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Hello. 
Actually, just if we get. 

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Off. 
At. 

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Six it's. 
OK. 

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Don't mess up because I. 
Don't bubble guts. 

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Remember I said it in the. 
Well, good morning, Liberty 

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Church. 
How are you doing today? 

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All right, you tell me the 
truth. 

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Who is not hating the weather? 
Who is actually enjoying that? 

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It's a little cold, right? 
OK, I'm enjoying it. 

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I put on my thick jacket this 
morning and I don't see ice. 

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So I'm I'm happy to have a 
couple cold days. 

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But hey, welcome to Liberty 
Church. 

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My name is Pastor Blake. 
I'll have a few more things to 

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say to you in a little bit. 
But this is the announcements. 

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We got a lot going on today. 
We're dedicating a baby to the 

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Lord today. 
Come on, come on. 

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We, we are ending today with 
baptisms. 

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We're seeing lives being 
dedicated and made new. 

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We're so excited for that. 
But there's a lot of things 

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coming up now. 
The first thing I think I really

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need to to focus in on is that 
coming up in a week on February 

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1st is, is a ladies night. 
And I think it's supposed to say

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Valentine's, but there's AG. 
Well, I don't know who typed it.

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I just, it feels gender 
exclusive is what I'm trying to,

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it's what I'm trying to say. 
So anyway, one week from today, 

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your ladies night out is 
happening. 

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It's a Galantine's event, so 
yes, this morning has already 

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run off the rails and it's been 
one minute into the service. 

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So ladies, I hope that you'll 
come. 

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It should be a really good time.
From what I hear, if you are, 

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lady, you don't have to worry 
about being kicked out. 

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So you can be here. 
And then there's a couple other 

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things happening. 
This Wednesday. 

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We've got a midweek service. 
Last week we talked about the 

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power that is in baptism, and 
this week we're going to talk 

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about the real power that's in 
worship. 

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What did it look like back in 
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synagogues and the early church?
What was worship and how did it 

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turn into what we have today and
what can we do to fully worship 

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God? 
So we're excited to talk about 

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that Wednesday night at 7:00. 
And then also one week from 

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today is a Red Cross blood 
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Man, we could really use your 
help with this. 

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We want to meet these needs. 
It's such an easy thing to do if

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you're willing to, man, just go 
to redcross.org and you can look

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it up, find it happening at 
Liberty Church and you can 

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contribute there also. 
I think it is today. 

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No, it's Friday. 
This Friday we've got AC2 

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meeting from 6 to 8 right in the
other building. 

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So if you are between the ages 
of 20 and 30 and you're single 

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and you're interested in joining
the C2 group, come meet up with 

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Pastor Anna and Jed and they got
some info for you. 

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So we've got a lot of really 
great things coming up. 

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Today's a choir special Sunday 
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this, so if y'all would go and 
stand up, we are going to start 

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this morning by pouring out the 
very best we can. 

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God, we invite you into our 
praises. 

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You promised that your spirit 
inhabits the praises of your 

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people. 
We're not just singing to you 

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this morning, we are praising 
you. 

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It is cold outside, but you have
kept us safe. 

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We have things that we're 
stressed and worried about, but 

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you have been ever present and 
you have been Jehovah Jireh, our

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provider. 
So this morning, may every 

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second of glory go to you. 
We love you, we invite you here,

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and we want to meet with you. 
In the name of Jesus, everybody 

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at Liberty Church said Amen. 
Best. 

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Hey, guys. 
Good morning. 

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Are you living free of what the 
cross has done for you? 

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Because I sure am. 
All right, let's think about it.

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I'm living proof. 
That's just what the mercy of 

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God can do. 
Now I'm alive to tell the story 

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how I've overcome. 
It's his goodness and mercy and 

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the power of the blood. 
I'm so glad that my freedom 

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wasn't based on what I've done, 
but it's goodness and mercy and 

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the power of the blood. 
I thought I deserved, ought to 

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be 6 feet beneath the earth for 
all the things I've done, the 

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things I've said, choices made 
that I regret, woe. 

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I would still be lost but for 
the mercy of God. 

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Now I'm alive, you tell the 
story how I've overcome. 

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It's his goodness and mercy and 
the power of the blood. 

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I'm so glad that my freedom 
wasn't based on what I've done. 

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It's his goodness and mercy and 
the power of the blood. 

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Hold Jesus. 
Come on, Sing. 

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Was the cross? 
Was the cross meant for me that 

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my Savior carry now I been made 
free by the mercy of God? 

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Was the grave man for me where 
my sin lay bury now I stand 

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redeemed by the mercy of God. 
Was the cross meant for me that 

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my Savior carry now I been made 
free by the mercy of God? 

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Was the great man for me where 
my sea lay bury. 

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Now I sit reading by the mercy 
of God, now I'm alive. 

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You tell the story how I've 
overcome. 

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It's this goodness and mercy and
the power of the blood. 

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I'm so glad that my freedom 
wasn't based on what I've done. 

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This goodness and mercy and the 
power of the blood. 

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This goodness and mercy and the 
power of the blood. 

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Goodness and mercy and the power
of the blood. 

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I'm so grateful for the cross. 
Oh Jesus, you save my life. 

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On that cross was meant for me, 
but you took my play. 

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Oh, I'm so grateful, yeah. 
The cross was made for me. 

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You took my place. 
Was the cross meant for me? 

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That must say to carry now I've 
been made free by the mercy of 

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God. 
Was a great man for me where my 

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sea lay bury now. 
Yeah, mercy God was the cross 

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meant for me than my Savior? 
Carry now I been made free by 

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the mercy of God was the grave 
men for me where my sin lay bury

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now I stand redeemed by the 
mercy of God. 

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Boyer, Hallelujah. 
What can I show a my sin? 

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
What can make me whole up again?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 

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I've tried so hard to see. 
It took me so long to believe it

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that you choose someone like me 
to carry your victory. 

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Infection could never hurt me. 
Give what we don't deserve, and 

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you take the broken things and 
raise them to glory. 

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You are my champion. 
Giants fall when you stand under

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feet. 
Every battle you want. 

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I am who you say I am. 
You crown me with confidence. 

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I'm seated in the heavenly 
place, under fear with the one 

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who has conquered. 
Now I can finally see it 

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teaching me how to receive it. 
So let all the striving scenes. 

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This is my Victoria. 
You are my champion. 

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Giants fall when you stand 
undefeated. 

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Every battle you won, I am who 
you say I am. 

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You frown me with confidence. 
I am seated in the heavenly 

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place, undefeated with the One 
who has conquered it all. 

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When I lift my voice and shout, 
every wall comes crashing down. 

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I have the earth already. 
Jesus has given me. 

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When I open up my mouth, 
miracles start breaking out. 

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I have the earth already Jesus 
has given me when I lived my 

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voice and shouted everyone was 
crashing down my happier 

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already. 
Yes I do. 

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Jesus has given me. 
When I open up my mouth, 

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miracles start breaking out. 
I have the earth already. 

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Jesus has given me. 
You are my champion. 

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Giants fall when you stand 
undefeated. 

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Every battle you won, I am who 
you save by him. 

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You brown me with confidence. 
I'm seated in the heavenly 

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place, undefeated. 
By the power of your name, I'm 

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seated in the heavenly place, 
undefeated with the one who has 

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conquered the world. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

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There's power in the name of 
Jesus. 

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Thank you for the blood. 
Wash over me, Holy Spirit. 

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Wash over me, Holy Spirit. 
Thank you, Jesus, for all that 

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you're doing. 
You go before me, Lord. 

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You are beside me, Lord. 
I can't do it without you, Lord.

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I can't do it without you, Lord.
You are my champion, Lord. 

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You are my champion, Lord. 
Oh, I surrendered it all. 

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I surrendered it all. 
Jesus. 

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When I lit my voice and shout, 
every wall comes crashing down. 

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I had the earth already. 
Jesus has given me when I open 

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up my mouth, miracles come 
breaking out because of you, 

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Jesus. 
Jesus has given me. 

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When I live my voice and shout 
lift your voices, every wall 

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comes crashing down. 
I have the earth already 

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proclaiming Jesus has given me. 
When I open up my mouth, 

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miracles start breaking out. 
I have the earth for it. 

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Jesus has given me. 
You are my champion. 

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Giants fall when you stand 
undefeated. 

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Every battle you've won. 
I am who you say I am. 

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You've crowned me with 
confidence. 

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I am seated in the heavenly 
place, undefeated by the power 

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of your name. 
I am seated in the heavenly 

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place, undefeated with the One 
who has conquered it all. 

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I am in the instrument of 
exaltation. 

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I was born to live the name 
above all names. 

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You hear the melody of all 
creation, but there's a song of 

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praise that only I can bring. 
Who else is worthy? 

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Who else is worthy? 
There is no one, only Jesus. 

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Who else is worthy? 
Who else is worthy? 

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There is no one, only Jesus. 
You are in the God of the ages, 

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yet you chose to make my heart 
your dwelling place. 

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You heal my brokenness. 
Show me your glory, so I have 

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souls of faith. 
Not even angels sing. 

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Who else is worthy? 
Who else is worthy? 

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There is no one, only Jesus. 
Can my Sistine know. 

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Can my Sistine know know? 
I'm not a solo to kiss though. 

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Who else is worth it? 
Only Jesus kill my Sistine know 

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kill my Sistine know know. 
I'm not alive so low to a 

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Christian. 
Santos. 

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Santos. 
I'd anointed One who was and is 

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and is to come seeded on the 
throne above holy, holy, 

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righteous One who shed His blood
to prove to us the Father's 

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love, Jesus Christ been lifted 
up. 

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Can my sister know? 
Kill my sustain? 

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No. 
There is no world only here, 

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Jesus. 
Kill my sustain, No. 

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Kill my sustain No. 
There is no world only here, 

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Jesus. 
No one. 

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No. 
Solo to Crystal, kill my 

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Sistino. 
Kill my Sistino. 

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No, I'm not yet solo to Crystal.
Who else is worthy? 

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Who else is worthy? 
There is no one, only you, 

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Jesus. 
There is no one, only you, 

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Jesus. 
No way. 

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Love Day, so long to Christ. 
None. 1000 generations falling 

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down in worship to sing the song
of ages to the Lamb, And all 

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who've gone before us, and all 
who will believe will sing the 

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song forever to the Lamb. 
Your name is the highest. 

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Your name is the greatest. 
Your name stands above them all.

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All Thrones and dominions, all 
powers and positions. 

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Your name stands above them all.
And the angels cry holy, all 

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creation cries holy. 
You are lifted high, holy, holy 

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forever. 
And if you've been forgiven, and

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if you've been redeemed, sing 
the song forever to the Lamb. 

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And if you walk in freedom, and 
if you bear his name, sing the 

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song forever to the Lamb. 
Ho. 

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Sing the song forever and Amen. 
And the angels cry Ho, show me 

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all creation cries. 
Hold me. 

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You are lifted hard. 
Hold me holy forever. 

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Hear your people sing. 
Come on, hold me into the King 

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of Kings holy. 
You will always be holy, holy 

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forever. 
Because your name is the 

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highest. 
Your name is the greatest. 

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Your name stands above them all,
Above all Thrones and dominions,

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all powers and positions. 
Your name always stands above 

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them all. 
Oh Jesus. 

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Your name is the highest. 
Your name is the greatest. 

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Your name always stands above 
them all, above all throws head 

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dominions or powers head 
positions. 

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Your name always stands above 
them all. 

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And the angels cry holy, all 
creation cries holy. 

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You are lifted, huh? 
Holy. 

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Holy forever hear your people 
sing holy, and to the King of 

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Kings holy. 
You will always be holy, be holy

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forever. 
You will always be holy, holy 

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forever. 
If you've been forgiven and if 

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you bear his name, sing a song 
forever to the Lamb. 

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Y'all didn't know you were 
bilingual, did you? 

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Congratulations. 
He is such a big God. 

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Everything that we understand, 
he understands more. 

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Everything we don't understand, 
he understands. 

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There is no nation that he is 
not within. 

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Somehow, somewhere, there is no 
people He doesn't love. 

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We can't say the same thing 
about us. 

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But if He's holy forever, holy 
means set apart. 

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That means if He's set apart 
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things that we don't understand.
The best hope we have of 

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understanding even more about 
Him is to also be holy. 

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Now, most people, most people 
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What I mean by that is I mean I 
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been going to this church over 2
decades. 

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I can't remember one time I've 
been like, good morning, how are

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you today? 
Holy and redeemed. 

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How about you try it? 
Try it next week. 

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It feels like a brag, doesn't 
it? 

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But you didn't do anything. 
But if you are set apart for 

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Him, you are holy. 
Maybe not holy forever in the 

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way He is, but you will be when 
you step into glory. 

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It is always about Him and after
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In a perfect world and a perfect
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thoughts or concerns for 
ourselves because every other 

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person in our life would be 
concerned about us and we would 

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be concerned about every other 
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It's not a perfect world, is it?
But He cares for you. 

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As we sang just a few minutes 
ago, hung on that cross to prove

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the Father's love. 
God did not have to do what He 

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did through Jesus. 
Y'all do know that right? 

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That we had an impossible 
problem. 

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He was the only one that could 
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solve it. 
And that's something that I 

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don't think we think about 
enough. 

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He did not have to make a way. 
We were flawed, we failed and he

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chose to. 
It's one thing when you think, 

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well he's God, he has to do it. 
He didn't have to, He chose to. 

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This is why it's so frustrating 
to me. 

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Whenever you talk to somebody 
and they say, well, Jesus seems 

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exclusive. 
You guys talk about there being 

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one way to heaven. 
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exclusive. 
It is incredibly inclusive. 

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John 316 says that God so loved 
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Son who did God love. 
I struggle with the world. 

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I don't know about you. 
There's parts of the world I 

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struggle loving. 
Maybe it's just me. 

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God so loved the world that He 
made away when there wasn't a 

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way. 
That's what we sang about today.

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That's what we're talking about 
today. 

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That's the God that we worship. 
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arrogance to approach him and 
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Go back to the drawing board, 
come back and give me another 

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option. 
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there is hope. 
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what we saying, if you've been 
forgiven and if you bear his 

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name, Christians start this time
of the service giving him all 

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the praise that you can give him
this morning, thanking him for 

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making a way. 
Come on, 

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Sien to say go ahead and be 
seated. 

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I'll ask. 
We'll get to the care team in 

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just a moment. 
Before we do that, I'm going to 

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ask for Jake to stay up here, 
but I'm also asked for the 

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Hovarder family to come up here.
We had to do some cool stuff 

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this morning. 
Today is jam packed. 

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I'm glad y'all made it to church
because we have so much 

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happening today. 
By the way, we do have 14 people

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scheduled to be baptized at the 
end of the service. 

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But let me tell you, if you, if 
you're like, oh man, I wanted to

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do that, do it. 
You might say, well, I don't 

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know. 
It's cold. 

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I'm going to be cold when I go. 
You're going to be cold when you

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go home anyway. 
I don't know if you've noticed 

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the weather. 
If today is for you, just get 

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it, man. 
Just get it. 

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But what we're going to do first
is we're going to do a baby 

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dedication. 
Jake, come on up here, man. 

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You pray for the family with me.
You know, it's kind of cool. 

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We didn't even plan it because 
of this. 

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But I mean, last year when I was
in Guatemala, that song Chien 

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Mas or who else is worthy 
something that I heard during a 

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worship time on a mission trip, 
actually about 11 months ago, 

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almost a year ago in Guatemala. 
And it was so powerful. 

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And by the end of last year, I 
was talking with Pastor Anna and

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with Cassie and the and the team
and I was just like, man, it 

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would be so cool if we do that. 
What we ended up doing it on 

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what was choir Sunday, which 
ended up being the last Sunday 

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before Jake goes back to 
Guatemala. 

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Guess what they speak in 
Guatemala? 

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It is Spanish, right Espanol. 
So it's just kind of cool. 

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Like it's, it's all these little
like nods that you can see what 

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the Lord is doing. 
But what we're doing first is 

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we're doing a baby dedication 
right here. 

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We've got Luke and Lily 
Hovarder. 

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We've got some parents here. 
And we have baby Lanie here. 

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Lanie Mae. 
Do we have that picture we can 

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show? 
Look at this. 

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Come on. 
I know today's already worth 

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getting out in the cold, isn't 
it? 

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So here's what's really cool. 
First of all, the middle name 

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has family lineage. 
So if I remember correctly, 

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Lily, it's your middle name. 
It was also your grandmother's 

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middle name, great grandmother's
middle name. 

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So this is also her middle name.
So it carries a thread of 

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lineage and legacy for the 
family. 

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But what's really cool, I mean, 
y'all remember what we're 

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starting this this year talking 
about with Grace, right? 

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OK, Laney means a bright spot. 
May means grace. 

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Isn't that something? 
And I am thrilled to be able to 

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dedicate little Laney to the 
Lord and anoint her with oil. 

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Anoint the family with oil too. 
You go to find anoint. 

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You guys get the whole family 
here and I don't have enough oil

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for all of you. 
But you're the community. 

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So you're committed to help in 
this this family, right? 

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If y'all would just lift your 
hands towards this family, Jake,

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you want to lay hands here too, 
Father, we just, we lift up. 

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Laney May hovarter to you. 
We commit ourselves as the 

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family, as the church family, as
the ministry around her to doing

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everything that we can to make 
sure that she knows Jesus from 

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the youngest age possible. 
Thank you for making a way for 

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all of us, God, But thank you 
for making a way for Laney. 

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Father, I bless this whole 
family with wisdom and with 

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patience and with unity of heart
and spirit. 

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God, I just thank you so much 
for parents that at a young age 

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of their child, they have 
decided they already know that 

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they want to serve the Lord and 
they want her to know you too. 

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So God, we thank you and we 
commend you for speaking into 

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their lives and for them saying 
yes to you. 

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And we're just asking for more 
of that in the future. 

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Father, we're praying that 
Laney's testimony would just be 

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that she has always known you, 
that as long as she can 

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remember, she's always heard 
about you, that she wouldn't 

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have one of those testimonies of
running away and coming back. 

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But whatever the story is, God, 
we just pray that you're at the 

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center of it, that she meets you
there and that she knows you her

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whole life. 
And everybody at Liberty Church 

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said Amen, Amen. 
Gosh, you don't let go of me. 

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Now hang on. 
This is for you. 

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Congratulations. 
Oh, come on. 

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Congratulations. 
Yes, congratulations. 

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She's beautiful. 
You can go sit down. 

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No, I'm just kidding. 
So Jake here. 

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Jake's going back on the mission
field. 

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I will ask for the care team to 
come forward. 

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But you all remember, if you 
were here last week, I said I'm 

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giving you a week's notice. 
I'm going to be asking if you 

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want to help support Jake. 
Right. 

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Annoyed you with some oil too. 
Well, we're not taking up an 

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offering for him, actually, so, 
and I'll tell you why. 

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Integrity. 
Here's what happened. 

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By the end of Sunday one week 
ago, Jake had double what he 

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needed. 
So Jake and I, we were talking 

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about, we were just like, man 
with integrity. 

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We cannot get up there and be 
like, well, if you still want to

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give to me, however, in all 
integrity, what I can say is if 

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you still want to give him 
something to help him, feel free

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to. 
Where do you sit today? 

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Yeah, I'm just going to 
highlight you. 

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He'll be sitting right there in 
the third row, Right. 

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So you can find him. 
But if you do want to support 

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him in some way, go see him. 
Put something in his hand. 

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Bless him. 
OK. 

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Don't put your trash in his 
hand. 

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I meant like, I meant like a 
blessing, but also maybe you're 

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interested. 
Maybe you're like, he's good to 

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go. 
I don't really feel like I want 

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to do that. 
Maybe you're interested in 

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sponsoring a kid from Guatemala.
It's really great. 

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We get to visit the kids that we
sponsor. 

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We get to build relationships 
with them. 

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And if you never get to go on 
one of those trips, we love 

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visiting the kids for you. 
We take gifts for you down 

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there. 
We build relationships with 

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them. 
If you're interested in 

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sponsoring a child in in Living 
Water, adopt A child in 

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Guatemala, you can also see 
Jake. 

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He'd be more than happy to help 
you get set up with that and 

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point you in the right 
direction. 

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But that being said, you're 
leaving on Thursday to head back

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to Guatemala to finish out this 
internship. 

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And we'll see what the future 
holds for you after that. 

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Yeah. 
Is there is there anything you 

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want to say before we pray for 
you? 

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I don't even ask you here. 
OK, That's easier. 

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Thanks. 
I took it off because at first I

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thought just whisper it. 
Just again, thank you everybody 

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who did give and thanks to God 
for being so faithful. 

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Blew my mind away. 
But isn't that like him? 

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Yeah, so. 
Love you love you too take care 

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of her mom, but just thanks to 
God thanks to all of you and 

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keep praying and do if you feel 
like you have something to give 

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I'm all set. 
Please if you want to give 

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support the ministry look at 
sponsoring a child because. 

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It. 
Really changes their lives. 

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How much is a sponsorship? 
It'll be, I think they just 

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upped it to like $40 a month, 40
and they might have like a 

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processing fee of like $5. 
But if you do it online or $4045

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a month. 
The other thing is if you're 

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like, I just can't lock myself 
into commitment. 

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You just want to do a one time 
thing. 

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We'll get it to living water. 
Adopt A child too. 

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But that's between you and the 
Lord. 

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I have nothing to do with that. 
So, yeah, here, Cassio, handle 

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it. 
Thanks. 

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All right, y'all lift your hands
toward Jake. 

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All right, Hey, God, we thank 
you so much for this man of God 

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who has decided to put the life 
that he lives here in the States

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on hold to go to another 
country, immerse himself in the 

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culture, learn another language 
and serve your people. 

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Father, not everybody can walk 
that path out and not everybody 

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says yes to it. 
And he said yes and he is 

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walking it out. 
So Father, we praise you for his

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faithfulness. 
We praise you for all the areas 

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that he has chosen to model you 
amongst your people, and we just

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pray that that continues. 
We thank you so much for the 

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good work happening in Guatemala
and we thank you so much for the

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good work happening here. 
We commit ourselves as remaining

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as his church family to support 
him in prayer, to take care of 

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his needs and to remember him, 
to reach out and make sure he 

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knows he is not alone, and to 
encourage him as he runs his 

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race. 
In the name of Jesus, Amen. 

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Amen. 
Well, I just did 2 prayers in a 

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row, so I'm not going to pray 
over the offering, but I'm going

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to thank you for it. 
Tell you that we've got brand 

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00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,720
new carpet up here on the stage.
You jousting me? 

452
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:51,240
I thought I emailed at you like 
you threw the mic, I'd catch it.

453
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,080
We've got brand new carpet here 
on the stage. 

454
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,840
They were looking at doing the 
carpet for the rest of the 

455
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,800
sanctuary around the first week 
of February. 

456
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,800
And I said no, I said we could 
do the second week of February 

457
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,800
because we'll have to cancel on 
Wednesday and we're not going to

458
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,760
be cancelling night of worship 
in February. 

459
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,400
So, so sometime mid February, 
just keep an eye out. 

460
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,480
We'll have to cancel one 
Wednesday, but it should be done

461
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,240
very soon. 
Thank you guys for giving and 

462
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:14,040
supporting and all the ways that
you do. 

463
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,440
You're incredible. 
Oh, man, we have so much to do 

464
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,680
today, so much to do. 
Well, if you would, you can go 

465
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,400
ahead and turn to two places, 
Genesis 13 and Acts 15. 

466
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,240
Today is called what can still 
be repaired. 

467
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,320
We've been talking about Grace 
for the moment, you know, and as

468
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,000
a brief reminder, I mean, I had 
a conversation one time with a 

469
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,240
mentor where she was just like, 
man, I, you know, I don't know 

470
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:43,200
that I have it in me. 
You know what these people do 

471
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,720
when they got martyred for the 
Lord or when they were hiding 

472
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,160
people during World War 2 or 
these different, I just don't 

473
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,200
know if I have the bravery. 
And the Lord said if you needed 

474
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,040
it, you'd have it. 
There's always grace for the 

475
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,120
moment. 
I want you to know that whatever

476
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,400
you're going through, whatever 
struggles you've got, whatever 

477
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,640
victories you've got, there's 
grace for that moment on how to 

478
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,640
handle it in a way that honours 
the Lord. 

479
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,000
And so this was mapped out about
mid-december, kind of knowing 

480
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,400
the direction the Lord wanted to
go. 

481
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,480
We talked about learning to 
trust ourselves again. 

482
00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:12,320
We talked about learning to hang
the pirates at the beginning of 

483
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:13,560
the year. 
What are the pirates that are 

484
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,440
robbing us? 
We have to publicly expose them.

485
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,080
That's what Paul was getting at 
when he said I had a thorn in my

486
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:21,880
flesh. 
And he said three times I asked 

487
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,600
God if he would remove it. 
And God said, Nah, it's 

488
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,800
basically what he said. 
And he said, my grace is 

489
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,360
sufficient for you. 
And then he said, my power is 

490
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,120
made perfect in weakness. 
Although most of us don't enjoy 

491
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,080
exposing our weaknesses, it's 
one of the clearest paths into 

492
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,520
strength. 
Before we dive into all of these

493
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,760
scriptures, and we've got a lot 
to cover today, some of you may 

494
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,440
remember an old cartoon 
character. 

495
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,760
In fact, a lot of generations 
would remember at least the 

496
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,160
name. 
Who remembers Yogi Bear? 

497
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,400
OK, how many of you remember 
that after Yogi Bear's 

498
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,560
adventures in Jellystone Park 
that he had another show that 

499
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:05,600
was called Yogi's Gang? 
And it wasn't like, wasn't like 

500
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,600
West Side or anything, right? 
But it was. 

501
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:13,920
It was Yogi Bear on a flying ark
shaped like Noah's Ark. 

502
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,240
Yeah. 
Look at this. 

503
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,720
This was Yogi's Gang. 
How many of you remember a lot 

504
00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:23,120
of these other characters here? 
He was accompanied by characters

505
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:27,280
like Huckleberry Hound, 
Snagglepuss, Quick Draw, McGraw,

506
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,640
Baba, Louie, Wally, Gator, 
Magilla, Gorilla, Adam Ant, and 

507
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,160
secret Squirrel. 
You also see Auggie Doggie and 

508
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,760
Auggie Doggie Daddy there. 
How many of you are like, are 

509
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,800
you speaking in tongues? 
What is this right? 

510
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,880
They basically said we're 
running out of steam with all 

511
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,480
these individual cartoons. 
Let's shove them all into one. 

512
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,800
Well, the purpose of Yogi's gang
as they were travelling was to 

513
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,200
teach lessons to kids and they 
were very obvious lessons. 

514
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,120
Does anybody remember this show 
at all? 

515
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,280
OK, we got a couple. 
All right. 

516
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,360
If I bring it up in five years, 
nobody will remember it, man, 

517
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,280
Let me just tell you. 
They were trying to teach moral 

518
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,960
lessons to kids so they would 
encounter very, very obvious on 

519
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,080
the nose villains that were 
designed to drive those lessons 

520
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,440
home. 
Villains like this. 

521
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,520
Here are some of the names. 
The greedy genie. 

522
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,360
Or, you know, what do you think 
they're teaching on their, like,

523
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:26,240
greed, right? 
How about Mr. Fibber or the 

524
00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:31,480
Sheik of selfishness? 
And I'm sorry this is just the 

525
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,000
kid in me. 
I have to share my two favorite 

526
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,240
names when I was looking this 
show up because I only remember 

527
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:37,880
1 episode of it. 
But two of the villains they 

528
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:48,960
fought were Doctor Bigot and the
Gossipy witch which is just 

529
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,320
pretty funny to me. 
The only episode that I remember

530
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,960
they encountered somebody who 
was named Mr. Waste but he 

531
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,760
didn't introduce himself as Mr. 
Waste when he introduced himself

532
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,240
to them, he introduced himself 
as Mr. Plenty. 

533
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,240
And over the course of this 
episode, I know this one very 

534
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:09,360
well because I went back and re 
watched it this week and I have 

535
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,680
one episode of Yogi's Gang 
purchased from Apple. 

536
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:18,160
Mr. Waste tells them that 
there's plenty and they don't 

537
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,160
have to worry about it. 
Magilla Gorilla who loves to 

538
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,920
have bananas. 
He says just take one bite, eat 

539
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,920
the first bite of the banana, 
the rest of it's the banana 

540
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,040
core, throw it away. 
What's a banana core? 

541
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,520
They use a towel one time and 
throw it away, a bar of soap one

542
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,280
time and throw it away. 
They have two sips of a drink 

543
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,960
and throw it away. 
What they find eventually is 

544
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,680
that this machine that was 
creating everything they wanted 

545
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,920
was decimating all the resources
and then on the other side it 

546
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,720
was now becoming a giant 
landfill because they were 

547
00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,480
throwing everything away. 
So they were talking about not 

548
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,520
wasting things. 
Now, why do I bring up Magilla 

549
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,680
Gorilla and Quick Draw McGraw on
a Sunday morning? 

550
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,600
Because this story stuck with me
as a kid for a long time and I 

551
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,600
never really knew why until 
recently. 

552
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,160
I think that a lot of us live 
like there are plenty of people 

553
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,760
to answer the call. 
I think that a lot of us live 

554
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,240
like there are plenty of people 
that have plenty of gifts and 

555
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,400
there's plenty of opportunities 
and plenty of people that are 

556
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,960
going to do what's needed to be 
done for the Kingdom. 

557
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,080
And I'm just wondering if 
sometimes we're wasting our 

558
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,800
moments and wasting our 
potentials, but we're saying 

559
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,840
there's plenty. 
Jesus, pretty clear. 

560
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:30,000
He says that the harvest is 
plentiful, but the workers, what

561
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,000
does he say? 
They're few. 

562
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:36,560
That's a lot of work for a few. 
So there's plenty of work to do 

563
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,840
and when we're talking about 
these spiritual gifts, we've got

564
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,280
to get them into work, whether 
it's inside the church or it's 

565
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,520
out in the community. 
But it needs to be part of the 

566
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,680
Capital C Church. 
If you didn't get a spiritual 

567
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,760
gift test from last week, we 
have plenty of them. 

568
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,520
Plenty. 
Don't waste them. 

569
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,680
We have them right, right out 
there at the foyer. 

570
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,440
Look, if you want one at any 
point during this sermon, get 

571
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:01,400
it. 
Fill it out. 

572
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,560
You won't offend me if you're 
working on it during the sermon.

573
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,000
Because some of what I say is 
going to make more sense if you 

574
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,080
know how you are gifted. 
I know the two scriptures I told

575
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,720
you to go to, so you don't need 
to be here yet. 

576
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:14,520
But in Ephesians 4, there's 2 
verses I want to under score to 

577
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,000
you #1 is verse 7 where it says 
that Jesus has given each of us 

578
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,480
a special gift through the 
generosity of Christ. 

579
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,920
OK, so Jesus himself has given 
each of us a gift. 

580
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,760
And verse 11 says these are the 
gifts that Christ gave to the 

581
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,280
church, the apostles, the 
prophets, the evangelists, the 

582
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,600
pastors, and the teachers. 
Last week, I read that Scripture

583
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:37,080
more in detail. 
And I didn't really define what 

584
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,520
those gifts are. 
I just really drove home that 

585
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,000
it's important that you pursue 
this and that you find how you 

586
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,800
can do it. 
And that was for a purpose. 

587
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,000
We handed out those gift tests 
as you left. 

588
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,240
If you need one, shoot us a 
message to pastor at 

589
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,080
libertync.org. 
I'll get it to you. 

590
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:54,880
Here are some defining 
characteristics of these five 

591
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,480
apostles. 
Apostles, if you have the gift 

592
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,600
of apostle, it doesn't mean you 
get to write new scripture. 

593
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,800
Sorry, but not sorry because you
don't want that pressure. 

594
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,160
Apostles naturally think in 
terms of what's next, movement 

595
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,880
and structure. 
They build momentum and so a lot

596
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,480
of times they are wired to 
pioneer, start something brand 

597
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,360
new, or create pathways and 
connections where they've never 

598
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,120
happened before. 
And yes, this is in church 

599
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,560
culture, but this is also no 
matter where you work, they're 

600
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,480
always thinking of new ways to 
do things. 

601
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:26,560
Sometimes they can sound 
impatient to others or seem like

602
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,280
they're less concerned with 
what's happening now. 

603
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:29,280
It's not because they don't 
care. 

604
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,080
It's because they're focused on 
what is to come. 

605
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,400
If you have the gift of 
prophetic well, prophets tend to

606
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,080
see what needs to be addressed 
right now. 

607
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,040
And they are often sensitive to 
what feels unhealthy or out of 

608
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,360
alignment. 
And when something feels off, 

609
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:43,960
they feel compelled to call it 
out. 

610
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,840
So prophetic people are not 
always trying to stir up 

611
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,000
conflict. 
They're trying to preserve what 

612
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,640
they view as integrity. 
But without understanding, the 

613
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,440
gift of prophecy can sometimes 
feel confrontational. 

614
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,720
But at its core, it's meant to 
be protective, OK. 

615
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,320
If you test it as evangelist, 
well, evangelists, they tend to 

616
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,600
see who's missing and what's 
missing, and they want to reach 

617
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,960
those that aren't here. 
Their hearts are turned to 

618
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:06,280
people who are not yet in the 
room. 

619
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,440
This goes even if you're outside
of a church culture. 

620
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,160
They'll see one person sitting 
off on their own and their heart

621
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,400
burdens to make sure that person
feels like they're a part of the

622
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,520
group. 
So evangelists are wired for 

623
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:20,440
those that don't belong yet. 
Now for them, they have a lot of

624
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,640
urgency around reaching out and 
including people, and they 

625
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,520
celebrate, grow, but they get 
restless when things turn inward

626
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,240
to the group for too long. 
This is why a lot of times if 

627
00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:32,960
you see a para church ministry 
that's like outside of a local 

628
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,200
church, a lot of times it's 
evangelistic in nature because a

629
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,640
lot of times an evangelist has 
gotten so tired of seeing the 

630
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,680
church only minister to who's on
the inside. 

631
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,920
So they said, I'll just go do it
on my own, which is not the best

632
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,720
option, but I get it. 
Right. 

633
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,800
OK, if you got the, the the gift
of pastor, you may be thinking, 

634
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,040
well, I'm not ready for that. 
Doesn't mean you have to work as

635
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,160
a pastor. 
OK, I think I said this on 

636
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,560
Wednesday or maybe it was last 
week, but pastor has become a 

637
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,920
bit of a catch all term in the 
church. 

638
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,640
Just to be honest with you. 
When people work full time in 

639
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,960
vocational ministry, a lot of 
times they're called pastor. 

640
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,520
So and so it's very rare that 
you go somewhere and you see 

641
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,440
Pastor Blake and Evangelist Mike
and you know, Apostle Drew or 

642
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,920
whatever. 
They all just get pastor for 

643
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,000
some reason. 
But pastor is a shepherd's 

644
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,120
heart. 
You are interpersonal if you're 

645
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:19,600
pastoral. 
That's what that means. 

646
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:22,880
So pastors, they feel the 
emotional weight for people. 

647
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,440
They're very empathetic. 
And the best way I know to 

648
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,240
describe somebody who has a 
pastoral anointing is if you 

649
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:31,720
always walk around and you catch
what I call word vomit. 

650
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:34,640
What's word vomit? 
Well, it's when you walk away 

651
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,400
from a situation and you think, 
I barely know them. 

652
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,120
Why did they tell me all of 
that? 

653
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,560
Sometimes you're just the person
and there's something wired in 

654
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,520
you that makes people say this 
is a safe place to unload. 

655
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,720
Now, a lot of times they don't 
really commit to change very 

656
00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:53,080
quickly because they're so busy 
trying to nurture and care for 

657
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,040
what is. 
And change can be scary. 

658
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,920
And the last one is teacher. 
These are gifts that Jesus gave 

659
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,960
us to build the church. 
They are all necessary. 

660
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,040
And the gift of teacher, well, 
they tend to slow us down and 

661
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,760
help us understand God's truth. 
But also, just like anything, 

662
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,040
Scott and Mary right back there,
y'all are both teachers. 

663
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:13,880
So if you want to learn 
something, go sit around them 

664
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,800
and talk to them. 
I don't play golf anymore, but 

665
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,240
the best I ever learned about 
golf was when I hit the when I 

666
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:22,040
hit the course with Scott 
because he can unpack something 

667
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,320
he knows. 
Have you ever had somebody try 

668
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,560
to teach you something and it 
just didn't stick? 

669
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,720
And then you went and you talked
to somebody else and you went, 

670
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,680
Oh, well, that makes complete 
sense. 

671
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:32,760
Why didn't anybody ever word it 
that way before? 

672
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,280
Because they're anointed and 
gifted to impart information and

673
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,400
get it through to you. 
Can you see what a gift that is 

674
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:43,080
to the body of Christ now? 
Learning how these gifts work 

675
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,800
together matters more than you 
think. 

676
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,640
None of them are superior. 
None of them are better. 

677
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,520
Some of them can run into 
conflict if you don't know how 

678
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,400
you're wired and how other 
people are wired. 

679
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,000
By now, a lot of people have 
taken A5 fold gift assessment. 

680
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,720
You've probably already noticed 
something. 

681
00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:02,400
We don't all approach problems 
the same way. 

682
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,880
We don't all see these problems 
the same way, but a lot of times

683
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,040
that boils down to how we're 
wired and we're going to talk 

684
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,960
about that today. 
So in Genesis 13, we're going to

685
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,400
take a look at 2 times that 
people had to separate. 

686
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,400
The first one is Abram and Lot. 
Just in the first verse it says,

687
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,800
so Abram left Egypt and traveled
N into the Negev along with his 

688
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,920
wife and Lot and all that they 
owned. 

689
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,240
Abram was very rich in 
livestock, silver and gold. 

690
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,720
All right, scoot down to verse 
5. 

691
00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:37,760
This is Lot, which by the way is
Abram's nephew, was traveling 

692
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,800
with Abram and had also become 
very wealthy with flocks of 

693
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,080
sheep and goats, herds of cattle
in many tents. 

694
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:47,280
But the land could not support 
both Abram and Lot with all 

695
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,920
their flocks and herds living so
close together. 

696
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,080
So disputes broke out between 
the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. 

697
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,400
It's literally this place ain't 
big enough for the both of us, 

698
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,760
right? 
So in verse 8, finally, Abram 

699
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,640
said to Lot, let's not allow 
this conflict to come between us

700
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,920
and our herdsmen. 
After all, we're close 

701
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,720
relatives. 
The whole countryside is open to

702
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:09,520
you. 
Take your choice of any section 

703
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,240
of the land you want, and we'll 
separate. 

704
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,560
If you want the land to the 
left, I'll take the land on the 

705
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:15,880
right. 
If you prefer the land on the 

706
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,800
right, then I'll go to the left.
Lot took a long look at the 

707
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,040
fertile plains of the Jordan 
Valley in the direction of 

708
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,520
Zohar. 
The whole area was well watered 

709
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,040
everywhere, like the garden of 
the Lord and the beautiful land 

710
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,680
of Egypt says in verse 11. 
Lot chose for himself the whole 

711
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,200
Jordan Valley to the east of 
them. 

712
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,960
He went there with his flocks 
and servants and parted company 

713
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,920
with his uncle Abram. 
So Abram settled in the land of 

714
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,920
Canaan, and Lot moved his tents 
to a place near Sodom. 

715
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,080
I'm sure that will go well and 
settled among the cities of the 

716
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,560
plain. 
So Abram and Lot are family. 

717
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,480
They're blessed together. 
They have a history together. 

718
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,080
But growth creates friction. 
Sometimes you get old enough 

719
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,240
that you outgrow something and 
it causes friction. 

720
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,840
It doesn't have to be a bad 
falling out. 

721
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:00,680
So they look at this. 
They say there's potential for 

722
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,760
conflict. 
Let's go here and here we'll 

723
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,360
visit, right? 
OK, now let's head to the New 

724
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,760
Testament, Acts chapter 15. 
This is not as amicable. 

725
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,200
This is not as friendly. 
In Acts 15, we see Paul and 

726
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,560
Barnabas. 
These are both wonderful 

727
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,280
disciples trying to spread the 
gospel. 

728
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:23,920
And verse 36, it says after some
time, Paul said to Barnabas, 

729
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,760
let's go back and visit each 
city where we previously 

730
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,240
preached the word of the Lord to
see how the new believers are 

731
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:30,880
doing. 
Great idea. 

732
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:36,040
Barnabas agreed and wanted to 
take along John Mark, but Paul 

733
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:40,120
disagreed strongly since John 
Mark had deserted them in 

734
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,200
Pamphylia and had not continued 
with them in their work. 

735
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:48,560
In other words, Blake's 
paraphrase, John Mark didn't 

736
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,960
have what it took on that 
mission and I'm not going to 

737
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:52,320
risk bringing him on another 
one. 

738
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,520
But Barnabas says give him 
another shot. 

739
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,000
I want to show him some more 
grace. 

740
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,880
Can you see two different 
approaches here? 

741
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,520
And they couldn't agree because 
in verse 39 it says their 

742
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,600
disagreement was so sharp that 
they separated. 

743
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,200
Barnabas means son of 
encouragement. 

744
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,240
They separated. 
Barnabas, took John Mark with 

745
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:18,080
him, and he sailed for Cyprus. 
Paul chose Silas, and as he 

746
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,440
left, the believers entrusted 
him to the Lord's gracious care.

747
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,040
And then he travelled throughout
Syria and Silesia, strengthening

748
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,360
the churches there. 
But you know what's cool about 

749
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:28,680
this? 
Even though they got into an 

750
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,280
argument in a dispute and they 
couldn't find middle ground, 

751
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,760
they were ministry partners. 
And when they separated, the 

752
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:36,840
Kingdom still grew in two 
directions. 

753
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,960
God is so good that he uses all 
situations for the good of those

754
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,760
that love Him. 
These I want you to understand. 

755
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:49,240
These are real stories, OK? 
This is not like Aesop's fables 

756
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,600
or some sort of moral tale. 
These were real stories that 

757
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,600
happened with real people that 
had real tension and real 

758
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,320
disagreements. 
And they show us that peace 

759
00:59:58,320 --> 00:59:59,680
doesn't always mean staying 
close. 

760
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,080
But reconciliation doesn't 
always have to look like a 

761
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,920
reunion either. 
Here's the hard truth that we 

762
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:09,280
all need to sit with today. 
It's neither evil nor good. 

763
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,880
Whatever you allow yourself to 
be distant from, you'll be OK 

764
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,840
Detaching from again, that's 
neither good nor bad. 

765
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,240
I remember I used to have to 
check. 

766
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:24,920
A certain game on my iPad 3 or 4
times a day because my alliance 

767
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:31,680
was was relying on me and at 
some point I realized my kids 

768
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:38,240
are relying on me and so I 
stopped playing it as much and 

769
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,960
as I put some distance between 
it I realized I could detach 

770
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:45,640
from it and I did not. 
Everything can be repaired the 

771
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,520
same way. 
If you are wired as a teacher 

772
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,120
and you want people to know all 
the facts, it is different than 

773
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,640
if you are wired as a pastor and
you want people to feel seen or 

774
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,680
heard. 
It's different than if you're an

775
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,560
apostle and you want to get 
people to the next level or if 

776
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,920
you're profit and you're focused
on wanting to fix what is. 

777
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,160
Right now, I'm just throwing 
these out in a random place, but

778
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:09,040
you're wired differently. 
But my point today is we need 

779
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:12,440
all of you. 
We need all of you in this 

780
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,280
church. 
The first thing that I want to 

781
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,760
talk about when we're talking 
about repairing things is the 

782
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,400
difference between peace and 
pretending. 

783
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,080
And we did. 
We did Peacemaker series 

784
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,640
probably 2-3 years ago now. 
But I mean, peace is hard work. 

785
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,760
It can be intimidating for most 
of us. 

786
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,600
What we say is, well, that 
happened 3 weeks ago or let's be

787
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:31,120
generous, that happened last 
year. 

788
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,040
It's not worth bringing up. 
What am I going to do? 

789
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,640
Go up and say, hey, one year ago
this hurt me and I can't let go 

790
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:36,640
of it? 
Yes. 

791
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:42,800
If you can't let go of it, yes, 
well, that might cause that 

792
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,040
might cause some sort of 
problem. 

793
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:46,240
There's already a problem inside
of you. 

794
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:50,720
You can't let go of it. 
Peace is hard work. 

795
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,760
This is why Jesus says blessed 
are the peacemakers and not 

796
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:58,320
blessed are the peacekeepers. 
In a military strategy, a 

797
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,040
peacekeeper is somebody who 
invades an area and suppresses 

798
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,240
the land and holds it to the 
status quo. 

799
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,400
You are not called to be 
somebody who holds to the status

800
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:08,560
quo. 
God has called you with your 

801
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:11,880
unique gift to get up and to 
build peace and make peace 

802
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,040
wherever you go, where you set 
your feet. 

803
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,360
There should be a fresh influx 
of peace wherever you go. 

804
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:19,560
And you may say, well, if it's 
hard work, I'm going to be 

805
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:20,640
tired. 
Yeah, you will. 

806
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,480
But ma'am, could you imagine if 
you were working for peace with 

807
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,840
other people that are wired to 
work for peace in a different 

808
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,960
way? 
You won't have to carry all of 

809
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:30,440
it. 
If you're trying to carry and 

810
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,000
build peace in the only way that
you're gifted or the only ways 

811
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,200
you're gifted, you will burn 
yourself out. 

812
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:39,480
But if we could get it together,
I've heard those five fold 

813
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,280
ministry gifts. 
It's like the hand of God. 

814
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,800
Could you imagine trying to 
carry things with just one or 

815
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,680
two of your fingers? 
It's not the way it's supposed 

816
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,560
to be. 
We've got to learn to work 

817
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,200
together. 
It's like that illustration we 

818
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:52,920
had last week. 
Yes, Pastor Autumn beat me in 

819
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:54,440
basketball, but it wasn't real 
basketball. 

820
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,680
It doesn't count. 
But once we had all five of 

821
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,920
those players on, on the stage 
against the one person who was 

822
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,160
fighting on their own, I didn't 
have a chance. 

823
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,840
Neither does the devil. 
If we can get our act together, 

824
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:12,000
if we get this right, guys, it 
will change fundamentally our 

825
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,720
homes, our communities, and yes,
the world. 

826
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,800
I'm speaking that big. 
Let me address the other 

827
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,840
elephant in the room because I 
heard about this from several 

828
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,160
people after last week. 
No, I did not Pierce my nose. 

829
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,160
There was a piece of glitter on 
my nose. 

830
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,120
I had six people tell me after 
church that it looked like I had

831
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:40,040
a diamond stud. 
I'm not Tupac, I didn't know 

832
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:41,720
until after. 
Thanks for telling me after my 

833
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,360
sermon. 
Anyway, I'm working for peace 

834
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,640
here. 
Peace is hard work and it can be

835
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,200
intimidating. 
We're going to be in Colossians 

836
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:54,320
3 in just a moment. 
Before we get there, let me read

837
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:57,880
Romans 12/18. 
Do all that you can to live in 

838
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,840
peace with everyone. 
That's the whole verse. 

839
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:10,320
Do all that you can to live in 
peace with everyone. 

840
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:12,200
Does that read like a request to
you? 

841
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,400
Does it read like a suggestion? 
What does it read like? 

842
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:21,480
It's a command. 
Now it is simultaneously, to me 

843
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,280
at least, intimidating and 
freeing. 

844
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,360
So I can't take the easy way 
out. 

845
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,280
No, you can't take the easy way 
out. 

846
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:33,360
Do all that you can. 
But that's all I have to do all 

847
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,040
that I can. 
How many of you have ever felt 

848
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,240
haunted because you're trying to
figure out a solution with a 

849
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,600
problem and you don't have the 
answer and you genuinely feel 

850
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,640
like you've done all you can and
nothing's working? 

851
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:49,720
Congrats, you've done all that 
you can, do all that you can. 

852
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,480
It can be very freeing when you 
think about it. 

853
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,840
For me, I think the hardest 
thing to do is to choose a 

854
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,640
Christ like stance when you're 
in conflict without demanding 

855
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,600
outcomes that are just not yours
to produce. 

856
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,000
That's where we start getting 
into control issues. 

857
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,680
Colossians actually deepens this
idea that we read in Romans by 

858
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:09,120
showing us what peace actually 
looks like in practice. 

859
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,240
Listen to this starting in verse
12. 

860
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:14,840
Paul writes this to the church 
at Colossi. 

861
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:19,600
He says since God chose you to 
be holy people he loves, we 

862
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,800
talked about being holy earlier.
Since he chose you to be holy 

863
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:27,000
people he loves you. 
Must you what? 

864
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,880
You must clothe yourselves with 
tender hearted mercy, kindness, 

865
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,160
humility, gentleness and 
patience. 

866
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,720
He says, make allowance for each
other's faults and forgive 

867
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,840
anyone who offends you, Anyone 
who offends you. 

868
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:48,360
Remember the Lord forgave you, 
so you must forgive others. 

869
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,320
Above all, clothe yourselves 
with love which binds us all 

870
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:55,240
together in perfect harmony and 
let the peace that comes from 

871
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:59,240
Christ rule in your hearts for 
his members of 1 body. 

872
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,800
You're called to live in peace 
and always be thankful. 

873
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:03,960
And he doesn't stop there. 
Listen to verse 16. 

874
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,240
He says let the message about 
Christ in all its richness fill 

875
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,840
your lives. 
He says teach and counsel each 

876
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,280
other with all the wisdom he 
gives. 

877
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:16,760
How many of us are unteachable, 
not willing to receive counsel 

878
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,600
because we understand it? 
But there are so many people out

879
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,120
here that are gifted differently
than us. 

880
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:24,480
So we teach and we counsel each 
other with the wisdom that he 

881
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,120
gives. 
He says, sing psalms and hymns 

882
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,320
and spiritual songs to God with 
thankful hearts. 

883
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,640
And whatever you do or say, do 
it as a representative of the 

884
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:35,160
Lord Jesus, giving thanks 
through him to God the Father. 

885
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:43,560
A lot of us, we get upset and we
say something like, well, God 

886
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:49,600
knows my heart, do you know his?
This is where our spiritual 

887
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,760
gifting actually becomes really 
relevant. 

888
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,640
All right, so listen to this. 
Let me just ask real quick, how 

889
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,760
many of you that have done the 
test, how many of you tested a 

890
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,320
decent number in the Apostolic? 
Even if it's not your top one, 

891
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:01,600
you got a decent number in 
Apostolic? 

892
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,160
How many? 
OK, how about prophetic? 

893
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:10,120
OK, how about pastor? 
OK, how about teacher? 

894
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:12,360
How about whatever the other one
is? 

895
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:13,400
Evangelist. 
I'm just kidding. 

896
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,240
How about evangelist? 
Right. 

897
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,360
I always test the lowest in 
evangelist. 

898
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,000
Doesn't mean it doesn't matter 
to me. 

899
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,000
It means I'm not wired to look 
through that filter. 

900
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,560
So I need people that have that 
filter. 

901
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:25,800
Here are some of the things I 
want to share with you. 

902
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,800
The Apostolic gifting. 
If this is you, like I said, you

903
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,720
want to push forward and you 
want to do new things. 

904
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,480
So when conflict arises, a lot 
of times you want to move on 

905
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,000
quickly. 
Hey, I'm sorry that happened. 

906
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:38,320
My bad. 
Can we just move on? 

907
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,680
Can we go forward? 
But it can slide into avoidance 

908
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,640
that's disguised as momentum. 
I don't want to deal with this. 

909
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,640
This stuff ahead of me is more 
important, so I don't want to 

910
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:49,440
deal with it. 
You know what that looks like to

911
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:50,680
people who don't have your 
gifting? 

912
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,440
They don't care. 
They don't want to deal with it.

913
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,320
So we have to think about this. 
Apostles need to realize that 

914
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,880
resolving this is part of 
building the path to the future.

915
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,200
Prophetic gifting, man, y'all 
are great because you can name 

916
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,120
what's broken. 
Prophetic people feel compelled 

917
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,800
to surface issues that a lot of 
people would rather just move 

918
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,160
past. 
They love to walk in and be like

919
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,280
that's wrong. 
They don't love to do that to 

920
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:15,480
people. 
They just love to find it 

921
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,279
because it scratches an itch 
that is inside of them that 

922
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:22,080
they're wired for. 
But sometimes if they're not 

923
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,399
careful, it can come out as 
harsh or relentless. 

924
01:08:24,399 --> 01:08:26,840
It can lack the guidance on how 
to solve the problem. 

925
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,040
It's just like saying there's a 
problem, now go figure out how 

926
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:33,279
to fix it. 
Evangelistic gifting wants 

927
01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:36,640
everyone reconciled now. 
They are impatient for the time 

928
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:41,160
that it takes to work through 
deep hurts, deep issues, and so 

929
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,399
their heart is right. 
But if it's not tempered with 

930
01:08:43,399 --> 01:08:46,760
wisdom, they can sometimes 
pressure people into pretending 

931
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:50,560
and into a fake sort of peace 
because they just want everybody

932
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:56,479
to get along. 
Remember that song Edwin Starr 

933
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:02,120
back in the 70s war? 
Good God, y'all. 

934
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,840
What's it good for? 
Absolutely nothing. 

935
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:12,399
OK, all right. 
Pastoral gifts, man. 

936
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,640
Pastoral gift. 
If you are a pastoral, you see 

937
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:16,760
two people you love at odds. 
It doesn't even matter if you're

938
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:18,520
involved. 
You're hurting, you're feeling 

939
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,640
both sides of it, and you feel 
trapped in the middle. 

940
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,279
And you feel responsible for 
their outcome, even though you 

941
01:09:23,279 --> 01:09:26,080
are clearly not. 
Sometimes you can overextend 

942
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,319
yourself, carry things you're 
not supposed to, and you can 

943
01:09:28,319 --> 01:09:30,840
actually delay their 
reconciliation because you put 

944
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:33,600
yourself in the middle of it. 
And for those of you with a 

945
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,720
teaching gift, with a teaching 
gift, I mean, they slip into 

946
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:39,319
their head. 
That's just what they do. 

947
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,720
They're not always the most 
social to begin with. 

948
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:43,720
And so when you have a teaching 
gift, it's sort of like, well, 

949
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,319
give me the facts and I'll give 
you a judgement. 

950
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,800
Well, I don't want the 
judgement, just want you to 

951
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,399
listen, look at me, the facts, 
and I'll silently make a 

952
01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:55,480
judgement in my head and not 
tell you then OK, it's OK. 

953
01:09:55,480 --> 01:09:58,480
But again, it can become very 
removed and very stiff. 

954
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,400
Can you see though the benefit 
on how all of these people are 

955
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,920
wired, on how they may be able 
to help create unity if we were 

956
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:05,200
to work together? 
Can you see it? 

957
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:10,080
Here's why we need to hear this.
These differences are not in 

958
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,320
opposition. 
When somebody comes out of 

959
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,480
conflict from a different way 
than you would, they are not 

960
01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:17,000
necessarily stupid or wrong or 
avoidant. 

961
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,960
They're going through a 
different filter and you are 

962
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,920
wired into one body that is 
designed to work together. 

963
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:26,240
I do not presume to know all the
different jobs that you may have

964
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,560
in the military. 
I never had the privilege of 

965
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,400
serving the military like y'all 
did. 

966
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:34,080
But I am willing to bet that 
within the Marine Corps, there 

967
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,920
are certain MO s s certain jobs 
you have where you make fun of 

968
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:45,120
the other ones. 
Even though, even though I'm 

969
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:50,680
willing to bet, I'm willing to 
bet that you want them doing 

970
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:53,760
their job overall because you do
need them, even though you make 

971
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:56,440
fun of them. 
Let's step outside of the Marine

972
01:10:56,440 --> 01:10:58,000
Corps. 
Just we're all Marine Corps at 

973
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:00,560
this point and we make fun of 
the Air Force. 

974
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,120
I've heard Chair Force or Air 
Force or whatever. 

975
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:08,440
However, if we go to war, I bet 
y'all are glad that the Air 

976
01:11:08,440 --> 01:11:11,080
Force is also on our side. 
I mean, sometimes you just put 

977
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,840
aside your differences because 
the bigger picture is that we 

978
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,120
need each other. 
Can you see why this would be 

979
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,480
important in the Kingdom of God?
Because the enemy will do 

980
01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:22,600
whatever he can to separate us. 
He will do whatever he can to 

981
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:25,080
drive a wedge in your marriage, 
in your friendships, in your 

982
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:27,400
relationships. 
He will try to make you lose 

983
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:29,240
faith in your ability to obey 
God. 

984
01:11:29,480 --> 01:11:32,960
And not only that, he will take 
the God-given gifts that God 

985
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,040
himself has placed inside of 
others and make you look at them

986
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:37,640
and resent them or judge them 
for it. 

987
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:43,080
So be careful anytime you speak 
about somebody made in the image

988
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:44,080
of God. 
Be careful. 

989
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,840
And in case you're not clear on 
this, theologically, that is all

990
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:51,720
humanity, like all human beings,
are made in the image of God. 

991
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,280
When gifts are immature, though,
we weaponize them. 

992
01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:01,120
Apostles rush ahead, prophets 
accuse, evangelists pressure 

993
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:04,400
people, pastors absorb too much,
and teachers retreat into their 

994
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,320
head. 
But when your gifts are 

995
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,640
submitted to Christ, it's so 
different. 

996
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:11,800
The kind of piece that I'm 
talking about doesn't come from 

997
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:12,920
pretending that nothing 
happened. 

998
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,040
It comes from humility and 
patience and shared submission 

999
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:19,760
to Christ, which is hard, but 
not as hard sometimes as then 

1000
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:21,120
shared submission to one 
another. 

1001
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:24,760
I don't want to hear what you 
have to say, but I think you 

1002
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,400
might see something I don't see.
Grace doesn't mean pretending 

1003
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,440
nothing happened. 
Grace is the opportunity to 

1004
01:12:30,440 --> 01:12:32,920
choose a godly response while 
acknowledging the full reality. 

1005
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:36,160
You know, one of the reasons I 
love the Bible is there are no 

1006
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:38,000
flawless people except for one 
guy. 

1007
01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:42,080
No flawless people. 
Abraham is known as the father 

1008
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:46,040
of our faith. 
And as they're entering a new 

1009
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:49,160
area and he's scared, he's like,
hey, just tell them you're my 

1010
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,640
sister. 
What did he think was going to 

1011
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,360
happen? 
Just tell them you're my sister.

1012
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,320
And God himself shows up in a 
dream to Pharaoh, and he's like,

1013
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,280
hey, that's his wife. 
The Pharaoh gets mad at him. 

1014
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,360
Why did you tell me that's your 
sister? 

1015
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,240
But here's what's interesting 
and a little icky by today's 

1016
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,120
standards too. 
He's like, well, technically she

1017
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,600
is my half sister. 
That's icky, right? 

1018
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,000
But here's what I want you to 
get. 

1019
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:16,720
It's an excuse. 
He rationalized it. 

1020
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:19,960
Ha ha. 
Technically I didn't lie, but 

1021
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:21,360
your intent was still to 
deceive. 

1022
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,840
There are no perfect people in 
the scripture. 

1023
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,320
But you know what we love to do?
We love to make people perfect 

1024
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:30,400
when it comes to this world. 
We love to put people up and put

1025
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:32,280
them on pedestals and build 
monuments to them. 

1026
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:35,160
And it's the only thing that we 
love that much outside of 

1027
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,200
building people up is generally 
tearing them down. 

1028
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,160
We're pretty excited about 
tearing people down, too. 

1029
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:43,280
We love to have like the biopic 
movies for them, but we also 

1030
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:44,800
love to be like, did you hear 
that? 

1031
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:47,800
What they actually did one of 
them? 

1032
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,800
It's like so exciting. 
We feel unified when everybody 

1033
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,480
likes somebody. 
But if they are popular long 

1034
01:13:53,480 --> 01:13:56,040
enough, there is always a rising
opposition. 

1035
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,720
And then it feels so delicious, 
doesn't it, when somebody turns 

1036
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,160
out that they're human and it 
shouldn't, but it feels so 

1037
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:02,680
delicious because we're like, 
look at that. 

1038
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:07,960
They're not so good. 
You remember a couple weeks ago 

1039
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,440
when I named several people just
to find one that would like 

1040
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:13,960
relate to all the ages. 
Here's where I try to get people

1041
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:18,040
mad. 
Recently we celebrated a 

1042
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:22,960
holiday, Martin Luther King 
Junior Day, one of the most 

1043
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:27,280
inspirational speeches of all 
times called I Have AI Have a 

1044
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,240
Dream. 
He also reportedly had an 

1045
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:32,600
affair, depending on how you 
look at it. 

1046
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,680
And I don't say anything to 
detract from his legacy. 

1047
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:39,280
He did great good and he had an 
area that he was deeply flawed. 

1048
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,920
And we look at it and we want to
look at the good, but you have 

1049
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:45,840
to take somebody for their full 
humanity. 

1050
01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:49,400
So grateful for what he did and 
I'm not here to cast judgement 

1051
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:50,800
on him. 
He's been gone a long time. 

1052
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,760
It's truth though. 
Maybe that doesn't hit home or 

1053
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:58,320
maybe it does, I don't know. 
Supposedly he also was rumoured 

1054
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:00,720
to smoke cigarettes behind 
closed doors, but I won't touch 

1055
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,640
that. 
John F Kennedy was the first 

1056
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,280
Catholic president of the United
States of America. 

1057
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,080
He's a vision of hope to a lot 
of Americans everywhere. 

1058
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:13,440
He established the Peace Corps 
and according to some people he 

1059
01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:16,160
essentially prevented nuclear 
Armageddon. 

1060
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,440
Of course, to some people they 
say he was responsible for it 

1061
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:20,760
almost happening in the 1st 
place. 

1062
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,440
But he also pretty openly and 
publicly was unfaithful to his 

1063
01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:26,840
wife and that's not even a 
question. 

1064
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:32,840
Anybody know who Al Capone is? 
One of the most notorious 

1065
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:36,280
gangsters, mobsters of all time.
You know, he said the dirtiest 

1066
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:37,880
and biggest crook he had ever 
dealt with. 

1067
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:41,240
He said it was Joe Kennedy, JF, 
KS father. 

1068
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,800
These are all old examples. 
OK, so Jay-Z, anybody know who 

1069
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:49,240
Jay-Z is? 
Jay-Z donated $1,000,000 to the 

1070
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,840
tragedy that was 911. 
He donated $1,000,000 to the 

1071
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,000
tragedy that was Hurricane 
Katrina. 

1072
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,000
Can we agree that those are good
things? 

1073
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:58,600
Man? 
I'll just tell you. 

1074
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,520
I mean, he also started the 
record label that put him in the

1075
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:06,040
spotlight with $50,000 he saved 
up from selling crack and heroin

1076
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:10,240
to Brooklyn. 
So here's what I'm getting at. 

1077
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,160
Your parents, your Co workers, 
your loved ones, your heroes, 

1078
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:17,960
your musicians you look up to, 
your preachers you like they're 

1079
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,160
a mixed bag. 
They are gifted and called and 

1080
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,560
they're deeply flawed and 
they're human, and you got to 

1081
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:26,440
take them for what they are 
because if you look at them too 

1082
01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:28,960
highly, they'll let you down. 
You look at them too lowly, and 

1083
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,280
you're going to feel superior. 
Welcome to Pride. 

1084
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,600
With all of these stories that I
just talked about. 

1085
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,200
What they all have in common is 
a form of hypocrisy. 

1086
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,200
But more importantly, what I 
want you to know, what they all 

1087
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:44,440
have in common is humanity. 
This is a human thing, even a 

1088
01:16:44,440 --> 01:16:45,480
church. 
Church culture. 

1089
01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:46,640
We're so guilty of this, aren't 
we? 

1090
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,080
We walk into a church culture. 
Hey, good morning. 

1091
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,520
How are you blessed and highly 
favored? 

1092
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:54,600
I'm doing great. 
I want the day that the church 

1093
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:56,040
comes together in the morning. 
How are you doing? 

1094
01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:59,360
It's been a rough week. 
I don't have time to go into it 

1095
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,800
and pray for me. 
What about you? 

1096
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,280
What's going on? 
That's really what the church is

1097
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,080
supposed to do. 
And no, you won't agree with all

1098
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:08,680
of their decisions. 
You can still pray for them. 

1099
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:10,600
So what do you do if you want to
build peace instead of 

1100
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,920
pretending? 
Most of us, when we pretend 

1101
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:14,720
instead of building peace, we 
didn't know that's what we were 

1102
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:15,840
doing. 
It's just enough. 

1103
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,680
Time went by. 
We felt silly to bring it up. 

1104
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:19,600
We would encourage somebody else
to bring up something that 

1105
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,440
bothers them. 
But for us, well, I should just 

1106
01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:24,440
swallow it and deal with it. 
No, you should bring it up. 

1107
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:27,120
First thing you have to do is 
choose truth over avoidance and 

1108
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:28,720
don't weaponize it against one 
another. 

1109
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:31,200
When somebody hurts you, call it
out. 

1110
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:33,920
That hurt me. 
Soon as you say you hurt me and 

1111
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,000
you meant to, it's a different 
ball game. 

1112
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:38,560
Don't weaponize it against one 
another. 

1113
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:40,360
You may not know the whole 
story. 

1114
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,880
The second thing you have to do 
is examine your own heart before

1115
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,360
confronting someone else's 
failure. 

1116
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:48,160
Did you know that you can 
confront A genuine issue with a 

1117
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,480
bad motive and you can still 
damage your soul? 

1118
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,920
Colossians 3 told us to clothe 
ourselves with compassion and 

1119
01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:01,280
kindness and humility and 
gentleness and patience. 

1120
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:04,360
Which means the goal of 
addressing conflict isn't 

1121
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,800
necessarily winning or being 
right or feeling justified. 

1122
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,920
The goal is to restore what can 
be restored. 

1123
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:15,280
And 3rd, peace requires us to 
stop expecting one person or one

1124
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:21,400
gift to do all the work. 
When one person who has one 

1125
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,480
filter dominates the process, 
peace can turn into pressure of 

1126
01:18:24,480 --> 01:18:27,040
some sort. 
There'll be more on this in a 

1127
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:28,600
minute. 
And the last thing is that peace

1128
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:33,120
demands personal responsibility.
It means asking for forgiveness 

1129
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,040
where you need it. 
Did they screw up 90%? 

1130
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:40,160
You screwed up 10%. 
Why don't you just say sorry for

1131
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,640
the 10%? 
Grace doesn't mean pretending 

1132
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,840
nothing happened. 
Grace can't mean pretending 

1133
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:46,200
nothing happened. 
It's dishonest. 

1134
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:49,440
There's no dishonesty in God. 
Grace means choosing to rise 

1135
01:18:49,440 --> 01:18:52,360
above and be like Christ, who 
sat there on the cross getting 

1136
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,880
crucified and forgave the people
that were crucifying him. 

1137
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:57,680
Maybe like that's impossible. 
I'm not Jesus. 

1138
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:02,040
You're half right. 
It is impossible without Jesus 

1139
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:04,080
because of what he did on the 
cross. 

1140
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,560
Jesus has made a way so that 
when God looks at you, he sees 

1141
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:11,640
his Son. 
And when he looked at Jesus on 

1142
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,160
the cross, he saw your sin. 
I mean, when you look at that 

1143
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:17,520
man, what do we have to complain
about? 

1144
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:19,560
What do we have to complain 
about? 

1145
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:21,760
I want to leave you this 
scripture before I move on. 

1146
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,960
James chapter 3, verses 17 and 
18. 

1147
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,240
The wisdom from above is, first 
of all, pure. 

1148
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,600
It's also peace loving, gentle 
at all times, and willing to 

1149
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,200
yield to others. 
I hope somebody's already 

1150
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:36,920
convicted because I'm up here 
like reading this, feeling 

1151
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:39,440
convicted. 
It is full of mercy and the 

1152
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:42,800
fruit of good deeds, and it 
shows no favoritism and is 

1153
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,600
always sincere. 
And those who are peacemakers, 

1154
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,880
there's that word again. 
We'll plant seeds of peace and 

1155
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,360
reap a harvest of righteousness.
Do you want this? 

1156
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:54,040
Do you want a harvest of 
righteousness in your life? 

1157
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:55,480
I want a harvest of 
righteousness. 

1158
01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,160
But look at these words that 
we've used in different 

1159
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:00,200
scriptures. 
They overlap. 

1160
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,280
Peace, loving, gentle, willing 
to yield. 

1161
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:06,000
That's hard, isn't it? 
It's harder than giving a piece 

1162
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:11,520
of our mind. 
But the other thing, let's say 

1163
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,120
you're sold on this. 
You want to repair things, while

1164
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:16,680
repair is a team effort. 
Repair is a team effort. 

1165
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,360
I mean, even just, you know, the
Matthew 18 principle, if 

1166
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,560
somebody bothers you, somebody 
has wounded you, what do you do?

1167
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:26,360
You go to them one-on-one. 
If it doesn't work out, you go 

1168
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:28,800
to them with a witness. 
You include someone else. 

1169
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:30,640
If that doesn't work, then it 
says you bring it before the 

1170
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:31,760
church. 
Well, now you've got a whole 

1171
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:32,840
bunch of people that are 
involved. 

1172
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,440
But go to Matthew 5. 
We'll be there in a second. 

1173
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,360
If peace is the goal, then 
repair is the work that will 

1174
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:40,320
really get us there. 
Sometimes we're just not at 

1175
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:42,440
peace because we've never 
repaired things that wounded us 

1176
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:47,240
long ago. 
Scripture is so honest about the

1177
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:50,520
fact that this is not simple and
it's never really meant to be 

1178
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,560
done alone. 
By the way, great wisdom and 

1179
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:56,240
sometimes getting along with the
Lord, great wisdom in getting 

1180
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:58,880
into a good, you know, therapist
or counselling or whatever. 

1181
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:02,120
That's an excellent tool. 
But ultimately that's just one 

1182
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,840
of the tools you need multiple 
people to speak into. 

1183
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:07,400
Wisdom is found in a multitude 
of counsellors. 

1184
01:21:07,480 --> 01:21:11,360
That's the scripture. 
Now in Matthew 5, we see this. 

1185
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,160
This is the words of Jesus. 
So if you get mad at this part, 

1186
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,480
I mean, Jay-Z, this is my fault.
But if you get mad at this part,

1187
01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:21,280
you're mad at Jesus, OK. 
He says, you've heard that our 

1188
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,360
ancestors were told you must not
murder. 

1189
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:26,520
If you commit murder, you're 
subject to judgement. 

1190
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,280
Most of us are like, oh, that 
trucks. 

1191
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:31,680
But I say if you're even angry 
with someone, you're subject to 

1192
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,240
judgement. 
If you call someone an idiot, 

1193
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:36,760
you are in danger of being 
brought before the court. 

1194
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:40,080
And if you curse someone, you're
in danger of the fires of hell. 

1195
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:44,400
Why has that never made it on K 
love? 

1196
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:48,640
All right, so listen to this. 
So if you are presenting A 

1197
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:52,320
sacrifice at the altar in the 
temple, and you suddenly 

1198
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,120
remember that someone has 
something against you, leave 

1199
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:57,960
your sacrifice there at the 
altar. 

1200
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:00,600
Go and be reconciled to that 
person. 

1201
01:22:01,480 --> 01:22:06,000
Then come and offer your 
sacrifice to God when you are on

1202
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,640
the way to court with your 
adversary. 

1203
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:11,200
Settle your differences quickly.
Otherwise, your accuser may hand

1204
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:14,120
you over to the judge, who will 
hand you over to an officer and 

1205
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:16,800
you'll be thrown into prison. 
And if that happens, you surely 

1206
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,920
won't be free until you've paid 
the last penny. 

1207
01:22:20,480 --> 01:22:23,360
You know what's interesting? 
I glossed over that the first 

1208
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,320
couple times I read that 
scripture because I read it like

1209
01:22:25,320 --> 01:22:27,400
if I had a problem with 
somebody, I needed to go work it

1210
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:28,680
out. 
It says if somebody has a 

1211
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,040
problem with you. 
Now we don't make sacrifices at 

1212
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:36,360
the altar today, but we do 
approach the Psalter and we 

1213
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,320
worship. 
And I don't want there to be any

1214
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:41,640
mistaking what the Scripture is 
talking about. 

1215
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:48,200
He is saying the Lord is saying,
I would rather you go and make 

1216
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:51,600
peace with your brother or 
sister than to hear you sing 

1217
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:53,240
that worship song you love 
singing to me. 

1218
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:57,880
It's not that He doesn't love 
those praises, but He would 

1219
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:01,960
rather there be manifest peace 
amongst His people than the most

1220
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:03,760
beautiful earthly harmony we can
present. 

1221
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,120
Do you understand how important 
it is to God? 

1222
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:10,320
And this is the sad reality. 
It's not important to us. 

1223
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:12,440
It's not as important to us as 
it is to him. 

1224
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,760
He's up there dying on the cross
saying God make them one, just 

1225
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:19,560
like you and I are one. 
And we're like, yeah, but I 

1226
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:21,200
don't like what he said to me 
last year. 

1227
01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:23,960
He's got his own friends. 
I got my own friends. 

1228
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:27,000
We're fine. 
God didn't die so you could be 

1229
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,160
fine. 
He died so you could be renewed 

1230
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:31,920
at the end of the service. 
We got baptisms. 

1231
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,960
We're going to watch people give
their testimonies. 

1232
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:37,760
Dead man in the water, new man 
comes up out because they want a

1233
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,600
fresh chance. 
That's the gospel. 

1234
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:42,920
The gospel is not just that 
you're not going to go to hell. 

1235
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:45,560
The gospel is that you can bring
heaven down on earth now. 

1236
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:46,960
You can have peace in your 
family. 

1237
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,800
You can have peace in your 
relationships, but it's hard 

1238
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:54,360
work and you can't quit. 
Well, I was away on this 

1239
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:57,920
pastor's retreat thing that I 
went to a week ago. 

1240
01:23:58,440 --> 01:24:00,080
I was taking a break. 
I was going to lunch and 

1241
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:02,160
listening to AWWE Wrestling 
podcast. 

1242
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:09,240
I had enough spiritual stuff I 
was trying to check out and they

1243
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:11,680
were interviewing this guy 
called The Miz. 

1244
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:17,120
I don't like him. 
The interviewer said, do you 

1245
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:20,000
ever think about quitting? 
And he said, yeah, I think about

1246
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:21,280
thought about quitting all the 
time. 

1247
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:23,080
He's like, because I chose to do
something that hurts me. 

1248
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:24,880
He said, but I don't have 
quitting me. 

1249
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:29,080
And I'm like God, I'm listening 
to the preachers, I'm listening 

1250
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:32,160
to the conference. 
Leave my podcasts alone, right? 

1251
01:24:33,480 --> 01:24:35,600
If you listen, God is 
everywhere. 

1252
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:39,960
He will equip you with the hard 
work of building bridges. 

1253
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:42,600
He'll do it. 
You may say, I don't know if I 

1254
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,040
can do it. 
And that's the whole point. 

1255
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:47,520
Whoever said God will never give
you more than you can handle was

1256
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:51,400
a liar. 
The only thing he typically 

1257
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:56,400
gives you are things you can't 
handle unless you have Him what 

1258
01:24:56,400 --> 01:25:01,160
you give you. 
Yes, yes. 

1259
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,880
I remember getting ready to 
start 1000 piece puzzle the 

1260
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:08,600
other day and I looked at it and
then I looked over and my 

1261
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:10,480
daughter was doing like 100 
piece puzzle and I was like, 

1262
01:25:10,480 --> 01:25:14,400
I'll help you with that. 
I just need to win today. 

1263
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:18,880
You notice what Jesus does not 
say here? 

1264
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:22,240
He doesn't say that it's easy. 
He doesn't say it happens 

1265
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:25,040
instantly. 
He doesn't say you can resolve 

1266
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,360
your differences with somebody 
quickly or without wisdom. 

1267
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,760
He just makes it clear that 
repair matters to God. 

1268
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:34,440
So if you're about to worship 
God and you remember something 

1269
01:25:34,440 --> 01:25:38,080
right then, which by the way, 
maybe I'm extrapolating, if you 

1270
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:41,080
remember at the moment you're 
about to honor God, that 

1271
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,840
somebody's upset with you, I 
wonder how you got that memory. 

1272
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:50,760
God says go and fix it and then 
come back with a cleaner heart. 

1273
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,040
You'll give him a cleaner 
offering if you do it that way. 

1274
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:59,000
This is important to God. 
You may say, well, I've tried it

1275
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,040
before. 
They don't receive it and I've 

1276
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:02,880
tried my best. 
I've done all there is within 

1277
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:04,800
me. 
Cool, we'll get there. 

1278
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,000
Repair almost always requires 
more than one gift at work. 

1279
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:11,360
So we're going to do this one 
more time through the group 

1280
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:13,240
mentality. 
Those of you who have the 

1281
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:16,440
Apostolic testing in the in the 
gift you want to rebuild 

1282
01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:19,160
structure after damage. 
You need somebody Apostolic to 

1283
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,560
start saying here's a good 
framework how to move forward. 

1284
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,200
I know that hurt. 
How do you move forward? 

1285
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:27,320
Re establish a clear picture, a 
new direction and fresh vision 

1286
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:29,720
for you. 
Those with a prophetic gift, 

1287
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:34,320
Listen, when you're in a 
struggle, you do not want to go 

1288
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:35,640
to somebody with a prophetic 
gift. 

1289
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,120
And by that what I mean is you 
want to go to somebody with a 

1290
01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:41,920
prophetic gift by default. 
You don't want to go to somebody

1291
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:46,640
with a prophetic gift because 
they will be blunt and they will

1292
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,400
be direct. 
Let me tell you, I've had 

1293
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:51,560
friends that have given me 
encouragement and rebuked me in 

1294
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:55,440
the same conversation and I love
them and we are still in 

1295
01:26:55,440 --> 01:26:57,520
fellowship. 
Prophets have a way of seeing 

1296
01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:58,960
what's wrong. 
You may look at them and it 

1297
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:01,240
looks one way to you and they 
it's like they dust off one 

1298
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:03,600
piece and you had never seen it 
until they said something. 

1299
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,400
You want somebody with an 
evangelist gifting when you're 

1300
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:09,160
trying to heal because they help
restore your openness. 

1301
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:11,880
Some of us we start to heal the 
past issues but we're still 

1302
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:14,240
withdrawn and we're afraid to 
make a new friend or to try 

1303
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,760
again or to open up to our Co 
workers because of past damages.

1304
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,720
I'm sorry that stuff happened 
but you can't look at the future

1305
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:25,040
and accuse it of the past. 
You need the pastoral gift 

1306
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:26,960
because they will carry that 
emotional weight with you. 

1307
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,520
Pastors feel the pain of 
separation and they'll walk 

1308
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,440
alongside it with you without a 
pastor involved. 

1309
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:37,560
Can feel like it's a cold 
emotionless step when you try to

1310
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:39,920
reconcile. 
And then teaching gift helps you

1311
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:41,720
understand healthy patterns 
moving forward. 

1312
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:43,320
They can help you understand 
what caused it. 

1313
01:27:43,440 --> 01:27:45,760
What do you do moving and and 
you'll need them. 

1314
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:51,480
I'll just say this real quick. 
22 pairings of the giftings that

1315
01:27:51,480 --> 01:27:54,040
tend to bump into each other. 
Like I mentioned before, 

1316
01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:57,240
evangelist and pastor. 
Could you imagine if pastors 

1317
01:27:57,240 --> 01:27:59,800
were always open to evangelists 
in the church? 

1318
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:04,560
So the evangelists, they win the
lost, but they bring them to a 

1319
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:07,880
pastor to help get shepherded 
into discipleship, into church 

1320
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:09,400
community, and they find their 
people. 

1321
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,400
But instead, pastors are so 
often just worried about who's 

1322
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:15,040
here. 
Evangelists are just worried 

1323
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:16,680
about who's over there. 
But if they could get their 

1324
01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:20,240
stuff together right, a lot of 
times it's crazy that they 

1325
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,360
sometimes bump into each other, 
but the Apostolic and the 

1326
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:23,920
prophetic bump into each other 
too. 

1327
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,520
I say it's crazy because they're
in a unique category. 

1328
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:28,640
Those are the ones that the 
churches argue the most over 

1329
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:30,280
today. 
Those are the ones that as you 

1330
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:31,880
read through the Scripture, 
you'll find those are the people

1331
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:33,600
that they throw rocks at and 
kill the most. 

1332
01:28:34,480 --> 01:28:36,840
Those were the apostle and 
profit giftings. 

1333
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,880
But you've got one person who's 
seeing future vision and ready 

1334
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:42,800
to go and one person who says 
not until this is fixed and they

1335
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,520
butt head sometimes. 
But wouldn't it be better to fix

1336
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:47,000
this and then move into the 
future? 

1337
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:49,520
We need each other is what I'm 
getting at. 

1338
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:55,040
Ecclesiastes 4 says this. 
Two people are better off than 

1339
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,080
one, for they can help each 
other succeed. 

1340
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:00,280
If one person falls, the other 
can reach out and help, but 

1341
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,000
someone who falls alone is in 
real trouble. 

1342
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:05,280
Likewise, 2 people lying close 
together can keep each other 

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01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:07,480
warm, but how can one be warm 
alone? 

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01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:10,560
A person standing alone can be 
attacked and defeated, but two 

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01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,120
can stand back-to-back and 
conquer. 

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01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:14,600
Three are even better, for a 
triple braided cord is not 

1347
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,360
easily broken. 
Where do you normally hear that 

1348
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:18,080
scripture? 
It's a wedding. 

1349
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:19,360
Beautiful. 
I love it. 

1350
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:21,760
I encourage it at weddings. 
It just wasn't written as a 

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01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:24,960
wedding verse. 
It's it's an actual fact of life

1352
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:28,280
that we are Better Together and 
we are supposed to have each 

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01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:30,920
other's back. 
What it's getting across is this

1354
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,200
isolation weakens the process of
repair, but community will 

1355
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:38,120
strengthen it. 
Peace is not always closeness to

1356
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:40,240
someone. 
It's just always obedience. 

1357
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:43,360
I'll just share this with you 
briefly and then we're going to 

1358
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:47,440
get ready for baptism. 
Couple days ago I went to an 

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01:29:47,440 --> 01:29:54,120
escape room and it was a unique 
one because it was 2 rooms and 

1360
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:58,240
in one room some people were 
handcuffed to a bar. 

1361
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:01,320
It was like the warden's office 
and then the other room was like

1362
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,200
the jail. 
And you had to call back and 

1363
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:06,920
forth and find clues in your own
rooms in order to figure it out.

1364
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:09,960
And let me just tell you, if you
want to talk about like a lesson

1365
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:13,840
and relying on other people, I 
was one of the people handcuffed

1366
01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:18,240
to that bar. 
I had to rely on people to learn

1367
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:20,960
the clues. 
And the very first thing, forget

1368
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,040
clues, the very first thing I 
had to do was trust them to 

1369
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:26,360
reach through the door, the hole
in the door to hand the the mop 

1370
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:28,040
over to us. 
That had a hook on the end so we

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01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:30,560
could then get the key to the 
handcuffs. 

1372
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,240
But even there, all I could 
think about was the Lord and 

1373
01:30:34,240 --> 01:30:36,920
Sunday's coming is because how 
many of us are locked up? 

1374
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:38,360
How many of us are chained to 
something? 

1375
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:41,520
And there was somebody right 
there that could give you the 

1376
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:46,000
tool to freedom. 
I don't want to ask them for 

1377
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:47,080
help. 
I don't want to feel like I owe 

1378
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:49,840
them. 
Well, then I enjoy the 

1379
01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:55,120
handcuffs, I guess. 
You know, you remember how hard 

1380
01:30:55,120 --> 01:31:00,160
it is for a kid to apologize. 
And when they've wronged 

1381
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:01,920
somebody, you walk them over to 
that other kid and you were 

1382
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,520
like, you apologize right now. 
And they go, sorry. 

1383
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:10,880
No, you are not. 
No, you are not. 

1384
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:14,400
We can make him say it. 
You can't make him feel it 

1385
01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:17,560
unless you raise him to know the
Lord from a young age. 

1386
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:22,880
Here's the last thing before we 
get into baptism, the Scripture 

1387
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:26,160
from Matthew 10. 
These may say, well, what if? 

1388
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:27,680
What if I've done all that I can
to be at peace? 

1389
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,960
They still don't want peace. 
Jesus says to his disciples, 

1390
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:33,400
whenever you enter a city or a 
village, search for a worthy 

1391
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:35,560
person and stay in his home 
until you leave town. 

1392
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:38,000
When you enter the home, give it
your blessing. 

1393
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:41,040
If it turns out to be a worthy 
home, let your blessing stand, 

1394
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:42,600
and if it's not, take back the 
blessing. 

1395
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:44,040
By the way, it doesn't say 
cursing. 

1396
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:48,520
If any household or town refuses
to welcome you or listen to your

1397
01:31:48,520 --> 01:31:51,440
message, shake its dust from 
your feet as you leave. 

1398
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,680
I tell you the truth, the wicked
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah 

1399
01:31:54,680 --> 01:31:57,000
will be better off than such a 
town on Judgement Day. 

1400
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,200
He says shake the dust off your 
feet as you leave. 

1401
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:03,160
I love that image. 
You know why? 

1402
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:07,040
Don't even take a speck of dirt 
from where you were as you move 

1403
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:08,440
forward into what God has for 
you. 

1404
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,800
If you take it with you, you're 
going to have the same problems.

1405
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:15,840
Oh, but look at that. 
I stopped one one verse early. 

1406
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,200
Look, I'm sending you out a 
sheep among wolves. 

1407
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:21,000
So be as shrewd as snakes and 
harmless as doves. 

1408
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:24,160
We're always worried about the 
wolves in sheep's clothing and 

1409
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:26,160
sometimes we do the heavy 
lifting of Christianity and 

1410
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:29,880
we're like, but this hurts. 
You're sheep among wolves. 

1411
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:35,680
I bet it does hurt. 
But if he calls you to it, he'll

1412
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:41,320
see it through the truth. 
The truth is that this ties 

1413
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:43,000
right into what we're about to 
celebrate today. 

1414
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:45,120
If you're being baptized, go 
ahead and head out to the foyer 

1415
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:46,720
and get lined up for further 
instructions. 

1416
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,160
We're going to celebrate with 
you in a moment. 

1417
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,360
And I want you all to know this.
In a moment, we're going to 

1418
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:54,520
witness baptism. 
Baptism is not the declaration 

1419
01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:56,200
that someone's life has been 
perfect. 

1420
01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,760
And it is not the declaration 
that what they've done in the 

1421
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:01,760
past or experienced in the past 
doesn't matter. 

1422
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:05,560
It's the declaration that their 
past no longer holds the final 

1423
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:09,160
word. 
It is them saying, my next step 

1424
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:11,880
is to submit to the lordship of 
Jesus. 

1425
01:33:12,480 --> 01:33:14,360
And I want you to know if you're
here today and you're not 

1426
01:33:14,360 --> 01:33:16,800
getting baptized, I mean, if you
are, if you're like, man, this 

1427
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:18,520
is for me, then go out there. 
They'll line you up, they'll 

1428
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:22,440
figure it out. 
But your job as a church is not 

1429
01:33:22,440 --> 01:33:26,640
just to spectate. 
Your job is to cheer them on, 

1430
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:29,400
encourage them, and then after 
today, help protect them and 

1431
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:31,480
walk alongside them in their new
beginnings. 

1432
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,640
It's hard starting over. 
It's hard doing this, but 

1433
01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,040
they're going to get up there 
and they're going to give a 

1434
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:39,880
testimony of grace. 
Baptism is a reminder that 

1435
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:43,360
repair is possible and that what
happened to you or what you did 

1436
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:46,400
never gets the final word. 
It's going to be full of people 

1437
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,720
that are hanging, the pirates 
that we started speaking about 

1438
01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:51,280
at the beginning of this month, 
people that aren't letting their

1439
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,800
fears or their insecurities or 
their baggage steer them into 

1440
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:57,800
the next chapter. 
And so once, you know, next 

1441
01:33:57,800 --> 01:33:59,800
week, we're going to start a 
month of working on healthy 

1442
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:03,640
marriages, healthy friendships 
and healthy relationships. 

1443
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:06,640
It's a series of messages called
Stop in the Name of Love. 

1444
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:08,640
And if a song just played in 
your head, then you're of a 

1445
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:14,360
certain age. 
But I want you to remember that 

1446
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,360
this baptism is not a denial of 
the past. 

1447
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:18,320
You may watch somebody get 
baptized and be like, well, I 

1448
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:21,400
know that they know what they're
doing right now. 

1449
01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:26,880
It's a declaration that the past
happened, but what a glorious 

1450
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,800
future is ahead of them. 
Scripture says it this way In 

1451
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:33,680
Romans 6, it says, for we died 
and we were buried with Christ 

1452
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:37,200
by baptism, and just as Christ 
was raised from the dead by the 

1453
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:42,400
glorious power of the Father, 
now we may also live new lives. 

1454
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:45,560
If today is that day for you, 
make it happen. 

1455
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:50,240
And if it is not that day for 
you, I hope I hear you guys 

1456
01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:52,360
cheer them on. 
Do not we know how sometimes you

1457
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,040
go to graduation? 
They're like, Please wait until 

1458
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:57,800
they've all crossed until you. 
No, no, no, you cheer for every 

1459
01:34:57,800 --> 01:34:59,840
one of them as they come up out 
of that water. 

1460
01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:00,200
Amen.