12+1 Core Values: Unity Guarded | Joel Loi

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You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.
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We hope this message will light up your team.
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So we're going through this series of twelve plus one
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call values.
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Yeah, okay, no one knows. Are we in a series? Yeah?
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We are.
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We are in a twelve plus one called value. You
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all got this blue book, right?
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Yeah? Everyone got the book? Waving at me. Yeah. If
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you don't have, I think we still have copies. I think.
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If not, just you know, like elbow your neighbor and say, hey,
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shall All right, okay, so.
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We're going through these whole series.
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How many of you know what call value we touched
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on last Sunday? Ownership promoting, ownership promoting Yeah, okay, all right,
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all right, good job, well done you guys.
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Okay, the week before that, prayer power huh really are.
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Okay?
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Pay everything? Ah? Then before that, pray your power.
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Yeah okay, all right, okay, okay, No, this is not
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an exam.
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No one fails in this. All right.
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So this morning we're gonna touch on another call value.
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I don't know what these number? What area nin number nine?
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Wow? Three more to go only so fast? Three?
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Last one? I think you need to got it. That's
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our topic for this morning. You need to guard it. Wow,
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something happened to the funds. Okay, hopefully it's just the
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first light you need.
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To got it. Uh. I love the word you need tea.
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I love the Wit United.
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You know that's my favorite football team. It's the only
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it's the only devil I will not cast I'm kidding again.
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I'm joking and joking. Don't don't quote me, don't write
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down in your notes. Joel said he will not cast
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out this devil. There pass a kindeth. Oh yeah, my
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son regards from I would see him and it's a
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and I foundly seen and passenger saying that regards to you.
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I don't know where they are. Where they oh yeah,
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in Malaysia. There, Malaysia, Okay, there in Malaysia. They're speaking
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in one of the church plans. All right, I think
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they'll be coming here soon. I think so.
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All right.
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So last Sunday, right past the met preached on ownership, promoting, ownership,
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promoting and the There was one question he asked that
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really just stayed on with me the whole week. Okay,
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And the question he asked was what's the difference between
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the crowd and the community. Yeah, you heard that question. Yeah,
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last Sunday asked and that's a that's a good question.
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I would think about that a bit more. So I
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wrote it down, you know, and thought about it a
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bit more. Okay, so we're in this topic unity guarded.
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Let's try and find out what the Holy Spirit want
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to review to us, even this morning. So I just
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want to let you know. If I'm holding the mic
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and you get my handshaking, it's because this week right
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earlier this week, I don't know how. I think I
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slept wrongly. You know, when you're in your forties, anything
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you do, it's okay, be wrong. When I baithel so
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you can hurt yourself, you know. So I was sleeping right,
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and then the next morning I woke up and there
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was pain on my wrist all right. So I thought like, okay,
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I think it's nothing. So the whole day I was
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just like I don't even there to do it. I
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was just like trying to like stretch it and shake it,
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you know. Then over one more night then I was like, oh,
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the pain got more intense.
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So I was at at work.
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The pain was so intense I started rubbing it, you know,
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you know Chinese there's the Chinese side of me. You know,
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like you say your bruce, you wrap the bruise. Yeah, Chinese. Okay,
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so the Chinese in me arose. My ancestors spoke to
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me and said rob it. So I robbed. I rob
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it so hot, right, I caused my whole rest to
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inflame and I couldn't bann my fingers. In fact, at
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office the whole day, I was like that, you know,
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like ready to serve tables, you know, hi, watch the order,
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you know.
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Yeah.
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Then when I came home, Leona saw me. It was
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always like we go to see the doctor. So when
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and see the doctor and yeah, doctor give me some
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pinkillers and stuff like that. That that that the next morning
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I wanted to text Selena. It's like Selena, get ready
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to preach this Sunday. You know really, you know, I'm like,
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when am I I trust God?
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You know? For americirl.
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Yeah, so almost they're almost they're still shaking, like a
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bit shacking, but it's okay. Yeah, John seventeen, that's part
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of your book, John seventeen. H oh, and different ones
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that pray for me. Thank you so much, appreciate it,
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John seventeen. We read pretty much an entire chapter that
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focuses on being one, being together, being united.
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Oh I see that word again. I love it.
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You know it verse twenty two. That they may be
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one just as we are one. Being united is not
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a preference. It is the very nature of who God is.
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Oneness is the very nature of God. Yeah, that's from
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your okay, all right, This is not some divine revelation.
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So throughout history we we witnessed, you know, we witness
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different men that recognized the power of being united. Throughout history,
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we've seen different figures, different people. So let me let
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me bring you through three figures. All right, I'm sure
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you all have heard of it. So before this man
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called Chin she Huang, all right, or shil Huang Tea
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all right, China had seven separate kingdoms warring against each other.
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Each state had its own currency, its own form of writing,
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its own measurements system, its own law.
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Everything is on their own.
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Seven kingdoms, seven separate, keep fighting against each other, all right.
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So Chang Shihuang united China by declaring himself the poet.
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He declared himself the first emperor. I like the confidence
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who died and made you emperor.
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Yeah.
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So he declared himself the first emperor, and China is
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now one nation under one ruler.
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He standardized the Chinese script.
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Officials across thousands of kilometers now can read the same documents.
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Don't need interpreters or translators. You know, all same script
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can read. Then trade and economy flourish because the currency
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was standardized. No more like seven different currencies, you know,
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no more seven different writing styles standardize. Then instead of
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each kingdom defending itself, Chin Chi Huang built one defense system,
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which is the Great Wall of China. Yeah, so everyone
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knows that story. Yeah, let me tell you about another guy. Everyone, Okay, yeah,
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don't say you come to church nel ard anything. History.
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In the Roman Empire, we had Augustus Wah who ended
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a sanctuary of civil war.
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Ha. You think your family had it better.
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This is a centul, you know, one hundred years of
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fighting each other. We all only maybe during Chinese each other.
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This one is the whole empire fight with each other
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for a hundred years. No more Romans fighting Romans. After
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Augustus came in, he created laws, he created roads, he
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created architecture, and he brought peace, order, prosperity, and security.
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So Rome prospect, the Roman Empire prospect because of what
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Augustus did. Yeah, see we learn new things again? All right,
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wal more ready for one more? Only is Helena ready?
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So in the more modern as we have Nelson Mandela.
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How many of you known Welson Mandela?
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Yeah? How many of you Nowsa Mandela know you? Okay?
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So his achievement was much more remarkable because he united
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the whole of South Africa without military conquests. He didn't
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use military power, he didn't used intimidation, he didn't use
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authoritarian control. South Africa was divided for decades under apartheid,
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a system of racial segregation. Mandela spent twenty seven years
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in prison, right, but he chose reconciliation. He chose to forgive.
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When he came up from prison, he didn't seek revenge.
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He chose to forgive, and he looked at the bigger purpose,
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which was to reconcile the nation. And his message was
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not black South America or white South America, but one
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South America. So he united the people. So, Paola, these
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three figures, one in China, one in Rome, and then
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one in South Africa. Yeah, they united the people. Was
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there anyone in the Bible that united people. Thank you
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for asking. There was Moses. Moses, Yeah, there was this guy, Moses.
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He united the Israelites, brought them out of slavery. Why
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because they were all slaves in Egypt, you know, all
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these united, all looking all looking after themselves.
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So all right.
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But Moses came and they say like, hey, guys, you
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don't want freedom or not, let's go. The Lord will
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lead me and us out of this nation, all right.
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So Moses brought the people out of Egypt, established God's laws,
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organized twelve tribes into one covenant nation, led the people
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into worshiping one god. Because under the Egyptian rule war
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there were so many different distructions, you know, but Moses
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led them. After that there was only one God that
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worship everyone.
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Okay.
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One more Bible figure David. When he became king, he
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inherited a deeply divided nation that went through civil wars.
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In Second Semuel, chapter five, verse one, you can write
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down this verse. I didn't put it on the slides.
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All tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and
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spoke saying, indeed, we are your bone and flesh. All
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tribes of Israel came to David. Before that, they were separated.
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Before that, they were these disagreements. But because of David,
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all of them came to Hebron. All of them met
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David and say, we are your borne and your flesh.
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We are one.
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So then David, because he united the twelve tribes of Israel,
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brought the art of the Covenant. You'll remember that story.
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He brought the up of the Covenant back and to Jerusalem.
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So then because he brought back out the Covenant symbolized
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what the presence of God. Yeah, so he brought back
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the presence of God to Jerusalem, so everyone was able
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to worship one God. Yeah everyone, Okay, Yeah, we're getting
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to the topic unity guarded. Then there was knie him Maya, who,
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upon discovering Jerusalem was broken.
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Yeah.
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I think person talked about him Maya last Sunday. Yeah,
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it was good. Please get the MPTG. Jerusalem was broken,
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economically weak, divided, but nie him Maya returned back to
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his people, cast the vision, created the system, We brought
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responsibilities and had Jerusalem's walls rebuilt in fifty two days,
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which was a record. So what is about unity that
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is so important? What about unity that needs guard guarding
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needs us to guard unity because in your notes you
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will see two main points. Unity is powerful and when
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we got unity, unity will guardess. We're trying to understand
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it a bit more as we go. Everyone, Okay, History
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shows us that if we don't God, unity and unity
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is abused, used wrongly. We've seen in history how it's
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used against us. You know there are people that like Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Zatung,
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Chairman Mao, all these people use unity but for the
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wrong reasons. But this morning we want to see what
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about unity so important and why might we must got
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it and how it can help us in our daily
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living as believers. Everyone, okay, okay, let's turn to X
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Chapter two, verse forty two to forty seven. Acts, Chapter two,
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verse forty two to forty seven. All right, it's on
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the screen. Can we all ready together?
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Yes?
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All right, seven of y'all, let's bead together. Here we go,
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and they in the breaking of bread. Then fear came
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upon every soul. Many wonders and signs were done through
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the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and all
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things in common, so their possessions and goods, and divided
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them among all as anyone had need. So continuing daily
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with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from
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house to house, they ate their food with gladness and
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simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all
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the people.
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And the Lord added.
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To the church daily those who were beings a man.
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God blessed the reading of his word. So three aspects
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of unity that we need to guard, you know, daily
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living Look to your neighbor and say, three types of unity.
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All right, So I think we're gonna touch on the
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first one, which is called vertical unity. There's a vertical unity.
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There's a unity between us and God. There's a vertical
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unity that we must guard. In Acts, chapter two, verse
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forty two, it shows us that they continue stepfastly in
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the apostles doctrine prayer and breaking of break.
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What is the apostles doctrine? Anyone know?
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It's the call teachings of Jesus that was passed down
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to his disciples, and then his disciples later on pass
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it down to many others. So the apostles doctrine, right,
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is what the disciples and apostles witness firsthand, what Jesus did,
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every teaching, every message, every foundational truth, all witness firsthand
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by the disciples. They practice it and they pass it
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down to the people. So it became known as the
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apostles doctrine, the core teachings of Jesus, foundational Truth and
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blueprint of So it is so important now that this
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apostle's doctrine was followed, because we are doing it thanks
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to them, because they continued doing it, and he passed on,
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and he passed on and passed on all the way
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until what we are practicing today. It's the message of
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the Gospel, the life, death, burial, and resurrection. It's also
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the identity of Jesus. All this is the Apostle's doctrine.
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Who Jesus is, what made him God incarnate. He helps
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guide believers towards spiritual maturity, holiness, understanding the Kingdom of God.
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How is our unity with God? Hm that we must God.
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The first one is the vertical unity, our unity with
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the Lord. How's our unity with the Lord? Let's ask
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ourselves that do we see eye to eye with all
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of God's teachings? Do you see eye to eye with
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all of his teachings? How about his doctrine? How about
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the things that you read in the Bible. How about
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when someone comes and share a message or share testimony,
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do you fully agree with everything that you hear, everything
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that you see, everything that you read in the Word,
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you agree?
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Or do you have like a and be maybe fifty
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percent maybe God? You know?
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Salt Land Vinegar added Chinese, saying, all right, because if
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we can't, we can't have unity with God. If we
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don't fully agree with everything that God is, his nature,
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his character, his word. If we don't agree with that,
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we can't have unity. So the vertical unity is very important.
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Two key observations about guarding our unity we got it's
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hinted in verse forty two. Continue stepfastly, and they continue
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stepfastly in apostles doctrine. What's so important about the word
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continued stepfastly? Two observations, Continue step fast it means what means.
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That's a habit, that's a culture. They do it every day.
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It's part of their being ready. You know, when you
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look at that person, you know or that's that's his
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usual practice. When you look at Ben, you know, like, wow,
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this guy exercise very often. You know, really one because
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you can see you know what I mean, it's in
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their nature. The habit continue step fastly. The other observation
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about continuous stepfastly in Apostles doctrine is that you can't
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continue stepfastly in something that you don't fully believe in
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very hard, you know, very challenging. So you continue step
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fast is something that you can align, something that you
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can agree. One thing that you can't align, and so
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one thing is.
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That you can't align.
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But I just practice it somehow because people say it's
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good for mema, I just do it like But if
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you yourself are not convinced, right, how are you able
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to share to others about it? Because you see, when
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you look at the disciples right when they continue step
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firstly in the Apostles doctrine, they believe it, they practice it,
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and they are so convinced they share to others about it. Now,
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the question to all of us is that do we
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believe everything we're reading in God's Word? And if we
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believe it, do we practice? And if we practice it,
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do we tell others about it?
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Correct or not?
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Because continue step fastly is that you need to believe it,
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practice it, and you should be able to share to
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others about it as well because you believe it.
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But if you don't believe, it's very hard to share.
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If you don't believe it, it's very hard to continue stepfastly.
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You know.
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The other reason these vertical unity is important because it's
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where you download kingdom information, kingdom knowledge, some inspiration. You
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just can't read from God's word. It needs to come
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from the spirit. You know what I mean? Yes, because
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right there will be times. I know, we talked about
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about it casually over lunch and the last time they
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wet en times. You know, we're gonna get micro chick
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you know, and stuff like that. Hey, but really, you
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know the times that are coming, right, maybe we may
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not have access to the Word of God. So how
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we gonna get information, knowledge, inspiration, leading of the Holy Spirit.
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How we're gonna get that vertical unity. We're gonna have
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this channel with God, with his kingdom so that we
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can download. Can I tell you a story? Oh, thank you, Selena.
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So there was this one time I heard this story
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many many years ago pass Kenneth, you know, when he
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was much younger, all right, not that he's much older,
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remove this part. When he was a younger man. So
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there was one time I think he was with his father,
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So I heard this story and a group of men
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were attending to this guy that was depressed and wanted
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to you know, do some self harm. And when the
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group of men went over to his place, they tried
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and minister to him, pray for him, talk to him
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for hours.
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It didn't work hours.
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And then they call up Pascana's dad and they say, hey,
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can you come and just offer some support. And of
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course Pasekenna, being a young man, he's like, all right,
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I'll just follow my dad lack. So he followed the
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dad and reached to the place. And then Pascal, you know,
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being a young man, you know, he just observed and
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saw this group of older men just praying, speaking and
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you know, trying to get this man to snap out
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of the situation.
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You know, yeah, it wasn't working.
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And then suddenly the Holy Spirit just dropped something in
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past us heart.
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Here comes this young man something dropping.
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His spirit goes to the depressed man, which the older
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men have been praying for hours and stuff like, because
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sometimes when we're in those kind of similar situations, right,
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we can't be like, you know, a friend who's depressed
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or not doing well, not a Selene. It's always okay,
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you know, I can't point to someone, you know, a
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friend who is like not doing well. You can you
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can see you know, the follow it's like maybe like
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just not doing well. And then you can't go like,
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hey you wait here, five minutes, I go get my notes.
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You know what I mean.
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We got to have such a strong relationship with the
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Lord right that then then you're whispering in your heart,
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Holy Spirit, tell me what I should say, tell me
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what I should do. And that's what happened with Pastor.
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The Holy Spirit dropped something in his heart. He went
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to the man. All he said was, how's your relationship
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with your father? And the man broke down. The man
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broke down, They prayed for him and he was delivered. Sometimes, right,
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these kind of situations, it's not about your experience. It's
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not about your spiritual maturity. You know, I've been serving God,
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I've been in church. How many years? How close your
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relationship with God is. The closer you are and the
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stronger you guard this unity between you and God, the
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more you can download from the Lord, the more that
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what men tried to do, God will tell you what
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to do, and it's done faster, you know what I mean.
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Vertical unity house, our vertical unity with the Lord? Is
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it good? Is it strong? Do we agree with everything
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we read? Do we agree with everything he says? It's
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hard to be united when we don't fully agree. It's
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hard to be united when we're not fully convinced. God
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can heal people and maybe the old testamental huh, holy
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spiritual work only for very spiritual people only. No, guys,
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God can work for you as much as he can
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work for me, as much as it can work for
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pastor Kenneth. It's not the title, it's the relationship everyone, Okay.
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Second unity, we must watch out for the horizontal unity.
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So we got the vertical unity between us and God,
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then we have the horizontal unity between us and people,
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us and people. Have you ever heard the phrase what
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on earth am I doing for Heaven's sake? What on
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earth am I doing? What on earth are we doing
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for Heaven's sake?
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Yeah?
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Because from the result of having a vertical union we've got,
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it flows to the horizontal. Okay, the vertical flows to
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the horizontal, and the horizontal unity among each other can
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only happen because that's a union vertically, you know, because
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right if you know, we know those people who are
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always like serving, serving, serving, giving, giving, giving, pouring out,
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pouring out, pouring out. You know, if you do that
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without a vertical unity, you know what's gonna happen. You're
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gonna dry out, You're gonna get tired, You're gonna get
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burnt out, You're gonna start like why am I doing?
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This?
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Is what's sustaining me? I'm drying. I'm dying, you know.
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But if we have the vertical unity, the flow from God,
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flow from the spirit flowing to the horizontal. It's a
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constant flow. The blessing will keep coming, the teachings will
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keep coming, the encouragements will keep coming, the love will
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keep coming, the peace will keep flowing. You know what
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I mean? There must be a horry zontal flow. What
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power flows through us this morning? What is what? What
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if there's only vertical union without the horizontal? Have you
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all thought about that? What if there's a vertical union?
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Are you guarding you all? My relationship? We got so strong.
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Every day I'm receiving blessings upon blessings. I feel feel
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to the overflow. Yeah, we pray those kind of prayer
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every day, but there's no horizontal flow.
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You know what happens or not. You know what happens.
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Picture our lives this morning, right, Like we are like
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this reservoir, all right, like this tone what do you
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call a tongue in English? Suddenly a bucket, a container,
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a container, and we pour water in it. Know, we
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pour water, We pour water water, and then there's no
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outflow if we leave it right, Guess what's gonna happen.
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Guess what's gonna happen. This is signs like you know
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what's gonna happen, LG L gay depends on what kind
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of dangy mosquito. Yeah, honestly, mosquito will breed. Yeah, mosquito
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will breed, yeah, L gay will bloom. Bacteria will build up,
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and then if you leave the water long enough, right,
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you can start smelling it. You know, you can start
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smelling it because there's no outflow. You know, have you
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walked to like housing areas where there's a drain, right
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and the drain is clogged, there's no outflow.
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You can smell it a mile away. You know.
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Drains were not meant to contain water. Drains will make
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two channel water away. Our lives were not made to
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just contain everything God pours up in our lives. Our
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lives are made to channeling to the people around us,
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to our family, to our friends. We're not made to
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contain all this because if it's stack Nates right, it's
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start to smell. You know, mosquitoes will start breeding, our
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lives will start looking like, hey, what you got l
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gagory on you?
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You know what I mean?
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It's not men to look like that. It's not men
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to look like that. It's men to have a flow.
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So you have to think about every blessing you receive
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from the Lord. Yeah, I mean, God bless you with
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a good job. Maybe that's your prayer. When God blesses
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you with a good job, what are you supposed to
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do with it?
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Bless others? How? How are you? How do I bless
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others with my good job?
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My good job? They're not doing my good job? Man,
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God bless me with mine? Yeah, but you can give
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you can inspire others with your testimony. How do I
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get a good job? What's saying my effort? No, it's
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because the lot bless me? Like hey, uh like, oh,
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I I actually are feel a very scaredy cat one.
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You know, I got no courage, non boldness, But now
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the lot make me bold. So God gives you bondness
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for what so you can show off your boldness. I'm
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not scared of anything. I'm not scared of ghosts. Ghost
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is bluff wheer fake one. No, God give you boness
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so that you can help shoulder someone else and say, hey,
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don't be scared. We can do this together. True story.
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In my office. Right, whenever it's like Hungry Ghost Festival
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and people start talking about ghosts, right, they'll ask me, hey, Joe,
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you're not scared of ghost Let's say no, I'm not
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scared of ghosts. Why because last time I'm scaled ghost
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but God helped me, so I'm no longer scared of ghost.
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And I always end with hey, be a Christian land,
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then your won't be scare of goes.
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So so on.
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Really, when you ask my colleagues, they'll say the same
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I mean they say that I say that. No, they
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won't say the same thing. You know what I mean.
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We were made to be channels of God's outpouring. Whatever
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you can think of boldness, encouragement, Geese love blessings. It's
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men to outflow, it's men to bless someone. Look to
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your neighbor and say, don't stag nate. So some of
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us this morning, we need an outflow from heaven to
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men and women. Every blessing you receive has a purpose.
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Every testimony is not just for yourself to enjoy. Every
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breakthrough once you receive it, help someone so that they
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can have a breakthrough as well, not just for yourself. No, hey, guys,
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look I got a breakthrough, sorry for you, No, help
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them get a breakthrough as well.
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Hey, how do you get a breakthrough? Do you just prayer?
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Do you just faster? No?
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No, no, no, you got to do this as well. You
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gotta trust the Lord. But you're still so worry after
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you trust the Lord. Huh you trust a lot, means
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you trust the don't need to worry.
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Oh yeah yeah yeah, I will get my breakthrough to
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that everyon.
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Okay, yeah, So if you if you ask me, hey, Joel,
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how to have an outflow?
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Yeah?
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I believe that. Yeah, outflow is important. Yeah, we should
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have an outflow in our lives. So how do we
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have an outflow? The clue is in verse forty three.
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Where's verse forty three? The clue is in verse for
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the three, So verse forty two starts with I remove
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the numbers, sorry, guys, and they continue to step fastly
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in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread,
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and in press. Then fear came upon every soul, and
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many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. That's
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verse forty three. What's the keyword there? What do you
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think the keyword is there? What's the clue to have
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an outflow?
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Fair? The word is? Then?
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Then this is an English thinger, it's an English thing.
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You can only enjoy what happens after the word. Then,
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after you've done what's before the word, Then your cat
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should I say, you can eat. You can only enjoy
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the wonders and signs done through the apostles after you've
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done the continued stepfastly in the apostles, doctrine, fellowship and
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breaking a bread and empreyers. Then what's your then?
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Huh?
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You can only enjoy what happens after the word. Then,
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after you've done what was before the word, Then let
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me give you an example. I exercise every day, then
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I can look good, shiritless at the beach.
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Yeah, pray not. I give.
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Your internal jokes so that I give my best at word.
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Then I know I will be rewarded with bonus in creement,
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so on and so on. Yeah, I respond during Joel's sharing,
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then maybe he will wrap up faster.
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We get terrible. We can only enjoy what's after the word.
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Then, after we've done what was before the word, then
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everyone caught that. So how do we have an outflow?
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You have an outflow in your life to the people,
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to your family, to your friends, to your colleagues if
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you continue stepfastly in Apostles doctrine, fellowship, breaking a bread
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and impress. It's not that complicated. It's simple, but it's
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also very hard. Can we do it?
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We can? We can.
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So we need to apply what's before then to enjoy
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what's after. Then you want to see signs and wonders
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take place in your life, at your work, in your home,
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with your family and friends. Continues stepfastly in the Apostles
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doctrine and earlier on when I share what's the Apostles
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doctrine is all the basics of our Christian faith. What
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we're practicing today is the basics science and wonders is
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to bless our family and our friends and when the
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lives around us are impacted. When the outflow goes out
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and blesses the people, encourages the people, feeds the soul
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and the spirit of the people. Then there's unity because
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everyone starts believing in the same thing.
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Everyone starts belieing.
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Wow, actually, yeah, I feel peace after the prayer, Thank
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you so much. Then a's believe. Then that's faith. Then
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everyone comes together. That's how unity happens. That's how the
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union comes together. So there's a vertical unity, and then
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there's a horrizontal unity.
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Everyone caught something. Yeah.
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Third, and last, you respond and Joe and ah, unity goted.
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Unity is powerful. Unity needs to be protected.
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There's a third unity, and perhaps it's one of the
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more challenging ones, and it's the unity within. Is the
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unity within is the unity between your heart and your mind.
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So first, that's a vertical unity. It's a unity, a
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union between us and God, us and his kingdom. Then
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there's a unity between us and the people around us,
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our friends, our family. And then third is that we
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have a unity within us our heart and our mind
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Verse forty four. Now all who believe were together and
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had all things in common, sold their possessions and goods
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and divided them among all as anyone had need. Here
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we see a picture where people believe in your hearts.
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How we know they believe. The Bible says that now
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all who believe, all who believe, came together. Right, So
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some of us are sitting this morning, I believe that
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even as we're seated here, right, we've probably been believing
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for many years. We probably have been believing for a
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long time. Now you're probably believing longer than me. But
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there's a disconnect somewhere. You read your Bibles, you sing
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the worship songs, you serve even but then there's a gap.
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Something is disconnected, something is not aligne, something's not fully right.
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If the heart is full of belief, then the disconnect
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is happening in the head. The unity of the heart
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and the mind. Put yourself in the shoes of someone
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in verse forty four. All right, let's do a bit
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of imagination, Kenna, everyon. Okay, let's put ourselves in the
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shoe of someone that's there. We believe, we come together. Yeah,
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heart is full of belief, you know. Yeah, You're like,
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whoa God, It's so good man, Jesus is so real. Wow, amazing,
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Holy Spirit man, you saw everyone speaking in different languages. Amazing,
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you know, like everyone is like sharing one another, full
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of belief, full of faith. Yeah, we've come out from
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camps like that. We've come out of conferences and everyone's
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like yeah, yeah, fool full of faith, full of belief.
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Yeah.
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Then someone right in your group yeah says hey, I
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got a suggestion.
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Let's go sell all our possessions. What sell all our
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possessions and goods? What? Wait?
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Wait, I got another suggestion. Then we divide all equally.
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Everyone gets equal. Yeah, no one will have more than
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the other.
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Huh.
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You just come out from a conference and a camp
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with the holy spirit, full of belief, full of faith,
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like yeah, I love Jesus, Jesus loves I'm ready to
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go fuck and take the world, you know, shat a
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gospel readly, you know. And then it's like it's not
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everything you have. Wait, wait we're talking. You know, I
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picture it, you know, because someone has to suggest that,
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someone has to.
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Suggest, hey, let's go sell all the possessions.
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I feel that. It's like, you know, all of us
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have been through schooler. It's like we're all see things
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in class, right, and then like we're like, oh, the
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time is gonna energy, the time is gonna end, and
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I'm one of our wonderful friends. Were like, teacher, you
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forgot to give us homework, Yo, what are you doing?
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You know?
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Or we had assignment and then that's as like didn't
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hand in, and then it's like teacher.
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You forgot to ask us for assignment? Like why what
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you're doing? Bro?
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I feel like it's one of those situations. We're full
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of faith, full of belief, you know, we're like, yeah,
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God so good. You know, someone says he let's go
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sell out possessions, divide them all so that no one
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has lack and everyone is equal.
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Uh.
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I put myself in those situations and not in those
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In that situation, you know, the first thing that crossed
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my mind, I'm so carnal, Right, pray for me, and
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I'm standing there, I'm.
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Like, sell my possession.
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But the guy doesn't work as hard as me, being real,
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don't judge.
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Me, la all right?
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And then and and and then some some are probably
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standing there like, yeah, but shouldn't there be some marrit system?
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Yeah?
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Me, if you work longer, you should be awarded. Mahma, right,
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everyone get equal to hey and then the fuller yesterday
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when he just joined the known he get equal you know. Wow,
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we're thinking all that. I am thinking all that, you know,
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and then someone probably coming out and say, let's start.
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And excel sheet so that everyone gets the same thing.
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Like hello, Uh, I don't know about you, but me,
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I think there's this internal wrestling match.
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Full of faith, full of belief. But then now when
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the rubber meets the road, right, sell your possessions? Huh?
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Go full time industry? What go into missions?
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How about my work? How about my children? But you
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dedicate your children to me? Redema means I will take
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care of them? What are you so worried?
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Yeah? But where's milk powder that come from? God? Where's
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diaper gonna come from? You know what I mean? We
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have all these very natural thoughts, not wheela me.
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I have all these natural thoughts like yeah, I can
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be full of faith. But then there's no unity between
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the heart and the mind. The mind starts calculating, The
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mind starts thinking, are you sure do you think you
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can do this?
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Yeah?
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I know you're full of faith, But are you gonna
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quit your job? Who's gonna sustain you? How are you
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gonna put food on the table? And that's the part
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that holds us back from receiving more and doing more.
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Me not weela, that's the part that holds me back
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because that's the that's the world, you know, and that's
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the disconnect, that's the gap. And because there's there's no
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unity between the heart and the mind, right, that's why
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we don't have that. We don't have everything in in common.
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So when the Bible says that all the disciples are
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everything in common and all the people everything means they
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really had everything common, you know, sold everything and everyone
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was happy. And we're gonna read about that. Okay. Someone
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once said that the longest journey a person has to
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take is from the hate to the heart. It's from
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the hate to the heart because we think too much,
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you know. Sometimes in X two forty four says that
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everyone had everything in common and that the chapter ends.
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That's the best part of this chapter. The chapter ends
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with the chapter ends with everyone ate with gladness, praising God,
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and the church growing.
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Oh wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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So earlier we read that, so your possessions and divide
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them equally. Then you have people like me who be thinking, like,
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wouldn't that bankrupt you, you know, like, wouldn't it be unfair?
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Wouldn't that be bad?
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Wouldn't people be miserable and upset that things are not equal? No,
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because he ends with everyone ate with gladness, praising God,
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and the church grew.
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Ah.
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He didn't say people grumble. He didn't say that people
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left the church. He didn't say that people were miserable.
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Something to think about, friends, something to think about. Because
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he spoke to me as well, there's a unity that
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we need to guard internally. Yes, there's the unity that's
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between us and God, within us and people. But there's
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a unity inside us that constantly divides us, constantly takes
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us back instead of moving us forward. The heart and
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the mind is very powerful. Can we look another portion
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of scripture? Matthew, chapter nineteen, verse sixteen to twenty two. Matthew,
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chapter nineteen. This story is very, very familiar to all
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of us. Is where Jesus counsel the rich young ruler.
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How many have you heard that story before? Wave your hands?
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So what happened was that uh one came to him,
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the rich young ruler, and say, good teacher, what good
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things shall I do that I may have eternal life?
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Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?
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No one is good, but one that is God. If
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you want to enter life into life, keep commandments? Which ones?
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He asked.
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Jesus said, you shall not murder. Blah blah blah bla
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blah blah blah blah. The young man said to him
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to say to Jesus, all these things I have kept
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from my youth, All these things I have kept from
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my youth, What do I still like? Jesus said to him,
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if you want to be, if you want to be,
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if you want to be perfect, go sell what Oh
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sound so familiar. I wonder where they came from. What
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you have, and give to the poor, Oh, and you
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will have treasure in heaven.
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Come follow me.
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But but when the young man heard that saying, he
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went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
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M hm.
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The rich young ruler's heart was full of belief. How
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do we know he was full of belief because he
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followed every commandment. You don't believe in the commandment, your follower,
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cory not. He believed, he followed, But then he asked Jesus,
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what do I still like?
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Hmmm?
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And Jesus said, go sell what you have, give it
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to the poor. You have treasure, and he him follow me.
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He didn't, he couldn't, and he went away sorrowful. Why
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because for the rich young ruler. The difference between the
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rich young ruler and the Aparcels and the disciples and
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the people in xt. Chapter two was that the rich
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young ruler had to disconnect with the heart and the mind.
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His heart was full of belief.
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But his mind started thinking about his possessions, started thinking
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about this is my heart work, God, give to the offering.
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This is my time, Lord, go for missions. Sunday is
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my only rest day. God, serve the church. Friday night,
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homes is far away. Go to homes. I rather go
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home and sleep. That's a disconnect. That's a disconnect. Jesus
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didn't have a disconnect. You know, he knew he had
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to hate to the cross. What do you think he
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was thinking, Hey, the cross is painful. You know, That's
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why he prayed at the garden of Gatsemane. God Father, God,
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he take this cup away from me. Because Jesus in
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his mind new but in his heart he was full
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of faith and believe. He knew this was something he
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was caught and that he needed to do. But for Jesus,
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between the difference between Jesus and us is that Jesus
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had no disconnect between the heart and the mind. That's
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why he went to the cross, That's why he still
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did what he did. Amen, sitting here this morning, maybe
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some of us that's a disconnect. We believe, but actions
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find it hard to follow through. We believe, but.
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Nothing else comes after that. That's the heart, but the
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hate stops it. The danger is that we have this
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constant wrestling match internally constant, you know, and it's hard
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to progress, hard to move forward in the Lord.
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Everyone.
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Okay, So Pastor met started, not started. He spoke last
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Sunday and he asked a question, what's the difference between
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the crowd and the community. So this morning, even as
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we touch on the topic of unity guarded, we need
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to guard the unity between us and God. We need
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to guard the unity between us and people because there
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are so many things that will try and take the
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people away.
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We must guard that.
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Then there's also a unity between our heart and our
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mind that we need to guard as well. So what's
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the difference between a crowd and a community? I like
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the word community because He has two words in there,
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which is common and unity. You can't be a community, right,
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there was nothing common about it. The real question today
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for you and I is that is there anything common
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between you and God? Is there anything common between me
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and God? We've got to ask ourselves this morning, because
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if there's nothing common between you and God that can
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be unity, It's gonna be very hard. No commonness? How
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to how to have community? Nothing in common? How to
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be united? Think of the relationships you know, like me
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and Leona. Yeah, we may be different people, we may
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have different likes and dislikes, preferences, but there must be
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something common between us. Yeah, the love for each other. Yeah,
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that's why we stay together. That's why we thrive together.
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In a relationship. There must be something. If there's no
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common nothing common, how a relationship can sustain? You don't
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get what I mean. If there's nothing common, and how
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can the relationship grow? How about your commitments? Whatever commonment
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you can think of, whether it's work, whether it's ministry,
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if there's If there's nothing common, how will it how
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will it flourish?
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How will it grow? Mm? Hm?
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There will be constant misalignment, constant strife. If we think
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about the church that you're in today, whether it's Exampan
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or you know, the plants. Is there anything common between
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you and the church that God has placed you in,
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Because just like a relationship with there's nothing common between
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you and the church that you're planted in. It is
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very hard to grow, very hard to flourish. Amen. Amen,
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can we have the extreme team to come up. We're
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gonna close, but we're gonna close with some thoughts as
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we talk about unity gathered everyone, Okay, ah, yeah, eeryon, Okay,
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smile at me.
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Please smile at me. Smile at me. It's real. It's real.
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It's real for me, all right. Nothing in common for
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some of us. Maybe that's why we are unhappy. Maybe
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we're unhappy. Maybe we're not satisfied, feeling unfulfilled. You know,
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we have a great job, not satisfied, have money in
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the bank, yet we still feel poor, have friends and
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family around us, but feel alone. Maybe you're thinking to
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yourself and oh, maybe I need a better job. Then
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you get a better job, that's it off. Oh maybe
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I need more money in my bag.
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What the help?
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Maybe for a while, maybe I need different friends. I
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don't know that that's your choice. Maybe I need to migrate,
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you know, a new environment, new country. Yeah, maybe the
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air fresher that will be a better me.
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You know.
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Maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe we need to have unity
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with God. Maybe we need to have unity with His people.
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Maybe we need to have unity within. Maybe that's the
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solution for you and I this morning.
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We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
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information on our church, please visit at church. We are
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also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that this
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week is going to be a good week, a hit
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for you.
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God bless