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Welcome to the ranch Radio
podcast.

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It's good to have you here and
it's, it's a refreshing to be

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back.
I hope you've been enjoying the

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lovely early dawn of spring as
we head into the new year and no

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doubt so much to deal with
contend with.

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And so, So, thank you to those
who have been sending me emails

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letting me know that there and
listening and enjoying the

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podcast and the website.
And I've been doing a lot of

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work, Shameless plug, but I've
been doing a lot of work on the

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Rancho, Radio dotnet website and
I hope that you will take an

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opportunity.
I've reformatted it to make it

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easier on the eyes when you're
either on your mobile device or

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if you're looking at it on the
internet, on your laptop or your

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tablet.
And it's always got information

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about science.
What's going on in the Rancher

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Community around the world, as
well as some articles essays

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things that I picked up from the
news that I think that are sort

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of part of the modern experience
as viewed Through The Eyes of a

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Urantia book reader.
And so that's why we're here

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we're here to commensurate and
share the Revelation together.

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I've been doing some great
reading on Larry Mullins hit

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Three of the Rancho papers and I
don't know if you've had an

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opportunity ever to read that,
but if you have time, I would

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encourage you to go to Amazon or
perhaps even any online

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bookstore candle and download
the book and read it.

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Particularly it's interesting to
read about the transition that

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William Sadler made because up
until a certain point, he really

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just didn't believe that the The
your aunt, your papers were

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anything other than some sort of
contrivance, like there was

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something that could explain who
was producing these papers and

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of course he threw in his
intellectual towel as it were.

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Because he realized that the the
depth of the papers themselves

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gave testimony to just how the
credible, they were authentic I

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guess is even a better word and
that's what happens with people

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is that they eventually if they
if they give the book a little

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bit of time and they start
reading it, there's just

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something magical that happens
because what happens is you the

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truth starts to jump out at you
and you start to it starts to

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change your way of thinking
you'll walk around for a few

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days thinking about a particular
passage that you ran across Us.

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And and so it happened to me, it
happens to everybody that I know

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that reads the book.
In fact I want to add a menu

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item to my website, your answer
radio dotnet and have it just be

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testimonials from people and
it's called how I met the Rancho

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book.
How did you meet the Urantia

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book?
How did the Urantia book?

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Come into your life?
Because it's a significant

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moment that people have when
they first come into contact

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with or they first start to
embrace the Urantia book as a

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real revelation.
We all love to tell our stories,

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don't we?
I know.

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My story is fairly simple ran
into somebody.

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We were talking about Adam and
Eve one night at work, he turned

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me on to the book.
I read a few pages of the

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Urantia book.
Look on Adam and Eve.

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It's my favorite.
Still one of my favorite

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sections and I went out the next
day and I found it.

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It was on a bookshelf and it
were plenty of them.

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There was a whole sea of these
Urantia books and they were

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expensive to 22 bucks, 22 bucks
in 1983.

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That's probably like 60 bucks
today.

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Anyway, so Meredith sprunjer one
of the early pioneers Of the

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Rancher movement if you will, it
was a pastor from South Bend.

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Indiana.
Thank anyway.

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He, he went to Sadler's office
and he said, well, what

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convinced you that the Urantia
book was an authentic

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Revelation.
At what point did you throw in

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the intellectual towel?
And Sadler said, well I'm a

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psychiatrist.
I mean I'm I'm I made my wealth.

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I made my stay.
I established myself.

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Self by understanding human
beings and I remember that

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Sadler actually trained I
believe with Carl Jung for a

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period in Europe during his
early training anyway.

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And so he says look, I know
human nature and I know how how

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to interpret human nature and
when I read the pages on the

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apostles, And when they when I
really had a chance to read them

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and this paper, he's referring
to paper 139 in the ranch a book

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and he says I had to just
confess.

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So there was no way to explain
how anybody could know this much

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about human beings.
There's no way.

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And the whoever wrote, this knew
exactly what was in the hearts

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and minds of these people to it.
Nobody today could right.

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That eloquently in explaining
the human nature of these twelve

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individuals.
Nobody.

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And that is, by the way, a
challenge for you.

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If you have not read paper, even
if you're a, you know, someone

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who doesn't know anything about
this book and you happen to be

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listening to it, I challenge you
to just start with paper 139 in

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the Rancho book and if you're
any, if you have any kind of

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basic Christian, teaching
exposure experience for being

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young, if you were Anywhere near
a judeo, Christian family,

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you'll know that this book just
shouts out authenticity.

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It screams credibility.
So just as an example, I'm just

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going to read one paper.
And and then see if you agree

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with me and this is, you know,
it's kind of challenging.

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I mean I think I want to read.
I'm kind of want tempted to read

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the one on Judas Iscariot
because he's obviously the

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besides Peter, the well most
well-known.

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And by the way, every one of
these Apostles, I found had some

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appeal to me some more than
others.

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And I wonder if you feel the
same way.

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So let's find one that we want
to read.

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I'll read you Dias Judas,
Iscariot because everybody knows

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him.
He's the one that betrayed

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Jesus.
He's the one that went and sold

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them for 30 pieces of silver.
So let's, let's read that one.

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Okay, this is from paper 139 and
this is section 12 and this is

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a, I guess be paper, 39
paragraph, 12 section one and

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we'll just continue on Judas
Iscariot the 12th of apostle was

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chosen by Nathaniel.
He was born in kiriath.

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The small town in southern Judea
when he was a lad.

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The parents moved to Jericho
where he lived and had been

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employed in his father's various
business enterprises until he

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became interested in the
preaching and the work of John,

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the Baptist, judah's parents
were Sadducees Sadducees and

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when their son joined John's
Apostles, they disowned him.

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He said you're on your own.
When its annual met Judas at

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Tara, Kia, sorta, rakia he was
seeking employment with a fish,

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drying Enterprise at the lower
end of the Sea of Galilee.

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He was 30 years of age and to
unmarried, when he joined the

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apostles, he was probably the
best educated, man among the 12.

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And the only Jew day and in the
Masters Apostolic family.

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Judas had no outstanding trade
of personal strength though.

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He had many outwardly appearing,
traits of culture, and habits of

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training.
He was a good thinker, but not

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always be truly honest, thinker.
Judas did not really understand

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himself.
He was not really sincere in

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dealing with himself.
Andrew appointed.

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This is, you know, in reference
to Sadler.

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Just knowing that little
personality trait about somebody

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is pretty insightful.
Wouldn't you agree Judas?

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Did not really understand
himself.

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He was not really sincere and
dealing with himself.

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Who would have access to that
kind of information.

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You would ask yourself, right?
Going on.

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So now 139 paragraph, 12, Andrew
appointed, Judas treasurer of

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The Twelve the position which he
Held eminently fitted to hold

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and up to the time of the
Betrayal of the master, he

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discharged the responsibilities
of his office, honestly,

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faithfully and most efficiently.
There was no special trade about

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Jesus, who, which Judas admired
above the generality attractive

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or the generally attractive and
exquisitely.

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Charming personality of the
master Judas was never able to

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rise above his Judean prejudices
against his Galilean Associates.

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He would even criticize in his
mind, many things about Jesus,

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Him whom 11 of the Apostles
looked upon as the perfect, man,

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as the quote, one altogether.
Lovely.

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And the chiefest among ten
thousand in quote, this

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self-satisfied Judean often
dared to criticize in his own

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heart.
He really entertaining the

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notion that Jesus was timid and
somewhat afraid to assert his

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own power and authority.
Judas was a good businessman.

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It required tact ability and
patients, as well as painstaking

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Devotion to manage the financial
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An idealist at Jesus to say
nothing of wrestling with the

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helter-skelter business methods
of some of his Apostles.

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Judas really was a great
executive far-seeing enable

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Finance here and he was a
stickler to organization.

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None of the twelve even
criticized Judas as far as they

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could see Judas.
It was a matchless Treasurer, a

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learned man, a loyal though,
sometimes critical Apostle and

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in every sense of the word, a
great success, the apostles love

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Judas.
He really was one of them.

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He must have believed in Jesus,
but we doubt whether he truly

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loved the master with a whole
heart, the case of Judas

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illustrates the truthfulness of
that saying quote, there is a

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way that seems right to a man
but the end thereof is death in

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quote it is altogether.
Together possible to fall victim

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to the peaceful deception of
pleasant adjustment to the paths

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of sin and death.
Be assured.

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The Judas was always financially
loyal to his master and his

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Apostles money could never have
been the motive for the Betrayal

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of the master.
Judas was only or he was the

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only son of unwise parents, when
very young, he was pampered and

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petted, he was a spoiled child
as he grew up, he had

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exaggerated ideas about his self
importance.

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He was a poor loser, he had
loose and distorted ideas about

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fairness, he was given to the
Indulgence of hate and

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suspicion.
He was an expert of

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misinterpretation of the words
and acts of his friends.

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All through his life, Judas had
cultivated a habit of Getting

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even with those whom he fancied
had mistreated him.

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His sense of values and
loyalties were defective, To

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Jesus Judas was a faith
Adventure.

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From the beginning, the master
fully understood the weakness of

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his Apostles and well knew the
dangers of admitting to

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Fellowship, but it is the nature
of the sons of God to give every

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created being a full and equal
chance for salvation and

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survival.
Jesus wanted not only The

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Mortals of his world or of this
world, but the onlookers of

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innumerable other worlds to know
that when doubt exists as As to

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the sincerity and
wholeheartedness of a creatures

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Devotion.
To the kingdom, it is in

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variable, it is the invariable
practice of the judges of men to

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fully receive the doubtful
candidate.

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The doors of eternal life is
wide open to all Quote, whoever

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whosoever will may come in
quote, there are no restrictions

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or qualifications, save the
faith of the one who comes And

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so I'm going to end it at that.
I think good drop-off moment

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because there's just a little
bit more but I think you get the

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sense and the quality and the
tone of what Sadler had said

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caused him to throw in the
intellectual towel is to trying

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to understand the methodology of
how the book came to be and

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instead focus on The credibility
and authenticity of what the

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Rancho book has to say and that
is an appropriate way to leave

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it this time.
And I thank thank you again for

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joining me.
I did want to share some of that

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because it's always interesting
to learn about new people in the

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ranch of papers.
And until next time, don't

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forget to email me, your how I
met the Urantia book.

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Make it short, make it long, but
send it to your Ranch of book

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radio at gmail.com.
Urantia book radio at gmail.com.

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Until next time, God bless