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5 Most Important Things In Life Pt. 4 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I hope you're ready to hear from God
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  Speaker 1: because that's what we do at this time each weekday morning.
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  Speaker 1: We open the Bible and just say, God, what do
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  Speaker 1: you have to say to us? Not just theological truth,
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  Speaker 1: but what do you have to say to us that
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  Speaker 1: impacts our lives, that will matter to me today?
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  Speaker 1: As we start our day, the best way we can
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  Speaker 1: start it is coming to God. Well, all this week
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the five most important things in life,
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  Speaker 1: and we're listening to what God has to say to us.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday we saw that our personal relationship with God
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  Speaker 1: is the most important thing in life. Number 2, on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday we saw that the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: It is so important in our lives. Number 3, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: we saw that number 3 is your family is so important.
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  Speaker 1: Part of God's design for us from the beginning, that
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  Speaker 1: your family is one of the top things in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Number 4.
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  Speaker 1: The family of believers, your family of fellow Christians, the
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ as the Bible describes it, the church.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, not just your local church, but the believers that
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  Speaker 1: are in your life. That of course may include people
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  Speaker 1: in your own family as well, but well beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: people who become as close as a brother or sister,
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  Speaker 1: people who have such an impact on your life, and
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  Speaker 1: you have an impact on their lives. You may not
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  Speaker 1: see yourself that way, but the fact is, the people
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you're close to, uh, that you
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  Speaker 1: share with, you have an impact on them.
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  Speaker 1: And we always need to be thinking, how does God
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  Speaker 1: want to use me in the lives of my fellow believers.
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  Speaker 1: Let me read you what the apostle Paul wrote in
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter 12, starting in verse 4. He says, For
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  Speaker 1: as in one physical body we have many members, and
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  Speaker 1: the members do not all have the same function, so we,
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  Speaker 1: though many, are one body in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And individually members one of another having gifts that differ
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  Speaker 1: according to the grace of God given to us, let
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  Speaker 1: us use them if prophecy in proportion to our faith,
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  Speaker 1: if service in our serving, the one who teaches in
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  Speaker 1: His teaching, the one who exhorts in his exhortation, the
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  Speaker 1: one who contributes in generosity, the one who leads with zeal.
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  Speaker 1: The one who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness, let
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  Speaker 1: love be genuine. Abhor what is evil and hold fast
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  Speaker 1: to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection.
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  Speaker 1: Outdo one another in showing honour.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be slothful in zeal but fervent in spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation.
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  Speaker 1: Be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the
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  Speaker 1: saints and seek to show hospitality.
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  Speaker 1: Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
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  Speaker 1: Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty,
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  Speaker 1: but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your
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  Speaker 1: own sight. And he goes on.
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  Speaker 1: But you see this beautiful picture here of the role
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  Speaker 1: we have in one another's lives, and as you read
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  Speaker 1: through the New Testament about what the church and the
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  Speaker 1: relationship between Christians is to be like, you see the
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  Speaker 1: Bible again and again using this term one another, one another,
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  Speaker 1: one another, love one.
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  Speaker 1: Another, pray for one another, build one another up, edify
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  Speaker 1: one another, on and on and on. It goes so
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  Speaker 1: many times, and you will find in your life as
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  Speaker 1: you start to pay attention to the role God has
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  Speaker 1: for other Christians, other believers in your life.
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  Speaker 1: That God also wants to use you in this way,
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  Speaker 1: and there's this mutual relationship of encouraging one another, strengthening
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  Speaker 1: one another, praying for one another as you go beyond
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  Speaker 1: just chatting in life and start to think, how can
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  Speaker 1: I help and build up my fellow Christian's spiritual walk
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  Speaker 1: with God, you will find God using you and making
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  Speaker 1: you a very important person in those people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.