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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Jeff and I would like

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to welcome you to another episode of
The Bible Guys. Man. We have

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a great episode for you. A
while back, we did a Bible Guys

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Live event in front of a live
crowd, and it was all about the

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life that we're living is built around
the habits that were prioritizing. Yeah,

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and because we ended our series sort
of in the middle of the week,

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we have a couple bonus episodes this
week. We hope you enjoyed them.

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I think you're going to enjoy today
as well. So Jeff, Yes,

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they asked us to do a segment
here tonight because this is sort of like

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a podcast taping, right, even
though we're really not taping it, but

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it's supposed to be like one.
So we normally do a segment, and

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today's segment is this. We're going
to do a draft. Yes, we're

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rock Paper scissors, shoot at love
first, and we're going to do what

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we think are the most over rated
restaurants. They have to be national chain

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restaurants. Most of oh, I
got plenty of those Okay, okay,

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okay, I've been to all of
them. Ready, rock paper, Sis,

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there's one. I went, okay, always does that. So I

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want to apologize if you own this
restaurant or if you work at this restaurant.

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Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So we're picking, we're picking

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the top three, we're drafting.
We're drafting, okay, and what you're

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gonna find is most people agree with
my drafts. I just want you to

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know that right off the toctually I
agree with your drafts after we do the

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draft. But here's my first one. Okay, it's it's the restaurant across

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the street. I've seen him in
other cities, Black Rock. Let me

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tell you why, because I think
it's overrated. It's way overpriced, and

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I and I don't think the steak
it's it's, oh look it's cooking on

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a rock. Whatever, Well,
if you knew how to cook, if

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you knew how to cook, you
could get a good steak out of it.

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Never right, it's overpriced. He's
like, it's on a rock.

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I'm like, okay, yeah,
this feels I feel bad about this one

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this draft because overrated. This is
probably borderline heresy. But I'm gonna say

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Red Lobster. Oh yeah, yeah, well you see what I'm saying.

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Everybody almost bowed you for yours,
but the crowd was like, yes.

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The best thing at Red Lobster,
though, is those biscuits? Right yet?

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See there you go? Why do
iways feel inferior next to you?

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All right? Well, I grew
up Italian, so I'm gonna say I

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think it's incredibly overrated. Don't say
it. Don't say it is the Olive

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Garden. Oh sorry, heyes,
Wipe to marry at the Olive Garden.

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That's where I proposed. I proposed
at the Olive Garden. It's just it's

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overrated. It's not overrated if you
knew it like I know it. I

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mean, you know, is that
really the place to go for Italian food?

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I don't know. No, Hey, Luciano's is the place to go

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for Italian too. Okay, see
that I can get people to cheer too.

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Okay, Okay, here's here's my
next one. Overrated Chili's really,

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Yes, Chelis, I like Chili's. Okay, I'm just saying, yeah,

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you heard the crowd though, Yeah, well, the crowd agreed about

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to turn against you, all right, I didn't think is this your last

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one? Yeah? Last one making
good? I hadn't think them through.

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Hang on, give me two seconds
here. Uh yeah, that's probably okay.

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I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna
do it. It's TGI Fridays.

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Oh yeah Friday. Let me tell
you why. Okay. I went to

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sag it Off okay, and actually
I ordered some fajitas and I got sick,

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didn't I with you? Guys?
I got food poisoning. Do you

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go see John Christ? John Christ
Excellent food poisoning, tjffod TJ Friday's.

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All right, so I was gonna
say TGI Friday, so that yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, so
we were no no, no, oh

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man, I should have traded you
for the second pick or the last pick.

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That's what I should have done.
Okay, so, uh let me

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see my my least favorite or my
number three, number three. I'm gonna

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say, don't be afraid I can't
think of one. Yeah, well,

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I'm gonna go ahead and say Applebee's. Then, since I already picked Chili's,

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IM gonna say apple Bee's. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, all
right, okay, I think that's pretty

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good. That was good Hey,
I don't know what your overrated restaurant might

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be, but I would love to
hear one shout out. Somebody shout a

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lot of restaurants overrated. What chick
for? Nobody have her taken out ushers.

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You can't talk bad about Jesus,
enemy of Jesus chicken. Oh my

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goodness, that is Jesus chicken.
Don't say that too loud. I'm like,

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you're gonna be able to get into
heaven the lightning rod up. Oh

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my goodness, what is happening.
We don't need that kind of negativity in

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this church. Hey, you know
what's so funny. But so funny is

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like there were forty people that yelled
and I only that's all. I heard

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the blasphemy for the second over here. It was like horrifying the audacity of

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that woman. Oh my goodness.
Okay, So where we are going to

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actually read from Ephesians chapter four,
that's probably a good idea we should bring.

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What's interesting about this reading is that
actually, if you're following us live

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or you know, daily on our
podcast, it's called the Bible Guys.

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The Bible guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was looking for the

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word daily, which is also in
the titles. By the way, we

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are actually going to be doing Ephesians
four in just a few days. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's coming up in just
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So this is sort of like a
preview. Yeah, this is bonus material

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that's behind the scenes. Yeah,
this is extra. Yeah, this is

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you guys, get the bonus materials
today. So we're going to read from

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Ephesians chapter four. We're going to
go one through sixteen, so it's not

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the whole chapter. But I love
the Book of Ephesians. I think if

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I could only pick two books,
Romans and Ephesians be my two favorite books.

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Yeah, love it. And let
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just like we talked about yesterday actually
on our taping. A lot of

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Paul's writings are the first half of
the book is theology, and then the

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second half of the book is sort
of behavior, right, Yeah, and

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he's telling us what to do,
and so Ephesians gives us some good advice

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here in chapter four. Yeah.
So the first three chapters are all about

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what you should believe about Jesus,
and then the last three chapters are all

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about how you should live as a
follower of Jesus. So that's why he

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starts it off with, Therefore,
he just spent three chapters telling us what

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we should believe about Jesus, and
now he's saying, because of this,

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therefore I a prisoner for serving the
Lord. Beg you to lead a life

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worthy of your calling, for you've
been called by God. Always be humble

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and gentle. Be patient with each
other, making allowance for each other's faults

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because of your love. Make every
effort to keep yourselves united in the spirit,

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binding yourselves together with peace. For
there's one body and one spirit,

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just as you've been called the one
glorious hope for the future. There's one

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Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,

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who's overall and in all and living
through all. However, he has given

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each one of us a special gift
through the generosity of Christ. That's why

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the scriptures say when he ascended to
the heights, he led a crowd of

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captives and gave gifts to his people, not says he ascended. This clearly

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means that Christ also descended to our
lowly world, and the same one who

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descended is the one who ascended higher
than all the heavens, so that he

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might fill the entire universe with himself. Now, these are the gifts of

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Christ gave to the Church, the
apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,

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the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility
is to equip God's people to do his

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work and to build up the Church, the body of Christ. And this

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will continue until we all come to
such unity in our faith and knowledge of

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God's Son that we will be mature
in the Lord, measuring up to the

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full and complete standard of Christ.
And then we will no longer be immature

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like children. We won't be tossed
or blown about by every wind or new

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teaching, or think that Chick fil
a is bad. We will not be

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influenced when people try to trick us
with lies so clever they sound like the

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truth. Instead, we will speak
the truth and love, growing in every

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way more and more like Christ,
who is the head of his body,

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the Church, and he makes the
whole body fit together perfectly. As each

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part does its own special work,
it helps the other parts grow so that

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the whole body is healthy and growing
and full of love. Well, there

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you go. It's a great passage. And I hope that somebody over here

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heard that one spot, that one
special spot in the Yes. But because

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we're speaking the truth in this that's
true, that's true. It does you

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know, it does say it not
to add a jot or to So this

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is this is a great passage.
And by the way, a couple of

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hours those bad passages as that you
said, this is a good one.

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Je that's gonna make a Bible forget
it. So before we jump into sort

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of the main bones of the day, I just want to say I think

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it's really cool that Paul quotes Psalm
chapter sixty eight. Here is what he

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was quoting, and then he actually
sort of broke down Psalm sixty eight and

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he says, notice that he said
ascended, which means he descended. And

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then he also connected it to Christ, which means like even back in the

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Book of Psalms, you know,
you know, probably that song was written

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by David, most of them were. And he's actually connecting it to Christ.

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And it's the Bible breaking down the
Yeah, which is really cool.

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It's actually it's a tangential statement,
right, it's not what he's talking about.

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But Paul does all kinds of tangents. Man. He chases rabbits all

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the time, and this is one
of them. What's what he's referring to

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here is you got to remember that
the Book of Ephesians was written partly in

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the same way that he wrote the
Book of Colausians, pushing against gnoscissism,

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which was really questioning who Jesus was
right, whether or not he was human,

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or whether or not he was only
a spiritual god that looked like a

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human or whatever. And so there
was this false doctrine that was popping up

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that Jesus wasn't actually human. And
so he's trying to really highlight that that

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he did this descend and that's why
he was able to send back. That's

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the purpose behind him throwing in that
little tangent theories. This is another opportunity

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for to reinforce that. Yeah,
and narcissism is the collection of knowledge which

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they which they viewed it so important. And we have to remember too that

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back in the first century, you
know, most people who weren't Jews and

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they were gentiles. Those who were
non Jewish, they had multiple gods.

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So the emphasis saying there is one
Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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one God, one Father of all, who is over all in all and

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living through all he you're sort of
saying like, hey, this is it,

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right, Yeah, Jesus isn't a
god among gods, he isn't the

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god among gods. He's the only
God. And he's really kind of he's

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lays out at the beginning of the
chapter, he's laying out theologically, this

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is what every Christian needs to believe, right, So he's kind of laying

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that out, and then at the
back of the chapter the end of the

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chapter, after that kind of that
tangential statement, the second half of the

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chapter, he's unpacking the idea of
here's how you grow. This is why

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we go. You need the apostles
and the evangelists and the pastors and the

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teachers, right, you need them, but it's for growing you up to

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do the work of the ministry.
Right. We tend to think more in

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a clergy laity kind of mindset,
where the laity has ministry done to them

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from the clergy. But that's not
the way that God really the church that

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was supposed to be the church was
supposed to be that the pastors and teachers

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prepared and developed the people to do
the work of ministry. You do the

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work of the ministry. We are
the ones that are supposed to be preparing.

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Yeah, And I read a book
one time that talked about how those

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gifts were given to number one to
describe the people in the church, not

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like you said, not like clergy, but the people. And then number

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two he gave them in order for
a reason. Now I don't know whether

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it's in order for a reason or
not, but the order is very cool

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in this book. I still remember
the points. It says, the apostle

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is the one who goes, the
prophet is the one who knows, The

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evangelist is the one who recruits,
the teacher is the one who explains,

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and the pastor is the one who
cares. And those describe the gifts.

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So, in other words, if
an apostle were to say, hey,

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God's telling us to take that city
for Christ, that's the one who goes.

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The prophet is the one who knows. He has discernment or she has

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discernment. That would say, I
think God wants us start, wants us

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to start in that coffee shop.
And then once you have a mission,

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and then you have discernment, then
you need an evangelist to recruit some people.

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And then once you a bunch of
people, Then what do you need

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once you have a bunch of people, Because the apostle, profit and evangelist,

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or the outward gifts look outside the
wall. They're the mission gifts.

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Right. Once you have a bunch
of people, then you need a teacher

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and a pastor, one who explains
and cares. And I've always thought that

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was really cool the way that it
sort of is. And by the way,

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let me say one other thing too, and that is I believe one

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of the reasons why a church is
inward focused. And let's just say a

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church has trouble growing, a church
has you know, And there's nothing wrong

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with different styles of churches. I
believe that God has all different kinds of

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churches for all different kinds of people. But when a church is small and

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it's not growing, and chances are
it's inward focused. They care about like,

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teach us new things, feed us, take care of us, and

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meet our needs. It's the inward
focused gifts. There's nothing wrong with that,

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But pastors and teachers, if you
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then you're not going to grow.
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then behind all of those gifts are
so that we will do collectively, the

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people of the church will do the
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serving right and taking the gospel.
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no longer be immature like children.
That's what verse fourteen says, coming right

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out of thirteen. Will live will
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when we begin to serve each other
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when we begin to bond together,
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full measure or standard of Christ.
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Right, So his goal is that
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And then this is the point because
we're going to talk about all that

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stuff in the next podcast that we
do. But he says, so he

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makes the whole body fit together perfectly
as each part does its own special work,

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and it helps the other parts grow
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and growing and full of love.
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this body, right. It's one
of God's favorite descriptions of the church was

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the Church is a body, and
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body, and one of your jobs. This isn't optional. This isn't like,

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wouldn't it be nice if one of
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of crisis to help all the other
parts grow, right, And the only

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way we can do that is by
being connected. When you take a body

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part away from the body, what
happens to it? Cut your little finger

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off, just leave it on the
table, come back a week from now.

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What's going to happen to it?
It's gonna get rotten and stinky,

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right, just oozing all over the
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That's what happens is when we when
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it doesn't thrive, it begins to
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us. But we need to be
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That's why I connect night matters so
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John he talks about the vine and
the branch, and the branches being disconnected

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to the vine spiritually in some of
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probably good time to lay up the
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this is that the life we're experiencing
is often a reflection of the habits that

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we're prioritizing. Right, Because one
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is help each other grow. And
one of the things we need. We

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used to call them spiritual disciplines,
right, but I don't think anybody likes

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the word discipline, so we call
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There are a few things that we
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us to develop the habits that will
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to do that is in the context
of other friendships being connected to the body

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it goes. You know, there's
an African proverb that says, if you

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want to go fast, go along. If you want to go far,

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go together, and that's true.
How many of you do better? And

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if you have to work out,
how many of you do better in a

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workout class than you do just working
out in your basement. How many of

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you do better in a class most
people? The research on that is approven

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research. Most people do way better
if they have a workout buddy than if

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they're just trying to work out on
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in so many areas. We need
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far, you got to go together. So here's habit number one. Habit

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number one is this is that we
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and teachers that a daily time with
God would be the first in you know,

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the biggest habit that you could develop. So daily time with God in

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his word and also in prayer.
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is a very small way is to
watch the podcast or podcasts like ours,

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because there are there are so many
resources available to people you know that they

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could do it. Another way would
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Yeah, and you've taught the two
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So the two one class we really
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about reading your Bible and praying in
the various habits. We really unpack all

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the main habits of how to grow
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know about it, but how,
how should how can you read your Bible

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in an effective way? What is
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grow in your faith not just the
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really important. So the twol one
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got another one coming up here.
When is it? I think I hit

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somebody knows? Oh, this this
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it March twelfth? Kyle? Is
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Yes? Yes, he said,
yes, it's the Sunday. Yeah.

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We weren't paying attention in our previous
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the cutting up, don't we Yeah, we do so. Anyways, that's

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coming up March second. And you
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up online March twelve. What I
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work here, man, I don't
know what's going on. You want to

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take number two? Sure? Are
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am so These habits, these habits
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of a daily time with God.
The second one is learning to give back

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regularly, giving back a tithe to
God. Right, and so our second

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point is giving back to God through
tithing. And this is incredibly important when

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we begin to prioritize our resources for
Christ, because we don't give. Because

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God is saying you must give we
give because Jesus said, where your heart

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is or where your treasure is,
that's where your heart is. Jesus isn't

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after your money. Jesus is after
your heart. But why do we fight

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so hard to hang on to that
part of God? We'll give you everything

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else, make all of our wildest
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But we're not going to obey you
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But we still want him to bless
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I'll pour open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing on you when

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you tithe. And so this isn't
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This is about what God's offering to
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issue and maybe one of the hardest
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it's always easier when we are growing
in this together with other believers,

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right, and then collectively we're able
to accomplish a lot more with our resources

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for the Kingdom of God together than
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Yeah, for certain and then problems, we have two tools. They have

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two tools. I'm supposed to tell
the tools we already said to it.

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One. Yeah, there's there's more
tools. You see that says tool.

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I said, Jeff, check out
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November. Also use the push pay
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says it right there on this sheet. So you just wasted the twenty seconds

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I tried to say. I'm just
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do. That's so linly. So
what want't you go on with number three

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real quick? If you can finish
that, well, if you're gonna do

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it, hey, since forgive me
each other hard time? Push pay I

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did, says pay. You weren't
listening. Have you ever seen Guardians of

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the Galaxy? Who's wasting time?
Now? Hey, but he says what

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he says, He goes, I'm
too fast. It would just fly over

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my head. That's what it was, Okay. And then finally number three,

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which is probably the most important part
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why we're here here tonight. That's
why we're here, which is connecting with

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others. Right, So there's a
story that actually, in fact, you

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want to tell us, Yeah,
let me tell you a story. So

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Nevey is a guy that got baptized
here just a while ago. He's a

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fairly new attendee, began at attending
in January. And the reason he's here

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is that Jason Wallace, he's one
of our security team guys. And thank

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God for our security team. And
so Jason Wallace a part of that.

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And he saw Nevy walking or riding
his bike down the road and he was

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carrying some furniture on his bicycle,
which you don't see that every day,

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right, And so Jason pulled over
and said, dude, I don't see

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this all the time. Let me
help you and hooked him up with a

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ride and got this furniture delivered and
all this stuff struck up a friendship and

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then invited him to come to Heritage
Church. He winds up given his life

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to Jesus. They wind up developing
this amazing friendship. And it was all

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because Jason felt like God said,
hey, you should help, and he

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just followed that nudge, right,
He followed that leading from God and it

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opened up. This began this relationship
that form Nevy's life. They actually had

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him over for Christmas, Right,
isn't that so great? And this is

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what it's all about. Right.
Nevey was recently baptized and then joined our

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security team, so began volunteering on
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one person decided to connect with another
person in a meaningful way. We need

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each other and we grow. We
grow when we're helping other people grow.

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Do you know who grows the most
the host? The host grows the most

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in a group, the people who
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the most. So I'm not trying
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but I'm telling you, if you
want to grow spiritually, get it and

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be the one that's engaging with the
others, helping the others grow, and

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you grow more. It just happens. And so Jason grows even while he's

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helping Nevee take these steps. So
iron sharpens iron. We need these friendships.

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That's what happens. Yeah, and
you referenced that verse. It's one

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of my favorite verses. You know, you think about especially in the context

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in which it's written. You know
where swords were number one weapon and everything

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like this, and it says iron
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or the countenance of a friend I
make you so much more sharp you

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there's a joke in there somewhere,
but I'm gonna go out with my spiritual

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point. So so the yes,
I know you do, and hopefully the

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other way around. But the bottom
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Bible talks about how we need one
another. And listen, you know,

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it's it's very appropriate that we're having
connected night because you know, for me,

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I always think about these things.
I know you do too when the

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church grows. I don't know if
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you've attended on a weekend here at
Heritage, I think just in twenty twenty

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three, we have broken a non
holiday weekend record and all time Heritage weekend

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record I think four or five,
five times. Five times. Since since

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January, we've broken five records,
right, So and that's that's with only

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three services. I mean, had
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we would have probably done more about
you know, we're just having all

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these you know, problems with space
and chairs and things. We just had

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one hundred and fifty new chairs delivered, we did. Yeah, we're setting

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them up for Sunday. Yeah,
yeah, that's really really cool. So

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we're we're gonna be squeezing chairs in
here. But here's the point. As

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the church grows bigger, there's a
need for it to be smaller. And

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you can only survive coming to a
church and not being known. You can

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only survive for so long. So
what's the average, what's the statistic if

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somebody doesn't get connected. Yeah,
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The research says that a person needs
to know or be known by seven

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people in six months or they have
If they don't, they have an eighty

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percent chance of disappearing, never connecting. But if they know or are known

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by seven people in the first six
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of staying for five years or longer. So, believe it or not,

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it's not how amazing Chris's messages are. They're amazing, it's not incredible,

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you know. It's not about how
high the note that Trey hits, you

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know, on Sunday. Those things
capture people's attention for a little while.

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But the reality is, real life
transformation doesn't happen from what we do on

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the stage. Real life transformation happens
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happens, right, You're the ones
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ones who help everybody else grow.
That's why he says the body needs to

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be together, and we help each
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think that clergy or staff can do
all the work of the church, right

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right, And that's the reason why
we all know a church where the speaker

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is a wonderful speaker, but he's
terrible one on one, or maybe he's

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a really great counselor one on one, but it's like he can't lead out

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of himself out of a paper back. Right. We all know people,

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we know, we know people like
that. We know churches where the congregation

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members put that expectation on the clergy
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right, because that's why Ephesians tells
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it's us. We're the priesthood of
the believer. He has gifted something

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to be apostles, something to be
some to be evangelists, them to be

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pastors, some to be teachers,
for the working of together, for the

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sharpening, for the building up of
the congregation, for each other. So

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all that to say, as the
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one another smaller. And then it's
very appropriate that our group study with the

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Andy Stanley group study that we're doing
starts, and this is the last week

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to sign up. So I would
just say, if you're coming here to

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connect it and you've not yet signed
up for a group, it's the absolute

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perfect opportunity, and just jump in
and just say, you know, I'm

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gonna give it a run, because
I believe at the end of that experience

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you're gonna say I'm glad I did
it. I also think one other benefit

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as we wrap up, one other
benefit to this. A lot of Christians

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feel like they you know, if
you just come and you consume, you

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consume what Jeff and Chris are producing, you consume what Trey and his team

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are producing. You come and consume
what the youth group is producing, or

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the children's mystery. After a while, your faith starts to feel empty because

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you don't know it, but subconsciously
you're aware that you have a consumer oriented

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faith. And after a while,
we all get bored with the things we

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consume. That's why you know,
the new car smell is gone and you're

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already thinking about your next lease,
right, is because consuming doesn't satisfy.

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So many of us have this sense
that there's got to be more to this

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faith thing. And where it really
happens is when you are fulfilling the purpose

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God has for you. And a
big part of that purpose is in connection

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with other believers. Very quickly,
I'll tell the story and then we will

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finish up, because we want you
guys to spend some time talking. I

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had a pastor as part of a
very very large church at one point a

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number of years ago, and about
twenty thousand people, and a woman came

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in to meet with a senior pastor, and he had just come from a

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meeting where they had several hundred shut
in seniors who couldn't get out they had

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different sicknesses or whatever, and so
he had the whole stack of cards of

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names of shut ins and he was
trying to figure out how can we minister

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to them. This lady came in
and she sat down. Her husband had

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passed away and they had one of
those relationships where he did all of the

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business of the family and he wasn't
really aware of the banking and all that.

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Next thing, you know, she's
trying to figure out how to navigate

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through this life became too heavy,
and so she felt like she was on

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the verge of a nervous breakdown.
And he said, listen, we have

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some people that can help you,
help counsel you on the financial side,

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but this nervous breakdown thing. He
said, I'd like to come back and

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talk to you in just a few
days, but would you do me a

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favor. And he just took the
top five cards and he said, here's

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some shut ins in our church.
You make amazing pies. Would you go

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bake a pie for each one of
these people, Just drop one off each

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day for them and just tell them
that we love them and pray with them

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real quick. And she went,
yeah, sure, that's kind of weird.

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She stakes those five. Then he
came back in about two weeks later

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and all the cards on his desk
were gone, and then he didn't see

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her for months. Then he runs
into her like three months later, and

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he says, hey, how's that
nervous breakdown going, And she said,

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oh, I don't have time for
a nervous breakdown. We have so many

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shut in people. I'm busy baking
pies. So when it was all about

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her and she was just consuming from
the church. The weight of life was

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heavy, and her faith wasn't very
strong. But when she began to realize

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it wasn't just about her, and
she began to serve other people and begin

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to help others grow in their faith, she grew stronger and stronger. Right,

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So I'm not saying that's the only
solution for a nervous breakdown. But

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what I am saying is the importance
of living outside of our lives instead of

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only just for ourselves. So this
idea of being connected is incredibly important groups

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as the first step. So let
me write this down. The solution for

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breakdown pies pies, yes, pis
yes yes. And by the way,

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in reference to what you said about
like not being a consumer, just like

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taking what the pestor gives you,
you could say that our job then is

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not to feed you. Our job
is to make you hungry. Yes,

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So it's to make you hungry and
prepare you. Yeah yeah, yeah.

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So Father, we thank you for
today. We thank you Lord for this

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time together, for your word and
your truths. Thank you for a time

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of laughter and fun and connectivity.
And I pray Lord that these following discussions

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that happened just right now, that
you would just be with us and help

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us connect and praise you in Jesus
name, we pray Amen Amen m hm m