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The Be.Attitudes of Following Jesus Series - Part 4B: Behave Like Jesus (Do As Jesus Did) | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, you're listening to the Generations Church podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: pray that the Word of God today will challenge, change
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  Speaker 1: and channel you into your God given destiny. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: get started.
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  Speaker 2: Today is the eighth week, but it's part four B,
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  Speaker 2: and then in the next coming weeks one, two, three,
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  Speaker 2: more weeks we will continue a bit more. All right, great,
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  Speaker 2: so okay, let's finish Part four B. Making space for
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel? What does it? What does it mean? Being hospitable,
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  Speaker 2: loving your neighbor, just love? Second party? Is preaching the gospel?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say, preaching the gospel? Yeah, yeah, we want to
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  Speaker 2: preach the gospel. Isn't that just for past us? Isn't
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  Speaker 2: just that? It isn't just isn't that just for the
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  Speaker 2: those popular American people like you know, they hold of
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  Speaker 2: mine and they talk and they're very good at it.
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  Speaker 2: Not me not. Do you know everyone is preaching gospel.
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  Speaker 2: You are preaching gospel er gospel, I said, everyone is
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  Speaker 2: preaching a gospel. Preaching the gospel is a New Testament language, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it has over time become unpopular, just like the
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  Speaker 2: word disciple, sheep, just like the word giving and tithe
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  Speaker 2: and leadership and serve because it's been manipulated and abused.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't like sometimes those words anymore, like preaching
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. Why because some people have done it very badly?
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, so I really would. I think we can
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  Speaker 2: understand why we sometimes avoid these words. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to just want to bring us back to its original intention.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us may even have developed subconsciously and unhealthy
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  Speaker 2: apprehension preach gospel. I'm not gonna do that to my friends,
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  Speaker 2: that thing that the world hates. I'm not gonna do that.
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  Speaker 2: So PASSI please stop telling me to preach the gospel. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you the preacher gospel because the Bible
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  Speaker 2: asks us to amen. And maybe because we live in
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  Speaker 2: a very pluralistic culture. Everybody believes in something. Oh, let's
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  Speaker 2: respect everybody's believe and let's not preach our gospel. Know,
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  Speaker 2: the thing is, everybody is preaching a gospel. They may
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  Speaker 2: want to say to you, you believe what you believe.
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  Speaker 2: I believe what I believe. You keep you keep your
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  Speaker 2: belief to yourself, just shut up and just don't bring
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  Speaker 2: you out to the public. They may want to say that,
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, every single person in the world
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  Speaker 2: is preaching a gospel, whether it's the Gospel of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ or the Gospel of anti racism, it's the gospel,
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  Speaker 2: or the Gospel of Black Lives Matter BLM, or the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of Apologina Mau. It's a gospel. It's a message.
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  Speaker 2: It's a narrative that is being spread, used to convince
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  Speaker 2: and persuade and to shift your choices and your votes,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it true? Or the Gospel of pride, and by pride,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean proud, I mean pride. It's a gospel.
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  Speaker 2: You know how many people believe in this gospel? Now
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  Speaker 2: it's a gospel. Or the Gospel of democracy, or the
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  Speaker 2: gospel of socialism, or the gospel of physcal conservativism, or
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  Speaker 2: the gospel of therapy and trauma informed therapy or natural
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  Speaker 2: medicine versus synthetic medicine, or the gospel of winter swimming
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  Speaker 2: and cop plunging, or the gospel of psychedelic mushrooms, or
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  Speaker 2: the gospel of habit stacking, or the gospel of running
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, or whatever. It's all as we are
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  Speaker 2: all preaching a gospel. Everyone everyone's talking about where they
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  Speaker 2: believe Beside them, hope lies I'm preaching a gospel recently,
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  Speaker 2: been preaching a gospel about staying fit. We kept early
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  Speaker 2: in the morning and run because I believe it. I
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  Speaker 2: belief this where hope lies that will give me a
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  Speaker 2: longer lifespan to enjoy my children. Whatever we're all so,
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  Speaker 2: please please don't tell me or your friends Nolah, I
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  Speaker 2: cannot preach the gospel. You are already preaching one. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: preaching something. So the followers of Jesus are just I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna the follows are just people who preach the gospel,
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  Speaker 2: Oh Jesus. And by the way, it should flow naturally,
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  Speaker 2: because when you like the chocolatel that you like, nobody
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  Speaker 2: has to force you. See June, why didn't you talk
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  Speaker 2: about with it? And you like, I never heard you
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  Speaker 2: talk about it before. If you really, you really chalk
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  Speaker 2: it away, nobody has to force you, it will flow naturally.
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  Speaker 2: My my, my family, and I recently came here from
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  Speaker 2: lang KHAUI some of you know, because you follow social media,
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  Speaker 2: we put up some stuff. You saw it, you will ask, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how was lang Kahwe I found myself advocating lang Khawi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's a great place of family, holiday. I'm serious, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I would tell you, go to Kluk
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  Speaker 2: and just buy the voucher. The past is really really good,
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  Speaker 2: it's really cheap. It's worth it. You see, I was
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  Speaker 2: pretty excited about our recent holiday, so some it flows naturally, right.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the last movie you watched It was really awesome,
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  Speaker 2: remember the holiday spot. Yeah, we like talking about what
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  Speaker 2: we love. A good film, a good TV series, a
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  Speaker 2: good book, an amazing podcast, a good holiday, sport, good food.
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  Speaker 2: You know why, because it's a deep human impulse to share.
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  Speaker 2: It's not fun alone. Yeah, most ladies who notice, like
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  Speaker 2: one of your highlights of the day is to come
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  Speaker 2: home and tell your husband every day and your but
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  Speaker 2: your husband comes home with a summary, how was your day? Great?
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  Speaker 2: But hey, it's in it. It's an impulse. It's we're
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  Speaker 2: built to share. It's like we want to share something
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  Speaker 2: beautiful or what we think is beautiful, what we think
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  Speaker 2: is good and true that we have discovered. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: is the need to share. Your whole social media algorithm
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  Speaker 2: is creator based on that. That's why there's a share button.
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  Speaker 2: They studied you. They know how your brain works, and
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  Speaker 2: they keep pushing stuff to you. The more you share,
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  Speaker 2: the more they push. So I go to Instagram, I
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of socks. I know you've been looking
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  Speaker 2: thinking about socks. Right, And so the social media people,
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  Speaker 2: they know human psychology. We are created to do that,
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  Speaker 2: so they keep feeding you. So it's already natural, my friends,
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  Speaker 2: It's already natural sharing something we enjoy something, sharing something
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  Speaker 2: we like, sharing something that we are blessed. Why. It's
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  Speaker 2: like sharing a part of yourself when you really study it.
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  Speaker 2: The reason you share, because you're really sharing something's like
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  Speaker 2: I'm sharing part of my happiness with you and sharing
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  Speaker 2: part of my joy here. It's powerful. Amen. It almost
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  Speaker 2: like it gives the thing that we are sharing. Whether
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  Speaker 2: it's like, hey, go to eat the white white curry
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  Speaker 2: noodles super good, It's like it gives the thing even
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  Speaker 2: greater meaning and significance, especially when the other person tries
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  Speaker 2: and says, you're right, it's very good. Right. So, preaching
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel for a believer a disciple is like an
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  Speaker 2: impulse that the Spirit of God is trying to let
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  Speaker 2: out of our hearts, our spirits, our bodies. Amen, even
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  Speaker 2: against overwhelming cultural, external or even internal pressure for us
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  Speaker 2: to suppress it, you do feel attention. You do you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, right? You know there's pressure
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  Speaker 2: to say shut up, keep quiet, keep your believe to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But something is that you're like, but I got a share.
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  Speaker 2: This is so wonderful, is so great, it's amazing. But
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  Speaker 2: we ultimately, ultimately as disciples, need to let it out
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  Speaker 2: or we will always feel a lack, we will always
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  Speaker 2: feel short change. Frank l back, he's a prominent missionary intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: He teaches this. Okay, so everybody's in vanogizing, everybody's spading
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  Speaker 2: a message. That's what a gospel is. A message. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a message of like what we believe, where what
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  Speaker 2: we believe to be true and good and beautiful, and
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  Speaker 2: where hope lies the meaning of life, the purpose of life.
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  Speaker 2: We're all preaching that. So follows Jesus, those who preach
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  Speaker 2: his gospel. It should flow naturally to possess God. Frank
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  Speaker 2: Labac says, you have to give him away. It's the
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  Speaker 2: crazy paradox contradiction of the gospel. He who keeps his
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  Speaker 2: life will lose it. Who loses his life will have it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus says, to actually possess God, you have to give
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  Speaker 2: him away. It's like he says, he explains the week
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  Speaker 2: with failures and success. Suys has taught me one new lesson.
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  Speaker 2: It is this, I must talk about God or I
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  Speaker 2: cannot keep him in my mind. I must give him
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  Speaker 2: away in order to have him. That is the law
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  Speaker 2: of the spirit world. What one gives, one has. What
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  Speaker 2: one keeps to oneself, one loses. Amen. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how theologians will well, will like or
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  Speaker 2: not like what I'm about to say. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I see this picture right If if this congregation, this
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  Speaker 2: church is being fed right out, I'm feeding you. If
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  Speaker 2: you're being fed right now, then you're getting nutrins right,
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  Speaker 2: like good stuff. If you don't exercise it, you will
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  Speaker 2: become obese. Yeah, that's why. Narrow is the gate that
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  Speaker 2: leads to life, and broad is the gate that leads
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  Speaker 2: to destruction. If you're OBEs, you can't go to the
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  Speaker 2: narrow gate. So you're stuck in the church forever, just
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  Speaker 2: stuck in the four walls. Can get out, Just sit
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  Speaker 2: here and eat some more, and eat some more, and
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  Speaker 2: eat some more. No, no, no, you're meant to exercise,
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  Speaker 2: You're meant to receive and give away. Amen. Give. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to experience God, you have to give him away.
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  Speaker 2: You have to tell people about him. You have to
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  Speaker 2: share him as you tell people. As you tell people
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  Speaker 2: about him, you would discover him all over again. Afresh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you've experienced this before. You discover something,
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  Speaker 2: you share and you're like as you share, you're like wow, wow,
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't realize, and you got that way. It's
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  Speaker 2: the lord of the pretty world. You can keep it
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  Speaker 2: to yourself. You become obese Christians, befit once finally demonstrating
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. So we got the preacher, We got the share.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you share through your words or you share a post,
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  Speaker 2: preach the gospel. It's got to be shared. It's got
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  Speaker 2: to be spoken off. It's got to be told some
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  Speaker 2: one way or another man. And thirdly, is demonstrating the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't just talk. He demonstrated yes or no. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He would talk, and then he would go and do
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  Speaker 2: the things that he talked about, and then he would
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  Speaker 2: explain what he just did. He will heal the sick,
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  Speaker 2: he will prophesy, he'll deliver people from demonic spirits. He'll
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  Speaker 2: stand up against political injustice and oppression. He will speak
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  Speaker 2: the truth. He will do these acts that demonstrated the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God. When he healed the sick, he's demonstrating
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  Speaker 2: this is what the kingdom is like. When he stood
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  Speaker 2: up against political injustice, he's demonstrating what the King of
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  Speaker 2: God stands for. When he was kind to the oppressed,
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  Speaker 2: he was demonstrating the king of God. You get it,
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  Speaker 2: you get a picture. He's always demonstrating. Jesus demonstrated the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God, breaking in not just in talk, but
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  Speaker 2: in action. Kingdom of God. Our preaching of the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: must also accompany our demonstrating of the Gospel of vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: When we preach, we need to also demonstrate. So don't
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  Speaker 2: just say God is love, demonstrate that God is love. Man.
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  Speaker 2: This sounds like a lot to do with our pastor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Jesus full time. You know, only did was
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  Speaker 2: preaching the gospel. And gospel wasn't a He wasn't an accountant,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't a ceo. He didn't run his company. He's
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  Speaker 2: on a mode of five. Not true. He was a carpenter,
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  Speaker 2: hang on, a fisherman. We all got our stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: we can preach and demonstrat the gospel where we are Amen. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my Pasta, I'm not cut out for this. Sounds like
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  Speaker 2: such a huge responsibility. Is this even possible just casually
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  Speaker 2: talking to one friend one about the gospel. It's already
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  Speaker 2: so overwhelming, so scary. How can I behave like Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully this next part will help you. Thomas Kelly was
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  Speaker 2: a Quaker educator. He wrote a book called Testament of
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  Speaker 2: Devotion and in that book, the last part of the book,
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  Speaker 2: he introduced a concept called the joyous burdens of Love.
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  Speaker 2: Joyous burdens of love. It's a burden, it's a joyful one,
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  Speaker 2: and it's motivated by love. What does this mean? He
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  Speaker 2: explains that the heart of God is universal, meaning God's
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  Speaker 2: heart is for everybody. Red and yellow, black and white.
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  Speaker 2: They are precious in his sight, everyone, no matter who
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  Speaker 2: you are. God's heart, his love is for everyone. But
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  Speaker 2: that universal heart of God click again, comes through the particular.
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  Speaker 2: It's universal, but the channel, which is it comes through
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  Speaker 2: its particular. We are particular because we all particles. We are.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, yeah, you're getting right. We are not God.
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  Speaker 2: We are not omni present. You are in one place
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  Speaker 2: and one time. Your mind can go different places, but
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  Speaker 2: you are one place, one time. You are particular. We
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  Speaker 2: are not infinite, we are finite. We're not immortal. We
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  Speaker 2: are mortal. So God's universal goodness, heart, love, faith, joy,
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  Speaker 2: grace comes through the particular. So the office in which
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  Speaker 2: you work, that's where God's universal power and love can
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  Speaker 2: come through you in that office space, with that community.
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  Speaker 2: It comes to that. Yeah, we can't express all of
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  Speaker 2: the heart of God to all people everywhere, all of
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  Speaker 2: the time. We can't do that because we are so
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  Speaker 2: incredibly short lived. We are limited. We are mortal in
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  Speaker 2: our body. So God therefore gives everyone a particular, joyous
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  Speaker 2: burden or burdens of love. So it's not a burden
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  Speaker 2: in a negative sense like oh it's a burden, I
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  Speaker 2: don't carry it. But it's a thing a passion, a pool,
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  Speaker 2: an attraction, a hunger, a desire to see change that
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  Speaker 2: God puts on your heart. Yeah, and that they can
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  Speaker 2: be very very day to day examples of this, for example,
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  Speaker 2: and when it just this this feeling or this thought
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  Speaker 2: that drops on your heart to say, call a neighbor
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  Speaker 2: or a friend, or to check in on somebody, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's struggling, or to drop a gift for someone, or
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  Speaker 2: to send a thank you note, or to send a text.
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  Speaker 2: That little thing that's called the joyous Noah, God of
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  Speaker 2: eight billion people in the world, God put it on you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through my day and the name drops on
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  Speaker 2: my heart and I go, Yo, how are you. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about all your other your friends, la, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about them. I can speak for them. I
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  Speaker 2: can speak for myself. When I text you and ask
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  Speaker 2: you how are you? I am really asking how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Don't just tell me okay, because that's not an answer
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  Speaker 2: you can say, pastor I'm okay. I'm thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: rest of my answer. Can you give me time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: okay with that. You can take a week to answer me.
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  Speaker 2: But I want you to know when I say, yo,
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  Speaker 2: how are you? I mean it. When I say I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see you in church last Saturday, I am I'm
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  Speaker 2: not concerned about attendance. I know showing up in church
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  Speaker 2: is not the measure of your spirituality. I know that
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  Speaker 2: we've been preaching seven weeks about this. I really think
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  Speaker 2: you're missing, like this picture is missing. Where were you? You? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: You're all right? And if your answer is I was
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  Speaker 2: in Timbuktu doing missions. Sure, no different feeling. If you
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  Speaker 2: told me past that I was just lazy, I still
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  Speaker 2: miss you. I might be wondering if you answer to
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  Speaker 2: be like, oh what's there? What come? Missions? Are you
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  Speaker 2: doing there? And if I'm just lazy, I'll be wondering,
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  Speaker 2: Oh what happened? What are you lazy? That's all I
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  Speaker 2: urged all of you to do the same with the
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  Speaker 2: people in your life, because you know why. I can
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  Speaker 2: only text so many people in a day or in
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  Speaker 2: a week, and I can't keep up. How long have
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  Speaker 2: you ever experienced this? I text you in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: how are you? And I replied the next day, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because I texted thirty five people. You get what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: If you help me and I help you, the whole
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  Speaker 2: just covered. Everyone gets a text, everyone gets a call,
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  Speaker 2: everyone gets a coffee, everyone gets I dream of that
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  Speaker 2: church where it's not just one to twenty percent doing
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  Speaker 2: eighty percent of the work. Aymen, eighty percent at least
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  Speaker 2: doing the work, and it feels that we're all just
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  Speaker 2: doing twenty percent. That'd be awesome, but it's called the joyous.
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  Speaker 2: Oh past, am I supposed to warm water? Am I
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  Speaker 2: supposed to throw on in? Why I'm supposed to? No?
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you spend time you got and ask God? God?
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  Speaker 2: What joy is burden of love have you put on
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  Speaker 2: my heart? Because? Friends, very simple. No one can do everything,
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  Speaker 2: but everyone can do something. Hey, no one can do
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  Speaker 2: even I can do everything. No matter how much you
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  Speaker 2: pay me as a full time pastor, I still can't
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  Speaker 2: do everything. But everyone can do something. So let's discern.
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  Speaker 2: Let's ask yourself as you think about how you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: demonstrate the gospel, whether it's to a call, a text
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  Speaker 2: of visitor, gift, or whatever. What is the gift that
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of Jesus is wanting to bring to the
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  Speaker 2: wider world through me? What is my unique contribution? And
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  Speaker 2: everybody is different. Some of you cook really well, so
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  Speaker 2: you can't cook for to save your life. Cody asked
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  Speaker 2: me to night, how do you talk to children? I'll
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  Speaker 2: be I can teach you, but you know what, some
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  Speaker 2: people just can't. And it's okay because we need people
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  Speaker 2: who talk to old people too. We need people to
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  Speaker 2: talk to weird people, normal people, abnormal people, all guinds
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  Speaker 2: of people. Let's all walk. But I appreciate that we
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  Speaker 2: all learn, we all try and right, So so I
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  Speaker 2: gave you an answer, and then part of the answer
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  Speaker 2: was like, but some people just have it, and if
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  Speaker 2: you know you have it, don't sit on it. If
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  Speaker 2: you have a gift of organizing, that's your unique contribution
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  Speaker 2: to the world. If you have a gift of administration,
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  Speaker 2: that's your unique contribution. At the word, but it's not sexy,
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  Speaker 2: nobody s nobody puts spreshiess on the stage. Please don't
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  Speaker 2: we all fall asleep, but we need those threadsheets. Ay man,
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  Speaker 2: But what's your unique contribution? What's your joys? But now
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  Speaker 2: love see it's a burden. It's a burden, not in
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  Speaker 2: a bad way like I'm so stressed and burn out.
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  Speaker 2: It's like this is to be done, okay, and pleaser
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  Speaker 2: as a preciser. Don't be one of these modern people
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  Speaker 2: who think like, oh, therefore anything that's anything your stress
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  Speaker 2: or it's not. Gods say, must be joyful. One they
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  Speaker 2: which parner who love your children to be busy and
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  Speaker 2: will give your love your children. You don't feel stressor
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  Speaker 2: of course if you say it's the joyous, it said
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  Speaker 2: that it's the kind of stress that makes you do
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  Speaker 2: something about it, not that kind of stress that makes
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  Speaker 2: you go to the corner and be depressed. And I
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  Speaker 2: hate children, I hate you. Already disappear. If you think
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  Speaker 2: there is a barn, you need help, you need a
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  Speaker 2: whole lother kind of help. But hey, please don't think that.
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  Speaker 2: Just because it's a joyous but of love, there should
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  Speaker 2: be no stress. No, it just means it's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of burden you want when you want to build myselves?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you go to the gym? And by definition are
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  Speaker 2: you not carrying a burden? It's literally what it is?
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  Speaker 2: A burden? A wait, yes, sometimes you wake, come and
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  Speaker 2: go why am I doing this to myself? The runner's right,
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  Speaker 2: wake in the morning, six am, run fifteen km? Why
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  Speaker 2: are we doing this to ourself? What you do it? Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's a joyous burden that you know that at the
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  Speaker 2: end of this, especially over a period of time, there
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  Speaker 2: is a reward. You're healthier, your pace is faster, your
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  Speaker 2: heart is stronger, whatever are It's a joyous vanla. So
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  Speaker 2: it is not entirely stress free. It's not comfortable. Oh
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  Speaker 2: pasta say so my contribution is competition? Sit down, No,
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  Speaker 2: it's contributing So it might be small, it might be humble,
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  Speaker 2: It might have to be It might have to do
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  Speaker 2: with your work or your job, not in church. It
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  Speaker 2: could be in your office, your job, your business. It
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  Speaker 2: might have to do with a volunteer act. Maybe where
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  Speaker 2: you find your joys, but of love, it's not in
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  Speaker 2: your job. Maybe your joy is just to feed mouths,
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  Speaker 2: to put a roof over my head. But you know
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  Speaker 2: where I really come alive. Oh no, Saturday morning or
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning, I go give you she there. It could
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  Speaker 2: be there and that's not paying me. That's okay. You
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  Speaker 2: might have to do with your family. Some of you.
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  Speaker 2: Your calling is to serve your family. That's legit, that's holy.
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  Speaker 2: Some is parenting. Some is to be I don't know
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  Speaker 2: your neighborhood, your school. Just be intentional because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of us just shot at work and just wait for
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  Speaker 2: the weekend or wait for something. But God gives us all.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody here one, two, three, some more a number off
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  Speaker 2: the joyous burden of love. It will ultimately be a joy.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be stressed out sometimes, you want to put your
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  Speaker 2: hair out sometimes, but when you look at it all
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  Speaker 2: as a whole, you're like, yeah, it's worth it. It's joyful.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm still with Kenjre a very good teams,
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  Speaker 2: still doing youth ministry. I've lost a lot of hair,
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  Speaker 2: but I still I still love it. This is mine
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  Speaker 2: joyous burden of love. Yeah, so guys, it will ultimately
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  Speaker 2: be a joy. It won't. It won't be full of
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  Speaker 2: stress all of the time. If it is, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: re check. Maybe you're not in the right fit. And
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  Speaker 2: it's okay. In this church, you want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: people are in the right fit. If you're not a
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  Speaker 2: people person, it's okay. Hend the machines, press buttons, all right,
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  Speaker 2: because ultimately your button will help people. Ma. But let's
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  Speaker 2: all pay attention God, what burden have you put on
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  Speaker 2: my heart? The only thing I ask of you is
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  Speaker 2: don't sit on it. Don't be afraid of the work,
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  Speaker 2: because this would be meaningful work, ultimately joyful kind of work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, right? God created us to work. I mean
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  Speaker 2: just by definition, like look at the number, like six
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  Speaker 2: day work, one day rest, your creatical work. So pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to those joys when our love those signs are
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  Speaker 2: like God's signpost to the call of God on your life. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Like again, I repeat myself. That's not to say God
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  Speaker 2: won't challenge you to do something uncomfortable or difficult. He
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  Speaker 2: most likely and most often will, because God is ultimately
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  Speaker 2: after your character, not your comfort. There is no growth
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  Speaker 2: if there is no challenge or this comfort. There's just
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  Speaker 2: no growth. Amen. But even if it's uncomfortable or challenging
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  Speaker 2: or difficult at times, there will still be joy and
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  Speaker 2: peace in the midst at the end of it. So
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to those as disciples. Community is imperative. We
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  Speaker 2: cannot do this alone. That's why I believe in the
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  Speaker 2: church so much. I don't know where you are right
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  Speaker 2: now with church again, church is nothing on the redeem
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  Speaker 2: No like church become a bad word. That's where people
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: get disappointed. Line people, that's where no leaders fall up.
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  Speaker 2: Not really, not necessarily because as this suppose, community is
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  Speaker 2: imperative because no one can do everything. You can't safe
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  Speaker 2: and change the world by yourself. We need each other
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  Speaker 2: because as individuals we cannot fully express the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: the heart of God. But the Church together can one
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  Speaker 2: of the most immediate expressions we can all try. This
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  Speaker 2: is you can by UK's for you, Ma. Somebody need
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  Speaker 2: to run it. Man somebody to go and pray for you.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody need to go and catch the teams when pray
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  Speaker 2: will fall out, somebody need to catch them. Somebody needed
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  Speaker 2: to cook, somebody needs to be somebody need to be security.
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  Speaker 2: And you need to be adults because curage me to
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  Speaker 2: your boy and go to sleep. It's the rule. And
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you go to sleep, you think the Sax thing. Oh
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna listen now, No, we need a Josh uncle
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  Speaker 2: Daniel dead right, pretty neo sould. I tells some listener
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  Speaker 2: something like that that we need everybody you can for this.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great it's a great place to practice this.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I told. There's a parent who asked me,
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  Speaker 2: can I come to the camp? I say, oh, your
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  Speaker 2: parent can, but you cannot come as a parent. If
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  Speaker 2: you come as a parent, then you will be like,
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  Speaker 2: why is there a parent here? You come as a volunteer.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I'm a parent too, am I not? But do you
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  Speaker 2: look at me a parent? No, I'm pastor I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: ser So if you're a parent, you want to come
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  Speaker 2: and watch your kid, come now, but come and stand
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  Speaker 2: behind the gent show table and watch not your kid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he's going you know he went to collect. No,
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  Speaker 2: I had the joy of that last year. My son
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  Speaker 2: was there. And yes during the BGR or the sex stop, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my my my wife took my son away because he
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: ain't ready for that. That's okay. But all the call
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  Speaker 2: without being prompted, without being asked. I'm living worship. I'm
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  Speaker 2: crying my eyeballs. I opened my eye. My son's there, oh,
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  Speaker 2: by himself. I'm telling you who it's worth it worth,
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  Speaker 2: it's worth doing. And so hey, if you're a parent,
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  Speaker 2: you wanna come to, you can keep my eye on. Come,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: but don't come as a parent. Officially as a volunteer.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I'm a marshall got wesel oh, I'm I'm here to
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  Speaker 2: run the shop. So nobody's too money. You jug out
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  Speaker 2: the money if we quite elaborate. That's so we need
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  Speaker 2: help our talk shoper in camera. It's not like selves.
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  Speaker 2: I'm goola gola. If we got Ordain got Barista coffee,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what else you see what happened? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Fred Chicken. Last time, we all like we
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  Speaker 2: got old day Old. Never mind, he's got Tom you
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  Speaker 2: Slaver got original flavor. Family might also lose first time
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in a Ukema. Our CRUs can all sell. If you understand,
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  Speaker 2: you can cut moror is always the number one seller.
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  Speaker 2: Last say why you can go all? Then why I
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  Speaker 2: want to paytrie ringate for this cup noodle? I pay
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  Speaker 2: love for the fishball and the craftick young people, so smart,
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  Speaker 2: fresh and more hot. Anyway, I was supposed to say
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  Speaker 2: all that at the dialogue Nema. But as individuals we
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  Speaker 2: cannot allow. Together we can amen. We each play the
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  Speaker 2: part that we're given by the joyous budness of love.
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  Speaker 2: Some youth, some senior, some craft, some administration, some finances,
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  Speaker 2: some whatever are as. We play our part in demonstrating
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  Speaker 2: gospel we trusted. The heart of the Father is being
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  Speaker 2: expressed to the people around us. Just play your part,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Just play your part. Let me end with this Teresa
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  Speaker 2: of a Fela. She said this, She wrote this poem.
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  Speaker 2: Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feet
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  Speaker 2: on earth. But yes, you are the eyes with which
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  Speaker 2: he looks compared on this world. Yours are the feet
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  Speaker 2: with which he walks to do good. Yours are the
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  Speaker 2: hands we reach. He blesses all the world. Yours are
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  Speaker 2: the hands. Yours are the feet. Yours are the eyes.
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  Speaker 2: You are his body. Christ has no body now but yours,
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  Speaker 2: no hands, no feet on earth, but yours yours. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's repeats. Ah, how do you remember this? Then I
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  Speaker 2: give you one liner. Christ has no body now but yours.
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  Speaker 2: Go out and be Christ's body to the world. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Theologist might cringe at this, but it makes sense to me,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna say. The Bible says that by his
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  Speaker 2: stripes we are made whole, we are healed. The stripes
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  Speaker 2: is on his head or his body, his body, and
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the Bible described that Christ is the head of the
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  Speaker 2: church that makes the church. What the body that carries
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: his stripes. So who heals the world? Who's responsible to
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  Speaker 2: make the world whole in a better place? The body
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the us, You the eye. Christ has bull body now,
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  Speaker 2: but yours. Go out and be Christ's body to the world. Amen.
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