PASTOR HECTOR PINEDA "AVANZANDO JUNTOS HACIA LA META" FIL 3:12-16
IGLESIA BIBLICA SEGUIDORES DE JESUS LOS ANGELES
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Chapter'}, {'start': '145.778', 'end': '151.017', 'text': 'three verse twelve to'}, {'start': '149.148', 'end': '155.855', 'text': "sixteen.  We got it. Let's go"}, {'start': '151.084', 'end': '158.658', 'text': 'again.  Not that I have already'}, {'start': '155.922', 'end': '161.160', 'text': 'achieved it or that I am already'}, {'start': '158.724', 'end': '164.897', 'text': 'perfect, and please let us keep this'}, {'start': '161.227', 'end': '166.899', 'text': 'thought in mind.'}, {'start': '164.964', 'end': '169.468', 'text': 'But I press on to take'}, {'start': '166.966', 'end': '171.570', 'text': 'hold of that for which'}, {'start': '169.535', 'end': '174.673', 'text': 'I was also born through Christ'}, {'start': '171.637', 'end': '174.673', 'text': 'Jesus.'}, {'start': '174.873', 'end': '182.415', 'text': "Siblings.  I myself don't claim to"}, {'start': '179.279', 'end': '187.019', 'text': 'have achieved it yet, but you'}, {'start': '182.482', 'end': '188.854', 'text': 'know what?  One thing I do,'}, {'start': '187.086', 'end': '192.458', 'text': 'forgetting what'}, {'start': '188.921', 'end': '195.862', 'text': 'is behind and straining forward to'}, {'start': '192.525', 'end': '200.199', 'text': 'what is ahead, I press on toward'}, {'start': '195.928', 'end': '202.335', 'text': 'the goal, toward the prize, for the'}, {'start': '200.266', 'end': '206.138', 'text': 'upward call of God'}, {'start': '202.402', 'end': '206.138', 'text': 'in Christ. Let us'}, {'start': '210.109', 'end': '217.516', 'text': 'have this same mind, and if you'}, {'start': '212.311', 'end': '220.486', 'text': 'have a different mind, God will reveal this to you as well.'}, {'start': '217.583', 'end': '223.856', 'text': 'But in what'}, {'start': '220.552', 'end': '227.560', 'text': 'we have reached, let us follow the'}, {'start': '223.923', 'end': '230.963', 'text': 'same rule, let us have the same mind'}, {'start': '227.627', 'end': '234.100', 'text': '.  Blessed God, please add'}, {'start': '231.030', 'end': '238.504', 'text': 'intelligence and wisdom'}, {'start': '234.167', 'end': '239.372', 'text': 'again.  Attentive and'}, {'start': '238.571', 'end': '243.075', 'text': 'eager hearts, Lord, that your'}, {'start': '239.439', 'end': '245.611', 'text': 'word speaks to each heart,'}, {'start': '243.142', 'end': '247.747', 'text': 'both sides, as always, I'}, {'start': '245.677', 'end': '249.715', 'text': 'beg you, Lord, allow me to'}, {'start': '247.814', 'end': '252.885', 'text': 'stand here, Lord,'}, {'start': '249.782', 'end': '255.755', 'text': 'with the same seriousness with'}, {'start': '252.952', 'end': '256.956', 'text': 'which my brothers must be'}, {'start': '255.822', 'end': '261.327', 'text': 'listening. We both'}, {'start': '257.022', 'end': '262.695', 'text': 'need you, we both, Lord,'}, {'start': '261.394', 'end': '265.364', 'text': 'desperately need'}, {'start': '262.762', 'end': '266.999', 'text': 'you. May your spirit, Lord,'}, {'start': '265.431', 'end': '269.302', 'text': 'illuminate us and guide us toward'}, {'start': '267.066', 'end': '271.570', 'text': 'all truth.  In the name of'}, {'start': '269.369', 'end': '274.606', 'text': 'Jesus we ask these things.'}, {'start': '271.637', 'end': '274.606', 'text': 'Amen,'}, {'start': '277.176', 'end': '281.080', 'text': 'as I already mentioned, this portion'}, {'start': '279.879', 'end': '283.215', 'text': 'of Scripture is very'}, {'start': '281.147', 'end': '285.284', 'text': 'well known, it is very quoted, it is very'}, {'start': '283.282', 'end': '288.054', 'text': '—it is very quoted by'}, {'start': '285.351', 'end': '291.724', 'text': 'preachers to talk about,'}, {'start': '288.121', 'end': '293.092', 'text': 'what brothers?  Putting ourselves'}, {'start': '291.791', 'end': '295.995', 'text': 'in the position of the Apostle'}, {'start': '293.159', 'end': '297.596', 'text': "Paul, let's look, let's think for a"}, {'start': '296.062', 'end': '299.265', 'text': 'moment who the Apostle'}, {'start': '297.663', 'end': '301.734', 'text': 'Paul is, who the Apostle'}, {'start': '299.332', 'end': '303.403', 'text': 'Paul was, is he the'}, {'start': '301.801', 'end': '305.938', 'text': 'greatest evangelizer than we are, than anyone'}, {'start': '303.469', 'end': '308.307', 'text': 'who has walked the'}, {'start': '306.005', 'end': '311.544', 'text': 'earth since our Lord'}, {'start': '308.374', 'end': '313.179', 'text': "Jesus Christ, uh, he's saying in"}, {'start': '311.611', 'end': '316.015', 'text': 'the portion that we have this'}, {'start': '313.246', 'end': '320.586', 'text': 'afternoon that he has not reached'}, {'start': '316.081', 'end': '322.054', 'text': 'perfection and that moves him'}, {'start': '320.653', 'end': '325.858', 'text': 'to see how he can'}, {'start': '322.121', 'end': '328.694', 'text': 'advance, he can and he,'}, {'start': '325.925', 'end': '329.662', 'text': "by the way, I think it's obvious"}, {'start': '328.761', 'end': '332.398', 'text': 'to any reader of'}, {'start': '329.728', 'end': '334.066', 'text': 'scripture, to any'}, {'start': '332.465', 'end': '336.001', 'text': 'student of the New Testament'}, {'start': '334.133', 'end': '337.303', 'text': 'and of the Pauline letters, of'}, {'start': '336.068', 'end': '340.606', 'text': 'the letters of the Apostle Paul'}, {'start': '337.370', 'end': '344.076', 'text': 'that he must have sympathized'}, {'start': '340.673', 'end': '345.711', 'text': 'with sports.  He must have been'}, {'start': '344.143', 'end': '349.114', 'text': 'fond of some sport'}, {'start': '345.778', 'end': '350.850', 'text': 'as well as many others and'}, {'start': '349.181', 'end': '353.753', 'text': 'the reason why we can'}, {'start': '350.917', 'end': '357.256', 'text': 'assume this is because he'}, {'start': '353.820', 'end': '359.225', 'text': 'very frequently uses'}, {'start': '357.323', 'end': '361.994', 'text': 'athletic analogies, he uses'}, {'start': '359.292', 'end': '363.462', 'text': 'sports analogies, he uses metaphors to'}, {'start': '362.061', 'end': '365.397', 'text': 'illustrate spiritual truths,'}, {'start': '363.529', 'end': '367.600', 'text': 'things that he wants to convey'}, {'start': '365.464', 'end': '369.769', 'text': 'to his readers, to his audience'}, {'start': '367.666', 'end': '373.873', 'text': 'and in the case of the Philippians it'}, {'start': '369.836', 'end': '376.409', 'text': 'is no exception.  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The'}, {'start': '456.722', 'end': '460.326', 'text': 'apostle Paul frequently'}, {'start': '458.491', 'end': '461.994', 'text': 'refers'}, {'start': '460.393', 'end': '464.697', 'text': 'to this metaphor of running, of'}, {'start': '462.060', 'end': '466.732', 'text': 'making a maximum effort, in his writings.'}, {'start': '464.764', 'end': '469.835', 'text': 'As the Christian advances'}, {'start': '466.799', 'end': '471.270', 'text': 'toward the finish line.'}, {'start': '469.902', 'end': '473.572', 'text': 'To the summit of hope,'}, {'start': '471.336', 'end': '474.874', 'text': 'or that'}, {'start': '473.639', 'end': '477.843', 'text': 'blessed hope that you and I'}, {'start': '474.940', 'end': '479.478', 'text': 'have, and that, in essence, is the'}, {'start': '477.910', 'end': '481.246', 'text': 'portrait that lies behind'}, {'start': '479.545', 'end': '488.888', 'text': 'the passage we have this'}, {'start': '481.313', 'end': '490.689', 'text': 'afternoon.  Now the heart of this'}, {'start': '488.955', 'end': '492.958', 'text': 'passage or of this portion that'}, {'start': '490.756', 'end': '496.328', 'text': 'we have read from twelve'}, {'start': '493.025', 'end': '497.930', 'text': 'to sixteen the heart of the'}, {'start': '496.395', 'end': '499.164', 'text': 'passage or the heart of the'}, {'start': '497.997', 'end': '501.967', 'text': 'portion or the heart of my'}, {'start': '499.231', 'end': '504.270', 'text': 'message focuses on'}, {'start': '502.034', 'end': '506.572', 'text': 'verse fourteen where the'}, {'start': '504.337', 'end': '508.340', 'text': 'apostle Paul says I press on toward the'}, {'start': '506.639', 'end': '510.209', 'text': 'goal and that pressing on is not about'}, {'start': '508.407', 'end': '512.611', 'text': 'the fact'}, {'start': '510.275', 'end': '513.946', 'text': 'that I am already seated in a'}, {'start': '512.678', 'end': '514.513', 'text': 'church because I have already received the'}, {'start': '514.013', 'end': '516.815', 'text': 'Lord Jesus Christ as my'}, {'start': '514.580', 'end': '520.219', 'text': 'Savior where I am'}, {'start': '516.882', 'end': '521.053', 'text': 'seeking uh where I already'}, {'start': '520.286', 'end': '523.155', 'text': 'belong to a church and'}, {'start': '521.120', 'end': '525.090', 'text': 'all these things that the'}, {'start': '523.222', 'end': '528.127', 'text': 'apostle Paul does not take for granted'}, {'start': '525.157', 'end': '530.596', 'text': 'that he has already achieved everything there is'}, {'start': '528.194', 'end': '531.597', 'text': 'a movement in him, there is a there is'}, {'start': '530.663', 'end': '533.132', 'text': 'a pressing on, there is a'}, {'start': '531.663', 'end': '535.601', 'text': 'movement, there is something that he'}, {'start': '533.199', 'end': '536.969', 'text': 'is doing to achieve that'}, {'start': '535.668', 'end': '540.940', 'text': 'perfection that'}, {'start': '537.036', 'end': '542.608', 'text': 'Christ and his gospel demand of him the'}, {'start': '541.007', 'end': '545.344', 'text': 'analogy once again is that of'}, {'start': '542.674', 'end': '547.913', 'text': 'a runner who is running'}, {'start': '545.411', 'end': '550.749', 'text': 'to win and in that way'}, {'start': '547.980', 'end': '552.017', 'text': 'he can win the prize and the'}, {'start': '550.816', 'end': '555.220', 'text': 'spiritual point of all this'}, {'start': '552.084', 'end': '558.223', 'text': 'here is to seek the'}, {'start': '555.287', 'end': '559.758', 'text': 'spiritual prize.  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First'}, {'start': '2283.981', 'end': '2288.685', 'text': 'Corinthians chapter nine'}, {'start': '2289.820', 'end': '2292.556', 'text': 'verses twenty-four to'}, {'start': '2291.087', 'end': '2296.360', 'text': 'twenty-seven, there is again'}, {'start': '2292.623', 'end': '2298.329', 'text': "the analogy of the athlete.  Don't you"}, {'start': '2296.427', 'end': '2300.964', 'text': 'know that those who run in a'}, {'start': '2298.396', 'end': '2304.835', 'text': 'stadium are all'}, {'start': '2301.031', 'end': '2307.270', 'text': 'running?  But only one person'}, {'start': '2304.902', 'end': '2312.509', 'text': 'takes the prize.  Run in such a'}, {'start': '2307.337', 'end': '2316.747', 'text': 'way that you may obtain it.  Everything to'}, {'start': '2312.576', 'end': '2322.353', 'text': 'everyone who fights abstains from everything'}, {'start': '2316.814', 'end': '2324.655', 'text': '.  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I run with'}, {'start': '2503.934', 'end': '2506.737', 'text': 'everything.  They have been fixed.  If someone is'}, {'start': '2505.836', 'end': '2508.071', 'text': 'chasing us.'}, {'start': '2506.804', 'end': '2509.773', 'text': 'I had to experience it many times.    Whether it was'}, {'start': '2508.138', 'end': '2510.540', 'text': 'playing or in'}, {'start': '2509.839', 'end': '2511.975', 'text': 'everyday life, someone'}, {'start': '2510.607', 'end': '2514.011', 'text': 'wanted to hurt me.  I had to'}, {'start': '2512.042', 'end': '2514.845', 'text': 'run away.  I mean, I was'}, {'start': '2514.077', 'end': '2516.847', 'text': "running as fast as I could, I didn't want them to"}, {'start': '2514.912', 'end': '2518.448', 'text': 'catch me.  Otherwise I would have'}, {'start': '2516.914', 'end': '2522.219', 'text': 'been left out, disqualified,'}, {'start': '2518.515', 'end': '2527.391', 'text': 'dead.'}, {'start': '2548.345', 'end': '2556.286', 'text': "He had to run, he didn't break the rules, he didn't take shortcuts, he didn't take spiritual steroids as it looks now, he didn't do it, he competed as he should have, but he ran the race, brothers, let's run the race, let's seek that perfection in Christ, and do you know when we will be able to achieve that perfection in Christ?  Two things:"}, {'start': '2553.150', 'end': '2556.286', 'text': 'one day'}, {'start': '2557.921', 'end': '2560.924', 'text': 'everyone will confess that'}, {'start': '2559.790', 'end': '2563.493', 'text': 'Jesus Christ is Lord, every'}, {'start': '2560.991', 'end': '2566.763', 'text': 'tongue will confess that'}, {'start': '2563.560', 'end': '2569.199', 'text': 'Jesus Christ is Lord.  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And there are'}, {'start': '2583.714', 'end': '2588.785', 'text': 'others who will be resurrected with'}, {'start': '2586.684', 'end': '2592.255', 'text': 'glorified bodies so that they will be'}, {'start': '2588.852', 'end': '2599.129', 'text': 'able to bear all the'}, {'start': '2592.322', 'end': '2599.129', 'text': 'glory of God.  where I am I'}, {'start': '2601.065', 'end': '2605.101', 'text': 'run the race'}, {'start': '2605.936', 'end': '2611.174', 'text': 'brothers every pastor does the'}, {'start': '2607.905', 'end': '2612.876', 'text': 'work of exhortation does the'}, {'start': '2611.241', 'end': '2615.245', 'text': 'work of encouraging the'}, {'start': '2612.943', 'end': '2617.714', 'text': 'congregation however there are'}, {'start': '2615.311', 'end': '2620.984', 'text': 'people who continue without the'}, {'start': '2617.781', 'end': '2625.222', 'text': 'vest on there are people who'}, {'start': '2621.051', 'end': '2628.392', 'text': 'live uncommitted lives and'}, {'start': '2625.289', 'end': '2631.995', 'text': 'the only thing we can say is'}, {'start': '2628.459', 'end': '2633.463', 'text': 'Lord my work I do, I'}, {'start': '2632.062', 'end': '2635.098', 'text': 'try to bring the message to'}, {'start': '2633.530', 'end': '2636.700', 'text': 'the ears, your work Lord is to'}, {'start': '2635.165', 'end': '2638.769', 'text': 'bring it to the heart of the one who'}, {'start': '2636.766', 'end': '2642.873', 'text': 'is listening please show'}, {'start': '2638.836', 'end': '2644.474', 'text': 'yourself please'}, {'start': '2642.940', 'end': '2647.444', 'text': 'reveal yourself to each soul, to each'}, {'start': '2644.541', 'end': '2650.514', 'text': 'heart and that word reveal'}, {'start': '2647.511', 'end': '2651.982', 'text': 'is apocalyptic eh it means to'}, {'start': '2650.581', 'end': '2653.283', 'text': 'discover, discover yourself to the'}, {'start': '2652.049', 'end': '2655.352', 'text': 'mind, to their heart, to'}, {'start': '2653.349', 'end': '2656.887', 'text': 'their soul otherwise they'}, {'start': '2655.419', 'end': '2660.424', 'text': 'will suffer condemnation there are'}, {'start': '2656.954', 'end': '2662.259', 'text': 'things that we cannot do'}, {'start': '2660.491', 'end': '2664.394', 'text': 'please open your'}, {'start': '2662.326', 'end': '2666.830', 'text': 'minds, that is'}, {'start': '2664.461', 'end': '2668.598', 'text': 'our prayer and that is the prayer that'}, {'start': '2666.897', 'end': '2670.667', 'text': 'each one of us has to'}, {'start': '2668.665', 'end': '2673.803', 'text': 'make interceding for our'}, {'start': '2670.734', 'end': '2673.803', 'text': 'brothers.'}, {'start': '2678.909', 'end': '2680.043', 'text': 'And do you know how the gentleman'}, {'start': '2679.476', 'end': '2682.479', 'text': 'usually behaves towards'}, {'start': '2680.110', 'end': '2684.715', 'text': 'us?  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He'}, {'start': '2713.577', 'end': '2716.313', 'text': 'sometimes does it through'}, {'start': '2714.945', 'end': '2717.781', 'text': 'discipline and he whom he loves'}, {'start': '2716.379', 'end': '2719.816', 'text': 'What does the scripture say?'}, {'start': '2717.848', 'end': '2723.186', 'text': 'Discipline.  And if we'}, {'start': '2719.883', 'end': '2724.187', 'text': 'are in sin.  And there is'}, {'start': '2723.253', 'end': '2726.189', 'text': 'unrepentant sin and we'}, {'start': '2724.254', 'end': '2727.724', 'text': 'are not repenting.  And the'}, {'start': '2726.256', 'end': '2730.026', 'text': 'Lord does not command discipline to'}, {'start': '2727.791', 'end': '2732.496', 'text': "us.  Let's worry.  Do you know"}, {'start': '2730.093', 'end': '2734.331', 'text': 'why?  For'}, {'start': '2732.562', 'end': '2738.601', 'text': 'we may be storing up wrath'}, {'start': '2734.397', 'end': '2738.601', 'text': 'for the day of wrath.   He'}, {'start': '2739.036', 'end': '2743.974', 'text': 'does this with things like this through'}, {'start': '2741.205', 'end': '2745.909', 'text': 'some special circumstance'}, {'start': '2744.041', 'end': '2748.378', 'text': 'in life that instantly sinks us'}, {'start': '2745.976', 'end': '2749.479', 'text': 'and brings us'}, {'start': '2748.445', 'end': '2751.114', 'text': 'back to our'}, {'start': '2749.546', 'end': '2753.183', 'text': 'spiritual reality, and that'}, {'start': '2751.181', 'end': '2754.784', 'text': 'spiritual reality is that we need to'}, {'start': '2753.250', 'end': '2757.821', 'text': 'pursue that perfection,'}, {'start': '2754.851', 'end': '2761.124', 'text': 'we need to run that race.'}, {'start': '2757.888', 'end': '2763.994', 'text': "So Paul says look you're going to have to"}, {'start': '2761.191', 'end': '2765.762', 'text': 'recognize that in this'}, {'start': '2764.061', 'end': '2767.964', 'text': "pursuit of the prize you're depending on"}, {'start': '2765.828', 'end': '2770.167', 'text': 'divine resources and for all of'}, {'start': '2768.031', 'end': '2771.801', 'text': 'us there will be those times'}, {'start': '2770.233', 'end': '2775.338', 'text': "when we don't have that attitude"}, {'start': '2771.868', 'end': '2775.338', 'text': "when we're not going to want to seek"}, {'start': '2777.841', 'end': '2781.477', 'text': 'the Lord'}, {'start': '2805.301', 'end': '2813.610', 'text': "will have to discipline us to get back on track let's ask ourselves the question are we seeking the prize are we growing or are we staying in place or looking back and spending most of our time defending ourselves and defending our points of view and our things or are we"}, {'start': '2809.573', 'end': '2816.813', 'text': 'willing to say Lord I'}, {'start': '2813.677', 'end': '2818.348', 'text': "'m not what I should be but you"}, {'start': '2816.880', 'end': '2821.451', 'text': "know what Lord?  I'm"}, {'start': '2818.415', 'end': '2823.987', 'text': "moving, I'm moving,"}, {'start': '2821.518', 'end': '2826.056', 'text': 'Lord, with your help and holding'}, {'start': '2824.053', 'end': '2831.327', 'text': "your hand, I'm going to reach the"}, {'start': '2826.122', 'end': '2831.327', 'text': 'goal. I want to see you face to face.'}, {'start': '2843.607', 'end': '2844.875', 'text': 'Many people have died while'}, {'start': '2844.274', 'end': '2847.443', 'text': 'climbing the Alps, reading something'}, {'start': '2844.941', 'end': '2847.443', 'text': 'similar to close.'}, {'start': '2847.978', 'end': '2852.148', 'text': 'As I'}, {'start': '2850.147', 'end': '2856.086', 'text': 'said, many people have fallen off cliffs and died'}, {'start': '2852.215', 'end': '2859.923', 'text': 'while climbing the Alps.  They have'}, {'start': '2856.153', 'end': '2861.992', 'text': 'fallen into cliffs.  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To that place'}, {'start': '2934.764', 'end': '2942.305', 'text': 'where we voluntarily cannot'}, {'start': '2936.700', 'end': '2944.374', 'text': 'go and do not want to go.'}, {'start': '2942.372', 'end': '2948.745', 'text': 'May the Lord help us and'}, {'start': '2944.441', 'end': '2948.745', 'text': 'please let us pray together.'}, {'start': '2955.752', 'end': '2960.590', 'text': 'Blessed God and Father who art'}, {'start': '2957.354', 'end': '2960.590', 'text': 'in heaven, we'}, {'start': '2968.231', 'end': '2969.432', 'text': 'pray with this end in mind'}, {'start': '2968.865', 'end': '2971.801', 'text': 'because you know that'}, {'start': '2969.499', 'end': '2971.801', 'text': 'today you'}, {'start': '2972.502', 'end': '2980.010', 'text': 'call some to a commitment to you'}, {'start': '2977.574', 'end': '2982.045', 'text': 'and that you also give birth in'}, {'start': '2980.077', 'end': '2987.083', 'text': 'us today to a'}, {'start': '2982.112', 'end': '2991.021', 'text': 'fresh commitment to run the race'}, {'start': '2987.150', 'end': '2993.256', 'text': 'focused motivated with'}, {'start': '2991.088', 'end': '2996.659', 'text': 'maximum effort depending on'}, {'start': '2993.323', 'end': '2998.495', 'text': 'your resources for those moments'}, {'start': '2996.726', 'end': '3000.596', 'text': 'of sweat, for those moments of'}, {'start': '2998.562', 'end': '3004.234', 'text': 'effort, for those moments of'}, {'start': '3000.663', 'end': '3006.970', 'text': 'weakness when we are weak'}, {'start': '3004.301', 'end': '3008.538', 'text': 'when we are not strong so'}, {'start': '3007.037', 'end': '3010.740', 'text': 'that we may be constant in the'}, {'start': '3008.605', 'end': '3012.342', 'text': 'word and in prayer and'}, {'start': '3010.807', 'end': '3016.246', 'text': 'following a pattern so that we'}, {'start': '3012.409', 'end': '3017.947', 'text': 'may be like Christ and'}, {'start': '3016.313', 'end': '3022.786', 'text': 'resemble him as much as we can'}, {'start': '3018.014', 'end': '3025.288', 'text': 'and one day we will be like him.    We'}, {'start': '3022.853', 'end': '3028.858', 'text': 'will be like you in your presence'}, {'start': '3025.355', 'end': '3033.163', 'text': 'for the sake of your son, we pray,'}, {'start': '3028.924', 'end': '3035.699', 'text': 'blessed father, that you help us,'}, {'start': '3033.230', 'end': '3039.436', 'text': 'that your word, Lord, does not return'}, {'start': '3035.765', 'end': '3041.270', 'text': 'empty, and it is my wish and it is my'}, {'start': '3039.503', 'end': '3043.206', 'text': 'prayer, and also through your'}, {'start': '3041.337', 'end': '3044.307', 'text': 'word I can see that it is your'}, {'start': '3043.273', 'end': '3047.043', 'text': 'wish, Lord, that we may run that,'}, {'start': '3044.374', 'end': '3048.645', 'text': 'that race, Lord,'}, {'start': '3047.110', 'end': '3051.348', 'text': 'seek that perfection.  The'}, {'start': '3048.711', 'end': '3054.017', 'text': 'apostle said that he had not already'}, {'start': '3051.414', 'end': '3054.684', 'text': 'attained it, but that he was'}, {'start': '3054.084', 'end': '3058.354', 'text': 'stretching forward and'}, {'start': '3054.751', 'end': '3062.225', 'text': 'running that race to see if'}, {'start': '3058.421', 'end': '3065.161', 'text': 'one day he would reach it. Lord, may'}, {'start': '3062.292', 'end': '3068.864', 'text': 'that feeling also be'}, {'start': '3065.228', 'end': '3071.568', 'text': 'our feeling. Please create'}, {'start': '3068.931', 'end': '3074.737', 'text': 'in us a clean and'}, {'start': '3071.634', 'end': '3077.240', 'text': 'pure heart before you.  We'}, {'start': '3074.804', 'end': '3079.409', 'text': "know from David's prayer"}, {'start': '3077.307', 'end': '3081.111', 'text': 'that'}, {'start': '3079.476', 'end': '3083.146', 'text': 'you will never despise a contrite and humble heart, Lord,'}, {'start': '3081.178', 'end': '3085.215', 'text': 'and if there is someone among us who has'}, {'start': '3085.281', 'end': '3089.519', 'text': 'become discouraged, who lacks'}, {'start': '3088.018', 'end': '3093.389', 'text': 'spiritual strength, Lord.'}, {'start': '3089.586', 'end': '3097.894', 'text': 'I recognize that you can and'}, {'start': '3093.456', 'end': '3097.894', 'text': 'give us that spiritual strength'}, {'start': '3098.461', 'end': '3102.198', 'text': 'in the name of Jesus Christ,'}, {'start': '3099.930', 'end': '3105.502', 'text': 'Lord. Please be with us,'}, {'start': '3102.265', 'end': '3109.239', 'text': 'in us, for us,'}, {'start': '3105.569', 'end': '3111.508', 'text': 'despite us.  We pray'}, {'start': '3109.306', 'end': '3115.345', 'text': 'these things, Lord, trusting, Lord,'}, {'start': '3111.574', 'end': '3117.847', 'text': 'that your love is immeasurable, that'}, {'start': '3115.412', 'end': '3121.050', 'text': 'your patience, Lord, is there'}, {'start': '3117.914', 'end': '3121.050', 'text': 'for us. We'}, {'start': '3122.786', 'end': '3125.622', 'text': 'acknowledge all these things. We'}, {'start': '3124.554', 'end': '3127.991', 'text': 'acknowledge, Lord, that you'}, {'start': '3125.689', 'end': '3129.859', 'text': 'have called us. We have responded to'}, {'start': '3128.057', 'end': '3131.961', 'text': 'your gospel, and Lord, we'}, {'start': '3129.926', 'end': '3135.632', 'text': 'confess and belong to your'}, {'start': '3132.028', 'end': '3137.233', 'text': 'family, the family of God.'}, {'start': '3135.699', 'end': '3139.736', 'text': 'Lord, do not allow us to be'}, {'start': '3137.300', 'end': '3141.104', 'text': 'confident and to take for'}, {'start': '3139.802', 'end': '3142.405', 'text': 'granted, Lord, that this is as far as we'}, {'start': '3141.170', 'end': '3145.708', 'text': 'go and that we no longer have to'}, {'start': '3142.472', 'end': '3147.177', 'text': 'look for anything. Move, Lord,'}, {'start': '3145.775', 'end': '3148.711', 'text': 'move us to obedience, move us, Lord,'}, {'start': '3147.244', 'end': '3151.014', 'text': 'to'}, {'start': '3148.778', 'end': '3153.116', 'text': 'sanctification, move us, Lord,'}, {'start': '3151.081', 'end': '3154.317', 'text': 'to spiritual growth,'}, {'start': '3153.183', 'end': '3156.953', 'text': 'give us wisdom, intelligence'}, {'start': '3154.384', 'end': '3158.054', 'text': 'again, please give us'}, {'start': '3157.020', 'end': '3159.622', 'text': 'wisdom from above so that we may'}, {'start': '3158.121', 'end': '3164.827', 'text': 'retain all the words of'}, {'start': '3159.689', 'end': '3166.463', 'text': 'your law.  And obey them.  In the'}, {'start': '3164.894', 'end': '3171.734', 'text': 'name of Jesus Christ your beloved'}, {'start': '3166.529', 'end': '3175.672', 'text': 'son we ask all these things'}, {'start': '3171.801', 'end': '3178.274', 'text': 'and we all say amen.  God'}, {'start': '3175.739', 'end': '3180.043', 'text': 'bless you brothers.  God'}, {'start': '3178.341', 'end': '3182.111', 'text': 'bless you, for those who'}, {'start': '3180.109', 'end': '3185.248', 'text': 'might be listening to us'}, {'start': '3182.178', 'end': '3187.550', 'text': 'through this medium, we are'}, {'start': '3185.315', 'end': '3189.219', 'text': 'in the city of Gardina, in the'}, {'start': '3187.616', 'end': '3191.521', 'text': 'city of Los Angeles, in'}, {'start': '3189.286', 'end': '3193.189', 'text': 'Gardina, California. The address is'}, {'start': '3191.587', 'end': '3195.391', 'text': 'ten forty-nine West one'}, {'start': '3193.256', 'end': '3197.460', 'text': 'hundred forty-nine Street,'}, {'start': '3195.458', 'end': '3201.564', 'text': 'zip code ninety,'}, {'start': '3197.527', 'end': '3202.732', 'text': 'two hundred. Well, we are'}, {'start': '3201.631', 'end': '3204.834', 'text': 'here in Gardina. The address'}, {'start': '3202.799', 'end': '3206.403', 'text': 'appears there on the page, so may'}, {'start': '3204.901', 'end': '3209.973', 'text': 'the Lord bless your lives,'}, {'start': '3206.469', 'end': '3209.973', 'text': 'thank you, bless you.'}]