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When we had our first daughter. 
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for me to apologize if the girls
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got Charlie here. 
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but if you hear noises, I'm 
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It came with our territory. 
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we were always second or third 
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the building. 
That's just where we set every 

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single service. 
That's where we were, but then 

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Georgia came along and you don't
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everybody, with the crying baby 
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So when we had Georgia, Georgia 
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We had to move out of our normal
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a big deal for you or not, but 
I'm kind of a guy, a routine and

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I just do the same thing day 
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It was a big deal for me. 
I do learn that it wasn't my 

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seat anymore. 
How important is your seat to 

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you this morning? 
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morning that maybe you're like, 
no, I'm a floater in school and 

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class and congregation some 
people are floaters and they'll 

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sit here, one day here. 
The next, some of you this 

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morning are probably the type A 
that's like No, that's my seat, 

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that's my seat. 
How important is your seat to 

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you? 
How long have you sat there? 

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I gave this lesson and Oakdale 
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their seats for like Sunday or 
two and then they're like, I'm 

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done with this. 
I'll tell them my parents right 

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now. 
Mom and Dad, never moved. 

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And they've sat in the same seat
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we've even moved congregations 
and it's like right here. 

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This is this is where I sit for 
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I can Least remember 20 years. 
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do this anywhere else? 
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I did it in classes to no 
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sit in the same place you can 
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So Google seat selection, 
behaviors, sometime in your free

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time and you'll find This this 
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It's called territoriality it's 
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communication, that refers to 
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communicate ownership or 
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And Possessions, the 
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from the observations of animal 
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In Oakdale. 
I know where everybody sits 

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weighed probably knows where all
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kind of know that well that area
that's kind of them there. 

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The left Siders where the right 
Siders Could it affect anything?

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This morning is where we're 
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Could it affect anything? 
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seating, the Bible, actually, 
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seating at times does play an 
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There are times that seating 
Choice matters, Luke chapter 14 

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verses 8 and 9. 
Jesus says when you were invited

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by anyone to a wedding Feast, Do
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Let one more honorable than you 
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More than you be invited by him.
And he, who invited you and him 

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come and say to you, give place 
to this, man, and then you begin

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with shame to take the lowest 
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So, sometimes seating can be an 
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awkward situation. 
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you skew, chosen the head of the
table and then the person 

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putting on the feast said, hey I
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I want him to sit next to me and
then you awkwardly have to get 

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up and move. 
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matters and we're going to look 
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morning. 
The the study premise is going 

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to be surrounding Unity of our 
congregations. 

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How can we Foster Unity amongst 
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But then in a broader sense it's
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into the things that we begin to
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them. 
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to affect that? 
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was affecting. 
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going to pray to God this thing.
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we'll go through it in three 
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I'm going to try to get an idea.
I'm blocking anybody's view from

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where the Bliss place to stand 
days, but we're going to go 

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through our study in three 
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This morning, we're going to 
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choose a seat. 
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introduced. 
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Secondly, to the chair, which is
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our habits and some of the 
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regular basis that may have an 
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realize, and then we'll conclude
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torpor is a word that means is 
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or mental inactivity. 
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root of this study is trying to 
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I've removed my decision-making 
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consequences of those decisions.
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Most, if not all of us have 
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We've got to the building, I 
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even has his route planned. 
He knows where he's going to sit

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and he knows how he's going to 
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talk to certain people. 
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you're like that, maybe you're 
not, but most of us have already

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chosen our seat. 
Would you give up your seat? 

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if somebody came in, And wanted 
and needed a seat. 

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Would you give up your seat or 
if you came in and somebody was 

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in your seat? 
If I would have come this 

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morning and I would have chosen 
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I was, I was trying. 
I asked Wade, where am I allowed

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to sit this morning? 
If I would have chosen your seat

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and like your butt and your 
Bible was there and everything 

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and I still just sat there, I 
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What would your response have 
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Would you have said? 
Oh, it's great to see you. 

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Do you mind if I have my Bible? 
Would you have been like, that's

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my Bible and that seat right 
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Are you going to move or you 
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What would your response be? 
Would you give up your seat in 

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James chapter 2 verse 3? 
The end of the verse he is there

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talking about the poor man that 
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And he says that these people 
would say to them, you stand 

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there or sit here at my 
footstool, it's possible to have

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the attitude about sitting and 
and what our seats represent and

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the place that they represent to
us, that some people will treat 

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with the attitude of, I'm not 
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To you, you can stand right over
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my footstool but you're not 
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possible attitude to have. 
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that that when there's visitors 
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they're not going to give up 
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be kind of irritated for a long 
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If somebody takes their seat, 
that's a bad attitude to have 

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not, not approved of in James 
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could go over to Romans chapter 
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And here's a passage that says 
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another with Brotherly Love in 
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another. 
That's a much better attitude to

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have as we consider this topic 
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people, be willing to give 
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Be willing. 
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maybe in saying here, let me get
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So here, you can have my seat 
all go, find somewhere else to 

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sit. 
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Other even if that means in our 
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So if you would give up your 
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Hopefully, I've painted it well 
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okay, fine, I'd give up my seat 
this morning. 

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If you would go to give up your 
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Let's now consider some 
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propose to you, that we should 
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like, okay, why do we got it? 
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Funny everybody wants their 
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Behavior. 
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Why do we talk about it on a 
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worship Jesus. 
We're here to read. 

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A Jesus. 
Why does it matter this morning?

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Jesus, we're here to remember 
his body. 

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We are his body this morning as 
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interactions with one another 
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So how to choose a seat? 
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choose a seat potentially 
instead of just going through 

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the motions and sitting wherever
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divisions Among Us. 
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chapter 1 and verse 10. 
He says now I plead with you 

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Brethren by the name of our 
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Jesus Christ that you all. 
Speak the same thing and that 

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there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfectly joined

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together in the same mind and in
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Paul's plea to the Corinthian 
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be unified with one. 
Another have care for one 

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another in everything. 
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say. 
We're talking about a lot more 

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than just our seats this 
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If your Seat means something to 
you that represents a dis Union 

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with your brother. 
Then we're talking about your 

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seat but if you're like, my seat
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There's other things that I 
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We're talking about Unity this 
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Only applies to this study as 
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and our connection. 
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4, and verse 32 says, now, the 
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were of one heart and one soul, 
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Any of the things? 
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they had all things in common. 
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and you start looking at the 
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first century Christians and 
what they did for one. 

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Another what they were willing 
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share with one another. 
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Unity, they cared about one 
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another and if we want an 
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and how to bond with one another
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chapter 4, they were 
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purpose and light of looking at 
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common. 
I hope we don't say about 

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somebody. 
They took my seat this morning. 

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They took what was mine, okay? 
This to me is where the 

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practical application of your 
seat begins to potentially 

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affect some things. 
It's a mathematical concept, 

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it's called permutations and 
combinations combinations, go 

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talk to Wade afterwards, if this
doesn't make sense, but if 

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Visions chapter 4 and verse 16 
says Christ, from whom the whole

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body joined and knit together by
what every Joint supplies 

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according to the effective 
working by which every part does

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its shared causes growth of the 
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in love. 
So Christ is what's bonding us 

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together where to grow in unity 
and were to grow from the 

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strength of one another. 
Combinations and permutations. 

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If you have four people, okay, 
person a can sit next to person.

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B and person C can sit next to 
person d, right? 

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You can have three connections 
made their so Chris can be 

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friends with whoever sitting 
next to him. 

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And Frank can be friends with 
Tina, they're making a 

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connection, Chris isn't making a
connection with anybody this 

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morning. 
But you'll make the connection 

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with whoever's next to you and 
if you don't move, if you stay 

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where you're at all the time, 
you make the connection with the

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same person over and over again.
And you'll have missed the 

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opportunity that even in just 
four people, there was six 

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connections that you could have 
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If you sit in the same place you
only made three different 

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connections, you only made three
different friends, but if 

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everybody moves around and 
jumbles up six, people can be 

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friends, follow with where we're
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Oakdale and off. 
So, the two congregations, that 

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I've been a part of mostly kind 
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Oakdale has 150 members off had 
about 20 members, so, Arliss of,

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if you're from a large 
congregation or a small 

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congregation, you could say, 
well, we're we're just a few 

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members, we all know, everybody,
everybody knows everybody, and 

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it doesn't really matter how 
much if I sit next to. 

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So, and so, I mean, no one in 
the large congregation. 

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You're like, yeah, you probably 
don't know that person all the 

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way over there, you probably 
didn't talk to them for the last

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three months, but, here's how it
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If you sit in the same seats, 
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149, different connections can 
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With 20 different people. 19 
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sit in the same seats over and 
over, but there was an 

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opportunity to make eleven 
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seventy-five connections or 190 
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The point is is that in as we 
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we consider growing together as 
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congregations if we will 
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something as simple as walking 
in and choosing, I'm going to 

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sit three rows back today. 
Everybody's going to now have to

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jumbled up is gonna make a 
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You're going to have to talk to 
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Some of us that's an awkward 
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Frank is probably cool to sit 
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going to talk That's not my 
personality. 

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So when we had Georgia and I had
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left, row to back, look for your
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back there yet. 
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right ciders and I got to have 
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that my whole life. 
I've worshipped with you, I've 

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worshipped with you my whole 
life but I don't really know you

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that well. 
I'm shaking your hand every 

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Sunday, probably for 20 years 
but now I sit next to you and we

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talked together and now I know 
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knew before from one simple 
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simply that the unity of our 
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simple as choosing a seat, the 
first thing that came to my mind

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when I started considering 
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singing, the line that wasn't my
chair, after all, maybe you know

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the song, but that got my 
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other things that I do on a 
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just like, I have bitch, Ali sit
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seat at different places. 
I habitually listen to music 

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many times, right? 
Like I walk in, go to the same 

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seat, I get in my truck, turn on
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country music, it's it's the 
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Like country music, it should be
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It should be the just put it on 
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And just like, I never really 
give thought to my seat and hey,

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I could have made so many more 
friends. 

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I could have made such a 
stronger congregation. 

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I don't really think what's 
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He is the king of country music,
but then I stopped and as I was 

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thinking about these habits, 
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Let me summarize, I'm not going 
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I'm going to summarize the 
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George walks in. 
He doesn't explicitly say where 

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he walks into and he says excuse
me ma'am. 

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You took my chair Can I buy you 
a drink? 

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Are you single or are you 
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Can I drive you home later? 
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wasn't my chair off to roll. 
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and you're saying we're talking 
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kind of the innuendos that are 
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I mean, Have you listened to the
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you're sitting out there and 
you're like yeah, get that 

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George Strait song. 
I've been saying this for 40 

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years, George Strait shouldn't 
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stuff. 
He's singing about the point 

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though, whichever wherever you 
come from is for us to stop and 

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think. 
About the activities that we 

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engage in habitually 
unconsciously and where our mind

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is taken. 
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what George was singing about 
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it, we're like yeah, in 
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I don't believe in participating
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I believe that a man and a woman
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I believe that you should be 
sober minded like, in Concept in

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and value. 
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But yet at the same time we 
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habitually that take our mind to
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Proverbs chapter, 23 verses 6 
and 7 says, do not eat the bread

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of a miser nor desire, his 
Delicacies for As he thinks in 

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his heart. 
So is he eat? 

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And drink? 
He says to you, but his heart is

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not with you. 
You may say, I was just 

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listening to music. 
I was just reading the book. 

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I was just watching this what we
think about is us what is in our

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mind is, who we are, who do I 
give that control over to Who am

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I willing to say here? 
Here, take me for a few minutes.

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Take me and my soul. 
And my spirit. 

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And my mind for an hour or two, 
who do I give that control to? 

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That's what I want us to think 
about Proverbs chapter 12 and 

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verse 8, it says a man will be 
commended according to his 

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wisdom but he who is of a 
perverse heart will be despised.

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Our hearts, our minds are so 
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This morning, Jesus said to him 
you shall love the Lord. 

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Your God with all All your heart
with all your soul. 

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And with all your mind, this is 
the first and great commandment.

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How much room is left in my mind
and my soul, For God. 

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Consider the amount of time and 
you may have different things 

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that you need to consider. 
So don't feel like I'm important

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the finger at you. 
I made this lesson, I know where

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my weaknesses are. 
I know where my shortcomings 

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are. 
These are the things that come 

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to my mind. 
How consider the amount of time 

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and entertainment. 
What do you choose? 

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What do I choose? 
How do they direct my mind? 

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Consider your phone habits. 
We're going to talk a little bit

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more about this kind of this 
evening in the lesson that will 

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call gaslighting. 
Hopefully you'll stay. 

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I found the study extremely 
profitable for me, but what are 

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your phone habits? 
I was telling the family last 

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night at dinner, I've admitted 
to myself. 

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I haven't I have a tendency to 
be able to be an addictive 

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personality, so when I get this 
phone in my hand, that's 

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extremely smart, that has all of
these apps on it. 

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I got to pay attention. 
To what what? 

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I'm letting on my phone because 
it's going to take my mind, it's

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going to take me and I'm going 
to have been zoned out for an 

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hour and a half and Anna will be
like, where were you? 

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You weren't even checking in the
babies are screaming. 

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I was asking, and I what are 
your phone habits? 

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How does your phone or your 
technology affect you? 

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I watched a movie on the plane, 
it was called tenant. 

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This is not. 
You can see, the says 

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confession, I don't really 
remember the movie. 

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So if it shouldn't be 
recommended I'm not recommending

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the movie. 
The point of this movie, though,

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is it was one of those Sci-Fi 
movies that you go back in time 

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and forward in time. 
And you try to figure out where 

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what's happening I left that 
movie. 

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So, it's an hour and a half two 
hours, you're on a plane and you

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follow the movie, you track the,
the media that you're watching 

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and afterwards. 
I just remember feeling like 

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Where am I? 
Is this real again, or is is 

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what's time. 
The malleability of the mind is 

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a real thing. 
And sometimes we can take 

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reality for granted if you will.
It's a real thing for people to 

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lose track of what reality is in
mental illness. 

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Some of them are things that 
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Alzheimer's and Dementia. 
Some of them are things that 

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happen because of decisions that
we make in our lives and things 

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that we get, It's a real thing 
and we look at those and we 

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forget in our day-to-day 
minute-to-minute moment on the 

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decisions were making we take 
for granted that we know what 

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reality is we have a good mind 
in us and that mind is valuable.

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And what I'm trying to remind 
myself is, is this mind is a 

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blessing and I need to use this 
mind for good things and I need 

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to keep it on the trajectory 
that God wants me to be on. 

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The mind is so important. 
Proverbs 4:23 says keep your 

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heart with all diligence for out
of it spring, the issues of 

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Life, the mind is everything, 
the heart and soul that you have

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within you is so important. 
Keep it with all diligence. 

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Now, we'll move to spiritual 
torpor. 

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Where you sit entertainment and 
free time that we habitually 

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participate in Evangelistic 
activities. 

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We haven't talked about that 
yet. 

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How do you evangelize? 
What your involvement like and 

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worship? 
What your involvement, like, in 

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your personal Christian, Life on
a day-to-day basis? 

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What are your habits? 
These are some examples of where

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we can get into Comfort zones 
and we remove mental, activity 

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from the process. 
We don't think about it anymore.

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It's just what I do. 
It's just Frank was talking 

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about how some last night, how 
some things are. 

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Just, that's just how you do it.
You, you saddle a horse from the

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right side. 
Left side, see left side, always

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the left side. 
Why from the left side, he had 

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some reasons but no, it's just 
the way you do it. 

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That's fine. 
He had good reasons for why your

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saddle horse on the left side, 
some things though I just do and

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maybe you just do because that's
just the way I do it. 

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That's just my personality. 
I'm an introvert. 

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So I don't sit next to other 
people. 

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But removing the mental activity
and questioning, why am I 

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spending my time doing this? 
Sometimes has consequences that 

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we don't want. 
Romans chapter 13 is where this 

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word comes from. 
Romans chapter 13, verses 11 

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through 14. 
Paul says, and do this knowing 

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the time that now, it is high 
time, it is definite time it. 

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There is no question that now, 
was the time that we're talking 

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about Out do this because it is 
absolutely time for us to be 

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paying attention to this. 
It is time to awake out of 

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sleep. 
This phrase awake out of sleep 

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Barnes defines as figuratively, 
spiritual torpor. 

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Torpor we already said is a 
state of physical or mental 

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inactivity. 
You're just not really doing 

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anything. 
You're just mentally not engaged

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or physically, you're not 
staying with your workout 

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routine. 
Like you should, you're not 

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engaged in it, but there's a 
spiritual side that Barnes is 

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drawing on here. 
And that is way more dangerous 

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than any simple mental or 
physical inactivity that you're 

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going to do. 
You can spiritually, check out. 

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Paul is saying he's saying, wake
up its time right now to awake 

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out of your spiritual in 
activity. 

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For. 
Now, our Salvation is nearer 

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than when we first believed. 
it's time now because we're even

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closer now than we've ever been 
It was important when we first 

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believed and now we're even 
farther along. 

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Get busy in our spiritual life. 
Our overall goal is to recognize

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any place that we can find, that
we have spiritual inactivity. 

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He says the night is far spent. 
So, as you think about being 

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spiritually, disengaged Paul 
says the night is far spent. 

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You've spent enough time in the 
night, you spent enough time in 

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the darkness, maybe that hits 
with you. 

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Maybe it doesn't. 
It hits with me? 

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I can look back and I can say, 
The night is far spent. 

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It's time to wake up. 
You spent enough time asleep. 

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You spent enough, time in the 
darkness, going down the wrong 

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path. 
Wake up. 

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The night is far, spent the day 
is at hand. 

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Do you ever wake up? 
If you're a morning person, this

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will hit with you. 
If you're not a morning person 

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you're gonna be like terrible 
example, coal should've gone 

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there. 
The day is at hand that feeling 

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sometimes when the sun is 
rising, even if it's 9:00 or 

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10:00 11:00, when you wake up, 
there's that moment that you're 

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waking up and you're like, Day 
is here. 

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What am I going to do with my 
day? 

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I'm done sleeping. 
Now, I've taken my rest now, 

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it's time to do something. 
The day is now at hand. 

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Therefore let us cast off, the 
works of darkness. 

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So because it's time for us to 
get busy. 

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Put off anything and everything 
that is work of Darkness. 

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If there's some habits that are 
left over, that we're not really

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maliciously, engaging in them 
now. 

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But we just kind of develop 
these things in these habits, 

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think about those put off 
anything. 

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That is not pushing you towards 
your goal and your spiritual 

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goal of faithfulness, to our 
Lord, Jesus Christ, and let us 

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put on the armor of light. 
Cast off anything that's 

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darkness and put on the armor of
light, you put on that armor of 

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light and now you're 
unstoppable. 

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Now, you can do anything for the
kingdom, you can live in 

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confidence. 
Now, you can live in peace, 

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knowing that you're doing your 
best Faithfully every single 

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moment. 
Put on the armor of light, let 

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us walk properly as in the day, 
not in revelry and drunkenness. 

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Not in lewdness and lust not in 
strife and envy. 

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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make no provision for the 

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flesh to fulfill it in its lust.
That last phrase right there? 

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Make no provision for the flesh.
Is where we're spending most of 

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our time this morning. 
It's not just about yeah you 

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know what I'm really went off 
the deep end. 

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You know I really just kind of 
knew I shouldn't have gone there

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but I did that's not exactly 
what we're talking about. 

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We're talking about looking for 
a place that's kind of a 

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provision that it's it's not 
really like terribly awfully 

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wrong but it's kind of pushing 
me in the wrong direction. 

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I see that it's kind of leading 
me the wrong way. 

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Make no provision for the flesh,
make every provision to put 

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yourself to where you will be 
wearing your armor and fighting 

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like you should be for your 
lord. 

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Instead of continuing and 
spiritual inactivity, let's find

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any potential spot for failure 
and get rid of it. 

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We have a responsibility to put 
on Jesus, even when that means 

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uncomfortable Growing Pains, 
even if it's weird, even if it's

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hard for us, even if it goes 
against my personality, that's 

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my job as a Christian. 
That's my job. 

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As his servant, we have that 
responsibility. 

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So in summary of not my seed, 
after all, how to choose a seat,

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we can increase our mindfulness 
in our congregations, to Foster 

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Unity. 
Even if that means that I choose

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maybe a different seat, next 
service, the second portion was 

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the chair that our daily habits 
deserve regular consideration to

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evaluate my Christian trajectory
and finally spiritual torpor. 

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We need to remain engaged and 
awake in our Christian lives as 

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opposed to living in a state of 
inactivity. 

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How are you this morning? 
Do you need to awake from your 

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sleep? 
Do you need? 

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To get back on the right path or
maybe you need to get on the 

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path this morning as a 
Christian, I trust and know and 

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trust and believe that you've 
heard the gospel, we've talked 

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about being a Christian and 
living as a servant of Jesus 

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this morning, but Jesus is our 
King. 

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He's the one who gave his life 
for us sacrificed for us so that

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we can be cleansed from our 
sins. 

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We must believe in him as our 
King. 

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We must be willing to repent of 
our sins confess his name before

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men and be Taste for the 
remission of our sins. 

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And then once we do that, that's
not just like a check my box. 

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And I'm a Christian now, Romans 
chapter 6, and verse 4. 

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We begin to walk in newness of 
life, we're on the great New 

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Path. 
And we need to stay on it. 

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There's times though that 
something needs to be taken care

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of, and sometimes it's of a 
public nature. 

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So, the congregation at this 
time, has chosen to offer that 

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opportunity while we stand. 
And while we see We thank you 

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