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The Church | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: pray that the word of God today will challenge, change
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  Speaker 1: and channel you into your God given destiny. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: get started.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Oh glory to God. Who would have thought we
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  Speaker 2: will make it, make it this far? Really, we recognize
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  Speaker 2: that it's only by His grace, only by his mercy,
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  Speaker 2: his goodness, his faithfulness, that we are here today, really, really, really,
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  Speaker 2: and not just saying this because it's cliche, because it's
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  Speaker 2: important to say, because it's pr to say it.
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  Speaker 3: We really mean it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you were if you were behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: you were privileged enough to go behind the scenes and
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  Speaker 2: see all the stuff that happens and don't happen and
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  Speaker 2: almost in happen, you recognize that it's God's God and
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  Speaker 2: only God.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So can you please join me and give God a
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  Speaker 2: big round on applause. Give God all the praise and glory.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: We honor you, God, We honor your name above every
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  Speaker 2: other name.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus belifted high.
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  Speaker 2: You are a God of generations, not just generations the church,
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  Speaker 2: but generations the people.
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  Speaker 3: God all over the world. You are our God. We
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  Speaker 3: worship you, We honor you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: You might not believe this, but I get more nervous
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  Speaker 2: preaching to my own church than I do other people. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you might notice it if you follow me to other
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  Speaker 2: places where I preach and you're like, he's more He's
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  Speaker 2: way more relaxed. I don't know why, because maybe I
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  Speaker 2: expect so much more from my own church today.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why I do. I do this to myself.
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  Speaker 2: I can preach any kind of message, right you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't even know, uh.
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  Speaker 3: What messages I choose between. Right, you wouldn't know what.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I always pick the hard ones. I pick the hard ones.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just it's important to say so. I have
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  Speaker 2: an important, tough task ahead of me. I feel led
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  Speaker 2: this evening to speak about the church. The church that
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  Speaker 2: is so precious to God, but it's so all misunderstood,
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  Speaker 2: something that is so abused, misuse, manipulated. It's understandable that
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  Speaker 2: all over the world that when you say the church,
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  Speaker 2: so many different images come up, so many different ideas,
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  Speaker 2: so much so that some of us Christians do such
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  Speaker 2: a bad job with the church that some Christians even
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  Speaker 2: today avoid the church let alone those who are not
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  Speaker 2: of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm speaking the truth? Am I being real?
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  Speaker 2: So it's tough because my job today is to help
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  Speaker 2: you love the church a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel I'm speaking to people who have been
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  Speaker 2: hurt before rab the wrong way, misunderstood. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: claim to be a perfect church, or perfect pastor or
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  Speaker 2: perfect anything. But we must differentiate the Church and us
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  Speaker 2: human beings that sometimes mess it up. We have to
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  Speaker 2: differentiate that we cannot throw the baby out with the
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  Speaker 2: bath water.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: So I hope, I hope by the end of today's message,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you'll finish before nine, that we will
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  Speaker 2: love the church more because Jesus loves the church. So
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  Speaker 2: let me start off this way. What did Jesus mean
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  Speaker 2: when he said church? I'm not asking what TD Jake mean.
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  Speaker 2: What's different that it means what somebody else mean, because
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  Speaker 2: we all can mean a lot of things. I think
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  Speaker 2: we want to hear what Jesus said about the church, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: because that's pure, and that's original, that's og. And interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: in the New Testament, or when Jesus was walking the
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  Speaker 2: earth and speaking, he talked a lot about money, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot more about money than anything else. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: And we haven't spoken up at money in this church
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  Speaker 2: for a whole one year. But Jesus only used the
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  Speaker 2: word church twice.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, huh. Jesus himself.
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  Speaker 2: Now we refer to the Book of Acts, chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four as the first espression of church. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus did speak about the church. He did use
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  Speaker 2: the same word use in Hebrews using the New Testament
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  Speaker 2: the same way Ecclesia. Jesus used it only twice. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important to look at what Jesus meant
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  Speaker 2: when he said the church. When Jesus said the church,
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  Speaker 2: is this this version that we see today? Or is
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  Speaker 2: the version we see today far or near to what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus meant when he.
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  Speaker 3: Said the church? Are you interested to find out? Amen?
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  Speaker 2: So, whatever Jesus means when he uses the word church
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  Speaker 2: is what I wanted to mean for me, and what
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to mean for you too, if you call
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  Speaker 2: yourself the church or believers or Christians of follows of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So the first time Jesus used the word is in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter sixteen, verse eighteen. And he said this and
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  Speaker 2: I also say to you that you are Peter, and
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  Speaker 2: on this rock I will build My church. Is God Church,
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  Speaker 2: not mine, not yours, not reverend, not archbishop, Jesus church.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. He said I will build my church.
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  Speaker 2: The first time you ever used that word my church,
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  Speaker 2: and the gates of Hell, the gates of Hades, shall
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  Speaker 2: not prevail against it.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first time. Jesus is the word.
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  Speaker 2: And the church that Christ is referring to here is
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  Speaker 2: the universal body of Christ. He's talking about everyone who
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  Speaker 2: calls themselves a believer, not one particular church, not one
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  Speaker 2: particular denomination, not this church that means in that corner
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  Speaker 2: or in that building. The one expression Jesus meant here
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  Speaker 2: the universal Church. The gates of Hell shall not prevail
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  Speaker 2: against this universal church.
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  Speaker 3: Is this humongous body of Christ around the world as
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  Speaker 3: one unit. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is not talking about local church, because how can
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  Speaker 2: the gates of hell, where the gates of Hell can
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  Speaker 2: attack one church and cause the leader to fall and
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  Speaker 2: just to disintegrate, but a gase of Hell can possibly
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  Speaker 2: prevail against this one big union, you.
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  Speaker 3: S I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So when Jesus said church, is referring to this universal
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  Speaker 2: body of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: I have a feeling. We like that.
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  Speaker 2: Because then we get to say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be in a building, but I'm still part.
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  Speaker 3: Of the church. And you will be correct, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Can say things like I can stay home and tune
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  Speaker 2: into whatever church I want, because church is not a building,
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  Speaker 2: a program a day, and you will be right because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did say this is the universal, the Body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So when Jesus is church, we must remember he does
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  Speaker 2: refer to way beyond these four walls, way beyond your brand,
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  Speaker 2: way beyond your social media account. Can we get that?
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've got no problem. I think we
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  Speaker 2: kind of like that because that's the one we can
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, hey, you know, even in my office,
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  Speaker 2: I'm church what we like that? And you're right, it
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  Speaker 2: is that. But he used the word church twice. The
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  Speaker 2: first one means universal Body of Christ. Doesn't matter whether
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  Speaker 2: you're Lutheran, Baptist, Methodists or Bigsite Baptists.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if it's.
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  Speaker 2: In four chapter, four verse six daysis there is one body,
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  Speaker 2: not two, not half. There's one body, only one and
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  Speaker 2: one spirit, just as you were called in one hope
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  Speaker 2: of your calling, One Lord one faith, one Baptist, one
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  Speaker 2: God and Father of all, who is above all and
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  Speaker 2: through all, and in you all. So when you meet
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  Speaker 2: another brother in Christ from a different church and they
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  Speaker 2: sing hymes and you sing hers, you are one body.
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  Speaker 2: They use real one, you use fake one, they use right, BENI,
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  Speaker 2: they use F and N whatever. We are one body, right,
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  Speaker 2: remember that the universal body of Christ. We all belong
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  Speaker 2: to that. But then Jesus used the word again in
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  Speaker 2: Mettage up to eighteen, verse fifteen to seventeen. If you've
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  Speaker 2: been in this church, you've heard this message pach before
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  Speaker 2: one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible of
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  Speaker 2: two or threegether God will be there. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is the passage metrige of eighteen. We misquote that
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  Speaker 2: word thinking that that means church. Not really, but he
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  Speaker 2: did use the word church in that context.
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  Speaker 3: He says.
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  Speaker 2: Moreover, if your brother sins against you, so someone wrongs you,
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  Speaker 2: of fend you, offense you things against you, tell him
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  Speaker 2: his fault between you and him alone. So there is
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  Speaker 2: a way to handle offenses. Go to that person directly.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go on Facebook, go on act, go on like treads,
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  Speaker 2: go and like come on go directly e v Jay
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  Speaker 2: you smell. Okay, he doesn't, but okay, someone else does.
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  Speaker 2: God him alone. If he hears you, you have gained
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  Speaker 2: your brother. Wonderful. There is step two. If he doesn't listen,
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  Speaker 2: so how verse sixteen. Let's go, but he will not here.
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  Speaker 2: Take with you one or two more that by the
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  Speaker 2: mouth of two or three bitinesses, everyone may be established.
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  Speaker 3: Verse seventeen. Verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and if he refuses to hear them, tell it
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  Speaker 2: to the church. Now, pretty sure Jesus does not mean
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  Speaker 2: if mark offense, you tell the whole body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: Tell the Catholic Pope, tell the mactori whoever, that everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Jesus meant that. This is a very
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  Speaker 2: practical picture. If your brother sins against you, talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't listen. To bring another brother you don't listen.
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  Speaker 2: Tell it to the church, the one you go to,
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  Speaker 2: the one you wake up and get your kids ready
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  Speaker 2: and you go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you hope that they got the kids sernday.
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  Speaker 2: School, the one you surf at, the one you give
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  Speaker 2: to that local church. So when Jesus said church, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't just mean this universal body of Christ. Therefore, just
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  Speaker 2: stay at home and watch watch you online. I'm still
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  Speaker 2: I'm still fine. He talks about, No, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be part of a local church, a church set up
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  Speaker 2: where you can do things like that. He uh, sister,
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  Speaker 2: this guy doesn't want to listen. And they know you,
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  Speaker 2: and they're in relationship with you. They're in community, and
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  Speaker 2: we work things out. That local body is that okay?
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  Speaker 2: So when Jesus said church, he men the universal body
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  Speaker 2: of Christ and the local body of Christ. No body
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  Speaker 2: looks at the crescent and say, that's just part of
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  Speaker 2: the moon. You still call it the moon. Yes, so
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  Speaker 2: the local church, which is still a small part we
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  Speaker 2: must remember, just a small part of the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: but still the body of Christ. Next, like, please, as
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  Speaker 2: a court Ellen Steeps, say this, for the part that
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  Speaker 2: is visible, the crescent is genuine moon.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, this is a small part, is still genuine. It
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  Speaker 3: is still the moon.
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  Speaker 2: And what is more, it is more, it is actually
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  Speaker 2: though to us, invisibly united with all the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the moon. Similarly, a local Christian congregation is genuine church.
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  Speaker 3: Become visible.
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  Speaker 2: It is body of Christ and invisibly one in Him
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  Speaker 2: with the whole of his body.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe two chim too deep. But basically, the local church
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  Speaker 3: is just as much church as the universal church. We
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  Speaker 3: are the church, and God loves the church. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And we really must separate from the people who give
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  Speaker 2: church a bad name, and there's plenty of them, and
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  Speaker 2: church the one that Jesus Christ paid his life for
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  Speaker 2: to establish universal local So now let's look at the
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  Speaker 2: first local church in the Book of Acts, chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: Now we can study this and it can be a
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  Speaker 2: twelve week study on the church that God imagined, the
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  Speaker 2: church that got established.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's an interesting study.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I can't do that study because they'll be like nine, ten,
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  Speaker 2: twelve different things we can draw from this. Toe are
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  Speaker 2: just gonna draw three things, he said, Okay, three things.
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  Speaker 2: So the very first local church, what did it look like?
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  Speaker 3: What marked the church?
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  Speaker 2: Then verse forty two of except the two and they
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  Speaker 2: devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching, and the fellowship. I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's where we get the preaching of the Word
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  Speaker 2: is important in the church. From yes, the doctree and
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  Speaker 2: the teaching and to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just the praise together stays together and stuff like that
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  Speaker 2: was forty three and all in some transation, says and fear,
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  Speaker 2: and all came upon every soul, and many wonders and
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  Speaker 2: signs were being done through the apostles. Next slide, and
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  Speaker 2: all who believed, all who called himselves Christians, were together
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  Speaker 2: and had all things in common.
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  Speaker 3: There was unity wonders.
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  Speaker 2: A man, both universally and locally, was forty five, and
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  Speaker 2: they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing. I
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  Speaker 2: sell my own things, and I gave them away to
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  Speaker 2: all anyone who has need. Here you go. Sharing is
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  Speaker 2: carrying My daughter always says to my son, where she
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  Speaker 2: can't get the candy from him cockaw. Sharing is carrying
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  Speaker 2: West forty six and day by day, every single day,
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  Speaker 2: they attended the temple together and breaking break in their home.
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  Speaker 2: So some people describe this way. Church is both temple
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  Speaker 2: and table. We go to the big congregation of the temple,
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  Speaker 2: and then sometimes we have small settings at the table.
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  Speaker 2: It's both. It's not one or the other. They receive
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  Speaker 2: their food with gladness and generous hearts. Can you see
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  Speaker 2: how much we can unpack from the first local church? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could do a study today, but we
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  Speaker 2: don't have time. They praising God and having favor with
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  Speaker 2: all the people, and the Lord added to their number.
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  Speaker 2: More and more people join the local church day by day,
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  Speaker 2: those who are being safe. Now, let me show you
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  Speaker 2: another picture of the first local church. Ect Chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: Act Chapter four, vers. Thirty two to thirty five. Now
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  Speaker 2: the material of those who believe were of one hard
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  Speaker 2: one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of the
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  Speaker 2: things he possessed was his own. But they had all
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  Speaker 2: things in common. That is, what's mine is yours, what's
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  Speaker 2: yours is mine, we all share. Wow, what a world
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  Speaker 2: to live in, And with great power. The apostles gave
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  Speaker 2: witness to the reservation of the Lord Jesus, and great
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  Speaker 2: grace was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among
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  Speaker 2: them who lacked. Imagine a world without need?
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  Speaker 3: This was it.
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  Speaker 2: There was no need. Why because everybody met everybody's need.
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  Speaker 2: For all who were possessors of lands or houses sold
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  Speaker 2: them and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
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  Speaker 2: and laid them at the apostle's feed, and they distributed to
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  Speaker 2: each as anyone had need. Who amen the first local Church.
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  Speaker 2: This is like a twelve part lesson. But today can
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  Speaker 2: we just talk about three things. What marked the church?
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  Speaker 2: This entity that is so misunderstood, misrepresented, It's real, real.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us has not done a very good job
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  Speaker 2: representing Christ to the world. I'm sorry if I have
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  Speaker 2: ever been represented.
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  Speaker 3: The Church of God.
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  Speaker 2: But God's Church is precious, it's holy, it's needed, it's important.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So the first local church. So you gotta ask, why,
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  Speaker 2: of all things, why did not why Jesus he didn't
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  Speaker 2: start a business to save the world. Why didn't he
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  Speaker 2: start a social enterprise? Why didn't he start a cafe?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Of all things, God, in his brilliance, omniscience, omnimportance, he decided,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, this will be my agent.
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  Speaker 3: It's called the church. So what's the church for.
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  Speaker 2: I told you this year that we're gonna stay simple,
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  Speaker 2: let's simplify things. I think church which is for two reasons?
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  Speaker 2: Why Church number one to seek and save the lost.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Jesus came to do. That's what he established
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  Speaker 2: the church for us to continue to do, to seek
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  Speaker 2: and save the loss. Look at Act of the two
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  Speaker 2: Actionapter four, daily people were added to the church. That
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  Speaker 2: means they must be doing something that added people to
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  Speaker 2: the church. It's called evangelism, it's called sharing the good news.
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  Speaker 2: It's God loving your neighbor as yourself. Everything Jesus thought
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  Speaker 2: is so that people can know the good news, which
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  Speaker 2: is Him.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So the church that don't seek and save the loss
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  Speaker 2: is lost. The church itself is lost. We must remember this.
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  Speaker 2: We must boil everything down to why the church said
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  Speaker 2: we are not here to make another worship album. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that or hope we do that, because my
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  Speaker 2: passion and love doing things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But that's not why we work. Keep the main thing,
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  Speaker 3: the main thing.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you're gonna make an worship album is
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  Speaker 2: to seek and save the loss. If you're gonna print
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  Speaker 2: another T shirt is to save and seek the loss.
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  Speaker 2: If we print like Generations Gobo or something, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why we will do that. Hopefully you'll be too
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  Speaker 2: sick and save the loss.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: This is why the church exists Matthew twenty eight, verse
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  Speaker 2: nineteen or twenty. The Great commission that means Jesus commission
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  Speaker 2: these people, the same people who would later go on
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  Speaker 2: to establish the first local church. So they received this
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  Speaker 2: commission and then they went to start except two ex
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  Speaker 2: except the four Amen, go therefore and make disciples of
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  Speaker 2: all the nations, baptizing them the name of the Father,
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  Speaker 2: of the Son of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
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  Speaker 2: observe all things I've commanded you, And lo I am
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  Speaker 2: with you always, even to the ends of the age.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. This is why we are here.
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  Speaker 2: When we forget this is when we misrepresent the church,
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  Speaker 2: abuse it, mess it up. We turn into some business,
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  Speaker 2: some club, some way to control other people. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's happened. I hope you will never happen here. Hope guarantee,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm human by as long as I can't in
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  Speaker 2: my power to do no one to represent, misrepresent the church,
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  Speaker 2: and misuse the church. Come on, let's remind each other
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  Speaker 2: why we're here to seek and save the loss, the Gospel,
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  Speaker 2: the good News.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And secondly, what do we even need a church? Second reason,
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  Speaker 2: to serve one another by loving each other and building
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  Speaker 2: each other up. And this one another we mean Christians.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: So the first one tells us that's the world out there,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that is Jesus. The second one tells us that we
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: are to love each other because Jesus said, by our
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  Speaker 2: love for each other, they will know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it.
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  Speaker 2: What's Gandhi, wou say, I got no problem with Jesus,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I got problems with Christians? What a bad testimony we
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: should reverse?
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: There? Come on?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So only two reasons why we exist? To sick and
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: save the loss, to serve one another. How do we
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  Speaker 2: serve one another? Love and build each other up?
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  Speaker 3: Amen?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Emphasis four, Verse eleven to sixteen says, and Jesus God
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: himself gave some to be apostles, some profitts. So we
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: talked about, you know, people finding their fit. All gift
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  Speaker 2: things need to work together.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We need all colors, all give things. EVANGELI his pastor's teachers.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Why for the equipping of the Saints church is here
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: to equip you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And not the pastor? Do the work? You do the work, Saints.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: You do the work.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: You go out there to your marketplace, and you sick
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: and save the loss. And that's why it's important that
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: when you come back, it's like a petrol station.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: You get filled.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you can go along haul. This system has
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: got to work. You cannot come into the church and
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: get better and crush and go all thead and expect
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  Speaker 2: to heal everybody else.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So it's got to work.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: It's got to work the church, we have to serve
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  Speaker 2: one another, blill each other up, and ify each other,
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  Speaker 2: equip each other. Then send you out to do the
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  Speaker 2: main thing, seek and save the loss. We can talk
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  Speaker 2: about a million different ways to seek and save the loss.
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  Speaker 2: The cost, the message is the same, the method is.
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  Speaker 3: Varied.
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  Speaker 2: Next verse thirteen, till we all come to unity of
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  Speaker 2: the faith. So that's what church is for, to equip
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  Speaker 2: you go sick and save the loss.
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  Speaker 3: The better we serve.
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  Speaker 2: Each other, the better we love each other, The better
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  Speaker 2: we bring each other up, the better we.
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  Speaker 3: Sick and save the world. Amen.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: The power is all it's like, it's how it's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to work. One part mess up and it's falls apart.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can read the rest basically talking about
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: like we are one knit together. Someone's the right hand,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: someone's the left hand. Some of the legs so some
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: get us walking moving. Some people's job in churches to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: remind us. They you know, they dig the ears, some
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: of the eyes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: They see her.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, we all have a part to play. No one's less,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: no one's more. So I want to share. It's close
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the church as far as I can see. The first
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: local church I can see many things, at least twelve things.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: While share three, what is the church marked by? When
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  Speaker 2: you look at me or you look at someone, how
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: do you know the Indian? Or how do you know
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: they are Chinese? How do you know their men? But
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: this the must be very clear marks. How does someone
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: know you're the church. I'm not talking about that version
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the the pastor embezzil the people's money, the pastor slept
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: around the leaders.
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  Speaker 3: Not the version the one that Jesus intended. Amen three.
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  Speaker 3: S number one.
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  Speaker 2: The church, the first loculture was marked by the Savior.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: You know them by the person they worshiped. And Savior
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: tells you that it's about salvation. It's about seeking and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: saving the loss, about evangelism. People were being saved added
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to the church. That was the mark of the first
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: local church. If you see a church just playing club,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: enjoying themselves, not getting out there, not getting uncomfortable to
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  Speaker 2: see and say the laws, that's not the church God intended.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The first locuature was marked by the Savior. There was
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Jesus all over it. They did what Jesus did, They
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: preached what Jesus preach, and the evidence was salvation. God
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was adding to the church. Amen, God knows which church
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: will be responsible when he does. Add to it, Why
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: would he want his sheep to go somewhere that he
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: knows will be neglected.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So let's not be that. Let's be a good well
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: remember well when they come to feed. I like this statement.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't come up with it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I wish I did, but he says here, talk to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: God about your neighbors and talk to your neighbors about God.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Talk to God about your neighbors, and talk to your
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: neighbors about God. It's a good mantra to live by.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Every day we do this. The church's marks so litmus tests.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Is this church marked by the Savior? Do people see
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Jesus in us? And is there evidence? Are people getting saved?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Are people finding hope and salvation and direction and purpose
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: which can only be found in Jesus? Or if this
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: does not glorify Jesus, does not lift him up, does
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  Speaker 2: not glorify him, does not preach him, then we ourselfs
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  Speaker 2: are lost.
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  Speaker 3: The Savior.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: The next two slightly harder, but it's all over the
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  Speaker 2: accept two fall.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The first localtore is marked by selflessness and sacrifice.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Not very sexy words. But it's all over Act chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of people say, uh, you can
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: have my house, you can have my car.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, they didn't have cars. You can have my cow.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Take it. You need something, take it. That's selflessness, that's sacrifice.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: It's not very popular, but I can't dilute it. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: cannot minimize it. The Church is marked by selflessness. And
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: it's hard to preach this because we live in a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: world that glorifies self. Yes, even in the Christian world,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: we do. And it's not bad. It's just misplaced in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the name of caring for yourself, which is good, which,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: by the way, is not the same as self love.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I think self care is very different than self love.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And I feel like because, for example, I've been church
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: circle for a long long time. I have seen abuse,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I have seen manipulation, I have seen control. I have
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: been maybe sometimes privy to be part of it, sometimes
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: recipient of it, over so many years, and I can
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: understand why someone might say, you know what, I want
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to have nothing to do with this.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I'm a Christian. I know have to come to church.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I'll sing the songs, I'll pay the tithe, I'll listen
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  Speaker 2: to the word nothing more. Please do not ask me
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: to invest myself because I'll get hurt, I'll get disappointed,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: someone will fail me, I'll get cheated. I don't go
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: to that again. And I can understand, but I must,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: as a pastor be responsible to tell you. The church
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: that God imagined and birth is marked by selflessness.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Christians don't make decisions.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Based on I am number one.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Yet, No that.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: One can today movie you're here, God is number one.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: We can't do church while being selfless, being selfish, self centered.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I just can't.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Every single word in the Bible, love one another, edify
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: each other, forgive, everything's gonna do with somebody else, and
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  Speaker 2: giving and sharing.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, are you okay? And sacrifice.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: The church is built on sacrifice and marked by sacrifice, people, sacrifice,
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  Speaker 2: officially giving.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I've been consistent. I hope, I don't mind speaking. I've
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: been consistent since day one.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: When I say self the church, I really don't mean
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: self within the four walls, like oh, be a be
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a broadcast person, be a key bodies.
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  Speaker 3: This is one way.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: When I say self, I do mean serving a marketplace,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: be a boss, be a good boss. Yes, that's stuff
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: like that too. But when I say stuff like that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I also don't mean then don't sup in church. No,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: it's like that's not saying oh water, No, you need both.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: You need both. You need the universal body of Christ
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and the local body of Christ.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: And the local body of.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Christ is marked by selflessness and sacrifice. There's no other
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: way to do this. I know he's scary. Oh no,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: it's past the ending, going down that road. He's gonna
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: take all my time. No, the church can't take all
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: your time. You know this because you you will have
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the power to block your dates in pranding center, who
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: has the power you? You brooke like, oh yeah, you
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: ain't controlling your time. So don't please please don't say.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: That just took my time. They just cannot do it. It's
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: no way. What is such? What is such? Some machine
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: that controls your email? You do it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: That we can have poor leadership, weak leadership, many politive
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: leaders right guilt trip you make you feel, Yeah, that
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: can all happen. Please don't say that just took my time.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You block all your plans.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Center.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: You say, I'm I'm dating my wife tonight. I cannot
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: come to this meeting. That's all okay. I just want
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to put it back to you. You are in control
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: of that, really you do. No one's gonna take your
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: time that you don't want.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: To give amen another famous words, famous last words? Famous
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: words are you church? Not?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Just don't feel like I don't feel like I'm going
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: to check because I want to anymore. I have to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: la better, don't go la. Hey, you know I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: feel like going to school too. I don't feel like
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: going to work. Also by your personal to manipulate you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: You have the maturity you tell yourself.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I have to go. I'm responsible. I've got mouths to
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: feed my right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Or another one ah now serving a church, I feel
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: like WORKLA, feel like work ready, no more joy, no pression.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: It feels I work. Okay. How about when work fuse?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I work?
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Don't go to work? Yeah, boss, work fuse I work?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Not pression anymore?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Not coming. We can't.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: We can't separate church and the concepts of sacrifice and selflessness.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Just can't. Just can't.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I just want to remind you, actually, the power is
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: in your hand. No one can take your time from you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I think, as far as we are concerned, in this years,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: we have tried to protect time and like I'm not
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: used to it no, like I got three week nights,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: not not this year, la last year.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Right, it's like, hey free huh, I'm not iced to it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: But we've tried.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: We have tried, but I can't guarantee you that we
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: will always be like this. Ten years from now, the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: sick and save the loss with yourself one another. One
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: day there will be marriage courses law, there will be
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: like pre marriage counseling law.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Who's gonna do all that? You'll be funeral in weeks long?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Have to do one.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: So we have been responsible. It has to be a choice.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I must understand. This is God's Church, and God's shirch
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: cannot be separated from the main thing which is here
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: seek and save the lost. I agree with you. We
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: don't need one hundred meetings to do that. If there
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: can be done in two meetings, sure, but don't avoid
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: sacrifice and selflessness.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Amen. I saw this.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I saw this quote somewhere on Instagram or Facebook, I remember,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and then in some of you before we have seen
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: it as well. It's it goes something at this activity
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: does not necessarily mean intimacy. I think I added a wait.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Necessarily that the means that church is famous for this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: We are busy, busy, busy. We think that because we're busy,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: we're doing God some big favor. W I mean fifteen minutries. No,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I must be very holy. I got nine positions in
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: church even more holy. No, no, no, don't make the mistake.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Activity does not necessarily mean intimacy. That's not Just because
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: you got ten positions doesn't mean you're much closer to
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: God than another person.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that. But hey, can I also caution
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the next lineup?
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: This is why I added neither does inactivity necessarily mean intimacy.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: If activity doesn't mean Timothy, let's let me do nothing.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: You do nothing with your wife and see how clos
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: are you gonna get your wife? Don't talk, don't do
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the things that merry people do. Okay, So activity does
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: not mean intimacy. Don't make the mistake just because you're
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: busy you're close to God. No, no, no, no, but hey, hey,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: the alternative is not inactivity. Oh then I keep myself
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: free so that God can speak.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Let me give you a better version. I think.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Intimate activity and intimate inactivity means intimacy. Whether you do
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: or don't do it has to be intimate. God did
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: not this math altogether. Someone had to prepare the ah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: But it's it's knowing when. It's knowing when to move
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: forward and when to pause, when to abide, when to move,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: when to have activity, and when to pull back. That's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the key, not one way or the other. I don't
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: know what Chris is always like one way or the other.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Richard Hughes song. Okay, elevation all the way.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Why not.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: We tend to do that? No, I think it's a
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: better version.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Intimate activity, and intimate inactivity means intimacy. I think we
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: should learn that both require sacrifice. Amen, Jesus loves the church.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: If he s five, five says this husband loves your
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: wife's how what's the picture or the picture is this?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: for her. Christ gave everything for this thing he birth
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: called the church. And if Jesus loves this thing, I
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: think we should too. So the question is will we
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: love the church? But pastor is hard because I've been
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: hurt it. Faster is hard because I can't trust anymore.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Pastor.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know where my money is going to, so
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not giving a cent. But faster I want you
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to fix the econ holiday, then if I do business
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: your post know you're distracted what you're doing business, you
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: are the church because you have to fix that coon man,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: just joking, but you get you get the economy right?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Get well, we love the church. Well, the church.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Always haves the Savior and what the Savior cares about,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: which is the salvation of people. At the core of
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: what we do, Amen, whether it's activity or inactivity, is
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: so that more can come to know the Lord.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Sometimes too many events doesn't mean more people come to
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: do a lot. Yeah, I get that. Sometimes one on
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: one works way better than some big time all the call.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I get that too. That's why I do a lot
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of one once. But let's let's learn both intimate activity
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and intimate inactivity. But let's also not be afraid to
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: be selfless and be willing to sacrifice.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: What we are doing every single day is also sacrificed.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Wake up early, we go to this thing called the
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: company we work. It's all sacrifice. So I don't think
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: any of us only convincing that it is sacrificed and
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: selflessness that builds anything, family, organization, business, company, sports team.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, hey, I think God's Church.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: God's church again, not the one where the leader fell
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: and sinned and manipulated.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I know that's that too. But God's Church deserves our love. Amen.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Whole bunch of scripture tells us that, you know, okay,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: no time to shad them more. But Romans twelve, Romans fifteen,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you can read. We are one body, one Christ. We
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: are individual members of one another. The Bible tells us
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: to be kindly affectionate to one another. The Bible tells
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: us to be patient with one another. All of these
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: things there's always one another. That means we need each other.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: We cannot be an island. You can't love one another
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: just by your bit side alone.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Lie. Amen.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Say okay, the church, the church, the church that Christ
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: paid for, Christ died for, shed is blood for this
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: church needs to return.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: To its main thing, seek and save the loss, serve
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: one another. Amen.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: And you can't do this without a focus on the savior,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: selflessness and sacrifice.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Amen. Amen. All right, shall we about his close the eyes?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah, hallelujah. May I ask that you take a moment
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: right now to kind of like put in a little
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: imaginary tomorometer spirit your thermometer into your heart and kind
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: of gage, how on fire are you for God's God's Church?
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: And if you think that there's been too many disappointments,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: too many hurts, too many maipulations, all these bad things
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: in the church, let's reverse that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Let's love more, let's forgive more. Let's let's let's be different. Amen.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe if you really have to, you can blame
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: that church, But don't blame the church that Christ shed
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