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Father, I pray that you would not leave us to ourselves now in this room.

Because if we were left to ourselves, nothing of any eternal significance would happen.

And I come longing for deep lasting, indeed eternal changes to happen. People to move out of death into life like

we've been singing, out of darkness into light, out of a wasted life into a unwasted life. So don't leave us now.

Come, Holy Spirit. Come and help me to be faithful to your word, speak in the power of the Spirit, and

grant ears to hear hearts to believe.

I ask this in Jesus name, amen.

So what I would like to do now in our time together is persuade you or at least open you to the truth that it is better to lose your life than to waste it.

That's the sentence that you will hear over and over again. It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

That was 17 years ago in at one day and I remember saying in that talk as I looked

looked out on about 30,000 students spread out across the the hills I felt for the first time I was 54 and as I

looked out across them I felt for the first time in a big student gathering I'm old enough to be your

dad. Now my oldest granddaughter started college this fall and I look out at you and I say I'm old

enough to be your grandfather, which has this effect on me.

There's another generation's worth of weight behind my longing for you and my plea not to waste your life.

So that's what I'm here for is to persuade you, open you to the truth that it's better to lose your life

than to waste it.

And here's another thing I would not have said 17 years ago,

if you have a Bible on your phone,

you might want to open it. I don't assume you carry Bibles around on Friday night, but I do assume you carry phones around. And if you don't have a Bible on it, shame on you. They're free.

What else would you use a phone for?

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