1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,200 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:20,580 Here in the house if you're at East Shore if you're online thank you for coming and 3 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:21,900 worshiping together. 4 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:23,920 Lifting up the name of Jesus because that's why we come together. 5 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:24,920 Amen. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,000 We're here to worship God and I just want to say good morning. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,920 Good morning to each and every one of you and it is a great morning. 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,320 How many got out and enjoyed the beautiful weather yesterday? 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:35,320 Amen. 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,240 The Lord gave us a reprieve in the middle of winter. 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,240 It's coming back. 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:45,000 I know it's coming back this week but it was good to be outside and to be warm and man 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,080 we were out in t-shirts yesterday. 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,400 Come on in February that's amazing. 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:54,480 But today we want to continue on in God's Word and to see what God's Word has to say 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,220 about authentic Christian community. 17 00:00:57,220 --> 00:01:02,240 If you were here last week I spoke along the lines of Christian community about church, 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,560 what it is, what it's not, maybe even what it should be. 19 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:14,700 And last week we found a few non-negotiables I call it in God's Word for authentic Christian 20 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:16,240 community. 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:22,880 Elements that have to be present for there to be real Christian community actually there. 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,980 Another term you can hear maybe you've heard used is irreducible minimums. 23 00:01:26,980 --> 00:01:33,440 In the Jesus community the least number of attributes that have to be present to maintain, 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,320 to function, to identify as authentic followers of Jesus Christ and really authentic church, 25 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,320 authentic community, authentic fellowship. 26 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:45,560 And hopefully you remember just a little bit of that but some of those non-negotiables 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,840 I'm going to review if you weren't here last week. 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,000 The first one super obvious it's Jesus right. 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,960 He's a non-negotiable. 30 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:58,980 That's why they call us Christian Christ is in the Word and it is all about Jesus. 31 00:01:58,980 --> 00:02:00,700 It is centered on Jesus. 32 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:01,920 We talk about Jesus. 33 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,200 We brag on Jesus. 34 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,560 He is Lord and Savior of our lives. 35 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,520 He's Lord and Savior of the entire community that we call believers and followers of Christ. 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,760 So Jesus is a non-negotiable in this community. 37 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,440 It's first and foremost. 38 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,880 Secondly was the Holy Spirit because Holy Spirit needs to be present. 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:25,440 He sent the Holy Spirit and what we need in this community is the fruit of the Spirit. 40 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,440 Not our fruit because we got our own fruit. 41 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,520 That's all different kind of fruit. 42 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,000 We'll talk about that maybe a little later but we need the Holy Spirit's fruit. 43 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,640 Galatians 5 22 love, joy, peace, long sufferings, patience, goodness, faithfulness, generalness, 44 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:40,720 self-control. 45 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,680 That needs to be in the community. 46 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,160 So we got to have Jesus. 47 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:45,720 We got to have the Holy Spirit. 48 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,960 And the third element is as followers in this community that we really talked about and 49 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,320 dug out of scripture last week was that we have to die to ourselves. 50 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,120 We got to crucify our flesh. 51 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,300 These daily desires and passions that will help us. 52 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:07,320 These are three, just three of the irreducible minimums, the absolutes in our Christian community. 53 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,400 Two of them all God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 54 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,740 And the third one, get me out of the way. 55 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:17,640 Get my selfish, selfish self out of the way and really just crucify my flesh and follow 56 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,060 what Jesus says. 57 00:03:19,060 --> 00:03:23,560 And we can see when we start to really get a biblical picture of Christian community 58 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,960 and Christian fellowship, we can start to see why it's the greatest community on the 59 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,480 face of the planet. 60 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,280 Why it is, it is amazing. 61 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,260 Why it works. 62 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:38,320 Why there's nothing more effective when we do this right and nothing will impact our 63 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,500 society more than if we get this straight. 64 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:45,680 But I want to take you into the book of first Corinthians today to give you another one 65 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,440 of those non-negotiables, another one of those irreducible minimums. 66 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,360 So if you got your Bible, you can head to first Corinthians. 67 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,480 We're going to land in chapter 13 and we're going to learn one more of those non-negotiables 68 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,000 for authentic Christian fellowship. 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:09,120 And the fact is, if this ingredient is not present in our actions, in our attitudes, 70 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,820 if it's not there, everything in our community fails. 71 00:04:13,820 --> 00:04:16,880 Anything we set up to accomplish will actually come to naught. 72 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,880 It'll become worthless without this ingredient. 73 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:25,200 Short of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father, this is second. 74 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,200 Second to God himself in his community is this, and it is love. 75 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,200 Say love. 76 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Agape love. 77 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Say agape. 78 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,200 All right, agape. 79 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,640 Agape love, the love of Jesus Christ, the love of God. 80 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,680 Now I know this is kind of somewhat good timing, and be honest with you, I really didn't time 81 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,060 it out this way, but it landed great because it's Valentine's week, right? 82 00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:50,080 Now this was a little warning shot for you guys. 83 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,560 Come on, raise your hands, guys. 84 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,800 All right, listen, this is Valentine's week. 85 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,000 Just in case you didn't know, you got about three shopping days left. 86 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:03,340 All right, get out there, get the card, get the flowers, get the gift, get whatever. 87 00:05:03,340 --> 00:05:04,340 My wife's not here. 88 00:05:04,340 --> 00:05:09,920 She's up at the East Shore this morning leading worship, but I warned myself this week. 89 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,560 All right, I talked to myself about this already. 90 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,560 So guys, it's a warning shot, and we know it's Valentine's week, right? 91 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,120 And that's a different kind of love. 92 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,320 You can look at the Greek term on that, and it's different, and that's a human to human 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,240 love, but I'm talking about agape love this morning. 94 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,080 I'm talking about God to human love. 95 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,200 I'm talking about the love of God working through us to other humans, kind of love. 96 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:31,200 Completely different. 97 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,280 You got to understand something about this non-negotiable, that anything that happens 98 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:43,960 in the community of Jesus Christ minus love, minus agape, equals nothing. 99 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,480 Got some more math for you this morning, right? 100 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:51,500 Anything that happens in Jesus' community minus love equals nothing. 101 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:57,300 No matter how impressive it looks on the surface, no matter how holy it might appear, no matter 102 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:05,560 how deeply spiritual it comes off, any action or activity minus the love of Christ in community 103 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,560 equals nothing. 104 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,480 We're going to 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 105 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,440 Let me pray quickly over the Word of God. 106 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,960 Lord, I thank you for this Word. 107 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,960 I thank you, God, what the Word means in our hearts and lives. 108 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,960 It is truth. 109 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,680 Lord, I pray, God, that you show us, Lord, what authentic community is in the body of 110 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,560 Christ, and Lord, that we not only hear it, but God, we live it, and Lord, we become it. 111 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,160 Lord, we just give you praise and glory in Jesus' name. 112 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,280 And everybody said together, amen. 113 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:36,160 1 Corinthians 13, one says this, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels 114 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,640 but have not love, I have become sounding brass or clanging cymbal. 115 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,920 And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, 116 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:50,720 and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but I have not love, I am 117 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,980 nothing. 118 00:06:51,980 --> 00:06:56,400 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, 119 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,920 but have not love, it profits me nothing. 120 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:01,920 Say nothing. 121 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:02,920 Say nothing. 122 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:03,920 Come on. 123 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,920 Yeah, a little twang to it today. 124 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,920 A little bit of nothing, right? 125 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,280 Not only does it say that my actions and my attitudes become nothing, but if I'm not freely 126 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:20,960 giving the love of God in what I'm doing in that said action, I am nothing. 127 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,960 Verse 2 says this, and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and 128 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,800 all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but I have 129 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,840 not love, I am nothing. 130 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,840 That's what it says. 131 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:34,840 Ouch. 132 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:35,840 Yikes. 133 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:36,840 Right? 134 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,400 In the words of Scooby Doo and Shaggy, zoinks. 135 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,400 Okay? 136 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,400 Come on. 137 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,480 It profits me nothing. 138 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:45,480 Right? 139 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,120 Without love, it's nothing. 140 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,880 Without agape, right? 141 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,360 I have nothing. 142 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,000 Without agape, I am nothing. 143 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:59,480 And as a matter of fact, I just become sounding brass and clanging cymbals. 144 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:05,080 If the love of God is not in the middle of all that we do as a community and as an individual 145 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,480 in the community, I'm just making noise, and that's all. 146 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:08,760 That's all I'm doing. 147 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,120 There's deep gravity and seriousness to what's being said here. 148 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,560 There's a spiritual context if you start looking at this in every single level. 149 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,160 If I speak with the tongues of men and angels, that's a very spiritual reference, by the 150 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:23,160 way. 151 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,840 If I speak with the tongues of men, that's in my native language. 152 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:32,760 If I'm an eloquent speaker, if I can maybe pontificate in great ways and I can move people 153 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,880 with my speech and they hear what I'm saying, if I've got all that but I don't have love, 154 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,720 I've got nothing without agape. 155 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,480 That's what it says, right? 156 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,560 If I can speak with the tongues of angels, that is a heavenly language. 157 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:48,200 That is the prayer language. 158 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,520 That is baptized in the Spirit and speaking in the Spirit kind of language. 159 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,200 You can be that spiritual when you're speaking in tongues and you have all that. 160 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,280 It says, but if you lack agape, you've got nothing. 161 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,980 You've got nothing. 162 00:09:03,980 --> 00:09:06,580 So much so that you're just making noise. 163 00:09:06,580 --> 00:09:08,000 It's just obnoxious. 164 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,520 It's just clanging and banging. 165 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:10,920 That's all it is, right? 166 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,840 Irritating everyone around me. 167 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:19,120 We have a Toyota Highlander, it's one of the vehicles that we drive, and that car has the 168 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,960 most obnoxious seatbelt ringer in the entire world. 169 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:24,960 It's obnoxious. 170 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,280 If you get in, you don't put your seatbelt on. 171 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,600 How many of you, if you just wait it out sometimes, two minutes, it won't beep anymore, right? 172 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:33,600 Not this one. 173 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,600 It does. 174 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,600 It stays on. 175 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,260 And it's like, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. 176 00:09:38,260 --> 00:09:41,760 It's yelling at you all the time, put it on, put it on, put it on, put it on, right? 177 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:42,760 It drives you crazy. 178 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,200 It's just obnoxious. 179 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,520 And you will put your seatbelt on if you ride in my car, okay? 180 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,560 Whether you want to or not, you're going to put it on because you'll go insane if you 181 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:51,560 don't. 182 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:52,560 It's true. 183 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:53,560 It's obnoxious. 184 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,800 But that's what the Word of God's saying. 185 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,120 You can be as spiritual as you want. 186 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,120 It can appear holy. 187 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,620 It can appear right. 188 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:05,280 You can have all your spiritual ducks in a row, but if you do not have agape, you are 189 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,420 obnoxious. 190 00:10:06,420 --> 00:10:07,640 You are noise. 191 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,240 You are clanging symbols. 192 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,240 You're banging on things. 193 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,800 Have you ever grabbed a pan and just bang on it with a ladle? 194 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,200 I used to wake up my kids like that once in a while just for fun, right? 195 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,200 Come on. 196 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,200 It's just obnoxious, right? 197 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,320 They think it was obnoxious at least, all right? 198 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:26,880 In this community, whatever we're doing, whatever we're saying, it better have Jesus at the 199 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:27,880 center. 200 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,800 It better have Holy Spirit fruit all around, right? 201 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,720 It better be me crucifying my flesh, putting down, you know, putting away my desires, my 202 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,240 fleshly desires and passions, right? 203 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,080 And it needs to have authentic, godly love, agape love in the middle of it. 204 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,960 You start to see why it's the greatest community on earth if it's done right, because it's 205 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,200 almost all God, right? 206 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,480 And none of us. 207 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:54,400 It's almost us putting us aside and it's all God because it's all Him. 208 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,240 It becomes this incredible thing that reaches people. 209 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,080 It becomes this incredible thing that reaches out into our community and people feel the 210 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:02,080 love of God. 211 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,600 They don't even know why, right? 212 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:09,600 No authentic Jesus love and not my weak, pathetic definition of love. 213 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,400 His love in action. 214 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,240 That's when this community becomes at its finest. 215 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,120 What it should look like, right? 216 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,360 The hand of God at work. 217 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,360 But man, when we get this wrong, right? 218 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:28,520 When we leave the Holy Spirit out of it, the fruits of the Spirit out of it, when the agape 219 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,320 isn't there, it's just some other form of love, right? 220 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,160 It becomes something entirely different, right? 221 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,640 It becomes people get disillusioned when it's not what it's supposed to be. 222 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,080 People get disappointed. 223 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,760 They get frustrated. 224 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,560 They start saying things like, if that's a Christian, no, thank you. 225 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:48,560 Right? 226 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,520 I'm peace out that kind of thing. 227 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:51,520 Right? 228 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,440 If that's what is, people get bitter. 229 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,440 They get hurt. 230 00:11:54,440 --> 00:12:00,640 Can I tell you, listen, if you've experienced that kind of thing in a Christian fellowship 231 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,280 somewhere, it wasn't Jesus. 232 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,120 It wasn't the Holy Spirit. 233 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,960 It was some, some Christian who didn't really display the agape love of Christ. 234 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,940 They had something else going on, right? 235 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:13,100 You were hearing something. 236 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,480 They were dropping a whole different kind of fruit around you. 237 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:16,480 All right? 238 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:17,800 Not the fruit of the Spirit. 239 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,520 It's some carnal follower of Jesus, right? 240 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,960 Just started putting their fruit all over you. 241 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,440 And it began to mess you up. 242 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,760 How many know it's good to place blame where blame is due, right? 243 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,320 And it's not on Jesus. 244 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,000 It's not on the Holy Spirit. 245 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,220 It's people sometimes, right? 246 00:12:34,220 --> 00:12:39,120 But when we get it right, when this community steps through, now listen, none of us are 247 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,120 perfect. 248 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,200 We all got mess in our lives. 249 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,680 We all get it wrong. 250 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:48,040 But I'm talking about when we generally walk in God's purpose, in His plan, in His love, 251 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,520 it's an amazing thing. 252 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,520 Right? 253 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,760 It's intensely fruitful in that kind of environment. 254 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:59,240 There's intense kind of love, so much so that sometimes it's hard for us to get it right. 255 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,240 Right? 256 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,800 Sometimes it is difficult to live this out. 257 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,240 Let me show you what I mean a little bit. 258 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:10,720 In Luke chapter 6, 27, it says this, but I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do 259 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,000 good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who spitefully 260 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,320 use you to Him who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other also. 261 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,720 And from Him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 262 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,120 Speak to everyone who asks you, and from Him who takes away from your goods, do not ask 263 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:29,120 them back. 264 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,200 And just as you want men to do to you, you do likewise to them. 265 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,680 This was Jesus speaking. 266 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:38,600 And this could very well be my least favorite verses in all the Bible. 267 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Right? 268 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:40,600 Come on. 269 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:41,600 Let's be honest. 270 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,600 Right? 271 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:43,600 Why? 272 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,000 Because our love doesn't always look like God's definition of love. 273 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Right? 274 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,240 I like loving people who love me back. 275 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:53,800 How many enjoy that? 276 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:54,800 Right? 277 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:55,800 Somebody loves you. 278 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:56,800 Isn't it fun just to love them back a little? 279 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:57,800 Isn't that a good thing? 280 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,520 Isn't that how it's supposed to work? 281 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,520 I don't really want to love my enemies. 282 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,520 Why? 283 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,320 Because they're my enemy. 284 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,320 Right? 285 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:07,880 They're against me. 286 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,040 I don't want to really bless people who are cursing me. 287 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:16,800 I know some of you, when somebody curses you, you think, oh, blessing. 288 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,160 Why are you laughing? 289 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,960 You got some other words in mind, don't you? 290 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:22,960 Right? 291 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,640 When somebody come up and crack you on one cheek, I kind of like my cheek. 292 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,080 Do you really want to offer them the other one? 293 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,080 Come on, hit me again. 294 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:32,360 Right? 295 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,080 We got a different definition of love. 296 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,080 Somebody steals my coat. 297 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,880 Oh, here, have the rest of it too. 298 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:37,880 Right? 299 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,880 You give somebody something, you lend it to them. 300 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,800 And the word of God says, you lend it to them and don't ask for it back. 301 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:44,800 Right? 302 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,200 You borrow it and you never get back. 303 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,400 That rubs you the wrong way. 304 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,720 You're taught it makes you mad. 305 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,240 Come on, right? 306 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,720 Why is it so hard? 307 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:59,600 Because many times my definition of love does not align with Jesus' definition of love. 308 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:00,600 It doesn't line up. 309 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,600 Right? 310 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,800 But in the only scripture we like out of all those scriptures, the last one, it says, and 311 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,360 just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. 312 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:10,360 That seems reasonable. 313 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,360 Right? 314 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,360 That seems like a good thing. 315 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,520 We can live with that one. 316 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:14,520 Right? 317 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,520 Fair enough. 318 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,660 But Jesus is not looking for my definition of reasonable love in the kingdom. 319 00:15:18,660 --> 00:15:19,660 He really isn't. 320 00:15:19,660 --> 00:15:23,960 He's looking for me to live out his definition of reasonable love in the community. 321 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,720 And that's what it is. 322 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,000 It's dying to me. 323 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,840 Thus, I got to take you back to crucifying the flesh. 324 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Right? 325 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,240 Thus, it's going back to and putting my desires and my passions aside. 326 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,040 Thus, it's going back and saying no to me sometimes and yes to God. 327 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,040 Right? 328 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,040 Turn to someone right now, tell them, stop doing it your own way. 329 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,040 Tell them right now. 330 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,040 Somebody you want to do that all day. 331 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,560 Come on, tell them, stop doing it your own way. 332 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,520 Stop doing it your own way. 333 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:53,040 I'm telling you anything can happen in the power of God in Jesus community. 334 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:59,800 As long as we don't leave out agape, as long as we don't leave out what God said to do, 335 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,160 anything is possible. 336 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,280 And let me give you just a little more what Jesus told us in Luke chapter 632. 337 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,280 It says this, if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? 338 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,240 For even sinners love those who love them. 339 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,920 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? 340 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,600 For even sinners do the same. 341 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:20,200 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you for 342 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,400 even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back? 343 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:30,080 Beloved your enemies, do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return. 344 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,920 And your reward will be great and you will be sons of the most high, for he is kind to 345 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:36,720 the unthankful and evil. 346 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,640 Therefore be merciful just as your father also is merciful. 347 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:44,120 Do you catch the last part of that? 348 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,000 This is how the children of God do community, right? 349 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,920 Because this is how the father, the son and the Holy Spirit do community. 350 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:57,880 This is how the sons and the daughters of God are supposed to live in community. 351 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,200 This is the behavior that God says he'll reward one day and he'll reward it greatly when we 352 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:08,600 step into the throne room, when we get, when we leave this life and go to the next, right? 353 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,760 This is what brings great reward. 354 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:16,880 We love the unlovable, the people that use us, the people that won't send love back, 355 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:17,880 right? 356 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:18,880 They won't love us back. 357 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:19,880 We give them love anyway. 358 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,600 The people that take a swing at us, right? 359 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:27,480 The people that will take from you and will never give it back to you in any way, shape 360 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:28,600 or form. 361 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,800 This is God's love. 362 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,800 It's God's love. 363 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,520 It really is. 364 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:39,560 And last week I put an idea out to LHC community and I, and I've seen a bunch of you came in 365 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,840 with it on, right? 366 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,360 I said, get yourself a cross if you can, get a necklace, get a bracelet, get something 367 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:47,800 that you can place on and you can put on you every day. 368 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:48,800 You know why? 369 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,320 Because we need something to remind us what it is to be an authentic Christian community. 370 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,040 We need something to remind us that I got to put this flesh down and I got to care for 371 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,800 somebody like Jesus said to care for him. 372 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,120 You know, find that thing. 373 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:02,640 If you got, how many of you need a visual reminder sometimes? 374 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,460 You need something that you see every day. 375 00:18:04,460 --> 00:18:08,660 And when you put that thing on and you place it on you, you got, it's a reminder I'm an 376 00:18:08,660 --> 00:18:10,280 ambassador for Jesus Christ. 377 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,480 I am not my own. 378 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:12,840 That's what the word of God says, right? 379 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,440 I'm here representing him. 380 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,360 I got to go out there and do it different than what I'm even thinking, right? 381 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:23,680 Well how I'm normally acting, remind yourself why? 382 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,520 Because Jesus did it this way. 383 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,720 Because we can't help people if we're not going to authentically love them and engage 384 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,800 in agape. 385 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,000 We can't help them, right? 386 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,560 And anything less, right, anything minus agape is nothing. 387 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,400 It's nothing. 388 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:48,000 Anything in Christian community minus agape is nothing. 389 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 It's nothing. 390 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,880 I want to drive a final point home to why this is so incredibly important and why authentic 391 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,600 Christian community is, it's a non-negotiable. 392 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:05,960 And it's this, that this fellowship that we're in, this community that we're in, we have 393 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,520 a common enemy. 394 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Satan takes aim at this fellowship. 395 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,640 I don't know if you realize it or not. 396 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,220 He wants to destroy this community. 397 00:19:15,220 --> 00:19:20,140 We all have a common enemy, personally and as a community of believers. 398 00:19:20,140 --> 00:19:23,700 We have a common nemesis who is out to take us down. 399 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:28,200 We have someone in the shadows who is lurking who wants to take us out, who wants to take 400 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,320 our children out, who wants to take our family out, right? 401 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,400 Who wants to take the people of God out as a whole? 402 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:43,200 And Jesus set up this agape community to keep the enemy out, to help keep the enemy at bay. 403 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,100 And lately I found myself in this portion of scripture and I've used it several times 404 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:50,440 over the last couple of months because I just can't get away from it because it has God's 405 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:51,440 plan in it. 406 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,600 And it really talks about God's protection in it. 407 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:58,240 It's in Matthew chapter 16 verse 13 and says this, when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea 408 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:04,700 Philippi, he asked the disciples, saying, who do men say that I, the son of man, am? 409 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:09,480 So he said, some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets 410 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,400 and he said to them, but who do you say that I am? 411 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,060 Simon Peter answered and said, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. 412 00:20:17,060 --> 00:20:18,060 He gets it right. 413 00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:22,120 Jesus answered and said to him, blessed are you Simon, for flesh and blood has not revealed 414 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,120 this to you. 415 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:26,960 And my father who is in heaven, and I also say to you, that you are Peter and on this 416 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:31,440 rock I will build my church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 417 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,260 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on earth will 418 00:20:35,260 --> 00:20:40,360 be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 419 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:45,800 And these couple of verses, we see God's plan and protection for the community. 420 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:50,280 First the fellowship is built and I started with this and I'll say it again, is built 421 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,540 on Jesus Christ. 422 00:20:51,540 --> 00:20:56,980 He is the foundation, he is the rock, he is the center of everything that we do and there's 423 00:20:56,980 --> 00:21:00,360 no hope outside of him and him alone. 424 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,360 That's foundation, it is Christ. 425 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:07,680 But secondly it says that the gates of hell will not prevail against this community. 426 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,920 That's what it says against the church, against those who are authentic community. 427 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,860 Satan cannot and will not come against the church and prevail. 428 00:21:15,860 --> 00:21:20,000 He can fight, he can bruise, he can try to throw anything he's got at us. 429 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,840 But when this functions as it should, when this society, when this community functions 430 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,120 like it ought to, the enemy cannot come in. 431 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,360 The enemy cannot overcome, he cannot prevail. 432 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:32,360 Right? 433 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:33,360 He can't. 434 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:36,800 That should get you excited. 435 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,800 All the power of hell can come out against the church and if we're living like we should 436 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:46,040 in an authentic community, it doesn't stand a chance. 437 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,160 It doesn't stand a chance. 438 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,000 You know what that should help us do? 439 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,200 That should help move us from the defense to the offense as Christian. 440 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,200 Right? 441 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,200 As community. 442 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,360 A lot of times we're on the defense. 443 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,360 Right? 444 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:03,040 Well the enemy's coming, I hope I survive, I hope I make it through, I'm just going to 445 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,520 stand my ground. 446 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,400 Man, if you understand that the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church, you know 447 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,400 what? 448 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,400 It'll all be the other way around. 449 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,160 Satan should say, oh no, here they come. 450 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,160 Right? 451 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,160 Uh oh. 452 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:17,160 I'm in trouble. 453 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,160 Right? 454 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,880 We should, instead of being on the defense, it should start to begin to put us on the offense. 455 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,280 Instead of just hunkering down and hanging on to what we got, we should be taking new 456 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:27,280 ground. 457 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:28,640 We should be taking the next hill. 458 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:29,960 We should be going over, right? 459 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,960 And say, victors. 460 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,960 Amen? 461 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:32,960 Anybody with me? 462 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,240 How many know there's victory in Jesus? 463 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,240 We used to sing it. 464 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,240 Right? 465 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,240 There's an old hymn like that. 466 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,240 I'm not going to try. 467 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,240 All right? 468 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,240 But there's an old hymn that you could sing. 469 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,240 Right? 470 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,860 We launch an offensive because we know as a community of believers that there's no way 471 00:22:45,860 --> 00:22:48,000 that hell can prevail. 472 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,800 Hades can't do it. 473 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,280 The word of God says it. 474 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,700 There is power in these numbers in Christian community. 475 00:22:55,700 --> 00:23:01,640 The enemy is toast if the church comes together and comes against. 476 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,600 Evil cannot stand up to it. 477 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:04,600 Amen? 478 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,400 I don't know if I got you convinced yet. 479 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,640 I might have to preach a little longer. 480 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,320 You're going to be late for lunch. 481 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320 All right? 482 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,680 Jesus set it up in the fellowship for protection from the enemy. 483 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,080 From Satan and his schemes. 484 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,960 Jesus set it up this way. 485 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,040 He said, I'm going to give you in the same scripture, he said, I'm going to give you 486 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,000 keys to the kingdom of heaven. 487 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,080 In the same scripture, he said, what the church binds on earth will be bound in heaven and 488 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,720 what's bound in heaven will be bound on earth. 489 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,960 He said it, not me. 490 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,760 That's the word of God. 491 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,000 Man, that's powerful. 492 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,040 That's something we can move ahead with. 493 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,080 That's something we can start taking ground with. 494 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,080 Right? 495 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,880 But it takes the community. 496 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,640 There's protection, there's power and there's movement. 497 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,800 God understands something. 498 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:58,160 The wolf always wants to get the sheep separated from the flock. 499 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,160 Right? 500 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:00,160 Why? 501 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,640 Because you lose your protection. 502 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,080 Some of your protection goes away. 503 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:10,800 When the sheep begin to pull away from the flock, from the community, some of the protection 504 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,560 begins to drop. 505 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:19,520 The enemy wants nothing more than to get somebody aggravated inside of the fellowship and for 506 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:20,800 them to say, you know what? 507 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,280 I don't need that. 508 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,760 All I need is Jesus. 509 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,480 I'll just go get my, I get my earbuds on. 510 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,600 I'll just sing worship music, forget the church, forget the community believers. 511 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,600 Too much work. 512 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,600 I don't like those people. 513 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:33,600 Yada, yada, yada. 514 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,560 You can just, whatever you want to put in them, fill in the blank. 515 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,560 Right? 516 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,560 I've heard them all. 517 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560 You can fill in the blank. 518 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,280 And that's what they, and you just out there. 519 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,720 You just out there in the woods all by yourself praising Jesus. 520 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,160 Right? 521 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,240 You know, nobody's got your six when that's happening. 522 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,080 You're looking this way and the enemy sneaking up behind you. 523 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,360 One of the reasons we're together, cause you can see when the enemy's coming up on someone 524 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,600 else. 525 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,160 You're there to help fight for someone else. 526 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,160 Right? 527 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,160 And I know some of you are thinking, well, I was in a community of believers like that 528 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,600 and I thought somebody had my six and instead they stabbed me in the back. 529 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,600 Yep. 530 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,600 Remember that fruit I talked about? 531 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,080 You just had somebody had rotten fruit. 532 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,080 It wasn't fruit of the spirit. 533 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,080 That's all it was. 534 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,120 You just put blame where blame is due. 535 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:21,760 But in the body of Christ, when it works right, somebody's got your six, somebody's got your 536 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,520 nine, somebody's got your three. 537 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,760 You got people all around you. 538 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,040 You're praying together. 539 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,840 You're walking through life together. 540 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840 Right? 541 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,520 And the gates of hell can't prevail. 542 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Cannot do it. 543 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,520 Can't. 544 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,120 You either believe God's word or you don't. 545 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:38,120 And I believe it. 546 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,120 It's true. 547 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,120 Amen? 548 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:41,120 Amen. 549 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,960 Let me read just a little more Corinthians and I'm going to close out first Corinthians 550 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:45,960 three and four. 551 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:46,960 I'm going to pick up where I started. 552 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,960 Right? 553 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,200 Love suffers long and is kind. 554 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,560 Love does not envy, does not parade itself. 555 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,480 It is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks 556 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:01,040 no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, belays 557 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,640 all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 558 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,400 And look what that next line says. 559 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:07,400 Love. 560 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,400 This is a gap. 561 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,400 It never fails. 562 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,400 It never fails. 563 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,400 I'm going to ask you to stand. 564 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,400 Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church. 565 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,400 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 566 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,400 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 567 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:15,400 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website 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