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Morning again.

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We are gonna

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continue in the psalms of a sense today.

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Look at Psalm 01:33.

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But just as we do, I wanna take

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a moment and just

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obviously, big moment in our

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national life together last night, as we see

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you know, an attempt that assassination of a

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political candidate. That's not uncommon in the history

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of the world, but what it is is

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anti federal to the kingdom of God. And

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so whatever your political affiliation or leaning. It's

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something we can always look to and say,

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that's not of the lord. Let us pray

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against it.

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Let's pray for those involved. In particular where

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there's a loss life, the folks who were

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at the rally yesterday, and then a couple

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in critical condition. It's just good for us

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to stop and pause

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and just pray. And the thing it makes

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us do more than anything. Is say, man,

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Jesus, do we need you to rule and

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reign over us? Our hope is not in

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this world and it's not of anyone that

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would rule or lead us in this earth.

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It's in you and you alone and so

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come quickly lord Jesus and wanna align our

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hearts around that even while grieving loss of

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life,

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and grieving violence

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and, you know, reminding ourselves of the truth

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of scripture,

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and and then reminds us of the hope

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that we haven't in christ. So you take

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a moment to pray together. It's she not

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her hearts are around the throne of God

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now.

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It's father we come to his body and

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we

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we pray in grief over the loss of

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life that occurred yesterday,

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for the family now

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that is

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without a loved 1. We pray. We bother

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your comfort. We don't know if they know

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you as their heavenly father. If they do,

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we pray that you bring your father comfort

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as your word tells us you have to

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give, father, of Mercy and God ball comfort.

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You pray that you bring that comfort to

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bear, if they don't know you, we pray

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that that they would cry out to you

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in this moment of great need, and that

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they would find that you fill them with

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hope.

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And even as they grieve, you fill them

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with a sense of

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your great love for them.

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We pray father for

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our national life together,

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place of great dis unity, so many different

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perspectives.

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What that does for us is your people

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is it makes us cry out want you

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more. We pray father against acts of violence

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in this political season and selection season, pray

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that you'd protect former president Trump as well

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as president Biden from any attacks.

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We pray father that you would,

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point our

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for life in a different direction in those

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who think that somehow that is the way

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in your will gets accomplished or the way

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in which their will gets accomplished that you

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would him them in

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and not allow them to bring about injustice

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or violence.

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It's evil, and it's not of you, And

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so we pray in your mercy, would you

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bring that to pass that you would protect.

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Father would you fill us with

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the hope that we have in you, and

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we remember in these moments that we grieve

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loss of life

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and we feel sadness over these moments, but

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we do not grieve as those without hope,

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and we want you to rule over. So

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let us not,

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pray against evil without also looking and seeing

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the inner our hearts resides the same kind

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of anger that results in violence, the same

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kind of bitterness or unforgiveness and things which

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we need you to clear out of us.

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Things which we need you to change in

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us, Fill us, with the humility of your

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kingdom, fill us with the love of your

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kingdom, fill us

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with the truth of your kingdom. Make us

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your people,

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make us to represent you well and faithfully

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so that we might extend the hope that

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we have found in Christ jesus. It's like

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beg who found red.

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We love it. Some gs then we pray.

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Amen. Thanks for praying with me.

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So we're in these psalms of a ascent.

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As I said, these psalms that the people

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of israel would sing as they were making

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their way 3 times a year up for

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the worship of the lord during these specific

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religious festivals and feasts like passover and the

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feast of Tab feast to booths. And so

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they would sing these songs were asking the

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question, How would it shape the life of

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a group of people who's saying these kinds

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of songs with regular? Last week you looked

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at psalm 01:27.

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We talked about children and work and god's

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place in it.

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And just so you know what happens in

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my house. My oldest daughter, and I was

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given her a hard time about something this

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week and she looked me dead in the

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eyes. She said, dad,

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I'm a gift from God.

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Using my own words against me.

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And I said, yes, you are, and Now

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do what I said.

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So as we come to Psalm 01:33,

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what we're gonna see, it's a it's a

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psalm that interestingly enough,

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it revolves on Unity. I didn't pick this

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last night. We've been moving towards this now

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for weeks, but it speaks to to Unity.

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And that's a hard 1 thing, the Unity.

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And now it's not talking about Unity within

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within sort of the life of the world

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I'm at Unity within the body of Christ

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among the people of God. And so we'll

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look and see what he has say there.

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Which it's very simple outline today. We're just

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gonna look at 2 things. We're gonna look

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at what does it mean to be unified.

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That's the first question we wanna ask and

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then the second question is

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how does he compel us towards it? So

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God and his great mercy in this psalm

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does not sort of wag his finger at

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us and say,

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so this is Unity get unify. Like do

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it. He rather says it's good and pleasant

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now let walk in that goodness. Walk in

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that pleasant

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I've yet to meet the person who doesn't

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want goodness and pleasant in their life. Does

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that feel fair to you? Yeah. Of course,

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we do. And so he's inviting us in

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with not the stick but the carrot. He's

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saying, here's here's what we'll come into your

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life.

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As you as you pursue Unity and walk

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in the unity that you have in me.

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So we're gonna see what it looks like

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to shape a church like ours in this

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habit of singing a song around this idea

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of unity in the, kind of the very

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short psalm

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but a very big idea, which is that

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life in unity with my local lot. It

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has to put on flesh. It's not just

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why I'm unified with Christians everywhere around the

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globe, but but living life in unity with

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the people of God that I live my

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day to day life with, my church family

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that when I have unity there, that's a

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richer kind of life. There's... That's a fuller

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kind of life, and we're invited into that.

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So we're gonna see how he motivates us

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in moves us towards that. Now, let me

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say this.

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There is throughout the history of the church.

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Since it's foundations, I'll actually walk you through

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a little history here in just a moment.

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There has been this tension around unity and

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truth. And we still experience that tension today.

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There's always this tension between well, you can't

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have unity unless you are unified by the

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truth that you believe, and that's absolutely true.

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There's a... There's a truth that we're brought

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into we're unified in God and the truth

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about who he is and what he's done

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in Christ so that there is no unity

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outside of that. And yet at times then,

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That appeal to truth gets used as a

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reason to divide, and you can't just use

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truth truth truth always as an excuse to

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divide over everything.

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There are some things where we disagree, but

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we won't divide, and we need to stay

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unified and both those have to be taken

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seriously. There's a

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tension even in scripture where you have to

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take seriously both the command to be unified

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with the people of God and seriously the

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command to walk in the truth. Of God.

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And it takes a lot of humility and

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a lot of time and a lot of

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sort of

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engagement

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in conversation and in listening to be able

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to discern,

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when is this a dividing issue? And when

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do I continue to strive for Unity

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because it's a secondary issue, or a non

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essential issue. Let me just give you a

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sense of how difficult this has been throughout

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the life of the church. So in acts

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chapter 1,

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Jesus sends into heaven. And in acts 2,

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the church is formed. Right? This beautiful moment

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of Pent cost where the holy spirit comes

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into the world, and we get this formation

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of this thing we are a part of

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called the church. Well by acts chapter 15,

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it doesn't take long, we find the church

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having a debate over essential versus none essential.

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good divide over this? Or is this a

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place for Unity? So only within a couple

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chapters,

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within a few years, we're already facing

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that reality. Now fast forward to the fourth

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century, and you find in North Africa, this

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massive

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question around

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what is what is primary? What is secondary?

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What is essential What is non essential In

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this debate between? I'm sure you've heard of

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it. The the the don and the cecilia?

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Yes. You know this 1?

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I don't know this okay. I don't expect

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you known. So in in the church at

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Cart, there was 2 liters, Cecilia and Don,

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and they argued over What is the right

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way for Christians to engage with society and

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what does it look like to be pure

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and set apart and what does it look

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like to engage the gospel in a culture

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that is far from Jesus and needs to

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know him, and there was this mess.

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The the cider of that debate was

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the holy Roman emperor at the time.

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Would come to faith in Jesus. So

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fast for from the fourth century to the

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eleventh century and you get what's called the

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eastern and western church sc

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over really exciting things like the

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I can't even say it,

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clause in the Nic sea creed, which I

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know we all wanna dig deep into today.

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But this discussion over,

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what is the nature of the God head?

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What is the nature of the relationship from

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between God the son and God the father

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what's essential? What's none essential?

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Then in the sixteenth

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tree. We have the reformation and Martin Luther

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where there's a division over what is essential

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and what is none essential

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between the Catholic Church and now what has

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been birthed out of that the protestant church,

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which we are a part of. And by

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the twentieth century then, in the 19 forties

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and 19 fifties, you get division within the

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protestant church over the fundamentalist versus the evangelical?

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And what are the essentials? And what are

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the non? Do you see that this has

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always been a challenge for the church?

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What are the essential issues that we must

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be united by

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and and hold together

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that we can't have unity without what are

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the non essentials that we can say, we

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will be unified even though we disagree

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about this.

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I bet you can recount

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challenges to Unity in your own life with

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other christians and you can

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trace them back to. Is this an essential

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issue? Or is this a non essential issue?

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See some you nodding in your head. Yeah.

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We all experiences. I don't say that to

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discourage as if, well, just throw your hands

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up Nothing you can do about it. It's

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always been that way since acts 15. Just

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gonna be that way.

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What I want to show you is this

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1,

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unity not easy.

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It is a mandate but it's not easy.

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In fact, I would say it's so not

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easy that it doesn't happen unless it's supernatural

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gifted.

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And we're gonna see that reality.

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The other thing I want you to see

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is man, do we need to pray desperate

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for it. And the same way that we

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pray for truth to be. We should pray

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for Unity among the people of God, we

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should pray for it desperately and regularly

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because it's absolutely necessary for that purpose we've

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god to go forward in the world. The

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other thing I want you to see is

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in spite of all those

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divisions that I just talked to you about

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the gates of hell have still not prevailed

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against the church.

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The church is still here. People are still

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coming to faith in Jesus. The church is

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still growing,

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and it work and the spirit is moving

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and take great confidence in that. Remember the

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promise of God that his church

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his church will be established,

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and it will go forward. We do our

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best to screw it up a lot.

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And God is and powerful,

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and he brings his church forward. So we

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say amen to that.

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Alright. So have confidence church. Have confidence. I

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share with you all those things not to

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depress you,

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but to help you go, okay, God's gonna

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continue to be at work. Alright. So let's

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try and answer those 2 questions.

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What does it mean to be unified? And

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then what... How is it good pleasant? Like,

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why is it good pleasant to walk in

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Unity? Let's read Psalm 01:33 together? We'll see

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those words there. So Psalm of David, it's

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very short 1. It's 3 verses it says

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this.

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Behold, how good and pleasant it is, when

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brothers dwell in unity.

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It is like the precious oil on the

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head, running down on the beard on the

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beard of Aaron running down on the collar

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of his robes. You see the word down

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there twice in the English translation in the

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original hebrew. It says down 3 times. It

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want you to understand how much oil is

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flowing

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over the head of this servant. It's going

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down,

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down,

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down. From the head

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through a lot of hair onto the beard

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onto the collars of his robes, and then

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it says in verse 3, it is like

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the dew of herman

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which falls on the mountains of Zion

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for their the Lord has commanded the blessing,

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life forever more.

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Right. So when I talk about Unity, 1

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of the first things that probably happens is

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you think about it as an absence of

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conflict.

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That's my guess is that kind of the

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default. We go, oh, well, unity means not,

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like, not fighting

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with each other. And what I want to

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help you see. Maybe that's not where your

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mind goes, but it's where mind goes a

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lot of times want you to see that

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what the scripture is asking for and inviting

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you into is something much more

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than just not having conflict with other Christian.

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He's actually inviting you into a deep kind

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of relationship with other Christians where you share

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life together. I'm gonna use 3 phrases, and

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somebody raise your hand at the end if

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I don't come back to these because I

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didn't in the first service, and somebody had

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to come ask me. Alright? So I totally

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feel, but we're not gonna miss it this

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time.

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Everybody commit that you'll all just throw your

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hands up if I don't come back to.

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Alright?

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We're being invited into what I would call

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refrigerator friends, which I've talked about before.

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Hospital friends and gasoline and mattress friends.

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The last 1 you're like, what are you

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talking about, but we're gonna come back to?

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Alright. So

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we're being invited into something more. And I'll

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show you where I find that in the

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text, but here's what I want you to

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see is the original readers of this text

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would have had to wrestle with this as

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well. It wouldn't have been readily obvious to

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them. What what unity would have meant. The

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word being translated here in the hebrew Unity

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is normally translated just together, like being physically

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together.

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And so the context has to decide whether

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we translate that word just like, hey, behold

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how good and pleasant is, when believers are

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just around each other. Is it just talking

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about, like, physical proximity Like, it's cool when

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your family lives somewhat nearby? You see them

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more regularly. Did you just talk about that?

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Or is it talking about something deeper. My,

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my proposition to you is that it's talking

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about something much deeper, And I'll tell you

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why context, and then the 2 things that

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are the 3 things that follow in this

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text. Right? Which gonna root ourselves right there.

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The first is In the psalms of a

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ascent, where are the people headed? Does anyone

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remember? Can you tell me?

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They're headed to jerusalem

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for these feasts, these festivals to worship God.

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So in the context of that worship, the

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Psalm the saint man really good. It's really

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good. I when God's people are united. Well,

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united in what sense.

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Just because you happen to be traveling down

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the road together? No. No.

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Because you're going to worship God together.

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Because you're going up into the presence of

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God, you're united in your heart to see

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god glorified.

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That's the first thing that tells us that

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this is not some kind of just like,

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It's cool when you don't have conflict with

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other believers. No. It's

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amazingly good and pleasant

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when God's people say, are hearts to united

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around a vision of god being glorified. And

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what I would say to you is you

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can't have unity

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without that.

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It begins when with the vision for the

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glory of god in your life. Because as

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long as your life is about you or

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about some form of selfish ambition or about

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some lower

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sort of thing,

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you will always divide because other people will

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be an obstacle to getting what you want

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in life.

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It's only when God's people have a vision

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god's glory that they can let go of

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their own ambitions, let go of their own

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little perspectives on things and say, you know

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what matters more.

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God being exalted. God being glorified. Do you

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see that context here?

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So that's what he's getting at when he

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says man.

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Unity

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looks like

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seeking god's glory together. Now, the second reason,

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I think this is not just

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about physical proximity,

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or some low version of unity, but rather

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like this robust sense of life together and

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hospital friends refrigerator friend and gasoline and it

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matches friends

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The reason

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is the next thing he says, says behold

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how good and pleasant it is when who?

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Brothers, and we could say brothers sisters, brothers

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dwell together in unity

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by putting it in the fam

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context, what's he saying to us? Your unity

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should be like the unity of a family.

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It should be like brothers relating to 1

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another.

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Right? So that what's true about brothers, what's

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true about sisters.

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They are blood.

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They are like... But also, you don't choose

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them.

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They're yours, whether

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you chose them or not. And in a

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sense he's conveying that you don't choose who

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comes into the body of Christ. Do you.

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And when you come in, there's this unity

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you have to have. And here's what makes

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it hard. Is there's people all over the

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spectrum of perspectives on all these different world

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issues But you know what else? There's all

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kinds of levels of maturity and imma maturity

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in the church at all times. In fact

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we're doing it wrong, if we somehow could

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just, like,

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freeze the people who are here let's all

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grow to maturity to a certain level. And

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then after that, maybe we'll invite some new

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folks in that is getting it wrong.

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There better always be a brand new baby

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Christian,

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and they're better always be someone who's been

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walking with Jesus for 60 years.

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And everything in between... Can we agree with

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that?

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Okay. Can we agree with that? Like, good.

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I just wanna make sure.

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Because we want to see people come to

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know Jesus and start on day 1.

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As god, day 1. Day 1II have no

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clue what this following Jesus thing is like,

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but he is it. I am in. I

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am for him. Now,

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what do I do?

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And Man. Friends, if that's... If you you're

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like new in your walking we expect you

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to make a lot of mistakes. Some of

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us have been doing this a long time,

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and we... I'm 40 years 40 years I've

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been a follower Jesus, and I do dumb

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stuff every day.

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But I am getting more mature, I am

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growing.

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In Wisdom. I am growing in self control.

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I'm growing in those things. We're we're doing

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those things.

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But man, that's that's where we wanna be.

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So

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there's just always

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this tang

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of all these different places that we find

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ourselves. So the other

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other thing really... By I he's phrase brothers.

541
00:18:18,957 --> 00:18:20,236
He's in a sense saying like listen, you

542
00:18:20,236 --> 00:18:21,913
don't choose your family, Your family chooses you,

543
00:18:22,073 --> 00:18:23,991
and and so, man, if they're in Christ

544
00:18:23,991 --> 00:18:25,464
and you're in Christ. And

545
00:18:26,078 --> 00:18:27,271
you can't say why wish they weren't.

546
00:18:28,544 --> 00:18:30,294
You just say, alright. We're in it. We're

547
00:18:30,294 --> 00:18:31,329
in it. Let's figure it out.

548
00:18:32,536 --> 00:18:34,598
I don't naturally gravitate towards you. You don't

549
00:18:34,598 --> 00:18:37,851
naturally gravitate towards me, but we are in

550
00:18:37,851 --> 00:18:38,961
christ together. Here we go.

551
00:18:39,773 --> 00:18:41,609
Let's figure that out. That's like miraculous kind

552
00:18:41,609 --> 00:18:44,482
of stuff when people get unified who have

553
00:18:44,482 --> 00:18:47,275
no earthly reason to necessarily feel connection with

554
00:18:47,275 --> 00:18:48,727
each other The other thing is recognize recognized

555
00:18:48,727 --> 00:18:50,403
script, what is he saying when he says

556
00:18:50,403 --> 00:18:52,878
it's... When brothers dwell together in Unity. As

557
00:18:52,878 --> 00:18:55,593
soon as the fall happened, what started happening?

558
00:18:55,832 --> 00:18:58,475
What's like the first story after sin enters

559
00:18:58,475 --> 00:18:58,872
the world.

560
00:18:59,666 --> 00:19:00,698
Cain and abel.

561
00:19:01,651 --> 00:19:04,033
A brother kills another brother, and then not

562
00:19:04,033 --> 00:19:06,597
long after that, Joseph is sold into slavery

563
00:19:06,597 --> 00:19:07,257
by his

564
00:19:07,955 --> 00:19:10,112
brothers. Right? If you're new and you're unfamiliar

565
00:19:10,112 --> 00:19:11,231
with these stories. Let me just tell you

566
00:19:11,231 --> 00:19:13,239
that part of what we should read here

567
00:19:13,239 --> 00:19:15,625
when we hear, brothers, brothers brothers is like,

568
00:19:16,421 --> 00:19:18,091
okay. That tells me something about the family

569
00:19:18,091 --> 00:19:19,259
nature of this kind of unity

570
00:19:19,939 --> 00:19:21,537
it also tells me how hard it's gonna

571
00:19:21,537 --> 00:19:21,697
be.

572
00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:23,635
Because brothers

573
00:19:24,094 --> 00:19:26,091
sometimes can be the worst.

574
00:19:27,370 --> 00:19:27,530
Alright?

575
00:19:28,499 --> 00:19:30,960
That's what he's getting at. Now, then after

576
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:32,866
that, could just go down to the next

577
00:19:32,866 --> 00:19:34,613
2 things and we'll elaborate more on these

578
00:19:34,613 --> 00:19:35,748
when we get to the

579
00:19:36,139 --> 00:19:38,217
what is the why is unity good and

580
00:19:38,217 --> 00:19:41,573
pleasant. But when he says, it's like oil

581
00:19:41,573 --> 00:19:44,290
flowing down, down, down on the beard of

582
00:19:44,370 --> 00:19:46,928
Aaron. What he's getting at is that an

583
00:19:46,928 --> 00:19:49,866
it's an 19 oil, and it's recognizing a

584
00:19:49,866 --> 00:19:52,884
calling upon Aaron's life upon these priests life.

585
00:19:53,678 --> 00:19:55,366
Right? And then when talks about the dew

586
00:19:55,366 --> 00:19:58,338
of Herman, he's saying, it's it's a refreshing

587
00:19:58,796 --> 00:20:00,151
thing. This unity.

588
00:20:01,268 --> 00:20:03,741
Just being near somebody is not all that

589
00:20:03,741 --> 00:20:05,131
refreshing. Right? Just

590
00:20:07,729 --> 00:20:09,477
how does it help you walk in your

591
00:20:09,477 --> 00:20:11,145
calling just to be physically near So, no,

592
00:20:11,224 --> 00:20:14,574
no. He's getting it some much deeper the

593
00:20:14,574 --> 00:20:17,217
kinds of relationships in your life

594
00:20:17,908 --> 00:20:19,813
that help you walk in your calling, help

595
00:20:19,813 --> 00:20:21,535
you uncover your calling

596
00:20:21,973 --> 00:20:22,952
and and then

597
00:20:23,330 --> 00:20:25,244
become the context where you practice your calling,

598
00:20:25,803 --> 00:20:28,435
as well as just receiving the refreshment of

599
00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:30,203
that. K. So when we get back to

600
00:20:30,203 --> 00:20:31,317
refresh, that's when we're gonna come back to

601
00:20:31,317 --> 00:20:33,388
the hospital refrigerator and gasoline. K?

602
00:20:34,025 --> 00:20:34,981
Alright. So if I get there,

603
00:20:36,494 --> 00:20:37,153
everybody just

604
00:20:38,415 --> 00:20:40,080
I know I'm emphasizing that, but I really

605
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,269
hate. It's the worst thing to have stuff

606
00:20:41,269 --> 00:20:42,380
in your notes and then you don't say

607
00:20:42,380 --> 00:20:43,251
it. It's the worst.

608
00:20:44,679 --> 00:20:44,837
Okay.

609
00:20:45,729 --> 00:20:47,887
Now, I wanna go even a little further.

610
00:20:48,126 --> 00:20:50,524
That's probably enough. I hopefully from this text

611
00:20:50,524 --> 00:20:52,682
done an okay job helping you see it

612
00:20:52,682 --> 00:20:53,881
and go, oh, okay. This is talking about

613
00:20:53,881 --> 00:20:55,892
a deeper kinda unit. But I really wanna

614
00:20:55,892 --> 00:20:58,445
root this because I recognize that if you

615
00:20:58,445 --> 00:21:01,079
are, like, if you're the type of personality

616
00:21:01,079 --> 00:21:02,755
who tends to lean in the truth,

617
00:21:03,728 --> 00:21:07,020
direction and kind of are quicker to separate

618
00:21:07,159 --> 00:21:08,356
from other believers.

619
00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:11,723
It's just it's so it's so easy to

620
00:21:11,723 --> 00:21:13,481
lean that way. And listen, Friends both are

621
00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:15,339
necessary. We gotta a hold of intention, but

622
00:21:15,558 --> 00:21:17,076
I wanna give you 1 more thing that

623
00:21:17,076 --> 00:21:18,650
might sort of help you kinda

624
00:21:19,482 --> 00:21:21,623
really locked this down in a way. Right?

625
00:21:21,940 --> 00:21:23,313
So in John 17,

626
00:21:24,716 --> 00:21:26,595
there is this really rich passage

627
00:21:27,034 --> 00:21:28,870
which gets at... As far the the chief

628
00:21:28,870 --> 00:21:31,845
passage scripture, as it relates to this doctor,

629
00:21:32,063 --> 00:21:34,858
this theology, this doctrine of what we call

630
00:21:34,858 --> 00:21:36,295
the our union with Christ.

631
00:21:37,189 --> 00:21:38,787
Now, when I say that, I don't know

632
00:21:38,787 --> 00:21:40,864
if you'd know that that's a formal theological

633
00:21:40,864 --> 00:21:43,102
category. When we talk about union with Christ.

634
00:21:43,261 --> 00:21:44,700
So anytime we see in scripture,

635
00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:46,809
that we are in Christ

636
00:21:47,185 --> 00:21:49,575
where he is in us. That's not just

637
00:21:49,575 --> 00:21:52,602
a nice little preposition that's meant to communicate

638
00:21:52,602 --> 00:21:53,580
some kind of

639
00:21:54,607 --> 00:21:55,084
metaphor.

640
00:21:55,561 --> 00:21:57,967
It's actually communicating a spiritual reality

641
00:21:58,341 --> 00:21:59,953
that is a theological category.

642
00:22:00,327 --> 00:22:02,234
And so when we think about union with

643
00:22:02,313 --> 00:22:02,551
Christ,

644
00:22:03,123 --> 00:22:05,433
it is everywhere in scripture. So when the

645
00:22:05,433 --> 00:22:08,301
scriptures talk about the fact that Jesus is

646
00:22:08,301 --> 00:22:10,451
like the vine, and we are the branches

647
00:22:10,451 --> 00:22:12,019
and we abide what

648
00:22:12,457 --> 00:22:15,084
in him. Right? So we draw our nourishment

649
00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:16,437
and the very source of life from him.

650
00:22:16,675 --> 00:22:17,949
When he talks about that he is the

651
00:22:17,949 --> 00:22:19,722
head, then we are the body

652
00:22:20,193 --> 00:22:22,506
and we are in this body where... Of

653
00:22:22,506 --> 00:22:24,421
which he is the head. It's referring to

654
00:22:24,421 --> 00:22:27,451
this like, he leads us. So union is

655
00:22:27,451 --> 00:22:29,525
this formal category where theologian talk about it.

656
00:22:30,018 --> 00:22:32,880
As having an impact in our eternity past

657
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,027
in our present and in our eternity future.

658
00:22:35,583 --> 00:22:37,651
They talk about it as being both mystical,

659
00:22:37,889 --> 00:22:38,627
which means

660
00:22:39,002 --> 00:22:40,453
beyond full comprehension.

661
00:22:41,252 --> 00:22:43,410
Right? That there's a mystery to it. When

662
00:22:43,410 --> 00:22:45,248
the scriptures talk about being in Christ and

663
00:22:45,248 --> 00:22:47,805
our union with him that we are united

664
00:22:47,805 --> 00:22:48,285
with him, it's, like,

665
00:22:49,978 --> 00:22:51,996
that that slips past language

666
00:22:52,855 --> 00:22:55,012
in a way that we strive to understand

667
00:22:55,012 --> 00:22:57,090
it, but it's the under comprehension that we

668
00:22:57,090 --> 00:22:57,384
are

669
00:22:58,139 --> 00:22:59,728
united with him and his death. His death

670
00:22:59,728 --> 00:23:01,182
is is our death

671
00:23:01,953 --> 00:23:04,336
that his resurrection is our resurrection.

672
00:23:05,309 --> 00:23:07,146
That we are united with him in his

673
00:23:07,146 --> 00:23:09,703
heavenly session now before the father he sits

674
00:23:09,703 --> 00:23:11,540
the right hand and inter seeds on behalf

675
00:23:11,540 --> 00:23:13,787
of the saints long to spirit, and then

676
00:23:13,787 --> 00:23:16,835
we are in him and therefore, with him

677
00:23:16,892 --> 00:23:19,519
in that session. And that his glory is

678
00:23:19,519 --> 00:23:22,312
our glory that we live and move and

679
00:23:22,312 --> 00:23:25,640
have our being in him that, like Pulse

680
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,724
says in galatians chapter 02:20

681
00:23:28,033 --> 00:23:28,851
I have been

682
00:23:29,226 --> 00:23:29,941
crucified with Christ,

683
00:23:30,657 --> 00:23:32,406
and I no longer live.

684
00:23:33,042 --> 00:23:34,871
The life I live in the body, I

685
00:23:34,871 --> 00:23:36,633
live by faith in the son of god

686
00:23:36,633 --> 00:23:38,852
loved me and gave himself for me.

687
00:23:40,042 --> 00:23:41,469
That's not just a not... When he says,

688
00:23:42,182 --> 00:23:44,263
I have been crucified with Christ. And I

689
00:23:44,263 --> 00:23:46,656
no longer live but Christ lives in me.

690
00:23:47,214 --> 00:23:48,831
He's not just kind of

691
00:23:49,448 --> 00:23:50,645
painting a nice picture.

692
00:23:51,376 --> 00:23:52,988
He's stating a miracle,

693
00:23:54,395 --> 00:23:56,700
and this this miracle of union with Christ.

694
00:23:57,097 --> 00:23:58,369
The way I would sum up the doctrine

695
00:23:58,369 --> 00:23:59,323
of Union is this.

696
00:24:00,132 --> 00:24:02,223
Is to say, I see

697
00:24:02,837 --> 00:24:06,496
no part of my life as outside of

698
00:24:06,496 --> 00:24:06,655
christ.

699
00:24:07,861 --> 00:24:11,196
Everything that I am is inside of who

700
00:24:11,196 --> 00:24:14,292
he is. He lives in me, I live

701
00:24:14,292 --> 00:24:16,634
in him. There is no separating

702
00:24:17,010 --> 00:24:19,879
any part of my life from who he

703
00:24:19,879 --> 00:24:22,191
is. He defines my identity,

704
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:23,386
my purpose,

705
00:24:24,278 --> 00:24:27,943
He shapes my variability to breathe and move.

706
00:24:28,501 --> 00:24:32,181
All of life derive its meaning from this

707
00:24:32,181 --> 00:24:32,499
fact,

708
00:24:33,055 --> 00:24:33,555
I

709
00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:34,430
am

710
00:24:34,884 --> 00:24:35,384
in

711
00:24:35,838 --> 00:24:36,236
Christ.

712
00:24:38,541 --> 00:24:40,768
All the benefits of his work are imparted

713
00:24:40,768 --> 00:24:42,930
to me because I'm in him.

714
00:24:44,362 --> 00:24:47,067
All the power to walk out what it

715
00:24:47,067 --> 00:24:49,553
means to be a Christian is found by

716
00:24:49,553 --> 00:24:51,231
being in him.

717
00:24:52,509 --> 00:24:55,945
There is no part of the Christian life.

718
00:24:58,112 --> 00:25:00,919
No perspective, no the mindset,

719
00:25:01,692 --> 00:25:03,283
no action, activity,

720
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:04,715
attitude of the heart.

721
00:25:06,243 --> 00:25:08,875
That can be conceived of as in any

722
00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:09,375
way

723
00:25:09,752 --> 00:25:10,252
being

724
00:25:10,869 --> 00:25:13,900
outside of christ. I am summed up in

725
00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:15,038
whole total

726
00:25:15,829 --> 00:25:17,750
by who he is,

727
00:25:19,029 --> 00:25:19,910
I'm in him.

728
00:25:24,789 --> 00:25:26,796
Now all of that is just the doctrine

729
00:25:26,796 --> 00:25:27,513
of union.

730
00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:29,900
And you're like, well, okay?

731
00:25:30,855 --> 00:25:32,049
What does it have to do with union?

732
00:25:33,562 --> 00:25:35,409
If I've done an okay job of describing

733
00:25:35,409 --> 00:25:37,087
that. Here's what should begin to start to

734
00:25:37,087 --> 00:25:38,046
trickle into your minds.

735
00:25:39,963 --> 00:25:41,082
When I say I'm in him,

736
00:25:41,881 --> 00:25:43,080
I'm not the only 1.

737
00:25:45,481 --> 00:25:46,277
Are you in him?

738
00:25:48,266 --> 00:25:50,827
Yeah And here's an even more for natural

739
00:25:50,827 --> 00:25:53,455
mystical Mir. I said theologian talk about the

740
00:25:53,455 --> 00:25:54,729
our union is being mystical,

741
00:25:55,765 --> 00:25:55,924
spiritual,

742
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,711
soluble, which means that it can never be

743
00:25:58,711 --> 00:25:59,164
dissolved

744
00:25:59,603 --> 00:26:01,278
done away with and,

745
00:26:02,235 --> 00:26:04,548
vital, meaning, like, every, like, a, like, the

746
00:26:04,548 --> 00:26:05,926
branch in the bond. Everything.

747
00:26:06,941 --> 00:26:09,990
Everything is about this connectedness. To Christ. Right?

748
00:26:10,470 --> 00:26:12,869
Those are kind of the formal theological categories.

749
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:15,430
Here's does that mean in a in a

750
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:16,549
supernatural mystical way,

751
00:26:17,602 --> 00:26:20,154
Christ behold us. Yes, as individuals. He sees

752
00:26:20,154 --> 00:26:22,547
us as individual human beings that he shaped

753
00:26:22,547 --> 00:26:23,924
and made. And also

754
00:26:24,860 --> 00:26:25,897
sees us as 1 thing.

755
00:26:26,615 --> 00:26:28,376
Now that 1 thing is his bride, the

756
00:26:28,376 --> 00:26:28,614
church.

757
00:26:29,725 --> 00:26:31,629
So that as he looks at us, he

758
00:26:31,629 --> 00:26:33,851
says, you are my 1 bride.

759
00:26:34,983 --> 00:26:36,921
Supernatural naturally mystical

760
00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,458
taken up into me so that when I

761
00:26:39,458 --> 00:26:41,055
see you and behold you, I see you

762
00:26:41,055 --> 00:26:43,861
and behold you, in union with me as

763
00:26:43,861 --> 00:26:45,375
this 1 thing?

764
00:26:46,490 --> 00:26:47,685
Now what does that mean?

765
00:26:49,212 --> 00:26:49,927
A lot of things.

766
00:26:51,516 --> 00:26:54,137
But in this case, what it means is,

767
00:26:56,361 --> 00:26:58,290
I can no longer

768
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:02,514
think of myself as having any possibility of

769
00:27:02,514 --> 00:27:05,231
not seeking unity with you because we are

770
00:27:05,231 --> 00:27:09,068
in union with Christ as 1 thing there

771
00:27:09,068 --> 00:27:11,852
in his presence, I can resist unity with

772
00:27:11,852 --> 00:27:14,159
you and do a horrible job of expressing

773
00:27:14,159 --> 00:27:16,883
this truth of the union of Christ and

774
00:27:16,883 --> 00:27:17,622
his people

775
00:27:17,999 --> 00:27:20,232
where I can seek that unity so that

776
00:27:20,232 --> 00:27:23,661
union gets expressed, but union is no choice.

777
00:27:24,233 --> 00:27:27,335
Unity is the expression of union. Do you

778
00:27:27,335 --> 00:27:27,971
follow that?

779
00:27:28,846 --> 00:27:30,596
The reason that's so deeply important is because

780
00:27:30,596 --> 00:27:33,633
it's the theological category and the truth of

781
00:27:33,633 --> 00:27:36,019
doctrine that helps us understand how vital this

782
00:27:36,019 --> 00:27:37,291
is. I can't just go,

783
00:27:38,007 --> 00:27:38,723
I don't care about it.

784
00:27:39,677 --> 00:27:41,684
I'm just happy to divide. I'm happy to

785
00:27:41,684 --> 00:27:43,202
live on the periphery of the church. I'm

786
00:27:43,202 --> 00:27:45,120
happy to ignore it. It means nothing to

787
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,278
me. I'll treat it as a secondary issue.

788
00:27:47,677 --> 00:27:49,116
No, no. No, no No.

789
00:27:51,922 --> 00:27:54,790
1 of the most fundamental theological truths by

790
00:27:54,790 --> 00:27:55,529
which we

791
00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:57,919
know that we have salvation

792
00:27:58,295 --> 00:27:59,034
and san

793
00:27:59,824 --> 00:28:03,180
and eternal life is union with Christ. And

794
00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:04,618
the more I found it... Let me just

795
00:28:04,618 --> 00:28:06,616
make this this practically. I know it's very

796
00:28:06,616 --> 00:28:07,335
hard to comprehend in.

797
00:28:09,339 --> 00:28:10,292
The more I think,

798
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,150
I literally think of myself is here's is

799
00:28:13,230 --> 00:28:14,817
Christ, and I'm I'm in. I'm in him,

800
00:28:14,897 --> 00:28:16,405
like, I'm in the glass, you know?

801
00:28:17,851 --> 00:28:19,760
And then like, oh, yeah. And and all

802
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,510
my brothers and sisters are there too.

803
00:28:22,862 --> 00:28:24,548
And, like, well, how can I not seek

804
00:28:24,548 --> 00:28:25,265
unity with him?

805
00:28:26,460 --> 00:28:27,735
How can I not? It's not like a

806
00:28:27,735 --> 00:28:28,054
choice.

807
00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:30,285
I have to do it.

808
00:28:31,894 --> 00:28:33,174
Reason I say that is because I think

809
00:28:33,174 --> 00:28:34,695
it's very easy to think we have to

810
00:28:34,695 --> 00:28:36,055
go after the truth we have to go

811
00:28:36,055 --> 00:28:37,434
after the truth and kinda

812
00:28:38,295 --> 00:28:39,630
unity if it's possible

813
00:28:42,055 --> 00:28:43,327
Would you agree that we sometimes treated it

814
00:28:43,327 --> 00:28:43,645
that way?

815
00:28:44,918 --> 00:28:45,077
Yeah.

816
00:28:46,986 --> 00:28:48,593
And I want you to think I have

817
00:28:48,593 --> 00:28:49,870
to go after the truth. I have to

818
00:28:49,870 --> 00:28:51,386
go after the truth, and I have to

819
00:28:51,386 --> 00:28:52,903
go after Unity and I have to go

820
00:28:52,903 --> 00:28:55,695
after Unity, and I will strive with everything

821
00:28:55,695 --> 00:28:58,105
in me. To hold those things together and

822
00:28:58,105 --> 00:29:00,021
to walk in them. And I know I'll

823
00:29:00,021 --> 00:29:01,218
probably mess it up, and not get it

824
00:29:01,218 --> 00:29:03,134
right, but I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna

825
00:29:03,134 --> 00:29:04,730
just for sake 1 for the for the

826
00:29:04,730 --> 00:29:04,970
other.

827
00:29:06,343 --> 00:29:07,781
I'm gonna hold them together. So that I

828
00:29:07,781 --> 00:29:09,779
can't just go sure. Whatever you believe we'll

829
00:29:09,779 --> 00:29:11,617
be united. I don't care. Doesn't matter. Unity

830
00:29:11,617 --> 00:29:13,455
is all that matters, but I also can't

831
00:29:13,455 --> 00:29:16,011
just say, unless you leave everything. Tick tick

832
00:29:16,011 --> 00:29:17,517
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick

833
00:29:17,517 --> 00:29:19,103
tick tick tick all the way down the

834
00:29:19,103 --> 00:29:20,768
list. I got 80 of them.

835
00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:23,640
And I have a good reason to divide

836
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:24,776
from you unless

837
00:29:25,229 --> 00:29:27,397
we take all the same boxes. There's

838
00:29:28,644 --> 00:29:29,756
we have to hold them.

839
00:29:30,868 --> 00:29:31,027
Alright.

840
00:29:32,952 --> 00:29:33,191
Now,

841
00:29:35,102 --> 00:29:36,796
here's the text, John 17,

842
00:29:37,411 --> 00:29:37,570
and,

843
00:29:38,923 --> 00:29:39,640
oh, we're doing good.

844
00:29:43,015 --> 00:29:45,654
Alright. John 17 verse 23 23. Listen, to

845
00:29:45,654 --> 00:29:48,134
how beautiful expression of union I already referred

846
00:29:48,134 --> 00:29:49,549
to, like, john 15 and,

847
00:29:50,464 --> 00:29:51,736
and I know I've heard a lot of

848
00:29:51,736 --> 00:29:54,679
texts. But this this is, like, the richest.

849
00:29:55,156 --> 00:29:55,872
Alright? So, listen,

850
00:29:56,667 --> 00:29:58,336
Jesus in his high priest sleep prayer he's

851
00:29:58,336 --> 00:30:00,821
just prayed for his disciples. Now he's gonna

852
00:30:00,821 --> 00:30:03,135
turn his attention to those to us, to

853
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:05,390
those who are gonna come through the generations

854
00:30:05,927 --> 00:30:07,616
to believe and follow him. And he says

855
00:30:07,616 --> 00:30:09,710
this, I do not ask for these only

856
00:30:09,767 --> 00:30:12,316
the disciples, but also for those who will

857
00:30:12,316 --> 00:30:14,705
believe in me through their word that they

858
00:30:14,705 --> 00:30:15,821
may all be 1.

859
00:30:16,793 --> 00:30:18,549
Okay? So he just prayed for our unity.

860
00:30:19,267 --> 00:30:21,923
What's he say next? Just as you father

861
00:30:21,981 --> 00:30:25,348
are in me and I in you. So

862
00:30:25,348 --> 00:30:27,103
what he's just done is he has said,

863
00:30:27,342 --> 00:30:28,241
the union

864
00:30:29,576 --> 00:30:31,969
of the father and the son in the

865
00:30:31,969 --> 00:30:34,441
c eternal God head, the way that they

866
00:30:34,441 --> 00:30:38,671
are 1 divine being in 3 persons, and

867
00:30:38,671 --> 00:30:40,182
he's talking about 2 of those persons, the

868
00:30:40,182 --> 00:30:42,169
father and the son. In the way that

869
00:30:42,169 --> 00:30:44,100
we are in union

870
00:30:44,727 --> 00:30:45,863
may they also

871
00:30:46,554 --> 00:30:47,348
be united,

872
00:30:47,984 --> 00:30:49,652
and then he goes on to say this.

873
00:30:50,605 --> 00:30:52,114
Just as you, father and me and I

874
00:30:52,114 --> 00:30:53,726
and you that they also

875
00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:57,376
may be in us. Now, here's what's important

876
00:30:57,376 --> 00:30:59,626
about that. He did not have to say

877
00:30:59,682 --> 00:31:00,478
that last phrase.

878
00:31:01,288 --> 00:31:02,562
Jesus could have just prayed,

879
00:31:03,199 --> 00:31:05,347
father make them 1 just like you and

880
00:31:05,427 --> 00:31:06,939
I or 1. Just like we have a

881
00:31:06,939 --> 00:31:09,444
union, may that be kind of the prototype

882
00:31:09,739 --> 00:31:11,012
for the way they love each other and

883
00:31:11,012 --> 00:31:11,808
think about each other.

884
00:31:13,081 --> 00:31:14,434
But what did he go on to say?

885
00:31:16,025 --> 00:31:18,426
Just as you father are me, And I

886
00:31:18,426 --> 00:31:19,857
am in you that they may what,

887
00:31:20,493 --> 00:31:21,788
be in

888
00:31:22,162 --> 00:31:24,569
us, what's he talking about our union

889
00:31:25,818 --> 00:31:28,460
with Christ and God the father through me

890
00:31:28,460 --> 00:31:32,445
saying, oh, they're gonna inhabit this union with

891
00:31:32,445 --> 00:31:34,358
us, and that will be the source of

892
00:31:34,358 --> 00:31:35,075
their unity.

893
00:31:37,242 --> 00:31:38,279
Then he goes on to saying,

894
00:31:40,431 --> 00:31:43,323
so that the world may believe that you

895
00:31:43,460 --> 00:31:44,033
sent me.

896
00:31:45,227 --> 00:31:46,420
He's gonna double down on that in a

897
00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:48,489
minute. The glory that you have given me,

898
00:31:48,887 --> 00:31:50,717
I have given to them that they may

899
00:31:50,717 --> 00:31:52,247
be 1 even as we are 1. So

900
00:31:52,247 --> 00:31:54,001
there's some kind of glory that we've been

901
00:31:54,001 --> 00:31:54,501
given

902
00:31:55,117 --> 00:31:57,111
that will be this a source of 1.

903
00:31:57,909 --> 00:31:59,504
I and them and you and me that

904
00:31:59,504 --> 00:32:02,075
they may become perfectly won So that, here's

905
00:32:02,075 --> 00:32:04,714
the double down. The world may know that

906
00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:07,355
you sent me and loved me. Love them.

907
00:32:07,755 --> 00:32:09,685
Even as you love me.

908
00:32:12,796 --> 00:32:14,072
As you read that, does it make you

909
00:32:14,072 --> 00:32:14,949
kinda go hold?

910
00:32:16,624 --> 00:32:17,741
It's so rich.

911
00:32:19,267 --> 00:32:21,094
Alright. So hopefully I've done an okay job,

912
00:32:21,253 --> 00:32:22,525
and I know I I be labor that,

913
00:32:22,604 --> 00:32:24,193
but I really want you to see the

914
00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:25,250
theological debts

915
00:32:25,958 --> 00:32:27,630
of Unity. I don't want you to just

916
00:32:27,630 --> 00:32:27,789
go,

917
00:32:28,585 --> 00:32:29,063
unity.

918
00:32:29,621 --> 00:32:30,178
If it works.

919
00:32:31,850 --> 00:32:33,443
I want you to go, oh, no. Like

920
00:32:33,443 --> 00:32:36,249
this is the huge theological category. I've got

921
00:32:36,249 --> 00:32:38,164
it inhabit this. Alright? So...

922
00:32:39,361 --> 00:32:41,515
Or like, I think something people think people

923
00:32:41,515 --> 00:32:44,396
who strive for Unity or, like, theological lightweight

924
00:32:44,396 --> 00:32:46,805
because they don't think about deeper theological categories

925
00:32:47,101 --> 00:32:49,582
that, like, well, I'm the champion truth. And

926
00:32:49,582 --> 00:32:51,729
so I've got, like, category upon category 1

927
00:32:51,729 --> 00:32:52,365
category. Like,

928
00:32:53,239 --> 00:32:56,022
it is not true that unity is for

929
00:32:56,022 --> 00:32:58,725
theological lightweight and truth is for theological heavyweight.

930
00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:01,445
Both those things,

931
00:33:02,162 --> 00:33:03,696
truth theological heavyweights

932
00:33:04,628 --> 00:33:04,788
pursue.

933
00:33:05,902 --> 00:33:06,538
Is that fair?

934
00:33:07,811 --> 00:33:09,176
Okay. If you don't think so,

935
00:33:10,048 --> 00:33:10,682
Read your bible.

936
00:33:12,507 --> 00:33:14,172
That's the worst like Trump card ever.

937
00:33:16,648 --> 00:33:18,403
Alright. Now let's talk about why Unity is

938
00:33:18,403 --> 00:33:19,918
good and pleasant. Here's how good god is.

939
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,434
As I said, he just gives us the

940
00:33:21,434 --> 00:33:23,268
carrot here. He could give us the... I

941
00:33:23,428 --> 00:33:25,182
I command you to be unified.

942
00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:27,190
So stop messing around,

943
00:33:28,067 --> 00:33:29,740
but he doesn't. He says, I'm gonna show

944
00:33:29,740 --> 00:33:31,174
you how good and pleasant. So let me

945
00:33:31,174 --> 00:33:32,928
point out a couple ways that man. Unity

946
00:33:32,928 --> 00:33:33,666
is so

947
00:33:34,377 --> 00:33:35,890
brings such pleasant this to life.

948
00:33:36,766 --> 00:33:39,178
When we live deeply connect run. Okay? So

949
00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:40,909
the first thing is is right here in

950
00:33:40,988 --> 00:33:43,472
John 17. I want you to see that

951
00:33:43,472 --> 00:33:44,903
when he says at the beginning of this

952
00:33:44,903 --> 00:33:46,890
psalm, you hold a good and pleasant it

953
00:33:46,890 --> 00:33:49,195
is when brothers go together in Unity, that

954
00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:50,410
he doesn't immediately

955
00:33:50,785 --> 00:33:52,945
identify the object of that pleasant or the

956
00:33:52,945 --> 00:33:55,328
direction of that pleasant. Now, it becomes obvious

957
00:33:55,328 --> 00:33:57,155
in the psalm that he's talking about It's

958
00:33:57,155 --> 00:33:59,244
pleasant for you and me for the people

959
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,730
who practice unity.

960
00:34:01,384 --> 00:34:03,382
But there's enough breadth to that statement that

961
00:34:03,541 --> 00:34:06,098
I wonder if he doesn't intend a little

962
00:34:06,098 --> 00:34:08,036
bit of a a broader

963
00:34:08,415 --> 00:34:09,946
understanding where he says, It's not just good

964
00:34:09,946 --> 00:34:12,733
and pleasant for you. I the father, I

965
00:34:12,813 --> 00:34:15,441
God find it good and pleasant when you

966
00:34:15,441 --> 00:34:17,910
are unified. It pleases me.

967
00:34:18,644 --> 00:34:20,484
And the reason that's again, so important because

968
00:34:20,484 --> 00:34:22,724
we always start with... Well, not not just

969
00:34:22,724 --> 00:34:25,045
what pleases me, but what pleases who.

970
00:34:26,005 --> 00:34:28,257
God. It's always a more powerful motive when

971
00:34:28,257 --> 00:34:30,893
you ask, does this please you, father? Not

972
00:34:30,893 --> 00:34:32,811
thought does it just please me. It puts

973
00:34:32,811 --> 00:34:35,934
our hearts in the right framework. Now why

974
00:34:35,934 --> 00:34:36,751
is unity

975
00:34:37,285 --> 00:34:38,796
good and pleasant to god?

976
00:34:39,432 --> 00:34:40,943
K? The first thing we saw was in

977
00:34:40,943 --> 00:34:42,135
that John 17 passage.

978
00:34:43,027 --> 00:34:45,418
Because when we are unified, living out our

979
00:34:45,418 --> 00:34:45,918
union,

980
00:34:46,693 --> 00:34:49,106
so that the world may know what

981
00:34:49,483 --> 00:34:51,974
that you sent me and that you love

982
00:34:51,974 --> 00:34:53,734
them even as you love me.

983
00:34:55,335 --> 00:34:57,909
Our unity is a big reason why people

984
00:34:57,909 --> 00:35:00,567
will or won't, depending on how well practiced

985
00:35:00,626 --> 00:35:00,946
it is.

986
00:35:02,065 --> 00:35:02,864
Come to No Jesus.

987
00:35:04,622 --> 00:35:05,901
I mean, why would he pray that the

988
00:35:05,901 --> 00:35:06,780
night before he's gonna die?

989
00:35:08,067 --> 00:35:09,203
Unless you really meant

990
00:35:09,577 --> 00:35:10,929
Not that you didn't really mean everything you

991
00:35:10,929 --> 00:35:11,088
said,

992
00:35:11,803 --> 00:35:13,551
but parting words are big words. Would you

993
00:35:13,551 --> 00:35:15,856
agree? A parting prayers is a big prayer.

994
00:35:16,986 --> 00:35:18,501
And Jesus says, man. I want the world

995
00:35:18,501 --> 00:35:20,254
to know that I came from you father.

996
00:35:21,608 --> 00:35:23,974
So unify my people. Unify my serve

997
00:35:24,648 --> 00:35:26,787
unify the generations of believers that come.

998
00:35:28,055 --> 00:35:31,199
And it's probably somewhat easy to understand, but

999
00:35:31,478 --> 00:35:32,595
let me make sure we root that in

1000
00:35:32,595 --> 00:35:34,349
the theology and because it's not just like

1001
00:35:34,349 --> 00:35:36,581
he's going, Well, when they see my people

1002
00:35:36,581 --> 00:35:38,016
being nice to each other. They'll be like,

1003
00:35:38,096 --> 00:35:39,690
oh, that's a that's a cool group to

1004
00:35:39,690 --> 00:35:41,302
belong because I'd rather be a part of

1005
00:35:41,302 --> 00:35:42,739
a group of people that's nice to each

1006
00:35:42,739 --> 00:35:44,016
other than a group of people who are

1007
00:35:44,016 --> 00:35:44,894
mean to each other.

1008
00:35:45,773 --> 00:35:47,369
You can find people who are nice to

1009
00:35:47,369 --> 00:35:48,008
each other anywhere.

1010
00:35:48,887 --> 00:35:49,685
That's not that hard.

1011
00:35:50,577 --> 00:35:52,252
Right? At least nice for a while.

1012
00:35:53,209 --> 00:35:55,384
Right? But what he's getting at is that

1013
00:35:55,442 --> 00:35:57,914
theological truth of union. What he's saying is

1014
00:35:57,914 --> 00:35:58,813
something supernatural

1015
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:00,261
is displayed

1016
00:36:01,269 --> 00:36:02,381
when you are unified.

1017
00:36:03,255 --> 00:36:05,795
And I'm particular unified across your your differences.

1018
00:36:06,192 --> 00:36:06,748
But, like, my,

1019
00:36:07,621 --> 00:36:08,469
I don't

1020
00:36:08,907 --> 00:36:10,657
want us to be a church where everybody

1021
00:36:10,657 --> 00:36:12,191
thinks the same politically

1022
00:36:12,645 --> 00:36:15,986
or about every secondary doctor issue. I would

1023
00:36:15,986 --> 00:36:17,591
hope we could be a church where you

1024
00:36:17,591 --> 00:36:19,180
and I can have a conversation. Now I

1025
00:36:19,180 --> 00:36:20,849
say, oh, I really disagree with you.

1026
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,424
Like, you take this perspective about living out

1027
00:36:24,424 --> 00:36:26,425
our faith in the world you think this

1028
00:36:26,425 --> 00:36:27,220
is a good way to do that. And

1029
00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:27,458
I'd say,

1030
00:36:28,412 --> 00:36:29,286
tell me more about it.

1031
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,067
Okay. I wanna really understand your perspective. I

1032
00:36:32,067 --> 00:36:33,815
wanna understand your point of view, And I'm

1033
00:36:33,815 --> 00:36:34,451
truly listening.

1034
00:36:35,262 --> 00:36:36,379
And at the end of, I might just

1035
00:36:36,379 --> 00:36:38,453
say, I I really... I'd really disagree with

1036
00:36:38,453 --> 00:36:38,612
you?

1037
00:36:39,729 --> 00:36:40,686
Can I tell you what I think?

1038
00:36:41,484 --> 00:36:43,478
Yeah. That that can I tell you what

1039
00:36:43,557 --> 00:36:44,930
I think is a really important question to

1040
00:36:44,930 --> 00:36:45,170
ask?

1041
00:36:47,329 --> 00:36:48,769
Now I'm gonna tell you what I think.

1042
00:36:50,610 --> 00:36:52,449
And just say, okay. And we could say,

1043
00:36:52,863 --> 00:36:54,765
Okay. I haven't convinced you. You haven't convinced

1044
00:36:54,765 --> 00:36:56,033
me, but we are brothers.

1045
00:36:56,905 --> 00:36:59,045
We are sisters in the lord.

1046
00:36:59,679 --> 00:36:59,996
I love you.

1047
00:37:01,681 --> 00:37:03,351
Can you imagine what that would be like?

1048
00:37:04,943 --> 00:37:06,693
If you just said, yeah, we really disagree

1049
00:37:06,693 --> 00:37:08,523
about politics? I mean, we really disagree.

1050
00:37:09,733 --> 00:37:11,565
And I think I think your choice is

1051
00:37:11,565 --> 00:37:13,237
a is is a rough 1.

1052
00:37:14,034 --> 00:37:16,105
And here's my reasons, You know? But Brother,

1053
00:37:16,184 --> 00:37:18,175
let me finish this conversation by Sand, I

1054
00:37:18,175 --> 00:37:18,389
love

1055
00:37:19,463 --> 00:37:21,371
I love you. I see that you're trying

1056
00:37:21,371 --> 00:37:22,961
to apply biblical wisdom here.

1057
00:37:24,392 --> 00:37:25,903
And that's that's all I'm gonna ask.

1058
00:37:27,255 --> 00:37:29,735
And and I will not separate myself from

1059
00:37:29,735 --> 00:37:29,894
you.

1060
00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:31,963
Wouldn't that be cool?

1061
00:37:34,429 --> 00:37:35,383
I hope you have a vision for that.

1062
00:37:35,622 --> 00:37:37,307
I mean, it seems to be what Christ

1063
00:37:37,307 --> 00:37:38,898
is getting at here. And saying when people

1064
00:37:38,898 --> 00:37:40,966
see that the... Not just the pragmatic of

1065
00:37:40,966 --> 00:37:42,159
with they're nice to each other, but when

1066
00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:44,307
they see theological union lived out in the

1067
00:37:44,307 --> 00:37:46,574
unity of God's people, It's such a supernatural

1068
00:37:46,792 --> 00:37:48,149
thing that it draws them,

1069
00:37:48,947 --> 00:37:50,464
that it draws them and that's what he's

1070
00:37:50,464 --> 00:37:52,460
saying here. Now the second thing he's saying,

1071
00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:54,776
I think why it's so good and pleasant

1072
00:37:54,776 --> 00:37:55,095
to God.

1073
00:37:56,147 --> 00:37:59,018
That people live in Unity is because it

1074
00:37:59,018 --> 00:38:00,931
gives people us a sense of a... Well,

1075
00:38:01,091 --> 00:38:02,606
actually, this is for him and for us.

1076
00:38:03,244 --> 00:38:04,655
1 of the reasons is good and pleasant

1077
00:38:04,774 --> 00:38:06,765
people to live in Unity. It is because

1078
00:38:06,765 --> 00:38:07,960
it gives a sense of assurance.

1079
00:38:08,518 --> 00:38:10,349
Now follow me on this. He says,

1080
00:38:10,907 --> 00:38:12,102
well, let's go back to the text. Look

1081
00:38:12,102 --> 00:38:13,456
at John 17, let me make sure I

1082
00:38:13,456 --> 00:38:15,628
read it word for word here. It says

1083
00:38:15,628 --> 00:38:18,025
in verse 22, the glory that you have

1084
00:38:18,025 --> 00:38:20,822
given me, I have given to them that

1085
00:38:20,822 --> 00:38:23,380
they may be 1, even as we are

1086
00:38:23,380 --> 00:38:23,540
1.

1087
00:38:24,271 --> 00:38:25,942
Alright. So I don't know if you just

1088
00:38:25,942 --> 00:38:27,953
read past that or if you think what

1089
00:38:28,010 --> 00:38:28,510
glory

1090
00:38:28,965 --> 00:38:30,769
that the father gave to the son

1091
00:38:31,444 --> 00:38:33,531
has the sun then given to us

1092
00:38:33,983 --> 00:38:35,729
that would then cause us to be 1.

1093
00:38:35,967 --> 00:38:38,683
So there's there's this glory that's received that

1094
00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:40,040
somehow makes this 1. Did we all see

1095
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,876
that in the text? Nod your head? Yeah.

1096
00:38:42,035 --> 00:38:43,232
Alright. So we all see that in the

1097
00:38:43,232 --> 00:38:45,307
text? So he says that? So what's he

1098
00:38:45,307 --> 00:38:47,078
what's he getting at? Well, We need to

1099
00:38:47,078 --> 00:38:48,036
go back to the life of Christ and

1100
00:38:48,036 --> 00:38:49,952
say, well what glory did the son receive

1101
00:38:49,952 --> 00:38:50,590
from the father.

1102
00:38:51,389 --> 00:38:52,905
And I think the answer that is best

1103
00:38:52,905 --> 00:38:54,821
found in a couple episodes in Christ's life.

1104
00:38:55,714 --> 00:38:57,861
Number 1, his baptism. Do remember it his

1105
00:38:57,861 --> 00:39:00,803
baptism the heavens open, and the father speaks

1106
00:39:00,803 --> 00:39:03,030
about the son and says this is my

1107
00:39:03,030 --> 00:39:05,516
beloved son. With whom I'm wealth, please listen

1108
00:39:05,516 --> 00:39:07,612
to him. But there's like, heavenly

1109
00:39:08,229 --> 00:39:09,346
identification. He's mine.

1110
00:39:10,703 --> 00:39:12,554
Right? And then now go to the go

1111
00:39:12,554 --> 00:39:14,875
to the trans transformation with Peter and James

1112
00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:16,875
and John on the mountain. And Christ is

1113
00:39:16,875 --> 00:39:18,635
revealed in his divine glory,

1114
00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:21,608
his humanity gives way in that moment in

1115
00:39:21,608 --> 00:39:23,510
such way they're not not stuff being human,

1116
00:39:23,668 --> 00:39:26,784
but that his divine nature is revealed on

1117
00:39:26,838 --> 00:39:29,947
display, and the response is, like, they're shattered

1118
00:39:29,947 --> 00:39:31,855
by it. Right? They're on their faces. Peter

1119
00:39:31,934 --> 00:39:33,206
James and Johnson. What do we do?

1120
00:39:33,842 --> 00:39:34,875
This is... We don't know what to do.

1121
00:39:35,114 --> 00:39:36,147
And the father speaks.

1122
00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:38,797
And he says this is my beloved son.

1123
00:39:39,756 --> 00:39:40,955
Listen to him.

1124
00:39:41,594 --> 00:39:43,353
The father again claiming the son.

1125
00:39:43,992 --> 00:39:45,910
And now think about the resurrection of Jesus.

1126
00:39:46,805 --> 00:39:50,585
That after his resurrection. Right? Jesus is saying

1127
00:39:50,644 --> 00:39:52,485
that I have been vin by the father.

1128
00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:54,579
In other words, the father has complained to

1129
00:39:54,579 --> 00:39:56,016
me as his own. You might have thought

1130
00:39:56,016 --> 00:39:58,094
that my death meant that the father dis

1131
00:39:58,094 --> 00:40:00,890
approved of me, but the resurrection proves that

1132
00:40:00,890 --> 00:40:03,685
he approves of me that I belong to

1133
00:40:03,685 --> 00:40:05,352
the father. So I think what he's getting

1134
00:40:05,352 --> 00:40:07,575
at is the glory that the son receives

1135
00:40:07,575 --> 00:40:09,798
from the father is the glory of the

1136
00:40:09,798 --> 00:40:12,356
father claiming him as his son and saying,

1137
00:40:12,595 --> 00:40:15,059
he is my representative. He is the 1.

1138
00:40:15,377 --> 00:40:17,205
I claim him as mine. Do we see

1139
00:40:17,205 --> 00:40:17,285
that?

1140
00:40:18,477 --> 00:40:20,642
And so then when he says that glory,

1141
00:40:21,281 --> 00:40:22,877
I give to my followers.

1142
00:40:23,516 --> 00:40:26,410
Think what he's saying is the the glory

1143
00:40:26,548 --> 00:40:28,637
that the father gave her the son sun

1144
00:40:28,637 --> 00:40:30,651
gives to us is the glory of being

1145
00:40:30,708 --> 00:40:31,824
identified as the children of God.

1146
00:40:32,938 --> 00:40:35,510
And knowing with complete assurance

1147
00:40:36,284 --> 00:40:38,049
that we belong to the father.

1148
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:42,341
You are his son, you're his daughter, you

1149
00:40:42,341 --> 00:40:43,851
belong to him he gets him pleasure to

1150
00:40:43,851 --> 00:40:45,679
call you that. He's not embarrassed that you're

1151
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:46,909
in his family. Me

1152
00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:49,046
He's not embarrassed that you're his daughter.

1153
00:40:49,765 --> 00:40:50,963
He's not gonna I kinda wish.

1154
00:40:51,922 --> 00:40:54,054
But she she prayed the prayer, so

1155
00:40:56,731 --> 00:41:00,328
He treasures claiming you. Just like he treasure

1156
00:41:00,328 --> 00:41:01,127
claiming the sun.

1157
00:41:02,485 --> 00:41:04,096
He treasure claiming you.

1158
00:41:07,042 --> 00:41:07,940
There's a glory

1159
00:41:08,794 --> 00:41:10,387
in belonging to the father.

1160
00:41:11,422 --> 00:41:12,394
And I hook you know it.

1161
00:41:13,195 --> 00:41:14,875
I hope you know that he delight to

1162
00:41:14,875 --> 00:41:15,434
claim you,

1163
00:41:16,075 --> 00:41:18,235
and it is your glory that he claims

1164
00:41:18,235 --> 00:41:19,914
you and loves you.

1165
00:41:20,635 --> 00:41:21,010
Treasure

1166
00:41:21,684 --> 00:41:21,842
Now,

1167
00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:24,723
how does that then lead

1168
00:41:25,254 --> 00:41:26,762
to 1 list to unity because that's what

1169
00:41:26,762 --> 00:41:28,983
the tech says. The glory I received from

1170
00:41:28,983 --> 00:41:31,622
you give to them so that they may

1171
00:41:31,622 --> 00:41:34,168
be 1. Think about what that does. You

1172
00:41:34,168 --> 00:41:36,077
are done fighting for table scraps.

1173
00:41:37,686 --> 00:41:39,064
You are done

1174
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,096
trying to win some competition

1175
00:41:43,032 --> 00:41:45,840
so that you get your identity above anybody

1176
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:46,239
else's.

1177
00:41:47,356 --> 00:41:49,452
There's no more 0 sum game

1178
00:41:50,548 --> 00:41:51,606
for a successful

1179
00:41:51,999 --> 00:41:53,677
meaningful life or it to belong at the

1180
00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:55,994
table, you have a permanent seat at the

1181
00:41:55,994 --> 00:41:56,154
table.

1182
00:41:57,352 --> 00:41:59,324
You've been brought there and it's you

1183
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,274
and you don't have to do a thing

1184
00:42:01,274 --> 00:42:01,512
for it.

1185
00:42:02,865 --> 00:42:03,661
You just enjoy it.

1186
00:42:05,729 --> 00:42:06,445
Just take your seat.

1187
00:42:07,335 --> 00:42:08,211
There's room for you.

1188
00:42:09,643 --> 00:42:11,314
And when that's the case, I don't sq

1189
00:42:11,314 --> 00:42:12,905
with with my siblings, do I?

1190
00:42:13,860 --> 00:42:15,611
I think well, I... I'm gonna... Because we've

1191
00:42:15,611 --> 00:42:17,714
all seen this. Right? Like, I'm gonna

1192
00:42:18,088 --> 00:42:20,072
do better than my siblings. So mom and

1193
00:42:20,072 --> 00:42:21,659
dad will be more pleased with me than

1194
00:42:21,659 --> 00:42:23,802
they are with them. Don't lie to me

1195
00:42:23,882 --> 00:42:24,596
You've all done that.

1196
00:42:26,121 --> 00:42:28,425
Go like, look, when my siblings mis behaving.

1197
00:42:28,584 --> 00:42:30,253
Look, how I'm doing the dishes, mom and

1198
00:42:30,253 --> 00:42:30,492
dad,

1199
00:42:31,286 --> 00:42:32,955
You're like, that's an evil doing of the

1200
00:42:32,955 --> 00:42:33,670
dishes. It's an evil.

1201
00:42:35,201 --> 00:42:36,797
I'm just trying to get me to go,

1202
00:42:36,956 --> 00:42:38,153
Oh, you're my favorite child.

1203
00:42:40,467 --> 00:42:41,265
That stuff is done.

1204
00:42:42,868 --> 00:42:43,424
So there's nope.

1205
00:42:44,217 --> 00:42:45,249
You got see at the tape.

1206
00:42:45,884 --> 00:42:48,106
And that 1 this is brought about by

1207
00:42:48,106 --> 00:42:49,931
the glory. Okay. Does everybody follow that?

1208
00:42:51,223 --> 00:42:51,463
Yeah.

1209
00:42:52,182 --> 00:42:53,140
How pleasant is that?

1210
00:42:54,019 --> 00:42:55,537
Now last few things and they're quick and

1211
00:42:55,537 --> 00:42:57,548
then we need to lead time to praise

1212
00:42:57,628 --> 00:42:58,185
God together.

1213
00:42:59,061 --> 00:43:00,494
The last 2 things are right here in

1214
00:43:00,574 --> 00:43:01,290
Psalm 01:33,

1215
00:43:01,608 --> 00:43:03,042
and like I said says the short psalm,

1216
00:43:03,201 --> 00:43:04,157
so it's super simple.

1217
00:43:04,714 --> 00:43:05,351
When he says,

1218
00:43:06,163 --> 00:43:09,032
that unity is like the oil flowing over

1219
00:43:09,032 --> 00:43:10,706
the, you know, the hare and the beard

1220
00:43:10,706 --> 00:43:12,619
and down on the collars of Aaron. He's

1221
00:43:12,619 --> 00:43:13,949
getting at this idea

1222
00:43:14,703 --> 00:43:16,766
the the... There was a... A special oil

1223
00:43:16,766 --> 00:43:18,512
that was poured out on the priests. Aaron

1224
00:43:18,512 --> 00:43:20,655
was the first high priest, and then his

1225
00:43:20,655 --> 00:43:22,974
family line became the priests of Israel. Their

1226
00:43:22,974 --> 00:43:24,910
job was to help people connect to God

1227
00:43:25,048 --> 00:43:26,484
just to in Layman's terms.

1228
00:43:27,202 --> 00:43:28,638
You're to you're to help people meet with

1229
00:43:28,718 --> 00:43:31,304
God and connect with them. And

1230
00:43:31,994 --> 00:43:34,137
that was their calling and that an annoying

1231
00:43:34,137 --> 00:43:36,518
oil represented their calling, and it would... Mean,

1232
00:43:36,677 --> 00:43:37,471
just just picture it.

1233
00:43:38,596 --> 00:43:40,128
Now, picture if there's a physical

1234
00:43:40,659 --> 00:43:43,119
manifestation of god's call on your life. They

1235
00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:45,102
just pore over your head and just the

1236
00:43:45,102 --> 00:43:45,999
sweet fragrance

1237
00:43:47,188 --> 00:43:49,265
of that annoying oil flowing. Every so much

1238
00:43:49,265 --> 00:43:51,182
better than like, you know, don't don't picture

1239
00:43:51,182 --> 00:43:52,940
ex bodies spray on a seventh grade boy.

1240
00:43:53,274 --> 00:43:53,514
Alright?

1241
00:43:55,671 --> 00:43:59,267
Picture the full, like, you know, beautiful annoying

1242
00:43:59,267 --> 00:43:59,667
oil.

1243
00:44:00,146 --> 00:44:01,585
Just flowing over your head.

1244
00:44:03,427 --> 00:44:04,166
As this

1245
00:44:06,445 --> 00:44:08,192
constant reminder that god is calling on your

1246
00:44:08,192 --> 00:44:08,430
life.

1247
00:44:09,383 --> 00:44:10,653
First calling is the same as it was

1248
00:44:10,653 --> 00:44:12,653
for Aaron we believe under the new covenant,

1249
00:44:12,812 --> 00:44:13,606
we are all priests.

1250
00:44:14,637 --> 00:44:16,146
This means we are all called to help

1251
00:44:16,146 --> 00:44:18,289
people connect with God and to grow up

1252
00:44:18,289 --> 00:44:18,686
in him.

1253
00:44:19,479 --> 00:44:21,568
That's a step pounding, but it's a new

1254
00:44:21,568 --> 00:44:22,207
testament truth.

1255
00:44:23,406 --> 00:44:25,164
This doctrine that we call a priest of

1256
00:44:25,164 --> 00:44:25,563
believers.

1257
00:44:26,362 --> 00:44:28,574
There's no special christians. There's not like the

1258
00:44:29,012 --> 00:44:30,842
There's not like the the pastors or the

1259
00:44:30,842 --> 00:44:32,911
super Christians who help people connect with God,

1260
00:44:33,070 --> 00:44:35,856
and then then there's the ordinary people, or

1261
00:44:35,856 --> 00:44:37,900
there's the bible study teachers or that

1262
00:44:39,133 --> 00:44:39,929
forget all that bunk.

1263
00:44:41,361 --> 00:44:42,395
We are all priests.

1264
00:44:43,668 --> 00:44:44,703
Every single 1 of us.

1265
00:44:45,817 --> 00:44:47,224
There's unique pastor calling...

1266
00:44:47,823 --> 00:44:49,659
It's a good thing. Right? But it's not

1267
00:44:49,659 --> 00:44:50,856
more special than you're calling.

1268
00:44:54,447 --> 00:44:56,771
So that's the first thing is like, when

1269
00:44:56,771 --> 00:44:57,646
you're unified,

1270
00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:00,192
it enables you to walk in your calling.

1271
00:45:01,465 --> 00:45:03,815
And reminds you you're calling because you're practicing

1272
00:45:03,875 --> 00:45:04,614
your gifts

1273
00:45:05,474 --> 00:45:07,554
then the body. You're helping people connect. God,

1274
00:45:08,034 --> 00:45:09,635
think about that, then not just in your

1275
00:45:09,635 --> 00:45:10,355
priest calling,

1276
00:45:10,929 --> 00:45:12,445
that priest to of believers, but think about

1277
00:45:12,445 --> 00:45:14,201
it in terms of just whatever god is

1278
00:45:14,201 --> 00:45:15,398
gifted and equipped you to do.

1279
00:45:16,276 --> 00:45:17,713
If you're a leader, if you're a teacher,

1280
00:45:17,873 --> 00:45:19,802
if you're gifts of mercy or help. So

1281
00:45:19,802 --> 00:45:22,507
whatever spiritual gift god's given you. The presumption

1282
00:45:22,507 --> 00:45:24,416
is, and I wanna say this just super

1283
00:45:24,416 --> 00:45:26,347
loud and clear. Like, we expect

1284
00:45:27,533 --> 00:45:29,601
that everybody in this body is using their

1285
00:45:29,601 --> 00:45:30,101
gifts

1286
00:45:30,715 --> 00:45:33,045
to serve. You cannot grow up in jesus

1287
00:45:33,102 --> 00:45:33,659
without doing that.

1288
00:45:34,534 --> 00:45:35,353
You cannot

1289
00:45:35,663 --> 00:45:37,173
So if you're like, sitting on the periphery,

1290
00:45:37,412 --> 00:45:38,604
and I'm not like, I'm not trying to

1291
00:45:38,604 --> 00:45:40,512
wag my finger at you. I I am...

1292
00:45:40,750 --> 00:45:43,055
Sometimes pastors forget. I think they feel like,

1293
00:45:44,327 --> 00:45:46,408
whoa, we can we can be guilty of

1294
00:45:46,408 --> 00:45:49,053
slipping into this. Alright, We've created this pathway

1295
00:45:49,109 --> 00:45:50,539
for people to engage with so that they

1296
00:45:50,539 --> 00:45:52,605
can grow in Christ. And then we forget

1297
00:45:52,605 --> 00:45:54,614
that it's about people growing in Christ and

1298
00:45:54,695 --> 00:45:56,135
Act like it's just about people doing the

1299
00:45:56,135 --> 00:45:57,675
pathway because we made the pathway

1300
00:45:58,535 --> 00:45:59,195
in whatever,

1301
00:45:59,494 --> 00:46:01,910
you know, church system we're in. I don't

1302
00:46:01,910 --> 00:46:04,309
care about that. I want you to grow.

1303
00:46:05,590 --> 00:46:07,190
I want you to grow and you can't

1304
00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:09,030
grow without using your gifts. So the expectation

1305
00:46:09,030 --> 00:46:10,344
at this church is that

1306
00:46:10,961 --> 00:46:14,392
everybody uses their gifts. Whether it's with an

1307
00:46:14,392 --> 00:46:16,227
outside partner in the community, whether it's through

1308
00:46:16,227 --> 00:46:18,157
your vocation, that you're doing your gifts or

1309
00:46:18,157 --> 00:46:19,833
whether. Teaching a third grade class here.

1310
00:46:20,630 --> 00:46:21,269
I don't care.

1311
00:46:22,147 --> 00:46:23,423
I do care that you use your guess.

1312
00:46:25,193 --> 00:46:26,463
When the body is in unity,

1313
00:46:27,337 --> 00:46:27,576
right?

1314
00:46:28,211 --> 00:46:30,196
It enables you to select the fertile soil

1315
00:46:30,196 --> 00:46:31,149
for using your gifts?

1316
00:46:31,863 --> 00:46:33,452
How can you lead if you're not in

1317
00:46:33,452 --> 00:46:35,530
unity with the body? How can you teach?

1318
00:46:35,688 --> 00:46:37,116
If you're not in unity with the body?

1319
00:46:37,592 --> 00:46:39,179
How can you practice the gifts of help

1320
00:46:39,179 --> 00:46:41,003
or mercy if you're not in unity with

1321
00:46:41,003 --> 00:46:43,333
the body? How can you practice edi identification

1322
00:46:43,333 --> 00:46:45,890
or encouragement or use a musical gift? How

1323
00:46:45,890 --> 00:46:47,568
can you do any of that if there's

1324
00:46:47,568 --> 00:46:49,486
not this living in connection within the life

1325
00:46:49,486 --> 00:46:49,966
of the body?

1326
00:46:50,765 --> 00:46:50,925
Now,

1327
00:46:52,611 --> 00:46:54,759
Last thing is that last the last verse

1328
00:46:54,759 --> 00:46:55,315
when he says,

1329
00:46:56,986 --> 00:46:59,952
it's like do on Mount Herman, and Mount

1330
00:47:00,112 --> 00:47:01,630
Herman would have been in the northern most

1331
00:47:01,630 --> 00:47:03,308
reaches of Israel under David's rule,

1332
00:47:03,867 --> 00:47:05,865
and it was the tallest Mountain in the

1333
00:47:05,865 --> 00:47:07,400
nation. And it was known for the amount

1334
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,239
of moisture that it got because it was

1335
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:10,760
so high in the sky.

1336
00:47:11,559 --> 00:47:13,719
Mount Zion, which it refers to is jerusalem.

1337
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,529
It's just another term for Jerusalem. Jerusalem in

1338
00:47:16,529 --> 00:47:18,682
a more arid climb. And so when the

1339
00:47:18,762 --> 00:47:19,480
Psalm says,

1340
00:47:20,039 --> 00:47:21,873
in Unity is like the do that falls

1341
00:47:21,873 --> 00:47:22,511
on Herman,

1342
00:47:22,990 --> 00:47:25,077
then coming down on to Mount Zion, It's

1343
00:47:25,077 --> 00:47:26,504
not because the dew would make its way

1344
00:47:26,504 --> 00:47:27,773
that far. It was they were too far

1345
00:47:27,773 --> 00:47:28,724
apart. He's saying,

1346
00:47:29,517 --> 00:47:31,603
it's like the richness of the due

1347
00:47:32,293 --> 00:47:32,664
that

1348
00:47:33,103 --> 00:47:35,575
brings life and refreshment on Herman, it would

1349
00:47:35,575 --> 00:47:37,170
be like, if that fell on a really

1350
00:47:37,170 --> 00:47:38,685
dry place like Jerusalem.

1351
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:41,929
So don't you want

1352
00:47:42,367 --> 00:47:42,867
refreshment

1353
00:47:43,481 --> 00:47:44,753
in this dry place.

1354
00:47:45,628 --> 00:47:47,856
That's the place of God's blessing. So he's

1355
00:47:47,856 --> 00:47:50,242
saying Unity is refreshing to the life of

1356
00:47:50,242 --> 00:47:51,853
the believer. Now we come back to the

1357
00:47:51,853 --> 00:47:53,532
gasoline and matches and we close with this.

1358
00:47:54,011 --> 00:47:54,251
Yeah.

1359
00:47:54,890 --> 00:47:56,088
Somebody was waving their hands at me.

1360
00:47:56,968 --> 00:47:57,687
Good. Thank you.

1361
00:48:00,099 --> 00:48:01,768
To live in unity within the body. Think

1362
00:48:01,768 --> 00:48:03,358
about how refreshing is. We... I've talked for

1363
00:48:03,358 --> 00:48:05,027
about refrigerator friends. You should have friends that

1364
00:48:05,027 --> 00:48:06,299
are closer to you. They just walk in

1365
00:48:06,299 --> 00:48:07,412
and get whatever they want out of your

1366
00:48:07,412 --> 00:48:09,660
fridge. That may sound silly, but that's that's

1367
00:48:09,660 --> 00:48:11,416
a type of closeness in intimacy isn't it?

1368
00:48:11,735 --> 00:48:12,852
Yeah. You don't what to ask Just come

1369
00:48:12,852 --> 00:48:14,288
on. What's mine is yours.

1370
00:48:15,405 --> 00:48:15,565
Like,

1371
00:48:17,737 --> 00:48:19,095
She'd have hospital friends?

1372
00:48:19,894 --> 00:48:21,572
Who's showing up without being asked?

1373
00:48:23,090 --> 00:48:23,545
When

1374
00:48:24,461 --> 00:48:25,418
the stuff hits the fan.

1375
00:48:27,013 --> 00:48:28,688
When your health goes downhill quick.

1376
00:48:29,963 --> 00:48:33,329
Who shows up? Isn't it refreshing to wouldn't

1377
00:48:33,329 --> 00:48:34,927
it be refreshing if there were friends that

1378
00:48:34,927 --> 00:48:36,466
lives so close to you that

1379
00:48:37,244 --> 00:48:38,123
they didn't have to ask.

1380
00:48:38,843 --> 00:48:40,840
And like the nurses could see that visiting

1381
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:41,775
hours didn't apply to them

1382
00:48:43,797 --> 00:48:44,590
they just come on in.

1383
00:48:45,620 --> 00:48:47,920
Right? Because they're the people that show up.

1384
00:48:49,268 --> 00:48:51,438
That's of unity he's talking about here. And

1385
00:48:51,438 --> 00:48:53,195
then the gasoline matches, I I had a

1386
00:48:53,195 --> 00:48:54,074
friend who always said this.

1387
00:48:54,794 --> 00:48:56,232
He said you should have people that live

1388
00:48:56,232 --> 00:48:57,611
so closely to you

1389
00:48:58,070 --> 00:48:58,445
that

1390
00:48:59,045 --> 00:49:00,965
they don't just notice when you burned your

1391
00:49:00,965 --> 00:49:02,565
house down with the choices that you were

1392
00:49:02,565 --> 00:49:04,405
making. They can tell when you're playing with

1393
00:49:04,405 --> 00:49:05,285
gasoline and matches.

1394
00:49:06,817 --> 00:49:08,493
People who know you so well that when

1395
00:49:08,493 --> 00:49:11,207
your patterns change, when your speech changes, when

1396
00:49:11,207 --> 00:49:14,454
you're kinda bubbling over with anger a little

1397
00:49:14,814 --> 00:49:16,972
quicker than you would expect. They see that

1398
00:49:16,972 --> 00:49:18,091
pattern because they know you.

1399
00:49:19,050 --> 00:49:20,968
And they come in and say, brother, I

1400
00:49:20,968 --> 00:49:22,166
don't wanna wait till you burn your house

1401
00:49:22,166 --> 00:49:22,406
down.

1402
00:49:23,046 --> 00:49:24,659
It looks to me like something going on

1403
00:49:24,659 --> 00:49:25,937
was changed in your life and it seems

1404
00:49:25,937 --> 00:49:27,454
like you're playing with gasoline and matches.

1405
00:49:28,094 --> 00:49:28,893
Let's put those down.

1406
00:49:30,411 --> 00:49:31,945
Let's change our have back to where they

1407
00:49:31,945 --> 00:49:33,625
need to be. Does that make sense?

1408
00:49:35,065 --> 00:49:36,585
Isn't that better than burning the house down

1409
00:49:36,585 --> 00:49:37,704
and have somebody go well. Let me help

1410
00:49:37,704 --> 00:49:38,744
you sift through the ashes.

1411
00:49:44,674 --> 00:49:46,272
If you're not a follower Jesus, I hope

1412
00:49:46,272 --> 00:49:47,630
what I'm describing for you is a picture

1413
00:49:47,630 --> 00:49:48,510
of something you would want.

1414
00:49:50,993 --> 00:49:52,347
And the invitation is come and habit,

1415
00:49:53,461 --> 00:49:54,734
come to union with Christ.

1416
00:49:55,690 --> 00:49:57,454
Now for those who in, my hope is

1417
00:49:57,454 --> 00:49:59,361
that you would see the seriousness of the

1418
00:49:59,361 --> 00:50:01,506
call to unity and that you'd you'd strive

1419
00:50:01,506 --> 00:50:03,039
after it Come off the periphery.

1420
00:50:03,985 --> 00:50:05,025
Coming off the margins,

1421
00:50:05,905 --> 00:50:07,664
begin to take steps towards this kind of

1422
00:50:07,664 --> 00:50:10,465
deep connectedness within the body because it refreshes,

1423
00:50:12,545 --> 00:50:15,348
and it calls and it annoy and guide

1424
00:50:15,348 --> 00:50:16,381
you into fullness of life.

1425
00:50:17,573 --> 00:50:19,957
Okay. Let's pray together. No will sing to

1426
00:50:19,957 --> 00:50:22,262
conclude our time. Father, thank you for the

1427
00:50:22,262 --> 00:50:23,073
gift of your word,

1428
00:50:23,791 --> 00:50:25,306
I pray that we've done an adequate job

1429
00:50:25,306 --> 00:50:25,806
of

1430
00:50:26,343 --> 00:50:27,938
of putting our eyes in it and our

1431
00:50:27,938 --> 00:50:30,251
minds on it so that that living word

1432
00:50:30,251 --> 00:50:31,686
would then have its away with us and

1433
00:50:31,686 --> 00:50:33,059
shape our heart. In our minds.

1434
00:50:34,337 --> 00:50:36,255
With no preaching that does that, but but

1435
00:50:36,255 --> 00:50:37,693
your word is alive and it does. And

1436
00:50:37,693 --> 00:50:39,690
so that's our desire. To let your word

1437
00:50:39,690 --> 00:50:41,543
have its way with us. There's anything in

1438
00:50:41,543 --> 00:50:43,700
us that resists that. Just do away with

1439
00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:45,058
that in your mercy, father.

1440
00:50:45,856 --> 00:50:48,257
Fill us with love for you. And each,

1441
00:50:49,049 --> 00:50:50,871
and now would you receive our praises? It's

1442
00:50:50,871 --> 00:50:52,534
in g's name we pray. Amen.