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Ed Young - Discovering And Using Your Gift (Part 1)

December 9, 2024 | 27:29

Ed Young - Discovering And Using Your Gift (Part 1)
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Discovering And Using Your Gift (Part 1) | December 9, 2024
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  • Dr. ed young: so you joined the army.
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  • You registered, signed up, said, "i'm ready to go."
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  • They sent you to boot camp.
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  • You went in training, you graduated, top shape, learned
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  • All the fundamentals of carrying a rifle and all the intriguing
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  • Information about doing battle.
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  • Then they say, "go home, stay for 2 weeks.
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  • Come back, we'll give you an assignment."
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  • But guess what happens?
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  • You never go back.
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  • You're a-w-o-l, absent without leave, and somebody would come
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  • Up to you a month or so later and ask, "are you in the army?"
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  • "well, technically or actually?
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  • I never showed up for my assignment."
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  • Hm, a lot of people operate like that in the life of the church.
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  • Somebody introduces us to christ, we accept the lord,
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  • We walk down the aisle of the church, we're baptized.
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  • Name is on the roll.
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  • We show up and all of a sudden, i'm still sick.
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  • I thought when i became a christian, i'd be
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  • Totally healed.
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  • I still have economic challenges.
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  • What in the world happened?
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  • I thought that suddenly, you know, all those challenges
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  • Would be met.
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  • I still have problems in relationships.
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  • Oh, i thought now that i'm a christian that all of that would
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  • Be cleared up.
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  • And we go on and on and finally we sort of come to church
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  • Sometimes and maybe easter, christmas.
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  • But we're really, as far as god is concerned, a-w-o-l, absence
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  • Without leave, because we don't have the feeling
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  • We're christian.
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  • No, we try harder.
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  • That doesn't work.
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  • We pray more.
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  • That doesn't work.
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  • All of a sudden we say, "you know, this christian business
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  • Works for some people, but it just isn't making it for me.
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  • When you ask me if i'm a christian, i just don't know."
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  • Now, what happened?
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  • Well, we've been studying the book of roman for about 23 years
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  • And we've gone from chapter 1 all the way through chapter 11.
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  • And we've discovered that no one has any excuse for not
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  • Knowing god.
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  • There's natural revelation, there's special revelation and
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  • We discovered that all have sinned and come short of
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  • The glory of god.
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  • We have no problem with that.
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  • We understand that.
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  • We're a part of that.
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  • A-l-l, are we not?
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  • And therefore we've received jesus christ.
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  • We're justified with god.
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  • We're declared righteous by god.
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  • We understand that now, but still everything is just not
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  • Humming along like we thought it would.
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  • We've got our doctrine right.
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  • We prayed the prayer, we walked the aisle, we've gone through
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  • The symbol of baptism, but yet we're still a-w-o-l.
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  • What's wrong with that?
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  • Paul hammers it, right here in romans chapter 12.
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  • We looked at it.
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  • He said, "therefore, in light of experiencing christ, here's what
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  • You do."
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  • Verse 1 and verse 2 of romans 12 is something that we ought
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  • To master.
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  • Number one, "we present our bodies a living sacrifice,
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  • Wholly acceptable to god, which is our reasonable service
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  • Of worship."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • "present your body"?
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  • You surrender your body to god, not one time but over and over
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  • And over again.
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  • We surrender and our body becomes a living sacrifice.
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  • Sacrifice speaks of what?
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  • Death.
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  • In other words, when we present our bodies, something has
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  • To die.
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  • What is it that dies in you and dies in me?
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  • It's the fact that i wanna run my own life and you wanna run
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  • Your life and i wanna continue to run my life even though i'm
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  • A christian and you wanna continue to run your life even
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  • Though you're a christian.
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  • So we have to present our bodies and have a living death of my
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  • Desires and your desires.
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  • That's the first step.
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  • You say, "boy, this is-- this is really tough."
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  • Watch how it works.
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  • And then we know that is holy.
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  • We present our body, we are a living death of our desires
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  • And your desires.
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  • It becomes holy, it's set apart, then it's acceptable to god.
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  • And then we can worship god.
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  • We go to church, not to feel good, not to be enhanced, not to
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  • Do our duty.
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  • We go to church to worship him.
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  • Then we can worship, worship.
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  • Step number one, verse number 1, romans 12.
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  • Verse number 2, the rest of it, so this christian life will
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  • Really flow and function.
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  • "we are not to be conformed to the world."
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  • That means the world squeezes you into its mold.
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  • How easily that happens to you and me, doesn't it?
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  • We just get along to go along, you know.
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  • We just follow the way the pressure rolls.
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  • So the world just shapes us into its mold.
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  • We worship the same idols that the world worships, but we're
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  • Not to be conformed.
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  • There's that word.
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  • We're to be transformed, new from inside.
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  • And we talked about a tadpole and a frog transformation, from
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  • Plant-eating little tadpole.
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  • What is it, herbivorous into now a frog, carnivorous?
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  • New appetite.
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  • That's transformation, isn't it?
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  • Not only in appearance but in appetite.
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  • Then we talked about that worm, the caterpillar.
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  • And the caterpillar there dies and, zip, now becomes
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  • A butterfly.
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  • Transformation, transformation.
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  • We can jump, we can fly, we're new outside, we're new inside.
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  • That's what happens to us in christ.
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  • When we present our bodies and we have our minds renewed, we're
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  • Transformed and we discovered that mind renewal is plasticity.
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  • We discover there are new routes in your mind and new routes
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  • In my mind.
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  • Whereas old habits, old ways, old attitudes, old responses
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  • Are being changed day by day.
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  • There's a new pathway there and we have a renewal of the mind.
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  • Now, we've got something don't we?
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  • You see, see who we are in christ?
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  • See what's happening to us in christ?
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  • Presenting our body, renewing our minds.
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  • And then that tremendous word he said, "then you will prove
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  • The will of god."
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  • The will of god is spooky to a lot of people.
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  • "man, i don't know what god wants me to do.
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  • I'm looking for his will."
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  • God hasn't hidden his will.
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  • It's not like, you know, you used to play as a kid, you know,
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  • "you're getting warmer.
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  • Maybe you can find it," you know?
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  • "god, where have you--" no, no, no.
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  • This is how we discover his will: present our bodies, renew
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  • Our minds.
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  • We're transformed within.
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  • And then he says, "you will prove the will and plan of god
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  • For your life is," absolutely what?
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  • It is good.
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  • It is perfect.
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  • It is satisfying.
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  • So how could that be?
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  • Who do you think put you together?
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  • How did this become me and that become you, anyway?
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  • How did that happen?
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  • God designed-- god designed us for a purpose.
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  • When we find that purpose by the giving of our bodies, by
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  • The renewing of our minds, we walk in the will of god and say,
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  • "i didn't know how fabulous life could be."
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  • That's the way it works.
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  • And then he gives us the next step here.
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  • Now that we're transformed and we're in the process of
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  • Continually being transformed, then he gives us one, two, three
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  • Things to discover how we can soar with the giftedness of
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  • The lord.
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  • Transformation produces, we'll see in our scripture, humility.
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  • Transformation proves that there is unity in diversity.
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  • We'll see that in the church.
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  • And transformation produces ministry.
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  • Ministry.
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  • One word of scripture, then we'll exegete just a few
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  • Little passages.
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  • Romans 12:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
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  • Three little passages.
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  • And all of a sudden we'll begin to understand what really
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  • Christian living is all about.
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  • Would you bow with me if we prepare for the teaching of
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  • The word.
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  • Our heavenly father, we are hungry for truth.
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  • How we need truth in the world in which we live.
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  • Your truth, your divine truth.
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  • Speak now, o lord, and let me get out of the way so that you
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  • Can do business in our lives, is our prayer in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • Smile.
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  • Oh, you're not smiling.
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  • I sure hope this working.
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  • I matched it once. is that enough, keith?
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  • Okay.
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  • Got the orchestra down here.
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  • Wake him up, please.
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  • Took a family photo, didn't we?
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  • Hopefully.
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  • When you have a family photo, how do you decide whether it's
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  • A bad picture or a good picture, an okay-- how do you
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  • Decide that?
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  • You know, you take a picture of the family, you say, "well, what
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  • Do you think?"
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  • Jo beth says, "what do you think about this?"
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  • What makes you decide whether it's good or bad?
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  • It's how you look.
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  • Ah, yeah, isn't?
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  • Yeah.
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  • Got a-- got a christmas card from a family.
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  • And the wife is rather out front and feels like she's glamorous.
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  • So, in the picture, the wife is just-- the mother is just...
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  • And the husband is sort of...
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  • And the children are...
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  • But she's in the middle of the family.
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  • Guess who decided which picture they'd use on the
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  • Christmas card?
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  • We've taken a picture, hopefully, of our church
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  • Family today.
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  • Is that a good picture or a bad picture?
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  • God-- you know, god will decide whether you and i are
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  • Functioning in his body, the body of the church, as we're
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  • Supposed to function.
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  • I've got a piercing question for you.
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  • What if everybody in this church were like you, what kind of
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  • Church will we have?
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  • Would we be able to turn on the lights?
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  • Would we be able to sing?
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  • Would we be able to have worship?
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  • Would we be able to go on mission trips?
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  • Would we be able to care for our children?
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  • What if everybody in the church was a churchman like you are?
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • Oh, some would say, "you know, i think we'd go out of business."
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  • But we've got a family photo and the father loves to show off
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  • His children.
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  • I wonder if we could see how we look.
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  • I wonder if the photo came out where we could see it.
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  • Guess not.
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  • So, here we are, in the family of god, set aside, and we are
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  • Transformed from inside and out.
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  • And we've discovered in the scripture about transformation,
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  • And transformation leads to humility.
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  • Listen to what paul tells us.
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  • It says: "far through grace," charis, "given to me i say to
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  • Everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than
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  • He ought to think.
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  • But to think so as to have sound judgment, as god has allotted to
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  • Each a measure of faith."
  • 00:13:32.224 --> 00:13:36.128
  • In other words, paul is saying, "don't sit too high."
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  • Do you sit too high?
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  • You know, an obvious braggadocios person, "let me
  • 00:13:43.802 --> 00:13:47.706
  • Tell you where i've been, let me tell you who i know.
  • 00:13:47.706 --> 00:13:50.309
  • Let me tell you what i have.
  • 00:13:50.309 --> 00:13:51.977
  • Let me tell you what i can do.
  • 00:13:51.977 --> 00:13:54.146
  • And--" those kind of folks are kind of obvious.
  • 00:13:54.146 --> 00:13:58.284
  • I don't know why they can't figure it out, but evidently
  • 00:13:58.284 --> 00:14:00.686
  • We can't.
  • 00:14:00.686 --> 00:14:02.021
  • And the braggadocios, we sit too high and, by the way, a part
  • 00:14:02.021 --> 00:14:07.126
  • Of being braggadocios is, let's say, for example, that i was
  • 00:14:07.126 --> 00:14:11.030
  • A part of the making of that pulpit, and a lady in my church
  • 00:14:11.030 --> 00:14:15.401
  • Made it, if i'm not mistaken, she does this.
  • 00:14:15.401 --> 00:14:18.804
  • And you would say to me, "boy."
  • 00:14:18.804 --> 00:14:21.607
  • And i would say, "you know, that pulpit didn't turn out like i
  • 00:14:21.607 --> 00:14:24.276
  • Thought it would."
  • 00:14:24.276 --> 00:14:25.611
  • You say, "oh no, it's really good, ed.
  • 00:14:25.611 --> 00:14:27.579
  • That's a good-looking pulpit."
  • 00:14:27.579 --> 00:14:29.148
  • "well, tell me why you think it's good looking.
  • 00:14:29.148 --> 00:14:31.350
  • I mean, you know."
  • 00:14:31.350 --> 00:14:32.751
  • We play modest.
  • 00:14:32.751 --> 00:14:35.254
  • "oh, that's a good sermon, pastor."
  • 00:14:35.254 --> 00:14:37.623
  • "no, it wasn't any good.
  • 00:14:37.623 --> 00:14:39.358
  • You know, well, what do you think was good about it?"
  • 00:14:39.358 --> 00:14:41.160
  • "well, it was good you said this."
  • 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:42.728
  • "what else was good?"
  • 00:14:42.728 --> 00:14:44.096
  • "it was good you--" you know, i-- we're hunting for people to
  • 00:14:44.096 --> 00:14:47.700
  • Boast us up in our false humility.
  • 00:14:47.700 --> 00:14:49.902
  • Don't sit there so pious, you do that.
  • 00:14:49.902 --> 00:14:53.639
  • So we can sit too high and we can sink too low.
  • 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:58.043
  • Paul says: "faith gives us the ability to rightly estimate who
  • 00:14:58.043 --> 00:15:02.848
  • We are and what we're about, and how we fit into the family
  • 00:15:02.848 --> 00:15:06.919
  • Of god," our calling in the family of god.
  • 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.922
  • It gives us humility.
  • 00:15:09.922 --> 00:15:13.092
  • Humility to know who you are, know who i am.
  • 00:15:13.092 --> 00:15:16.128
  • What i'm about, what my purpose is, what my calling.
  • 00:15:16.128 --> 00:15:18.931
  • We have humility and we don't sit too high, we don't sink
  • 00:15:18.931 --> 00:15:22.301
  • Too low.
  • 00:15:22.301 --> 00:15:23.635
  • We have humility because we know that god has a plan and
  • 00:15:23.635 --> 00:15:26.238
  • A purpose for your life and my life in the body of faith,
  • 00:15:26.238 --> 00:15:29.608
  • The church.
  • 00:15:29.608 --> 00:15:32.344
  • Also, we see not only does transformation produce humility,
  • 00:15:32.344 --> 00:15:37.182
  • But also transformation produces unity in diversity and look how
  • 00:15:37.182 --> 00:15:42.121
  • That works.
  • 00:15:42.121 --> 00:15:43.455
  • Look at verse 4: "for just as we have many members of one body
  • 00:15:43.455 --> 00:15:48.260
  • And all the members do not have the same function," wait
  • 00:15:48.260 --> 00:15:51.163
  • A minute.
  • 00:15:51.163 --> 00:15:52.498
  • That's the physical body, okay?
  • 00:15:52.498 --> 00:15:55.334
  • We have many members.
  • 00:15:55.334 --> 00:15:57.102
  • My big toe has never got in a argument with my ear as to
  • 00:15:57.102 --> 00:16:01.340
  • Who is the most important.
  • 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:02.708
  • Never has that. maybe it has with you.
  • 00:16:02.708 --> 00:16:05.277
  • I've never experienced that, you know.
  • 00:16:05.277 --> 00:16:06.612
  • My hand doesn't say, "oh, i wish i were a nose.
  • 00:16:06.612 --> 00:16:09.515
  • I'd love to be a nose."
  • 00:16:09.515 --> 00:16:10.849
  • "oh, i'm sorry.
  • 00:16:10.849 --> 00:16:12.418
  • Maybe next time."
  • 00:16:12.418 --> 00:16:15.654
  • You know, our bodies, our physical bodies, move in
  • 00:16:15.654 --> 00:16:18.891
  • Harmony, that everything has a purpose.
  • 00:16:18.891 --> 00:16:21.126
  • Does anybody here know the purpose of your cuticle?
  • 00:16:21.126 --> 00:16:24.329
  • Now, don't just make up something.
  • 00:16:24.329 --> 00:16:26.131
  • You really have to know.
  • 00:16:26.131 --> 00:16:28.400
  • I didn't know.
  • 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:29.735
  • I asked the other group, somebody raised their hand and
  • 00:16:29.735 --> 00:16:31.403
  • Said, you know, "it holds the fingernail together."
  • 00:16:31.403 --> 00:16:33.439
  • No, no, no, no.
  • 00:16:33.439 --> 00:16:34.773
  • What's the purpose of your cuticle?
  • 00:16:34.773 --> 00:16:36.141
  • Be careful.
  • 00:16:36.141 --> 00:16:38.110
  • Very few people know.
  • 00:16:38.110 --> 00:16:39.445
  • It's a sealer.
  • 00:16:39.445 --> 00:16:41.146
  • It seals and it has a direct effect upon not only holding
  • 00:16:41.146 --> 00:16:46.685
  • Your nail in place but your sense of touch.
  • 00:16:46.685 --> 00:16:48.921
  • What is your nail for?
  • 00:16:48.921 --> 00:16:50.322
  • It is a shell in which our fingers sit and therefore it
  • 00:16:50.322 --> 00:16:54.126
  • Keeps the sensitivity there.
  • 00:16:54.126 --> 00:16:55.694
  • If you lose your nail, you begin slowly to lose sensitivity
  • 00:16:55.694 --> 00:16:58.997
  • In your members.
  • 00:16:58.997 --> 00:17:00.332
  • A nail is a protective thing. it has a purpose.
  • 00:17:00.332 --> 00:17:02.935
  • Your eyebrow has a purpose. your ear lobe has a purpose.
  • 00:17:02.935 --> 00:17:06.171
  • Everything about this body has a purpose.
  • 00:17:06.171 --> 00:17:08.907
  • We weren't just thrown together.
  • 00:17:08.907 --> 00:17:11.376
  • It wasn't a chance of atoms coming together as the humanists
  • 00:17:11.376 --> 00:17:14.713
  • Believe, a process of some kind of evolution.
  • 00:17:14.713 --> 00:17:17.883
  • Let me show you what this human body is, how divinely designed
  • 00:17:17.883 --> 00:17:22.354
  • It is.
  • 00:17:22.354 --> 00:17:23.689
  • Look at it on the screen.
  • 00:17:23.689 --> 00:17:25.023
  • We have 200 bones, 600 muscles, 7.5 trillion cells, almost
  • 00:17:25.023 --> 00:17:32.598
  • As much as we owe.
  • 00:17:32.598 --> 00:17:36.068
  • More complex than the most advanced computer.
  • 00:17:36.068 --> 00:17:39.705
  • Each cell has 200 trillion tiny groups of atoms called
  • 00:17:39.705 --> 00:17:45.544
  • Protein molecules.
  • 00:17:45.544 --> 00:17:48.013
  • The largest molecule is called dna, carries hereditary
  • 00:17:48.013 --> 00:17:52.084
  • Information from the parents to the offspring, also carries
  • 00:17:52.084 --> 00:17:55.921
  • Genetic code.
  • 00:17:55.921 --> 00:17:57.256
  • It determines if you'll be a man or a mammal.
  • 00:17:57.256 --> 00:18:01.460
  • Unbelievable.
  • 00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:03.128
  • Dna is one cell-- is one cell, follow this, 6 feet long.
  • 00:18:03.128 --> 00:18:08.867
  • Total dna in your body, and my body, would fill a box the size
  • 00:18:08.867 --> 00:18:14.506
  • Of an ice cube.
  • 00:18:14.506 --> 00:18:16.108
  • But if it were joined together, it would reach to the sun and
  • 00:18:16.108 --> 00:18:19.978
  • Back 600 times.
  • 00:18:19.978 --> 00:18:25.217
  • Your dna, my dna, put it in the size of an ice cube, but stretch
  • 00:18:25.217 --> 00:18:30.722
  • It out, it would reach the sun and back 600 times.
  • 00:18:30.722 --> 00:18:38.630
  • All our cells contain the information found in all the
  • 00:18:38.630 --> 00:18:41.600
  • Other cells.
  • 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:42.935
  • Each cell in your body carries all the necessary information
  • 00:18:42.935 --> 00:18:45.704
  • For another you.
  • 00:18:45.704 --> 00:18:47.439
  • Are we fearfully and wonderfully made or what?
  • 00:18:47.439 --> 00:18:55.414
  • Paul is saying, "the body designed, given by god, to
  • 00:18:55.414 --> 00:19:01.053
  • Function together.
  • 00:19:01.053 --> 00:19:03.188
  • We need all the members of it.
  • 00:19:03.188 --> 00:19:05.324
  • One part is no better than the other part.
  • 00:19:05.324 --> 00:19:08.160
  • They function together."
  • 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:09.595
  • And look, he says the same thing about the church.
  • 00:19:09.595 --> 00:19:12.998
  • That's why god has built his body, the church.
  • 00:19:12.998 --> 00:19:16.902
  • "so we, who are many, are one body in christ," verse 5, "and
  • 00:19:16.902 --> 00:19:21.607
  • Individually members one of another."
  • 00:19:21.607 --> 00:19:24.676
  • We lean on one another.
  • 00:19:24.676 --> 00:19:27.746
  • It's the body of the church.
  • 00:19:27.746 --> 00:19:29.514
  • It's like we're a symphony orchestra for god.
  • 00:19:29.514 --> 00:19:32.484
  • All of us have a part in the orchestra, right?
  • 00:19:32.484 --> 00:19:35.153
  • Man, you have, over here, you have the strings.
  • 00:19:35.153 --> 00:19:38.357
  • Boy, i love the strings.
  • 00:19:38.357 --> 00:19:40.058
  • You know, the violin, the cello, oh, the bass violin.
  • 00:19:40.058 --> 00:19:45.197
  • Boy, we have the strings in orchestra.
  • 00:19:45.197 --> 00:19:47.266
  • You can't just have the strings.
  • 00:19:47.266 --> 00:19:48.600
  • You also have to have the percussion.
  • 00:19:48.600 --> 00:19:51.203
  • It seems like there's more of them than anybody else.
  • 00:19:51.203 --> 00:19:54.006
  • That's the drums, that's the cymbals.
  • 00:19:54.006 --> 00:19:56.275
  • That's all-- they gotta have percussion often.
  • 00:19:56.275 --> 00:19:58.777
  • And you gotta have the woodwinds: the clarinets,
  • 00:19:58.777 --> 00:20:02.247
  • The flutes, the sax, the piccolo.
  • 00:20:02.247 --> 00:20:03.749
  • Yeah, you gotta have the woodwinds, you know, and you
  • 00:20:03.749 --> 00:20:06.285
  • Gotta have the brass, the trumpets, the trombones,
  • 00:20:06.285 --> 00:20:09.988
  • The french horns.
  • 00:20:09.988 --> 00:20:11.323
  • It takes everybody in the symphony to produce the
  • 00:20:11.323 --> 00:20:15.927
  • Beautiful music that is there.
  • 00:20:15.927 --> 00:20:17.696
  • So it is, the body of christ, the church.
  • 00:20:17.696 --> 00:20:21.300
  • And we have the same score.
  • 00:20:21.300 --> 00:20:25.337
  • We've got the same music, don't we, right here?
  • 00:20:25.337 --> 00:20:28.907
  • And we have the holy spirit as the conductor.
  • 00:20:28.907 --> 00:20:32.411
  • What if somebody didn't show up?
  • 00:20:32.411 --> 00:20:35.747
  • Ooh, we sure needed that bass horn.
  • 00:20:35.747 --> 00:20:40.919
  • Oh, what if somebody is a little sharp.
  • 00:20:40.919 --> 00:20:44.089
  • Oh boy, that messes up the whole thing we're trying to sing here.
  • 00:20:44.089 --> 00:20:50.696
  • What if somebody is out of tune?
  • 00:20:50.696 --> 00:20:54.433
  • Oh, it didn't come.
  • 00:20:54.433 --> 00:20:55.967
  • But what if, by the holy spirit, we're using our giftedness as
  • 00:20:55.967 --> 00:21:01.540
  • God has given us, whatever that role may be, whatever instrument
  • 00:21:01.540 --> 00:21:05.110
  • We play in the orchestra or the church.
  • 00:21:05.110 --> 00:21:08.013
  • My goodness, it is a magnificent sound and people want to be
  • 00:21:08.013 --> 00:21:13.819
  • A part of it and they want to get there.
  • 00:21:13.819 --> 00:21:16.021
  • If we put a moat around the church and fill it with sharks
  • 00:21:16.021 --> 00:21:19.424
  • And barracudas and put armed guards with machine guns and
  • 00:21:19.424 --> 00:21:23.195
  • Said, "anybody who tries to get in this church, well, either
  • 00:21:23.195 --> 00:21:25.297
  • They're gonna be eaten up or they're gonna be shot."
  • 00:21:25.297 --> 00:21:28.133
  • We built high walls around it because the music of the church
  • 00:21:28.133 --> 00:21:32.604
  • Would be so magnificent, it would be so warm, we'd all be
  • 00:21:32.604 --> 00:21:36.708
  • Serving and playing our role.
  • 00:21:36.708 --> 00:21:38.510
  • People would be trying any way they could to come and be a part
  • 00:21:38.510 --> 00:21:43.315
  • Of a family of god like this.
  • 00:21:43.315 --> 00:21:46.318
  • That's the orchestra.
  • 00:21:46.318 --> 00:21:48.253
  • What if everybody in the church were like you or like me?
  • 00:21:48.253 --> 00:21:53.325
  • What kind of church would we have?
  • 00:21:53.325 --> 00:21:56.428
  • Man, paul says, "man, use the giftedness he's given every one
  • 00:21:56.428 --> 00:22:02.367
  • Of us."
  • 00:22:02.367 --> 00:22:03.702
  • And then he gives a list of gifts in the bible, four
  • 00:22:03.702 --> 00:22:06.605
  • Clear places.
  • 00:22:06.605 --> 00:22:08.407
  • 1 corinthians chapter 12, ephesians 4, 1 peter 4,
  • 00:22:08.407 --> 00:22:13.245
  • And romans 12.
  • 00:22:13.245 --> 00:22:14.780
  • And these are all partial lists, but they're long lists.
  • 00:22:14.780 --> 00:22:18.617
  • By the way, you say, "what can i do in the church?"
  • 00:22:18.617 --> 00:22:21.153
  • We have hundreds of positions here, just waiting for you to
  • 00:22:21.153 --> 00:22:25.090
  • Show up and claim them.
  • 00:22:25.090 --> 00:22:26.425
  • You say, "well, i went there and tried that, and that
  • 00:22:26.425 --> 00:22:28.393
  • Didn't work."
  • 00:22:28.393 --> 00:22:29.728
  • Well, hello?
  • 00:22:29.728 --> 00:22:32.030
  • "i went and tried the violin.
  • 00:22:32.030 --> 00:22:33.698
  • I took two lessons and, you know, i couldn't play
  • 00:22:33.698 --> 00:22:35.567
  • The violin.
  • 00:22:35.567 --> 00:22:36.902
  • I don't--" maybe you ought to play something else.
  • 00:22:36.902 --> 00:22:40.972
  • In other words.
  • 00:22:40.972 --> 00:22:42.307
  • There's a-- an instrument, there's a role that will use
  • 00:22:42.307 --> 00:22:44.443
  • Your gifts.
  • 00:22:44.443 --> 00:22:45.777
  • You say, "well, i think my gift is this."
  • 00:22:45.777 --> 00:22:47.112
  • It may not be that.
  • 00:22:47.112 --> 00:22:48.447
  • My gift and your gift has to be affirmed by the body
  • 00:22:48.447 --> 00:22:51.583
  • That helps us.
  • 00:22:51.583 --> 00:22:52.918
  • But there's a role we can play.
  • 00:22:52.918 --> 00:22:54.252
  • You say, "well, this gift is so small."
  • 00:22:54.252 --> 00:22:56.855
  • Listen, little is much when god is in it.
  • 00:22:56.855 --> 00:22:59.758
  • Have you discovered that?
  • 00:22:59.758 --> 00:23:02.027
  • It's much when god-- whatever that gift may be.
  • 00:23:02.027 --> 00:23:04.596
  • I know people that are totally incapacitated and now they've
  • 00:23:04.596 --> 00:23:07.766
  • Become tremendous prayer warriors.
  • 00:23:07.766 --> 00:23:10.535
  • I call them and say, "pray about this."
  • 00:23:10.535 --> 00:23:12.204
  • And i know, man, heaven's fortress is being bombarded
  • 00:23:12.204 --> 00:23:17.709
  • With people who are interceding.
  • 00:23:17.709 --> 00:23:19.778
  • You see, we have ministry here and here's seven of those gifts
  • 00:23:19.778 --> 00:23:24.182
  • That are there that god gives the church.
  • 00:23:24.182 --> 00:23:26.284
  • There are many in the other listings here.
  • 00:23:26.284 --> 00:23:27.886
  • Let's look at them.
  • 00:23:27.886 --> 00:23:29.221
  • And this means that, remember where we are, because we've been
  • 00:23:29.221 --> 00:23:32.090
  • Transformed, presenting our body, renewing our minds.
  • 00:23:32.090 --> 00:23:36.495
  • We know the will of god and transformation gives us
  • 00:23:36.495 --> 00:23:40.499
  • Genuine humility.
  • 00:23:40.499 --> 00:23:42.267
  • Transformation shows us unity and diversity in the body in the
  • 00:23:42.267 --> 00:23:46.171
  • Church of the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:23:46.171 --> 00:23:47.873
  • And now transformation gives us ministry.
  • 00:23:47.873 --> 00:23:50.942
  • We have a role to play. what's some of these ministries?
  • 00:23:50.942 --> 00:23:53.945
  • Let's look at them. he lists them.
  • 00:23:53.945 --> 00:23:56.548
  • Verse number 5: "since we have gifts that differ according to
  • 00:23:56.548 --> 00:23:59.017
  • The grace given to each one of us to exercise them accordingly,
  • 00:23:59.017 --> 00:24:03.355
  • If prophecy, according to the proportion of our faith."
  • 00:24:03.355 --> 00:24:07.192
  • Prophecy.
  • 00:24:07.192 --> 00:24:08.527
  • Prophecy in the new testament does not mean to predict.
  • 00:24:08.527 --> 00:24:14.332
  • It's not to predict.
  • 00:24:14.332 --> 00:24:16.234
  • It is not to-- it is to proclaim forth.
  • 00:24:16.234 --> 00:24:19.604
  • It is to speak. the gift of prophecy.
  • 00:24:19.604 --> 00:24:22.974
  • We have the ability to speak.
  • 00:24:22.974 --> 00:24:24.376
  • A lot of people think, "well, i can teach."
  • 00:24:24.376 --> 00:24:26.811
  • Well, the gift of speaking prophecy will be affirmed
  • 00:24:26.811 --> 00:24:29.548
  • By people.
  • 00:24:29.548 --> 00:24:30.882
  • And we know that when we have this gift, people listen to us,
  • 00:24:30.882 --> 00:24:35.620
  • That's a good test.
  • 00:24:35.620 --> 00:24:36.955
  • Look over in judges.
  • 00:24:36.955 --> 00:24:39.090
  • Tremendous little verse here.
  • 00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:40.959
  • 1 samuel chapter number 3, excuse me.
  • 00:24:40.959 --> 00:24:43.161
  • In samuel, 1 samuel 3, it says: "thus, samuel grew and the lord
  • 00:24:43.161 --> 00:24:47.632
  • Was with him.
  • 00:24:47.632 --> 00:24:49.000
  • Let none of his words fail."
  • 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.002
  • And really, one translation: "none of his words fall on
  • 00:24:51.002 --> 00:24:53.405
  • The ground."
  • 00:24:53.405 --> 00:24:54.739
  • When you speak, as i speak, i know sometimes my words go...
  • 00:24:54.739 --> 00:25:00.579
  • Other times i know my words go...
  • 00:25:00.579 --> 00:25:03.415
  • Like an arrow.
  • 00:25:03.415 --> 00:25:05.050
  • You see, the gift-- the person who has the gift of prophecy,
  • 00:25:05.050 --> 00:25:07.919
  • You know intuitively, that there are words that god gives and god
  • 00:25:07.919 --> 00:25:11.590
  • Speaks and... they go like an arrow.
  • 00:25:11.590 --> 00:25:15.260
  • Like an arrow.
  • 00:25:15.260 --> 00:25:16.595
  • And they hit home and they have power in them, not of the
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  • Speaker, but this is a part of the gift, part of the gift
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  • Of prophecy.
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  • Look at the next gift that we have here.
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  • A list of them.
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  • Go back to romans chapter number 12, if you flipped over
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  • There with me.
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  • It says: "if service, in serving then."
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  • The gift of service.
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  • You say, "well, i don't know if i have that gift or not."
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  • You see something that needs to be done, you start doing it, you
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  • May have that gift.
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  • And look at the service gifts that operate in this church.
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  • My goodness, it's unbelievable.
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  • Who turned the lights on?
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  • Who cleans up? who moves out over here?
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  • Who does this? who's on that mission project?
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  • Who went to that home? who's at that rest home?
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  • Who was mentors of that kid? what happened in that death?
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  • What happened in that divorce? what happened in that heartache?
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  • What happened in the economic crisis?
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  • We've got people serving a multiplicity, thousands and
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  • Thousands of ways.
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  • Every day, the gift of service is being used.
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  • Do you have that gift?
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  • Ed: i'm amazed when i look at a caterpillar.
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  • God designed it with all the dna to become a beautiful butterfly.
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  • You and i are a lot like that caterpillar.
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  • God has a design for our lives and wants to transform us into
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  • Something beautiful but many times we're content with aging
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  • Along in life like that caterpillar.
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  • Do you want to experience the transformation that god has
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  • Designed for you?
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  • Transform you.
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