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Great to see everybody tonight. 
Hope you are ready to pick up 

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your Bible and just, let's get 
with it because we've got some 

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exciting stuff to cover tonight.
I want to talk to you about 

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God's manifold wisdom and how it
relates to the church as a body 

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of servants. 
One of the greatest things that 

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you will ever do in your life is
learn to love to serve other 

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people. 
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We talked about Christians being
distinct at work and one of the 

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great ways that we We have to 
impact the world is to do a lot 

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of great things that our servant
minded that maybe other people 

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feel like they're too good to do
because of who we love so much. 

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I'm not talking about your jerk 
boss. 

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I'm talking about God we 
represent we work for. 

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We are a part of Jesus Christ 
and almighty god. 

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Well let's get right to it. 
The book of Philippians is a 

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wonderful book. 
I'm going to flip back and forth

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between several. 
I want you to understand why 

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that happens. 
Very, very simple stuff. 

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Here we go. 
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here's hot. 
When he developed followers, not

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just a few, but they were very 
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Remember they didn't understand 
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It was his plan completely to 
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his plan. 
He came. 

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He said, if I be lifted up, I 
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So he's going to be bury in the 
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again, the third day. 
Day that message was powerful. 

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It was so powerful. 
I can give you an illustration 

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of it while Jesus was alive. 
Before the cross, there was a 

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guy named Lazarus in John about 
chapter 11, Lazarus was a good 

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guy, friends with Jesus. 
Jesus spent a lot of time there 

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and Lazarus died Jesus. 
Came a few days later and and 

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his loved ones and sisters would
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been here, he wouldn't Die. 
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Jesus wept with him at the, 
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happened afterwards and Jesus 
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and raised him from the grave. 
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evidence of Jesus resurrecting 
power that the Jews that were 

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envious of Jesus and wanted to 
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Wanted to kill Jesus, and they 
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Just keep that in your mind. 
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evidence out of the way. 
So when Jesus was had died was 

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buried. 
And now he rose again, he had 

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been seen. 
If you've got your Bible Market 

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to 1st Corinthians chapter 15 1 
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story and reality of that but 
these guys, 12 of them are going

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to go and they're going to begin
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The question is, why am I going 
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Here's how this goes, if you 
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Luke and John the first For we 
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basically, that gives you 
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you believe that Jesus is the 
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It's impossible for us to reach 
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without knowing that he died was
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And you learn about that in 
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why are there four of them? 
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would say, well, that was just 
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There's four that are written 
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you come to the book of Acts, 
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that people were saved by this 
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Church of Jesus Christ. 
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what you find is, God sent 
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He sent these guys to preach and
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churches. 
And I don't want, I don't want 

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you to take this for granted. 
In other words, God didn't sin. 

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And command all these letters to
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not to be shared. 
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Now, why is that? 
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All this is important. 
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Romans or Revelation, or back 
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Here's why all scripture is 
given by inspiration of God, and

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is profitable for Doctrine for 
correction for instruction in 

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righteousness, that the man of 
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throughly, furnished unto every 
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That's why we flip around in our
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And that's why you don't need to
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Fuse. 
When I do that tonight. 

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So Paul writes to the 
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their that. 
They were a pretty peaceful good

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church. 
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They had issues at times 4:2, 
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weren't even getting along. 
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to get over the problem, that 
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same could be written to of two 
men as well, but that's the kind

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of stuff that you read when you 
read these Epistles, but you 

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learn about something. 
You learn about the value of the

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church. 
I want you to understand, God 

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doesn't waste his time. 
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speaketh expressly, you know 
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It means God wants you to 
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what he's thinking. 
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the reality that God wants us to
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Now, his Mysteries, he wants us 
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thinking, but give an example of
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Ephesians chapter 3. 
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shows how important all this is 
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Here goes, the Bible says, in 
chapter 23 Verse 3, how that God

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made by Revelation known how 
that by Revelation he made known

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unto me. 
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in a few words whereby when you 
read ye may understand my 

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knowledge in the mystery of 
Christ which in other Ages was 

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not made known Unto the Sons of 
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His Holy Apostles and Prophets 
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should be fellow heirs. 
Ears and of the same body and 

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partakers of his promise in 
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Now why we preach the gospel 
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get excited about it and I get 
amped up about preaching it is 

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because this is life giving 
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I'm not going to read you. 
You Oprah Magazine or Vanity, 

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Fair or anything else. 
I'm going to read to you 

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scripture because the word of 
God is alive and sharper than 

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any two-edged sword. 
And it's the only thing that can

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pierce your heart. 
My Philosophy, my opinion 

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doesn't mean anything, but this 
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Paul said that we can read and 
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Let me tell you what what the 
big plan was going to be the big

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play. 
Most for these guys to go into 

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all the world and preach the 
gospel to Every Creature, he who

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believed and is baptized shall 
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I don't know about you, but it's
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think about living this life 
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Just a no-brainer. 
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want you to preach to people. 
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when you preach the people. 
Number one, if you've got the 

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word of God, here's what's going
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You're going to If people that 
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it's going to be a compelling 
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told what to do to get right 
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That's going to happen. 
They're going to be convicted of

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the sin and the problem they 
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going to be given the solution 
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That's good. 
Gospel preaching. 

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That's the way it's always been,
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It's good news, it's real good 
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It would be the equivalent of 
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Walk in the back door and saying
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Bola. 
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right. but if you walked in and 
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want that vial of that cure that
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people recovered real quick, 
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Well, what we offer is exactly 
that accept more compelling, it 

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more powerful because what we 
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was to change people. 
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From being a sinner, but to show
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How to live, the word church 
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You know, what were called out 
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That's the big problem in why 
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people and why people are really
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You want to know why people are 
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Jesus said, it's because they're
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You say? 
No, no, no color. 

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You don't get it people like 
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He's good. 
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without his teachings. 
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words that I speak unto you, 
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And they They are life. 
What we offer is a life-giving 

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message but Jesus said this, 
this is the condemnation that 

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light is come into the world and
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light because their deeds were 
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So here's what happens the 
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where people realize I'm a 
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run for the door. 
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Because their sin is exposed 
the, you know, what happens when

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your sin is exposed, you got to 
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After about it, you gotta run 
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something about it. 
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There are so many young people 
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them Millennials that are not 
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in God or not. 
I want to tell you why, it's 

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because too many Millennials are
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And the god of Heaven, is the 
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Pure Living. 
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away and say, I'm not sure I 
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Who is he? 
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See that convictions hard. 
That convictions are very real 

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thing. 
It's a compelling thing. 

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Jesus doesn't leave you alone. 
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You may run away from him. 
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ignore him, but Jesus is real. 
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So, the church is called out of 
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You know what God does to all 
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According to Acts chapter 2, the
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church, you know what, he calls 
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Bible to that same book or that 
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in Ephesians chapter 1. 
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above all principality, 1:21 and
power and might and dominion and

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every name that is named not 
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the one that is to come and it 
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And gave him to be head, over 
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is his body. 
The fullness of him that filleth

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all in all in the very next 
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read all the time. 
We are saved by grace through 

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this faith, not of Works, lest 
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says the church and everyone 
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Christ. 
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Works. 
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change you from producing sand 
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I'm going to change you little 
by little until people see 

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changes in you. 
I'm going to change the outcome 

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of what your life looks like 
church, because the church is 

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not this building. 
The church is people. 

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When Paul wrote the Philippian 
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and 2. 
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people that were proud Roman 
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that they were citizens of a 
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Over and over again. 
The church is used. 

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I promised a little tutorial of 
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This is why we flip passages 
because God wrote the Bible, not

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man. 
And the reason why the church is

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pictured, as the church and the 
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vine, and the household and the 
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Is because God wanted to 
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as possible to help you 
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Not only his close Association, 
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you want a relationship with 
Jesus Christ, you cannot ever 

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disregard his church. 
In Acts chapter 7 verse 58. 

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The Bible says Saul made Havoc 
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holding the coats of the people 
that killed the first Christian 

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martyr Stephen acts 8 1 through 
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Making Havoc of the church and 
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road to go, kill Christians and 
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And here's what he said, why are
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I want you to make the action. 
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habit of the church. 
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again, the church is people he 
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said why are you persecuting me?
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The body of Christ? 
Is the way in which God strips 

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away all of The Selfish envy and
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and create something as a group.
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city that is set on a hill that 
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He would pray that the church 
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should be without spot and 
without wrinkle and without 

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blemish Paul writing to these 
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heavily in love with the idea 
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and now he strips their gears 
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You are citizens of a kingdom. 
Whose King is in heaven. 

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Paul would not just write them 
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Paul would write the Corinthian 
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body of Christ. 
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to you about for a little while 
we'll come back to this 

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Philippian congregation very 
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The body of Christ is very 
unique. 

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The physical body is also unique
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adult body, accomplishes a great
deal the heartbeats, a hundred 

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and three thousand six hundred 
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The blood travels 168 million 
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We inhale 438, cubic feet of 
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We eat three point two five 
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Frankie and Tina's. 
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liquid. 
You lose quite a bit of waste 

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you speak. 
Thousands of Words you move 750 

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muscles. 
You exercise, over seven million

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brain cells unless you smoke pot
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down. 
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in your physical body. 
Real things that go down every 

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day that we take for granted. 
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there's a whole lot Happening 
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Well, there's also a whole lot 
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scenes when you read and you say
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you when you say body of Christ?
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Can you exist and live your life
without any respect to the 

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church without attending 
worship? 

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Can you live your life 
disregarding the concept of 

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regular commitment to a church? 
I don't think you can live your 

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life. 
Without commitment to the church

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anymore than you can live your 
life without commitment to 

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Christ. 
Because they're one in the same 

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thing. 
They're a unit, you can't have 

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Jesus without the church. 
You just can't. 

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There's there's a couple of 
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value, very greatly. 
The most important one in my 

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life, besides God is my wife. 
You want to get me irritated you

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try to split us up and divide 
us. 

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You try to work one against 
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I hate that that's not going to 
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Why is that? 
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the same page. 
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mean as husband and wife, we 
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But I'll tell you, this, Jesus 
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We're the ones that have to get 
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Jesus is the one that died for 
his bride. 

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That's all of us. 
We're the ones that have to act 

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like a Did she act? 
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Nobody that I know that wants to
go marry somebody that acts like

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they could care less about the 
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The you certainly not. 
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want you to think about Jesus, 
he died for the church. 

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He gave his life's blood for the
church. 

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In Acts chapter 20, Paul was 
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We have recorded what he said to
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about verse 28. 
Here's what it says, you take 

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heed to yourselves unto 
yourselves and to all the flock,

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that's what Christians are 
called sometimes sheep. 

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So you take heed of the flock 
over which the, holy ghost or 

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Spirit has made you overseers or
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Jesus or God which Which he hath
purchased with his own blood. 

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If you're ever feeling like 
you're having self-esteem 

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problems, and you feel like you 
have no value and you're feeling

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like somehow, in this old world 
that you don't know how you add 

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any value, and you get to 
questioning that I want you to 

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Anchor yourself and think about 
Jesus dying on the cross of 

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Calvary, because I think of his 
piercing eyes looking down 

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Through the Ages and finding 
your eyes and making contact and

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help when you recognize that you
have value. 

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And if you were the only soul 
that would ever be, Saved. 

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I absolutely believe Jesus would
have come down and gone through 

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all that, he went through for 
you, for God. 

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So loved the world that he gave 
his only begotten son. 

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That whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish but have 

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everlasting life. 
There are people that misquote 

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that and say, I believe in Jesus
and automatically they falsely 

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assume they have salvation. 
That is a gross error. 

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Are there were people that 
disregarded and disputed the 

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doctrine of the church and the 
Apostle Paul would write about 

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them and say how many Essence 
politis have made shipwreck of 

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their faith. 
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Because they were tearing up the
church. 

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What's your view of church? 
Why don't you let God determine 

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your view of church for just a 
few minutes tonight. 

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In First Corinthians chapter 12.
Here's what happens when you 

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believe Jesus Christ. 
Is the son of God. 

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For as the body is one and has 
many members. 

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But all the members of that one 
body being many are one body. 

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So also is Christ for by one 
Spirit. 

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We were all baptized into one 
body, whether Jews or Greeks 

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with a slaves or free and have 
all been made to drink into one 

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spirit. 
For, in fact, the body is not 

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one member but many. 
Let me see if I can get this 

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straight. 
We're living in a big old bad 

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world. 
And gods trying to call centers 

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out of sand into the church. 
With his book. 

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Now, people believe in Jesus. 
If they love Jesus, there's got 

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to be a place that God puts him.
Let's see if we can find that. 

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Remember, I told you that the 
book of Acts tells us about how 

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to be saved in the beginning of 
the church, the Bible says that 

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when people cried out and 
recognized and were convicted by

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the gospel, they cried out and 
said, men and Brethren. 

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What shall we do? 
Why do you think anybody would 

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ask that? 
It's the question you better be 

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asking if you've never gotten 
serious about your soul, you'd 

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better. 
I be asking that question and 

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you had better be getting God's 
answer to it because here's the 

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problem. 
Too many people get answers from

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Mama and Daddy and because Mama 
and Daddy had some kind of a 

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loose relationship. 
So to speak with religion people

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automatically assume that 
because of DNA, I have a 

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relationship not so you see you 
got to make up your mind for 

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yourself. 
These people said men and 

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Brethren. 
What shall we do? 

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Peter and the rest of the 
Apostles said repent and be 

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baptized, every one of you, in 
the name of Jesus Christ, for 

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the remission of your sins. 
You know what they did? 

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The Bible says, then they that 
gladly received their word were 

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baptized and that same day were 
added unto them about 3,000 

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Souls. 
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Every sinner better get serious 
about that question and about 

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that answer. 
And they had Her respond 

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quickly. 
Quickly. 

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Quickly. 
The Lord added to the church 

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daily. 
Every sinner that was being 

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saved. 
And do you know what you find 

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from the book of Acts onto the 
Book of Revelation every letter 

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was to be written to and read to
the churches as Authority from 

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Jesus from God and from the holy
spirit. 

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So when you read your Bible, you
are not reading something that 

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is the personal advice that was 
omitted beer. 

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It revealed to one guy or one 
little Many people what he was 

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doing, is he was writing law or 
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To the church. 
In fact, there were times the 

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letters that were written. 
Here's how they would do it. 

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He would say that letter from 
laodicea that I wrote to you, 

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you bring that letter down here 
to colossi and you take the 

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letter, I wrote to the 
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there and you do everything he 
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I've taught everywhere in every 
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Why did he say that? 
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Revelation was not written by 
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Paul said in First Corinthians 
14 verse 37, if you think your 

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spiritual or a prophet, you need
to acknowledge that. 

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The things I write unto you are 
the Commandments of the Lord. 

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But again, who did he write to? 
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Are you in a church tonight? 
Are you in a church that Jesus 

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Built? 
I want to tell you, I could go 

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get a tax-free charger and I 
could go out tomorrow in this 

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state or my home state of 
Louisiana and I could come up 

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and say I'm going to start 
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you is, is that the one that 
Jesus did well, no. 

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No, I want to tell you why you 
need to pay attention to this. 

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There are lots. 
And lots, and lots. 

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And lots. 
And lots. 

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And lots. 
And lots of people. 

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That would love to tell you that
you can have a relationship with

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Jesus and live whatever life you
want to live and call it Church.

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Jesus never taught that 
Doctrine. 

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He never ever taught that 
doctor. 

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Here's what do you say? 
Every plant that my heavenly 

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father has not planted, will be 
routed up. 

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Let them alone, they that lead, 
they, that are blind. 

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And they that follow the blind. 
Both of them shall fall into the

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ditch. 
Listen! 

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Don't you? 
Dare check your brain at the 

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back of a church house door, 
don't you? 

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Dare check your brain in and 
give it to somebody else and say

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what do you think you lick your 
finger and you open up your 

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Bible and the privilege United 
States of? 

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Ricotta and you get it in 
whatever language you need it. 

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And you find out what God said, 
because what I've just shown you

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is for Matthew to Revelation is 
what God Said. 

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I don't matter, you don't 
matter, Mom and Daddy don't 

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matter. 
Paul said, this do not think of 

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men above that, which is 
written. 

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You get your Bible out and if 
I've stirred something inside of

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you, I'm going to tell you the 
people that are going to be 

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saved, you ready to hear this, 
the people that are going to be 

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saved, have an allegiance to 
Jesus and his word. 

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And they will drive to the 
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find truth, Jesus said, sanctify
them, through thy truth, Thy 

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word is truth. 
I like to think I'm preaching to

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people that want the truth, 
you're not going to get the 

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truth on Fox news or CNN, or ABC
or NBC or anything else. 

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You will get the truth from 
God's word. 

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Word and it was sealed by one 
reality. 

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Jesus rose from the grave. 
That's how we know that this 

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message that we have is real. 
Well, again, every member of the

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spiritual body has to work well 
together, we do not have a 

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system in the Lord's church. 
That is segregated by young and 

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old. 
The Sunday schools school system

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of 1786. 
That was pretty much brought 

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into existence from Robert. 
Raikes along with our modern 

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educational system has 
segregated young people versus 

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old people for so long that our 
culture does not understand the 

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reality of what it means to have
a very diverse family unit. 

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I hate this is kind of bad news 
for all the people that are 

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getting older In This Crowd, but
the old saying goes be nice to 

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your kids and your grandkids 
because they'll pick your 

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nursing home. 
Some of you aren't smiling. 

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I want to tell you about this. 
Whenever you talk about the 

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family of God, you're talking 
about the very youngest to the 

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very oldest and God requires you
to have a relationship with 

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everybody in the body of Christ.
Did you know that? 

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Did you know that did you know, 
God has an expectation that you 

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not only have a relationship but
that you learn to love and serve

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and that you would be willing to
lay down your life for your 

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brother or your sister. 
God, made family. 

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God made love because God is 
love. 

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And God requires us to be 
plugged into two groups of 

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people. 
Our own family and our church 

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family. 
And if you've got a situation in

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your life where you're not 
plugged into either one of 

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those, I feel very sorry for you
and it's easy to do. 

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Because those are the two things
that our society in our culture 

454
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:55,400
is going after, like nothing 
else, the family and the church 

455
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,900
named the last TV show, where 
the dad on there, that had any 

456
00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,400
sense in it, all in his head at 
all. 

457
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,300
Look smart name the last time 
that our media Ever made a 

458
00:28:06,308 --> 00:28:11,000
Christian look like they offered
some value to the world know. 

459
00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:14,900
Generally speaking people view 
Dad's today as Bart Simpson's 

460
00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:19,900
that Homer and he's an idiot. 
Or people look at the church and

461
00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:23,100
they see people that are 
Backwoods and racist, and guns 

462
00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,700
and bibles. 
That's what our politicians say.

463
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,200
That's garbage. 
That's a society that is off the

464
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,800
rails. 
God made the family and God made

465
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,100
our church family. 
God made those two groups of 

466
00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,400
people. 
And if you choose not to plug 

467
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,000
into family and you live an 
illicit lifestyle outside the 

468
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,400
benefit of marriage, God's not, 
okay with that. 

469
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:51,600
And if you live a lifestyle 
outside of a church family God's

470
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:58,700
not okay with that. 
How could God send his son to 

471
00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:02,800
die for people, that would 
ignore his gift. 

472
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:07,800
How can he be okay with that? 
He's not. 

473
00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:13,200
He's not okay with that. 
God did not create clicks or 

474
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,200
groups in the body of Christ. 
First Corinthians chapter 12 

475
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,100
verse 24 says, but God composed 
the body having given greater 

476
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:22,600
honor to that part, which lacks 
it that there should be no 

477
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,900
Schism in the body, but that the
members should have the same 

478
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:29,700
care for one another. 
And if one member suffers all 

479
00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,700
the members suffer with it, or 
if one member is honored all the

480
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,600
members Rejoice with it. 
Now you are the body of Christ 

481
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,400
and members individually. 
Where does God puts you in the 

482
00:29:38,408 --> 00:29:40,400
body of Christ? 
According to First Corinthians, 

483
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,700
All Verse 18. 
God puts you in the body of 

484
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:49,900
Christ, just where you need to 
be It's an honor. 

485
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,100
It's an honor to know that we've
got kids here that gets elected 

486
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,200
and they get comme la di da 
Wards and they get cords around 

487
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,100
their neck and they got all kind
of things and ribbons and their 

488
00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,500
teachers like them and love them
and want some more of them and 

489
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:07,000
all that good stuff, right? 
We got all kinds of awards that 

490
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,400
go along with that. 
When you talk about the body of 

491
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:18,400
Christ and you think about where
God puts you in and how you're 

492
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,200
supposed to function, God wants 
everybody to recognize that they

493
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,800
have a role and they are 
important. 

494
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:32,800
Important. 
We need you. 

495
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,800
We live in a world that sets up 
clicks and age differences and 

496
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,200
subsets within the body of 
Christ that's never the way it 

497
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,100
was done. 
It's also very difficult at 

498
00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:52,300
times for people to recognize 
just how much care God spent, he

499
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:56,100
does not want us to compete. 
He wants us to serve each other 

500
00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:59,600
and have the same care in 
Ephesians 4:16. 

501
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600
The Bible says from whom the 
whole body joined and knit 

502
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,000
together by what every joint 
supplies, according to the 

503
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,800
effective working by which every
part, does it chair and causes 

504
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,300
growth of the Body for the 
edifying of itself in love. 

505
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,300
Of. 
You know what I've learned? 

506
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,000
I've learned that you do not 
have to go to Disneyland or 

507
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,400
Disney World are on a great 
vacation to have quality time 

508
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,100
with your kids. 
You see real relationships are 

509
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,600
not expensive. 
We live in a culture today that 

510
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,900
convinces us that you've got to 
go somewhere. 

511
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:40,600
You got to do something, you've 
got to have some big Frolic 

512
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,200
going in order to have great 
time. 

513
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:48,700
Not so, Not at all. you know, 
the most important times you're 

514
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:52,600
going to have time with your mom
and your dad and your 

515
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:58,000
grandparents. 
It's easy to take those kind of 

516
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,100
times for granted. 
And there are some of you here 

517
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,300
that have been weeping over new 
made grades and it's not 

518
00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,500
difficult for you at all to 
recall. 

519
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:12,600
Just simple simple times. 
And memories that flood back? 

520
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,400
Listen. 
You want to know one of the 

521
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,400
great reasons why you have to be
here every Lord's day, and I did

522
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,400
use the word 2:30. 
Is because you have a 

523
00:32:22,408 --> 00:32:24,900
responsibility to the body of 
Christ. 

524
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,800
And in essence you have a 
responsibility to Christ 

525
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,600
Hebrews. 10:24 says, when we 
come together we provoke one 

526
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,300
another on to love and good 
works. 

527
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,300
That means that you don't skate 
in here last off and skate out 

528
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:44,900
as fast as you can get out of 
here. 

529
00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:46,800
Why? 
Because that's not how family 

530
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,400
operates. 
That's not how it works. 

531
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,900
I'm not saying that you don't 
have somebody sick at home, or 

532
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,700
maybe you got to bust out on 
Wednesday night, because you've 

533
00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:58,700
got to go to a job or whatever 
else. 

534
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:03,900
But you got people here that are
very important people. 

535
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,400
That matter, a great deal to 
you, that shouldn't matter a 

536
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:16,800
great deal to you. 
Do you feel that You feel that? 

537
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,900
You know, you your smile and 
your kindness and your gesture 

538
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,700
of goodness, may be the very 
thing that salvages somebody's 

539
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,100
week. 
Your word of encouragement, your

540
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:35,700
open arms, and your hug. 
Kids know all about it. 

541
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,900
Kids know all about it kids know
where their wanted. 

542
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:45,700
Kids know when they're not 
wanted. 

543
00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:52,200
It's our job in this group of 
people, right here, every time 

544
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,300
these doors are open, every time
were around, it's my job to 

545
00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,700
make, you know, that you matter 
to me. 

546
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,400
And it's your job to make me 
know that I matter to you. 

547
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,300
That's our job. 
Imagine how important that is? 

548
00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:11,699
That seems small. 
I'm not asking you to look at 

549
00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:15,400
that as a deep thought, but it's
very profound and it's vital and

550
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,800
it's important. 
When you read the scripture 

551
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:23,300
Paul, would teach that every 
member of the body of Christ is 

552
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:27,300
important, when he would discuss
all these things with the church

553
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:31,000
at Philippi. 
He would use This as an example 

554
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,100
of how we should look at life. 
Here's what he would say. 

555
00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,900
Therefore, if there is any 
consolation in Christ, any 

556
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,699
comfort of love, any Fellowship 
of the spirit. 

557
00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:42,800
If there's any affection and 
mercy, fulfill my Joy, by being 

558
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,699
like-minded. 
Having the same love being of 

559
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,000
one, Accord of one mind, let 
nothing be done through selfish 

560
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,400
ambition or conceit, but in 
lowliness of Mind, Let each 

561
00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:53,900
esteem other better than 
himself. 

562
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,800
Let each of you look not only 
for your own interests but also 

563
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:12,700
for the interests of others, you
want a good family, love your 

564
00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:17,600
family care about your family, 
spend time with your family. 

565
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:25,500
And allow your family to be in 
love with the church and with 

566
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:29,500
the one who founded the church 
Jesus Christ, because here's 

567
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:32,700
what's going to happen. 
You bring your family to church.

568
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,300
You're going to have fathers and
mothers and grandfathers and 

569
00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:38,900
grandmothers and sons and 
daughters, and nieces and 

570
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,100
in-laws, and outlaws. 
And everybody, there is going to

571
00:35:42,107 --> 00:35:47,500
get to read and understand the 
expectations of these most 

572
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:52,300
wonderful privileged God. 
God offered relationships, the 

573
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:57,400
home and the church because it's
easy in this life to get off 

574
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,700
track, it's easy for our 
marriages, to get off track, 

575
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,400
it's easy for our parent-child 
relationships, to get off track,

576
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,600
and it's easy for Brothers and 
Sisters in Christ to get off 

577
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:15,300
track because we live in a 
selfish Wicked World. but in 

578
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:20,200
here, we got something. 
We got something. 

579
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,300
That's what Paul wanted us to 
recognize, when Jesus Built the 

580
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,800
church. 
Whenever he said, fulfill my Joy

581
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,700
by being like-minded, there are 
clear ways that we can 

582
00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:33,000
demonstrate that first of all, 
the idea of being like-minded as

583
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,900
having the same way of thinking,
How do you think? 

584
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:44,300
What governs your thinking? 
If you are a Whimsical person 

585
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:48,000
and you have changed your belief
system 58 hundred times. 

586
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,900
That is not at all the way that 
God wanted you to live your 

587
00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:53,800
life. 
God wants people to be 

588
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,600
principled. 
He wants people to have an 

589
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,100
ethic. 
He wants people to have a 

590
00:36:57,107 --> 00:36:59,600
Doctrine. 
He wants people to walk by faith

591
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,900
in that Doctrine, and it needs 
to manifest itself in their 

592
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:06,200
life. 
Satan wants you to walk by how 

593
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,100
you feel and your mood swings 
and whatever it is, that slaps 

594
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,700
you up against the face in life.
That's how Satan wants you to 

595
00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:17,800
operate. 
And if you're in this world, and

596
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,700
you're having lots of ups and 
downs and ups and downs, and 

597
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:23,900
Trauma, and drama, and that's 
It's pretty much your Mo and 

598
00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:29,100
modus operandi of living. 
Then I want to introduce you to 

599
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:33,000
the Church of Jesus Christ, and 
the family that he's offering 

600
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,300
you because that is not how we 
live our lives. 

601
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,000
It's not. 
There's a difference. 

602
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,700
Does that mean that that's easy 
and those differences and those 

603
00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,500
changes are going to be easy to 
make not at all but you've got a

604
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:50,900
group of people. 
They're going to help you get 

605
00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:52,600
there. 
You know what happens when baby 

606
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,900
boy and baby girl step out of 
line, you got a mama and a daddy

607
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,600
and a brother and a sister that 
want to help you get back in 

608
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:05,400
line, right? 
You know, the saddest shows on 

609
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,700
Earth to me, or those shows 
called Intervention drug and 

610
00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:13,500
alcohol abuse people that have 
used it, they got these nice 

611
00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:15,400
people that are sitting there on
the couch, they're at their 

612
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,500
wit's end. 
They do anything in the world to

613
00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:20,400
fix that situation and they've 
thrown everything and put 

614
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,600
everything on the line, to try 
to get a person to come back to 

615
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,100
them, and fix their lifestyle, 
they're willing to Shell out, 

616
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,600
thousands upon thousands of 
dollars, sometimes sell their 

617
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,900
home move, do whatever it takes.
Why is that? 

618
00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:37,200
Because people will do anything 
for their family. 

619
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:43,200
If they have the right set of 
values You know what happened? 

620
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:51,200
Sometimes though that pitiful 
Leech that sits there on the 

621
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:57,100
couch in the pit of selfishness 
and arrogance, and anger, and 

622
00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:01,400
all kinds of accusations when 
people are begging and squalid 

623
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,000
and begging them to come back 
and be a part of the family. 

624
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,500
Then have the family values. 
Again, they will get up and walk

625
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:09,800
out of the room and turned their
back on their family. 

626
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,200
It happens. 
Now it's one thing. 

627
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:22,700
If it happens on TV and 
somebody's life, imagine imagine

628
00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:26,700
how the god of Heaven, the 
father of all of it, all this 

629
00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:30,500
faithful children, is whenever 
people do that to the church, 

630
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,300
that he created to be family. 
He wants us to be on the same 

631
00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:39,900
page. 
Paul said it like this imitate 

632
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:45,000
me just as I also imitate 
Christ, we need to be a people 

633
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,900
that recognize that the law of 
God is a good thing. 

634
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,200
In fact, the Bible speaks of it 
as the perfect law of Liberty. 

635
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:56,600
Here's what Paul said to the 
Corinthians church now I command

636
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,000
you brethren for remembering me 
in everything and because you 

637
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,200
hold fast truths and practices 
precisely as I have taught them 

638
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:06,300
to you. 
You know what? 

639
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:07,900
He says to the Philippian 
church. 

640
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:12,000
If you open up your Bible to the
book of Philippians, here's what

641
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,600
you find out, real quick and 
Philippians chapter 2. 

642
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:19,100
He's writing to the church. 
He tells them this, let this 

643
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:24,400
mind verse 5 be in you which was
also in Jesus Christ. 

644
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,900
Hang on a second. 
Paul says imitate me as I 

645
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:30,400
imitate Christ. 
So in other words we need to 

646
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,900
copy cat certain things. 
The next thing is follow me, 

647
00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:36,700
keep the law of God. 
What's one of the Laws of God, 

648
00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:39,500
ye the mind of Christ. 
Do you have the mind of Christ? 

649
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:43,200
Do you have an unselfish 
attitude about other people? 

650
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:48,600
Are you willing to serve? 
Some people in Philip, I were 

651
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,500
not. 
And so what he was having to do 

652
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,600
is work on them, you know, what 
happens when we have family 

653
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,900
members that are quite there, 
yet, we keep working with them. 

654
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,200
We help. 
We do everything. 

655
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,100
We can, you see our attitude is 
nocturnal? 

656
00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,300
Our mindset is doctrinal. 
Our belief is doctrinal. 

657
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,700
Our faith is Doctrine. 
It's based on the word of God. 

658
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:15,300
Number two, have the same love. 
In First, John 3, 14 to 18, it 

659
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,600
helps us, understand that. 
Loving Brethren is not saying I 

660
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,000
love you but it is shown in the 
lifestyle and the manner in 

661
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,600
which we act and treat other 
people. 

662
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:28,600
Number three, be of one Accord. 
He would basically have one 

663
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,900
Concept, I'll give you a 
singular concept that we should 

664
00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:34,100
have. 
Whenever Jesus was asked in 

665
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,800
Matthew chapter 22. 
He was asked, what is the 

666
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,000
greatest commandment Thou? 
Shalt love the Lord thy God with

667
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
all thy heart and with all thy 
soul. 

668
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,600
And with all thy mind, this is 
the first and great commandment.

669
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,600
If you want a singular concept 
about what the church and about,

670
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,000
what our family should be, it is
love God. 

671
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:02,100
Heart soul mind. 
Whatever. 

672
00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:04,200
We're on the same page about 
loving God. 

673
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,700
It's going to improve every 
relationship in our life. 

674
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:08,400
I want you to see the logic of 
this. 

675
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,700
Please, I beg of you don't leave
here without listening to what 

676
00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:15,200
I'm saying here. 
Whenever you serve God and you 

677
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,900
devote yourself to him and you 
surrender your will to his will.

678
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,700
What happens is? 
You are the one, I am the one 

679
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:24,600
that gets the benefit out of 
that. 

680
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:29,700
Other people get the benefit out
of that. 

681
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,500
You know what happens when other
people get benefit out of your 

682
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:41,100
life, you become a blessing. 
Blessing number five, he said in

683
00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:45,200
lowliness of mind. 
Jesus had no sin and he said 

684
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,400
this take my yoke upon you and 
learn from me for. 

685
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,500
I am gentle and lowly in heart 
and you will find rest for your 

686
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:55,900
souls. 
You want to know why he said, I 

687
00:42:55,900 --> 00:42:58,700
am gentle and lowly in heart 
proud. 

688
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:01,300
People are not people that are 
saved. 

689
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,200
Arrogant people don't seek Jesus
Christ, arrogant people don't 

690
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,200
follow Jesus Christ, people that
think they've got it all figured

691
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,100
out and that the world just 
doesn't understand and that the 

692
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:13,700
world should revolve around 
them. 

693
00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:19,200
Those are not safe people. 
And those are people that will 

694
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,200
never know. 
Peace. 

695
00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:25,400
Have you ever run into somebody 
that at school or work or 

696
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,800
wherever it was that was so 
arrogant. 

697
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,100
And they had proud looks that 
just came out of their body. 

698
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:36,100
They couldn't help it. 
They were just absolutely 

699
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:38,500
arrogant. 
By the way, God hates a proud 

700
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:40,000
look. 
So it's want you to remember 

701
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,500
that. 
He hates it. 

702
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:50,600
Jesus asks people to follow 
Jesus asks people to surrender. 

703
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:56,500
Jesus asks, people to start 
acting like he did In Ephesians 

704
00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:58,100
4 and 1. 
Here's what he said. 

705
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,900
I therefore the prisoner of the 
Lord beseech you to walk worthy 

706
00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:04,000
of the calling with which you 
were called with lowliness and 

707
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,800
gentleness with long-suffering 
bearing with one another in 

708
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,800
love. 
Endeavoring to keep the unity of

709
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,900
the spirit in the bond of peace.
And here's the next one esteem 

710
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:19,800
others better than yourself. 
There was a time in high school 

711
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,300
where I had a false sense of 
humility. 

712
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,500
If it came time for me to say, 
oh I'm sure you could shoot a 

713
00:44:25,508 --> 00:44:28,700
three-pointer better than me, I 
was lying and I didn't believe 

714
00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:30,400
that. 
I thought I could pretty much do

715
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,700
it better than you. 
There was a time when I played 

716
00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:37,400
golf that I got pretty good and 
I thought night very many people

717
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,000
that can hit one further than I 
can hit it. 

718
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,900
Those days are over all of them.
I think today with I think 

719
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:50,000
today, pretty much cemented that
in my mind. 

720
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,700
But I'll tell you this. 
There are some of you here that 

721
00:44:55,700 --> 00:44:57,500
can do all those things better 
than me. 

722
00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:00,800
And that doesn't mean I'll have 
less value. 

723
00:45:02,100 --> 00:45:05,200
I can't catch a football as well
as Tanner can't anymore. 

724
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:09,500
It ain't happening. 
I can't get away from Taylor 

725
00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:11,400
Elliott. 
He made me eat the dirt today 

726
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,000
and a Christian kind of way. 
I can't get away. 

727
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,600
I can't get away from things 
that I'm not good at anymore. 

728
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:28,400
Has nothing to do with my value.
It has to do though with my 

729
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,400
aspect and how I view other 
people. 

730
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:33,800
And if I can look at other 
people and esteem them better 

731
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,000
than myself, if you can learn to
do that, if you can learn to be 

732
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,700
happy for people that have 
success, if you can learn to be 

733
00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:42,400
happy for people that don't have
what you have, you're going to 

734
00:45:42,408 --> 00:45:45,200
be in a very small minority. 
But here's the good part about 

735
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,700
it, you're going to be right in 
the family of God and you're 

736
00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:50,700
going to be a wonderful member 
of your own family. 

737
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:56,400
Hardy lawyer was annoyed by the 
humility of his neighbor. 

738
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,800
Who was a farmer. 
He told him take up for 

739
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:04,300
yourself, have some pride walk. 
Like you have some pride, nobody

740
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:07,500
pushes me around. 
The farmer replied. 

741
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:12,600
You see that field of grain, 
only the empty heads stand up 

742
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:18,600
tall, You think about that in 
our culture? 

743
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,900
We have the motto. 
If you're not the lead dog, The 

744
00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:26,600
View never changes. 
Think about that, that's 

745
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,100
basically our motto in our 
society. 

746
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,500
A famous Orchestra conductor was
asked, which instrument was the 

747
00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:36,600
most difficult to play. 
He responded second violin. 

748
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,300
Very quickly. 
I'm going to give you just a few

749
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:45,900
things that you can take with 
you about this lesson that I 

750
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:48,400
want to encourage you to 
consider the Church of Jesus 

751
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,900
Christ about, and the changes 
that God wants to make and can 

752
00:46:52,900 --> 00:46:57,500
only make when you are involved.
And a part of the Church of 

753
00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:02,900
Jesus Christ, the family of God,
first of all, you need to have 

754
00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:09,200
somebody to serve Somebody to 
serve you say well I could go 

755
00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:12,500
and I could be good and I could 
be a philanthropist, that's 

756
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:14,100
right. 
But I want to tell you something

757
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,100
when somebody names the stadium 
after you, and you get Glory 

758
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,100
because of that, you've 
completely cheated yourself out 

759
00:47:20,100 --> 00:47:24,100
of the privilege of serving for 
no pay back at all. 

760
00:47:26,900 --> 00:47:29,400
You know what I call people like
that good-for-nothing. 

761
00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:33,700
No, they're not good for nothing
in the way that we say 

762
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,100
good-for-nothing. 
Sometimes we say, oh, they're 

763
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:37,900
good for nothing. 
And we mean, literally, they are

764
00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:45,700
good for nothing. 
But I say that to say that there

765
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:50,400
are people that are good and 
they do nice things but they 

766
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:57,700
destroy it by seeking Glory. 
I want to say this to everybody 

767
00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:01,300
in this building. 
You have a responsibility to 

768
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:05,400
serve people. 
The majority of healthcare costs

769
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,900
are going to be spent on every 
agent person in the last year of

770
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:12,400
their life. 
The majority. 

771
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,400
That means there's going to be a
lot of sick people. 

772
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,600
There's going to be a lot of 
hospital stays. 

773
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,600
There's going to be a lot of 
nursing home visits. 

774
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,500
The Bible says in James 1 verse 
27, pure religion and undefiled 

775
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:29,800
before God, and the father is 
this, to visit orphans and 

776
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,500
widows in their trouble and to 
keep oneself unspotted, from the

777
00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:39,100
world. 
If I were to ask for a show of 

778
00:48:39,100 --> 00:48:43,400
hands and I'm not when was the 
last time you heard someone was 

779
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,800
sick that you were not 
immediately related to and you 

780
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,500
went to the hospital to see them
and visit them and check on 

781
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:53,100
them. 
When was the last time you knew 

782
00:48:53,100 --> 00:48:58,900
that someone was stuck and I do 
mean stuck in a nursing home. 

783
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:07,300
And you went to see them. 
Here's what's going to happen to

784
00:49:07,300 --> 00:49:11,200
you. 
You're going to walk into a 

785
00:49:11,207 --> 00:49:16,300
nursing home in nursing homes. 
Smell You better realize that 

786
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,200
one day, you're going to be in 
that same situation in that same

787
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,600
spot. 
You're going to open the door 

788
00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:26,200
and that person is going to look
at you. 

789
00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:29,100
And their face is going to light
up. 

790
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,300
And all you're tired days and 
I'm so busy. 

791
00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:36,300
And I got so much going on and 
I've got to go here and I've got

792
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:38,100
to do this. 
And I've got to do the other 

793
00:49:38,100 --> 00:49:39,800
all, that is going to go right 
away. 

794
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,100
And you're going to get to hear 
about a little bit of their 

795
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:48,400
doctor visit, and a little bit 
about Medicare. 

796
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,300
And a little bit about the fact 
that Medicare pays for two 

797
00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:54,700
rubber tennis balls to be slit 
and put on the bottom of a 

798
00:49:54,707 --> 00:49:57,400
walker and they're really nice. 
I got some new ones. 

799
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,700
One day that's going to be your 
conversation. 

800
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,800
You're going to be talking about
your roommate, that's not having

801
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:13,700
a very good day. 
And then you're going to ask a 

802
00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:15,800
question that's going to make 
you think. 

803
00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:23,000
Who's been to see you lately. 
Whoa, honey, you're the first 

804
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,600
person that's been to see me 
this week. 

805
00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:33,200
And what you're going to do is 
you're going to leave, they're 

806
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:37,400
not tired anymore and you're 
going to leave there. 

807
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:42,900
Probably feeling a lot better 
because you see that old person 

808
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:46,600
in that situation couldn't do 
one thing for you. 

809
00:50:46,900 --> 00:50:51,700
That is basic good, New 
Testament Christianity and 

810
00:50:51,700 --> 00:50:56,500
that's what church creates 
that's what the Lord's Church 

811
00:50:56,500 --> 00:51:03,600
creates. if you don't know how 
to go visit a hospital, if you 

812
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,600
don't know how to go visit 
people that are sick. 

813
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,700
If you don't know how to go to a
nursing home, then you don't 

814
00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:15,000
know how to go to heaven. 
because pure religion, you see 

815
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:20,200
makes a difference in your life 
and you go about and you do 

816
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,700
things for people that can't 
reciprocate at all. 

817
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:29,700
Those are the kind of people 
that church when we're plugged 

818
00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:32,900
into the Lord's Church, those 
are the kind of things that are 

819
00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:37,600
created. 
You train your kids to be that 

820
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,500
way you train, everybody's kids 
to be that way you take people 

821
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:43,200
with you. 
There's a congregation in 

822
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,900
Missouri that about every first 
or second Monday of the month, 

823
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,900
all the young men meet up at the
building and they got a slew of 

824
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:54,300
witness and they call ahead and 
they all have a plan and they 

825
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:57,400
stay about 15 or 20 minutes at 
each, one of them and they all 

826
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,100
go by and they take turns and 
they swap out and maybe it's a 

827
00:52:01,107 --> 00:52:04,800
light bulb and maybe it's bushes
that need to be fixed or limbs 

828
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,000
or moving it. 
A chair or whatever it is. 

829
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:15,000
Those widows can't do one thing 
for the guys that are going to 

830
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,800
do that. 
The greatest thing that's ever 

831
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,500
been done is for the guys that 
go do that because if you allow 

832
00:52:23,500 --> 00:52:28,400
God, And if you plug into God 
long enough in his church, and 

833
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:33,100
he begins to make you into that,
kind of servant, you will never 

834
00:52:33,100 --> 00:52:38,500
ever ever know anything. 
But a life of joy, and the 

835
00:52:38,500 --> 00:52:43,300
reason why people don't have joy
is because they have completely 

836
00:52:43,300 --> 00:52:48,700
destroyed, the two institutions 
that God made to recharge and 

837
00:52:48,700 --> 00:52:53,100
re-energize and to help us the 
home and the church. 

838
00:52:56,700 --> 00:52:58,900
If you're going to be a servant 
of Jesus Christ, you're going to

839
00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:03,100
be a servant. 
He's church and you're going to 

840
00:53:03,100 --> 00:53:07,100
look at every old person and 
every young person as your own 

841
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:11,300
family Colossians 4. 
And 12 says epaphras, who is one

842
00:53:11,300 --> 00:53:13,900
of you? 
A bondservant of Christ greet, 

843
00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:17,700
you laboring always fervently 
for you in prayers. 

844
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,500
If you don't think you can do 
anything for somebody else and 

845
00:53:21,500 --> 00:53:23,900
you don't have wheels and you 
don't need to drive and 

846
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:27,700
Bakersfield traffic. 
You call every person in this 

847
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:31,300
church has named every day and 
you see what kind of difference 

848
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:34,300
is made. 
You see what kind of difference 

849
00:53:34,300 --> 00:53:37,100
is made in your life, you see 
where your mind drifts on a 

850
00:53:37,107 --> 00:53:39,600
daily basis and who it drifts, 
too? 

851
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,900
Paul trained Timothy for 15 
years. 

852
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,100
Timothy was a man of God. 
Timothy was trained. 

853
00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:00,100
How to do the work after Paul 
was going to die. 

854
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,500
We have burdens to share bear, 
ye one another's burdens and so 

855
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:08,600
fulfill the law of Christ, 
Galatians 6 and 2 in the very 

856
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,900
same chapter a few verses down. 
It says, sometimes you have to 

857
00:54:12,900 --> 00:54:16,100
bear your own burdens but 
sometimes I can help you with 

858
00:54:16,100 --> 00:54:21,100
yours. 
Sometimes you're going to have 

859
00:54:21,100 --> 00:54:23,500
to go through it and it's going 
to be you and God, all by 

860
00:54:23,500 --> 00:54:26,900
yourself and sometimes you're 
going to have to let people in. 

861
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,600
And the reason why people are 
suffering in the reason why 

862
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,400
people are sad and the reason 
why people are so lonely. 

863
00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:37,800
And the reason our suicide rate 
is what it is today is because 

864
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,500
people have not availed 
themselves of the greatest 

865
00:54:40,500 --> 00:54:44,400
life-giving life-saving 
preserving institution that has 

866
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,200
ever been created in the world, 
and they've not plugged into it,

867
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:51,000
the Church of Jesus Christ. 
They've never learned that their

868
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:55,800
life has purpose and meaning and
value. 

869
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,200
And that there are people that 
depend on you. 

870
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,000
In 1st Thessalonians, 5 and 
verse 11, therefore comfort each

871
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,900
other and edify. 
One another just as you were 

872
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:12,900
also doing Galatians 5:13 by 
love serve one. 

873
00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:15,500
Another, for all the law is 
fulfilled in one word, even in 

874
00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:19,600
this, you shall love your 
neighbor as yourself. 

875
00:55:20,100 --> 00:55:23,900
Our culture says selfish, our 
culture says what about me? 

876
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,200
Jesus keeps hammering hammering 
leading the church. 

877
00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:29,900
No, put the towel around your 
waist. 

878
00:55:29,900 --> 00:55:31,500
Don't pay attention to the 
conversation. 

879
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:35,700
Ation about greatness and wash 
feet because that's where 

880
00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:41,600
greatness is in history. 
People died for Kings, our King 

881
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,200
came to the Earth and died for 
us in history. 

882
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,700
Kings are offered, servanthood 
kings are offered, great gifts, 

883
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,700
kings are offered, all kinds of 
lavish treatments. 

884
00:55:54,200 --> 00:56:00,900
I'm king of kings came down here
and wash people's feet. is that 

885
00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:04,400
if you want to be great, Be the 
servant of all. 

886
00:56:05,500 --> 00:56:07,400
That's what it'll mean to make 
you great. 

887
00:56:07,900 --> 00:56:12,600
He told Elders that they had to 
be clothed with humility. 

888
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,500
He asked us to Humble ourselves 
as a little child. 

889
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,400
And last of all, when you're 
plugged into the Church of Jesus

890
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,400
Christ, you're going to give 
yourself the opportunity to grow

891
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:30,200
to be like Jesus. 
I'm going to read in Philippians

892
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:37,400
to the last few verses of that. 
Are that main portion in chapter

893
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,400
2 verse 5? 
It says let this mind be in you.

894
00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:45,800
What's which was also in Jesus 
Christ who being in the form of 

895
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,600
God, did not consider it robbery
to be equal with God. 

896
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,600
But made himself of no 
reputation taking the form of a 

897
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,800
bondservant and coming in the 
likeness of men. 

898
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,200
And being found in appearance as
a man, he humbled himself and 

899
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,900
became obedient to the point of 
death, even the death of the 

900
00:57:03,900 --> 00:57:08,000
cross. 
Therefore God has also highly 

901
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:12,000
exalted him and given him the 
name which is above every name 

902
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,400
that at the name of Jesus every 
knee should bow of those in 

903
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,300
heaven and of those on the earth
and of those under the Earth and

904
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:21,800
that every tongue should confess
that Jesus is Lord to the glory 

905
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,700
of God. 
The father, let me tell you away

906
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:30,600
tonight that you can convince 
God yourself and everybody else.

907
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,400
Jesus is Lord and King and 
savior of your life. 

908
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:42,700
You ready for this? 
when you plug yourself in and 

909
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:45,400
you're baptized into the body of
Christ and you have a 

910
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:53,300
recognition that what that means
is You're now an important part 

911
00:57:53,300 --> 00:57:58,300
of a family. 
And you're going to serve that 

912
00:57:58,300 --> 00:58:01,400
family, and you're going to love
that family and you're going to 

913
00:58:01,408 --> 00:58:05,800
take everybody in that family 
with you to heaven. 

914
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:13,600
And all along the way God is 
going to change you and mold you

915
00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:16,400
and alter you. 
And you're going to have speed 

916
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,800
bumps in the way like Paul told 
the Galatians until Christ be 

917
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,600
formed in you. 
That's what God's trying to do. 

918
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:29,700
He's trying to form Jesus in 
you, if you'll let it, you come 

919
00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:32,800
through those doors and you get 
here and you have the 

920
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,000
opportunity to be here as God's 
family. 

921
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:41,100
And you meet around this table 
every Lord's day and every time 

922
00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:46,000
the doors are open and you seek 
to excel to the edifying of the 

923
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,400
church. 
You do your very best to build 

924
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,500
everybody up from the youngest 
to the oldest. 

925
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:56,200
You come in the building and you
make it your business not to get

926
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:02,800
your seat. 
But to serve everybody in every 

927
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:08,400
other seat. 
I want to say this just for a 

928
00:59:08,408 --> 00:59:11,600
minute and my minutes are gone 
but I want to do it anyway. 

929
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,500
There are people that we miss. 
And the reason we miss them was 

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00:59:19,500 --> 00:59:21,100
because the kind of servants 
they work. 

931
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:28,200
You don't miss people that are 
blood sucking leeches, you don't

932
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:32,100
miss people that are takers, you
don't miss those people. 

933
00:59:33,300 --> 00:59:38,700
You don't, you don't miss them. 
You may be crotchety old 

934
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,900
so-and-so mean as a snake, a 
taker. 

935
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,100
No, the ones you missed are the 
ones that would come in and 

936
00:59:46,100 --> 00:59:49,500
speak to you and say hi to you. 
They're the guys and the girls 

937
00:59:49,500 --> 00:59:51,600
that got it. 
They got it. 

938
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:55,600
You know what they got. 
They got they got it. 

939
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:01,000
They knew how to serve I'm 
thinking in my mind right now 

940
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:05,400
about widows at home that I was 
raised with In a congregation 

941
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,100
people that were converted to 
Christ. 

942
01:00:07,500 --> 01:00:09,300
You know what would happen every
Monday night? 

943
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:14,600
We'd go to Irene Gideon's house,
daddy would cut her decrepid? 

944
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:20,900
Stroke victim husband's hair 
every single Monday night, And 

945
01:00:20,900 --> 01:00:23,800
that was a servant. 
He'll right there as a kid. 

946
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,500
I got to see my parents serve, 
I'm privileged to have seen 

947
01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:29,700
that. 
But I'll tell you what Irene his

948
01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:35,300
wife did for us. 
She organized The A-Team at 7:00

949
01:00:35,300 --> 01:00:38,900
and she gave his Kool-Aid and 
candy and we didn't have a TV 

950
01:00:38,900 --> 01:00:42,000
and that didn't always give us 
any candy for sure. 

951
01:00:43,900 --> 01:00:47,800
She got it. 
There was a young couple at 

952
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:53,500
church. 
That had a horrible, horrible 

953
01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:58,000
time, making ends meet this 
little Widow that didn't have 

954
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,600
the money to give it away. 
When I saw her, as a little kid,

955
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,800
put money in their pocket, and 
Pat them on the back and give 

956
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,400
him a big hug and say, I've been
there before. 

957
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,000
She got it. 
She got it. 

958
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:18,000
The question is, do you get it? 
And you say, you know what, 

959
01:01:18,100 --> 01:01:20,800
Cullen up? 
I feel guilty, I don't go visit 

960
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:22,700
anybody? 
I don't go see anybody hadn't 

961
01:01:22,700 --> 01:01:25,000
been in the hospital ever. 
In my life, never been to a 

962
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,600
nursing home. 
How do I learn there are people 

963
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,600
in this audience right now. 
If you'll come talk to them, 

964
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:32,200
they'll train. 
You they'll show you. 

965
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:37,000
They'll develop that in you. 
They'll help you. 

966
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,000
Because you've never seen a 
father that didn't want his son 

967
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,400
to be greater than he was. 
And you've never met a mother 

968
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,100
that didn't want her daughter, 
be greater than she was, and 

969
01:01:47,100 --> 01:01:48,800
that's what we're in the 
business of do. 

970
01:01:48,900 --> 01:01:53,100
We want to help people become 
more and more and more like 

971
01:01:53,100 --> 01:01:56,200
Jesus everyday. 
In the Lord's church will you 

972
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:59,300
will you come with us? 
That's my invitation. 

973
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:04,100
I want you to come with us. 
Jesus said, my sheep hear my 

974
01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:05,600
voice. 
They follow me. 

975
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,700
Will you follow him? 
We believe that we're following 

976
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:10,900
Jesus. 
And we want you to follow him 

977
01:02:10,900 --> 01:02:14,600
with us. 
We thank you for listening to 

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01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:19,400
our podcast, put on by the 
Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.

979
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,000
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980
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,200
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981
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:31,700
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Please email us at info at her 

982
01:02:31,700 --> 01:02:34,200
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983
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:40,000
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984
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:44,500
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985
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,200
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