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far that truthfully it's something that we've

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avoided talking about but needed to talk about

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for a long time. It's felt like a like a group

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family meeting right these last few weeks but

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I just want to say thank you guys for just leaning

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in and really enjoying the journey because here's

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the truth that we have to wrestle with is many

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of us have experienced losses, have experiences,

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challenges, not because there's a big enemy,

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but we have the wrong community. That many of

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the problems we face and the situations that

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become difficult to overcome, it isn't because

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there was this big enemy. The enemy is defeated.

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He's a defeated foe. We talked about last week

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how he has no authority, no rights, no privileges,

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that for us as believers that sin has been defeated

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and the power with it has been defeated. And

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so our job every day is just to choose life.

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What can they say? Choose life. But a community,

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a wrong community won't. excite you, stir you

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up to choose that very life that's before us

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every day. And today we're gonna deal with, I

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would say, even a harder truth that we gotta

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talk about. It's simply because many of us were

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brought into the faith and we understand that

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we will build things together and we will do

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things together. But the truth of the matter

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is this, right? The truth is until we can, if

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all we can see, is what we can build together.

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We haven't fully understood the significance

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of why we belong together. And this reigns true

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for my own life. I'll tell you all the time,

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I grew up in church and oftentimes people are

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always talking about what we could build together

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and what we can do together. And unfortunately

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it loses, we lose our significance of why we

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actually belong together. Cause we're always

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thinking about what we could build together.

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And many of the relationships, strong relationships

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become weak relationships because we don't often,

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and sometimes we don't get to the thing we were

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supposed to build. And we don't get to the thing

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we were supposed to do, but we never really spent

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time to realize why we belong together. That

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there was something greater to why we've been

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called the body of Christ than the things that

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we would build. and some of the things that we

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would do, but there is a community that we need

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to walk this life of faith. Y 'all rocking with

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me? Oftentimes, right, this kind of feels like

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those moments where you've been praying with

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a brother or sister in faith and believing with

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them in faith and you went through a trial and

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a test with them. And then three months later,

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they're kind of like, but man, we ain't getting

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nothing done. You're trying to like, I thought

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we... connected, and they lose sight of the value

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of having that person there. They lose sight

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of the value of what we actually can bring to

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each other because we made such a big deal of

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what we could build and what we could do. And

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so I want you to turn me to Romans 12, and I

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told them first service. It's such a temptation

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to read the whole thing. Almost did, but we're

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gonna start at verse number three. And y 'all

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like, oh, you jumped way in there, huh? All the

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way down to verse number three, huh? But there's

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a promise that comes with community, and that's

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what we started this series with. And that promise

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that you see in Acts 2 .42 is that miracles and

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signs and wonders, were never experienced, never

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meant to be experienced in isolation, but community.

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That oftentimes when we see miracles take place

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and we see signs and wonders and we see they

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talk about how they shared a favor amongst each

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other, that those were all experienced in community.

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But y 'all there? And Paul starts here, right?

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He says, for by the grace given to me, I say

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to everyone, not to think of himself more highly

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than he ought to think, but to think with sober

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judgment. And Paul is here wanting to give us

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the how to how we exist together, that we don't

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just naturally fold into each other, we don't

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just naturally fit together, but there are things

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that we must think that keep us together. And

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one of the first things that he addresses is

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that we must think soberly. We must think humbly.

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That we must think of ourselves in a way that

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we leave space for other people. One of the things

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that I tell people all the time is that anytime

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you're coming together with people to do something,

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you should ask myself, because we're here, how

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do I become smaller? That in order for people

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to come together to do the thing, then everyone

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collectively has to agree to become smaller so

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we have a role to play. But oftentimes in this

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world or in this culture, the first thing we

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want to do amongst coming amongst people is we

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want to let them know all we're capable of. I

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can do this and I can do that. I've done this

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and I've done that. And we start to assume so

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much space that there's no actual room for community

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to exist. And so Paul's like, listen, we got

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to think sober. Look at me and say, you gotta

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be sober concerning yourself. That godly community

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functions when people are ready and willing to

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become smaller so that we can be bigger. That

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truthfully many people are taking up far more

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room and you're doing way more than what should

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be on your shoulders alone. But it also takes

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you being willing to be humble about what you

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can do to leave space so others can. Like to

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say it like this that like prideful people make

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pitiful partners That prideful people make pitiful

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partners why pastor Brian because they are always

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thinking of how they can do it better And here's

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the truth, you know church is not a place to

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where I know we looking good, but it's not a

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fashion show Some y 'all drove up here real nice,

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but it's not a car show It's not a place of where

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we value the best. It's a place where we value

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the chosen and The chosen one doesn't always

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mean that you did it the best It just mean it

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was yours to do Go ahead. Look your neighbor

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says some things You're not the greatest that

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but guess what? It's still yours But in order

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for this to happen everyone has to think what

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sober in mind they have to start thinking you

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know stop the thoughts of I would have did it

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better it doesn't matter it's not yours to do

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that we're not running a talent show we're not

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running a best of competition we're running a

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chosen race we're running a race that isn't given

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to the swift it isn't given to the strong it

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is given to who church the one who endures to

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the end. And oftentimes the one that God picked

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is the one that just wasn't gonna quit. Because

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you find out from being in church culture, there's

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a lot of quick runners. They're always ready

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to go, ready to do, ready to show, ready to,

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ready, ready, ready. And then we said, well,

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boy, you gotta wait for the power of God to fall.

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I feel like some of y 'all would have walked

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out the upper room that day like, he said, wait,

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I ain't got the type of patience to wait. You

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know, he's like, I said, wait for the spirit

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to fall. Then you can go out in the power and

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speak in tongues and cast out demons. And some

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of y 'all like, I can't wait that long. And so

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oftentimes we have leaders in the church that

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truthfully were just the available one, not the

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best one. Amen. So think sober -minded concerning

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each other. He's wanting us to grow an appreciation

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for one another, to grow a thankfulness for one

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another, to not view ourselves in the body as

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people outside the body view people that they're

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always thinking of. Are they the best? Are they

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the most qualified? Inside the body, ain't none

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of us qualified. I mean, none of us have the

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capabilities. That's why I love what Paul says

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here. He says, by the grace given to me. In other

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words, an unearned, undeserved, unmerited source

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is working through me to speak to you. I have

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no means and I had no part in earning the ability

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you're witnessing. that a grace was given to

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me to do what I'm doing. That I'm being empowered,

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not because I earned this power, but because

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God bestowed this power upon me. Y 'all rocking

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with me. So go ahead, look at your neighbor and

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say, hey neighbor, there's a grace upon your

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life. Check this out, find somebody that say

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you ain't earned it. You didn't deserve it. But

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guess what? It flows. through you And he's saying

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that's why we think Sober minded because none

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of us earned what we are doing None of us deserve

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what we are doing but God out of his love out

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of his mercy He bestowed a grace upon us so that

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we can be who we are So it ain't that I don't

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look good. I'm just saying the Holy Spirit keeps

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me looking good Y 'all rock you with me It's

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not that y 'all ain't put it on, because some

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of y 'all put it on this morning. Every once

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in a while, I tell everybody if you took more

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than 30 minutes getting dressed, just stand up

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so everybody can see you. We just give you what

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you wanted this morning. We ain't above appreciating

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how you put it on. But that's what you come to

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learn that there's a grace upon your life and

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that grace that is upon your life is what's truly

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Shining forth you ever had somebody who was wearing

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the same thing as them But then they looked at

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you was like but it's how you put it on What

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grace is that put it on that it really doesn't

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matter how someone may be? Looking like they're

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in the same situation doing the same thing all

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of y 'all have a unique grace upon your life

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that when you put it on It's different. And look

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at your neighbor and say, and we need how you

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put it on. I wanna say before we go any further,

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cause here's the truth. Truth is, humility is

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not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking

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truthfully about yourself. It's not an over exaggeration

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of yourself, but it's also not an insecurity

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that leads to you being stagnant. But it's you

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flowing according to the grace that was given.

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Woo, I get excited when I think about that. And

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I love this, right? And it says each according

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to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

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If there's one place we often violate as a body

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is operating according to what has been assigned.

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That truthfully until we start operating according

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to where and how we have been assigned it's hard

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for us to see the value and the uniqueness of

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each one of us individually. What does that look

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like, Pastor Brian? Well, that looks like being

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in community, hearing what somebody else did,

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hearing what God called them to do, and deciding,

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I'll just take that too. Sound good? The church

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turned up. They gave their testimony. Folks fell

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out. Folks cried. I gave my testimony. Nobody

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did anything. So in the future, I'll drag a few

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of they points into my story because I want to

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see that same move. I want to see and experience

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that same impact. And what is that doing? You're

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not. operating according to the measure assigned

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to you. That you have to be comfortable. You

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have to be excited about what God has assigned

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to you. And regardless of how people may respond

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in excitement or disappointment, you have to

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rock you. Look at your neighbor and say, hey,

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you must rock you. And I hear this all the time,

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and one of the worst things I hear from people,

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and sometimes they can be in church for a very

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long time, but they'll say something like, I

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just don't fit in. Or they'll say something like,

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I don't feel like I belong. And I look at them,

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I was like, cause you don't. You arriving here,

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let us know that there's new that's supposed

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to happen. Like we aren't looking for duplicates.

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We're looking for originals. You are authentic.

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You have something to offer that we have yet

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to experience. And I hear people say, man, but

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I just, they become quiet. They don't say nothing.

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Why? Because you're waiting to fit in. And I'm

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telling you, you've been called to stand out.

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And I hear people say this thing and it's it's

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actually very toxic y 'all ready for this They

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say man. We just need to get on the same page.

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I said no we don't No, we don't We all are a

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different page in one book We in the same book,

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but we all a different page. I Just need to know

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where your page fits. Is it before my page or

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after my page? But the same page is not who we

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are We all belong and guess what the same book

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But you are a different page look you never say

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hey What's the number on the bottom of your page?

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Because man there's something unique about you

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something special about you. There's a grace

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on your life that no one here has, no one here

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can duplicate, that you have an authenticity.

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And y 'all, this is where I had to work on saying

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it right. I tell people all the time, my mama

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from Georgia, my daddy from Alabama, so big words

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are hard. Didn't get checked growing up Boy y

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'all should have seen me at home. I was like

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oh thin thin thin thin authenticity We shall

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overcome Boy and I said that they were boldness

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What are you saying? That's right. I'm saying

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that the Bible describes us as the salt of the

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earth and If this salt loses its flavor, it becomes

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of no use. And what I've come to find out, y

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'all know where the salt destroying factory is?

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Many churches. Because we come in here and we

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all try to be the same. I wanna sing like them,

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dance like them, praise like them, holler like

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them, because they look like they got it. And

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then we end up losing our flavor in the place

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that was supposed to develop our flavor. We're

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supposed to sound and get our flavor in here

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and sound very strange out there. So look at

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me, say, hey neighbor. You got that loris. Some

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of y 'all calling out y 'all Caesars right now.

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I got that, I'm that lorries boy. You can put

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me on anything pastor. You can, you can just

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spread me out. I walked in the kitchen the other

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day. I seen Rashida putting lorries on grits.

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I said, lorries on the grits? They changed a

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little orange. I said, it's a little Creole if

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you. Think so for I got caught in the store the

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other day This is just yesterday the lady of

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I went I was looking for some coffee stuff and

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I picked up they had some they had some I'll

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just be looking for the New stuff the loop the

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new stuff, right? And so they had some toasted

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marshmallow flavored coffee like syrup, right?

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I know The lady was like have you had it before

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I said no I grabbed it because it was unique

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It stood out because it was different. I didn't

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come here to buy it. I didn't come here to purchase

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it. But when something different is put before

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your eyes, it's hard not to want to involve yourself

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with it. I got to the cash register. She said,

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you know, this is sugar free. I said, I grabbed

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the wrong one. I said, I need the flavor. I need.

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I need all the flavor. I said, oh, I still bought

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it, y 'all, because I didn't want to look crazy

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in front of her. She was... Why are you saying

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this, Pastor? Because here, truth is, the void

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you're often filling isn't an emptiness inside

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you, but the who that's missing beside you. That

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oftentimes we... feel like something is missing.

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It's because we are what the Bible call parts

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in particular. And it's very hard for you to

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understand your significance when you're not

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represented in your uniqueness. But your uniqueness

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apart from the body seems strange. It's almost

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like taking my finger and my finger deciding

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to separate itself from my body. It had full

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purpose and meaning connected, but it was useless

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disconnected. And we are all parts in particular,

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but you got to be sober minded to think this

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way. That it takes a prideful person to think

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that you have all that it takes. And no, brother,

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calm down. Think a little less of yourself. Because

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you might just be a toe And the toe apart from

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the foot Y 'all preach for me What's a toe apart

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from the foot Nothing it's nothing and so oftentimes

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the emptiness we're feeling isn't because of

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what's lacking inside of us, it's because of

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who's missing beside you. He says, for as in

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one body, we have many members and the members

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do not all have, check this out, the same function.

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And I love this, I love this. If no one ever

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told you this before, The church is complex by

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design. And many people try to make it simple.

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No, it's diverse. It's complex. We are probably

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one of the most sophisticated organisms that

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exist. Why? Because we are all parts in particular.

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We're actually all unique, but yet connected.

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that there is something special about each one

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of us that so much none of us are the same. And

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so we are not simple to get. We are actually

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complex. We're actually extremely diverse. Y

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'all rocking with me? He said, So we, though

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many are one body in Christ and individually

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members one to another. What are you saying?

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That truth is isolation doesn't just disconnect

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you from people, it disconnects your gift from

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its purpose. That we are members one to another.

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that we belong together. Look at your neighbor

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say, we belong together. I was gonna sing a Mariah

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Carey song here, but I saw this meme online,

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it was talking about pastors that sing songs

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during church and I was like, is that who I become?

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I don't wanna be that, but we belong together.

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It's right there. It is right there, but we do,

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we belong together. We belong together and it's

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okay. It's okay, look at them say it's okay.

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What do you mean what's okay, Pastor Brian? No

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one shows up to church hurt by church. But as

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Paul explains, you were running so well, who

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did hinder you? And oftentimes it takes humility

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to admit it was a who. And we don't want to admit

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that it was a who. We don't want to confess that

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it was a person. And so because we don't want

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to confess that it was a person, Out of pride,

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we construct a false reality that we can somehow

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be a valuable part alone. Because we don't want

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to deal with the people no more. But here's the

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problem. You're just a part. You belong to people.

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Y 'all all right? This is just freelance commenting

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over on the right hand side You know like pastor

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Brad we already did first service there's a good

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one on tape She is unique But truth is you'll

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always have trouble fitting in When you're trying

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to be a duplicate And God doesn't just save you

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by grace, he assigns you by grace. First success,

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I did it again, y 'all saw that? My mom, when

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you say yes, way too loud. I've noticed in the

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last two weeks that I have to get much closer

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to read the words in my Bible. I know I'm just

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40, but the lines is... They say that's when

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it starts. I rebuke you in the name of Jesus

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that this whole front row y 'all ain't a man

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nothing But soon as I mentioned the lines are

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coming together. That's that's what it's thought.

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That's that's that's that this whole Y 'all heard

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:42.529
of was like popcorn pop pop pop pop pop. That's

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that's when it's that's what you to you to you

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to I rebuke the whole front row That's when it's

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thought, pastor. You ain't lying. Having gifts

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that differ according to the, I told him I said

00:27:04.529 --> 00:27:06.710
in first service, now I see, you know, I need

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one of the people, I just be like, read. Read,

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any readers in the room, anybody wanna read for

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your brother? Just read. Having gifts that differ

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according to the grace to us, let us use them.

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I love this, listen to this. If prophecy in proportion

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to, our faith, if service in our serving, the

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one who teaches in his teaching, the one who

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exhorts in his exhortation, the one who contributes

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in generosity, the one who leads with zeal, the

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one who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness.

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What is Paul describing to us? That there is

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an attitude for every grace. There's an attitude.

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There is an attitude. for every grace Matter

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of fact, you'll come to find out that your attitude

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will determine your altitude and I know many

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:03.980
people hear that word attitude and you're thinking

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:05.859
about you need an attitude adjustment That's

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what your mama told you this attitude is speaking

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of the flavor the way in which you do what you

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do right that there should be an understanding

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or a respect of your Authenticity our uniqueness

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that comes through the attitude If I were to

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describe it to you, right, that oftentimes I

00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:28.799
hear believers, they hear something like, hey

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.359
man, God told me to start a business like this.

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And then they'll hear someone next to them say

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:35.559
the same thing. And they'll think because they

00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:38.099
are doing it, we don't wanna be competition.

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And because we don't want no competition, I must

00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:43.440
not have heard what I heard. I'm not gonna do

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.279
what I heard. Not realizing that you have an

00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:49.519
attitude. Look at them say, you have an attitude.

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To break this down to you, right? Right, right,

00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:56.079
right. Chick -fil -A sells what? Chicken. Popeye

00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.599
sells what? Chicken. Churches sells what? Chicken.

00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:05.880
PDQ has what? Chicken. Keynes has what? Chicken.

00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:10.900
But guess what? They all have their own attitude.

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Flavor for how they cook the chicken. So even

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.000
though they're sourcing the same main ingredient,

00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.660
how they handle that ingredient is what brings

00:29:26.660 --> 00:29:31.180
the diversity that they can all be on the same

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:35.039
street. Yet because they are operating according

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:39.200
to their authenticity according to their flavor

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.880
There is no competition that you can go to Chick

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.779
-fil -a one day churches the next day. They got

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:48.500
different sauces They got different sides. They

00:29:48.500 --> 00:29:51.019
have different seasonings and guess what they

00:29:51.019 --> 00:29:53.960
are not competing because they are all walking

00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.740
in their authenticity So I'm here to let you

00:29:57.740 --> 00:30:03.180
know say hey neighbor next time bring Your attitude

00:30:03.180 --> 00:30:09.599
And y 'all know I know it's a little early for

00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.759
Thanksgiving but y 'all know I love to talk about

00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.119
cooking right and There's a thing about this

00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.940
that you got to understand and it's too late

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:21.539
for me It's too late It's too late. What you

00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:25.759
mean? It's too late. I've already had too many

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:32.559
people Tell me my turkey was the best It's too

00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.839
late. You know what that means? That means I

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:41.400
got an attitude about my turkey. That if you

00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.259
were to come to me and say, Pastor Brian, I tried,

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:46.980
I don't know why people are doing the other person

00:30:46.980 --> 00:30:51.339
in the voice like this, Pastor Brian, I tried

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:55.059
your turkey and I didn't like, I don't think

00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:59.180
it's the best. You know what I'ma say? Do you

00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:03.559
have any left that you can give back to me? So

00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.579
I can give it to somebody who appreciates it,

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:12.619
but let me help you out here. I don't need any

00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:18.299
validation because I've already been verified.

00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.759
I don't care what you think. about my turkey.

00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:29.220
Well, that sounds a little attitude -ish. Exactly,

00:31:29.779 --> 00:31:34.220
exactly. I don't care how you feel about my turkey.

00:31:34.579 --> 00:31:40.240
I have already had enough verifiable, trustworthy

00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:44.599
people tell me it's the best, hands down. So

00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.940
I don't need your opinion. I don't actually need

00:31:48.940 --> 00:31:53.869
your consideration. Nothing. is going to change

00:31:53.869 --> 00:31:57.150
my attitude concerning my turkey. You know what

00:31:57.150 --> 00:31:59.730
I just figured out? You're the wrong audience.

00:32:00.349 --> 00:32:04.450
Maybe you don't have the palette to understand

00:32:04.450 --> 00:32:09.660
the layer of flavoring. that my turkey actually

00:32:09.660 --> 00:32:14.859
has. You don't even know how to handle the palette

00:32:14.859 --> 00:32:18.700
that it takes to be able to distinguish all the

00:32:18.700 --> 00:32:22.119
unique flavors in my turkey. You didn't even

00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:25.900
taste the lemon zest. Did you even feel the lemon

00:32:25.900 --> 00:32:28.720
zest? You put lemon on it? Lemon is a strange

00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.240
thing to put on turkey. That's because you are

00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.269
unlearned. You need to go and... go experience

00:32:35.269 --> 00:32:37.950
some things because you can you can take the

00:32:37.950 --> 00:32:40.710
the the lemon and you can zest it and it gives

00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:43.849
it a little brightness so it it takes the heaviness

00:32:43.849 --> 00:32:46.750
and heaviness of the grease and brings a brightness

00:32:46.750 --> 00:32:48.950
to your tongue so that when you're eating it

00:32:48.950 --> 00:32:51.670
it's just a burst of flavors but you don't know

00:32:51.670 --> 00:32:54.549
nothing about that but there are some people

00:32:54.549 --> 00:32:57.849
that know everything about that and i'ma go ahead

00:32:57.849 --> 00:33:02.890
and find them The Bible would say what do they

00:33:02.890 --> 00:33:05.269
do? What do you do if they reject you? You know

00:33:05.269 --> 00:33:13.210
what you do you dust off your feet But we we

00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:19.849
can't keep killing our flavor We have to start

00:33:20.730 --> 00:33:24.309
our uniqueness, celebrating our little sauce.

00:33:24.349 --> 00:33:27.430
How you did it does matter. Just that little

00:33:27.430 --> 00:33:30.990
flair made a difference. It was how you put it

00:33:30.990 --> 00:33:33.470
on. We got the same, y 'all wearing the same

00:33:33.470 --> 00:33:38.910
community shirt, but it looked different. Everybody's

00:33:38.910 --> 00:33:42.289
shirt don't look the same on everybody. Same

00:33:42.289 --> 00:33:46.750
shirt. Y 'all don't want me to do it, but I'm

00:33:46.750 --> 00:33:50.890
about to do it. From the moment y 'all put it

00:33:50.890 --> 00:33:54.930
on the shirt took on unique shapes It was a one

00:33:54.930 --> 00:33:59.549
shape on the table Then you put on the shirt,

00:33:59.710 --> 00:34:04.109
I don't know what shape as I thought we ordered

00:34:04.109 --> 00:34:09.369
a crew name It looked like a v -neck on you it

00:34:09.369 --> 00:34:14.190
looked like a Tell your neighbors how you put

00:34:14.190 --> 00:34:20.909
it on What you supposed to be putting on right

00:34:20.909 --> 00:34:23.070
now that you done took off cuz you saw somebody

00:34:23.070 --> 00:34:26.090
else Say the same thing. We didn't get a chance

00:34:26.090 --> 00:34:30.500
to see how you was gonna spice it up Oh, they

00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:32.579
writing a children's book. So why should I write

00:34:32.579 --> 00:34:34.659
a children's book? Because you gonna put something

00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:37.500
on it. They can't you gonna do something to it

00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:40.800
They not that that stop conforming That's what

00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.619
versus one and two were that become do not be

00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:46.900
conformed to this world But be transformed by

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:49.420
the renewal of your mind Paul already knew you

00:34:49.420 --> 00:34:52.449
gonna have to transform your thinking in order

00:34:52.449 --> 00:34:55.510
for us to operate how we supposed to operate

00:34:55.510 --> 00:34:58.789
but we're so busy conforming to what people say

00:34:58.789 --> 00:35:20.469
this is the best today I don't care Look at him

00:35:20.469 --> 00:35:28.849
and say, God did not just save you by grace.

00:35:29.210 --> 00:35:38.130
He assigns you by grace. That you didn't earn

00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:41.449
this uniqueness, you ain't deserve this uniqueness,

00:35:41.730 --> 00:35:48.769
but you are unique. And we need it. I told him

00:35:48.769 --> 00:35:52.809
I didn't. read the rest of this, but if I were

00:35:52.809 --> 00:35:56.050
to summarize it, right, that Paul then goes on

00:35:56.050 --> 00:36:02.110
beyond that verse to not only get us to start

00:36:02.110 --> 00:36:05.909
celebrating our uniqueness, but check this out

00:36:05.909 --> 00:36:11.250
church, but to honor each other's uniqueness.

00:36:12.530 --> 00:36:17.710
That we should be honoring our uniqueness. I

00:36:17.710 --> 00:36:19.329
tell people all the time, I know you want to

00:36:19.329 --> 00:36:21.349
show some love, but we always got to be careful

00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:24.809
how we touch God's product. And each person in

00:36:24.809 --> 00:36:29.510
here, you're God's product. I may have suggestions,

00:36:29.510 --> 00:36:37.250
but I'm not the manufacturer. You're God's product.

00:36:40.530 --> 00:36:43.090
I tell parents this all the time, be mindful.

00:36:43.849 --> 00:36:49.909
You birthed them. But God made them. Be careful.

00:36:50.929 --> 00:36:56.690
We need that page. We might be missing the story.

00:36:57.530 --> 00:37:01.469
We're trying to figure it all out because we're

00:37:01.469 --> 00:37:11.050
missing your flavor. Y 'all all right? But God

00:37:11.050 --> 00:37:16.070
never designed your uniqueness. to separate you

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from the body. He designed the body to reveal

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the purpose of your uniqueness. Y 'all hearing

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me? That we should be helping each other through

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honoring one another, understand why we were

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created this way and see it that way. We're not

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trying to get on the same page. We're just trying

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to get our pages in order. The Bible tells us

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that they will know us by our love for one another.

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And in a world that's addicted to conforming

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people, we should be a church that helps God

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transform people into who he's called them to

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be. help you discover why your journey's been

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the way it's been and why you had to see the

00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.280
things you've seen and why you've had to experience

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what you've experienced because there's something

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God's shaping through all of it to help us all

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understand better what He's doing with us. Y

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'all rocking with me. We'll stop here then. Before

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I gotta thank you for today and. I thank you

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for the opportunity to come and to minister your

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word. I pray that your people are stirred up

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as a result of your word. I pray that they are

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excited, have a zeal about walking and their

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uniqueness about being. I pray that as we take

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this walk, that we become brothers and sisters

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to each other, that lifts each other up as we're

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taking those bold steps, that we encourage each

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other as we are taking those leaps. And I pray

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that you're glorified in it all. And we're just

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thankful, God. for loving us so much that we

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can trust your word. We can stand on this word

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and we can truly believe that new life is available.

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But if you're here today and you're not saved

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and you haven't given your life to Jesus, in

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a moment I'm gonna say a prayer and just know

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that As you say this prayer in faith, in confidence,

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that you become a part of this body, that you're

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no longer an outsider to the promises of God,

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but you are an insider to the promises of God.

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The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth

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and believe in your heart that Jesus died and

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rose again, you shall be saved. So it takes a

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confession and a belief. And so if you are ready,

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we're gonna do it together so no one's alone,

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but Father God, I thank you. for your son, Jesus.

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I believe he died and he rose again. And when

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he rose, he rose with my forgiveness. He justified

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me. And now I am a son and a daughter of the

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King. Amen, church. Let's give it up for people

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who said that prayer for the first time. And

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if that was you. You can meet us in the first

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room on the left as you leave. If you're online,

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let us know and we'll tell you all about the

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decision you made and just the family you're

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part of, amen? Amen. As they are preparing, some

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believers to get baptized today. I do want to

00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:45.059
take a moment. This week, one of just, I must

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call him one of the goats of this house and just

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a brother to many, a friend to many. Mike, Mikey,

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he called him Mikey, but his name is Mike Begos

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Jr. He went home to be with the Lord this week

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and. You know, I'm not just asking you guys to

00:42:04.429 --> 00:42:07.309
keep the family in prayer, keep each other in

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prayer. He was knitly woven into our family.

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He wasn't a person you could ever miss, a person

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you forget. He made himself known. And truthfully,

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there's no way we would be just where we are

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and what we're doing without his life, his service

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and his sacrifice. He used his grace, the grace

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that God has given him to bring many things we

00:42:34.909 --> 00:42:38.829
did here to life. Anytime there was something

00:42:38.829 --> 00:42:41.369
just fresh that was like, man, we just need some

00:42:41.369 --> 00:42:44.130
money who is gonna hear from God on what to do,

00:42:44.989 --> 00:42:49.329
this man would do it. Our new logo out front

00:42:49.329 --> 00:42:53.420
was designed. called him the brand master and

00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:55.579
anybody who ever met with him would know that

00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:57.639
man, if you just had jumbled up words, he would

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take them words and create an image out of them

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to really get you off and running. So we are

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thankful for his life and we're thankful for

00:43:08.019 --> 00:43:11.880
just the time he spent with us. And January,

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June, June, July, June 20th at 10 a .m. We will

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be celebrating his life here. I'll invite you

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to come out and just celebrate with us. I asked

00:43:24.219 --> 00:43:26.900
them first service if you was wondering why they

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was taking so long. Just to spend a little bit

00:43:29.980 --> 00:43:33.260
more time just with your family and saying hello

00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:36.239
to the people around you. You know, one of the

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things that just was just in my heart all week

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is I just really desire for us to be able to

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treat every hello with the same value we give

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to the final goodbye. That if we could just learn

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to appreciate each other in a greater way in

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these moments man healing is available, but keep

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the family in prayer and Yeah, he's a friend

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a man a man and so Are they ready mama you baptizing

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you know y 'all gotta hear this right Uncle G,

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where's Uncle G? Oh, there she is. She came from

00:44:21.780 --> 00:44:28.019
Atlanta to get baptized today. There goes Uncle

00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:33.159
G. You know, I'm not good with the thing. So

00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:37.760
who is she to you, Uncle G? Granddaughter? What's

00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:46.599
that make her to me? Cousin. That's your daughter

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and your granddaughter's getting baptized. Oh,

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there we go And that makes them my cousin But

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they are here to get baptized and amen y 'all

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got it keep us from falling and to present you

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faultless before the presence of his glory with

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exceeding joy to the only wise God, our savior.

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here and no I sat down him just was thinking

00:58:52.389 --> 00:58:57.590
about um our brother my friend Mike Begos Jr.

00:58:59.070 --> 00:59:03.090
and there was there was options right to come

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and talk to people's grief or speak a message

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I know he would love we chose to speak a message

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we know he would love if you ever met him people's

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uniqueness and understanding your flavor understanding

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that you were uniquely designed and so um you

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know I believe he's shining down