Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Hooked On Others (Part 1)

March 17, 2025 | S25:E130

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Hooked On Others (Part 1) | March 17, 2025

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[narrator] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory
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With dr. robert jeffress."
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Have never wondered why jesus chose to hang out
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With the disciples?
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Wouldn't it have been easier to accomplish his mission alone
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And unencumbered than to drag along
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A dozen flawed and clumsy men?
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Today, i'm going to suggest that the reason jesus
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Had disciples is because christians
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Aren't meant to serve alone,
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But rather to walk together in unity.
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My message is titled hooked on others
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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A number of years ago, i was in a small group,
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I can't even remember the purpose of the group,
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But i remember a woman in the group
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Who shared with us her remarkable testimony,
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And she had been a social worker in a state prison.
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She had felt that her work as a social worker
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Was an opportunity for her to share christ
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With those who were in need.
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And one day she was alone in a room with a prisoner,
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Trying to minister to that prisoner,
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When suddenly, without any provocation at all,
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The prisoner lunged at her,
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Began to choke her to death,
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And then proceeded to break every bone in her face.
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And once he had done that,
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He took a nail he had been carrying
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And plunged it into the woman's neck, leaving her for dead.
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As she was lying in a coma for weeks,
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She told our group that suddenly one day
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She heard the voice of god speak to her
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While she was in that coma.
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She said she recognized the voice
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Because it was the same voice that had spoken to her
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As a little girl, calling her to faith in christ.
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She said it was the same voice as a teenager
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That had called her into full-time christian ministry.
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And now that voice was calling her back to life.
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And after months of rehabilitation, she had one desire.
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She pled with those prison officials to let her go back
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Into that prison, go back into that room,
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And meet that prisoner once again.
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Of course, the prison officials refuse.
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And after pleading to no avail,
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She was at least able to persuade them
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To allow her to leave him a bible, which she did.
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And in the fly leaf of that bible, she wrote to him
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That she forgave him for what he had done to her.
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But her prayer was that he would come
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To know the forgiveness that jesus christ offers to anyone.
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That remarkable woman had as her life focus
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Meeting the spiritual needs of other people,
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Even those people who were her enemies.
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You know, that's one sign of being
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A heavenly-minded christian.
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A heavenly-minded christian is one who is not self-focused,
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But is focused on the ministry
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To which god is calling him or her.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today,
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What it means to be ministry-focused,
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To be like jesus christ.
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If you have your bibles, turn to colossians chapter 3.
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I imagine, by this time, your bible naturally opens
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To colossians chapter 3.
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We've been in this chapter for a while,
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But it is a key chapter in the new testament
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Because this chapter tells us
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How we can become heavenly-minded.
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That is how we can become like jesus christ
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In our attitudes, our affections, our actions.
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That's god's will for your life, that you be shaped,
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That you be conformed into the image of jesus.
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That you think like jesus thought,
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That you live like jesus lived,
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That you love the same things that jesus loved
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So that you can experience the kind of benefits
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That jesus experienced while he was here on earth.
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You don't have to wait until you die
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To experience the benefits of heaven.
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You can have all of the benefits now
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That belong to a child of god.
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That's what colossians 3 is all about.
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And in this section of chapter 3 verses 15 to 17,
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Paul tells us how we go about
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Becoming like jesus christ in our everyday life.
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And there are four principles here we've been looking at.
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Principle number one, verse 15 says,
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"let the peace of christ rule in your hearts."
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Remember we talked about that?
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Let that absence of turmoil
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Regardless of what is happening to you,
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You have the final say in your life.
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And then last week, we looked at the second principle
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For becoming like christ.
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Look at colossians 3:16,
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"let the word of christ richly dwell within you."
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We talked about how you can make god's word
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A part of your everyday life.
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It is a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth.
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It is a deterrent to sin,
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And it is also the source of great peace in your life.
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And now today, we've come to the third principle
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For becoming like jesus christ and it's also in verse 16.
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Notice after the comma, "let the word of christ
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Richly dwell within you."
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Here's a new thought, "with all wisdom teaching
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And admonishing one another with psalms and hymns
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And spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness
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In your hearts to god."
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One way to become more like jesus christ
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Is to have ministry rather than self-fulfillment
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Your purpose for living.
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You know that is such a simple concept,
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To be others-focused rather than to be self-focused.
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Jesus, it has said, came not to be served
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But to serve and to give his life
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As a ransom for other people.
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Jesus wasn't here to get out of this life
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What he could for himself.
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He was here to serve, to minister to other people.
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And if we're going to be like christ,
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That is going to be the focus of our life.
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Now, walter and i have a friend who says,
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"every life exists for one of two purposes,
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Either to meet a need or to fill a greed."
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Your life is either about yourself,
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Filling a greed, or it's about meeting a need.
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And seniors here today, this message wasn't actually planned
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For today, but it's no coincidence that it's for today.
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As you set out in this new course of your life,
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You've got to come to the decision about
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What your life is really all about.
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Is it about fulfilling your agenda, your plans, your dreams,
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Or is it about fulfilling god's agenda for your life?
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That's not only a question for high school seniors,
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It's a question for all of us.
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You know, if you were to inject most christians,
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Regardless of their age, with a good dose
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Of sodium pentothal, and ask them the question,
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What is your real purpose in life?
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You know what answers you would get?
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"oh, to have a good time."
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"to make my mark in the world
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By having a successful career."
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"to earn enough money
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So i can have a comfortable retirement."
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That is the purpose which most christians are living today.
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It's a life about me, me, me.
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Now, before you start clucking your tongues
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And saying, (clicks tongue)
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"isn't that just awful?
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People shouldn't be that way."
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Let me ask you some questions about the focus of your life.
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Let's get honest here.
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What is the real focus of your life?
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Let me ask you four questions to help you kind of zero in
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Whether your life is self-focused or others-focused.
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Question number one,
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Can you name one significant thing you did
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For somebody else this past week
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From which you derived no benefit whatsoever?
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Something significant you did from another person
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This last week from which you've no personal benefit.
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Question number two, suppose your dear old aunt bessie
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Were to die and to leave you $100,000,
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How would you spend that money?
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How would you really spend that money?
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Question number three, when is the last time
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You personally led somebody to faith in jesus christ?
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When's the last time you personally led somebody
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To faith in jesus christ?
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Question number four,
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How are you planning to spend your retirement years?
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And if you're in retirement,
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How are you spending your time right now?
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Your answer to those questions will help you understand
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If your life is truly self-focused
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Or is it ministry-focused?
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Today we're going to talk about, first of all,
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The mandate for a ministry-focused life.
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Secondly, we're going to talk about paul's method
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For having a ministry-focused life.
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And thirdly, we're going to look at the motivation,
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The rewards for having a life that is focused
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On ministry rather than self.
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First of all, let's look at the mandate
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To have a ministry-focused life.
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I came across in my study this week
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The great words of the scholar fb meyer.
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Listen to what fb meyer wrote.
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He said, "it is urgently needful that the christian people
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Of our charge should come to understand
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That they are not a company of invalids
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To be wheeled about or fed by hand,
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Nursed and comforted,
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The pastor being the head physician and nurse,
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But the church is a garrison in an enemy's country.
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Every soldier of which should have some post or duty
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At which he should be prepared
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To make any sacrifice rather than quitting."
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You know, unfortunately, most christians today
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Don't understand that truth,
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That they're not here to be nursed about
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And comforted by other christians,
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That we are like soldiers in enemy-occupied territory.
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And god has left us in this enemy-occupied territory
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For one reason.
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He hasn't left us here to enrich ourselves,
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To entertain ourselves,
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To entangle ourselves with the affairs of everyday life.
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God has left us here for our one purpose
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In this enemy-occupied territory.
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What is that purpose?
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It's found in those verses we know so well,
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But actually live out in a very little way.
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Matthew 28:19-20, jesus said, "go, therefore,
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And make disciples of all nations,
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Baptizing them in the name of the father
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And the son and the holy spirit,
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And teaching them to observe all things
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That i've commanded you.
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And lo, i'm with you always, even until the end of the age."
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Do you realize folks, the only reason you're here right now
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And not in heaven when you became a christian,
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The only reason god left you here
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Is not to have a successful career,
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Not to build a successful family,
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Not to store up a bunch of money
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That you're going to leave behind one day.
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God left you here for one reason.
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It's his reason,
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And that is to make disciples followers of christ.
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What is a disciple?
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That word disciple is a word that comes from a word
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That means, it refers to someone who professes
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To have learned principles from another person's life
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And orders his life according to those principles.
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Someone who professes to have learned certain principles
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From another person's life
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And seeks to order his life around those principles.
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In jesus' day, if you found a rabbi that you liked
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And were attracted to,
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You would become that rabbi's disciple, his follower.
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You'd follow him around.
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You'd listen to everything he had to say and taught,
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And then you would model your life
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According to those principles that the rabbi taught.
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Jesus said, "my purpose in leaving you here
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Is to round up as many people as you can to be my disciples,
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To follow me,
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To put my principles into their everyday life."
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That is the reason that we have been left here.
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Now, you know, when i talk about this,
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A lot of people think,
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"well, that's the pastor's assignment.
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That's what we pay him for."
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No.
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Colossians chapter 3 is written not to pastors,
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Not to seminarians.
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It's written to layman in the church,
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We are to be involved in the disciple-making process.
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Now, making disciples has two aspects to it.
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One aspect is evangelism.
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If we're going to make disciples, first of all,
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We have to lead people to that signal decision
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To trust in christ as savior.
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That's what jesus is referring to in verse 19
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When he says, "baptizing them in the name of the father,
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Son, and holy spirit."
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Baptizing, it refers to the whole process of salvation,
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Following christ, trusting christ is your savior.
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And then as a result, being baptized
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To show your profession of faith.
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We need to lead people to that signal decision
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To trust in christ as savior.
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In john 3:5, jesus said to nicodemus,
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"truly, truly, i say to you, unless one is born of water
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And the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of god."
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We need to help people make that decision
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To receive the forgiveness of their sins
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By trusting in christ.
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I hadn't been in my first church very long
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When a deacon in the church asked to take me to lunch.
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That's usually not a good sign,
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But he wanted to take me to lunch
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And we had a real pleasant conversation and he said,
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"now, pastor, i will do anything you ask me to do
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In this church except one thing, don't ever ask me
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To share my faith with somebody else."
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He said, "evangelism is not my gift."
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Ladies and gentlemen, evangelism is not a gift.
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It is a mandate from god.
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The bible says, we're to all be involved
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In sharing the gospel with people,
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Helping rescue them out of the kingdom of darkness
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Into the kingdom of light.
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In 1 peter 3:15, peter said,
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"but sanctify christ as lord in your hearts,
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Always being ready to make a defense to everyone
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Who asked you to give an account for the hope
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That is in you yet with gentleness and reverence."
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If somebody were to ask you, how can i become a christian?
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How can i know for sure i'm going to heaven when i die?
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How can i make sure that my sins have really been forgiven?
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Would you know how to answer their question?
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The bible says we all need to be ready to give that answer.
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And really, it's a simple answer.
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It's simple to lead somebody to faith in christ,
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But you've got to know how to do it.
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And just as a doctor needs to know how to deliver a baby,
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We need to be trained in how to bring somebody
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Through the process of a new birth in christ.
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And listen, there's some wonderful evangelism courses
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Out there that many of you have gone through.
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And if we're really going to be serious about making disciples,
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As jesus said, we've got to know how to make converts
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First of all, but it doesn't stop there.
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Secondly, implicit in this discipleship-making process
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Is discipleship itself.
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Remember the definition of a disciple,
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It's somebody who obeys the teachings of another person
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And maintains those principles in his everyday life.
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And that's why jesus said, "not only are you
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To baptize them, but you are to teach them all things
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That i've commanded you."
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You see a disciple of jesus christ
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Is somebody who takes god's word, christ teaching,
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And knows how it applies to their marriages,
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To their finances,
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To their personal life,
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To their morality,
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To their friendships,
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"teaching them to observe all things
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That i have commanded you."
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And again, this is something that we don't leave up
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To the preachers, missionaries, and seminary professors.
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Colossians 3 says, this is something
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We are to all be involved in.
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Well, how do we do that?
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How do we go about making disciples?
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We've seen the mandate.
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God's ordered us to do it.
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It's the only reason we've been left here.
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How do we do it?
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Now turn back to colossians 3:16,
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Paul is going to share his method of ministry with us.
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Colossians 3:16, "let the word of christ
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Richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching
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And admonishing one another."
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Teaching and admonishing, these two words described
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A positive and a negative aspect
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Of accomplishing the same goal,
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And that is making disciples.
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Notice, he says, "first of all,
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We are to be teaching one another."
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If we're going to make disciples of christ,
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We, first of all, are involved in teaching one another
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The word of god.
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Notice the relationship here to the beginning of verse 16,
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"let the word of christ richly dwell within you,
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And with all wisdom teaching."
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Listen, the idea here is if you're a christian
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And the word of god is so much a part of your life,
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Like we talked about last time,
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That it's just going to be flowing out of you naturally,
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Splashing on to people who are around you.
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And the bible says, one way we make disciples
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Is by teaching people the word of god.
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Now, he's not talking about the spiritual gift of teaching.
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When we think of teaching, we think of, you know,
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Standing up in front of a class and teaching the bible
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Or teaching a small group.
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And that's all important,
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And there are people who are gifted to do that,
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But that's not what he's talking about here.
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Notice the phrase one another,
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"with all wisdom teaching one another."
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This is the ministry of sharing god's word with other people
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That we all are involved in in ministry.
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If we're going to help people become followers of christ,
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It means we are regularly going to be sharing god's word
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With fellow christians, helping them grow in their faith.
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In our last church,
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I invited lieutenant colonel oliver north
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To come and preach one sunday.
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Many of you know colonel north.
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He's not only a great war hero,
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He's a dedicated follower of jesus christ.
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And in his testimony, colonel north told us
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About his experience in the iran-contra hearings.
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Many of us who are old enough, remember those hearings
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That took place before the senate.
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We remember colonel north in his uniform, taking that oath
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Before those senators, promising to tell the truth.
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Those were grueling days for colonel north.
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But he said the first day of the hearings,
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He was on his way into that senate hearing room.
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The crowds, the media were outside,
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When suddenly a woman burst through the crowd
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And she handed colonel north a card.
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Colonel north read that card, he smiled,
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Took it with him into the senate room,
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And he placed that card directly in front of him
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Underneath the microphone.
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And while he was being grilled by senators,
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He would occasionally look at that card and smile.
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Of course, all the media wanted to know what's on that card.
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What the woman had printed out, isaiah 40:31,
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"those who wait upon the lord will gain new strength.
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They will mount up with wings like eagles.
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They shall run and not get tired.
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They shall walk and not become weary."
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Colonel north said that single verse
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That that woman shared with me is what gave me
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The spiritual strength to make it through those hearings.
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Now that's what it means to teach the word of god
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To one another, to build one another up,
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To know exactly what scripture to share
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To help edify another believer in christ.
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And the bible says we're all to be involved in that.
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That's part of our ministry.
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The reason we've been left here is to help strengthen
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And encourage other christians.
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Now, let me ask you a question.
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Suppose somebody came to you
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And said they were contemplating a divorce,
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For other than biblical reasons,
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They just weren't fulfilled in their marriage.
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Would you know what verses to share with them?
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What principles from god's word to share with them
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Other than don't do that?
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Would you know where to turn in scripture?
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Teenagers, suppose, seniors, a friend came to you
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And said, "you know, i'm getting ready to graduate,
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You know, in a day or two,
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And i just don't have any direction in my life.
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How do i know god's will for my life?"
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Would you know where to turn in scripture
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To give them three or four principles
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About how to know god's will for their life?
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Suppose somebody came to you
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And they were in financial debt, over their head,
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And they didn't know what to do to get out of that mess.
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Could you share four or five principles from the bible
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About how to handle finances in a successful way?
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You know, i'll have to say it's a little disconcerting
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And disappointing to me to realize that there are people
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Who have been sitting in our pews for years,
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In a good bible believing church,
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Listening to sermon after sermon after sermon,
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Or sitting under the teacher of a gifted seminary professor,
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A teacher in sunday school for decades,
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Sitting in the same class for decades,
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And yet the majority of those christians couldn't answer
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Any of those questions if their life depended on it.
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The christian life is meant to be lived in community,
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And i hope you're a member of a local church family
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That celebrates the integrity and power of god's word.
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Well, there's much more we need to cover on this topic,
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Robert Jeffress - Hooked On Others (Part 1)

March 17, 2025 | S25:E130

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