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I'm gonna need a piano player just to cover up my choking.

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It's 136.

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I confess to you there are some hymns that I have never liked and this is one of them.

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It's called, They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love and I'll do my best to get through

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what I have to say and then try to sing it too, which I probably won't.

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I have my handkerchief out already.

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There are some songs that we teach people and there are other songs that people teach

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us and this is one of them.

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I don't know why you did this to me.

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What?

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Don't you get shook up.

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You gotta play this.

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It's 136.

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What?

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It's the one that's got three different.

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I've never liked this song because it didn't answer any questions for me.

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We're one in the Spirit, we're one in the Lord.

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We're one in the Spirit, we're one in the Lord.

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And we pray that all unity may one day be restored.

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Well pray tell, if we're one in the Spirit and one in the Lord, why do we have to pray

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that all unity may be restored?

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I just never could sing that.

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At least not with any conviction.

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And yet I know in John 13 35 it says that all men will know you are my disciples if

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you have love for one another.

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And I know in John 17 Jesus prayed, I ask for all those who believe in me that they

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may be one even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may also be in us

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that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

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And so as I went over there my goal was not to teach them American music.

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In fact it was the opposite.

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I wanted to write down what they had written so that they had a record of it.

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But I was meeting with a group of people one afternoon and said to them, how is it that

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you people who basically have done nothing together throughout the centuries except cut

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each other's heads, suddenly are living together and they got this big smile on their

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faces.

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Well we have the peace of God in our hearts now.

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I said but somehow that doesn't explain to me how all of this history overnight can be

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put together so that you can live this peacefully.

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Well they said we have one heart, all of us together, just one heart.

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And then it began to take on to me a new meaning, what being one in the spirit meant.

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It meant having one heart.

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And so we talked a while and I said I can understand now there are some 200 of you that

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are believers but there are 500 others that aren't believers.

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And all these people from other tribes are saying we want to move in with you and you're

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saying there isn't any room.

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I don't understand that.

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Well they said those outside see the miracle of our one heartedness and we have one hearted

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heart.

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And someone said to me what is the greatest thing that you saw when you went?

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And I said the greatest effect on me of this trip was realizing the coldness toward God

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of the American church and each other.

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And I don't know if I can sing this or not but I'll try.

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This is, by the way, keep playing, they never sing of one aspect of the trinity because

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they have a trinity.

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They speak always of God first, Baba Yo, Father God, and then they'll sing of Tuhang Jesu

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or Lord Jesus or sometimes Baba Jesu.

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And then they will sing of Hamait Yo, God's Spirit.

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And then they speak of Kemotolu, you three.

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And sometimes when they sing they will go Baba Yo, Tuhang Jesu, and Hamait Yo, Kemotolu,

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the three together.

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And so to me it seems that the text, someday our unity may be restored, is indeed restored

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if we let God live in us as trinity.

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And so these words are not words which I did.

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I la la laed through the melody and they made up the words.

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Kito li'ain hei munsiyahino Baba Yo Kito li'ain hei munsiyahino Tuhang Jesu

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Matawah do dufu Kito hilayon bala Hodi nun Kito li'ain samantali'ain

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And that basically says we are one-hearted because of God the Father.

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We are one-hearted because of the Lord Jesus.

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We are one-hearted because of the Holy Spirit.

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Others around us who are not believers but outside of us will see through God's work

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in our hearts our one-hearted hearts.

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Thanks John.

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Ones for all peoples.

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I didn't understand that, that's a different language than mine.

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And that could be sung in how many languages?

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And yet there are many languages that can't be sung because they don't know yet.

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As we come to the table tonight let us remember it's ones for all.

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Time, sins, and peoples.

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And as we partake of these elements there are those little groups scattered here and

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there around the world.

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There are those who are in prison in some countries.

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There are big churches, there are small churches.

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There are those who are yellow, there are those who are brown.

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And they gather around a table too and maybe it's not exactly the same elements but it's

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the same Lord and we partake with them.

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This is the Lord's table.

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I'd like for us to bow and as we prepare our hearts let's give thanks for the all-sufficient

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sacrifice of our Savior that it was once for all time.

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Once for all of your sins and mine.

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And once for all people.

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Let's rejoice in the breath of God's love.

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And as we're praying individually I'd like for those serving to join me in the front.

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Our Lord we give thanks to you for the bread representing your body sacrificed for us.

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As we partake of this loaf we are reminded that your body stretches around the world

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and that there are brothers and sisters in Christ that we have never seen and whom if

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we saw them we could not understand them but with whom we share one spirit.

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We are one-hearted with them because of your gracious work.

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Each of us partakes of one piece broken off representing your broken body.

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But tonight we are reminded that that piece was broken off of one loaf, one true bread

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from heaven.

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We give thanks as we partake remembering these things, meditating upon them and rejoicing.

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Amen.

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Jesus said this is my body which is for you.

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Do this in remembrance of me.

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And we read these words in Revelation.

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Worthy art thou to take the book and to break its seals for thou was slain and its purchase

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for God with thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

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Lord Jesus as we partake of this cup it is a precious reminder to us of the price of

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redemption, the price paid for all people.

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And tonight our hearts are heavy with the thought that there are many who have not this

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knowledge that the price has been paid and they labor still in darkness, in death, in

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lostness, and they have no hope.

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There is no oneness of heart with them.

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They are eternally lost apart from that message.

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As we gather around this table we pray that you will send some from our church to go and

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that many who are waiting to go and are seeking to raise support or to meet other qualifications

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so that they can will find their needs met so that they can get to that place where you

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call them.

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We pray that preachers will be sent, that people may hear and believe.

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I pray that you will make us world Christians, a people aware of what's happening in our

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world and burdened for it, a praying people, lifting up continents and people groups, tribes,

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races to you in prayer.

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As we partake of this cup we are grateful for that blood.

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We partake of it with a commitment in our heart that we might take this message and

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bear it to the uttermost parts of the world as you've told us.

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Amen.

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Jesus said this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

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John let's sing right now that fourth verse that you've suggested to the last hymn.

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Jesus fill now with thy spirit hearts that full surrender know

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that the streams of living water from our inner man may flow

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channels only blessed master but with all thy wondrous power

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flowing through us thou canst use us every day and every hour.

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Amen.

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Tonight as you leave there will be an usher at the door.

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If you'd like to participate in the elders fund, our benevolent offering, you may do

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so and we encourage you and thank you too for your participation in that.

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It's been a good Lord's Day.

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It's been a beautiful one too hasn't it?

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Would you take your hymnal once more and I'd like for us to sing a verse maybe two of 335.

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We can sing this also acapella.

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This has been going through my mind all day.

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It's one of my favorite hymns.

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A wonderful savior is Jesus my Lord.

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And I want you to notice that the words were written by Fanny Crosby.

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Next Sunday night is going to be a very special night because we're going to do an evening

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focused on Fanny Crosby, her music and her life.

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We have some people in our church who've been preparing a bit of a drama presentation for

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you and the whole service is going to focus around that.

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Also we have baby dedication, isn't that next week too?

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But beyond that, Fanny Crosby is going to be here.

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And this is one of the hymns, one of 8,500 poems or hymn verses, hymns that she wrote

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in her lifetime.

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And I'd like for you to stand please as we sing the first verse and then the fourth.

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When clothed in His brightness, transported I rise to meet Him in clouds of the sky.

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His perfect salvation is wonderful love I'll shout with the millions on high.

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He hided my soul in the cleft of the rock That shadows a dry thirsty land.

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He hided my life in the depths of His love And covers me there with His hand.

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And covers me there with His hand.

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Let's bow together.

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Lord Jesus, you are a wonderful Savior.

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Thank you for loving us so deeply that you sacrificed yourself in this way for us.

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And thank you that you live now in heaven ever to intercede on our behalf.

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And oh, we praise you that one day we shall see you and with the millions on high sing

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that you've been such a wonderful Savior.

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Thank you for meeting with us today and enriching our lives with fellowship with you and with

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one another.

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And as we go out from here to our homes and to our assigned places of ministry and service

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this week, we pray that you will make us your channel and fill us with your Spirit.

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In Jesus' name we pray these things.

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Amen.