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Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

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Good morning Life House, turn to somebody, give them a high five, tell them it's good

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to see you on this rainy, rainy Sunday.

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Amen?

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Amen.

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How many know in the Bible rain is blessing?

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I mean we've been blessed and re-blessed and that's true.

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I'm ready for some sunshine but it's good to see the rain.

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We need that in the spring.

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I'm on a well so I appreciate the rain quite a bit.

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Yeah, a couple of woots there.

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It's true.

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Hey, just before I get started in this message, I just want to take a moment and really just

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kind of encourage you to get in a life group.

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I know we're talking about that all the time but it is critically important why you follow

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Jesus to walk with somebody else and to be with someone else along in that journey.

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So if you haven't considered that, I'm asking you to pray about that.

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Seriously consider getting in a group, connecting with a group of people who are like-minded,

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who are following Christ and this really isn't about just a connection with each other but

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it's really about following Jesus and just kind of walking together while we do that.

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And there's a lot of benefits that I don't have time to go into with all that but it's

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super important and just be prayerful about that truly if you're not currently in a group.

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Well recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with someone and we were talking

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about a preferred future and a conversation about what we would like to see happen in

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the future.

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What do we want to see take place in the future at some point in time as opposed to what's

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happening right now?

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What would be the outcome?

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You know what I'm talking about?

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Have you ever had one of those conversations where you're like hey you know I know what's

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going on now but I really like to see what might happen in the future.

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What if, have you ever had one of those what if conversations?

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Like what if it looked like this?

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And we really kind of have these conversations on the regular.

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We kind of do it naturally and it can be as simple as talking about a preferred future

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like lunch.

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Some of you are thinking right now like what's my preferred future right now?

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Is it pizza or is it steak?

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Right?

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So how many are for steak?

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How many is your wallet telling you pizza?

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Alright so yeah alright so you're thinking steak but your wallet is screaming pizza.

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You know you're thinking about that.

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That could be your preferred future or it could get as serious as what do I do with

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the rest of my life?

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What do I do with the next 10 years of my life?

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What do I do with the next 15 years of my life?

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And it was you know it's really kind of about when you're talking about a preferred future

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you're really kind of talking about a vision for things.

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Now I know having a vision for lunch is a little bit dramatic right?

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Or is it?

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Having a vision for lunch might be a little dramatic but you know having a vision going

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forward in the future is extremely important especially if that involves Jesus because

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it actually should involve Jesus.

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You know your preferred future should really be about where Jesus is going first and where

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you're going to follow.

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You know it's all about Christ.

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I don't even want to go into the future without Jesus.

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I don't know about you.

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I have no interest in going further in the future without Christ and without Jesus and

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this conversation that I got into really kind of cost me to take a really close look at

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Galatians chapter 6.

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So if you got your Bibles I want you to head that way.

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Turn there this morning kind of go that direction in your scriptures.

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It might be on your electronic device.

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It might be you're just going to look up on the screens but in this portion of scripture

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I want you to listen closely to the first couple of verses.

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I'm going to unfold the first few verses because the first few verses give us context.

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They really kind of put us where or what is happening at the time and if you know what's

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happening you can understand the why.

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Context is very important.

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You want to know the context of scripture so you can understand the content of scripture.

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If you understand the context it will help you develop the content what's being said.

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A lot of times we completely misinterpret the Bible because we grab a scripture out

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of context and then we just make the content kind of mean what we want it to mean.

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You want to put it in context.

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What are they saying?

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Alright so I want to pray before we go to the Word of God.

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I want to pray over the Word.

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I want to pray over your ears, over my mouth as I speak that God will speak to you what

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He wants to speak today.

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Lord we come to you today I thank you for each person in the house.

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I thank you for each person that is listening online.

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God as we break bread, Lord as we open the Word.

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God I pray that you would just God give grace to the hearers Lord let us speak to them and

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God help me to speak your Word clearly and plainly and Lord God that it might fall on

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ears that are listening and Lord God just do the work that you want to accomplish this

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morning.

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We give you glory, praise and honor and everybody said together.

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Amen, amen.

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Galatians chapter 6 verse 1 it says this brother if a man is overtaken in any trespass you

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who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness considering yourself

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lest you also be tempted.

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Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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Now Paul is writing a letter to the Galatian church he is instructing them and the context

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here is that he is talking about family stuff.

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He is talking about things in the body of Christ.

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He is talking about brothers and sisters right he even starts off with that he says brother

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right brother and he is talking about the body of Christ and he is saying if somebody

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in your in the midst of you if there is somebody in the congregation if there is somebody in

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your group that falls prey to sin right we are supposed to go to them this is one of

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the advantages of groups we are supposed to go to them and restore them in a spirit of

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gentleness.

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So you are starting to get the context you are starting to see what is taking place in

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this letter what is he saying in this portion of the letter and he said be careful how you

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approach them make sure you are considering yourself as you come so that you are not tempted

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yourself make sure you don't come right with judgmental or in pride or in any of those

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kind of ways and then he says kind of bear one each other's burdens.

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This is a context a group of Christians that are doing life together they are coming together

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and one of them gets caught up in a sin and he is saying when you go to restore them restore

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them gently but restore them confront right in the middle of all this then he goes on

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to verse 3 for if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing he deceives

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himself but let each one examine his own work and then who will have rejoicing in himself

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alone and not in another for each one shall bear his load.

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He is instructing the listeners he is going on with this when confronting someone else

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about the speck in their eye their sin make sure you don't have a plank in your own eye

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Jesus said that in Luke chapter 6 do some evaluation check yourself check your motives

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right check your approach run about another mature Christian kind of do that kind of thing

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all this is in line this is all in context of what we are going to get to with the content

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Paul is saying be honest be straight be humble work to restore the person to a right place

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right then he gives one more short instruction he says let him who has taught the word share

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in all good things with him who teaches alright when confronting teach out of the word right

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instruct out of the word and learn together in that let the teacher learn let the person

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who is a student learn and the context of this passage is all themed around about how

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we treat each other in the faith and how do we restore someone who is in sin and he is

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confronted this is the context you got a picture a snapshot of what is going on right man nobody

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said a word alright you got a picture of what is going on this is the context alright this

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is the context now we want to get to the content of what we are looking at in this healthy

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spiritual life and Galatians 6 7 says this do not be deceived God is not mocked for whatever

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a man sows that he will also reap for he who sows to his flesh will reap of the flesh reap

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corruption but he who sows to the spirit of the spirit will reap everlasting life let

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us not grow weary in well doing or while doing good for in due season we shall reap if we

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do not lose heart therefore as we have opportunity let us do good to all especially to those

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of the household of faith now Paul didn't change subjects here a lot of times I've heard

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this priest and talked about it and you know read and sometimes we just kind of pull out

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this one piece of scripture and he didn't change gears because he is still talking about

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the body he is still talking about family life in amongst us because in verse 10 he

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says let us do good to all especially to those of the household of faith and there is some

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great content in the middle of this context in the light of relationships in the light

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of a preferred future with one another and what we know and what we learn out of this

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is what we sow we reap what we sow we reap what you sow you will reap and not only do

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you reap it but you reap it exponentially right if you sow something into the ground

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if you plant a seed into the ground if you get a kernel of corn and you throw it into

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the ground guess what you are going to get back out of the ground come on help me out

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here corn right you are going to get corn but you are not just going to get one kernel

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of corn I did a little research on it you will get between 400 and 1400 kernels of corn

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from one right from one kernel of corn so not only do what you sow you reap but whatever

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you sow you reap exponentially so you know it increases I love exponential increase that

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is awesome right your harvest will always come after you sow so there is a delay between

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sowing and reaping when you put a seed in the ground we all know this it takes time

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to get to the harvest it does not happen immediately that would be super cool I would love that

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but through seeding it pow that puppy come up right and there is a harvest it does not

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work that way there is a delay between and he says don't grow weary in sowing because

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we will reap a harvest if we sow some awesome content there in the middle of all this you

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know of the context of what he is talking about but he takes this a little deeper he

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goes he pulls his part just a little bit more and he says there is only two kinds of harvest

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say only two there is only two right and he says this for he who sows to his flesh will

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reap of the flesh will reap corruption that is one kind of harvest but he who sows to

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the spirit will reap everlasting life the seed we sow will produce an eternal harvest

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or a corruptible harvest the seed we sow will produce an eternal harvest or a corruptible

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harvest there is only two categories there is not three there is not four there is not

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five aren't you glad I don't have to preach ten points this morning right only two thank

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you for not saying amen alright I appreciate that it is eternal harvest or it is corruptible

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harvest every seed that you sow either has an eternal implication of some kind or it

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has a corruptible implication of some kind every seed that we throw out there every seed

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that we throw into the ground of somebody else it has an eternal quality to it or it

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has a corruptible quality to it any time energy resources that you are planting somewhere

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you are pouring in it either has eternal reward to it it has eternal implications to it or

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it has corruptible implications to it you have got to understand we are depositing something

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every time we come into contact with somebody else you know that every time no one is an

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island nobody is an island turn to somebody beside you right now look at them squarely

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on you are not an island you are not an island you are not an island you are not it doesn't

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matter if you are quiet if you are noisy it doesn't matter if you have that soft quiet

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personality and you just kind of right you just you get in a crowded room you slide off

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to a wall somewhere and you just kind of try to hide right you fade into the paint if you

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can right it doesn't matter if you are social not social when you when you come into a room

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you are planting seeds whether you realize it or not you are casting seed into somebody's

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life our staff we talk about this all the time we have weekly staff meetings and we

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talk about what took place in a gathering we kind of go back and say hey what went right

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what went wrong what was confusing was there any of those kind of things we go back and

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talk about this Sunday before and one of the amazing things we always talk about is the

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two gatherings because we have a 9 o'clock gathering we have a 1045 gathering and what

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we will say is man how different the two gatherings were there is just this different feel and

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we realize and you have got to understand something I preach the same message in both

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gatherings and it is the same person preaching both gatherings it is the same staff that

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is working both gatherings it is the same worship team it is the same people in the

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booth it is the same teachers all that is the same guess what is different you all are

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right the congregation so when you come in you are casting seed of some kind you are

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throwing seed out and it is hitting everybody else and it is going up to heaven and if you

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come in with a worshipful heart and you are ready to worship God there is seed going out

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right if you are casting you are coming in and you are talking with somebody you are

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casting seed all over the place and it literally changes the room whether you are speaking

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or not you can come in you are casting seed of some kind so the question isn't if you

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are casting seed the question is what you are casting is it eternal or is it corruptible

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because eternal is something that lasts forever and corruptible means it kind of fades away

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it just it decays it kind of ruins over time it kind of disappears right you can have your

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car can get corrupted do you know that it can rust anybody got a rusty car all right

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it can rust you ever see a car that just flat out rusted out it is sitting out in a field

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somewhere it is disintegrating it is kind of falling to nothingness right no matter

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how much you paid for that thing it is just kind of fading away that is corruptible it

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just goes away right it is corruptible and it doesn't have any kind of eternal value

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to it even though you paid a lot for it and it doesn't necessarily corruptible can mean

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evil but it doesn't necessarily have to be evil it just means that it disappears the

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house that you live in is corruptible right it is not going to last for 300 years it really

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won't it is going to last for a period of time we got some around this area that is

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100 years old some get to be 120 years old but there is not so many houses you hear that

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it is 300 years old I don't know if the bugs eat it I don't know if it just rots out but

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it just kind of disappears the clothes you wear are going to disintegrate if you wear

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them long enough and please change clothes all right they will disintegrate they will

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disappear right the gadget you brought from that you bought from home shopping network

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right three and a half days that is what you are going to get out all right it is going

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to disintegrate it is going to disappear the Bible calls these things flesh he calls it

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it calls these things spirit the things of the flesh so Paul is saying the harvest that

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we reap and that we put into others is either going to be eternal in nature or it is going

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to disintegrate in the word of God at the beam of seed when believers and followers

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of Jesus Christ stand before Jesus one day Jesus this is what Jesus is going to check

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he is really going to check on us and he is going to say the works that you did right

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because there is only two kinds of seeds you can cast the works that you did the things

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that you did in my name the things that you did with others it is either going to be eternal

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or it is going to be corruptible 1 Corinthians 3 nice as this for we are God's fellow workers

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you are God's field I love that right you are God's field you are God's building according

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to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation

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and another builds on it but let each one take heed how he builds on it for no other

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foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ now if anyone

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builds on the foundation with gold look at the look at the look closely gold silver precious

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stones right different materials here wood hay or straw it says each one's work will

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become clear for the day will declare it because it will be revealed by fire and the fire will

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test each one's work of what sort it is if anyone's work which he has built on it

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endures it will receive a reward that's eternal stuff for planting to other people if anyone's

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work is burned up he will suffer loss that's corruptible right fades away goes to ash goes

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to nothing but he himself will be saved yet as through the fire everything I sow everything

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I sow every seed I cast it's either going to be corruptible seed it's just going to

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fade away to nothing or it's going to be something that's eternal and someday when I stand before

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Jesus he's going to check all that in my life and he gives reward that's what the word of

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God says he rewards accordingly and let me help you with something here because you know

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Paul's talking about this I don't think Paul's saying like every single thing that's going

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to come out of your mouth is going to have eternal effect right we know there's very

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practical fleshly things that we do that probably don't have an eternal reward like you got

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a shower right sometime this week praise the Lord right some of you brushed your teeth

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this morning thank you very much you brushed your teeth this morning probably not eternal

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reward there of some kind we appreciate it alright especially the person sitting beside

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you appreciates it but there's not eternal reward there but what we do we want to grab

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a hold of what are you sowing is it something that's going to incinerate because there's

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a lot of things I know there are things that are just going to fade away but what's the

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balance how much energy how much time how much resource are you spending in something

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that's going to fade and disintegrate that's corruptible and how much time and resource

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and energy am I putting into something that's eternal when I bump into you or you bump into

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me put it into everything as much as you can now I'm not saying over spiritualized things

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I'm not saying look you got to pontificate on biblical theology every time you bump into

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somebody that's not what I'm talking about but how many of you can cast eternal seed

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in very simple ways you really can you can show care for somebody and do something eternal

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for the kingdom you can you can encourage somebody and you can you can do something

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eternal in the kingdom even in your small talk you can you can interject do you ever

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thread something into some small talk just you ever give it do you ever give a verbal

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jab to somebody not a mean jab I'm not talking about punching them alright but just a nice

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little jab like oh I'm going to just interject a little bit of Jesus right there in some

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kind of way I'm just going to throw something in it's eternal you add eternal value to what

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you're doing because what I sow reaps right we reap in other people and you're going to

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sow two kind of harvests one's eternal and say the other is corruptible alright one's

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eternal one's corruptible there's another lane we can run down when we talk about harvest

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and it's something that we need to understand be really clear about the seed I sow into

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others is supplied by the harvest in my own life okay the seed I supply to others is supplied

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by the harvest in my own life seeds come from harvest if I've got a field full of watermelons

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and that's what my harvest I planted some watermelon seeds and fall comes and I've got

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this field full of watermelons and all of a sudden I've got a harvest on my hands there's

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a couple things that take place there right there's a couple things that are to my advantage

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there one is that I get to eat some watermelon I get to pick one of those I need to slice

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that thing in half I said no everybody's a little bit different some of you chunk it

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out right you cut all the rind off some of you like if you're like us we cut it like

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pizza and you got the rind there and it's just the bite size it's just right but you're

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going to get some nourishment you're gonna have how many like watermelon out there how

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many getting hungry right now all right you got what my grandkids come over if we got

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watermelon any of them man they're rapid-fire they're like beavers you know throw it over

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on and go for another one they'll just go like but but when you're eating a watermelon

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what are you spitting out seeds right so it's in your harvest that you find the seed to

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plant into others so you've got to have a harvest I can't give what I don't have I can't

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pour into you something eternal if I don't have something eternal in me in the first

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place right I can't spit some seed into your life if I don't got a harvest that I'm chewing

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on myself and I'm full harvest means that it's full it means that the exponential is

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already taking place in your life it means that you're overflowing right it means that

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it's brimming over you and if I don't have anything in my heart it's if I don't have

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a harvest that I'm chewing on if I don't have a harvest that's nourishing me I don't got

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anything to spit in your life I don't have one seed to give you that's going to be anything

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that's lasting of any kind it's just combi surface I was I had the opportunity to be

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at a wedding this weekend and at the reception I got to sit down beside someone and we got

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into a discussion and in a couple minutes time it was so cool in a couple minutes time

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this person this gentleman began to spit seeds into my life he began to tell me his testimony

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he began to talk about what God did in his life and I could see a harvest in him there

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was this harvest that he had and he just began to bless me as he began to tell me about his

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testimony and what God's done for him and he walked me through it you know kind of from

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the beginning to where he was at this point and you could hear you could hear and he was

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talking he didn't need any notes he didn't stop he wasn't trying to pontificate on scripture

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he was just pouring out of his harvest and he's spitting seeds into my life he just spitting

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seeds because he had something to give right I can't give what I don't possess I can't

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I can't give a whole bunch of eternal fruit if it's not in my possession in the first

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place if it's not there first step in planting seed in somebody else is to fill yourself

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up with harvest do you know that a lot of a lot of times we're trying to dump out we're

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trying to give people we're you know we want to and it doesn't sound very spiritual I give

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give give anybody ever said I just give right it's in my nature I just give that's what

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I do right it sounds very spiritual I'm just going to give give give give give if you don't

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receive you're not giving anything any good you're going to give corruptible things you're

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going to give stuff it's just surface and it's going to fade away the number one thing

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that you can do to plant seed in somebody else's life I know this is going to sound

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completely counterintuitive right the number one thing that you can do to plant seed in

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somebody else's life is to get completely full yourself isn't that awesome it's true

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you got to fill up you got to fill up so much you got to eat so much watermelon you just

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spewing out of you right is running off your chin people are smelling it while they walk

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by right they can smell watermelon they're getting hungry for watermelon just because

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they can smell it on you and they get in there and you just spit some seeds on them because

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you're full you're full I know it's silly analogy but it's true you've got to be full

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you can't give what you don't have and you know what you won't even give if you're only

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three quarters full we give out of the overflow I had a lay person teach me this I remember

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this years ago Jeff Bowen one of the first places I served full time as a youth pastor

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and children's pastor he began to unfold this and he and he learned this from a minister

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but he said listen you got you got to work out of the overflow he was always saying that

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you got to work out of the overflow you got it's got to be out of the overflow in your

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life and that's because if you're three quarters full you're not full so you need right if

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you're quarter full you need if you're even nine tenths full you need you need and you

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can't give because you need but once you get full and then it starts getting over full

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that's harvest right exponentially full then you can start giving it away you start handing

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out well at watermelon you start handing out seeds you just giving it away that's first

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step first step this morning that's all I want you to work on this morning we're going

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to pray in just a minute I'm going to ask the worship team to come I'm going to ask

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if you'd stand matter of fact you know we're not packed in the gills this morning sometimes

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I hesitate because we don't got a lot of room up front but I'm going to ask you to move

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you make your way as the worship team comes I want you to make your way to the front if

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you can if you're able to walk we need to pray because I want you full this morning

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I want you to think about being full you need to hear God this morning you need to be full

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this morning yesterday I got to experience that at a wedding I got to experience somebody

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just pouring in just spitting seed on me right they're sitting beside me they're just telling

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me they're just talking Jesus the whole time are you full are you full I know it sounds

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a little selfish but it's not move move forward I tell you this every time move forward just

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a little bit let people slide in behind you all right thank you duck appreciate that he's

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running to the front all right are you full it is not selfish to fill up a matter of fact

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can I give you an example of that Jesus used to minister to people and do you know what

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he did all the time he'd get with the disciples and he'd go disappear he'd go to the mountains

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you know what he was doing he's filling up Jesus the Son of God he was in the mountains

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he's with the Father he's filling up till he's full and he's overflowing and then he

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would come back and he would minister to the people and when he got back he was throwing

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seed everywhere eternal seed not corruptible seed right not small talk not stuff that's

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just going to fade away and disappear in ten minutes when somebody walks away from you

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he eternal seed going everywhere the number one thing you can do for another person is

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to fill yourself up that's awesome this could be it's to get completely full do you know

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what happens automatically I love automatic things all right if I can program something

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to do something automatically I love it we've got thermostats here we can program they just

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come on I don't got to think about that I remember when we first started I was in here

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like you know I got remember to get up at five in the morning run down to church get

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thermostats all turned on right then go back home and get a shower and get ready to go

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you know I hated that but it's automatic the thing is if you get filled up you automatically

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overflow you just keep filling up if you got harvesting your life and it's exponential

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you just automatically overflow you don't have to try you're not going to have to work

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at it's going to be just like I experienced yesterday all I did was sit down and man it

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just started dumping on me right just start spitting seed in my life it'll happen automatically

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get full it's not it's not selfish God wants that he wants you so full your field so full

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you don't know what to do with it all you just have to give it away you got to give

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it to someone else right where God says seek him first right seek him first the kingdom

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of God and then all the other things will be added to you he said don't even worry about

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the other things they'll all come just seek me first get full get full all right you ready

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get full yeah how you get full you just ask you can't do this on your own you just got

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to ask God here's what I'm praying this week and I want you to bow your heads and close

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your eyes here's what I'm asking this week I'm asking that God feels you so full starting

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this morning it may begin right here this morning he'll feel you so full that it just

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overflows out of your life it just begins to dump everywhere you go you ready Father

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we come to you today God I know this about the Holy Spirit you sent the Holy Spirit to

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fill us up you sent the Holy Spirit to baptize us to make us full and whole and Lord I pray

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right now God all we have to do the word of God says if we ask if we seek you will come

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and you will fill us up and we're just asking right now I pray God right now somebody in

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their spirit begins to get full God I don't want them going out three quarters I don't

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want them worrying about going and taking care of anyone else they just need to get

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full in front of you they just need to be at your feet and God getting dumped on God

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their fields need to exponentially grow in this next week in the next day in the next

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month God just let them get full you gave us one thing seek the kingdom seek you God

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chase after you God I'm asking for God chasers in here this morning Lord that when we chase

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you God you will feel so full each person in the house each person in the house each

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person listen online this morning God I pray your spirit will begin to roll God that it

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will begin to move in hearts and lives in Jesus name in Jesus name come on just worship

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them sing Zach just worship them come on seek him

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Lord I will make room for you Lord to do whatever you want to do whatever you want to do Lord

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to make room for you whatever you want to do whatever you want to do Lord to do

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Let me give you a little gardening analogy some of you grow tomatoes right and how many

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tomatoes are exponential all right you put in a tomato plant you got 500 tomato plants

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you know get tomatoes and you can only eat a couple tomatoes at a time what do you do

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when you get a harvest of tomatoes you give them away yep yeah big juice all right then

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you give it away because you got too much right you're going to knock it on doors you're

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telling your neighbors you're telling your friends that's what it is you get harvest

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in your life it's just a normal automatic outflow it just is when you get so much you

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don't know what to do with it all you just start handing it out you just start giving

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it away it's just normal it's normal fill up grab a hold of everything he's got it is

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not selfish it is biblical Jesus modeled it he completely modeled it for us he did not

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come back to a crowd he could have ministered 24 7 while he was here the Spirit of God that

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could have moved on him to do that he himself got away and filled up the Son of God how

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much more do we need to do that amen I've watched you I've watched people here do that

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but don't make it a seasonal thing don't make it an occasional thing make it an all the

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time thing you're walking in the room right remember we talked about that at the beginning

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you just walk in the room you just throw and see alright just coming off you everywhere

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you go crossfire see happening you get in with brothers and sisters that's the amazing

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beautiful part of the body of Christ it happens in small group it happens where two or three

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are gathered in his name it happens in the church it happens outside of the church it

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happens when you go out into the world it happens when you go to the grocery store it

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happens when you walk into a hardware store it happens man it happens at Home Depot alright

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I love Home Depot alright it happens at Home Depot wherever you are wherever you are it's

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true one job fill yourself up fill yourself up don't settle for three quarters don't

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settle for half get a hold of God don't settle for tell him you want it all you want it all

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man as much as you have to get stubborn in your faith you really do God likes that alright

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you hang on you won't let go until you close your boy man you hear me sing one more time

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we'll close out singing one last time you give somebody high five you can pray over

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whatever you say

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Pastor Eric's gonna come and close. There's people in the back. Prayer people will be back there. If you need individual prayer,

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we say this every week, but this is important. If you need to pray about something individually, they want to pray with you.

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There's prayer orders back there. They pray all week long

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for needs. They really do. They take it serious and Pastor Eric's gonna close out.

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I'm gonna slip to the back if you want to talk. I'll be glad to talk with you as well.

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It's called Bob Boogie. This week, get full. Get full.

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Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church.

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We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message.

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If you've been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with us as we love God, love people,

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people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com