Sermon
1 Corinthians 12 - We Need Each Other's Gifts (Radio Edit)
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Hello, this is Kevin Abraham, operations manager for Grace FM.
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We're stepping away from our regularly scheduled programming
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for an important message from Pastor Clock Loafer and Pastor
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Lewis Harrell. Please stay tuned for a re air
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of this past Sunday's message from Calvary Chapel,
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Westmoreland. It has been edited for time
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constraints. The full message can be heard in
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its entirety on YouTube at youtube.com back slash CCW
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online. The normal program that airs at
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this time, Living Waters of Grace will still be airing at
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7:30 in the morning, 12:00 PM and 2:00 AM and the programming
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that airs at 5:30 PM. Normally Pastor Ed Taylor
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abounding grace, he can be heard at 4:30 in the morning still
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weekdays. Without further delay, here is
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our special programming. I'd like to read from Psalm 46.
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God is our refuge and strength have very present help and
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trouble. Therefore we will not fear.
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Even though the earth be removed, and though the
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mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its
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waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with
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its swelling, there is a river whose streams shall make glad.
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The city of God, the holy place of the Tabernacle.
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The Most High God is in the midst of her.
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She shall not be moved. God shall help her.
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Just at the break of dawn, the nation's rage, the kingdoms
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removed, He uttered his voice. The earth melted.
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The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
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Come, behold the works of the Lord who has made desolations in
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the earth. He makes wars cease to the end
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of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the
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spear in two. He burns a chariot in the fire.
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Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the
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nations. I will be exalted in the earth.
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The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
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Amen. Let's pray, Father God, this is
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a very, very, very special Sunday for your bride all over
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the earth, Lord, where believers are gathering together in Jesus
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name and pastors are asking you to anoint them and pour through
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them that they might bring hope and comfort and peace in the
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midst of so many different kind of emotions of fear, anxiety,
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anger, whatever it is, Lord, that we are struggling with.
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We lay all these things before you today.
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As Erica said in her testimony the other night, Charlie's wife
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that she doesn't understand any of this, but she says you do,
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Lord, you know, you understand, you know why it was Charlie's
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time to commend your presence. And Lord, we're all grieving as
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a soldier, as a martyr, left this world doing the best she
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could. Not a perfect guy.
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He made mistakes like we all do. Lord, he said things that I'm
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sure at times He said, why did I say it that way?
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And the same with me or Lewis or anybody else that proclaims
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messages in the church and the Word of God.
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Sometimes the way we say things aren't really the way we want to
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say them from our heart that has come out wrong and then people
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are offended or they don't understand.
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I pray, Lord, there would be no offense today and what it is we
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do here. First of all, what really
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matters is you and that we do exactly what you want us to do
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today in this service, to share your word, to talk about things,
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to listen. And Lord, the only side we want
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to be on is your side Lord. So Lord, fill us with your
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spirit today and have your way in all of us.
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We pray in Jesus name, Amen. So I wanted to thank you for
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coming today, those of you who are here in the building
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personally and those who are watching on YouTube and
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listening on Grace FM. We stream these services live.
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So it's a blessing. We're glad you're here.
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I'm encouraged to see you here. We need each other and we'll
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talk about that a little bit in First Corinthians 12, how every
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part of Christ's body is important and how we comfort and
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strengthen each other through the different gifts that He
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gives us. This past week unbelievable
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emotions. I was working out in Doylestown,
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PA and and my phone started blowing up with Texas.
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I was wondering what's going on something serious must have
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happened. And then I my daughter Jessica
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told me that Charlie was shot. I I couldn't believe it.
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Immediately I went to prayer and asked the Lord for mercy and
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healing and that He would be able to still be with us.
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And shortly after that, it was documented that he didn't make
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it. He died and he went into the
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presence of our Lord Jesus. The sadness, the pain of our
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hearts is beyond understanding. A lot of people have confusion.
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A lot of Christians have confusion.
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They're asking how could this happen?
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Why did it happen? But Erica's testimony, if you
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didn't see it the other night, we did send it out by e-mail to
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all of the people that are on constant contact with Calvary
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Chapel. So it's another good reason to
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sign up. So you do get feedback from the
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pastors. How are we processing this?
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How are we dealing with it? And she knows God's sovereign,
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and she proclaimed that it was his time.
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And the things she said in that time with her testimony were
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overwhelmingly anointed by the Spirit of God, the presence of
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God, the truth of God, the glory of God, the power of God, the
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grace of God, and the goodness of God in the midst of something
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that is just hard to grasp. So if you haven't seen that
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testimony, look it up online. If you want our constant
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contact, sign up for it and you'll you'll get information on
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how we deal with these things. Turning Point.
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I didn't know a whole lot about it because I'm an old guy.
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I'm not like on college campuses interacting with thousands and
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thousands of young people, but that's what Charlie did.
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He had a vision when he was a young man, 16 years old, talking
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about what he wanted to do and how he wanted to be used by God
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to get this current generation on board with biblical Christian
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thinking and morality. And I don't have to tell you, if
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you read the news and you're familiar with Columbia and some
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of these other colleges that are refuting the truth of Jesus
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Christ and also the reason why the United States of America was
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founded, you'll understand why this man, his ministry was so
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dynamic. The impact of Turning Point 9000
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chapters on college campuses as we speak today. 1100 high school
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chartered groups. The last several days, 18,000
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people signed up on the website to get involved and starting
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chapters in their communities. Norman High School has a small
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one. It's fledgling.
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It needs help and it needs prayer.
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Greensburg Salem has nothing. Lake Trobe has nothing.
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Ligonier has a small group. Penn Trafford has a small group,
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but they're small at this point in time.
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But I believe, as Erica said, the enemy has no idea what he's
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unleashed and what's going to happen in the body of Christ as
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a result of this death. The Bible says a corner wheat
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has to fall underground and die, abide alone in order for it to
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come forth and bring forth fruit.
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And there's so much fruit already beginning to be brought
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up. It's interesting, as I did more
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investigation, that the affiliation with Charlie Kirk
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and Turning Point started at Calvary Chapel.
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Rob McCoy, who's a pastor emeritus, he just resigned this
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past year because he's been so busy as a vice chairman of
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Turning Point. And now with Charlie gone, he's
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got a lot of weight on his shoulders to be able with Erica
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and the rest of the group to continue this ministry on.
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But he discipled Charlie and encouraged him that Christian
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doctrine, the morals go hand in hand.
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They're not mutually exclusive. The Apostle Paul, who was
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eventually martyred, was not afraid to go out on the streets
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and share the clarity of the Gospel with people.
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Because of that, he was put in prison.
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He was beaten. The Roman Empire hated his guts
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and they wanted to silence him, but he wouldn't shut up.
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And eventually he used the law in order to help the authorities
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understand that they were breaking the law by beating him.
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And when they found out that he was a citizen, they backed off.
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You need to know your rights as citizens in the United States of
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America. Someone called me last night
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troubled over this whole incident and they're being
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refined right now in their life spiritually and they feel like
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Jesus has left them because of their sins and things they've
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committed. And recently this person has
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just come clean with God and said I'm done with my immoral
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ways and I'm going to just completely surrender my life to
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Christ. Please pray for me.
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He said that I would be able to do this without failing and
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falling back. And he said, pastor, can I ask
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you a question? And I said absolutely.
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He said, do you think that the church in America has been very
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weak in regard to their convictions biblically about
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where our culture is and our society morally?
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I said absolutely. I remember when COVID happened
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and this room is empty and we were speaking into the camera is
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very difficult. And Lewis had to remind me,
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pastor, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are here.
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He preached because of the Holy Trinity and honoring God,
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regardless of who's here, who listens whenever 911 happened.
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And it's ironic that this past week, week, remember 911 and a
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lot of you and the audience weren't even born at that time.
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You need to understand history because already people are
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putting things on the media saying it never happened.
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It's hard to believe, and that's what happens with godless
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ideologies. I was in Philly at past Pastor
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Mark Abrams and I got together in the morning of that day
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before things had happened, encourage each other and we were
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witnessing together to a young waitress who has all kind of
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problems and needs the Lord. So he made arrangements to
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provide Christmas gifts for her kids.
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God bless you at Christmas time. And she was just blown away.
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Why would anybody do that? And he wants her to come to the
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church. He invited her to come to the
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church. So I was buying the meal and I
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figured I'm going to blow this lady's mind.
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Not that I'm wealthy or anything, but I figured I'll set
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it up for Mark. And I whispered to him.
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I gave her $100 tip. I don't think she got any $100
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tips in a long time. But we need to show the love of
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Jesus wherever we go. However, we can do it one person
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at a time. I was in the elevator and I saw
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a young guy, probably in his late 20s.
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He just worked out. I said, did you hear the bad
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news today? He said what?
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I said Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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He said what? I said, yeah.
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He said, you're kidding me. I said no.
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He says, I listen to that guy all the time, and many of you
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young people are really broken because he was your voice for
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reason. In the midst of schools that are
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denying the existence of God. I met a young lady yesterday,
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7th grader, excuse me, Norman High School.
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Her mom told me that every day she would get home from school
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and turn the podcast on and listen to Charlie.
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And I asked this young girl, her name's Paige.
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I said, how did you find that? She says, I don't know.
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I was just Googling and I one day found it and all of a sudden
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I couldn't stop listening. And he, he changed the way I
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think I, I read my Bible now. I want to be a moral young
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woman. I want to be a virgin, complete
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opposite to what the society says.
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And I said what you what's your homeroom?
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I asked her a little bit about the the school and turns out my
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my grandson Gabriel is in her homeroom.
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And my daughter Melanie told me that Gabriel this last year
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decided he wanted to start reading the Bible on his own.
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So he's reading through the Old Testament and in his side of his
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helmet he has Bible verses. I mean, there's something
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happening in and outside the church.
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I said that a young man in the elevator.
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It's up to you and your generation to carry on the
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message of Charlie. I sent an e-mail to Rob to find
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out how we can be of some assistance in our place where we
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are. We have a radio station that's
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amazing that can reach people. We put an announcement on there
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when Charlie was murdered to ask the listeners to pray for him
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and for us so that we would be able to continue the dialogue.
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Not with hate, not with division, but with love and
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grace. Paige told me that she met a
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young girl at the junior high dance that thought the same way
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she did. And so these two 7th graders are
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trying to work together to get their school involved with
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Turning Point. Today, all of us here at Calvary
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Chapel, we have a young woman here who's helping us with
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social media along with Kevin and others, and we put out on
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Facebook Erica's message so that the community would hear it and
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get to see it and listen to it. It changed my life.
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I wept through it with Cindy as we watched it and it.
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This really impacted me deeply. We have the opportunity as
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Christians to speak up like we've never spoken before.
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Lewis and I have never compromised the gospel.
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We preach the whole gospel that abortion is sin, sexual
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immorality is sin. All the things that go along
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with sexual immorality that we've all been involved in in at
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one time or another. Maybe presently, I don't know
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where everybody's at right now, but we need to repent and turn
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from everything that is against the will of God and the holiness
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of God. No exceptions.
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We must turn to God, we must turn to Jesus, but we're going
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to be in hell for all eternity. Jesus said the road that leads
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the night, life is narrow and few there are find it.
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And being a Christian in these days is not an easy thing.
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But boy, it's sure a lot easier. And being a Christian in the
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Sudan where if they catch you reading your Bible, you will be
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killed in some of these countries that have no freedom
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of anything. And we have liberty in our
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country because of people who are out there fighting for our
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liberty. And we as churches have to
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proclaim that the freedom that we all desire comes in Jesus
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alone, where Jesus says you shall know the truth and the
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truth shall make you free. At the end of our prayer time
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today, I'm going to have an opportunity for us to come and
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pray up front. If you've never met Jesus, the
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days to come and meet him and start a new life and get on the
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path of liberty by confessing your sins to him, repenting and
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asking him to save you and he will for others who may be or
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5050 right now in your faith with the Lord and your
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commitment today, commit to him to be 100 percent, 100% with
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Jesus. There'll be prayer people here
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to help you pray. Intercessors that spend their
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life at Calvary behind the scenes, praying for the Lord to
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work. They'll be up here to pray too.
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Pastor Lewis will be up front to help as well.
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And when you come and pray later, you can think about this
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as I have a brief message today. So we have time to pray to ask
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God for what he wants in your life right now.
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Don't worry about yesterday, what it should have could have
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that's done. Lord, from this day forward,
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what do you want in my life? Ask God for understanding.
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Ask Him for the grace to yield and surrender whatever you know
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you need to give to Jesus. Pray for Turning Point, Pray for
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the Kirk family. Pray for the body of Christ all
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over the country right now in the world.
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Pray for Bible churches everywhere.
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Pray for your families, your kids, and your grandkids to get
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on fire for Jesus. Use these connect cards to
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invite people to Calvary. I was in Philly working.
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They, they're not going to drive here.
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I know I go to Calvary Philly, but they can go on here and hit
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our QR code and watch our messages and hear what we
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believe and how we live our faith out together as a family.
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But it's fun now because I go through Starbucks and every time
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I go through Starbucks, guess what?
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They're getting one and I'm going to make sure I give them a
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tip though when I put that card in.
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You don't give these people things.
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If you don't tip them, they're going to throw it away.
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Went to the car wash and have a relationship with them for years
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and young lady worked so hard there.
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I gave her one. I said, hey, Chuck us out.
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It's very easy to do after church today and this week
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should you need to talk personally with pastor, get a
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hold of us and we're there for you to listen and to pray with
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you. So let's look at First
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Corinthians 12 for a few moments.
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This is on spiritual gifts and spiritual gifts are critical.
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We need them more than ever because if you use your gift,
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whatever that might be in this church and in your sphere of
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influence in your workplace, God will use you to impact people
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for Jesus. They're supernatural gifts that
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God gives to you. And we're to desire spiritual
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gifts and we encourage you to pursue and to find out what it
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is that your gift might be and to help you function in that
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gift, give you an opportunity to use that gift in the church.
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The human body is made-up of the head and everything else after
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that. And the head is the most
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important thing because without the head you can't live, you
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can't think, you can't breathe, you can't.
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And the reason why the head is designed to be so important is
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it reflects the head of the church, Jesus Christ, because we
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can't function or flow apart from his enablement as the head
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of the Church of all churches. Any place where people are
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getting together today in Jesus name and believe in the death,
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the resurrection, the crucifixion, the shed blood and
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the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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Our brothers and sisters doesn't matter what the name of the
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church is and that they're departing from sin.
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They're fleeing from sin. They're endeavoring to live a
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life that's pleasing to God, not living in secret sin or double
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lives coming clean with God. So there's unity in one body.
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I'm going to read the verses and then this make a general
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comment. Verse 12.
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For as the body is 1 and has many members, but all the
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members of that one body being many or one body, so also is
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Christ. For by 1 spirit are we all
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baptized into the body, whether Jews are Greek, whether slaves
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are free, and have all been made to drink into the one spirit.
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For in fact the body is not one member but many.
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The Holy Spirit comes into your life the second you believe on
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Jesus and get born again. You are placed supernaturally by
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the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, which is made-up of
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Protestants, Orthodox, Catholic. Doesn't matter if they're born
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again, they're in the Church, one Church.
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One day Jesus, when he comes and establishes his Kingdom, he'll
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be the speaker. Won't you be glad there'll be no
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mistakes. Everything that will be said
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will build you up and never tear you down.
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One body. I'll never forget when I got
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saved, I, I didn't understand everything that happened in my
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bedroom at that time when I was 20 years old, but I knew someone
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was living in me that wasn't living there before.
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And that person was God, the Holy Spirit.
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He was telling me where to go, what not to do.
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And I, what do you mean I can't do that anymore?
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I, I couldn't understand right away and I still try to test it.
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Can I still do that? And there's no big deal.
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And then I, as I get older, I realized there's a big deal when
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you try to get in the way of the Holy Spirit, you quench him, you
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grieve him, your life becomes a disaster.
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But anyway, that is the baptism that you need to be a Christian
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where you get born again and immediately he puts you in his
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body as a believer, part of his church, and you have the Holy
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Spirit in you to live. There's a another baptism, the
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baptism of the believer after they get saved.
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Water baptism, Jesus said go into all the world, preach the
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gospel to every living creature, teaching them to observe all
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things whatsoever. I've commanded you baptizing
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them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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If you haven't been baptized yet or you got baptized, you had no
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idea why you got baptized. I got baptized as a baby.
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Initially I had no clue why. I was probably like, why is that
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weird guy putting that rose with that water in my head?
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You know, I couldn't talk, but I I'm sure I didn't like it,
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right? He's cold.
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My pool is 86°, so you're welcome.
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Saturday coming up, text me. Talk to me in a way out.
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I want to get baptized. That's your first step of
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obedience and following Jesus. Amen.
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Don't feel bad if you say I got saved, but I never got baptized.
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No problem. Get baptized this Sunday.
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It's the last Sunday. We'll have that.
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The pool's going to be open to do this. 10:00 One woman is
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going to get baptized. Lydia, Where is Lydia?
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Is she here today? Lydia Eichelberger's not here
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today. She says, God, my whole family
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wants to come and says there's not a lot of parking.
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I said don't worry, we'll figure it out.
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We'll put the cars up and down the street.
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I used to work as a party parking lot attendant, so I know
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how to direct cars. If the foot should say because
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I'm not a hand, I'm not at the body, it is therefore not of the
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body, question mark. And if the ear should say
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because I'm not an eye, I'm not of the body, is it therefore not
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of the body? If the whole body were an eye,
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where would I be? Where would the hearing be?
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If the whole we're hearing, where would be the smelling?
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Aren't you glad you can smell and taste?
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I can't imagine eating food if you couldn't taste it or smell
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it. That's the best part.
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Smelling is really important. But now God has set the members,
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each one of them, in the body just as He's pleased.
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And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
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So we're all different, right? But not more important or less
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important than one another. But now, indeed, there are many
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members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the
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hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I
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have no need of you. No, much rather, those members
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of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary, and those
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members of the body which we think are less honorable.
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On these we bestow greater honor, and on our unpresentable
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parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no
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need. But God composed the body,
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having given greater honor to the part which lacks it.
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That's how the Lord is. If you feel insignificant from
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God's vantage point, you're never insignificant.
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You're just as important and critical as you think.
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The person that's up front talking or whoever's doing the
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missions or Charlie or anybody else, No one is like, there's no
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like hierarchy in the body of Christ.
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We're all one together in Jesus. And your spiritual gifts feed me
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and I trust mine feeds you and bless you.
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But God composed the body having giving greater honor to that
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part which lacks it, that there should be no schism or division
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in the body, but the members should have the same care for
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one another. And we're going to be going into
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first Corinthians 13 next week, love chapter.
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Don't miss it, watch it and embrace it because you don't
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have a right not to forgive anybody.
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You definitely don't have a right to not love anybody or
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love everybody. And we got to love each other as
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a body of Christ deeply because that's what causes people to
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know we belong to him. Hey, I know they're a Christian.
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How can you tell? Because they love each other.
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Jesus said. That's what the people say.
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And if we got to go out in the streets and deal with
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transgenderism and all these weird ideologies and all this
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stuff that makes your head go sideways, you can't reject
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people. You can't ignore them.
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You need to love them. And if you can't love them, you
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can say, Lord, work on my heart and don't let me open my mouth
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until there's love coming out because given the gospel without
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love is not going to work. Lord, help us to love each other
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in this church. Help us to not get hung up on
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small stuff, don't let us get offended and get mad and stupid
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stuff and we all of a sudden don't want to go to church
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anymore because someone did something we didn't like.
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I mean, if, if Jesus like had that kind of mindset the first
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day he was on the earth and his ministry's like Godfather, I'm
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coming home. These people are waste.
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They're never listening. I'm not I don't want to be
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around them. But he didn't.
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He hung out with all of us and still does, no matter what or
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stupid stuff. Now you are all the body of
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Christ and members individually and God has appointed these in
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the church. First apostles, second prophets,
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third teachers After that miracles and gifts of healing
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helps administration's variety in tongues.
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Are all apostles? No Are all prophets?
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No Are all teachers? No Are all workers of miracles?
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No. Do all have gifts of healing?
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No. Do all speak with tongues?
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No. Do all interpret?
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No, but earnestly, these are the best gifts and I will show you a
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more excellent way. Amen.
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So we're going to watch a short video, turn out the lights.
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Soon as the lights come back on, start coming forward and Pastor
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Lewis will come up with some of the deacons and anybody that is
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an intercessor, prayer warrior, whatever, come forward.
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And we're just going to spend 10 minutes or so in the presence of
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the Lord. Gina and the team will lead us
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in worship. OK.
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And and then we'll we'll see what the Lord does in our
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hearts. You need a miracle today.
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Well, God's here and he, he wants to do some miracles in all
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of our lives. There's nothing he can't do.
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There's nothing he isn't willing to do.
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If you're being called into ministry, don't say, well, maybe
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like I did, like, well, Lord, you called me when I was 20.
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I didn't get involved until I was 44.
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I fought it. I didn't want to do it, but
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that's me. If you're 202530351015 and you
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feel God's calling you to serve him as a pastor, as a
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missionary, as a pastor's wife, as someone in a worship team,
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sound team, whatever things we got going on here, get involved.
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Don't waste time, right? Charlie, I'm sure is glad he got
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into it and he went into the presence of 31 hearing well
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done, good and faithful servant, right?
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Enter into the joy of the Lord. Time's short.
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We got to get active, we got to get busy.
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We got to be ready. This is a Church of grace, not
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guilt, not judgement, but the work of the Holy Spirit in each
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of your lives. And I'm so thankful, as is
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Pastor Lewis. Come on up here, pastor, to be
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able to do ministry with you guys.
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We don't do it to you. We do it with you.
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And I'm going to ask pastor to close us in the Lord's Supper.
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And and then it's such a blessing having him with me and
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hit me with him. We're Lewis and Clark and I, and
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I bet you ought to Google how many churches have a white and
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an African American pastor working together.
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I don't think there's any. So, you know, we need to get
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this out on Facebook too, right? Brenda?
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Let everybody know that that we want people of color in this
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place, all color, Indian, black, white, green, yellow, whatever
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they are. That's our prayer for the power
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of the Holy Spirit to bring revival to the city.
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So Pastor God take over. And we look so much alike.
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People confuse us. I pray that God honors
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everything that He heard today. I pray that your hearts have
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been softened today by the things that you've heard and the
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things that you've seen. We had the presence of God here
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today, and it's amazing. Growing up, I thought the
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presence of God was the emotion. I thought the presence of God
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was the noise and the hoopla and the noise.
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But the presence of God is the rendering of the hearts, isn't
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it? When He gets into your heart and
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He begins to reveal things to you, when He gets into your
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heart and He begins to show you the things that actually brings
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you to tears, it's a blessing to be in the presence of the Lord
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and to know it. And He said very clearly, it's
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by love, one for another. When I watched each other
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praying for one another, not for yourselves, but for one another,
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that's love. You set your own agenda aside
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for a minute to be able to pray for someone else's concerns,
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that's love. That's the power and the
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presence of God. And we thank God to be able to
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experience that this morning. The awesome Savior that we have
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who actually came to sacrifice himself in the hands of mere men
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that He himself created. The minds that He created, the
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wheels that He created. Men who would look at him and
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spit on him and say all manner of things about him that were
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evil, yet He came to die for them.
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The example that He has left for us to love beyond circumstance,
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not in circumstance beyond it, is the example that He leaves
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for us. It's not easy, but it is of God.
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I can dislike what you say, and it could hurt me to my heart,
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but if I make a decision to love you above and beyond that, I
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will choose to love you the way He chose to love us in spite of
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us, not because of us, in spite of us.
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So He brings this example to earth, and he walks out the
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gospel, he walks out the commandments of God in leather
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and shoe leather. He demonstrates the
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righteousness of God in the presence of mere men.
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And in doing so, He brought it, brought anger in the hearts of
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those who hated Him and who hated righteousness.
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So don't think that we are not going to be hated.
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He told us we're going to be hated, but they hated Him first.
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But we thank Him for the example.
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We thank Him for the sacrifice. He didn't have to do it, but He
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did it. That he would be the just and
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the justifier of all those who put their faith in Jesus.
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And that's the gospel, because we're sinners and none of us
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deserve eternal life. We are sinners and none of us
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deserve his grace. And we couldn't keep the law
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that He gave for us, But because he loved us, He sent his Son
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Jesus Christ to die on that cross for us who took on our
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sins. He gave us.
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He gave us his righteousness, and he took our sins.
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That's the great exchange. And because of that, we are here
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today with the hope of eternal life in Jesus Christ.
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And so that's what we remember today as we take the table.
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So it was in the night in which Jesus was betrayed that he took
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the bread. And after he gave thanks, he
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broke it. And he said, take and eat.
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This is my body which was broken for you for the sins that you've
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committed. It was broken because I am the
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propitiation for your sins. It was broken for you.
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Eat this in remembrance of me. In the same manner He also took
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the cup, and after supper he looked at his disciples, his
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apostles, and he said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
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Every covenant is cut with blood, and this is the blood
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that I shed for this covenant. Drink this and as often as you
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drink it, drinking in remembrance of me.
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, we
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remember the Lord's death until he come.
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Amen. The Lord bless you.
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Thank you for joining us today for this timely message from
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Pastor Clock and Pastor Lewis. For those who miss Living Waters
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of Grace today at 5:00 PM. You can listen to Living Waters
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of Grace at 7:30 in the morning, 12:00 PM, and at 2:00 AM.
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And for those who are looking for a bounding grace with Pastor
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Ed Taylor, Pastor Ed Taylor's message can be heard on Grace FM
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weekdays at 4:30 AM as well. Also, for those who did not
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know, Pastor Ed Taylor will be in the area October 17th through
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October 19th for a men's conference.
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That men's conference is called by My Spirit and it's being
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hosted by Calvary Chapel South Pittsburgh.
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For more information about this conference, you can go to
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calvaryspit.com. Again, For more information
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about the conference, including to sign up, go to
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calvaryspit.com. We thank you for joining us
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today for this timely message from Pastor Clock and Pastor
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Lewis. May you be blessed.
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And if you're looking for the full message, you can go to
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youtube.com, back slash, CCW online, or you can find the
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message posted on our Facebook page at Calvary Chapel of
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Westmoreland County to search that on Facebook.
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Calvary Chapel Westmoreland would love to have you come join
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us for services. Our service times are at 10:30
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in the morning on Sundays and Wednesdays at 6:30 PM.
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We are located in the Greensburg Shopping Plaza and our address
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is 400 E Pittsburgh St. Ste. 6B.
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If after hearing this message, you would like to have more
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information about joining Turning Point USA or more
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information about what they do and what they represent, you can
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reach out to me directly by e-mail.
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My e-mail address is [email protected].
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Again, my e-mail address is [email protected].