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Let's pray.

Father, I ask for your help now for these few minutes to be useful,

to build up the faith of everyone here and to glorify your name and to help these students

understand who they are. I pray this in Jesus in

name, amen.

What I want to do is make plain to the graduates, but really to everybody here that if you're a Christian,

you're going to live the rest of your life on the earth, however short or long, in a condition which I'm going to call sacred schizophrenia.

My dictionary, after the medical and tragic definition has this definition of schizophrenia, a state characterized by coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements. That's what I mean by schizophrenia in this talk.

I call it sacred because it is brought about by the Holy Spirit.

It's not a perfect state, but it's a good state, a temporary

state. It is a sacred schizophrenia.

Or to put it another way,

all of you who are Christians

will live the rest of your lives on the earth as two selves.

And I want to clarify from the on the earth as two selves.

And I want to clarify from the words of Jesus

who the two selves are, which one of them

is your true self, and then two major flash points of conflict between the two selves that

Jesus says you will battle for the rest of your life on the earth.

And now the reason I'm saying the rest of your life

on the earth is because after you die,

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