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#20230917 - For Love Sake - Philemon 8–16 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the Study of God's Word, recorded live at Calvary
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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Good morning. Are you the rowdy crowd?
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Oh, yeah. See you.
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A little more committed than the other two services When I asked
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the other services, are you the rowdy crowd?
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They're like, yeah, I guess so. OK, all right.
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You're the rowdy crowd. OK, listen, I love to interact
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with people when I teach. Lets me know that they're with
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me in the room. So that's OK.
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We going to get a little rowdy this morning?
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Is that OK to get a little rowdy?
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OK, listen, I'm going to ask you guys, There you go.
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That that there's my people. All right now.
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Hey, so please open your Bibles to a fileyman, if you would.
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We're going to go ahead and look at that together this morning.
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But as you're turning there, I want to share a little bit about
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myself. I probably won't be using the
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pulpit too much because I'm short.
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That's the first thing I need to tell you.
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And this thing is. If I had a box or something like
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a phone book or something I could stand on to be all right.
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But I let just about my life I was Ray.
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I didn't get raised in a Christian home.
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I didn't come to faith till I was 20 years old.
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I have a darkness to light testimony.
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I was in the darkness and I had seen a great light, and God drew
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me into his love through that light.
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And so that was my testimony. I was in college when that
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happened, and I went to college for music education.
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So I'm a music teacher by my undergraduate education, my
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postgraduates, obviously Jesus stuff.
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But what you have to understand about my undergrad is I'm still
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an artist. I'm still a creative person.
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I'm one of those people that are always.
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I'm always creating, I'm always doing stuff like that.
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And so I appreciate artists, I appreciate art, I appreciate all
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that. It's part of my personality.
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And the day I got saved, I met a beautiful young woman named Lori
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who is now been my wife for over 30 years.
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We have four children. We have an oldest daughter who's
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adopted and three boys. We have a brand new grandbaby
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named Ivy who I hope is watching right now.
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So Granddad says hi. And then also, of course I have
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a son in love who is Chris, who married our daughter.
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And we're so blessed with our family.
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My wife is also a musician. She's been a professional
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harpist most of her life. And so as I was an orchestral
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percussionist, I played marimba and vibraphone and all that
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stuff. My wife is a harpist and she
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just retired from 30 years as the principal harpist for the
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Idaho State Civic Symphony and and also she's a teacher and so
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my wife teaches gifted and talented students.
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So she takes kids that have a that they're they're testing
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really high and she help and pushes them farther.
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I've gone into her math classes, and I don't like math, and I've
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gone into her math classes and it looks like the IT looks like
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numbers, you know, that remember the show numbers, you know, and
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to like 4th graders doing all this stuff on the board.
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And I'm like, who are these children?
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And so my wife is really smart, really gifted.
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I don't know why she married me. God's grace, I suppose.
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Because I'm married up and I'm thankful for that.
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I've been in ministry for over 35 years and I'm a transitional
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pastor. I've actually been in several
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different churches and have been the lead pastor at three
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different churches. One was an interim, the other
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was a senior pastor in a small town of about 3000 people for
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almost a decade Then I've been in Idaho Falls now for six years
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and I love our church family and I love building gospel culture.
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And so I'm going to talk a little bit about that today as I
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talk about love with you guys now.
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You guys understand that Love's kind of the whole point, right?
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Yeah. Because you understand that for
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God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that
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whoever would believe in him would not perish but have
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everlasting life. So who's a whosoever?
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Who's a whosoever? Right, because you're whosoever,
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right because if you believe in Jesus you can have eternal life.
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Whosoever wants to believe in Jesus.
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Now one one of the things we see about John 316 is that there was
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love that led to an action. So let look at it like this if
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your note taker you want to write it down.
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If love is a fact, it leads to an act.
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If love is a fact, it leads to an act.
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So you can't just say you love people?
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Yeah, yeah. As a church, we can't just say
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we love people. We actually have to love people,
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and people are not lovable. Isn't it real though?
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OK, let me ask you a question about this whole keeping our
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word thing, OK? Because if there's truth, right?
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So my dad used to say to me, he says, listen, if you say you're
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going to take the trash out and you don't take the trash out,
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then your word is trash. And some of you are like, I was
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raised by a Marine. That's the way it rolled my
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house, right? So it's like, no messing around
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with my dad. That was it.
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You know what? If you said you going to do it,
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you do it. How many of you?
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This is OK? How many guys understand there's
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like, coffee and Donuts downstairs?
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It'll be OK. When we're done, a cup of coffee
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and a donut will heal most wounds.
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OK. So please understand I'm about
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to say something to y'all. It's going to get uncomfortable.
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You OK with that? How many of you have ever said
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you was going to pray for somebody and didn't pray for
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him? Show your hands.
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OK. Those of you who didn't raise
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your hand, bunch of liars anyway.
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But that's that's all right. But here's, here's the, here's
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the real right. The reality is we say, oh, I'm
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going to pray for you then we don't pray for people.
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So let me help you with some. I got a way to connect those
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dots. When somebody says, would you
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pray for me, say yes and then pray for them.
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When? Right then.
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Yes. Then you don't have to go away.
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Is him who that says going to pray for.
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Then you're doing one of these on your knees at night.
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You're like, Lord, I just want to pray for everybody I said I
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was going to pray for. So there it is.
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You know, it's like you're just trying to cover your base with
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God. Like, he knows he's looking at
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you going really right, dude, take a notepad, write it down.
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Right. So.
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But that's a reality, right? If we're going to love people,
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we actually have to love people. We actually have to connect with
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them in a way that they recognize the love of God
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through us. Listen very carefully that they
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recognize the love of God through us as God's people.
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And so I want to look at Fileyman because, you know, Paul
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says, man, I'm talking to you for Love's sake, because of love
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is the reason I'm asking you to restore a man who stole from
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you, who hurt you. I want you to restore him as a
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person of faith because he's come to faith.
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So that's kind of the, the premise of everything we're
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going to look at. But let's go ahead and talk
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about this for a second. First of all, he says this and
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he starts with us. Paul.
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Everybody knows who Paul is, right?
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Paul was a mess. Paul was a guy.
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He was known as Saul. He held the coats while Stephen
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was stoned. He was so mad at the way.
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He was those who followed Jesus. He was so mad at them he got
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paperwork to go and imprison them or take their lives.
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If they continue to follow Jesus, how many?
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You think he was a problem child?
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He's a problem child for the Kingdom of God, and yet he's on
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the road in all of his fury. Paul's in all of his fury.
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And God shows up. How many of you had that
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encounter? You were going through life and
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all your stuff, all your fury, all your stuff.
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And then God shows up and you had a problem because you had an
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encounter with God. Who had the encounter with God?
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Oh, I had an encounter with God. It was it was 1:00 in the
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afternoon. I was talking to a guy named
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John Mitchell. I thought he was a recruiter for
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the Navy. Come to find out, he's the
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Campus Crusade for Christ director on campus.
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He starts asking me questions. I'm like, get to your point.
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He goes, You going to hell? And and then he looks at me.
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I thought, I'm dumbfounded. I have no idea what to say.
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And he looks at me and goes, So what you going to do about it?
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I said, I don't know. You have all the answers right.
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But see, people have been sharing faith with me and I had
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an encounter with Jesus at that moment and my whole world got
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undone. Church, I'm going to tell you
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something right now. If you have an encounter with
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Jesus today, your whole world's going to get undone.
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And it's the good kind of undone.
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Because he loves you. Now I understand, he says Paul,
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a prisoner of Jesus Christ. Now there's something about this
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world. This world wants to trap us.
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Did you guys know the world wants to trap us?
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The things of this world wanted the love of the world, less of
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the flesh, pride of life, right? All those things that John talks
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about in first John, chapter 2, verses 15 through 17, right?
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All those things. The world wants to trap us.
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Listen, if anything's going to have my life, it's going to be
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Jesus. And I hope you can say the same
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thing. Listen, I'm if I'm going to be
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trapped by anything, it's the love of God that constrains me.
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It's going to be my life with Jesus, and I love it.
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He says I'm a prisoner, but I'm not a prisoner of the world.
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I'm a prisoner of Jesus Christ. You can lock me up, but I still
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belong to Jesus. I don't care what's going on in
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your life. You belong to Jesus, and he
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loves you deeply. Now he says.
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He says, I'm a prisoner of Lord Jesus Christ.
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He says, and Timothy our brother.
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Now there's something interesting about this idea of
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Timothy, our brother. Because Paul was not only
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saying, look, I belong to Jesus, I don't care what my
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circumstance is in life, but I also belong to a family of
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people and I do ministry with other people.
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There is no lone wolf being a Christian.
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It doesn't work that way. You can't just be on your own.
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You're part of the body of Christ.
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We invest in one another. That's the love that we show
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towards one another. We'll talk a little bit more
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about that in just a minute. But he goes on and he continues
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on. He says to find Lehman.
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That's the focus of this letter. Now there are three words we use
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in Bible study back home. We talk about this all the time.
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Now I'm going to share those 3 words with you.
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These are important three words. I want you to write them down If
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you're a note taker. If you're a note taker, you want
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to write these three words down. Put 123.
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It's really important. Pay attention.
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Write them down. I'll go slow.
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All right, Are you ready? Number one is context. #2 is
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context. #3 is context. Do you guys realize that you are
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reading a private letter? Yes, it was written to others.
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It was written to the church that was in the house.
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But it's a small group of people.
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But like Timothy and Titus, they're letters from one man to
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another man. And Sophie Lehman is that.
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It's it's it's a letter from Paul to this man and also those
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who are in his household and those that are there and the the
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church that's in the house where he's serving.
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And so he goes on. He says to Fei Lehman.
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He says. Our beloved and fellow laborer.
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If you and I are going to say that we serve God, we should
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probably do what? Serve God.
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And if we love God, we're going to serve him.
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Are we those that are loved? Do we know that we're loved?
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Do you actually know that you're loved?
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Maybe today you don't know. Maybe you've been in church for
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a while. Maybe this is your first time in
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church. But maybe you just don't.
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Do you? Do you know that God loves you?
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God loves you so deeply and and the people around you love you
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as well. See, you are beloved and I want
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you to know that, but I love what he says.
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He says you are our beloved and you are our fellow laborer.
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In Christ you're serving the Lord with us and we're so
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blessed by that. And then he goes on and he says,
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he says to the beloved apthea and archipist, our fellow
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soldier. Ma'am, I'll tell you right now,
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man. Paul says this.
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He goes, man, look, if I belong to anybody, I belong to Jesus.
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I do ministry with a group of people.
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But Timothy's part of this. Finally, man, you're part of
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this. You're a fellow laborer.
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We're doing this thing together. And then he talks his to this.
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He says to the Archer. But he says, man, you're my
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fellow soldier. Man, you have stepped up when it
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was hard. Is following Jesus easy?
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No, we got to step up when it's hard.
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And so you and I are going to step up.
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We're not only going to be fellow laborers, but we're going
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to be fellow soldiers. We're going to link arms.
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We're going to lock Shields, and we're going to say no more.
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We're going to tell the world about the love of Jesus.
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That's the fight that you and I fight.
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That's the fight that we face, because the world needs to know
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about the love of God. Now he goes on in verse 3 and he
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says to them right before he says now to the church that's in
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your house. So these two, by the way, they
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were hosting the church in their home, which is very common in
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the ancient Near East world in that 1st century.
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And so now it goes on, it says grace to you in peace from God
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our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now I'm going to be honest with you as a pastor, Every time I
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read a Paul epistle, right? A Pauline epistle, Man I.
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I I have to go through this grace and peace thing, but I
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will say it anyway because some of you may never heard it.
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Did you know that you will never know God's peace until you
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experience his grace? You guys know that you have to
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experience the grace of God before you can experience the
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peace of God. So what is the grace of God?
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The grace of God is God's unmerited, undeserved favor upon
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you. It's the gift of God.
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It's the gift of eternal life. But we have a culture that's a
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gospel culture. So the gospel can be defined and
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but there's lots of ways to define the gospel.
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But think about it like this. The gospel being God's grace for
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the undeserving mad. The God God's grace for the
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undeserving. You're undeserving and God has
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given you grace. But a gospel cultures and we
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share that grace with one another.
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What does that mean? That means if we're in a House
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of love, you can be real about who you are, and you're going to
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receive grace from the people around you because they've
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received grace from God. Now this is how we say this back
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home. This is how we talk about this
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back at Water Springs. We say it like this.
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We say as a church, we're going to love up.
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We're going to love in. We're going to love out.
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We're going to love. Now what does that mean?
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Love and up. That makes sense, right?
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We're going to love God. We're going to love him with
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everything we've got. So we're going to love God fully
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and completely. #2 we're going to love in.
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That means we're going to love the community of the body of
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Christ fully and completely. We're going to build one another
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up in the most holy faith. We're going to stir one another
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up to love into good works. We're going to build the body of
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Christ. And out of a Jesus community
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comes the mission. So we love out.
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That means we take that love that God has given us.
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We're going to take that love. We're going to take it out the
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doors. We'll take that into the world
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now. We're going to love now.
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What does love now mean? Love now means grace needs to be
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given and experienced by people in real time.
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Okay. Let me let me talk to you about
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experiencing grace in real time. Okay.
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So if I say that finish the sentence.
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David was a man after. See, that's how we know, David.
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But let's be real for a minute. Let's talk about King David.
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King David decided at one point. I'm not going to go to war with
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the rest of the boys like I should.
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I'm going to stay home. Maybe he's feeling like he's
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getting a little older. I can relate to that.
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Getting a little older. He's going to stay home and he's
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on the the top of the palace. He's looking down and there's a
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a young guy taking a bath. That's why we call her
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Bathsheba. No, I'm kidding.
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But. But no.
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But no. She she she taking a bath,
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right? And he looks at her and he
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doesn't go. Oh, Lord.
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I shouldn't look. That's not my I should.
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I should look away. He doesn't do that.
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He does one of these. Then he invites her over, has an
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affair with her, gets her pregnant.
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By the way, how long has her husband been gone?
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He's been at war. It's been a while.
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Gals, you know that you that doesn't happen overnight
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sometimes. Got to pass before you know
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you're pregnant. So something's been going on for
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a while. So he invites Uriah home to
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sleep with his wife to cover up his sin.
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Uriah is such a man of integrity he won't do it.
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He he tries to get him drunk and he won't do it.
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So then he writes a letter to the leader of the army to send
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Uriah out front to get him killed, and Uriah took it with
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his own hands because he was such a man of integrity.
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What a great contrast between the man that we know is the man
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after what? God's own heart.
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So let's be real. Why can't we say that David was
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a man after God's own heart? Grace.
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The reason we say David was a man after God's own heart is
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because we see grace poured out upon him.
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But we have a tendency to read the Bible into the past, and we
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don't. And we don't realize, oh, that
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we oh, grace is something about the past.
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Did you know right now you could come to Jesus with all your mess
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right now? And you're going to experience
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grace. You'll experience it for me.
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I'm going to tell you that right now.
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Do you know why? Because I'm messed up.
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I am messed up. My life is messed up.
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My future is bright. You can get in on it because God
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loves you, too. But you have to know something.
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If you come and you express your brokenness, your sin to me, I'm
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going to share with you the grace that I have been afforded.
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That's what makes us a gospel community as the Church.
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As we love one another, as we should, as we love up, love in,
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love out, and we love now we show grace and love in real
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time. Well, this is what's been going
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on. Check this out.
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He goes on and he says this. Paul goes, man, I thank God for
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you. He says I thank God and I make
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mention of you always in my prayers.
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By the way, are you glad when people pray for you right now?
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How do you want people to pray for you?
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Do you want people to pray blessing on you?
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Absolutely. Or do you want to pray that that
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people are praying like God get them?
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Right. But here's the thing.
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Are people thankful for you when you come in a room?
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Are they thankful when you leave the room?
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Is that. Was that too, uncle?
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Was that too real? I'm sorry, do you?
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Wait a minute. But that is real, right?
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Are people thankful for you? If they're thankful for you,
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it's probably because love is flowing from you, Grace is
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flowing from you. They want to be with you because
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you bring light and hope into the space that you're in.
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And so this is what's going on. Finally miss this guy.
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Paul's like, man, I thank God for you and I am praying for
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you. And he goes on and he says he
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explains why. Bible students, I I really want
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you to see this. Bible students.
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You need to understand what I'm about to share with you because
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this ties into the Gospels. When Jesus has asked what are
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the greatest commandments, listen to this.
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He says this. He said, Man, I'm thanking God
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for you. I'm making mention of you always
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in my prayers. Hearing of your love, OK, what
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to hear enough his love and faith, which you have towards
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the Lord Jesus. He loved God, he says, Man, I'm
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thankful for you and I'm praying for you because I've heard of
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your love for God. That's what I've heard.
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I've heard about your love and your faith towards God.
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And then he goes on and says Anne.
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All the Saints. So let's learn something about
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Feynman. Check this out.
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So he's loving God. He's loving others.
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So church say love. God say love.
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Others say repeat. That's that's how we do it.
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We love God. We love others.
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We repeat, Let's say it again. Love God.
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Love others. Repeat.
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That's what we're supposed to do.
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But how many of you guys have discovered it's not easy to love
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people? Do you know why it's hard to
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love people? Because people messed up.
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People are messed up sometimes. People are unlovable.
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We supposed to love them anyway. Why?
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That's what we're commanded to do.
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So here's a guy that's loving God.
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He's loving others, but he loves the loss.
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Listen to this. I am praying and this is what
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I'm praying for. He goes on to say this, that the
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sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgement
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of every good thing which is in you, in Christ Jesus.
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So all the good stuff that's in you 5 Lehman is from Jesus.
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And I pray that that good stuff that's in you from Jesus, you're
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going to continue to tell people about, you know, we call that,
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we call that our testimony. Are you telling people about the
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goodness of God in your life? Are you telling people how he's
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rescued you from darkness and brought you to the Kingdom of
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the Son of his love and to the Kingdom of light, how your deeds
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have been exposed? And as you came into the light,
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the blood of Jesus Christ cleans you from all sin?
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Are you telling people how much he loves you, man?
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Are you telling me, guys, that's how we change the world.
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We change the world one person at a time right now.
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We doing it on radio, We doing it on TV.
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We doing it all over the world right now.
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But when was the last time you stopped and told somebody your
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testimony? See, I do this thing when I go
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to the store and embarrasses my wife and I embarrass her all the
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time. So my wife, my wife's from the
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Midwest, She's from Chicago. So there's some rules that I
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didn't know about how we're supposed to behave.
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And of course, I grew up, I grew up on the beach, and then I
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moved to Idaho in 1976. I've been there since then.
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So I'm like, I'm a little bit redneck.
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I'm just going to be honest with you.
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And so I go to the grocery store.
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I find the longest line to get in.
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Do you know why I get in the longest line?
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Because I'm always going to pick the wrong line anyway.
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And so I just picked the wrong. I picked the long line.
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And I pull in and I wait. And then usually somebody gets
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behind me. And then I start to pray.
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And then I just start talking to people about Jesus.
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I start saying, hey, how's your day?
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I'm like, oh, it's good. It's a little busy in here.
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I said, it is. If the person behind me is
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elderly and they've only got a couple things, I might want you
22:49
to go first. Right.
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And then you can see all the other people going, what's up
22:53
with this guy? And she goes, oh, it's very nice
22:56
of you. Then somebody said, why did you
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do that? It's busy in here.
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I said, I did that because God's love compels me to be gracious
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and kind. And I can wait.
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And so can I tell you about Jesus right now?
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Sometimes I'm in line and I start talking about Jesus.
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I get to the front of the line because people just get out of
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the way. It's like part in the sea.
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It's like, it's like, hey, there's some preacher over here.
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Everybody get out. It's happened on more than one
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occasion. My wife laughs when it happens.
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She goes you you can clear a room faster than a cop.
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I said yes I can. I go into a parking lot with
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people that, like, I'll loiter and I start talking about Jesus.
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They're like, they're gone. Cops show up and the lights
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flash and everybody's like, what's happening?
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Like, I'm just going to talk to people about Jesus now.
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Are you talking to people about Jesus?
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If you love God, if you love others, you're telling people
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about Jesus. Now here's the next thing.
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Of all the good things in your life, James 117 says all good
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things come down from the Father of lights.
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If there's something good in your life, it is from the Lord.
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Gentlemen, the Bible says he who finds a wife finds a good thing.
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You need to take the time today to thank God for your wife.
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Ladies, I got nothing for you. Got to put up with him.
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No, no ladies. If you got a good man, you need
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to be thankful for that. You need to be thankful for the
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good things that are in your life.
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OK, enough being funny. Let's move on Now check this
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out, he says of this man. He says and for the he says for
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we have great joy. I love the sentence.
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We have a great joy and peace or consolation.
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Comfort in what? Your what?
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Love says, man, You're love. We've you love God, you love
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others. You love the loss you're telling
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about Jesus. And then we have been refreshed
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by your love, as he goes on to say, because the hearts of the
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Saints have been refreshed by you.
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Brother. How many of you guys in this
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room would say that you are Old Testament fans?
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You love the Old Testament. Who's like, Oh yeah.
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Oh, good for you. There's my Old Testament people.
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Right on. How many of you are like, Old
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Testament's boring. I could do without it.
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OK, I'm going to try and change your mind.
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So hold on a second. The rest of you who didn't raise
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your hands? Yeah, y'all busted now.
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But here's the thing. We have a tendency to not think
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about the Old Testament the way we should.
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I want to share something with you about the Old Testament.
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How many guys know that in Genesis is where we find the
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first promise of a savior? Genesis 315, first promise of a
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savior. It's called the Proto Evangelium
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for those who for Bible students in the room, right?
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And then we see in Genesis chapter 12, we see a promise to
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Abraham that he is through him all the nations of the earth
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shall be blessed. Well then that promise is
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reaffirmed in chapter 15, Chapter 17 again a little bit in
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chapter 18. And then we see that that what
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happens in chapter 22 of Genesis where he takes Isaac, right?
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And Isaac's like, hey dad, we got wood, we got fire.
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Where to sacrifice because Isaac wasn't stupid and he wasn't 12,
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right? And so Abraham and Isaac up the
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hill and Abraham says God will provide himself a sacrifice and
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he did. It was Jesus.
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So what happens is we study the Bible and we forget how
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important the Old Testament is. Because I was raised and I
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didn't know this when I was first a Christian, I thought the
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New Testament started in Matthew.
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Do you know why I thought the New Testament started in
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Matthew? Because there's a big old page
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that said New Testament and then Matthew was the next book.
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Testament is a covenant. Do you guys realize that the the
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the new covenant, the New Testament started when the
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church was born in Acts chapter 2.
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When Jesus died on the cross, he said it's finished.
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That's at the end of the Gospels.
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So what are the Gospels for? What's the Old Testament for?
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Check this out. Think about it like a big
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doorway. The Old Testaments on this side
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and the capstones of the Old Testament is Jesus fulfilling
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all the promises of the Old Testament and bring us over to
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the book of Acts, which you guys are studying together now and
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lead us all the way through the New Testament.
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And so that's a great way to consider that you.
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We need to know the Old Testament.
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But one of the thing we learned about the Old Testament, we
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learn in the Old Testament is that sin affects an entire
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people. Did you guys know that sin
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affects an entire people? The sin of a husband will affect
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his marriage. The sin of a wife will affect
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your household. The sin of children affects
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other children. The sin affects a people, not
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just a person. And you have to understand
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there's sin done by us, sin done to us, and sin done in our
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presence. And it all defiles us.
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And we all need the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse us from
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sin. But sin affects the whole
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people. Did you guys also know that love
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affects a whole group of people? Love affects a whole group of
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people. When there is real love in this
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house, it will change people when they walk through the
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doors. Listen, here's the here's the
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reality, right? We at a church a lot like the
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church back home. For me, if you're uncomfortable
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sitting next to people who smell like weed and booze, this isn't
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the place for you. Because we want broken people
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here. How many guys understand we want
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the House of God full of broken people because that's where
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they're going to get help. But Jesus is here to help them.
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We want them here. And so when they come through,
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we gonna love them, man. We had one dude vaping down the
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children's ministry hallway one day and we're like, what are you
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doing? Because I'm going to get my kid.
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I'm like, you need to stop doing that.
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It didn't even occur to him that he shouldn't do it.
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He's like he he was just his life was just broken and we just
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loved him. We also told him to stop because
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we love our kids too, right? We'll talk about that as we
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close up. There's a balance in these
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things. But here's the idea, this idea
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that love, love and grace can change a people.
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Just like sin can affect the people.
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The thing about the power that you find in the leader like fi
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Lehman is that. And also in Paul is that the the
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authority of a leader is found in their love, not in their
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title. And you need to understand
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something is that love is the thing that draws us to people.
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It's love. It's true love and true
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compassion for people. And if you love people, you tell
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them the truth, right? Well, because by Lehman is such
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a great guy. Paul says this in verse eight.
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He says, therefore, because you're such a great dude,
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because you love God, you love people, you love the lost, and
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people are being refreshed by your love for them, he says.
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Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command
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you, what is fitting? He says.
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Look, I could just tell you what to do and you need to do it.
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I could do that. But he says, but for Love's
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sake, because of love, I'm going to ask you to do this.
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I'm not going to command you. By the way, you understand that
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Paul had some clout in the early church, right?
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He could have commanded. He says no because of your love
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for God, your love for people, your love for the loss, and your
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love for your community. I'm going to ask you for Love's
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sake, to do this thing, which I'm going to ask you to do right
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now is a hard thing to do. Listen very carefully.
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What Paul's going to ask him to do is a hard thing to do.
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What I'm going to ask you to do today is going to be a hard
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thing to do because I'm going to ask you to love those who are
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unlovable. I'm going to ask you to love
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your enemies because God asks you to love your enemies.
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I'm going to ask you to do the hard thing, and that's what
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Paul. He says, for Love's sake.
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I'm asking you to do the hard thing.
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I'm. I'm asking you to step up and do
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the hard thing. And he goes, he says this.
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He says, he says for Love's sake, I rather appeal to you.
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And then he says this. You understand there's a little
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bit of humor here, being such a one as Paul the missionary, the
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the go getter for the church, the aged and the prisoner of the
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Lord. Do you guys see the little bit
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of, I'm not going to say manipulation, I'm just going to
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say truth that he's dropping. He's like, look, man, I could
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compel you, but I'm not going to do it for Love's sake because
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you're a guy who loves God, you love, you love others, you love
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the loss. You refresh people with love.
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I'm going to ask you to do this, but remember who I am.
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And remember I'm old and I'm in jail.
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Oh, come on, you. You don't see that.
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That's funny to me. I'm like, I'll look at that and
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I go, Paul's got a sense of humor, right?
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I look at that, I go, that's really, that's something else.
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But then he goes on, he says this.
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He says that this is the second appeal.
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He says, I appeal to you for my son, Onissimus.
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Onissimus was a slave that belonged to fi Lehman who ran
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away. Onissimus means profitable.
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And then he goes, whom I have begotten well in my chains, he's
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my son. In the faith he's he was lost,
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but now he's found. He's part of the body of Christ
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and I can't just keep him with me.
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I need to send him back to make things right.
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Church. You need to make things right.
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If you've hurt people, you need to make things right.
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You can't just you can't just walk away.
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You got to make things right, fix things, make things right.
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Some of the weirdest things for me in our fellowship is to watch
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two people who were divorced, came to know Christ, got
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remarried, and then both ended up at all.
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Four of them ended up at church together and to watch them
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worship together and to sort through that mess that was their
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life by making things right. And they're not going to,
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they're going to undo, they're not going to undo things.
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They came to Jesus after those issues, but they're they're
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making it right. They're going to fix those
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things. They're going to work those
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things out. We got to make things right with
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people. We can't just hurt people and
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walk off. We got to make it right.
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So Paul's asking him to do this. He says he's asking Odyssemous
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to go back and he says, he says this.
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He says he was once he he who is once unprofitable.
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He was he was became unprofitable to you when he left
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you. But now it's profitable to you
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and to me. He's asking them to do the hard
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thing. Church, There are times that we
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get asked to do the hard thing. Have you guys ever left church
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doing one of these going because the word of God just kind of
33:23
cracked you across the tush. You know what I'm talking about?
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Like you, you come to church. You're like, oh, it's great to
33:28
be here today. I'm so glad to be in God's
33:30
house. And they opened the Bible up
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past the head, opens the Bible up.
33:34
He starts reading. You're like, I really wish I'd
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have stayed in bed because God's speaking to you through the Holy
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Spirit. When God's speaking to the Holy
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Spirit, he's giving you an opportunity for confession.
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He's giving you an opportunity to repent, to change your mind
33:48
about things, to come to him. But here's the thing about love
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that I I want to leave you guys with.
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Remember we talked about how important the Old Testament is?
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Did you guys know that when Paul and Titus and Timothy and Phi
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Lehman and these all these other guys were talking about the the
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Bible, they were talking about the Old Testament.
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You guys familiar with that? And so Paul says something very
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interesting when he's writing to Timothy.
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He says this. He says now the purpose.
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And this is in First Timothy, chapter one, verse five.
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He says, now the purpose of the commandment, that's the word of
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God. He says the purpose of the
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commandment is love. What's the purpose of the
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commandment? Church love.
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The purpose of the commandment is love.
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When you don't understand the Old Testament, that's very hard
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to understand that the purpose of the commandment is love.
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And it's from a pure heart, a good conscience and sincere or
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unhypocritical faith. So the purpose of the
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commandment is love. But love comes out of those
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things when we've been made right before the Lord.
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But here's the thing, he goes on to say, he says.
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From which some have strayed straight from what?
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The commandment and the commandment is love, but they've
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strayed from that. Turning aside to what?
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Idle talk. There are people behind pulpits
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talking about stuff that we shouldn't be talking about, and
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there's stuff Christians are talking about online.
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We need to stop. We need to share the love and
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the light of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Use every vessel, every tool you got.
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We use all kinds of social media.
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We drop more than one. We drop.
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We drop more than one video a day.
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We we busy as a church. Social media wise, we got stuff
35:34
going on and out and it's all about Jesus.
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There are things that don't belong here, Paul goes on to
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tell Timothy. Look, the word of God shows us
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what is right, what is wrong, how to get right, how to stay
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right. So young man, preach the word.
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If you're a young guy in here, young gal in here, you want to
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be teaching, you preach the word.
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You don't preach other stuff. You preach the word.
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That's what we're called to do. I'm not going to get caught up
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in this other stuff. Well, these guys got caught up
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in idle talk. Listen, desiring to be teachers
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of what? The law and the purpose of the
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commandment is what love. But they want to be teachers of
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the commandment of the law and understand neither the things
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which they say nor the things which they affirm.
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Want to share with you guys? About my first experience in a
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church? Remember I was 20 years old when
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I I I received Jesus. I was a mess.
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I was a bar musician. When I was 16, OKI played in a
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reggae band. That was my first band I played
36:41
in. I was.
36:41
I played reggae music, right? I love reggae music.
36:46
I couldn't play it worth a darn, but I loved reggae music and so
36:49
I got quickly replaced. And then I played in a funk band
36:53
and I was the only white guy in the band and so they started
36:56
calling me Tyrone and that's my alias.
36:59
I actually, I actually, I went out in my scholarship plaques at
37:02
the university where I went to school, say Tyrone on them.
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All my professors call me Tyrone.
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I like, I like okay. So I'm playing in these bands.
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I'm doing all this stuff. That was my life and I had this
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encounter with Jesus and I said, I have this encounter with
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Jesus, I need to find church. And so I go to the only church
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that I knew it, which was a little Bible church in an
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A-frame on our campus. And I went to this little
37:27
university Bible church and I went in there and I sat down in
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the back and I had an usher come grab me hard enough by the arm
37:36
to bruise me, to pick me up and say you cannot be here.
37:43
And I'm like porque. And why not?
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He said. Because you have long hair.
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Yes, I had hair. This is punishment for a mullet.
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I'm just saying, I had the part. I had the party in the back,
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been this in the front, you know, But he said you can't have
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long hair and be in church. You're a man, you can't have
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long hair. And he escorted me out of the
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church. Now, later on, I learned where
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that passage is from. That's in First Corinthians
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Chapter 11, to which Paul says we as the church have no such
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customs. This man wanted to be a teacher
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of the Word, but he didn't even know the Word.
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And if you would have known the Word, he didn't know.
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What I needed was the love of the body of Christ, not a
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haircut. God took care of the haircut.
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See, if there's something needs to be changed in your life,
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God's going to handle it. He going to get it done.
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But you know what we need to do as a church?
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We need to love people. We need to love people in all
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their mess. Because there is therefore now
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no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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And if you come to Jesus with all your mess, you're going to
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be loved and you're going to be loved.
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Here I want to share a couple things as I close up with you.
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The purpose of the commandments, right?
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If you're a note taker, I got a few things for you to write
39:17
down. It's like I probably have a
39:18
whole another Bible study where the stuff in here I'm just going
39:21
to share a few things with you. First of all, we talk about the
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commandments. The purpose of the commandment
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is love. Listen to this Matthew 22 versus
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34 through 40. Jesus is confronted by a
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Pharisee, a doctor of the law, and he says to Jesus, what are
39:39
the greatest commandments? What does Jesus say?
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You shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul, mind
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and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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In this fulfill all the long prophets in the Gospel of Mark
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we see in Mark's account that he is he is approached by a scribe
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who are like the lawyers of the day.
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So it could have been very much that this typical.
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It could be the same event or different one.
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But in Mark 1228 through 34, the same thing happens.
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Jesus answers the same way, but then we get to one of my
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favorite gospels, which is the Gospel of Luke.
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And in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, verses 20, it's 27
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through was what was it, 25 through 37, Jesus is confronted
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by a lawyer and Jesus doesn't answer.
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He says to the lawyer, well, what do you think it says?
40:30
And what does the lawyer say? You shall love the Lord that God
40:33
with all your heart, so mind and strength, you shall love your
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neighbors yourself. And Jesus says you are right.
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What's the purpose of the commandment?
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Church Love. Jesus says the purpose of the
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commandment, to fulfill the commandment As to what?
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Love God, Love others. Repeat.
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Say it with me. Love God, love others.
40:53
Repeat. Now I love what we find, where
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we find these. That's Deuteronomy, by the way.
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Deuteronomy 6 versus 4 and five, that's where we find love God.
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But then we find in Leviticus 1918, that's where we find love
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neighbor. And they put it all together.
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In Psalm 19 seven it says the law of the Lord is perfect
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converting the soul. What's the purpose of the
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commandment? Is love.
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And I love what Paul says in Romans 2 four, he says In Romans
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2 four, he says, do you not know?
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It is the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance.
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The love of God changes your life, and the love of God will
41:29
change other people's lives. Church, we're to love God, love
41:33
others, and we're to take that love into the world and show
41:36
grace to people in real time because God's grace is available
41:39
for them. But there's two things that are
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this is the hard thing I'm going to ask you to do.
41:44
This is like Paul asking fine Lehman to receive Onissimus.
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I'm going to ask you to love your enemies.
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Now here's the good thing. You're not going to have to be
41:53
mad at me because I'm not asking you directly.
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I'm asking you on behalf of the word of God, because it tells us
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in Matthew, chapter 5 versus 43 and 44 that we are to love our
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enemies. Those who come against us, those
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who want to use us, were to love our enemies.
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Do you know why it's hard to love your enemies?
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Because they're your enemies. Hello.
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That's that's that's an easy answer.
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Luke 627 and 28 tell us the same thing.
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We are to love our enemies. So I want to share with you how
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we do this. How do we love in a world that's
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so full of indifference and hate?
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Well, in our fellowship we we we have a culture.
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We say it's love over fear. Do you know, I always say it's
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love over fear because it tells us in First John that true love
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does what casts out fear because fear involves what for men.
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How many people do you know won't come to church because
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they're afraid to come to church?
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Do you know why they're afraid to come to church?
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Because they don't know if there's going to be love here.
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But if there's love here, that love will cast out their fears
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and they will sit down in their mess and their muck and their
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mire, and they will begin to know who Jesus is through the
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word of God, Right? Oh, yeah.
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You can clap for that. Yeah.
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Yeah, Absolutely, 100%. Now here's what I want you to
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realize. I want to talk about this.
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We live in a weird world, Dan. I'm going to do something.
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I need you to pretend with me. I'm a creative person, so I I do
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a lot of things with pictures. I sometimes I use a whiteboard
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when I teach and spell everything wrong so people know
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it's okay. But I want you to put the word
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like right here, the word hate. Right here, put the word hate.
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You already got the word hate. You pull a box of word right
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here, Okay word. This is hate.
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Then over here, we're going to draw a line and we're going to
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put the word word AFFIRM over here.
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Now here's the problem with the world that we live in right now,
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especially as Christians. They're only giving us two
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options in this world right now, especially in the Western world,
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Eastern world. This is not an issue in the
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Western world. Here's the issue.
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They say to me, you have to affirm my sin or you hate me.
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You understand? It's it's a linear line.
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That's all I get. And that they put me in one or
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two categories. Either you affirm or you hate.
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Hold on a second. I am told I can't hate my
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enemies by God. And if I'm a Christian man, I
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don't. I don't hate my enemies.
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So I can't hate you. Don't say I hate you.
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I can't hate you. But I also cannot affirm you
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either. Because I love you.
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Because I love you. I'm going to tell you what The
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love of God. I'm going to tell you what
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you're doing right now before God has some issues and you need
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to repent, change your mind about those things and follow
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God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
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I'm going to step up and I'm going to come up here for Love's
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sake. I'm not going to hate you.
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I'm not going to affirm you. But church, there's something we
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doing. We doing a lot of hate online.
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Church, we doing a lot of hate online.
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We need to stop this stuff. There is stuff that does not
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belong in a pulpit, man. The pulpit is for the word of
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God. I had a I don't, I don't talk
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about, I don't talk about world stuff.
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I address cultural issues like I am now.
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But I had a couple that were new to the church.
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They've moved into our area, you know, and they said, well, we
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want to know where you stand with your, you know, your, your
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political views. And I said, I'm not having this
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conversation with you in church. I don't talk.
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I'm going to talk about the love of Jesus.
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I'm going to talk about the word of God because that's what the
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pulpit's for. I've been called to preach the
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word of God. If I was supposed to be a
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politician, I would leave the pulpit.
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I'd become a politician. That that's it.
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If I'm on this is not a platform for that.
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And so they said, but they pushed me and they pushed me.
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I had one of our security guys with me.
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His name's Chris. Love this guy Chris.
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And I go outside and I said, okay, I will not have this
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conversation with you in the church.
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Let's go out in the parking lot. So we went out in the parking
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lot and we actually went out to the cars and they looked at me
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and said okay, So which side of the aisle you on?
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And I'm thinking to myself, Lord, give me wisdom.
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And I just looked at him and I said, okay, here's the deal.
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You want to know what side of the aisle I'm on?
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Listen, here's the deal. I'm not this side.
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I'm not that side. I'm a monarchist.
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I believe in the rule of 1 king. He's coming back and he will fix
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it all. And I just said that's the real
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that's just how it is, right? I never saw him again.
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Do you know why? Because they wanted to hate, and
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I wouldn't let him hate. They wanted to say things about
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people. They wanted to say hateful
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things about people. We can't be doing that church.
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That is not what we're called to do.
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You and I are not called to hate.
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We're not even supposed to hate our enemies.
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And you know, I'm going to be honest with you.
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That verse bothers me. Those verses bother me.
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Lord, I want to hate my enemies because they're my enemies.
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And the Lord's like, no, don't do that.
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That's not how you win them to me.
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You win them by loving them. Do you realize that loving your
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enemies could cost you everything she has?
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Know that my choice to say I'm gonna preach the word of God has
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cost me hundreds of relationships because of people
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who want to hate. I shared this idea of not hating
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and not affirming but loving. Coming to that the other option,
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which is a biblical option, we had a family leave the church
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and I I reached out to him and said Oh no, no, no, because we
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hate and we decided to hate church.
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I'm going to tell you something right now.
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I don't understand why people are choosing to do what they
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know God tells them not to do. We're counseling people right
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now. People are getting divorced and
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they say to us as pastors, well, we know it's wrong and we know
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we shouldn't do it, but we've decided we're going to do it
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anyway. What is wrong with us?
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So maybe you're here today and you got some hate, maybe you got
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some hate going on, and maybe it's just maybe you've been
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watching a little bit too much news, you know what I'm saying?
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You got some hate going and you need to let that go because
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you're not going to win anybody with hate.
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And maybe you're so tired of hate.
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You've come over here and you're just saying, but I'm just, you
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know what? If that's what they want to do,
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that's fine. Just gonna let them do.
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No. Maybe you need to repent of
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that. And maybe you need to come to
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the place and say, if I'm going to love people, I'm going to
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share with them the testimony of Jesus, that they might know
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Jesus and run away from their sin and have eternal life.
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But I'm not going to hate people and I'm not going to affirm
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them. I'm going to love them because
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God has called me to love God, to love others, and to repeat
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that process and take that out into the world and to refresh
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the church with my love that God has given me to give to them.
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That's what we got to do, church.
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So let's all stand and let's pray together.
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Father God, you are so good and we are so messed up and we need
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your help because Lord, we need your help to do these very
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things. And Lord, I pray, Lord, for
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those that right now they might need a might need a touch from
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your spirit to just say I, I I got hate in my heart.
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I got to let it go. Maybe there's people today that
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just don't know you. They've never confessed with
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their mouth. They've never believed in their
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heart that they could be saved. Maybe today they need to.
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They need to with their heart. They need to believe God and
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with their mouth they need to confess and make make that
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confession into salvation. Lord, I pray that you would do
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only that sovereign work that you can do and draw people to
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yourself, and you would add to the church daily those that
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would be saved. But Lord, I also asked that you
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would do a work of healing where we have hatred, Lord, a work of
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truth where we have compromise. And you do that in and through
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each one of us as we love you and love one another.
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In Jesus name God's kid, say Amen.
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Church, you are loved, You are a family.
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Never forget it. Let's give the Lord a hand.
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