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I want to talk to you a
little bit about hospitality, about unreasonable hospitality.

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And I'm speaking out of my weakness, not out of my strength.

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Joel and I have continued to grow
in love, and hopefully our love has

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grown over the years. We feel
like our love has grown for one another,

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and we feel like our love has
grown for God's people and God's Kingdom

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and God's House. We feel like
that, but we still feel like there's

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a lot of a growth that needs
to take place. We feel like our

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church has grown in love as well, and we want this to be a

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love hub. We want this to
be a center of hospitality. We want

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this to be and so we know
some of that has to flow out of

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us, right, Like, one
time we had people this is a bad

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story, and this was many years
ago, but one time, you know,

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we had some people over to the
church, over to the house after

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church, and they continued to stay
for quite a while and they and then

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they weren't getting the hint that maybe
they should leave, And so one thing

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led to another, and pretty soon
I had this is on a Sunday afternoon.

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Pretty soon I had fallen asleep and
I was sleeping in my chair and

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the husband said that to Joel,
maybe we should leave now, and she's

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like, well, totally up to
you, folks. I mean, anyway,

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we joke about our lack in love
and hospitality in a terrible way,

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not in a funny way, but
in a like, Holy Spirit help us

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to grow in our love, because
we have been very driven, and we

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have been very driven people, and
we've we we probably lean more on the

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visionary side instead of the hospitality side, and so in that way, we

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haven't we haven't been true examples of
love many times, and we haven't been

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truly as love being as what Father
would have us to be. And so

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we continue to bring this like our
drivenness. And I don't know what you

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have to bring to the cross,
but we have to continually bring our drivenness

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to the cross and yield ourselves to
the Lord and the Cross, allowing him

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to rewrite on us and on our
hearts what he wants us to be,

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so that we can be the manner
the bread that is broken and fed to

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the people who have needs around us. We don't want to miss, we

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don't want to miss the needs around
us. And I think that I was

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meditating on this, and I think
that There's something here is that when Jesus

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said this do in remembrance of me. Remember that he took the cup,

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and then he took the bread,
and he says, he broke the bread,

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and he said, this is my
body broken for you. And then

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he said this do in remembrance of
me. There's something. There's something tied

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to that that sometimes we haven't caught. Is that he was saying to us

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as well, that we are to
take our bodies, and we're to break

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our body and give the sustenance of
who we are to others. It's like

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he was giving us an example to
follow. This is my body broken for

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you. He's called us also to
be broken and for the needs around us,

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and the give of our sustenance to
those around us, so that they

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can be supplied and met and encouraged
and built up and changed through the sustenance

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we have not retained. Remember Philippians
too. He did not think of his

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equality with God as something to be
held on to. But he took on

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the form of a servant, and
he came and met us where we were

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in our felt needs, and then
he gave of himself. So this is

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my body broken for you, and
This is what he's calling us to,

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is that we would be broken for
people. And it doesn't matter that we're

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driven. It doesn't matter that we're
entrepreneurs, it doesn't matter that we're all

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that in the bag of chips,
it doesn't matter that we're amazing. We

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still have to find the balance of
giving ourselves away through the sacrifice of bringing

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ourselves to the cross and saying,
Father, not my will, but yours

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be done. Rewrite your nature on
me, Rewrite what you desire for me

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on me, and flesh it out
through me, so that others will be

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touched, because they're not going to
be touched except through us. People are

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touched through us. So I'm saying
all of this not in my strength.

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I'm saying it in my vulnerability.
It's easy for me to walk past the

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need. It's easy for me to
walk past it's easy for me not to

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inquire of somebody's need. And so
I have to continue to say, Holy

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Spirit. Because this is Roma Chapter
eight. I can wax eloquent about authority

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and royalty and dominion and victory.
Yeah, I can get you all fired

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up about that. But there's another
aspect to the sons of God. There's

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another aspect of the sons of God
and Roman chapter eight fourteen through sixteen,

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the earth is groaning for the sons
of God to be revealed. Well,

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he defines it there. He says, the sons of God are those who

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are led by the spirit of God, not led by their economy, not

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led by their wallet, not led
by their stunning entrepreneurial skills, not led

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by all the things that they have
to get done, or their drivenness,

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or they're a great visionary ism preaching
to Dwayne right now, But they're led

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by the spirit. You know,
Joel likes to watch these videos she watched,

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wants to these videos on people that
have come back, and so I

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don't know, she's watched a hundred
of these silly videos. But it's better

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than watching something really dumb, right. And so these people, you know,

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they have all these you know,
crazy experiences. They see Jesus,

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they see illumination, they have a
visit with Jesus. Uh, they might

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see a dead spouse and who tells
them that you need to go back.

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This one particular guy, it's interesting, but they had this terrible car crash.

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The wife dies, one child dies, one child lives, and uh,

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and he dies too, and they
see each other in heaven and she

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says, I can't go back,
but you can. You have to go

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back and raise our sun. And
so it's just this wild, wild stuff.

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It's just all these crazy and these
stories are like their they're mind boggling

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and their fun. They're amazing,
and they really bear witness to, you

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know, just the reality of the
Christ and our walk in him. Right.

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But the one it's interesting, he
died like three times, and there's

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a time where he's in an operating
room and they're ministering to him, trying

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to revive him, and they're working
on him, and there's like a nurse

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there, there's an operating assistant,
there's the doctor, and he's hovering above

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them in the room. So his
spirit is lifted out of his body and

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he's watching them and and he's out
of his body. So he's like that

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and they're trying to get him to
come back to life, and he's hovering

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in the room watching this happen.
And he said that he could tell the

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grief of the people that were ministering
to him physically, he knew of what

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was happening with the nurse. He
knew in his nowhere, he knew in

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his spirit what was happening with his
nurse. He knew what was the hardship

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of this doctor, he knew the
hardship of the surgical assistant. He knew

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what was happening in his spirit form
hovering above them. And then he just

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talks about, you know, after
all that happened, He talks about how

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that he felt like his spirit was
so connected to their spirits, right,

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And I think there's something here.
There's something here is that when we have

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no margin in our life and everything
is about us and everything is rush and

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push, then we it's hard for
us to be led by the spirit,

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like super hard for us to be
led by our spirit. And what he

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saw is that, oh my goodness, my spirit knows exactly what's happening with

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each of those people. So there's
something about slowing down. There's something about

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calming down. Calmed down, come
down. I was the hyper person like

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maybe you were too, but I
was the hyper person like I was the

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troublemaker in every class. Every report
card said he talks too much. I

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mean, I was the problem.
My mom and dad didn't know where in

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the world I came from or what
to do with me? I was the

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problem I was, and so you
know I got a calm down, right,

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But for all of us, for
all of us, because it says

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those who are led by the spirit, they are the sons of God,

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and the earth is groaning for them
to manifest, for them to come into

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the manifestation of themselves in the earth. That means getting more spirit tuned and

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less material tuned, less five cents
tuned, and loving better, loving well,

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loving better, loving well, loving
better, and loving well. This

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guy will get airon. He made
me think of the church a little bit

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because we are a hospitality center.
And he started as a young man in

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restaurants in New York. You don't
have to buy this book, but the

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book is Unreasonable Hospitality. And he
started in the restaurant business in New York

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as a young man and then was
privileged to buy a restaurant with a partner,

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and then over time, in twenty
ten, their restaurant was voted number

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fifty of the top fifty restaurants in
the world. So he was invited to

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this gala and at the him and
his partner were invited on the platform and

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they're there with the top chefs of
the world. It's the top fifty restaurants

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of the world, and they're like, what in the world are we doing

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here? But you know, something
happened, something clicked, and they begin

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to think, what if we could
become the number one restaurant in the world.

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And so something happened in getting a
download of the wisdom from above,

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and they begin to think that it's
not just about the food, but it's

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about the service. And what if
the service is as good as the food,

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what if the service is unreasonable as
the food. Now, I don't

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know, you know, if you
think about there's so many parallels to church

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world. But you know, when
we come to church world, many times

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we come with a spiritual palette,
and we come to eat of spiritual food.

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And we come even judging with our
spiritual palate the spiritual food. And

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so we're excited about a particular sermon, we're excited about a particular word,

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a particular prophetic revelation, we're excited
about the worship, and so we're looking

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for something that is, you know, really relevant and powerful and life giving.

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But there's another element that we don't
think about in the restaurant of the

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church. And that is the hospitality
of the church, because I know that

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believers and unbelievers are like are turned
off from or shunned or pushed out of,

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or pushed away from churches where the
food is exquisite, but the environment

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is caustic, where there's no hospitality, or there the lack of hospital and

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hospitality means it just simply means to
show love, like supreme love, unconditional

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love, agape love, not just
fileo. But to show unconditional love to

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strangers. That's what hospitality means.
It's to show love to strangers. And

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I got to thinking about that.
I was thinking, you know, could

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we grow in that as a church? Could we grow more in that as

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a church? We want to be
such a hub of love. We want

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to be such a center of love. We want fear to drop off of

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people the moment they come through those
doors. Right, every kind of fear,

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fear of judgment. Doesn't matter where
they're coming from, by the way,

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it doesn't matter what lifestyle or what
background they're coming from. We want

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every fear to drop off of them. But we are the manifestation of love,

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of which and through which hospitality has
worked out. And I believe to

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a degree we've grown in this and
somebody, you know, not long ago,

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somebody saw two hospitality angels in the
Fourier and many will testify, and

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we can assume that they're there on
assignment to help people feel at home.

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Every person coming in those doors,
we want them to feel at home.

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That's good. But we partner with
that, We partner with the love of

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God. We partner with that love
in showing hospitality, in showing unconditional love

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to those coming into this building.
And you know, I've been thinking on

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how can we do that even better? How can we do that better?

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How can we show it's so good
that we're all here, and it's so

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good that we have each other,
and it's so good that we're getting to

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know one another. But the heart
of Father is that as we're added to

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the ninety nine, we never forget
the one. The heart of Father is

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that we are so mindful of the
one that we will leave even fellowship with

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the ninety nine, to make sure
the one, the stranger in our midst,

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is loved and cared for, ministered
to, and that there needs are

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met. And if you've been here
a few weeks, welcome to the ninety

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nine. Welcome to the ninety nine. But now the heart of Father is

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that we would go after the one, that we would be always mindful of

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the one that's good. And churches
can get super and grown because we know

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each other and we become family with
each other, and so we're fellowshipping each

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other. And we didn't see each
other this week, and so we got

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all of these fellowship clicks all around
the room and all around the building.

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And we have people that come in, but they're like the one. We're

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the ninety nine, and they're like
the one. Can we leave the ninety

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nine that we already know and spend
a little bit of time with the one?

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Can we reach out to the one? And that's just in the house

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and on the property, how much
more in our neighborhoods. How much more

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in our neighborhoods. You never really
know the power of your love until you

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begin to exercise it, unless you
reflect on how much love transformed you.

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And the problem is, the further
we get from the point of transformation with

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us, then the more we forget
how impactful the transformation was when love impacted

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us. So that's why Poul says, never forget the pit that she were

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dug from. Anybody dug from a
pit. The exhortation is that we would

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never forget the pit that we were
dug from, that we would always remember.

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Fact is with any sin that hits
the fan in the public dimension of

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acknowledgment. Yeah, we just always
need to be saying to ourselves, if

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it weren't for the grace of God, there goes I. If it weren't

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for the grace of God, if
it weren't for the saving power of God,

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there goes I. Right, So
that way, we're refusing to walk

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in judgment. Yes, I haven't
gotten to the word yet, and we're

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running out of a ton. Let's
go to Let's go to Luke, Chapter

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ten, verse twenty five. This
is my this is my other favorite book

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of the day. I want all
of you to buy it and read it

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several times. I've been talking about
it for a long time. I'm going

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to keep talking about it till I
wear you out. It's called The Gospel

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Comes with the House Key. The
Gospel Comes with the House Key by Rosaria

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Butterfield. I've been reading it again, getting more out of it. It's

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what inspired us to start our neighborhood
small group a year and a half ago.

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In a year and a half,
starting a small group, walking around

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one and fifty mailboxes, putting a
flyer on every mailbox. This is Wolf.

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Doesn't want to put him in the
mailbox because she says that's illegal.

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The grace covers Pastor Wolf, so
she tapes them on. I shove them

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in one and fifty every time we
have a meeting. Every time we had

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a meeting, because we didn't know
anybody in the neighborhood, right, every

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time we had a meeting, walked
that neighborhood, put one hundred and fifty

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flyers out, invite him to the
meeting. Now we've had over one hundred

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neighbors to our meeting. We've met, connected with, shared the love of

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God with, prayed for, ministered
to, cared for over one hundred neighbors

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in our neighborhood since we started that
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They don't have to go to our
church. We're not trying to get them

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to our church. We're trying to
love them well. So she talks about

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this, how that, if you
haven't heard me talk about it, how

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that her Presbyterian neighbor, Her Presbyterian
pastoral neighbor and his wife led her to

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the Lord. She was an activist
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plus community. She was writing the
legislation, she was on the council for

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the National Abortion Rights Something something.
I mean, she was out there,

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right, And when she was invited
for dinner, she's like, what in

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the world I wish I could read
that chapter for you, just the beginning.

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It's just like, Uh, it's
just it's so crazy, right,

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I don't have time. Then why
are you doing it? Well? Just

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because I said I didn't have time, so I could, you know,

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going to dinner at the home of
a Christian was not high on my list

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of long for activities as a lesbian
feminist leader in LGBQ t Q. You

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know that rights and the recent co
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Syracuse University, et cetera, et
cetera. And then she talks about how

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that she couldn't stand Christians. She
literally and she talks about it's crazy,

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how she was so puffed up and
convinced because of the psychology of Freud and

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because of the equitable social cultural fairness
of marks and just you know, everything

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she talks about, everything she had
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It all melted over five hundred dinners
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The most powerful thing God's given you
is your home and your dinner table.

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Your home and your dinner table.
We cannot rely on the congregational expression.

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The congregational altars has the sum total
or the full expression of what God wants

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to do in our neighborhoods, in
our communities, with our friends, our

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enemies, and those who don't go
to the Lord, those who far far

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from God. We cannot think they're
all going to come to this altar,

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but they all will come to your
dinner table. They'll come to your dinner

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table. And if you and I
will work the hospitality of breaking the bread

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of what we have, and if
we will tear down every excuse I don't

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have enough? What about me?
Where will I get the groceries? This

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lady has up to thirty people over
for dinner every single Tuesday night, NonStop.

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She opens her home heard her husband. She's now a pastor's wife.

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They pastor a Presbyterian church. She
converted to Christ after five hundred dinners.

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She came into the church where this
pastor pastored the church received her. She

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was discipled, She met a man, They became pastors. They've led hundreds

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of people to the Lord through their
dinner table. And every day crazy hospitality

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come on on Tuesdays as they have
people over for dinner on Thursdays or on

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Sundays, or they have people over
for dinner. They just closed the dinner

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with sharing. They closed the dinner
with prayer, They closed the dinner with

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some scripture reading. People open up, dropped their guards. If you loved

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every kind of people, they get
transformed, lives are changed, somebody else

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gets led to the Lord. What
if the church is more of a barn

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than it is a combine? What
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But what if you're the combine?
Isn't that Jeremiah fifty, I've made

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you a sharp threshing sledge. I've
made you the combine. You're the combine,

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I'm the combine. We're the combine. This is the barn. We

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bring the harvest here. We don't
demand that it happens here. It can

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happen here, but it doesn't have
to happen here because we are the combine,

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the sharp threshing instrument of the love
of God every day twenty four to

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seven, wherever we're at, and
especially in our neighborhoods. Isn't that fun?

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Luke Chapter ten, verse twenty five. On one occasion, an expert

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in the law stood up to test
Jesus. This is a scribe. He's

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not a lawyer, but he's as
good as a lawyer in that day because

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of his knowledge of the Toro.
So the law books right. And so

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he stands up to test the Lord. He says, Jesus, teacher,

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what must I do to inherit eternal
life? And Jesus said, what's written

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in the law. How do you
read it? And he answered, love

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the Lord your God, with all
of your heart, all of your soul,

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all of your strength, and all
of your mind. And love your

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neighbor as yourself. You've answered correctly. Jesus said, do this and you

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will live. But him, being
like pastor Dwayne, wanted to justify himself,

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and so he asked Jesus, and
who is my neighbor? And then

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replied Jesus said this a man was
going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he

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was attacked by robbers, and they
stripped him of his clothes. Everybody say

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stripped, and they beat him up. Everybody say beat and they went away,

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leaving him half dead. Everybody say
half dead. Then a holy priest,

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a great preacher, a man of
God, a supreme one in the

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church. Oh, I'm messing with
you, of course. But a priest

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happened to be going down the same
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And when he saw the man,
he went out of his way to not

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be bothered. He passed by on
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Now these are guys that should know
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law as good as the scribe.
So to a levite. When he came

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to the place and saw him,
he pass on the other side. But

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a Samaritan, as he traveled,
came to the man as he was,

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and he saw him, and he
took pity on him. The word is

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compassion. Compassion comes from the word
mercy. The word mercy means to not

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give a person the judgment they deserve, withholding from them judgment they deserve.

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He took compassion on him, or
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pity on him and he went and
bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and

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wine. Now the Samaritan had every
reason to pass. On the other side,

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the Samaritan had every reason to walk
by, because the Samaritan was racially

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they racially they were inferior. So
the Jews were the head and not the

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tale above and not beneath the Jewish
people, the Hebrew people, they were

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the supreme. Samaritans were half breathed, they were half jew and they were

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mixed. They were of a mixed
race, so they weren't full jew They

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couldn't go to the temple, they
couldn't go to Tourra school, they didn't

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have the privileges of the Jewish people. They didn't have those privileges in Jerusalem.

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They were segregated, they were left
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dogs. And this Samaritan, he
would have been abused by the It could

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be he was even abused by the
very family of the guy that's in the

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ditch. That very family could have
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So if anybody had a reason not
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But he listened to compassion. That
he could have listened to the marketplace because

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he was on his journey. He
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He could have listened to a lot
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he listened to compassion. And because
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that realm that I talked about,
that the guy saw in the surgery room

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over him. He connected with the
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The earth is groaning for the sons
of God to be revealed, not just

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in their authority over devils, the
sons of God who are led by their

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spirit, Yeah, who are led
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they're sensitive to the felt needs of
the people around them. So then he

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pays for the bandaging. He stays
with him that first day and actually cares

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for him, caring a Samaritan,
a dog, caring for a Jewish person

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who's been used of hating him.
And then he says, you know,

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Jesus says, of the three,
which are the three? Which of these

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three was the was the neighbor?
And he says the last one. He

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says, yes, Now go and
do the same, and like that,

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go and live like that, Go
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It gets worse Matthew twenty five,
race yourself. If you got a

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cane handy, grab it. Then
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right, Matthew twenty five thirty four, Come you who are blessed to my

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father. Take your inheritance. The
Kingdom prepared for you since the creation of

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the world. For you went to
New Horizon Christian Church, and you were

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amazing, and you drove out devils
and had great authority. Nope, nope,

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nope, no, none of that. For I was hungry and you

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gave me some to eat. I
was thirsty and you gave me something to

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drink. I was a stranger and
you invited me in. I needed clothes

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and you clothed me. I was
sick and you looked after me. I

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was in prison and you came to
visit me. And then the Righteous said

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Lord Quinn. In the world did
we see you hungry and feed you thirsty

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and give you something to drink?
When did we see you as a stranger

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and invite you in, or needing
clothes or clothe you? When did we

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see you sick or in prison and
go to visit you? And then the

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King will reply, truly, I
tell you, whatever you did for one

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of these, the least of these. Whatever you did for one of the

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least of these, brothers and sisters
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Let's go find the least. Let's
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Let's be on hunger and thirst assignments. Right, maybe it's not mashed potatoes

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and gravy somebody needs, but maybe
they're starving of soul. Come on,

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heads about all across this auditorium.
Would you join Joel and I in our

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prayer potentially a weekly discussion and a
weekly prayer, if not more often.

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We're asking, Holy Spirit, would
you make my heart bigger? Holy Spirit?

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Would you make my heart bigger?
Would you expand the vision of my

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heart for broken people? Would you
break me for those that are broken?

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Would you open the eyes of my
understanding to show me the felt needs of

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those before me? Would you make
me brave? Holy Spirin, make me

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brave, Make me brave? Even
Paul said, pray for me that I

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would be bold. Paul, the
Great Apostle, writer of half of the

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New Testament, is requesting pray for
me. Pray for me that I will

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be bold in my ministry of the
good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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Father. We bring that same prayer
before you today. Make us bold,

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enlarge our hospitality, enlarge our love
for the stranger, enlarge our risk taking,

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minimize, reduce, remove our fears, and enlarge your love through us.

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We ask it in Jesus' name.
Prayer team, If you'd come,

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I want to close this morning by
just inviting you forward once again. If

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you're here giving your life to the
Lord this morning, I want you to

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come and seal it. If you're
here committing your life to him, come

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and seal it in prayer. If
you've been away from Him, come and

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seal the security of your salvation in
prayer. If you've not known what it

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is to know Him fully and to
know his love, come and be prayed

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for and seal his love for you
in prayer. To have any other need

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this morning, physical, emotional,
circumstantial. Just as we close and worship,

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come and be prayed for. God, bless your church. We love you