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As was mentioned earlier, we're 
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here this evening and I pray 
that I can say something tonight

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with that would help us in. 
Strengthening our faith and 

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understand how to move forward 
with the things going on in the 

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world right now. 
I really didn't know what to 

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entitle my lesson when I was 
putting it together and kind of 

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a last minute. 
Thought was one cup coronavirus 

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and Faith. 
It's just kind of what we're 

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going to touch on tonight. 
So it's not going to be a 

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lengthy sermon, but I hope and 
pray that something can be said 

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that edifying of the body of 
Christ a while back. 

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A few weeks ago. 
Kylie was talking to one of her 

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friends regarding services and 
and possibly coming to worship 

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service. 
And one of the questions that 

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came up to her and she asked me.
Was can somebody be allergic to 

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grape juice? 
And I'd really never thought 

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about that and I thought it was 
a legitimate question. 

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And so I thought I would look 
into it and see what we can 

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learn from that because we all 
here follow, what's written in 

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the in the gospel and what Jesus
instituted and that's that we 

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use one cup in one loaf in the 
Lord's Supper. 

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And in Matthew 26 verses 26 
through 28, it says there. 

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And as they were eating Jesus 
Took bread blessed and broke it 

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and gave it to the disciples and
said, take eat. 

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This is my body. 
Then he took the cup and gave. 

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Thanks and gave it to them 
saying drink from it. 

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All of you for this is my blood 
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shed for many for the remission 
of sins. 

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You know, dad has a good lesson.
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lessons that he has on the cup 
and the communion and really 

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good very extensively. 
Maybe he'll teach on it soon for

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us again sometime, but we're not
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this evening. 
But specifically, we're going to

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get into. 
Results of panic that we are 

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dealing with right now and that 
dramatically change and have 

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changed the course of worship 
services in the past. and, We 

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use one cup, but we know that 
there are many denominations 

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that use multiple cups and the 
introduction of multiple cups in

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the Lord's. 
Supper is really not that old. 

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When we, when you do some 
research on it. 

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During the 1860s scientists in 
Europe, landed on the idea that 

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diseases are caused by germs. 
And these microscopic hostile 

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agents, enter your body from 
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make you sick. 
So the germ theory was a 

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breakthrough in those times and 
in treatment of diseases and it 

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was clear to all these doctors 
and scientists that in order to 

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go after disease. 
They have to go out her after 

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germs and during that time of 
Discovery, a group of Physicians

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political activist on 
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Crusaders, took it upon 
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and they called themselves 
sanitarians. 

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Well, these sanitarians targeted
kissing as a source of patata 

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possible contamination among 
other things and, in 1888 in a 

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medical journal Journal, one 
doctor went after what he called

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The Poisoned chalice. 
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article in, which he identified 
as a shared communion cup. 

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And during those times. 
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people. 
So soon after that, the idea of 

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having multiple cups was 
introduced into the communion 

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Services. 
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around 1890. 
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actually owned companies that 
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And they were trying to make a 
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So there was ulterior 
motivation, 's everything beyond

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what was written in the 
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going after. 
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for multiple cups during those 
times was also racism and whites

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would partake first in the 
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and then that kind of grew and 
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racism where separate cups 
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Limited. 
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partake out of the same cup. 
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Martin Luther King said, 11:00 
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On Sunday mornings is the most 
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America. so, All of those 
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why they implemented multiple 
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Like I said, had no bearing on 
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Scripture. 
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is their want to be sanitary and
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other factors, but I didn't get 
too far into that. 

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So Grape juice are we or can 
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grape juice and the answer is 
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uncommon very uncommon. 
And the cult causes of allergy 

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to grape juice allergic 
reactions to grape juice occur. 

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When our immune system, mistakes
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harmful food. 
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grape juice makes our immune 
system produced immunoglobin and

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antibody which Reacts with red 
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The next time we drink it, 
causing the allergy and we may 

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not be allergic to grape juice, 
specifically, but doctors and 

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scientists tend to agree that it
is other elements in the grapes 

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that cause allergic reaction. 
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yeast mold or pesticides on the 
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juice. 
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And that is documented. 
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from the University of Valencia 
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only become apparent in some 
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When fruit ingestion is 
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factors such as exercise or 
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So, basically, an allergy to 
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only apparent when human 
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And we know that we have 
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that is Untouched by humans or 
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I should say that we use here 
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So how risky is it to share the 
communion cup with somebody 

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else? 
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as long as I can remember, a 
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and looking into. 
It, silver is known to kill 

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bacteria. 
It is used to treat wounds in 

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The Old Ship captains were known
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Silver coins into storage, 
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while I sailed the Seas and 
hospitals, use silver in 

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bandages, for treatment on burn 
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And also to combat superbugs 
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tradition to traditional 
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And a new study led by The 
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Biological scientists at the 
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enhance understanding of 
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properties. 
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chemical genetic screen on a 
number of about 4,000 mutant 

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strains of bacterium of E.coli, 
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they tested this on in which a 
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In each strain was known to be 
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So, the use of silver on in 
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Charles Garba an infectious 
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University of Arizona. 
Said this, even though a person 

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may be ill and put some virus on
their the antimicrobial activity

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of the silver in these cups. 
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risk. 
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to contract. 
Germs on the door handle leading

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into the church or shaking, 
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then on the lip of the community
cup. but, Beyond all that 

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scientific evidence. 
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something far greater is at 
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And that is our faith and God. 
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understand how that all works. 
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And that's where our faith kicks
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So what is our faith? 
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instituted and that God's 
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How is our faith measured. 
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We remember, Joe MIT old story 
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where God allowed him to be 
tested by Satan, and job 

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suffered great losses, terrible 
grief and bodily distress and 

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could not understand why God 
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prosper, while good people 
suffer, but finally job accepted

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that this is the part of the 
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Not not to be explained by human
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okay with that. 
And Joe 42, after he had gone 

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through all of these trials and 
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God, finally gave him the, what,
for Joe, finally, understood 

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what was going on in Joe. 42 
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It says, this is job speaking. 
I know that you can do 

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everything and that no purpose 
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you. 
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This who hides counsel without 
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Therefore. 
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What? 
I did not understand things too.

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Wonderful for me, which I did 
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acceptance that things were at 
work that he did not understand.

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And that's our faith to there. 
Are things that are happening. 

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That we don't understand how it 
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But it happens and that's God's 
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to have faith in that. 
So the risk of infection from 

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the communicable isn't 
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Significant enough to change a 
ritual defined by Jesus and 

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upheld by Christians for 
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So that leads me to my next 
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in the world right now. 
And that is, of course the 

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spread of coronavirus. 
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understand how and the way that 
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If there is to be an epidemic. 
We have a duty to respond. 

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The way Christ would have us to 
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The Christians response to 
plagues begin with some of Jesus

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most famous teachings. 
Jesus said, do unto others as 

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you would have them do unto. 
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yourself. 
Greater love has no man than 

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this, that he should lay down 
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put plainly The Christian ethic 
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that, our life must be always 
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that of our neighbor. 
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look out for others who may be 
sick or elderly or be more 

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susceptible to any type of 
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That is our responsibility 
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In first John, three verse 17, 
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world's goods and sees his 
brother in need and shuts up his

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heart from him. 
How does the love of God abide 

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in him? 
If we have something in our 

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possession or some skill that we
possess that we can help 

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somebody else in need and we 
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it, and not give it and not 
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God's love is not envious. 
That's pretty plain. 

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That's pretty simple stuff. 
You ask me. 

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So during actually during the 
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Christians actually made a name 
for themselves and historians 

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have suggested that the terrible
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the second century, which might 
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Roman Empire actually led to the
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Christians cared for the sick 
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But also, a more famous epidemic
is a plague of cyprien name for 

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a bishop who gave a colorful 
account of this disease in his 

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sermons. 
It was probably a disease 

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related to Ebola and the plague 
of cyprien help set off what is 

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called the crisis of the third 
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it did something else, it also 
triggered an explosive growth of

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Christianity during that time. 
So, For us as Christians, it is 

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better that we should die 
serving our neighbor than be 

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surrounded. 
In a pile of masks that we never

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got to use. so this brings us to
one of the more controversial 

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elements that we see happening 
today and that is Canceling 

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church, we do not do that. 
That is a form of panic that is 

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happening. 
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organizations that are 
considering doing that or have 

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actually implemented in doing 
that for at least a couple weeks

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in order to minimize the 
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going on today. 
And although those intentions 

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are, maybe logic in our human 
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well and good with Human 
understanding canceling, the 

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Assembly of the body of crisis, 
in direct contradiction to the 

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instructions made in scriptures 
that we are clearly to assemble 

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on the first day of the week in 
order to commune teach, pray, 

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sing praises to God and give of 
our means. 

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I also heard today that the 
governor of our state is also 

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being considering Banning 
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and although I don't think we 
meet that criteria of that 

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number here. 
I guess it's a potential where 

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it could go beyond that and come
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Both think about this. 
What do we normally and 

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regularly? 
Pray for here? 

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We pray that. 
If any government issues, any 

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kind of law that would hinder us
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worship regardless of the cost. 
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for? 
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We also not need to forget who 
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God is in control all the time. 
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when his plan of communion was 
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So where's our faith live? 
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pressures from the world to be 
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sanitary here. 
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normally do too. 
Disinfect surfaces and all that,

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but we don't want to compromise 
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having multiple cups or by 
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Services altogether. 
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He meant it, and we follow it 
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Do we believe God or not? 
Do we have great faith? 

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That he will carry us through 
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And I believe that we do. 
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careless with our life, of 
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Absolutely. 
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We all do, physically will do 
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We physically Clan can in this 
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doing without compromising. 
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God. 
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like, God to God, like he's the 
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That's great. 
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We work hard as much as we can 
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faith in God, that he's going to
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As Christians, we must act in 
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wisdom. 
We must remember who our true 

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protector and sustainer of life 
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We should continue living 
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we would on any given day. 
While being cautious of wise, we

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can only trust in the Lord even 
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humanity is fragile. 
And in Psalms, The hundred third

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chapter verses 15 through 16. 
It says as for man, his days are

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like grass. 
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the field before the wind passes
over it and it is gone and it's 

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Place knows it no more. 
So as Believers, the fragility 

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of life, does not drive us to 
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It should drive us nearer to 
Christ nearer to the one that 

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entered into a virus infected 
World nearer to the one that 

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lived and ministered to the 
sick, nearer to the one that has

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given us an antidote for the 
gray would greatest virus and 

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that is the virus of sin. 
We need to hear Jesus's words 

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where he said, I am the 
resurrection of Life. 

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Whoever believes in me, though. 
He die, yet shall he? 

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Live and everyone who lives and 
Believes In Me, shall never die.

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Do you believe this? 
Let's not miss an opportunity 

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for us to show the world what 
faith looks like in this time of

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panic. 
It is our responsibility. 

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It is a great opportunity for 
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And again, what is our faith? 
If we do, not trust in God, in 

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his design in Proverbs 3 and 
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It says, trust in the Lord, with
all your heart and lean not on 

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your own understanding, in all 
your ways acknowledge Him and He

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Shall Direct. 
Pass. 

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