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Please take a seat, open your 
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chapter 6. 
I wanted to ask you to do some 

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homework and that is read the 
book of Acts Chapter 7, which 

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will begin on Sunday. 
If you want to get a summary of 

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the Old Testament, A biblical 
summary, the book of Acts 

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Chapter 7, which we're not doing
tonight, but Sunday, is one of 

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the most brilliant passages in 
the Bible, and I encourage you 

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to read ahead because it's 
loaded with so much a wonder. 

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But we're in Acts 6 tonight, so 
the church is continuing to 

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grow. 
Let's start now in those days 

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when the number of the disciples
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Now he's changed from and the 
Lord added to the church daily. 

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God's good at maths. 
He's now multiplying. 

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He's multiplying. 
Sometimes there are blessed 

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subtractions. 
Do you know that? 

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Sometimes God says, you know 
what? 

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We don't need that situation, 
that person and, and, and 

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there's a blessed subtraction in
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But here we see now in those 
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disciples was multiplying, there
arose A complaint against the 

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Hebrews by the Hellenists 
because they're widows were 

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neglected in the daily 
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So the church continues to grow,
but they arose up within the 

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church a complaint. 
And so a murmuring is happening 

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and it was a matter of food. 
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church was formed, people 
willingly, voluntarily, without 

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the Lord telling to do so, sold 
land, sold property and brought 

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their funds, laid it at the 
disciples feet to use as the 

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disciples of the apostles saw 
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And so part of that, what was 
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widows and well, you can look 
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qualifications of what was a 
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There were widows who were 60 
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family, were godly. 
They actually served in the 

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church day and night. 
They cared for the afflicted. 

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They did all this work. 
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there they were being cared for 
and including that others who 

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because of their coming to 
Christ had lost their job, lost 

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a lot of things being cut off 
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remember a young Japanese girl 
where in the church where Helen 

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and I got saved. 
Can't remember, I can't remember

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her name, but she told went home
and told her family she had 

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become a Christian. 
And her father physically threw 

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her out the door and physically 
kicked her all the way down the 

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street and told her to never 
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She was no longer their 
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And so these things that 
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believers there in Jerusalem. 
And so a complaint came up 

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because there were two cultures.
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Jewish believers who were living
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more like the Greek culture. 
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traditional families and now 
become Christian Jews who still 

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retained their Hebrew culture. 
And so there was this this kind 

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of faction in a little bit 
purely because of their culture.

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And so the Hebrew was saying 
that they felt that there was a 

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complaint against the Hebrews by
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Hebrew sides, they're getting, 
they're getting more bread, 

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they're getting, they're getting
better looked after than we are.

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So as I said, the church had a 
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programme for widows who served 
the church daily and faithfully.

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And you can read that for 
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5 verses 3 to 16. 
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about how old they were had to 
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because if there was a family, 
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the widows. 
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Otherwise they'll candid worse 
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they'll believe in they served 
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So that as I said, the Greek 
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Hebrew cultured Jews were being 
given precedence more bread than

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the Greek widows. 
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Now Satan loves to use an 
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conflict. 
So this hadn't been a thing 

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ordered by Christ to say, OK, 
when you come to Christ, you got

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to sell all your land and you 
got to live in a communal style 

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type lifestyle. 
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they were helping one another. 
They love one another, but it 

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wasn't something that that was 
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apostles. 
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So the situation, this was a 
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with because it risked bringing 
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Well, we're going to have just 
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meeting here, and we're going to
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meeting here. 
Oh, but we're still all of 

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Christ, no? 
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the perceived problem because we
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not. 
Sometimes they speak well, but 

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they're actually not, you know, 
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Doesn't say the apostles brought
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the conflict. 
Their actions actually brought a

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maturity to the church. 
Pastor Chuck Smith used to teach

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us this about conflict. 
He'd said if someone in your 

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church has a problem with 
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or what they're doing, there are
only two that you should discuss

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that matter with. 
One is the Lord, take it to the 

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Lord, and two, speak to the 
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That's it. 
No third person, no telling 

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others, no one. 
You know what they're doing, you

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know, like no, none of that. 
And you're to do it in that 

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order. 
Go to the Lord 1st and then go 

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to that individual. 
And then taking a step back, the

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fourth thing you would do in 
that case is you are to seek 

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God's will in that situation 
above your own. 

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You know, the Bible says in the 
book of Proverbs that God hates 

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proud looks so forth and so on 
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And when you think about it, 
anyone that causes a division in

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the in the congregation of 
Christ and says, you know, no, 

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we're demanding we have this. 
This is what what they've done 

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is they've taken their pet hurt 
their pet thing and they've said

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I don't care the damage that it 
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I don't care how to all split 
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I don't care what it does to the
name of Christ and how people 

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who aren't Christians will look 
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I don't care. 
This has got to be sorted this 

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way. 
And So what what has happened is

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that individual has self 
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This is going to it's got to go 
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instead of looking at the damage
to the Lord's name to the church

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and to individuals the fallout 
so the the apostles heard the 

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murmuring the complaints. 
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Then the 12 summoned the 
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said OK, everybody come here. 
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should leave the word of God and
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Now, before I go on, this is not
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something so petty as that. 
And I mean, you know, we're the 

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chiefs here. 
We're not the Indians. 

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That's that's not the spirit of 
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They're saying the will of God 
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this becomes something that we 
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It goes on to say, therefore, 
brethren, seek out you guys, put

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it on you, seek out from among 
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Here's the answer. 7 men get 7 
men and they must have a good 

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reputation, 3 qualifications. 
They must be full of the Holy 

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Spirit and have wisdom, whom, 
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may appoint over this business. 
They'll be in charge of that. 

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They can run it, they can sort 
it out, but we will give 

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ourselves continually to what 
two things, to prayer and to the

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ministry of the word. 
The apostles in examining the 

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problem found out probably that 
they were to blame. 

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In reality, you might go as 
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How's how's that? 
Well, were were the apostles so 

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looking after the food problem 
like situation and they're 

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involved in this and problems 
were coming up. 

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They were murmurings where they 
were neglecting their time now 

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to sort out these situations, 
these small things and these 

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other things and the ministry of
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And they would be suffering 
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this situation, because they 
were busy, so busy serving 

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tables. 
They're trying to do too much. 

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You see, spiritual deficiency in
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easy for problems to develop 
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Prayer and the ministry of the 
Word are matters of spiritual 

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discipline and they especially 
the teaching of the Word of God 

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is that which must never fall 
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And those who are given that 
position to teach and to pray in

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that regard, because you can't 
teach without prayer and you 

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need prayer to be able to teach 
any prayer to seek God. 

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Chuck Smith would say, and I, 
and I know how this is in my 

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life is, is, is you would read 
every commentary. 

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You would spend weeks and weeks 
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You would read over and over and
over the passage you're going to

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preach. 
You would, you would write 

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endless notes. 
And I have exercise books that I

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I write endless, endless notes 
on, on passages and, and look at

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every commentary and they don't 
all agree which So what is what 

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is actually the text saying? 
And you've got to work through 

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this before you can share. 
And then you're going to seek 

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God and how long I pray 
specifically through the week. 

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God help us to understand your 
word. 

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Help us to know your word, but 
also help us to preach and teach

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the word that is needed from 
this text. 

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So you got to teach the text. 
It's past Israel showed us out 

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of Nehemiah chapter 8. 
And that's where Calvary gets 

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their their distinctives. 
You read the text, give sense to

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the text. 
And then there's application, 

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Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 8. 
And so to be able to do that, it

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takes a lot of work. 
It's not like just get up here 

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and, you know, you've heard 
those, you've heard those 

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messages. 
Well, I haven't really got 

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together. 
I haven't had time. 

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So let's just seek the Lord and 
see where he leads us. 

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Yeah. 
Prayer, preparation and 

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preaching. 
When Paul gave his last words to

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Timothy, whom he had trained, 
who took over the pastoral role 

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at Ephesus, what did Paul say? 
Make sure you got all the 

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administration down. 
Make sure that when you do the 

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weddings, you get their names 
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When you do the funerals, you 
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Make sure you got all the 
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the invoices are paid on time. 
Make sure you got that down. 

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He said simply said preach the 
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So the ministry of the word that
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time. 
And I can tell you people so, so

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now that you're not working for 
the police, what, what are you 

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doing with all your time? 
And it's it's it's ironic. 

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I hated homework at school. 
That's why I did so well. 

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But the moment I became a 
Christian and then God called me

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into the ministry. 
I have never read studied so 

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much and I'm and it, it doesn't 
drop away. 

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Oh yeah. 
Well, you know, we taught the 

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book about, you know, I taught 
the book of Acts, you know, over

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40 years now. 
So just just just know it. 

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No, because it's the manner 
that's got to be picked up fresh

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every morning. 
You can't go back and say, well,

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I preached this message back in 
40 years ago and here we are. 

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So let's start off. 
Nothing's changed. 

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The world's changed. 
God's moving, you're different. 

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What's happening? 
It's still, you've still got to 

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teach the text. 
You've still got to teach the 

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text in context. 
But what is God saying to us out

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of the text today? 
Today the apostles, we're 

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labourers and that's what we 
are, Donald Grey Barnhouse said.

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No man is ever going to be able 
to fill the pulpit adequately 

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unless he spends thousands of 
hours year after year in the 

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study of God's Word, Pastor 
Chuck would say. 

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And so I would spend all week 
and then I've got to come down 

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to 45 minutes and I have 50 
pages of notes, 45 minutes 

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serving tables. 
They decide, well, the apostles 

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go and we don't do tables. 
No. 

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And this is where we need to be 
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Serving tables, however, is not 
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apostles. 
That's not what they're saying. 

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Every ministry in the church is 
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Every ministry usher at the 
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You know, I still believe that 
the men that they had at the 

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door when hell and I first got 
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they had an an initial impact 
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my father and he just was loaded
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God's kindness and grace. 
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going to the church, those first
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never forget the impact they 
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The ushers at the door had upon 
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I got a firm, welcoming, manly 
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They didn't go into great depths
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friends with them, grew close to
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the impact of ministry. 
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menial task too low for the 
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Every ministry in the church is 
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priorities. 
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put 10 men to work than try to 
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The solution and the the church 
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The multitudes select 7 
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We qualify. 
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your bread, here's your bread, 
what you want, what 

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qualifications. 
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That's where we think, oh, this 
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ministry of being a missionary 
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Oh, I mean, that's got to be the
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That's not true. 
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ministry that you do, that God 
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doing in his will. 
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doing what God has asked you to 
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That's the highest calling. 
It's not, oh, Billy Graham's out

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of it. 
You know he's gone. 

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I was hoping to be another Billy
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Hold it. 
No 7 qualified men. 

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The apostle set them apart for 
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The Hebrew members notice it was
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men who are Helenus and one man 
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he's become a believer. 
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part of serving at the tables. 
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this picture now diaconos, but 
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wait on tables, literally waiter
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more that Paul will add for such
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someone who wants to be a 
Deacon. 

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One Timothy chapter 3, verses 8 
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You may not call waiting or 
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job. 
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But the requirements to fill the
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spiritual. 
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being a Baker, one man of good 
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witness. 
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Jerusalem, in the church. 
They are to be men who by their 

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lives people speak well of them 
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Secondly, serving at tables, 
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Spirit. 
Wow and wisdom. 

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Fullness of the Spirit, however,
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aristocracy to which only a few 
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It's normal Christian living 
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For you and I to be filled with 
the Holy Spirit. 

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Visas, chapter 5. 
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When are we to be filled? 
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It's normal Christian living. 
It's people who are living a 

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life that demonstrates they are 
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Holy Spirit. 
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world, their home, their 
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their family and all life that 
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by the hand which is Christ's 
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Those who whose lives 
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Christ, in everything that they 
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they are to be full of wisdom. 
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One who reaches the best ends by
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intellect and the knowledge of 
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knowledge of God. 
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So it is a matter of being 
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your life. 
What has God chosen you to do? 

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Whatever ministry that God asks 
you to do, that His is His will 

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for you is the highest ministry.
The highest calling is that 

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which God has called you to, to 
be in serving Him with your 

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life. 
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apostles. 
Paul wrote, I am an apostle by 

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the will of God. 
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Today you'd be an apostle 
because you want to make money 

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somewhere, travel around the 
world, put a thing, I'm an 

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apostle and to minister to the 
people. 

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The word of God, they'd been 
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job was to go into the world. 
Teach what I've taught you. 

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Secondly, some people are called
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Others are called to serve 
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You need both. 
It is you mentioned being 

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married to your wife comes on 
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So here's the food. 
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Lord bless. 
Would you like some dessert with

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that? 
Lord bring some sweet blessings.

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Is that is that satisfy you? 
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On occasion, if the need arises,
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and this famous story Chuck 
Smith was saying he's walking to

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the church, it's been raining, 
he's got his suit on. 

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He's about to preach in the 
morning and there's a a gutter 

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overflowing. 
The water's just pouring, 

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flooded out as people are coming
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He takes his suit jacket off, 
rolls his sleeve up, sticks his 

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hand down the drain, pulls out 
all the leaves and all the mark,

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cleans it off, goes in, washes 
his hand and goes to the 

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ministry. 
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but it is not to be the daily 
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It's to be in prayer and the 
ministry of the Word to give our

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lives to them. 
You must give top priority and 

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1st attention to what God has 
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Those men, seven men you can put
in charge of such matters. 

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In other words, now we're going 
to stay and spend all our time 

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in prayer in the ministry of the
Word, studying and then 

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teaching. 
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they teaching every day? 
And you guys got the bread's got

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nothing to do with us anymore. 
It's not washing your hands of 

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it. 
It's getting it done and getting

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it done right by the right 
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So the apostles prayed for them 
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them. 
Read verse 5 and the saying 

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please, the whole multitude. 
They chose Stephen, a man full 

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of faith and the Holy Spirit. 
Oh, but he's just serving 

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tables. 
Hold your horses. 

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Read the Bible and Philip, 
Procurus, Nikonor, Timon, 

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Palminus, Nicholas, a proselyte 
from Antioch whom they set 

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before the apostles. 
And when they had prayed, so 

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they prayed for them. 
And now notice a bit of a 

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difference here. 
Then they laid hands on them. 

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When did they lay hands on them?
If all they did was provide for 

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the practical needs of these 
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If you ask, that's a good 
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Why do they pray for these guys?
Well, it's like Ian Ian's going 

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to mow the lawn. 
Ian, we need to come pray for 

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you. 
Going to He's going to mow the 

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lawn. 
You're going to pray. 

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Actually, according to this, we 
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were meeting the needs of the 
widows. 

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Do you really need to be 
spiritual to do this kind of 

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practical service? 
Yes, indeed, for practical 

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service. 
And here's where we missed the 

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point. 
Oh, all this is where all the 

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service happens. 
And over there, none of the 

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services no wrong. 
Remember the moment someone 

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comes to the door, someone 
greets them and then someone 

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ushers them to the sea, someone 
directs them to the toilet, 

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someone says, oh, it's great to 
see you. 

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The ministry is happening. 
The ministry is happening 

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because practical service is 
spiritual service. 

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The same Greek word is used for 
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Now in those days the number of 
the disciples were multiplying. 

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There was a complaint against 
the Hebrews because their widows

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were neglected in the daily 
distribution and daily 

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distribution. 
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verse 4, but we will give 
ourselves continue to pray and 

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to the ministry of the word. 
The idea behind both. 

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It's the same word is service. 
Both were service, whether in a 

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practical or a spiritual way. 
People serving in some capacity 

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in church should always count 
it. 

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And that's why I say please 
don't ever take on a position in

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the church. 
Don't ever teach Sunday school. 

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Don't ever be in usher. 
No one else. 

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I'll do. 
Hi. 

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Welcome care. 
Get in. 

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Sit over there. 
Oh, son, I'll do it. 

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All you kids get out of here. 
Sit down. 

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Quiet. 
We don't have a Bible story. 

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No. 
Anyone else. 

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I'm doing it. 
No, please don't. 

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It's to do it because it's a 
privilege, A privilege to teach,

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a privilege to serve the Lord in
these best practical ways. 

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You know we have that. 
Some of you have been here when 

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we've done the spring cleaning. 
Have you noticed the spirit 

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that's amongst that group of 
people if you've been involved? 

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Most of you have. 
When we gather, we're there. 

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We're all serving the Lord. 
It's a joy, it's a privilege to 

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serve the Lord in these basic 
practical ways. 

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Instead of seeing it as an 
unspiritual burden apart from 

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the cross at Calvary, Jesus 
showed the ultimate measure of 

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love by simply washing his 
disciples feet. 

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So what's the result of the 
apostles decision? 

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Verse 7? 
Notice it says. 

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Then the Word of God spread 
because things were in order, 

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the right people were doing the 
right things. 

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Everything was going well. 
The apostles were back to prayer

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and teaching the Word. 
Now the guys were distributing 

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the bread. 
Then the Word of God spread, and

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the number of the disciples 
multiplied greatly in Jerusalem.

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And Even so, a great many of the
priests were obedient to the 

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faith. 
Now when Satan attacks and 

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attempts to divide the church, 
we found the apostles not 

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distracted from the focus of the
ministry because Satan. 

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And we pray that. 
I wish you would join us in the 

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priest service prayer Sunday 
mornings. 

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One of the things we always 
attempt to pray for is that 

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there'll be no distractions 
during the gathering of God's 

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people because Satan always 
wants to have a distraction to 

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get our attention away from the 
worship of him, from the study 

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of the Word and from the from a 
bang what God has said, He wants

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to distract us to someone to get
our attention away from from the

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Lord. 
So the apostles beautifully were

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not distracted from the focus of
the ministry that God had from 

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OK, well, we're going to run a 
roster out of the 12/2 of the 

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guys each time we gather every 
day you're going to go on the 

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bread. 
Then we'll rotate that through 

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depends on how you have church. 
Well, there's more bread than we

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like to have three of us. 
No, no, no, that have been 

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sorted Verse 8 and Stephen full 
of faith and power. 

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Man, we keep reading that did 
great wonders and signs among 

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the people. 
Then there arose some from what 

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is called the synagogue of the 
freedmen, Cyrenians, 

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Alexandrians and those from 
Cilicia and Asia, disputing with

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Stephen arguments. 
They were not able to resist the

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wisdom and the spirit by which 
he spoke. 

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Capital S notice wasn't him. 
Stephen was not smarter, better 

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educated, or a greater debater 
than the than the Jews. 

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These Jews. 
If you think that you have not 

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read the text correctly, you 
haven't seen what God is telling

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you about Stephen. 
No, Stephen was able to say and 

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do what he did. 
Why? 

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Because he was full of faith and
power. 

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Jesus had said you're going to 
be called up. 

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People are going to drag you 
before the magistrate. 

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But don't don't worry, John 14. 
I will give you the words to 

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say. 
I by the Spirit will give you 

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that. 
Don't you don't have to be 

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concerned about that. 
Verse 11 Then they secretly 

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induced men to say, we have 
heard him speak blasphemous 

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words against Moses and God. 
They stirred up the people and 

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elders and scribes. 
They came upon him, seized him, 

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brought him to the council. 
They also set up false witnesses

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who said this man does not cease
to speak blasphemous words 

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against this holy place and the 
law. 

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They were twisting what Jesus 
had said through Stephen, for we

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have heard him say that Jesus of
Nazareth would destroy this 

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place, change the customs which 
Moses delivered to us and all 

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who said on the council looking 
steadfastly at him. 

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So his face is the face of an 
Angel. 

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That doesn't mean he's a good 
looking fellow. 

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No, it means Stephen as he is 
speaking to these guys, he's a 

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man of God and his face, they 
could see his confidence and 

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trust was in the Lord. 
He was not getting go cranky, 

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you guys. 
Yeah, and and and going off, he 

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was someone who trusted in the 
Lord and he spoke as someone who

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knew the Lord and says notice 
again, it says then the word of 

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God spread and the number of the
disciples multiplied greatly in 

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Jerusalem and a great many of 
the priests were obedient to the

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faith. 
So the word of God was dealt 

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with. 
It was found to be important. 

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So this is where Paul said we 
each have a gift. 

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We each are called. 
The task is what has God called 

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you to do? 
Because these seven were called 

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to serve at tables. 
But then we're going to read of 

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two of these men and no longer 
will we read of any of the other

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apostles except Peter and John. 
And then we'll read of Saul. 

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But Philip and Stephen will read
on because God opened the door. 

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They started. 
They said, yeah, we we'll do 

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that. 
You see, this is where you start

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if you want to be a teacher of 
God's word. 

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And many people come and say, 
I'd love to teach the word of 

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God. 
Teacher of Bible state. 

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Oh, great. 
See Pastor Nap, Sunday School 

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kids start there. 
I want to go into the ministry. 

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Awesome. 
Come join us when we're cleaning

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the church. 
We need to start with the 

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toilets and we need to go 
through. 

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You know what if you don't, if 
you follow up on that, there's a

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really good chance God has 
called you into the ministry. 

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But if you back away from that, 
there's a really good chance 

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you're just after something that
God hasn't called you to do. 

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Many of the Calvary Chapel 
pastors now serving and leading 

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mega churches in particularly in
California and other parts of 

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America started as janitors, 
cleaners and message messenger 

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boys during their school 
holidays. 

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And when the church needed 
cleaning, that was the first job

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they got. 
Pastor Israel will tell you as 

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an intern, Calvary Chapel, San 
Bernardino. 

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Where did he start his training?
Under John Miller on the great 

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teachers. 
He cleaned the toilets after 

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every service and then all all 
the way along. 

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That's how you start into the 
ministry.