1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,480 Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,080 take hold of, so we hope this message inspires you and build 4 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,120 your faith. That it helps you have more of 5 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:14,920 the. God perspective for your day. 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,680 Enjoy the. Month is you, us, and the church 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:24,640 and the body of Christ. And so I want to open up some 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,680 scripture this morning. I don't know if I'm going to get 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,200 through it all because it's quite a lot. 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,040 In this passage, I titled the message. 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:38,040 That's not the message titled I did title, but I had a cup of 12 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,240 coffee between then and now, and I changed the change the title 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,560 of the message to inconspicuous but indispensable. 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,760 That's some big words for Sunday morning, aren't they? 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,880 Inconspicuous but indispensable. And so I want, I want to open 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,680 the word up this morning from One Corinthians chapter 12. 17 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:05,040 Now Paul wrote letters to the Roman church in Rome and he 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,320 wrote letter to 2 letters to the church in Corinth, 1 Corinthians 19 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,360 and Two Corinthians and, and, and chapter 12 in both of those 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,800 letters he goes through pretty well the same thing. 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,800 He wants to talk about the body of Christ. 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,040 And so I'm going to move along pretty quick today because I 23 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:27,200 have got a bit to get through and so might have to just keep 24 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,600 up with me if that's possible. OK, I'm in training mood, not 25 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,080 preaching mood. So one Corinthians chapter 12, 26 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,800 it's Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthian church and he's 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,000 talking about the body of Christ. 28 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,720 Now the body of Christ being bigger than me, I'm not the body 29 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,880 of Christ. I'm a member of the body of 30 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,880 Christ. You are a member of the body of 31 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,840 Christ. If if this is your first day, 32 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,040 here you are and have given your life to Jesus, you're part of 33 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,560 that body. The church is part of that body. 34 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,680 And so Paul talks about the church as being the body of 35 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,520 Christ. And so he writes in One 36 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:13,240 Corinthians 12/12 he says just as the body is 1 and has many 37 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:19,520 members, OK, that being you and me has many members and all the 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:24,800 members are of the one body, though many one body. 39 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:29,400 So it is with Christ in verse 14 it says the body does not 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:35,120 consist of 1 member, but of many very, very important message. 41 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:40,280 It says in Psalm 139 it says that you and I were fearfully 42 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,840 and wonderfully made. We were fearfully and 43 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,200 wonderfully made. No matter what you think about 44 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,560 yourself or what you try to do to yourself to make yourself 45 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,240 look more acceptable, approachable, or to get on with 46 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,240 the other workmates or whatever it may be, I want you to know 47 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:08,320 the way God made you is perfect. Come on, the way He made you is 48 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,000 perfect. You were fearfully and 49 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,560 wonderfully made and so is the church. 50 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,240 And my first point I want to bring about this is that the 51 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,240 difference between all of us is when God made the world, he made 52 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,000 a world full of variety, full of variety. 53 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,760 He loves variety. It says in One Corinthians 12/4. 54 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:36,040 It says now there are there are varieties or diversity of gifts 55 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,200 of the same Spirit and there are diversity of services, but the 56 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,920 same Lord and there are diversities of workings, but of 57 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:51,200 the same God who inspires or who works in everyone. 58 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,080 Now as I look at you this morning, I see a great 59 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,200 congregation of people, but you're all different. 60 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:07,560 That's right, some of you come from Somalia, some from the 61 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,280 Solomons. Home belong you. 62 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,240 Some of you's come from Australia, some of us from 63 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:22,680 Ireland. All different ages, different 64 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:32,200 talents, different genders. Only two born a male man by 65 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,520 choice. But we've got all different 66 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,200 gifts in this place today, haven't we? 67 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,360 Someone's got the gift of mercy, someone's got the gift of 68 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,120 encouragement. We've got the gifts of 69 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,880 leadership, we've got the gifts of ministry, We've got the gifts 70 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:53,960 of stay at home mums. We praise you, we honour you, we 71 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,760 thank you. My wife was a stay at home mum 72 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,320 and we have never been so happy she was. 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,600 If you work as well, I'm not criticizing that, but sometimes 74 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,400 we don't honour these people enough. 75 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,320 We got people who pray, we got our intercessory prayers, thank 76 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,240 God for them. We got our finance people, 77 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,720 people who born, they operate in the gift of finance, can make a 78 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,880 lot of money very quickly, and they finance the ministries of 79 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,640 God. We've got people who counsel 80 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,080 people in finance. We've got the people of helps, 81 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,800 we've got the people of wisdom, people of faith, people of 82 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,440 hospitality. We got a lovely couple in this 83 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,760 church. When Anne and I first came with 84 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,000 the gift of hospitality, they invited us over for a meal. 85 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,880 Meant so much to us, meant so much. 86 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,360 We've got professional people. We have people in the medical 87 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,000 field, in the trades. We have people who counselled. 88 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,280 Talking to gentlemen this morning he's doing his master's 89 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:53,400 degree in psychology. We will pray for you. 90 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,200 We've got counsellors, we've got teachers. 91 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:00,960 I'm a life coach. I couldn't do so. 92 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,440 I couldn't do counselling. I don't have enough empathy. 93 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:10,040 But we have people of grace. We got evangelism as a gift, but 94 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,920 also we have soul winners by responsibility. 95 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,640 That's interesting. We have chaplains, we have 96 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,520 hospital chaplains, we have school chaplains, we have prison 97 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,160 chaplains, we have industry chaplains. 98 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,520 Whole range of we have discipleship, small group 99 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,240 leaders, we have people look after our Sunday school, people 100 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,440 look after our youth, we have people look after our young 101 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,920 adults. And then we go, our senior 102 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,280 pastors look after us. We take a lot of looking after. 103 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:39,040 So we're so different, aren't we? 104 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,840 So many gifts. And that's the body of Christ. 105 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,760 So it's bigger than you and me. And this message today is not 106 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,320 about a recruitment drive to bring people to do more in this 107 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,520 church, 'cause Anne and I, 99% of what we do in our ministry is 108 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,160 outside these four walls, beautiful streets. 109 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,400 We go into a whole range of places that have nothing to do 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,440 with this church. But that's our ministry. 111 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:10,000 That's what we're called to do. So we're all different, everyone 112 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,240 of us. And Paul says as the human body 113 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,320 has many parts that have to work together for the body to 114 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,160 function well. And for us about as a body of 115 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,240 Christ, we've got to function together, we gotta work 116 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,480 together. And as we work together, this 117 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,480 nation of Australia will be touched by God and we've got to 118 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,000 take the responsibility for where our nation is at the 119 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,480 moment. We've got to take 120 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,120 responsibility. The church has got to take 121 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,280 responsibility. If we don't like abortion in our 122 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,240 land, we've got to do something about that. 123 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,000 And it's more than placards on the street. 124 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,520 We've got to get people into government who can make the big 125 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,360 decisions. The church has got to do its 126 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,320 job. The body of Christ has got to 127 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,320 function. We've got to function. 128 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,240 We all have different age for every different places in our 129 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,760 life. We've been retired for some 130 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,760 years, but we're redefining where retirement is because 131 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,720 we're not 6 foot under the ground yet. 132 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,880 And every day this side of the grass, I've got work to do 133 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,240 because my nation that I live in needs the gift that I carry and 134 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,080 it needs a gift that you carry. We got workplaces that need to 135 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,360 be touched. We got chippies in this place 136 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,120 who, when they're on the job site, can talk to people about 137 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,480 Christ. We've got doctors who can go 138 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,800 into hospitals and and work with people in their place. 139 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,880 And so the first thing I want to say here today is the 140 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,400 inconspicuous are indispensable, 'cause Anne and I, we're 141 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,240 inconspicuous to you most of the time, but we're indispensable in 142 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,200 the land, in our neighborhood and in our community. 143 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,680 And so are all of us. I looked up. 144 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,720 I went on to chat. TVT people like me have got to 145 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,120 feel a bit so I looked up what does inconspicuous in 146 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,640 indispensable means. It means someone that is quietly 147 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,160 doing their job in the background that no one knows 148 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,840 about and yet things would not work without them. 149 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,680 Perfect example is Pastor Henry, I come up here on some Thursdays 150 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:18,640 and I see Pastor Henry here doing his stuff on a whole tribe 151 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,200 of guys behind him cutting grass and cleaning. 152 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,480 You know what, I honestly thought that the angels clean 153 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:29,120 the church. They do. 154 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,160 I thought somehow they came in when you're not watching you 155 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,080 know between and they do it till last Sunday turned around and 156 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,440 all mates over the side there with a vacuum cleaner cleaning 157 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,520 of Lord dear Lord, thank God for them. 158 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,560 Thank God for them. It takes us all takes us all 159 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,120 takes us all takes us all takes me it takes you. 160 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,800 The second point I mean I want to make here today is the need 161 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,920 for all of us, not just some of us the need for all of us. 162 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,760 I got this little sentence here write it down. 163 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:09,240 I know it's Sunday morning, but this is this is a profound 164 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:11,120 little thing that I came up with. 165 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:17,840 We are all interconnected in a symbiotic, synergistic 166 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,400 relationship. Let me explain it. 167 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,080 Last week I couldn't spell engineer. 168 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,400 Today I am 1. What does it mean we are 169 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,520 interconnected in a symbiotic? What did the gardeners know? 170 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,360 What symbiosis? Symbiosis is when you get 2 171 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,320 organisms that work together for the benefit of both of them. 172 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,000 Church. There's no loners in the body of 173 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Christ. There's no lone ranges in the 174 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,440 body of Christ. We are in a symbiotic I connect 175 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,000 a really good one is like a marriage. 176 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,640 Anne and IA symbiotic 53 something full years of 177 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,600 marriage. Over that time we have a 178 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,280 symbiotic relationship where both of us benefit from our 179 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,640 relationship. Anne is the brains and I am the 180 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,960 Jeep. OK, we got it worked out. 181 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,360 Anne is the smart. She is the one that nuts, the 182 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,560 she is the creative one. I am the the developer. 183 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,640 We buy houses, we renovate them, we sell them. 184 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,000 She'll know how to do one part, I do another part. 185 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,320 We come out very well. That is symbiosis. 186 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:46,880 Synergy means 1 + 1 = 3, and so synergy is it means that the 187 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:52,000 outcome of the 2 is far greater than the addition of each one. 188 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:57,560 We are in a connected symbiotic synergistic relationship where 189 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:01,720 you and I in the body of Christ connect with one another so that 190 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,600 the outcomes are far greater than what we could ever do by 191 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:11,280 ourselves. A good example is 2 people. 192 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,600 One person might be a really good cook and loves to cook 193 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,640 beautiful food, but but scrolls with shyness. 194 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,640 But they want to see people come to the Lord say so they connect 195 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,720 up with somebody who who's a real extrovert and a real 196 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,280 people's person and really can talk about Christ. 197 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,120 Those two get together. One puts the barbecue on and the 198 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,480 other one does the soul winning. That's what we call a symbiotic 199 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,600 relationship in One Corinthians 12/21/22. 200 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,480 It says the I cannot say to the hand I have no need for you. 201 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,160 Nor again can the heart say the head, but nor again said the 202 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,760 head say to the feet, I have no need for you. 203 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,840 And the new King James Bible puts this really good. 204 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,240 He says I have no need for you, and he says no, no, no. 205 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:11,720 On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker 206 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,640 or inconspicuous are indispensable. 207 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,800 And there's people in this congregation today. 208 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,920 You've got amazing gifts over your life and you think that 209 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,720 they are insignificant. They are not insignificant. 210 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,520 They are indispensable. And we need to know how we 211 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,960 connect up into the symbiotic relationship where we can change 212 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,920 our world for Jesus Christ. They seem inconspicuous. 213 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:50,240 Here. We going for time nine year ago, 214 00:13:53,080 --> 00:14:01,320 Nine year ago, I went for an operation where they had to 215 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,000 replace my left hip. It was all arthritic and worn 216 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:13,960 out, and in that first operation, I was one on 99% of 217 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,040 people who have that operation. The operation went really, 218 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,760 really well. We had a house at Browns Plains 219 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,600 that we were renovating at the time. 220 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,320 Day after I got home, I was on the roof changing tiles and 221 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,320 doing what I stupidly do. My wife, The Walking risk 222 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,120 assessment said. What are you doing up there, you 223 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,960 buffet? Changing the tiles? 224 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,160 What do you think I'm doing? You just had a major operation. 225 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,320 Yeah, well, it'll be all right. What's wrong with you? 226 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:51,400 It went really well. Can you be that dumb and still 227 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:59,320 breathe two years later? I had the other hip replaced, 228 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,880 but when I had the other hip replaced, I was part of the 1% 229 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,040 where the operation didn't go well. 230 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:16,640 And so they get you out of bed 2 hours after the operation and 231 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,240 they get you to stand and to walk on it. 232 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:26,760 And I hopped on and and my left leg gave away and I said my leg 233 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,960 don't work. That's the point when the 234 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:35,000 doctors and the nurses head for the hills, I can tell you they 235 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,360 all scattered. Rang the doctor. 236 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,240 What do you mean he can't walk? And I said I can't walk. 237 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,720 I'm I'm like the guy took his car and get the tires changed. 238 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,520 When he came back in, the engine was missing. 239 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:49,000 You know, never felt like that. You know, the leg don't work, 240 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,640 leg don't work. Now up this part of your leg 241 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,560 here, there's four basic muscles. 242 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:01,280 We call them the quadriceps 4 meaning quads. 243 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,080 You also got another one. The longest muscle in your body 244 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,480 is sartorius that goes down. Now these four muscles plus the 245 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:13,680 sartorius, they're the muscles that enable you to walk, OK. 246 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,760 They enable you to walk up steps, they enable you to kick, 247 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,440 they enable you to run and they enable you to walk well. 248 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,000 But none belongings to me that during the operation the 249 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:35,120 pheromone nerve got injured, the inconspicuous but the 250 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:41,280 indispensable got damaged. They told me I damaged it. 251 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,600 I said mate, I wasn't playing a game football, I was out to it. 252 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:51,080 They said yeah, well you damaged your nerves so the pheromone 253 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,680 nerve hold your little finger up. 254 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,640 They said be your pheromone nerve is about 8 to 10 mil in 255 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,200 diameter, inconspicuous little nerve. 256 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,160 Now I bet this morning that none of you's got out of bed and 257 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:14,640 thought, I hope my legs work. I said to Stan. 258 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,800 I said to Stan this morning. I said, Stan, you get the 259 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,839 sexiest legs in the in the church. 260 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,280 Like I say, up and sorry, Shane, sorry. 261 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,040 And up until that point, I had the sexiest legs in the street 262 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,120 too, I can tell you. But they weren't any good after 263 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,080 that. My leg never worked because the 264 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:42,440 inconspicuous, the part that I took for granted, the part that 265 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,280 every morning I got up to make a cup of tea worked and all of a 266 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,120 sudden the part of the body didn't work. 267 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,320 So I said to the doctor, I said, well, how long is it going to be 268 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,080 taking for this thing get fixed up? 269 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,680 Don't know, he said, but if it's not fixed by 18 months, it's not 270 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,080 going to work anymore. So it came back that I had to 271 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:12,720 wear a, a big long leg brace. And if you know me, I, I'm not 272 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,400 going to live my life wearing braces. 273 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,480 So I was determined that this leg was going to work. 274 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:23,120 It's got to work. So I learned to walk without the 275 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:29,720 brace and I learned to flick my leg and I'd walk around, I heard 276 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:35,960 smelling the lawn one day and of course Jeff's next door. 277 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,600 You're right, Dan said. Mate, don't talk. 278 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,160 And what would happen? I'd walk around the block, 279 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,280 flicking my leg, so like that, but then what would happen? 280 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:52,400 Variably the leg would give away and I'd end up on the ground, on 281 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:57,680 my face, in the gravel, and I'd come home like I'd played a game 282 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,600 of football, with blood pouring down my arms and enough hide off 283 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,680 being to make a nice pair of dancing shoes. 284 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:15,440 And wasn't pretty. Wasn't pretty, 18 months came 285 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:22,520 and went, still no leg working. But friends, that's what the 286 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,160 church looks like when the inconspicuous don't do what they 287 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:31,800 should be doing. The church ends up walking with 288 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,040 a limb, a spiritual limb. And that's why our nation is 289 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,320 where it's at. Because the body of Christ isn't 290 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,200 doing what the body of Christ should be doing. 1 little move 291 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:49,760 size, your pinky, that's all works. 5 big muscles. 292 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,880 It's a motor nerve and a sensory nerve, which means I've got no 293 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:58,200 feeling down inside of my leg. And two muscles grew back, the 294 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,960 other two muscles shrunk. So I don't have any muscles 295 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,280 there now. But what a picture of the body 296 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:12,080 of Christ that can be. What a picture of the body of 297 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:16,200 Christ. Where atrophy sets in and then 298 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,280 apathy sets in and it shrinks up. 299 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,240 And so today I want to bring it before, you know, Paul was 300 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,120 talking about the body of Christ. 301 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,600 I've got a calling to the body. 75 this year. 302 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,920 I can say, oh, mate, I've done my deal. 303 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,360 I just want to kick back. Well, no, haven't gone to be 304 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,520 with Jesus yet. Pastor Henry, that's when the 305 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,840 day comes we'll get young people today you get a gift on your 306 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,960 life. Your nation needs you, your 307 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,560 nation needs you, your nation needs you. 308 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,960 And so when we're thinking about every part has its place to to 309 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,480 play. So the next point I want to 310 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,160 bring out is the need for all. All parts are equal. 311 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,480 And if one part profits, the whole body profits. 312 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,600 In One Corinthians 12/16 it says if the ears should say because 313 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:24,160 I'm not an I, I do not belong to the body, that would make you 314 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:31,760 lesser of a body. Or if one member suffers 315 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,680 together, they all suffer. But when 1 member who's 316 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,360 honoured, they all honoured. Look, today we've got people up 317 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,680 here who play. It doesn't mean they're any 318 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,240 better than the person who goes into the prisons and does prison 319 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,280 ministry no better. They're in, no one sees that. 320 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,960 I, I do a lot of work in prisons, done a lot of the 321 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,360 prisons up and down the East Coast and in Victoria and in New 322 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,480 South Wales. And all I know in there is a lot 323 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,480 of people that need Jesus. Come on, some of you just ran 324 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:11,800 faster than those guys. You didn't get caught, Come on, 325 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,160 we all need Jesus and because you're not seen it doesn't mean 326 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:23,480 that you are not needed. We need all and when one is 327 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,040 honoured it's all honoured. So if Anne goes in and 328 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,920 volunteers for Lifeline and and lead someone to the Lord and 329 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,000 there you are honoured. You may not know about it, but 330 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,360 the body of Christ grows and that's why we do it. 331 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:46,440 We are all interconnected in a symbiotic and synergistic 332 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:52,080 relationship. We are all connected, all of us, 333 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,520 every one of us Think about it together. 334 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,800 We can do more. When we had our church in 335 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,760 Caloundra, we had a church there for 15 years and they had a lady 336 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,560 came to me one day and she said, Dan, she said, I, I like to 337 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,040 knit. I said, oh, God bless you. 338 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:18,840 God bless you until she said, but I, I could do some knitting 339 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,920 here in the church. What do you think about I, if I 340 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,200 get a couple of friends, we could, we could start a little 341 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,840 knitting group. Oh, I said, well, that's if you 342 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,520 want to do that. That sounds pretty cool. 343 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,360 Before I knew it, she had about 8 or 10 ladies in that, and they 344 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,360 call themselves the Sunshine Knitters. 345 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,640 Think about this. Yeah, I mean it. 346 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,640 Start. All things start off small. 347 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,400 Before long, I had 8/10/12. And I'd come out of my office 348 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,960 and they'd perk up. We bought a nice big industrial 349 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,800 coffee machine. You've got to have one of those 350 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,520 things. And we'd make brews up and 351 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,960 everyone'd be making a brew and they'd come out. 352 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,480 Oh, how come I meet old Aunt Myrtle? 353 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,600 Oh, hello, Aunt Myrtle. You know, Aunt Myrtles, this is 354 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,160 her first time here there and she hasn't been to church. 355 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,920 She doesn't come to church. And before we know it, those 356 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,440 ladies, they're leading to Aunt Myrtle to the Lord Jesus and 357 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,400 she's coming to church. And I thought, oh, Gee, that's 358 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,880 pretty cool. And so they got together and 359 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,880 they went around to to lie spotlight and they said, if 360 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,600 you've got any old wool you can give us. 361 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:22,960 They said, yeah, we got wool, we can. 362 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,720 And before we knew it, they had all this wool there. 363 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,160 And so they're knitting all of the stuffed cardigans and people 364 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,360 for in Africa, and all of a sudden they've got an outreach 365 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,800 happening going overseas to New Guinea, into the Solomons. 366 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,360 And not that the Solomons need jumpers, mind you. 367 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,080 But anyway, they were sending them over there and they were 368 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,280 doing all of this stuff. This is what I'm talking about. 369 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:54,240 Every little insignificant, every little bit inconspicuous 370 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,240 things that we have when we get together and work together, and 371 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,120 these things can become profound. 372 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,120 Man, every Tuesday, can women talk? 373 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,040 Oh, I'm telling you what? They could talk underwater with 374 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,880 a mouth or a marble. Some of these girls, oh na, na, 375 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,160 na, na na, but in the process, they're leading people to the 376 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,320 Lord. They're helping people. 377 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,000 This is what we're talking about, interconnection with some 378 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,400 biotic relationships. The body of Christ doing what 379 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:31,800 the body of Christ does. The next point .4 How are we 380 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,360 going? I'm running out of steam here. 381 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:44,280 Done all right, Shane #4 God chooses in verse 8, he says, But 382 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:51,440 as it is, God arranges the organs in the body, each one of 383 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:57,880 them as he chooses, God arranges these. 384 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,880 I want to tell you a story. When Anna I first got born again 385 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:09,880 and in his file I was pretty, I was quite a rough diamond and 386 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,760 God had a bit of work to do. But anyway, I thought I saw 387 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:19,000 these musos up the front and now are pretty cool and I thought, 388 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,640 oh, Henry, if I get up there mate, I'm super Spiro. 389 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,200 I mean, I'd sort of stop swearing, I'd stop drinking. 390 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,200 I had some other things I had to work through as well. 391 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,800 But I thought if I could get up on the stage mate, I'd be I'd be 392 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,280 pretty cool. So I was going to become a muso. 393 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,120 All my brothers and sisters, they're all trained musicians. 394 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,360 My two sisters are very highly trained on the piano. 395 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:51,120 My brothers, they've, he's got a Irish band up in, up in 396 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,640 Walkerman where you're from. And my younger brother, he all, 397 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,840 all musos. All my, our kids are musos. 398 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:04,560 Daughter who's a music teacher. I've got a son who's a really 399 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,880 great drummer. We had to put a thicker one of 400 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,920 those around him for keeping quiet, mind you. 401 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,600 And we had another daughter, she could play anything. 402 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:18,240 So I said to her, obviously it's in the jeans, obviously. 403 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:24,320 So I buys this guitar and I'm practicing this guitar and I'm 404 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,520 practicing. Oh mate, I'm going to get up on 405 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,480 that stage and I'm just going to be so out there. 406 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:37,120 Spiro had that guitar two years and I'm bashing away. 407 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:46,320 My youngest daughter called a family conference after that 408 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,120 family conference. Plenty of pizza and coke. 409 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,400 They came to the decision that Dad was best selling his guitar 410 00:27:54,720 --> 00:28:01,720 and buying a power saw and a hammer drill, which Dan did. 411 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,560 But I am a person of determination, so I thought, 412 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,520 obviously I'm a singer. Well, I'd heard myself sing in 413 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,000 the shower enough, mate, I'm a soprano. 414 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,200 My dad, he used to always sing when Irish eyes are smiling. 415 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,960 You know how good you sound in the shower. 416 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,960 He's in there. Balloon away, man. 417 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,240 I thought, oh mate, obviously the anointing's over my life to 418 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:37,520 be a singer, a song leader. So here we go, one day in 419 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:38,880 Caloundra. I'm up there. 420 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,000 I'm the senior pastor because when you're the senior pastor, 421 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,880 you got the right to the mic. Is that right past this right? 422 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,320 I'm going to show you this church man. 423 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:53,040 I'm up there balling away, singing away and singing away. 424 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,400 And, and anyway, that went alright for a week or two. 425 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,320 What I didn't realize, my daughter Renee, who was our 426 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,040 music director, she'd spoken to the guys down the back and said 427 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:12,920 turn dad's mic off, please. But no, no, this is what I was 428 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,560 going to be. I mean, I was God gifted. 429 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,160 My auntie was the Australian soprano champion at 18. 430 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,040 Get that? How many you can say that? 431 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,680 I mean, it's in the jeans. Obviously I chose and I was a 432 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,160 singer, so I'm up there. They turned my mic off, but man, 433 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:36,240 I was going to be heard. Aye, the next minute I hear this 434 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:41,240 little sweet voice in my ear from my daughter saying, Dad, 435 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:53,280 can you please be quiet? God chooses, but I'm determined. 436 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:02,880 So I make instruments now. I make violins, I make lutes, I 437 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,520 make guitars and I make instruments because that's the 438 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:14,120 gift that God's given me. I wasn't that bad. 439 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,120 I didn't think so. But there's nothing worse than a 440 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,640 person outside of their gift. Is that right? 441 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,160 Come on. Is that right? 442 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,160 I mean, you don't let me in the kitchen. 443 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:31,080 I would poison you, honestly. Honestly. 444 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:39,240 But I make a mean guitar and I make really good violins. 445 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,520 And what Anne can work out with her gift of creativity, I can 446 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:52,600 make many things I can't do. But see, the body of Christ is 447 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,560 made-up of people like you and me, People who Can't Sing for 448 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:02,080 nuts. I wondered I couldn't ever work 449 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,800 it out. I finally got on the stage, hey 450 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,000 with the guitar and I always wondered well, every time I 451 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,320 hopped up all the others were sick that day. 452 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,240 What's going on? And I remember 1 halfway through 453 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,200 through praise and worship, everyone's in God and my hands 454 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,080 got sore, Chris, my hands got sore. 455 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,760 So I just stopped playing, sorry. 456 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,000 And the musically turned around said what's going on? 457 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:34,920 Said my hands are sore. God chooses what you're going to 458 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,440 do. The the talent you got is the 459 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,480 talent you're born with. The gift you've got is the gift 460 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:51,240 you get when you're born again. It's not for me to choose. 461 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,840 It's not for me to choose. Oh, I want to do this. 462 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,720 I want to know. Someone said, why do you still 463 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,680 preaching? Well, that's what I'm told to 464 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,240 do. Does that make sense? 465 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,960 And today there's people in this church here. 466 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,080 You, you think you've got this inconspicuous gift. 467 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,280 You think you've got this, this, this gift that no one would 468 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,160 want. Well, why don't you try it and 469 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,040 see what God will do with it? When I came to the Lord, I said 470 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,400 to my pastor, I said pastor, I said, I'll fix your buildings 471 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,720 up, but don't ever ask me to preach. 472 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,000 I never want to do that. And what did he do to me? 473 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,360 It's not for me to choose the old saying, I'm not here to ask 474 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,200 the reasons why. I'm just here to do and die. 475 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:45,680 That's what we're here to do. And when you do, when I do what 476 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,040 I'm called to do, when I accept the gift that God's given me, 477 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,120 when I can accept that and pray over that gift and believe God 478 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,360 for that gift and can give that gift exposure to be able to 479 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,280 work. You know, there's people you, 480 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,560 you're in the workplace and you think that you don't have a gift 481 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,280 from God. There's people in your workplace 482 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,960 that need to hear about Jesus. I know what it's like. 483 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,840 I I've worked in the mines, I've worked underground and working 484 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,960 in the area of safety and people coming to meet me. 485 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,800 No, mate, we could talk safety. No, but then you don't 486 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,440 understand. My marriage is messed up. 487 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,640 I need help. And today when we think about 488 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,000 it, we are interconnected. You know what? 489 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,520 Pastor Rachel can't do what she does in the school as a school 490 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:42,040 chaplain unless we have their intercessory prayers in the dark 491 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,280 when no one knows about that. They're praying and they believe 492 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,960 in God for miracles. Today. 493 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,520 People have spent hours praying for this meeting today. 494 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,600 You don't know who they are, but they know who they are and they 495 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,680 know they're anointed and then they're empowered. 496 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,920 Come on, come on, let's think about you. 497 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,120 You might say, well, who am I? Well, who am I? 498 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,040 When I came a pastor, I walked down the street at Minnesota and 499 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,240 went. One of my mates, he said, what 500 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,480 are you doing for a living now, Dan? 501 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:10,920 I said I'm a pastor and he looked at me and said, do they 502 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,159 let anyone become pastors these days? 503 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:18,560 Do they? Obviously I said to one guy, I 504 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,600 said I'm a pastor. He said what? 505 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,840 A plasterer. No, not a plasterer, a pastor, a 506 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,719 pastor in Innisfile. I never thought I'd end up that 507 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,560 way. We just wanted to build houses 508 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,040 and I just wanted to be an engineer. 509 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,920 But see, God had a call in the body of Christ. 510 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,639 You are part of that body, Church. 511 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:44,920 You are part of that body. And if you don't accept that 512 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,520 you're a part and that God has given you a part to play in this 513 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,520 whole whole thing that God's doing, we're going to walk like 514 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,560 I did. The church is going to walk with 515 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,280 a limp. It's going to walk with a limp. 516 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,440 And you know, I still got part of a limp because two muscles 517 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,960 grew back and two didn't. I have trouble walking up steps. 518 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,640 I have trouble walking down steps. 519 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,400 But that's part of the deal, isn't it? 520 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,800 Is that part of the deal? But I don't want the body of 521 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,560 Christ to walk with a limb. I don't want it. 522 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,480 I don't want it to be disabled. I want our nation to change. 523 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:29,000 I want, I want you to to enjoy the rewards of serving Jesus. 524 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:32,840 We're the happiest couple on earth. 525 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,280 Why? Because we spent our lives 526 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,920 serving Him. What could you do? 527 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,680 Hands the brains of the operation on the mouthpiece. 528 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,080 We've got a synergistic relationship. 529 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,960 She gets the ideas and I build them. 530 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,280 Does that make sense? I'm still the leader. 531 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,000 I still take the responsibility of the leadership. 532 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,960 Although we're very much a team. I take the pressure of the 533 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,200 leadership. I'm the one that says yes or no, 534 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000 because that's my role. I don't like that very much. 535 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,120 Most men don't. Is that right? 536 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,240 We we like to pass it on to our wife. 537 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,320 No, no, that's my responsibility as a male, as the man, as the 538 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:10,800 husband. Just read Ephesians. 539 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,240 It says that I'm the head of the I've got to make, I've got to 540 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:17,360 lay down my life for our relationship and I've got to do 541 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,040 the hard yards. I had to do the fly in, fly out 542 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,000 to the mines. I had to work the night shifts. 543 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,680 I had to work the hours. But that's the deal. 544 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,560 Is it? Is that right now we're going 545 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:37,520 here. Can you smiles, friend? 546 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:42,360 Don't rob yourself, don't rob yourself of the glory of serving 547 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,400 Christ. And it might be mowing the 548 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,320 lawns, it might be painting the buildings, but it might be the 549 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,720 prison ministry, it might be going to court with people. 550 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,800 It might be the counsellors. Talking to gentleman this 551 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,040 morning. He's doing his masters in 552 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,360 psychology. What an incredible impact he 553 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,520 will have in our nation. I go into businesses and I train 554 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,520 people in the area of mental health first aid and the people 555 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,040 I meet in those big businesses, multinational businesses, are 556 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,120 made-up of a lot of broken people. 557 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:21,040 Did you hear that? Our nation is, is it's led by a 558 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:28,400 lot of broken people, Broken people, people who need to hear 559 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:33,120 the gospel, people who need to have a friend, people who got an 560 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,440 ear to listen. You say, Dan, I'm not educated. 561 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,200 Well, join the club. That's where it's at. 562 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:44,200 And the 3rd and final point I'm going to make here. 563 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,800 Today is time for muses. You were going to come when it 564 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,720 was time. I've been waiting for you guys. 565 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:03,760 The last part is, is verse 25, that there may be no discord, 566 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:09,280 discord in the body, but that the members may have the same 567 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,960 care for one another. You know, as a body of Christ, 568 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,600 we've got to care for one another. 569 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,760 Too often I hear of criticism, this music's too loud and this, 570 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,960 you know, God's not deaf. I know he's not deaf. 571 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,720 That's the way people are. Is that right? 572 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:33,720 We've got to care for one another. 573 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,120 I remember with this nerve in my leg, 18 months had gone by and, 574 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,200 and I was still falling over and still making a mess of myself. 575 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,240 And, and I'm sitting on the end of the bed and I'm, I'm, I'm, 576 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,080 I'm caring for this nerve. I'm praying over it. 577 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,040 Father, I speak healing into it. I speak healing and and still 578 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,240 there was no no feeling in my leg. 579 00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:57,840 There's no movement in my leg. You know, I sit on the end of 580 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,560 the bed and and there was just no brain body connection. 581 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,400 And in one day it moved must have been about a thousandth of 582 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,720 an inch. And Anne was in the kitchen. 583 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:15,720 I yelled out it's happened. It's happened up until that day 584 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,280 I was falling over in the kitchen, breaking the handles 585 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,360 off the drawers and I was a mess. 586 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,640 But I wasn't going to be held by anything, wasn't going to be 587 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:30,240 held. And for two years it took every 588 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:33,720 day I had to care for that nerve because there's an old saying 589 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:37,240 that nerves are easily offended and slow to forgive. 590 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,320 Bit like people I've heard. But that's the choice down the 591 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,880 road. But every day I had to care for 592 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,720 that nerve, I had to pray of that nerve and I'd see if that 593 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:53,160 nerve was going to work. And for two years it didn't. 594 00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,320 But the day came when it moved a little bit and it took about six 595 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,360 months to get that much movement on it. 596 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,640 And over a period of about four years, I slowly could start to 597 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:14,720 walk again took time. That member had the work. 598 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:22,040 That little insignificant, that insignificant little nerve, that 599 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,480 inconspicuous little thing was indispensable. 600 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:34,040 And your gift is no different. Your gift is no different. 601 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,360 What's over your life is no different. 602 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,680 But the body of Christ needs it. It needs it. 603 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:48,520 The body of Christ needs you. You, you young people. 604 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,680 We need your freshness, we need your enthusiasm. 605 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,320 We need your zest for life, you old people. 606 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:02,720 We need your life experience. Because you know what dry 607 00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:05,960 gullies are like and you know what it's like to be discouraged 608 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,440 and get yourself back up off the mat. 609 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,320 We need that the body cry. You haven't got to do a lot of 610 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,720 physical stuff to bring that to the body of Christ. 611 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,720 We need you to grab some of these young people and to train 612 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:17,240 them. Young marriage. 613 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,280 We need you. We need you to train your kids. 614 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,720 We need for you to put into your kids. 615 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,080 You empty nest is out there. We need you because now you've 616 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,400 got a little bit more time and probably a little bit more 617 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,040 money. Would that be right? 618 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,280 We're not spend so much money on Nikes and things like we need 619 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,920 you. The body of Christ needs you. 620 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,600 Well, that almost went over like a jumbo jet, didn't it? 621 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,160 We need you so this morning.