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Living Waters of Grace February 24, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  This church was a very strong serving church.
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  They served one another. They were steadfast.
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  That meant that they endured under trial.
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  We know that John said in the ninth verse of the 1st chapter
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  that he was their companion in the tribulation.
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  Not the great tribulation yet, but there was persecution and
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  trials happening in the church at that time.
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  But they weren't giving up this this church in Ephesus.
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  They were very sacrificial and how they used their ministry and
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  their offerings. The theologian Henry Beecher
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  said in this world it is not what we take up, but what we
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  give up that makes us rich. This reflection on service and
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  sacrifice for the Lord stands in stark contrast to the attitude
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  of the world around us. Where the world says get, the
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  Bible says give. Where people say mine, Scripture
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  says that all things belong to God.
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  In today's message, Pastor Clark presents us with a reminder that
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  we, the church, are called to love and serve one another.
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  As an example of what Christ has done for us now, here's Pastor
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  Clark in the Book of Revelation chapter 2 with today's edition
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  of Living Waters of Grace. As the Lord looks at the church,
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  he's looking for a church that has certain ingredients in that
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  reflect his nature and who he is.
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  And so he begins to write to this church in Ephesus and he
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  says some positive things about in the beginning, he says these
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  things, says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand,
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  who walks in the midst of 7 golden lamp lamp stands.
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  I know your works, your labor, your patience that you cannot
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  bear those who are evil. You've tested those who say
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  there are apostles and not and have found them liars.
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  And you've persevered and have patience and have labored in my
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  name's sake and have not become weary.
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  So he's making some real positive statements here.
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  The Lord knows the works of this church.
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  What they're doing is right. It's good, it's solid.
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  It's it's it's important, it's biblical.
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  And he's complimenting for them for that, that they have
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  patience, that they're waiting on his leading and they're not
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  going out doing things in their own strength.
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  They're also very, very sound biblically and doctrinally.
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  They don't put up with those who are evil and they test those who
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  claim to have certain spiritual gifts or callings and prove that
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  these people aren't telling the truth, but that they're liars
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  and they're persevering. This is a time of tribulation
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  and persecution in the modern church world.
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  When this was written in Ephesus, Ephesus, Ephesus today
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  is nothing but rubble. Basically, from the standpoint
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  of historical Christianity, there isn't a strong presence in
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  Ephesus for the the gospel of Christ like there was in the
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  beginning here. And as we look at the church
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  today, these churches that are represented in Revelation are
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  symbols of modern day churches as well.
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  These were actual churches back then that existed that he's
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  speaking to. But today, as you, as you study
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  this book together with me, take some notes and think about, OK,
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  Lord, what's Calvary Chapel in Greensburg like?
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  When we look at the list of the churches, what things are we
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  known for? What things are happening here
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  that are reflecting an approval from the Lord and how He sees
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  His church and how He wants it to be?
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  This church was a very strong serving church.
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  They served one another. They were steadfast.
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  That meant that they endured under trial.
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  We know that John said in the ninth verse of the 1st chapter
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  that he was their companion in the tribulation.
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  Not the great tribulation yet, but there was persecution and
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  trials happening in the church at that time.
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  But they weren't giving up this, this church in Ephesus.
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  They were very sacrificial and how they use their ministry and
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  their offerings and their focus was helping those who have never
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  heard the gospel. We know in Acts chapter 20 that
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  Paul talked about this church when he referenced the fact that
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  after I leave, ravenous wolves will come in from the outside
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  and also among you and try to divide the flock and destroy the
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  the work of God. And many times when the term is
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  used, ravenous wolves, this isn't people who are false
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  believers or people who are outside of Christ.
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  Many times people in churches have egos and they argue about
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  the stupidest things. They fight about things that
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  aren't important, like carpeting and, you know, altars or organs
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  or stained glass. I mean, it's a big deal.
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  You know, say we had to get a new carpet here.
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  Some churches fight like what color the carpets going to be
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  and if 30% of the women went blue and 40% went red and the
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  rest don't care and you get the red in there, sometimes 30% of
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  the people leave because of the color of carpet.
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  I mean, we've had people in this church leave for like reasons
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  that don't make sense. I like what RC Sproul said years
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  ago and it stuck with me. He said there's three reasons
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  you leave a church. 1 Heresy, two, sexual immorality and
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  financial impropriety, and three, false doctrine.
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  Those are the only three reasons you leave a church.
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  You don't leave a church because someone was rude to you, or they
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  didn't smile or say hi or shake your hand, or the sermon was
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  boring. You leave for biblical reasons,
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  OK. And the problem in the modern
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  day church is that Protestants, the word Protestant means
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  protest. So if we don't like what's going
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  on in such and such a church, we protest and we leave and we
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  start another church, right? That's why there's like 20,000
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  different Protestant denominations today.
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  There is only one church. And one day that church will be
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  clearly defined. When Christ comes back and sets
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  his Kingdom up, we'll be at his feet and he'll say this is
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  church one church no more 3. Down this way 4.
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  Down this way five over here 1 church with him being the head
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  and all of us at his feet, but I guarantee that that church that
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  Christ comes back and shepherds will be characteristic of some
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  of the things that is being pointed out here by the Lord
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  himself to the apostle John. These people toiled without
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  feigning. I think of what it means to plan
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  a church, and we're still in the church planning stages right
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  now. We look at everybody on the list
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  that comes here pretty consistently.
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  We have about 143 people. That's kids and adults.
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  I mean, that's amazing compared to where this church was three
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  years ago. And it's just incredible what
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  kind of people God sending in here to this church.
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  The people that are coming are mature.
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  They know the Word, they are interested in getting deeper in
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  the Word, but they're also interested in participating in
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  the ministry. As Rick alluded to.
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  Where can I serve, Where can I be used?
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  What can I do? How can I share my gifts, my
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  skills, my abilities, my talents?
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  And that's the mark of a healthy church.
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  It says in Ephesians 4. When every part does its part,
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  it makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself
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  together in love. And so the church is a body of
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  believers. Christ is a senior pastor, I'm
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  an assistant. Howard's an assistant, Rick's an
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  assistant. But Christ is the head and we're
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  all at his feet and there's nobody here but him.
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  We're all the same, at the same level, but different calls and
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  callings and different abilities and different skills and gifts.
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  But whenever you do what it is that God's called you to do in
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  this church, all the sudden the church becomes healthy.
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  It's not dependent upon Clark anymore or Rick or a couple
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  people that seem maybe in the outward to do a lot of stuff.
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  It's everybody that comes here, from the youngest kid to the
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  oldest person. I mean, the young kids have a
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  ministry here whenever parents come in and they see a nursery
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  that's well equipped and, and clean and, and people that know
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  what they're doing in Sunday school classes that are loving
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  teachers and sound Bible teaching and clean and
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  organizing women's studies and men's studies.
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  You know, they, people come in and, and they see all the parts
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  of the body working together, someone outside shoveling and,
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  and someone, you know, helping with the Lord's Supper running
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  sound. They're running, you know,
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  singing and worship. And, and, and this sometimes a
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  part in the body is a, someone that comes in that's new, that
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  you go up to him and say, Hey, I'm glad you're here.
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  It's, it's nice to see you. What's your name?
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  You might be the only person that Sunday that has a chance to
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  connect with someone else. And that's the body of Christ.
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  That's the love that's being manifest in the, in the midst of
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  the church. And so how does a church grow?
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  And I'm not talking numerically, of course, God does grow
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  churches numerically. But what's the purpose of the
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  church growing numerically? It isn't to be a big church.
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  The purpose is that people were being called to do ministry,
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  right? They're coming to the church to
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  not sit in a Pew, but to say, what is it that I can do?
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  How can I serve? How can I help?
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  What's what's my gift? Like this fellow that's moving
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  in from Idaho, He told me, Clark, I can help.
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  I like to do evangelism. And he says I'm an I'm an usher.
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  And you know, he just has a heart to serve his his son's 16.
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  He says, boy, I hope he can maybe, you know, be involved
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  helping in a worship. I said, sure, he can.
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  He can talk to Rick. And you know, there's no rules
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  here that you have to jump through 30 hoops before you can
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  serve the Lord. You have to be born again.
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  You have to love the Lord and love people and be walking with
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  him and God will use you right. It's real simple, but that's the
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  focus of of of a healthy church. And so these people also told
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  without feigning and that means working in spite of seeing
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  results. This keep showing up, keep doing
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  what it is that God tells you to do.
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  And God's the one that brings the harvest in his time.
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  They also had this sacrificial heart and I think of as a small
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  church, how you guys give of your time and how you give
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  financially. It's a blessing.
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  We never have to beg for money. We never have to push about
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  money. The Holy Spirit is the one that
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  puts it on your heart what it is that you're to give.
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  And that's between you and the Lord.
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  And it's a wonderful thing to be able to give freely without
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  condemnation or without guilt. And as we know we can't ever out
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  give God. I mean, I challenge my own heart
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  as the Lord prospers me. I always want to advance what it
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  is I personally sacrifice before the Lord.
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  And sometimes we all can think, well, if I didn't give as much
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  as I gave to the church, I could be driving a new car.
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  You ever think that the payment I could be using for.
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  I mean, that's ridiculous. Don't think that way, but our
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  flesh sometimes sinks that way. It's just normal for all of us
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  because we're still human. But it's cool to be content with
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  what we have live within our means, actually live under our
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  means. My dad taught me that many years
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  ago. He was a president of a company.
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  And one of the big shots from this chairman of the board said,
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  well, Clark, how many acres do you have?
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  And my dad says I got a probably about 1/4 of an acre.
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  And they expected my dad, because of the position he was
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  in, to have a big mansion and all that.
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  My dad lived in a very modest home.
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  He turned down the company limousine.
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  He drove a Ford Pinto station wagon.
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  He didn't park in the director for the president and he parked
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  somewhere else. It's just my dad set that
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  temperament for my brother and I as an example.
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  He was a very, very sacrificial, humble man.
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  And what he did with his resources and finances was
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  always for the sake of helping other people and never consumed
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  with himself. That's an amazing individual.
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  But anyway, Ephesus, this is the kind of church they have.
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  They are, but it says in verse 4, then the accusation comes in
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  spite of all the good things they're doing.
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  He says, I have this one thing against you.
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  You've left your first love as a pastor.
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  I have to continually keep myself in the love of God.
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  I'm like you guys, I got a wife, I got children, I got
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  grandchildren, I got son in laws, I got a job, I got all
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  kind of things that my mind can get focused on.
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  And those are all good things to be focused on, but sometimes I
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  can allow things in everyday life to take my focus off of my
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  relationship with the Lord. You know what I mean?
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  If I don't start my day with the Lord and walk with the Lord
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  through that day and end my day with the Lord, my heart will not
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  be full of this first love. My relationship with Cindy, 38
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  years of marriage. There was years, I have to admit
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  to you people, that I was not loving her the way Christ told
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  me. I'm to love His church the way
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  He loves His church. And so I was inadequate in the
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  sense of my emotional connection with my wife.
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  I was there. I showed up, I paid the bills, I
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  did whatever her husband's supposed to do, but I was not
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  connecting with her needs as a woman in the sense of her
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  emotional needs. And so the reason I wasn't, I
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  was focused on my job and my career and my success and my
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  golf clubs and my time and this and that and my Ford Thunderbird
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  or whatever. And, and I sacrificed some years
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  that I look back on. I say, Lord, it's only your
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  mercy that you kept us together all these years.
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  But God was merciful. He broke me and he humbled me
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  and he gave me an amazing woman that stood beside me and never
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  gave up on me. And so 38 years I can say to you
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  guys today, honestly, I love Cindy today more than I love her
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  when I first met her. She is an amazing woman.
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  I I never tire of looking at her face when I wake up in the
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  morning. I never look at her and say why
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  did I end up with her. Now she might say that about me,
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  especially now with my scar now, but but you know, that's a work
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  of God's Spirit. It's a work of his grace and and
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  and it's nothing I've done, but it's as I've yielded myself to
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  the Lord and won his will, not mine.
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  He restores to me the joy of my salvation and to you too.
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  And so the the but I have to work on my relationship with
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  Cindy. When she asked me things and
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  says things, I got to listen and I got to say, OK God, how am I
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  to respond here? Sometimes I have to admit she
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  still drives me crazy. I said I know I drive her crazy
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  at times too, but that's just two people that are different
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  living together in the same house, being married.
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  We're still different even after 30, but there's so many things
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  that we're a lot alike. When she fell and broke her
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  shoulder, the Bible says the two shall become one flesh.
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  I noticed the next day my shoulder was hurting.
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  It's really bizarre. And then one day I'm like on a
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  business trip and I running out of Panera Bread because I forgot
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  my wallet and I'm wearing these clogged shoes and I was running
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  faster and the shoes stayed with me.
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  All of a sudden I knew I was falling and I started going like
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  this man. I banged my hand and thank God I
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  didn't break anything. And I called her later and told
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  her what happened. She was man, my arm, my hand was
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  hurting today. I mean, this, it's just weird
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  how you know that there is this element of this, this one that
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  we have in this relationship. But I look at that love with my
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  wife life and it's parallel to how my relationship needs to be
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  with the Lord. If my love with Christ is where
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  it needs to be, I guarantee my love with Cindy will be where it
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  needs to be. But if my love with Christ isn't
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  where it needs to be, I'm not going to be able to be what it
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  is she needs me to be as her husband because Christ is not
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  the center of my life. And so every day as a husband,
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  as a father, the grandfather is an employee, as a pastor, all
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  the roles that I have. And you have many different
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  roles too, as men and women and children.
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  I have to persevere and keep myself in the love of God.
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  The Scriptures actually say to keep yourself in the love of
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  God. So my devotion to Jesus has to
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  be above everything else. And when I look at the church
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  and I pray for you guys every day, I go by the names and the
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  list. I think, OK, where are they with
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  the Lord or where aren't they with the Lord?
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  That's not an outward judgement. It's just like God.
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  I pray that they're digging deep into you and they're finding in
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  you everything they need. That's the heart of a pastor.
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  That's the heart of the Lord for all of us.
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  He wants you, me to be in love with Jesus.
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  And if we are, he knows our lives are going to be whole and
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  satisfying and protected from sin and destruction and stupid
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  moves and decisions. So my devotion to Jesus and the
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  Church of Ephesus, he's got this concern that in spite of all
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  this outward biblical stuff they're doing, they've moved
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  away from loving Jesus. And when you love Jesus, you're
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  fervent about him. You're uninhibited, you know,
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  you got a friend, the neighbor or relative.
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  You're not like, oh, should I tell him about the Lord or
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  should I bring it up? Man, you could care less what
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  anybody thinks. You just want to shop from the
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  rooftop. Jesus is Lord, I love him.
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  Jesus did this for me and he did that and I prayed.
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  And you don't care if people think you're nuts because you're
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  so in love with the Lord. But it when you find yourself a
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  little bit inhibited, embarrassed maybe about your
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  faith, wondering if it's going to affect your relationship with
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  people. You're moving away from your
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  first love. Whenever you don't have a desire
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  to read the word and to be in the word, not because we're
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  going through the Bible day by day through the Bible at the end
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  of the year, you can say, hey, I did it, but you're going through
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  it because you can't wait to hear God's voice to your heart
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  for today, fresh mana for today. Something God's giving you this
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  for your relationship with him. As I got those verses into that
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  surgery, boy, that was so important.
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  I said, Lord, I need a word from you.
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  I need you to give something to me.
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  And he did, and I held it in my pocket by my heart so I could
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  look at it and be reminded of his faithfulness.
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  The relationship has to be personal.
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  The husband can be father on in the Lord or the wife and and
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  that's not good because you can't go in the fumes of another
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  person's relationship. You guys can't live on the fumes
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  of a sermon for a week. Hopefully it spurs you and
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  encourages you and gives you a little bit of encouragement,
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  right? But you're going home because of
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  your relationship with Jesus that you had prior to even
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  coming to church on Sunday and you're walking close with him.
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  It's like the couples in the honeymoon when you first met
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  your, your spouse or the person you were going to eventually end
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  up marrying. You couldn't wait to see them.
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  You were on the phone with them texting.
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  I remember Justin damn met each other in eHarmony.
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  How many hours did you guys spend on the phone?
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  6A hour day plus they're emailing.
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  I mean, I mean, it was crazy, you know?
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  And that is the picture of the relationship with our Lord, that
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  we are talking to him all day long and we're never hearing
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  something that we've heard before.
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  We're bored. It's a it's a, this is a
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  wonderful relationship, But whenever you start to take each
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  other for granted in the relationship, or do you ever
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  take the Lord for granted? Oh, yeah.
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  I'm going to go to heaven someday.
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  That's nice. You know, Lord loves me.
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  Yeah. Eternal life.
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  That's great, but everything else is crowded out the
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  excitement of what that all means.
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  You're beginning to take Him for granted.
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  You're moving from your first love when life begins to be
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  routine and boring and uneventful and this a drag.
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  You've left your first love and then your relationship with the
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  Lord is in danger when you're neglecting worshiping God and
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  worship. This isn't here with Rick and
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  the guys on Sunday morning. Worship is in your car with your
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  CD. Worship is in your home with
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  your Bible open where you're just praising God, God and
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  thanking him for how much he loves you and all that he's done
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  and, and how great he is and how he's created the universe and
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  how he has his hand on everything that's going on in
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  the world at the same time with every life and every individual.
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  It's just mind blowing. And so you worship God and
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  you're, you're loving God. You find yourself serving God,
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  giving of your your livelihood for God's work, helping brothers
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  and sisters, helping neighbors. And helping people that don't
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  know the Lord doesn't matter because you love the Lord.
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  Dan and I were digging this woman out yesterday and she was
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  like I said, well, where you got to go?
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  She's like, how old is that Lady, 80s or something?
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  Yeah, she's out there with a shovel.
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  And you know, we say, hey man, no, we'll, we'll do it until
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  we're over there helping. I said, where you going?
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  She said I got to go to Mass. I said, when she said 4:00, I
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  said in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are
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  absolved. You can stay home.
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  She thought I was kidding. I said, no, I'm a pastor.
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  You just take it easy. The Lord knows you can't get out
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  here today. And she was so determined to go,
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  but we were digging her out and, and she says, oh, I can't, I
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  feel so bad. I'm making, I say, hey, we're
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  doing this because we love Jesus.
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  We're doing this because of him, you know, and I said, plus you
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  have some of those pizzelles in the house and those cookies.
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  And she said, all I do is she was all excited.
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  She went in and got him and brought him out to us, you know,
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  but but seriously, you know, we, we just did it because it's part
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  of this. What you do is as a follower of
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  Christ and you love him. And the Bible told the church in
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  Ephesus, in the book of Ephesian Ephesians, that they were seated
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  with Christ Jesus in heavenly places.
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  That's our position right now. Spiritually, you're in the
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  heavenly places with Christ where everything that is His is
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  yours, where we can't be lifted up any higher than He has us
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  right now. It's incredible what our
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  inheritance is in Christ. But where are you with that
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  right now, today? Where is your relationship with
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  the Lord? How are you doing with Jesus
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  Christ? He warns them that if they don't
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  repent, and I talked about repentance pretty extensively
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  last week. Repentance is the realization I
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  can't live like this anymore. I can't go through this
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  spiritual fog like this anymore. I'm done with this waste of time
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  and energy and things that aren't going to last.
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  And boy, I'll tell you when, when you, when you're dealing
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  with some kind of cancer or some kind of life potential problem,
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  you start realizing how short your life is, right?
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  All of us and one day all of us, I don't care how young you are
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  in here, you're going to be in a grave if Christ hasn't come yet
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  and your body is going to rot and you're just going to have
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  bones in there. I mean, there's nothing left.
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  Your spirit will be with the Lord.
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  The Bible says to be absent the bodies, to be present with the
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  Lord, everything you live for. And if it isn't for Christ is
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  all going to be a waste. It's all going to burn.
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  And I think as God gives me days on this earth, my whole desire
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  is for you guys and for his work.
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  That's the focus of my heart. I want to be around God willing
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  for my kids and to see my grandkids grow up and to see
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  them follow the Lord. That's that's the passion and
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  also that the days that I'm living, even though I got a lot
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  of things like you guys work and all these other things that can
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  destroy. I want my life to count for
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  eternity so that whenever I'm done and I stand before the
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  Lord, we can hear well done, good and faithful servant.
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  But he's warning them if you don't repent from where you've
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  fallen and whenever your first love isn't there, you got to
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  admit you're backslidden. He says repent and go back and
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  do the first works or I will come to you and remove the
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  lampstand from its place unless you repent.
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  Doesn't mean you're losing your salvation, but it means your
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  ability to influence the community as a church is gone.
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  In the Book of Revelation, Pastor Clark is taking us
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  through all kinds of events and happenings that are predicted
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  for the future. But for those who believe and
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  follow Jesus, there's much to look forward to in heaven with
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  Jesus. However, for those who are here
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  on earth during the Tribulation, there's all kinds of chaos that
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  will unfold. The Bible talks about an
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  Antichrist, a false prophet, and of course, that evil enemy,
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  Satan. Do you see how there are such
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  clever attempts for the enemy to disguise himself as God and even
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  the Trinity? The true Savior of the world is
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  God and how He comes to rescue through his triune nature God
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  the Father, Jesus the Son, and God the Holy Spirit?
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  Just like Satan tried to take over for God in heaven and was
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  cast out, Satan will try to convince people on earth that he
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  is the Triune God to be worshipped instead of the
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  legitimate God in heaven. It's an attempt, and although he
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  will capture plenty in his schemes, he will not win.
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  The true God wins, and Revelation unpacks how that will
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  all happen in detail. Be encouraged because there's a
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  way out for all of this madness that will ensue on this earth.
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  But you don't want to wait indefinitely to make that
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  decision about Jesus. We don't know when the church
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  will be raptured, and you want to be ready to be with Jesus.
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