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The Study of the Gifts of the Spirit Part 2 - Simply Christ Podcast · Simply Christ Podcast

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Welcome back to the Simply Christ podcast hosted by Leon
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Martin, along with Aaron Keaton, Melvin Martin, Andrew Schrock
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and Dan Blatz. Let's get right to it.
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All righty, we are back at it tonight with the Simply Christ
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Bible Study webinar. Thank you for joining us.
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We look forward to keep it on going here in first Corinthians
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chapter 12 regarding the gifts of the Spirit or diversities of
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the Spirit. We ended at verse 11 last week
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and we're going to continue through this chapter because I
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think it's it kind of completes the the whole thing here for us.
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So before we do that, though, let's open up with the word of
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prayer. Melvin, if you.
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Let you know. Sure, let's pray.
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Father, we come to you tonight and we just praise you and we
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honor you for this time together.
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Father, that we can open up your word and and we can just read
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your word and study your word. Father, I just pray that the
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Spirit would guide us tonight, that we can read the word and
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interpret the word as you intended to.
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And Father, I just pray that people could hearts could be
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softened and their ears and eyes could be opened and to be able
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to see you most of all in a much clearer way and, and that they
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could see the word and have a hunger for the word.
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Father, I just pray that we all could have a hunger for the word
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and because your word is light and it is our guide and, and
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it's it's our map for for this life here on this earth.
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And so Father, we just praise you and we thank you for
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redeeming us by sending your son Jesus to die on the cross for
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our sins. And we just honor you and
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glorify you and we love you in Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. That's right, Dan, I'll let you
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kind of take verse 12 then right off the bat.
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But so last week we talked kind of a lot about the different
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rips and what they do in our experience with them.
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Maybe we weren't all alone, I guess was damn missing.
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Maybe I can't remember. I was, yeah.
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Yeah. So we just, we just talked about
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the different ones, what our experiences were with some of
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them and whatever. But I, I do remember one of the
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things that really kind of stuck out to me regarding that was
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that verse 7 where it says, but the manifestation of the spirit
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is given to every man to profit with all.
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So there we have a really clear indicator of what this is for.
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You know, it's not for a spiritual high.
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It's not to make you feel closer to God, you know, necessarily,
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or make you like seem like a certain milestone or whatever,
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but rather it's profitable. It's something that adds value
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to what already been. So I just I just wanted to recap
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with that because I think that's actually a pretty pivotal where
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where a lot of us kind of run a buck in this in this gifts of
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the spirit thing. The tendency to go off into some
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kind of spiritual spaces is large in this area.
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So anyway, so verse 12 says, and he's kind of coming back now to
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the body of Christ and you're going to you're going to see
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that for the next well, I don't know, 10 or 15 verses about he's
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going to be talking about how that these are divert and how
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they're distributed and stuff. So we ended up with verse 11
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last week, but says, but all these worketh that wanted self
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saved spirit dividing to every man severally as he will, And
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maybe we could actually start by just a little bit.
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Me and my wife were talking about these gifts.
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It looks according to that verse 11.
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I could be wrong, but it looks to me like that is saying that,
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you know, one person would would maybe one time have a gift of
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healing where he could be able to, you know, heal somebody.
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But another time he might have a word of wisdom like in other
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words, a person doesn't acquire one gift, and that's the only
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gift that he practices all his life flow.
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But it's divided several. So it's divided amongst us as we
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go. And then he goes into
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activation. 12 For as the body is 1 and hath many members, and
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all the members of that one body being many are one body, so also
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is Christ. So Daniel, thoughts on that?
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Yeah, I have definitely considered that.
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I mean, first of all, you see the Apostle Paul with many of
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these gifts at different times, different places.
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Suddenly he's preaching with the gift of teaching perhaps, and
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prophecy. And then he discovers there that
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there's somebody sick and then he can heal them suddenly,
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right? Like it's that these gifts seem
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to have come and gone at different times, right.
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So I I think there is definitely a room for that kind of view of
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this where God divides severally as you will like just suddenly
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you might have a certain type of gift at any one time.
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Later on as we get to some of the other portions about
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teachers healing governments helps.
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It does seem to almost tie closer together with your
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personal character and sometimes natural abilities that seem to
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have been translated to some kind of spiritual ability now as
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well, right? You have a the ability to
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communicate clearly sometimes then you're naturally gifted
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with that spiritual gift of teaching, right?
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It's almost like a, a natural gift becomes a supernatural.
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But I don't think that's necessarily what he's talking
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about in many of these cases like the healings and and
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tongues and whatever else, right?
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So in verse 12 the one that you just read for as the body is 1
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or did you not read it? Yes, I did.
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You did OK and hath many members.
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All the members of that one body, being many are one body.
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So also is Christ. And then I for me, I always have
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to read verse 13 together with it.
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I will try not to get into it too much, but it says that by
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one Spirit we're all baptized into one body.
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So he's kind of delivering the gospel to us here while he's
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trying to show the Corinthians how they ought to view gifts.
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You all were scattered individual people.
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You were all different members of something.
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You were taken by 1 Spirit and all of you at different,
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seemingly different times. But really, it all happened 2000
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years ago, or in that case, 60 or 80 years ago, whatever it
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might have been, you were all at the same time baptized into one
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body. Didn't matter if you were Jew or
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Gentile, if you were a bond man or a free man.
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All of us have been made to drink into one spirit.
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And it's a gift to all of us, like from the moment we become a
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believer and are baptized spiritually into Christ's body,
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we become members of His body. Therefore, the gifts are not to
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give you any kind of glory. The gift is not to draw
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attention to yourself. The gift is for the functioning
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of the body. It's it's meant and designed so
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that all the body will be benefited by whatever gifting he
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has bestowed upon you, whether it's an individual gift at one
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point in time or if it's a gift of ministry that you are able to
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work regularly. But just like Christ's body was
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1 when it was crucified, now we even though we look like many
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different people, we're actually not.
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We actually are functioning together as one unit, and this
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is not something we're trying to become.
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We're not trying to become one body.
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You know, a lot of people try to hone in their doctrine and try
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to force everybody into a certain way of thinking, a
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certain way of external appearance is a certain way of
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praying or whatever it might be until we all look like one.
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That's uniformity. This unity that we're talking
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about here that has already taken place is something God has
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done and now we're trying to walk according to what He's
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already done. We were all different
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individuals. Now we are one, just like
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Christ's body was one. We are currently one and now we
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need to live out from that. Not trying to separate and say,
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well, I'm the I'm, I'm an ear. Well, I'm this, I'm that.
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No, we're all one thing, right? So I'm not sure if I'm
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clarifying, but to me it's a very beautiful truth to know
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this is done. This is something that we
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already are. Yeah, no, that's, that's
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beautiful. I love that.
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That's that's a good. And I agree I should have read
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13 right away. But your thoughts on 12 and or
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13? But I mean, I'll read 13 then
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too, Melvin. Yeah, I think it's interesting.
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One of the things that I've seen in here kind of the pattern, you
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know, as we were going through the gifts of the Spirit and now
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as he's going into the body, there's this there's this
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oneness like there's this, there's this one focus which is
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Christ right, and the Spirit and God, but it also carries into
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the body. But I want to start by saying
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this in verse 11. It is interesting.
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He says dividing to every man severally as he will.
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And the I think the key there is, is that he divides it to
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every man as he will, as God's will, right?
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It So many times we want to try and make it happen, right?
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And I'm not saying we shouldn't. Maybe sometimes it is OK to
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like, how would you say covet a gift or, or, you know, a gift of
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healing or something. But it, it sounds to me like God
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will make that gift, give that gift.
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So, but it's not make it, but give it to you as he will and as
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he sees fit. And obviously it is in the
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context of the body. And if oneness, it's not like
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you were saying, Dan, like it's a it's not where it's to elevate
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one man higher than the other or one person higher or even
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another woman or whatever it is in the body.
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It's not to be elevated to different levels, but we're to
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be 1 and unity in Christ, not unity as far as looking the same
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and and thinking the same and all that.
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But it's Christ already has that.
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That is Christ, that is who he is because it says there, you
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know, in verse 12, whereas the body is 1 and had many members
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and all the members of that one body being many are one body.
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So also is Christ. So Christ is 1 and so we are one
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in him, right? And that's just so beautiful
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when we can, like you were saying, damn.
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And we can operate like that. That's a beautiful truth,
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actually, that will set you free.
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I'm telling you that's that's good.
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I'm loving this, Aaron. Go ahead.
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Yeah, I'll just say just kind of more of a general comment, but I
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do think this is a this would be kind of the starting point in
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which he is addressing the fact that there's a there's a
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temptation in people to either feel like they don't contribute
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or feel like it's all about them.
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You know what I mean? Like he's going to go on to say
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the foot, can't say the hand or so on and so forth.
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And, you know, and I think that when he says that, that is what
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he's addressed. And he's addressed one saying,
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well, I'm not the eye, so I must not be worth anything.
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And the other says, well, I actually don't need anybody else
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because I run the show, you know, So I think that that's, I
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think the beginning of this is the fact that he's started out
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by saying you're 1 body. I think he started out by, in
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other words, in the beginning, the 1st 11 verses, I think he's
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kind of addressing the fact that if somebody, it does have a
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gift, it's given by the same Lord, it's ministered by the
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same spirit that, you know, as long as they're blessing Christ
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and not cursing Christ, it's the same God that's working in this.
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And then he's going to go on from here and address the fact
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that you shouldn't be lifted up higher than anybody else, nor
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should you feel like you're useless.
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Because the thing that we don't put much emphasis on is actually
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more important often times. So I think this is like, that's
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just general, but I think this is the start of that.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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Good stuff, Andrew. Yeah, I I agree with everything
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that was said. And I'll add a a little
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different angle. Remember in the beginning of
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this chapter he's talking about there are so many divisions
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among them. Some were saying I'm of Paul and
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I'm of Apollos. You know, there's always like,
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who are we following? News almost getting fed up with
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it where he's like, I wish you really wouldn't know anything
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except Christ and him crucify. It sounds like you didn't even
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carefully knew about the miracles or the gifts and stuff.
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He's like, I just want you to know that you're Christ and him
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crucified and that crucifixion is what brought in this oneness
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that made that is what made us all one Christ.
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And with that oneness comes these gifts.
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Then it's good for us to hear and to know that when you hear
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of a believer somewhere that is has a certain gift, like an
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outstanding gift of healing, I want to be a part of that.
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Like I if I'm sick, I want to get healed.
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I'm not going to be opposed and say, well, that's what they do
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over there. No, he's of the same spirit,
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right? Like if it's through the name of
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Jesus Christ and he's operating from as a believer, you know,
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that's from the same Spirit according to this passage, is
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all of 1 spirit these gifts are a part of and I want to benefit
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from it. I want to benefit from every
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gift. I don't want to be standoffish
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about these gifts. I just hate how it's been
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misused and abused and lied about.
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And a lot of the gifts that people are practicing, it's not
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the way that Paul did. Paul and Peter, when they were
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walking, they could just walk up to a person by themselves, no
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music, no drums, no sound backs, no smooth, nothing.
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And they could just grab his hand, say in the name of Jesus
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Christ, rise up and walk. The power of the Holy Ghost
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within them, within. It wasn't something that they
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had to do without. All the stuff that has to do
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without, I think is no different than Indians dancing around
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until spirits move. They can get supernatural
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activities going. That's not what this is.
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And but if I find somebody that has that gift, there's humble
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that is not out like they can just out on the street get
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people genuinely healed. There's no tricks.
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I'm not opposed to it. That's my brother.
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That's part of part of the body of Christ.
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And he's one with me and that's his gift and that got my gift.
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So he's not greater and I'm not less and I'm not more not he's
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not less like we're all one and this body.
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So I, I felt like last time we were kind of sounding like we're
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all just against these gifts. I'm not, I, I want to embrace
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everything that Christ has to offer for us.
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I want to live in every power that is available to us.
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I want to magnify and glorify his name with whatever tools he
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has given us to do it. And I just want to say that what
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I am against is the false using stuff that actually disables the
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gifts to work. You know, it actually, like we
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were saying last time, it breeds unbelief instead of faith.
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Yeah, and really, it's not profitable for anybody.
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It's. Confusing and destructive in the
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long run, even if it looks right in the start.
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So yeah, for a little context where you use those of you
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listening, I said that we would kind of breeze through the next
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15 or so verses and end up we want to really actually talk
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about verse 282930 and 31. Here's 15 minutes, one of the
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first verse. But anyway, good stuff.
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Yeah, that's I like that. And thinking about baptism here,
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verse 13 for by 1 Spirit, we are all baptized into one body,
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whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be free and have all
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been made to drink into one spirit.
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And I'll let Melvin go on on this.
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Dan already commented on it a little bit, but he disappeared.
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So not sure if there is crack, but Mel, you can go ahead on
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this. I like that picture.
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We started this the the subjects kind of one of our subjects that
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we had went went over the last month or two months ago,
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whenever it was was baptism and just a beautiful, beautiful
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picture here in verse 13. Yeah, and I don't have a whole
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lot on this. It's just like clarifying to me,
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like what we were talking about being baptized into Christ.
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When you, you know, believe on Jesus and confess Jesus with
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your mouth and believe on him with your whole heart, then you
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are baptized into Christ. And then because of that, you
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are baptized into one body. That's what it says here.
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One body meaning the body of Christ, like the church.
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And whether they be Jew or Gentiles, bond or free, it
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doesn't matter. Who you are?
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Or what you, your ethnic, it doesn't matter, you know, what
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your background is or where you come from or if you're grew up
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in the city or it, it you're 1 body, you're automatically
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become one. And I think this is really
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important about the body of Christ, but also about the
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spirit and the gifts of the spirit.
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Because, you know, it's so freeing to me when we can be
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part of 1 body in Christ and not, not this, you know,
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denominations and all this, this stuff, you know, and preferences
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and, and whatever, but one body because of Christ and we and we
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are one spirit because of the Holy Spirit.
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And then those gifts come, like you were saying, Andrew, because
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of that is not something that we're trying to get the gifts to
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be part of the body or to be part of Christ.
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But we first are baptized into Christ and into one body, and
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then the gifts come for the edification of the body, and for
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the Fathering of the Kingdom and for his glory.
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Yeah, that's, that's good. And and a verse like this would
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have been absolute. This would have been astonishing
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action to the Gentiles at one point, because they were
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convinced by the Jews that God was kind of for them.
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The Gentiles were kind of out of luck, you know, in a lot of
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ways. And here he's saying that Jews
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or Gentiles bond or free, you know, air your thoughts on that
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verse. I'm just going to focus on the
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last part of that verse where he says that we've all been made to
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drink into one spirit. And, and I think that he's
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pointing to the fact that whatever your, whatever gift it
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is, whether it is as simple as a word of knowledge or whether it
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is as as amazing as healing, we're drinking, we're partaking
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of that one spirit that's coming by the one spirit.
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And this, this little story came to my mind actually just now.
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It's an example of not drinking of that one spirit actually is
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Acts chapter 19. It's in verse 11, it talks about
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Paul doing all these great miracles where he just sends a a
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handkerchief or an apron to people and they were healed.
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And based on those great things it inspired other people.
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Verse 13 says this is Acts 1913 says been certain of the
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Vagabond Jews exorcist took upon them to call over them which had
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evil spirits. The name of the Lord Jesus
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saying we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches, right that I
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mean, like in their very in their very calling, they were
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they're kind of admitting they're not drinking of that
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spirit. They're just trying to do it by
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somebody else's drinking. You know what I mean?
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So it says we adjure thee by whom Paul preaches.
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And there were seven sons of 1 Skiva, a Jew chief.
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Of the priest. Which did so and the evil spirit
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answered and said, Jesus, I know and Paul I know, but who are ye?
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And the man in whom those evil spirit was leaked on them and
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overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled
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out of the house naked and wounded.
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So they, I think that's an example of trying to use a gift,
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but not drinking of the spirit. You know what I mean?
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Like they were not they had not they were not drinking of that
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same spirit because they were just trying to use.
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I mean, think about the way they said it.
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We adjure thee by the by Jesus whom Paul preaches not not that
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we're a partaker of, but this guy that Paul's preaching.
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And I just, I like to say that I hope you see the connection
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there. It was, oh, that was a story.
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Yeah. No, that's a good.
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That's a good point. I like that, Andrew.
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Yeah, in that case they they missed the baptism part.
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Yeah, that's right. They have to 1st get baptized
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into Christ. I'm just going to do a real
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short 1 here. It's good news to the world.
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Doesn't matter where you come from.
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Doesn't matter if you're a little Schwarzentruber or Amish
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kid that has no education or, you know, there's a lot of
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people that feel like they don't matter, that basically they feel
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forsaken, that God doesn't care. Nobody likes me.
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A lot of people committing suicide these days.
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But this verse should give you hope, bond free, study.
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Whatever you are, whoever you are, you can be made one with
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the family of God, the King of kings, the Lord of Lords, reign
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with Christ by just simply believing and putting your faith
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and trust in Jesus Christ and you'll be one that makes you one
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that that baptism, spiritual baptism makes you one with the
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Almighty God. It does not matter where you
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come from though. The only reason you're sad is
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because you don't know this and you're not believing it.
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Some people hear this and they know it, but they still choose
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sadness. And at that, God did the work.
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He did the dying. He did the raising from the
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dead. He brought the victory, and it's
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up to you to receive it. It's no longer God's fault if
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you're in misery. That's a fact.
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That's good stuff, Dad. Any additional comments on 13?
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Mostly just a little bit of a reiteration of what you guys
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have all been saying already, Aaron, Andrew already kind of
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pointed this out that if you go to the very beginning of this
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book, he's dealing with a very similar thing.
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In some ways, this passage here in our First Corinthians 12/12
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and 13 could kind of be the crux of the book in a sense, because
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at the beginning he said they were splitting over who's Paul,
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who's Paul, who's Cephas. And he said that's, that's not
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the goal. We are all one in Christ.
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And then in in there's a few other places where you could
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point to different things that were very similar to this.
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But in chapter 8, he's talking about eating meat offered to
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idols. And he says, we know that some
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have knowledge, but knowledge that puffs up is not a good kind
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of knowledge. You should be considerate of
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your brother. And then, and we talked about
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this in First Corinthians 11, how they were having communion
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apart from each other, not considering the Lord's body, not
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waiting for one another. So it was this constant division
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in the Church of I'm more important, I'm richer, I'm more
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wealthy, or I'm nothing, I'm not good enough, I'm too poor.
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And he's just making them all equal in Christ.
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And the gifts are the same thing.
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Like all of these things that the Corinthians were involved
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with, whether it was eating meat offered to idols or whether it
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was who their favorite preacher was or what their favorite gift
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was, he was all always dividing them.
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And here he brings them all under this one umbrella and says
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you are all one. That like from the moment you
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were conceived in the gospel through the Paul's preaching,
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you became one with one another. Not only one with God through
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Christ, but one with each other. We are all one body.
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There's no difference between each other.
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We have different gifts, but it's all for this one self
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saying purpose and it's the same spirit in all of us.
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So he's he's obviously going to keep reiterating that throughout
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this passage here, but it's it's a neat to see that theme
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throughout the whole book. Yeah, that's right.
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And, and I like, well, I'll read a couple of verses here because
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he makes a couple different points, but he's talking, he's
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making the same point with the different illustrations here.
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For the body is not one member, but many.
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If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the
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body, is there therefore, is it therefore not of the body?
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Well, the answer obviously is, of course it is.
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And if the ear shall say, because I am not the eye, I am
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not of the body, or is it therefore not of the body?
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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?
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If the whole were hearing, where were the spelling now?
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But now hath God set the members, every one of them in
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his body as it hath pleased him. And this is where this go, and
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I'll let you go on this. Erm, but back to dividing to
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every man severally as he will. You know, it says, and I find
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this interesting. And maybe this is kind of
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opposing what I said about, you know, one person having it once,
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you know, but or having multiple gifts.
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I don't know, because here it says and he makes the point that
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is that's God set the members, every one of them in the body.
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And I know that my spleen can't be my colon ever.
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You know, if you if you look at it that way, then then that's my
26:31
spleen is going to be a spleen for as long as it's alive,
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right. Anyway, your thoughts on on that
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verse 18 of the previous ones here?
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I think there's two different things that he's going to do.
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And I think this this first section is the case in which one
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member looks at the other and says I can't do what they do, so
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I must not be part of the body. But he's going to change that in
26:55
a minute and say that the one looks at the others that are not
26:59
doing what he's doing and saying they're not the body because
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they're not or I don't need them because they're not as relevant
27:04
as I am. So I think this first part is
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just a because that's what he says.
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It's the foot looking and saying, well I'm not the hand.
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I can't. I can't do what the hand does,
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so I must not be. Part of the body.
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And and I think he's pointing out that I really like the verse
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there. Well, I don't know if you read
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19, but I like 18 and 19 together when he says, but now
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as God set the members, every one of them in the body as it
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pleased him. And if they were all one member,
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where were the body? And I don't know if you read
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that verse. I don't think you read 19, but I
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think that's really relevant. He's the point is not to look
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around and say I can't do what the other persons do.
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The point is to look and say, what gift can I use for the
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glory of Christ for the benefit of the rest of the body?
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Like what can I do to to profit with all right, I mean, that's
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what we said back there in verse 7.
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What can I do to profit everybody else?
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Because I mean, we don't we don't look at it.
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That were was it in this list when he when he used mercy?
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Or is that the another list of another book?
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I can't remember if he I know this one had faith, but I don't
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know another list listed as mercy being one of them.
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And I think it's so it's so overlooked that if you was to be
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a kind of the kind of person that can go up to somebody,
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somebody that's in a hard time, in a downcast time and lift them
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up by maybe just having an encouraging word for them, going
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along beside them, asking them what's going on in their life,
28:47
whatever, that's extremely important.
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Now, that's not showy, right? It's not, it may not, it may not
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even appear to any of the rest of the body, but that one other
28:56
member. But it's extremely important.
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And I think that that's kind of his point in verse 19.
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If everybody, if all that everybody did was just prophecy
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or heal people, where would the guy where, where would any of us
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ever get a word of encouragement?
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Where would ever any of us ever get a word of wisdom?
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You know what I mean? Like that's his point.
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Where would you ever get what you have to offer if you did the
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same thing that the most showy, you know, not necessarily show
29:28
in a bad way. I'm just saying the most obvious
29:30
gifts like healing or prophesying or speaking in
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tongues is. Where would where would that?
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Other thing come from that we all need the mercy or the person
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of faith or the person that has a word of wisdom.
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Like where would you? Where would that come from?
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From That's his point I think. But.
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Yeah, boy, that's rich Andrew. Yeah, I try to preach this quite
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often, this concept at our fellowship because it gives
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everybody a purpose. And I think to Leon's point
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here, whether you can do multiple ones, I believe most of
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us have a whole host of gifts, mercy, faith, charity, like
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loving one another. Love, I think is a gift 'cause
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he says love, trunks, charity trunks, all the gifts.
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So Can you imagine what would happen in the church if we would
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all be focused on that one body just like we are?
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I don't care what part of your body, if you hit it with a
30:37
hammer, the rest of your body is going to respond very quickly to
30:41
that little spot there. It comes to 8 man.
30:46
If you get a splinter under your little toenail, your whole body
30:50
is going to stop what it's doing and go focus on that splinter
30:53
under that little toenail and try to remove it, fix it.
30:59
You know, it, if we would treat our bodies the same way we do at
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church, we would say, oh, that's just their annoying toenail,
31:06
it'll be fine. Or we don't really need it.
31:09
And, you know, then we'd have an infect.
31:12
Then we have an infection and all of a sudden the whole body
31:15
is hurting because we thought that little toenail was
31:17
insignificant. Yeah, that's good.
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You know, and I just as, as Aaron was talking and you,
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Andrew, you know, we look at a, we might tend to look all right.
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In the past in the religious circles, you know what somebody
31:34
was maybe had a gift of mercy. We didn't recognize it as such.
31:37
We, we, we just talked about all that pusher.
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But you know, he just lets people run over him when in fact
31:43
he was a godly man full of mercy and just willing to, you know,
31:46
be abused in the name of God, you know, or whatever.
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And so I mean, this is kind of just talking to me like, how do
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I respond to the people? Like, do I recognize it as a
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gift, some of these things that people are practicing?
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Or do I look, tend to look it as a fault or like what?
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They'd only do this or that and then it would be better, you
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know? So yeah, it's this.
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This goes two ways, doesn't it? We can learn about what these
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gifts are and how they operate, but how do they affect the rest
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of us? Listen to get a watch it too.
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Damn. I think the body illustration
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obviously is a very, very fruitful way of discussing this
32:23
because the church now, it seems, has narrowed down to
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basically a gathering to hear a gifted speaker.
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And we kind of forget that the church is actually a group of
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people that does gather to hear teaching and preaching and sing
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songs of worship and praise. But there's a lot more that the
32:44
body does than just eat. There's a lot more that the body
32:47
does than just see, you know, the body is doing things
32:49
constantly behind the scenes, like you mentioned before, liver
32:52
and spleen, things that we don't think even do anything are
32:56
constantly at work inside the body.
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And so I like that he points that like Aaron already
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mentioned that this part here is from the the perspective like,
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well, I look at the church, which to me is Sunday morning
33:08
and I don't have anything to offer.
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So I must not be part of the body.
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I don't have anything to give. I Can't Sing a song, I can't
33:15
play an instrument, I can't preach A sermon.
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Therefore I'm not of the body. You're thinking much too
33:20
narrowly about what the body of Christ is.
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There's so many different ways in which we can contribute, and
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He's going to give us a whole long list of them.
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So I won't get into too many little illustrations here.
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But I like that he's saying, especially at the end, that as
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it hath pleased him. So if a man is genuinely from
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his heart, a very gifted speaker in his preaching, God was
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pleased to give that man that gift, and God is pleased to use
33:47
that man's gift to benefit the whole body.
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But if God has gifted you to be the kind of guy who takes
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someone fishing and gives them a word of encouragement, that
33:57
pleases God just as much as the man standing behind the pulpit
34:01
or giving or rating some great sermon like this is what pleased
34:05
God. He throws it this way.
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We should not be looking at this and jealousy because all one
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body you don't don't have a finger wishing it was a toe and
34:15
vice versa like those are there. Our body is content being the
34:19
different members that it is because the recognizes it's all
34:23
part of 1 body and that's kind of the point he's driving home
34:26
here. Yeah, that's really good,
34:28
Velvet. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot,
34:30
but I was just going to say it's very obvious that he is focusing
34:35
on one like because the verses that we have read up to this
34:39
point, the word 1 member or one body is used nine times.
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And so if the his focal, what he's trying to get across is you
34:50
guys, no matter how poor or rich or, or great or low you are, you
34:59
know, in status wise, you are one body and out of that works.
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God works through his spirit and gifts of the spirit in a
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miraculous way. And I, I like what you were
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saying, Dan, and that's kind of what I wanted to focus on too,
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is that so we think that, you know, a lot of people say, well,
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how can I use my gifts? Like, you know, like I can't, I
35:26
don't have the opportunity to use my gifts or I don't really
35:29
want to. Maybe I just go to church on
35:31
Sunday morning and I sit in the service and we worship and we
35:34
listen to the preacher and then we go home and, you know, how
35:37
can I well, guess what of being of the body of Christ is more
35:42
than that actually. So I, I think it obviously is
35:49
where we are basically living. How would you say not living
35:55
together necessarily, but we are one body and we're functioning
35:59
daily or weekly for sure, and almost daily as one.
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And that should be happening. Like, like you were saying, Dan,
36:10
where maybe your gift is taking someone fishing or you know,
36:14
whatever it is or giving someone a call and and encouraging them
36:19
because you know, you've heard that they're feeling down or, or
36:23
whatever it is. All that is a working of the
36:25
body, not just someone standing behind a pulpit and preaching or
36:30
someone meeting worship. Right.
36:32
So it's it's much. Broader than that, yeah, for
36:36
sure. I wonder if these gifts kind of
36:40
come naturally if if it's something that you learn or
36:46
exercise in or get good at or that's the secondary discussion.
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But I'll I'll read the next verses.
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If you have any input on that, let me know.
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Verse 20 And now are they many members yet but one body and the
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I cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of the nor again
37:09
the head to the feet. I have no need of you.
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They much more those members of the body which seem to be more
37:17
feeble are necessary, and those members of the body which we
37:22
think to be less honorable upon those we bestow more abundant
37:27
honor, and our uncombly parts have more abundant comebliness.
37:34
And then I'll let you go on this.
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But that's that is a that what kind of gets your attention
37:43
doesn't. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of a lot of
37:48
good could be said here. But the thing that came to my
37:50
mind was that, you know, as a general rule, I tend to dress
37:55
myself in a way that would hopefully accentuate the parts
38:00
that are kind of worth looking at.
38:01
Like I, I don't want you to be keep staring at my toes or my
38:05
knees or my hips or anything weird like I love handles and
38:09
whatever else like that there. Those parts are less calmly,
38:13
they, they don't look quite as nice.
38:15
And so in a, in a physical way of, of looking at things, we can
38:19
almost think, well, that's a part that I'd rather just cover
38:22
up. And, and it sounds almost like
38:24
a, a shame type of thing. And it could be to a degree, but
38:29
those parts, all the parts that you have, obviously that, you
38:32
know, like I'm, I've made a joke about love handles or excess fat
38:36
or something, you're not proud of those parts.
38:38
But all the different members of your body, the different
38:40
functions that they have all serve at an extraordinary
38:44
purpose. And now he's kind of taking the
38:46
reverse stand of what he was earlier.
38:48
Like Aaron pointed out before, it's not from this perspective
38:52
of I can't participate because I don't, I'm not this.
38:55
I can't be that because I'm not this.
38:57
Now he's saying, by the way, say it's it's not don't look down on
39:01
someone because they're a less only looking part.
39:07
It it's takes some humility on all parts to recognize that this
39:12
person who may be to you and your pride might you might feel
39:15
like they are a lesser part. You have to recognize that all
39:20
parts are as necessary as each other part, right?
39:23
So I think that's kind of the attention he's trying to bring
39:26
to it is sometimes the less honorable, the less calmly, the
39:30
more feeble parts are some of the most important parts, as
39:34
Andrew pointed out, like if your toe is hurting, it takes
39:37
precedent over everything. And so even if it's an unconely
39:40
part or a less feeble or more feeble part or less honorable
39:44
part, that there of no less significance.
39:46
And it's up to us to kind of discover where does my gift
39:49
actually fit in? And, and do it with joy.
39:52
Do it with a in a way where it's like I'm content to be right
39:55
here. This is where I actually want to
39:57
be, not because I'm avoiding being my gift, but because I am
40:01
being my gift. I am being what I'm supposed to
40:03
be to the church. And you don't, you don't need to
40:06
take pride in whatever position you have because all parts are
40:09
for one purpose or another. So.
40:13
No. And it it almost seems like in
40:15
some places in the Bible, he might be talking about humility
40:18
here, recognizing that gift that you tend to deem as less or
40:22
whatever to recognize it as still part of the body.
40:26
But Melbourne? Yeah, so it's interesting, you
40:29
know, I just was saying it. He seems to be making a point
40:31
about 1 and he and he was earlier.
40:36
You know, he's saying that you're 1 body one, you're all
40:39
one Now he's saying, but look, guys, don't be looking down on
40:44
one another, like don't be looking on the members that are
40:47
not as commonly right. He says like you were.
40:50
You mentioned the word humility, Lee, and that's kind of what I
40:53
see there. You know he says that we should
40:56
actually be still more abundant honor on the uncommonly parts
41:01
right and so because he says in verse 24.
41:06
I don't think you read that, but he says for our commonly parts
41:10
have no need, but God had tempered the body together
41:13
having giving more abundant honor to the part which lacketh.
41:17
So if you know, if someone doesn't seem to have a gift that
41:22
seems to matter. We should actually be bestowing
41:27
them more abundant honor because in fact, most times things that
41:33
are behind the scenes or getting done, like whether it's in a
41:40
like a show or anything, the things that are getting done
41:44
behind the scenes are actually the most important, right?
41:49
Because if it wouldn't be for that, the show wouldn't happen
41:53
and the show wouldn't be near as good.
41:54
I mean, so that's what he's trying to get across here is
41:59
that don't look down on one another.
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But be more humble with one another.
42:11
I have a couple of things that may seem a little zoomed out,
42:15
but one is I don't. I'm not saying, I'm certainly
42:21
not saying, because he goes on to say another place, how that
42:25
the prophecy or the tongues affect the unbeliever.
42:28
So I'm not saying that the gift is not profitable to the
42:33
unbeliever, but I am saying that a lot of these things that I
42:36
think he's talking about here, it is the body profiting itself.
42:41
Would you, would you agree with that?
42:42
In other words, it's, it's the body benefiting.
42:45
It's it's, it's like we're working together.
42:48
We're temp. He's going to go on to say it's
42:49
tempered together like and I'm and I'm said that to say this
42:54
sometimes the sometimes maybe the guy that is able to be
43:01
eloquent in the speaking needs the most encouragement because
43:06
maybe he's, you know, got a lot going on in his life personally.
43:11
You know what I mean? Like so so the member that is
43:13
saying somewhat seems like behind the scene comes up and
43:17
gives that that obvious part, that comely part that speaker,
43:22
that that obvious worker outward, you know, that
43:26
everybody's seeing and encouragement and the body works
43:29
together to profit itself. You know what I mean?
43:32
Like, does that make sense? I mean, you understand what I'm
43:34
saying there that I don't like I said, I'm not, I'm not saying
43:38
that some of these gifts do not reach outside of that box, but I
43:43
am saying that I think he is. He just said, and I mean, that's
43:46
what he said back. We've said it several times,
43:48
verse 7. It's to profit with all like
43:50
it's to profit each other. You know, this body, this body
43:53
is, is working together to profit itself.
43:58
And this will be the last thing I say.
44:01
But that would lead me to say this.
44:04
I went to several churches, which granted, a lot of my I
44:08
lived further away from, but but I would go to places and preach.
44:12
And I know that most of the church, if they got there 15
44:17
minutes before the services started and left 5 minutes after
44:21
it ended, that's all they saw each other.
44:24
And I don't and you know, like if, if, if the point is that
44:29
some of these things, well, I'll say it a different way.
44:32
That's the reason the foot is saying I don't or the eyes
44:37
saying I don't need to the well, how do you say it?
44:41
The I cannot say to the hand. That's the reason I would say
44:44
the hand because if that's all the body is together, if that's
44:48
all they're seeing each other is while this guy's up here leading
44:51
the songs and this is up here, you know, doing the sermon and
44:55
the bodies never together. No wonder people feel like
44:58
they're useless, right? So I would just like I said, I
45:01
hope that makes sense that I tied that together in a way.
45:06
But I do think that that is important for us to realize is
45:10
that we need to be an actual body like that.
45:13
We need to be functioning together outside of the hour
45:17
service or whatever it is. And that we are, I mean, because
45:22
that's what he says, do good unto all men, especially those
45:25
of the household of faith, right?
45:27
I mean, we are, we should be working together as a body, you
45:31
know, and profiting each other. For sure.
45:35
Yeah, absolutely, Andrew. Yeah, it he's, I think he's
45:43
still on the same thing about the body.
45:45
Like it's, it's just going in more little bit more detail.
45:50
What this challenges me to do is to teach, not only teach this,
45:57
like I said the last time, but to give that opportunity, make
46:01
that opportunity extremely available in our fellowships.
46:07
If that opportunity is not available in our fellowship and
46:10
it's not talked about and it's not embraced, every gift, even
46:15
if it's completely uncommonly like cleaning the toilets or
46:21
doing ministry and stuff, going out to eat with somebody or
46:27
talking to somebody that is just annoying or whatever, Nobody's
46:30
watching right? During the week.
46:32
I think the body is functioning during the week like it
46:35
functions 24/7. So when we do hard things, we go
46:40
and help somebody when we're already tied up and busy.
46:43
But somebody needs help and we make time and it's hard, but
46:47
nobody knew. That I went.
46:49
And helped that person. Those are the gifts and those
46:53
are the things that God sees. It's the things that are not
46:56
seen that are not glorified. And again, I can't emphasize
47:02
enough how that this should give all the believers great purpose.
47:07
And I think we've all been given gifts that you can start
47:10
exercising right now. And when you start exercising
47:13
them, God multiplies it as you get your senses and your gifts
47:18
exercised. He keeps adding on and doing
47:21
things where you look back and go, wow, what happened there?
47:25
But if you just sit around and think, well, I don't have a gift
47:28
or I don't know what my calling is, then maybe, maybe God won't
47:34
do much for you because you're not willing to go out in faith
47:38
exercising the gifts that you already have.
47:40
I would say everybody needs to get out and start exercising
47:43
their gifts that they already have.
47:45
Simple, uncommonly gifts, uncommonly things that nobody
47:49
recognizes, Those are glorified in God's eyes.
47:52
Yeah, very good. I can say something.
47:57
You are there. I discovered many years ago that
48:02
I might not be the best person to greet all the newcomers.
48:06
Sometimes I can do it fine and we hit it off and things work
48:09
great. But I I can be a little bit too
48:11
abrupt with certain people, like they, I feel like I'm too much
48:14
for them almost right where I can be in their face too much,
48:16
ask questions that maybe are too, too much of A of a
48:20
challenge, almost right. Like, hey, where are you from?
48:22
How long you been a Christian? It's almost like, whoa, whoa,
48:24
slow down. I'm just here to check it out,
48:26
right? And so I started to see there
48:29
was other people in the church who to me didn't look that
48:32
gifted. They didn't seem to appear to
48:35
have some great spiritual purpose in the church, but the
48:38
newcomers all gravitated to them.
48:40
They were super welcoming. They were just one of those
48:43
people that everybody wanted to be around.
48:45
They were the first to be have have someone in their house for
48:48
lunch and whatnot. And it made me realize very
48:51
quickly that I could think myself somehow more important
48:55
because I can throw sentences together when he hears this guy
48:58
who seems less calmly, less important in some ways, doing a
49:02
much more purposeful work at that time, being very profitable
49:07
to the body in ways that I couldn't even be right.
49:10
So on one hand, I made me recognize, OK, I'll just kind of
49:12
stay in my lane a bit more. The other hand, it made me
49:15
appreciate someone like him. And then the other thing I
49:17
wanted to say about the uncomely parts, You think about the heart
49:21
and the liver in the stomach. Those are some of our most
49:23
uncomely parts. And I'm glad they're on the
49:25
inside and somewhere that nobody can see them because they, they
49:27
seem kind of disgusting to most people, but they're the most
49:31
important ones. They're the ones we protect with
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all that we have, right? Like you cover that chest up no
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matter what. Like, I want those organs, those
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parts protected. And so it should show us some
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lessons in this way to the people who often bring the the
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atmosphere to the church and and make it a welcoming place.
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We ought to protect them and care for them.
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And it could be the other way too, like maybe someone who
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recognizes that they're not the teacher or the preacher.
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They should feel that kind of protection for those that do do
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that well and bestow double honor upon those that labor in
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the Word and the doctrine and all that so.
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Yeah, that's, that's really good.
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And that that kind of I was going to give an illustration a
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little bit too like we were just me and my field Rep for the for
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the horse sale. We're down in Gifford, Illinois
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at a large Percher draft horse auction last week.
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And a lot of these people in the draft horse world are becoming
50:27
to realize that that Waverly, the sale that I bought 2 years
50:31
ago is kind of starting to come back on the map.
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And they come to me. Lots and lots of people that I
50:36
didn't know even would come over here.
50:38
And hey, congratulations on taking Waverly over.
50:40
I see it's coming back. There's more horses consigned
50:43
than ever. And I get all this praise from
50:45
different people that I don't even know.
50:47
And but what they don't know is the 10s of hours that we sit in
50:52
in meetings with each other, my entire team, all the staff.
50:56
You don't just brainstorming. And I'm.
50:59
I'm not making this thing better.
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Yeah, OK, maybe I'm the face of it.
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Maybe I'm the comely part that he's talking about here in a
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sense not not naturally, but. Yeah.
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And but but what, what he what it looks like when we read this
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verse 24, it says that the comely part has no need.
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You know, I get all kinds of flattery from people in the
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world. You know, I have what I need
51:23
more of it than I need ever, but I make a point of making sure
51:28
that that gets fed down downstream to the guys that are
51:31
actually making the difference on the back end because it looks
51:34
like I'm changing that thing. I'm not.
51:37
They are coming up with ideas that I implemented, put in
51:40
motion and make happen. And this whole thing is true in
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the church world too. There's a lot of stuff that
51:45
could. Melvin, you talked about a
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little bit what several of you did.
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There's a lot of stuff that goes on the inside.
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Even, you know, our heart. You can't tell necessarily until
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it's sick or not working properly that it's even there
51:56
hardly, you know, and but it's making you that's making you
52:01
alive. And there's a lot of parts just
52:03
like that. So verse 24 and I'll let Andrew
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go first on this for comely parts have no need, but God hath
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tempered the body together. I like that that use of that
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word tempered the body together. That's neat, having given more
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abundant honor to that part, part which lacked so that there
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should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have
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the same care one for another. That's a beautiful verse when
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you look at or versus when you look at it in the in the realm
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of a church body, right? I mean, that's good, Andrew.
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Yeah, that's just what we were saying, right?
52:44
Exactly. If that toe hurts, the same
52:47
attention is paid to that, as it were.
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If someone was in your eye, well, I don't know.
52:53
The eye's pretty critical. We get something in your eye.
52:57
It's like, you know, somebody got something in their eye.
53:00
We responded a little bit more different, but I was just
53:05
communicating with one of the guys that's actually listening.
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He's a a no order minister, Amish minister that's listening
53:13
tonight. And he was just saying how that
53:15
his neighbor talked of a guy that committed suicide and one
53:22
of his notes was that nobody would even wave at him or smile.
53:27
You know, I think that is the uncomb with things that it's so
53:31
easy for every one of us to do that makes a difference in
53:35
someone's life, regardless how immature we think someone would
53:39
be to let that bother them if oh, nobody waved to me, now I'm
53:43
depressed. But that's the uncommonly gifts
53:47
that God is saying. That member, that body, that
53:51
person, it's just as important as the eye of a person, You
53:58
know, that would be like the acid in the stomach that
54:01
dissolves the food is just as important as the heart or
54:05
whatever. Like if that acid wasn't
54:07
working, then we would also be in trouble.
54:11
A lot of nasty, disgusting, smelly things in our gut that if
54:15
they weren't working, he'd be in trouble.
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And so we need to, I think, I think this will help us look
54:23
past a lot of ugly things to help a brother or sister, ugly
54:29
stuff, nasty, stinky, whatever, you know, think about the date.
54:35
I mean, the nursing homes. I mean, that's some work right
54:37
there. Like, but he's referring this to
54:42
people, though, a person, a whole person, regardless of what
54:48
that person brings to the body of Christ, He's telling us
54:53
doesn't matter how uncomely he is, how hard it is to get along
54:58
with that person. If he's hurting, you respond
55:01
just like you would if your toe was hurting or your your heart
55:06
was hurting. You know.
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Well, Can you imagine what the church would be?
55:10
We would really focus on this a little more.
55:13
Everybody would get purpose. Everybody would activate their
55:16
gifts. Everybody would start
55:17
ministering more purposefully and just bring a lot of joy in
55:22
the fellowship. And we couldn't.
55:24
I mean, I think we got a taste of it.
55:27
We love coming together, where we get together.
55:29
It's I think everybody likes it. It I hear something.
55:32
It could be just magnified a little bit more.
55:36
Good stuff. Damn.
55:40
Yeah, I guess my my thought went right back to that same thing as
55:43
before, the part that lacked. It says here God have put more
55:47
abundant honor on the part that lacked.
55:49
It seems like he's talking about the uncombly part still.
55:52
So again, the liver, the heart, the brains, the kidneys, those
55:56
are things that we protect with all that we have because we
56:00
value those parts more than the rest.
56:03
Like like Andrew did, as he was saying that we value the toe as
56:07
much as the eye. He even recognized that no,
56:09
actually, while the eye would come first, like your eye is
56:11
done, you can't work anymore. If your toe hurts, you can
56:14
probably somehow tough it out and just keep going.
56:16
So there are certain parts, you know, we put eyeglass protection
56:19
on and we put vests on. We try to protect the parts that
56:23
are the the most valuable to us in a sense, the parts that keep
56:28
us alive and keep us functioning.
56:31
And it's I don't know exactly what God means here by saying
56:34
that God hath given more abundant honor to the part which
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lacked. And I'd be curious to to get
56:41
more in depth understanding of that.
56:43
What it what does that mean exactly like the parts that
56:46
lacked our other. We often think of the more
56:48
comely parts as the preachers and teachers and the the more
56:52
the missionary types, right? And are those less abundantly
56:57
honorable than the parts that are not doing those things?
57:00
I I, I would love to hear more on that if you guys have some
57:03
thoughts. Yeah, that's a good question.
57:07
Mel would go go ahead on 24 and five there.
57:10
Yeah, I don't know if I have the answer, Dan, but it does say in
57:13
verse 24, if you read the just before that, it says but God had
57:19
tempered the body together. So in other words, he may It
57:22
makes it sound like the uncommonly parts are tempered
57:27
together with a commonly part like.
57:30
So in other words, there shouldn't be more honor going to
57:36
the commonly parts and the uncommonly part.
57:38
It's like equal abundant honor from God.
57:42
Maybe, I don't know, that's just.
57:43
What the he says in verse 25 that we'd have the same care for
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one another. Yeah, yeah.
57:49
I don't know. That's just that's just, I don't
57:50
know if that is an answer to your question, but that's just
57:53
one thing I see. But there there's it's just so
57:58
important that we because that we look to each other and I
58:05
think of that verse where it says think, think not.
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Oh man, I don't know if I can get it together or it says every
58:15
man think not of himself more highly than other.
58:19
And that video, yeah, I'm I'm butchering a little bit, but I
58:22
should have looked it up. But it's just that we need to be
58:26
looking at one another to lift one another up right in the body
58:32
so that he says in verse 25. So there's no schism in the
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body. In other words.
58:37
So there is no, because think about it, if, if the heart, if
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my heart and my liver or my stomach would not be getting
58:47
along with each other. Like what?
58:50
Wait a minute, I'll rephrase that.
58:52
What in my stomach and my large intestine weren't getting along
58:55
with each other? You know, I would have a serious
58:57
problem, right? I mean, there could be I'd have
59:00
issues, serious issues. So he's just saying, look, as as
59:04
a body, you're all one member. There should not be any schisms
59:09
in the body. And I think that is so important
59:11
where so many times we get focused on one another and our
59:17
like, because our other person's like you were saying, Daniel or
59:21
Andrew, the other person's stinks or, or makes us whatever
59:26
drives us nuts or whatever. And then that's what we focus
59:29
on. And that is not what we should
59:30
be focusing on, but focusing on lifting each other up and
59:35
encouraging one another in the body.
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Amen. Amen, Aaron.
59:40
I'll let you finish it up. I'm actually going to kind of
59:43
back up to 23 and and notice this, he says in 23 those
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members of the body which we think to be less honorable upon
59:52
these we bestow more abundant honor.
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So like I think that that's something I guess I will ask it
1:00:01
in a question why to myself and all of us is do do we honor?
1:00:08
Appreciate the other members of the body because in this, in a,
1:00:13
in a sense, you know, we're all we, I say as five, we're all in
1:00:17
a similar position where we would probably all do some
1:00:19
teaching or be one of the comely parts of a body.
1:00:24
Do we appreciate, do we honor the rest of the body?
1:00:28
You know what I mean? Like, because that's what he
1:00:30
said. He he says it as a factual
1:00:32
statement. Like we like himself and others,
1:00:35
we bestow more abundant honor upon these less honorable parts.
1:00:42
And then he, like one of you all said, he ends at verse 25 by
1:00:46
saying, but that the member should have the same care one
1:00:49
for another. Like do you know Melvin pointed
1:00:54
us out the whole time. He's how many times has he said
1:00:56
one body 1, you know, 1111 all that together, I think we, we
1:01:03
probably should all evaluate our appreciation and honor that we
1:01:07
are given to all the members of our particular body.
1:01:10
Like are we actually bestowing honor upon all those members?
1:01:14
Do we appreciate the fact they're part of this body that
1:01:17
we're in? You know, like, I think that
1:01:18
would be a good way to look at that is just kind of look at
1:01:22
yourself and consider what do you really appreciate all those
1:01:25
that are in the body with you? But.
1:01:27
Yeah, Yep. Good stuff.
1:01:31
Well, that was that was a good study.
1:01:34
I always enjoy what comes out of these.
1:01:36
I just figured we kind of breeze through this.
1:01:38
Everyone knows what we're talking about when we talk about
1:01:40
the ear of the eye that be in the elbow.
1:01:43
We understand that. But when you really dig out into
1:01:45
there's no way to to read it properly without giving give a
1:01:49
thought to these discussions that come out.
1:01:51
So it's really good. So anyway, that is it for
1:01:55
tonight. Join us again next Monday night,
1:01:58
same time, same place. We're going to finish this
1:02:00
chapter, Lord Willa, next week and then we'll see about either
1:02:05
going back into a book or hit another subject.
1:02:07
I'm not sure yet, but we'll figure that out and go from
1:02:12
there. So anyway, have a good week
1:02:14
guys. God bless you for your time and
1:02:16
your efforts here. I do appreciate it.
1:02:17
Many others do too. God bless you guys and we'll see
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you.