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My name is Kyle if you're 
visiting with us today, I want 

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to say thank you for being here.
I serve as lead. 

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Pastor here, want to welcome you
today. 

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If you have your Bible with a 
statute, open it to Ephesians 

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chapter to the book of Ephesians
chapter 2. 

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We are going to look at a few 
verses 17 through 20 to here 

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today, as we continue our series
on worship. 

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Again, we talk about worship, 
we're not talking about simply 

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singing. 
Songs. 

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That's a modern connotation. 
If you will of what we mean. 

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When we say, worship is worship 
songs. 

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Typically is how you hear that? 
Put, but historically, speaking 

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worship is a reference to what 
happens on the Lord's day when 

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we come together in a service. 
This is called a worship 

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service. 
And so, we have gathered 

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together, in what we call our 
worship center for a worship 

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service, and we have been 
singing already. 

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We've prayed together and that 
we were here for here from the 

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word together. 
We've given As well. 

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And so all of these things are 
meant to be elements within a 

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worship service as far as the 
Bible is concerned. 

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And so that's what we're giving 
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And so in the series what we've 
been looking at is why worship 

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what happens when we worship? 
What's the purpose of coming 

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together? 
Is there anything transformative

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taking place? 
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If not why in the world? 
Are we doing this, right? 

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But there is and I want to show 
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as we look at the communion of 
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It's the communion of saints is,
you know, I've been called an 

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old soul by those who I think 
are not trying to be rude to me.

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I think they're trying to be 
encouraging. 

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The communion of saints is an 
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talking about. 
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always bad to use the old terms 
and then, I think the old terms 

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capture a lot of what we're 
looking for, and they help keep 

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from muddying the Waters of 
what, maybe new terms are doing.

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And so, when we talk about the 
communion of saints, Since we're

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talking about the communion that
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Now, you might sit there and 
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I'm a sinner, I understand. 
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If your faith is in Christ, 
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sins, you are a redeemed Center,
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You are a saint in the household
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And that's what we're going to 
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And so today, we've come 
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one another in within rather our
Union in Christ. 

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It's a men. 
It's our communion is not based 

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on anything else other than our 
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and praise him for it. 
Amen. 

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And so, we're going to focus on 
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If you have your worship, God in
front of you, you've got a place

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to take notes children. 
You also have a worship God. 

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Now, if you didn't get one, 
there's some on the back table, 

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you can run and grab one of 
those, or throw your hand up. 

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Will make Jasper bring you one. 
He's back there, counting heads.

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So But you can take notes. 
First thing I want you to write 

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down is this and then I'm going 
to read our passage for this 

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morning. 
Christians worship as those 

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separated from the world and 
United to one, another 

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Christians worship is those 
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United to one another. 
Now, if you would, as we do 

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weekly would you stand? 
Now, as we prepare to read from 

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the word of God, when I'm 
finished reading, I'll say this 

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is the word of the Lord. 
Ask that you respond. 

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Thanks be to God and we're going
to read Ephesians chapter 2 

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starting in verse 17. 
And he came the he there is 

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Christ and he came and preached 
peace to you who were far off 

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and peace to those who were near
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access in one spirits to the 
father. 

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So then you are no longer 
strangers and Aliens but you are

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fellow citizens with the Saints 
and members of the household of 

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God built on the foundation of 
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Christ. 
Jesus himself, being the 

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Cornerstone in, whom the whole 
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Grows into a holy Temple in the 
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You also were being built 
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for God by the spirits. 
This is the word of the Lord. 

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Thanks, be to God. 
Amen. 

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Let me pray for you and then you
have a seat. 

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Heavenly Father, we thank you 
for the time we have now to 

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read. 
To hear from your word of the 

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Lord. 
I pray that you would open our 

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hearts and Minds to receive your
word to understand the 

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importance. 
The power that's available to 

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us, as well, the benefits of the
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Lord, we praise you for this 
great privilege. 

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Even if for some of us and even 
myself, I'm seeking to gain a 

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deeper understanding of truly. 
What's taking place? 

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We praise you for the gift of 
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We thank you, Lord. 
We Eyes that as we come together

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today that we are coming 
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Christ. 
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fellowship with one another as 
those who are altogether 

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separate from the world yet 
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love you. 
Lord, help us to see these 

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truths today. 
Christ's name, I pray. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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You may be seated. 
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we talked about him how humans 
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In other words, your created for
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You is a desire to be a 
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worship something Ecclesiastes 
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with eternity set into your 
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So there's a understanding that 
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things, there's Eternal value, 
to some things and then to some 

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things there aren't. 
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Are seeking something of Eternal
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typically, you're worshipping 
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value to your life. 
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design when we worship alongside
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Again, the Bible is instructive 
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that it was not good for the man
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will make a helper fit for him. 
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be fruitful and multiply, so 
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others other people who would 
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God. 
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that was to be present and 
undefiled communion that was 

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defiled by sin but nonetheless, 
your created to worship and you 

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find fulfillment in worship when
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Now, this isn't simply because a
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they're going to get together 
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another, the suit there's 
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simply because a group of people
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Right. 
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gather together doesn't mean 
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Spiritual about that. 
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sold-out, stadiums during a 
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movie theater. 
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come together. 
There's nothing Supernatural 

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taking place there. 
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Rouge for an LSU game was in 
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Arkansas. 
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The hype video before the game, 
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the people are going crazy 
they've you know enjoyed a lot 

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of things before the game. 
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they're all hyped and excited 
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And this height video comes off.
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there's a voice over with the 
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Yo and the voice says, this 
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Valley, the stadium. 
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college football and worship 
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And I remember thinking to 
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long and I was, I winced, it's 
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here to watch a football game 
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the Cathedral of college 
football that worship happens 

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here. 
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not meant to be offensive, you 
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of that, nothing of the sort. 
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is made that people value Sports
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So when LSU was down, 14-7 and 
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ball to a guy named Tyrann 
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the honey badger, it was a high 
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He Fields it at his own 8 yard 
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there there was no one left to 
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could see the field open up for 
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goes Bonkers and as he crosses 
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bomb. 
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so loud. 
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louder than the next and it was 
pure pandemonium was a lot of 

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fun LSU went on to win. 4117, in
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remind you, I know as exciting 
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that moment was for. 
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as loud as the stadium had 
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wasn't the same the next day, 
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There was nothing Supernatural 
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No, no one's life was 
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Transformed by the game. 
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Saturday night in Death Valley. 
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wonderfully Supernatural, be cut
it because it is true worship of

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God through Christ Jesus, his 
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as the Apostles Creed, a Creed 
that's been long used throughout

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church history. 
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It says that one moment in here 
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I believe in the communion of 
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communion of saints. 
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Occasionally, it's called this. 
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Apostles Creed puts a lyrics 
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But the music because in the 
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believe in the communion of 
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Because in the communion of 
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work, God is at work. 
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He's at work. 
Your mind, he's at work in your 

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life and he's doing so through 
the spirit, which is present 

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with us. 
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saints? 
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Well, it's nothing less than 
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who were separated that is 
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United to one another under 
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Amen. 
This is why we worship. 

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So, again, the first point I 
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can write this down if you want 
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We are separated from the world.
We are separated from the world.

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I'm going to read to you again, 
efficiency 17, through 19, and 

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he came and he preached peace to
you who were far off and peace 

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to those who were near for 
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We both have access in one 
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first of all that the communion 
of saints is extremely 

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explicitly is probably a better 
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It's trinitarian. 
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Came and preached peace to you, 
who were far off and reference. 

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Here, he's talking about the 
Gentiles, and those who were 

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near he's talking about the Jews
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We have access in one Spirit. 
That's the Holy Spirit to the 

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father, amen. 
It's explicitly at The Tyrion 

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thing that's taking place and 
then in verse 19, he says. 

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So then you are no longer 
strangers and Aliens but you are

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fellow citizens with the saints 
of God with the Saints or and 

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members of the household of God.
So again once you were far off, 

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but Christ has brought you near 
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You did not know peace with God 
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through Christ. 
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the father but now by the spirit
of God, which is made, you alive

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in Christ. 
Jesus. 

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You have access to the father 
Christ, your mediator, the 

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spirit. 
Now making you alive to come to 

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the Lord. 
You can come amen. 

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You've been regenerated. 
You've been given a new Heart, 

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you are a new creation. 
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5:17, old things passed away. 
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All of that by the spirit of 
God, the same spirit of God Paul

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writes in Ephesians one that 
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he came in to you and gave you 
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So you were once a stranger and 
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a foreigner, you were foreign to
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You did not. 
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who, were once a stranger nail 
into the household, God now, you

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are a member of the household of
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saints, which makes you now a 
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world. 
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That's why Jesus prays in John 
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his disciples. 
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those who would come after him, 
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they are not of this world, you 
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world. 
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are a chosen people, a holy 
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called out of Darkness into 
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You are an altogether new 
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Amen. 
This is not it's not simply that

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you've just been Kylie, I don't 
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it's not simply that you've just
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better person, but what God 
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than morality. 
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nature is sinful, and it's 
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Your new nature which comes by 
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power of the Holy Spirit which 
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A new life, gives you a new 
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old heart, there's a new fleshly
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spirit that's put in you. 
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altogether changed. 
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smiling at that. 
There should be more joy at that

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because without it without it 
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wide open. 
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God has to save you and that's 
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We're reading that you were once
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you in here, you were once a 
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household of God, but now you 
remember of Christ. 

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Very own body. 
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and Damnation forevermore but 
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Christ. 
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world placed into the household 
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all that encompasses. 
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actively and there Own 
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making up a term here, do not be
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transformed by the renewal of 
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may discern. 
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is good and acceptable and 
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The only way to know God's will 
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renewal of the spirit. 
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it for me. 
He pulses to boast, except in 

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the cross of our Lord, Jesus 
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been crucified to me, and I to 
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He said, I don't serve the 
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I'm not meant to have any active
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I serve Christ. 
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to Christ. 
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reflect. 
This truth, that we are now 

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members of the household of God.
And as such, we are strangers to

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the world, we are separated from
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work of Christ, through his 
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But modern worship practices, 
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More appealing to 
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biblically. 
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It's not been the case. 
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is not been the purpose of the 
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non-christians. 
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the church is worship services. 
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worship has been an encounter 
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we risk losing the power of the,
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If we kneel to trending, 
cultural shifts, brothers and 

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sisters. 
We are meant to be separated 

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from the world. 
We are members of the household 

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of God. 
The worship service should be a 

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weekly reminder of this great 
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And so churches lose the great 
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So that non-christians feel more
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Here's a deal. 
Our words are strange to the 

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world. 
We're talking about the 

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Redemption of Sinners. 
We're talking about mines that 

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are being transformed by the 
spirit of God. 

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We're talking about hearts that 
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of God hearts and are being made
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We're talking about serving a 
king that we cannot see in a 

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kingdom that we cannot yet lay 
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This is weird to unbelievers. 
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And surely, you know this 
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of this is a bit strange to 
those who are perishing, it 

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might have been strange to you 
at once, you might have found it

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a bit odd as well. our words are
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they ought to be Our songs are 
different because they ought to 

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be. 
Our message is misunderstood 

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because it ought to be all of. 
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message, that Christ came to 
save, Sinners, that God calls 

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those redeem Sinners to worship 
alongside one. 

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Another each week as Christ has 
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earth. 
But if the salt loses its 

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saltiness, how will it be made 
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It's only good to be thrown out 
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We keep salty, brothers, and 
sisters, and a good way. 

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When we bind ourselves to the 
word of God, We keep salty, when

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we come together for worship 
with the Saints. 

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We keep saltiness. 
When we depend on Christ in all 

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of life. 
Don't you understand that? 

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This is weird to the world. 
This is bizarre to them. 

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However it is such faithfulness.
Christ, makes it clear in his 

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word god makes it clear in his 
word that it is such 

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faithfulness to live by and to 
Proclaim God's word and it's in 

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living by it and proclaiming it,
that ultimately unbelievers will

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be attracted to Christ. 
Not us to Christ. 

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Amen. 
Faith Comes Romans 10, says 

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faith comes by hearing and 
hearing by By the word of God. 

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Paul asked their, how will they 
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Unless someone proclaims it? 
This is what we're doing again. 

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When we show up week in and week
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and we read and we preach, we 
are proclaiming if we're doing 

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it the right way, we're 
proclaiming the word of God. 

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We're pronouncing it to one 
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None of this means, That we do 
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and worship. 
If you're here today and you 

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were a non-Christian, you're an 
unbeliever. 

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You have not repented of your 
sins. 

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You have not submitted to the 
Lord. 

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I am grateful that you're here. 
I want you here. 

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I want you hearing the words of 
God, I want you to know the 

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truths of the Gospel. 
It's your only hope for 

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salvation and so none of this 
means, I don't want you here. 

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It just means that we're not 
here to please. 

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You're itching years, we're here
to serve Christ. 

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We're here to honor our God. 
We're here to refresh one. 

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Another to be strengthened for 
the battle that rages Monday 

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through Saturday. 
Sunday is a break for us. 

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It's a respite for us. 
It's an opportunity to beat to 

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be reminded of the goodness of 
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Just as Alan. 
Talked about earlier, we have 

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all We have all in this church 
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You could survey just the last 
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the last year and really see 
that We've all experienced it. 

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But what we're all saying? 
Collectively together because of

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our Union and Christ is that God
is good. 

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That he has not failed us that 
he is worthy of our worship. 

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He's worthy of her adoration, 
and we intend to show up every 

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Sunday and do just that and to 
encourage one another in it. 

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So that we not lose sight of it 
so that we not grow weary in 

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doing good so that we can stir 
one another up to love and good 

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works. 
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not neglect then weekly worship.
Amen. 

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It's the communion of saints. 
It's where we've come together 

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and so none of this means we 
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President. 
We want them present. 

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Absolutely. 
The church is meant Jonathan. 

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Cruz says this. 
In his book, the church is meant

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to be a place for converting, 
Sinners a place where people are

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transformed and rescued from the
kingdom of sin, but we must 

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recognize that God is doing 
something in and among his 

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people that he is not doing 
among unrepentant. 

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Sinners, it's true. 
The unbelieving world is 

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ignorant about Who God is and 
who we are first, John 3:1 tells

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us this see what kind of love 
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Given to us. 
John writes that we should be 

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called children of God. 
And so we are the reason why the

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world does not know us, is that 
it did not know him. 

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The spirit of God is at work and
true worshipers in a way that he

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isn't and mere. 
Observers again, John writes, 

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this time in his gospel, John 
14:16 through 17, he says, and I

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will ask the father, and this is
Jesus saying this but John's 

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reporting and I will ask the 
father and he will give you 

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another helper to be with you 
forever. 

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Even the spirit of Truth whom 
the world cannot receive because

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it neither sees him nor knows 
him, you know, him for he dwells

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with you and will be Be in you, 
amen. 

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The weekly worship Services, a 
great blessing for Christians. 

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However, for an unbeliever, it 
might be a terrifying 

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spiritually. 
Terrifying, encounter Second 

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Corinthians 5 to 15 through 17. 
Paul writes for we are the aroma

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of Christ to God Among those who
were being saved. 

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And among those who are 
perishing, 21, we are afraid 

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grants from Death to death to 
the other, a fragrance from Life

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To Life, who is sufficient for 
these things. 

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For. 
We are not like so many Peddlers

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of God's word, but as men of 
sincerity as commissioned by God

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in the sight of God, we speak in
Christ. 

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He's talking about a different 
language and he's talking about 

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something that becomes within 
the community of Believers and 

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aroma. 
Of life to those who are 

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believing and of death to those 
who are perishing and it's that 

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Aroma that will wake someone 
from their perishing. 

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Amen. 
It's the aroma of the word of 

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God being lived out. 
Being sung about being prayed 

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about being preached about, that
will cause an old dead sinner to

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be risen to New Life. 
This is what we see in Ephesians

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2. 
But you were, once a part of 

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those who were perishing, 
according to your trans, press 

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your trans passes, and your 
trespasses and sins, trans 

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passes, your trespasses and 
sins. 

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You were following the course of
the world, you were a son or 

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daughter of disobedience. 
We were followers of Satan but 

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now Paul writes but God being 
rich in Mercy and with great 

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love he has saved you. 
For by Grace you have been saved

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and he is seated you in the 
Heavenly places with Christ. 

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And you have a new nature, 
right? 

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That's what he's saying. 
You have a brand new nature. 

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You've been adopted as a son or 
a daughter of God, but you were 

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wants son or daughter of Satan. 
You were once a follower of hell

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you were once doing the devil's 
bidding. 

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These were the only two options 
before us, you're either serving

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the world the kingdom of sin and
death, or you're serving Christ 

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the kingdom of righteousness and
life then. 

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And so we will gladly welcomed 
the world into our worship 

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service. 
We will gladly welcome people 

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who do not know the Lord here. 
But we will remember in all of 

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it that worship is not for the 
world worship is for God. 

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God is glorified in us and 
through us when we approached 

455
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him with reverence and awe. as 
unrepentant, Sinners behold that

456
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,500
kind of worship as they hear the
gospel preached sermons week in 

457
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week out as they observe the 
gospel in baptisms and the 

458
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000
Lord's Supper as a hear the 
gospel song to one another may 

459
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the Lord draw them unto himself 
for salvation, he saved them 

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00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:24,800
just as he saved us just as we 
once were His business is the 

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00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,200
Redemption of Sinners. 
Our business is the worship of 

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God. 
In our business is true worship.

463
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,400
And it's only as true worship. 
When it says, those who belong 

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to the household of God. 
We are the separated, we are the

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called out. 
We are the Gathering of the 

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remnant of God's people and an 
idolatrous world. 

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00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,900
It's literally what the word 
ekklesia, which is where we get 

468
00:28:50,908 --> 00:28:53,000
the word church from, in the New
Testament. 

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It means those called out. 
You are the ekklesia. 

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You are the Church of Christ. 
You've been called out. 

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00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,600
Amen. 
Praise God for it. 

472
00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:13,500
Christians worship as those who 
are separated from the world and

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United to one another. 
So that's my point on 

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separation. 
Let me talk to you about what it

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means to be United to one 
another. 

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00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000
Again, Ephesians 2, verses 19 
through 22 here. 

477
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,600
So then you are no longer 
strangers, and Aliens. 

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But you are fellow citizens with
the Saints and members of the 

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00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,400
household of God, built on the 
foundation of the Apostles and 

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Prophets Christ. 
Jesus himself, being the 

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Cornerstone and whom the whole 
structure being joined together,

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grows into a holy Temple in the 
Lord, in whom you also are being

483
00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:52,300
built into a dwelling place for 
God by the spirits, pay 

484
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:55,000
attention to the words. 
You see, especially there in the

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beginning, in verse 19, Paul 
writes. 

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So then you are fellow citizens 
with the Saints, fellow-citizens

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00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,300
with the Saints. 
Your identity is their identity.

488
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:12,400
You have the same citizenship in
heaven, as they have. 

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Amen. 
You are fellow citizens with the

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Saints. 
You are members, which means you

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00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:24,800
belong to the household of God. 
But it's again, membership gets 

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00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,700
a bad rap these days as you 
know, as it should because we 

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00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:31,100
can be, you know, as you go to 
sign into your Netflix account, 

494
00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:33,400
it says, are you a member or do 
you need a new account? 

495
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,900
You got to sign in to Hulu. 
Are you a member? 

496
00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,300
Do you need a new account? 
You go to, you know, to play 

497
00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:40,900
golf at the Country Club? 
Are you a member? 

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00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:47,500
You go, you know, wherever so 
membership typically now is just

499
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:49,900
seen as something you hop in and
out of, right? 

500
00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,800
I mean, I know you guys your 
skirting the streaming system, 

501
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,000
right by hopping in, and out of 
Hulu and Netflix when you want 

502
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,300
to. 
All right, I'll get that 

503
00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,600
membership for a month and I'll 
do this one for a month, right? 

504
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:04,300
If you're not do it, it saves 
money. 

505
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:12,800
Gosh, what's wrong with you? 
so, But what we see here is the 

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,800
word members and members of 
again as fallen on hard times. 

507
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,700
But when we talk about a member 
of the household of God, when I 

508
00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:24,700
look at my son's down here, 
they're members of my household.

509
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:27,800
Why? 
Because I were born into my 

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00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,100
family. 
I couldn't excommunicate them as

511
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:34,800
a member of my household, even 
if I wanted to their members by 

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00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,300
birth, or members from being 
born into the my family. 

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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:43,500
Amen. 
What if I go and adopt a child? 

514
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:50,000
Is he or she a member of my 
family absolutely praise God. 

515
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,900
They're no less a member of my 
family than my birth Sons. 

516
00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:59,400
Amen. 
This is what's taken place for 

517
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,700
you. 
In Christ. 

518
00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:06,500
Christ is the only Son of God. 
The only true son. but not by 

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00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:14,600
birth, just by mere existence. 
Lots of explain there, but we're

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00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:20,200
going to move on. 
You however, are a member by 

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00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,800
birth. 
New Birth, not your physical 

522
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,900
birth, not your physical being. 
In fact, by your physical being,

523
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,500
you're a member of the household
of Adam as we read. 

524
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,100
But by your Redemption, by your 
new life in Christ, you are now 

525
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:36,900
a member of the household of 
God. 

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00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:40,600
And it's why we're told in the 
scriptures that we can now 

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address God as Abba. 
Father, because he is our 

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00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,800
father, you are a son or a 
daughter of God. 

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00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:54,200
If you are in Christ, you are an
heir with Christ of the things 

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,300
that belong to Christ rightfully
so. 

531
00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:01,200
And yet God has chosen to share 
them in his grace with redeemed.

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00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:04,500
Centers Saints. 
Amen. 

533
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,000
And you're no less a member, 
you're no less a fellow citizen 

534
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,900
of Heaven, you're no less a 
member of the household of God. 

535
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,200
Not only are you called out of 
the world, but your United to 

536
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,800
other believers as fellow Saints
and members of God's household. 

537
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,000
This is the body of Christ. 
The communion of saints means 

538
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000
that there is a union that binds
us together. 

539
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,300
This Union is our Union with 
Christ. 

540
00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:32,500
Again we don't we're not bound 
together here because we agree 

541
00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:34,800
to a membership Covenant 
alongside one another. 

542
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,300
Let's part Love it. 
But the the membership coven is 

543
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:40,800
founded in our belief in Christ.
Amen. 

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00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,600
If we're saying anything in our 
membership Covenant other than 

545
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,600
what the scriptures say about 
how were to follow. 

546
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,500
God, then we've created 
something altogether different 

547
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,800
than the Church of Christ and we
should be abolished. 

548
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,900
We should stop showing up but 
where we Center everything on 

549
00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:02,000
Christ and who he is and what 
he's done for us and how he 

550
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,100
commands us to live, then we can
rightfully say, I'm going to 

551
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:08,500
Covenant together with these 
brothers and sisters for my 

552
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,800
Mutual edification for my 
edification of them. 

553
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,800
And for the up building of the 
Church of God, that we might 

554
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,000
glorify the Lord in Columbia 
County. 

555
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,800
And Beyond, should he allow? 
Amen. 

556
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:27,800
This is the beauty of communion.
It's the beauty, the beauty of 

557
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,699
communion of the saints of God 
and them coming together and 

558
00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:35,800
it's nothing short of 
miraculous. 

559
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,500
It's nothing short of miraculous
you were likely sitting on a row

560
00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:43,800
or near someone that you would 
have no other common interest 

561
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,900
with accept Christ and in 
Christ, you have the greatest 

562
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:51,600
common denominator that exist 
for anyone to ever come together

563
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,699
under any Banner ever. 
Amen. 

564
00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:58,300
You get to come together under 
the blood of Christ as those who

565
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,800
have been redeemed and here's 
the beauty of this is you will 

566
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,900
talk about this in a moment, but
you could be transplanted from 

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00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:07,200
this church to another city to 
another Nation. 

568
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,000
And guess what? 
You're still going to find 

569
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000
people who are members of the 
household of God in that place. 

570
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,200
Unless you're called, to 
indigenous missions where there 

571
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,700
are no current Christians, 
right? 

572
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:22,300
And if Lord calls you there, 
we're going to happily send you 

573
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:27,700
as what a member of this body, a
member of this body, you're 

574
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:32,200
never detached from your 
membership to the Saints and 

575
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,100
then it's a union that's deeper 
than anything. 

576
00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:39,800
And so we are united to one 
another as the body of Christ by

577
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,800
Christ through the spirit, our 
communion then is other worldly,

578
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,400
and that's what makes this. 
So, Amazing it. 

579
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,400
What's what makes it better than
a Netflix membership or any of 

580
00:35:48,408 --> 00:35:51,200
the lights? 
It's it's otherworldly. 

581
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:57,200
We belong to Christ, the King of
the world, the King of Kings, 

582
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,800
the Lord of lords. 
We are in him. 

583
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,200
And so, therefore we belong to 
one another as well. 

584
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,800
We're members of the same 
household and so God means for 

585
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,800
corporate Christian worship to 
unite us to one another. 

586
00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:15,800
It absolutely must be a uniting 
factor. 

587
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:18,600
It's not that we were simply on 
the same team. 

588
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,900
It's not that we strapped on the
same Jersey and were marching 

589
00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:25,600
out onto the same field 
together, it's deeper than that.

590
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:30,200
I hope you understand. 
It's deeper than that. 

591
00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:36,200
This isn't simply some cells 
team rally meeting where I'm 

592
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,400
trying to get you pumped up and 
send you out to make a lot of 

593
00:36:38,408 --> 00:36:44,300
sales this week or conversions. 
All right and the worship 

594
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:50,200
service, we are drawn deeper and
deeper into Christ himself by 

595
00:36:50,207 --> 00:36:54,100
the spirit of God. 
And as we're drawn deeper and 

596
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:59,100
deeper by Christ himself into 
Christ we are drawn closer and 

597
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:03,500
closer to one another. 
We're being united together. 

598
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,800
And so, when I talk about how we
are united, we've been called 

599
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,200
out, we're all together 
separate, but we're also United 

600
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,800
with one another. 
I want to give you three ways. 

601
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,400
We're reunited with one another 
one where we are united. 

602
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,100
As a body, gotta slow down. 
We are united as a body. 

603
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,400
Romans 12 4354 is in one body. 
We have many members and the 

604
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,800
members do not all have the same
function. 

605
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,900
So we though many are one body 
in Christ and individually 

606
00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:36,900
members. 
One of another First Corinthians

607
00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,300
12:12 for just as the body is 
one and has many members and all

608
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:45,000
the members of the body though, 
many are one body, so it is with

609
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,400
Christ. 
And so this is what we're saying

610
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,500
that when the body of Christ 
comes together in corporate 

611
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,700
worship, it is built up by the 
spirit of God, as we read in 

612
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:55,800
Ephesians a moment ago. 
And then we are unable to live 

613
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,100
out our spirit given function 
within the body of Christ. 

614
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:03,200
Meaning, you have gifts that the
Lord has blessed you with And 

615
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,600
so, as members here, locally of 
New Life Community Church, none 

616
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,900
of us can look at a fellow 
member and say we we don't need 

617
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:15,700
you. 
We don't need you. 

618
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
None of us can look at a 
prospective member. 

619
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,400
Someone who's saying I want to 
join with your church because I 

620
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,700
love the Lord. 
I've submitted myself to him. 

621
00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:27,300
I've been baptized I'm I want to
join with you guys. 

622
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:28,600
None of us. 
Can look at someone like that 

623
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,200
and say yeah but we don't need 
you. 

624
00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:36,500
That's not how this works. 
The Lord gives each one of us 

625
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,200
differently so that the body 
would grow and mature. 

626
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:46,300
We all have need of one another,
for example, We're beginning. 

627
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:48,900
The process is Jasper mentioned 
earlier of, installing two new 

628
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,200
Elders. 
Tonight's James Jones, Steve 

629
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,000
Atkinson. 
I do believe that this is a 

630
00:38:54,008 --> 00:38:57,500
wonderful time in the life of 
our church. 

631
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000
It's good for all the members to
show up tonight at 5:00 and be a

632
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,900
part of the process because 
these are the men you're saying 

633
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:11,300
I'm submitting myself too. 
I also think it's good for men 

634
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,200
especially to show up and 
observe the character 

635
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,100
qualifications for elders to see
the kind of men that the Lord 

636
00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:22,600
places and pastoral leadership 
of the church if that's being 

637
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,500
done biblically. 
I understand that it's not 

638
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,900
always. 
I do think that what we're after

639
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:32,600
is biblical However, just 
because I want all men to show 

640
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,600
up and see it and women as well.
But, especially you, man, I want

641
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,900
all men to show up, not to 
applaud James, not to applaud 

642
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:42,700
Steve not to say, look at how 
Mighty they are. 

643
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,200
But to see how ordinary they 
are. 

644
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:54,600
To see how normal it is to be a 
man of High character, who loves

645
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,900
the Lord. 
But here's the deal, not every 

646
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:01,700
man is called to be an elder. 
This is clear in Scripture. 

647
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:06,400
God has gifted certain men to do
this and so not every man is 

648
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,800
called to be an elder but every 
man is called to have the 

649
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,200
character of an elder. 
You say well I don't know about 

650
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,800
that little just read 1st. 
Timothy 3 1 through 7 aside from

651
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,000
being able to teach. 
What do you see there that you 

652
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,800
think all men shouldn't have? 
Maybe not all men. 

653
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,300
Teach, I understand that. 
And that's why I say Not all men

654
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:33,300
are called to be elders. 
But we do need more and more men

655
00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:36,400
committed to the kind of Godly 
character that an elder must 

656
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,100
possess. 
It is our hope then, to put men 

657
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:42,600
in the role, who are worthy of 
imitation. 

658
00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:46,000
Why? 
Because Paul writes in Ephesians

659
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000
4 that he's, that Jesus has 
given the church pastors and 

660
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,100
teachers for the edification of 
the church, so that the body 

661
00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:57,000
would be equipped to do the work
of the ministry. 

662
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,300
And so these men are pacesetters
their teachers, their 

663
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:06,200
instructors are men, who can be 
imitated. 

664
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,900
There will be many different 
gifts in a local church, but all

665
00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:13,900
of those gives work together for
the building up of the body of 

666
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:21,300
Christ, the edification of the 
Saints. there's a document 

667
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:24,400
called the London, Baptist 
confession of faith and it says 

668
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,800
this in chapter, 27 paragraph, 
1, Talking about the communion 

669
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,000
of saints, it says All Saints 
are united to Jesus Christ their

670
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,600
head by his spirit and by faith 
although this does not make them

671
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,500
one person with him. 
They have Fellowship in his 

672
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:42,800
Grace's sufferings death. 
Resurrection and Glory. 

673
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,900
Since they were United to one 
another in love, they have 

674
00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:49,900
communion in each other's gifts 
and Graces and are obligated to 

675
00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:52,800
carry out these duties both 
public and private. 

676
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,600
And an orderly way to promote 
their Mutual good. 

677
00:41:55,700 --> 00:42:00,600
Both in the inner and outer. 
Cesare aspects of their lives. 

678
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,500
So again, we just see a 
wonderfully put paragraph on why

679
00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:09,000
the communion of saints exists. 
It's for the mutual edification 

680
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,200
of one another as the body of 
Christ that we were built be 

681
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:17,000
built up into what Ephesians 4 
says is mature manhood. 

682
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:26,100
Ephesians 4 21 as we read. 
Sorry, 221, not 421 to 21 as 

683
00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:28,500
we've read. 
Today, says, the whole structure

684
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:31,100
being joined together, grows 
into a holy Temple in the Lord. 

685
00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:33,600
The second point I want to make 
about our Union together is that

686
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,100
we are united as a temple. 
We are united as a temple. 

687
00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:38,800
First I said we are united as a 
body. 

688
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,800
Now I'm saying, we were United 
as a temple needs two things. 

689
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,100
Don't go against each other. 
You have to have both the use of

690
00:42:45,107 --> 00:42:48,000
the word Temple throughout 
scripture to describe the body 

691
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,500
of Christ. 
Us to important truths. 

692
00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:55,200
The first is that the primary 
role of the church is worship. 

693
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,400
The primary role of the church 
is worship in the Old Testament.

694
00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:03,600
The temple was the place of 
worship in the New Testament, 

695
00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:07,000
under the New Covenant. 
God's people have become the 

696
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,200
temple. 
The place of worship. 

697
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,400
First Corinthians, 3:16 Paul 
says, do you not know that you 

698
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:18,000
are God's Temple? 
But God's spirit dwells in you. 

699
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,300
There he goes on to talk about 
all the ways you should treat 

700
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,700
your body. 
Well, because you are the Temple

701
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:28,100
of the Living. 
God God is pleased to be 

702
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:33,900
worshipped. 
He's chosen people for worship. 

703
00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:36,400
So that worship takes place, 
only in. 

704
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,600
And through his people, God has 
not only glorified in me. 

705
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,200
Personally, when I worship or 
in, you personally, when you 

706
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,700
worship, but collectively, when 
we all worship together, God 

707
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:47,600
gets the glory. 
Amen. 

708
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,800
Ephesians 2:20 to in him, you 
were also being built together 

709
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,600
into a dwelling place for God by
the spirit again. 

710
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,500
You're a temple in which the 
spirit dwells, which is what we 

711
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,500
So in First Corinthians 3, it 
takes a community to be the 

712
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:04,100
temple of God. 
We are being built together with

713
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:06,300
other Saints into the temple of 
God. 

714
00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:09,600
By the spirit of God. 
Meaning we are transformed by 

715
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,300
the spirit of God. 
And so we become the worship 

716
00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:17,900
center for God's glory. 
The second thing about this 

717
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:21,000
Temple imagery is that it points
us to the worship, still to come

718
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,400
in the new heavens and new 
earth. 

719
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,100
Points us to the worship that is
still to come. 

720
00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:32,000
In the new heavens and new 
earth, we will dwell with God 

721
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,900
and he will dwell with us. 
Revelation tells us that his 

722
00:44:35,900 --> 00:44:38,300
name will be written on our 
foreheads. 

723
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:42,700
We will be his people and He 
will be our God and pain. 

724
00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:45,700
I don't know if that literally 
means you're getting a tattoo 

725
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,600
but don't don't do it. 
Now, though you're hard to hire.

726
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,000
Even if it says God right here, 
like you show up at a job 

727
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,800
interview with God, written on 
your forehead. 

728
00:44:56,700 --> 00:44:58,400
It you know, it's not going to 
happen. 

729
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,400
You have to be consent doing 
something else the rest of your 

730
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,100
life, okay? 
All right, so wait till heaven 

731
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:06,600
in the new heavens and new 
earth. 

732
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,700
We will dwell with God and he 
will dwell with us. 

733
00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:14,500
This means that our every 
breath, our every thought, our 

734
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:19,900
every action will be one of 
unadulterated worship before 

735
00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:22,100
God. 
Again, we're talking about 

736
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:25,300
worship, we're not just talking 
about singing, right? 

737
00:45:25,300 --> 00:45:26,900
We're talking about the lives 
lived. 

738
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:32,900
And every moment of your life in
eternity is going to be spent in

739
00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:36,700
pure worship of God. 
Amen. 

740
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,500
Praise the Lord, the beauty of 
weekly corporate worship then is

741
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:44,200
that we don't have to wait until
the new heavens and the new 

742
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,000
Earth to at least get a glimpse 
of the worship. 

743
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,800
That's going to be present. 
There we get a glimpse of it. 

744
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:54,100
Every Sunday when we come 
together for corporate worship, 

745
00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:56,600
this is the building blocks 
right here. 

746
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,200
This is the building blocks of 
what's to come in eternity. 

747
00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:03,300
This is why this matters. 
One reason why it matters so 

748
00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:05,800
much again. 
We see that it's literally the 

749
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,900
building blocks and Ephesians 
2:20 322 built on the foundation

750
00:46:08,900 --> 00:46:12,200
of the Apostles, and the 
prophets that is their writings.

751
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,100
What they've laid out for us in 
the word of God by the spirit of

752
00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:20,000
God, which spoke to them. 
So that what we have here in our

753
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:25,200
work and our Bibles is the very 
Breath of God, this is the 

754
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,500
foundation. 
And Christ that says, is the 

755
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:34,300
Cornerstone in him. 
The whole structure being joined

756
00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:39,800
together, grows into a holy 
Temple in the Lord, in whom you 

757
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,900
also are being built together 
into a dwelling place for God by

758
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:47,200
the spirits. 
That's what's taking place in 

759
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:52,500
here week in and week out that 
the spirit is actively preparing

760
00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:57,500
you for the world to come. 
He's actively preparing your 

761
00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:03,500
heart and your mind and your 
life to resemble the world to 

762
00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,800
come. 
And he's doing so by his own 

763
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,400
sanctifying work in US, each 
week, you were being discipled 

764
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,700
week in and week out. 
If we're doing this, right. 

765
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:21,000
To be more and more of 
representation of the image of 

766
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,400
Christ. 
And so as the saints of God 

767
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,700
Community together and weekly 
worship we grow together, he is 

768
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:31,300
you knighting us together. 
Amen. 

769
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,800
Final thing I want you to see 
about this uniting is that we 

770
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,700
are united across time and space
to very important attributes 

771
00:47:40,700 --> 00:47:43,900
about God to that. 
You must understand, you must 

772
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:49,200
know their their amazing enough 
that will never fully comprehend

773
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,900
it and they're understandable 
enough, that a child can get it.

774
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,900
Such is many things with the 
Lord. 

775
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,800
Two essential attributes of God.
One his immensity. 

776
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:06,100
His immensity second is 
infinity. 

777
00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:08,200
All right. 
I'm going to explain those 

778
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,500
immensity refers to God's 
presence everywhere. 

779
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,400
When we say, God is a big God, 
we mean that he is present 

780
00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:19,300
everywhere when we say that God 
is a big God. 

781
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:24,200
We mean that he is all-powerful.
Yes, but we mean that he is all 

782
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,700
present as well. 
There is not a Nook or a cranny 

783
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,100
that God cannot Not be found so 
what the psalmist again and 139 

784
00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:36,300
I think I quoted it the other 
day, but Psalm 139 David writes.

785
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:39,700
He says if I make my bed in 
Shield you were there. 

786
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,900
If I Ascend to the heavens you 
are there. 

787
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,100
If I hide in the depths of the 
sea, you are there. 

788
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,700
If I hide under a man in a cave,
you are there. 

789
00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:52,500
What's he saying? 
You're everywhere. 

790
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,400
There's no nook and cranny that 
I can go. 

791
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:58,400
That God is not a men. 
He is immense. 

792
00:48:59,700 --> 00:49:05,200
But he's infinite also is 
infinite and infini what we say 

793
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,500
when we're talking about the 
Infinity of God, what we're 

794
00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:13,800
saying is that the same is true.
But this time in regard to time,

795
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,600
there is no point in time in 
which God is not present. 

796
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,200
He is eternal. 
And so we're saying, when we say

797
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:26,800
he's Eternal were saying, he 
always was and that he always is

798
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,100
going to be a man. 
There's never a time where there

799
00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:31,900
won't be God. 
There's never been a time 

800
00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:36,200
without God. 
God is always present and he's 

801
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,900
always filling the space. 
This means that when the inmense

802
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:44,600
and infinite Holy Spirit fills 
us, that is God. 

803
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,100
The spirit, we are united, then 
to all other Christians, no 

804
00:49:49,100 --> 00:49:54,400
matter where they are and no 
matter when they are, praise 

805
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,700
God. 
Our foundation is the apostles 

806
00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:02,600
and the prophets. 
You are united to the apostles 

807
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:06,500
and the prophets. 
Because you are in Christ. 

808
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,600
Your Cornerstone is Christ. 
He is the one building the whole

809
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,700
structure, it holds together in 
him. 

810
00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:17,600
And so everyone who is a part of
the body of Christ as United in 

811
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,600
Christ, and therefore, we all 
enjoy the same Fellowship. 

812
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:27,800
And so when worship we talked 
about this, it's been months ago

813
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,600
now. 
We had to pause on the series 

814
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,400
but we talked about how we meet 
with God and worship and one of 

815
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,900
the things we said is that we 
come to, we don't we don't come 

816
00:50:37,900 --> 00:50:41,400
to a mountain, we don't come to 
Sinai, we don't come to things 

817
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,900
that may be touched and seen. 
That doesn't mean there's not a 

818
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:45,600
physical aspect to worship 
there. 

819
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,100
Absolutely is. 
But what happens in worship is 

820
00:50:48,100 --> 00:50:51,400
that the Holy Spirit draws our 
souls into heaven? 

821
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,900
We're worshipping there in 
Ephesians 12. 

822
00:50:53,900 --> 00:50:57,100
It says, you're worshiping with 
the angels and the Saints who 

823
00:50:57,100 --> 00:50:58,900
have gone before you your you 
now. 

824
00:50:59,100 --> 00:51:03,400
Fighting together with them. 
I told you guys that this has 

825
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,100
been a great comfort for 
Patricia. 

826
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:08,800
And I, as we worship with you on
Sunday mornings, we're 

827
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,000
worshipping with Winnie as well.
As you're worshiping this 

828
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,900
morning, you're worshiping with 
those who have gone on before 

829
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:20,100
you who have paved the way. 
It's a cloud of witnesses, we 

830
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:24,000
read. 
And you're joining with them, 

831
00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:25,700
there are witness to the 
testimony. 

832
00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:29,600
That Christ is King that he is 
Lord. 

833
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,300
Amen. 
And so, when you come together 

834
00:51:32,300 --> 00:51:34,900
on Sunday, don't miss the fact 
that you're worshipping with the

835
00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:38,700
angels, you're worshipping with 
the saints of God, across time 

836
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:42,900
and space. 
We have been bound by the spirit

837
00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:46,700
of God, to all faithful 
worshipers, there are no borders

838
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:50,600
and so we are united by one 
Spirit through one mediator to 

839
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,400
one father. 
This is what Paul writes to the 

840
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,900
Corinthians and 1:2 of First 
Corinthians. 

841
00:51:55,900 --> 00:51:59,200
He says to the Church of God to 
those at Corinth. 

842
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,600
He says to those Sanctified in 
Christ Jesus, that's all of us 

843
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,800
who are submitting ourselves to 
the Lord called, to be Saints 

844
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,600
together. 
With all those who in every 

845
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,100
place call. 
Call upon the name of our Lord, 

846
00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:14,700
Jesus Christ, both their lord 
and ours. 

847
00:52:15,100 --> 00:52:18,000
What's he saying? 
You saying you're no less a 

848
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,400
member of the household of God 
then your Christian brothers and

849
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,200
sisters who are worshiping in 
Brazil or Portugal or 

850
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,100
Washington. 
Right. 

851
00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:33,700
Or just across the county. 
You're a member of the household

852
00:52:33,700 --> 00:52:38,600
of God, you're a saint because 
Christ has called you to be 

853
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,500
Saints together. 
With all those, who in every 

854
00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:44,500
place, call upon the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. 

855
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,900
Well, that's not only present 
that's past Saints. 

856
00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:51,200
That's future Saints. 
We are united together in the 

857
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,200
body of Christ, no matter where 
they are, no matter when they 

858
00:52:55,200 --> 00:53:00,700
are, and so Christian worship. 
As those separated from the 

859
00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:03,900
world and United to one another,
that's what we're after. 

860
00:53:04,700 --> 00:53:08,900
That's how we want to worship. 
Let me tie this up real quick. 

861
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:17,400
It's important then. 
All this means that it is of 

862
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:21,800
utter importance. 
To keep our worship pure. 

863
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:27,100
To keep our worship. 
True, to keep our worth worship.

864
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,200
Faithful to the Bible. 
And doing so we're not only 

865
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:36,100
benefiting ourselves. 
We're not only doing exactly 

866
00:53:36,100 --> 00:53:39,600
what God commands us to do. 
And so, therefore, we are found 

867
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,900
to be obedient to him and God 
blesses, those who are obedient 

868
00:53:42,900 --> 00:53:46,000
to him. 
It's for that. 

869
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,900
Yes. 
But we're laying a foundation 

870
00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:51,700
for future generations. 
And so, look around you. 

871
00:53:53,100 --> 00:53:57,100
Boys and girls are present all 
throughout this service and I 

872
00:53:57,100 --> 00:53:59,700
thank God for it. 
I read a thing. 

873
00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:01,800
The other, that's the one sign 
of a healthy church is crying 

874
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,100
babies and singing men, praise 
God. 

875
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,100
Praise God. 
That's what we want. 

876
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,400
I know Mama's I know when they, 
when they get ya, see they get 

877
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,000
fussy, it's easy. 
It's easy to start looking 

878
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:18,000
around and watch, we don't care.
All right, we're glad you're 

879
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,500
here. 
We're glad your child's here and

880
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:24,600
then And so we're laying a 
foundation for future 

881
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,500
Generations, in here. 
This is why we've said we want 

882
00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:31,300
kids in the service with us. 
It's why we took two years to 

883
00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:33,300
finally, get a worship. 
God together for children 

884
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:35,600
because, you know, we got right 
ideas, but we're just not that 

885
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,600
smart. 
Sometimes it takes a minute. 

886
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,400
Okay. 
But it's what we're saying is 

887
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,300
that we value children. 
Jesus said, let the little 

888
00:54:43,300 --> 00:54:45,600
children come unto me and we're 
going to agree to that. 

889
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,700
Amen. 
We're not going to hinder them. 

890
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:50,300
And so we're laying a foundation
as we remain. 

891
00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:52,000
Faithful. 
Faithful to God's word. 

892
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,700
We are helping our children and 
our grandchildren. 

893
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,500
And our great-grandchildren. 
If you need to have a Long View,

894
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:03,700
men of that, a long view of what
you're doing week in and week 

895
00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:05,700
out and worship is to the 
benefit of your 

896
00:55:05,700 --> 00:55:10,100
great-grandchildren commit to it
and then commit to it. 

897
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,200
And so there's nothing greater 
that we could be doing but to 

898
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,500
guard the good deposit as Paul 
calls it. 

899
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,300
That's been entrusted to us to 
Gardens. 

900
00:55:21,700 --> 00:55:23,800
And so I ask you, have you 
considered the weight of 

901
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,300
corporate worship before? 
If you thought about it is 

902
00:55:28,300 --> 00:55:32,100
easiest spent most of my 
Christianity just wandering in 

903
00:55:32,100 --> 00:55:35,300
and out of worship services. 
Not really thinking much about 

904
00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:40,000
what was taking place. 
Have you thought about it as a 

905
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:45,500
bit of time travel by which you 
get to commune with Saints, past

906
00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:54,000
present and future. 
There's nothing more amazing. 

907
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:58,000
Than this happening in your 
week. 

908
00:55:58,900 --> 00:56:01,400
I know. 
Alright, let's think about it. 

909
00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:05,200
There's nothing more amazing 
than what goes on in corporate 

910
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,400
worship happening in. 
You were weak. 

911
00:56:08,900 --> 00:56:12,500
Amen. 
And so let's be a people. 

912
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,000
An otherworldly people but let's
be a people made up of men and 

913
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,200
women and boys and girls who are
committing ourselves to 

914
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:28,400
corporate worship the communion 
of saints for the building up of

915
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:32,000
the body of Christ. 
Amen, let me pray for you. 

916
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:34,800
Heavenly Father, we praise you 
today. 

917
00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:39,100
Thank you. 
Lord, for a people who love your

918
00:56:39,100 --> 00:56:43,400
word, people who are seeking to 
understand your word. 

919
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,500
Who are seeking to align their 
lives with your word. 

920
00:56:46,500 --> 00:56:50,700
Father, I thank you for them and
we thank you today for this word

921
00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:55,300
in Ephesians 2. 
These truths about the communion

922
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:57,600
of saints. 
Would you help us? 

923
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,800
Father, just as we've talked 
about, help us to see and to 

924
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:09,000
understand. 
The amazing truths that is that 

925
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,900
a company corporate worship? 
Things that we participate in 

926
00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:19,000
week in and week out, Lord, may 
we not be ignorant of those 

927
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,700
things anymore. 
Would you grant us knowledge 

928
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,900
knowledge? 
That doesn't pop us up. 

929
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:30,400
My goodness. 
What could be worse than Pride 

930
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:36,700
that has knowledge? 
Lord kill that but grant us 

931
00:57:36,700 --> 00:57:42,300
knowledge, that creates love 
within us, a love, first and 

932
00:57:42,300 --> 00:57:47,500
foremost for you. 
Our father, I love that we have 

933
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:51,300
and that we can participate in 
because of Christ and because of

934
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:55,600
the spirit which is made us 
alive, build us up and knowledge

935
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,300
that builds up love in us for 
you. 

936
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:03,200
And Lord as at love for you 
grows, May our love for one 

937
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,400
another grow with it. 
May we commit ourselves to one. 

938
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:11,900
Another may we commit ourselves 
to discovering what it is within

939
00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:14,000
the body that you would call us 
to do. 

940
00:58:14,900 --> 00:58:21,200
How have you gifted me? 
Might we ask And then show us 

941
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,200
Lord how we can use that for the
edification of your sites. 

942
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:31,800
My brothers and sisters. so that
we would be mature so that we 

943
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:37,100
would grow So that we would 
honor God first and foremost 

944
00:58:37,100 --> 00:58:41,300
above anything else. 
Lord, we love you today. 

945
00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:48,400
We praise you today. 
Father, I do ask anyone in here,

946
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:52,000
who's an unrepentant sinner? 
You draw them to yourself. 

947
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:57,300
Did you grant them, repentance? 
Did you help them to know Christ

948
00:58:57,300 --> 00:59:00,900
as Savior? 
To have a deep faith in him. 

949
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,200
Lord, would you save them from 
their sins and give them New 

950
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,700
Life In Christ? 
We love you in the Name of 

951
00:59:08,700 --> 00:59:09,600
Christ. 
I pray. 

952
00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:08,700
Amen. 
We love you in the Name of 

953
00:59:08,700 --> 00:59:09,600
Christ. 
I pray. 

954
00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:10,600
Amen.