Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: We are so glad you're here with us. Today we're
Speaker 1: going to continue our series called The Keys to a
Speaker 1: Blessed Life Now. In these messages, Rick walks through Jesus'
Speaker 1: Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live
Speaker 1: a truly hopeful and purpose filled life. Today we begin
Speaker 1: part one of God blesses a heart of integrity.
Speaker 2: Our culture is absolutely obsessed with appearance, how you look.
Speaker 2: We're all about image, and if you're beautiful, then you're
Speaker 2: considered bright and you're considered the best, which leaves most
Speaker 2: of us not in the brightest and best. Now, you
Speaker 2: could be sexy like me, But the Bible says God
Speaker 2: couldn't care less how you look. God is not into appearance.
Speaker 2: God couldn't care less about your achievements, your accomplishments, or
Speaker 2: your acquisitions. God isn't interested in how educated you are
Speaker 2: or how wealthy you are. God doesn't care about how
Speaker 2: popular or how famous you are. What God cares about
Speaker 2: is not your image. But he cares about your health
Speaker 2: and your heart and what's inside you, the real you,
Speaker 2: the Bible says in the Book of First Samuel chapter sixteen,
Speaker 2: it says this in verse seven, man looks at the
Speaker 2: outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. And
Speaker 2: so today we come to the sixth of Jesus' eight
Speaker 2: beatitudes of ways to be blessed. And in Matthew chapter five,
Speaker 2: verse eight, talking about heart, it says this, God blesses
Speaker 2: those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. Now,
Speaker 2: what in the world does that mean. God blesses those
Speaker 2: whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. First,
Speaker 2: what does it mean they will see God? This verse
Speaker 2: says the people whose hearts are pure, they're the ones
Speaker 2: who get up close to God. They get to experience
Speaker 2: the presence of God. They get to feel the power
Speaker 2: of God. They get to know the purpose of God
Speaker 2: for their life. They get to live in the peace
Speaker 2: of God. They experience the pardon of God. These are
Speaker 2: the people who really have it, he says. God blesses
Speaker 2: those who are pure in heart. They're the ones that
Speaker 2: God says. This guy, he's my friend. This woman, she's
Speaker 2: my friend. So what does it mean to be pure
Speaker 2: in heart? That's not a term we use in today's language.
Speaker 2: We don't talk about saying, oh, she's got a pure heart.
Speaker 2: The word for pure in heart today is the word integrity. Integrity. Now,
Speaker 2: the Bible uses the word integrity a lot, but it
Speaker 2: actually even uses the word blameless more. Now, what does
Speaker 2: it mean to have integrity? Because if God says I
Speaker 2: bless those who have integrity, what does it mean to
Speaker 2: have integrity? Well, it doesn't mean sinless, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean perfect. Then it doesn't mean you don't make any mistakes.
Speaker 2: If you have to be sinless to have integrity. Nobody's
Speaker 2: got integrity because we all blow it. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: perfect because if you have to be perfect and never
Speaker 2: do anything wrong to have integrity, then none of us
Speaker 2: will ever have integrity. It doesn't mean you never make
Speaker 2: any mistakes. If that were true, none of us would
Speaker 2: ever have integrity. So it's not talking about being perfect
Speaker 2: being sinless. What does it mean to be pure in heart?
Speaker 2: Let me explain something to you. God is more interested
Speaker 2: in the direction of your heart than he is in
Speaker 2: the sins you commit. He's more interested in your attitude
Speaker 2: even than your actions, more interested in why you do
Speaker 2: what you do than what you do. In the Bible,
Speaker 2: there are many examples of people who did the right
Speaker 2: thing for the wrong motivation, and God says doesn't count.
Speaker 2: It doesn't count at all. On the other hand, the
Speaker 2: Bible tells us about a number of leaders, different kings
Speaker 2: of Israel, who actually didn't always do the right thing
Speaker 2: and actually did some sin, and yet God said they're okay,
Speaker 2: They're okay. They didn't remove all of the idols that
Speaker 2: were in the thing, but they were a good king.
Speaker 2: And so God is actually more interested in your heart
Speaker 2: the direction of your heart, than he is in your
Speaker 2: actual sins and what you do and don't. So what
Speaker 2: is integrity. The Bible says that Noah had integrity. The
Speaker 2: Bible says that Abraham had integrity, that David had integrity,
Speaker 2: that Moses had integrity, that Paul had integrity. Yet none
Speaker 2: of these guys were perfect. Let's just take David an example.
Speaker 2: God says about King David, there is a man who
Speaker 2: has a heart like mine. He's a man after my
Speaker 2: own heart.
Speaker 3: You read that.
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 2: This is a guy who committed adultery and murdered the
Speaker 2: girl's husband one time. He pretended he was mentally insane
Speaker 2: to get out of a thing. He did all kinds
Speaker 2: of weird things he was not perfect in any sense,
Speaker 2: and yet godsys that guy over there, Yeah he's really
Speaker 2: messed up, but he's got a heart like mine. I
Speaker 2: want you to have a heart like God's. I want
Speaker 2: to have a heart like God. I want us to
Speaker 2: be people of integrity. Three words that define what it
Speaker 2: means to be a man of integrity, what it means
Speaker 2: to be a woman of integrity. The first meaning of
Speaker 2: integrity is wholeness. Wholeness it means your life isn't divided
Speaker 2: up in the compartments. It's not divided into segments. You
Speaker 2: don't have your life all divided up in little, little categories.
Speaker 2: Your life is one large whole. We get the word
Speaker 2: integrity from the word integer or integer. You remember in math,
Speaker 2: an integer is a whole number. It's not a fraction,
Speaker 2: it's not a part of a number, it's not a decimal.
Speaker 4: It's a whole number.
Speaker 2: And integer means whole, and integrity means your life is
Speaker 2: a whole. We get the word integration from the word
Speaker 2: integer or integrity. Integration is the opposite of segregation. Segregation
Speaker 2: means you you divide things up, or divide people up,
Speaker 2: or whatever into different categories. Integration means no, no, we're
Speaker 2: all part of the same family. We don't think the same,
Speaker 2: look the same, smell, the same, act the same, don't
Speaker 2: have the same background, don't have the same skin color,
Speaker 2: don't have but we are all in the same family.
Speaker 2: We are integrated. That's part of integrity. When you segregate
Speaker 2: your life, you don't have integrity.
Speaker 4: You see, it's like this.
Speaker 2: A lot of people they think of their life as
Speaker 2: like a pie, and the different things in their lives
Speaker 2: are the different parts of the pie. And I see
Speaker 2: this slice of the pie is my career. That's my
Speaker 2: work life. And then this slice of the pie, this
Speaker 2: is church. This is my spiritual life. And then this
Speaker 2: is my family life. That's the slice. And then over
Speaker 2: here this is my social life, my sports life. And
Speaker 2: then here is my sex life. That's a part of
Speaker 2: my pie. And then over here is my secret life.
Speaker 2: My compulsions, my addictions are the things that nobody else
Speaker 2: knows about my secret life. And then over here this
Speaker 2: is like my friendship life. If you segment your life
Speaker 2: like that, you lack integrity because it's the exact opposite
Speaker 2: of your life being a whole. Integrity is not the
Speaker 2: parts of the pie. It's the filling and the whole pie.
Speaker 2: And it means you're exactly the same with everybody you talk,
Speaker 2: no matter which part of your life you're dealing with.
Speaker 2: You don't change, You don't wear a mask, you don't pretend.
Speaker 2: And that's the second word I want you to write down.
Speaker 2: Integrity means authenticity. Authenticity. It means you keep it real.
Speaker 2: It means you're the real deal. You're not a fake,
Speaker 2: you're not a phony. You're not blowing people off with
Speaker 2: some scam. You're not faking it till you make it.
Speaker 2: You're not pretending, you're not copying anybody else. You're not
Speaker 2: trying to be somebody you're not. You are exactly who
Speaker 2: you appear to be. And if you have integrity, you
Speaker 2: act the same no matter where you are. That is,
Speaker 2: I act the same way with my grandkids as I
Speaker 2: do with you, as I would with the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: of England. It's what you see is what you get.
Speaker 2: It's worts and all. It's not like I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be one way here and one way there and one
Speaker 2: way here.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: You're just who you are, for good or for bad.
Speaker 2: Thousands of years ago, during the Great Greek culture when
Speaker 2: Plato and Socrates and Aristotle and Euripides and Aristophanes and
Speaker 2: all these guys are writing these plays, these classic plays,
Speaker 2: Homer and the Iliad and the Odyssey, all of these things, well,
Speaker 2: they used to have in Greek plays multiple roles by
Speaker 2: one actor. And what is a guy would come from
Speaker 2: backstage out into the forum to play a part, and
Speaker 2: he would hold up a mask, and he'd wear a mask,
Speaker 2: and he would say certain things and play that role.
Speaker 2: Then he'd walk backstage, get another mask, come back out,
Speaker 2: and he'd play another role wearing another mask. Then he'd
Speaker 2: walk backstage, change it, get another mask, and come back out.
Speaker 2: And in Greek plays, one guy could have multiple roles
Speaker 2: in many masks, and he was called in Greek the hypocritos.
Speaker 2: The hip is we get the word hypocrite from it.
Speaker 2: What does it mean to be a hypocrite. It means
Speaker 2: you're not the same with everybody. It means you talk
Speaker 2: one way with this group, and you talk another way
Speaker 2: with this group, and you use this kind of language
Speaker 2: over there, that kind of language over there, and you
Speaker 2: actually are wearing masks. That is the exact opposite of integrity.
Speaker 2: You lack authenticity, you're not the same with everybody. Integrity
Speaker 2: means you don't pretend to be something you're not, So
Speaker 2: it's wholeness and authenticity. The third thing that antigrity is
Speaker 2: write this down is it means unmixed motivation. It means
Speaker 2: you do the right thing, but you do it for
Speaker 2: the right reason. Unmixed motivation. It means you're sincere. It
Speaker 2: means you're straightforward. It means you are pure in heart.
Speaker 2: Pure in heart means you don't have a mixed motive.
Speaker 2: In other words, you're doing it for the right reason.
Speaker 2: You can pray to talk to God, or you can
Speaker 2: pray to impress other people. One has integrity and one doesn't.
Speaker 2: Integrity is what you are when nobody else is looking.
Speaker 2: Integrity is what you are in the dark. Integrity is
Speaker 2: what you really think, act and do when nobody else
Speaker 2: will ever find out. That's the real you.
Speaker 4: Integrity.
Speaker 2: You see, we're more interested in image, but God's interested
Speaker 2: in integrity. We're interested in reputation. God is interested in character.
Speaker 2: Reputation is what everybody thinks you are. Image, I mean,
Speaker 2: integrity is what you really are. Reputation is what you
Speaker 2: are in public. Integrity is what you are when you're
Speaker 2: all alone with God. It's just you and God. And
Speaker 2: God says, God blesses those who have integrity. They get
Speaker 2: to be the friends of God. Now what does God
Speaker 2: say about this? Look at this verse up here on
Speaker 2: the screen. Proverbs chapter three. The Lord hates people with
Speaker 2: twisted hearts. What's a twisted heart, a perverse heart, a
Speaker 2: perverted heart, a deceit full heart, a demeaning heart, a.
Speaker 4: Fake, a phony heart.
Speaker 2: It's not you know, you don't really, you're not the
Speaker 2: real you. The Lord hates people with twisted hearts, but
Speaker 2: he delights. He delights in those who have integrity. I
Speaker 2: want God to delight in you. So what we're gonna
Speaker 2: do this weekend is two things. First, I want us
Speaker 2: to look at some of the benefits of being a
Speaker 2: man of integrity or a woman of integrity. And Tom
Speaker 2: is going to come and share in just a minute,
Speaker 2: two or three benefits. There are many, many benefits in scripture.
Speaker 2: We just don't have time to cover them all, so
Speaker 2: we'll only look at three of the promises of God says,
Speaker 2: if you live with integrity, then this is what's going
Speaker 2: to happen in your life. And then I'm gonna come
Speaker 2: back and we're going to look at a little checklist
Speaker 2: on how to get started and how even this week
Speaker 2: you could start working on becoming a woman of integrity
Speaker 2: or a man of integrity. So let's have Tom comment
Speaker 2: talk about some of the blessings that happen when I
Speaker 2: get this quality in my life.
Speaker 5: One of the great blessings, one of the great blessings
Speaker 5: that comes when we have integrity, is the blessing.
Speaker 4: Of personal confidence.
Speaker 5: You just live with a different kind of confidence because
Speaker 5: you're not trying to be a phony all the time.
Speaker 5: You're not trying to make sure that you're putting the
Speaker 5: right front with the right person all the time, so
Speaker 5: you're able to have a different kind of confidence.
Speaker 4: When you have integrity, you become.
Speaker 5: The kind of person that other people like to be
Speaker 5: around because you know who you are, you know where
Speaker 5: you're going. You're even able to be upfront about your faults.
Speaker 5: You're not to be a phony. And there's just something
Speaker 5: about that kind of confidence that not only is it
Speaker 5: attractive in others, it's relaxing, it's strengthening in our own lives.
Speaker 5: I've always loved this picture of Proverbs ten to nine
Speaker 5: of the kind of confidence that integrity brings. It says here,
Speaker 5: people with integrity have a firm footing, but those who
Speaker 5: follow crooked paths will slip and fall. So when I
Speaker 5: have integrity, I'm standing on solid ground.
Speaker 4: But when I don't have.
Speaker 5: Integrity, it's like back east in a snowstorm that passes
Speaker 5: all icy and you're trying with all your might not
Speaker 5: to fall, and every bit of energy is making sure
Speaker 5: you don't slip and fall.
Speaker 4: That's what it feels like not to have integrity.
Speaker 5: You're putting too much energy into making sure that you
Speaker 5: put the right fault front when you could just be honest,
Speaker 5: just be yourself. I'll never forget talking to a business
Speaker 5: guy years ago and I asked him, what's the number
Speaker 5: one thing that changed in your life now that you've
Speaker 5: become a follower of Jesus. He just started following Jesus
Speaker 5: a few months before, and he said, the number one
Speaker 5: thing that's changed, said it right away, is the way
Speaker 5: I answer the phone.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 5: I used to answer the phone and I would tell
Speaker 5: a different lie to everybody in my business, and I'd
Speaker 5: have to look at their name and realize what lie
Speaker 5: did I tell?
Speaker 4: This guy? And before I answer the phone know what
Speaker 4: lie in my mind. But now I.
Speaker 5: Can just answer because I tell them the truth, I
Speaker 5: can just answer and they not even have to look
Speaker 5: at the name. That's what integrity does for you. It
Speaker 5: gives you this different kind of confidence. The Bible says
Speaker 5: in Proverbs eleven three, let's read this one together. The
Speaker 5: integrity of the honest keeps them on track. So integrity
Speaker 5: shows you the right way to go. It also shows
Speaker 5: you what to do next. Sometimes you start to wander
Speaker 5: through life. You're not sure what to do next, maybe
Speaker 5: in a transition, maybe when your kids is going off
Speaker 5: to college, maybe you just change jobs.
Speaker 4: What do you do next?
Speaker 5: Well, the Bible says that when you have purity of heart,
Speaker 5: when you have integrity, you see God better.
Speaker 4: When you see God, you know what to do next.
Speaker 4: Because God has a purpose. God has a plan for
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 5: Integrity helps you to see God's plan and purpose for
Speaker 5: your life better. That's one of the things that gives
Speaker 5: you a greater confidence to live with. One of the
Speaker 5: great blessings of integrity, a second blessing of integrity is
Speaker 5: a lasting legacy. You get this lasting legacy. In fact,
Speaker 5: if you think about your life. Your greatest legacy is
Speaker 5: in your integrity, because it's a legacy that will last
Speaker 5: from generation to generation to generation. Everything else that we do,
Speaker 5: it gets lost. The money that you earn in the end,
Speaker 5: it's going to get divided amongst your kids. If you
Speaker 5: have any money left, and it's going to get spent.
Speaker 5: The work that you do, it's going to be given
Speaker 5: to somebody else, and then you're going to be forgotten.
Speaker 5: All the trophies that you've earned, it's going to be
Speaker 5: thrown in the trash someday and taken to the dump.
Speaker 4: Isn't this encouraging about our lives?
Speaker 5: But the integrity that you have, the character that you have,
Speaker 5: it's going to be translated into the lives of the
Speaker 5: people that are around you, and then into the lives
Speaker 5: of the next generation and the next generation. It is
Speaker 5: a lasting legacy. Next erson you're outlined. Proverbs twenty seven
Speaker 5: is especially encouraging for parents. It says a righteous person
Speaker 5: lives on the basis of his integrity. Blessed are his
Speaker 5: children after he is gone. It's the blessing, moms and
Speaker 5: dads of the character that you've given. I know, there's
Speaker 5: no such thing as a perfect parent here. But you've
Speaker 5: made some good choices, and in those good choices, you're.
Speaker 4: Passing them on.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: You might think, not me, I haven't made any good choices.
Speaker 5: I mean, I messed up on this one. I did
Speaker 5: not show integrity in my relationships, and because of that,
Speaker 5: I guess I don't get this blessing. Well, I just
Speaker 5: want to say to you, the story is not over.
Speaker 5: You can still have integrity in your life. And sometimes
Speaker 5: the greatest integrity you show is in a time when
Speaker 5: it seems like there's no blessings.
Speaker 4: A lot of us know the story of Job.
Speaker 5: If you're brand new in church, you might even know
Speaker 5: that story the guy who lost it all and he
Speaker 5: decided to have integrity.
Speaker 4: Even though he lost it all.
Speaker 5: He didn't know why he lost it, but he decided,
Speaker 5: I'm going to have integrity through this and the next
Speaker 5: verse in your outline Job eight five to seven, one
Speaker 5: of his friends gives him this advice. If you pray
Speaker 5: to God and seek the favor of the Almighty, if
Speaker 5: you're pure and you live with complete integrity, God will
Speaker 5: rise up and restore your happy home. And though you
Speaker 5: started with little, you will end with much. And that
Speaker 5: is exactly what happened. Job decided to have integrity even
Speaker 5: through a difficult time, and because of that, in the
Speaker 5: end he was doubly blessed.
Speaker 4: He was blessed even more in the end. Some of you, you've.
Speaker 5: Gone through a tough time that maybe even a loss
Speaker 5: of integrity, and because of a loss, you start to think,
Speaker 5: what does it matter. I already messed up, so I
Speaker 5: may as well just keep messing up, because what does
Speaker 5: it matter now? But I just want to say to you,
Speaker 5: the story is not over. And the truth of the
Speaker 5: matter is your greatest integrity might be what you do
Speaker 5: after a loss of integrity.
Speaker 4: You can still.
Speaker 5: Respond with integrity then, And somebody's watching, and you know what,
Speaker 5: They're going to have a loss of integrity someday in
Speaker 5: their life, and you can show them even now what
Speaker 5: to do. You can still leave a lasting legacy. It's
Speaker 5: never too late. The story's not over. It's one of
Speaker 5: the blessings of integrity, a lasting legacy, a personal confidence.
Speaker 4: And then there's this.
Speaker 5: Third blessing amidst all the others that we're looking at today,
Speaker 5: and that is the blessing.
Speaker 4: Of rewards in eternity. Now, this in one sense.
Speaker 5: Is the greatest blessing because it's the one that lasts forever,
Speaker 5: the rewards that we get in eternity. Look what the
Speaker 5: Bible says about this. In Matthew twenty, God will say,
Speaker 5: one day, well done. You are a good and trusted servant.
Speaker 5: Because you were faithful with small things. I will now
Speaker 5: put you in charge of much greater things. So come
Speaker 5: and share your master's happiness. Now, would you circle for
Speaker 5: me two words in that verse? Would you circle the
Speaker 5: words small things? That's where the rewards are. We think
Speaker 5: that the rewards, the real integrity is in the big
Speaker 5: moments of life.
Speaker 4: It's easy to have.
Speaker 5: Integrity, easier because you know everybody's watching.
Speaker 4: You can build yourself up for it.
Speaker 5: But it's in the small moments that you show real integrity.
Speaker 5: As Rick said earlier, integrity is who you are when
Speaker 5: no one's watching, no one's noticing. So what kind of
Speaker 5: integrity do I have in the in the small things
Speaker 5: of life? Now, when it comes to integrity in the
Speaker 5: small things when no one else was watching, we can
Speaker 5: all list the areas we've failed there. No one would
Speaker 5: want all of the small choices we made in our
Speaker 5: lives this last week, even put up on the screen
Speaker 5: because there'd be some things we did not want people
Speaker 5: to see. It's easy to make a list of your
Speaker 5: sins and failures in the small things.
Speaker 4: But let's put those.
Speaker 5: Let's take those and put them on the forgiven in
Speaker 5: Christ's side of the ledger, because he forgives those things.
Speaker 5: But I want to remind you, and this verse reminds us,
Speaker 5: there is another side of the ledger, and that is
Speaker 5: when you choose to have faith, when you choose to
Speaker 5: have integrity in the small things, that is on the
Speaker 5: rewarded side of the ledger. Every small word of encouragement
Speaker 5: you give this next week, it is rewarded eternally. Every
Speaker 5: small kindness, act of kindness that you give towards someone
Speaker 5: else rewarded in eternity. Every time you reject a temptation,
Speaker 5: rewarded in eternity. Every time you pray a small prayer
Speaker 5: of faith, just a quick prayer of faith in a moment, that.
Speaker 4: Is rewarded in eternity. That's the power of integrity.
Speaker 5: That's the difference that integrity makes, not just here but forever.
Speaker 4: That's the blessing of integrity.
Speaker 5: It's tough in the small things because in the small things.
Speaker 5: It's just easy to get our perspective off, to get
Speaker 5: our perspective on the wrong thing. I told some of
Speaker 5: the story a while back, but it's worth saying again
Speaker 5: because it just fits so well here. While back, I
Speaker 5: was at home depot getting some sod from my backyard
Speaker 5: at a dead area, and I counted down and I
Speaker 5: thought I needed about twenty two pieces of sod. So
Speaker 5: I went down and I bought it, and I said
Speaker 5: where do I get it? And they said, oh, it's
Speaker 5: out in front. You just load it yourself. So I
Speaker 5: backed my car up and I start loading this sod
Speaker 5: in counting one, two, three, four five. About halfway through,
Speaker 5: I think maybe I might need twenty four pieces. I
Speaker 5: don't know if I'm getting enough, but I didn't want
Speaker 5: to go back in and get and pay them again
Speaker 5: and have to come back out. So I start looking around, thinking,
Speaker 5: who's gonna notice if I take two extra pieces while
Speaker 5: I'm doing this. I mean, no one's gonna notice. And
Speaker 5: then I looked down and thought, there's just gonna be
Speaker 5: a few pieces left. They're going to die out here
Speaker 5: in the sun anyway. I mean, it's not gonna hurt
Speaker 5: anybody if I take a couple of extra pieces, counting
Speaker 5: them in, and then all of a sudden, the perspective
Speaker 5: hit me and I started laughing out loud in the
Speaker 5: parking lot. I thought, integrity issue I'm facing here is
Speaker 5: God or sad. Which one of those of them am
Speaker 5: I going to choose in this moment? Am I going
Speaker 5: to give up my integrity for a square of dirt?
Speaker 4: Is that what I'm going to do? And really, in
Speaker 4: one way, it's all dirt.
Speaker 5: It's all dirt in this world compared to the integrity
Speaker 5: of the choice that you make for eternity. And when
Speaker 5: you make these small choices, and when you make these
Speaker 5: small choices for eternity, it changes not only your life now,
Speaker 5: but also your life forever.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're talking about what Tom just talked about,
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I'm interested in these benefits.
Speaker 2: I'm interested in personal stability, I'm interested in leaving a legacy,
Speaker 2: and I'm interested in rewards for eternity. And God says
Speaker 2: all three of these are wrapped up in having integrity.
Speaker 1: What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something
Speaker 1: I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to
Speaker 1: tell you how you can help support this ministry.
Speaker 2: Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives
Speaker 2: according to five specific purposes. He said, you've got to
Speaker 2: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
Speaker 2: your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment.
Speaker 2: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism, Baptize
Speaker 2: them into the Family of God. That's fellowship, a sign
Speaker 2: of fellowship. And then he said, teach them obey everything
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Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us next time as we look
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