Sermon
The Architect - Find Your Fit
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Last week we talked about the assembly.
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Today we're going to talk about the architect.
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Amen. Turn over to Matthew, Chapter
Matthew 16 chapter mention
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16. Can y'all understand me?
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OK, I think I sound like. Yeah, I'm trying to think of his
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name now. Johnson's Darth Vader.
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That's funny. Robert Kennedy Junior, right?
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Yeah, I feel like I'm not. Have you noticed that?
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I understand. I understand him better now.
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At first it was like really difficult, but now I've gotten
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used to his voice. So I'm Robert Kennedy junior
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today turn over to Matthew chapter 16.
Matthew 16 chapter mention
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We'll start in verse 16. Simon Peter answered, you are
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the Christ, the son of the living God and Jesus said to
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him, blessed are you Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood
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did not reveal this to you, but my father who was in heaven.
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And also I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I
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will build my church. And the gates of hell, hell or
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Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the
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Kingdom of heaven. And whatever you bind on earth
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shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
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shall have been loosed in heaven.
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Hallelujah. Aren't you glad that God built
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his church? He's building his church, man.
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It's so amazing. And so the church is very
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powerful thing. It is the most powerful thing on
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the planet. Unfortunately, I do believe that
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in many places it's become kind of institutionalized and has
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fallen off from its original intent.
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But we want to be in the original intent of what the Lord
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wanted to do in this particular passage.
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Obviously we started in verse 16 because he said you are the
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Christ, which is the King, the Messiah, the acknowledgement
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that Jesus is this king that was coming.
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And he said upon that revelation that I'm king, I'm going to
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build my church. So the kingdom's a big deal.
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Now, you know, when you get around some people, when you
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start talking Kingdom, they see it as a subject.
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And so, you know, although we talk about the Kingdom all the
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time, you know, it can sometimes seem like, you know, we're only
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staying on one subject, but the reality is the whole Bible's
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about the Kingdom. It's about a king, his Kingdom
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and his royal offspring, and all the subjects are connected to
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that. And so the Christ came and he's
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going to build his church and it says the gates of hell will not
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overpower it. So the one that he's building
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the gates of hell will not overpower it.
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Now, that doesn't mean that the gates of hell won't won't mount
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and attack against it. But you know as well as I do, no
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weapon formed against the church is going to prosper, Amen.
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So even though things attack His church, they won't prosper.
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They'll never take it out. Only way the church will be
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taken out is when Jesus comes back and pulls the church.
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That's the only way it'll be taken out of the earth, Amen.
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And when you function in the church, then you're given the
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keys of the Kingdom. Notice that when he builds his
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church, he says, now I'll give you keys of the Kingdom because
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the church was all about advancing the Kingdom in the
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earth. Amen.
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Now Psalms 127 verse one says this.
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Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who
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build it. And I don't know about you, but
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I don't want to be wasting my time.
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I don't want to waste my time. And you know, I've grown up in
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church my whole life. My mom when she got pregnant
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with my older sister, but don't tell my sister that she wants to
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act like she's younger than me, OK?
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But when she was going to give birth to my sister, she prayed
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and said, Lord, if you'll give me a healthy child, you know,
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I'll take them to church. Now.
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God wanted her to have healthy children.
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And so Kim was born healthy and and mom had just gotten born
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again not too long before that. And so she started going to
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church. And so you know, me and my
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sister grew up in church our whole lives.
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I remember one time I wasn't feeling great one day and I was
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going to stay home with my dad. My dad didn't really go to
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church, not till the end, but I was going to stay home and I'm
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was telling my mom I wasn't feeling well, but she knew that
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I felt good enough. I could have gone to church.
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So she said, Earl Wayne, Now listen, if you're going to stay
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home with your dad because you're not feeling good this
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morning, know this, this afternoon you're going to not be
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feeling good either. So don't even be out.
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Don't ask me to go outside and play.
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Well, you know, I got, I got healed pretty quick and I went
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to church that day because playing outside was more
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important than hanging out at home.
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Amen. The Bible in basic English says
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it this way. If the Lord is not helping the
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builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose.
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You know, through the years when I've been in different churches,
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you know, it's caused me to ask a lot of questions.
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You know, you want to be able to see His church function as he
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designed. And so you're always moving
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towards that. The fact that Jesus Christ is
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coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle, which means
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then there must be one that's going to unify, that's going to
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come together and walk in brotherly love, that's going to
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be passionate about their fit in the church and do it.
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And there'll be no competition, only we'll only be complementing
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each other. Amen.
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The Good News Bible says it this way.
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If the Lord does not build the house, the work of the builders
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is useless. And the New Living Translation
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says it this way. Unless the Lord builds a house,
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the work of the builders is wasted.
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So we don't want to have wasted time again, You know, it's not
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that there's any, there's nothing wrong with someone
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putting, you know, a sign and saying who's the pastor of a
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church. I get that.
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I don't have a problem with that.
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But you know, we've always endeavored to make sure that we
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focus that this is not my church.
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You know, this is His church. I'm just pastoring and I'm just
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the apostle in this local body that's here in Saint Augustine
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and, you know, because I don't want to take credit for
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something that I'm not doing. Amen.
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Plus, you know, I'm just, I love the Lord and I'm fearful.
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I have a reverential fear of what he's doing.
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And you know, I'm always having to ask, how do you want to do
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this, Dad? What, what do you want to do?
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How do you want to do it? In this passage of Scripture
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between Matthew 16 and then also here in Psalms 127, we see that
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we're building something. And then the Matthew 16, when we
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take this Greek word, it's where we get this term architect, OK?
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So what's really powerful about this is that when God is
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building his church, he is the architect, OK?
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He's the one who's, in essence, drafting out how the thing's
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supposed to be built, OK? And the reason why this is
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really powerful is because he knows where things need to go,
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OK? And everything that's on the
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plans is very important. You know, let's put up the plans
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for JC Penney. We've just about finished the JC
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Penney part. It's really close.
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And all we have to do is deal with the what is it the current?
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We don't have that section build out yet.
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But when, when we put when we, you know, are sitting around
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talking to everyone, we're saying, what do you need?
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You know, we got, we got with a pastor Vanessa, when it came to
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the children's ministry or, you know, treasure hall preschool,
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what did you need? I mean, Brian and I had a
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phenomenal looking children's area only to have it moved
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because some of the functionality needed to be
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adjusted. It seemed to be seemed that we
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needed to move some rooms around to make things look a little
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better. OK.
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And then we were going to have our children's ministry in a
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particular area and we're like, man, if we have 1000 seat
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auditorium, which right now it's scaled at 1032 and we end up
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having kids, we we're going to need a much bigger children's
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facility. So you know, we had to end up
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taking up most of our storage that's there in JC Penney.
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And we're like, we're going to end up just having to build a
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warehouse so that we can put our store, our stuff in it.
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They'll get it up here in a minute.
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We'll, I'll keep going on. But the Lord, he is very
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detailed in how he builds a church.
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And we are very unique as individuals within his church.
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Before you and your mother's womb, God knew you.
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OK, OK, God knew you. OK, I'm going to probably walk
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over here a little bit. This section down here is our
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children's right here. And then you can see the
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sanctuary up there. And then this section over here
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is what we'll do. Nautilus.
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That's about 4000 square feet over here.
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This is some live classes. We'll be able to get about 7
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classrooms. There's for Kingdom Institute
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Faith Christian University and then our Egg Faith live classes
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offices are located there. This would be where the
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preschool will be at completely got a huge lobby area right here
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and then up there in that corner that we all we finished messing
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with yesterday, we were able to keep those particular walls and
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we'll be able to put bathrooms in that space.
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OK, so with that being said, man, God's doing some pretty
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awesome things. Now, again, what we want to do
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is we want to build the sanctuary 1st, and that's walls.
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And then just buying the nicer chairs than these because you'll
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sit and listen longer if you're in nice chairs.
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Hey man. So we'll get some really nice
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chairs there on the backside of the sanctuary.
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And then the top corners, those are risers.
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So they're going to actually go up.
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That way we can get 1032 seats in there.
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So that's pretty awesome. So we'll basically double in
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size and what we're in here. Amen.
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So this word, this word I'll build my church is where we get
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this. It comes from a compound Greek
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word of which has the the term architect in it.
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And what's interesting about this is that this word, when you
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break it down, it talks about building a building that is
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meant for public, for a public event.
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So what's important here is that a lot of times, and we've seen
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this through the years, you know, that we're like, we need
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that in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God
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and the word was God. OK, so God is the author of
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words and he has the right to define these words because
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through the years we have, you know, redefined words.
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We have because of culture, you know, it's we've kind of taken
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on our own thought processes by it, you know, and again, but
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when you actually start breaking these words down in their
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original language, then you realize there was some real
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intent concerning that. So when this word church is
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there, I'll build my church. He said.
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I'll build a building that is to be to have a public event.
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This is why even though the church itself is not the
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building, OK, but the church meets in a building.
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OK, Now there are a lot of people out there that have
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written stuff and and try to go back and say, well the original
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church was in homes when they were in homes until they outgrew
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the homes. OK, so again, God desires that
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none would perish, but that all would come to repentance.
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So God never intended for us to stay in the house, period.
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And so, you know, there's nothing wrong with you building
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a building and people collect upon the same place and a symbol
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for the purpose of honoring and worshipping the king.
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And this is what he meant by this when he said so he said
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we're going to build this thing. We're going to put the people in
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the place that I need them, but they're going to be in a
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building that they publicly come to.
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OK. So that's really important for
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us to recognize. Now this Greek word church is
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ecclesia or ecclesia, and it means legislative, assembly or
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selected ones. This is not a religious term at
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all, OK, But it's a government term that is used many times in
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the classical Greek for a group of people who have been summoned
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and gathered together to govern the affairs of a city.
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For Jesus to use this term means he is giving the keys of
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governmental authority in his Kingdom to the church.
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That's powerful. So again, we have a lot to say
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about what's going on in communities.
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We do when we are functioning as God intended us.
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Look what it says here in Zechariah chapter 6 verses 12 to
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13. This would gave us let's just
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see that the Lord's building something he prophesied.
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It says this then say to him, thus says the Lord of hosts,
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behold a man whose name is branch, for he will branch out
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from where he is, and he will build the temple of the Lord.
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Yes, it is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will
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bear the honor and the and sit and rule on his throne.
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Again, Thrones are in kingdoms, not religions.
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Thus he will be a priest on his throne, and the council of peace
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will be between the two offices. So Matthew Henry said this
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concerning this passage of scripture.
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He said he speaks by a sign or type which many saw and which as
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it was explained, was an illustration prediction of the
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Messiah as the priest and king of His church.
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So Jesus is the priest and king of His church.
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He is the ruler of the Church. And again, we we want to yield
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ourselves to listen to the Lord, because the Lord will place you
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in His body exactly where He wants you to be, because He
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knows why He designed how He designed you and what you are to
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accomplish in the earth. He's the only one.
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He is the Creator, and he can release all of your potential.
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Amen. Colossians chapter one, verse 13
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to 18 says it this way. For he rescued us from the
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domain of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of
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his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of
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sin. He is the image of the invisible
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God, the first born of all creation.
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For by Him all things were created both in the heavens and
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on earth, visible and invisible, whether Thrones or dominions or
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rulers or authorities. All things have been created
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through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in
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Him all things what hold together all right.
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He is also Head of the Body, which is the Church, and He is
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the beginning, the first born from the dead, so that He
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Himself will come to have first place in everything.
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So again, Jesus is the head of the body.
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So a finger cannot hang out with the head and not have the rest
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of the body around. Now, yes.
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Can you pray by yourself? Sure.
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Can you read the Word by yourself?
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But God never intended for us to be born again and then never be
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connected with any other believer while we were on the
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earth. So when people are saying, well,
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we don't need to go to church, you know, we don't have to go
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into a building, we don't need to do that.
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All that matters is that I've asked Jesus into my heart that
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and that he saved me. So when I die, I go to heaven.
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That is not scriptural at all. God never intended that.
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In fact, if you live that kind of existence, then what it is is
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you put yourself to be the one that's off and the wolf is going
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to be able to come and pull you and destroy you because you're
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alone. God always wanted you in the
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body. OK, so when Isaiah 9/6 and
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seven, you know this. A child will be born to us, a
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son will be given, and the government will rest on his
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shoulders, and his name will be called.
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Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
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There will be no end to the increase of his government or of
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peace on the throne of David or over his Kingdom, to establish
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it, to uphold it with justice and righteousness.
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From then on, forever more, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will
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accomplish this. It is it the church.
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It is at church that you learn the ways of righteousness.
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It is being connected to the body that you learn of the
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things of the Kingdom and how to function in the earth.
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And then it releases who you are, that which God created you
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to be. OK Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14
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says it this way. Therefore, since we have a great
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high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the
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Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
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So Jesus has done everything in the earth.
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He knows what we're going through.
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He knows the challenges that we have, and but yet he never
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sinned. So if anyone has the right or
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ability to help us overcome, it's the Lord.
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Because the Lord was tempted on all accounts to sin, but yet he
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did not sin. So that when we come together,
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what it does, it helps us maintain this new life in Christ
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so that when we are tempted, we are not overcome by the
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temptation, but we are to continue to grow up into the
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things of God. Second Corinthians chapter 6
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verse 16 says it this way. For we are the temple of the
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living God. God, just as God said, I will
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dwell in them and walk among them.
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I will be their God and they shall be my They'll be my
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people. Glory to God.
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Aren't you glad that you're the people of God?
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Man, I am so thankful that I am a people of God.
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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord again today.
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I'm just showing you that He's the builder.
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Again, I don't have the right to do what I want to do at Anchor
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Faith Church. I'm always having to ask the
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Lord, what do you want to do? How do you want to do this?
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What do you want to do? And in doing it, you know, we've
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we're doing what we're doing today because we just followed
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his voice. Amen.
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I'm Ephesians 218 to 22 says this.
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For through Him we both have our access in one spirit to the
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Father. So then you are no longer
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strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
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Saints, and you are God's household, Psalmist's household,
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Hallelujah having been built on the foundation of the apostles
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and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in
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whom the whole body being fitted together is growing into a holy
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temple in the Lord in whom you have been, in whom you also are
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being built together into a dwelling of God in the spirit.
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Now this is really important that we see that we're being
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built together. We're being built together when
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we were when we made Jesus, the Lord of our lives, our spirit
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man that was dead. We, we, it left and we became a
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new creature in Christ. But now we have to renew our
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minds. So when you come into the body
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of Christ, you have multiple people who have mind renewal
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issues. We all have to renew our minds.
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And so, you know, we're renewing our minds so that we are more
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effective towards one another, so that we can accomplish what
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God's called us to do, but also be there for one another.
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Because again, God is he's building his church, not so that
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we are isolated efforts, but we are coming together to do an
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effort that is bigger than if we did things by ourselves.
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OK. So it's really important that we
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recognize that, you know, your growth.
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It doesn't just change you, it affects the ones that are in
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this building. Amen.
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You know, my wife knows that we know healing and you know,
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really I, I don't get symptoms very often, you know, and
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they're usually can be gone within 24 hours.
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This one's hanging around just a tad more.
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But I'll be honest, this morning, man, I was rough.
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It was rough. I mean, we're so rough.
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I'm like, I call it audible. I got plenty of people who can
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preach in 21 years, I've not preached because I stayed home
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because I wasn't feeling well. I've never done that.
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I've never done that. OK, Not that I couldn't, right.
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But, you know, we were talking this morning and she was like,
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you're going to have to get up. You're going to have to get up.
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Well, I really didn't want to hear that, you know, So we have
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one of these beds that adjust, you know, it can sit you up.
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So she hits the button and sets me up right.
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So she brings me a few things, you know, so I can hydrate and
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you know, when I hit the button to get him what they call
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rejuvenate. So position where your legs are
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a little bit higher than your head, you know, and I was just
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going to take a little moment, but she hit that button again
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and put me up, you know, have me sitting straight up.
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And it's like, OK, so I said, listen, I'm, we're not driving
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together anyway, I, I'll come in later.
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So after she left, I put it in Rejuvenate and I put my alarm
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for an hour and when I woke up I was sweating so I was breaking
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some things off. Jesus name Amen.
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My point is, is that we are here to champion each other, you
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know, because when you don't feel like something, you can go
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past what you feel. And I'm thankful that my wife
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kept me to the word. You know, I mean, she could have
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sympathized with my feelings for sure and said, hey, you know,
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we'll figure it out. We got plenty of people.
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They can do this, right? But she was like, no, you need
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to be there, right? You need to come preach.
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You need to step up in faith. And when you get built in the
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body, you're thankful for people that won't let you just sit in
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the way you feel. Amen.
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Amen. You know, I was intentional not
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to get in here too early and didn't really sing during
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worship because I'm trying to hold on to my voice that's
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getting stronger every minute in Jesus name.
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But you know, people are recognizing and you know,
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praying for me. Interesting.
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That's what we do, right? When you see someone's in a
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state of weakness, you don't. You don't.
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You help lift them up. And that's what the body.
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You do, right? We're build each other up
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together because we're in the same household.
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Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11, Ephesians 411.
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We'll go to the 16 it says, and he gave some as apostles.
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Now if I jump back to verse 8, verse 8 lets us know that God
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gave gifts to men. That means everyone in here,
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you're a gift, say I'm a gift, you are a gift.
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He gave gifts to men and everyone of you are a gift.
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You are a gift to the body of Christ.
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OK, so then he in verse 11, he says, now some of the gifts that
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he gave to the body is this. And he gave some as apostles,
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some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and
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some as teachers. Do you know that these five fold
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ministries are still in the earth today?
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They've not died out, you know, they haven't.
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Some people teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit died
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out with the original 12 apostles, you know, and now most
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people call people people either a pastor or evangelist or
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teacher. But you know, nobody wants to
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utilize the. And again, these are gifts.
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They're not titles, all right? I think that's where the church
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has gotten hurt a little bit is that they turned it and said,
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well, you want a title? Well, it's not a title.
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God didn't call it title, he said.
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He said it was a gift. It's not.
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Title it's a gift, you know and who and again, you don't have to
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use them, but Paul, obviously I am what I am because of the
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grace of God. Right, so.
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He was an apostle by the grace of God, and God gave him that
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gift, you know, And just because someone may not do it correctly
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doesn't mean someone's not doing it correctly.
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And we shouldn't just disregard the ministry gifts because we've
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been around someone who didn't do it right.
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OK. But he gave these five fold
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ministry gifts for the purpose, 12 for the equipment of the
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Saints, for the work of service. So the gifts that are associated
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with these five offices and I'm convinced.
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That God always. Intended for all 5 to be in a
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church. That he never.
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Intended that there would just be a pastor.
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He never intended. That.
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Because if. We as we read this Psalm, it
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says they're equipment of the Saints for the worker service
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through the building up of the body of Christ.
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You know what's pretty awesome about this?
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The Evangelist. Has an assignment.
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Inside the church. We typically.
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See the evangelist being out, but their first work is inside.
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To stir us all. Up in whatever areas of
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influence we have that we can win people to the Lord in our
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sphere of influence, OK. But.
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All of these build up the body of Christ, and if you're missing
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one of the gifts, then you're missing what that gift brings to
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the body. So that's why we need.
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To pray that we have all the gifts and we allow the gifts to
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function because it's not the person, it's the gift that God
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gave. I said that God gave and.
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They're not. Better.
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It's just they're. Fit.
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God made the. Architectural plans.
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And he said this is what you're going to do now.
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I've done this before. This pole right here, you know
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we never moved it. Just painted it.
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Black. This would have cost me $50,000
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I think it was at one point to pull this out.
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Well, I. Didn't do that.
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And we? Were talking about pulling some
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poles in JC Penney actually, and we were like, well you know,
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we're not going to do that either.
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But this pole, although it's on the platform and the other ones
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are not, they serve a purpose. OK, the.
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Architect designed this building so that these poles could hold
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the weight. Of the roof.
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If you were. Never designed to be a pole?
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Then you're not going to be able to hold the weight of the roof.
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So you only. Want to be what God wants you to
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be, Because sometimes people want to get in places that God's
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not asking them to be. And then when they start.
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To cave under the pressure. OK.
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Then they can get mad at God. They definitely get mad at the
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church. People there in the church was
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because you're trying to function in a place that the
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architect never designed you to function.
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Amen. And so, you know, there are so
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many different things that are in this building that is
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necessary. I mean, the air conditioned,
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thank God for it, right in the heater, thank God for the seats
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you're in, allows you to sit there kind of comfortable,
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right? You know, they serve their
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purpose and none of these things fight against each other.
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They're in the room designed to do what they're supposed to do.
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We actually have Christ in us. If anyone shouldn't be fighting
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amongst themselves is US, and we should just be excited about
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what we've been called to do. Amen.
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So we go on and. It says for the equipment of the
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Saints, for the work of service, building up the body of Christ
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until we attain, till we all attain to the unity of the faith
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of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the
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measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of
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Christ. As a result, we are no longer to
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be children tossed here and there.
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By waves and carried. About by every wind of doctrine,
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by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful
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scheming. What's that tell us?
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It tells us that first, if you're not, if you're not even
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connected to the church, you're going to be tossed.
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That's a guarantee, the only way that you keep yourself from
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being tossed. And every wind.
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Of doctrine and trickery, of men in the craftiness and deceitful
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scheming, is that you submit yourself.
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To the church. Body and you do your part.
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And when you do. That you'll grow.
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Verse 15 But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in
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all aspects into Him who was the head, even Christ, from whom the
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whole body, being fitted and held together by what every
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joint supplies according to the proper working of each
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individual part, causes the growth of the body for the
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building up of itself in love. So notice verse 16 that we are
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fitted and held together again. These are not isolations.
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And. Because we are together, we all
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bring a supply. And that supply?
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Is according to the proper working, which implies there can
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be an improper working. But a proper?
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Working of each individual part in the Kingdom.
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You lose your independence, but you do not lose your
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individuality. You are an.
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Individual God sees you as you are, however He never wanted you
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by yourself. Amen.
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He always wanted you connected to somebody else.
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Praise the Lord and when you bring your supply, I mean,
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really, yesterday they were able to run through the demo so quick
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and actually move to another area that we initially weren't
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going to deal with because so many people showed up and
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brought their supply. And honestly, wasn't it?
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The camaraderie was fun. I mean.
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Just have a great time with one another.
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You know, obviously if we were all professionals, we probably
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would do things a little differently, but we don't have
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to be. So people were busting sheetrock
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off the walls. It was fun.
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But. Each person came together doing
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their part and nobody was like mad at each other because one
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had a hammer and another one didn't.
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But we just came to do the assignment.
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Put me where you want me. Everybody was working together
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and it was accomplished in a lot less time.
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Hallelujah. Well, you know, we can do this
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in the church as well. All right.
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First Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 10, Paul said according to
1 Corinthians 3 chapter mention
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the grace of God, which was given to me, like a wise master
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builder, I lay a foundation and another is building on it.
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But. Each man must be careful how he
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builds on it. Paul.
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Obviously had grace to build. He did his part right.
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Obviously he brought doctrine. He was an apostle.
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He he also did leadership. He established the church and
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then he would write and say, man, I hope I don't come back
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and have labored in vain, you know, Are you still doing what
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you've been instructed to do? But he was a wise master
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builder. Why?
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Because he was. How do you want me to do this,
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Lord? What do you want me to say?
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How do you want me to respond? How do you want me to build your
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church? Hallelujah, the Lord is good.
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Let's. Go on, let's go to 1st
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Corinthians 12. First Corinthians. 12 verses 12
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to 14 I mean we've seen multiple scriptures that Christ who sits
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at the right hand of the Father is not disconnected, however he
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is directly connected to build his church.
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OK. And.
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If we'll listen to him, then obviously we'll we'll have his
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church manifest in the earth. His legislative.
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Assembly it says for even as the body is 1 yet has many members,
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and all the members of the body, though there are many, are one
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body, so also is Christ and that awesome.
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He says. For by 1 spirit we were all
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baptized into the into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether
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slaves are free, and we were all made to drink of 1 spirit.
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For the body is not one member, but many.
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So again. The body is all of us collecting
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upon the same place. Where?
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We bring our supply. To do what?
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God has asked us to do in the earth for such a time as this.
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I'm. Going to.
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Close with this scripture here. First Corinthians chapter 12,
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verse 18. First Corinthians chapter. 12
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verse 18 says this. But now.
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God has placed now God has placed the members, each one of
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them. Each one of.
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Them in the body, just as he desired.
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This verse. Here is a very powerful verse.
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It lets us know how much God knows you personally.
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However, on the personal level that he knows you, he did not
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want you to be alone. Because there are others in.
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The household OK. But.
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Now God, this may be one of the single missed scriptures.
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Where people are not. In faith for.
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We have a scripture. That says, but now God has
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placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he
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desired. Do you know that means I can
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say, Lord, I believe that you will place me in the body you
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want me in? Not.
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Well, I'm going to pick the one I like.
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Now this is really. Important because in the last of
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the last days it tells us that people will heap teachers to
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themselves because they'll have tickling ears.
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They're only going to want to hear things that they want to
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hear. So in essence, they're picking
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the ministers, they're picking the content, they're picking
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what to do. Not what God.
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'S doing. OK.
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So you can be in faith that you can know that you know I'm in
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the place God has called me. That's amazing.
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That you're not just here by accident.
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Because when you. Know that you know that God has
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placed you somewhere. Well, that changes the way you
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function. Hallelujah.
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Because. When you know you've been
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placed, you would not let a devil in hell take you out of
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it. It's amazing.
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I mean, you would let nothing you're like, but God placed me
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there. Because now that you know.
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You've been placed right. He's placing you in the place
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that you can grow and thrive. Where your fruit?
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Can do stuff. Hallelujah.
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Man that's excited that when you wake up and say man, I know I'm
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called there. That's the place that God put
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me. He spoke to me.
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The Berean Standard Bible says it this way, but in fact God has
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arranged the members of the body, every one of them,
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according to his design. Young's Little.
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Translation says it this way. And now God did set the members,
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each one of them in the body, according according as he willed
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Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. And the remedy says it.
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This way God has built the body with all this parts right where
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He wanted them, all perfectly complementing each other and
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fulfilling their purposes for the good of the entire body.
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When you. Are in the body.
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You know you're called to, and you're doing what you know
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you're called to do. Then you're helping the whole.
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Body Hallelujah. And that's a big deal.
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It has eternal ramifications. It has eternal.
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Ramifications. Because again.
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Jesus is the architect. He's designing the church.
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And in his. Design for all Listening to the
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Spirit, we can find our fit. We know where we're supposed to
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be. We have no desire to be
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somewhere we're not. We only want to be in the spot
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he's called us. And in doing so, all of us will
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hear the same thing one day. Well done.
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Well done, 'cause he knows. What you're designed to do.
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He knows what you're designed. To do.
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Amen. Let's pray.