.