What's Your Tribe? - Heaven Part 6

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Now, I don't know about you
guys, but I got a little bit of

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a reminder as I came in here
today.

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Some of the stuff we're talking
about today in the message, the

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only answer that I could come up
with is that I had no words.

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But with God, you always have
one word that you can always

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give.
And even when you have no

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answers, when nothing makes
sense, you always have praise

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that you can offer your King.
If you come away with any

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reminder, let that be the
reminder.

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Man.
Thank you so much for everyone

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being in here in the house
today.

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Can you give it up for
yourselves?

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Can you get up for the online
crew and go ahead and take 30

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seconds, greet anybody and
everybody that's around you?

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Man, I hate to break up
conversation, but you guys can

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go ahead and take a seat.
If you look up on the screen, we

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have something called a
connection card.

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It's up here on the screen.
You're going to find it on your

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seat.
If you're new here, this is for

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you, but I'm going to ask you to
fill out the top of this

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connection card, not because we
want something from you, but we

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want something for you.
We just want to get to know you.

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We want you to come and
introduce yourselves to us and

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it filters everything that we do
as a church filters through you.

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You guys are our mission.
Our mission as this church is to

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see people discover their real
life and purpose in Jesus.

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This is what we pray about every
week.

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Every week that we have our
message, we see hands raised and

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people follow God.
That is our win.

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That is our North Star that
guides.

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So if you're new, go ahead and
find that connection card, get

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that filled out and please get
it turned in because I'll just

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reiterate, we really want to
meet you.

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That's why we do all that we do.
And moving gears, I don't know

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about you guys, but raise your
hand in here.

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If this series on heaven has
been challenging for you, if

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it's giving you the
encouragement to look at life in

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a different way, well, I'm going
to the encouragement.

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I've been working on a class
right now.

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I've been finishing a project on
Acts and there's something that

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I've never really noticed before
or I haven't really put words to

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it.
But when you go through Acts and

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you read Acts, something that
sticks out is how different

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everybody in the early church is
from each other.

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You have Jews, you have Greeks,
the gentiles, you have the

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intellectual elites in Athens,
you have the blue collar workers

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in live show.
You have all these different

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people from all walks of life
from all different perspectives

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with all different problems
coming together and finding a

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new identity, an identity in
Jesus Christ and nothing else

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alone.
So as we get ready to jump into

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this message with Barry, I'm
going to give you guys the

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encouragement and the challenge
that what if thinking about

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heaven, it changed not only the
way you think about life, but

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what if it changed the way you
think about identity in the way

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you pursued relationships in
love?

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Go ahead and give up.
A real warm welcome for Barry

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Hardy, who's bringing our
message on.

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Heaven, What's up real life?
If I know it feels weird, you

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should be calling me Dad, right?
Always.

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I've got, I've got a cousin.
He never called his dad by.

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He never said dad.
He always called him Larry.

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And I'm just like, man, it's
just it's always weird.

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So man, did you guys have a good
week?

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Man, I don't know about you
guys, but if you were in a live

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group this week, man, what a
great start.

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How many of you guys are in live
groups?

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You've got it for live groups,
man Awesome man.

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Thank you guys.
Thank you Life Group leaders #1

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for just giving some time and
it's encouragement.

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I kind of give you this courage,
but if you haven't found your

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life group, there was one for
you.

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You'll find a life group, man.
It is life giving.

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We say all the time, but we
gather here at Real Life on

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Sundays at at Kentucky Trail and
this isn't where it stops, man.

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We go throughout the week and
the people that you get to meet

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become your family.
They honestly do.

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They're the people you can call
at 3:00 in the morning for

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whatever.
Start with Sean and then you can

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move to me, but then go to your
life group, right?

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I called him at 7 the other
night.

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He didn't answer for me.
So I think he was, I think he

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wasn't feeling he's a little
under the weather.

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But man, my courage for you guys
is find your life group, man.

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They are where you find life.
Other awesome thing you guys can

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hear about a little bit more.
We are doing a welcome party

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today.
So if you are new or newer, man,

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our courage man is don't run out
after this gathering.

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Come hang out with us.
We would love just to visit with

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you hanging out.
It's just right past the

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bathrooms.
You'll see the signs for it

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again.
You'll hear a little bit more.

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I don't a little bit.
So today is something a little

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different in Kansas City than we
normally have experienced in the

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last several years.
What's today?

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You guys know Super Bowl, right?
And you guys don't have the

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passion that you guys have had
the last couple years.

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Why?
I don't get it.

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I don't understand.
We'll be back next year.

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I miss Tony or he he hope.
Hope springs eternal with that

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young man.
It's a little different because

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we're not involved, right man, I
can, I'm going to give you a

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confession time.
Like when I grew up up to

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probably in my mid 20s and life
destroyed me a little bit just

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from work and just stuff.
I love sports.

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Not only do I love sports, I
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I'm the guy that had the stats.
I'm the guy that just knew every

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player that was going to get
drafted.

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My son's a little bit like that
now.

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And here's the best thing.
Here's what I really enjoyed

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about sports.
You could pick your team, right?

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And in Kansas City, you know,
there's a lot of different

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places, you know, a lot of
different teams we would fight

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over.
So there's some right and wrong

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answers here.
Are you guys MU or KUMU?

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If you say K, you're wrong.
K State's acceptable.

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K State's acceptable.
Enemy of my enemy is my friend,

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right?
You know who I was always You

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know who I was always impressed
with when I'd go to Arrowhead

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and I'd see that one Raiders guy
in the bottom Mike.

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That guy's either the stupidest
guy in the world or he's just

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man, he's all in.
He doesn't care where he's at.

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He's going to represent.
And I would see Chiefs fans do

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the same thing where they're in
Denver or wherever the Raiders

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were were were playing at the
time because they kept getting

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kicked city to city, right.
The best thing was just having

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this identity, man.
The, the, the I remember and

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it's just like it happened
yesterday, NCAA Final Four,

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March Madness, and I live for
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We would have, we used to bet in
school, we bet our teachers,

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we'd have pots going.
I know that's not really

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Christian, right?
But that's what I we live for

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it.
And the one night that broke my

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heart was when a Christian
Leitner hit that turn around

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because there's one team that I
hate more than KU and it's a

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Duke.
And when they sunk that shot to

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win, I was just devastated.
So as I think about sports and

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things like that, that's kind of
gone for me a little bit, but I

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still see how we all identify
and we find our people.

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And today we're going to talk a
little bit about tribes and

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there's a lot of things we fight
about and we and kind of it's

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fun like sports.
I know there was some car guys

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in here, right?
There's one at the back.

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You guys like Ford or Chevy?
Chevy got a Ford guy back here.

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He loves his Mustangs, right?
Or are you hiding?

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You're supposed to be back
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You couldn't give him a Cam or a
Camaro.

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Well, you might give it to me.
You sell them and get a Mustang,

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right?
But man, I grew up Ford versus

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Chevy there.
What else do we fight about?

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Stupid stuff, right?
Toilet paper up, flipped up or

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flipped down, right?
There's a lot of silly things

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like this.
One of the things that I thought

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about as Sean's been preaching,
man, I've loved this series on

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heaven.
And the thing about heaven is

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this is that we're going to
spend eternity.

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And we've looked at that, what
it looks like, you know, are we

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going to know each other?
What are we going to be doing?

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But I'm going to be spending
eternity with you guys and all

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those little simple, silly
things that we kind of fought

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about or just teased each other
about, we know that those things

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are going to disappear, right?
But there's a lot of things that

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we tend to divide over in this
world, man, that are a little

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held a little closer, right?
And so as we go through today, I

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want you guys to keep the idea
of if, if we're going to spend

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eternity with each other, if
we're going to be in heaven.

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Is there something that Jesus
has to say about this time on

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earth?
He preached a lot about its

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Kingdom.
The Kingdom of God is coming and

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is near and is at hand, and it
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And as Jesus gives us these
these commands and Paul gives us

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these, these, these
exhortations, I'm challenged so

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many times in my living the way
that God has called me to live.

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Because the things that really
divide us, that we care about

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and that we get upset about, a
lot of times they come from our

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values, things that we hold
dear, things that we were raised

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with, right?
And then we see somebody else on

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the other side and they're not
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they don't believe the way that
we do or they don't live the way

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that we want them to live.
And there becomes this division

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that I don't that I don't think
God honors and God wants for us.

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And so today with the viewpoint
of heaven, I really want to get

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into the to, to, to the, the
nitty gritty, the real life of

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how we move day in and day out,
because what are some of those

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things that that divide the
world?

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You guys are all have something
on your mind right now.

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And I'll list a few of them
because they're probably the

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ones that jump out at you.
So many ways that we divide

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ourselves.
Some of the biggest ways is over

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identification of what we look
like, right?

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It's black versus white, it's
white versus Hispanic.

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We have this idea of what race
is and how it divides us and

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who's in our crew, who's on our
clan, who's in our tribe and

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who's not.
And as the world moves, we see

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that happen across the world.
It doesn't happen just in the

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United States, right?
You look at the the war between

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Ukraine and Russia and they're
basically, they're basically

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brothers.
They're cousins.

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You look at the war in, in, in,
in, in, in Israel between, in

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Gaza, between between Israel and
and the Palestinians, right?

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These are things that divide us.
What else divides us?

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Here's a good one, left versus
right politics, right.

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Got a little more quiet on that
one, didn't it?

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How do you vote?
Because I want to know.

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Because if you tell me how you
vote, who you voted for, I know

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exactly who I'm dealing with
right now.

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I know how to size you up.
I know what to think about you.

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I know what you value.
I really know what you're worth.

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And that's what we do.
And we're going to come back to

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some of these male versus
female, right?

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Another great division point,
the politics of how that breaks

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out, whether it's college
sports, who's in power, who we

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allow it to be CEO, who he
called to do different types of

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jobs, right?
These are things that have

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divided this country for the
last several 100 years.

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And here's what I'm going to do
today.

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And here's what I want to do.
I'm not here to give you an

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opinion, my thoughts, my values,
really my goal for you guys is

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this.
I want to challenge you through

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God's Word to look at these
issues, how Jesus sees them.

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And I don't have to guess and
you don't have to guess because

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he plainly tells us how we
should value things because how

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we look at each other is the
core of the church, right?

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It's the core of the gospel.
So we're going to go, I'm not

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much of A preacher.
I'm more of a teacher.

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So we're going to we're going
to, we're going to teach today

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and we're going to learn
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OK.
And so we're going to start with

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some verses.
I'm going to give you guys a

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couple verses and I'm going to
have you guys read, you read

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them with me.
And then we're going to revisit

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some of these issues and we're
going to read them in the

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context of these verses.
And I'm going to tell you some

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stories from from from the
Gospels.

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And I hope you guys tie this
into how you guys move day in

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and day out.
So the first verse that I want

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to give you guys is this.
It's in Galatians, Galatians

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328.
So I want you guys to read with

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me.
Can you guys do that?

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All right, together there is
neither Jew nor Gentile, neither

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slave nor free or is there male
and female for you are all one

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in Christ Jesus.
How many of you have heard that

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verse?
Can you raise your hands?

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How many of you guys know what
that verse means?

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All right, we read those words
in a lot of times.

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We understand the, the, the just
of Woody's what, what Paul's

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getting at.
But sometimes we miss the

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context and, and, and what Logan
was talking about was absolutely

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true.
I'll flesh this out a little bit

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more in a minute, but these are
the three main divisions of

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people tribes that Paul would
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These are how people split
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in his culture, in his day.
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If you were Jew, you were what
you were the covenant people of

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God.
You were the, you were the

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people that the Old Testament
was written to.

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If you were a Gentile, you were
outside of that.

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Now, there were some Gentile
believers that got pulled into

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and into, into the Judaism, into
into that faith.

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But for the most part, there was
a hard divide.

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And when the church started,
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In fact, it was, it was, it was,
it was, it was a very, very

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alarming thing when Peter was
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the Gentiles and then Paul
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Gentiles.
When that church started, that's

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not what they thought was going
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They thought this was the
Messiah.

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It was the Jewish Messiah.
It was for them.

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It wasn't for the rest of the
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And so when Paul's reaching out
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writing to this church in
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churches.
There's no more Jew.

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There's no more gentile, neither
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What a division.
We don't have slavery anymore.

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But when you think of slavery
here in this country, it's

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chattel slavery.
It was based on race.

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It was based on bringing other
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Well, in that time there was
more of an indentured servitude,

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but in in that society, you were
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If you were a slave, you had no
rights, you had no power, you

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had nothing.
You couldn't vote.

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You were less than the less
right.

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You read the stories of like the
prodigal son coming back.

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Hey, I want to come back and at
least be a slave in in my dad's

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household because at least they
eat and that's the extent of

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what they got right.
Or if you want to read Philemon

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in the story of Oneessimus and
radically changed what the view

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of a slave was going to be.
But Can you imagine?

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We don't have slavery
necessarily here today, but we

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have this division of economics
in our country, right?

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So I'd like to say this.
So we have the haves and the

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have nots, you have the rich,
the poor.

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And what often times happens is
that you put yourself in

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whatever category that you think
you belong and you look down on

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the other group, right?
Run in circles where people have

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done very, very well financially
and they look at anybody else

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around them.
They're like, well, they're,

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they're poor because of XY and Z
and they look down on them.

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But then I've seen the opposite.
Because I work in concrete and I

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work around the guys.
Nobody's a millionaire's doing

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what I do.
And I work around a lot of guys

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that have like this, this, this
attitude of, of, of, of greed.

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And they look up and they're
like, those people don't deserve

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it.
I deserve it.

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And if I had it, I would do
better with those resources than

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they do.
So we split and we divide over

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it.
And then the last one is a is,

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is just the idea of of, of of
of, you know, the, the, the

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politics, you know, all one in
Christ and we'll and we'll visit

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this when we take these
divisions where there's male,

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female, slave or free Jew or
Gentile, and we allow these to

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divide us.
Paul saying you're missing the

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point because what are we one in
we one in this tribe or that

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tribe?
What does Paul, what does Paul

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say that we're one in Christ
Jesus, right?

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But so many times we missed that
point.

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Second verse I want you guys
read with me is in John, John

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chapter 13.
This is 34 through 35.

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Before we read it, I want to
give you guys a little bit of

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context of when this was
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This was at the Last Supper.
This is one of the last things

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that Jesus told his disciples.
If you're getting ready to go

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and die and be crucified, do you
think you're sharing important

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things or just like, Oh yeah, I
forgot about this, Let me let

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you know about it, right?
That's not what Jesus was doing.

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Jesus was saying, hey, this is
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This is important.
And even in that moment, the

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disciples, they missed it
because you know what happens

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right after this, this verse
that we're going to read,

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Peter's like, I'll go with you,
I'll do anything.

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And then Peter or Jesus predicts
Peter's denial.

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And so I want you guys to read
with me because this is on

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Jesus's heart, what he wants for
us.

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John 1334 read with me.
You guys again, right?

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A new command I give you love
one another as I have loved you,

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so you must love one another.
By this everyone will know that

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you are my disciples.
If you love one another a new

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command a lot of times how many
guys that have siblings?

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Very many of you guys, a lot of
you do you guys ever get you

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have to wear the buddy shirt?
Did you ever get that?

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You have to love your brother?
You have to love your sister.

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I'm like, I'll say it, I don't
mean it, right?

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And a lot of times I would I, I
would have, you know,

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conversation with my friends
like man, I have to love my

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brother, right?
I don't really love him, but I

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have to love him.
And that's kind of how we would

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take it.
You know, that's my family,

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that's my blood.
I have to that's, that's the

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family that I was given.
It was the one I was born to.

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It's not the one I chose, right?
But the church is the one that

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God chose.
And I love how he frames this.

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A new command.
And you don't see Jesus giving

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out very many commands, do you?
He just doesn't do it.

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He gives examples, he gives
parables, he gives stories.

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There's very few times that he
gives us a command and this is

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one of them.
Love one another.

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How you ever thought about how
Jesus loved you and that we're

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commanded to love each other the
way that Jesus loves us?

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How did Jesus love us?
He loved us with everything.

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And in this moment, he's getting
ready to get crucified.

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He's getting ready to give up
heaven, who he was.

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He's getting ready to get
mocked, beaten, destroyed,

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broken down, scourged,
humiliated.

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And that's how he loved us.
And it's a challenge for me to

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think about.
Do I I not only love my real

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life family the way that Jesus
loves me, but do I love other

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churches, other Christians,
whether in this country or

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across the world?
Do I love them in a sacrificial

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way that Jesus loves me?
And in a moment of honesty, most

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of the time I have to answer,
I'm like, I don't know that I

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do.
I don't know that I live up to

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that standard, but I recognize
it as a standard, something that

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God's called us to.
And I love this other part.

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We are living as a church before
a watching world.

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You guys ever feel like you're
getting watched?

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Yeah, for sure.
Right.

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How many times do we let down
the world because we act like

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they do?
I'm not surprised when the world

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gets in fights over politics or
over over gender or over

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economics.
But when the church does the

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same thing, I think it's a black
eye.

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And how can we keep the vision
of what Pastor Sean's talked

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about with heaven?
How can we say that we believe

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that and we're living for that.
And that's what we're called to.

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And that's what we're looking.
That's our hope when we hold on

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to the things of the earth.
Man, growing up, I grew up in a

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Baptist Church and I always
heard if we ever talked about

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heaven, we always heard it as a
choice of of two, right?

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You'd picked either what heaven
or what?

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That's not how Jesus frames it.
Now, he talks a lot about hell,

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but most of the time when he
talks about choosing the Kingdom

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of God in heaven, the
alternative is earth or heaven.

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Because he knew that it was easy
for us to say that we wanted

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heaven, but then we choose
earthly things.

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And so many of his stories, like
the rich young ruler, it's not a

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choice of heaven and hell, which
ultimately it is, but it's a

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choice of what do I put first?
My wants, my needs, my identity,

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who I am, how I'm valued.
Because that's the idea of what

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a tribe is, right?
What is a tribe?

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A tribe is people that look like
me, that think like me, that

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believe like me.
And, and for so many ways that

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you think that it is a very
pragmatic way to do it.

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I had an uncle that he loved
Native American history, man.

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He would just take me to places
and we would read books and I

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would read about Sitting Bull
and I would read about Geronimo

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and I would read about how these
tribes identified and, and how

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they warred against each other.
And some were peaceful and some,

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some were more warlike if they
all had an identity, right, that

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you were the Apache or Lakota or
Cherokee.

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And it was interesting to see
how these tribes worked.

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But by nature, a lot of humanity
is tribe, tribal.

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And so when we identify, we do
it because we want to hold the

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other people out because they
can't be trusted.

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We can't love them because
they're not like us, right?

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And whatever we use as a
division, whatever uses a tribe

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to separate and hold each other
out.

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And that's not what Jesus has
called us to.

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That's not what Jesus has called
this church to or the church

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universal.
And so I've shared with you guys

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2 verses.
I want to share with you guys

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three quick stories from from
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One's a story that he told, and
two are examples of how he

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lived.
And I want you guys to think of

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the things that divide you guys.
Maybe you have a divided family.

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Maybe you have a divided
workplace, maybe you have a

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division, maybe even within the
walls of this of, of real life

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of how you see the world
different than they do.

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And then as you read these
stories, I want you to let

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Jesus's words in his example.
I want you to let that feed into

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your heart and let us as as as
as a church grow together in

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what God's called us to.
So race is one of the first

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things I mentioned.
And honestly, if you read

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Genesis, I don't think race is a
real thing.

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I think it's a construct.
When God created humans, who do

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you create?
Adam and Eve.

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Now, how we all changed over
time.

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We still have the same parents,
we're all still the same people.

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We are one human race.
But for us, how we look, how

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we're shaped, how we're built,
we divide over that because,

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well, they look that way.
So they go to that church or

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they go to this society.
In fact, one of the most famous

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quotes is do you guys know what
the most segregated hour in

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America has historically been
church hour Sunday morning.

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Why some of us just because our
communities who we just tend to

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be around, but some of its
culture.

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But to me, I don't know that
it's always the best thing.

447
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,560
I know it's not the best thing,
but how we navigate that is

448
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,720
that's just that's kind of a
growing thing.

449
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,400
That's how how, how, how Christ
missed the church, right?

450
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,720
But when we look at race, I
think a lot of times we we miss

451
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,840
it and we don't understand
what's really going on.

452
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,840
I'm going to tell a story of one
of my kids.

453
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,160
I probably shouldn't do this,
but you guys are going to like

454
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,800
it.
You guys remember the movie Lone

455
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,680
Survivor Marcus Luttrell, right?
I think that's his name.

456
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,800
Great movie.
I had AI had a little bit of a

457
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,640
moral dilemma when it came out.
My two boys, I think Coleman was

458
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,160
8 and Logan would have been like
8 or 9 and and Logan would have

459
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,880
been 10/11/12 somewhere in
there.

460
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,640
So I've tried to raise my kids
and protect them from things

461
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,320
that hurt them, but I want to
expose them to things of how the

462
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,640
world really is.
So I remember talking to Christy

463
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,520
and some of our friends.
I had some other friends I was

464
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,960
going to church with, like, hey,
I'm going to take my kids and

465
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,320
show them this movie, not to
glorify war, but show them how

466
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,960
war really is.
Because the promos were is like,

467
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,240
you know, this is how things are
actually happened and what's

468
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,640
going on.
And I'm like, all right, are

469
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,040
they too young?
I don't know.

470
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,360
And I made the decision to go
ahead and take the boys.

471
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,720
And so if you've seen the movie,
if you've, you know how violent

472
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,400
it is, what everything that he
went through as he was getting

473
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,520
pursued and, and, and, and
almost taken.

474
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,240
And you get to the end of the
movie, if you haven't seen it,

475
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,120
I'll just kind of set up the
last little scene.

476
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,080
So the guy's trying to get out.
He's got a village where they've

477
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,360
protected him.
And the Taliban's coming.

478
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:20,440
This is in Afghanistan.
So they are completely

479
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,800
surrounded.
They're outnumbered, and the

480
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,920
Taliban's overrunning this
village, right?

481
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,200
And it's full of drama, full of
tents, you know, just, it's just

482
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,280
just, it's just, oh, man, what's
going to happen?

483
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,320
And all of a sudden, what
happens?

484
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,280
You see these gunships come in
the Apaches, right?

485
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,400
And then the AC130 gunships, and
they come in and they just

486
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,640
decimate the Taliban army.
And they get Marcus out.

487
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,680
And everybody's like, oh, yeah,
it's a great ending.

488
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,600
So we get done and we come out.
And so I'm asking the boys.

489
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,960
I'm trying to see if I
traumatize them.

490
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,120
Right.
I said, Logan, what'd you think

491
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:54,840
about the movie?
He's like, man, he goes, I

492
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,680
can't, man.
I didn't realize anybody would

493
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,240
ever have to go through that.
I'm like, yeah, war's war's

494
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,120
ugly.
He's like, yeah, he goes, I

495
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,240
don't think I could have made
that.

496
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,520
And I'm like, that's good, you
know, to realize that, you know,

497
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,360
life is short.
Life's brief and violent

498
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,600
sometimes, and that's not how we
were meant to live.

499
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,080
So look at Coleman.
I'm like, Coleman.

500
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:17,560
What did you think about the
movie?

501
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,240
And if you know Coleman at all,
Coleman's, Coleman's Coleman, if

502
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,280
he's in here, he's going to
shoot me.

503
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,600
So he thinks about it for a
minute, and then he looks at me.

504
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,400
He's like, he goes, He goes.
Remember when those when those

505
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,880
gunships came?
I'm like, yeah, he goes, I

506
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,840
really liked it when he killed
all those Mexicans.

507
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:41,360
Like what?
What I'm like, where did that

508
00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:44,240
come from?
I'm like, all right, I screwed

509
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,120
up.
I shouldn't have brought this

510
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,360
one.
He didn't know the difference

511
00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,920
between Afghanis and Mexicans.
I'm like, come on.

512
00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,520
And what's funny is he speaks
more Spanish now than anybody in

513
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,320
our family and he just moves in
that culture very easily.

514
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,800
But I tell you to tell you tell
you that story to tell you this

515
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,720
is that in the same way that
cold didn't know the difference

516
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,840
between a Mexican and and
somebody from Afghanistan.

517
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,360
A lot of times we screw race up.
We don't get it right.

518
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,800
We mess this up.
We have these these ideas of

519
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,920
what it is.
And, and, and and and I don't

520
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,360
think it's helpful.
I don't think it's really what

521
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,120
we're called to to have in the
church.

522
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,880
I wish I was blind in the same
way that he was where we don't

523
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,600
always see race and and and
cultures in in that way as

524
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,800
something outside of who we are.
And one of my favorite stories,

525
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,360
the story I'll share you with
this is the story of the Good

526
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,520
Samaritan.
And if you know this story,

527
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,520
Jesus had just been asked what
are what are the two most

528
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,720
important things?
What are the two most important

529
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,760
laws because the Jews had over
600 laws they had to follow and

530
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,920
Jesus distilled it down to two
love God with all your heart,

531
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,480
all your soul and all your mind.
And the second is like this, I

532
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,480
love your neighbor as yourself.
So what's the follow up

533
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,160
question?
Who is my neighbor?

534
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,880
And that's what the Pharisees
were asking, who's my neighbor?

535
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,240
That's what the disciples were
asking.

536
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,840
Who's my neighbor?
Who do I have to love?

537
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,400
Because do I really have to love
somebody outside of my tribe,

538
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,800
somebody that doesn't look like
me?

539
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,560
And Jesus tells this beautiful
story of the Good Samaritan.

540
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,480
And the short version is this is
there's a guy that gets beaten

541
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,400
up on on a journey and he gets
thrown in a ditch and you have

542
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:22,200
two religious real leaders walk
by and they don't help because

543
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,680
it would defile them or it would
detain them.

544
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,120
And they had some place they
needed to be.

545
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,440
And this was Jewish guy in the
ditch.

546
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,760
So who is the person that
stopped to help the Jewish guy?

547
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,760
A Samaritan.
And if you don't know what a

548
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,040
Samaritan is, a Samaritan was
considered, this sounds rude,

549
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,480
but they were considered to be
1/2 breed.

550
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,160
They weren't worthy of going to
the temple to worship God.

551
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,360
They weren't worthy of even
being talked to.

552
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,920
They were below the Jew.
They were a nobody.

553
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,240
And so when Jesus tells the
story of the Good Samaritan, he

554
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,560
wrecks their worldview.
He wrecks the narrative.

555
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,640
And when he gets done the
telling the story, Jesus asked a

556
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,640
simple question.
So let me ask you this.

557
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,920
Who was the neighbor to the man
in the ditch?

558
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,320
And they had no choice to but to
answer the it's the Samaritan.

559
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,200
It's the one that helped.
Jesus tells this story to break

560
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,280
down these racial divides that
we put in because they're not

561
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,400
real.
We are one.

562
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,920
We are a human race, Paul says,
neither Jew nor Gentile.

563
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,720
And in the church, the moment
that we let race divide us,

564
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,000
we've let the enemy win.
Race is a division that we don't

565
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,800
have in heaven.
You go to Revelation every

566
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,000
tongue, every time tribe, every
people, every nation are going

567
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,720
to be represented.
We're going to spend eternity

568
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,600
worship within with people that
don't look like us.

569
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320
And guess what, it's a beautiful
thing.

570
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:56,120
And if it's true in heaven
tomorrow and in eternity, Paul

571
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,320
calls us to live that way today.
The second division that often

572
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:07,440
times divides and hurts our
church is, is one of and, and

573
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,320
we're not the same way that Paul
dealt with, but I see, I still

574
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,120
see the division between male
and female.

575
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,560
Well, you're not qualified to do
this.

576
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,520
I'm stronger.
Or we throw men away or we throw

577
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,760
women away.
And that's not, that's not how

578
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,560
the church is.
Because I am so blessed to be in

579
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,200
a church where I get to serve
alongside men and women that are

580
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,360
so gifted in so many ways.
And they do things that I can

581
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,360
never, ever do.
And it's not defined by their

582
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:35,920
sex.
It's not defined by their

583
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:41,080
gender, right?
So many times I still see, I

584
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,840
still see this attitude of like,
well, they're not qualified to

585
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,160
do that.
I grew up in a church where if

586
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,360
you were a female, you weren't
qualified to be up here.

587
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,320
And I think it's so many times
where there was so many women

588
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,520
that raised me in Sunday school
that has so much wisdom that

589
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,880
they got from the scriptures.
They probably prayed more than

590
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,680
anybody else in that church and
yet they weren't qualified in

591
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,840
somebody else's eyes.
And I'm so glad that I I'm in a

592
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,880
community where we don't do
that.

593
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,680
But it is still a temptation for
the church as a whole to divide

594
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,520
over that issue, to not see to
see everybody as as as a child

595
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,640
of God, somebody that is worthy
to worship their king.

596
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,240
And the story that I'm going to
share with you.

597
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,280
And, and I think Sean preached
about it not that long ago.

598
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,600
The woman at the well, and if
you know the story about the

599
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,000
woman with the well, Jesus in
the is, is at the well in the

600
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,080
middle of the day.
And this woman shows up at a

601
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,080
time where she shouldn't have
been there because most women

602
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,360
would come either in the early
morning or in the evening where

603
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,720
it was nice and cool, right?
So this woman was there for a

604
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,440
reason, because she was
ostracized and she was a

605
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,920
Samaritan.
We already talked about

606
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,000
Samaritans.
She had so many strikes against

607
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,520
her.
She was less than a nobody.

608
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,680
Even in her own society, she was
a nobody, a less than.

609
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,520
And so Jesus initiates this
conversation with her and and

610
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,680
she's amazed.
She's like, why are you even

611
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,520
talking to me?
You're a Jew, you're a man.

612
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,200
And Jesus lays out for the truth
of what he knows about her life.

613
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,640
And it cuts her to the heart.
And she goes, I perceive that

614
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,840
you're a prophet.
And she goes, I know that.

615
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,240
I know the Jews talk about this
Messiah that's coming, the

616
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,440
savior of Israel.
And the greatest part of that

617
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,800
story is this is that Jesus
reveals to her and she's the

618
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,560
first person that he reveals
that he's the Messiah, a less

619
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,200
than a nobody in so many ways in
that culture.

620
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,680
And when Paul talks about
there's neither male nor female

621
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,720
in that world, there was still
that major division.

622
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,400
And Paul is wrecking those
divisions.

623
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,400
He's erasing them.
He said in this church, in this

624
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,200
body, this distinction, though
it is real, it doesn't mean

625
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,800
anything anymore in the eyes of
God because we all stand on

626
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:08,320
equal footing in front of the
cross in this church, in the

627
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,080
eyes of Jesus, we all have the
same standing before God.

628
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,120
And so I love the idea of how
Jesus and Paul wrecked that

629
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,200
division that was so important
then in some way still divides a

630
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,560
church today.
The last, the last Division I

631
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,880
want to share with you and
Pastor Sean.

632
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,680
If I make somebody mad and they
charge the stage, you got to

633
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:27,720
come up here and protect me,
right?

634
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,000
Politics, right, politics and
economics.

635
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,560
And what I'm going to share with
you isn't from a position of

636
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,320
authority.
It's hopefully from a position

637
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,480
of, of experience.
I'm the type of person, and

638
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,720
especially in this world, I, I,
I like to learn from other

639
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,320
people's mistakes, right?
I didn't do drugs because I saw

640
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,920
what it did to people.
I don't need that in my life.

641
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,640
But when it comes to this and
might have Jason play me some

642
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,920
funeral music here in a minute.
When it came to this issue, I

643
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,880
had to learn hard, hard lessons.
I had to learn from my own

644
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,640
mistakes, from my own
experiences of how I screwed up.

645
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,320
Because I'm just going to lay my
cards on the table so you know

646
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,000
where I stand or where where
I've been and who I am or where

647
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,240
I was from.
I was raised in a very, very,

648
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,920
very conservative family, right?
Anybody else like here like

649
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,200
that?
In my family, if you voted

650
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,240
right, you were right.
If you voted left, you were

651
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,240
wrong.
And that's how it was.

652
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,640
I mean, if you voted, I remember
the very first election that I

653
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,000
could vote in was Bill Clinton.
And, and when I remember having

654
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,320
a family member that said that
he was voting for him and he got

655
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,720
ostracized, he got yelled at, he
got demeaned.

656
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,720
And I was like, yeah, go get
him, grandma.

657
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,720
Show him who's boss.
But here's what I noticed.

658
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,240
I had a lot of friends that I
consider to be very, very strong

659
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,960
Christians.
And they were raised in families

660
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:01,280
that were completely different
than mine.

661
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,760
They were the other side.
They voted the other way.

662
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,480
And it was hard for me to
understand how could they be a

663
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,560
Christian and vote like that?
Because when I was raised, like,

664
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,360
if you believe the Bible and you
follow Jesus, you had to vote

665
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,120
this way, right?
And it was very, very well

666
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,280
founded in the sense of like,
hey, here's a verse, here's a

667
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,480
verse, here's a verse.
And a lot of those values I

668
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,679
still hold.
I'm not going to tell you that I

669
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:30,800
don't.
But what I often did, and here's

670
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,000
my mistake, is I would take
somebody from the other side and

671
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:42,560
I would say at best you're wrong
and at worst, maybe you're not

672
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,520
even really a Christian.
You know what?

673
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,719
I'd have the discussions really
more like debates or fights.

674
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,360
They would, they would look at
me the same way that I was

675
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,719
looking at them.
And there was never this

676
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,400
connection.
There was never this unity that

677
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,800
I see in Paul and in Jesus.
And it took me so long to figure

678
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:07,240
out this is a trap.
This is alive from the enemy.

679
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,840
And I'm not telling you, here's
what I don't want you guys to

680
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,680
hear me say.
I'm not telling you not to have

681
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,840
values.
I'm not telling you not to vote.

682
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,120
I'm not telling you not to vote
your conscience.

683
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:20,400
I think you guys should and I
think you really should derive

684
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,440
your values from what God's word
tells you.

685
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:29,120
Here's what I am telling you in
this church, in this body, what

686
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,920
God has called us to is
something bigger than a politic,

687
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,360
something bigger than an
economic system almost.

688
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,840
There's I'm going to nerd out on
you guys a little bit, right?

689
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,480
I love, love studying history,
philosophy, theology, and I

690
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,240
heard, I heard a pastor tell me
one time he goes, every form of

691
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:53,760
government that sets themselves
above the church, it's really a

692
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,280
cult because what they're trying
to do is they're trying to

693
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,720
promise you if you get the right
laws and you vote for the right

694
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,800
person, you're going to have
heaven on earth.

695
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,520
And this guy was pretty far
right.

696
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,760
He goes, I'm going to tell you
right now, that's a lie from

697
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,080
Satan.
You will never vote heaven into

698
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,960
the United States in this world
anywhere He was, as much as you

699
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,680
might like a candidate, that's
not their role.

700
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,280
That's not what God's called
them to do.

701
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,280
God's given a role for the
government to restrain evil and

702
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,080
enact justice if they do it very
imperfectly.

703
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,720
Think about the hot button
issues of today.

704
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:29,520
This is where I might get in
trouble.

705
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,680
I'm not going to take a stand on
either one of them, but

706
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,960
everybody in this room probably
has a position that they care

707
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,640
about deeply.
You think about the issues of

708
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Jeffrey Epstein.
Who was he really involved with?

709
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,480
Which side can I tell you it was
both?

710
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,080
Both sides are dirty and both
sides are corrupt.

711
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,040
What about economics?
Whose fault was it?

712
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,920
The government shut down again
and it wasn't as long this time.

713
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,920
But who holds your your economic
futures with this much power?

714
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,120
And they don't really consider
what you what you, it's good for

715
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,000
you.
And you're going to get in a

716
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,800
fight about like, well, if we
would vote this person and they

717
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,680
would do this.
No, no, no, no, we should vote

718
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,120
this person and they're going to
do that.

719
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,840
We make this mistake that
they're going to fix our

720
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,560
problems.
We're the biggest hot button

721
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,360
today, right now is immigration
and ICE, right?

722
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,680
My friend Scott, we talked about
this one time in a small group.

723
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,680
He said I'd live on the line and
I live very dangerously.

724
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,880
So it's OK.
I like to live a little

725
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,360
dangerously.
Do the do the gospels inform

726
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,000
that situation?
Absolutely.

727
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,680
But here's what breaks my heart
is that I peruse Facebook or

728
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,440
TikTok or Instagram or even
random conversations here or

729
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,440
other places and we find
somebody that doesn't look at

730
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,120
the world exactly the way that
we do.

731
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:49,200
And then I put them in another
tribe and I cast them away and I

732
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,760
say they're less than and
they're not worthy.

733
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,680
But then I come back to the
words of Jesus.

734
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,120
I want you guys to read this
with me again.

735
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,760
Let's actually start with the
words of of Paul.

736
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,240
Is that as I look at the issues,
does this verse inform my heart?

737
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,160
Is it inform who I am?
Galatians 328.

738
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,520
Can you throw that back up there
one more time?

739
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:17,800
There's neither Jew nor Gentile,
there's neither slave nor free,

740
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,480
nor is there a male or female.
For you are all one.

741
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:31,680
You are all one in Christ Jesus,
one.

742
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,680
What is a tribe is a place where
we find identity.

743
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,760
What is identity?
Identity is how we look at

744
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,560
ourselves.
It's how we value ourselves.

745
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:48,040
That's what we think that other
people find valuable in US and

746
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,120
that's why we fight.
That's why I take this position

747
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,760
and I can't be budged.
Can I tell you that I've had

748
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,280
some of the most awesome
learning experiences talking to

749
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,440
people that that that I don't
agree with.

750
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,280
They've given me something that
I've missed.

751
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,120
Sometimes now I may not even
change my position, but I'm

752
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,080
like, OK, now I see.
Now I know where you're coming

753
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,280
from.
We're not coming from a position

754
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,800
of evil.
We just disagree on on how we

755
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,320
should interpret this.
And I think that makes this

756
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,320
church stronger when we have
differences, that we still find

757
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,480
a bond in the unity of being one
in Christ.

758
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,080
Because my identity isn't who I
am.

759
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,400
It's not what I look like, It's
not even what I believe.

760
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,960
It's what Jesus says about me.
Your identity is what Jesus says

761
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,800
about you.
Our identity as a church.

762
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:47,760
It's how we do this.
John, One more time, 1334, a new

763
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,040
command I give you love one
another.

764
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,040
As I have loved you, so you must
love one another.

765
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,600
And by this everyone will know
that you are my disciples.

766
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:05,200
If what if you love one another?
Here's my check.

767
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,520
Here's where I learned.
And here's my courage for you.

768
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,200
If you feel like I've been
kicking your teeth, it's not my

769
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,160
intention.
My intention is to call you to

770
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:17,640
something that is greater,
something that is bigger,

771
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,560
something that is beautiful.
This vision of heaven begins

772
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,520
with a following of Jesus.
There's two choices in this

773
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:30,360
world, and we haven't talked
much about hell yet, but I love

774
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:35,320
this quote from CS Lewis.
Hell is a prison that's locked

775
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,360
from the inside, and when we
choose anything other than

776
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,600
identity in Christ or our love
for each other, we may be

777
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,320
thinking that we're going to
bring heaven to earth.

778
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:53,680
But we unleash hell because the
division, the hate, the anger,

779
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,640
these aren't the fruits of the
Spirit.

780
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,640
These aren't the things that
Jesus called us to.

781
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,680
These aren't the things that
Paul have called us to.

782
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,160
And how these things work out,
man, that's the rub, right?

783
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,800
I was at a funeral on Saturday
and there was a huge fight in

784
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,840
the family, even in the moment
of burying somebody.

785
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,080
And I had the conversation with
my cousin and she said families

786
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,320
are messy.
There's probably not a more true

787
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,720
statement.
And if that's true of a physical

788
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:24,840
family of blood, it can be true
of a spiritual family in a

789
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,680
church.
But I love you guys and I hope

790
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:34,320
you guys love each other.
And the application for this is

791
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,440
to move forward and examine your
lives.

792
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,960
How would you change how you
move in this world?

793
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,840
Who you have conflict with when
you have these two verses at the

794
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,400
forefront, Who you are in Christ
and how do we live?

795
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,960
We love one another.
Because for me, I went from

796
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,840
leaving post on Facebook about
how stupid somebody was picking

797
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,600
up a phone.
Can you help me understand?

798
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,960
Because I love you.
I don't think you're a bad

799
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,640
person.
But I'm missing something here,

800
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,120
man.
I've had some great

801
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,280
conversations because not only
did I put Christ first, they put

802
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,280
Christ first.
Not only did I love them, they

803
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,760
loved me.
And here's where I'll leave you

804
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:22,720
guys with If as a church we can
live these two simple verses,

805
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,360
there's going to be something so
radically different about us

806
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,640
that the world can't help but to
see that there's something

807
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,840
different.
Whether it's the school district

808
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,400
that lets us use this building
or whether it's the people that

809
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,960
we serve in a life group or are
the homeless, or throughout this

810
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,560
week of somebody that shows up
randomly in this door, how do we

811
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,440
treat them?
Because we'll be different.

812
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,560
We won't look like the world
anymore.

813
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,880
And maybe, just maybe, the light
that God gave us in our hearts

814
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,080
will shine out to a broken,
lost, hurting world and they'll

815
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,720
have the hope of of Jesus.
They'll have the hope of heaven

816
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,840
that that Pastor Sean has just
preached on so beautifully.

817
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,560
My prayer for you guys is to
hold these two truths so close

818
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,840
that you are that light that
can't be hid.

819
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,560
Would you guys pray with me?
Father, we come before you, God

820
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,520
in a moment of thinking about
the things that have divided

821
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,640
this world and the things that
as a church we've allowed to

822
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:34,480
divide ourselves.
God, I pray for just a humility

823
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,760
to hold our identity only in
you.

824
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,600
So God, I want to pray for two
groups of people.

825
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,520
The first group I want to pray
for this church for Christians

826
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,920
in here then maybe have allowed
things to divide them and hurt

827
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:54,080
their heart and in a taking a
stand against something that

828
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,560
they disagree with, which is OK.
And maybe they maybe they

829
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,120
destroyed a relationship.
Maybe they destroyed another

830
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,480
person.
So if that's you today, there's

831
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:09,600
nothing past in our past and
anything that we have done that

832
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,560
can't be they can't be fixed.
They can't be brought underneath

833
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,440
the authority of the cross.
And so my challenge for you, if

834
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,960
you're a Christian here today,
if you're a follower of Christ,

835
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:26,360
if you're my brother and sister,
just to hold the truths that

836
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,160
Jesus has given you so
beautifully today.

837
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,680
His words love one another, hold
the truths of Paul.

838
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,120
And there's no division that is
important.

839
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,000
Not one of race, not one of
economics, not one of gender,

840
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,000
but we are A1 in Christ.
So Jesus, I pray for the your

841
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,560
church today.
Got to pray that we that we live

842
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,960
lives that are worthy of the
callings you have on us.

843
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,240
Now.
I pray that we're a light into

844
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:56,880
the darkness.
That I love the fact that you

845
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,120
said that the gates of hell
won't prevail against the

846
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,680
church.
The church is an offensive

847
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,720
machine that you've called to
redeem this world, this

848
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:08,520
creation.
Want to pray for one more group?

849
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,000
Maybe you're here today.
You walked in, You don't know

850
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,600
why you're here and you're not
part of the family of God.

851
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,560
Jesus has never been anything to
you.

852
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,680
You've never called on his name.
You're not part of the family of

853
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:27,240
God, but something in this
moment, something in your life,

854
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,760
you know, is missing.
And and you feel there's there's

855
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,680
something that that that you've
been called to.

856
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,680
We talked about as a church.
We're on a mission to see people

857
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,480
far from God, discover the real
life on purpose.

858
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,680
And you're here today without
purpose, without meaning.

859
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,320
And you've taken the fights of
the world and you've taken a

860
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,000
righteous stand, and you still
feel empty.

861
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,960
You don't have to stay in that
spot today.

862
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,080
Is there anybody in the house
today that has never named the

863
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:58,680
name of Jesus?
Can I pray for you?

864
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,160
If you would raise your hand, I
would love to pray for you if

865
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,600
you're in the house today.
And that's you, and you're ready

866
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:09,040
to be part of a family, to be
part of the only tribe that

867
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,440
really counts, and that's the
family of God.

868
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,360
I'm going to encourage you to
pray a prayer along with me.

869
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,800
Now, this prayer isn't magic.
It doesn't save you.

870
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,160
But what it does is it reveals
your heart before the creator of

871
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,280
the universe that you're going
to line your will with his.

872
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,600
And so if that's you today and
you want to be a part of

873
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,280
something that will secure your
forever, your eternity and also

874
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,680
your today, pray something along
this lines with me.

875
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:38,040
Father, I've walked in here
today, lost, broken, hopeless.

876
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,560
God have taken the cares of the
world and I fought for him.

877
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,120
And they don't mean anything.
Ultimately, I haven't fixed

878
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,800
anything.
So God, today I come before you,

879
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,440
I want to give my life to you
Jesus, because I can't fix my

880
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,360
life.
I've sinned, I've come short and

881
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,440
I can't fix this world.
And God, I give both of those

882
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,280
awesome responsibilities back to
you.

883
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,880
So God accept me where I'm at
today.

884
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,600
God call me and make me a part
of the family of God in Jesus

885
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,640
name, Amen.
Man, can we give up?

886
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,800
For anybody that prayed that
prayer, whether online or in

887
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:23,760
person today, I want you guys to
know ultimately that as a church

888
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,000
we are going someplace through
the generosity in the building

889
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,480
fund.
I don't know what God's got for

890
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,040
us next, but here's what I do
know, that for the enemy to win,

891
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,360
all he has to do is hurt us.
And the best way that he hurts

892
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:42,120
us is to divide us.
And moving forward, we close

893
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,120
ranks under the banner of what
God's called us to do.

894
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,920
And man, I can't wait just to
continue to be in a body that

895
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,640
continually to love each other.
And I can't wait to see what God

896
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,000
does through your guys's
dedication and your love for

897
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,400
Him.
Amen.

898
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,120
Well, man, what just an amazing
Sunday this morning, man, I love

899
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,960
that.
Just reframing and living our

900
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,560
life on the truth that Jesus
calls us to live in the way that

901
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,040
he has set that example for us
in the Bible, man, really to

902
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,800
shine the light of Jesus through
us out into the world today.

903
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,680
Awesome job this morning, Barry.
And hey, maybe some of you

904
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,680
recognize this morning that you
need Jesus in your life, that

905
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,480
you've maybe been living in
division and disunity and all

906
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,760
the things that separate us from
God.

907
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,920
And you recognize that this
morning and you prayed that

908
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,560
prayer and you accepted Jesus
this morning.

909
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:32,440
Man, if that is you, we are so
excited for you as you take

910
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,480
these next steps with Jesus.
And we would love to walk

911
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,720
alongside you to resource you as
you take these next steps.

912
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,040
So if you would grab that
connection card that is on your

913
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,640
seat, you can fill out the
information there on the top,

914
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,320
but make sure and check that box
that says I committed my life to

915
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,080
Jesus.
And you can drop that in the

916
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,880
giving buckets as they pass here
in just a few minutes.

917
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,520
Just by doing that allows us to
get you a free book in the mail

918
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,280
this week.
It's a short read, but man, it

919
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,600
really is packed full of some
goodness.

920
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,920
It's called begin.
I really will help you give you

921
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,960
some resources on what it looks
like to walk out this journey

922
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,520
with Jesus.
And hey, if you're in the house

923
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,240
this morning and you prayed that
prayer as you exit the worship

924
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:08,760
center, there is a table with
some red bags inside.

925
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,800
It's a free Bible and a few
other resources just for you.

926
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,160
So please grab that as well as
you leave.

927
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,080
And hey, this is for those of
you who are newer with us today.

928
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,440
I mean, we're so glad that you
chose to spend your morning with

929
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:21,800
us.
Maybe this is even your first

930
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,080
time here.
Thank you so much for coming.

931
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,800
And we hope you heard from God
this morning that you felt

932
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,960
welcome.
And we don't want anything from

933
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,320
you today except for this.
And it's just simply to

934
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,240
introduce yourself to us.
And you could do that simply

935
00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:36,560
just by grabbing that same card,
filling out your information

936
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,280
there on the top and then check
that first time here box.

937
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,080
You can take that with you as
you exit the worship center.

938
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,000
Just to your right, there's a
new here booth.

939
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,080
Somebody would be there, love to
take that card from you, say hi,

940
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,440
get you a free gift and we would
love to see you back with us

941
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,080
right here next week.
And man, last Sunday was such a

942
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,120
big Sunday.
It was our life groups kick off

943
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,080
and tailgate party.
Did you guys enjoy that?

944
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,040
There we go.
That's right.

945
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,880
It was, it was a blast.
Maybe we had some good food,

946
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,160
some great conversation.
I saw so many conversations and

947
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,600
connections happening here in
right here in the worship

948
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,080
center.
And it was just such an awesome

949
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:13,360
time.
I mean, when I think through

950
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,120
life groups and community, man,
I'm actually thinking of the

951
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,160
opposite of that.
That kind of we live in this

952
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,240
culture where independence is
celebrated.

953
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:25,440
Like I can do this by myself.
I'm strong, me, myself, and I

954
00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:29,640
like we got this, but
independence, it feels safe.

955
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,800
I feel like it feels safe.
It feels strong.

956
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,320
I mean, on the opposite of that
is isolation.

957
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,360
And in isolation truly is where
your faith weakens.

958
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,040
When there's nobody around to
challenge you, to encourage you,

959
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,160
to lift you up, It almost
becomes this echo chamber where

960
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,440
it's just you.
And isolation does feel safe

961
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,320
until life gets heavy and
there's nobody there to call at

962
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,680
3:00 AM when things are just
kind of going wrong, when life

963
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,800
is lifing.
Maybe you're in a season where

964
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,240
you need to borrow the faith of
somebody around you and there's

965
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:03,480
nobody there.
And so God doesn't call us to

966
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,040
maturity in isolation.
He calls us to maturity together

967
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,760
in relationships.
And that's truly where community

968
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,520
and life groups comes into play.
We have the people that are

969
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,680
around you that you can call,
like Barry said at 3:00 AM, when

970
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,000
something, when there's
something you need or people

971
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,320
that can encourage you and just
walk alongside you through this.

972
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,080
And so that is just my
encouragement for you is to take

973
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:25,720
that step.
Maybe you're living this life of

974
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,560
independence where it's just you
and you're strong and you are

975
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,720
strong and you feel like you've
got it together.

976
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:33,880
But God doesn't call us to
relationship just on our own,

977
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,440
but in community with other
people.

978
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,480
And so take that step today.
Love to see you in a life group.

979
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,800
There's so many.
They meet all over the city, all

980
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,600
different types of groups as
well.

981
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,960
We also are doing something new
this semester and offering the

982
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,600
way groups.
So if you're looking for

983
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,640
something a little bit more,
maybe to dive a little bit

984
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,920
deeper into your walk with God,
we would love to have you in one

985
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,120
of those.
Our leaders are so excited to

986
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,800
lead these groups and would love
to have you join as well.

987
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,000
So you can scan that QR code and
check them all out.

988
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,560
You can see them out in the hub
as well on the Lifegrove swab,

989
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,240
but we would love to have you
get connected that way.

990
00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:06,640
And hey, this Sunday is a
special Sunday as well.

991
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,560
It is our welcome party today
right after this gathering.

992
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,760
As you exit, it's actually we're
meeting in a room just past the

993
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,200
bathrooms.
You'll see some signage out

994
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,560
there.
But if maybe you've been

995
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,200
attending real life for the last
few months, this is for you.

996
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,000
We would love to have you come
and hang out with us.

997
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,440
It's a casual 30 minute
gathering.

998
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,000
It's pretty relaxed.
We'll have some food, some

999
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,360
drinks, some snacks.
Your kiddos, if you have kids,

1000
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,560
are welcome to hang out in Real
Life Kids while we gather there.

1001
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,120
But I mean, this is an awesome
opportunity to really hear who

1002
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,400
we are, who is Real Life Church,
where'd we come from, kind of

1003
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,120
where we're going, the vision
for the future there, meet some

1004
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,600
of our leadership and ultimately
just get connected and find some

1005
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,880
people here at Real Life Church
to call your church family.

1006
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,320
And so we would love for you to
hang out with us once again.

1007
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,800
It's just right after this
gathering, just down the hall

1008
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,280
past the bathrooms.
We would love to hang out with

1009
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,480
you there.
I mean, I'm thinking about

1010
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,840
community When I think about
giving here, it's so much more

1011
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,800
than just giving without a
return on investment.

1012
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,160
When I think about that, where
else can I give where there

1013
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,600
truly is an eternal return on
investment, where people week in

1014
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,480
and week out are accepting
Jesus, are coming to a saving

1015
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,440
faith through Jesus Christ.
And they take that step from

1016
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,120
living in isolation and living a
life of independence into a life

1017
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,200
of true freedom and into a life
of community.

1018
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,120
And so when you give here, I
mean, it truly is to see more

1019
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,240
soul saved, to know Jesus, more
people stepping into community

1020
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:29,800
to do life together where their
faith is strengthened.

1021
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,120
And so if you call real life
church home, and we would love

1022
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,320
for you to partner with us on
mission with that.

1023
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:35,800
There are so many ways you can
do that.

1024
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,080
You can check out the screen
there.

1025
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,000
You can scan the QR for text to
give.

1026
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,320
You can drop cash or check in
the giving buckets as they pass

1027
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,960
here in just a few minutes.
There's also a giving box in the

1028
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,080
back you can drop cash or check
in as well if that's more

1029
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,160
convenient for you.
And as always, if you or your

1030
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,680
family, you find yourself in
some kind of immediate need this

1031
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,600
week, it's food or shelter or
clothing or just whatever that

1032
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,400
looks like for you as these
buckets pass in just a minute or

1033
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,000
two.
Would you please reach in there,

1034
00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:02,880
grab any loose cash that you
see?

1035
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,240
We really do want to be a
blessing to you and your family

1036
00:54:06,240 --> 00:54:09,520
this week.
Let's pray, Father, thank you,

1037
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,320
God, you're so good to us.
And so, Father, I pray that you

1038
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,880
would just, God, help us to live
our life through the truth of

1039
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,640
who you are.
God, that you call us to unity

1040
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,920
and not division.
God, that you call us to truth

1041
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:25,040
and to shine your light through
us to the world that needs you

1042
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,720
so desperately.
And so God, I just pray that

1043
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:28,800
you, Father, would you bless
what's given today?

1044
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,040
God, would you bless it to move
beyond these four walls, God,

1045
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,280
into the community so that more
people can come to know you.

1046
00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:37,440
And God, ultimately, we give the
rest of this day back to you,

1047
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,800
God, it's all for your glory.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

1048
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:43,480
Amen.
What a good day, right?

1049
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,360
Super strong message, super
challenging message.

1050
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,320
I want to give you guys an
encouragement before we get on

1051
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,960
out of here to keep your mind
focused on heaven.

1052
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,640
Philippians says our citizenship
is in heaven and we are eagerly

1053
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,040
await a savior from there, the
Lord Jesus Christ.

1054
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,920
That should be a reminder in
your lives every single day.

1055
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,240
That should be the shoreline
that you're swimming to.

1056
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,200
It should affect how you think
about life, how you think about

1057
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,720
your identity and how you think
about relationships and that's a

1058
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:13,080
shameless plug.
Transition to Real life Youth is

1059
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,240
going to be having a Valentine
Valentine's party this upcoming

1060
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:18,720
Wednesday and we are going to
want any.

1061
00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:20,640
If you have any students in
here, 6th or 12th grade, that

1062
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,240
would be awesome for you to send
them out that QR code.

1063
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:25,240
That's not a registration
necessarily.

1064
00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:26,960
That's just the information what
we're going to be doing.

1065
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,480
We're going to be doing some
karaoke challenges.

1066
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,520
We're going to have a candy bar
to be a good time.

1067
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,480
If you have AU student, please
send them on out here.

1068
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,120
Remember guys, as you get out of
here, keep your mind on heaven.

1069
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,360
Think about how that changes the
way you view your identity and

1070
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,760
how you view your relationships,
and just let the sacrifice of

1071
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,640
Jesus permeate every aspect of
your life.

1072
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,800
If you need prayer or somebody
to talk to, we'll have somebody

1073
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,800
down here for you.
And otherwise, I'll see you all

1074
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,240
again next year, next week at
9:00 or 10:45.

1075
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:55,280
Please come back before the next
year and remember, whoever finds

1076
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,200
Jesus discovers real life and
purpose.

1077
00:55:57,240 --> 00:56:02,760
See you guys next week.
This is the end of this podcast.

1078
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,440
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1079
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,840
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