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To pray for a safe return for 
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Our pastor is is a guy for any 
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I spent with him. 
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a spirit fulfilled man and I I 
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taking our church and I just 
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He needs our prayer every day, 
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day. 
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pastor. 
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like to it's not a message per 
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When pastor asked me to, to, to 
speak The Tonight, I did not 

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know what I was going to do, 
please to speak on. 

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But I look at my notes from way 
under and I and I came across a 

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study that I have that I have 
studied myself and I was like, 

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ah, there it goes. 
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something. 
I just didn't know it. 

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So open your Bible, please to 
1st Corinthians chapter 12. 

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But tonight's lesson is not 
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Corinthians chapter. 
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we're going to be focused on 
chapter 13, which is the love 

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chapter of first of the Bible. 
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first and then we will spend the
West element of our time and 1st

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Corinthians chapter 13. 
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imparted gifts to the believers 
and some were given the gifts of

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tongues. 
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healing, gifts of preaching, 
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even even says that some were 
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ministering of the governments 
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And that but there was a problem
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There was a there was a 
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Corinth because they they 
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uphold the gift of tongues 
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higher level than every, every 
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So if you were to speak the gift
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priority over the West. 
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this news, so he this is when he
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which which tell him, listen, 
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and it is not a good way that 
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going about this, but I'm here 
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So in chapter 13, the apostle 
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church at Corinth, the members 
there, a new way of utilizing 

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the gifts that God have implied 
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Let us pray and then we'll 
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study. 
Father, we thank you and praise 

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the Lord for always for your 
word. 

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Thank you for being always 
active in our lives, working and

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changing us and edifying us, 
Lord, and making us more and 

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more like yourself every day. 
Lord, apart from your word, 

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Lord, we can't do nothing. 
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blessing to have your word, to 
be able to study it. 

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And Lord, it is in your word 
that we find out what you have 

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for us, the way you want us to 
live our lives, the way you want

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us to, to worship and to praise 
and to minister to one another 

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and to love one another. 
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to thank you so much again for 
your word. 

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And I put all that as I we do 
the study this morning, this 

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evening, Lord, that you would 
please speak to our hearts and 

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Lord, speak through me. 
Lord, I cannot do anything 

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without you. 
And it is you that I depend on. 

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It is you that that cannot 
impart wisdom to me, Lord, so 

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that I can speak what you would 
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And I pray, Father, you'll 
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in just name, Amen. 
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chapter 13 if you're not already
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So Paul started this pen out pen
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says do I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels and have 

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not charity? 
I am I am become a sounding 

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brass or a triggering symbol, a 
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symbol. 
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of speaking. 
You know, some you ever heard of

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some people who can speak? 
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can draw the crowd, right? 
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people and say hey, and, and 
people get, you know, they can 

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get your attention to be agree 
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whatever they're talking about, 
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of speaking. 
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eloquence of speech, being able 
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during any conversation during 
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and and to believing and 
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of view. 
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saying, though we may have such 
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law behind behind the law, it 
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bunch of unnecessary noise. 
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having those gifts that got 
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It could be but it's full but if
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centeredness, selfish self focus
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nothing. 
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elevates one another and also 
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And Hebrews chapter chapter 10 
verse 24 the word of God says if

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you can turn here if you want. 
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verse 24 the word of God says 
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to provoke unto love and good 
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another. 
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understand how to best motivate 
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deeds. 2nd, we must model the 
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practice love and kindness and 
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to influence others. 
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consistent fellowship, that is 
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instead, but meet, but meet 
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create opportunities for 
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action firstly, practice mutual 
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be patient and forgiving. 
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Verse 2 says, And though I have 
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understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and though I have all

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faith so that I could move 
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have nothing. 
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worthless the spiritual gifts 
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for the believers. 
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gifts highly, apparently 
elevating those among them with 

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the gift of tongues and prophecy
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This is not true. 
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church, and although the gifts 
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gifts can also become 
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practicing without love. 
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displaying the gifts is nothing 
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nothing with, with the body 
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So the gift is being wasted on 
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moment and it, you know, and if 
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like like I just, I just note, I
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They were taking those they were
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thinking that certain members, 
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those who speak in the tongues, 
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everyone else. 
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know, teach them and say, 
listen, it is not so because all

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the gifts are important. 
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whether what whether we we we we
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we be you know, preachers or or 
or missionaries or whatever we 

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that the gift that God gave us 
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instruments whatever God gave 
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used to edify the Saints. 
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display the gifts is nothing. 
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Corinthians chapter 12 verse 
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It is say that God has said some
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First the apostles, this 
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after that miracles, then gifts 
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diversity of tongues. 
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given and these gifts have to be
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These gifts have to be used to 
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And verse 20 and, and, and verse
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Apostle Paul asked the question,
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prophets, Are all teachers? 
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No one person have more than one
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other. 
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gifts and we are to use those 
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You have to use those gifts to 
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It says, and though I bestow all
good, all my goods to feed the 

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poor, and though I give my body 
to be burned and have not 

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charity, it profited me nothing.
So I can perform that, that 

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would, that would look good in 
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can do and, and, and, and, and 
do the, the most exciting or the

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most, the most powerful act in 
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And people would look at me and 
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is doing. 
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sister or brother is doing. 
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But it says that, you know, if 
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there's no love behind it, it is
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So, so, So what is this love 
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What is this charity? 
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referring to here is the agape 
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This love is a love that is 
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It's a love that is without 
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It's a love that that is the 
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himself. 
We cannot do anything profitable

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without Christ. 
So if you were here, you don't 

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know Jesus Christ. 
You cannot do anything or 

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achieve anything in the body of 
Christ without having him in 

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your heart, because Jesus Christ
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that we do here. 
He is the one that gives us the 

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power and the ability to 
minister to one another and 

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songs and scripture and 
preaching and prophesying and 

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whatever it is that we that, 
that, that, that the gift that 

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God gave us. 
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not the person that's given a 
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But what's important is there is
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who the gifts are used for. 
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Christ here is what is needed 
for these gifts to be effective 

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among us. 
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doing it for us, if we're doing 
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going about it the wrong way. 
We need to make sure that Christ

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is being magnified. 
Christ is being glorified. 

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Christ is being, is, is the one 
being getting all the out and 

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glowing for all the gifts for 
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So the agape love, it's, it's, 
you know, emitting the type of 

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it's a type of love that puts 
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A guardian is a godly love. 
It's a loving, it's a love 

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without partiality. 
And and it's a love that is that

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in this loving in spite of is 
loving someone in spite of 

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beside performing the most 
powerful and impressive and 

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spiritual gift. 
Paul goes beyond and and beyond 

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that and about to about the self
sacrifice a question may perform

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so we can perform self 
sacrificing works. 

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We can be busy about doing so 
many things, but being busy 

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about being busy doing so many 
things. 

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It's it's no avail if we're 
doing it for the wrong purpose 

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if we're not doing it for the 
right purpose and and March up 

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to 10 verse 17. 
If you don't mind, if you mind, 

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you can turn there. 
Mark 10/17. 

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Jesus here was telling a story 
about a witch and ruler. 

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So. 
And when he was gone forth and 

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to the and the way there came 
one wanting and kneeling to him 

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and ask him, good Master, what 
should I do that I may inherit 

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eternal life. 
So this young man, he must have 

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thought, you know, eternal life 
was something he could buy. 

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You know, I'm after what? 
He was rich, right? 

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So. 
So. 

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Hey. 
Yeah. 

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Jesus, what is it? 
You name it. 

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Whatever I am, I am capable of 
paying whatever it is for me to 

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inherit eternal life. 
So he, he wanted the gift of 

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salvation, but he wanted it his 
way. 

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Salvation is a gift. 
It's not something you can buy. 

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And here we see this young man 
offering a service, another for 

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him to get to eternal life. 
So, so he thought to himself, 

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just name it Jesus, whatever the
cost, what shall I do? 

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What good thing should I do? 
You see, it's not about doing 

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good things. 
It's not, you know, I mean, we 

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have to do good deeds, but our 
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purpose of getting something for
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It cannot be for the purpose of 
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it has to be because of who 
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Christ, you know, and and so and
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does that mean good? 
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that is God that knows the 
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adultery. 
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not bear false witness for 
before not I know thy father and

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mother and the MSA. 
I've done all this, all my 

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trauma. 
I've done all of this. 

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But but you just looked at me 
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you lack, go ahead sell 
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the poor, come follow me, follow
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and follow me. 
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young man turn around and sadly 
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denial, and so must each and 
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to do if we're going to follow 
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utilize the gifts that God gave 
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also to glorify God with it. 
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a self denial on our part. 
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me this on the flesh and let me 
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So let's understand that a call 
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the following, as part of 
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submitted to Christ as the 
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death. 
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It's a great commitment. 
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mean make it just just Christ, 
make it make it clear. 

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You know, it's you know, if we 
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pick up our cross, we cannot 
follow him. 

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But he said we have to deny, we 
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cross and then we can follow. 
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another. 
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gave us. 
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ourselves to put others before 
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only way we can be able to we be
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God gave us. 
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suffered long as and it's kind 
charity envieth not charity 

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vaunted, not itself and it's not
puffed up. 

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injuries of others. 
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avenging, slow and avenging, 
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powerful and effective tools and
how we view all those or 

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ourselves. 
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powering up, putting in a love 
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give us the effectiveness that 
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ourselves, because we cannot 
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apart from the love of God. 
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The love of God is greater far 
and every time and every and you

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know, it doesn't matter. 
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where you are in life, what 
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your life. 
You know when you have, when you

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exercise the love of God, you 
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the love of God is what keeps, 
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The possible is the love of 
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It is the is it that love that 
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for God. 
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couldn't serve God apart from 
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You know, This is why it's 
important that we, we treasure 

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our salvation and that we, we, 
we, we continually just stay 

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connected to God and just even 
just says that I said, without 

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me, you can do nothing. 
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connected to him, we cannot do 
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We have to stay connected to 
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So, so we see that charity is 
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It's not stuff around. 
It's not, it's not like I'm 

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better than you or you better 
than me. 

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It's not I'm, I'm up there and 
you're down here. 

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It's, it's, we are on the same 
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That's true love. 
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translated envy means to burn 
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boiled over with envy, hatred or
anger. 

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So in the context of First 
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is that love does not focus on 
personal desires. 

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It is not eager to increase 
possessions. 

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So God's type of love is is 
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In Exodus of the 7th scene, you 
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Exodus of the 7th scene, God 
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God was given give the general 
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And with that commandment, it 
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neighbor's house, thou shalt not
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his men servant, nor his 
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his ass, nor anything that is 
thy neighbors. 

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And Deuteronomy chapter 5, verse
21, he said the same thing 

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again. 
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well that we people will forget.
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and the line chapter 5 is 21. 
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desire thy neighbor's wife, 
neither shall thou covered thy 

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neighbor's house, his shield or 
his his men servant or his men 

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servant, his axe or his ass or 
anything that is thy neighbor's.

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And we also we see in Romans 
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that love is for is the 
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Love fulfills the law. 
He says love working not I'll to

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his neighbor. 
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of the law. 
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of the law, envy is also 
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the law of Christ, then you're 
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going to to cover it. 
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is the Lord is saying that we 
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envy. 
We need to replace our the envy 

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and, and, and, and 
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because only when we love that 
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So. 
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be confirmative to God's 
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excluded. 
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commandment, envy is excluded. 
There's no room for it. 

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So in contrast to God's command,
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waking some spiritual gifts as 
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envying those that had their 
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Sorry, envying those who had in 
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gifts, the different gifts are 
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to build up the church. 
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the gifts, but each child is 
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one one gift and loved and and 
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gifts be used to serve others 
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So in Proverbs chapter 14, verse
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envy writes the bone. 
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the life of the flesh, but envy 
the whiteness of the bones. 

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being grateful for what God has 
given you, you are hurting 

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yourself. 
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others, you are commanded to 
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love them. 
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love, you know the love of God 
will rejoice when others are 

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blessed. 
You know when you have truth in 

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your in your heart, you will 
rejoice when you see your 

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brother and sisters being 
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So there's no room for envy. 
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yourself. 
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what is what what it has. 
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the needs of the loved. 1 So 
true love always focus on 

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meeting the needs of the loved 
ones of them that it does, that 

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you love, not yourself. 
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arrogant, healthy, superior, 
Snooty, snobbish or clarish. 

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Jesus just told the Jesus just 
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demonstrated that really well. 
He said that son of a man have 

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nowhere to lay his head, you 
know, and and yet Jesus was the 

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most busiest person on earth 
when he walked the earth because

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he he went about, you know, 
healing, feeding, preaching the 

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gospel, raising the dead, 
healing the blind. 

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He that's that was that was his 
thing and and just never, never,

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never show any sign of 
selfishness. 

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And what he was doing because he
was doing was he was doing it 

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because he why because he loved.
He is love, He has that I got 

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the love, a love without 
restraint, a love without 

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constraint, a love that is not 
for this itself. 

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You know Christ love is the love
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It's the love that we all should
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So love that behave itself 
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not easily provoked to get no 
ills. 

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So meaning love is not acting in
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The Greek word for unseemly is 
ashkemonia. 

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I try, I try to process that, 
but it's waste. 

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Open is ashkemonia, which 
suggests someone who is tackless

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or thoughtless or inconsiderate 
of others. 

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It can also mean to behave 
disgracefully or to be a void 

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avoided of proper department. 
This speaks of someone's conduct

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or manner of presenting 
themselves. 

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So in first Corinthian 13, verse
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behaving unseemly in a, in a, in
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So we're going to look at some 
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first. 
First of all, it says we are not

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to OK, not needless exposing all
those faults. 

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We are not too needlessly 
exposing all those faults. 

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That's number one. 
Number two, we are not to listen

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eagerly to unfavorable reports 
and #3 we are is a seeking to 

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bring to mine all those good 
qualities. 

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And then fourthly, not being 
selfish or changeable, not being

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dependent on human place, not 
work, not working for profits or

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rewards, being strong and mighty
and his purpose to overcome 

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evil. 
So also provides fortune or the 

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description of love in first 
Corinthians chapter 5, verse 13,

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all of which are action, action 
verbs that involves choosing to 

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set oneself aside and serve 
others. 

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So, so there's no doubt in, in 
studying this, this, this, this 

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passage that, you know, we 
cannot see like what the true 

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Christian living is. 
I mean, it's not about us 

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really. 
It was never about us from the 

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very beginning. 
And it makes it clear here that,

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you know, our lives. 
God gave us the life that he 

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gave us to minister. 
We have to minister to others. 

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Yes, we have to love God first 
and foremost. 

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We have to love God first and 
foremost. 

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We also have to love our 
neighbors. 

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We have to minister, have the 
attitude of ministering to each 

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other. 
It's not about us. 

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It's really not about us at all.
So the way God God, God's word 

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contrasts those behaviors with 
working honestly, it's another 

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Greek word you came on us makes 
it clear that they are unseemly.

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So rejoicing not in iniquity. 
That's love. 

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Love we just not iniquity. 
Look at verse 6 verse 6 says 

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love. 
We just not iniquity, but we 

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rejoice in truth. 
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comes from the Greek phrase 
Euchares. 

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The word, the word oh means no 
or not. 

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And the word care is from the 
word Cairo, which is the Greek 

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word for joy. 
So if so, it carries the the 

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idea of being glad about 
something. 

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You see, the attitude of our 
mind towards sin is a great, I 

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mean is the is, is a, is a great
test of the truth of the 

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religion, of the religious 
feeling. 

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So talk about it, think about 
it. 

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True love rejoices, not 
inequity. 

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True love takes no pleasure in 
seeing an adversary fall into an

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error of sin by which his 
reputation should be blasted. 

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So in this interest and this 
context, the contrary, the man 

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influenced by this by this love 
is, is is truly sorry for either

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the sin or value of even an 
enemy. 

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So if you truly love like Christ
love, you will you will not even

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you will not even rejoice over 
your enemy being punished or 

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your enemy being being hurt, but
you will feel sorry for them. 

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You will put in a seat for them.
This is what this is not what 

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Christ says. 
Turn the other cheek. 

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It says if if someone asks you 
to to go a mile or two, if 

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someone asks you to give him 
your, your, your clothes. 

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Give me a clue. 
Also. 

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It's it's, it's it's the idea 
that you know, we should not 

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rejoice over our enemy in such a
way that that would that would 

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create or do what I'm looking 
for is that will cause that that

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person to even question God's 
justice or God's character. 

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So when our lives are bound by 
Christ who is loved, we will 

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take no pleasure and sin nor 
repeat them, but desires that 

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our sins may be forgiven 
forever. 

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But rejoice and the truth. 
So we mourn over the wicked sin 

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by by seeing it's right, by 
seeing it rightly before the 

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holy, before holy God, seeing 
our sins the way God sees them. 

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The true grief over our sins 
comes from contemplate, 

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contemplation, contemplating our
say, our Savior, and not 

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comparing our character to those
around us. 

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So when we grew over our sins, 
we are agreeing with God about 

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our sins and we're not. 
And because we agree with about 

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our sin, we about sin, we're 
contemplating God, the Christ 

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our Savior. 
And we're not, we're not busy 

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comparing ourselves to those 
around us because This is why 

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this is where envy and and and 
and cognition is set take place 

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is when you are looking around 
you and you are pointing fingers

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or you are paying attention to 
those around you, either 

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yourself. 
See, God says that we all have 

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sinned and come through the 
glory of God. 

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And it is not for us to judge it
not for us to point for someone 

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else. 
And again, true love will not 

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point fingers at someone else, 
but true love would help that 

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person instead. 
And also true love will cause to

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evaluate our own lives before we
even go to someone else. 

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Understand. 
Am I making sense? 

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So so verse 7 says we're almost 
done. 

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We not sure we should be done 
right now so love buried all 

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things believe all things hope 
all things and those all things 

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love and those all things. 
Christ face hard times OK and 

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Christians face hard time. 
Those who choose to love as 

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Jesus does do not stop loving 
when life becomes difficult. 

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Love the love for God and others
and those through tough days and

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long right unknown nights. 
However, whereas to to build all

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things we are we have to build 
all things seems to refer to 

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patience in the face of 
provocation. 

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To endure all things takes a 
longer view and our context. 

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Then to endure all things means 
that we are willing to to remain

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a difficult situation for the 
sake of one another rather than 

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seeking our own ease through an 
escape. 

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Notice the next phrase, 
believing all things. 

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This means that we must be 
willing to trust one another. 

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Perhaps one of us are struggling
to believe all things about 

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others in the church. 
I would encourage that rather 

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than assuming failure or bad 
result in someone's life, get a 

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dose of agape love. 
Because agape love that the 

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brother of God always expected 
the best in orders and I hope 

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this was a blessing to you. 
All right, let's pray. 

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Father, we thank you and praise 
you for your word. 

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We thank you for the truth of 
it, Lord, and I pray that you 

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would please use it in our heart
and help us go to to that. 

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It would draw us close to you. 
We love you in Jesus name, Amen.