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Dudley Rutherford - First Day of the Church (Part 2)

February 25, 2026 | 27:29

Dudley Rutherford - First Day of the Church (Part 2)
Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."
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| Dudley Rutherford - First Day of the Church (Part 2) | February 25, 2026
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  • Male announcer: the following program was sponsored
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  • By friends and partners of the lift up jesus ministry.
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  • Announcer: from the beginning of creation to the fall of man,
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  • If you've ever wanted to understand the bible
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  • From beginning to end, this is your chance.
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  • Coming up next on "lift up jesus,"
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  • "a journey of a lifetime."
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  • Pastor dudley rutherford: and you need to be baptized.
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  • Not into the name of some church,
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  • Not into the name of some organization,
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  • Not into the name of some denomination.
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  • Every one of you, you need to repent.
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  • You need to be baptized into the name of jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Kayla francis: it is so good to see you here with us today
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  • For "lift up jesus."
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  • My name is kayla francis.
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  • You know, the bible tells us in hebrews 4, verse 12
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  • That the word of god is alive and active.
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  • That passage goes on to say that it judges the thoughts
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  • And attitudes of the heart.
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  • Friends, the lord knows our thoughts and attitudes,
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  • The good, the bad, and the ugly.
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  • Thankfully, he has given us his word as a powerful tool that
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  • Shapes our minds and hearts, so that they're pleasing to him.
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  • That's why here at "lift up jesus,"
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  • We make it a point to turn to scripture every week.
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  • It has a supernatural ability to transform us from the inside out
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  • And i just have a feeling that the lord wants you
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  • To hear today's message for an important reason.
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  • So grab your bible, you're gonna need it
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  • And something to take notes with.
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  • Let's dive in.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor dudley: "for john the baptist,
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  • He baptized you with water."
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  • Now, here's jesus's words right before he goes back into heaven.
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  • "you guys stay in jerusalem because in just a few days
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  • You are going to be baptized."
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  • Not with water, but with what?
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  • With the holy spirit.
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  • And that's exactly what took place.
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  • Jesus went into heaven.
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  • Those disciples stayed there in jerusalem.
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  • They're all together in one place, acts chapter 2, verse 1,
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  • And all of a sudden the holy spirit of god falls.
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  • That's window number one.
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  • Window number two, write this down,
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  • A sermon is preached.
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  • Right after the holy spirit falls,
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  • A sermon is preached.
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  • A guy named peter.
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  • Everybody say, "peter."
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  • Go to acts chapter 2, verse 14.
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  • Peter.
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  • This is the first sermon on this side of the cross.
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  • How many of you tracking with me?
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  • The bible says that peter stands up with the 11
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  • And he raises his voice.
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  • That does not mean on a pitch, like, he talked.
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  • He's got a real low voice, and it says
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  • That he raised his voice.
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  • So it doesn't mean, "okay, i'm gonna start talking like this."
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  • That's not what it means.
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  • When it says he raised his voice, it means that he rai--
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  • He started talking louder.
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  • Why did he start talking louder?
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  • 'cause they didn't have microphones and speakers.
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  • Do you know this room right here is so designed technology-wise
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  • That the people sitting on the front row you hear the same
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  • Sound level of decibels and the--what it sounds like
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  • As the people on the very top row up there?
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  • Did you all know that?
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  • I wish sometime you people on the top row would come down here
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  • So you could find this out.
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  • I saw some of you at the dodger game you were trying to sit down
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  • Front, then you come to church and you wanna sit
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  • At the very top.
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  • I don't understand that.
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  • Forgive me. forgive me.
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  • Forgive me.
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  • So look again at acts chapter 2, verse 14.
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  • Peter stands up with the 11.
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  • He raises his voice.
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  • He addresses the crowd.
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  • He says, "fellow jews and all of you who live here in jerusalem,
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  • Let me explain to you what is happening."
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  • And then he says, "listen carefully
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  • To what i have to say."
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  • And then he preaches.
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  • This is dudley's sermon.
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  • This is peter's sermon.
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  • Which would you rather hear today?
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  • Both is not the right answer.
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  • This is--listen, you need to thank god that the holy spirit
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  • Led the dr. luke to write down the very first sermon
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  • That was ever preached on the face of this earth
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  • After the resurrection,
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  • And there's four things about this sermon.
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  • Number one--i want you to get these four things down.
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  • Number one, it was scriptural.
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  • And we don't have time to read through it,
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  • But he goes back to the prophet joel.
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  • Everybody say, "joel."
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  • Joel was one of those prophets.
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  • Remember everybody saying, "oh, he's coming.
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  • He's coming. he's coming.
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  • He's coming."
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  • Then you have these prophets in the old testament say,
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  • "get ready. get ready.
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  • Get ready. get ready."
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  • Joel was one of those prophets.
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  • There's a little bit of pause,
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  • But you come to the new testament
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  • And luke writes the coming of jesus christ.
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  • And then after jesus ascends and the holy spirit falls,
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  • He records, peter, this sermon; and this sermon goes back
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  • And talks about what joel had to say,
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  • That one day the messiah is going to come.
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  • Second thing about this sermon, it was--it had a little bit
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  • Of salvation in it.
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  • If you go to church and the preacher's not preaching
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  • From the bible, you probably should go find another church.
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  • If it's not scriptural, go find ano--go find a church
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  • That is teaching god's word.
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  • And i think every sermon ought to have something in there
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  • To do with salvation.
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  • Peter in the very first sermon said these words:
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  • "everyone who call--"
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  • He--now remember, he's yelling.
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  • They didn't have a pa system.
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  • "everyone who calls upon the name of the lord will be saved."
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  • That's the biggest issue we have,
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  • Trying to get lost people saved.
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  • The third thing that happens in this sermon, write this down,
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  • It is about the savior.
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  • He specifically talks about jesus.
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  • He actually talks about the resurrection of jesus.
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  • Now, remember this is on the day of pentecost,
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  • So this is 50 days after the resurrection.
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  • And so it's scriptural, it's salvation-oriented,
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  • It's about jesus.
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  • And number four, he gets straight to the point.
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  • Everybody say, "straight to the point."
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  • I want you to go over to the end of his sermon.
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  • It goes from chapter--from verse 14 to verse 36,
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  • And the very first word of verse 36 is he says therefore.
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  • How many of you like it when the pastor says, "as we close?"
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  • What happens in your mind when you hear the words as we close?
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  • What do you know?
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  • That we're getting close to the end, right?
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  • Well, when he says therefore--he's done the
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  • Scripture, he's talked about salvation,
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  • He's talked about jesus, and then he says therefore,
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  • You know he's about to wrap this sermon up.
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  • And he gets straight to the point.
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  • And what does he say?
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  • "therefore let all of israel know,
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  • Be assured of this,
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  • That god in heaven made this jesus,"
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  • And then he says, "whom you crucified.
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  • The man you nailed to that cross is no ordinary man.
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  • He wasn't a thief like those other two thieves."
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  • The man you murdered,
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  • Nails through his hands and his feet,
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  • Spear through his side, you threw him up on that cross,
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  • That man that you crucified is no ordinary man.
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  • That man is the lord of all lords,
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  • The king of all kings.
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  • And he is the messiah, the christ."
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Pastor dudley: so after that, i want you to write this down.
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  • At the conclusion of the sermon, we have the souls respond.
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  • Oh, i want you to see this in verse 37.
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  • The bible says: "when the people heard this," heard what?
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  • When they heard that the man they had put on that cross
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  • Was no ordinary man,
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  • That he was lord of all lord and the king of all kings,
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  • And that he was the messiah, the bible says--
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  • This is what it says in verse 37:
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  • "when the people heard this,
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  • They were cut to the heart and they said to peter
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  • And the other apostles, 'brothers, what shall we do?'"
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  • I want you to write this down.
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  • "they were cut to the heart, and they cried out and they asked,
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  • 'what shall we do?'"
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  • I want you to say, "what shall we do?"
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  • Now, i just wanna--
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  • I just wanna try something, okay?
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  • I'm gonna pretend i'm peter, just for a minute.
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  • He probably had more hair than this.
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  • And he wasn't this tall, but anyway.
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  • I just want to pretend you're there that day.
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  • And i'm peter, and you're listening.
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  • And i preach the sermon.
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  • I go back and look at the old testament prophets,
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  • And i talk about salvation and i talk about jesus
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  • Resurrecting from the dead.
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  • And then i say, "hey, i just wanna wrap this up,
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  • But i wanna say this, you!
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  • You put him on that cross.
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  • Don't worry about if it was the romans or the jews,
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  • Or was it the religious leaders.
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  • Who put jesus on that cross?
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  • It's our sin, it's my sin, it's your sin."
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  • I want you to think about this,
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  • "your sin put jesus on that cross."
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  • Because there has to be an atonement
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  • According to the way we believe
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  • All the old testament scriptures,
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  • There had to be a sacrifice of a lamb,
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  • Had to die on an altar, and those days are gone.
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  • Jesus, the son of god, came into this earth.
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  • He's now the ultimate sacrifice.
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  • He died once and for all, but when jesus went to the cross,
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  • He died for the sins of the world.
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  • But don't forget this point.
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  • It's your sin.
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  • It's my sin.
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  • It's your disobedience.
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  • It's my disobedience.
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  • It's our sin that put jesus on the cross.
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  • And he was the king of all kings.
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  • It's the fulfillment of all the old testament scriptures.
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  • It's the messiah.
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  • But he had to die for us.
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  • Here's what i want you to do.
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  • Put your hands out like this.
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  • Look to your neighbor and go, "what are we supposed to do?"
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  • Say it again.
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  • Oh, i'm so glad you asked.
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  • You're just like the people back in those days.
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  • Look at verse 38.
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  • I gotta read this, i gotta read.
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  • I'm reading right from god's word.
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  • "peter replied, 'you wanna know what you have to do?
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  • You have to repent.
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  • You gotta turn your life back to god.
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  • You gotta stop doing and living your life just for yourself.
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  • Get your eyes off yourself and put them on god
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  • And get up every day and just live for him.
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  • Turn from your sin, turn from your wicked ways.
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  • And then you need to be baptized.
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  • Not into the name of some church,
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  • Not into the name of some organization,
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  • Not into the name of some denomination.
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  • Every one of you, you need to repent.
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  • You need to be baptized into the name of jesus christ.
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  • And not half of you, not a part of you,
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  • Not two or three of you.
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  • All of you need to do this,'" he says,
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  • And two things will happen if you do.
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  • God in heaven will remove and forgive every sin
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  • You've ever committed in your life.
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  • And you will receive the same gift we received
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  • Back in the first part of acts 2,
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  • You'll receive the gift of the holy spirit.
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  • God himself will come to live inside of you.
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  • And then it says, we keep reading: "this promise,"
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  • What promise?
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  • The promise of the forgiveness of your sins
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  • And the holy spirit is for you.
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  • "it's for your children, your grandchildren,"
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  • All your grandsons, your granddaughters,
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  • Your great-grandsons, your grand--
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  • For all who are far off, even those people living there
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  • In porter ranch, california.
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  • "for all whom the lord our god will call
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  • And with many other words,
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  • He warned them and he pleaded with them."
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  • He started preaching again.
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  • He said, 'save yourself, save yourselves
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  • From this corrupt generation.'"
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  • If he said that back then, what would he say to us?
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  • What would he say to us?
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  • He'd be begging you, "ladies and gentlemen, don't just sit there,
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  • Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.
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  • Come today, repent, be baptized into his name,
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  • So that your sins might be forgiven
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  • And you will receive the gift of the holy spirit."
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  • And the bible says in the next verse:
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  • "those who accepted his message were baptized,"
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  • And the bible says that "three thousand people
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  • Were added to their number that day."
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  • So far this year at shepherd church,
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  • We have baptized over 1000 people in our church.
  • 00:15:27.379 --> 00:15:32.952
  • But on the first day of the first church in the 1st century,
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  • It started with 3000 people being baptized.
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  • So i want you to write this down:
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  • "they were cut to the heart,
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  • They cried out and asked, 'brother, what shall we do?'
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  • And the church begins with 3000."
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  • Here's the first day of the church.
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  • It began with 3000 people who had all repented.
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  • They had all been baptized.
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  • They all had their sins removed.
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  • And they were all what we call spirit-filled believers.
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  • And all god's people said-- and the last window,
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  • Which pertains to shepherd church
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  • Is on the first day,
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  • The first church, the first sermon,
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  • The first invitation, the first converts,
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  • The first response, the first believers,
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  • The saved, they were devoted.
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  • And according to verse 42, they were devoted to four things.
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  • They're underlined in that verse.
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  • They were devoted to the apostles' teaching.
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  • That's the word of god.
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  • They were devoted to fellowship.
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  • That's koinonia.
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  • That's where people met and they actually cared for each other
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  • And they ministered to each other.
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  • You didn't just come and sit and leave,
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  • You actually came and participated.
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  • And then they, number three on that list was the breaking
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  • Of the bread, which is communion,
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  • Which is what we did just a few moments ago.
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  • And number four was to prayer.
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  • Now that's as easy as one, two, three, four.
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  • That's as easy as a, b, c, d.
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  • That these three--the church began with a group of people
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  • Who devoted themselves to these four things.
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  • They wanted to know what god's word had to say.
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  • They met to care.
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  • You read the rest of the verses.
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  • They just-- someone needed something,
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  • The guy next to 'em sold it and gave it to 'em.
  • 00:17:35.007 --> 00:17:37.443
  • They had--they took communion every time they met,
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  • And then their prayers, they were a praying church.
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  • Now there's a lot of churches today.
  • 00:17:42.748 --> 00:17:44.917
  • This is what i call the 21st century church.
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  • This is 2000 years later this stuff happens.
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  • Number one, instead of churches that truly study god's word,
  • 00:17:50.055 --> 00:17:54.059
  • There's a lot of churches today just teaching
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  • Man-made principles.
  • 00:17:56.195 --> 00:17:57.763
  • They just make stuff up.
  • 00:17:57.763 --> 00:18:00.866
  • And do you know that there's a lot of churches
  • 00:18:00.866 --> 00:18:02.634
  • In the united states you don't need a bible to go to church?
  • 00:18:02.634 --> 00:18:11.043
  • You know, there's churches in america today,
  • 00:18:11.043 --> 00:18:13.779
  • The preacher will not open a bible?
  • 00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:17.416
  • Not even one verse will be shared.
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  • Do you know that?
  • 00:18:19.718 --> 00:18:22.054
  • And there's a lot of churches, they'll preach a verse,
  • 00:18:22.054 --> 00:18:24.823
  • But they'll take it out of context,
  • 00:18:24.823 --> 00:18:26.391
  • And they turn it completely upside down.
  • 00:18:26.391 --> 00:18:28.393
  • And that's why we live in a country today
  • 00:18:28.393 --> 00:18:30.262
  • Where so many people call good evil and evil good,
  • 00:18:30.262 --> 00:18:33.332
  • Because they're not really teaching god's word.
  • 00:18:33.332 --> 00:18:34.867
  • They're just teaching what they want the bible to say.
  • 00:18:34.867 --> 00:18:39.304
  • There's a lot of churches today, there's zero fellowship.
  • 00:18:39.304 --> 00:18:42.241
  • I've been to churches.
  • 00:18:42.241 --> 00:18:43.742
  • They don't want you talking to anybody.
  • 00:18:43.742 --> 00:18:45.077
  • Nobody talk to anybody.
  • 00:18:45.077 --> 00:18:46.411
  • Come in, you come in, you sit down, you get up, you leave.
  • 00:18:46.411 --> 00:18:48.780
  • There's no ministry happening.
  • 00:18:48.780 --> 00:18:51.717
  • Communion, there's a lot of churches today, i don't--
  • 00:18:51.717 --> 00:18:54.153
  • I mean, just very rarely is communion served.
  • 00:18:54.153 --> 00:18:57.956
  • I've said this to you before.
  • 00:18:57.956 --> 00:19:01.693
  • I don't know of another church our size in america
  • 00:19:01.693 --> 00:19:04.997
  • That takes communion every single week.
  • 00:19:04.997 --> 00:19:08.967
  • Do you know why that is?
  • 00:19:08.967 --> 00:19:11.837
  • Why don't churches serve communion every week?
  • 00:19:11.837 --> 00:19:13.639
  • Why?
  • 00:19:13.639 --> 00:19:15.207
  • You know why?
  • 00:19:15.207 --> 00:19:17.476
  • Because it's a lot of hard work.
  • 00:19:17.476 --> 00:19:19.611
  • It's just--to serve communion to all of you people.
  • 00:19:19.611 --> 00:19:25.984
  • And it takes time.
  • 00:19:25.984 --> 00:19:28.554
  • And somebody's gotta go after church
  • 00:19:28.554 --> 00:19:30.289
  • And pick all that stuff up and clean it up.
  • 00:19:30.289 --> 00:19:34.660
  • And so most churches today, they take communion,
  • 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:36.862
  • I'm not making this up.
  • 00:19:36.862 --> 00:19:38.197
  • They do it once a quarter.
  • 00:19:38.197 --> 00:19:40.465
  • Some churches do it once a year.
  • 00:19:40.465 --> 00:19:42.868
  • The fourth thing, i've been to this, the prayers are in a book.
  • 00:19:42.868 --> 00:19:45.304
  • You go to church, they say,
  • 00:19:45.304 --> 00:19:46.638
  • "okay, today we're gonna take your prayer book.
  • 00:19:46.638 --> 00:19:49.575
  • I want you to go to page 18.
  • 00:19:49.575 --> 00:19:51.877
  • We're gonna read, let's see, there's like four prayers
  • 00:19:51.877 --> 00:19:54.046
  • On that page.
  • 00:19:54.046 --> 00:19:55.614
  • Let's look to prayer number three.
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  • We're gonna read that one."
  • 00:19:57.082 --> 00:20:00.519
  • Now, shepherd church, write this down.
  • 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.454
  • Every week you come to church, we're going verse by verse
  • 00:20:02.454 --> 00:20:05.090
  • Through god's word.
  • 00:20:05.090 --> 00:20:06.892
  • That's number one.
  • 00:20:06.892 --> 00:20:08.327
  • Number two, that's why we have life groups
  • 00:20:08.327 --> 00:20:10.529
  • Is because we're trying, we want everyone
  • 00:20:10.529 --> 00:20:13.265
  • To be in a group where you can love each other,
  • 00:20:13.265 --> 00:20:17.035
  • Minister to each other, pray for each other,
  • 00:20:17.035 --> 00:20:19.905
  • Care for each other.
  • 00:20:19.905 --> 00:20:21.340
  • It's hard to do that in a large setting.
  • 00:20:21.340 --> 00:20:23.976
  • And that's why we're always trying to get you
  • 00:20:23.976 --> 00:20:25.377
  • In a life group.
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  • Number three, communion, we do it each and every week, amen?
  • 00:20:26.945 --> 00:20:29.781
  • You've never come to a service here at shepherd
  • 00:20:29.781 --> 00:20:31.917
  • Where we didn't take communion, even on the passion play,
  • 00:20:31.917 --> 00:20:34.052
  • We take communion in the middle of the passion play.
  • 00:20:34.052 --> 00:20:37.256
  • Why do we do that?
  • 00:20:37.256 --> 00:20:39.491
  • Because jesus said, "as often as you meet."
  • 00:20:39.491 --> 00:20:44.029
  • Don't ever forget.
  • 00:20:44.029 --> 00:20:45.964
  • I don't want you to ever forget, no matter what happens,
  • 00:20:45.964 --> 00:20:48.100
  • As long as we have that moment,
  • 00:20:48.100 --> 00:20:50.135
  • We're focusing in on what jesus christ
  • 00:20:50.135 --> 00:20:52.137
  • Did on the cross, and i don't ever wanna be a church
  • 00:20:52.137 --> 00:20:55.907
  • Where we ever forget what jesus did for us on the cross.
  • 00:20:55.907 --> 00:20:58.710
  • We do that because he asked us to.
  • 00:20:58.710 --> 00:21:01.680
  • And number four, our prayers are from our heart.
  • 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:05.083
  • So here's what i want you to do: circle column number one.
  • 00:21:05.083 --> 00:21:08.387
  • Everybody circle.
  • 00:21:08.387 --> 00:21:09.921
  • I got--just like that.
  • 00:21:09.921 --> 00:21:11.456
  • You see it there?
  • 00:21:11.456 --> 00:21:12.824
  • Look...
  • 00:21:12.824 --> 00:21:14.593
  • You got a circle?
  • 00:21:14.593 --> 00:21:16.261
  • Now there's one last line in your notes.
  • 00:21:16.261 --> 00:21:19.998
  • And you write this word in: "circle."
  • 00:21:19.998 --> 00:21:24.770
  • You're gonna circle--i want you to circle a second column.
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  • You get to choose what kind of church you want to belong to.
  • 00:21:27.673 --> 00:21:31.576
  • You want to be a church where they make up scripture,
  • 00:21:31.576 --> 00:21:34.746
  • Have no scripture, no fellowship, no communion.
  • 00:21:34.746 --> 00:21:38.350
  • Prayers are written out of a book,
  • 00:21:38.350 --> 00:21:40.052
  • Or do you want to go to a church
  • 00:21:40.052 --> 00:21:42.387
  • That is verse by verse in the word, they have life groups,
  • 00:21:42.387 --> 00:21:46.358
  • They have communion every service.
  • 00:21:46.358 --> 00:21:48.427
  • They pray for--you've got to circle one
  • 00:21:48.427 --> 00:21:49.928
  • Of those other two columns.
  • 00:21:49.928 --> 00:21:51.463
  • What kind of church do you want?
  • 00:21:51.463 --> 00:21:53.965
  • Now i hope that you circled column number three.
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  • Let's all stand. let's all stand.
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  • I want to go back to that verse before you leave.
  • 00:22:10.248 --> 00:22:15.153
  • What is this right over here?
  • 00:22:15.153 --> 00:22:18.290
  • This is a baptistry.
  • 00:22:18.290 --> 00:22:21.226
  • It's water.
  • 00:22:21.226 --> 00:22:24.396
  • And i want to say before you leave here,
  • 00:22:24.396 --> 00:22:26.431
  • If you're not a christian, you are living in sin.
  • 00:22:26.431 --> 00:22:31.603
  • It's our sin, my sin, that put jesus on that cross.
  • 00:22:31.603 --> 00:22:36.908
  • It's up to us to repent and be baptized into his name.
  • 00:22:36.908 --> 00:22:42.981
  • We baptized people last night at 6.
  • 00:22:42.981 --> 00:22:45.617
  • We baptized people this morning at 9,
  • 00:22:45.617 --> 00:22:48.086
  • And we're ready to baptize anybody who comes over here.
  • 00:22:48.086 --> 00:22:51.323
  • You walk through these doors right over here.
  • 00:22:51.323 --> 00:22:54.526
  • And there'll be people there to help you.
  • 00:22:54.526 --> 00:22:56.962
  • And you can be baptized into the name of jesus and your sins will
  • 00:22:56.962 --> 00:23:00.332
  • Be forgiven, and god will put his holy spirit inside of you.
  • 00:23:00.332 --> 00:23:06.171
  • And then come back and join us as we are devoted
  • 00:23:06.171 --> 00:23:08.740
  • To these four things.
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  • Next week we'll study the skyrocketing growth
  • 00:23:10.409 --> 00:23:13.979
  • Of the church in the 1st century.
  • 00:23:13.979 --> 00:23:15.947
  • You will not believe how the church back then
  • 00:23:15.947 --> 00:23:18.750
  • Turned the world upside down.
  • 00:23:18.750 --> 00:23:23.422
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