2018 KCC Graduation

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I have no idea. It may have been that song too.
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I don't know. I'm not going to guess. But, I thought
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I heard it over there when I was talking to Jim and Justin. I thought I heard some garbage and I thought is that our sound or some song?
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Is that the like technical sound? Garbage? No, that's just my whatever it is.
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You can use it, feel free. I would like to use it. Okay. Go for it. Garbage.
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No, not at all. You've met Jim, haven't you? Good to see you.
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No, I didn't. Good to see you guys. I'm old. I have a right.
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You do. Well, hopefully nobody comes back here. No. That's kind of the goal.
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I'm going to just announce everybody to be seated.
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Okay. That doesn't mean start the music. Okay. I'll be back here.
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Okay. I guess it's working.
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To the back.
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Keep going. That's not working.
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There we go. Okay. Please be seated. We're about to get started.
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While you're being seated, please turn off your cell phones or mute your cell phone.
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We will embarrass anyone whose cell phone goes off. And now, it is time!
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Let's meet your 2018 high school graduates. First, weighing in at 425 pounds and 8 ounces, a man known as the
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Boa, both because of his ride and because of his massive biceps.
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Born with far too many sweatshirts, this young man invented the sport known as barefoot trash haul stuntboarding.
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He's a master of opposites, being afraid of itty bitty spiders, loving the very literal oriented
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Disney movie Tangled, getting plans to pursue a career inspired by law enforcement.
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The man, the legend, it's who, Noah Black! Our next graduate has an unhealthy fear of spiders and an unhealthy fascination with cereal milk.
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Yet she's that person who loves the sad remnants of the bowl the left behind milk.
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Not in the fictional rapture series type of left behind, I just mean what's in the bowl, in our view, the cereal.
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She savors it by the spoonful, which is not right. Cereal milk is real and allows for each other equity from the bowl.
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No, this graduate makes her own way of life, so long as her own way is not blocked by spiders. Fighting for a career as a preschool teacher, welcome the young lady her parents referred to as Princess Cleep, Ansel McCarver!
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Next up, you're about to meet a graduate his mom calls Tall Town. I don't know,
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I think it's perhaps the most interesting thing to know about this young man is his greatest fear.
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He has a fear of sleeping through a zombie apocalypse. That's right, he's not afraid of the zombie apocalypse.
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He's afraid of missing the zombie apocalypse. Apparently, a zombie apocalypse could be so sudden and yet so silent that one can actually sleep through it.
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His future plans are set, he's joining our United States Air Force in September as a network intelligence analyst.
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He can't tell you anything more about it without having to kill you, so don't ask. Unless you're a zombie and he's asleep.
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Welcome, Brandon Barnett! And now, we have the graduate known for her sweetness, with nicknames like Baby Ruth and Pee Pee.
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She requires six hugs a day. Six hugs a day, isn't that so sweet? She loves her family, having even made a seven part
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YouTube series starring all her siblings. But under that layer of sweetness meets the heart of a warrior.
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If you are an aggressive chicken here tonight, be warned. An overzealous user once tore her favorite jeans.
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In a minute, chicken was expertly dispatched and stewing upon the stove. After graduation, she plans on becoming more involved in her parents' business and teaching courses on cooking and homemaking.
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Don't make any sudden moves. Here comes Lyndon Mitchell! Last and probably not least, the man who likes what you're doing with your face.
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He is half Mexican, which he gets from his father, who is completely
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Mexican. He has a few strange propulsions, one of which is that he can't stand having his sentence or song cut off before it's due.
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His optimism has led to his other nickname of Mexican, also related to the fact that his father is completely
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Mexican. He recently learned his passion for the beautiful stylings of the great musician
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Justin Bieber. Or hopefully still has a bright future somehow.
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Here he is, Mr. Spiritual, Bryce Arroyo! Everybody welcome your 2018 high school graduates!
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Thanks everyone for coming here this evening. I want to be the first to congratulate our rather ethnically diverse group of graduates this year.
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Congratulations on finishing the easiest part of your life. Up until this point, you've had somebody who has been able to schedule all of your activities, do your laundry, clean your house, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, do your laundry, going into any field, any occupation, or even into any ministry.
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And so in that passage, Paul's describing what a good servant of Christ Jesus is, and he gives two elements of it, two qualities.
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He is constantly nourished on the words of the faith, and he is constantly nourished on the sound doctrine that he has been following.
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Those are the two keys. Constantly nourished on the words of the faith and on the sound doctrine that he has been following. Now, the words of the faith is the words of Scripture.
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The words that communicate the context, the theology, the belief, the practice of the
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Christian faith. Timothy has been reared on this. Paul, in 2 Timothy chapter three, says to Timothy, you have known the
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Holy Scriptures from your childhood, which his mother and his grandmother, who were believing Jews, had taught young Timothy, so he knew the
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Scriptures. And then Paul tells him, in 2 Timothy chapter three, that he was to preach that word, he was to stand in that word, and to love that word, and to teach that word, and to rightly study and divide the word of truth so that he could be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
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So the one thing that you will, the first thing that you will need is a good servant of Christ Jesus, which I hope is your aspiration and your goal.
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And whatever it is that you're going in, is to be somebody who is constantly nourished on the words of the faith, and on the sound doctrine that you have been following.
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The words of the faith, again, are the words of Scripture. It is the truth of the word of God. And the fact that Paul uses the analogy of being nourished by it is significant, because all the way through Scripture, the word of God is likened to food.
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2 Peter chapter one describes, or chapter two describes being hungry for the pure milk of the word.
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Hebrews chapter six describes the meat of the word. The Old Testament, the prophets said, I eat thy words and love them. They were like, honey,
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Job likened the word of God to his daily sustenance, his daily food. David continually talked about the word of God as something sustained, as something that he was nourished by.
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And the word of God in the Old Testament is likened to bread. The man was a picture of that provision of God. So all the way through Scripture, the word of God is likened to something we eat or something we drink that nourishes us.
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And if you neglect the word of God in your life, in your ministry, and in your family, in your marriage, you will find that over the course of time, you will get to the point where you hunger for the word of God, but you don't know where you can get it.
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And you hunger for the word of God, but then you feel distant from it. Pretty soon, you will recognize that you no longer hunger for the word of God and you wonder why.
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And then you'll get to the point where you don't even remember. You'll be that far away from God's truth.
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Be constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine that you have been following. That's the second thing, the sound doctrine that we have been following.
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Sound doctrine flows from the right teaching of Scripture. Sound doctrine is right belief about God, right belief about Christ, right belief about eternal life, eternity, all things spiritual, all things in this world.
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That is sound doctrine. Sound doctrine relates to sound practice. Sound doctrine comes from the words of life, the words of truth and the
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Scripture themselves. So the word rightly taught will produce sound doctrine. Sound doctrine, rightly understood and practiced will result in sound practice or right practice and godly lifestyle.
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And so you need to be constantly nourished on the words of the faith and then of sound doctrine. Here would be my appeal to you.
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You will, all five of you have been in this church for quite some time. Not necessarily this building, you've only been here for an hour.
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But you've been in this church for quite some time. This part of this body. You have been taught the word of God from your youth, from your earliest days, from those who have taught you
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Sunday school, from Mr. Dave who has taught you through Z class. You have heard it in student ministries and you have heard it every time the word is spread.
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If you turn from that, you will not be a good servant of Christ Jesus. If you are not nourished by it and love the truth and sound doctrine, you will not be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
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In fact, you will find yourself to be quite useless after a period of time. If when you leave here, you are going to try and find a solid church where, and I would beg of you this, you're not tolerant for one incident, for one moment, a church that does not honor the
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Lord. You're not put up with, for one moment, silliness or false noxious. You don't know it.
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So you have no excuse. And I will chase you down and make you hate life.
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The age in which you young men and women, though you are not the greatest generation, the generation of time in which you are living that any generation in this country can ever face.
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If the trend line continues, you guys, your generation, you will be responsible for leading the church through the most difficult time.
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Your generation, you will be responsible to hold to the truth, to love to the truth, to defend the truth, and to never compromise the false doctrine, the false teachers, the false prophets, the false ideologies.
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That's what rests in your hand. Your task ahead, if the trend line continues, your task ahead is more than provoking the world.
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And that's what it was for me, and for Dave's generation, and for all of us. You guys have to work that out for me.
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The only way you will be able to do that is if you are a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of faith and the sound doctrines of the
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Father. What's most important for you is not whether you are an engineer or whether you're in the military or household.
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What's most important is not what you are planning to do. And all this presupposes that you understand what the gospel is and that you have embraced it.
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And I want to explain what that is for any of you who are here who have not understood what the gospel is and have not... The gospel is a good news about what
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Jesus Christ has done for sinners and what God has done in his Son for a lost humanity.
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Every individual in here is guilty of sin before the throne of God. Every individual who has ever lived has keeped up for themselves a rap sheet of crimes against a merciful, benevolent, good and holy and righteous
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God that deserves the justice of God. And we know that we are sinners. Scripture says that we are sinners.
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Our conscience bears witness to the fact that we are sinners. We can know that we are sinners because of the deeds that we do.
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Scripture tells us we're sinners because we have violated God's law. We have lied, we have stolen, we have lusted, we have coveted, we have dishonored our parents, we have not kept the
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Sabbath, we have not honored God with all of our hearts, our soul, our mind and our strength from the moment that we were born until this day.
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And if God were to give us justice, on the last day, we would get exactly what guilty rebels deserve.
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We would get eternal hell. That would be the just and the right and the good thing for God to do. And if God were to cast all of Adam's progeny, all of Adam's race into eternal hell, he would have done nothing that was not good.
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He would have done nothing evil. In fact, he would have done no injustice to us whatsoever if he had done that.
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Because that's what we would have earned. That's what we deserve. And if God had damned all of us, we would still be good.
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That would have been a good thing for God to do. But God also is good and wants to show his love and his grace and his mercy and to display his loving kindness and to display his redeeming nature and his good nature.
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So that's where Jesus Christ comes in. God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, stepped into human history and took upon himself a human body.
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He was made a man while maintaining his deity. He was the perfect God man and being perfect and infinitely righteous,
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Christ, an infinite and eternal Christ that our sin deserves. And he laid down his life and died in the stead of all who would trust him.
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And he promises you this day that you have never repented of your sin and that you'll deep upon Christ. He promises you this day that if you will come to him, that you will turn from your sin, your pride, your adultery, your adultery, your fornication, your lying, your feeding, your blasphemies.
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You'll turn from all of that and embrace Jesus Christ and believe upon him that the sacrifice that he made in your stead is sufficient to pay the price that you owe to a holy
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God. He promises you that he will give you eternal life, he will forgive your sin, and he will give you the righteousness of his
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Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lived a perfect life. He died a substitutionary death.
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He was buried in the grave on the third day and he rose again. And the offer of eternal life to all will turn in repentance and faith to him this day.
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If you do not embrace that offer and you die a rebel before a holy God, you will get rebels against a sovereign king of the desert.
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You'll be punished. This is my warning to you. The church has faced this in difficult times. The gospel will endure through all of them.
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The gospel is the good news of what God has done for sinners in Jesus Christ. And if you've never trusted Christ, I would beg of you this day to turn from your sin and believe upon him so that you may be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
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If you're not a believer, you're not a good servant of Christ Jesus because you don't get back to belong to Christ Jesus.
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You belong to the world. You are not gonna change the world, but you can stand against the onslaught of the world if you're a good servant of Christ Jesus.
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Father, we love you and we thank you for what you have done for us in the person of Christ. It is my prayer and desire that they see their need forgiven and vow to me that they may have eternal life, have their sins forgiven, and know that they have eternity in heaven awaiting them when they die.
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And may we do this for your glory, the sake of your son, and that we rejoice in that salvation together.
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Be pleased to draw mercy to you and you may be honored in Christ's new receipt and receive the reward for his suffering.
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♪ Surely come, sing your name ♪ ♪
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God is good, he is kind, he is wise ♪
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It's a little hard when you see 18 years of your life that go by. Just took a few notes because I wanted to make sure we say thanks to everyone that came to celebrate with us today.
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Graham is from California, you know.
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I'm just thinking about things to say and say to Noah.
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You know, we love you more. I was thinking about Ephesians 4 .1
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after Steve Rich preached on at church. Ephesians 4 .1, and I'll read it to you. It says, Therefore, I, the prisoner of the
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Lord, implore you to walk in a manner that is...
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In this verse, Paul gently reminds the Ephesian believers that faithful Christian walk can be costly and that he has paid a considerable price, personal price, because of his beliefs.
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The walk refers to the daily conduct and worthy has the idea of living to match one's position in Christ.
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The apostle Paul urges his readers to do everything the Lord desires and empowers them to be.
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For the first three chapters of Ephesians, Ephesians tells us who we are in Christ.
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And in the beginning verse in the fourth chapter, it says, walk worthy. Our desire for you,
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Noah, though it may be costly and that you may walk in a manner that is worthy and you are everything the
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Lord... Quick, some quick words.
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I wanna say thank you to my grandparents that are here. Thank you guys for making it up and come out. I remember when
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I was younger and I was in eighth, eighth to ninth grade, I needed help with school almost every day, just for a certain thing, whether math or English.
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Every day, I would go over to grandpa and grandma's apartment that they had and grandma would sit down and help me every day, whenever.
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And grandpa would take me back and forth, wherever. There's some stories behind that,
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I won't say. It's... It's not... So, thank you guys for coming out.
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I wanna say thank you, Joel. Thank you for just being my coach, my friend, my brother.
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And when people ask sometimes, your son. At the restaurant that I work with, at the restaurant, people think
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I'm Joel Sparrow and that he's the owner, so we'll walk up and like, so today...
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So, contact me now. So, thank you for always being there for me, for every transition, moving to Idaho a couple years ago, switching curriculums, but we got through it, we did good, and we're good now, we're graduating, so.
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I thank you guys, I love you guys. Thank you guys for coming. Thank you.
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Maths. We made it to graduation.
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There was question marks along the way. Whether or not you would finish, survive, even live through.
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But you made it through. Through all the things we've been going through. Kid travel school, family school, to finishing up your lives.
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Kid, kid, kid, kid. I'm saying two years of online school, self -driven, taking care of it, and teaching kids in the morning, finishing your school, and then dating that guy.
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Focus. Everything that's ever been thrown at you, do it.
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Mostly, actually, and I think, you know, you've accepted it more and more.
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And I'm so proud of what you've done, and if you're still willing to face life, I can listen to what you had to say earlier.
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It's out there for you. Enjoy it, embrace it, and by, you gonna say anything?
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Or am I done? No, you're done? Oh, she can't talk. I'm just gonna tell you, this actually is a diploma.
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I will present it to you by a power vested in you by absolutely nobody with my tax dollars, but if you're gonna be in the internet, you're gonna succeed.
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If you succeed, you're gonna make it. We were made to be courageous.
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We were made to lead the nation.
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We finally placed the chains. We were made to be courageous.
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We were made to build a good sideline while families slip away.
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We were so much more.
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We were so alone. We were made to be clandestine to the core.
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Children, who used to let them fall. Inside of me.
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In the surprise, currently, I'm not gonna speak while you can focus. I just wanted you to see this.
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And it was awesome, because there are always bad days, and then there are more good ones.
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You just gotta be careful what you say, because mom always gets revenge. I'm sorry,
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I do want to say that I am so incredibly proud of you, because I've known you through some challenges, especially since the fourth grade, and I've just watched you excel through them all, with a great attitude.
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Most of the time. So you're gonna graduate from MFA, yes, with a solid
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B average. I'm super, super impressed, especially with French three. But hey, he's the only boy in the class, so smart kid.
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Physics, great job. That's the glutton for no social life. So your senior year, you were a mentor at school, and you told me that you made it a point to know every kid's name in every class that you had.
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And then you learned all your MCs. And I can tell you that knowing a person's name, and calling them by their name, makes a person feel very special.
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And it's something that you've inspired me, as a mom, to do that in life, and so thank you for that.
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It's been my absolute privilege to be on the music team with you for the last couple of years.
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I have to tell you that I cried the first day you played. I cried for that.
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But it's, I'm very proud of you. And soon, you're going to be leaving the
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Air Force. And I don't think about that, because then I will cry. But I'm very proud.
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And I think of it this way, you're just leaving one dictatorship for another. And, um, we chase them all the time.
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Girl Sergeant's not helping us at all. So, um. I've seen you face your very first crisis of faith.
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I've watched you go through that. It has broken my heart to watch you have to go through some of the things you've gone through in the last few months.
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And I've watched you struggle. I've watched you dig into the pictures for yourself, that you didn't just take mom's word for it once, you actually dug in to see for yourself.
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And although I cried inside for you when I held you, I was so happy to see you do that.
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And I'm just going to finish with Joshua 1 -9, that says, be strong and courageous.
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Do not fear, be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. And that is my word to you. I do not have a diploma for you, but you get one.
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That's all.
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I do not have a diploma for you, but you get one.
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I do not have a diploma for you, That's all. How will you be able to get through these temptations and tests?
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Wisdom. Wisdom isn't something that can be taught, but it's something you gain with your walk with the
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Lord. There are eight traits of wisdom that you must remember. James 3 -17 says, but wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, open to reason, bold, worthy, and good faith, impartial, and sincere.
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Pure. False wisdom is characterized by bitter envy and selfish ambition. Godly wisdom is characterized by purity of motive.
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Peaceful. Selfish ambitions can start a war, but God's wisdom can bring truth and clarity before there is chaos.
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Gentle. You have strength and power, but you have them under control. So when you have the opportunity to hurt someone, you don't.
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Open to reason like your brother. Gentle. Gentle. Open to reason.
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To be reasonable is to be humble and teachable, willing to listen. You cannot manufacture the truth of the spirit.
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True spiritual maturity happens from the inside out for those who are indwelled by the spirit of God and seeking his wisdom moment by moment.
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Impartial. Those who live by worldly wisdom cannot be impartial because they are always trying to please someone.
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For those who live by God's wisdom are consistent, single -minded, and authentic. Sincere. A sincere person is genuine, without hypocrisy, and wears no mask.
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Godly wisdom is the kind of wisdom that comes from the very heart of God, who is all -wise. As you read and pray to the word of God continually, you will find that your life is producing purity, peace, gentleness, willingness, mercy, good fruit, impartiality, and sincerity.
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And that's how you will know the word of God taking root. I love you,
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Brandon. And as you leave here, with my own dad, remember to keep
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God first in all that you do. Great, that's my favorite.
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But I got something. So first of all, I wanna thank everyone that showed up today. There's a lot of people, a lot more people than I thought.
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And I just wanna thank every single one of you for coming here to watch us and view the world of school and food that's paid for us, and in the world of bills and student debt.
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So, there's a lot of thank you for that. And I'd like to do special thanks to my mom for emotional support, and to Jessie for giving me reason and logic when
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I needed it. And then to God for everything, for all of that and more.
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And so just, I'd like to ask everyone to enjoy today.
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This is a great, happy event. Enjoy the moist cake, the fruit punch, and if you don't want bills or debt, go on the air, of course, and mention me because I get a promotion, so.
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So. ♪ May you never take one single breath away ♪ ♪
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And God forbid love ever leave you empty -handed ♪ ♪
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I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean ♪ ♪
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But never wonder, promise me that you'll get there if I need you ♪ ♪
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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance ♪ ♪
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I hope you didn't take a chance if they're worth taking ♪ ♪
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Loving might be a mistake, but it's worth making ♪ ♪
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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance ♪ ♪
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I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean ♪ ♪
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But never wonder, promise me that you'll get there if I need you ♪ ♪
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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance ♪ ♪
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David ♪ Okay.
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Well, I wanna say also thank you all for coming, putting art here.
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Lindy, in praise of you.
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The introduction was fantastic, by the way. The story about the rooster is actually true.
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Except that the rooster didn't really pop. Okay, so Monica is going to read something here.
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She's gonna try. But she had a hard time talking about reading this, so I don't know how long.
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I can try to take over if needed. One minute. So I actually can tell with your military family, what's really interesting about Lindy is that she never complained about it.
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And she would always be like, what's the next adventure? Where are we going now? You know, it's pretty amazing.
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And so that's a really wonderful thing. And then also what's tougher is, you know, you saw the pictures of mom and how
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Lindy would literally care for her. In a manner that was really kind of unusual for her.
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It was very compelling to watch. We're extremely pleased.
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So I think that. I'm gonna stare down at the iPhone.
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You've always been our great joy. As a child, you always loved your parents and your family.
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And you went everywhere. Dressed up shoes with fur and sparkles. And when we didn't walk, you literally danced and leaped everywhere.
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Looking behind you to make sure your skirts and capes were actually flying. As you grew, you carried that spirit into a more mature hand.
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We could always count on you to have a smile on your face and a cheery voice in person. You have a heart of service for the
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Lord and a compassion for others. You always are looking for ways to set in and help wherever it's needed, even if it's dirty and hard.
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You never allowed the hardships in your life to make you bitter, but instead you chose to see those challenges in ways that the
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Lord has defined you to be more like him. And that's been pretty amazing. We were just talking about that a couple days ago.
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At home, you're my right -hand gal. And honestly, I couldn't live without you. So please don't be too serious. You're a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen, but that's not all.
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You're active outside, and you willingly tend to the chickens, gather eggs, and you're willing to get your hands dirty.
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Never once did you complain or have a bad attitude when all you expected was root beer and pizza. Root beer, clove, and pizza. After you were done.
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We're blessed to have you as our daughter, but even more so that you are a follower of Christ, and that shines bright joy.
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And we're so proud of what you've accomplished, and we know that you will continue to grow and learn as the Lord leads you in the direction that he will come to you.
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It's exciting, but... Well, I just want to thank everybody for coming, and also I just want to say a special thanks to Mom and Dad for educating me my entire life.
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Like, my mom, academics, then taking us on nature walks, there with my dad, coaching our sports team, then teaching us how to ride motorcycles, then teaching us how to shoot, doing martial arts with us, and teaching us self -defense.
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Thank you for a very full education and a very happy childhood, and I am very grateful for that.
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That is all. You can take a beaver, too, right?
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This is
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Spanish tofu, isn't it? Welcome to life, kids.
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Did you ever grow up? We're children and footprints in the sand
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And when your mission calls 1943 is in the sand
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And like that sand through our hands go our grandest plans
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I want just to see your face I see your ships now
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And I'll be through the clouds
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And I'll be honest
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Buenas tardes. Buenas tardes, amigos. That's the way. And you're like, oh, it's really me?
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I just want to say thank you very much to everybody that showed up for the graduation. Good people here.
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A few words to say. I'm a very proud dad, and a strong dad, and you always seem to love me for yourself.
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I just thank you all. Keep the Lord first, and I'll praise you. So we're here to celebrate your achievement, but we're also here to honor the way that you have chosen to reflect on life in your life.
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You've done that through developing a meaningful knowledge and application. You've done that in selfless service to your church and family.
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You've demonstrated sportsmanship and courage, your service in the home, and your attempts to be respectful and to use reason when used critically right.
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I appreciate it. And I do want to thank you for your patience when you moved out of film school and being the oldest.
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So I just want to thank you for that. And we don't have a diploma to present to you at the moment.
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Thank you for coming. It means a lot to me that you guys came, so thank you.
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So first and foremost, I want to thank Christ for what He did for me. He redeemed me from my sin.
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I'm spotless because of Him and because of that. Everything that I've done has been through Him. So thank
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Him for that, so it's going to be the glory. And then after that comes my parents, thank you guys.
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Bapak, you've shown me what it means to be a man of integrity and a hard worker. You've demonstrated that to me through the temple.
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And you took every single opportunity you could, even a joke, to turn it into a life lesson.
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And so thank you for that. I'm laughing. You've worked as hard as you can for all the patients that you've had with us.
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I know it's really hard homeschooling three boys. But thank you for that, and I really appreciate that.
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I want to thank my mentors out there, specifically Pastor Jim, Mr. Dave, and Justin Peters.
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You guys have influenced my life a lot, and so I thank you guys for that. And all the rest of the elders and all of my teachers, my coaches, and everybody who's influenced me, like my coaches, they've made me moist with sweat for like my teacher's day.
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They've given me lots of stuff to chew on. It's impacted me a lot, so thank you guys for that. I want to thank my friends.
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You guys have been a huge influence on my life as well. You've given me a little bit of guidance on my feet today.
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We've had lots of good times together, and I'll never forget that. So I thank you guys for that. And as for here on forward,
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I don't think any single plan is certain, but I'm thankful that God is in control, and I'm looking forward to it.
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So I appreciate you guys coming out, and enjoy the rest of your night. Thank you. I think the word for the night is moist, in reference to sweat and cake.
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So let's have a prayer for our graduates, and then we'll announce them.
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Let's pray together. Father, there's been a lot of sentiment expressed here from the parents of these graduates, and we all want to just come before you and pray that you would make these things happen.
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We pray that the parents do that consistently and intentionally.
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We pray that we would see evidence of their dedication and commitment to Christ. We pray that we would see obedience to your religion as revealed by your
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Holy Scripture. We would see the wisdom of God coming out from your word. Lord, I pray that they would create a pure spiritual milk of the word.
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That's what we pray for them. We pray that they would believe the gospel if they don't.
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We pray that they would. We pray that they would live lives that are consistent with that gospel.
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Lord, we pray that they would seek to understand the gospel. We pray that they would share the gospel.
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We pray that they would contemplate the gospel. We pray, Lord, that they would die. That's our prayer for these people.
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We'd love for them to achieve things and to do things, but Lord, in the service of all of that is just to glorify you.
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That's what we work for. I'd like to present to you the 2018 graduating class of Community Church.
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Noah Black. He's not going to do the ceremonial turning of the tassel, but the others may turn their tassels.
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Good job, team.
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Josh Comstock gave them a challenge word. Josh Comstock gave them a challenge word. Challenged them to work the word moist into any presentation that they got.