1 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:13,000 if you have the word of God in your hands, me the book of 1st 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,800 Timothy Chapter 5, if you've been following with us closely, 3 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:25,400 There is one verse left at the end of chapter 4 but we're not 4 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,300 going to unpack it in detail because we've alluded to it many 5 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:33,400 times and have drawn much from it and the first few chapters of 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,200 this book. So we're going to come to 5:1. 7 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,800 You know, when it comes to Preparing a message, oftentimes 8 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,800 the greatest struggle is not what you're going to say that is 9 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,800 there but oftentimes it's what you have to leave out. 10 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:52,100 And that is certainly true. With this specific message that 11 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:55,300 things were just had to be focused really because there 12 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:58,500 could have been so many other things that could be said 13 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,100 nonetheless we're going to trust that God has the right thing to 14 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:05,800 say to us through these verses. so, if you're there re with me 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:13,000 in verse 1, 1st Timothy 5 do not rebuke an older man. 16 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:15,600 But encourage them, as you would a father. 17 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:20,800 Younger men as brothers. Older women as mothers. 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,800 Younger women as sisters. And I'll Purity, let's pray. 19 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:34,000 Father, We Believe with even a verse or two, verses like this. 20 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,100 You have something deep to say to us. 21 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,000 And we lean in by faith and we ask. 22 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,500 Oh God. That you would grant us exactly 23 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,900 what your word. Has been planned to give us. 24 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,200 That it would transform our minds, it would renew our 25 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,400 affections for you. And for one another Lord made 26 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,900 this message, be assisted by the power of the Holy Spirit and 27 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:08,000 Lord may you cover every man. But bring to the Forefront of 28 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,100 our site. The eyes of our hearts, the 29 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,000 person of Jesus Christ and all his Beauty and wisdom. 30 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:19,200 Lord may his power be known this morning, may be felt and sense. 31 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,800 Lord, and may we be changed by. This is our need, this is our 32 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,800 great need today. Not just, for more information 33 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,300 about lure for heart transformation, may it come as 34 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:31,700 we seek it. So desperately, Lord, we declare 35 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,600 in your presence that we are indeed poor in spirit and we are 36 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,000 not ashamed of it. We are bankrupt without you. 37 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,300 We are Beggars and we know that you are merciful to give we 38 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:47,400 trust in you in this moment. In Jesus name, we pray, amen. 39 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,100 It's quite fascinating to see in the Bible, the different 40 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:55,800 metaphors of the Holy Spirit, ascribes to the corporate 41 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,000 identity of those who belong to Christ by faith. 42 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,100 The scripture is regard the church as many things a kingdom 43 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,500 A holy nation. A priesthood. 44 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:18,000 The body of Christ, the bride of Christ God's flock, God's 45 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:20,500 adopted children, just to name a few. 46 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:23,700 But what you have heard throughout this series in the 47 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:27,600 book of 1st Timothy is that on more than one occasion, God 48 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,000 deeply desires for his church to function as a family. 49 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,800 As a family, we heard it in that title that the church is the 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,900 household of God. And it is being emphasized Again 51 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:45,400 by this set of verses here which describes something quite 52 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,100 amazing. These practical set of commands 53 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,600 given by Paul to this young. Pastor Timothy tells us that he 54 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,700 is supposed to relate to the congregation that he serves as 55 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,700 members of a household. You know what that's proof of 56 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:06,400 right off the bat that's proof that God is not satisfied. 57 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,300 With you, and I just Gathering Together on a consistent basis, 58 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,600 so that we can corporately involve ourselves in some 59 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,300 spiritual activities as though this was some kind of a class. 60 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:21,600 No. God wants us to engage with one 61 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,400 another with such a deep and high level of affection, 62 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:32,100 familiarity, respect and loyalty that every single time, you 63 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:34,100 choose to come to one of the meetings throughout the week. 64 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,800 You would feel as though it was a home and not an event. 65 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,200 And the way the church can express itself as a family is 66 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,300 not by making the building Cozier. 67 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:47,900 It's not by getting comfy or chairs downstairs. 68 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:52,200 Where we Fellowship nor is it even about gathering in program 69 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,000 small groups? Though that may help to a 70 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 certain extent? The main way where we can make 71 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,600 this church and any church of any size actually feel like a 72 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,200 family Is by determining to treat each other in a certain 73 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,400 way to simple. Is that? 74 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,400 With this in mind, we must seek God's wisdom in knowing the 75 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,800 Dynamics that we must be committed to. 76 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,600 In order for us to see and experience what he has designed 77 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,400 for his church. And what will require of us? 78 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:31,100 Well, what it requires for any family to function 79 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:36,100 appropriately, a level of commitment, Commitment in 80 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:39,000 various areas. And here's what I want to say. 81 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,500 Right from the beginning, if you choose this morning to hear 82 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:46,200 these commitments, these vows these pledges that. 83 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,900 Each of us must take a hold for ourselves. 84 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,400 If you refuse it, if you reject, if you do not take it seriously, 85 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,900 that I have to say this boldly, but because it's true. 86 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,000 Nobody has the right to feel like they're an outsider in this 87 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,800 church. Nobody has the right to 88 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,000 complain. That you don't feel like this is 89 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,600 really something that they can connect to. 90 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,400 If you cannot commit to these things that will be described in 91 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,700 a moment. But at the same time, if you 92 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:15,400 choose to say, you know, I want to really, I really want to know 93 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,700 what this is. I really want to feel like a 94 00:06:17,707 --> 00:06:19,300 family. I really want to be involved in 95 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:23,800 that the know this, you honor these pledges you obey them. 96 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,600 You commit to them and I guarantee you not by my own 97 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,200 opinion, but by the authority of the word of God, you will know a 98 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,400 deeper bond that any family, you are part of and it will be 99 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,800 greater than what ties you by Blood. 100 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,500 It will be something. That is much more significant 101 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:41,000 and profound and that is the spirit of the the Living God 102 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:45,600 that connects you with others. And so what kind of commitments 103 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,000 are we talking about here? It's more than you just signing 104 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,900 a membership sheet. Something much more sacrificial. 105 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,000 Something much more much more important than you having a 106 00:06:59,008 --> 00:07:00,600 name. Someone a document. 107 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:04,400 Let me say this number one that must be commitment to 108 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:05,500 unquestionable. Love. 109 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,500 A commitment to unquestionable. Love, you know what's amazing is 110 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:15,200 that the sign of any healthy Christ influence family, is that 111 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,200 it provides an atmosphere in which every member senses and is 112 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,000 comforted and assured that they are cherished. 113 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:28,200 As we just read every person, you know what he's saying here? 114 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,300 Every single person, every single person in your 115 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,800 congregation Timothy has a title of someone that belongs in a 116 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,800 home. Whether you're old, whether 117 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,400 you're young with your father, whether your mother, whether 118 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,500 you're a teenager, it doesn't matter, you are somebody's dad, 119 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:47,000 you are, somebody's mom, you were somebody's child, you were 120 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,700 somebody's sibling in the spirit nobody is left out. 121 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:54,700 There's not one category of person in the church that is 122 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:58,300 Exempt from this and that requires some of the Bible 123 00:07:58,300 --> 00:07:59,700 speaks about in So Many occasions. 124 00:07:59,700 --> 00:08:03,500 That there is an affection that is known amongst a family and 125 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:05,400 this is what's being emphasized here. 126 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,800 But here's my question. What is that? 127 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,600 Love feel like, let's not just be theoretical here. 128 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,600 Oh, I love you brother. People throw that you love. 129 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,100 Pizza the way you love me. You say you love everything but 130 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:18,900 what does that love feel like what does it look like? 131 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:21,300 Well, there's many places we can go. 132 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,400 Right, let's go to this one place. 133 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,800 Turn your Bibles with me in second Corinthians. 12:14. 134 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,600 Look what Paul says to this church and I encourage you this 135 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,299 morning. You got to hold on to your 136 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:37,700 Bibles because there's much scripture to discover. 137 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:43,700 Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 12, verse 14 here. 138 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:48,500 For the third time. I'm ready to come to you and I 139 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:53,300 will not be a burden. For I seek not what is yours? 140 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:57,200 But you for children are not obligated to save up for their 141 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,400 parents but parents for their children. 142 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,400 With this particular Church Paul was concerned that there would 143 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,100 be a stumbling block between the Corinthians and his ministry and 144 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,400 he didn't want to cause an issue. 145 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,100 So he did not demand nor would he receive any financial support 146 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,400 from them. Not that he would reject it at 147 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,700 all places, but in this particular case, they were not 148 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,400 very appreciative of Paul and he wasn't going to be offended by 149 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,700 that. Is he going to make any request? 150 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:25,200 So he said, you know what, I'm not here to put a burden on you. 151 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,500 Because if this is going to be some kind of a problem and it's 152 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:31,600 going to affect the way you receive the Gospel and the truth 153 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,800 of God's word then forget about I'll let go of any right so that 154 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,500 I can boast in this and a minister must exercise, such 155 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,600 wisdom and different seasons of circumstances as he goes along 156 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:43,600 and the call that God has called them for. 157 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,800 But notice what he says to them personally that you miss it. 158 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,700 He says here and I will not be a burden for I seek not, what is 159 00:09:51,700 --> 00:10:00,100 yours but you In other words, I'm not coming to see you. 160 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,600 Nor am I coming to serve you? Because I have some ulterior 161 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,800 motive to take advantage of you and satisfy some kind of selfish 162 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:14,000 pleasure or Pursuit that I have. I don't relate to you in such a 163 00:10:14,008 --> 00:10:15,400 way. I don't see you in such a 164 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:16,000 manner. You see? 165 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,300 A spiritual leader and a church. Does not see his congregation as 166 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:26,900 clients. Nor has his audience nor as his 167 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:31,200 fans, any person in a leadership position that does so you better 168 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,800 believe that they are exercising their gift and they are giving 169 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,800 their time for the sole purpose of personal gain. 170 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,100 But this man he was not just a teacher, he was not just an 171 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:44,800 apostle, he was not just a preacher know. 172 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,600 He was a father he told the same church you have many teachers 173 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,300 but very few fathers. And a spiritual father, does not 174 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:57,100 provide for his children the same way that our restaurant 175 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:02,000 caters to its customers. No, he offers his time, his 176 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,400 attention, his resources for them, not to get something from 177 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,500 them. And that's exactly what he's 178 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:10,800 saying here and pauses, I'm not doing this. 179 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:14,300 I'm not doing all of this for you to feel compelled that you 180 00:11:14,308 --> 00:11:18,600 need to repay me. That that's not my goal. 181 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,200 I want to win your heart to love the Lord more and more. 182 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,000 The Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to receive for my 183 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,800 Ministry and my fellowship in a way that it would influence your 184 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,800 walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to know that every 185 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,800 time I step into your presence, you would sensor array of God's 186 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,000 love my involvement in your life is to build you. 187 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,500 It's the serve you. It's to fill you even if I have 188 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:50,000 to empty myself. Whenever we come into contact 189 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,600 with each other, Paul saying, you'll be reminded that there is 190 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,200 somebody on this Earth that loves you with, Christ's love. 191 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,000 This in that echoing the words of Jesus Christ. 192 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,700 Don't think for a moment that Paul here is out loving our Lord 193 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:10,700 He is just a faint example of it because our god did not pursue 194 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,100 us to get something from us, but to have ice. 195 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,700 Right. This is the Lord need your money 196 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,200 this morning. No, he owns the cattle on a 197 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,600 thousand hills. The zoo. 198 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,600 Does the Lord need your cold religious rituals. 199 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:27,300 If he wanted that, he would have made robots. 200 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:29,800 He wants your affection to be set on him. 201 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,800 As he has said, his perfect love upon you. 202 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,400 He wants your heart. He wants you. 203 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:38,900 Now, what you can give him necessarily obviously when we 204 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:41,100 give ourselves to him, things will flow out of that. 205 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,800 But God wants what's inside, more than what's outside? 206 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:46,400 We have any doubt about Paul's words. 207 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,400 Here, look at the next verse in verse 15. 208 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:52,700 He says to the same church. I will most gladly spend and be 209 00:12:52,700 --> 00:13:00,500 spent for your souls. With great, joy will be wrung 210 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:05,500 out to make sure that your spiritual health is intact to 211 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:09,800 make sure that you are Sanctified in your love and your 212 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,400 Devotion. To God, I will do whatever it 213 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,600 takes beat me to a pulp. Use me, don't pay me, whatever 214 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,300 it is and we say, Amen, brother. That's what they should be. 215 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,300 Telling those leaders that are in training in seminary, you're 216 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:25,500 right. Pastor should listen. 217 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:27,800 The Holy Spirit. Expects it to be reciprocal. 218 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,700 Because look what he says. Look at these painful 219 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,300 heart-wrenching words. Can you feel the ache in his 220 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:40,000 heart as he penned them? If I love you more, am I to be 221 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,100 loved less? In other words, Paul here is in 222 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:50,500 his in his Humanity, but also inspired by the spirit is saying 223 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:55,000 I long for you to spend your souls for my sake as well. 224 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,700 I'm giving myself to you. But what's amazing is though, 225 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:04,400 this man, live with, such a sacrificial Spirit. 226 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:10,400 It says, I will most gladly spend Even if you do not return, 227 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:15,500 the love, I will still set my heart on you and I will do it 228 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,100 with joy. Can I tell you something? 229 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,700 You know, you have reached a level of love in your sacrifice 230 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,900 when you are willing to give yourself to a people and not 231 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:30,000 expect anything in return and be totally okay with it? 232 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,700 How much of our service is motivated by something to be 233 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:40,500 returned to us, whether it's monetary or whether it's praise 234 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:46,800 Paul, lived above that, he lived beyond that, I will do it. 235 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,900 Gladly never recognize me again. Don't recognize me at the church 236 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:53,000 Bank, whatever. You don't say, thank you and 237 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,900 don't put me up on a PowerPoint, I could care less I will gladly 238 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:02,300 spend myself for your souls. That's a testimony. 239 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:05,700 Is it not for this church that they received from a man? 240 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:08,600 A spiritual father in this way? But wouldn't their testimony be 241 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,100 greater if Paul felt the love of his spiritual children? 242 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,000 It wouldn't be a greater testimony still if these 243 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,700 spiritual children, loved each other and there wasn't Division 244 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,200 and clicks. Absolutely Because that's what 245 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,200 we're striving for a church to grow into a family will require 246 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,900 each individual to grow and selflessness and a willingness 247 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:32,800 to be empty so that others can be filled. 248 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:36,700 It's an individual commitment that must be made. 249 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,900 That's what we're striving for. Love streaming from every single 250 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:43,600 heart in this place this morning. 251 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,300 So that whenever anybody walks and they will be submerged by 252 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:52,600 Christ affection, And oftentimes that looks like big acts of 253 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,600 service, doesn't it? But we limit it to that failing 254 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,400 to see that. It's those insignificant moments 255 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,100 in church life, that holds so much value, but we don't see it 256 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,600 and there's so many examples of it and let me give you one 257 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,100 because you read it in the gospels, I'm sure. 1st, 258 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,300 Thessalonians 5 26. You ready for this? 259 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:15,400 Greet, all the brothers with a holy kiss. 260 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,700 You've read in, Romans you read in 1st Corinthians, you read in 261 00:16:21,708 --> 00:16:24,200 second Corinthians, you read it here and you read it. 262 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,000 And first Peter fibrous as kiss of love, the only place where 263 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,500 doesn't say holy kiss. Bible really cares. 264 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,400 The Holy Spirit. Really cares about how we greet 265 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,300 each other. Doesn't he? 266 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,500 Greet, all the brothers don't let anybody to feel left out, 267 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:43,900 even with your welcoming. Don't let one person leave there 268 00:16:43,900 --> 00:16:47,600 without being greeted. And that idea of a kiss to an 269 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,600 extent speaks of affection and warmth. 270 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,000 It's not cold, it's genuine, it's sincere. 271 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:59,000 It's felt and there's a level of cultural context here, right? 272 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,600 Because we know that back then, and even today, many cultures 273 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,300 greet each other with with a kiss on, either side of the 274 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:06,900 cheek. That's very true for Middle. 275 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:10,099 Easterners is very true for Europeans and it's not true for 276 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:13,099 many other cultures. But the idea here is not about 277 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:17,400 the way you greet necessarily You remember those days, right? 278 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:24,099 Greeting one another talk about ancient times where you have to 279 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:25,800 touch each other's elbows and look the other way. 280 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,800 Hey brother, how you doing with a virus that you have a night 281 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:37,500 High, 90 something percent survival rate, but here's the 282 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:42,100 thing, people get hung up on this verse about, The kissing 283 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:46,300 aspect of it. And it's not that where we have 284 00:17:46,308 --> 00:17:49,300 to focus its the word before kiss and it's wholly. 285 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,700 A holy kiss. Do you think that the Holy 286 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:59,300 Spirit only had in mind? That you and I would greet one 287 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:01,900 another with affection and the way our culture best expresses 288 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,800 it do we really think that the Holy Spirit only had in mind 289 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,300 that when you do welcome one another and you salute one 290 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,900 another that it's done impurity not in sensuality that's there 291 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,700 but oh there's so much deeper thought in these things. 292 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,400 And the way to answer the question is to Simply examine 293 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,500 the Bible and say, well, if there is such thing as a holy 294 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:29,600 kiss, then surely the opposite is possible that there is such 295 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:35,200 thing as an Unholy kiss. And would you know it the Bible 296 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,000 does give examples of an Unholy kiss. 297 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:39,900 This is where you need your Bibles. 298 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:45,200 Now meet me in second Samuel. 20:9. 299 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,200 This is when David's kingdom was in a kerfuffle. 300 00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:59,700 There is some issues going on here and there was a another war 301 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:06,700 that was ready to break out. And in this scene, joab says, 302 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:10,200 here in verse 9 of second Samuel, 20, joab, set the amasa 303 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:16,900 is it well with you, my brother? And job took a mess up by the 304 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:21,300 beard with his right hand. To kiss him. 305 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,100 But Amos said did not observe the sword that was in jobs 306 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:28,900 hands. So job struck him with it in the 307 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:31,800 stomach and Spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a 308 00:19:31,808 --> 00:19:38,600 second blow and he died. So picture that scene joab comes 309 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:42,900 and this is a fellow Soldier. Grabs him by the beard, pulls 310 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:46,700 him in, gives him a kiss and he has a dagger that slips out of 311 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:51,200 his sleeve. And he got some And kills them 312 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:56,100 on the spot. Joab greeted him and so with a 313 00:19:56,108 --> 00:19:58,700 kiss and in a certain direction that it contradicted the warm 314 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:01,700 greeting, maybe it's not clear yet and it will get clearer In 315 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:02,900 This Moment. Now, you have to go to the New 316 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,800 Testament and meet me in. Matthew 26, 48 to 49. 317 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,700 This is in that Sacred Garden scene. 318 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:25,000 We are told here in verse 48 rather of Matthew 26. 319 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:29,500 Now, the betrayer had given them a sign saying, the one I will 320 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:36,400 kiss, is the man sees him and he came up to Jesus at once and 321 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,400 said, greetings rabbi. And he kissed him. 322 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:46,900 What did Paul say? Greet one. 323 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:52,900 Another with a holy kiss, this is much deeper than about a 324 00:20:52,908 --> 00:20:56,800 cultural way of saluting, somebody, And the Holy Spirit 325 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,900 has something much more important to tell us. 326 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,100 What did joab? And Judas do. 327 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,900 With their greetings. They appeared to be genuine. 328 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,200 They appear to be sincere but in reality, they were betrayers 329 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,800 filled with all kinds of evil, in their hearts, towards the 330 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,000 very ones that they seem to warmly greet. 331 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,400 So then what is the holy spirit asking of us? 332 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,500 He's not just asking for you to say hello to people when they 333 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:34,600 come in. He's asking that when you do 334 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,300 greet your brothers and sisters, that your heart would be free 335 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:43,000 from hypocrisy, that your heart would be free from deceit from 336 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:49,300 hatred jealousy and envy. Because it doesn't matter how 337 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:50,800 warm it is. It doesn't matter how many 338 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,200 kisses you do on each side of the cheek. 339 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,800 It's Unholy when you have a dagger in the other hand. 340 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:03,400 Because this is what it looks like, right? 341 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,000 Hi sister. How you doing? 342 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,800 Oh, you look so beautiful. Don't you? 343 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:14,500 But you've been gossiping about them all week. and you see 344 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,700 somebody else and you have that smile on your face, but inside, 345 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:24,000 you are riddled your riddled with unforgiveness and you 346 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,900 didn't have the courage to approach them about their sin. 347 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:28,800 So you harbored in, you said, you know, I'm just going to 348 00:22:28,808 --> 00:22:30,700 greet them and that's it. Unholy. 349 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:37,600 It's an Unholy kiss. So what does that require of us? 350 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,100 Well, I should be able to have the confidence that every time I 351 00:22:40,108 --> 00:22:42,200 come to church and I'm being greeted that, there's not one 352 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,200 person that is willing to sell me for 30 pieces of silver. 353 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:48,900 And there's not one person that's willing to greet me, but 354 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,300 they have a dagger with my blood on it, because they've been 355 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,100 stabbing me in the back throughout the month. 356 00:22:57,100 --> 00:23:01,300 Greet one, another. With a holy kiss. 357 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,800 There should be no fear that there are jobs in the 358 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,900 congregation. There should be no fear that 359 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:11,000 they're a judases in the congregation. 360 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,800 There should be an expectation, not only of warmth and love, but 361 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,700 when those acts of greetings are performed, I have the confidence 362 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:22,700 to know that there's an unquestionable love in their 363 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:28,100 hearts, for me. What will it require for us to 364 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:33,200 be like a family? A commitment to an undying. 365 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,300 Uncompromised unchanging unwavering love. 366 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Which comes to the next commitment that we must have for 367 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,200 one another as we're going to be a family. 368 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,700 That's a commitment to sanctifying inspiration. 369 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,800 Come back with me to First Timothy 5. 370 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,200 It's interesting to note that Paul's call for Timothy. 371 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:00,500 To relate to his church as a families in the context of 372 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:05,100 confronting sin. Do not rebuke. 373 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,600 Well when do you rebuke somebody when they're in the wrong at 374 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,700 least appropriately? That's when you correct. 375 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,400 That's when you approach. That's when you confront and 376 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,200 what's so, fascinating is that this tells us a great deal of a 377 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:24,000 major component A major ingredient. 378 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:28,200 That builds the church and makes relationships with, in that 379 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:33,600 church, like a home. You say, what? 380 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,400 Builds a home and what makes a healthy home is love sure. 381 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,800 But is it not true that in a home when it's so natural with 382 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,500 families that there's transparency? 383 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:45,600 You are the most yourself when you're at home and the doors are 384 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,400 closed. And the only audience in your 385 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,500 house and your living room is your family, right? 386 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:54,700 All guards are let down. There is an honesty. and to a 387 00:24:54,708 --> 00:24:58,800 certain extent, that's what God's calling the church for A 388 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,400 willingness to be in your face, sometimes a willingness to 389 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,200 observe your life and your life being exposed to mind a mind to 390 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,900 your so that we can keep each other in check, you know what's 391 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:13,600 fascinating? Is that if you take it upon 392 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,400 yourself to look through the gospels and see the mentions of 393 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,900 church from the mouth of Christ. You will see that this very 394 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,500 little mention of the direct word church, right? 395 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,400 He talks about brothers, he talks about those who walk in 396 00:25:25,408 --> 00:25:27,400 the will of God. Are those who belong to me? 397 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,500 My true mother. But If you look for the word 398 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:32,800 church and out of the four gospels, what you'll find is 399 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:38,900 that he only mentions it twice, Jesus, both times in Matthew. 400 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,700 The first time is when Peter had that awesome revelation of who 401 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:45,200 Christ was. And Christ said upon that 402 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,100 Revelation, this rock will I build my church. 403 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:53,300 And the second time is just in a few chapters later, where he 404 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,700 talks about the church and out of all the things that our Lord 405 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:00,400 could have explained about the practice and the habits, and the 406 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,000 ways of his church. He speaks about what the, you 407 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000 know, it church discipline. Church discipline. 408 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,700 Everything out of all the things that we can speak about the 409 00:26:11,708 --> 00:26:14,200 church just like, first Timothy the thing out of the mouth of 410 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,500 Christ. He emphasized. 411 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:21,100 He honed in on was how Believers in great detail and in a 412 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,700 protocol should approach one another to lead them to 413 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,800 repentance. Wow, that tells you a great deal 414 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,200 with the church is about and it's so fascinating that today 415 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,800 church discipline is becoming less and less of a reality. when 416 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:42,500 it's the very thing that Christ spoke about the most This 417 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:48,400 implies many things, doesn't it? Consider these two important 418 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,400 points at least number one that if you're a person in your heart 419 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,000 that longs to join a Bible believing, like a really 420 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,700 bible-believing Church. A God-fearing Church, a 421 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:02,000 Spirit-filled church. Then you must be aware that you 422 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,700 are willing to give your life to be exposed before. 423 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,800 Others. In such a way where you have 424 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,900 given them the right to confront you if needed. 425 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,500 In God's wisdom, he designed our blind spots to be identified by 426 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:25,800 the gracious and Wise Eyes of other people. 427 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,400 In our lives, making the church and irreplaceable. 428 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,800 Irreplaceable contribution to our spiritual health. 429 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,500 People who think that there are holy because they don't go to a 430 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:43,400 church because it's imperfect failed to realize the very thing 431 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,000 that will make them holy as the very church that they're 432 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,100 criticizing. God designed it that way. 433 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,600 Therefore, you ready for this? No man has the right to be 434 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,300 offended if they are in sin. And members within that church 435 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,200 or leadership within that church, confront them with their 436 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,700 attitude or actions that contradict the word of God. 437 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,800 That's what the church was designed for. 438 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,700 The very system that would wash and sanctify God's people is 439 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:16,900 where you're sitting today. We've made it about an event, 440 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:18,400 right? Just let me just be at a 441 00:28:18,408 --> 00:28:19,900 distance. I want to hear the message. 442 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:21,800 Let it make me laugh or we let him make me cry. 443 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:23,700 And let me get out of here as soon as possible. 444 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,700 And I'll come back next week for the drive-thru sermon. 445 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:31,400 That's not how God designed it. It's not how God designed it. 446 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,300 But here's the second point in light of that, although it may 447 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:40,300 be a vulnerable thing, right? And maybe even a terrifying 448 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:42,400 thing, you know, yourself more than anybody else. 449 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,800 And, you know, your inconsistencies and, you know, 450 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,600 your failures and, you know, the fight that you have. 451 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,000 And you know what, you can fall into with your attitude, or your 452 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,200 words, are your actions towards others, but here's where we are 453 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,200 blessed. Here's where we are comforted 454 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:59,500 That the very same scriptures that call for correction are 455 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:03,400 connected to the reality that you are a part of a family. 456 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,000 To family. We're your family. 457 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,500 That's the place in which correction will take place in a 458 00:29:14,508 --> 00:29:17,700 home. Think about it. 459 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:20,300 You think of this, the, the ingredients of a successful 460 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:21,300 home. You say there's love. 461 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:22,700 Absolutely. There's transparency. 462 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:24,200 Sure there is. But here's another thing. 463 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,700 There's safety. Their safety. 464 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400 And so, I understand that there are those who are experts at 465 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,300 rebuking and correcting, and kicking out, but they're not 466 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:38,100 family, they're not operating as a home. 467 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:40,500 They're not operating out of that affection. 468 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,600 And that's why Paul here, by the spirit, deeply binds correction 469 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:51,200 with the compassion of a family. Older men is father's older 470 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,000 woman as mother's younger brothers younger sisters. 471 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,400 That's where this is taking place. 472 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,100 Now, we come, he begins to instruct this young Pastor on 473 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,100 how to deal with older men in his congregation. 474 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,700 And the first thing is, which includes older woman. 475 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:15,100 That there would be times that Timothy as a young Pastor would 476 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,200 have to confront those who are older and I don't know anybody. 477 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,500 Maybe you do that enjoys confrontation. 478 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,200 That is a difficult part about Ministry. 479 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,900 Pastors are not called to be nice and how you doing doing 480 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:32,500 well, and not, no, no. He's been charged by God to see 481 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:36,400 sin confronted. And deal with it. 482 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,300 But with a certain Spirit, you know, what's unique between a 483 00:30:40,308 --> 00:30:43,900 young leadership in an older congregation is that not for 484 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:46,100 all. But often, there are older 485 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:49,100 Saints season saints that have walked through the church 486 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,400 throughout the years and in different Ministries and are 487 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,600 kind of set in their ways or I've seen things done in a 488 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,400 particular Manner and when it's not done the way they're used to 489 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,900 it can cause discomfort not for all and there is wisdom in which 490 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:05,900 older people have to provide something to a church and 491 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:09,200 there's no doubt about that, but sometimes that discomfort over a 492 00:31:09,208 --> 00:31:11,900 specific thing can turn into complaints and then those 493 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:16,500 complaints Can turn into conflict very quickly and then 494 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,100 there's murmuring and then there's there's things that can 495 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:25,100 get really messy. and Paul says Timothy look, even older people 496 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,900 can have a none christ-like attitude in your church, but you 497 00:31:27,908 --> 00:31:30,000 have to make sure that when you deal with that kind of an 498 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,600 attitude that you have the right attitude yourself, So he says, 499 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:39,500 do not rebuke an older man. A hold on, I thought Paul and 500 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:42,900 more than one place, especially to Timothy told him to rebuke 501 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:46,500 second, Timothy rebuke. So what do we have a 502 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:48,900 contradiction here? No, we have a different word for 503 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:52,200 rebuke in the Greek. This would rebuke in the Greek, 504 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,800 is the only time it is used in the entire New Testament and it 505 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,000 is much more severe and aggressive than just correcting 506 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,300 somebody verbally the word rebuke here speaks of striking 507 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:11,200 at Or beating upon. So it's actually verbal abuse. 508 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:14,300 And timidly. Do you have a position of 509 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,100 authority? You have no right to humiliate. 510 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,000 Those who are older than you. You have no right to disrespect 511 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,600 them. You have no right to embarrass 512 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,800 them. You have no right to tear them 513 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,300 apart with your words just because there's a disagreement 514 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:28,000 between you and them or even if their sin between them and other 515 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,100 people. You have no, right? 516 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,600 There is a special respect that is reserved for those who are 517 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,200 older than you in the Bible declares that from cover to 518 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,100 cover even in Leviticus. When an older man walks in and 519 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:44,700 says that the younger men should stand up and respect, And so 520 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:48,100 Timothy you better be careful and how you address those who 521 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,600 have walked through life much longer than you and there's so 522 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,700 many examples of that even when older men are found in sin, 523 00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:00,500 remember Noah. I mean the Earth just subside 524 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:03,100 everything just calm down in the man becomes a drunk. 525 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,000 Goes to show that God can flood the world but if it doesn't 526 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,300 flood, the hearts of men, nothing will change. 527 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:17,400 What a picture, he drowns this entire Earth, and he leaves a 528 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,100 remnant of eight. People only for them to come and 529 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:21,600 step foot on the Earth again and corrupt. 530 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:28,300 It Noah. He becomes a gardener, he has a 531 00:33:28,308 --> 00:33:32,000 Vineyard, he begins to drink and now he's naked in his tent. 532 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,000 And one of his sons comes sees, it much debate of what he did 533 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,100 comes out of the tent, to begin to tell his brothers and the two 534 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:42,700 brothers, who had sense, who had some reverence, they didn't even 535 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,800 go into the tent forward but backward with the cloth on their 536 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,500 shoulders and they stepped backward, and they covered their 537 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,300 father's shame. It would not embarrass him any 538 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:54,800 further. What a picture of how, we should 539 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,500 cover the sins of those who are older than us? 540 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:00,100 We're not looking to amplify what they've done. 541 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:04,300 We're not looking to shame them. We're looking to cover them and 542 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:08,000 honor them. And it's true for older woman as 543 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,100 well. We see an example of this in 544 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:13,800 Philippians 4. If you were here Friday you saw 545 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,900 this example but let's look at it and see it even in Greater 546 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:20,199 detail in the Church of Philippi and verse to Philippians 4, we 547 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,699 read Paul stops in his teaching and he says, I entreat you odia 548 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,100 and I entreat synthetic he to agree and the Lord. 549 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,000 So there are two ladies in the church and there's some 550 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,300 disagreement there. And how does Paul do it now? 551 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:37,600 Remember these letters would be read out to the church. 552 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,100 So you would have the leaders of the church, take up the letter 553 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,000 and say it out loud in front of everybody. 554 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,500 Just like in this kind of a setting and Paul could have 555 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,900 dealt with these two ladies in so many different ways. 556 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,000 And sometimes drastic measures call for drastic. 557 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:56,400 Methods. But in this case, there's a 558 00:34:56,408 --> 00:34:59,900 disagreement and he goes, would you guys just agree? 559 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,900 Would you guys just agree? And he exposes them like you can 560 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:06,900 imagine the flushed face is right, you audience. 561 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:09,400 Integral gosh, Paul just called us out in front of everybody. 562 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,200 But look what it says in the next verse. 563 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:15,900 Yes, I ask you also True Companion. 564 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:18,800 He's writing to somebody specific help these women help 565 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,500 them reconcile help them, see eye to eye. 566 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:25,900 And look how he goes from correction to Commendation in 567 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,400 the same breath who have labored side by side with me in the 568 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,900 gospel together. With Clement and the rest of my 569 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:34,900 fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life. 570 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:41,000 So the very same woman that he seeks to rebuke to certain 571 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,500 extent, he also uplifts in the sight of all men says they've 572 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:48,200 helped me in the gospel goes to show that you can help the 573 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,800 Apostle Paul and still have some issues with others goes to show 574 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,400 that. You can be a co-worker with this 575 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,900 blessed man of God and still have fleshly attitude. 576 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:03,300 Paul says, look, I'm going to correct you but I'm also going 577 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:06,300 to steam you in the same breath. What? 578 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,700 An example. Especially with those who are 579 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,000 older. Now, we can reverse this safely, 580 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:16,700 Paul told, Timothy treat them as mothers treat them as fathers 581 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:19,800 but can't we say the same and the opposite sense that those 582 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,900 who are older in the congregation though, the 583 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:24,600 spiritual leadership is younger, shouldn't they treat him as 584 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,800 their son. Right. 585 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:32,000 This is not just a one-way thing that the spiritual leadership 586 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,400 treats. Everybody else like family and 587 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,100 they just look at you. Like you're just whatever like a 588 00:36:35,107 --> 00:36:36,200 babysitter. No. 589 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,200 So older men. Treat Timothy like a son. 590 00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:45,700 How do you do that? Well, you give them verbal 591 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:49,800 affirmation, from time to time, you provide wise counsel here. 592 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,800 And there, you let them know that you're partnering with him 593 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,900 through prayer and different means. 594 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,000 How about older mothers? Well, there's that maternal 595 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:04,000 instinct is in there at Timothy should be open and should be a 596 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,700 recipient of their care, because that's how they're wired, and 597 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:09,900 not just the young spiritual leadership, but even the young 598 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:14,000 people in the church, let them mother you to a certain extent. 599 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,400 Let them cook for you. Let them invite you over to 600 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,900 dinner and and joyfully receive that. 601 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:23,400 That's the blessing of having, multi-generations, in a church, 602 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,200 There's so much. That's given an experience and 603 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,700 received an extended when you have different people of 604 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:34,300 different age groups. And so we see here that these 605 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:38,600 older people had a special respect reserved for them, but 606 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,700 then there's another category and that other category here is 607 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,400 younger men as brothers in younger women as sisters. 608 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,900 So what was Timothy to do as a person who is in a similar age 609 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:50,100 group as those who are young and the church? 610 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,700 Well, here's the plane thing that he should not walk with an 611 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:56,700 air of superiority. I'm the pastor and you're not 612 00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,000 and we're around the same age. God called me. 613 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,500 He didn't call you. Can you imagine Stinks with 614 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:06,200 pride. And that Pride can manifest the 615 00:38:06,207 --> 00:38:07,600 most. When there is a brother or 616 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,600 sister in sin and you confront that sin, how are you going to 617 00:38:11,607 --> 00:38:13,700 do it? What words are you going to 618 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:16,100 choose? How will you sit down with him? 619 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,600 Will there be genuine affection or with the sense that you are 620 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,300 higher than them? Be careful, be careful Timothy 621 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,700 but here's a wonderful detail. That's added that you're 622 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:29,400 familiar with when he comes to the sisters. 623 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:35,900 He says in all purity In all Purity for obvious, reasons for 624 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:39,200 obvious reasons, but here's the principle. 625 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:41,800 That being committed to my communities. 626 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,800 Holiness is not just found in my willingness to confront them in 627 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,300 their sin, but also, in my willingness not to be 628 00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:53,400 contributor to sin. That makes sense being committed 629 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,000 to sanctifying inspiration is not me willing to watch your 630 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,900 life and observe it and to sit you down when I need to confront 631 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:02,800 you with sin. No, it's in my willingness and 632 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,000 my alertness not to contribute or to bring in sin in the first 633 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,300 place. Because we all know that we have 634 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:15,600 the potential to not just defile ourselves, but when you are tied 635 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,900 in with a family, you can defile others. 636 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:22,800 Timothy, you're young, they're young ladies in your church. 637 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,600 You better watch your step boy. Just for Timothy. 638 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,800 Oh yeah. Pastors that are young. 639 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,700 Have to be careful. Not just men in general, hold 640 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:35,300 up. Men and women. 641 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:37,300 In this place, please realize that. 642 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:42,500 If you want to be in a church family, you have deemed it. 643 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:46,200 You have seen it as most of importance to come into this 644 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,600 place and inspire people and not defile people. 645 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,900 Here's a verse to consider, go to Hebrews chapter 12. 646 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:03,600 Look what the author of Hebrews says to this Jewish Christian 647 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,800 audience. See to it. 648 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,100 That no one fails to obtain the grace of God. 649 00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:20,000 That no root of bitterness Springs up and causes trouble. 650 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:27,700 And by it many become defiled. Now, we read that and what comes 651 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:31,500 to mind, immediately? that the author is concerned 652 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:35,100 that somebody would have Resentment. 653 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:40,400 Somebody would have harbored and festering, anger unforgiveness 654 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,400 in their bosom and over time. You know, this very well that if 655 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,300 you're a bitter person that it's going to affect your 656 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:51,000 relationship with others, right? That's how we see it in there is 657 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,800 application in that area, but I make the case today that root of 658 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,200 bitterness is not the way we understand bitterness. 659 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:01,700 And this audience, this jewish-christian audience that 660 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:05,800 was so familiar with the Old Testament would have immediately 661 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,200 know what the author was alluding to when he had said 662 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:14,000 this root of bitterness. Oh, you're talking about what 663 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,200 Moses said to his people before they entered into the promised 664 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,300 land may be thinking? What do you mean? 665 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:22,600 Well, you got to go to Deuteronomy, 29, and you go to 666 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,700 do around turn around, you'll know exactly what he means here. 667 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:28,000 By root of bitterness and it'll make more sense in life. 668 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,700 The context of the book of Hebrews. 669 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,500 And Deuteronomy 29, 18, Moses preaches to his people. 670 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:38,000 And he gives them warning because when you preach you 671 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,600 don't just encourage you worn. And he says here in Deuteronomy 672 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:47,500 29, 18, beware. Beware lest there be among you a 673 00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:52,200 man, or a woman or Clan or tribe whose heart is turning away from 674 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,500 the Lord. Our God to go on and serve the 675 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,700 gods of those Nations. Now, look at this, beware lest 676 00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:04,100 there be among you a route. Bearing poisonous. 677 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:11,900 And bitter fruit. Soon Hebrews. 678 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,400 It's not that the root is bitterness. 679 00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:21,900 It's at the root will produce bitter fruit. 680 00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:24,900 You know what? The trigger thing is about a 681 00:42:24,908 --> 00:42:27,700 route. The part of the plan, that's 682 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:30,900 hidden. Underground. 683 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:34,400 Unseen unnoticed, unless there's digging that takes place. 684 00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:42,300 It's camouflaged, it's not seen, it's not easily identified. 685 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,600 We don't know how deep those roots go. 686 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:46,900 We know that they're there but we don't know how deep they go. 687 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,000 We know how intertwined they are, we know how in grade they 688 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,400 are to the soil. And that's the truth about this 689 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,700 root of bitterness. It's in the heart. 690 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:03,200 And you can't make it clear. Right away. 691 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:07,400 But the danger is still there. And the danger is that when you 692 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,700 have that kind of a root of bitterness planted in the bed of 693 00:43:09,707 --> 00:43:13,900 soil, the community. That if it is undiscerning Dan 694 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:16,700 undealt with over time it will produce a certain fruit like 695 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,100 weeds that will choke out all the other healthy plants in 696 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:26,100 God's Garden. and so calls for a discernment from spiritual 697 00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:30,600 leadership to be able to identify such a route and they 698 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,700 could come from a man, it can come from a woman, it can come 699 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:37,200 from a clan, it can come from a tribe within God's, holy nation 700 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,600 and this route. Just that those little hideous 701 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,600 looking things. Is so powerful that it can bring 702 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,900 down an entire assembly of people? 703 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,000 Wow, here's the question. What is that route? 704 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:56,600 Let me ask you a better question. 705 00:43:57,100 --> 00:43:59,700 Would you like to know this morning as you stumbled in here 706 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:02,700 to know, if you have that route in your heart because you can 707 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:07,500 find out right now? You can know right here right 708 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:11,800 now is you're sitting there. If you are a person that has 709 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:16,100 this route that has the potential to destroy every 710 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:19,600 person sitting in these pews today, would you like to know 711 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:24,100 very easy? The way for you to know. 712 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:27,500 If you have this root of bitterness, read verse 19 of 713 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:30,100 Deuteronomy, 29. One. 714 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:32,400 Who? This is the root of bitterness. 715 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:36,400 This is how it feels like looks like sounds like one who when he 716 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,600 hears the words of the sworn Covenant bless himself in his 717 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,200 heart saying I shall be safe though I walk in the 718 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:52,000 stubbornness of my heart. This what he just said, this 719 00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:56,200 will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. 720 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,200 You know what I'm saying? This has the potential to 721 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:03,400 actually wipe out those who are moist filled with life and vigor 722 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:08,000 and Zeal, and those who are dead and dry and lukewarm both. 723 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,700 What is that root of bitterness? How do you know if it's in your 724 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:16,900 heart? So it will manifest eventually. 725 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000 But it starts with a thought. And here's the thought that 726 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,700 every week, you hear a message, no matter how much intense it 727 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:25,300 is, no matter how much it is filled with warning and you 728 00:45:25,300 --> 00:45:28,600 leave here without an inch of you being even convicted or 729 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,500 move. In fact, on top of that, you 730 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:36,000 feel this, I can live how I want And it will be just, okay. 731 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:39,300 It's a perverted view of eternal security. 732 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:47,000 I can live how I want. I don't have to treat my younger 733 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,300 sisters with all Purity, I can mess around with a girl here and 734 00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:53,200 there. And God won't do anything. 735 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,300 He won't chastise me. He won't discipline me. 736 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,300 He won't expose me. You have the root of bitterness 737 00:45:57,300 --> 00:46:01,100 in your heart sir. You have the root of bitterness 738 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:05,000 in your heart, young lady. Were you don't sense the fear of 739 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,200 God where you not respond to the word of God with trembling? 740 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,200 But in fact, you are deceived to say I can still live the way I 741 00:46:12,207 --> 00:46:15,000 am living, though. It is in contrary to the word of 742 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:22,000 God and I will be just okay. And Hebrews, he says, make sure 743 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,500 that none of you have the root of bitterness defiling. 744 00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:26,600 Many that kind of an attitude corrupts. 745 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,500 Listen, you don't think this is real. 746 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:31,000 This is real. I'll never forget the 747 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,100 conversation. I had with somebody that was so 748 00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,100 backslidden. None of you here, know them. 749 00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:37,900 They're not part of this, they're not here, they're not 750 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:41,600 even in this state when I begin to ask and ask, how did this 751 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,700 happen? This person regularly attended 752 00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:45,700 church and the things he was telling me he was doing, I 753 00:46:45,707 --> 00:46:47,900 thought to myself. How can you even sit and God's 754 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:51,100 house and listen to a worship song and be unmoved? 755 00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:55,200 Let me get this, tell me where it all began. 756 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,900 So just tell me where was the turning point? 757 00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:59,600 He said, well, I began to do drugs with the worship. 758 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:07,900 Team of that church. I said The Who the worship team. 759 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,100 We still go out and smoke and drink. 760 00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:16,000 Are they still on the worship team? 761 00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:19,200 And he wouldn't give me an answer. 762 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,200 Defiling many. Defiling many. 763 00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:28,200 That can happen from the leadership with a man like 764 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,400 Timothy, who, did not have the fear of God in the way he 765 00:47:31,408 --> 00:47:33,400 related with people, and they can happen with anybody else in 766 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:41,000 this place. and so if we're going to be a family, We're 767 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:46,000 going to be committed to sanctifying inspiration, not 768 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,700 just in confrontation, but in you living your convictions. 769 00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:53,000 By the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. 770 00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:58,200 This is the warning. And this is the feeling that you 771 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,800 should have when you step into this home week after week. 772 00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:06,000 I know that as I turn my back coming into the sanctuary away 773 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,100 from a defiled broken shattered world. 774 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,500 That is tempted me all week and giving me mixed messages and try 775 00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:18,300 to pull me into Satan's domain. I am coming to a safe place. 776 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:24,900 I'm coming to a place where Holiness is in the atmosphere 777 00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:29,400 where people walk in the fear of God, where people will help me 778 00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:32,100 live above Temptation and not pull me into it. 779 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:37,000 If the church is a place of defilement where can men run 780 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,100 too. We're can woman run to, to find 781 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:48,000 a temporary Refuge. And so, therefore, we must be 782 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,600 obligated. We must fight for Holiness in 783 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,800 the house of God because we are a family, and that's what family 784 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,900 does. Again, I bring up the point. 785 00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:01,100 It is a tragedy for somebody to grow up in a home where they 786 00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:06,400 don't feel safe in that home. We are rest men because of that 787 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,800 we are rest mothers because of their negligence and their 788 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,000 abuse. They should arrest pastors for 789 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,400 doing the same in their churches. 790 00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:18,900 Because this is a home, there's no room for abuse, there's no 791 00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:22,800 room for manipulation. There's no room for being Sly 792 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,400 and sneaky and deceiving whether it's in sexual sin or any other 793 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,200 sin, including money. Want to know what the three 794 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:36,300 things that bring them pastors, fame, money, sex, And it goes 795 00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,300 the other way around. It's not just leadership as you 796 00:49:39,308 --> 00:49:41,200 just heard. It's the men of the church. 797 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,300 The younger sisters should feel protected and safe. 798 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:46,300 And it's not just for the men of the church, the woman of the 799 00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:49,700 church should also, the men should be comforted to know that 800 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:53,000 my sister's will not lower me. They will not entice me, they 801 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:57,800 will not seduce me. I'm safe here. 802 00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:01,500 I'm safe here. Now if we think for a moment 803 00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:05,100 that this is just Pastoral Epistles, just for the pastor, 804 00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:07,600 let's go to one final scripture as we close in 1st 805 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:12,100 Thessalonians. All the, the letters with the 806 00:50:12,107 --> 00:50:14,500 letter t or together. So Thessalonians, just behind 807 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:23,000 Timothy. Look at verse 14 of chapter 5 in 808 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:31,100 1st Thessalonians. First Thessalonians 5, 14 and we 809 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:35,200 urge, you Brothers, not just leaders, not just pastors. 810 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,400 We urge you Brothers, the Brethren and the church. 811 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,400 We urge you Brothers, admonished the idol. 812 00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:46,100 Admonish them, you know, the idol, the lazy. 813 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,600 Those that just stay in one place for out throughout the 814 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,700 years and they don't, they don't get active, they don't get 815 00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:54,300 involved, They don't serve the brothers, not just the leaders, 816 00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:57,000 the brothers are say, come on man, what are you doing? 817 00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:00,300 Get up. I haven't seen a Zeal in your 818 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:03,600 heart for such a long time. What happened admonish them. 819 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,900 Encourage the faint-hearted just like today. 820 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,400 There's some Believers that are more scared about this covid 821 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,000 thing than others. What do we do? 822 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,000 We encourage them, we encourage them in light of the word of 823 00:51:15,008 --> 00:51:16,100 God. We encourage them in light of 824 00:51:16,107 --> 00:51:17,500 Truth. What just the leaders in the 825 00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:20,000 sermon? Oh, you encourage the 826 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:24,000 faint-hearted, help the weak, and here is an application for 827 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,800 all of it as a family be patient with them all. 828 00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:31,100 Be patient. Takes time for somebody to 829 00:51:31,100 --> 00:51:32,600 change. We would like in a snap of the 830 00:51:32,607 --> 00:51:33,300 finger. Yes. 831 00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:35,400 And it can happen, but be patient. 832 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,100 And as a church, we can testify. I'm sure you can say, Amen to 833 00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:42,500 the fact that this place feels like a family, right? 834 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,600 Amen. But there's still more, there's 835 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:50,400 still more for this church, to explore its experience and we 836 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,400 got to be patient as it grows as new people come in with 837 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,000 different personalities, be patient. 838 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,000 But as long as we are bound to these commitments, we will be on 839 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,100 the track. We will be on the path to 840 00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:07,200 knowing what God longs to see in this place and what he Longs for 841 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:12,700 us to feel and to know. And to experience, we are a 842 00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:16,100 family by the grace of God. We Are Family. 843 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:39,000 Let's pray. father, this morning, we've 844 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:46,200 heard you, so clearly With a set of verses like this, we feel the 845 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:53,200 sharpness of your sword. And yet we Rejoice that this 846 00:52:53,200 --> 00:53:00,000 sword wounds only to heal God in this place. 847 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,600 May we be a people who are committed to an unquestionable 848 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,500 love and who are committed to his sanctifying inspiration. 849 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,900 Maybe be a people that strive for nothing less than a 850 00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:17,900 spiritual family. Thank you for the relationships 851 00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:20,500 in this home. Thank you that there is a group 852 00:53:20,500 --> 00:53:23,100 of people here who are not satisfied with just coming to an 853 00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:25,300 event. Thank you that there's a people 854 00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:28,100 here who want everything that you've designed the church to be 855 00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:30,700 for themselves. Lord, we pray that you would 856 00:53:30,700 --> 00:53:34,200 protect this home. Lord, help us believe by faith 857 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,900 that no matter what the size is, it can still be a family. 858 00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:42,100 We asked oh God, that you would show us how to be intentional. 859 00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:44,600 How does to be involved in each other's lives? 860 00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:50,400 Lord, we pray that everything from our greeting to one another 861 00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:55,900 To knowing the great needs that people would have that needs 862 00:53:55,900 --> 00:54:01,600 much intervention and provision Lord, may be fragrant. 863 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:08,200 With the love of calvary. We ask Lord that if there's any 864 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,200 person in this place. That doesn't feel as though this 865 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,500 home is their family. Let them sense the love in our 866 00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:19,800 hearts. And Lord. 867 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,100 If there's anybody in this place that doesn't feel like they're a 868 00:54:22,100 --> 00:54:24,600 part of this family. Not for the reasons that we just 869 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,600 heard about for the reasons of salvation. 870 00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:31,700 Let them hear your call this morning in this moment. 871 00:54:31,700 --> 00:54:35,600 Let them hear your call to be adopted to have a name in The 872 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:39,200 Book of Life but also have a name amongst the children of 873 00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,400 God, please. Lord your Holy Spirit can use a 874 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,500 message as practical as it was to save a soul. 875 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:47,700 We believe that. And we ask that your spirit 876 00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:51,200 would do just that, even in these brief moments, God, we 877 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,600 praise you for your wisdom, Lord, we praise you that in 878 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,300 every verse you could speak to our lives, so deeply And we give 879 00:54:57,300 --> 00:55:00,800 you honor and Glory. Oh God, you are a wise God, 880 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,400 you're a loving. God, you're perfect. 881 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,800 We acknowledge you in this moment as we worship without 882 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,700 song or tune, just from hearing the word. 883 00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:11,500 We Want To Praise Your Holy Name. 884 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,800 We thank you so much. Father that you've guided us, 885 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,900 and that your promises are true. That when we honor your word, 886 00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:22,600 you will honor our lives and solo we submit a fresh. 887 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:29,200 We allowed this word to wash over us and to cleanse us and to 888 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:35,200 purify us. Lord, if we haven't known it 889 00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,600 yet, let it be known. Now that as we look at when he 890 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,600 one another as we see each other, as we greet each other, 891 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,900 as we do life with each other, that we would see one another as 892 00:55:42,900 --> 00:55:46,100 fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters. 893 00:55:47,300 --> 00:55:50,400 Only you can do that work in our hearts, to take strangers from 894 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,100 different cultures and backgrounds and make them feel 895 00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:57,300 like our own. May it be so by your grace in 896 00:55:57,300 --> 00:55:59,500 Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 897 00:55:59,800 --> 00:55:48,400 Amen. Only you can do that work in our 898 00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,300 hearts, to take strangers from different cultures and 899 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:54,000 backgrounds and make them feel like our own. 900 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,500 May it be so by your grace in Jesus name, we pray. 901 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,200 Amen. Amen.