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In Titus Chapter 1 and verse 5. 
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writing to Titus and evangelist 
about the subject of unfinished 

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business in Titus, Chapter 1 and
verse 5. 

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Paul said, for this reason, I 
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should set in order, the things 
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ordain Elders in every city. 
As I have commanded you in verse

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5, really. 
It's the meat of the letter to 

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Titus. 
And in verse 5, Paul addresses, 

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the purpose for being Being in 
Crete and that was to ordain 

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Elders in every city. 
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this. 
When it talks about Elders in 

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every city, it's talking about 
Elders in every church. 

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And really, when we talk about 
create, this was no small 

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undertaking. 
I read some stuff about Creek 

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this week and I found some 
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interesting. 
I understand. 

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It is the fifth largest island 
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In fact, it is Miles long and 
the width of it varies between 

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seven and thirty. 
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Ancient scholar said there were 
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Crete. 
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that there were over a million 
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we're talking about a very big 
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We're talking about a bear, very
big responsibility and Paul told

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Titus this is why I left you in 
Crete to do a few things that 

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are unfinished. 
Shhhhht. 

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One of, which was ordaining, 
Elders in every city or in every

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church. 
Now, the work that Paul had 

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begun there needed to be 
completed, and really, there 

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were two things involved number 
one to set in order, the things 

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that are lacking. 
To set in order, the things that

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are lacking. 
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interesting because Marvin 
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said, it was a medical term that
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straighten those that were 
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In other words, there are some 
unfinished business that you 

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have to do Titus. 
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order, the things that are 
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And number two, Ordain Elders in
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You know what's interesting 
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it was talking about unfinished 
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That Titus was to take care of 
and it was to appoint ordain 

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Elders in every city. 
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setting in an order, the things 
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The NIV says, to straighten out 
that which was left unfinished. 

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Now, one of the things, That was
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Unfinished is appointing Elders 
in every city now, got to make a

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point here. 
Got to ask yourself a question. 

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Can a congregation be scriptural
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pattern in the absence of 
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Can a congregation be 
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In the absence of Elders, if 
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a plurality of men that fit the 
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Elegant. 
Well, I'm going to answer it 

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like this. 
I'm going to answer it like this

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with a question and that is this
what came first the church or 

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the eldership? 
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Number two, what was created 
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The other was the church created
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eldership created for the 
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My point in asking those 
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eight. 
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A congregation can be scriptural
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congregation in the absence of 
Elders. 

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The answer is yes. 
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New Testament pattern, we find 
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existed three years and Beyond 
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Elders were established ordained
at that place if they do not 

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qualify now, When men qualify 
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men that qualify, they are to be
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great position in the church 
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Have you ever stopped to 
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Why it was that Paul could say 
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city? 
And yet, we look out in the body

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of Christ today congregation 
have to congregation and they 

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don't have Elders because the 
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enough qualified if you ever 
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that we have to take a look at 
one of which is this did God use

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miraculous help in the days of 
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have men that were qualified to 
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Did God assisted with 
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Hell, how was it that? 
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ordain Elders in every city? 
How was it that they were all 

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qualified? 
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one passage of scripture that 
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miraculous memes, or miraculous 
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to be an illness. 
Not one Passage. 

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Not one. 
God did not use. 

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Miraculous means to have men. 
Be qualified. 

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Somebody might say, well, how 
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doing that. 
How was it that it ever church 

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every city? 
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qualified, I think you have to 
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history. 
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church, you find that there were
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For example, there were 
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Please get that spiritually 
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under the law of Moses. 
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were Jews by Blood, they had 
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life. 
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spiritually minded, their 
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minded and then they heard the 
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gospel and they were baptized 
into Christ, be spiritually 

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minded. 
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before. 
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men. 
That could be Elders in the 

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church. 
So the ordination of Elders and 

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deacons had nothing to do with 
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These men were just qualified 
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miraculous help. 
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What about names for the 
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The first name is obviously the 
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And what does that mean? 
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There are three terms or three 
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the same office one of, which is
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What did Paul say to Titus to 
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every city? 
The word Elders? 

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There is the word Presbyterian 
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And by the way, the death, 
Mission of Presbytery Rose is 

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simply an older person. 
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someone of spiritual maturity 
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We find in Titus Chapter 1 and 
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quote from it again, Paul total 
Titus and ordain Elders in every

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church or city also, an x 20, 
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sent to Ephesus and called for 
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I'm not making fun but I have to
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If the word Elder by definition 
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talking about someone of 
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would absolutely automatically 
eliminate some young man about 

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18 or 19 years old. 
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Nice fella with another guy they
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They've got the name tag right 
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Elder so-and-so. 
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eliminates. 
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definition, if we knew nothing 
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of the requirements. 
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requirements or conditions or 
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an elder in the Lord's church. 
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eliminates a younger person. 
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There's another word that's used
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elder, and that's the word. 
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comes from the word Episcopal 
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It's used to describe the duty 
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congregation. 
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3 and verse 1, if any desires, 
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desires a good work. 
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describe the person. 
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work, or his responsibility, or 
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There's many others. 
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by using the word Bishop? 
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congregation. 
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There's another one and folks 
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There's a reason that I don't go
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denominational world is filled 
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Ron or Pastor Dan Pastor, who 
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Bible. 
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mean preacher. 
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Ephesians originally in our 
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some in the church, this one, 
and that one, and makes a 

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distinction between what I am 
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preacher, and a pastor, you know
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Because a pastor doesn't mean 
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Pastor means Elder. 
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Elder by way of an older person,
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But let's go further and Pastor 
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means Shepherd You see the 
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The task of a Shepherd is to 
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Now, interestingly in Ephesians 
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Again, I'm going to read it and 
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Apostles, some prophets, some 
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teachers all distinctions. 
Now, we don't have miraculous 

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prophets today and we don't have
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pastors being elders. 
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preachers and we do have 
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to we've got all that. 
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for the perfecting of the 
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Saints. 
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want to read something because 
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1 and 2, it talks about all 
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Watch this. 
The elders who are among you I 

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exhort. 
I am a fellow Elder and a 

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witness of the suffering of 
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the glory that will be revealed.
Watch this, to Shepherd, the 

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flock of God serving as 
overseers not by constraint but 

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willingly, not for dishonest 
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But eagerly all three are 
described in the same to versus 

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regarding an elder. 
And by the way, we're going to 

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get back to. 
This is was Peter. 

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Talking Peter was an elder to, 
he was an apostle but in 

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addition to that, he was also an
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So an elder, a bishop, and a 
pastor, not three different 

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distinct offices but different 
ways to describe the men and 

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their work. 
Now, congregations of the body 

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of Christ that were completely 
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always contained a plurality of 
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And by the way, the authority of
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local congregation. 
It was never for that purpose. 

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You know, why they are? 
How the Roman Catholic Church 

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was formed. 
You know, it all started, it all

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started because of these Bishops
not recognizing, we're realizing

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the role that God wanted them to
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and their Authority. 
Would not go beyond the local 

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congregation. 
All of a sudden, you have one 

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guy and he dries up and say, you
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this congregation. 
And I'll be over this one over 

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here too and pretty soon, he 
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congregation. 
Then another guy, he dries up. 

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Hey, you know what? 
I'm the super Bishop guy. 

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I'm the big head cheese. 
I'm gonna be over you who are 

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over all these other 
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You see where it led it led to a
pasta see it led to the 

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establishment of sacramentalism.
It led to the Roman Catholic 

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faith all because Bishops Elders
usurp The Authority that God had

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given them and what they did is 
they rose up and extended their 

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Authority beyond that which God 
said they could have always 

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Local church always the local 
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Now Elders were always also 
assisted by qualified deacons in

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Philippians chapter 1 and verse 
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It says Paul and Timothy 
Servants of Jesus Christ to all 

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the saints in Christ. 
Jesus who are at Philip. 

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I watch this with the Bishops 
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In time we'll get to deacons 
when we get finished going 

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through the eldership and the 
qualifications of an elder and 

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the work of an elder, we will 
talk about deacons. 

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But in this respect we have 
Elders that were older 

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overseers, that's what they did 
and they were shepherds now, 

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they had a specific work. 
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work, that the Elder had it is 
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Here it is first category. 
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That's the first thing. 
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Hebrews chapter 13 and 17 the 
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that to be the Apostle Paul 
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you and be submissive for they 
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who must give an account, let 
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grief for that would be 
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is a man. 
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at least another man watching 
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flock. 
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Number two, second category. 
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serve train and teach Paul wrote
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verses 11 and 12 again and he 
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Apostles, some prophets, some 
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teachers watch for the equipping
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the ministry and for the 
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So what does Elders do? 
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Watch Garden. 10th. 
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They serve train and teach Now. 
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What about qualifications? 
There are some requirements that

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are found in the word of God, 
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I'm going to ask you to turn in 
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I want to read these two 
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we're going to do is we're going
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I want us to understand where we
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and really how serious it is 
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First, Timothy chapter 3 and 
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Paul said, this is a faithful 
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position of a bishop, he 
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then must be blameless. 
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temperate sober-minded a good 
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Hospitable able to teach not 
given to Wine. 

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Not violent, not greedy for 
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quarrelsome, not Covetous. 
One who rules his own house. 

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Well, having his children in 
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With all reverence, for if a man
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own house, how will he take care
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Not a novice lest being puffed 
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He fall into the same 
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outside. 
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snare of the devil. 
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young evangelist Timothy of 
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fall. 
Vacations to be an elder. 

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Now go with me. 
Please to Titus Chapter 1, Titus

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Chapter 1, this is Paul writing 
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that and after he talked about 
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to set in order. 
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ordain Elders in every Church. 
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blameless, the husband of one 
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not accused of dissipation or 
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must be blameless. 
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self-willed. 
Not quick-tempered not given to 

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Wine, not violent, not greedy 
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lover of what is good 
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Just holy self-controlled 
holding fast. 

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The faithful word. 
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may be able by sound Doctrine 
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who contradict serious matter, 
isn't it? 

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Serious matter. in these 
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reveal that Elders must possess,
certain qualities related to the

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following three areas, marriage 
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think that it matters the 
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marriage and family, think that 
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qualifications based on marriage
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What else? 
Personal conduct That Matters to

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what else church and community. 
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matters in the church and it 
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now, we'll get into this later 
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talks about that very thing 
about having a good report among

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those that are without the King 
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King James says, it's talking 
about that time about those that

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are in the community, Amanda has
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All right. 
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Titus to ordain Elders in every 
city these were men that all fit

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the qualifications to be an 
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wrong for Titus to a point 
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was not qualified and it would 
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the very same thing today. 
What we need folks is we need 

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more spiritually minded men so 
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going to talk about 2:00 this 
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Just to number one, is it got to
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I got to tell you, I spent a lot
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only take the sting is there was
commentators that never that 

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said you know it says you got it
says desire the opposite, that's

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not qualification. 
I disagree with that. 

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It's the very first thing. 
It's the very first thing 

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mentioned. 
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Elders today because we don't 
have enough man, that desire the

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office. 
That's the first thing. 

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Watch this in first, Timothy 
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This is a faithful saying, if a 
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office of a bishop, he desires a
good work. 

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Now. 
I'm going to talk about to 

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people. 
Ryan to Willard. 

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I don't know if Brian will occur
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church? 
I don't know. 

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I don't know, but I know long 
before he was ever married, he 

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said one day, I'd like to be an 
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My son Tanner just turned 18. 
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to be an elder one day, but I'll
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desire to become an elder and 
had the desire, as a Young Man 

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long before he was ever 
qualified, don't you think it 

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would matter or make a 
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made in his life? 
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that he chose where he lived the
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labored among or was a member of
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children that he raised. 
Don't you think it would matter 

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if a man is a young man and he 
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it's going to alter the 
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You see the point we don't have 
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planning on it early enough in 
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Early enough in life. 
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about this, the word of God is 
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brilliant. 
Do you know that In this passage

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Paul to Timothy use the word 
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twice? 
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words with two different 
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The first word desires. 
Is the word array go and it 

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means to Aspire to strive for 
now, watch this, look at the 

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picture here. 
Paul says it's a faithful saying

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if in other words, these are 
conditions. 

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If there's a man that desires 
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going to desire something else. 
Now this word desire is to 

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inspire to strive for. 
In other words, I have a desire 

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to be in that position. 
I have a desire to be in that 

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position, but then he says this 
watch this, if he desires to 

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have the position or the title 
he would also desire a good 

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work. 
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The second word is f of fumio, 
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or long for it is an intense 
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Now, that's the same word by the
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And Lazarus member rich, man and
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was a beggar, even have 
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And the rich man, fared 
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But what it says about Lazarus, 
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This word right here. 
Desiring to have the crumbs that

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fell from the rich man's table. 
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That had a great intense desire,
because he was starving to have 

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some crumbs that fell off the 
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That's the word. 
Epithelium now here's the point,

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if a man is going to have a 
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the position or title of an 
elder, watch this, he will more.

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So with more intensity have a 
desire to do the work. you know,

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that eliminates somebody that 
just wants a position or a title

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of authority, That eliminates 
the guy that says only being 

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charged, I want to be the guy 
give me the title Elder in the 

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church. 
I want to be the boss. 

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I want to be in charge that 
eliminates that God is so 

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brilliant. 
Look at this. 

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Paul said, if anybody their 
desires or has the has the idea 

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they want to be in the position 
of a bishop, he will have a 

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great intense, desire even more.
So to do the work of a Elder. 

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Yeah, the work of an elder more 
intense. 

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Desire for the work. 
These words show is one scholar 

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said there's more involved in 
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the aspiration for the office. 
It's one that if one is truly 

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interested in being an overseer,
he will be eager to do the work.

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So what's the work x, 20 and 28.
Acts 20, and 28, take heed 

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therefore to yourselves. 
And, to all the flock among the,

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which the Holy Spirit has made 
you overseers to Shepherd the 

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Church of God, which he has 
purchased with his own blood. 

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So in other words, a good work 
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the flock, the flock of God 
overseers of the flock of God. 

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Now let me give you some 
practical things, that an 

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overseer of the flock of God 
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Here's some descriptions. 
Leading. 

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And by the way, by the way, if 
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get the most out of somebody, I 
don't care. 

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I don't care what Avenue of life
you want to plug in. 

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I don't care if you want to get 
the most out of someone lead 

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them. 
You can't drive. 

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I'm you can't push him. 
You can push him only so far. 

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If you want to get the most out 
of somebody. 

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Leave them. 
What is an elder do to feed the 

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flock of God. 
He leaves. 

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He's a great leader. 
Maybe the greatest Among Us. 

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Here's another thing that he 
would do. 

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He protects disciplines Comforts
provides security soothes, the 

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troubled, forgives handles 
disputes, evaluates weaknesses, 

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ministering to the sick 
counseling, and all of those 

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things, all of those 
responsibilities that he has. 

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And also he's one that can 
delegate responsibilities to 

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others to deacons and the others
to that is A great leader, all 

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of these responsibilities, and 
more fall into the hands of an 

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overseer. 
So what's the first thing that a

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person must do if they're going 
to be an elder? 

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One day they have to desire the 
office. 

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It's a lifelong desire. 
He has to do that early on in 

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his life and if he desires, but 
position of the title, he even 

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more. 
So desires the work for the 

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cause of Christ. 
Second requirement. 

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Blameless. 
Blameless. 

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In Titus Chapter 1 and verse 6. 
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tightest, if any be blameless. 
Now, the word if suggests that 

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it ordaining Elders in every 
city was conditional, upon what 

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follows. 
So, he says, if there's anyone 

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that is blameless, Titus was to 
ordain only those men that were 

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qualified and Titus in, no way 
as I've already mentioned, could

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ignore the qualifications and 
you and I cannot ignore the 

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qualifications either. 
Now in first, Timothy chapter 3,

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3 and verse 2. 
It says a bishop must then be 

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blameless. 
Now, Bishop and Elder. 

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Remember this, these terms are 
used interchangeably in the word

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of God. 
The word Elder describes, the 

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man, the word, Bishop describes 
His function, both are used 

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interchangeably. 
Now we find that in the word of 

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God Acts 20 and also Titus 1. 
Now this does not mean that an 

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elder or a bishop is a boss. 
It doesn't mean that at all. 

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Remember also that the Elder is 
also a Shepherd of the 

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congregation. you know, the 
greatest example of a 

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shepherdess If an elder is a 
shepherd. 

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If that's what discuss, he's 
described as a pastor, having 

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the Pastoral Care, or the 
shepherd. 

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Shouldn't he look to the 
greatest Shepherd, of all as an 

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example? 
In fact, the Bible says this 

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about our Shepherd in First 
Peter to 25. 

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It says, Jesus is the shepherd 
and Bishop of our souls. 

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Same word. 
Bishop, he is the shepherd and 

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the bishop of our soaps. 
Now, what did Jesus do as a 

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Shepherd or a bishop? 
He didn't communicate 

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superiority. 
The Bible says in Philippians 

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chapter 2, verses 5 through 11 
that he literally emptied 

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himself. 
He humbled himself that he might

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serve, others needs. 
And you know what, what's 

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amazing about Jesus and his 
relationship to the church, and 

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that's what Paul talks about. 
And the Ephesian letter, when, 

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he talks about the marriage 
relationship, he Likens the 

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marriage relationship to the 
relationship that Jesus Christ 

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has with his bride and that's 
the church. 

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Now, if a man as a husband, and 
father follows the pattern, that

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Jesus did that, everything that 
he does will also be for his 

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bride, or Wife in that 
relationship. 

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Everything Jesus did was for his
bride. 

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Nothing selfish. 
Nothing for himself. 

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And we're so thankful that he's 
the one that is the shepherd and

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Bishop of our souls. 
All right? 

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Not talking about some 
authoritarian with a big stick. 

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That's a very Noble task. 
So, Paul says, he must be 

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blameless. 
Now, the word blameless simply 

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means above reproach. 
We Vine says, this literally 

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means something that cannot be 
laid. 

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Hold of now. 
What's that mean? 

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Well first of all this word 
occurs in first Timothy chapter 

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3 and verse 2, it occurs in 
first Timothy Chapter 5 and 

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verse 7 and it occurs in 1st, 
Timothy 6 and verse 14. 

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Now, Paul is not saying that 
Elders are to be sinless because

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no Elder and no man is sinless. 
In fact, the Bible says, the 

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first John, one and eight. 
If we say we have no sin, we 

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deceive our selves. 
So what are we talking about? 

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What's blameless me? 
Robert Milligan says, against 

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whom no evil charge can be 
sustained. 

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Now. 
It's a matter of No Charge being

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proved against someone. 
And it doesn't mean that you can

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never be accused of anything to 
by the way, I'm going to tell 

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you if you want to do what's 
right, people that are jealous, 

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will accuse you of all kinds of 
all kinds of things, blaming For

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Stuff. 
How many times have people make 

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choices in their life? 
And then retroactively went back

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and tried to cast blame as to 
why they made those choices. 

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That's as old as the hills as my
grandmother used to say it's 

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way, it is people do that and 
then what they want to do is 

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retroactively go back and blame.
Mmmmm, that's not what this is 

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talking about. 
This is talking about not having

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a sustainable charge against 
you. 

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Now, the Bible does talk about a
sustainable chart. 

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What happens? 
How do you know if it's a 

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sustainable charged with a 
Bible, says, out of the mouth of

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two or three Witnesses. 
Let every word be established. 

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What about an elder? 
Watch this. 

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And First Timothy 5, 19 and 20 
do not receive an accusation 

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against an elder except from two
or three Witnesses. 

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Those who are sinning, rebuke in
the presence of all and the rest

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also May fear. 
Now, so the idea being blameless

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Not mean, perfect. 
It doesn't mean you never seen 

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publicly either. 
Consider Peter. 

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Consider Peter. 
Peter tells Jesus, I don't care 

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if I got to go down with you. 
I don't care if they come and 

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take my life too. 
I will never leave your side. 

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I will never betray you. 
Jesus looked him in the eye and 

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says Peter before the cock crows
before the rooster crows, you 

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will deny me three times. 
In the process of time after 

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Jesus was taking time and time 
again, it got worse and worse. 

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And finally Peter, the Bible 
says, he is cursing. 

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And swearing say, I know nothing
man. 

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Jesus, and about that time. 
He hears the rooster crow. 

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And Jesus looks on paper. 
And he goes out for weeks, 

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right? 
What then he was restored. 

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He was restored. 
Remember when Jesus says Peter, 

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do you love me? 
Oh, you know that I love you. 

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He said feed my sheep. 
Feed my Lambs three times. 

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He made him say he loved him for
all three times that he rejected

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him. 
So we're not talking about 

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somebody that has never been 
guilty of something. 

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Get that out of your head. 
It's not talking about, somebody

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has never made a mistake or 
somebody that's ever even sinned

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publicly. 
What about Peter again? 

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You know, sometimes we look at 
the life of Peter, it's 

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encouraging because he wasn't 
perfect either. 

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And in the book of Galatians, 
remember that Peter should have 

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been the one who brought the 
gospel to the Gentiles. 

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For the very first time. 
He should have been the one that

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knew better. 
And the Bible says that he 

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refused to eat with the Gentiles
because of the way that the Jews

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would look down upon him. 
What did Paul do Paul was stood 

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him to the face because he was 
to be blamed Galatians 2 11 

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through 13. 
But later in First, Peter 

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chapter 5 and verse 1, I already
said this already. 

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Read the scripture. 
What does it say? 

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Who am also a Elder. 
We learn from Peters example 

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that once a person repents such 
a person becomes blameless again

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and suitable to serve as an 
elder. 

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As far as the idea of being 
blameless is concerned, okay? 

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Today's lesson really is more of
an introduction to what we're 

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going to talk about. 
So in conclusion, but again the 

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whole lot of other stuff next 
time. 

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But in conclusion, what do we 
know so far? 

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We know that a man must first 
desire, the office. 

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He must have a desire for the 
office. 

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If you don't desire the office, 
you will not work for. 

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That's number one. 
But if you do desire the 

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position or the title of an 
elder you must more. 

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So eagerly desire, the work. 
Keeps you humble? 

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What else? 
I don't know what's the matter 

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with this thing. 
A man must be blameless. 

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Meaning no. 
Sustainable charges against him.

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Perfect. 
Nope, not going to happen. 

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Just no sustainable charged. 
By the way, if there's a 

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sustainable charge, if there's a
charge against you, yeah, he get

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rid of it. 
You know, you can come blame us 

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again, we're pit. 
Make it right. 

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That's all you got to do. 
And you know what, if you do 

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that, you're back to being 
blameless, you're only blamed or

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under the guilty, part of being 
blamed, if there's a sustainable

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charge against you that you 
won't take care of, just take 

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care of it. 
So you got to desire the office.

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You got to be blameless. 
And next week, we're going to 

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talk about the family 
requirements, the family 

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requirements of being an elder. 
I'm through this morning thank 

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you for your kind listening, as 
we introduce the series that 

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we're going to continue in for a
while on elders and deacons in 

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the Lord's Church. 
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