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Ed Young - Discovering and Using Your Gift (Part 2)

December 10, 2024 | 27:29

Ed Young - Discovering and Using Your Gift (Part 2)
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Discovering and Using Your Gift (Part 2) | December 10, 2024
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  • Dr. ed young: "for through grace," charis, "given to me i
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  • Say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself
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  • Than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound
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  • Judgment, as god has allotted to each a measure of faith."
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  • 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 braggadocious person: "well, let
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  • Me tell you where i've been.
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  • Let me tell you who i know.
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  • Let me tell you what i have.
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  • Let me tell you what i can do.
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  • And--" those kind of folks are kind of obvious, i don't know
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  • Why they can't figure it out, but evidently we can't.
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  • And the braggadocious, we sit too high and, by the way, a part
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  • Of being braggadocious is, let's say, for example, that i was
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  • A part of the making of that pulpit and the lady in my church
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  • Made it if i'm not mistaken and she does this and you would say
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  • To me, "boy," and i would say, "you know, that pulpit didn't
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  • Turn out like i thought it would."
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  • You say, "oh no, it's really good, ed.
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  • That's a good-looking pulpit."
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  • "well, tell me why you think it's good-looking.
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  • I mean, you know--" we play modest.
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  • "oh, that's a good sermon, pastor."
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  • "no, it wasn't any good.
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  • You know, what do you think was good about it?"
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  • "well, it was good you said this."
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  • "what else was good?"
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  • "it was good--" you know, i-- we're hunting for people to
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  • Boast us up in our false humility.
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  • Don't sit there so pious, you do that.
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  • So we can sit too high and we can sink too low.
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  • Paul says faith gives us the ability to rightly estimate who
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  • We are and what we're about and how we fit into the family of
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  • God, our calling in the family of god.
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  • It gives us humility.
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  • Humility to know who you are, know who i am, what i'm about,
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  • What my purpose is, what my calling.
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  • We have humility and we don't sit too high, we don't sink
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  • Too low.
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  • We have humility because we know that god has a plan and a
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  • Purpose for your life and my life in the body of faith,
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  • The church.
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  • Also we see not only does transformation produce humility,
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  • But also transformation produces unity in diversity and look how
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  • That works.
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  • Look at verse 4: "for just as we have many members of one body
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  • And all the members do not have the same function."
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  • Wait a minute, that's the physical body, okay?
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  • We have many members.
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  • My big toe has never gotten an argument with my ear as to who
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  • Is the most important.
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  • Never has that-- maybe it has with you.
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  • I've never experienced that.
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  • You know, my hand doesn't say, "oh, i wish i were a nose.
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  • I'd love to be a nose."
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  • Oh, i'm sorry.
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  • Maybe next time.
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  • You know, our bodies, our physical bodies, move in harmony
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  • That everything has a purpose.
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  • Does anybody here know the purpose of your cuticle?
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  • Now, don't just make up something.
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  • You really have to know.
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  • I didn't know.
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  • I asked the other group, somebody raised their hand and
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  • Said, you know, "it holds the fingernail together."
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  • No, no, no, no.
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  • What's the purpose of your cuticle?
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  • Be careful.
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  • Very few people know.
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  • It's a sealer.
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  • It seals and it has a direct effect upon not only holding
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  • Your nail in place but your sense of touch.
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  • What is your nail for?
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  • It is a shell in which our fingers sit and therefore it
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  • Keeps the sensitivity there.
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  • If you lose your nail, you begin slowly to lose sensitivity in
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  • Your members.
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  • A nail is a protective thing.
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  • It has a purpose.
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  • Your eyebrow has a purpose, your ear lobe has a purpose.
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  • Everything about this body has a purpose.
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  • We weren't just thrown together.
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  • It wasn't a chance of atoms coming together as the humanists
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  • Believe, a process of some kind of evolution.
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  • Let me show you what this human body is, how divinely designed
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  • It is.
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  • Look at it on the screen.
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  • We have 200 bones, 600 muscles, 7.5 trillion cells, almost
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  • As much as we owe.
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  • More complex than the most advanced computer.
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  • Each cell has 200 trillion tiny groups of atoms called
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  • Protein molecules.
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  • The largest molecule is called dna, carries hereditary
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  • Information from the parents to the offspring.
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  • Also carries genetic code.
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  • It determines if you'll be a man or a mammoth.
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  • Unbelievable.
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  • Dna is one cell--is one cell, follow this, 6 feet long, total
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  • Dna in your body and my body would fill a box the size of an
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  • Ice cube.
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  • But if it were joined together, it would reach to the sun and
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  • Back 600 times.
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  • Your dna, my dna, put it in the size of an ice cube, but stretch
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  • It out, it would reach the sun and back 600 times.
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  • All our cells contain the information found in
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  • All the other cells.
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  • Each cell in your body carries all the necessary information
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  • For another you.
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  • Are we fearfully and wonderfully made or what?
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  • Paul is saying the body designed, given, by god to
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  • Function together.
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  • We need all the members of it.
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  • One part is no better than the other part.
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  • They function together.
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  • And look, he says the same thing about the church.
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  • That's why god has built his body, the church.
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  • "so we, who are many, are one body in christ," verse 5, "and
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  • Individually members one of another."
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  • We lean on one another.
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  • It's the body of the church.
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  • It's like we're a symphony orchestra for god.
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  • All of us have a part in the orchestra, right?
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  • Man, you have over here, you have the strings.
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  • Boy, i love the strings.
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  • You know, the violin, the cello, or the bass violin.
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  • Boy, we have the strings in orchestra.
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  • You can't just have the strings.
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  • You also have to have the percussion.
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  • It seems like there's more of them than anybody else.
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  • That's the drums, that's the cymbals.
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  • That's all--they've gotta have percussion often.
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  • And you gotta have the woodwinds: the clarinets, the
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  • Flutes, the sax, the piccolo.
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  • Yeah, you gotta have the woodwinds, you know, and you
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  • Gotta have the brass: the trumpets, the trombones, the
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  • French horns.
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  • It takes everybody in the symphony to produce the
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  • Beautiful music that is there.
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  • So it is the body of christ, the church, and we have
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  • The same score.
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  • We've got the same music, don't we, right here?
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  • And we have the holy spirit as the conductor.
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  • What if somebody didn't show up?
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  • Ooh, we sure needed that bass horn.
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  • Oh, what if somebody is a little sharp?
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  • Oh boy, that messes up the whole thing we're trying to sing here.
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  • What if somebody is out of tune?
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  • Oh, it didn't--
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  • But what if, by the holy spirit, we're using our giftedness as
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  • God has given us, whatever that role may be, whatever instrument
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  • We play in the orchestra of the church.
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  • My goodness, it is a magnificent sound and people want to be a
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  • Part of it and they want to get there.
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  • If we put a moat around the church and fill it with sharks
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  • And barracudas and put armed guards with machine guns and
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  • Said, "anybody who tries to get in this church, well, they're
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  • Gonna be eaten up or they're gonna be shot."
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  • We built high walls around it because the music of the church
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  • Would be so magnificent, it would be so warm, we'd all be
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  • Serving and playing our role.
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  • People would be trying any way they could to come and be a part
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  • Of a family of god like this.
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  • That's the orchestra.
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  • What if everybody in the church were like you or like me,
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • Man!
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  • Paul says, "man, use the giftedness he's given every one
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  • Of us."
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  • And then he gives a list of gifts in the bible, four clear
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  • Places: 1 corinthians chapter 12, ephesians 4, 1 peter 4, and
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  • Romans 12.
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  • And these are all partial lists, but they're a long list.
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  • By the way, you say, "what can i do in the church?"
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  • We have hundreds of positions here just waiting for you to
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  • Show up and claim them.
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  • You say, "well, i went there and tried that, and that
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  • Didn't work."
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  • Well, hello?
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  • "i went and tried the violin.
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  • I took two lessons and, you know, i couldn't play
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  • The violin.
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  • I don't--" maybe you ought to play something else.
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  • In other words, there's a--an instrument, there's a role that
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  • Will use your gifts.
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  • You say, "well, i think my gift is this."
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  • It may not be that.
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  • My gift and your gift has to be affirmed by the body that
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  • Helps us.
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  • But there's a role we can play.
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  • You say, "well, this gift is so small."
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  • Listen, little is much when god is in it.
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  • Have you discovered that?
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  • It's much when god--whatever that gift may be.
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  • I know people that are totally incapacitated and now they've
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  • Become tremendous prayer warriors.
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  • I call them and say, "pray about this," and i know, man, heaven's
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  • Fortress is being bombarded with people who are interceding.
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  • You see, we have ministry here and here's seven of those gifts
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  • That are there that god gives the church.
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  • There are many in the other listings here.
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  • Let's look at them.
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  • And this means that--remember where we are, because we've been
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  • Transformed, presenting our body, renewing our minds, we
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  • Know the will of god, and transformation gives us
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  • Genuine humility.
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  • Transformation shows us unity and diversity in the body, in
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  • The church of the lord jesus christ, and our transformation
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  • Gives us ministry.
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  • We have a role to play.
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  • What's some of these ministries?
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  • Let's look at them. he lists them.
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  • Verse number 5: "since we have gifts that differ according to
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  • The grace given to each one of us to exercise them accordingly,
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  • If prophecy, according to the proportion of our faith."
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  • Prophecy.
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  • Prophecy in the new testament does not mean to predict.
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  • It's not to predict.
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  • It is not to--it is to proclaim forth, it is to speak.
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  • The gift of prophecy.
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  • We have the ability to speak.
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  • A lot of people think, "well, i can teach."
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  • Well, the gift of speaking prophecy will be affirmed
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  • By people.
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  • And we know that when we have this gift, people listen to us.
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  • That's a good test.
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  • Look over in judges, tremendous little verse here.
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  • 1 samuel chapter number 3, excuse me, in samuel, 1 samuel
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  • 3, it says: "thus, samuel grew, and the lord was with him; let
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  • None of his words fail."
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  • And really, one translation: "none of his words fall on
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  • The ground."
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  • When you speak, as i speak, i know sometimes my words go--
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  • Oooh--boom.
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  • Other times i know my words go--shooo, like an arrow.
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  • You see, the gift--the person who has the gift of prophecy,
  • 00:12:06.705 --> 00:12:09.475
  • You know, intuitively, that there are words that god gives
  • 00:12:09.475 --> 00:12:12.645
  • And god speaks, they--pew, they go like an arrow.
  • 00:12:12.645 --> 00:12:17.149
  • Like an arrow, and they hit home and they have power in them, not
  • 00:12:17.149 --> 00:12:20.586
  • Of the speaker, but this is a part of the gift.
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  • Part of the gift of prophecy.
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  • Look at the next gift that we have here, a list of them.
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  • Go back to romans chapter number 12, if you flipped over there
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  • 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
  • 00:12:41.073 --> 00:12:42.875
  • May have that gift.
  • 00:12:42.875 --> 00:12:44.610
  • And look at the service gifts that operate in this church.
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  • My goodness, it's unbelievable.
  • 00:12:47.413 --> 00:12:49.582
  • Who turned the lights on, who cleans up?
  • 00:12:49.582 --> 00:12:51.483
  • Who moves out over here?
  • 00:12:51.483 --> 00:12:52.818
  • Who does this?
  • 00:12:52.818 --> 00:12:54.153
  • Who's on that mission project?
  • 00:12:54.153 --> 00:12:55.487
  • Who went to that home? who was at that rest home?
  • 00:12:55.487 --> 00:12:57.323
  • Who was mentoring that kid?
  • 00:12:57.323 --> 00:12:58.657
  • What happened in that death?
  • 00:12:58.657 --> 00:12:59.992
  • What happened in that divorce?
  • 00:12:59.992 --> 00:13:01.327
  • What happened in that heartache?
  • 00:13:01.327 --> 00:13:02.661
  • What happened in the economic crisis?
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  • We've got people serving a multiplicity, thousands and
  • 00:13:03.996 --> 00:13:07.466
  • Thousands of ways.
  • 00:13:07.466 --> 00:13:09.034
  • Every day, the gift of service is being used.
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  • Do you have that gift?
  • 00:13:12.271 --> 00:13:14.306
  • And by the way, you need to operate primarily inside
  • 00:13:14.306 --> 00:13:16.175
  • Your gift.
  • 00:13:16.175 --> 00:13:17.509
  • A lot of times i'm studying and i go up to the church and i know
  • 00:13:17.509 --> 00:13:20.913
  • I have to spend time in the word.
  • 00:13:20.913 --> 00:13:23.249
  • I spend 20 to 30 hours every single week alone with
  • 00:13:23.249 --> 00:13:28.254
  • That book.
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  • I'm a slow learner.
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  • I have to do it.
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  • I really am.
  • 00:13:32.791 --> 00:13:34.126
  • And therefore, a lot of times, i'm going, somebody be going off
  • 00:13:34.126 --> 00:13:36.328
  • And say, well, this week, said, "we're going to build
  • 00:13:36.328 --> 00:13:38.631
  • Some houses.
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  • Come help us, pastor."
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  • I'd love to.
  • 00:13:41.300 --> 00:13:42.635
  • A lot more thrilling out there than in the book, seeking god's
  • 00:13:42.635 --> 00:13:46.338
  • Voice and mind to deal with me first and then what he would
  • 00:13:46.338 --> 00:13:49.375
  • Have me to say on behalf of the lord.
  • 00:13:49.375 --> 00:13:51.577
  • That's overwhelming to me.
  • 00:13:51.577 --> 00:13:53.612
  • Overwhelming to me.
  • 00:13:53.612 --> 00:13:54.947
  • I'd rather go build a house.
  • 00:13:54.947 --> 00:13:56.849
  • You see, i'm a shepherd.
  • 00:13:56.849 --> 00:13:58.183
  • A shepherd loves to be with sheep, but i have to exercise
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  • Inside my gifts.
  • 00:14:00.386 --> 00:14:02.554
  • I'd love to go to that mission trip that's going to india.
  • 00:14:02.554 --> 00:14:05.257
  • Man, i would be thrilled to go.
  • 00:14:05.257 --> 00:14:06.992
  • I know i can't do that.
  • 00:14:06.992 --> 00:14:08.627
  • So you gotta decide your gifts and find out what they are and
  • 00:14:08.627 --> 00:14:10.930
  • Use your time, your effort and energy to use those gifts.
  • 00:14:10.930 --> 00:14:14.433
  • Doesn't mean we don't have more than one gift.
  • 00:14:14.433 --> 00:14:16.602
  • It doesn't mean that all of us will not just do anything we
  • 00:14:16.602 --> 00:14:18.671
  • Have to do to enhance the church.
  • 00:14:18.671 --> 00:14:21.507
  • Certainly we work outside of our gifts but find out what your
  • 00:14:21.507 --> 00:14:24.076
  • Gift is and use it.
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  • If it's prophecy, tell forth.
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  • If it's service, serve.
  • 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:29.615
  • If it's teaching--that's the next gift.
  • 00:14:29.615 --> 00:14:31.617
  • Teaching has an unusual calling about it.
  • 00:14:31.617 --> 00:14:35.120
  • It means that you really spend time in the book here.
  • 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.424
  • It says: "in teaching, teach."
  • 00:14:38.424 --> 00:14:41.694
  • Teachers who teach--by the way, after every one of these gifts,
  • 00:14:41.694 --> 00:14:44.596
  • There is a verb.
  • 00:14:44.596 --> 00:14:46.999
  • You don't just have prophecy, you prophesy.
  • 00:14:46.999 --> 00:14:49.735
  • You don't have the gift of teaching, you teach.
  • 00:14:49.735 --> 00:14:52.838
  • I saw last week a man who taught for several years in our church.
  • 00:14:52.838 --> 00:14:56.608
  • I mean, he was a terrific bible teacher, but he's no
  • 00:14:56.608 --> 00:15:00.412
  • Longer teaching.
  • 00:15:00.412 --> 00:15:01.981
  • He hadn't taught for about 4 years.
  • 00:15:01.981 --> 00:15:04.416
  • You see, his children left home, he and his wife go places
  • 00:15:04.416 --> 00:15:07.886
  • At the weekend.
  • 00:15:07.886 --> 00:15:09.321
  • They may go to a football game, they may go here, there, yon,
  • 00:15:09.321 --> 00:15:12.057
  • And they say, "you know, we're just doing so many things.
  • 00:15:12.057 --> 00:15:14.526
  • I don't have time to teach right now."
  • 00:15:14.526 --> 00:15:18.030
  • Now, over the years, he said, "wait till my children leave,
  • 00:15:18.030 --> 00:15:20.299
  • I'll really have time to give the church."
  • 00:15:20.299 --> 00:15:21.934
  • No, they have time for themselves.
  • 00:15:21.934 --> 00:15:23.435
  • I can tell you he hadn't taught for 3 or 4 years.
  • 00:15:23.435 --> 00:15:25.304
  • I can tell you his gift of teaching has begun
  • 00:15:25.304 --> 00:15:27.539
  • To shrivel up.
  • 00:15:27.539 --> 00:15:29.842
  • When you use a gift, it gets bigger.
  • 00:15:29.842 --> 00:15:32.444
  • It has more significance, whether it's teaching or
  • 00:15:32.444 --> 00:15:36.415
  • Prophecy, whether it's service.
  • 00:15:36.415 --> 00:15:39.218
  • Oh yeah, that's the way god operates.
  • 00:15:39.218 --> 00:15:41.420
  • He gives us this book, saying, just as much faith we need to
  • 00:15:41.420 --> 00:15:45.257
  • Handle the gift that he's given to you and me.
  • 00:15:45.257 --> 00:15:48.460
  • So teaching is a very, very important gift that has
  • 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:51.563
  • Tremendous responsibility with it.
  • 00:15:51.563 --> 00:15:53.999
  • Look at the next gift here.
  • 00:15:53.999 --> 00:15:55.367
  • "if exhortation."
  • 00:15:55.367 --> 00:15:56.802
  • What's exhortation?
  • 00:15:56.802 --> 00:15:58.137
  • It's to comfort people, it's to encourage people.
  • 00:15:58.137 --> 00:16:01.040
  • Barnabas was the biblical example of exhortation.
  • 00:16:01.040 --> 00:16:04.043
  • Did you know the apostle paul, 10 years after damascus road
  • 00:16:04.043 --> 00:16:08.180
  • Experience, was on the bench?
  • 00:16:08.180 --> 00:16:11.016
  • He wasn't on god's team.
  • 00:16:11.016 --> 00:16:12.985
  • He went home to mama.
  • 00:16:12.985 --> 00:16:14.319
  • He was hiding out in tarsus.
  • 00:16:14.319 --> 00:16:15.921
  • Barnabas had the gift of exhortation.
  • 00:16:15.921 --> 00:16:18.323
  • He said, "where's that guy, saul?
  • 00:16:18.323 --> 00:16:20.492
  • Let's go get him.
  • 00:16:20.492 --> 00:16:21.827
  • We need him. he's a roman citizen.
  • 00:16:21.827 --> 00:16:24.196
  • He's familiar with the jews.
  • 00:16:24.196 --> 00:16:26.698
  • He knows the greeks."
  • 00:16:26.698 --> 00:16:28.233
  • And barnabas encouraged paul to come back and get in god's game
  • 00:16:28.233 --> 00:16:31.970
  • And he did and became the most effective instrument perhaps the
  • 00:16:31.970 --> 00:16:36.442
  • Lord has ever used in his church.
  • 00:16:36.442 --> 00:16:40.546
  • You see, barnabas had the gift of exhortation--he's
  • 00:16:40.546 --> 00:16:43.982
  • A cheerleader.
  • 00:16:43.982 --> 00:16:45.818
  • You cheer people, you encourage people, you build them up, or do
  • 00:16:45.818 --> 00:16:49.755
  • You always see something wrong?
  • 00:16:49.755 --> 00:16:52.324
  • "it was a delicious cake, but the icing was a little thick."
  • 00:16:52.324 --> 00:16:57.529
  • Well, hoorah for you.
  • 00:16:57.529 --> 00:17:00.999
  • The gift of exhortation.
  • 00:17:00.999 --> 00:17:03.168
  • How it needs to be exercised in the church.
  • 00:17:03.168 --> 00:17:06.638
  • And we all can do that.
  • 00:17:06.638 --> 00:17:07.973
  • Some are exceedingly gifted in it.
  • 00:17:07.973 --> 00:17:09.875
  • Doesn't mean phony stuff.
  • 00:17:09.875 --> 00:17:11.543
  • Real stuff.
  • 00:17:11.543 --> 00:17:13.479
  • All right, "and then he who gives with liberality."
  • 00:17:13.479 --> 00:17:17.850
  • By the way, this is not just giving of our means.
  • 00:17:17.850 --> 00:17:20.285
  • This is giving of ourselves.
  • 00:17:20.285 --> 00:17:21.854
  • A lot of people are reticent to make new friends, to get
  • 00:17:21.854 --> 00:17:25.557
  • Involved with new people, to ask leading questions because it may
  • 00:17:25.557 --> 00:17:29.228
  • Cost you something.
  • 00:17:29.228 --> 00:17:32.231
  • They may have some need that you can meet.
  • 00:17:32.231 --> 00:17:35.200
  • They may have a problem you can counsel them about.
  • 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.636
  • Therefore, we sort of don't give ourselves.
  • 00:17:37.636 --> 00:17:40.105
  • We--you know what?
  • 00:17:40.105 --> 00:17:41.440
  • "hello, how are you?" "fine."
  • 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:43.609
  • If they say, "no, i'm not too good."
  • 00:17:43.609 --> 00:17:45.010
  • You say, "oh, i'm sorry..."
  • 00:17:45.010 --> 00:17:47.946
  • "how are you?" "fine.
  • 00:17:47.946 --> 00:17:49.281
  • How are you?" "i'm fine."
  • 00:17:49.281 --> 00:17:50.616
  • "how are the children?" "everybody's fine."
  • 00:17:50.616 --> 00:17:51.950
  • And then the bottoms fall out of your life.
  • 00:17:51.950 --> 00:17:53.285
  • When somebody has the gift of giving, they get, "well, what's
  • 00:17:53.285 --> 00:17:55.721
  • Going on?
  • 00:17:55.721 --> 00:17:57.289
  • How may i help?"
  • 00:17:57.289 --> 00:17:58.624
  • Well, let's listen, let's be a part of the healing, see?
  • 00:17:58.624 --> 00:18:01.226
  • That's you got the gift of giving.
  • 00:18:01.226 --> 00:18:02.895
  • Everybody doesn't have it but you have it.
  • 00:18:02.895 --> 00:18:04.963
  • That's giving.
  • 00:18:04.963 --> 00:18:06.498
  • All right, "give with liberality.
  • 00:18:06.498 --> 00:18:08.367
  • And then he who leads, lead with diligence."
  • 00:18:08.367 --> 00:18:11.603
  • Leadership is the most misunderstood gift i know
  • 00:18:11.603 --> 00:18:14.139
  • Anything about.
  • 00:18:14.139 --> 00:18:15.474
  • It really is.
  • 00:18:15.474 --> 00:18:17.109
  • People think, "well, teach me how to be a leader."
  • 00:18:17.109 --> 00:18:19.311
  • You don't learn how to be a leader.
  • 00:18:19.311 --> 00:18:21.413
  • It is a gift.
  • 00:18:21.413 --> 00:18:23.715
  • If you have the gift, your giftedness can be enhanced, but
  • 00:18:23.715 --> 00:18:26.852
  • It's a gift.
  • 00:18:26.852 --> 00:18:28.820
  • And how we need leaders in the body of christ.
  • 00:18:28.820 --> 00:18:32.324
  • Leading in the marketplace.
  • 00:18:32.324 --> 00:18:34.793
  • Do you know the principle of gleaning?
  • 00:18:34.793 --> 00:18:36.962
  • Gleaning?
  • 00:18:36.962 --> 00:18:38.664
  • Very few people do.
  • 00:18:38.664 --> 00:18:40.165
  • It's an old testament principle.
  • 00:18:40.165 --> 00:18:41.500
  • You read about it in the book of ruth and in other places.
  • 00:18:41.500 --> 00:18:45.470
  • In jewish days when you would own a field, you could harvest
  • 00:18:45.470 --> 00:18:50.342
  • Only the center of your field.
  • 00:18:50.342 --> 00:18:52.578
  • You left the corners of the field that you own for the poor,
  • 00:18:52.578 --> 00:18:57.382
  • For other people to come and harvest.
  • 00:18:57.382 --> 00:19:01.587
  • Now, it was the principle of gleaning.
  • 00:19:01.587 --> 00:19:03.822
  • In other words, you don't take all the profits for yourself.
  • 00:19:03.822 --> 00:19:06.592
  • You share the profits with others.
  • 00:19:06.592 --> 00:19:09.494
  • Francis schaeffer said, "if corporations and companies and
  • 00:19:09.494 --> 00:19:12.531
  • Businesses would do that because they're christian, it would be
  • 00:19:12.531 --> 00:19:16.001
  • The strongest witness we could give to a pagan world."
  • 00:19:16.001 --> 00:19:19.605
  • What am i talking about?
  • 00:19:19.605 --> 00:19:21.607
  • There's been big banana companies and big coffee
  • 00:19:21.607 --> 00:19:24.443
  • Companies going down to central and south america for years.
  • 00:19:24.443 --> 00:19:27.913
  • And there, the people, the underclass in those countries,
  • 00:19:27.913 --> 00:19:32.784
  • Have harvested, grown the coffee and the bananas and
  • 00:19:32.784 --> 00:19:36.221
  • Other products.
  • 00:19:36.221 --> 00:19:37.556
  • And the big corporations in america have paid off all the
  • 00:19:37.556 --> 00:19:41.526
  • Politicians and they have brought all the profits back
  • 00:19:41.526 --> 00:19:44.730
  • Over here for their companies and their corporations and for
  • 00:19:44.730 --> 00:19:47.299
  • 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, maybe 100 years, those peasants are just
  • 00:19:47.299 --> 00:19:52.738
  • As poor as they ever were.
  • 00:19:52.738 --> 00:19:56.608
  • What's wrong with that picture, if we are leaders
  • 00:19:56.608 --> 00:19:59.778
  • In christianity?
  • 00:19:59.778 --> 00:20:02.547
  • It is that certainly people should be paid according to
  • 00:20:02.547 --> 00:20:05.917
  • Their air of responsibility.
  • 00:20:05.917 --> 00:20:07.719
  • But somehow in these central and south american countries,
  • 00:20:07.719 --> 00:20:10.822
  • There's only the real rich and the real poor.
  • 00:20:10.822 --> 00:20:13.025
  • There's no middle class.
  • 00:20:13.025 --> 00:20:14.693
  • Because mainly american corporations have gleaned and
  • 00:20:14.693 --> 00:20:19.197
  • Taken out all the profits and have not shared with the people
  • 00:20:19.197 --> 00:20:23.302
  • Who did the work and therefore their lifestyle has not
  • 00:20:23.302 --> 00:20:26.138
  • Been uplifted.
  • 00:20:26.138 --> 00:20:27.639
  • That is an abomination to god, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:20:27.639 --> 00:20:30.809
  • Now i'm a capitalist, don't misunderstand me, but i am
  • 00:20:33.412 --> 00:20:37.516
  • Saying this should be a part of a christian business.
  • 00:20:37.516 --> 00:20:40.319
  • Chick-fil-a, they operate like that.
  • 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:42.587
  • Hobby lobby, they operate like that.
  • 00:20:42.587 --> 00:20:44.790
  • A lot of little businesses operate like that.
  • 00:20:44.790 --> 00:20:47.392
  • That's the way to operate.
  • 00:20:47.392 --> 00:20:48.860
  • If the boat rises, everybody in the boat goes up with it
  • 00:20:48.860 --> 00:20:52.197
  • Proportionally to their contribution and
  • 00:20:52.197 --> 00:20:54.466
  • Their responsibility.
  • 00:20:54.466 --> 00:20:56.068
  • That is how we need to lead as christians in the marketplace.
  • 00:20:56.068 --> 00:21:01.406
  • Now, you see how these gifts work, not only in the church,
  • 00:21:02.607 --> 00:21:07.279
  • Enhancing the church, but in all areas of life.
  • 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.315
  • And the last gift mentioned is the gift of mercy.
  • 00:21:10.315 --> 00:21:14.453
  • And he says we are to be merciful with cheer.
  • 00:21:14.453 --> 00:21:17.756
  • We gotta be cheerful people who have the gift of mercy.
  • 00:21:17.756 --> 00:21:20.359
  • So what is that talking about?
  • 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:22.327
  • Well, you know, sometimes we hear someone who's been caught
  • 00:21:22.327 --> 00:21:25.097
  • In a unseemly thing and you go and say, "oh, i'm so merciful,
  • 00:21:25.097 --> 00:21:30.369
  • I'm sympathetic with you, but it's about time you got caught."
  • 00:21:30.369 --> 00:21:33.672
  • You know, there can't be mercy with judgment.
  • 00:21:36.675 --> 00:21:39.611
  • There has to be mercy with cheer and encouragement.
  • 00:21:39.611 --> 00:21:41.847
  • Say, "man, i'm broken with you.
  • 00:21:41.847 --> 00:21:43.482
  • You're--i wanna be here.
  • 00:21:43.482 --> 00:21:44.816
  • I wanna help you. i wanna sympathize.
  • 00:21:44.816 --> 00:21:46.351
  • I wanna get down there with you.
  • 00:21:46.351 --> 00:21:47.786
  • You know, you can get back up, you can recover."
  • 00:21:47.786 --> 00:21:50.088
  • That's the gift of mercy and compassion.
  • 00:21:50.088 --> 00:21:52.557
  • If you have that gift, it needs to be exercised.
  • 00:21:52.557 --> 00:21:54.593
  • The body of christ needs that gift.
  • 00:21:54.593 --> 00:21:57.496
  • So we look at all of these gifts that we have and we see how we
  • 00:21:57.496 --> 00:22:01.400
  • All have a role in the church.
  • 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:03.668
  • And we have to go back to the question, what would this church
  • 00:22:03.668 --> 00:22:06.371
  • Be like if everybody were like you or everybody were like me?
  • 00:22:06.371 --> 00:22:11.410
  • Scary, isn't it?
  • 00:22:11.410 --> 00:22:14.045
  • Therefore, we need to determine what is your giftedness?
  • 00:22:14.045 --> 00:22:17.783
  • What is my giftedness?
  • 00:22:17.783 --> 00:22:21.119
  • And we need to utilize that gift in the kingdom of god,
  • 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.257
  • Especially in this moment in history.
  • 00:22:25.257 --> 00:22:29.361
  • Cathy was 11 years old.
  • 00:22:29.361 --> 00:22:32.964
  • She went with her mother to the store and noticed the perfume
  • 00:22:32.964 --> 00:22:37.569
  • Her mother particularly liked, but it was pretty expensive.
  • 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:42.307
  • But cathy waited and saved her money from her allowance and had
  • 00:22:42.307 --> 00:22:46.511
  • A chance to go back to that store and buy that special
  • 00:22:46.511 --> 00:22:49.581
  • Perfume for her mother and got a little faceted bottle to put
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  • The perfume in.
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  • It was a little, sort of a specially shaped bottle,
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  • You know, sort of like a little pump-like look.
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  • And she wrapped that perfume up in some beautiful light blue
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  • Paper and found a satin ribbon and put on it.
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  • I mean, it was a beautiful gift.
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  • And her mother's birthday, all the presents were there and her
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  • Mother opened this one and that one and she looked at that gift
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  • From her daughter, 11-year-old daughter, cathy, and said, "you
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  • Know, i know what's in that one.
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  • I'll open it later."
  • 00:23:20.779 --> 00:23:23.081
  • Cathy was sort of disappointed, but, you know, a few weeks went
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  • By and she saw that little pink, that little blue gift there on
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  • The counter in her mother's room and said, "mama, when you gonna
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  • Open my gift?"
  • 00:23:33.291 --> 00:23:34.626
  • She said, "oh, i know what's in it.
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  • I'll open it later."
  • 00:23:36.294 --> 00:23:38.630
  • And then suddenly, cathy was 16.
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  • And she was running around and there was that same gift she
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  • Gave when she was 11 and said, "mom, i'm 16.
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  • Why don't you open my gift?"
  • 00:23:46.972 --> 00:23:48.974
  • She said, "oh, i know what's in it.
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  • I'll open it later."
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  • Years went by and her mother died.
  • 00:23:53.144 --> 00:23:56.815
  • Cathy went back home, going through all of her mother's
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  • Thing and saw the gift she'd given as an 11-year-old girl,
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  • That little beautifully wrapped light blue bottle, wrapped up,
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  • With perfume, and her mother never opened it.
  • 00:24:10.428 --> 00:24:15.600
  • She was tearful.
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  • Why?
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  • She knew her mother got to experience the fragrance that
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  • She knew would--her mother would have loved.
  • 00:24:22.507 --> 00:24:25.176
  • She knew her mother had never got a chance to share that
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  • Fragrance with others around her.
  • 00:24:27.879 --> 00:24:30.415
  • And she herself, cathy, felt hurt and deprived because she'd
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  • Never had the joy of seeing her mother experience and use the
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  • Gift that she'd so carefully planned for and saved for and
  • 00:24:37.656 --> 00:24:41.560
  • Given to her, because it had never been opened.
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  • Listen, listen, god has given every single one of us here a
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  • Unique gift.
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  • If your gift is not used in the church, nobody else can feel
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  • That gift.
  • 00:25:02.147 --> 00:25:03.481
  • Nobody else can. nobody else can.
  • 00:25:03.481 --> 00:25:08.153
  • Discover what the gift is.
  • 00:25:08.153 --> 00:25:10.722
  • Open up that gift.
  • 00:25:10.722 --> 00:25:13.158
  • Maybe another one will be there.
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  • Try out this gift, and you'll discover that you're in the
  • 00:25:14.726 --> 00:25:17.762
  • Orchestra of god, the body of the church, and you'll be part
  • 00:25:17.762 --> 00:25:21.766
  • Of a music and a message and a mystery and a magnificence that
  • 00:25:21.766 --> 00:25:28.773
  • You never imagined.
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  • Open the gift, discover your gift.
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  • We're transformed.
  • 00:25:34.713 --> 00:25:37.949
  • Transformation leads to humility, transformation
  • 00:25:37.949 --> 00:25:40.285
  • Discovers in the church, there's unity, but there's diversity.
  • 00:25:40.285 --> 00:25:43.655
  • We all have an instrument to play for god.
  • 00:25:43.655 --> 00:25:46.758
  • And then finally we see that there is ministry
  • 00:25:46.758 --> 00:25:50.061
  • In transformation.
  • 00:25:50.061 --> 00:25:52.030
  • Discover your gift.
  • 00:25:52.030 --> 00:25:59.104
  • If it's not opened, nobody else can play that part.
  • 00:25:59.104 --> 00:26:06.945
  • What if everybody in the church were like you?
  • 00:26:06.945 --> 00:26:11.182
  • 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.
  • 00:26:16.521 --> 00:26:21.226
  • You and i are a lot like that caterpillar.
  • 00:26:21.226 --> 00:26:23.695
  • God has a design for our lives and wants to transform us into
  • 00:26:23.695 --> 00:26:27.565
  • Something beautiful.
  • 00:26:27.565 --> 00:26:30.568
  • But many times we're content with inching along in life like
  • 00:26:30.568 --> 00:26:34.539
  • 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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  • We have put together a simple abc booklet that will guide you
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  • In surrendering your life to god so that he can supernaturally
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  • Transform you.
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