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I hope that today will go well. 
I am, well, relaxed. 

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I'm back from vacation. 
I got to relax, which is rare. 

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I only learned how to do that in
the last three years, which I 

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wish was a joke. 
I also got to get out my 

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aggression by practicing 
wrestling moves on my kids in 

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the pool. 
Here's the thing. 

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Look, when they're in their 20s,
it's going to hurt me to do 

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this. 
So I got to do it now my son 

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said, you know what, in 20 years
I'm going to do these moves on 

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you. 
And I said, I'll be an old man 

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then you can't do it to me then.
But I walked away thinking, I 

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wonder if he's going to. 
You could turn to Ephesians 

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chapter 4. 
That's where we're going to 

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start. 
The reason I say I hope today 

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goes well is not because I'm 
worried about the message, but 

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because this is I'm gloriously 
middle-aged. 

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I'm in the middle of my 40s and 
I this is my second time trying 

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to preach with my bifocals on. 
So if you see me do this, I'm 

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not old, I'm just on my way. 
Last week we spoke a lot about 

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how to test and tune the voice 
of God. 

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We talked about the different 
voices that can get inside your 

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head, including your own or the 
enemy, and how important it is 

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to to have discernment on this. 
Has anybody tried extra this 

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week to try and hear the voice 
of God? 

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Anybody try to do this week? 
OK, good, good, good. 

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Don't stop just because it was 
last week's homework, right? 

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Keep doing this because the more
you learn His voice, the more 

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established that voice is. 
You will hear His voice all over

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the place in small ways, 
tangible ways, different ways. 

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But I want to take the next step
this morning because eventually 

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you're going to also have to ask
why the Holy Spirit wants to 

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speak to you in the first place.
One of the biggest things that 

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we'll ask God is why don't you 
do this? 

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Why don't you fix this? 
Why don't you come and do this? 

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And, and of course, a lot of 
that will will be summed up 

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sometimes. 
And something that Jared 

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mentioned while I was in 
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Why do, why do bad things 
happen, right? 

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Why do bad things happen to good
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But ultimately, why do things 
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And so we ask these things of 
the Lord, but he's also speaking

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to us and asking things of us. 
So obviously God speaks to you 

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first and foremost because he 
loves us. 

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He leads you because He cares 
about you. 

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And there's going to be times 
that you desperately need a 

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direction from God. 
And I believe that the Holy 

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Spirit will give you that 
direction. 

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But if the only time you talk to
God is because you need 

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direction, then your 
relationship has accidentally, 

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hopefully become transactional. 
I'll come to you when I need 

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something God. 
I'll come to you when I need an 

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answer to this, when I need a 
direction. 

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And I think that when you are in
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there are going to be times that
you make a terrible decision or 

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you're about to make a terrible 
decision and he will make you 

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uncomfortable enough to stop 
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Sometimes he might remind you of
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sometimes he might convict you, 
and sometimes it might just be 

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encouragement. 
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But if you're not careful, you 
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relationship with God about what
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And this cannot be for a mature 
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So God speak to me, God help me,
God direct me, God encourage me,

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God give me peace, God fix the 
situation. 

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God tell me what to do. 
These are all normal things that

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we say in our prayers and none 
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are the only things that we want
to hear from God. 

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Because I pray those prayers 
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But the Holy Spirit is not 
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to give you all the answers. 
He was given to you. 

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And Jesus said it was better 
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with you than Jesus himself, 
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this is better is because the 
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in one body. 
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Jesus is doing what Jesus does. 
He said he's about to go. 

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And then the same Spirit that 
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dwell within every single one of
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So now it's about to spread 
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believers. 
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So the Holy Spirit doesn't just 
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wants to do something through 
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Every single person here, if he 
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and I mean this, this is not a 
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have work for you to do, you 
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OK. 
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somebody leaves like they've 
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means they've accomplished their
mission and he's decided to take

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him home. 
But I do think there's a lot of 

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Christians that genuinely love 
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really thought about themselves 
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Because we tend to think pastors
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have a calling, worship leaders 
have a calling, and maybe the 

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people who work at the church 
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But everybody else just loves 
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tries to be a good person. 
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volunteer when somebody guilts 
them into it and then hopes they

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make it to heaven one day. 
Does that sound like the vibrant

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New Testament church that Jesus 
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Paul gives us a different 
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took me many years to get to 
this, but I want you to 

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understand this. 
This is going to be a very big 

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introduction to the sermon. 
And then the points are a little

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bit smaller today. 
And it has to be that way so 

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that you can understand the way 
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OK, before we jump into what we 
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want us to miss why Paul is 
talking to the church in Ephesus

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about these gifts. 
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of this message that he's giving
to the church in Ephesus, he's 

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explaining what Jesus has done 
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And when he gets to chapter 4, 
he starts talking about people 

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who received that grace and how 
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And one of the first things he 
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he talks about unity and he 
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becoming one body. 
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conversation, he starts talking 
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That's more important than you 
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not meant to separate us into 
categories where one group is 

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more spiritual than another. 
It's not like when you go to 

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BuzzFeed and you're like, what 
character from Friends would I 

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be? 
Right? 

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This is not what it is. 
Chandler, by the way, take him. 

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So not that anybody who ever 
tested it, Ross would tell you, 

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but it's not like, let me take a
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This is who I am. 
No, no, no. 

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This is to help you find ways 
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build his church. 
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We're going to read the first 16
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In Ephesians chapter 4, Paul 
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serving the Lord. 
Beg you, beg you to lead a life 

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worthy of your calling, for you 
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Always be humble and gentle. 
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making allowance for each 
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love. 
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that. 
How many of us struggle to make 

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allowances for other people's 
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Make every effort to keep 
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binding yourselves together with
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For there is how many? 
One body and one Spirit, just as

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you've been called to. 1 
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And listen how much this number 
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There is one Lord, 1 faith, one 
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all who is over All in all, and 
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Verse 7 is so important. 7 and 
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the most today. 
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However, He has given each one 
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generosity of Christ. 
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Is that all? 
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And it says that is why the 
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to the heights, He led a crowd 
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his people. 
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says he ascended. 
This clearly means that Christ 

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also descended to our lowly 
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And the same one who descended 
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than all the heavens so that he 
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with his self. 
How does he fill the entire 

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universe? 
With Himself through us, through

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his body. 
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And this is important because in
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generosity of Christ. 
This is a specific set of gifts 

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given to you from Jesus, who we 
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and
it is designed to help you build

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up the church. 
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Now these are the gifts that 
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apostles, the prophets, the 
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teachers. 
Their responsibility is to equip

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God's people to do His work and 
build up the church, the body of

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Christ. 
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come to such unity in our faith 
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we will be mature in the Lord 
measuring up to the full and 

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complete standard of Christ. 
Now before I read the last 

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couple verses, I just want you 
to know there are people and 

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there are churches that teach 
that not all of these gifts are 

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still active today. 
Here's my problem with that. 

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This will continue until we all 
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and knowledge of God's Son that 
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measuring up to the full and 
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If you measure up to the full 
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Come on up here. 
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I don't count. 
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longer be immature like 
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We won't be tossed and blown 
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teaching. 
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people who try to trick us with 
lies so clever that they sound 

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like the truth. 
Instead, we will speak the truth

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in love, growing in every way 
more and more like Christ, who 

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is the head of his body, the 
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And verse 16 says this. 
He makes the whole body fit 

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together perfectly. 
As each part does its own 

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special work, it helps the other
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body is healthy and growing and 
full of love. 

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Now, if you've been around you 
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I teach on gifts, whether it's 
the gifts of the Father, the 

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Son, or the Holy Spirit, and 
they all have different sets, I 

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always say that your gift is for
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Every gift that God gives you, 
as far as these spiritual gifts 

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go, is not for you. 
It is designed for somebody 

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else. 
So when you don't use it for 

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other people, you are not only 
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It is abnormal use of your gift.
That last verse says that as 

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each part does its own special 
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It helps the other parts grow. 
So as you do your work, it does 

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not help you grow, but it does 
help the other people grow. 

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But if you're doing your gifts 
the right way and your work is 

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being done, then you're helping 
me grow. 

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This is the way that this works 
for all of us. 

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And there's a lot here, and 
we're going to come back to it 

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at the end of the message. 
But I want you to understand 

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that Paul spends a lot of time 
talking about 1 One body, 

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spirit, hope, Lord, faith, 
baptism, one God and Father. 

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And then he gets to verse 7 and 
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We are one, but we are not the 
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And that is important for you to
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One of the biggest traps that a 
Christian falls into is 

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expecting a believer as they 
mature to become the same as 

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them. 
This could not be further from 

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the heart of God. 
I think sometimes we 

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accidentally confuse those two 
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We think that unity means 
everybody should think like me, 

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care about the things that I 
care about, or notice the things

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that that I notice. 
And so every so often you'll 

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notice there's a Christian that 
comes along who loves Jesus just

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as much as you do, but sees 
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And I think sometimes instead of
thinking maybe Jesus put 

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something different in them 
because the church needs 

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something different from them, 
we think something along the 

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lines of what is wrong with 
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Some of you are even married to 
that person. 

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They see things differently and 
you're like, what is wrong with 

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them? 
Why can't they see it or behave 

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the way that I do? 
But Paul is telling us in this 

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verse that the differences 
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needs to be fixed. 
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different because Jesus 
intentionally built them 

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differently for the body. 
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is known as fivefold ministry, 
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evangelist, pastor, and teacher.
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background, some of those words 
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others. 
Pastor doesn't bother anybody in

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a church. 
Teacher doesn't really bother 

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anybody either. 
Evangelist sounds a little more 

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old school, but we're OK with 
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And then somebody says profit. 
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anxious. 
And then if somebody walks into 

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a church and introduces 
themselves as hi, I'm Apostle 

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Frank, half of you are already 
checking to make sure you still 

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have your wallet and they're not
asking you to sow into this love

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gift so you can receive a 
blessing from the Lord. 

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I understand that Christians 
have done some really messed up 

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things with titles, but I don't 
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titles. 
The purpose of this chapter is 

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not titles, it's functions. 
I'm interested in the different 

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ways that Jesus equips his 
people to continue his work. 

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I don't think Paul is describing
5 people who do all the ministry

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while everybody else watches. 
We're supposed to equip God's 

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people, so I want you to 
understand that when it says 

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they're supposed to equip God's 
people to do His work and build 

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up the church, you are God's 
people. 

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This is about you. 
This is about me. 

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You might today finally 
understand why certain things 

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bother you that don't seem to 
bother other people. 

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You might understand why you 
keep seeing possibilities 

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everywhere you go and nobody 
else does. 

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You might understand why you are
always thinking about the people

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that aren't in the room more 
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You might understand why you 
seem to always find people that 

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are hurting and they approach 
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And you might understand why you
can't leave anything unexplained

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to save your life, even if 
people would rather you were a 

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little more quiet. 
OK, how many of you took the 

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test that we handed out last 
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OK, all right, if you didn't, 
we're going to have some more at

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the end of service if you want 
to take one. 

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But please, please, please 
understand this. 

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There's 10 questions for each of
these 5 gifts and this gift was 

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not handed down to me on a stone
tablet. 

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OK, so this is not like where 
you're going to to finally 

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understand everything about 
yourself. 

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This is like a compass. 
It's just to help you kind of 

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narrow it down. 
I also want you to understand a 

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couple things that the scripture
does not say. 

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It does not say that you can 
only be equipped in one of them.

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It does not say that you will 
always have one gift active. 

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It says that God has given 
certain people certain things 

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for doing certain things well 
and whatever season you find 

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yourself in, He will equip you 
for it. 

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So you may say, well, I took 
this two years ago, I don't need

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to take it again. 
Great, you passed the 1st grade.

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This is not your exam. 
This is like an assessment to 

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see where you are. 
Let's start with the one that 

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probably needs the most 
explanation and that is the gift

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of apostle. 
When you hear that word, you 

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probably think about the 12 
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Most of us do at least, and for 
good reason. 

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They are called the apostles all
throughout the Scripture. 

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Of course, there's over 20 
people that are called apostles,

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and many of them are not the 12 
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Scriptures. 
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those 12 though, because they 
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Jesus chose them. 
He handpicked them to be his 

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apostles. 
Although I would say he's still 

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handpicking people. 
We're not pretending that 

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everybody who scores high in 
this area gets to add themselves

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to the 12. 
Judas does not still have an 

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opening that you get to fill. 
It's not like there's a help 

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wanted sign. 
OK, but the word itself carries 

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this idea of being sent. 
These are people that tend to 

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push the mission forward into 
new places. 

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They build things, they start 
things, they help equip people. 

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They see what could be before 
anybody else can see it all the 

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time. 
This is an important thing. 

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A builder can walk into 
something that's perfectly fine 

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and immediately think about what
it could become. 

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They could see a person who's 
doing OK. 

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They're adequate, but they can 
see who they could become. 

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They could wander, wander into a
restaurant and start thinking 

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about how they could fit 12 more
tables in here if they would 

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just move that one wall. 
And nobody asked them to do 

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this. 
But their brain just works this 

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way. 
In the church, those that have 

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the gift of apostle, little a 
apostle, are normally the people

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that are thinking about what's 
next. 

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How do we reach more people? 
Where, where could we start? 

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What is what is not being done 
right now? 

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How could we organize this 
better? 

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Who could we develop to lead 
that? 

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And, and how do we take 
something that works with 20 

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people, but make it work with 
200? 

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And then when everybody else is 
saying we've never done that 

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before, which is like a death 
sentence in a church, There is 

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something inside of the apostle 
or who I would call a builder 

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that hears that and says 
exactly, nobody's ever done it 

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before. 
That's why we have to try it. 

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And I want you to understand 
this. 

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We need that in the church 
today. 

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Without builders, it's easy to 
become comfortable maintaining 

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what already exists, and we can 
keep doing what we've always 

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done for the same people we've 
always done it for and the way 

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that we've always done it. 
But you never notice that God 

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might be calling you to 
somewhere new. 

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Some do this naturally, and it 
may not even primarily be at 

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church. 
You might do it at work or in 

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your home. 
You organize things, start 

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things, see inefficiencies in 
the office or in the kitchen or 

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pantry, and you reorganize 
everything. 

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But that doesn't necessarily 
mean you're an apostle. 

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OK, Let me just say that I don't
want you to go home and tell 

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your spouse, Pastor Blake said. 
Because I reorganized the 

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pantry, I am an apostle and I 
would like to be referred to as 

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such in this home. 
But all I am telling you is 

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this, pay attention to what you 
consistently see. 

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Pay attention to what you 
naturally do, the kinds of 

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problems that make something 
inside of you come alive because

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you immediately start imagining 
how they could be solved and 

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pieced together. 
Jesus gives builders to his 

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church because the mission has 
to move. 

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OK, now let's talk about 
prophets. 

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I always put apostles and 
prophets together because those 

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are the ones that historically, 
when you read the Scriptures, 

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they're the ones that get thrown
like rocks at and they're the 

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ones that get killed. 
Congrats if he tested in that. 

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All right, he gives his church 
profits. 

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Well, this one can come with 
even more baggage sometimes 

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because when somebody comes up 
to you and says the Lord told 

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me, fill in the blank, that can 
make it feel heavy. 

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And for a lot of people, when 
you hear about a prophet, you 

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start thinking about predicting 
the future, because you see that

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a lot, primarily in the Old 
Testament. 

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Maybe you've seen somebody on 
television tell you that God 

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showed them something that would
happen in America next year, and

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then it didn't happen, but they 
accidentally meant the year 

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after next. 
Maybe somebody gave you a 

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prophetic word at some point and
it hit hard. 

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Maybe they gave you a prophetic 
word at some point and it 

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derailed your life. 
We're going to deal with 

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prophecy much more directly 
later in this series. 

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And I'm not going to try to 
answer every question about 

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prophecy today. 
But for today, I want you to 

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understand that this functions 
best with the word aligner. 

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And I hate using that word, but 
I can't find a better one that 

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fits better. 
The reason I hate it is because 

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so many people spit out AI 
garbage on the Internet, and 

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alignment is one of those 
trigger words that AI uses. 

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I'm just venting, and I walked 
away from the pulpit to do so. 

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But to put things into proper 
alignment is something that 

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really, really does matter. 
Because you can have things and 

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have them be almost right. 
But as we talked about last 

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week, discernment is not knowing
the difference between right and

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wrong. 
It's knowing the difference 

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between right and almost right. 
So these people look at where 

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God's people are and compare it 
to where God says they're 

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supposed to be. 
And when those two things don't 

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match, they have a really hard 
time keeping quiet about it. 

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This is normally the person who 
says, yeah, but is this the 

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right thing? 
So the builder might be excited 

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because something's growing the 
apostle. 

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But the prophet or the aligner 
might be asking, yeah, but are 

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we growing in the right 
direction? 

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Growing is fine, but are we 
growing the right way? 

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We need both of these people. 
Can you see this? 

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Because something can be popular
and still be wrong. 

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Something can still draw a crowd
and still be wrong. 

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Something can be something that 
we've done in church for 30 

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years and still need somebody to
have the courage to ask us. 

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Where exactly did Jesus ask us 
to do that? 

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Prophets care a lot about truth.
They can be a little blunt or a 

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lot blunt sometimes because they
notice inconsistencies and they 

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can sense that something isn't 
right before they can completely

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explain why it's not right. 
They are often bothered by 

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things that nobody else is 
bothered by whatsoever. 

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And you may recognize this in 
yourself. 

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Maybe you spent half your life 
wondering why doesn't this 

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bother anybody else? 
Maybe there's a reason, maybe 

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there's not something wrong with
everybody else, but you're just 

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noticing your gift and you've 
never fine-tuned it the way that

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God wants you to. 
Maybe Jesus put people in his 

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body who are supposed to notice 
when we're drifting and not cast

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judgement on us because we're 
drifting, but be the ones who 

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are Watchmen on the wall and say
you're drifting and I love you 

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too much to let you keep going. 
Of course, if you're sitting 

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there thinking, finally, my 
spiritual gift is telling people

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when they're wrong, please do 
not get too excited. 

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We'll talk in a few minutes 
about why having a gift and 

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knowing how to use that gift are
two very different things. 

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I want you to understand this. 
If you're a prophet, you have a 

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tremendous gift. 
You also have a tremendous 

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ability to cause damage, just 
like a builder who doesn't 

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listen to anybody can do a 
tremendous amount of damage. 

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It's already something. 
I want you to begin noticing 

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about these gifts. 
Jesus didn't give us just one of

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them because one of them wasn't 
enough. 

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If we all were builders, we 
might build something and then 

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discover it's really gross, it's
really messed up, it's 

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unappealing. 
If he made everybody profits or 

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aligners, then we might spend 
the next 17 years making 

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absolutely certain we're pointed
in the right direction, but we 

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never took one step. 
So Jesus gives us people who ask

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where can we go? 
But he also gives us people that

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can say, are we going where God 
wants? 

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Third, evangelists. 
Evangelists are known as as what

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the people who want to get 
everybody saved. 

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These are the people who make 
the case for the gospel, 

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although scriptures do also say 
that we are all called to do the

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work of an evangelist. 
For this one, I use the word 

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inviter, not just to church, but
into the Kingdom, into 

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discipleship, into new ideas. 
These are the the people that 

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have a hard time enjoying 
something good without thinking 

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about somebody who needs to 
experience it who's not there. 

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If they find a restaurant that 
they love, they have to tell you

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about it. 
If they find a show that they 

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love, they have to tell you 
about it. 

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If they find a deal somewhere, 
Oh my gosh, the savings at Belk,

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then they have to send that link
to 12 people before they've even

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bought what's on sale for 
themselves. 

454
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But when that same instinct gets
connected to the gospel, there 

455
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,840
are people who are constantly 
thinking about people who aren't

456
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,840
here yet. 
These are the people that will 

457
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:20,680
invite you time after time after
time. 

458
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,440
And just because you said no to 
coming one time doesn't mean 

459
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,240
they're done inviting or asking 
you again. 

460
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,360
They have this outward pole. 
And there are people that are 

461
00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,360
far from God, but they feel safe
talking to somebody like this. 

462
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,960
These people can be sitting in a
room full of Christians like 

463
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,720
this. 
And many of us can be having a 

464
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,360
wonderful time and say, this is 
speak and write to me. 

465
00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,040
This is good. 
And they're like, yeah, well, 

466
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,200
what about the people that are 
out there? 

467
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,240
This is good for the people 
here. 

468
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,800
But there's people out there 
that are going to go to hell. 

469
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,880
It's not a bad instinct. 
It's important. 

470
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,600
Some of you hear about this gift
and you can think that sounds 

471
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,520
terrifying. 
What if I tested as evangelist 

472
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,280
and I don't want to go and talk 
to strange people. 

473
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:59,920
We're all strange. 
We're all bizarre and we're all 

474
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,640
called to do the work of an 
evangelist, so you're going to 

475
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,360
have to suck it up and do it. 
I don't have a loophole for you,

476
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,200
but I will tell you this. 
Left to ourselves, this goes for

477
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,200
every church and Liberty Church 
is not excluded from this. 

478
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,640
If we are left to ourselves and 
we don't have the influence of 

479
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,920
an evangelist, let me tell you 
what happens. 

480
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,280
Church has become very inward 
focused. 

481
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,880
We know each other and we love 
each other. 

482
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,480
We see each other at the 
potluck. 

483
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,760
We know our friends, we have our
seats and we know the songs and 

484
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,040
we know how everything works. 
We know roughly what time the 

485
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,880
preacher is going to end. 
I say roughly because you never 

486
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,680
really know. 
And we build this beautiful 

487
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,240
little Christian world and we 
completely forget that Jesus 

488
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,640
told us to go. 
But the evangelist will not let 

489
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,320
you forget that. 
They will make your instinct to 

490
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,480
sit here very difficult. 
They're the person who says, who

491
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,560
else can we bring? 
Hey, I'm looking forward to 

492
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,840
hanging out this Friday. 
I also invited fill in the 

493
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,120
blank. 
I hope that's OK. 

494
00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:56,680
And you're like, of course, 
that's fine. 

495
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,920
Can I tell you something? 
The church needs these people. 

496
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,400
Then you've got the pastors. 
And this one obviously interests

497
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,240
me a little bit because this is 
where I want to separate the 

498
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,560
function from a job title. 
I hate to tell you this, not all

499
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,480
the pastors that you know are 
pastors first and foremost. 

500
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,680
For some reason, pastor has 
become the management term 

501
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,600
amongst clergy or religious 
workers or whatever because it 

502
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,640
would freak out people like hi, 
I'm teacher Dave, hi, I'm 

503
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,440
evangelist Mike, like, you know,
whatever. 

504
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,520
And so it it sounds they're not 
meant to be titles, right? 

505
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,200
But pastor is normally the name 
or the title in front of the 

506
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,520
name of who leads a church. 
There are some churches that 

507
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,320
have apostle or evangelist in 
front of their name, but it's 

508
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,160
not the norm. 
But let me tell you what I've 

509
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,080
always told people when I 
disciple them to find their, 

510
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,200
their their calling. 
Your career is not your calling.

511
00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,800
Before I was ever ordained as a 
pastor, here I was catching what

512
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,400
I call word vomit from people 
where I would know somebody for 

513
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,960
like 3 days and they start 
telling me about childhood 

514
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,880
trauma. 
And in my head I'm thinking why 

515
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,680
are you telling me this? 
You should not be telling me 

516
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,520
this. 
You do not know me this this 

517
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:11,560
well. 
But OK. 

518
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,320
Well hey, here's some advice. 
Let me talk about what a pastor 

519
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,680
is. 
A pastor is a shepherd. 

520
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,480
That is literally what pastor 
comes from. 

521
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,440
Poi main is the word in the 
Greek. 

522
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,720
And there are people in this 
room that have never been 

523
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,160
employed by a church, never 
preached A sermon, never stood 

524
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,280
on a platform, and has never had
anybody call them pastor. 

525
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,840
But you've been shepherding 
people for years and you know 

526
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,840
who you are because people find 
you. 

527
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,880
You catch their word vomit as 
well. 

528
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,200
Somebody's marriage is falling 
apart and they call you. 

529
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,000
Somebody's got a bad diagnosis, 
they call you. 

530
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,880
Somebody's kid is struggling and
they call you. 

531
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,480
Somebody at church hasn't been 
there for two weeks, and while 

532
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,040
everybody else assumes that 
they're just busy, you're 

533
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,960
already texting them because you
noticed shepherds notice people 

534
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,840
more than the others. 
The builder can walk into a room

535
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,440
and see what can be improved. 
The the a lion or a prophet can 

536
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,480
walk in and notice what doesn't 
feel right, and the inviter 

537
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,880
notices who's not there. 
But the shepherd walks in the 

538
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,160
same room and notices the people
and who's hurting and who seems 

539
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,840
alone and who seems lonely. 
So I say it again, we need this 

540
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,760
in the church. 
We need it because it's possible

541
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,640
to build something that reaches 
a lot of people and still not 

542
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,760
take very good care of them once
they get here. 

543
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,760
I've had people ask me before if
I've thought about going to two 

544
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,600
services. 
I've thought about it. 

545
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,280
I ain't there. 
I'm not there and I'll tell you 

546
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,280
why. 
I've not heard that from the 

547
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,240
Lord. 
But I've been going to this 

548
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,800
church over half of my life and 
I've been in several time frames

549
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,160
where we had two services. 
And let me tell you what, you 

550
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:56,120
end up with two churches. 
You can invite somebody to 

551
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,240
church. 
Would you like to come and try 

552
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,040
out Liberty? 
I I really love liberty. 

553
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,240
And they go, oh, I go to 
liberty. 

554
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,120
I go at 8:30. 
Oh, I go at 10:30. 

555
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:06,520
That's why I never see you. 
And you could say, well, praise 

556
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:07,920
God. 
Two churches. 

557
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:08,960
Two. 
Yeah, that's great. 

558
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,600
Unless you're a kids worker, 
right. 

559
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,400
Here's a secret. 
Pastors won't tell you this. 

560
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,400
We love to talk. 
So preaching twice is not a 

561
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:25,520
problem, but equipping the care 
team to help you with your 

562
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,800
seats, the childcare, having the
band rotate in and out for two 

563
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,760
different, it's a whole 
different ordeal. 

564
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,400
And if the Lord tells us to do 
it, you need to know I'll be the

565
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,160
first person running to do it. 
Every time we get to the time of

566
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,240
year that most people call 
Easter, we call it Resurrection 

567
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,520
Sunday here. 
If you call it Easter, it's 

568
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,560
fine. 
You're not going to hell, you're

569
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,840
OK. 
But every time we get there, I 

570
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,440
see all of these big campaigns 
for churches driving people and 

571
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,320
saying this is the time we can 
get them here. 

572
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,600
And by the way, we do the same 
thing. 

573
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,960
We put like breakfast out in the
back corner so you can have 

574
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,560
something to eat. 
We do family photos. 

575
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,920
We know that there's people who 
are going to come on Christmas 

576
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:01,360
and Easter that don't normally 
come. 

577
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,920
We call them CEO Christmas and 
Easter only Christians and they 

578
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,040
can come. 
But I see so many big campaigns 

579
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,120
about let's fill the seats, 
let's fill the seats. 

580
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,880
It's fine as long as you have 
something for them to connect to

581
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,880
once they're here. 
Once they're here, what happens 

582
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,560
on the Sunday after Easter? 
Have they found their people? 

583
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,760
Let me tell you one of the 
things that I wish I hadn't 

584
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,040
done. 
And I'm just, I'm just being 

585
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,800
myself and I'm just being raw 
and honest because I'm letting 

586
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,520
the Holy Spirit just take me 
wherever he wants to. 

587
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,880
A couple years ago, we had one 
of my very best ministry heroes 

588
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,240
here on an Easter Sunday, on a 
Resurrection Sunday. 

589
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,920
His name is Pastor Bob Sorgate. 
Love that man. 

590
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,920
I've never heard a bad message 
from him and I regret bringing 

591
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,400
him here and I regret bringing 
him here because on an Easter 

592
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,560
Sunday, on a Resurrection Sunday
where people came in for the 

593
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,080
very first time, I had somebody 
come up here and preach a 

594
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,840
message and they were not 
familiar with who we are. 

595
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,840
They did not get a snapshot of 
what we will be like the next 

596
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,120
Sunday. 
They got a snapshot of a guest 

597
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,280
speaker with with a speaking 
difficulty. 

598
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,960
That really makes him somebody 
you really want to lean into and

599
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,680
and listen to because he has 
damaged vocal cords with his 

600
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,600
testimony and a word that the 
Lord gave him. 

601
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,680
It was a great message. 
And in my mind, I thought this 

602
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,360
would be a wonderful thing to 
do. 

603
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,320
And he's available and he's 
willing to do it. 

604
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,760
And I regretted doing it. 
And I've talked with Bob about 

605
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:24,960
it. 
He'll come back again. 

606
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,520
Bob is actually over there in 
that picture, right under Make a

607
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,600
Difference, the bottom one on 
the left, he's, he's hugging 

608
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,400
Bobby right there. 
Bob is a good friend of this 

609
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,480
church and he'll be back again. 
But my pastor's heart, I didn't 

610
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,160
think about it the right way. 
Right. 

611
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,160
So we can bring people in, but 
what do we have for them when 

612
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,680
they get here? 
Jesus puts people in his church 

613
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,720
that are willing to stay and 
listen and care and check back 

614
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,320
with people and remember the 
name of your parents and your 

615
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,800
grandparents. 
It's they sit with people when 

616
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,400
there's nothing impressive to 
say. 

617
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,360
They don't always need to solve 
the problem. 

618
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,080
They just refuse to let somebody
walk through it alone. 

619
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,080
That's a shepherd. 
We need that in the church. 

620
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,880
And the last one is the teacher.
For this, I would say thank 

621
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,680
explainer because some of you 
already knew who you were before

622
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,400
you took this test when you saw 
a teacher there. 

623
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,960
Everybody around you is 
eventually going to know it too 

624
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,720
because somebody will ask a 
simple question and 30 minutes 

625
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,000
later they'll start to regret 
it. 

626
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,520
Oh, what kind of coffee is this?
And you say, well, that's 

627
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,560
actually interesting that you 
would ask because the elevation 

628
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,320
where the bean grows affects the
acidity. 

629
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,400
And there are really two major 
species of coffee bean. 

630
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,680
They don't care anymore, just so
you know, but you do. 

631
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,800
Explainers want to understand 
how things work, and once they 

632
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,360
understand, they want to make it
understandable to everybody 

633
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,320
else. 
And in the church, can you 

634
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,280
understand how incredibly 
important this is? 

635
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,040
Because we are dealing with 
truth that people need to 

636
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,080
understand and not just repeat. 
I don't want a room full of 

637
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,040
Christians that can regurgitate 
the Scriptures if you can't 

638
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,520
digest them. 
That wasn't even my notes. 

639
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,480
That's so good. 
Write it down for me. 

640
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,880
Somebody give it text me. 
OK, text me in church. 

641
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,360
This is why teachers don't just 
make you impressed with how much

642
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,000
they know you're impressed with 
a good teacher because they help

643
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,440
you understand it. 
So This is why sometimes you 

644
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,080
need tutors. 
We all have kids that get to 

645
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,120
that age where we're like, oh, 
no, you have eclipsed what I can

646
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:23,880
help you with on the homework, 
right? 

647
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,240
And then you, you find somebody 
who understands that some people

648
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,680
just have this uncanny knack for
imparting information. 

649
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,160
It could be about golf, yes. 
It could be about coffee and how

650
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,800
to make the right latte. 
It could be about how to build 

651
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,560
something. 
I'm going to tell you something 

652
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,560
when I need to build something. 
I, I talked to Mike Helm. 

653
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,760
I'm like, this is a calculated 
risk, but you're better with 

654
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760
those calculations than I am. 
Can you help me? 

655
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,320
You want to go to somebody who's
knowledgeable about it, right? 

656
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,120
Can you understand why we would 
need these people in the church?

657
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,520
So put all 5 together for a 
second. 

658
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,440
The builder says, where can we 
go? 

659
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,600
The aligner or the prophet says,
are we going where God wants? 

660
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,440
The inviter or the evangelist 
says, who are we going to bring 

661
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,920
with us? 
The shepherd would say, how is 

662
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,840
everybody doing along the way? 
And the explainer is asking, 

663
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,600
doesn't everybody understand 
where we're going and why? 

664
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,480
You see what happens here. 
They're not 5 competing visions 

665
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,640
for the church. 
They need each other and hope 

666
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,800
you're beginning to understand 
why the people sitting around 

667
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,600
you can love the same Jesus, 
read the same Bible and it's on 

668
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,560
the same church and still care 
so much more about different 

669
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,840
things. 
It's because they're supposed 

670
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,640
to, and the goal was never for 
everybody to start seeing what 

671
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,080
you see. 
Jesus intentionally gave them 

672
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,160
something different because you 
need what they see. 

673
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,880
Before this morning is over, I 
want to talk about what happens 

674
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,640
when these gifts start competing
with one another. 

675
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,720
But the first thing is when you 
find what gift you have, the 

676
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,480
Lord expects you to do something
with it, and it is your job to 

677
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,200
develop it. 
Develop it. 

678
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,760
So let's assume that somewhere 
in that five you recognized 

679
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,160
yourself. 
Maybe 1 was an immediate focus 

680
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,840
right away, but maybe you saw 
yourself in two. 

681
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,240
That's OK too. 
Maybe you're still not 

682
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,040
completely sure. 
You know how you discover what 

683
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,880
your gift is. 
Really, it's not the test. 

684
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,640
The test will give you some 
clues you discover by using it. 

685
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,720
If you say, well, this thing 
says that I'm a pastor, well, 

686
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,280
there are things that are 
pastoral that you can try to do.

687
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,160
You try things, you serve 
somewhere. 

688
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,600
You pay attention to what 
happens. 

689
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,200
You notice when there's fruit, 
and you notice what keeps 

690
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,080
pulling at your heart and where 
other people consistently 

691
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,520
recognize something in you. 
Sometimes you actually will try 

692
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,920
something and discover that 
you're terrible at it, which is 

693
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,160
also very valuable information. 
Sometimes you'll go on this 

694
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,800
evangelistic crusade to go and 
try to help people and you are 

695
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,920
bored and you cannot be bothered
and you're trying to think about

696
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,280
things that you could build at 
your church. 

697
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,160
Great. 
You know what we don't need when

698
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,120
we're trying to win the lost? 
People who aren't evangelistic 

699
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,000
in that moment. 
You know who we don't need in 

700
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,280
kids church? 
People that hate kids. 

701
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,960
By the way, the kids know it 
before you know it, you know who

702
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,800
we don't need at the door 
greeting some. 

703
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,880
We have such a great care team. 
How many of you all felt super 

704
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,040
welcomed by people when you came
to this church for the first 

705
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:14,040
time? 
But if you walked in and there 

706
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:19,920
was somebody standing there and 
they're like, hey, be like, OK, 

707
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,239
I guess I'll go find my own 
seat. 

708
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,679
Where are the bathrooms? 
Over there. 

709
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:32,760
All right, if you try something,
try it for a month, two months, 

710
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,400
whatever. 
I don't know. 

711
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,400
Try serving somewhere. 
Not just in the church, just in 

712
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,679
the community, right? 
Too many sermons from different 

713
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,280
churches are all about volunteer
at this church and I'm sick of 

714
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,199
it. 
Makes me want to throw up. 

715
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:42,840
We all need volunteers. 
I get it. 

716
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,239
We especially need it, by the 
way, in kids ministry and tech 

717
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,880
arts. 
I'll throw that out there. 

718
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,000
But I'm telling you, get 
involved in the Kingdom. 

719
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,520
The Kingdom is. 
Would it not be a sad Kingdom 

720
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,719
that we serve if the Kingdom fit
inside this room? 

721
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,520
So try it somewhere. 
I just want you to know that 

722
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,640
sometimes we've made Our Calling
so mystical that people are 

723
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,360
waiting for the clouds to part 
and then say, Cody, thou art a 

724
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,000
teacher. 
Most of the time, if you have 

725
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,720
that, I don't know, you ate a 
bad mushroom, right? 

726
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:17,320
Or like, there's just something 
going on somewhere along the 

727
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,720
way. 
Most people get their own 

728
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,000
calling this way. 
They realize God keeps using me 

729
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,240
in this area. 
And by the way, the best, the 

730
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:29,920
best perspective it is to to 
have on this is this. 

731
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,200
I cannot believe God keeps using
me like this. 

732
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,720
I cannot believe that was 
helpful. 

733
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,040
I didn't know what I was going 
to say when they came up to me, 

734
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,920
but then this just came out and 
the Lord used you. 

735
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,960
When you notice this happens 
repeatedly, it's a great sign. 

736
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,640
When Pastor Tom, my pastor got 
ready to retire, by the way, he 

737
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,120
sends his love. 
I had dinner with him while I 

738
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,920
was down in Myrtle Beach. 
You may say like he didn't send 

739
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,040
his love to me. 
He doesn't know me. 

740
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,040
No, he still sent his love. 
He didn't have to know you to 

741
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,200
love you. 
He wrote down an ordination for 

742
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,320
me, one final ordination slip. 
He had renewed it a few times 

743
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,280
when he was the the ordaining 
agent here. 

744
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,240
And he always ordained me as 
pastor. 

745
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:09,960
And then he ordained it as 
pastor, teacher on the piece of 

746
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,160
paper. 
Now, that piece of paper doesn't

747
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,800
dictate what my gift is. 
That's not even where my number 

748
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,760
one gift normally tests. 
But he wrote teacher. 

749
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,680
And I just said, you 
accidentally put teacher on 

750
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,200
here. 
Did you mean to do that? 

751
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:26,560
And he went, yeah. 
And I said, OK, you know what I 

752
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,640
have found over the last five 
years that he's been retired, I 

753
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,280
teach. 
I don't just like preach the 

754
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,360
gospel like I do teach. 
I break down like I'm a teacher.

755
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,320
I didn't notice it. 
I needed somebody else on the 

756
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,280
outside to see it and call it 
out. 

757
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,160
And so do you. 
We're going to be in Matthew 

758
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,680
chapter 25. 
I told you over this series, 

759
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,840
we're going to hit hit a lot of 
like very well known scripture 

760
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,920
stories. 
When you discover what your gift

761
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,280
is, you have not reached the 
finish line. 

762
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,480
Sweet. 
Put it on an ordination 

763
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,600
certificate. 
Put it on the wall. 

764
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,360
Once you recognize it, you have 
a responsibility to develop it. 

765
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,560
I've said this to people before 
when they have the gift of 

766
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,960
teacher, but those who have a 
lot to teach, they have a lot to

767
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,320
learn, right? 
So we all have things to do 

768
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,520
along the way. 
In Matthew 25, you can see that 

769
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,400
Jesus is going to talk about 
things called talents. 

770
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,360
He's talking about money here. 
But I want you to know that this

771
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,240
does apply all the same. 
And we're going to start in 

772
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:27,160
verse 14 words of Jesus. 
He says the Kingdom of heaven 

773
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,320
can be illustrated by the story 
of a man going on a long trip. 

774
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,960
He called together his servants 
and he entrusted his money to 

775
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,880
them. 
While he was gone, He gave 5 

776
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,280
bags of silver. 
Or your translation may save 5 

777
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,280
talents to 1-2 bags of silver to
another, and one bag of silver 

778
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,640
to the last, dividing it in 
proportion to their abilities. 

779
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,840
And then he left on his trip. 
Pause. 

780
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,960
How good is God that he will 
hand you gifts in proportion to 

781
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,520
your ability? 
Could you imagine if you had the

782
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,640
ability level 1 and he gave you 
5? 

783
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,520
How cruel would that be right? 
Don't leave house and tell your 

784
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,120
9 year old when I get back I 
expect that transmission to be 

785
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,120
rebuilt in the engine or you're 
grounded. 

786
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,000
OK right? 
Ain't going to happen. 

787
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,120
You might just be trying to 
ground them. 

788
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,960
If that's the case, well done, 
it's going to happen. 

789
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,040
I want you to know that he gives
you the gifts that you can 

790
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,120
handle, even if you think that 
you can't. 

791
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,360
Now listen, Says the servant who
received the 5 bags of silver, 

792
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,560
began to invest the money and 
earned 5 more. 

793
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,280
Yay, doubled it. 
The servant with two bags of 

794
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,920
silver also went to work and 
earned 2 more, doubled it, and 

795
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,280
the servant who received the one
bag of silver dug a hole in the 

796
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,760
ground and hid the masters 
money. 

797
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,840
After a long time, their master 
returned from the trip, and he 

798
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,160
called them to give an account 
of how they had used his money. 

799
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,880
The servant to whom he had 
entrusted 5 bags of silver came 

800
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,800
forward with five more, and he 
said, Master, you gave me 5 bags

801
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,880
of silver to invest, I've earned
5 more. 

802
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,880
The master was full of praise. 
Well done, good and faithful 

803
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,480
servant. 
You've been faithful in handling

804
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,240
this small amount, so now I'll 
give you many more 

805
00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,560
responsibilities. 
Let's celebrate together. 

806
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,200
Same thing happens with with the
servant who has 2 bags. 

807
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,280
He says let's celebrate 
together. 

808
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,200
And then in verse 24, the 
servant with one bag of silver 

809
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:13,000
came and said, master, I knew 
you were a harsh man harvesting 

810
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,240
crops you didn't plant and 
gathering crops you didn't 

811
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,280
cultivate. 
By the way, before you think 

812
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,400
like that makes God sound bad. 
What do you think interest is? 

813
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,800
OK, I was afraid I would lose 
your money so I hid it in the 

814
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,240
earth. 
Look, here's your money back. 

815
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,520
And the master replied, You 
wicked and lazy servant, if you 

816
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,320
knew I harvested crops I didn't 
plant and gathered crops I 

817
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,760
didn't cultivate, why didn't you
deposit my money in the bank? 

818
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,080
At least I could have gotten 
some interest on it. 

819
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,160
And then he ordered, Take the 
money from this servant and give

820
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,000
it to the one who has 10 bags of
silver. 

821
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,120
To those who use well what 
they're given, even more will be

822
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,400
given, and they will have an 
abundance. 

823
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,280
But from those who do nothing, 
even what little they have will 

824
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,840
be taken away. 
Now throw this useless servant 

825
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,840
out into outer darkness, where 
they will be weeping and 

826
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,920
gnashing a teeth. 
Yay, gentle Jesus, you know what

827
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,840
jumps out here? 
He didn't expect them to all 

828
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:12,760
double what they had, but He 
expected them to try. 

829
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,920
He expected them to try and to 
do something. 

830
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,160
He didn't even give all three of
the same thing. 

831
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,680
One received 51, received 21 
received 1. 

832
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,440
So comparison makes absolutely 
no sense in this context, does 

833
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,360
it? 
But we do this. 

834
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,200
We compare our gifts once, you 
know, one time speaking to 

835
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,200
somebody who said the problem is
God gave like 10 gifts to like 

836
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,800
these people, but only gave me 
one. 

837
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,680
And I said, first of all, I 
don't know if that's true, but 

838
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,600
second of all, if it is, use it 
well. 

839
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,920
This says that when you use what
he gives you, well, he gives you

840
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,520
more sometimes. 
I mean, if you're just going to 

841
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,280
take this parable for what it 
is, it says he takes them from 

842
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,520
other people and gives them to 
the faithful ones. 

843
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,800
And so sometimes you're looking 
at somebody else activating 

844
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,520
their gift and you're saying, I 
wish I could do that. 

845
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,480
Why can't I do that? 
Why won't God call me to do 

846
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,920
that? 
Meanwhile, he's giving you these

847
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:07,080
gifts and you won't touch them. 
Use this well and he'll know he 

848
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,520
can trust you with more. 
The question isn't why are you 

849
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,840
more like this guy or this girl?
The question is, what are you 

850
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,680
going to do with what God gave 
you? 

851
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,280
Because if you notice the one 
who got one, this is what's so 

852
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,320
uncomfortable. 
He doesn't even misuse it. 

853
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,000
He doesn't steal it. 
He doesn't gamble with it. 

854
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,480
He doesn't put it into his own 
private bank account. 

855
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,880
He doesn't use it to impress 
some woman. 

856
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,160
Look at this bag of silver you 
want to go out to like he 

857
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:36,240
doesn't do any of that. 
You know what he does bares it. 

858
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,200
And some of you would say, well,
I, I feel like you call me be a 

859
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,240
teacher, but I, I don't really 
have anywhere to teach. 

860
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:45,000
So I'll just wait. 
God will make it obvious to me. 

861
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:50,120
No, no, you learn by doing. 
And so if you've been given the 

862
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,560
gift of teacher, you better find
somewhere to teach because it's 

863
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,600
going to get refined. 
If he's given you a gift to be 

864
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,200
evangelistic and to reach out to
people that are hard to reach, 

865
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,960
you better start doing it 
because he calls this servant 

866
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:06,160
wicked and lazy. 
And isn't it a shame that this 

867
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,520
gift that you were given, there 
are people that you need to 

868
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,360
reach evangelist. 
There are people that you need 

869
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,240
to teach teacher and you're 
unwilling to do it. 

870
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,280
You're not the one that 
ultimately has the loss. 

871
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,400
There they are. 
Now the cool thing is this not 

872
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,280
for you, but the cool thing is 
the Lord will still rise up 

873
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,840
other people and give them gifts
to take care of what he needs 

874
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,560
to. 
So if you're like, well, I 

875
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,880
didn't do that and I bet I sent 
people to hell. 

876
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:37,560
You are not that powerful. 
And I'm not going to go to down 

877
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,360
the rabbit hole here, but I will
tell you this. 

878
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,080
When they bury their gift, he 
says, throw them in the outer 

879
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,520
darkness. 
You know what that is? 

880
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:50,480
That's a disobedient believer, 
disobedient to their king. 

881
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,480
Cassie, could you please bring 
me that that box? 

882
00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:00,120
Thank you so much. 
I want you to understand that 

883
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,480
one of the things that will 
throw people off when it comes 

884
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:08,400
to their gifts, thank you so 
much is they'll they'll say 

885
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:09,800
this. 
What if I'm not good at it? 

886
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,480
You are almost never good at it,
even if you're naturally gifted.

887
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,920
I was on the radio for a long 
time, but several years after I 

888
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,720
had been on the radio, I found 
my first show. 

889
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,400
We used to record it on and I 
had to explain CDs the other 

890
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,760
day. 
We used to record it on these 

891
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,080
things called cassettes. 
They're really cool. 

892
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,600
You can stick a pencil in it and
rewind them. 

893
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,840
Anyway, we would record it and 
it was this really cool set up 

894
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,560
where every time you turned on 
the mic it would start 

895
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:39,840
recording. 
Every time you turned off the 

896
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,600
mic it would stop. 
So it would record just your 

897
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,320
show. 
And I found my very first radio 

898
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,600
programme as Blake the Snake, 
completely unsure of what I'm 

899
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,440
doing. 
Why are you laughing? 

900
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,520
I was a bad man. 
OK, All right. 

901
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,000
I just want you to be a little 
intimidated. 

902
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:02,360
I don't. 
And I was listening to it and it

903
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:08,840
was so bad that by the end of 
listening to this show, I pulled

904
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,320
the tape out of the cassette. 
I ruined it so I could never 

905
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,680
hear it again. 
Little dramatic, I know. 

906
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,960
To be honest with you, now that 
I'm in my mid 40s, I wish I 

907
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,720
still had that because it was a 
piece of my life. 

908
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,680
It's part of my journey. 
Nobody starts as the best at 

909
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,080
what they do. 
It was part of my journey. 

910
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:31,200
Don't despise small beginnings. 
If that sounds good, it's 

911
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,520
because it ain't me. 
It's from the scripture. 

912
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,160
Don't despise small beginnings. 
Enjoy them. 

913
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,280
It's the beginning of something 
wonderful. 

914
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,360
You don't just discover what God
gave you, you develop it and you

915
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,400
grow it. 
A builder has to build without 

916
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,160
controlling everybody and 
everything. 

917
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,720
An aligner or prophet has to 
learn how to speak the truth, 

918
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:53,240
but do it with grace. 
An inviter or an evangelist has 

919
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:54,960
to learn that people are not 
projects. 

920
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:56,960
It's not just somebody to check 
off the list once you get them 

921
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,800
to church. 
A shepherd has to learn that 

922
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,280
caring for people doesn't mean 
rescuing everybody. 

923
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,040
And a teacher or an explainer 
has to learn that knowing more 

924
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,320
doesn't make you better than the
person who doesn't know it yet. 

925
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,040
Try. 
You know what's cool? 

926
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:21,440
This box has a screwdriver. 
So I want to take some guesses. 

927
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:27,680
How many times do you think I 
have used this screwdriver -2 

928
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:37,920
How is -2 even possible? 
No faith. 

929
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,560
No faith in me. 
Who's got a high guess? 

930
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:48,440
I said high guess. 
Y'all are about to bring up 

931
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,880
Blake the snake. 
All right, the answer is one. 

932
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,560
I'm doing it right now. 
All right. 

933
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,800
To be fair to me, I have tools 
at home that I've used. 

934
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,280
I have a toolbox in my office 
that I use. 

935
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,160
This one, though I've never used
it sits in this box. 

936
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,240
I got this from from in this 
this maintenance closet in the 

937
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,640
back of the other building. 
And this is a good screwdriver. 

938
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,440
How do I know that it's solid? 
It doesn't fall apart. 

939
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,720
The handle's not too worn. 
It's got like the bits you can 

940
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,160
change out. 
I know that it's a good tool, 

941
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,400
right? 
And I want you to understand 

942
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,840
this. 
Double meaning intended we are. 

943
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,200
What if I just bury it there? 
What if I just leave it here? 

944
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,000
I'm probably speaking to 
somebody who's bought a tool 

945
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,120
before and it's still in the box
in your shed right now. 

946
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,000
How much good has that tool done
you? 

947
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,080
So don't bury your gifts, 
because how much good have you 

948
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,560
done the Lord when you do that? 
Does that make sense? 

949
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,520
All right, we all have spiritual
gifts. 

950
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,200
Just a couple simple things to 
do. 

951
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,640
Which of those five functions 
sounds the most like the way 

952
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,000
that God has already been using 
you? 

953
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,280
Is it, is it apostle or builder?
Is it a prophet or a liner? 

954
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,440
Is it the inviter, the shepherd,
the explainer? 

955
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,280
You don't need to make it your 
identity. 

956
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,040
Don't do it. 
It's one of the fastest ways to 

957
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,640
ruin a gift. 
I'm going to challenge you to 

958
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,240
name it and start paying 
attention to it. 

959
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,440
Ask somebody who knows you well,
where do you see God using me 

960
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,240
and see where that lines up. 
Everybody wants to feel like 

961
00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:19,080
they know what their purpose is.
Your purpose is not your career.

962
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,320
There could be a sinkhole here 
and Liberty Church could 

963
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,120
collapse in here, hopefully when
we're not in it. 

964
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,360
But it could disappear. 
And I could go back to work at 

965
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,000
Starbucks or Target or radio, 
and I would still be operating 

966
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,320
in the gifts that God has given 
me. 

967
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,800
My career doesn't define me any 
more than Marine defines you or 

968
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:41,240
any other job that you have #2 
once you discover it, use it. 

969
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:43,600
Can we go to the next? 
Yeah, go ahead and use it. 

970
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,280
Don't wait for perfect moments. 
Just live on purpose. 

971
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,960
Don't wait for somebody to give 
you the title and say, finally 

972
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,360
they recognize me as an apostle 
at this church. 

973
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,760
If you're waiting for that, 
we'll never recognize you for 

974
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,560
it. 
If you're a shepherd, just find 

975
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,200
somebody who needs care. 
If you're an inviter or an 

976
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,480
evangelist, find somebody, 
invite them. 

977
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,360
If you're an explainer or a 
teacher, help somebody 

978
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,720
understand something about the 
things of God. 

979
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,200
If you're an apostle or a 
builder, help make something 

980
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,880
better. 
If you're a prophet, find a 

981
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,960
healthy way to bring something 
up that will bring somebody back

982
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,200
towards the heart of Jesus. 
And the last thing is just work 

983
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,200
on it. 
Don't just ask what am I good 

984
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,920
at? 
Ask how you can grow it. 

985
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,440
One of the number one things for
profits that they'll struggle 

986
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,920
with, and I've learned this 
recently, is they're normally 

987
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,640
very obedient to speak what the 
Lord gives them and they're 

988
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,000
normally not when they're 
learning and they're normally 

989
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,760
not as fast to go to the Lord 
and say, can I share my opinion?

990
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,560
Can I share this? 
And here's why that matters 

991
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,080
because when you have a 
reputation for being a prophet 

992
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,120
and you give an opinion, people 
are going to carry it like it 

993
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,440
comes from the Lord. 
For an apostle, they can have 

994
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:51,960
great ideas. 
If they don't run it by the 

995
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,640
Lord, people are going to think 
it's from the Lord, right? 

996
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,800
When you're a teacher and you're
teaching somebody something and 

997
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,760
it's something cool that you've 
discovered and you're not sure 

998
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,880
what you believe yet, and you 
start sharing it early, people 

999
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,920
are going to think it's from the
Lord. 

1000
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:07,680
Work on it. 
You have a gift. 

1001
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,960
Learn how to use it in the best 
way possible. 

1002
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,920
Could you imagine? 
This is my gift and I use it 

1003
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,480
because every so often I have to
get nails into a wood. 

1004
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:24,040
And I now have you ever done 
that with a tool that's not a 

1005
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,480
hammer? 
And does it work? 

1006
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,400
Is it most effective? 
No, no. 

1007
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,440
And by the way, while you keep 
handling these nails, there's 

1008
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,080
another person with another gift
that isn't doing what they're 

1009
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:43,160
called to do because you're too 
busy doing it for them anyway .2

1010
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,400
Let's go to the second one. 
Once you discover it, you start 

1011
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,880
developing it and you have to 
bring it. 

1012
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,680
And here's what it means by 
bring your gift. 

1013
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,120
I'm not saying it like, hey, 
bring it. 

1014
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,240
This isn't like a fight. 
I mean, you need to bring it to 

1015
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:56,320
the table. 
You bring it to your body of 

1016
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,280
believers. 
You bring it to the Kingdom in 

1017
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,920
general. 
You have a gift because somebody

1018
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,800
else needs it. 
How ridiculous is it to keep it 

1019
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,480
to yourself? 
Think about this. 

1020
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:11,160
If you have gifts that don't 
benefit you but benefit other 

1021
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:15,640
people, and you refuse to use 
them for other people, they miss

1022
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,480
out and you miss out. 
It's the worst deal ever. 

1023
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Teachers who don't teach, they 
just learn a lot and then they 

1024
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,600
know a lot and then do what with
it? 

1025
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,000
Can you imagine being somebody 
who can always see how things 

1026
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,920
are supposed to be improved and 
you never do anything to improve

1027
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:31,960
them? 
You're just perpetually 

1028
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:33,760
unsatisfied. 
Yay. 

1029
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:39,760
We start comparing our gifts. 
And when you read through the 

1030
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,920
book of Acts, one of the things 
that I love is you can actually 

1031
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,000
watch all of these different 
kinds of people show these gifts

1032
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,160
in the early church. 
I'm going to give you some 

1033
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,280
names. 
Some you might know, some you 

1034
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,600
might not. 
First for the apostle or the 

1035
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,760
builder, you got the apostle 
Paul. 

1036
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,880
That man could not stop starting
things. 

1037
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,120
He would go into a city, preach 
Jesus, gather believers, develop

1038
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,160
leaders, sometimes get beaten 
within an inch of his life, and 

1039
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,160
then get up and start talking 
about the next thing. 

1040
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,000
We just read from Ephesians 4 
where he said, I'm writing you 

1041
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,640
from jail. 
He's constantly pushing the 

1042
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,200
gospel into places it hasn't 
gone yet. 

1043
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,640
There's something in Paul that's
always going towards what's 

1044
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,720
next. 
Then you've got somebody like 

1045
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:17,200
Agabus. 
Not everybody knows the name 

1046
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,440
Agabus, but he is specifically 
called the prophet in Acts. 

1047
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,760
This is our aligner. 
Agabus is sensitive to what the 

1048
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,280
Spirit is saying because he 
wants the church. 

1049
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,400
He warns the church about a 
coming famine and later warns 

1050
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,840
Paul about what's going to 
happen if he goes to Jerusalem. 

1051
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,640
He's helping people understand 
what God is doing and prepare 

1052
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,440
them on how to respond. 
Then you've got Philip. 

1053
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,080
Philip should be a little bit 
more noticeable than Agabus, but

1054
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:45,960
Philip is a beautiful picture of
an evangelist. 

1055
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,560
So there's our inviter. 
He preaches to crowds in 

1056
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,240
Samaria, and then God sends him 
out into the middle of nowhere 

1057
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:53,960
to meet one Ethiopian man in a 
chariot. 

1058
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,160
I love that because apparently 
it doesn't matter to Philip if 

1059
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,840
it's an entire city or one guy 
on the side of the road. 

1060
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:02,840
He can't help but share with 
somebody new, somebody who needs

1061
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,440
to know this. 
And then you've got Barnabas, 

1062
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,200
who's a wonderful picture of a 
pastor. 

1063
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,000
He keeps seeing people that 
everybody else is struggling to 

1064
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,800
see. 
We covered this not long ago, 

1065
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,200
but when Paul first became a 
Christian, everybody is 

1066
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:17,800
understandably terrified of him.
And Barnabas is the guy that was

1067
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,880
willing to take a chance on him.
Later, when Paul wasn't feeling 

1068
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,840
it with John Mark, Barnabas was 
the one that was willing to take

1069
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,200
a chance on him. 
Barnabas is willing to take 

1070
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,560
another chance on somebody that 
other people have already 

1071
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,520
written off. 
And then you've got Apollos. 

1072
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,240
And I love that I I found 
Apollos as the teacher here. 

1073
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:37,880
And I'll tell you why because 
the book of Acts says that he 

1074
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,840
knew the scriptures well and was
a gifted speaker. 

1075
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,960
And Priscilla and Aquila have to
correct something that he's 

1076
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,000
teaching. 
And I love that because even the

1077
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:47,800
teacher has some things left to 
learn. 

1078
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,400
But once they do, Apollo's 
becomes incredibly effective in 

1079
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,920
his job. 
So go to 1st Corinthians chapter

1080
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:54,240
12. 
I'm going to show you why all of

1081
00:52:54,240 --> 00:53:00,120
this matters for one another. 
One body with many parts. 

1082
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,000
Another thing that we've heard 
often, it says this starting in 

1083
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,000
verse 12. 
So First Corinthians 12/12, the 

1084
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:13,480
human body, the human body has 
many parts, but the many parts 

1085
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,240
make up one whole body. 
So it is with the body of 

1086
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:20,400
Christ. 
Some of us are Jews, some are 

1087
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,480
Gentiles, some are slaves, and 
some are free. 

1088
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,040
But we've all been baptized into
one body by 1 spirit. 

1089
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,840
There's that number one again 
and we all share the same 

1090
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,040
capital S Spirit. 
This is the Holy Spirit. 

1091
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,640
Yes, the body has many different
parts, not just one part. 

1092
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,240
If the foot says I'm not a part 
of the body because I'm not a 

1093
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:40,560
hand, that doesn't make it any 
less a part of the body. 

1094
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,600
So I want you to picture an 
evangelist who gets sick of 

1095
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,360
hearing about one more banquet 
or one more potluck or one more 

1096
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:47,960
small group at the church 
because they're worried about 

1097
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,000
those that are lost out there. 
They're like, I don't belong to 

1098
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,760
the body. 
I'm out there trying to do what 

1099
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,360
God really wants us to do. 
Well, it's not just about 

1100
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:55,560
getting them saved. 
It's about getting them 

1101
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:56,880
discipled. 
So you need to learn to work in 

1102
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:02,240
conjunction with the local body.
OK, then it says here, if the 

1103
00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,480
ear says I'm not a part of the 
body because I'm not an eye, 

1104
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:06,680
would that make it any less a 
part of the body? 

1105
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,360
If the whole body were an eye, 
how would you hear? 

1106
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,120
If your whole body were an ear, 
how would you smell anything? 

1107
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,480
So now you can see this If the 
whole body was an apostle, how 

1108
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,440
would you ever teach anybody 
anything? 

1109
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,440
If the whole body was a prophet,
how would you ever reach the 

1110
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,840
lost? 
So it goes on and it says in 

1111
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,160
verse 18, our bodies have many 
parts, but God has put each part

1112
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:31,080
just where he wants it. 
How strange a body would be if 

1113
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,320
it only had one part, many 
parts. 

1114
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,000
Only one body in the eye can 
never say to the hand, I don't 

1115
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,280
need you. 
So now it's gone from being 

1116
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,800
internal to external. 
So now it's gone from saying, 

1117
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,080
well, I don't belong because I'm
not this part to saying you 

1118
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,280
cannot look at somebody else's 
gift and say we don't need your 

1119
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,000
gift here. 
Sorry, we don't want teachers 

1120
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
here. 
Don't ever go to a church. 

1121
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,200
That's like, we don't like 
teachers. 

1122
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,040
We don't need pastors here. 
We don't need evangelists. 

1123
00:54:55,560 --> 00:55:04,280
I'm sorry, what? 
Now listen to this verse 22. 

1124
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:07,760
In fact, some parts of the body 
that seem weakest and least 

1125
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,680
important are actually the most 
necessary. 

1126
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,520
And the parts we regard as less 
honorable are those we clothed 

1127
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,400
with the greatest care. 
So we carefully protect those 

1128
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,360
parts that should not be seen. 
He's using a very defined and 

1129
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,320
somewhat graphic image to tell 
you that the whole body matters 

1130
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,200
no matter what you think of it. 
While the more honorable parts 

1131
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,960
do not require the special care.
So God has put the body together

1132
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,960
such that extra honor and care 
are given to those parts that 

1133
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,440
have less dignity. 
It does not matter if you get 

1134
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,720
all of the attention for your 
gift. 

1135
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,760
This is not transactional. 
You don't do your gift so that 

1136
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,360
you can get an attaboy from the 
Lord. 

1137
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,240
Verse 25. 
This makes for harmony among the

1138
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:50,360
members so that all the members 
care for each other. 

1139
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,200
If one part suffers, all the 
parts suffer with it, and if one

1140
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,800
part is honored, all the parts 
are glad. 

1141
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,560
All of you together are Christ's
body, and each of you is a part 

1142
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,000
of it. 
This happens a lot of times. 

1143
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,600
We end up comparing, and I've 
got some of this here. 

1144
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,200
Comparing your gifts will create
jealousy inside of a church. 

1145
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,600
Comparing your gifts will create
judgement against one another in

1146
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,880
a church. 
Comparing gifts will create weak

1147
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,640
Christians inside of a church. 
And they populate every church 

1148
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,040
across this globe in some 
capacity. 

1149
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,400
Stop comparing. 
You are different because you're

1150
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,560
supposed to be different and 
different parts are needed to 

1151
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,040
accomplish everything. 
If I wanted to use that 

1152
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:32,760
screwdriver, Mike, you build 
stuff. 

1153
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,560
If I wanted to use that 
screwdriver to build a deck, 

1154
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,160
could I use it? 
I can't use it. 

1155
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,000
Can I use just the screwdriver? 
No. 

1156
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,920
What? 
Have you ever built Legos? 

1157
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:55,800
So Can you imagine, though? 
Everything in here. 

1158
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,000
Oh, look, we even have a screw 
loose just like every church. 

1159
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:04,640
So it's an imperfect world. 
Screws fall out all the time. 

1160
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,960
So look at all of these tools, 
and if they're all used in the 

1161
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:13,600
right way together, I could 
probably build a lot of things 

1162
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,040
with this. 
Well, I couldn't, but you could,

1163
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,040
right? 
In the hands. 

1164
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:20,680
I want you to understand this, 
guys. 

1165
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,480
In the hands of the master, when
we're all doing our part, Can 

1166
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:29,920
you imagine what he can build? 
But I want you to also imagine 

1167
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,960
something that's ridiculous. 
It's like a twisted Disney 

1168
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,600
thing. 
Could you imagine they won't 

1169
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,360
work together, like, I don't 
know, they're enchanted like a 

1170
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:39,480
Beauty and the beast or 
something. 

1171
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,240
Like they won't work together. 
And meanwhile, God's trying to 

1172
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,800
build something that's going to 
save people, that's going to 

1173
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,000
reconcile them to him. 
And we're like, yeah, I don't 

1174
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,360
like wrenches. 
Oh, I'm sorry. 

1175
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,600
I didn't know you don't like 
tools like that. 

1176
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,040
And I'm just here to tell you my
opinion. 

1177
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,840
If you love Jesus, if you want 
his name known, if you want 

1178
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,520
people saved, if you want them 
to grow in the Lord, man, I'm on

1179
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,960
your team. 
That's the attitude that we have

1180
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,360
to have. 
And I tell you that today, but 

1181
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,920
I've not always felt that way. 
I've thought that I felt that 

1182
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,320
way and I didn't always feel 
that way, but I feel that way 

1183
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,720
today. 
It's where we've got to get just

1184
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:17,960
a couple things before we wrap 
up. 

1185
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,000
And I'll just tell you this. 
If we're going to build the 

1186
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,480
body, first of all, find what 
you're missing. 

1187
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,200
So not only do you need to bring
your gift to the table, you need

1188
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,120
to find those that are gifted in
ways that you aren't. 

1189
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,920
Every time I take a test like 
this, whether it's one that 

1190
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:35,360
somebody else made or one that I
made, evangelist is always the 

1191
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,480
lowest one. 
And here's what that means. 

1192
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,680
My brain is not wired to try to 
think of people that are lost 

1193
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,320
first and foremost. 
And you might be like, what a 

1194
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,000
terrible Christian. 
No, I'm an honest one, which is 

1195
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:52,600
better than a lot of them. 
So when I end up around somebody

1196
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,440
who's lost, I'll talk about 
Jesus and no problem. 

1197
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,240
I'll talk about him anytime, 
anywhere with anybody. 

1198
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,960
I'm just not wired to try to go 
out and find those moments. 

1199
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,680
I am wired to do other things. 
But you know what that tells me?

1200
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,200
I need evangelists. 
By the way, if you have the gift

1201
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,120
of evangelist, come and talk to 
me because we got some cool 

1202
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,720
things that are coming and I 
need the evangelists for it #2 

1203
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:21,320
Stop assuming the worst. 
Ask others why and see what God 

1204
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,240
shows you. 
Don't assume like, well, they 

1205
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:24,520
don't even care about this 
church. 

1206
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:25,840
They don't even care about kids 
ministry. 

1207
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:26,880
They don't even care about the 
loss. 

1208
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,840
They don't even don't assume 
that they're wired to take care 

1209
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,160
of stuff that you can't do. 
Do you see how big like all of 

1210
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,320
these gifts are? 
Could you imagine if we all 

1211
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,000
tried to take care of all 5 by 
ourselves? 

1212
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:41,000
The last thing I would tell you 
is this. 

1213
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,240
Show up for the body. 
Find where you're needed and not

1214
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:48,720
just where you want to be. 
That sometimes can be rough 

1215
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,080
because sometimes we want to be 
somewhere that we know we're 

1216
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,200
good at something, but God has 
started to equip us for 

1217
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,640
something else. 
But this is where we find our 

1218
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,160
identity. 
Don't find your identity in the 

1219
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:03,760
work, Find it in the King. 
Maybe there's something in the 

1220
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,040
community or something at 
Liberty that you've been 

1221
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,000
watching struggle for months and
you've been wondering why 

1222
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,400
somebody doesn't fix it. 
Maybe you are that somebody. 

1223
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,120
You know, I love the Danion was 
up here on the drums. 

1224
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,000
I didn't ask him if I could 
share this, but here we go. 

1225
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:19,000
But when we were preaching a 
while ago, we were just 

1226
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,440
mentioning how like, man, I love
our worship team and we have an 

1227
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,840
incredible drummer. 
Dennis is an incredible drummer.

1228
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,320
And we just, we have one and he 
comes up and he's like, I'm a 

1229
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,000
drummer and I didn't know if you
might need one. 

1230
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:30,800
I know you have one. 
No, we need one. 

1231
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,120
Now get this picture. 
Dennis is the only one that's 

1232
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:36,680
been drumming for years at that 
point. 

1233
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:40,680
Translate that over to the 
spiritual. 

1234
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,200
Could you imagine if inside of a
church there's one person who's 

1235
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,640
been trying to reach the lost? 
Look around this room. 

1236
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:46,840
I want you to imagine if there's
one. 

1237
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:49,680
You think we can help them out a
little bit? 

1238
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,600
Think somebody can help them 
drum up some new members? 

1239
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,440
Don't clap for that. 
Don't it's it's not even a good 

1240
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,280
one. 
But I'm a dad and I just got 

1241
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:03,960
back from vacation. 
So give me grace. 

1242
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,960
We have to show up for the body.
We have to try and help. 

1243
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,000
We have to find what's needed 
and build it up. 

1244
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,680
And so I'm going to finish it 
with one scripture from first 

1245
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,800
Peter chapter 4. 
But I want you to know 

1246
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,840
something. 
And I don't say this to to gas 

1247
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:27,320
you up, but you are a gift, but 
not for yourself. 

1248
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,560
I don't mean that that cheesy 
way where everybody gets a 

1249
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,080
trophy and we all leave feeling 
wonderful about ourselves. 

1250
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,840
If you know that you're a gift 
to other people and you refuse 

1251
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:40,600
to share your gifts, you should 
leave feeling convicted, Not 

1252
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:44,360
condemned, not damned, but you 
should feel convicted. 

1253
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,960
You are a gift. 
And I mean that Jesus is 

1254
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,880
actually intentionally put 
something inside of you that he 

1255
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,000
intends for you to use for 
somebody else. 

1256
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,840
And I just don't want you to 
bury what God gave you. 

1257
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:00,640
We need each other in first 
Peter chapter 4 verse 7, it says

1258
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,680
this, the end of the world is 
coming soon. 

1259
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,920
I don't know when it's coming by
the way, but it's sooner than 

1260
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,360
when Peter wrote this. 
He says, therefore be earnest 

1261
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:13,320
and disciplined in your prayers.
And most important of all, most 

1262
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:17,720
important of all, continue to 
show deep love for each other, 

1263
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:19,960
for love covers a multitude of 
sins. 

1264
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,040
We'll see. 
That part gets used a lot, but 

1265
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,800
we don't see it in the context. 
Cheerfully share your home with 

1266
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,440
those who are in need of a meal 
or a place to stay. 

1267
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,200
God has given each of you a gift
from His great variety of 

1268
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:36,040
spiritual gifts. 
Use them well to serve one 

1269
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,840
another. 
Use them well to what? 

1270
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,760
So make sure we're here to serve
one another. 

1271
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:44,040
And he says, do you have the 
gift of speaking? 

1272
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,040
Speak as though God himself for 
speaking through you. 

1273
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:47,720
Do you have the gift of helping 
others? 

1274
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,000
Do it with all the strength and 
energy that God supplies. 

1275
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,040
And then everything you do will 
bring glory to God through Jesus

1276
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:54,880
Christ. 
All glory and power to him 

1277
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:56,480
forever and ever. 
Amen. 

1278
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,440
I just want you to know that God
gave you.