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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 4)

May 29, 2025 | S

Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 4)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 4) | May 29, 2025
  • (upbeat music)
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  • - praise the lord, friend.
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  • I'm so glad that you're with us today.
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  • We are talking about being an example of believers.
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  • We're talking about being an influence for jesus,
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  • And how you can do that.
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  • You know what, god has called you to affect other people
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  • In a very positive way, as a believer for his kingdom.
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  • But if you don't know what he says,
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  • It's gonna be hard for you to do it.
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  • So stay tuned. blessings. (upbeat music)
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  • Aaron, i'm so glad that you're here today,
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  • So glad that you're with us.
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  • We're continuing to share from first timothy
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  • On some real great leadership guidelines,
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  • Talking about being an example,
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  • Being an influencer for jesus christ.
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  • - amen, so i wanna read here from first timothy four,
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  • Verse 12, and we're gonna get into verse 13 today,
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  • Which it was actually
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  • One of my favorite verses in this teaching.
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  • So if you've watched 'em earlier this week,
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  • I'm really excited about today,
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  • Because this is kind of the key
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  • To how we can grow in these things.
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  • So first timothy 4:12 says, "let no one despise your youth,
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  • But be an example to the believers."
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  • So this is talking about how to be an influence
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  • To other believers. - amen.
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  • - but even just to people, maybe in your community,
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  • In your neighborhood, at work, where to be an example,
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  • To be an influence for jesus,
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  • And don't let things hold you back.
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  • You know, timothy, his excuse
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  • Could have been that he was young, his youth,
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  • But maybe it might be 'cause you're older,
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  • Or because whatever the reason might be, you know,
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  • Just keep trusting in jesus
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  • And shine your light big for him.
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  • So don't let people despise your youth,
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  • But be an example to the believers in word, in conduct,
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  • In love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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  • Those are all huge things. - amen.
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  • - and if you've missed the broadcast earlier this week,
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  • I'd encourage you to go to our website
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  • And listen to those teachings
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  • On what those things really mean,
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  • And how to be an example in those things.
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  • And it's not always easy, but here in verse 13,
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  • This is actually the key on how to grow in those things,
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  • How to grow in your leadership and your influence.
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  • The key is right here in verse 13, and paul, you know,
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  • By the inspirational holy spirit gives three main points
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  • On the key to be a leader, to grow in these things,
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  • To really stay on track. - right.
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  • - sometimes people are okay for a couple years,
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  • But then they get off track.
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  • But here's how to stay on track.
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  • You have to pay attention, give attention to these things.
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  • He says, "'til i come, give attention to reading,
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  • To exhortation, and to doctrine."
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  • - okay. - and these three things,
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  • I believe if you stay on track with these three things
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  • Throughout your entire life,
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  • You're gonna be a great example.
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  • You're gonna be useful. - amen.
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  • - you know, we should want to be useful-
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  • - yeah. - for jesus.
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  • - amen. - to be an influence.
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  • - it talks about reading.
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  • I like something
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  • That smith wigglesworth said about the scripture.
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  • He said, about your bible, he said,
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  • "read it through, write it down, pray it in, work it out."
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  • You know, i get up nearly every day,
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  • But six days a week, i get up, i go to the gym, i work out,
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  • Come home, sit down, have a cup of coffee, cup of water,
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  • And i grab my bible, and i just read.
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  • And, you know, i'll read three chapters, five chapters,
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  • 10 chapters, (chuckles) sometimes 20 chapters,
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  • But i'm just constantly feeding on the word of god.
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  • And you know- - and timothy,
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  • You know, paul is saying, give attention to reading.
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  • You know, 99.999% sure
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  • He is talking about reading scripture.
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  • You know, read the torah, read the prophets,
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  • Read the gospels, read the epistles that are circulating,
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  • Read this letter that i'm writing, read the bible.
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  • Read scripture. that's how you're going to stay on track.
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  • - your brother, peter, said this,
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  • He was over a small group at a very large church
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  • In southern california.
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  • He said, "it's amazing how many people
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  • Call themselves christians
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  • And don't know what the bible says."
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  • They don't live by the word.
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  • And you know, we need to live our lives by the word of god.
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  • Jesus said, "man will not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that precedes from the mouth of god."
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  • The word of god is like mana.
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  • You know, in the old testament, when they had mana,
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  • You know, they got it every day,
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  • And if they got too much, it bred worms and stank.
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  • You don't need old stale bread.
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  • You need fresh bread every day from heaven,
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  • And i believe we can get a word from god every...
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  • You know, i've had god speak to me from job.
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  • I've had god speak to me from isaiah.
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  • I've had him give me life-changing words about my business,
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  • About my family, about different directions to take
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  • Just as i'm reading through the word of god.
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  • When the holy spirit takes a word from the word of god,
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  • And takes it from the logos and makes it ramma to me.
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  • And i'm like, "oh, this is what i need to do."
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  • - well, and the word of god, it's spirit, it's life,
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  • It's quick, it's powerful,
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  • It's sharper than a two-edged sword.
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  • - it'll divide between what's coming out of your soul,
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  • Your mind, your will, and your emotions, and your spirit.
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  • See, a lot of times people don't know the difference
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  • Of what really their soul is saying,
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  • Their mind, their will and their emotions, and their spirit.
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  • But the word of god will divide-
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  • - and i was just thinking about the word of god
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  • Being compared to a sword.
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  • A sword is both an offensive weapon and a defensive weapon.
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  • - amen. two edged.
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  • - and, you know, you have to have the word.
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  • You have to have a good offense and a good defense.
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  • You know, if you're gonna win the super bowl in the nfl,
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  • You can't just have a good offense and no defense.
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  • You can't just have a defense, and no,
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  • You have to have a good offense and a good defense.
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  • And the word is both offensive and defensive,
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  • And i'm gonna have this to say,
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  • Some people don't realize,
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  • At times you are gonna have to be on the defense,
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  • You're gonna have to answer the lies of the enemy.
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  • You're gonna have to answer the works of the enemy,
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  • And you answer it with the word, you answer it.
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  • You have to take a defensive action with the word of god,
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  • With that sword.
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  • And i was thinking about jesus
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  • Being tempted in the wilderness.
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  • You know, satan came to tempt him three times,
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  • And every single time,
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  • The way that jesus stood against the devil,
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  • He answered it with the word of god.
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  • - he spoke the word. - he said, "it is written."
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  • - amen. the word of god is powerful.
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  • - yeah.
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  • - you know, it's powerful, it's sharper, it's alive.
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  • You know, this isn't a dead book.
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  • You know, the history of the bible is perfect,
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  • But it's not just a history book.
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  • This word is alive, and it will speak life to you,
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  • And it will speak to your life,
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  • And it will give you direction.
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  • The word of god has helped me so much.
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  • - that's awesome.
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  • Yeah, we recently did a newer song here at church,
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  • By a charity gale, and the song's called, it is...
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  • Well, it's called, something about promises,
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  • But the song several times says, "it is written,"
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  • And i just got that stuck in my head
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  • And would just go around singing, "it is written."
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  • I would just say random scriptures to go along with it.
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  • - amen. - and it was kind of funny,
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  • But i was saying it around my wife, and i said,
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  • "it is written, wives submit to your husband's,"
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  • And- (lawson laughs)
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  • - oh, your mom might get on you.
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  • - she kind of laughed and rolled her eyes at me.
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  • - it is the truth- - anyhow.
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  • - but you gotta know
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  • What true biblical submission really is.
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  • - yeah.
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  • - and it's not an unhealthy thing.
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  • It's a very, very sacred thing.
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  • - yeah, well, yesterday i was reading from first peter five,
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  • And it's talking about pastors being examples to the flocks,
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  • And in context, there's a scripture that says,
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  • "submit to one another." - right, and the fear of god.
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  • - and the fear of god,
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  • And i've been thinking about that a lot,
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  • What that means in the context of a local church,
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  • And there is a lot of submitting to one another.
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  • - we need relationships.
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  • You know, if you're gonna have a health...
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  • I'm gonna be preaching on this pretty quick,
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  • But if you're gonna have a healthy christian life, right?
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  • If you go to acts, chapter four, it says, "they continued,"
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  • Or acts, chapter two, "when the early church was born,
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  • They continued in the apostles doctrine."
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  • They continued in the word. they continued in fellowship.
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  • To me, that means church, right?
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  • They continued in breaking of bread.
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  • That's positive relationships.
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  • You need positive relationships. you need other people.
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  • You don't live this thing alone. you don't do this alone.
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  • If you can't live it out in relationships,
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  • It's not very good to you, right?
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  • And in prayer.
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  • There's four things that we need as believers
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  • To stay healthy.
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  • We need the word, we need church, we need fellowship,
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  • We need positive relationships,
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  • We need to surround ourselves with godly people,
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  • People of strong faith,
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  • Who can help us go where god wants us to go,
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  • And do what god wants us to do.
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  • And we need prayer. we're dependent on jesus.
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  • - and i want to just continue with my thought
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  • On submitting to one another,
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  • And what that means in the context of church.
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  • First of all, it means like,
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  • You're not always gonna have everything your way.
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  • And in any healthy relationship,
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  • You're gonna realize, i don't get everything my way.
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  • If that's your mindset in a marriage,
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  • It's gonna be a terrible marriage.
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  • If that's your mindset at work,
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  • It's not gonna be a healthy work environment.
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  • If you had that mindset, everything is gonna be my way.
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  • At church, and a lot of people, you know,
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  • Especially in americans as a society,
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  • We have a very consumeristic mentality where,
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  • You know, the customer is always right type of mentality,
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  • But we're to submit to one another.
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  • So that means that you're not always
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  • Gonna have everything your way.
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  • And even me as a pastor,
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  • I submit to people i'm ministering to,
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  • The way i'm minister to the youth
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  • Is different than the way i minister
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  • To adults in main sanctuary. - right.
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  • - you know, because i'm submitting to them,
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  • I'm trying to minister to them
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  • And help them connect with the word
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  • How they can understand it. - right.
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  • So that's talking about submitting to one another,
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  • And if it's impossible for you to submit once in a while,
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  • That means- - submit is not a bad word.
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  • It's a biblical word. - it is.
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  • And first of all, you have to submit to jesus.
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  • You have to submit to the bible.
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  • Some people don't even wanna submit to that.
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  • - right. - you know,
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  • And just one scripture's read and they fall apart.
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  • - how can submit to it if you don't know what it says?
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  • And then if you argue with what it says,
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  • And so it says, "give attendance to read."
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  • - to reading, read the bible. - keep reading the word. amen.
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  • - yeah so, i love this,
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  • Just what paul is writing timothy here,
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  • "let no one despised you," tells 'em how to be an example,
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  • In word, and if you think about that,
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  • You know, the words you speak, your conduct, your actions,
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  • Your lifestyle, your love for others,
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  • Your spirit, your attitude, your faith, your purity,
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  • Man, reading the bible's gonna help all those things.
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  • - amen. - that's the first key.
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  • I want you to really stay tuned with this teaching
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  • 'cause we're gonna talk about the other two keys
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  • To really grow in your leadership,
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  • To grow in your influence, to grow in these areas mentioned,
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  • But number one is read your bible.
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  • Number two is exhortation, and number three, doctrine.
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  • We're gonna go through those in depth here in a moment,
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  • But exhortation, what we're gonna talk about
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  • What that really means, and doctrine,
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  • The greek word for doctrine means teaching.
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  • You need to be in a place where there's good teaching,
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  • And be there consistently.
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  • And teaching doctrine
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  • Should be happening at the local church.
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  • - doctrine from the word of god,
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  • Not the doctrines of men, but the doctrine of god.
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  • The doctrine from god's word, telling people who god is.
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  • - awesome, so we're just gonna take a really brief break.
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  • We're gonna be right back,
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  • Talking about these other two keys,
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  • And how to grow in your leadership,
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  • How to grow in your influence, how to grow,
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  • And really who god has created you to be.
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  • - amen.
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  • - he's created us all to have an impact,
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  • All to shine our light,
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  • And to really shine the light of jesus in a big way.
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  • So stay tuned.
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  • But we love you, stay tuned.
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  • We'll be right back after this very brief break.
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  • I got a word from god.
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  • A lot of believers want shazam,
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  • And a lot of times the things of the kingdom of god
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  • Aren't shazam.
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  • Jesus said, "everything operates according to the parable,
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  • The sower, the kingdom."
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  • How many of you know the devil is the enemy of the word,
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  • Because he knows if you get ahold of the word of god,
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  • The word of god is literally gonna change your life.
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  • Friend, i'm so glad you stayed with us.
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  • We've got great teaching ahead.
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  • So we're talking about first timothy, chapter four,
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  • Verse 13, about how to be an example of the believers,
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  • And what we are to pay attention to.
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  • We talked about in the first half of this broadcast,
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  • Pay attention to the word.
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  • You know, the writer of proverbs says,
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  • "my son, attend to my word, give ear to my sayings.
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  • Let them not depart from your eyes.
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  • Keep them in the midst of your heart,
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  • For they're life to all those who find them,
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  • And health to all their flesh.
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  • Guard your heart, for out of it are the issues of life."
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  • But he goes on and talks about another two.
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  • He talks about exhortation, and about doctrine.
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  • So let's talk about that.
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  • - yeah, and exhortation
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  • Is actually a very important biblical word.
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  • The greek word for exhortation is,
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  • I have it, it's a paraklesis,
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  • And it's actually very similar
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  • To the word for the holy spirit,
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  • Which is parakletos, the helper.
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  • So exhortation, very simply, just means to build up,
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  • But it's a very spiritual thing to be built up yourself,
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  • And to build up other people. - right.
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  • - so this is something we're to pay attention to.
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  • If you wanna be an example to others,
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  • If you wanna have an influence for jesus,
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  • You need to be built up yourself,
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  • But you need to be building up other people as well.
  • 00:15:12.087 --> 00:15:14.622
  • - now, let's talk about that, in a sense of relational.
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  • You know, a lot of people think ministry's
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  • Just the pastor, right?
  • 00:15:20.996 --> 00:15:22.464
  • But ministry's for every believer.
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  • You know, and first peter, chapter four, verse 10 says,
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  • "as every person has received the gift,
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  • So let them minister one to another,
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  • The same as good stewards of the many sided grace of god."
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  • Now, when you think about that,
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  • What gifts he's talking about,
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  • I think peter's talking about the gift of salvation.
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  • So if you're saved, you qualify, right?
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  • But what is ministry?
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  • Well, ministry is really serving christ
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  • Through serving others.
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  • It's talking about service.
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  • In fact, some places
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  • Where the bible uses the word minister, in the king james,
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  • In other versions, it'll be used, served,
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  • Or it'll be connected to service.
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  • Jesus talked about it that way.
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  • But the highest form of ministry, when you study the bible,
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  • Is really ministering to the lord.
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  • And so we all need to minister to the lord.
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  • The second highest form of ministry
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  • Is ministering to one another in the body of christ.
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  • Now, a lot of people, when they talk about ministry,
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  • They're talking about going to the world,
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  • Going to the world, and we are to go to the world.
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  • But you know what?
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  • If you're not built up personally
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  • Through ministering to the lord
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  • And ministering to one another, right,
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  • You're not gonna be very good.
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  • You're gonna burn out when you go to the world,
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  • Because the world will suck you dry, believe me.
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  • But if you're ministering to the lord,
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  • And then in a body sense, in a church sense,
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  • In my opinion, now i'm a pastor, but in a church sense,
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  • If you're ministering to one another,
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  • Then you're gonna be built up,
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  • Right, through ministering to the lord
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  • And ministering to one another,
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  • So when you go to the world, you're not gonna burn out.
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  • - and i have this to say too, you know, exhortation, again,
  • 00:17:00.595 --> 00:17:02.864
  • It's a very, very important topic in scripture.
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  • And you know, i've kind of noticed
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  • When people are getting off track,
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  • When they're not being a good example,
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  • When they're not really, i shouldn't look at,
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  • I'm looking down on this person, you know,
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  • Their words are off, their conduct's off,
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  • Their love's off, their attitude's off, you know,
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  • Oftentimes it's because they're very low.
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  • They have not been exhorted.
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  • They have maybe refused people, exhorting them.
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  • They've been putting themselves down.
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  • They've been around other people who put them down.
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  • I've even noticed, you know,
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  • Being involved in student ministry
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  • When people are kind of acting up,
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  • When students are acting up, saying bad stuff, acting out-
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  • - sometimes they've been around very negative influences.
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  • - and those people around them are not exhorting them.
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  • They're doing the opposite. - right.
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  • I always tried to exhort you and your brothers,
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  • Mom and i exhort each other.
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  • Mom is an exhorter. that's her romans 12-
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  • - yeah, and again, that greek word is paraklesis,
  • 00:18:07.195 --> 00:18:09.964
  • Which is like parakletos, the helper of the holy spirit.
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  • So really, that exhortation allows the holy spirit
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  • To flow and minister in people's lives.
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  • - but we try to exhort people.
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  • When they come to this church,
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  • I want people to feel better when they leave
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  • Than when they came.
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  • - well, they should be built up, they should be encouraged,
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  • They should be empowered, and you know,
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  • And if you're flowing against that,
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  • You're really flowing against
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  • The ministry of the holy spirit.
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  • The holy spirit, in the life of a believer,
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  • You know, for unbelievers, the holy spirit will convict,
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  • You know, the holy spirit will convict the world-
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  • - of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
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  • - but the believer, the holy spirit actually builds you up
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  • And helps you. - right.
  • 00:18:48.870 --> 00:18:50.171
  • - it reminds you of who you are in christ.
  • 00:18:50.171 --> 00:18:52.173
  • - yeah, it reminds you of that,
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  • It reminds you of what god's plan is for you, right,
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  • And how you can walk it out.
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  • - the holy spirit isn't there, tearing you down.
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  • - so we need to be encouraged. we need to be exhorted.
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  • And you know what, i don't have enough time to spend
  • 00:19:03.551 --> 00:19:06.054
  • Around people that just constantly are-
  • 00:19:06.054 --> 00:19:07.855
  • - no, i've seen videos of ministers
  • 00:19:07.855 --> 00:19:09.891
  • Just lashing out on their congregations,
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  • And they're not flown with the holy ghost.
  • 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.530
  • - no. sometimes they're frustrated.
  • 00:19:15.530 --> 00:19:17.632
  • - yeah, and usually that's out of a place of frustration.
  • 00:19:17.632 --> 00:19:22.704
  • - other times, they're just uneducated.
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  • They don't know any better.
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  • - and the holy spirit
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  • Will point people in the right direction,
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  • And shepherds are to point people in the right direction,
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  • But it's usually not by just lashing out.
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  • - "'til i come, give attendance to reading."
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  • Keep reading the word, read it through, write it down,
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  • Pray it in, work it out, to exhortation.
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  • Keep encouraging one another, and-
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  • - well think about paul's ministry.
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  • You know, paul probably when he was writing this,
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  • He is probably in jail. - yeah.
  • 00:19:50.765 --> 00:19:52.433
  • He writes from philippians where he is in jail
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  • For preaching the gospel and says,
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  • "rejoice in the lord always." - he's exhorting, you know?
  • 00:19:56.104 --> 00:19:59.474
  • All the writings of paul, the church epistles,
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  • The pastoral epistles, they're all exhorting.
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  • - yeah, and he really tells 'em how to do it.
  • 00:20:07.248 --> 00:20:09.284
  • - and sometimes he brings correction.
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  • He had to bring correction to the corinthian church,
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  • But at the same time, he did it in a way that exhorted them.
  • 00:20:13.421 --> 00:20:17.892
  • - yeah, he says this in philippians 4:8.
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  • "finally, my brethren, whatever's good,
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  • Whatever's lovely, if there's any virtue,
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  • If there's any praise, think on these things."
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  • You gotta think on positive things.
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  • - and he even talks about, you know, to churches,
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  • He talks about how to actually bring correction
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  • With a spirit of gentleness,
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  • And those of you who are strong, you know,
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  • You're to bear with the weak.
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  • You're to bear with the scruples the issues of the weak.
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  • If you're in ministry, if you're in a local church,
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  • There's gonna be people who have some scruples,
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  • Maybe some just issues over small things,
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  • Bigger things, but you're to bear with it.
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  • - [lawson perdue] right.
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  • - and to still be exhorted at the same time.
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  • So, "'til i come," this is first timothy four, verse 13.
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  • "give attention to reading, read your bible to exhortation."
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  • That's a big deal, "and to doctrine."
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  • And the greek word there for doctrine is teaching.
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  • - right, we need to have teaching that, you know,
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  • It says in that verse that i quoted in acts, chapter four,
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  • At the end of acts chapter four,
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  • They continued in the apostles doctrine.
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  • You know, we need to have good doctrine about who god is,
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  • About who christ is, about who the holy spirit is.
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  • Our church doctrine begins with the scriptures, inspired.
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  • All scripture was given by the inspiration of god.
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  • We need to have doctrine that comes from the scripture.
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  • Secondly, we believe in one true god, right?
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  • Manifest in three persons, the father,
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  • The son, and the holy spirit.
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  • And we believe in the fall and the salvation of man,
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  • Salvation by grace, through faith.
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  • We believe in the present day ministry of the holy spirit,
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  • You know, that we're convicted by the holy spirit,
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  • That the holy spirit works salvation in our life,
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  • That we have the fruit of the holy spirit.
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  • But not only that, we have the gifts of the holy spirit,
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  • And we have the right to be baptized in the holy spirit,
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  • As a believer,
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  • With the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
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  • We believe in water baptism, right?
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  • And that every believer should follow the example of jesus
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  • And the command of jesus and being water baptized, right?
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  • We believe in christ coming for his church,
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  • And we believe in eternal judgment.
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  • - and one thing i like about this church, this ministry
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  • Is, if people come here for a certain length of time,
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  • At least, if people come here for several months,
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  • They're gonna hear the major doctrines
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  • Be mentioned and taught on, and be prevalent
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  • In what we do as a church. - amen.
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  • - you know, we don't just say, "this is our doctrine,"
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  • And just put it on a back shelf
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  • And never talk about christ's return,
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  • Or never talk about heaven and hell issues,
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  • Never talk about...
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  • This is very central, very foundational,
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  • And if people get off on doctrine.
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  • It's gonna impact, you know, their word,
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  • Their conduct, their love,
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  • Their spirit, their faith, their purity.
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  • You know, when people get into wonka doodle teachings,
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  • Wonka doodle stuff, it affects all those things.
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  • It affects their conduct, it affects their faith,
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  • It affects their purity,
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  • It affects their spirit, their attitude.
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  • And you kind of noticed this too,
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  • Like even people might have okay teaching,
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  • But they're their kind of wonka doodle with some,
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  • Maybe it's their attitude is off,
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  • And people get around that teacher,
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  • Like, it impacts them in a negative way.
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  • - well, i not only look at what people are saying,
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  • What they're teaching,
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  • I look at the fruit of their ministry,
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  • And if i recognize a ministry,
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  • That even though their teaching is good,
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  • Yet they have a lot of negative fruit, right?
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  • Or people really get connected to them
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  • And they quit the church, and then they start acting crazy.
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  • And you know, i'm talking about if this is not,
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  • Any one person can get off,
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  • But if this is a consistent thing that you see,
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  • Something else is going on there.
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  • I talked to andrew wommack about a person years ago,
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  • And i said, "andrew, you know,
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  • Maybe we don't need to have this person,"
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  • And i really can't-
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  • - pinpoint something.
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  • - his teaching's good.
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  • And he said, "i've made that decision."
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  • But i said, "when that person comes to your bible school,
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  • They quit your bible school, but they also quit my church."
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  • I've recognized that the fruit of people
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  • Who really get connected with this person's teaching,
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  • And he said, "i've recognized it too."
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  • He said, "i've already made that decision."
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  • But he said, "this is what i've noticed."
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  • He said, "it's not his teaching, i agree with his teaching,
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  • But he's got a really bad attitude."
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  • We talked about that earlier in the week.
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  • If you want to get where god wants you to go
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  • And do what god wants, you need to keep a good attitude.
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  • - and i have this say about teaching too.
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  • You know, talking about doctrine, talking about teaching.
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  • You know, i have a doctorate in classical music.
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  • I played the flute for years, i taught students,
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  • And the way i taught, you know, with music,
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  • I could say a few things,
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  • But the greatest way to teach someone
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  • Is by doing it and having them copy it.
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  • So i play it, and now you copy it, and you know,
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  • Students wanna study with great players,
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  • Because they're gonna copy how they play.
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  • - right.
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  • - and so doctrine or teaching, it's not just the words,
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  • But it's that- - the lifestyle.
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  • - the very essence of that person.
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  • - that's what paul's talking about really here,
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  • When he's talking about being example of believers.
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  • He's talking about the lifestyle of a believer.
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  • If you really believe, your lifestyle's gonna change.
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  • - and i believe, you know, it's so simple,
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  • But it's very straightforward.
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  • You know, keep reading your bible, keep being exhorted,
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  • Keep being around people who lift you up,
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  • And lift up other people.
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  • And also, go to church where there's good doctrine,
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  • And go there consistently, be a part of it.
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  • - amen, get connected with strong people of faith.
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  • Praise god, that are believing god,
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  • And moving into things of the holy spirit.
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