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Rick Warren - You Are Called To Belong (Part 1)

January 25, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - You Are Called To Belong (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - You Are Called To Belong (Part 1) | January 25, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: last week, we looked at the first of the
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  • Five callings that god has for your life in this series on
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  • "live your calling," that god has called you to be loved.
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  • Before you do anything else, you don't do anything for god, you
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  • Just let god love you.
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  • You are called to be loved.
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  • This week, we look at the second calling of life, and it is this:
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  • You have been called to not just be loved, you've been called to
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  • Belong; to belong to god's church, which is going to go on
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  • And on forever, in eternity.
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  • Now the bible says this, hebrews chapter 2, verse 10, "god is the
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  • One who made all things, and all things are for his glory.
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  • He wanted to have many children share in his glory..."
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  • God created the entire universe 'cause he wanted a family, and
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  • God doesn't want his children to be orphans.
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  • He doesn't want his children to be street kids.
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  • He puts them in the family, and that family is called
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  • The church.
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  • Now i want you to write this down: "the second purpose of my
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  • Life is that god formed me for his family.
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  • God formed me for his family."
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  • If god hadn't wanted a family, you wouldn't exist.
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  • But god made you because he loves you, and he wants you to
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  • Love him back, and he wants you to be a part of his family.
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  • You were formed for god's family.
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  • This has been his plan from the very beginning of time.
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  • Ephesians 1 says this: "his unchanging plan has always been
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  • To adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself
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  • Through jesus christ."
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  • So, the first purpose of god for my life is that i'm beloved
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  • By him, but the second purpose of my life is that i belong to
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  • Him, and that i belong to his family.
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  • Now, "god's family," write this down, "is called the church."
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  • That's what god calls his family.
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  • He calls his family the church, the church of god, the church of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • 1 timothy chapter 3 says this: "i'm writing to you...
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  • So that you will know how to live in the family of god."
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  • Paul is writing to timothy, he says, "i want you guys to know
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  • How to live in the family of god.
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  • That family is the church."
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  • Circle that, "that family is the church."
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  • "that family is the church of the living god, the support and
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  • Foundation of the truth."
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  • So, god formed me for his family.
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  • His family is called the church.
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  • And the third thing i want you to get is that "i'm called to
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  • Belong to that family."
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  • I'm called to belong to his church.
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  • And the bible says this in ephesians 2:19, "so now you are
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  • No longer visitors or strangers.
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  • Now you are citizens together with god's holy people.
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  • And you belong to god's family."
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  • Just underline that, star, circle it: "you belong to
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  • God's family."
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  • That is the second calling or purpose or reason or mission of
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  • Your life.
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  • First, to know god, who loves you dearly, but second is to be
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  • A part of his family, and that family is called the church.
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  • Romans 1:6 says, "you are among those who have been called to
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  • Belong to jesus christ."
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  • The word church literally means the group of people who are
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  • Called by god; the called out, ecclesia, called by god.
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  • Christianity is based on god's word, and god's word says, "the
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  • Church is the called out."
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  • In other words, church is an event.
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  • It isn't a program.
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  • It isn't a building.
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  • If i ask most people, "what do you think a church is?"
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  • They think of a building, or they think of it as something
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  • You go to.
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  • "i'm going to church."
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  • Church is not something you go to.
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  • Church is something you belong to.
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  • It is not an event, and it's not a location.
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  • Church is a relationship.
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  • Now, we worship here, we have a place here, but this is not--the
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  • Church is the people of god.
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  • It's our relationship.
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  • What i wanna do this weekend is share with you the five benefits
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  • Of belonging, because god designed his family, the church,
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  • To meet your five deepest needs.
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  • In fact, the church is the only thing that can meet your five
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  • Deepest needs.
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  • In the bible, the church is often referred to by a
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  • Different metaphor.
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  • The church is called a family, the church is called a temple,
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  • The church is called a body, the church is called a flock, and
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  • The church is called a garden.
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  • Each one of these have profound implications for your life.
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  • And if you understand the five meanings of these five
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  • Metaphors, you will understand how the church was
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  • Designed, god's family was designed, to meet your deepest
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  • Needs in life.
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  • Now, let's get into this.
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  • The first metaphor that the bible describes the church as is
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  • One we all are familiar with, and it is this, a family.
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  • It is a family.
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  • And in a healthy family, one of the benefits of a healthy family
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  • Is you're taught who you are.
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  • You learn your identity.
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  • So the first thing i want you to write down is that in god's
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  • Family, the first benefit is i learn my true identity.
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  • You're not gonna learn it from the world.
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  • You're not gonna learn it from your parents.
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  • You're not gonna learn it from your peers or anybody else.
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  • Your true identity is found in relationship to god's family.
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  • Now, we're all concerned about our identity.
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  • In fact, we do this by the kind of clothes we wear.
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  • Have you noticed that people like to wear clothes that have
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  • Brands on them or have logos on them?
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  • But the truth is, most of your identity comes from your
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  • Relationships, for good or bad.
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  • And if you have good relationships, you have a
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  • Good identity.
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  • If you have bad relationships, your identity is much
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  • More difficult.
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  • See, i am a grandson.
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  • I'm a son.
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  • I'm a father.
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  • I'm a husband.
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  • I'm a grandfather.
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  • I'm a team member.
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  • I'm a small group member.
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  • I'm a pastor.
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  • I'm an employer.
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  • All of these are relationships that define who i am.
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  • You know who you are in relationship to other people.
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  • Now, what that means is if my connections or my relationships
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  • Get broken, or my connections or relationships are poor, then i
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  • Have a hard time with knowing who i really am.
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  • Anybody who's gone through a divorce knows after divorce, you
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  • Go, "now who am i?"
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  • Because your relationship was tied to that person.
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  • Or somebody who's been married to someone for a long time and
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  • That loved one, that spouse, dies, it's very common, very
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  • Natural and normal, people go, "now who am i?
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  • What's my place? what's my role?"
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  • Or if you get laid off and your identity has been tied to your
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  • Work, you're going, "who am i?
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  • What's my identity?"
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  • And so our identity is actually tied to our relationships.
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  • Now, the problem with this is a lot of us don't have very good
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  • Relationships growing up.
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  • And some of you would say, "you know, rick, my family
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  • Was dysfunctional.
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  • My family was broken.
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  • My family was really non-existent, so how do i know
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  • Who i am?"
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  • Well, here's the good news, ephesians chapter 2, verse 19,
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  • "you are members of god's very own family...
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  • And you belong in god's household with every
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  • Other christian."
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  • Now, it doesn't matter what other families you've had.
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  • Your most important family is god's family, why?
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  • Because that's the permanent one.
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  • It's gonna last.
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  • It's gonna last forever.
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  • Actually, your physical family was just a channel to get you
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  • Into god's family.
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  • God used your parents, whether they were good parents, bad
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  • Parents, or indifferent parents, or maybe you never even knew
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  • Them, he used them to bring you into the world, but his real
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  • Goal was not to keep you in that family, but to put you into
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  • His family.
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  • You see, your--i hate to say this to you, it may be a shock
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  • To you, but your spiritual family is actually more
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  • Important than your physical family, 'cause no physical
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  • Family lasts.
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  • People grow up.
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  • They move away.
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  • People get divorced.
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  • People die.
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  • No physical family lasts.
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  • We know that.
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  • But your spiritual family is gonna last forever and ever and
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  • Ever and ever and ever, so it's actually more important.
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  • In fact, the bible says, "god created the entire universe for
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  • His spiritual family, the church."
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  • When you get your identity from that, then you get a
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  • Long-term identity.
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  • See, the problem is, we go out trying to look for identity and
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  • Things that aren't gonna last.
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  • And the world judges your identity on all the external
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  • Stuff, not the internal.
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  • The world says to you, "you're short.
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  • You have black hair.
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  • You are of asian descent, or european, or african-american,
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  • Or latin america, or whatever.
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  • You have this kind of thing, and you are--this is your political
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  • Party, and this is your job, and you're an american."
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  • And those are all interesting identifiers, but none of them
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  • Are gonna last.
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  • Yes, i am an american, but there's something more important
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  • Than that.
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  • I'm a member of the family of god.
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  • America isn't gonna last.
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  • No kingdom lasts 1,000 years or 2000 years or 10,000 years.
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  • Where's the hittite empire?
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  • Where's the assyrian empire?
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  • They don't last.
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  • So if you want your identity to last, you put it into something
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  • That's never gonna change.
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  • And the bible says god's family, the church, is gonna go
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  • On for all of eternity, 'cause it's why god made
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  • The universe.
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  • What matters most is your spiritual identity.
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  • Hebrews chapter 2, verse 11 says this: "jesus and the people he
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  • Makes holy, all belong to the same family.
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  • This is why he," jesus,
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  • "isn't ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters."
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  • Did you know that jesus calls you his sister, that jesus calls
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  • You his brother?
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  • That's a pretty amazing thing.
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  • And it says he isn't ashamed to call you his brother
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  • Or sister.
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  • Have you ever had a brother or sister you were ashamed of?
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  • Don't answer.
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  • You may have, you may have.
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  • But jesus isn't ashamed to call you his brother, sister, no
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  • Matter how messed up your life is, why?
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  • 'cause you're in the family.
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  • You see, this is one of the great things about being in the
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  • Family of god, is that your sin doesn't define you anymore.
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  • Yes, you sin, but it's not your defining characteristic.
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  • Let me explain it this way.
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  • It's the difference between alcoholics anonymous and
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  • Celebrate recovery.
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  • Celebrate recovery, of course, was started at
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  • Saddleback church.
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  • Alcoholics anonymous is a good program.
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  • It's a very good program, but i think celebrate recovery is a
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  • Whole lot better for a number of reasons.
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  • It's christ-centered.
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  • But one of the reasons is we say, in celebrate recovery,
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  • "your sin does not define you.
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  • Your sin is not your identity."
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  • Here's the difference.
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  • If you were to go to an alcoholics anonymous meeting,
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  • You would stand up and you'd say, "hi, my name is rick, and
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  • I'm an alcoholic," and you would be saying that the rest of
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  • Your life.
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  • You're letting your sin define you.
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  • At saddleback and celebrate recovery, people stand up and
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  • Say, "hi, my name is rick.
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  • I'm a child of god who struggles with alcohol."
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  • See the difference?
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  • Big difference.
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  • It's a difference between saying, you know, "i struggle
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  • With lying," or saying, "i'm a liar."
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  • Big difference.
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  • Your identity is not your sin.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • That's why jesus is not ashamed of you to call you a brother,
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  • Sister, 'cause once you're in the family, you're in
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  • The family.
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  • You may be a little weird, but you're in the family.
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  • And you may have some sin in your life, but you're in
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  • The family.
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  • And brothers stick up for brothers and sisters, and the
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  • Bible says jesus is not ashamed of you.
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  • By belonging to god's family, you will learn your
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  • True identity.
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  • Pastor rick: now, a lot of families, to advertise their
  • 00:14:14.203 --> 00:14:16.438
  • Identity, they have a symbol, or they have a family crest.
  • 00:14:16.438 --> 00:14:21.277
  • Scottish families have a plaid that defines their families.
  • 00:14:21.277 --> 00:14:26.282
  • And a lot of groups will have some kind of mark.
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  • I mean, gangs will often get a similar tattoo.
  • 00:14:28.284 --> 00:14:31.787
  • So when you have a certain tattoo, then you know you're
  • 00:14:31.787 --> 00:14:34.189
  • Part of that gang.
  • 00:14:34.189 --> 00:14:35.724
  • Do you know what is the mark, the symbol, of being in
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  • God's family?
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  • Do you know what it is?
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  • It's baptism.
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  • Being baptized is the public symbol that says, "i'm not
  • 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:48.404
  • Ashamed to say i'm a part of the family.
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  • I'm advertising in the world.
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  • I don't understand it all, but i'm in."
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  • If you haven't been baptized, you need to be baptized.
  • 00:14:55.611 --> 00:14:58.414
  • That's the symbol that says, "i'm in the family."
  • 00:14:58.414 --> 00:15:02.418
  • It's coming out of the closet.
  • 00:15:02.418 --> 00:15:04.019
  • It's your public proclamation.
  • 00:15:04.019 --> 00:15:05.854
  • It's your coming out party, and you need to be baptized.
  • 00:15:05.854 --> 00:15:11.393
  • The bible says this in acts chapter 2: "those who believed
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  • What peter had said were baptized and added to the
  • 00:15:17.232 --> 00:15:22.004
  • Church--about 3,000," about 3,000 people that day.
  • 00:15:22.004 --> 00:15:25.341
  • It was the day of pentecost.
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  • So you believe, then you get baptized, then you get added to
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  • The church.
  • 00:15:29.979 --> 00:15:31.347
  • Now, that's the first metaphor.
  • 00:15:31.347 --> 00:15:32.881
  • "i'm in a family, and my family helps me understand my
  • 00:15:32.881 --> 00:15:35.684
  • True identity."
  • 00:15:35.684 --> 00:15:37.353
  • That's why a lot of people go back and trace their genealogies
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  • To discover their true identity.
  • 00:15:40.022 --> 00:15:42.358
  • Now, there's a second metaphor that god uses to describe the
  • 00:15:42.358 --> 00:15:45.594
  • Church, and he says that the church is like a temple.
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  • It's like a temple.
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  • In other words, it's like a building that is erected for
  • 00:15:51.333 --> 00:15:54.636
  • God's glory.
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  • It's a building where god's presence shows up, where god is
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  • Loved, where god is honored and worshiped, a temple.
  • 00:15:58.507 --> 00:16:00.976
  • And the bible says in 1 corinthians 3:16 here on the
  • 00:16:00.976 --> 00:16:03.979
  • Screen, "don't you realize that all of you together are the
  • 00:16:03.979 --> 00:16:09.685
  • Temple of god and his spirit lives in you?"
  • 00:16:09.685 --> 00:16:12.821
  • He's talking to the church.
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  • You know, i remember when we have been building buildings
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  • Here on the lake forest campus over many years.
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  • And as each one of them is built, i'll walk through them as
  • 00:16:20.295 --> 00:16:22.798
  • They're getting built, and i'll see all of the carpenters and
  • 00:16:22.798 --> 00:16:25.501
  • The construction workers building all the things, and
  • 00:16:25.501 --> 00:16:27.836
  • I've noticed that it takes thousands of different pieces to
  • 00:16:27.836 --> 00:16:30.839
  • Build a building.
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  • But the most important thing is that the pieces have to
  • 00:16:32.474 --> 00:16:34.877
  • Fit together.
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  • If you have a beam that's a half an inch short, it doesn't hold
  • 00:16:36.211 --> 00:16:38.914
  • Up the roof.
  • 00:16:38.914 --> 00:16:40.382
  • And if you have a pipe that's 1 inch too long, it doesn't make
  • 00:16:40.382 --> 00:16:44.019
  • A connection.
  • 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:45.387
  • And if you don't make the connections, then you don't have
  • 00:16:45.387 --> 00:16:47.556
  • A building.
  • 00:16:47.556 --> 00:16:48.891
  • A building cannot stand on its own power unless it has
  • 00:16:48.891 --> 00:16:52.494
  • Connections, unless the things fit together.
  • 00:16:52.494 --> 00:16:55.998
  • I've also noticed that when you go through a construction site,
  • 00:16:55.998 --> 00:16:58.600
  • There's always a lot of other stuff laying around on the
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  • Ground, spare parts.
  • 00:17:01.303 --> 00:17:02.671
  • There's spare pieces of wood that haven't been used or spare
  • 00:17:02.671 --> 00:17:05.607
  • Pieces of pipe.
  • 00:17:05.607 --> 00:17:06.942
  • And what i've noticed is that you can be a pipe or a piece of
  • 00:17:06.942 --> 00:17:09.812
  • Wood in a building but not necessarily belong to
  • 00:17:09.812 --> 00:17:13.582
  • The building.
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  • You're not--you don't belong to the building until you're
  • 00:17:15.150 --> 00:17:17.820
  • Connected to it, and that's the way some of you are.
  • 00:17:17.820 --> 00:17:22.024
  • You're in saddleback family, but you don't belong to saddleback
  • 00:17:22.024 --> 00:17:25.727
  • Family, 'cause you've never taken the time to get connected,
  • 00:17:25.727 --> 00:17:29.765
  • To make a commitment, to say, "i wanna be--belong here.
  • 00:17:29.765 --> 00:17:32.634
  • I want this to be--i wanna be more than an attender.
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  • I wanna be a member.
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  • I wanna belong.
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  • I wanna be connected.
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  • I don't wanna just be a spectator.
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  • I wanna be a participator, and i wanna be connected."
  • 00:17:40.409 --> 00:17:43.312
  • Now, why did god choose a temple as one of the illustrations of
  • 00:17:43.312 --> 00:17:47.916
  • What it's like to be in his family, in the church?
  • 00:17:47.916 --> 00:17:51.553
  • Because in a building, all of the connected parts support
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  • Each other.
  • 00:17:55.624 --> 00:17:57.059
  • Now this is the second benefit that you get in being a part of
  • 00:17:57.059 --> 00:18:00.696
  • The family of god: in god's temple i'm supported by others.
  • 00:18:00.696 --> 00:18:05.968
  • I'm not out there on my own.
  • 00:18:05.968 --> 00:18:07.369
  • I'm not a lone ranger.
  • 00:18:07.369 --> 00:18:09.004
  • I'm not there by myself."
  • 00:18:09.004 --> 00:18:11.006
  • In a strong structure of a building, we support and we hold
  • 00:18:11.006 --> 00:18:15.511
  • Each other up.
  • 00:18:15.511 --> 00:18:17.913
  • In a building, all the connected parts hold each other together.
  • 00:18:17.913 --> 00:18:24.620
  • And you know what?
  • 00:18:24.620 --> 00:18:25.954
  • There's gonna be some times in your life when you need other
  • 00:18:25.954 --> 00:18:28.357
  • People to hold you together.
  • 00:18:28.357 --> 00:18:31.894
  • You're gonna need them to hold you together 'cause you're
  • 00:18:31.894 --> 00:18:33.862
  • Falling apart.
  • 00:18:33.862 --> 00:18:35.364
  • And if you're not in the building of god, the temple of
  • 00:18:35.364 --> 00:18:38.534
  • God, the family of god, the church of god, and you're not
  • 00:18:38.534 --> 00:18:41.336
  • Connected, you're disconnected from the temple of god,
  • 00:18:41.336 --> 00:18:44.306
  • Nothing's gonna hold you together, and you're gonna
  • 00:18:44.306 --> 00:18:47.543
  • Fall apart.
  • 00:18:47.543 --> 00:18:48.877
  • The bible says in ephesians 2, "in christ the whole body, the
  • 00:18:48.877 --> 00:18:52.848
  • Whole building, is joined together and rises to become a
  • 00:18:52.848 --> 00:18:58.153
  • Holy temple in the lord.
  • 00:18:58.153 --> 00:19:00.889
  • And in him," jesus, "you too are being built together to become
  • 00:19:00.889 --> 00:19:07.062
  • A dwelling in which god lives by his spirit."
  • 00:19:07.062 --> 00:19:11.667
  • So together, we all together form the family of god, and we
  • 00:19:11.667 --> 00:19:16.104
  • Form the temple of god.
  • 00:19:16.104 --> 00:19:18.240
  • What is the temple of god?
  • 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:19.575
  • Well, in a building, a disconnected frame has
  • 00:19:19.575 --> 00:19:22.411
  • No support.
  • 00:19:22.411 --> 00:19:23.745
  • It has no stability, and you need it.
  • 00:19:23.745 --> 00:19:27.082
  • This is the second great need in your life.
  • 00:19:27.082 --> 00:19:29.084
  • You need identity and you need stability.
  • 00:19:29.084 --> 00:19:32.588
  • You need to be a part of a family to understand your
  • 00:19:32.588 --> 00:19:35.023
  • Identity, and you need to be a part of god's temple to get the
  • 00:19:35.023 --> 00:19:38.260
  • Stability, where we support and we connect to each other.
  • 00:19:38.260 --> 00:19:42.164
  • You weren't meant to go through life disconnected.
  • 00:19:42.164 --> 00:19:48.003
  • You know, this weekend my grandkids came over, and we were
  • 00:19:48.003 --> 00:19:52.174
  • Playing in the garage, playing legos, because i got one of the
  • 00:19:52.174 --> 00:19:54.710
  • Largest collections of legos in southern california.
  • 00:19:54.710 --> 00:19:58.513
  • And all my grandkids, they like to play legos.
  • 00:19:58.513 --> 00:20:00.749
  • You know, there's only one purpose for legos.
  • 00:20:00.749 --> 00:20:03.919
  • They're designed to connect.
  • 00:20:03.919 --> 00:20:06.788
  • If you don't connect the lego, it's worthless.
  • 00:20:06.788 --> 00:20:10.192
  • Now, if you connect legos together, you can build all
  • 00:20:10.192 --> 00:20:13.362
  • Kinds of really cool stuff.
  • 00:20:13.362 --> 00:20:15.063
  • But if you never connect them to each other, they're worthless.
  • 00:20:15.063 --> 00:20:19.034
  • It's just a pile of plastic, just a big mess is what it is.
  • 00:20:19.034 --> 00:20:24.373
  • You are god's lego.
  • 00:20:24.373 --> 00:20:28.076
  • If you're a believer in christ, you're god's lego, and you were
  • 00:20:28.076 --> 00:20:31.246
  • Designed for connection, and you were meant to be not just in the
  • 00:20:31.246 --> 00:20:34.850
  • Family of god, but in the temple of god, in the building of god,
  • 00:20:34.850 --> 00:20:38.520
  • Where we connect to each other.
  • 00:20:38.520 --> 00:20:39.855
  • Romans 1:12 says it like this: "i want us to help each other
  • 00:20:39.855 --> 00:20:44.226
  • With the faith we have.
  • 00:20:44.226 --> 00:20:45.627
  • Your faith will help me, and my faith will help you."
  • 00:20:45.627 --> 00:20:50.332
  • This is what we call the mutuality of the body, of the
  • 00:20:50.332 --> 00:20:53.869
  • Building, of the family.
  • 00:20:53.869 --> 00:20:55.971
  • And why is this important?
  • 00:20:55.971 --> 00:20:57.639
  • Why is it important for me to have support?
  • 00:20:57.639 --> 00:20:59.875
  • Why is it important for me to have stability in life?
  • 00:20:59.875 --> 00:21:04.046
  • Because the number one epidemic in our society today, in my
  • 00:21:04.046 --> 00:21:07.049
  • Opinion, is not the financial crisis.
  • 00:21:07.049 --> 00:21:10.986
  • The biggest epidemic in our society is loneliness.
  • 00:21:10.986 --> 00:21:16.558
  • As somebody who talks to hundreds and even thousands of
  • 00:21:16.558 --> 00:21:19.161
  • People, there are a lot of lonely people in this world.
  • 00:21:19.161 --> 00:21:22.631
  • And they feel alone and they feel disconnected.
  • 00:21:22.631 --> 00:21:24.700
  • It's very interesting.
  • 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:26.034
  • We have more technology for connection than ever in history,
  • 00:21:26.034 --> 00:21:29.738
  • And yet people feel more disconnected, particularly
  • 00:21:29.738 --> 00:21:32.841
  • Teenagers, and particularly young adults.
  • 00:21:32.841 --> 00:21:38.080
  • Now, the third description of the church in scripture is that
  • 00:21:38.080 --> 00:21:42.084
  • Of a body, and you've heard this one before.
  • 00:21:42.084 --> 00:21:44.319
  • The bible calls the church the body of christ.
  • 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:47.322
  • Look on the screen at this verse.
  • 00:21:47.322 --> 00:21:49.424
  • The bible says in 1 corinthians 12:27, "now you," talking about
  • 00:21:49.424 --> 00:21:53.862
  • Christians, "you are the body of christ, and each one of you is a
  • 00:21:53.862 --> 00:22:00.702
  • Part of it."
  • 00:22:00.702 --> 00:22:02.070
  • Now, what does this illustration, this
  • 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:03.405
  • Metaphor, mean?
  • 00:22:03.405 --> 00:22:04.773
  • Well, we're different parts, but we're all connected, and
  • 00:22:04.773 --> 00:22:06.808
  • Together we complete the body, and we accomplish together what
  • 00:22:06.808 --> 00:22:10.545
  • We could never do on our own.
  • 00:22:10.545 --> 00:22:13.749
  • And when we do that, all of a sudden we find our place.
  • 00:22:13.749 --> 00:22:17.352
  • We find our spot.
  • 00:22:17.352 --> 00:22:18.687
  • We find our niche.
  • 00:22:18.687 --> 00:22:20.055
  • We find out how we matter.
  • 00:22:20.055 --> 00:22:21.390
  • We find our unique shape, our talents.
  • 00:22:21.390 --> 00:22:25.160
  • And you're not gonna find this anywhere else except in the
  • 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.196
  • Church, where you find how to use your spiritual gifts, the
  • 00:22:28.196 --> 00:22:31.533
  • Gifts that god has given you.
  • 00:22:31.533 --> 00:22:33.635
  • And so the third benefit of belonging to a church family is
  • 00:22:33.635 --> 00:22:37.139
  • This: in christ's body i discover my unique value.
  • 00:22:37.139 --> 00:22:43.712
  • I discover my unique value.
  • 00:22:43.712 --> 00:22:47.015
  • This is your capacity.
  • 00:22:47.015 --> 00:22:49.251
  • First, i learned my identity in god's family, and i get
  • 00:22:49.251 --> 00:22:53.255
  • Stability in god's temple, but i learned my capacity in
  • 00:22:53.255 --> 00:22:58.093
  • Christ's body.
  • 00:22:58.093 --> 00:22:59.428
  • I discover my unique value.
  • 00:22:59.428 --> 00:23:02.197
  • Romans chapter 12:4-5 says this: "just as there are many
  • 00:23:02.197 --> 00:23:06.601
  • Parts to our bodies, so it is with christ's body.
  • 00:23:06.601 --> 00:23:12.240
  • We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it
  • 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:16.711
  • Complete, for we each have different work to do.
  • 00:23:16.711 --> 00:23:21.917
  • So we belong to each other, and each
  • 00:23:21.917 --> 00:23:24.953
  • Of us needs all the others."
  • 00:23:24.953 --> 00:23:27.989
  • That's a very important passage.
  • 00:23:27.989 --> 00:23:29.658
  • It says four or five things there.
  • 00:23:29.658 --> 00:23:31.059
  • First, it says that "the body of christ, the church, is made up
  • 00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:33.829
  • Of many parts."
  • 00:23:33.829 --> 00:23:35.197
  • We're all different.
  • 00:23:35.197 --> 00:23:36.531
  • You look around here, nobody's like you.
  • 00:23:36.531 --> 00:23:37.899
  • Nobody looks like you.
  • 00:23:37.899 --> 00:23:39.234
  • Nobody smells like you.
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  • We're all different.
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  • We're all--god designed us that way.
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  • God loves variety.
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  • Can you imagine if god had just said, "let's only make three
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  • Kinds of human beings?"
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  • God made us all different, and we're all many parts, and notice
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  • It says, "everybody's needed."
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  • Look at that verse, "we're all needed to make the
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  • Body complete."
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  • Nobody can say, "well, i'm not important."
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  • No, you're needed.
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  • You know, if you have a jigsaw puzzle and one piece is missing,
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  • What's the part you miss?
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  • The one that's missing, the one piece that's missing.
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  • It's what you notice first.
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  • It says, "we all have a work to do.
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  • We all have different roles, different ministries."
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  • And if all of the parts did the same thing, it'd be nonsense.
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  • Like, if every part in your body was an ear, it'd be kind
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  • Of silly.
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  • So we all have different roles to play and different things to
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  • Do, but we belong to each other.
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  • Notice it says there, "so we belong to each other."
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  • Underline or circle that.
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  • I was gonna have you turn to the person next to you and say, "you
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  • Belong to me," but that might result in a marriage proposal.
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  • So, we belong--but it's true.
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  • If you're in the family of god, if you're in the body of christ,
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  • If you're in the temple of god, we belong to each other.
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  • We don't just belong to god.
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  • We belong to each other, and it says, "each of us needs all
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  • The others."
  • 00:24:54.342 --> 00:24:55.710
  • In other words, what good is an eyeball if it's detached from
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  • The body?
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  • Nothing.
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  • An eyeball out here on its own is worthless.
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  • It can't see anything.
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  • It can only see as it is attached to the body.
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  • What good is an ear if your ear is detached and sitting out
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  • Over there?
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  • None, nope, none at all, has no value at all.
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  • It can't hear unless it's attached to the body.
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  • What good is your hand if it's cut off and put over on
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  • The shelf?
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  • It just withers and dies.
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  • You cannot be what god made you to be without a church family,
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  • Without being connected to christ's body.
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  • You can't do it.
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  • You can't fulfill your purpose in life on your own.
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  • You have to be connected.
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  • You have to belong.
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  • You have to be an association.
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  • You have to be attached to some local body of christ.
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