Yes! Hello my friends and welcome to the Robcast. This is episode 280 and I'm

coming to you from the kitchen table in the Bell Family quarantine headquarters

sending you love. It just feels like it's time for a sermon. So this episode is a

sermon and it's called nothing and everything. I first came across this phrase in

this letter in the New Testament like a letter written from some people to some

other people thousands of years ago and well over a decade ago I came across

this one little phrase and it just lit me up. It it changed the game and you

know that thing that you come across and it just tilts everything and you think

wow whoa it just sort of blows you away but then now I'm what 10 12 15 years

later and and oddly during this time that we're all in I found it like looping

back around for me and taking on all sorts of new meaning and significance. So I

want to walk you through this one little section of this letter and this

sort of builds up to this phrase and then we'll take this phrase and we'll just

go with it and we'll see where it takes us. Now the letter was written by

Amanda and Paul and his friends to some other friends in a city called

Corinth. This is apparently there are a number of letters we have two of them.

One of them is called wait for it. Second Corinthians although probably it was

like the third letter between them somehow but I'll read you just a little

section just to get that like and sort of paraphrase some of it just to get you

up to this one phrase. So he's writing to his friends and he says we commend

ourselves to you in every way in great endurance in troubles hardships and

distresses in beatings in prisonments in riots in hard work sleepless nights

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