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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
All right, so I'm going to be 

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talking about gathering together
this week. 

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Fellowship. 
God's will is for us to be 

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together. 
Hebrews 10/25 says not forsaking

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the assembling of ourselves 
together as in the manner of 

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some, but exhorting one another.
And so much the more as you see 

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the day approaching, so much the
more as you see the day of the 

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Lord approaching. 
And so we would want to be found

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together a whole lot more as 
more like more as we see the day

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approaching. 
I think the day is approaching. 

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I think we can see that the day 
is approaching. 

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You know, the early believers 
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They believed that the day was 
approaching and they wanted to 

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be together. 
And we too want to be together 

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because we see the day 
approaching and like, do we want

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to be together? 
Just, you know, I read this 

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scripture, it talks about, you 
know, have this desire to be 

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together. 
Do we want to be together just 

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because the word of God says to 
be together or do we actually 

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want to be together? 
I think like sometimes it starts

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with just trusting and having 
faith in what God says for these

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things. 
When God says you, you should be

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together. 
It's good for you to be 

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together. 
Sometimes it's, it's hard to, to

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step out and be together. 
You don't really want to, you 

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know, I want to be isolated. 
I want to be on my own, but 

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God's calling me to be with his 
family and be together. 

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So it might take some effort on 
my part to push through that, to

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take a hold of the truth and 
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And so this is just another one 
of these reasons why we just 

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can't rely on our own feelings 
and our own emotions and our 

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flesh. 
We we need to rely solely on 

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God's lead and the things that 
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So we're called to be together. 
And so desire to be together 

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grows when you step out in faith
and take a hold of what God's 

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called you to do, like you will 
begin to want to be together if 

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you don't already, because 
you'll see that it's good 

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because God is good. 
His word is good. 

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His direction is always good. 
When you walk in God's ways, 

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you, you see the fruit of 
walking in God's ways and you 

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realize, yeah, this is good. 
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Anything that you lay down and 
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do this your way, Lord, over 
time, you will see that that was

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the right thing to do. 
You will, you will have this 

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desire in you to, to walk 
further into the things of God. 

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God's never wrong, like when God
gives us direction and leading 

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and tells us to stay away from 
this thing and and push into 

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this thing. 
God's never wrong because God's 

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desire is good for us. 
He's never wrong. 

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And so when you step out in 
faith and just trust him, you 

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will realize that God was right 
always. 

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He's never wrong. 
But we're going to look at the 

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example of Jesus here today when
it comes to fellowship and 

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gathering together. 
Jesus gathered together in the 

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synagogues, in these corporate 
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Jesus was there for those. 
Jesus preached to a lot of 

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people on mountains and stuff 
like that where there was 

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corporate gatherings that Jesus 
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Did Jesus pray? 
Yeah. 

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Did he pray on his own or did he
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Both. 
Jesus prayed a lot on his own, 

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but he also prayed a lot with 
his disciples. 

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He taught them how to pray. 
They asked him, how do we pray? 

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This is how you pray. 
When you read Jesus's words, 

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quite often he is praying and 
you sort of don't realize it, 

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but when, when you look at it 
and he says Amen and, and like 

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he is praying, but there's a lot
of times when it's very clear 

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that Jesus is praying. 
You know, he says, I pray to the

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Father for you. 
You know, he says to Peter, I've

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been praying for you and these 
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So, so prayer is a big part of, 
of following Christ. 

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We gather together to pray. 
We're called to be a House of 

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prayer for the nations. 
So you're praying together 

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corporately and and on your own 
is a call that we have in Christ

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and it's exampled by Jesus. 
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Yes. 
How often did Jesus meet in 

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homes? 
All the time, A lot. 

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It seems like Jesus didn't even 
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He was just sort of just going 
from home to home, which is 

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interesting when you think about
what we're called to do. 

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How often was food involved when
Jesus was ministering and 

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meeting like you? 
You almost say all the time, 

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don't you? 
It's like food is just like, I 

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love food. 
I love being together and you're

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around the table and eating 
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Jesus loved it too, it would 
seem eating together is a very 

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special thing. 
Our culture has kicked out the 

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dining table for a for a couch 
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Do you think that's by accident?
Do you think that the the 

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enemies had a hand in doing that
in in setting up something to 

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take our attention away so that 
we wouldn't be fellowshipping 

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with each other the way that 
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Of course. 
And so we as the called out 

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believers need to get back to 
what Jesus did. 

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Back to Jesus example, we just 
point all of our furniture at 

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this TV like it's some sort of 
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It's not. 
It's weird when you think about 

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it, you know, like my friends 
would come over and have, you 

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know, hang out. 
We didn't call it fellowship 

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then, but your friends would 
come over and hang out and you 

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just point all your bodies at 
the TV and just ignore each 

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other. 
We do this with our phones. 

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We do this with, you know, 
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We come together to hang out. 
Hey, do you want to come hang 

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out? 
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Then we sit around on our phones
and we ignore each other all 

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night. 
This is not by accident, guys. 

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This is like the enemies 
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fellowship with with each other 
and to keep us from walking in 

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the example that Christ set for 
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And so we got to push back. 
We really have to push back on 

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this because out there, this is 
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So anywhere, anywhere you go out
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sucked into this the way of the 
world, right? 

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But we as believers, as 
followers of Christ, as set 

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apart, you know, covenantal 
family of God, we need to look 

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very different. 
So when people come into our 

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home, we're not just going to 
like sit in front of the TV and 

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hope that, you know, we have the
opportunity to share Christ with

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them. 
We're going to sit at the table.

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We're going to eat food 
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We're going to make it very 
clear who we are and what we 

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believe. 
And so this is the this is the 

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culture that we're building as a
local church here, a family 

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community, one that gathers 
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example. 
Think about the Old Testament 

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feasts, which is very important 
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What are they doing, eating? 
They're coming together and, and

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setting their hearts and their 
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God. 
They're and, and you know, these

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feasts, when you actually look 
at them, they, they all point to

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Jesus. 
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Testament believers were, were 
looking to, to Jesus without 

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even really knowing it. 
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fellowship and they're eating 
together and they're celebrating

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and they're, it's all about God.
It's a celebration of who God is

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and what God's done and what 
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These are the feasts. 
You know, I said this before, 

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like many, many months ago now, 
when I don't think we'd been 

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planted for too long, but I said
that Jesus was either on his 

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way. 
He's either at a meal, on his 

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way to a meal, or planning a 
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And it's funny because you can, 
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that in the Scripture? 
Jesus's first miracle was at a 

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feast. 
He turned water to wine. 

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What are they doing with the 
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Drinking it, the eating, 
drinking. 

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There's one of the miracles. 
I think there's only one, maybe 

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2. 
I mean, the resurrection is 

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there, but the, one of the 
miracles that's in all of the 

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Gospels is the feeding of the 
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Is there any food involved with 
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It's feeding people. 
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when you start to look at these 
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What about the Last Supper? 
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You know, Jesus takes the bread 
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fellowship and off of out of a 
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He didn't say to to his guys, 
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into the cupboard there, grab 
the wine, grab the bread out 

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there. 
We're going to have communion, 

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you know, just say hey, hey, 
guys, just run to Audi so we can

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grab some bread and some wine 
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communion this morning. 
They're having a meal. 

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Jesus grabs a takes from the 
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It's interesting, isn't it? 
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resurrected? 
Luke 24 verse 30, it says this. 

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Now it came to pass as he sat at
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the bread and he blessed and he 
broke it and he gave it to them 

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and their eyes were opened and 
they knew him and then he 

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vanished out of his sight. 
Jesus sitting at a table again, 

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Jesus gets resurrected, has this
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teaches them, you know, the, the
Scripture and they don't know 

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who he is. 
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they, they convince him to stay 
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Jesus is breaking bread. 
He's eating again, you know, and

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then what about John 29 verse 
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Again, this is after the 
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So when he had eaten breakfast, 
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Simon, son of Judah, do you, do 
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Do you love me, Peter? 
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they're out fishing and then he 
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For breakfast. 
He's going to feed them. 

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Jesus is going to talk to them. 
Jesus is going to speak the word

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of God, but he's feeding them 
food at the same time. 

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There's this cool prophecy in 
Isaiah, Isaiah 25. 

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This is not the whole, whole 
whole thing, but listen to what 

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it says here. 
It says, I think it's verse 6, 

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it says, and in this mountain 
the Lord of hosts will make for 

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all people a feast of choice 
pieces, a feast of wine on the 

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leas, of fat things full of 
marrow, of well refined wines on

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the leas. 
And we would we and he will 

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destroy on this mountain the 
surface of the covering, cast 

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over all people and the veil 
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He will swallow up death 
forever. 

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And the Lord God will wipe away 
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It's talking about a feast. 
And you know, this is echoing 

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the the words that come later in
Revelation where it talks about 

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death being swallowed up, talks 
about every tear being washed 

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away. 
Do you think that we're going to

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be feasting with the Lord in 
eternity? 

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I think we are. 
You know, there's a the wedding 

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supper of the Lamb. 
Jesus is all about it. 

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And so we need to be about the 
things that Jesus is about, 

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right? 
This is a powerful thing for us 

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to grasp, guys. 
God has given us something very 

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powerful for us to fellowship 
with one another and reach the 

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lost around us. 
When Jesus appoints the 70 

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without looking like, I'm not 
even going to tell you where it 

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is, but it's in Luke, right? 
When Jesus appoints them go and 

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do these things, what does he 
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Can someone just call out 
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This is when he he gets the 70 
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What's one thing that he says 
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Go into homes. 
You guys are cheating. 

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I wouldn't just say all the 
other stuff. 

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You're not cheating, no, but 
that this is this is it. 

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Because like when I think about 
that, you guys are just smarter 

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than me. 
Clearly when I think about what 

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Jesus told them to do, it was 
like go. 

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Therefore, I think of the Great 
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It's like healing the sick and 
casting out demons and going in 

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pairs and all of these things. 
But this is what it says. 

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It says Luke, Luke 10 verse one.
Now after these things, the Lord

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appointed the 70 others. 
I'm just going to skip down to 

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to verse 5. 
It says, and into whatsoever 

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house you shall enter first say 
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And if the son of peace is 
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it upon him. 
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you. 
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eating and drinking such things 
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Jesus is sending them out to to 
reach people and because the 

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thing that he says to them to 
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Kingdom of God is at hand and he
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So he says going to the places 
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them that the Kingdom of God is 
at hand and go into their houses

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and eat and drink whatever they 
give you. 

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You know, obviously there's a 
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emphasis is go into their 
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that the king is coming. 
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way we are sent once, you know, 
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when, when Jesus says go 
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nations and and baptize them and
teach them all the things that 

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I've commanded and all these 
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Do the thing that he's exampled.
Jesus did this over and over and

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over again. 
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it. 
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out, he tells them how to do it,
Get into their homes. 

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And if they don't, if they're 
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don't want you in their homes, 
blow the dust off your feet and 

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move on. 
Go to someone who's willing to 

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hear. 
It's interesting, isn't it? 

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And so when you think about 
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we as the white church or as 
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Jesus, what sort of people 
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saved or unsaved? 
Both. 

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Jesus ate with his disciples. 
Jesus ate with the sinners and 

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the tax collectors. 
And he says, like people that 

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don't need, you know, saving, 
they have no use for me. 

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I'm, I'm butchering what he 
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He said that those that are well
don't need a physician. 

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It's like don't spend all your 
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They don't need to hear the 
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We need to be at our tables with
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Otherwise we're just, we're, 
we're isolated. 

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We're just doing our own thing 
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example of Jesus and we're not 
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It's very hard to share the 
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you're never around unbelievers,
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And that's at their place and 
your place and my place and your

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place. 
Like it's just, we're going to 

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get in each other's homes. 
We're going to get in other 

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people's homes. 
Jesus invited himself to 

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people's homes. 
It's pretty bold, isn't it? 

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I'm coming to your house 
tonight, buddy. 

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Come down that tree. 
I'm coming to yours. 

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Well, he's pretty stoked. 
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wanting to hear what Jesus had 
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twos as well. 
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Jesus always sends them in in 
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He never sends anyone on their 
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So I would suggest that like 
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unbelievers, there should be 
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If we're going to share the 
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when you invite your unsaved 
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feast with people that don't 
know Christ, invite some of the 

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people from the church, bring 
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follow Jesus example, go in 
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help each other. 
Don't try to do this alone. 

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When I think about some of the 
things that's hold us back from 

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having our neighbors and stuff 
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there's no support. 
It's just me. 

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Invite, invite Justin. 
Justin will come here. 

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Justin loves eating and, and, 
and, and drinking. 

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He doesn't drink. 
He doesn't drink wine. 

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I'm going to put it out there, 
but he will have some coffee. 

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He will happily have some 
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Invite someone along, get some 
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If he, if you know, sharing the 
gospel is hard for you, invite 

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Daniel. 
Invite someone. 

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That's that not that is 
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We don't have to do this alone. 
We're not called to do this 

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alone. 
So we've we've all been meeting 

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as a as a group in one group. 
And you know, we'd felt stirred 

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and many, many of the sort of 
helped us to say that we needed 

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to expand, that we needed to 
multiply, that we need to have 

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multiple groups going. 
We need to make space. 

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These guys have got a big house,
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And we found that like when it 
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that, there's not a whole lot of
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You know, when you walk into a 
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And so these are just practical 
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We want, we want to make space 
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And so last Friday was our first
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home. 
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These guys are opening up their 
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And so some of us are going to 
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Justin and Bianca's house and, 
and others are going to be going

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to Daniel and Chantel's house. 
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first group in our house and it 
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know, it wasn't really cool at 
the time because I was, we 

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invited some people and it was 
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just no one there. 
And it was just like, Oh my 

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gosh, like I knew that one of us
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So I was like, oh, what are we 
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Maybe we just go out and eat 
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We had some people come and they
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group, which I think is amazing,
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When we when we step out and we 
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to multiply, all of a sudden now
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Isn't that amazing? 
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season that we find ourselves in
multiplication opening up, you 

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know, more space for people to 
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We had our we've been having, 
we've had two men's gatherings 

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now. 
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I missed the first one because, 
you know, I was with Hillary at 

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the hospital. 
But that's OK. 

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It was wonderful. 
I'm glad I was there. 

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But but we had our second men's 
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this in where Colin lives in the
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And it's really cool. 
They've got like space for us to

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meet. 
There's a pool table and stuff 

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like that. 
So we had some fellowship there.

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We had a couple of people that 
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there. 
Isn't that cool? 

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We open up another space and 
there's people there that that 

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aren't a part of us. 
And so this is just highlighting

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to us that when we, when we step
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things God's way, God breathes 
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And so be excited about that, 
guys, there's there's things 

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that we can invite our friends 
into Now. 

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I would, I would encourage you 
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Yeah, you ladies. 
I'm not going to do it for you, 

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You ladies. 
You know, if you want to get 

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together and have some 
fellowship and invite your 

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friends and stuff like that, 
you're going to have to organise

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that between yourselves. 
I think you should. 

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I think there's definitely an 
opportunity. 

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You like ladies love getting 
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I'm sure something will come of 
this, but yeah, this is just 

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another opportunity for us to 
come together, have fellowship, 

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eat together, welcoming others, 
you know, have people at our 

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table. 
Just remember, we want to invite

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people that don't know him to 
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And so that means that, you 
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people to come. 
I find that when I invite people

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to church, you know, we invite 
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like that. 
And hampers is on Tuesday night,

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we would invite people, hey, we 
should come to church. 

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Yeah, yeah, maybe I will. 
Whatever. 

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But it's like then you've got 
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 
There's just too many 

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opportunities. 
Like, you even forget that you 

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were even invited into in that 
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And so I've just realized that, 
like, we need to make it easy 

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for people. 
You know, it's like invite 

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someone to dinner tonight, 
invite someone to dinner 

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tomorrow. 
And Jesus did this. 

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Jesus said I'm coming to your 
house tonight. 

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It was like it it, it means that
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the moment. 
It means that they have to 

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either commit or say no. 
If I say to someone, would you 

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come to my house tonight, 
they're either going to say yes 

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or no. 
If they say yes, very likely 

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that they're going to be there. 
If I invite them a week down the

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track, maybe not. 
Do you see my point? 

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Let's just make it easy for 
people to come. 

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God is leading us into a space 
of fellowship with one another. 

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God's wanting us to walk this 
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God has called us to be a a 
church that is the family of 

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God, that is a a safe place, 
that is a healthy family. 

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This is the, the church that 
God's building here. 

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And as we operate in this 
healthy family, taking care of 

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one another, being real with one
another, helping us walk through

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the challenges and the things 
that we're facing, we can grow 

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up in him into maturity. 
And not only that, God wants to 

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add to us. 
God wants to bring people into 

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this fellowship that need him, 
that need us. 

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You know, we love God and we 
love each other. 

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God wants to bring people in 
here that he could be known and 

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that he could be loved by us. 
And so this is where we are. 

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And so I just want to encourage 
all of us to get around the 

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table, eat some food together. 
I shouldn't have to encourage us

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to do this. 
We love food, right? 

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Eat some food together and be 
intentional about our 

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conversation. 
Jesus sent them into the homes 

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and into the houses to to eat 
with them, but he didn't just do

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that. 
He told them to be intentional 

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about they had a purpose. 
So our purpose is to share 

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Christ, share the coming King. 
And that's going to take some 

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some intentionality. 
We're going to have to go to 

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these dinners and go to each 
other's houses prayerfully and 

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asking that God would give us 
the words Amen. 

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And I believe that when we do 
this and when we follow Christ's

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example and we will see the the 
fruit following, we'll see 

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people come tonight. 
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