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As Dave mentioned, we're so 
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it here this morning even though
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that we can worship God in 
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And I hope to bring our study in
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we're studying and and chapter 
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And hopefully we can kind of 
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and understand the importance of
the letter that Paul wrote to 

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the church in galatia. 
We're going to be in chapter 6, 

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but I actually want to pick up 
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chapter in chapter 5 verse 26. 
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And it says, let us not become 
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envying, one, another Brethren. 
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trespass, you who are spiritual 
restore, such a one in a spirit 

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of gentleness considering 
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Lest you also be tempted, bear 
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fulfill the law of Christ for if
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something when he is nothing, he
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But let each one examine his own
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rejoicing in himself alone and 
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shall bear his own low. 
Let him who teacher who let him 

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who has taught the word share in
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Who teaches do not be deceived. 
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a man so's that he will also 
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He Who sows to his flesh will 
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corruption. 
But he who sews to the spirit 

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will of the spirit reap 
everlasting life and let us not 

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grow weary while doing good. 
Good for in due season, we shall

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therefore as we have 
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all especially those who are the
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Those are the verses that we're 
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morning and will finish the 
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this afternoon as Dave 
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And from this text, I want us to
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this one truth of foundation. 
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spirit filled life, Life is love
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It's not the only fruit of the 
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we can rest our foundation, love
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important because we can get so 
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misconceptions of what the Holy 
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But the holy spirit is producing
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There are places in the 
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of the things, the spirit does. 
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Galatians 6, is that the fruit 
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think we need to be reminded of 
what Paul said in First 

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Corinthians 13. 
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tongues of men, but have not 
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Then I'm like a resounding gong.
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speak but I have not love. 
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The greatest. 
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Spirit-filled life is love for 
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And this is where we need to 
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spirit filled life is not 
primarily about The emotional 

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highs that we get, it's more 
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that we showed to one another. 
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teaching some of what Paul is 
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He says, here are some concrete 
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one another. 
I want to show for enemies that 

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us of the family of God have 
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family, of God. 
They're simple, but I think they

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can have huge effects if we're 
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The first one self-centeredness 
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of God are going to kind of have
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them. 
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chapter 5, it says right before 
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not become conceited. 
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centered on ourselves. 
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centered ourselves to things 
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says we provoke one another and 
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provoke and we begin to Envy one
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It's a verb that is unique to 
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It literally means to challenge 
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challenge somebody to a 
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your Superior Peary already over
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We provoke one another. 
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really is coming down to that. 
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competition with one another in 
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It's a picture of the way, the 
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relationships, then he says 
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let us not become conceited, 
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Another then we get to Galatians
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forward in chapter 5 verse 15. 
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devour one, another beware lest 
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That's what he's talking about. 
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competition that, that members 
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themselves if they're conceded 
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envying one, another. 
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Galatians 6, Paul says, but let 
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and then he will have rejoicing 
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And not in one another. 
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to other people breeds conceit, 
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c.s. 
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He's the one who wrote The 
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books. 
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called Mere Christianity. 
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think you're not conceited, it 
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indeed. 
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about humility, how? 
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You try and you try and you try 
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reach humbleness you can be 
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to start all over again. 
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we're not conceited then we 
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Then c.s. 
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Pride itself is the chief cause 
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every family. 
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person's pride is in competition
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Pride is essentially competitive
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It is competitive by its very 
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Pride gets no pleasure out of 
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Only out of having more of it 
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It is the comparison that makes 
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Above the Rest. 
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is gone, pride is gone. 
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I want to see your name in 
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We think we're doing well, if 
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guy, we think we're doing better
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great, we're not doing as good. 
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we feel inferior to that other 
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Well, I'm doing better here. 
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good as me. 
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with one another. 
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mentioned here. 
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fairly competitive person, 
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with our children, you know, 
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my kids beat me with anything no
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No, you're not going to beat me 
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No, you're not going to hit a 
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No way. 
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am. 
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You're going to beat me at this 
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No way. 
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and I have raised. 
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though, as I think that that can
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not careful, it can creep into 
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saying, but there's no room for 
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Let us not become conceited, 
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envying one another. 
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Galatians here, this is what we 
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We can think you know some of 
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you know, you have to do these 
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self-righteous, you know. 
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bad. 
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everything in this world cannot 
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There's a healthy way in which 
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to others. 
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So that's a good thing. 
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a man or woman in the family of 
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we begin to think in our hearts 
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superiority over them or to 
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guy. 
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they're doing better than me. 
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Foundation of Pride and 
competition that that we Not 

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want. 
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We're not in a rat race. 
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jockeying for position to be 
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sister. 
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we're not careful, this can 
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gossip in the church. 
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keep on biting and devouring 
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And the reality is is anytime 
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is not building them up if 
you're not saying anything or 

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speaking to anybody about me, 
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That is opening a door to 
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It's exposing ourselves to 
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core of our sinful nature and we
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world that we live in, there's 
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there's Christian Publications, 
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growing Church in the nation. 
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members, these Christian 
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one another. 
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Okay. 
What's the purpose of those 

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those people doing? 
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Is that glorifying? 
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is it glorifying God who's 
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Self-righteousness, is another 
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That was an underlying issue 
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the judaizers pushing some of 
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Christianity after Jesus 
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asserting their righteousness 
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said, you need to do these 
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And and it's also what Jesus 
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for doing, in Matthew, 23 and 
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He says, for, they bind heavy 
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lay on them men's shoulders, but
they themselves will not move 

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with them with one of their 
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please God. 
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tell others about what they had 
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Please God do these things, 
additionally, we see 

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self-sufficiency as an enemy of 
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We're going to get to verse 2 
and in chapter 6 about carrying 

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each other's burdens. 
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implying that we have burdens 
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Every single one of us has 
burdens in this room, we have 

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burdens to carry and and it is 
not intended for us to carry 

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those burdens alone. however, 
pride in all of its Glory that 

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it comes in and says, okay, 
Sunday, With all these problems 

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I've been dealing with all week 
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I'm going to put on a going to 
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I'm going to I'm going to not 
pretend that I have these 

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problems going on in my life. 
I'm going to be the best I can 

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be. 
So everybody can think that that

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everything's good with me. 
That is not what is intended to 

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happen. 
It's not what the picture it's 

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Pride taking over ourselves 
thinking that we are 

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self-sufficient. 
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We are weak. 
We are weak without each other 

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and that's the picture. 
The myth, the myth of 

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self-sufficient, sufficiency 
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Today, we have to be careful to 
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church. 
The fourth enemy and this is 

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really a dangerous one 
self-esteem. 

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Self-esteem can be an enemy to 
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Galatians 6, verse 3 says, if 
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when he is nothing deceives 
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something, when he is nothing 
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We live. 
In a world that says, if we want

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our relationship with others to 
be good, then we need to think 

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highly of ourselves. 
Isn't that what the culture told

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tells us? 
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the place, it's in other world 
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in the entire universe, deserves
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personal growth. 
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That'll that'll put you into 
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thinking about that. 
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it's all about you, if you can't
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Self-esteem, High self-esteem. 
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overwhelming evidence that the 
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kindness and generosity. 
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high self-esteem, focus on 
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yourself. 
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There are many things that we 
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others is not thinking about in 
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Christ. 
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every good thing in. 
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with other people is not a high 
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esteem. 
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esteem in Christ in joining 
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everything in us to Christ is 
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This is the whole picture of 
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Christ lives in me. 
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us, and it produces the fruit. 
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God is marked by Christ is 
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producing love for each other. 
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does in US fixing our eyes and 
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her fictions on Christ in the 
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God to combat. 
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This is how we combat these. 
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I have Galatians 3 here but it's
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I have that wrong. 
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rejoicing in himself alone. 
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later and not in one another for
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your attitudes and view of how 
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to one another and people 
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your attitudes and your actions 
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of God. 
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our actions before the Holiness 
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not God. 
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mercy before a holy God. 
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that there's a reservoir of 
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didn't show to all those other 
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interested in provoking. 
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not interested in envying each 
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looking to love them. 
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6, Paul is telling us how to 
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majority of the first five 
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telling us how to guard 
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guard ourselves in our Purity 
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not know how to love each other.
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on the scriptures that were 
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last three verses verses six 
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First Command that he gives us 
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your sin. 
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verse of chapter 6. 
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overtaken and any trespass, you 
who are spiritual restore, such 

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a one in spirit of gentleness 
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a Spirit-filled life to look at 
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confront that sin. 
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restoration, we go to that 
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gentleness, as it says here, 
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understanding the mercy and the 
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with other, we've got to figure 
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sister and try to restore them 
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to confront one another and 
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fulfill the law of Christ. kind 
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verse 1, but just in a more 
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sense of a brother or sister is 
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guarantee you that that there's 
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life. 
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heartache when they understand 
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life, he's burdened B he's 
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how we help him by restoring him
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Helping him climb out of that by
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Christ, the spirit of Christ in 
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help him what you want another 
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this to carrying each other's 
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our temptations that were 
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self-examination. 
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life, some things that we just 
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under. 
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sin over and over and over and 
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To fight those battles alone. 
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struggle. 
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emotional struggle, it could be 
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worry or doubt, anxiety, 
confusion, that you're wrestling

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with a decision about that. 
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struggle with your parents, a 
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struggles. 
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struggles and burdens that it 
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loss desertion or loneliness. 
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Our Most likely represented all 
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Every one of us, the person 
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you behind, you is barring some 
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taught here is we are not taught
that we have to deal with that 

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burden on our own. 
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God is. 
That's not, that's not the 

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intention, it's a command. 
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church, it's an obligation that 
for us to carry each other's 

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burdens, This kind of Burden 
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we're carrying can necessarily 
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together once or twice a week. 
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I don't think that's, I don't 
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think that we can carry each 
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little amount of time that we 
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We can't bear somebody else's 
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And they can't bear our burdens 
that other way. 

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We there's a sense in which we 
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situations and relationships 
where we can do that. 

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In 2nd Corinthians 7. 
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through 7. 
Listen to what Paul says, this 

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is the same man. 
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Corinthians. 
He also wrote Galatians that 

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were studying to. 
He says, they're in shorting the

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verse 5 of chapter. 7, of second
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He says for indeed, when we came
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rest. 
But we were troubled on every 

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Your other on every side outside
were conflicts inside were 

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fears. 
All saying, I've got these 

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burdens, we have these burdens, 
we were traveling. 

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When we came to Macedonia, he 
goes on to say nevertheless God,

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who comforts the downcast 
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Titus and not only by his coming
but also by the consolation with

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which he was comforted in you 
when he told us of your earnest 

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desire, your mourning your zeal?
so for me, so that I rejoiced 

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even more I hope we see the 
connection there, Paul realized 

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that that God was the God of All
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When he received comfort from 
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received comfort from the church
from the church members, so we 

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pray for one another, we 
surround each other and say, 

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yeah, we're going to carry these
burdens for each other in this 

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way. 
And guess who? 

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The glory goes to. 
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God is the one who comforts he 
Comforts us through his family. 

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The family of God the Christian 
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This is why you know 
Christianity. 

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When we become a Christian I 
don't see how a Christian can be

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can live in isolation. 
It doesn't work with what we're 

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studying this morning, it 
doesn't make sense to an honest,

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anonymously, attend a church or 
congregation and makes no sense.

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We're family where we we will 
miss God and his comfort and his

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greatness. 
If we neglect commands like 

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Galatians 6, verse 2, Bearing 
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So we want to praise God for his
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Comforts us through one another.
That's how God Comforts us as 

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well. 
Three more commands verses six 

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through ten. 
I want to show you some of the 

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when we come to this last part 
there's actually a lot of debate

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and discussion between Scholars 
and commentators who I was 

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looking at that have a lot more 
biblical knowledge than I do. 

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Will pause it. 
What at Paul is actually 

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addressing here. 
What's going on in Galatians 

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contest? 
What he's addressed because when

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we get to verse 6, most of the 
scholars think that Paul is 

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talking about when he says let 
him who was taught the word 

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share and all good things with 
him, who teaches? 

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Most scholars believe that this 
is in reference to who's 

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teaching the one who's teaching 
the word to the congregation, 

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make sure that he's financially 
provided for. 

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Many people think that verses 
six through 10 are all about how

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we use, all of our finances. 
And then when we get to verse 7 

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and 8, he's talking about how 
sowing and reaping and it's the 

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same picture and imagery that 
Paul uses in second Corinthians 

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9 talking about giving material 
positions and giving material 

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resources, and we get down to 
verse 10 of chapter 6, and it 

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says, as we have opportunity, 
let us do good to all people. 

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and that actual phrase is 
actually use there in the New 

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Testament was a euphemism in the
first century for giving alms to

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the poor There's a lot of people
who believe this is all about 

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how we use our finances and, and
I believe that's part of it. 

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But I also believe it's about 
using the rest of our resources 

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as well. 
Not just our finances, but what 

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can we do? 
How can we use our resources? 

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What talents do we have? 
That? 

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We can help somebody else. 
With what resources can we give 

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to somebody who needs? 
Who's in? 

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Need our gifts, our words, our 
actions. 

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How do we use that to help our 
brothers and sisters? 

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Next. 
Share your resources. 

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General generously. 
Verse 6 says, let him who is 

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taught the word share in all 
good things with him. 

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Who teaches Paul is using a word
here, Koinonia from the Greek 

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for Fellowship in the New 
Testament, to talk about the 

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relationship between those who 
teach in the church and the ones

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who are taught in the church. 
There's a sharing there's a 

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relationship and what Paul's 
doing here. 

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He's reminding the Church of how
important it is that the word is

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taught. 
And how important it is, the one

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who is the primary teacher and 
and studies can has the time to 

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study and teach that he's 
financially provided for. 

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That's why we support Frank, he 
does so much work behind the 

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scenes at a lot of us don't see,
but we support him. 

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That way he can have more depth 
more knowledge in what he 

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teaches. 
Then the other teachers here, I 

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don't get paid. 
You guys are getting what you 

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paid for this morning. 
So That's why he's provided for 

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so he can focus more on 
delivering us the word of God. 

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Fourth command. 
So your resources eternally 

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verses 7 and 8. 
Say do not be deceived. 

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God is Not mocked for whatever a
manso's that he will also reap. 

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You plant, corn, you sow corn? 
You don't get strawberries, you 

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plant, pistachios. 
You don't get cotton? 

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What you're doing, what you're 
planting, that's what you're 

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going to sew. 
We will reap eternally what we. 

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So here. 2nd Corinthians 9:6 and
15. 

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When we wouldn't have to go time
to go there and swarm but you go

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there we see Paul talking about 
sewing, our financial resources 

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not to the flesh, but to the 
spirit, when we come, you know, 

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personally, we have a choice, we
have a choice. 

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We can invest in that, which 
pleases the Flesh and bears, 

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Earthly fruit, or we can so 
that, which pleases, the spirit 

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and bears, eat Eternal fruit. 
The final command that we have, 

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is spend your resources 
selflessly, spend your resources

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selflessly, it says, and let, 
not let us not. 

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Grow weary while doing good for 
in due season, we shall reap. 

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If we do not lose heart, Don't 
give up. 

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Give everything. 
If you can what you can to those

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around you who need who need it 
more than we do. 

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Use your talents, use your 
resources, use your gifts, 

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whatever, may be in your realm 
of what you have control under. 

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Give to those who are in need 
around you. 

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I want to encourage us all. 
We lived a spirit, we live a 

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spiritual life, it will not be 
easy. 

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Of course, we will not want, you
know, we won't always see the 

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immediate fruit. 
From what we do here, but we're 

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planning for eternity, we're 
working for eternity work, we're

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sewing here. 
What's going to be reaped 

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eternally? 
That covers the first 10 verses 

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of chapter 6 that I have Force, 
we will want to close the 

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service out, within a type of 
any type of invitation. 

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We want to invite those who may 
be under the gospel, call in any

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way if you need to be baptized 
for the remission of your sins. 

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And we ask, we have for that 
opportunity. 

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Now here, the word believe that 
Jesus is the son of God. 

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We confess his name That he is 
the Son of God and were baptized

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for the remission of our sins. 
We change the way that we're 

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living. 
We're not living for the 

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worldly, things anymore. 
We're living for Christ because 

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what he has done for us, and 
that changes who we are. 

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It's not us trying harder to 
change. 

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I'm going to work harder to make
a little difference here. 

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Make a little difference there. 
No, it's a new life, completely.

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Your old life is gone. 
The old man is gone. 

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A new man. 
Now lives for Christ. 

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