Fitly Joined Together - Don King

We welcome you all once again this evening to the service and

we have a good audience with visitors with us, I believe.

And so whoever you are wherever you're from, we certainly want

you to feel welcome and we want you to be comfortable, we're

enjoying the meeting and we're looking forward to studying the

scriptures together for a while this evening.

One of the things that the Apostle Paul wrote about in the

New Testament was the need of congregations being fitly joined

together. ER, and this is, I think a need

in every congregation as it, make any difference where it is.

And so, I taught this at home and I feel no, hesitation of

teaching it here, he wrote about our being fitly joined together

and the original word in the Greek means to be closely joined

together as you might have guessed.

And when we see a congregation that is closely joined together,

I can assure you. It is not an accident in order

for this to be the case. In order for a congregation to

be fitly joined together, every member has to be willing to

contribute to his, or her share to the well-being of the church.

And if some are only interested in their own well-being, they

may exhibit that attitude in ways which caused other members

to feel disenchanted and disappointed by their selfless,

actions and members who are inconsistent of our I should

say, in considerate of others, feelings, and spiritual

well-being. Being are not fitly joined

together, nor will a group of people, no matter how large a

building. If it is full of those kinds of

people, you're not going to have a congregation that are that is,

I should say, fitly joined together.

So I'm going to study with you about some things this evening

that deal with that, with that topic, let's begin by asking a

simple question, what is a Christian?

Well, from a gut from God's perspective and I think you need

to understand this in Can Griffin's 5 and 17?

Paul said therefore If any man be in Christ, he is a new

creature, behold. All things are passed to old

things are passed away, behold. All things are become new and so

when an individual hears, the word of God and he believes it

repents of his sins confesses his or her faith in Christ and

is baptized in water for the remission of sins from God

standpoint. This individual is a New

creature, I mean, by that, that this individual now is free of

their sins. God has washed away.

All of their own sins by applying the blood of Jesus

Christ. To him, the sixth chapter of

Romans tells us that we are baptized into the death of

Christ. And that like, is he was raised

up. We also are raised up to walk in

newness of life, and so obviously, since Jesus shed his

blood in his death, when we are baptized Into into Christ.

We are obviously baptized into his death or baptized into his

being which allows us to contact his blood.

So we are new creatures and old things are passed away.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that just because God sees

us as new creatures, that we always see ourselves as new

creatures. And I think this sometimes is a

real problem. God, May cleanse us, he may wash

us, he may make Us every Whit whole and clean.

However, if we do not change our life, that is, if I repentance

has only been momentary, you know, repentance involves a

change of heart that results in a change of life or you might

say repentance is a change of life that is brought about by a

change of heart Solomon. I believe it was said as a man

thinketh in his heart. So is he?

And so that's absolutely the way it is.

If Continue to think in the old ways, if your mind continues to

be filled with things that are not good and that are not clean

and that are not pure than it is very unlikely that you're going

to be able to very long be successful, in living a life

that is clean and pure in Ephesians, four verses 20

through 22 through 24. Paul said, and I think this

passage illustrates how we become new.

Paul said that, you put off all a concerning, the former

conversation, the old man, which is corrupt.

According to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of

your mind that you put on the new man, which after God is

created in righteousness and true holiness.

You're welcome to come on in sir.

We're to put off our old man, our old former conversation.

Now, the in the King James version, which I use

exclusively, I just love it. That's what I'm used to using.

And that's that just, it's too late for me to change after 40

years, but the word conversation in the King James version often

means most of the time. In fact, it means our manner of

living, or our way of life. And so Paul says, we are Put off

concerning the former conversation or the farmer way

of life. The old man which is he said

corrupt now after we obey the gospel, we don't want to

continue to live in a in a man, be a man that is still corrupt

who still thinks bad things and who still does bad things, we

want to put that kind of Life Away, put it off and he said, it

is corrupt. According to the deceitful

lusts, one of the things that is sad Sad about Sin, is that it is

a decision is deceitful in its nature.

It's the kind of thing that promises us happiness.

We think we're going to be happy if we can live in that sin.

When in fact, it is only momentary pleasure.

It's a little bit. Like, when a child, have you

ever noticed a child? You can't keep them happy, very

long. You ever noticed that?

They may want to go for an ice cream cone when they're little,

I'm talking about for that matter.

When they get bigger they may want to go for an ice cream cone

but have you ever noticed when you take a child and get him or

her something that they really want, maybe an ice cream cone,

they're so happy at the moment, but when the ice cream cone is

gone, the happiness is gone. And so it was kind of an

infatuation. You might say, it was an

excitement that that was brought about by the eating of the ice

cream cone, but the happiness Is short-lived to say the least.

And so that's the way sin is it may promised happiness.

It may look like a great time and in fact the Bible speaks of

the pleasures of sin in the world but the truth of it is it

is a momentary excitement or a momentary infatuation.

If you will about that kind of living it's not going to really

make you happy and you may think you're going to be happy but you

will wake up one of these days and be sad.

And empty and feeling like you do not have what you need to

have in order to really be happy.

So Paul said, we put it off and be renewed in the spirit of your

mind that you put on the new man, which after God is created

in righteousness and true Holiness.

It is a fact that too many never become new within themselves,

and until they become new within themselves, until they start

living a different life and taking a different way.

Way, it is not very likely that they're going to Long be

successful in living the Christian Life.

Now, then in Galatians 2 and verse 20, Paul said, I am

crucified with Christ. How can you say that?

I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live.

Well, obviously he is still living and so he wasn't

crucified with Christ in a physical way.

Paul is not telling us that he was crucified like the Lord was

on a cross and died physically, but he refers to his crucifixion

in a figurative way, he refers to the fact that he has cut off

all of his old life and you know, when we die, we are cut

off from this life and so Paul said, I am crucified with

Christ. I have cut off since In I've cut

off the old way of living, and so, the Way I Live Now is not

the way I used to live the way I think now is not the way I used

to think and that's the key to learn to think differently.

So that you will in fact be different rather than just

having to put on an act of living and looking like you're

better. So he said nevertheless I live

yet not I but Christ liveth in me.

How does Christ live in US? According to Ephesians 3 and

verse 17 The Bible tells us that Jesus dwells in our hearts by

faith, there is such a thing as the indwelling Christ.

People like to talk about the dweller indwelling of the spirit

but the Bible speaks of the indwelling Christ.

And the Bible tells us that we have that he dwells in Us by

faith. Well.

Alright how do you get Faith? Romans 10:17.

Romans 10:17

So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

So let's see if we can figure this out.

When you read your Bible, oh, when you read your Bible and you

read about what the Lord tells you to do, and what the Lord

wants you to be, and how he wants you to be and how he wants

you to think. If you let the Lord live in you

if you let his word dwell in you and you begin to do those things

that Jesus did and think in the way that he thought be.

The kind of person that he was, Jesus, is dwelling in your

hearts, through faith in his word.

You know, I that I used to have trouble understanding how the

spirit in the world. How Christ in the world until I

realized that I was looking at it from the wrong standpoint.

How is it that sin dwelleth in us?

The Bible speaks of individuals in which it is said that sin

dwelled in them or dwelt in then how to send well in a man?

Well, send dwells in a man by the actions he does if you see a

man whose actions are always evil, if he's a thief, if he's a

profane or immoral man, sin is living in him.

Sin is dwelling in. Him on the other hand, if you

see a man, whose who is producing the fruit of the

spirit, which according to the scriptures are things such as

love and joy, and peace and goodness.

And Paul said against such, there is no law.

You don't have to, you don't have to have a law against those

things because that's just going to improve the church.

It's just going to improve the community in which the

individual lives. So there is no law against those

kinds of things. When you see an individual

producing, the Fruit of the Spirit, And you can be certain

that not only is the Spirit dwelling in him, but Christ is

as well. In fact, as I see it, there are

pretty much the same thing if one dwells in you.

The other one will and you will produce the fruit of the spirit.

Paul said, In Romans 12 and verse 1.

I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God, that ye

present, your bodies, a Living Sacrifice, holy acceptable, unto

God, which is your reasonable service.

This is a beautiful passage, and I want to spend just a minute or

two on it. Paul said, I want you to present

your bodies a Living Sacrifice Now, other the Old Testament

law, there was a morning and an afternoon sacrifice every

morning at 9:00 every afternoon at 3:00, third, our ninth hour.

There was a sacrifice, there was an oblation as it was sometimes

called at the Tabernacle, or in the temple.

And each time, this service came, the priest came and would

stand before the before the veil and he would officiate.

And he would offer the blood of a sacrificed animal in the place

of the sins of Israel. This went on day after day,

after day, after day for nearly 1,500 years, this continued The

only time this practice was altered.

It was one day out of the year. When they had, what was called

the day of atonement. Now, you've probably heard of

the day of atonement, but you may not realize how important it

was and even is to us today. It had a typical or a figurative

meaning which is absolutely beautiful to comprehend.

You remember on the day of atonement, the Bible tells us

how that an animal would be brought it.

What? Usually be a goat.

And this animal would be brought in and the priest would lay his

hands on the head of that animal and confess over that animal.

The sins of Israel. And then the Bible says a strong

man would lead that animal out into the Wilderness and

releasing. I seem strange, doesn't it?

What in the world could be the meaning of that?

Oh, it's beautiful. Because you see Once that animal

was released, it figuratively carried the sins of Israel out

yonder. Now it was only figurative and

the only way you really find forgiveness under the Old

Testament. Covenant is in a ceremonial

since I mean by that they were forgiven in the sense that

that's all they could do and God move their sins away.

So that they were not held guilty of them.

That is they would not be condemned if they should die at

that time. I'm but every year God would

remember those sins again? And so when that animal was

carried out into the Wilderness, it figuratively or typically

carried with it, the sins of Israel and when it was turned

loose, It was the animal became Anonymous.

Nobody knew where the animal came from.

It was just another animal that wandered freely somebody problem

but he would pick it up and bring it back and turn it into

his or her own heard. But as far as the people were

concerned, and as far as God was concerned, it had a beautiful

meaning because it's typified that the sins of Israel were

carried into an anonymous State. Have you ever wondered where

your sins go? When you commit a saint and you

ask God's forgiveness, have you ever wondered what does he do

with them? It isn't as though you haven't

sinned and yet God doesn't consider you guilty of saying.

And so it is it was typified by this act.

Your sins are out yonder in anonymity to you.

And you will never be charged with those things.

Again, they will never be identified with you.

Again, you won't have to answer for them in the day of judgment

either God forgets about them, they're out yonder, as we might

say, in, Never Never Land, never to be seen again.

And that's what this day of atonement was all about.

It was a figurative expression and a figurative or typical act,

which pointed toward the time in which we live right tonight.

You know, we talked about God seeing the end from the

beginning, that's the proof of it.

He realized that he saw the time when his people in fact the Old

Testament said there would be a time God said when he would not

remember their sins and their iniquities but he would forgive

them and remember them against them.

No more. The day of atonement was a type

expressing that beautiful action.

Well so there was the animal that was sacrificed but under

the New Covenant, we don't sacrifice animals and Paul said

he wants our bodies to be a Living Sacrifice unto the Old

Testament. It was a dead sacrifice.

But under the new our bodies become a Living Sacrifice.

How does how does that work? Well, it's it goes back to the

same idea as Paul saying I've been crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me.

It is the idea of we crucify ourselves to sin and we turn our

backs upon that on that kind of thing.

Even though it may hold, you know, an interest forests and we

may have an affinity toward it. We turn our backs to ooh, that

And our bodies become a Living, Sacrifice every day.

We just put out all on the Altar and we sacrifice our wants and

our think souls and our ideas in order to put the Lord and his

church first. That's what it means to be a

Living Sacrifice. He said you do this, that it may

be holy acceptable, unto God, which is your reasonable service

and the word reasonable in the original language.

Ames rational or logical. In other words, it is no more

than fair to ask us to live that way considering what the Lord

has done for us. Jesus died for us.

Is it too much to ask that we live for in?

You see what I'm saying? You know.

The idea of putting the Lord first is a difficult thing, and

I'll try to get back to that before we're through with our

lesson. Let me say also that a Christian

is not only a new creature, but a Christian is also one who is a

disciple of Christ and there's one reads, the 11th chapter of

the book of Acts and verse 26. You will notice there that in

that passage Barnabas had brought Paul to Antioch.

And the scripture says for a whole year, they assembled

themselves with the church and taught much people have you ever

thought what this passage is really saying?

Do you realize that it is difficult to get people to

attend a week's meeting today? It difficult, in fact, just last

Lord's Day I heard of a congregation in California, so

don't be worried that it's Tennessee, but I heard of a

congregation in California who had a meeting booked with a

preacher for six years. And when the meeting time, came,

just one week. Would you believe there were two

families in that congregation that left that area and went to

Disneyland. The meetings been booked for six

years. How long does it take to change

it to change plans to go to Disneyland overnight?

At the most? And yet, Paul and Barnabas

assembled themselves with the church and for a whole year and

it is intimated or implied that every day they work diligently

teaching much people. You talk about dedication.

Were they put in the church ahead of themselves?

There's the proof of it, there's the proof of it and the Bible

says it was there that the name Christian came to be known

first. You think of the whole of the

dedication those Brethren showed in Acts 20 and 7, the bible

says, and upon the first day of the week, when the disciples

came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them ready to

depart on the morrow and continued his speech until

Morning. How can we become that

dedicated? How can it be that we could ever

become dedicated like those New Testament?

People want to let me get back to the point I started to make

while ago and got a little ahead of myself and Matthew, 16 and

24, Jesus said to his disciples If any man will come after me

let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me again,

an obscure passage and you had to think about this a little bit

to see what he is saying. Jesus is certainly not saying,

and I've actually been asked the question by a few people.

He's certainly not saying that if we obey the gospel, we've got

to pick up across and lug it around with us all the time, we

do better than that. And yet there is something that

we do that is likened to bearing our across.

What do you suppose that might be well?

Bearing, our cross is whatever it might be, that we have to put

away in order to put Christ. First It's not necessarily

something that's wrong that we're putting away, but if it

comes between us and our responsibility to the Lord, that

comes second or third or fourth, or somewhere else down the line,

and the Lord and the church come first, I wouldn't be surprised.

In fact, I'm pretty sure. That the doctrine of self loss,

that's what I choose to call it that the doctrine of self loss.

Is not the most difficult Doctrine, you'll ever have to

accept. Now, if Jesus had said deny

yourself certain things that would be pretty easy.

But he didn't say that. It's far more encompassing, it's

far greater. He said just deny yourself.

And so, whatever it might be in my life that I really want, but

it's going to infringe on my ability to live faithfully and

serve Faithfully. While I put that somewhere else

and it goes down the line as far as intentions go and as far as

importance goes and so that's the way that I carry my cross

and I do it every day. You know, just here, I remember

a story. And by the way, this is a true

story. And it literally tugged at the

strings of my heart, the moment I saw it.

In the area where I live, is a famous world, famous hospital

called Stanford. There's a great College there,

but there's also a hospital and they treat all sorts of diseases

and do all kinds of research and all that kind of thing.

Some years ago in the Bay Area, in the Stanford Hospital.

A young lady came in to be half some research done.

She was very very sick, but nobody seemed to know what it

was. And after running some tests or

remember, this is true. After running at some tests,

they came up with a diagnosis, and I don't recall what the name

of the disease was, doesn't matter, but it was almost always

fatal. Almost always. and they told her

her only chance would be if she could receive some antibodies.

Like a vaccination from someone who had had the disease and

survived it and their body had built up antibodies.

Talk about a stroke of luck. Because this girl, this little

girl had an older brother. Who had had the same disease as

it turns out and had miraculously survived it and was

healthy. And so the doctors consulted

with the parents, would they consent to the little fella

coming in? And perhaps giving a transfusion

of his blood to his, to his older sister.

Whose name was by the way, Lisa? And they said, well, if he's

willing we're willing and so the doctors brought the little

fellow in and they told him that this was a very serious

situation. And that his sister was probably

going to die, unless she received his blood because he

had the antibodies in his blood that could make her healthy

again. And would he consent, would he

consider giving his blood to his sister so that she might be

healthy again? The little fellow swallowed

deeply a time or two. And then said, yeah, I'll do it

if it'll help Lisa. The next day, the transfusion

was set up. They brought both young people

in on a gurney and set them up near each other, and the

transfusion began to take place the little fellow looked over at

his at his sister and was just Overjoyed to see the color begin

to return to her cheeks. As she received the transfusion.

And then his face got sober. and he looked up into the face of

the doctors and said, will I die right away?

You see he thought that he was going to have to die.

In order for his sister to live. But he unhesitatingly said,

sure, I'll do it if it'll help Lisa.

Now that's what you call dedication.

That's a true story. If you have a Congregation of

people who love each other, to the point that they would do,

that sort of service for one another.

You have a congregation that is fitly joined together. if we're

going to be fitly joined together, there is a

responsibility in the church for each of us.

All of us have a responsibility to promote unity in Ephesians

four. Verses 1 through 3.

Paul said I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you

that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you're called

with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing

one. Another in love.

Are you getting this endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit?

In the bond of Peace. We are fitly joined together

because we are well, we're working together in lowliness.

That means the idea of not considering ourselves better

than the other. But the other way around.

And meekness weaknesses. Interesting.

I think most of us really don't understand what meekness is all

about and sometimes a Meek person is thought to be a

coward. Not at all.

Meekness is the man who or the woman who has the ability to

strike back and perhaps even be be victorious.

But because of meekness, they choose not to do that.

They choose to allow somebody else to have the upper hand.

That's meekness has nothing to do with being a coward and a

Meek person shows some of the strongest characteristics that

you'll ever find anywhere and then long suffering.

If we're fitly joined together, we are joined together and we

are long-suffering with each other.

That is, we're not impatient with each other.

We're willing to give one another time to make some

changes and to heal, maybe from a disagreement that we might

have had. And Paul said, we forbearing one

another in love that is we put off any sort of, you know, any

sort of retaliation because we love those people.

And he said, then we Endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in

the bond of Peace, when you have that kind of peace.

There, there is created by that. Feeling a bond.

That you are loathe to break. It's so good.

It's so wonderful that you just won't hardly allow anything to

come along to ruin it. How can you do this?

Well quickly, we can do it by having a respect for the Bible,

in 2nd, Timothy 3:16 and 17. Paul said, and here's one other

one of those plain passages that we hear all the time and is

seldom really understood. Paul said, all scripture is

given by inspiration of God and is profitable.

For Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction.

In righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect thoroughly

furnished unto all good works. Want you to notice quickly these

words that Paul uses, he says it is profitable the word of God,

Scripture. That's what you know, scripture

is what you write down. And that's what this book is

that which is written down. And Paul said all scripture

everything that's written down in the word of God is given by

inspiration and he says it is profitable for for Doctrine,

Look up the word Doctrine, if you'd like in a Bible

dictionary, you'll find it simply means that which is to be

taught And so there is nothing better to teach than the

doctrine of Christ. The doctrine of God, use the

Bible. I remember a story.

A true story. We're at the time.

One of our younger preacher, not young anymore but was young at

the time he had held a meeting at a place and in those days

meetings ran two weeks, three Lords days and about 26 sermons

and they wanted him back the next year.

And this young man was just in a dither because he didn't have

enough sermons to go back the next year.

And he went to Brother who marry gay and he told him said, what

am I going to preach brother gay?

When I go back there next year. Brother gay said just preach the

Bible, just preach the Bible. That's that's all you need to

preach. That's what you.

That's what you ought to be preachy.

And certainly that's right. So Doctrine, is that which is

profitable to be taught and then Paul said it is also profitable

for reproof. And this word reproof here in

the original literally means it is able to convict us.

That which is given in the word of God, May convict us.

Now, let me illustrate how that works, if I fall away from the

truth. The doctrine that is profitable

to be taught that same Doctrine is also profitable to convict me

of my sin. And then that same Doctrine is

also profitable. To correct me and the word

correction in the original means to restore to an upright state.

So the same doctrine that is profitable to be taught may also

convict me and then it may help me to rise back to an upright

State. And then finally, Paul said it

is profitable for instruction in righteousness in order that I

don't make the same mistake again that same doctrine, that

is profitable for all of those other things.

Is possible now to keep me going in the right way or wonderful

passage. What a wonderful passage.

See if we have a proper respect for the scriptures.

No wonder. Paul said it is Thoroughly

furnished. That is we can be thoroughly

furnished unto all good works in First Corinthians 1 and 10.

Paul said, now I beseech you Brethren by the name of our Lord

Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be

no divisions among you. But that you be perfectly joined

together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

In other words, we're not to just be going off at every

direction and disagreeing with each other over things that

really don't matter. In fact, listen to what he wrote

to Titus in Titus 3 and 9 he said but avoid foolish

questions. You mean there's a foolish

question? Yeah, there's foolish questions

and if you think about it, it could only be one thing.

Foolish questions would have to be anything that is not germane

to Salvation. If it hasn't got anything to do

with, you going to heaven brother, it's not worth fighting

about you, realize that it doesn't matter enough to

disagree and cause trouble and have hard feelings.

If, if it's not going to keep somebody from going to heaven,

Paul said, you avoid foolish questions and genealogies.

Now we don't have that problem today but in Paul's day, the

Jews, oh they'd get around and argue.

And they would try to trace their genealogical line back to

Abraham and brother if they could, that was a big Plus on

their side. Paul said, forget all of that.

Why would he say that? Well, because it didn't matter

anymore. Whether you came from Abraham or

wherever y because Christ is all and in all and everything to

everyone. Now it no longer matters about

the law. The law has been fulfilled in

Jesus, nailed to the cross. Paul said in the colossian

letter. So forget about all of those

things and contentions he said and strivings about the law, Oh,

they love to get together and argue about the law of Moses.

Why? It didn't even apply to them

anymore. That was some of those foolish

questions that Paul is talking about and Paul said they are

unprofitable and vain it, there's no benefit to it.

And I've often wondered why that some insist on inducing and

introducing things either by their lives, or by their private

studies or teachings, which are just likely to cause Strife.

I had a phone call today. In fact, about that very thing

in another part of the United States.

Why do people want to do that? I do, I just don't understand

it. People like that will cause a

congregation to not be fitly joined together.

Well, I could go on and on we can help by supporting the work

of the church and, you know, I think every congregation needs

to have a reason to be there other than just worshiping.

I think one of the greatest things that ever happened to the

church where I live. Early on in the work.

When I started that we started out with 13 people and early on

in that work, the work and the Philippines began to kind of

evolve and it looked like it was going to go and Our People, by

that time we probably had 25 but our people got together and we

made a commitment to see that that work went forward.

We agreed to back, it come, what may?

As long as those rather than over there were trying to do

right and live right? We would back it.

They would send me over there once a year to help them and

encourage them. And so for 25 years now we've

continued to do that. The work has grown and it is

progress in wonderful ways. But I think also, Oh, it has

been tremendously. Good and profitable for the

church at home because it's given the breadth and at home, a

reason to feel needed. Their contribution.

They know when they give is going to be used for a

profitable thing. It's not just going to sit in

the bank account somewhere, but it's going to be used to preach

the gospel. In fact, one of the proudest

moments of my life, if you'll pardon me using that term, Well,

some years ago, when our Treasurer got up before us in a

business meeting and gave an account of the financial affairs

of our congregation. And and said, when you expect,

when you figure it all out, here's the money that came in.

Here's the money that went out and he said of the money that

came in Ninety-seven percent of all of our expenditures.

Went directly to preach the gospel.

The other three percent paid the utilities, and that sort of

thing. 97% that made me feel good.

And that continues to be the case, perhaps not in those same

rationales, but that continues to be the case even today.

And it's been so good for the breath.

If you, if you have a work that you all are involved in here,

you know what I'm talking about. We can also help this be the

case by maintaining the purity of the church, because Christ

died to make it pure, according to a fish.

Asians 5 verses 25 and 26. It's up to us to maintain the

church. It's not going to happen by

accident. If you want the church here in

this place to be a fitly joined together.

Well it's going to take some work.

And I'll leave this passage with you tonight in Philippians 1:27.

Philippians 1:27

Paul said, only let your conversation, there's that old

Elizabethan term. Again meaning manner of Life,

only let your conversation be as it becometh, the gospel of

Christ, the word becometh there. And the original means as is

worthy of the gospel of Christ. Be careful that whatever you do

and whatever you were involved in be careful.

It is worthy of a Christian. Don't, you know don't negate and

don't lessen. The value of your influence on

the World by living in such a way that it is not worthy of the

gospel of Christ that it's not worthy of a Christian.

Well just think on these things these are some things that we

can be involved in if the church is must be involved in if the

church is to be fitly joined together.

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