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but it is a business person going overseas to

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live for a period of time and being involved

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that way. One of the short -term missionary war

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events that saddened his family is true missionaries.

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All of us, our missionaries, need to serve the

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Lord in life and death. Now, lest you think that

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somehow this report would not have been handed,

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I will try to express faith when we say that

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we plan it this way. But we wanted to end the

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service with a focus on the word and I invite

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you to open your viable of the first Corinthians,

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chapter three. As we think this morning about

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possessions, one of the only lessons we learn

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in life is that we possess things. One of the

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first words in a child's vocabulary is that little

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word, what? Mine. And that's okay until that

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little person is sitting next to you playing

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with the same toy, and then there's a squabble.

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that crimkins might be compared to babes in Christ,

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who unfortunately was squabbling over who meets

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what was his favorite, than his believer. And

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so Paul says this beginning in the middle of

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verse 21, for all things belong to you. For the

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Paul or Apollos or Cephas, for the world or life

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or death or things present or things to come,

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all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ

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and Christ. belongs to God. It was so unnecessary

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for the Christians to squabble over their ministry

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leaders. I'll assure them all things belong to

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you. You don't need to fight over your leaders.

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The one that you're the most loyal. What I see

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in these brief words we read this morning is

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the basic truth that is this, that... are life's

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most important questions. Paul answers these

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questions for the believer, as he gives us here

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a three -fold list of possessions that bless

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your life as a Christian. The first is this truth

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that all things belong to you. Christ, Paul says

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this. In Romans 8 .32, again, he says, David

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did not spare his own son with the liberty of

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love for us all. How will he not also with him

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freely give us all things? All things belong

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to him. First, your ministry leaders belong to

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you. For the right, each one of God's servants

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belongs to each believer. No member of the church

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should say, I belong to Paul or I like painters,

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because each servant belongs to each member equally.

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Perhaps we cannot help but have our personal

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preferences when it comes to the way different

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men give us the word, but we must not commit

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our personal preferences to becoming resistive

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prejudices. In fact, the creature I may enjoy

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the least may be the one I need the most. they

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have been taught, rather than on who has taught

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them that truth. They need to know their lives

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on God's wisdom, rather than man's wisdom. We

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can all thank God for all of the leaders and

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preachers that God has gifted the body with.

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We may not be jealous of one over another, but

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we respect all... This here is that your ministry

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leader is belonging to you, but he wants them

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with us. There is a chain letter that's stored

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around the emergency space, and perhaps he has

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painted it. Here's what it says. The chain letter

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may be around among the church of these days,

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but no cons is involved. You can only send a

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copy of the letter to the church at this time.

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In one way, people would say 643 industries.

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And one of them is in place at first. But beware,

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once you're close to saying that, the whole business

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is back. So whether you want them or not, they

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belong to you. Especially if they're in the world,

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belong to you. But it's an order of saying that

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this cause you are in the range of - And yet

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there is even a twist now in which the world

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belongs to us, and it's false. John MacArthur

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quotes Joseph Parker, writing about this great

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chapter. He says, I demand my mastery in Danbury,

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and my upper window looks over the dark face

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of a wealthy man. It was I, really, who inherited

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that instinct. Oh, I did not own the product.

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I came down to see it once again, and I watched

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it smile, and then it died too. It is the process

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of death. It is the process of dying. The process

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of leaving behind this world and this life. For

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us, the big enemy has been succeeded and has

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been removed from this scary crisis of life.

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Death has been known to you. I propose, then,

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that you be guided in the arts and be with Christ,

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which is very much better than living in the

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past, which is less bad. But with the less present

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things as well, that is the process of living.

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The feelings of life, these are the stories,

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these challenges, the challenges, these problems,

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these are their lives. We have a second intention

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by the hand that leads us to life, and here's

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what goes with it again. In the final season

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we do not speak the same. That is the reality

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of the coming glory. The glory that will be ours

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from Christ the third, as all things are culminating

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in him. In the seventh revelation, chapter 21

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verse 17, we will overcome. Don't inherit all

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these. And I believe that God and he will be

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my friend. So we are going to pray for death.

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Death or whether to live or die, these are the

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words. And we forget all things in Christ when

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we are possessed by Him. There is no expected

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thing to pardon the fact that He is our Creator,

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our Maker. But even more so from the fact that

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He is our Redeemer. We acknowledge the right

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connection that we like to see. In a world that

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cannot be I am here. And he is mine. If you're

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not given a right view of the living of death

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for the rest of your life, give no cause us to

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live our very lives in crisis. And we will put

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away the tendency that we never might. about

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unimportant things. This is only the beginning.

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If Christ belongs to God and we belong to Christ,

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then we are just the ourselves, and we are one

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with each other, and eternally united with the

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very purpose of destroying God and His worship.

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God the Father and Jesus Christ. And God works

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with each other and man. How can man and God,

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so much one, be divided? It began in the family

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to understand the realities of our spiritual

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unity with one who was resurrected, with a common

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professor and professor. Common haters and seekers,

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common defenders of the system. you is there

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that he spreads his message to me. So as to prevent

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all things, you'll have to score both the recording.

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With any competition against or preventing all

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things, we have no you you