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

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Wofford, senior pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 

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County of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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So anybody that tells you 
doctrine isn't important or 

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doctrine's boring, or doctrine 
divides, Yeah, it divides truth 

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from error. 
It says it's profitable doctrine

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for reproof, for correction, for
instruction and righteousness. 

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So reproof, when I'm in the Word
and I'm in a church or I'm in a 

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congregation where the pastor's 
teaching the Word faithfully, 

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I'm going to be convicted about 
some things that need to be 

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adjusted in my life. 
Not condemned. 

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But just like, hey, Clark, this 
is something you need, you need 

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to change or consider or 
whatever, right? 

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The sound doctrine is like a 
compass guiding you through a 

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world of confusion. 
In today's message, Pastor Clark

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reveals how doctrine divides 
truth from error as Scripture 

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teaches it's instruction for 
righteousness. 

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When you're in a church that 
faithfully teaches the Word, 

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you'll likely feel convicted 
with just parts of your life as 

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God speaks to you. 
Doctrine shapes your faith, 

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keeping you on the right path. 
Are you embracing sound doctrine

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to guide and correct your walk 
with God now? 

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Here's Pastor Clark in Acts 
Chapter 2 with today's edition 

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of Living Waters of Grace. 
So this study is founded in the 

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inception of what is called the 
New Testament Church. 

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The church didn't exist until 
Pentecost. 

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And so the way the Lord God 
organized people, he organized 

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them as nationality groups, if 
you may like the nation of 

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Israel. 
And God first worked with Israel

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as a nation to be his chosen 
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And so you remember studying in 
the Old Testament about Abraham 

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and Isaac and Jacob, the 
patriarchs, the leaders of the 

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that particular nation at the 
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And their responsibility was to 
carry on the truth of the Word 

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of God to the people of God 
throughout the earth, the known 

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world at that time. 
God chose to gather people and 

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community, just like we are here
today together as a group of 

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people. 
God never chose to work with 

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people in isolation. 
He knew that we needed one 

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another, we needed 
companionship, we needed 

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encouragement, we needed to be 
around other human beings to 

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know how to help each other get 
through the good times and bad 

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times of life. 
So he established a Tabernacle 

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in the Old Testament, and it was
a physical structure that was 

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built by God's direction through
the leadership of Moses and 

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others. 
And so wherever that Tabernacle 

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moved, the people of God moved. 
They, they didn't say, well, I'm

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not going to follow that 
anymore, I'm just going to stay 

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here. 
They realized that God's 

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blessing was always based upon 
the habitation of God where he 

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was geographically at that time 
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Now God's omnipresent, and so 
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same time, but he chose to 
manifest himself personally 

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within the confines of the 
Tabernacle, by the pillar of 

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fire by night and the cloud by 
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And so whenever the Tabernacle 
moved, the people of God moved 

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with it. 
Whenever the people were not 

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around the Tabernacle before the
Tabernacle was built, they felt 

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isolated, they felt alone, and 
they felt void and empty of this

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presence of God. 
The presence of God is very 

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important for each of us to 
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That's what the book of the Acts
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It's about the work of the Holy 
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within the lives of the people 
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The presence of God manifests 
himself in the heart of the 

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believer, but He also manifests 
himself whenever the believers 

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gather together to worship Him 
in any given locale in local 

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church. 
God never intended people to not

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have a place to meet with other 
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So the church is God's idea. 
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God was the one that knew that 
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As a matter of fact, he told us 
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not to forsake the assembling of
ourselves together, meaning not 

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coming together like we are 
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We're together. 
We're, we're, we're, we're 

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making every effort to be 
physically present in the place 

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that God has established for 
believers to come together to 

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be, to worship him, to hear his 
word, to study the Bible 

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together, and to be taught the 
word of God. 

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Whenever you don't have a church
and some of you know what that's

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like, it's sort of a lonely trek
and journey because you're 

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trying to do your faith by 
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Maybe you watch online, that's 
probably better than nothing or 

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listening on the radio, but 
there's nothing like being with 

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people physically in a confine 
building or outside or whatever.

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People gather to hear from God 
and God works not only through 

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the pastor, but he works through
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When you come and you see each 
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encourages you, it, it reminds 
you that you're not alone in 

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your journey toward the Kingdom.
One day there's others with you.

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You're you're never alone. 
If you're going through a 

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difficult time or a challenge, 
you're not going through it 

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alone. 
When you're part of a church, we

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go through it together. 
We do what we can to help each 

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other through the challenges and
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And we grieve with people who 
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people who rejoice and we hurt 
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And we, we, we're just there for
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And it's, it's such a, a 
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God has built. 
They're called the New Testament

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church. 
So the church was birthed at 

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Pentecost. 
Up until this point, people were

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pretty nomadic. 
If you were Jewish, you would go

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to the Temple on Saturday. 
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dead on Sunday, which is the 
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And in the New Testament, the 
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Sunday, the 1st day of the week.
There's nothing special about 

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any personal day of the week. 
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I hope it's not on Sunday or 
through Jewish. 

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And you, you, you, you, you want
to follow the rituals of the Old

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Testament. 
And you, you gather on a 

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Saturday to follow your customs 
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There's nothing wrong with that.
But we are called to gather 

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together in the church. 
So what is the church and what 

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does the church look like? 
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And how does the church work? 
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There's a church on every corner
of the city and you could choose

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to go wherever you want to go. 
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church in the beginning stages? 
It was pure in the sense it was 

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not touched with traditions of, 
of men, if you may, and, and the

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book of the Acts. 
It, it just started out on fire.

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It started out alive. 
There was no one running the 

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church other than Jesus Christ 
and those he placed in charge at

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the time. 
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apostles weren't really running 
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They were just gathering 
believers together like we are 

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today to meet, to be in the Word
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And so God knows, and we 
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aren't somewhere like we are 
today to hear the Word of God 

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and to worship God, we're going 
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I don't care who it is. 
It could be me or you or any of 

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us, that if I'm not under the 
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environment like this where 
there's people of God that love 

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God, that worship God, and I'm 
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then I'm going to be weak 
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I'm not going to be following 
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I'll begin to drift, I'll begin 
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I'll begin to take things for 
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I'll begin to compromise. 
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human heart. 
So the the church in in God's 

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Providence and his plan was to 
gather us together, keep us on 

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track together, to keep us 
moving toward the Kingdom, to 

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keep us in a place of humility 
and and need of the Lord, a 

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place of repentance where we're 
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If anything in my life wasn't 
right this week, I guarantee 

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when I'm in church and I hear 
the word of God, the Lord will 

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correct it. 
He'll convict me. 

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I take the Lord's Supper and I'm
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for me every week when I'm in 
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My life is continually learning 
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So the church has been set up so
that you and I would know how to

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follow God, how to obey God, how
to hear God, and how to live in 

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the ways of God. 
Court without the church. 

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None of us do that. 
Well, if you're on the golf 

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course, you might look at the 
creation and praise God a little

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bit when you get a good shot, 
but most of the time you're 

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complaint not hitting it in the 
direction you want to hear 

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something, you know, and maybe 
you have a few choice words 

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while you're not hitting it in 
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it. 
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think, well, I can worship God 
on the beach and, and you can, 

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you know, hopefully you do, but 
there's distractions on the 

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beach, you know, And so you 
gotta be in an environment at 

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least a couple hours a week 
sometime in your life to be 

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under the anointing of, of God's
word in your life as it's 

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taught. 
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in your life with the person 
beside you, behind you, in front

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of you, the people you talk to, 
the people you see, the people 

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you listen to, you hear their 
stories, you catch up with one 

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another. 
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quick. 
You get to know people and that 

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kind of stuff. 
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community relationship. 
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in my Bible in Acts chapter 2, 
verse 40, it says a vital church

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grows. 
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of the of the New Testament 
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There was no Catholic Church. 
There was no Orthodox Church in 

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the sense of how we see it 
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There was no Protestant church. 
There was this people like us 

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that were Pagan, that weren't 
trying to become bad people, 

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becoming good people. 
It was God making dead people 

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alive, right? 
That's what he did for us. 

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He made us dead in trespasses 
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He saved us and he made us alive
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It's miraculous. 
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We're new creations in Christ. 
We're heading toward the the 

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heavenly city. 
And so it was so wonderful in 

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the beginning because there was 
really only one church and it 

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started here at Pentecost. 
Peter preached that sermon that 

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day after the Holy Spirit was 
poured out upon the 120 in the 

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upper room. 
All these people in the 

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community heard their heard the 
word of God, people worshipping 

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God in their own language. 
It was miraculous. 

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These people were given 
supernatural ability to talk 

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actual languages that they had 
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So all these people that were 
there at Pentecost were hearing 

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the the word of God and and many
of them then began to become 

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convicted as Peter preached that
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And over 3000 people got saved 
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So the church went from 120 
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people in an instant. 
So there they have this church. 

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What do we do? 
What do we do with all these 

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people? 
There was no, you know, a five 

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year plan or one year plan. 
There was no, you know, agenda 

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that anybody had established. 
They this met together just like

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we are now. 
And it says in verse 40 and with

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many other words, he testified 
this is Peter and exhorted them,

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encouraged them saying be saved 
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They're living in a world like 
we are today, people that don't 

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know God, people who are doing 
evil things, immoral things, 

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ungodly things, governments that
aren't under the authority of 

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God at the time. 
All these people heard the word 

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of God and they were saved from 
this world system that 

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everyone's born into. 
We're all born as sinners into 

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this world. 
We need a Savior. 

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And it says, and those who 
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trust today that we're here to 
receive gladly His word. 

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They were baptized and that day 
about 3000 souls were added to 

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them. 
A miracle of God's power, Holy 

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Spirit power in convicting 
people's hearts to need a 

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Savior. 
And that's our prayer throughout

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the earth today. 
When the church gathers and the 

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Word of God is being preached, 
people are in these churches and

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maybe they've been invited or 
they just show up and they don't

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even know why they're there. 
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hearing stuff that makes sense. 
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by the grace and the power of 
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they need a savior. 
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can be their savior. 
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He's the only way, the only 
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Jesus said that about himself, 
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but through him. 
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to do all these people. 
Verse 42 and they continued 

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steadfastly in the apostles 
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Now, when we go to church, we 
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anybody's opinion other than 
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If whoever is responsible for 
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if they're not in the apostles 
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There's no reason to be there. 
There's no truth apart from this

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truth in regard to Christianity 
and the and the and the way to 

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follow Jesus. 
It comes only from the word of 

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God. 
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God, there's no purpose and 
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It's just a social club, right? 
That's an organization of man. 

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And so they were meeting 
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Doctrine. 
Now people say many times, well,

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doctrine isn't important, but 
doctrine's critical because this

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is what happens with doctrine. 
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Paul wrote this chapter 3, verse
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That means everything from 
Genesis through Revelation, OK, 

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All Scripture is given by 
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Man doesn't have the right to 
choose what he wants to teach 

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and what he doesn't want to 
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Paul told the elders in Ephesus 
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heading toward his martyrdom, 
and he wasn't going to see him 

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again. 
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I have not shunned to declare 
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God. 
He didn't skip anything. 

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He didn't gloss over anything. 
He didn't say, well, I don't 

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think this is that important. 
So I'm not going to tell him 

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about that. 
No, he wanted to be clean from 

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the the blood of of any kinds of
God, an ungodly approach toward 

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anything that had to do with the
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He wanted to to be just before 
the Lord and be faithful to give

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the people exactly what the Lord
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But sometimes people make fun of
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They say, well, there should be 
other things you should talk 

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about other than the Bible. 
Well, I like to talk about other

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things in the Bible. 
I like to talk about golf, and I

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like to talk about my grandkids,
and I like to talk about sports 

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and I like to talk about 
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the pulpit. 
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other times for people to listen
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We all have other interests, you
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literature and reading and music
or whatever sports. 

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But when it comes to the church 
gathering, there's a reason all 

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Scriptures given by inspiration 
of God is profitable for 

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doctrine. 
So anybody that tells you 

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doctrine isn't important or 
doctrine's boring, or doctrine 

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divides, Yeah, it divides truth 
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It says it's profitable doctrine
for reproof, for correction, for

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instruction and righteousness. 
So reproof, when I'm in the word

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and I'm in a church or I'm in a 
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teaching the word faithfully, 
I'm going to be convicted about 

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some things that need to be 
adjusted in my life, not 

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condemned, but just like, hey, 
Clark, this is something you 

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need to change or consider or 
whatever, right? 

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It's it's the Lord speaking to 
me through the word of God and 

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also for correction that I hear 
something and I better apply it 

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to my life. 
I better just not ignore it or 

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blow it off because God's 
warning me through the word that

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this is the pathway of a blessed
life. 

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If I follow and obey his word, 
if I choose not to obey the 

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word, my life isn't going to be 
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It's going to be a mess. 
And all of us have come from 

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places of messed up lies because
A, we didn't know the word or B,

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we weren't living the word or 
obeying the word. 

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You don't mess with the truth. 
The truth is the truth and we 

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need to live it and we need to 
apply it to our lives and then 

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for instruction and 
righteousness. 

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So how do you do the Christian 
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How do you live it? 
What do you? 

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Well, this is this is what this 
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This teaches all of us how to do
the Christian life so wonderful 

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that we have this and it says 
that the man of God and when it 

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says man, it's it's male, 
female, that the person of God 

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may be completely, thoroughly 
equipped for every good work. 

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So how can I live a life that's 
pleasing to God? 

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How can I be a good husband or a
Good Wife or a good dad or mom 

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or grandson or grandfather or 
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How can I be a good employer? 
How can I be a good employee? 

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How can I be a good neighbor? 
All these kind of things teaches

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us from doctrine how to be 
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this life. 
So if you go to a church that 

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doesn't teach the Bible and 
never talks about doctrine, what

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are you going to learn how to 
live life? 

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You're just not going to know. 
The Bible tells us in the last 

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days there's going to be a 
famine for the Word of God, 

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meaning that there will be 
churches, but there'll be few 

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churches that are teaching the 
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The only reason we felt 
compelled to plant this church 

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25 years ago is that when we 
moved from Philadelphia, from 

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Calvary Chapel Philadelphia, we 
were used to what you guys get 

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here. 
We got back here, we went to 

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churches and it wasn't 
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There was like a sermon, but it 
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it was all over the place. 
And then most of the time we had

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no idea what was trying to be 
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And eventually we just didn't go
anywhere, which wasn't a good 

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thing. 
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supernaturally began to move on 
my life about planning a Bible 

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church at Calvary Chapel here in
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Now, I'm not saying other 
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better. 
That's not what I'm saying. 

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I'm saying that if the church is
the church, it teaches the whole

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council of God. 
If it doesn't teach the whole 

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council of God, it's not a, it's
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So they've, they meet as a group
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the temple grounds there. 
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We'll get to that in a minute. 
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continued steadfast in the 
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What's it mean to be steadfast? 
It means to be consistent 

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steadfast. 
Attendance to church isn't once 

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a month, it's as often as you 
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No one's taken attendance here, 
so don't worry about that. 

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But you know, you want to be 
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You want, you want to be 
steadfast in the apostles word 

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so that you can be steadfast in 
your Christian life. 

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Steadfastness is this 
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Right now I like to sleep in 
like everybody else does, you 

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know, but I can't. 
I'm the pastor, so I got to be 

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here every Sunday. 
They were faithful. 

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They they enjoyed being in the 
word and they liked being with 

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one another as believers. 
OK. 

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They were steadfast and they 
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The fellowship is this community
gathering of you see people and 

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you're glad to see each other. 
You hug each other or you shake 

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each other's hands or you fist 
pump each other, whatever, 

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whatever you're comfortable 
with, you know, you wave at each

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other. 
We're family. 

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You know, it's not a religious 
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It's a community of like minded 
brothers and sisters, right? 

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You do life together. 
You pray for each other. 

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You you're there for each other.
You help each other. 

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And and so someone this week 
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She's got a diagnosis of some 
kind of cervical cancer. 

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I don't know what I would do 
without my church family when I 

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got bad news if I didn't have 
people to pray for me and help 

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help me and encourage me, get me
off the ledge when I was 

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freaking out, right? 
This particular woman, she said 

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she's new to the church and she 
said that she's never been at a 

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church like this, that there 
appears to be people that care 

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for each other, that actually 
love each other. 

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What an example because of you, 
Jesus said by this people will 

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know you're my disciples by the 
love you have for one another. 

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Nope, your criticism or 
judgmentalism or holier and thou

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thank God we're not going down 
those paths here. 

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None of us are better than each 
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Well, the purpose of the church,
the fellowship, is that, right? 

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Helping one another. 
And sometimes you might not want

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to be helped because you think 
you can do it yourself. 

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Well, you need help. 
That's what it is. 

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It's a blessing to serve people.
It's not an inconvenience, is 

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it? 
That's what we do as Christians.

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We care for one another. 
We love one another. 

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We want to help each other. 
We want to be there for one 

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another. 
That's the fellowship. 

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Thank you for listening to this 
edition of Living Waters of 

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Grace. 
Pastor Clark is teaching us 

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about the book of Acts in this 
series. 

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Acts is a powerful and unique 
part of Scripture, not just 

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because it records the spread of
the gospel geographically from 

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Jerusalem to the ends of the 
earth, but also culturally. 

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Acts shows us how the message of
Jesus moved beyond its Jewish 

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roots and began to reach the 
Gentile world. 

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What started with Peter leading 
a small group in the Upper Room 

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became a global movement with 
Paul taking the gospel to 

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cities, synagogues and 
marketplaces across the Roman 

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Empire. 
Acts captures this vital 

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transition and reminds us that 
the good news of Jesus is for 

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all people in every place. 
May we be inspired to carry that

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same gospel boldly into our 
world today. 

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Living Waters of Grace comes to 
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