The Church | Andy Yeoh

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pray that the word of God today will challenge, change

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Wow, Oh glory to God. Who would have thought we

will make it, make it this far? Really, we recognize

that it's only by His grace, only by his mercy,

his goodness, his faithfulness, that we are here today, really, really, really,

and not just saying this because it's cliche, because it's

important to say, because it's pr to say it.

We really mean it.

Now, if you were if you were behind the scenes,

you were privileged enough to go behind the scenes and

see all the stuff that happens and don't happen and

almost in happen, you recognize that it's God's God and

only God.

Amen.

So can you please join me and give God a

big round on applause. Give God all the praise and glory.

Thank you. Jesus.

We honor you, God, We honor your name above every

other name.

Jesus belifted high.

You are a God of generations, not just generations the church,

but generations the people.

God all over the world. You are our God. We

worship you, We honor you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

You might not believe this, but I get more nervous

preaching to my own church than I do other people. Yes,

you might notice it if you follow me to other

places where I preach and you're like, he's more He's

way more relaxed. I don't know why, because maybe I

expect so much more from my own church today.

I don't know why I do. I do this to myself.

I can preach any kind of message, right you wouldn't

You wouldn't even know, uh.

What messages I choose between. Right, you wouldn't know what.

I don't know.

I always pick the hard ones. I pick the hard ones.

Maybe it's just it's important to say so. I have

an important, tough task ahead of me. I feel led

this evening to speak about the church. The church that

is so precious to God, but it's so all misunderstood,

something that is so abused, misuse, manipulated. It's understandable that

all over the world that when you say the church,

so many different images come up, so many different ideas,

so much so that some of us Christians do such

a bad job with the church that some Christians even

today avoid the church let alone those who are not

of Christ.

And I'm speaking the truth? Am I being real?

So it's tough because my job today is to help

you love the church a little bit more.

Amen.

And I feel I'm speaking to people who have been

hurt before rab the wrong way, misunderstood. And I don't

claim to be a perfect church, or perfect pastor or

perfect anything. But we must differentiate the Church and us

human beings that sometimes mess it up. We have to

differentiate that we cannot throw the baby out with the

bath water.

Is that okay?

So I hope, I hope by the end of today's message,

and I hope you'll finish before nine, that we will

love the church more because Jesus loves the church. So

let me start off this way. What did Jesus mean

when he said church? I'm not asking what TD Jake mean.

What's different that it means what somebody else mean, because

we all can mean a lot of things. I think

we want to hear what Jesus said about the church, Amen,

because that's pure, and that's original, that's og. And interestingly,

in the New Testament, or when Jesus was walking the

earth and speaking, he talked a lot about money, by

the way, a.

Lot more about money than anything else. Uh huh.

And we haven't spoken up at money in this church

for a whole one year. But Jesus only used the

word church twice.

Interesting, huh. Jesus himself.

Now we refer to the Book of Acts, chapter two,

chapter four as the first espression of church. That's true.

But Jesus did speak about the church. He did use

the same word use in Hebrews using the New Testament

the same way Ecclesia. Jesus used it only twice. And

I think it's important to look at what Jesus meant

when he said the church. When Jesus said the church,

is this this version that we see today? Or is

the version we see today far or near to what

Jesus meant when he.

Said the church? Are you interested to find out? Amen?

So, whatever Jesus means when he uses the word church

is what I wanted to mean for me, and what

I wanted to mean for you too, if you call

yourself the church or believers or Christians of follows of Christ.

Amen.

So the first time Jesus used the word is in

Matthew chapter sixteen, verse eighteen. And he said this and

I also say to you that you are Peter, and

on this rock I will build My church. Is God Church,

not mine, not yours, not reverend, not archbishop, Jesus church.

Amen. He said I will build my church.

The first time you ever used that word my church,

and the gates of Hell, the gates of Hades, shall

not prevail against it.

This is the first time. Jesus is the word.

And the church that Christ is referring to here is

the universal body of Christ. He's talking about everyone who

calls themselves a believer, not one particular church, not one

particular denomination, not this church that means in that corner

or in that building. The one expression Jesus meant here

the universal Church. The gates of Hell shall not prevail

against this universal church.

Is this humongous body of Christ around the world as

one unit. Amen.

Jesus is not talking about local church, because how can

the gates of hell, where the gates of Hell can

attack one church and cause the leader to fall and

just to disintegrate, but a gase of Hell can possibly

prevail against this one big union, you.

S I'm saying.

So when Jesus said church, is referring to this universal

body of Christ.

I have a feeling. We like that.

Because then we get to say, you know what, I

don't have to be in a building, but I'm still part.

Of the church. And you will be correct, and you.

Can say things like I can stay home and tune

into whatever church I want, because church is not a building,

a program a day, and you will be right because

Jesus did say this is the universal, the Body of Christ.

So when Jesus is church, we must remember he does

refer to way beyond these four walls, way beyond your brand,

way beyond your social media account. Can we get that?

And I think we've got no problem. I think we

kind of like that because that's the one we can

kind of like, hey, you know, even in my office,

I'm church what we like that? And you're right, it

is that. But he used the word church twice. The

first one means universal Body of Christ. Doesn't matter whether

you're Lutheran, Baptist, Methodists or Bigsite Baptists.

Okay, if it's.

In four chapter, four verse six daysis there is one body,

not two, not half. There's one body, only one and

one spirit, just as you were called in one hope

of your calling, One Lord one faith, one Baptist, one

God and Father of all, who is above all and

through all, and in you all. So when you meet

another brother in Christ from a different church and they

sing hymes and you sing hers, you are one body.

They use real one, you use fake one, they use right, BENI,

they use F and N whatever. We are one body, right,

remember that the universal body of Christ. We all belong

to that. But then Jesus used the word again in

Mettage up to eighteen, verse fifteen to seventeen. If you've

been in this church, you've heard this message pach before

one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible of

two or threegether God will be there. Yeah, this is

this is the passage metrige of eighteen. We misquote that

word thinking that that means church. Not really, but he

did use the word church in that context.

He says.

Moreover, if your brother sins against you, so someone wrongs you,

of fend you, offense you things against you, tell him

his fault between you and him alone. So there is

a way to handle offenses. Go to that person directly.

Don't go on Facebook, go on act, go on like treads,

go and like come on go directly e v Jay

you smell. Okay, he doesn't, but okay, someone else does.

God him alone. If he hears you, you have gained

your brother. Wonderful. There is step two. If he doesn't listen,

so how verse sixteen. Let's go, but he will not here.

Take with you one or two more that by the

mouth of two or three bitinesses, everyone may be established.

Verse seventeen. Verse seventeen.

Okay, and if he refuses to hear them, tell it

to the church. Now, pretty sure Jesus does not mean

if mark offense, you tell the whole body of Christ,

Tell the Catholic Pope, tell the mactori whoever, that everyone.

I don't think Jesus meant that. This is a very

practical picture. If your brother sins against you, talk to him,

he doesn't listen. To bring another brother you don't listen.

Tell it to the church, the one you go to,

the one you wake up and get your kids ready

and you go.

You know, you hope that they got the kids sernday.

School, the one you surf at, the one you give

to that local church. So when Jesus said church, he

didn't just mean this universal body of Christ. Therefore, just

stay at home and watch watch you online. I'm still

I'm still fine. He talks about, No, you've got to

be part of a local church, a church set up

where you can do things like that. He uh, sister,

this guy doesn't want to listen. And they know you,

and they're in relationship with you. They're in community, and

we work things out. That local body is that okay?

So when Jesus said church, he men the universal body

of Christ and the local body of Christ. No body

looks at the crescent and say, that's just part of

the moon. You still call it the moon. Yes, so

the local church, which is still a small part we

must remember, just a small part of the body of Christ,

but still the body of Christ. Next, like, please, as

a court Ellen Steeps, say this, for the part that

is visible, the crescent is genuine moon.

Ah, this is a small part, is still genuine. It

is still the moon.

And what is more, it is more, it is actually

though to us, invisibly united with all the rest of

the moon. Similarly, a local Christian congregation is genuine church.

Become visible.

It is body of Christ and invisibly one in Him

with the whole of his body.

Maybe two chim too deep. But basically, the local church

is just as much church as the universal church. We

are the church, and God loves the church. Amen.

And we really must separate from the people who give

church a bad name, and there's plenty of them, and

church the one that Jesus Christ paid his life for

to establish universal local So now let's look at the

first local church in the Book of Acts, chapter two.

Now we can study this and it can be a

twelve week study on the church that God imagined, the

church that got established.

I think it's an interesting study.

Today, I can't do that study because they'll be like nine, ten,

twelve different things we can draw from this. Toe are

just gonna draw three things, he said, Okay, three things.

So the very first local church, what did it look like?

What marked the church?

Then verse forty two of except the two and they

devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching, and the fellowship. I

guess that's where we get the preaching of the Word

is important in the church. From yes, the doctree and

the teaching and to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Yeah,

just the praise together stays together and stuff like that

was forty three and all in some transation, says and fear,

and all came upon every soul, and many wonders and

signs were being done through the apostles. Next slide, and

all who believed, all who called himselves Christians, were together

and had all things in common.

There was unity wonders.

A man, both universally and locally, was forty five, and

they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing. I

sell my own things, and I gave them away to

all anyone who has need. Here you go. Sharing is

carrying My daughter always says to my son, where she

can't get the candy from him cockaw. Sharing is carrying

West forty six and day by day, every single day,

they attended the temple together and breaking break in their home.

So some people describe this way. Church is both temple

and table. We go to the big congregation of the temple,

and then sometimes we have small settings at the table.

It's both. It's not one or the other. They receive

their food with gladness and generous hearts. Can you see

how much we can unpack from the first local church? Oh?

I wish I could do a study today, but we

don't have time. They praising God and having favor with

all the people, and the Lord added to their number.

More and more people join the local church day by day,

those who are being safe. Now, let me show you

another picture of the first local church. Ect Chapter four,

Act Chapter four, vers. Thirty two to thirty five. Now

the material of those who believe were of one hard

one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of the

things he possessed was his own. But they had all

things in common. That is, what's mine is yours, what's

yours is mine, we all share. Wow, what a world

to live in, And with great power. The apostles gave

witness to the reservation of the Lord Jesus, and great

grace was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among

them who lacked. Imagine a world without need?

This was it.

There was no need. Why because everybody met everybody's need.

For all who were possessors of lands or houses sold

them and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

and laid them at the apostle's feed, and they distributed to

each as anyone had need. Who amen the first local Church.

This is like a twelve part lesson. But today can

we just talk about three things. What marked the church?

This entity that is so misunderstood, misrepresented, It's real, real.

Some of us has not done a very good job

representing Christ to the world. I'm sorry if I have

ever been represented.

The Church of God.

But God's Church is precious, it's holy, it's needed, it's important.

Amen.

So the first local church. So you gotta ask, why,

of all things, why did not why Jesus he didn't

start a business to save the world. Why didn't he

start a social enterprise? Why didn't he start a cafe?

I don't know.

Of all things, God, in his brilliance, omniscience, omnimportance, he decided,

you know what, this will be my agent.

It's called the church. So what's the church for.

I told you this year that we're gonna stay simple,

let's simplify things. I think church which is for two reasons?

Why Church number one to seek and save the lost.

That's what Jesus came to do. That's what he established

the church for us to continue to do, to seek

and save the loss. Look at Act of the two

Actionapter four, daily people were added to the church. That

means they must be doing something that added people to

the church. It's called evangelism, it's called sharing the good news.

It's God loving your neighbor as yourself. Everything Jesus thought

is so that people can know the good news, which

is Him.

Amen.

So the church that don't seek and save the loss

is lost. The church itself is lost. We must remember this.

We must boil everything down to why the church said

we are not here to make another worship album. Nothing

wrong with that or hope we do that, because my

passion and love doing things like that.

But that's not why we work. Keep the main thing,

the main thing.

And so if you're gonna make an worship album is

to seek and save the loss. If you're gonna print

another T shirt is to save and seek the loss.

If we print like Generations Gobo or something, I don't

know why we will do that. Hopefully you'll be too

sick and save the loss.

Amen.

This is why the church exists Matthew twenty eight, verse

nineteen or twenty. The Great commission that means Jesus commission

these people, the same people who would later go on

to establish the first local church. So they received this

commission and then they went to start except two ex

except the four Amen, go therefore and make disciples of

all the nations, baptizing them the name of the Father,

of the Son of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to

observe all things I've commanded you, And lo I am

with you always, even to the ends of the age.

Amen. This is why we are here.

When we forget this is when we misrepresent the church,

abuse it, mess it up. We turn into some business,

some club, some way to control other people. I know

it's happened. I hope you will never happen here. Hope guarantee,

because I'm human by as long as I can't in

my power to do no one to represent, misrepresent the church,

and misuse the church. Come on, let's remind each other

why we're here to seek and save the loss, the Gospel,

the good News.

Amen.

And secondly, what do we even need a church? Second reason,

to serve one another by loving each other and building

each other up. And this one another we mean Christians.

So the first one tells us that's the world out there,

that is Jesus. The second one tells us that we

are to love each other because Jesus said, by our

love for each other, they will know.

I think it.

What's Gandhi, wou say, I got no problem with Jesus,

I got problems with Christians? What a bad testimony we

should reverse?

There? Come on?

So only two reasons why we exist? To sick and

save the loss, to serve one another. How do we

serve one another? Love and build each other up?

Amen?

Emphasis four, Verse eleven to sixteen says, and Jesus God

himself gave some to be apostles, some profitts. So we

talked about, you know, people finding their fit. All gift

things need to work together.

Amen.

We need all colors, all give things. EVANGELI his pastor's teachers.

Why for the equipping of the Saints church is here

to equip you.

And not the pastor? Do the work? You do the work, Saints.

You do the work.

You go out there to your marketplace, and you sick

and save the loss. And that's why it's important that

when you come back, it's like a petrol station.

You get filled.

Yeah, thank you can go along haul. This system has

got to work. You cannot come into the church and

get better and crush and go all thead and expect

to heal everybody else.

Right, So it's got to work.

It's got to work the church, we have to serve

one another, blill each other up, and ify each other,

equip each other. Then send you out to do the

main thing, seek and save the loss. We can talk

about a million different ways to seek and save the loss.

The cost, the message is the same, the method is.

Varied.

Next verse thirteen, till we all come to unity of

the faith. So that's what church is for, to equip

you go sick and save the loss.

The better we serve.

Each other, the better we love each other, The better

we bring each other up, the better we.

Sick and save the world. Amen.

The power is all it's like, it's how it's supposed

to work. One part mess up and it's falls apart.

I think you can read the rest basically talking about

like we are one knit together. Someone's the right hand,

someone's the left hand. Some of the legs so some

get us walking moving. Some people's job in churches to

remind us. They you know, they dig the ears, some

of the eyes.

They see her.

Hey, we all have a part to play. No one's less,

no one's more. So I want to share. It's close

the church as far as I can see. The first

local church I can see many things, at least twelve things.

While share three, what is the church marked by? When

you look at me or you look at someone, how

do you know the Indian? Or how do you know

they are Chinese? How do you know their men? But

this the must be very clear marks. How does someone

know you're the church. I'm not talking about that version

the the pastor embezzil the people's money, the pastor slept

around the leaders.

Not the version the one that Jesus intended. Amen three.

S number one.

The church, the first loculture was marked by the Savior.

You know them by the person they worshiped. And Savior

tells you that it's about salvation. It's about seeking and

saving the loss, about evangelism. People were being saved added

to the church. That was the mark of the first

local church. If you see a church just playing club,

enjoying themselves, not getting out there, not getting uncomfortable to

see and say the laws, that's not the church God intended.

Amen.

The first locuature was marked by the Savior. There was

Jesus all over it. They did what Jesus did, They

preached what Jesus preach, and the evidence was salvation. God

was adding to the church. Amen, God knows which church

will be responsible when he does. Add to it, Why

would he want his sheep to go somewhere that he

knows will be neglected.

So let's not be that. Let's be a good well

remember well when they come to feed. I like this statement.

I didn't come up with it.

I wish I did, but he says here, talk to

God about your neighbors and talk to your neighbors about God.

Talk to God about your neighbors, and talk to your

neighbors about God. It's a good mantra to live by.

Every day we do this. The church's marks so litmus tests.

Is this church marked by the Savior? Do people see

Jesus in us? And is there evidence? Are people getting saved?

Are people finding hope and salvation and direction and purpose

which can only be found in Jesus? Or if this

does not glorify Jesus, does not lift him up, does

not glorify him, does not preach him, then we ourselfs

are lost.

The Savior.

The next two slightly harder, but it's all over the

accept two fall.

Okay.

The first localtore is marked by selflessness and sacrifice.

M hm.

Not very sexy words. But it's all over Act chapter two.

I mean, what kind of people say, uh, you can

have my house, you can have my car.

Okay, they didn't have cars. You can have my cow.

Take it. You need something, take it. That's selflessness, that's sacrifice.

It's not very popular, but I can't dilute it. I

cannot minimize it. The Church is marked by selflessness. And

it's hard to preach this because we live in a

world that glorifies self. Yes, even in the Christian world,

we do. And it's not bad. It's just misplaced in

the name of caring for yourself, which is good, which,

by the way, is not the same as self love.

I think self care is very different than self love.

And I feel like because, for example, I've been church

circle for a long long time. I have seen abuse,

I have seen manipulation, I have seen control. I have

been maybe sometimes privy to be part of it, sometimes

recipient of it, over so many years, and I can

understand why someone might say, you know what, I want

to have nothing to do with this.

I'm a Christian. I know have to come to church.

I'll sing the songs, I'll pay the tithe, I'll listen

to the word nothing more. Please do not ask me

to invest myself because I'll get hurt, I'll get disappointed,

someone will fail me, I'll get cheated. I don't go

to that again. And I can understand, but I must,

as a pastor be responsible to tell you. The church

that God imagined and birth is marked by selflessness.

Christians don't make decisions.

Based on I am number one.

Yet, No that.

One can today movie you're here, God is number one.

We can't do church while being selfless, being selfish, self centered.

I just can't.

Every single word in the Bible, love one another, edify

each other, forgive, everything's gonna do with somebody else, and

giving and sharing.

Amen, are you okay? And sacrifice.

The church is built on sacrifice and marked by sacrifice, people, sacrifice,

officially giving.

I've been consistent. I hope, I don't mind speaking. I've

been consistent since day one.

When I say self the church, I really don't mean

self within the four walls, like oh, be a be

a broadcast person, be a key bodies.

This is one way.

When I say self, I do mean serving a marketplace,

be a boss, be a good boss. Yes, that's stuff

like that too. But when I say stuff like that.

I also don't mean then don't sup in church. No,

it's like that's not saying oh water, No, you need both.

You need both. You need the universal body of Christ

and the local body of Christ.

And the local body of.

Christ is marked by selflessness and sacrifice. There's no other

way to do this. I know he's scary. Oh no,

it's past the ending, going down that road. He's gonna

take all my time. No, the church can't take all

your time. You know this because you you will have

the power to block your dates in pranding center, who

has the power you? You brooke like, oh yeah, you

ain't controlling your time. So don't please please don't say.

That just took my time. They just cannot do it. It's

no way. What is such? What is such? Some machine

that controls your email? You do it.

That we can have poor leadership, weak leadership, many politive

leaders right guilt trip you make you feel, Yeah, that

can all happen. Please don't say that just took my time.

You block all your plans.

Center.

You say, I'm I'm dating my wife tonight. I cannot

come to this meeting. That's all okay. I just want

to put it back to you. You are in control

of that, really you do. No one's gonna take your

time that you don't want.

To give amen another famous words, famous last words? Famous

words are you church? Not?

Just don't feel like I don't feel like I'm going

to check because I want to anymore. I have to

la better, don't go la. Hey, you know I don't

feel like going to school too. I don't feel like

going to work. Also by your personal to manipulate you.

You have the maturity you tell yourself.

I have to go. I'm responsible. I've got mouths to

feed my right.

Or another one ah now serving a church, I feel

like WORKLA, feel like work ready, no more joy, no pression.

It feels I work. Okay. How about when work fuse?

I work?

Don't go to work? Yeah, boss, work fuse I work?

Not pression anymore?

Not coming. We can't.

We can't separate church and the concepts of sacrifice and selflessness.

Just can't. Just can't.

I just want to remind you, actually, the power is

in your hand. No one can take your time from you.

I think, as far as we are concerned, in this years,

we have tried to protect time and like I'm not

used to it no, like I got three week nights,

not not this year, la last year.

Right, it's like, hey free huh, I'm not iced to it.

But we've tried.

We have tried, but I can't guarantee you that we

will always be like this. Ten years from now, the

sick and save the loss with yourself one another. One

day there will be marriage courses law, there will be

like pre marriage counseling law.

Who's gonna do all that? You'll be funeral in weeks long?

Have to do one.

So we have been responsible. It has to be a choice.

I must understand. This is God's Church, and God's shirch

cannot be separated from the main thing which is here

seek and save the lost. I agree with you. We

don't need one hundred meetings to do that. If there

can be done in two meetings, sure, but don't avoid

sacrifice and selflessness.

Amen. I saw this.

I saw this quote somewhere on Instagram or Facebook, I remember,

and then in some of you before we have seen

it as well. It's it goes something at this activity

does not necessarily mean intimacy. I think I added a wait.

Necessarily that the means that church is famous for this.

We are busy, busy, busy. We think that because we're busy,

we're doing God some big favor. W I mean fifteen minutries. No,

I must be very holy. I got nine positions in

church even more holy. No, no, no, don't make the mistake.

Activity does not necessarily mean intimacy. That's not Just because

you got ten positions doesn't mean you're much closer to

God than another person.

It doesn't mean that. But hey, can I also caution

the next lineup?

This is why I added neither does inactivity necessarily mean intimacy.

If activity doesn't mean Timothy, let's let me do nothing.

You do nothing with your wife and see how clos

are you gonna get your wife? Don't talk, don't do

the things that merry people do. Okay, So activity does

not mean intimacy. Don't make the mistake just because you're

busy you're close to God. No, no, no, no, but hey, hey,

the alternative is not inactivity. Oh then I keep myself

free so that God can speak.

Let me give you a better version. I think.

Intimate activity and intimate inactivity means intimacy. Whether you do

or don't do it has to be intimate. God did

not this math altogether. Someone had to prepare the ah.

But it's it's knowing when. It's knowing when to move

forward and when to pause, when to abide, when to move,

when to have activity, and when to pull back. That's

the key, not one way or the other. I don't

know what Chris is always like one way or the other.

Richard Hughes song. Okay, elevation all the way.

Why not.

We tend to do that? No, I think it's a

better version.

Intimate activity, and intimate inactivity means intimacy. I think we

should learn that both require sacrifice. Amen, Jesus loves the church.

If he s five, five says this husband loves your

wife's how what's the picture or the picture is this?

Just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself

for her. Christ gave everything for this thing he birth

called the church. And if Jesus loves this thing, I

think we should too. So the question is will we

love the church? But pastor is hard because I've been

hurt it. Faster is hard because I can't trust anymore.

Pastor.

I don't know where my money is going to, so

I'm not giving a cent. But faster I want you

to fix the econ holiday, then if I do business

your post know you're distracted what you're doing business, you

are the church because you have to fix that coon man,

just joking, but you get you get the economy right?

Get well, we love the church. Well, the church.

Always haves the Savior and what the Savior cares about,

which is the salvation of people. At the core of

what we do, Amen, whether it's activity or inactivity, is

so that more can come to know the Lord.

Amen.

Sometimes too many events doesn't mean more people come to

do a lot. Yeah, I get that. Sometimes one on

one works way better than some big time all the call.

I get that too. That's why I do a lot

of one once. But let's let's learn both intimate activity

and intimate inactivity. But let's also not be afraid to

be selfless and be willing to sacrifice.

Amen.

What we are doing every single day is also sacrificed.

Wake up early, we go to this thing called the

company we work. It's all sacrifice. So I don't think

any of us only convincing that it is sacrificed and

selflessness that builds anything, family, organization, business, company, sports team.

I'm just saying, hey, I think God's Church.

God's church again, not the one where the leader fell

and sinned and manipulated.

I know that's that too. But God's Church deserves our love. Amen.

Whole bunch of scripture tells us that, you know, okay,

no time to shad them more. But Romans twelve, Romans fifteen,

you can read. We are one body, one Christ. We

are individual members of one another. The Bible tells us

to be kindly affectionate to one another. The Bible tells

us to be patient with one another. All of these

things there's always one another. That means we need each other.

We cannot be an island. You can't love one another

just by your bit side alone.

Lie. Amen.

Say okay, the church, the church, the church that Christ

paid for, Christ died for, shed is blood for this

church needs to return.

To its main thing, seek and save the loss, serve

one another. Amen.

And you can't do this without a focus on the savior,

selflessness and sacrifice.

Amen. Amen. All right, shall we about his close the eyes?

Hallelujah, hallelujah. May I ask that you take a moment

right now to kind of like put in a little

imaginary tomorometer spirit your thermometer into your heart and kind

of gage, how on fire are you for God's God's Church?

And if you think that there's been too many disappointments,

too many hurts, too many maipulations, all these bad things

in the church, let's reverse that.

Let's love more, let's forgive more. Let's let's let's be different. Amen.

Maybe maybe if you really have to, you can blame

that church, But don't blame the church that Christ shed

blood fall. That's still the agent God design and put

on this earth to share the good news.

Amen. So what would to a moment to read?

Has your heartgorne a little coder towards God's Church? Is

it getting a little warmer? This is really really hot

right now? Where are we at? Can we ask God

to look into our hearts? Search our hearts right now?

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