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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Lewis 

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Harold, assistant pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 

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County in Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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I'm happy with being able to go 
in there and wipe down the table

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because I'm doing it as unto the
Lord, because I'm doing this 

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unto the Lord. 
I'm happy to get my brother a 

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cup of coffee or to take their 
plate up after they're finished 

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eating and throw it away so they
don't have to. 

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I'm happy doing that. 
And there was a time when I 

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expected somebody to do that for
me. 

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What a boldness that gives us in
the faith to see this is the 

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work that God did in me. 
This is the power of God working

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in me. 
What changes when you start 

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doing even the smallest task as 
unto the Lord? 

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In today's message, Pastor Louis
shares the joy of wiping tables,

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fetching coffee, or clearing 
plates simply because it's done 

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for Jesus. 
Once he expected others to serve

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him, but God transformed his 
heart. 

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Now every humble act brings 
happiness because it's offered 

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to the Lord. 
Boldness and faith grows when 

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you see what He's done inside. 
How do you serve others today, 

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knowing every act is unto the 
Lord? 

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Well, let's join Pastor Lewis in
First Timothy Chapter 3 with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. 

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Someone has an interest in being
a Deacon, that's fine. 

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Let's just observe for a while, 
that's all. 

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It doesn't have to put them 
right in because we have a need.

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Just take some time, let's 
observe them. 

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Let's get to know. 
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know those who labor among us. 
So that's why it's important 

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that they are use time for 
testing. 

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In many ways and many times I've
found that the men who are 

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brought into this ministry or 
men who are ordained to be 

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deacons or men who have been 
doing that anyway, they've been 

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basically functioning that way 
anyway. 

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They didn't have a title, but 
they were always doing it. 

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There are always men who were 
walking around picking up and 

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cleaning up behind the 
congregation or helping when 

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something is broken and it needs
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They're always one of the people
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helping to set up tables when we
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or a picnic or something like 
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They're always involved in that,
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to say, what can I do to help? 
So they've always been doing it.

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That personality, that spirit 
have always been there. 

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So it wasn't a reach to bring 
that person and to officially 

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ordain that person as a Deacon. 
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biblical, we see that men who 
are found faithful that have 

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been promoted to other positions
because as a Deacon doesn't mean

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that once you're called to the 
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mean that these men are always 
going to be deacons. 

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Some of these men are going to 
be called maybe to a pastor or 

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elder position. 
Maybe they're going to be called

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that way. 
Maybe the Lord is already 

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working in the hearts of some 
men because they have a caller. 

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They sense God's calling. 
So it's not that they're because

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they're a Deacon today that 
that's going to be where they 

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are forever. 
And the Bible record shows that 

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men have been called to other 
ministries. 

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For example, we know that Moses 
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called to be a leader. 
David, who was a shepherd was 

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eventually called to be a 
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Joshua, the same thing. 
He was a servant for Moses and 

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eventually was called to be the 
leader of the people of Israel 

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taking them into the land of 
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And even in the New Testament we
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Philip who was initial Deacon or
served in as one of the seven 

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who was called out man who was 
filled with wisdom and knowledge

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in the in the Holy Spirit. 
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Samaria. 
It was Philip who was the one 

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who actually went to Samaria and
preached where many people got 

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saved. 
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took him to a lonely Rd. on the 
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preached to a eunuch and he 
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So God used him in many ways. 
God can do that. 

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In fact, Philip now is referred 
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evangelist. 
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was a Deacon or served in that 
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And God used him to preach a 
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struck, hitting to the heart. 
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but it also caused him to be the
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But he preached before he left 
this world because that he was 

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called to another order. 
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these men are called to a 
calling at that particular time 

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doesn't mean that that's where 
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And that's the same with you. 
Whatever God has you doing, just

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be faithful in what God is have 
you doing right now. 

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Just be faithful over that 
because you never know where God

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is taking you. 
Anything that we do, we got to 

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keep this in mind. 
In God's economy, anything that 

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he calls you to do is 
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We really have to not look at 
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This isn't like a corporate 
world where it's more status to 

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be here than it is to be there. 
We've got to stop looking at 

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things that way. 
That's not the way it is in 

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God's economy. 
God is just as interested, and 

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he finds his calling to someone 
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For example, we talked about the
story of Athaliah, who was a 

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very nasty queen who tried to 
wipe out, tried to wipe out the 

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sons of David to try to take out
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And you understand taking out 
that line with me and taking out

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the line of Jesus Christ, But 
God used Jehoshapha, a woman who

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you never even heard that name 
again, use this woman to 

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preserve an entire nation. 
That woman is just as important 

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to God is as David is to God 
when he was able to be one of 

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the best kings, one of the most 
spiritual kings that Israel ever

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had. 
She is just as important to God.

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So anything that God calls us to
is significant, and we should do

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it with all of our heart as unto
Him, as unto him. 

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So then we go on and we now look
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And in verse 11 he says that now
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He said their wives should be 
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temperate, faithful in all 
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Now some believe that he's not 
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wives of deacons, but also that 
this may even be a separate 

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office of deaconess. 
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Phoebe, who was actually a 
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Deacon. 
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minister in our translation in 
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minister. 
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Romans chapter 16, verse one, 
where Paul talks about receiving

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them and being hospital to her, 
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And she was actually a minister.
She was she was a servant in the

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faith. 
She was a servant in the faith. 

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So some think that this is 
talking about women who have 

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taken on to position of a 
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female deacons here. 
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Do we have servants here? 
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different capacities, just as 
Phoebe serve, but we don't call 

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them deacons. 
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deacons is what this is 
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Their wives must be reverent. 
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women who are respected in the 
ministry and also women who are 

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respectful in the ministry, not 
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And we must understand that word
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devil, but it doesn't mean that 
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It's the character of a devil 
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speaks falsely about someone and
God hates that. 

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He hates that when someone 
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else. 
So he's a slanderer and God 

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doesn't like slandering 
temperate meaning that she has 

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to be a woman who has 
self-control over her passions 

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and self-control over the way 
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she's in partly sober minded, 
making clear decisions and 

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faithful in all things. 
She must be faithful to her 

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husband, faithful to her 
children, faithful to building 

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up her home, faithful to the 
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church. 
She must be faithful to these 

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things. 
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it said, let the deacons be the 
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We already talked about that 
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Deacons have to be men of one 
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First of all, we know that they 
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I mean that, you know, you can't
walk around with seven and eight

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wives. 
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that. 
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But it also means that if a man 
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wife, if he divorces his wife 
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OK, this man is not to be 
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But if a man's wife dies and she
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yes, that man can then get 
married or get remarried. 

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And again, this is for your 
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This is church order. 
This is just church order. 

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And then he says at the bottom 
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children and their own houses 
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administrative financial issues 
here in the church, we have to 

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be secure that that person is 
able to take care of his own 

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finances. 
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He can run his own house. 
He can take care. 

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He's paying his bills. 
He's he's taking care of 

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expenses that he has. 
He's orderly taking care of 

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those things. 
His children are in order. 

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They are they are in subjection 
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is a good example and with the 
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structure of his home. 
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for those who have, and this is 
a promise that God now gives to 

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deacons for serving in his 
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And this is really, this is 
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look at this and I say, well, 
you know, there are probably 

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some people who may feel that, 
well, I'm only a Deacon. 

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You know, I'm only on this 
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that committee. 
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that God doesn't see anything as
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And he says here in verse 13 for
those who have served well as 

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deacons obtain is 2 things that 
he says that they receive when 

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they serve well as deacons. 
The first thing is that they 

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obtain a good standing, and 
that's a good standing of 

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respect in the congregation 
which in which they serve. 

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And a lot of these men also have
good reputations in their 

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communities. 
I grew up with a man who was a 

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Deacon, and we actually called 
him Deacon every day that we saw

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him. 
And this was a man who was well 

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respected, very well respected, 
not only in church, but also in 

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the neighborhood in which we we 
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People had a lot of respect for 
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So there's a respect there. 
And they obtained that good 

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name, that good that, that he's 
that respect. 

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But there's also eternal rewards
that comes with that as well, 

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eternal rewards which are 
greater than rewards that 

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they'll receive here. 
And that is for their faithful 

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service at the judgment seat or 
the Bema seat when Jesus Christ 

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will judge all of what we've 
done in this body. 

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One thing I've learned is that 
God rewards faithfulness. 

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He rewards it either here or He 
reward it when we see Him in 

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glory. 
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It's always worth it to be 
faithful and to be named 

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faithful, to be seen as 
faithful. 

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In Romans 1410, he said we 
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judgement seat of Christ. 
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and 10 says, for we must all 
appear before the judgement seat

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of Christ, that each one may 
receive the things that are done

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in the body according to what he
has done, whether it's good or 

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bad. 
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emphasize here, faithfulness, it
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If it's not rewarded here, it 
will be rewarded when we see the

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Lord. 
And I want to just emphasize the

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fact that at that particular 
time that we see the Lord, it 

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won't matter what the position 
was that we served in our 

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church. 
When we stand before the Lord 

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and he looks at me, I want trust
me. 

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We want him to say well done, 
faithful servant, right? 

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We want him to say well done, 
faithful servant. 

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He's not going to say well done,
Pastor Louis Harris. 

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He's not going to say that. 
He's not going to say well done 

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Gina, worship leader. 
He's not going to say that. 

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He's not going to say well done,
Dylan, you know, mighty man of 

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the technology of Calvary child,
he ain't saying all of that. 

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He's going to say well done, 
good and faithful servant. 

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That's what we all are. 
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Take away the title or the 
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We're servants and that's the 
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every single thing that we do in
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of being a servant. 
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body. 
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It blesses them to see someone 
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heart, personal things in their 
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trying to be accomplished or 
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popular. 
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Just serving, looking after each
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selfishly for whatever the needs
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That's a blessing. 
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bottom of that verse, it says, 
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but also great boldness in the 
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When we serve faithfully, we do 
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the Lord. 
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level of confidence in the Lord.
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the Lord that gives us boldness 
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people and to walk out that 
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It's a boldness I can seek God 
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God did this in me if He humbled
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work in jobs where I was the 
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manager, I was the CEO, I was 
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down the table because I'm doing
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doing this unto the Lord. 
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cup of coffee or to take their 
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eating and throw it away so they
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I'm happy doing that. 
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expected somebody to do that for
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What a boldness that gives us in
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work that God did in me. 
This is the power of God working

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in me. 
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share the gospel with other 
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The gospel will change your 
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Look at what He did for me. 
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We're about to wind down verse 
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It says these things. 
I write to you, though I hope to

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come to you shortly. 
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that you may know how to conduct
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which is the Church of the 
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truth, the blessing here. 
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have to look for because we can 
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But the way we have to look at 
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it. 
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letter just like he did with the
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He couldn't go back to the 
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the Thessalonians couldn't go 
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persecution. 
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there. 
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him, and that letter that he 
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by the Thessalonians, but it was
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The same thing is here when he 
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things. 
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shortly, he knows that there's a
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to you. 
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throwing things in Paul's way. 
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shipwrecks or imprisonment or 
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something at Paul. 
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not be able to get back. 
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that what the devil meant to be 
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to the Ephesian church, God used
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So not only is there Ephesians 
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are they understanding what the 
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generations after Paul is 
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us today. 
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anything. 
He just helped it and he thought

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he was doing it for evil. 
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God is doing in your life. 
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I'm under attack and Satan 
things that Oh yeah, I got them.

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I got them I got them frustrated
I got them scared, I got them 

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fearful, but all that's doing 
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Lord. 
You were getting on your knees 

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longer you were getting in your 
word longer you were studying 

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deeper. 
You were seeking God at levels 

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that you had never saw them 
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All the devil did was bring you 
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goes on he says I write this and
say that you know how to conduct

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yourself in the House of God, 
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the pillar of ground and truth. 
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the Church of God. 
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of God. 
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What I'm standing on where 
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that we come into every week, 
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We are the House of God. 
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are the spiritual house. 
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spiritual house unto God. 
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of God, then we are a family. 
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because that's why we treat each
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We're family. 
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God that we are like family. 
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of Titus, I believe, where he 
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older adults. 
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older men, we treat them like 
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older women like mothers. 
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men of the church like brothers 
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of the church like sisters 
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We're family. 
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the phone and call anybody, 
said, look, I need you to pray 

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for me and I'm praying for you 
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sister or brother. 
I need help. 

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No one ever needs to be. 
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Somebody gets pregnant in here, 
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mill trains. 
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different issues that come up 
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bring them food. 
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That's a family. 
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Church of the living God. 
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We serve the living God. 
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See, this comes from the fact 
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She's a statue, you know, out in
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temple of Diana. 
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serving. 
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living God. 
You can call Diana all day long.

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She ain't going to be able to 
say nothing. 

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She can't hear what you're 
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She can't respond to you. 
She can't do none of that. 

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But I dare to call on the Lord. 
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and we've seen those prayers and
hear many times those answer 

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prayers. 
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the living God, the pillar and 
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ground of the truth. 
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It holds up structures, and the 
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It holds it up and it holds it 
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truth, the foundation of truth. 
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church body in US. 
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of godliness and that means God 
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Great is a mystery of godliness.
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about the word was with God and 
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beginning the word was God and 
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beginning. 
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in John chapter one verse 14, 
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That means the whole character 
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Christ. 
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the Spirit. 
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Matthew 4, the Spirit came down 
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and he was seen by angels. 
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Jesus was seen by angels. 
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angels is when he was in Matthew
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the temptation. 
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after Satan left him, it was an 
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to him. 
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was in the garden, when he was 
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and 43. 
They came and minister him 

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afterwards. 
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was seen by the angels that had 
actually witnessed him coming 

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out of the tomb. 
He was seen by angels and then 

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he was preached on among the 
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And that's exactly but the 
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They went and preached in all 
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They preach the word of God, 
they preach Jesus Christ. 

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And who is it that we preach 
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And we are Gentiles. 
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As Gentiles. 
We were preached too. 

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And now we go out and we share 
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it goes on and says he was 
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And that's the response. 
We are the example of him being 

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believed on in the world. 
And then of course, he was 

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received up into glory. 
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One day we too are going to be 
received up into glory. 

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Jesus was received up into glory
because he was righteous. 

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He was righteous and he had did 
all that God had called him to 

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do. 
We are going to be received up 

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in the glory because we have the
righteousness of Jesus Christ, 

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because it was given to us. 
We are declared righteous. 

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We were justified in the faith. 
We are declared righteous and we

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to the church, the believing 
church is going to be called up 

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and received up into glory. 
And not only that, but Jesus 

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Christ is coming back, you guys.
He's coming back and he's coming

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back with power, and in the same
way that he left, he left here 

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in the clouds. 
They saw the clouds receive him 

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up. 
The same way the other righteous

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men were received up. 
Elijah who was received up, and 

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also we know Enoch was received 
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He walked with the Lord and he 
was no more. 

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The Bible says they're received 
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We're going to be received up. 
The Bible says we're going to be

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risen up. 
The dead is going to rise first,

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but then we are going to come 
together and be received up into

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Jesus Christ and meet Him in the
air. 

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We don't sorrow over death like 
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We don't sorrow like that 
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died and rose again, he's going 
to bring with him those who died

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in Christ Jesus. 
So we don't sorrow over that. 

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We have a future, and that 
future is when Jesus comes back 

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for his church to bring us into 
the clouds to where he is. 

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We remember that Jesus was taken
up into glory. 

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The whole character of God was 
manifested in the flesh and we 

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remember, Lord, that you were 
justified by the Spirit. 

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Lord, you were filled and the 
Spirit indwelled you. 

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Just like we pray and we look 
for the Spirit to indwell us the

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many things that Jesus did, 
through the Spirit of God, we 

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too are able to be empowered to 
live holy through the Spirit of 

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God. 
We know that He was seen of 

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angels. 
We know that He was preached on 

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among the Gentiles and we thank 
God that there was someone who 

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preached to us as Gentiles. 
They didn't keep the gospel away

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from us because we weren't 
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and it was Jesus Christ that was
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Amen. 
Lord bless you. 

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You've been listening to Pastor 
Lewis Harrell here on Living 

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Waters of Grace. 
We're digging into all that Paul

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shared with Timothy in the books
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Timothy was commissioned to do 
the following, fight the good 

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fight of faith, lay hold on 
eternal life, to which you were 

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also called, and have confessed 
the good confession in the 

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presence of many witnesses. 
Timothy would be carrying on 

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what Paul had taught him and 
continuing on in ministry, even 

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though Paul knew that more 
hardships would come for 

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Timothy. 
This is the Christian life. 

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It's not glamorous. 
It's not some celebrity status, 

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It's hard fought, it's gritty, 
it's unpopular, but it's worth 

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it. 
Do you believe that today? 

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Are you willing to fight the 
good fight even at the cost of 

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earthly pleasures? 
Living the life of a follower of

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Jesus will have its heavenly 
rewards. 

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To be a part of a community 
that's looking forward to that 

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heavenly reward, we invite you 
to join us at Calvary Chapel 

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Westmoreland. 
If you're in the Greensburg, PA 

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area, come be with us this 
Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E 

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Pittsburgh St. 
Ste. 6B. 

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Check out Calvary Chapel 
online.com For more information 

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on directions and any other 
details you might want to know. 

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You can also download our mobile
app from our website 

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thatscalvarychapelonline.com. 
If you have friends or family 

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members who want to tune in, 
encourage them to listen on 

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Grace FM 91.7. 
One last thing, this radio 

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ministry relies on your support 
to keep things going. 

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If you're willing to donate 
financially, send gifts to Grace

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FMPO Box 716, Greensburg, PA 
15601. 

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Thanks for prayerfully 
considering this, and thank you 

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for listening to Living Waters 
of Grace.