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12+1 Core Values: Ownership Promoting | Pr Yvonne
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You're listening to a message to go from ex Church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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Today we are at value number eight. I can get
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help with a slight thank you. So we have done
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quite a bit now, you know, first being spirit filled,
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christ centered, kingdom minded word, faithful, discipleship focused, prayer, power,
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faith evident, and today on ownership promoting. Okay, and you
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know it is from our key scripture, you know, X
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chapter two, verse forty four. All right, before I go
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into that, you know my sub Yeah, you can go
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to the next slide. So I would like to have
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a subtitle to it, okay, called from Renders toss of
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the Throne because as children of the Living God, you know,
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as even children of the Kingdom, we are all as
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right uh her heirs Okay, airs to the trone as
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to the kingdom, because you know our father who is
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also the king.
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Yeah. And and you know today even as.
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We catch his value, I hope we catch you know,
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the principle h to the kingdom as well.
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Okay.
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I would like to start with this question, when was
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the last time you felt like an active builder in
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the House of God rather than a.
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Long term guest like I say, you know, I don't
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have a lot of time, so I'm gonna dive straight in.
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So get ready, guys.
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Saturdays might be a little bit out, but I believe,
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you know, God is also reminded. As I I was preparing,
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God was also reminding, Okay, it is very very easy
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for maybe some of us, almost some of us or
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most of us. You know, we're being in church for
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some time, long time, and you know it's very easy
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to be in the use control mode, you know, you
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know these days cars this morning, I so I'm actually
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car car taking chro care taking uh car carrying yes
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for a friend because she's traveling, so to help warm
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up a car. So my own car, I don't have
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a cruise control and a car O car. Okay, but
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this is lonely. During someone's like, well let me try
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the cruise controls. I was like, okay, that's a really
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really nice drive. Then as for hour, realized, oh no,
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I spaced out. You know, lick's not on the pedal,
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very dangerous and and you know sometimes espiritually in church
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we can get there. Uh, everything seems very familiar. I'm like, okay,
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I know what to expect. I come at you know,
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nine ten in a prey worship prayer starts or nine
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o'clock and then night the dea worship starts, and then
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in the middle of worship that's gonna be prayer time.
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And you can already you know, know your timing is
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really well. I take it for granted. Okay, you know
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pas Okay, church plank coordinator. I know everybody here very
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very familiar, and sometimes we get to a point like, okay,
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you know, perhaps you're apart from another church. I was
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like that, you know when I came to ex oh
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twenty one years ago, close to twenty two, because you know,
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I grew up in church in Penang, and so I
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thought myself, Okay, I'm just gonna come here observe Pinang Lang, Yeah,
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renting my literally, I was just going to be three here,
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three years, study n the room, then go back home
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and do my lovely you know, parents and family and
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house back home. So you know, I thought like, okay,
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you know, I'm done actively serving my church back in Penang,
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and I'm just gonna consume, just can't access amazing, you know,
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just get you know, challenge and powered, renew and refreshed,
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and then go back. But you know, God had to
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challenge me, you know, although you know my time at
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that point time I thought it's gonna be cheious and
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it's going to be temporary. But God actually really challenged
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me out of the zone, you know, to come out
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of the zone to you know, being from a renter
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to being an owner.
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Uh. That there is a difference, you.
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Know, those of you who are renting, you know, temporary here,
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some money, perhaps your student here.
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Uh. You know, that's a very different mindset of a
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renter and an owner. Uh owner.
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I know, maybe perhaps being an owner, having my own
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house now, I will take a little bit extra extra
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care to it, you know, try to do it up nicely, painted,
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that created. But as a renter, I hope none of you.
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But sometimes you know, I've uh seen rented hostile rooms.
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Oh my goodness.
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Uh it's the word is traumatizing. Other better words to
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put it, but it's really traumatizing. And and and our
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friends who rented out their own properties as well. And
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transformation happened to the house, not for the good, but
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it becomes another type of masterpiece.
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Okay, So renters, you know, today.
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My call to you is, hey, you know, let's move
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on being a ranter of ex money, being a renter
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of ex Church, being a renter of the Kingdom God,
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to becoming an owner, okay, that we will graduate, uh,
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to become an active participative member of this body, all right, uh,
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and not just this body, you know, this kingdom, so
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that we can inherit.
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Right.
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If you are a renter of a property, is highly
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close to zero infinity zero, that you are able to
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inherit the property right. If you're the owner, you can
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pass it on the next generation and the next generation
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inherits as well. So I hope you know that we
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are here inherit the Kingdom of God and learning from
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this really important value. Okay, Let's start to X chapter two,
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verse forty four, and we shall read it together.
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Okay.
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Ex Church was started, you know, on the foundation of
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this book as well.
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Uh.
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So X two forty four you guys there already. Okay,
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if you're there, let's read it together. At my country
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in one, two and three, Now all who believe were
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together and had all things in common. Right, really short verse,
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but really really powerful.
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Okay.
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I was written by doctor Luke uh, you know, being
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a physician, he was very detailed. Okay, Uh, in writing,
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and he has his own reasons as well.
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Okay.
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So I'd like to draw our attention to the word
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together and had all things in common okay. The Greek
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word for in common, right, that's where the Bible was
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originally written, right in Hebrew, Greek or Arabic as well.
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So in common means koos okay uh It means to share.
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Belonging to all and help jointly. Okay. The root word
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h is uh.
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So this word comes from the root word coinonia okay.
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In Malaysia, just quited cononia okay uhia okay. Easier for
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us to remember it means actually fellowship, I believe truly
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Malaysians are very very.
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Malaysian of us as well.
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We always fellowship over food or over area noniaqua, And
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I don't know most of local Malaysian functions that you
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go through.
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There's always some and you need to have your dessert.
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And it's a form of quait okay, fellowship, joint participation.
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And also it means shad burden, all right, Are we
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sharing burden out? It's the burden of x even x
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seremoney being shut out?
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All right?
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Are we all helping to carry a bit on our shoulder,
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all right. The word he in the Hebrew, Okay, it's
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naturala okay, all right, it means an inherited possession or estate,
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So it means right, it's not something you know, you
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just come on a weekend, you know, church x semoney,
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it's not something you just come on a weekend. Uh,
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you know it can have your weekend vacation house. I
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hope this is not your weekend vacation house. But it
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is a family inheritance that we ought to protect, okay,
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ought to build and ought to pass out. Hence that sorry,
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you know, as as extra, we're really really big on discipleship.
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God.
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Discipleship involves the passing down all right. So are we
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here to help protect this inheritance that we are, you know,
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gotten from the Lord, to build it together and to
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pass it on to the next generation. Are we actively
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involved as a builder of that?
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Okay?
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So today God is calling us back to the very
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basic foundational mindset.
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Okay. All the call values are very foundational found foundation. Yeah,
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it's a very very important foundation for us. Okay.
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So the church here is not a hotel. I am
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sharing also from my own journey. I told you three
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years and I'm going to I was planning the job
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out already to go back to run back, but God
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has challenged me. You know, I brought you here for
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such a time as this. Do not treat my church,
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my body as a hotel where we just rent the
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sit Sometimes you can come to so regular that we
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have our favorite seat there, favorite spot. And I've noticed,
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I think I've been to so many a few times.
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I noticed someone got your favorite corners here already. Yeah,
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so you have your favorite seat. But it is a
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family as a family together. Okay, I'm gonna move to
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the first point. The church is a community, not a crowd.
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What does it mean? The church is not just a
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place that we gather. It is a community of believers.
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What is the difference between a crowd and a community? Okay,
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a crowd gathers around events, Yeah, very good, XTV get
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us around events. Okay. A crowd goes for concerts together
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or a movie together, and then the crowd just dispersed. Okay,
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no one owes anything to anyone when you go for
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the concert, you go for the movie together, or you
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don't owe anything through the person sitting and maybe se
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b all right, once movie is doing the child bye bye.
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Okay. Uh.
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Sometimes we leave our tresh behind and don't bother cleaning up.
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A podcast still lying around our cups you know of
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coke is still there. But a community gathers around a
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shared identity, a shed, you know, a unity together. When
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trouble keeps the church, a community stays with the church
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because our lives are all bound together.
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Right in your family as well most families.
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When family go through tarbor, you don't like, I'm you know, starts,
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you start packing your bag and you trouble for your
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family right and like, okay, I'm got to change my
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surname from Chang to Chang Chung to Tan.
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No.
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Uh, you know I stay together with my family. Okay.
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So a community or believer here today, you know we
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should share common faith. We definitely share our common lord, okay,
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and a common aim, a common vision. No one you know,
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comes to church when you know we are sharing the
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same identity. No one will actually come and say like, oh,
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it is Ben's responsibility not mine.
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Uh.
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No one will actually be standing on the side line.
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But we are all in this together.
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Okay.
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You can tell you I never Hey, you know we're
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all in this together. All right, that's a song, right, yeah,
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high school musical. Yes, that's a few crow Yeah.
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So the word together okay in Greek okay is that okay?
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Uh, it literally means until the same place for the
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same exact purpose.
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Okay.
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They weren't just physically together in the same proximity or
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a close proximity, but the very key word here, they
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were united in the same motif. All right, the same motive.
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There is actually a huge danger of being pure warmers
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of pure okay. These days we are not so familiar.
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But there's this uh expression of saying becoming pure womans. Right, Uh,
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you don't you know, being a pure warmer. It's just
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the wrong the seats and all right, uh if you all,
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I don't know. The icon breaks down one day, the
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light breaks down one day. You don't really bother. It's like, okay,
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let way being set it. You know, speaker's not working
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on one side. The red decided to eat the wiring,
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you know, let way being climb out and settle it.
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No, you know why because.
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When we do that, we just when you go to
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a hotel, okay, you're paid six hundred perhaps one night
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before the hotel.
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If the plumbing doesn't work. What do you do? You complain? Right? Uh?
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And that's not stuff that comes up. But you.
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Expect a high quality service because you paid for a rent,
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you expect something in return. But in church, you know,
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pure warmers would be like that as well.
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But when we are all together in.
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This uh, you know, we don't expect like Okay, I've
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given my ties, my offering, that's my management fees, my
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maintenance fee that I've paid for.
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Today this weekend. Uh. I see it really awesome vegetables outside.
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Let me just go help myself, okay, pluck tendring its
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worth of kill uh.
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And then go, Uh, sister sal hand you down.
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Not just kidding, but you know, I really love that,
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you know, the community here. I'm not knocking it out,
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but I really love how you know, the committy here
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has come together and made such a beautiful place. You know,
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honkree outside as well. So we don't as as er rents,
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you know, Uh, we will always expect that I need
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to be served or the message today like that.
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Uh it's not feeding.
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Enough, you know, my favor is not growing. Okay, I
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let me just pack up and go. Uh. No, you know,
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an owner carries a heritage. Right, that's what the word says.
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Where we see something's not right, we see a huge
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kind of flower like pasta Stephen.
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Can I help? Can I? You know I have I
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have skills in building.
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I don't know architecture whatever not, you know, Can I
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can I help consult a bit?
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Or I see a piece of paper of flow? Can I?
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Can you just pick it up?
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As simple as that, you know, because I like, you know,
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someone gives this as ample sometimes.
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Uh, that's just to say, you know, we are.
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Sometimes still heavily minded, but we are not of earthly used.
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Uh. Sometimes you can.
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Be praying and praying God, you know, bring bring fire out.
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We change the place and you can be praying. But
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then the treash is that you know the toilet is dirty.
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You know that won't move right, and it still requires
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us to lift our hands and do something about it.
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Romans Chapter twelve, verse four. The five let's turn to
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that and we shall read it together. Are you guys there?
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Romans child verse four, The five, yeah, okay? In one,
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two and three for us in one body where many
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members and the members do not have all the same functions,
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so we though many are one body in Christ and
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individually members of one and another? All right, individually members
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one another. If you see you know there is a
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lag in different dream teams. Step up, volunteer, sir. Yes, yeah,
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there's a very loud yes please here yeah so and
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not this here, right, Paul even, he says, right in Romans,
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twelve members of one another again in Greek?
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In Greek?
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Right, what actually really means that we are actually reciprocal? Okay,
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we're mutually dependent on each other. We cannot just say,
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you know, I've done my part for thirty years. Ready,
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Now it's for me to retire and enjoy. Uh so,
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now you know I have it all been actively, It's
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away my church already. Now I'm studying here in kl
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Let me just enjoy like three years holiday. None of
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us here can actually fund function independently.
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When we say we are.
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One body in Christ, no part of our body can
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function independently. If your ear decides to be independent, what
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happens if your decides to be one independent? You know
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you can see noses running around? Uh no, right, all attached,
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all together, all dependent on one point two owners, not
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rent us a home and not a hotel. That said
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the efficients chapter four verse sixteen. There, okay, shall we
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read it together?
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Okay?
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In one, two and three, the whole body join and knit,
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every binds up according to the effective work, by which girls,
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all right, good, all right, because I'm looking at my boat.
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It's in New King Jan's version. But yes, from whom
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each part, you know, or when each part is working
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properly together. I like us to take attention to this phrase.
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And in Greek working, okay, the word working together it
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means there is where our you know, the word energy
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comes from.
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Okay, it's all active operation.
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Okay, So that's the working and the word part in
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Greek it means assigned portion and essential share.
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All right.
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So when one generation, one group decides to stop the energy, okay,
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that's the root word of working, to stop working, all right,
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the rest of the body begins to limp.
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That's how struck happens, oh sor right. Active engagement keeps
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the whole body healthy. Literally, if you want to get
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continuously be able to live, to serve the lot, you know,
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practice health. But spiritually active engagement keeps us spiritually healthy
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as well. Yeah, so I really pray and hope that
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none of us, you know, we'll get to a spiritual
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the tardiness, spiritual inactiveness.
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Spiritual it all back seat. But let's keep active, keep engaging, okay, unpecking. Okay,
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Now I spoke about me being three years. I made
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my mind for three years, and then after the first year,
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got decided to challenge me. Not God decided, More like
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I decided to listen to the Lord a little bit.
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Because she had to use my friend ha of course,
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friend of mine. So we we hung out after that
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about a year of me being very elusive in church.
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Uh yeah, so elusive is the word. Uh well, not
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very very rare pokemons, very hard to catch a fine.
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But I will always be present, but just in time
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when the speaker is done and where she is going
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to start our child or uh you know, I will
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try to slowly sing to the back so I can
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run out of the door once the chairperson ends with
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praying for Jerusalem.
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Yeah. So uh and and and my friend had to
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ask me this question, So how is X church?
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She knows x uh, And she knows how you know
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basa canners and bassas and rays so and you know
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that for the radical faith and and how you know
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big we are on a disciple ship. So she asked
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me how it is ex I was like, so I
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get I started giving excuses. It's more like I like
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a tool lot lies so that I can't avoid saying that,
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you know, I chose this decision not to be connected.
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Okay, I thought a lot of lies. Then I think
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she just caught me. Laugh. So she's like, Okay, stop
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being so proud and say that this church is not
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good enough for you.
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Uh.
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I was like, oh oh. Then she's like the next night,
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she's like, I know you're lying.
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I was like, oh oh, so so then you know
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I decided to unpack. I'm like, okay, God, you caught me.
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I forgot to really speak so directly, right. I'm sure
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he was very disappointed with me. I am sure in
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my face.
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Uh.
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And and I decided to unpack. Have have we unpacked?
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Ah?
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Here no, brother, says Sisters in Christ.
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You know, have unpack? Or are we still sitting on
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the fence and watching? Okay, let me see what we
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gonna do. Let me see you know how these homes
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is gonna continue to grow or is it gonna shut down?
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You know, different students are you know, graduating? Let me
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just see and observe. Let me watch you know how
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the teachers are teaching the kids before I sent my
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kids there, you know, holding back our hands, crossing our arms,
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just to feel more protected and secure. But it's time church,
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you know, it's time writers and sisters to unpack. It's
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time for you to move into your permanent home here start,
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you know, bring out your favorite frame poster and hang
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on the wall. But as for performations, figuratively, okay, I'm saying, yeah,
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you can bring your own potduct plants and plant and
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your own vegetables. You can help, you know, populate the
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garden outside. Invest your time, invest your treasure, your money,
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and invest a talent to your labor.
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To help this church girl.
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Okay, not just the ruan service, Hea, but the laboring
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outside where God has placed you in your marketplace. We
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need a lot of laborers that you know, God says
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in this word right, the harvest is plentiful, but laborers
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are few. We are running church not just for a
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nice Christian fellowship here the gathering of the Saints only,
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but the church exists so that we can continuously be
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relevant to the community. So bring church to where you're at.
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That's a really good form of serving as a good
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form of unpacking and laboring. Okay, Jeremiah, Chapter twenty nine,
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Verse five and seven. We're gonna see what God spoke
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to Jeremiah. Yeah, God, you seem to actually speak to
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the exiles in babel On who attempted to just sit
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back and let life pass by. Okay, let's see what
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God said. Okay, let's read it in one two entry,
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build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat
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their produced. You guys have done that, and seek the
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welfare of the city where I've sent you into exile,
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and pray to the Lord on his behalf. Wow, difficult.
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They'll send to the land in exile, and God wants
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them to bless the land. Some of you may feel like, oh,
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I have been cheated. You know in the brochure when
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I went for the education fair in my country, there's
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like two twin towers next to the campus.
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Where's the twin towers? It felt like you have been.
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Exiled to some money in this corner of the earth. Maybe,
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but so many it's amazing, Okay, I really really love
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so many. But it may feel like an exile to you.
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But God says pray on behalf of so many stand
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on behalf of this land. Build houses, live with them,
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live with the people. Here you have your visitors is
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each other's houses.
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Besides, I know it. All leaders here have been, you know,
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visiting different families. But have your visited each other's house?
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Hang?
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Hang out? You know our students. Have you hung out
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with our families here?
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Uh?
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You know instead of the families cooking for students and students,
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you can cook something and bring over and bless the family.
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The word welfare in Hebrew means shallom, very familiar right
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this word to us, what does shallow mean? It means flourishing,
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wholeness and peace. So God told them, and all, do
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not sit around waiting by the sidelines, build, plan, pray
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and take ownership of the place where I have sent
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to you.
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It all here.
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Maybe you know, maybe I speak to the more way
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younger at heart, but the numbers doesn't really show it's okay. Uh.
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You know we we need you here as well. Uh.
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And your time is not up yet. You know you
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have all the wisdom that God has given to you.
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You know to to your life experiences.
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You know your perspective of faith uh, and the spiritual
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standing out you have, you know, can you also pass
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that on to the next generation that's here as well,
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because you know, we still need amazing adults that young
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people can look up to.
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Uh.
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You know, maybe you know you may not have the
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strength or you know, the youthful strength anymore. The carrier
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speakers and set up cables on stage. It's okay, but
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you can still serve, uh, you know, to hospitality. You
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can still serve, you know, by praying for someone in church.
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You can still serve uh. And you know, offer your
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priceless assets, you know, until the day you know, we
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meet our creator again.
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You know.
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So you know, every generation here is able to serve
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each other. All right.
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Point three Ownership must be promoted, not assume. Ownership does
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not automatically happen, Okay. It takes intentional effort to cultivate uh.
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And also in it to be invited as a Okay,
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So that's why we're doing this railing call.
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We are inviting you to be part of this all right,
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lie life.
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Yes, other times you know, we can assume or sometimes
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we wait and wait and sometimes you know, your leaders
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get extending that invite like, hey, you know, would you
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like to be part of this.
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Hey, you know, don't wait for people to come out
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to us.
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Al So when we start taking responsity and ownership, we
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go like, how can I offer help?
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I have these two hours available every way, you know,
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how what can I do? Yeah?
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X twotally four. You know, ownership was promoted to daily
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action and deliberate inclusion both okay, Ah, daily action and
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deliberate inclusion. Okay, So we're extending the inclusion invite to you.
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Uh and it takes us daily to be part of this, okay,
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why it's says and extra For before they broke break
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from house to house every day, they had house fellowship daily.
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I know.
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You know with our busy schedule, it's gonna be tough daily,
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but you.
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Know, try to be intentional, set the side time for
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each other, you know, to hang on someone that not
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so familiar to you, not within a circle of friends.
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Yeah. They shed meal together with gladness and sincerity of heart. Okay.
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Sometimes're like, okayla, since my host leader do this, I
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do this?
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Like uh? Then then I called bocam bom uh not
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not genuine not It's like you're holding back half half. Yeah,
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so so let's let's give all let's go all in
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with gladness and sincerity of heart. Yeah, and every one
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of them X two Right, they were empowered to carry
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the mission. So as a church, we're sharingly because we
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want to empower all of you to be part of
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this vision so that you can carry the mission where
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you're at.
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Okay, so let me see whether I should skip this. Okay,
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shad stick Okay.
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Every person young and season is empowered with real tasks
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and genuine trust in the mission of God's house.
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Look at Moses, Okay.
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In the Old Testament Exodus chapter eighteen, Moses was trying
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to do everything by himself.
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He did, he judged every case, he solt every dispute.
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But then his father in law Jetro, Okay, I really
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love his principle here, so we're gonna lose. Exodus eighteen,
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verse seventeen to eighteen. What did Jetro tell Moses what
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you are doing is actually not good? How can I
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called Pia one one leg kick or Malaysia saying as basically,
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you know, you're just trying to be master of all. Yeah,
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what you're doing is not good. You and the people
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with you will surely wear yourselves out for the thing
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it's too heavy for you. You are not able to
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do it alone. Wear yourself out.
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Okay.
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In Hebrew it means, wow, you were with her, you
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were decay and fade like a leaf. Right. If our
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leaders and our team is going to continuously just carry
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the burden on the church on your own without the
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participation of the eighty percent of this church, they were
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were out, they were decay. Wow, they were faith like leaves.
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So church, you know, let's continue. Do not sit on
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the sidelines. Ye have help me say a lot of
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times already. Just now the last half an hour and
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just be spectators. Okay, our leaders, you know, our serving team,
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they're still here when being they can weather from exhaustion. Okay,
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although you know you're like, okay, they're supposed to spend
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you know, their quiet time receiving the Lord God, well
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renew them and recharge them. God was settled. But on
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the human side, it still makes sense if we need help. Yeah,
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they have also twenty four hours like any one of us.
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They have their own families, their own job, their own
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studies as well. So when we carry it together, the
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burden is shut out equally. Okay, Let's not.
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Watch them with the away.
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But as spectators as well as people on the sidelines,
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we can read it also. We can read it from
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a light of purpose, and we can read it from
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these youths. Yeah, if a plan, you know, it's just
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left there. It's put you know the swiper thatally for
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example plant it's left there. No care is given, and
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it just decides to sit in the phone box and
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just watch the rooftop every time. After some time you're
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with the so because there's not much purpose it all.
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It needs to be cut and prone and then it
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starts growing again. You know, it is to be watered,
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uh in it to get fertilizing. That's where you can
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continue to eat it. And so so all of us
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here we will with a whether or not we are
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actively involved or not actively involved, all right, point of afore.
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Every partner, everyone a partner, not just a member.
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Okay, So we want to move away from the concept
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of membership into partnership. In a modern culture these days,
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our membership is very very very very very very very.
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Common, right, gym membership, country club membership, uh, every some
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most retailers. You go to this membership here and there,
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you pay your monthly fee, you get some you know,
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return discounts, good perks here and there. You get access
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to all the facilities. You give your you know, you
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see I've given my ties and my offering. I get
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access to all the message to go dot com. Uh,
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you know, I get all free access to all the
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programs and initiatives you know, ex so many hairs or
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extra hairs. But if.
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The facility is not well taken care of, you know,
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you feel like the management is not doing well, you
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just can sell your golf membership right. Uh, you're like, man,
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the golf course is full portholes, that's uh, overgrown guards everywhere.
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I just can sell and moved on new golf golf club.
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Let me treat church like just a member. You know,
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you're part of a membership. Ah, then we can just
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easily like, okay, I'm not receiving unroute myself and go.
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Speaking from a perspective, I have no friends like that
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as all. But you know, God God has caused them,
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you know, to turn from their ways. Okay, So uh,
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the scripture does not use the word member that way. Okay, Like,
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but the Bible say that we're all members in one body, right,
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it does not refer to that in a Bible, right,
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a member is referred to a part of an organ.
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Okay, in the living body.
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So like I said, if the nose decides to do
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its own thing and start running around, that in't a
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member of this body?
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Okay. If philippins Chapter one, verse five, it's easier for
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your fellowship.
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Uh. In New New International Version, he says partnership in
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the Gospel from the very first day until now. So
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Paul wrote this to the believers, thanking God for the
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believers that were there for their partnership.
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The word.
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So you may think like okay, but no, suit, it's
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not in the Bible. It is okay because in Greek, right,
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it actually means gnonia yea grinonia, all right.
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Uh.
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In fellowship, in enjoint participations, and in shed. But then
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when one body suffers, the whole body suffer. When one,
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you know, one partner in this church go through things,
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you know, the whole church comes together to support. You're
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not just passive supporters, right, we're active co laborers as well. Okay,
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all right, And I'm going to close, okay with this
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last slide last like you can go last is this
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this is the last light?
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Huh? Okay, so let's stop renting and start building together.
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All right.
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Our Asian experience or qualifications or all PhDs that you
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can obtain will not be able to help build this
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just unless we play an active part. All right, So
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let's unpack, let's take ownership, and let's continue to see,
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you know, the Kingdom of God growing. So remember where
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God has placed you. He wants to use you. God
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places you here in so many he wants to do.
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He plays you in a master place. He wants to
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use you as well. So let's let's actively partner with
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him because you know, we need to pass on to
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the next generation, right what we have even caught from
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the Lord.
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So let's belong together.
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Let's thrive together even as the Kingdom of God, so
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that you know we can all be airs right, full
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airs of the throne. Yeah, all right, let's pray Thank
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you Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Thank you Lord. Lord is just
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thank for your word today, the Lord you have even
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just reminded us even as I was preparing, as I
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was reminded again of the importance of being active partner,
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of taking full ownership where you placed me, Lord, and
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what I pray likewise for everyone of us here as well.
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Uh in even the resources that lot you have given
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to us, help us lot to unpack our bags, help
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us lot to see you know how we can continue
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to help build your kingdom. And lot, I pray the Lord,
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may you continue to enable us. Sometimes not we feel
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like God, I just don't have I just this one
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talent one might or just half a talent.
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Lot. But you know, I'm just trying to encourage you
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even that with half a talent, as we sow, God
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is going to multiply that in return a lot. I
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pray even for boldness, encourage the rise a lot, maybe
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also have that strength of sometimes lod just to move
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from being the sideline into being all in. Lord, Lord,
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I pray the Lord.
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As we do that, Lord, we're gonna see even XPG girl,
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We're gonna see even exce Minuego let me see ex
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chanch girl and your kingdom growing. At the end of
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the day. I pray that allow me you continue to
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speak to our hearts, help us a lot to change,
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you know in the areas that we need to say that. Lord,
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your name be glory fright. Lord, just thank your Lord
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and all this I pray into his name.
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Amen.
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