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Don't Yuck at Someone Else's Yum (Pt. 1) - D. Cates · Faith On A Hill

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  It is great to see each of you this evening.
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  it was great to see at least nine at Luxahoma on Monday night.
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  It may be that some were there on Tuesday night as well, but I know that at least nine were there Monday night.
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  It was so many.
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  I told Brother Houndsell we need to put our number up on their tote board.
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  So I I'm certainly glad that we were supporting them.
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  They support us.
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  next week we have the opportunity to support Coldwater.
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  We have the opportunity to support Nesbit.
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  I hope that if you're able, that you'll get out and and support them the way that you support other works as well.
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  It is so good to see each one, and it's great to be a member of the Lord's Church.
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  It's great to be able to enjoy fellowship with the saints.
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  It's great to be able to have a common goal, or as we sing with the young people during our youth devotions.
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  To have a common love.
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  Just a wonderful privilege to be able to be in Christ.
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  Colossians 4, 6 tells us, let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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  Our words are so important.
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  Our words are things with which we can build others up.
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  Or we can tear others down.
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  I was reading the Fulton County Gospel News this morning.
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  It's a publication that comes out of Missouri, um Mammoth Spring, Missouri, and always has some excellent material in it.
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  Well, this uh particular one had an article by Del DeVerne.
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  Del DeVerney is an alumnus of the school who preaches up in Michigan.
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  The subject was don't yuck at someone else's yum.
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  Don't yuck at someone else's yum.
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  Well with a title like that, I've got to figure out what he's talking about.
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  And maybe you've already figured it out or maybe you're thinking the same thing that I was.
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  He mentioned that one of the lessons that children learn is that not everybody likes the same things.
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  One child loves broccoli.
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  Mason is a big broccoli eater.
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  Another cannot stand it.
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  One person enjoys fishing.
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  Another can't imagine anything more boring than sitting beside a lake for hours.
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  Some people enjoy motorcycles.
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  Del DeVerne is one of them.
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  Others gardening.
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  Some love old hymns.
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  Others enjoy listening to bluegrass.
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  Some would rather spend a vacation at the beach while others others would choose a cabin in the woods.
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  We are different.
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  There is nothing wrong with that.
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  Unfortunately, we sometimes develop the habit of criticizing things simply because they do not appeal to us.
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  There is a modern expression that captures the idea well, don't yuck at someone else's yum.
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  In other words, just because something does not mean bring me joy does not mean I need to diminish the joy it brings to someone else.
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  For Christians, this principle goes much deeper.
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  Than simple courtesy.
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  It touches upon Christian liberty, brotherly love, the humility, the proper use of our conscience, and even our influence on others.
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  Now he went on and developed that thought among uh five uh six, six other points, and each of them is excellent.
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  what I might do over the next few times that I deliver a devotional message is develop.
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  uh one of those each time because they're all excellent thoughts.
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  But as we started that article, what we noticed how important the tongue is and how easy it would be to ruin somebody else's joy just because we do not like the same things that
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  those other people do.
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  We need to be constantly, and we do at the congregation here, trying
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  We need to be constantly trying to strengthen our brethren, to encourage them, to build them up.
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  I know that many of us may not necessarily be into the things that our brethren are into, but what we learn to at least talk about some of those things with some level of knowledge
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  so that we can talk to the those about the things they enjoy, uh that's a wonderful thing to do.
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  We need to try to continue to build and nurture those relationships because this is just the the vestibule of heaven, if you will.
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  This is the foyer of heaven.
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  And we have an opportunity to enjoy not only life together here, but life together for eternity.
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  Let's do that by encouraging others.
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  Next time that I speak will probably be building.
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  upon that thought next of the uh invitations that I deliver.
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  But keep that thought in mind.
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  Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.
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  It may be that you're here and on a different subject matter.
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  You are not yet a member of the Lord's church.
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  That that hope of eternity is not as sound as it can be, as it needs to be.
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  If you're not a member of the Lord's church, you can be added to the church tonight by hearing his word.
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  and believing it, allowing that faith to build uh to motivate action, the actions of repentance, the actions of confessing sin.
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  And then you can submit to the waters of baptism, because there a man dies to sin, Romans chapter six, so that he can come out of that water, a new creature, cleansed, added to the
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  Lord's church, Acts 247.
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  It may be the case that you are a member of the church, but
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  You've not been faithful.
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  Perhaps it's been the case that you've not said things that you ought to say, or maybe you've said things that you ought not to have said.
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  Whatever the case, if if there is something in your life that's of a public nature that needs to be corrected, you can make that right tonight by repenting of that sin and
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  confessing that sin and praying that that sin will be forgiven and having the congregation uh pray with you on that behalf.
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  It may be that the sin was not a public sin.
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  Well, if that's the case, but there is sin separating you from God, take that to God.
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  Repent of it, confess it, and pray for his forgiveness.
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  But if you need to respond to the Lord's invitation tonight, won't you come?
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  As together we stand and sing.