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I think that it's as much worship for our Father to see you coming together before and after our worship time.
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! I think it's worship when He sees you fellowshipping with one another, enjoying being with each other, hugging, slapping one another on the back, reacquainting.
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I think the Father has pure joy in that time.
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And I want you to see it as such.
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It's not a put down to this room.
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This is just a room.
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It's not a sanctuary.
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You put birds in sanctuaries and put latches on the doors so they can't get out.
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This is not a sanctuary.
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There's a sanctuary that dwells within us.
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And so I think the beauty of the church gathering is that fellowship.
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For it is the fellowship that He created us.
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Prior to anything existing, the Father and the Son and the Spirit had fellowship.
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And prior to creating human beings, God created other beings.
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Angels and cherubim and serubim and all kinds of creatures are...
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I mean, it wouldn't surprise me that there are planets with other creatures.
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I don't exclude that.
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God didn't tell me all that I needed to know.
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Just only what I needed to know.
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And yet, one day, the Trinity says,
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let's bring others into this fellowship that we have.
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This inner connectedness, this relationship that we share with each other.
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And the idea of creating a man and a woman was born.
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Don't teach your kids that one day they're going to be angels and have wings.
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What foolishness.
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They, while they're...
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Can see and be in the presence of God, they cannot share.
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They were not created to share in the fellowship.
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But we are.
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And that's why the Scripture says that we were born in the image.
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We were made in the image of God.
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Because we were made to fellowship.
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Father, Son, Spirit, and Church.
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The Bride of Christ.
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What greater honor given to us than to be considered the Bride of Christ.
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There was always a mystery in the Old and the New.
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And it says it in Colossians, I believe.
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Christ in you.
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The hope of glory.
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Ezekiel never saw that.
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Elijah never saw that.
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Moses never saw that.
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Abraham didn't understand that.
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Jews today still believe that when it talks...
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God talks to Abraham and talks about grains of sand on the seashores.
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He's only talking about Jews.
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But we know different, don't we?
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He's including us in that.
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We are sons and daughters of Abraham.
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Pretty big deal, I think.
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And so when we come to the Acts of the Apostles...
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Well, let's see.
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We got corrected on that.
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Acts of the Holy Spirit.
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Well, let's think about that for a second.
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
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Well, he's Christ in you.
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The hope of glory.
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So maybe it's the Acts of Jesus Christ in you.
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Who is your and my hope of glory.
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And something new that never existed before...
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...was never in the mind of any man, woman, or child before...
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...came into the world with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And in that very first chapter, here comes the Holy Spirit...
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...the incarnate Christ indwelling us.
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He was the incarnate Christ.
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He was living, breathing.
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But in order to be everywhere, in all of our hearts...
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...he had to go away.
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And he says there's another one coming...
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...and he will be your comforter.
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He will comfort you when times are hard...
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...when things are harsh...
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...when the storms are blowing.
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And he will comfort you even in the good times.
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And so the comforter comes.
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And he comes to indwell us.
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And now we're moving from Jesus who is in flesh and blood form...
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...and we're moving into something brand spanking new.
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I had a theology professor and he said...
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...you know, it's possible that God himself lacked for one thing.
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It's hard to imagine that.
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That could be true.
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Really?
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What could he lack for?
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Up until Jesus living this life and dying on a cross...
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...God may have lacked the experience of being a human being.
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Of what it means to be tempted.
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Of what it means to hurt.
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Not only for yourself but for somebody else.
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To see people cry.
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To see humanity going by.
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For where he lived there in Nazareth...
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Was it Nazareth?
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Where did he live?
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What was the name of that town?
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Nazareth?
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Yeah.
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Nazareth was a trade center.
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I just wanted to see if Wes was still listening to me.
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You do it to everybody else.
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I thought I'd do it to you.
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Nazareth was a trade center.
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That's where real trade was going on.
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And Israel was placed by the Father...
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...right in the perfect place to be the crossroads...
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...of the trade of the world.
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And Israel...
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I mean, you go east to Israel...
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...desert, desert, desert, desert, desert.
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We see regularly pictures of Syria...
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...the Afghanistan...
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...and Iran and Iraq...
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...and they all look bleak, don't they?
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And they had one or two trails...
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...and to go across some of those deserts...
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...from Persia...
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...which would be modern day Iran...
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...all the way to Egypt...
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...thousands of miles over...
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...just nothing...
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...hardly any bushes or anything.
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And so...
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...everybody came around through Israel.
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And where Jesus was at in that carpenter's shop...
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...there were the languages of the world...
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...being spoken by everybody.
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...and the trade language became Greek.
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And the original language of the New Testament...
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...what's called today is Koine Greek...
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...wasn't classical Greek...
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...it's Koine Greek...
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...it is street Greek is what it is.
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You know, there's English...
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...and then there's street English.
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And some of us that don't get around street English very much...
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...might not even understand what's going on.
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So many abbreviations...
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...and shortcuts...
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...in there.
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I go down to Nicaragua...
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...and their first language down there is English.
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And they can speak in English...
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...that any of us would understand.
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But when they get amongst one another...
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...they speak in English...
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...that most of us wouldn't even...
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...you might catch a word or two...
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...and think, what language is this?
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It's not Spanish.
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I know it's not Spanish.
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And it's what we might have called...
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...years ago, Pig Latin.
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English.
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It just...
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...is birthed out of...
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...out of that particular culture.
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And only they understand it.
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Well, this is the world that Jesus grows up in.
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This is the world that Jesus is dealing in.
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He is speaking multiple languages.
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He's learned multiple languages...
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...because of this atmosphere of trade...
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...and commerce...
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...in that part of the world.
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Now, given all of that...
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...we come to acts of Jesus Christ...
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...and the first thing that has to happen is...
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...we've got to get the Holy Spirit.
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In this transition from Jesus...
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...walking, breathing human flesh...
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...to what we now call the church...
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...and just for your information...
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...when I first named this Christ Family...
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...I didn't name it Christ Family Church.
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Because in my mind...
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...the word church in our culture today...
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...is pretty much irrelevant.
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In fact, it has more negative connotations...
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...than it does positive connotations.
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Donald Trump...
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...the word in Greek, ekklesia...
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...he holds ekklesia.
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Every time he has a group meeting...
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...it's an ekklesia.
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This year, for the first time...
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...I got to go down to the Gwinnett Braves...
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...and drive students down there...
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...and I got to sit in that...
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...Gwinnett Braves stadium...
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...and I was a part of...
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...an ekklesia.
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And people think of...
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...church when they hear the word church...
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...and they think, well...
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...they're only after money...
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...they only talk about negative stuff.
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...what's with all the chandeliers?
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Do you know there was a guy that...
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...in California that built a crystal cathedral?
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His budget every year to keep that glass clean...
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...which was not really crystal...
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...it was more like the windshield on your car...
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...was far, far, far greater...
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...than the budget that we'll ever have here totally...
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...just to keep the glass clean.
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We've done some foolish things in the name of church.
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So I thought, you know...
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...the real...
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...what real church...
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...what New Testament church should be about...
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...is family.
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So I called it Christ's family.
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I didn't call it Christ's family.
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Church.
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I figured family was a good enough word.
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So I would stand before you this morning...
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...and I wouldn't say...
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...good morning, church.
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I would say, good morning, family.
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For while I'm an old uncle...
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...that sits over there pretty much by himself...
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...and doesn't say much to any of you...
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...don't engage very much...
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...I purely enjoy...
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...watching...
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...you...
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...fellowship.
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Brings great joy to my heart.
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My father is...
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...giving me the opportunity...
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...to participate in over...
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...3,000 new churches...
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...curches being started...
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...across this country...
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...and in other countries.
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I've had my fingerprints...
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...on some aspect...
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...of church...
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...churches...
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...individual churches...
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...being started...
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...over 3,000 times...
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...and yet I get...
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...to be here with you...
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...and enjoy the fruit...
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...of what the father...
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...the difference that the father can make...
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...in our lives.
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How does that start?
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The Holy Spirit comes within us...
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...our comforter...
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...our...
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...down payment...
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...for this hope...
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...that is to come...
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...Christ in you...
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...the hope of...
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...glory.
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...glory.
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Oh...
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...that's exciting.
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If you can't get excited about that...
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...there...
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...you're missing a gene somewhere.
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Something's not right in your DNA.
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If there's a reason for gene therapy...
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...that would be it.
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We need to inject you with something.
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We need to punch you with something.
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We need to do something...
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...because it doesn't get any more...
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...glorious...
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...than that.
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Well, I think if Moses knew that today...
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...Moses would say...
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...sign me up.
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Abraham would say...
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...hey, I give up everything I've got for that.
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Elijah...
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...Elisha...
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...all of the great old prophets...
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...would say...
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...that's for me.
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And that's where we start...
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...in Acts.
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About 30 AD...
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...there at the beginning...
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...spring.
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And things begin to roll.
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But...
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...chapter 9...
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...where...
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...Clay would have been today...
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...Clay got his...
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...25,000 mile...
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...tune-up.
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And, you know...
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...a lot of times when they do a tune-up...
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...they disconnect the battery...
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...of your car...
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...they disconnected him...
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...his head from his...
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...they put him asleep...
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...is what they did.
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They just knocked him out.
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Chapter 9...
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...we see the conversion of Paul.
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Now...
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...the conversion of Paul...
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...is not a seminal moment...
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...in this transition...
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...that's going on...
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...in this birthing...
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...of the church.
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...and the conversion of Paul...
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...is about eight years after...
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...the resurrection...
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...and the ascension of Jesus.
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It's not, you know...
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...next week...
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...or two years from now...
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...it's about eight years...
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...before this happened.
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In between...
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...he is called...
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...the...
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...of the church.
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Not...
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...a persecutor...
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...he is...
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...the...
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...persecutor...
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...of the church.
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...everybody could stand back...
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...all the chief priests...
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...everybody could stand back...
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...and say...
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...go Paul...
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...go Paul...
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...well no...
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...he was Saul then...
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...when he...
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...go Saul...
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...go Saul...
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...get it done...
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...my hands are clean...
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...Saul was doing all of it...
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...but they were...
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...ra-ra-ing him on...
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...even Herod...
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...got into the act...
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...but it's not...
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...a seminal transition.
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What happens in...
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...chapter 9...
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...verse 32...
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...is that...
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...Peter...
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...is given a revelation...
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...a vision...
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...and...
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...chapter 10...
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...Peter...
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...is called to the house...
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...of a Roman centurion...
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...a battalion commander...
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...which was a big position...
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...in the Roman army...
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...this Roman army...
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...was called the Italian cohort...
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...and he was over it...
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...and he was...
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...he was...
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...he was a believer...
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...he was wanting to believe...
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...he was wanting to understand...
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...and he sins for...
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...he sins for Peter...
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...and Peter is now going into the house...
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...of a...
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...of a Gentile...
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...no...
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...no...
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...no...
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...no...
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...that's not the...
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...that's not the way of a Jew...
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...he was going to sit down...
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...and eat with them...
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...oh no...
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...no...
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...no...
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...that's...
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...not the way of a Jew...
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...it...
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...it was forbidden...
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...anything in that house...
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...and eaten in that house...
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...was...
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...unclean...
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...to the Jew...
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...it didn't matter how much...
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...you washed your hands...
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...it was still going to be...
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...unclean...
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...and here's this...
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...before you can have...
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...revelation...
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...you've got to have...
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...illumination...
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...and Peter's eyes...
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...were opened...
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...and on the heels of that...
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...was this revelation...
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...that God had opened...
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...the door to all...
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...peoples...
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...and Nathan wanted me to speak today...
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...on racism...
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...and I ain't going to say...
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...much about racism...
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...but here you begin to see...
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...you see...
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...long before Muhammad...
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...thought up...
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...the idea of having...
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...infidels...
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...Jews had...
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...Gentiles...
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...the intent...
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...of Jews for Gentiles...
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...wasn't as dramatic...
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...as it was for Muhammad...
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...with infidels...
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...but the concept...
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...is still the same...
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...the Bible never talks...
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...about racism...
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...the Bible...
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...though...
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...uses the word...
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...in the original language...
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...the Greek...
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...ethnos...
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...and we get the word...
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...ethnicity from it...
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...it...
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...acknowledges that there are...
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...ethnic groups...
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...of all...
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...types...
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...and...
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...flavors...
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...and...
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...body types...
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...and...
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...skin color...
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...and...
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...it goes all the way back...
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...to Nimrod...
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...I think...
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...people were being disobedient...
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...to God...
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...you remember...
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...and...
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...and...
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...they were...
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...instead of...
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...going to the ends of the earth...
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...and...
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...and...
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...multiplying...
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...they were gathering...
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...themselves up...
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...and...
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...and said...
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...whoa...
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...this is really good...
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...let's...
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...let's build us a tower...
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...so we can...
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...we can just physically...
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...ourselves...
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...go up to heaven...
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...we can go up...
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...we can come down...
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...we can go up...
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...we can come down...
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...wouldn't that be a neat thing?
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...God baffles them by...
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...separating them by language...
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...if you want to reach a person...
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...of another ethnos...
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...learn their language first...
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...and then...
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...Jesus told the 70...
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...when he sent them out...
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...he said...
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...now go and stay in that person...
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...of peace's house...
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...and eat whatever...
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...they eat...
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...missionaries far too long...
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...have...
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...separated themselves...
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...from those that they're...
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...intending to reach...
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...when it comes to food...
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...but Jesus realized...
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...you not only have to know...
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...the language...
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...but the language...
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...is the entrance...
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...door to the culture...
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...and you gotta...
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...eat...
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...what they eat...
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...oh...
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...I've never had squid before...
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...eat the squid...
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...oh...
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...I don't like tomatoes...
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...eat those tomatoes...
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...and now we find ourselves...
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...in this...
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...complex world of...
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...ethnicity...
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...now we'll go to Galatians 2...
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...the first missionary journey...
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...of Barnabas and Paul...
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...has already happened...
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...and when they get done...
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...they come back...
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...and they go to Jerusalem...
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...to give a report...
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...of what's happened...
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...all the Gentiles...
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...yes we did what we were...
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...supposed to do...
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...first of all...
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...we went to the synagogue...
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...and gave the Jews...
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...an opportunity...
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...to say yes to Jesus...
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...but when they...
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...they didn't respond...
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...then we went to the streets...
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...as we sat...
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...and made...
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...a tent...
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...on the corner...
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...we told everybody...
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...about Jesus...
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...and we just testified...
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...of what we had seen...
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...and what we had heard...
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...and...
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...and...
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...we lived our lives out...
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...he says in Thessalonica...
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...in Thessalonians...
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...he said...
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...I...
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...I...
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...gave my life...
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...to you...
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...lived my life...
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...out in front of you...
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...and that's what they did...
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...they just lived...
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...Jesus out...
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...in these towns...
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...that they went to...
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...and they went through...
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...the area of Galatia...
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...and...
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...then they come back...
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...and they make the report...
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...and in Galatians...
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...the first chapter...
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...he's recording...
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...for us...
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...the...
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...occasion...
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...of that...
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...council in Jerusalem...
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...and how he had...
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...to kind of set...
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...Peter straight...
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...by now...
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...Peter...
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...even though he had this...
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...illumination...
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...and revelation...
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...was backing off...
22:32
...because there were some...
22:34
...Pharisees...
22:35
...who had become believers...
22:36
...and kept saying...
22:37
...no it's Jesus...
22:38
...plus...
22:40
...circumcision...
22:41
...Jesus...
22:42
...plus...
22:43
...plus...
22:44
...and that's what...
22:46
...many are doing...
22:47
...in the churches today...
22:49
...and why the church...
22:51
...leaves such a bitter taste...
22:54
...in the mouths of people...
22:57
...who have yet to come to know Christ...
22:59
...because it's...
23:00
...always seems to be about...
23:03
...plus...
23:05
...plus...
23:06
...and yet what we have...
23:08
...here...
23:10
...is Jesus...
23:11
...is...
23:12
...enough...
23:14
...when I was the age of most...
23:15
...many of you...
23:16
...college...
23:17
...just got saved...
23:18
...I...
23:19
...I used to preach...
23:20
...and teach...
23:21
...Jesus...
23:22
...me...
23:23
...equals...
23:24
...enough...
23:28
...dum...
23:29
...dum...
23:31
...dum...
23:32
...it took me a while...
23:33
...to realize...
23:34
...he didn't really need me...
23:35
...at all...
23:37
...it's just...
23:38
...Jesus is enough...
23:40
...the fact that he wants...
23:42
...to include me...
23:43
...in what he's doing...
23:45
...praise God...
23:46
...that I get to be involved...
23:48
...that I get to...
23:49
...to be a part of...
23:50
...what he's doing...
23:52
...but he don't need me to do it...
23:54
...he wants me...
23:56
...involved...
23:57
...he wants you...
23:59
...involved...
24:01
...you may not believe it...
24:02
...yet or not...
24:03
...but I'm going to tell you this...
24:04
...and I want you to write it down...
24:05
...and always remember it...
24:07
...there is at least one person...
24:09
...in this world...
24:10
...while you're alive...
24:12
...that the only Jesus...
24:14
...they'll ever believe in...
24:15
...is the Jesus...
24:16
...they see...
24:18
...in you...
24:21
...could be...
24:22
...your children...
24:24
...could be a family member...
24:26
...could be somebody...
24:28
...in your class...
24:29
...this next semester...
24:30
...but there's at least...
24:33
...one person in your life...
24:35
...that the only Jesus...
24:37
...they'll ever believe in...
24:39
...is the Jesus...
24:40
...they see...
24:42
...and hear...
24:43
...from you...
24:45
...and now...
24:48
...verse 11...
24:49
...chapter 2...
24:51
...Paul opposes Peter...
24:53
...but when Cephas...
24:54
...came to Antioch...
24:55
...you remember that's Peter...
24:57
...I opposed him to his face...
24:59
...because he stood condemned...
25:02
...for prior to the coming...
25:04
...of certain men...
25:05
...from James...
25:07
...he used to eat...
25:08
...with the Gentiles...
25:10
...but when they came...
25:11
...he began to withdraw...
25:13
...and hold himself aloof...
25:15
...fearing...
25:16
...the party of the circumcision...
25:19
...and the rest of the Jews...
25:20
...joined him in hypocrisy...
25:22
...with the result...
25:23
...that even Barnabas...
25:24
...was carried away...
25:25
...by their hypocrisy...
25:26
...but when I saw...
25:28
...that they were not...
25:29
...straightforward...
25:30
...about the truth...
25:31
...of the gospel...
25:32
...I said to Cephas...
25:33
...in the presence of all...
25:35
...if you being a Jew...
25:36
...live like the Gentiles...
25:38
...and not like the Jews...
25:40
...how is it...
25:41
...that you...
25:42
...compel the Gentiles...
25:43
...to live like Jews...
25:46
...we are Jews...
25:47
...by nature...
25:48
...and not...
25:49
...sinners...
25:50
...from among the Gentiles...
25:52
...nevertheless...
25:54
...knowing...
25:55
...that a man...
25:56
...is not justified...
25:57
...by the works of the law...
25:58
...but through faith...
26:00
...in Christ Jesus...
26:01
...even we have believed...
26:03
...in Christ Jesus...
26:05
...that we may be justified...
26:07
...by faith in Christ...
26:09
...and not by the works of the law...
26:12
...since by the works of the law...
26:14
...shall no flesh...
26:15
...be justified...
26:17
...or saved...
26:18
...but if while...
26:20
...seeking to be justified...
26:21
...in Christ...
26:23
...we ourselves...
26:24
...have also been found...
26:26
...sinners...
26:27
...is Christ...
26:28
...then the minister of sin?
26:31
God forbid...
26:34
...may it never be...
26:37
...for if I...
26:39
...rebuild what I have...
26:40
...once destroyed...
26:41
...I prove myself...
26:42
...to be a transgressor...
26:44
...for through the law...
26:46
...I died to the law...
26:47
...that I might live...
26:50
...unto God...
26:52
...not for God...
26:54
...that little word...
26:55
...to is really critical there...
26:57
...to understand...
26:58
...what to...
26:59
...or unto God...
27:01
...there's more expressions...
27:02
...of us living...
27:03
...unto God...
27:04
...than there is...
27:05
...ever expressions...
27:06
...of us living...
27:07
...for God...
27:09
...our primary...
27:12
...living is...
27:13
...unto God...
27:14
...for through the law...
27:17
...I died to the law...
27:18
...that I might live...
27:19
...unto God...
27:21
...I have been crucified...
27:23
...with Christ...
27:24
...and yet it's no longer...
27:26
...but it's Christ...
27:27
...who lives in me...
27:29
...and the life...
27:30
...which I now live...
27:31
...in the flesh...
27:32
...in the Son of God...
27:34
...who loved me...
27:35
...and delivered...
27:36
...Himself...
27:37
...up for me...
27:39
...I do not...
27:41
...nullify...
27:42
...the grace of God...
27:43
...for if righteousness...
27:44
...comes...
27:45
...through the law...
27:46
...then Christ...
27:47
...died...
27:48
...needlessly...
27:49
...needlessly...
27:51
...huge stuff...
27:54
...right there...
27:55
...our president...
28:00
...was recorded this last week...
28:01
...and it was replayed...
28:02
...again and again...
28:04
...and he said...
28:06
...everybody...
28:09
...bias...
28:10
...and he's right...
28:12
...I believe that...
28:14
...we are all biased...
28:16
...somehow or another...
28:17
...in fact there's probably...
28:18
...more bias in the world...
28:20
...than there is...
28:21
...what we used to say...
28:22
...when I was a kid...
28:23
...Carter has little liver pills...
28:25
...or...
28:26
...50 flavor ice cream...
28:28
...parlor...
28:29
...or...
28:30
...there's lots of biases...
28:31
...and there's lots of reasons...
28:33
...that those biases...
28:36
...find themselves embedded...
28:38
...into our thinking...
28:40
...and into the decisions...
28:41
...that we make...
28:42
...and how we act out...
28:44
...some of it's cultural...
28:45
...some of it has to do...
28:46
...with the geography...
28:48
...that we find ourselves in...
28:49
...some of it has to do with...
28:50
...our family experiences...
28:53
...or our...
28:55
...the color of our skin's experiences...
28:57
...there's...
28:59
...thousands...
29:01
...of reasons...
29:02
...for bias...
29:04
...bias...
29:05
...in and of itself...
29:07
...is not sin...
29:10
...it's what you do...
29:11
...with your bias...
29:13
...that becomes sin...
29:16
...it's how you live that out...
29:18
...and I believe...
29:20
...that bigotry...
29:21
...is taking a bias...
29:23
...to its extreme...
29:25
...where...
29:26
...it becomes...
29:27
...hatred...
29:29
...
29:32
...see...
29:33
...I don't believe in racism...
29:35
...racism...
29:38
...in its definition...
29:40
...is really...
29:41
...an...
29:42
...ethnic bias...
29:44
...but to say...
29:48
...a person is a racist...
29:50
...well...
29:51
...there's only one race...
29:52
...that I know of...
29:53
...and it's called human...
29:55
...and so it's like saying...
29:58
...I hate all human beings...
30:00
...and in fact...
30:02
...there have been...
30:03
...records of...
30:04
...of people...
30:06
...hate people so much...
30:07
...that they have no...
30:08
...conscious...
30:09
...no...
30:10
...feelings...
30:11
...whatsoever...
30:12
...as to...
30:13
...the death of human beings...
30:14
...or...
30:15
...the life of human beings...
30:17
...a lot of them end up...
30:19
...being hermits maybe...
30:21
...they just get away...
30:23
...they can't stand...
30:24
...being around people...
30:26
...I guess that would be a racist...
30:29
...just...
30:30
...detest all people...
30:32
...but up until that point...
30:35
...what we're talking about...
30:36
...is bigotry...
30:39
...and bigotry takes...
30:42
...all kinds of...
30:43
...especially when it comes to ethnos...
30:44
...that's where we get...
30:45
...ethnic cleansing from...
30:48
...is a hatred for...
30:49
...a particular people...
30:53
...to the extent...
30:55
...that we no longer...
30:56
...care about them living...
30:59
...there are many people...
31:01
...in the Middle East...
31:02
...that feel that way about Israel...
31:03
...if they thought...
31:05
...they could get away with it...
31:06
...they would bomb...
31:09
...out of existence...
31:10
...tomorrow...
31:12
...tonight...
31:17
...and these kind...
31:18
...this kind of bigotry...
31:19
...this ethnic bigotry...
31:22
...exists...
31:23
...all...
31:24
...over the world...
31:25
...and unfortunately...
31:26
...many people...
31:27
...many people who have come...
31:28
...from other countries...
31:29
...and have settled in the United States...
31:31
...some of that comes with them...
31:33
...but what do you do with it?
31:42
Well, in Christ Jesus...
31:44
...he frees us from it...
31:48
...now you're free from it...
31:50
...but you still can choose...
31:51
...to put it in your pocket...
31:53
...I get in these verses here...
31:54
...especially up there in...
31:55
...verse 17...
31:56
...that we're no longer...
31:58
...having been born again...
32:00
...considered by God...
32:03
...as sinners...
32:05
...but over and over...
32:08
...and over and over...
32:09
...and over again...
32:10
...all the way through...
32:11
...all the way through...
32:12
...all the way through...
32:13
...it talks about saints...
32:15
...it's addressing...
32:17
...themselves to saints...
32:19
...not sinners...
32:20
...to saints...
32:21
...now who are the saints?
32:22
...are they a select...
32:25
...little group of...
32:26
...pastors...
32:27
...and their wives...
32:28
...who are...
32:29
...you know...
32:30
...more into it...
32:31
...or more up on it...
32:32
...than you and me?
32:34
...or is he talking about...
32:36
...all of us...
32:37
...who are born again?
32:38
...you can't be a saint...
32:40
...and a sinner...
32:41
...at the same time...
32:42
...now because you're a saint...
32:44
...doesn't mean you can't sin...
32:47
...in fact...
32:48
...that's the most miserable person...
32:49
...I know on the face of the earth...
32:51
...that I've ever counseled with...
32:52
...that I've ever tried to help...
32:54
...is the saint...
32:55
...who still...
32:57
...chooses...
32:58
...sin...
33:00
...that's...
33:01
...misery...
33:04
...well I've heard all the excuses...
33:07
...I can worship God...
33:09
...just as well out here...
33:10
...on this fishing boat...
33:11
...as I can...
33:12
...in that church...
33:17
...jillions and jillions...
33:19
...of excuses...
33:21
...but none of them...
33:23
...hold water...
33:26
...buckets...
33:28
...got no bottom to it...
33:37
...the biggest barrier...
33:42
...if you don't write anything else down...
33:44
...write this one word...
33:47
...the biggest barrier...
33:51
...between the ethnos of this world...
33:55
...is the assumptions we make...
33:58
...about the other ethnos...
34:00
...are just people in general...
34:05
...I've met some of the sweetest people...
34:09
...on the face of this earth...
34:10
...but when you first see them...
34:12
...tatted up...
34:15
...ugly...
34:17
...there's some ugly people in this...
34:20
...I drive a school bus...
34:21
...there's some ugly kids...
34:22
...on that school bus...
34:24
...and I'm not talking about...
34:25
...just the way they act...
34:26
...I'm talking about the way they look...
34:29
...and there are literally a couple...
34:31
...I've got a couple that are stinky too...
34:37
...we jump...
34:38
...and make assumptions...
34:41
...based on our senses...
34:43
...and I think that's why the Proverbs...
34:46
...cautions us...
34:48
...to be slow to speak...
34:50
...slow to make a decision...
34:52
...slow to make any kind of judgments...
34:55
...because we need to take...
34:59
...time to...
35:01
...there was the old commentator...
35:02
...Paul Harvey...
35:04
...who used to talk about...
35:05
...and the rest of the story...
35:08
...until you really know...
35:10
...who it is that you're working with...
35:13
...you really don't know them...
35:15
...you've got to eat what they eat...
35:18
...you've got to engage...
35:19
...in their lives...
35:22
...and I've got to tell you...
35:25
...that's tough...
35:27
...it's a whole lot easier for me...
35:28
...to stay home and watch TV...
35:31
...than to go get involved...
35:34
...in people's lives...
35:36
...because if you're involved with them...
35:38
...long enough...
35:40
...they'll start...
35:42
...showing...
35:43
...their lives...
35:45
...and not just a...
35:48
...shiny bright...
35:50
...facade...
35:53
...so that's all I have to say...
35:55
...about racism...
35:57
...to tell you the truth...
35:58
...check your own heart...
36:00
...open your mind up...
36:03
...make no assumptions...
36:05
...take your time...
36:06
...to get to know people...
36:08
...before you make decisions...
36:11
...I'd like to be...
36:14
...straightforward and honest with you...
36:15
...and let me be...
36:18
...I have a bias...
36:20
...I've got a lot of biases...
36:22
...but I'll just share one with you...
36:24
...and this bias happened...
36:26
...even before I was saved...
36:28
...I don't like hanging out...
36:31
...with smart people...
36:33
...who act like fools...
36:34
...now what changed...
36:40
...when I got saved was...
36:42
...was some of the things that...
36:44
...I accepted as being alright...
36:46
...to hang out with...
36:47
...was foolish things...
36:51
...but I found out in the Bible...
36:54
...that in this case...
36:55
...it was alright...
36:56
...because Proverbs tells me...
36:58
...walk away from the fool...
37:00
...walk away from the...
37:02
...the foolish people...
37:03
...that some of the...
37:04
...most foolish people...
37:05
...I've ever met...
37:06
...are educated...
37:11
...I listen to...
37:13
...news on TV...
37:15
...and...
37:16
...educated people...
37:17
...and I hear some of the...
37:19
...dumbest things...
37:24
...and I just quietly...
37:26
...move away from them...
37:27
...for God didn't give it to me...
37:29
...to change them...
37:30
...that's God's business...
37:33
...don't get involved...
37:35
...in the Holy Spirit's...
37:37
...in other people's lives...
37:39
...unless you have a distinct...
37:42
...invitation from Him...
37:43
...to engage...
37:45
...watch your...
37:46
...watch your assumptions...
37:49
...stay out of bigotry...
37:52
...let Father...
37:54
...teach you about your biases...
37:56
...and teach you...
37:57
...what's acceptable...
37:59
...what isn't acceptable...
38:01
...and don't worry about racism...
38:05
...as far as you're concerned...
38:07
...I can't...
38:09
...I can't decide for others...
38:12
...here's the only one...
38:14
...I can really decide for...
38:16
...even Nathan...
38:17
...I can't tell Nathan anymore...
38:19
...he's his own man...
38:20
...he's gonna make his own choices...
38:21
...I can't tell him...
38:23
...but I can influence him...
38:28
...as far as it depends on you...
38:31
...and your household...
38:33
...walk rightly...
38:36
...before the Father...
38:37
...and don't let...
38:39
...racism...
38:41
...become an issue...
38:43
...don't let bigotry...
38:44
...become an issue...
38:46
...in your life...
38:48
...let the Father...
38:49
...do healing...
38:50
...if he needs to...
38:51
...correction...
38:52
...when he needs to...
38:54
...and all those things...
38:55
...will be good in your life...
38:58
...and if you'll live that out...
39:00
...others will get it...
39:02
...others will get it...
39:05
...we started out...
39:06
...to do set free...
39:08
...the aim of set free...
39:10
...was to go after...
39:11
...the folks that nobody else wanted...
39:14
...if there's a ladder of economy...
39:16
...you know...
39:17
...many people start into...
39:19
...addictive lifestyles...
39:20
...way up here...
39:21
...with a lot of money...
39:22
...in their pocket...
39:23
...and we were aimed at...
39:24
...those that had fallen off...
39:25
...that ladder...
39:26
...were in the mud...
39:27
...in quicksand...
39:28
...couldn't get out...
39:29
...even if they wanted to...
39:30
...they had to have a hand...
39:32
...to get out...
39:33
...they had no place to stay...
39:34
...they had no...
39:35
...no meals...
39:36
...I mean they were just...
39:39
...next to death...
39:42
...that's the ones...
39:43
...we wanted to reach...
39:44
...but we never said...
39:46
...well we're going to reach...
39:47
...all of those who are black...
39:49
...all those that are white...
39:52
...we never did that...
39:55
...but the Father trusted us...
39:57
...enough...
39:58
...to give us...
39:59
...those that were black...
40:01
...and those that were white...
40:02
...and those that were Hispanic...
40:04
...and those...
40:05
...he gave us...
40:07
...who he wanted us...
40:09
...and trusted us...
40:11
...to work with...
40:13
...put your life...
40:14
...in that position...
40:16
...and watch the Father...
40:17
...work...
40:18
...in you...
40:19
...through you...
40:20
...to you...
40:21
...by you...
40:22
...and for you...
40:25
...to the glory of God...
40:26
...to the glory of God.