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Hey, welcome to the City Point 
Church podcast. 

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Thanks for joining us. 
Every day is an opportunity to 

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take hold of. 
So we hope this message inspires

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you and build your faith, but it
helps you have more of a God 

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perspective for your day. 
Enjoy. 

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If you've got faith to receive 
today from from heaven, would 

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you declare out loud today? 
My heart is open, my ears are 

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alert to grow and change and 
never be the same. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Please be seated. 
Unity in diversity. 

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Unity in diversity. 
That's the title of my message 

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today. 
Unity in diversity. 

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Now from a non Christian or a 
non biblical viewpoint, unity in

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diversity is communities of many
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bound by this, bound by shared 
values of respect, justice and 

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belonging. 
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what unity in diversity is. 
This view of unity and diversity

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that the world tries to follow 
is absolutely impossible to 

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uphold. 
It's an impossible concept that 

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they are putting on media, that 
they're putting in, in papers 

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and in articles for us as a 
world to have some sense of 

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unity. 
And it's a unity in diversity 

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across cultures that we actually
can't uphold as humans without 

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God, nation to nation, race to 
race, person to person will 

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never completely uphold the same
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belonging. 
However, you may get small 

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groupings of people to harmonize
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identity to obtain momentary 
peace, and this is what the 

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world calls good. 
But who knows? 

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In the Church, as Saints with 
Jesus Christ, there is an 

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everlasting peace that we can 
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and it's found through Jesus 
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Amen. 
So they've got the right idea. 

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They just don't know how to get 
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You know, the book of Acts in 
our Bible have been doing, we've

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been going through the book of 
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whether you've seen that or not,
we've been preaching out of the 

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book of Acts and it holds keys 
demonstrating the power of and 

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the call to unity in diversity. 
So you find it in your Holy 

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Bible in the book of Acts. 
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and it's unique to the to 
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It separates Christianity from 
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views because through Jesus it 
can actually be fulfilled as 

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every Christian from every 
nation embraces our new Kingdom 

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of God culture, Kingdom of God 
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As an Aussie growing up in, in 
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of the hottest parts of 
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But it's where the crocodiles 
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It's a good place. 
Crocodile Hunter must have come 

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from there. 
And man, we've got real knives 

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in Townsville. 
You know, I feel like I'm 

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getting dad jokes. 
It's not Father's Day yet and I 

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don't even know why I said that.
That's amazing. 

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That's why I said that. 
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I realized that as I grew up in 
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And this would be the same for 
anyone in any country where you 

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grow up in your, in your 
homeland, you go to church, you 

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become a Christian in your 
homeland and you, you can have 

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this sense that our way is the 
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And I've learned as I've matured
in my Christian walk that my way

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isn't the way, Heaven's way is 
the way. 

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And as when as we start to if we
are willing to apply ourselves 

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to a heavenly way of thinking 
and under and grass hold of 

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throughout all my years. 
I still need to mature in the 

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things of God. 
That's a healthy way to live. 

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And if we could all do this. 
What we come to realize is as we

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as we allow the heavenly culture
over shadow our earthly cultures

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from any country. 
What happens is that unity in 

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the body of Christ starts to 
form and This is why we call it 

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a body of Christ. 
See, my finger doesn't quite 

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understand the importance of my 
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when we come, when we come in 
unity, that we we both belong 

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and have an equal level of 
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Graham, we then play our part 
and Graham is fulfilled and more

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powerful in who he is. 
So you just take my toe away and

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I lose balance and I'm taking my
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I have to use my left hand. 
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a talisal word and which means 
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And so there is, there is, there
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every nation, from every 
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within your culture. 
And when we unify in the body of

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the Christ, the body of Christ 
becomes beautiful, it comes 

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powerful, it becomes unified 
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And in that unity, the power and
the splendor of God, the glory 

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of God can flow like like 
humanity has never experienced 

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before. 
Let me tell you, it's a mistake 

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to think that there is going to 
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Christ and the presence of God 
is going to move like ever 

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before. 
Miracles are going to move. 

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That's a mistake. 
God is going to unify His body. 

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And I love what Pastor Mark 
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As the world gets darker, the 
light gets brighter. 

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God is bringing unity into His 
body and as His body across the 

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globe unifies like never before,
we will see the power and the 

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wonder and the glory of God 
manifest like we have never seen

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before. 
To be really honest and rule 

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with you, I believe that this is
part of what is happening in the

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life of this church as the more 
unity in the things and the 

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purpose and the the missio day, 
the mission of God that is 

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coming in into yours and my 
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And we are unifying with this 
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live for myself. 
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And we're finding that in the 
church with God's people, we are

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seeing miracles and the glory of
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before. 
And isn't that amazing church 

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love being part of them? 
This is the unity concept that 

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the world longs for but can't 
grasp without Jesus being the 

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Lord of every nation and being 
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Take a break. 
This is what a church body is, 

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to look like Jesus at the centre
in heaven's culture as our new 

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governance as set out in 
Scripture and understand, 

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understood through relationship,
unity and diversity, means that 

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God through Jesus Christ brings 
together people of every nation,

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culture and background and gives
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and callings, but makes them one
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in the Holy Spirit. 
That's awesome, isn't it? 

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And powerful. 
This is heavenly culture. 

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This is Christian, our new 
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what I'm part of. 
You aren't part of my culture 

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and you have to just do whatever
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Australian way. 
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part of heaven's culture and we 
do things and we move and have 

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our being in a heavenly way, in 
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Amen. 
So today I want to hone in on 

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the Bible book of Acts and in 
Chapter 11, and this is what I'm

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going to do. 
I'm going to jump from verse to 

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verse in this one chapter to 
exemplify the theme and bring 

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forward points as we look at 
unit unity in diversity 

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together. 
Are we ready for this Acts 11 

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verse one? 
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brethren who were in Judea heard
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received the word of God. 
Now this is a breakthrough 

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moment. 
See, the gospel is no longer 

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just for Jews, but also for 
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We jump to verse 17 and 18. 
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same gift as He gave us when we 
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Christ, who who was I that I 
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Verse 18 When they heard these 
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they glorified God, saying, then
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Gentiles repentance to life. 
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Peter recognizes that God makes 
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Gentile. 
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planet earth. 
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believers accepted God's 
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praising Him for His grace to 
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This is a beautiful gospel. 
This is a gospel for all of 

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Caboolture, for every person in 
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driving nice cars with nicer for
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This is the same gospel for 
people who just come out of 

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Woodford Prison. 
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people living in in the canals 
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It's the same gospel for the 
Australians as it is for the non

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Australians that are living in 
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It's the same gospel no matter 
your upbringing, your education 

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or your understanding. 
It's the same gospel for those 

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who can read and can't read the 
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It's the same gospel for those 
who believe in miracles or don't

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believe in miracles miracles. 
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Christians and non Christians. 
It's the same gospel for those 

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who are rejecting Jesus and 
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It's the same gospel because we 
are all everyone on planet earth

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from every nation and every 
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still all children of God. 
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It's a mistake to categorize 
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I don't think the church has 
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I just don't think they've just 
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left us wondering sometimes. 
So no, I love, I don't ever talk

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negative about the church, but 
sometimes when you leave things 

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out, it creates and understand 
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Let me true, that may be false. 
But let me tell you, every 

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person, Christian or not, are 
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And if we can see them through 
that lens, we will not separate 

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ourselves in some sort sort of 
hierarchy, but we would see that

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the heart of God pumps for them 
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This is what drives us because 
they are children of God that 

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are yet to come back into their 
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of God. 
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And when we view people like 
this, it will drive you and I to

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share this wonderful gospel that
that that crosses all boundaries

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and brings all people in. 
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in, it brings them all into a 
new heavenly culture, a new 

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heavenly way of living, a new 
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This is good for all of us. 
It brings everyone into the 

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Kingdom of God, as what we will 
discover in a moment is a 

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Christian, Amen. 
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some of them were men from 
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had come to Antioch spoke to the
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There's lots of words here 
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Verse 21 and the hand of the 
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number of believers and turned 
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Some of them, however, men from 
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Antioch and began to speak to 
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good news about the Lord Jesus. 
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And the Lord's hand was with 
them, and a great number of 

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people believed and turned to 
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Let me just show you what we 
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Antioch was a cultural 
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sophisticated sophistication. 
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That's obviously I'm not 
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word. 
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religion, sorry, Assyrian 
tradition and international 

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trade. 
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Antioch. 
It was the perfect place for the

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gospel to demonstrate that 
Christ unites people from every 

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culture into one family. 
This is in the book of Acts. 

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Antioch becomes the first multi 
ethnic church showing the gospel

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flourishing in diversity. 
Let me tell you church, if we 

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want to flourish, we need to 
embrace each other and our 

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differences. 
That's how we fly. 

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We learn from each other. 
You know, cross today in the and

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when you go out into the cafe, 
sit on a different table than 

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what you normally sit on. 
And weren't some people around 

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us. 
There is so much diversity and 

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so many culture cultures 
represented in this wonderful 

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church that we are in that your 
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So much more unity can come into
your your world and so much more

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joy as we learn each other, our 
cultures and we learn from each 

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other. 
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And this is what this church in 
Antioch was experiencing, and 

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God was adding to the church all
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Verse 25. 
Then Barnabas departed for 

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Tarsus to seek Saul, and when he
had found him, he bought him to 

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Antioch. 
So it was that for a whole year 

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they assembled with the church 
and taught a great many people 

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and the disciples were first 
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That's where the name comes 
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This shows the diverse community
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are first called Christians and 
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ethnic and cultural divisions. 
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Christian, I love this. 
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you're not calling me 
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I love it's it's an identity. 
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you're calling me a child of the
living God, the author of all 

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things. 
You are shifting The Who I am 

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and re identifying who whose I 
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you a Christian, I'm calling you
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purpose on your life. 
I'm not seeing you by your past.

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I'm seeing you through the blood
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How the Father does see when he 
sees you, he calls you child and

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he says I'm your father. 
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He's he's saying I have 
transformed you from darkness 

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and into lights. 
He, he doesn't say when you give

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your life to Christ that you are
darkness, but you can now see 

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lights. 
He doesn't say that. 

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He doesn't say you are still 
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work in you. 
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you. 
You are now born again as though

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you never were, because your old
Jew was into the sinful world, 

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but the new you is into the 
heavenly world, A heavenly 

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culture, a heavenly rule, a 
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calling, a heavenly purpose, and
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Amen. 
This is why Christianity is life

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to the soul. 
When you and I become 

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Christians, we aren't joining 
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We are joining a heavenly 
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that is eternal. 
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purpose starts now in our human,
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This is the power of the gospel.
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should drive you and I to get 
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excited to get home. 
Are you excited to get home 

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today? 
Please say no because this 

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message is awesome. 
But you get stirred, right? 

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And you just want to get out 
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about this. 
God. 

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See, we want to see people not 
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We want that, but we don't just 
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prostitution. 
We want that. 

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We don't just want to see people
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We we do want that, but we want 
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family of gods. 
This is what no other religion 

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can offer. 
No other God can offer this. 

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In fact, there is no other God. 
Just just settle that deal. 

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There's no such thing. 
They're just all deceptions of 

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the devil. 
There is one God. 

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There is one heavenly family and
everyone is welcome. 

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But when we all come into this 
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new culture, a new way of 
living, a new way of breathing, 

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a new way of thinking. 
Behold, all things become new 

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for you and I Amen. 
This is good, good, good stuff. 

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Gentiles are defined as non 
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the ethnic or religious 
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encompass all people groups who 
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religiously Jew. 
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about Gentiles and the message 
has now moved into the world of 

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the Gentiles, he's talking about
most people in this room today, 

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non Jews, you and I isn't this 
good? 

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The, the, the early disciples 
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So what does this mean? 
Unity and diversity means we 

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prioritize God's Kingdom values.
Listen, lean into this over our 

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cultural customs and traditions.
I'm going to say that again 

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because if you struggle in this 
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area this morning. 
And this will bring a new, a new

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level of life and unity in the 
Kingdom of God that you've never

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experienced. 
Unity in God means we prioritize

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God's Kingdom values over our 
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And if we all do this, it 
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The Scriptures teach that 
Christians must place God's 

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Kingdom culture over personal, 
national culture, learning to 

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live out heaven's values even 
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traditions. 
This is tough stuff. 

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This is really tough sometimes 
for us to do. 

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And the reason why it can be 
tough is let's say you give your

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life to Jesus at 20 years old. 
You've had 20 years of living 

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with a perspective that has been
shaped by your culture, by where

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you have been brought up. 
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Kingdom of God, there is a a new
way of thinking. 

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And This is why I love calling 
it a journey is because the, the

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wonderful grace of God and the 
beauty of God is he doesn't 

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expect anyone to just flick and 
just go, Oh, I don't do that 

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anymore. 
I now do this. 

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We're all growing, learning, 
doing what we call getting it 

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wrong. 
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Which just means we're expanding
and we're, we're learning new 

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things. 
It's good. 

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It's good for us. 
It's good for our minds. 

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It's good for our souls and our 
bodies to be in learning new 

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things like this, just like in 
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college. 
Man, we got a lot of Bible 

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college students in the house 
this morning, which is just 

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awesome. 
But when we learn, we grow. 

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And when you come into the 
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journey that we walk together. 
This is why it's so, so 

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important that we don't judge 
each other, but rather we 

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sharpen each other. 
Now you can't sharpen a person 

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if you don't understand a person
and you won't sharpen or 

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understand a person if you don't
go deeper. 

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Then hello, where do you live? 
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So we all have Australian 
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We're missing a few things, 
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And so we have our after church 
coffees together and you shout 

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someone and you, you start 
asking some real questions. 

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Where were you brought up? 
What was that like? 

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Where was your family? 
And you find out that they were 

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brought up in a place and their 
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you're like, wow. 
So what was the community was a 

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small community. 
Oh wow, that must have been a 

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strong community. 
And we learn each other. 

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But in that talking and that 
communion together, we are both 

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focused on the heavenly culture.
And so iron can sharpen iron. 

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Oh, well, I love that about 
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But you know, the thing of 
heaven and the way God thinks 

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that we find through his word is
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We go, wow, that is so awesome. 
And so we we move each other 

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together towards the ways of 
heaven. 

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Amen. 
It's beautiful, beautiful stuff.

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Philippians 320 says this for 
our citizen. 

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I'm struggling with words 
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Our citizenship is in heaven 
from which we also eagerly wait 

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for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

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I like that because there's 
there's two ways of looking at 

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those few words. 
One is, is we're eagerly waiting

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for such a thing, but we already
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And so it's kind of to me, it's 
like I grew up in in Townsville.

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And so sometimes I might eagerly
wait to go and visit Townsville.

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Now that's very rare, but it 
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And so I'm eagerly waiting to go
back, but I already understand 

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what I'm going to find. 
Does this make sense? 

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And so if you can identify 
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citizen of heaven, although 
we're waiting for that great 

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wonderful day, our citizenship 
does this ready. 

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It draws heaven to earth. 
And see, sometimes we cry out, 

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God, would you pour heaven out 
on earth? 

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And God's God must be saying to 
himself with the angels 

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sometimes, do they not realize 
they're citizens? 

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They already carry heaven within
them. 

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And we realize this the more we 
unify together, because the more

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we unify, there's a freedom in 
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Signs and wonders start to 
happen. 

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Did you know that every time a 
miracle happens, that is heaven 

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on earth? 
It's not a visitation of God's 

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power. 
It's not a momentary thing of 

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God's power. 
God's power is flowing through 

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His Saints. 
Anyone that wants this God's 

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power is flowing. 
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Because we are citizens. 
I often use the term conduits, 

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which just means no glory to me,
but all glory to God. 

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I'm just a conduit, OK, But I 
understand that I can be a 

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conduit, and I stand in the 
place of a conduit, wherever 

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that is. 
But I stand in that place and I 

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say God use me. 
Why do I do that? 

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Because I understand I am a 
citizen of heaven. 

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I belong to heaven, and heaven 
belongs in me. 

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Amen. 
So we are citizens, Christian. 

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You are a citizen of heaven. 
When we hold tight to earthly 

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cultural traditions, values, 
language and behaviours, our 

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relationship with the rest of 
God's people becomes under 

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immense tension. 
When you or I hold on to our 

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past, our traditions, our 
cultures over the graces of God 

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for people around us, we just 
formulate tensions, not freedom,

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but through our cultural 
understanding. 

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When we were in communion or 
talking with people, if we're 

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our gaze is on the heavenly, 
well, God, what does your word 

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say? 
God, would you flow through me? 

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Not through me and my cultural 
filters, but God, would you use 

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me as a conduit because I'm a 
citizen of heaven? 

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Heaven, would you flow through 
me? 

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In this conversation, you'll 
find unity comes into that 

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moment, and liberty and freedom,
not divide. 

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The transformative work of what 
Jesus has done in US becomes 

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watered down because our witness
of God's Kingdom and our 

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behaviours don't line up. 
You can't witness the freedom 

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that we find in Jesus Christ and
then hold on to behaviours and 

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traditions that bring disunity 
or division. 

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Does this make sense? 
Sometimes we speak about the 

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love of God and the gospel, and 
we speak about Jesus, but then 

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we hold so true to a traditional
fact that it's secluding the 

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same person. 
Does this make sense? 

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It would be like God without 
grace. 

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God without grace He gives us 
the Word and without grace it 

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would become law. 
But because of the grace of God,

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I just exampled this. 
I became a Christian and then 

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God had the grace for of me to 
be on my journey of learning how

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to transform my life, my mind, 
my behaviors, to walk in the 

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ways or the culture of heaven. 
And I'm still till the day I die

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or go to heaven or Jesus comes 
back, which should have been 

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last week but it wasn't. 
But so don't worry about that. 

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Depends how much YouTube you 
watch. 

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But until that day I am always 
being transformed and that is a 

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beautiful process. 
And so this, without the grace 

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of God becomes law. 
But the grace of God we see 

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exercise through the life of 
Jesus Christ. 

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Amen, became our Saviour. 
People need to see that there is

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a transfer of culture and 
traditional grounding and that 

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there is a transformation in you
and I when we give our lives to 

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Jesus. 
People need to see that there is

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a transfer, a transaction that 
happens in our lives because 

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it's no longer I who live, but 
Christ who lives through me. 

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Amen. 
So this is insane. 

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Have no cultural traditions, 
values, language or behavior, 

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but rather all of us from every 
culture. 

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Now as citizens of one heaven 
under the lordship of one God, 

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and save through the one person,
Jesus Christ, we allow the Word 

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of God, the Holy Bible, reshape 
our beautiful cultural cultural 

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life foundations so that our 
differences become our unifying 

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strengths. 
CS Lewis said Christianity does 

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not replace or abolish our 
natural lives, but it must 

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subordinate them to something 
higher, the culture of heaven 

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breaking into earth. 
What that word means Subordinate

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is means come under or be 
redefined or be realigned by the

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new culture of heaven. 
In this church we exist to see 

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spiritual and social 
transformation of our city. 

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This great church is made-up of 
people from diverse nations and 

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different cultures. 
We are unified through Jesus 

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Christ, our new heavenly culture
that transcends every earthly 

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culture and is to unify every 
earthly culture. 

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Our new identity as children of 
God, all of us in the same 

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heavenly family that work our 
differences for the one purpose,

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the mission of God, the vision 
of this church to see spiritual 

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and social transformation of our
city. 

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This is our unmistakable 
influence as a church. 

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Amen is when you and I have this
mindset and understanding, we 

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become a unified group of 
people, a unified ecclesia, a 

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body of Christ in one accord, 
you working in one accord as 

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your body does. 
And we bring the body and the 

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message of Jesus Christ to our 
great city, the Morton City and 

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the Bribie Island and everyone 
around us. 

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And we exemplify the goodness of
God across all the agricultures.

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Amen. 
That's amazing stuff. 

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 
He said the church is the church

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only when it exists for others, 
not dominating, but helping and 

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serving. 
It must tell men of every 

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calling what it means to live 
for Christ and not for the 

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nation. 
I do not live for Australia. 

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I love Australia, I think we're 
in the great self land of the 

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Holy Spirit, but I live for the 
Kingdom of God to shine the 

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light that only heaven has, to 
bring the gospel that only Jesus

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is to bring the transformation 
that can only happen through the

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saving grace of our God. 
This is our purpose as a church.

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Listen, if you're in this church
and you're part of this church, 

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this is your purpose is to bring
Jesus to the nations, not to 

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uphold our family traditions or 
hold higher what we believe and 

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think in our preferences and our
understanding and and all of 

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that stuff. 
But to get into the word of God 

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and bring the life of the word 
of God that transcends anything 

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that I could possibly make up or
think or have learnt in my own 

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experiences. 
Amen. 

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Biblical unity and diversity is 
Christ centered truth or Bible 

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governed and sacrificial. 
Our culture and heritage plays 

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an important part in our mission
for Jesus, our vision as a 

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church and purposeful living 
where we do in this great city 

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of ours and as citizens of 
heaven. 

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We must submit who we are to God
so that He can shape and 

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redefined who we are so that we 
are unified as one people in one

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cause and that of Jesus Christ. 
Our differences are our 

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strength. 
We are strengthened together. 

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Trust me, you don't want a lot 
of Grimes going around. 

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Unity and diversity is a dream 
for the world, yet a reality for

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God's Kingdom and for God's 
people in Christ. 

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Many nations become one people, 
many cultures become one family,

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and many gifts become one 
mission. 

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Here's our action point for 
today, and the band can come. 

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If you're not already here with 
me, here's our action point from

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today's message. 
As we live out our heavenly 

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citizenship, we are to choose 
Kingdom values over cultural 

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divides so our city sees the 
unmistakable influence of Jesus 

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in you. 
You received that today, Church.

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And as you go out into the cafe,
can I encourage you to chat with

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someone new this morning to have
a conversation that goes deeper 

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than Hi and Hallows and where do
you live? 

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Why don't we just get deep with 
our brothers and our sisters? 

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Who loves that? 
We're called brothers and 

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sisters in Christ. 
You know, I've grown up always 

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knowing that, but never really 
understanding that. 

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And you can only really 
understand that we are brothers 

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and sisters in Christ if you 
understand that we all have the 

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same citizenship and that of 
heaven, Amen. 

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And that of heaven only found 
through the 1 Lord and Savior 

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Jesus Christ.