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Ed Young - Gifts Within The Body of Christ

March 10, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Gifts Within The Body of Christ
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 - Gifts Within The Body of Christ | March 10, 2026
  • I know sometimes
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  • My words go boom, boom.
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  • Other times i know my words go
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  • Like an arrow.
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  • You see the gift?
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  • The person has gifts of prophecy.
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  • You know intuitively that there are words
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  • That god gives and god speaks and
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  • They go like an arrow i can arrow.
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  • And they they hit home and
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  • And they have power in them, not of the speaker.
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  • But this is a part of the gift,
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  • Thank you for being a part
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  • Of the winning walk family today.
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  • I want to ask you if you ever noticed that
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  • Spiritual growth doesn't just happen automatically.
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  • It's intentional.
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  • It's daily.
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  • It's a walk.
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  • Thanks for joining me.
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  • Let's get started on a winning
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  • Walk with our lord.
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  • What if everybody in this church were like, you?
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  • What kind of church?
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  • We have?
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  • Would we be able to turn on
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  • The lights?
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  • Would be able to sing.
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  • We'll be able to have worship.
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  • We'll be able to go on mission trips.
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  • Will you be able to care for our children?
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  • What if everybody in the church
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  • Was was a churchman like you? are?
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  • What kind of church?
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  • Where we have.
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  • So here we are
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  • In the family of god
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  • Set aside, and we are transformed
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  • From inside and out.
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  • And we've discovered in the scripture
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  • About transformation
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  • And transformation leads to humility.
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  • This is what paul tells us.
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  • It says far to grace.
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  • Caris given to me.
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  • I say to everyone among you not to think
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  • More highly of himself than he ought to think,
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  • But to think so as to have sound judgment
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  • As god has allotted to each a measure of faith.
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  • In other words, paul is saying,
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  • Don't sit too high.
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  • Do you sit too high?
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  • You know, an obvious braggadocious person.
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  • Let 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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  • Tell you what i can.
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  • And, those kind of folks are kind of obvious.
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  • I don't know why they can't figure it out,
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  • But evidently we can't.
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  • And, the braggadocious who said to high.
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  • And by the way, a part of being braggadocious
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  • Is, let's say, for example, that i was a part
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  • Of the making of that pulpit,
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  • And a lady in my church made it, if i'm not mistaken.
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  • And she does this,
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  • And you would say to me, boy,
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  • And i would say, you know, that pulpit didn't turn out
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  • Like i thought it would.
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  • You said,
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  • Oh, no, it's really good, ed, 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, it's a good sermon, pastor.
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  • No, it wasn't any good, you know.
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  • Well, what did you think was good about it?
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  • Well, it was good.
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  • You said this or what else was good.
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  • Let's go to,
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  • You know, we're we're hunting for people to bolster us up.
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  • And i found humility.
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  • Don't sit there. so you do that
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  • So we can sit too
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  • High and we can sink too low.
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  • Paul says faith gives us the ability
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  • To rightly estimate who we are and what we're about,
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  • And how we fit into the family of god,
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  • Calling in the family.
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  • It gives us humility.
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  • Humility to know who you are.
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  • 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.
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  • We don't sink too low.
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  • We have humility
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  • Because we know that god has a plan and a purpose
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  • For your life and my life in the body of faith.
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  • The church.
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  • Also,
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  • We see not only does transformation
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  • Produce humility, but also transformation
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  • Produces unity in diversity.
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  • And look how that works.
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  • Look at verse four.
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  • 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.
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  • That's the physical body.
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  • Okay, we have many members.
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  • My big toe has never got
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  • An argument with my ear as to who is the most important.
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  • Never has i.
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  • 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.
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  • Are we fearfully and wonderfully
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  • Made or what?
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  • Paul is saying the body
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  • Designed given by god
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  • To 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 and look.
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  • He says the same thing about the church.
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  • That's why god has built his body.
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  • The church.
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  • So we who are many, are one body in christ.
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  • Verse five and 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 of the orchestra, right?
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  • Many man you have over here, you have the strings.
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  • Well, i love the strings.
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  • You know, the violin, the cello, all the bass.
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  • Violin.
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  • But we have the strings.
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  • An 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 than anybody else.
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  • That's a drum.
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  • That's a cymbals, that's all.
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  • The forgot to have percussion off.
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  • And you got to have the woodwinds,
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  • The clarinets, the flute, sax, the piccolo.
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  • Yeah.
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  • You got to have the woodwinds,
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  • You know, and you got to have the brass,
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  • The trumpets, the trombones, the french horns.
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  • It takes everybody in the symphony
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  • To produce a beautiful music that is there.
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  • So it is the body of christ, the church.
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  • And we have the same score.
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  • We've got the same music, don't we?
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  • Right here.
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  • And we have the holy spirit is the conductor.
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  • What if somebody didn't show up?
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  • Ooh, we sure needed
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  • That bass horn.
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  • Ooh. what if somebody is a little sharp? ooh.
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  • Oh, boy, that messes up the whole thing.
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  • We're trying to sing here.
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  • What if somebody is out of tune?
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  • Oh, daddy.
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  • But what if,
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  • By the holy spirit, we're using our giftedness
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  • As god has given us, whatever that role may be,
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  • Whatever is what we play it in the orchestra of the church.
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  • My goodness, it is a magnificent sound,
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  • And people want to be a part of it,
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  • Because the music of the church would be so magnificent,
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  • It would be so warm.
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  • We'd all be serving and playing our role.
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  • People would be trying any way they could
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  • To come and be a part of a family of god.
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  • Like this.
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  • That's the orchestra.
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  • What if everybody in the church were like, you
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  • Or like me?
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  • What kind of church would we have,
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  • Man? paul says
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  • Man uses a giftedness.
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  • He's given every one of us, and then he gives
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  • A list of gifts in the bible for clear places.
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  • First corinthians chapter 12,
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  • Ephesians four, first peter four, and romans 12.
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  • And these are all partial list,
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  • But they're a long list, by the way.
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  • You say, well, what can i do in the church?
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  • We have hundreds of positions here
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  • Just waiting for you to show up and claim you.
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  • Well, i went there and trying to edit.
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  • That didn't work. well. hello.
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  • I went and tried the violin.
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  • I took two lessons and, you know,
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  • I couldn't play the violin.
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  • I don't
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  • Maybe i'll play something else.
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  • Other words.
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  • There's a an instrument.
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  • There's a role that 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 my gift and your gift
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  • Has to be affirmed by the body that 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 as much when god is in it.
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  • Have you discovered that
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  • It's much when god, what does it give?
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  • May be i know people that are totally incapacitated
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  • And they become tremendous prayer warriors.
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  • I call them and say, pray about this.
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  • And i know, man, heaven's fortress
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  • Is being bombarded with people who are interceding.
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  • You see, we we have ministry here, and here's seven
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  • Of those gifts that are there that god gives a church.
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  • There are many of the other listings here.
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  • Let's look at them.
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  • And this means that
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  • Remember where we are because we've been transformed,
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  • Presenting our body, renewing our minds.
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  • We know the will of god.
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  • And transformation gives us genuine humility.
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  • Transformation shows us unity and diversity
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  • In the body and the church of the lord jesus christ.
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  • And now transformation gives us ministry.
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  • We have a role to play.
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  • What are some of these ministries let's look at?
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  • We listen to them.
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  • Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace
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  • Given to each one of us, to exercise them accordingly.
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  • If prophecy
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  • According to the proportion of our faith, prophecy,
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  • Prophecy in the new testament does not mean to predict,
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  • It's about to predict.
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  • It is not to.
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  • It is to proclaim forth.
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  • It is to speak 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 well.
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  • The gift of speaking prophecy will be affirmed 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 verse samuel three.
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  • It says, thus samuel grew, and the lord was with him.
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  • Let none of his words fail.
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  • And really, one translation,
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  • None of his words fall in the ground.
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  • When you speak.
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  • As i speak, i know sometimes my words go
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  • Boom, boom.
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  • Other times i know my words go
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  • Like an arrow.
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  • You see the gift?
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  • The person has gifts of prophecy.
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  • You know intuitively that there are words
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  • That god gives and god speaks and
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  • They go like an arrow i can arrow.
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  • And they they hit home and
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  • And they have power in them, not of the speaker.
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  • 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.
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  • If you slipped over there with me,
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  • It says if service in serving,
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  • Then the gift of service
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  • Say, well, i don't know if i have that gift or not.
  • 00:11:54.292 --> 00:11:55.693
  • You see, something needs to be done.
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  • You start doing it.
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  • You may have that gift
  • 00:11:57.929 --> 00:11:59.898
  • And look at the service gifts that operate in this church.
  • 00:11:59.898 --> 00:12:02.667
  • My goodness, it's unbelievable.
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  • Who turned the lights on?
  • 00:12:04.936 --> 00:12:06.004
  • Who cleans up?
  • 00:12:06.004 --> 00:12:07.238
  • Who moves out over here? who does this?
  • 00:12:07.238 --> 00:12:09.440
  • Who's on that mission project? who went to that home?
  • 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.709
  • Who's at that rest home?
  • 00:12:11.709 --> 00:12:13.111
  • Who was minister that kid? what happened in that death?
  • 00:12:13.111 --> 00:12:15.380
  • What happened in that divorce?
  • 00:12:15.380 --> 00:12:16.848
  • What happened? that heartache?
  • 00:12:16.848 --> 00:12:17.982
  • What happened to economic crisis?
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  • We've got people serving a multiplicity.
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  • Thousands and thousands of ways every day.
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  • The gift of service is being used.
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  • Do you have that gift?
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  • A child takes their
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  • First step unsteady.
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  • Unsure.
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  • Reaching for a father's hand.
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  • No one is born knowing how to walk.
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  • It takes training, strength.
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  • Balance. time.
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  • Walking with god is no different.
  • 00:12:46.811 --> 00:12:49.714
  • Like all journeys, walking the winning
  • 00:12:49.714 --> 00:12:51.649
  • Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
  • 00:12:51.649 --> 00:12:55.320
  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
  • 00:12:57.922 --> 00:13:01.626
  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step in the winning walk.
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • Winning walk today and begin walking confidently with him.
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  • And by the
  • 00:13:42.433 --> 00:13:43.568
  • Way, you need to operate primarily inside your gift.
  • 00:13:43.568 --> 00:13:45.536
  • A lot of times i'm studying and i go to the church
  • 00:13:45.536 --> 00:13:49.574
  • And and i know i have to spend time in the word.
  • 00:13:49.574 --> 00:13:51.809
  • I spend 20 to 30 hours
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  • Every single week alone with that book.
  • 00:13:54.746 --> 00:13:58.283
  • I'm a slow learner.
  • 00:13:58.283 --> 00:14:00.251
  • I have to do it, i really am.
  • 00:14:00.251 --> 00:14:02.887
  • And therefore a lot of times i'm going,
  • 00:14:02.887 --> 00:14:04.422
  • Somebody be going off and say,
  • 00:14:04.422 --> 00:14:06.224
  • Well, this week said, we're going to build some houses.
  • 00:14:06.224 --> 00:14:08.660
  • Come help us, pastor.
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  • I'd love to,
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  • But most drilling out there an
  • 00:14:11.930 --> 00:14:14.565
  • In the book
  • 00:14:14.565 --> 00:14:15.633
  • Seeking god's voice and mind to deal with me first
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  • And then what he would have me to say on behalf of the lord.
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  • That's overwhelming to me, overwhelming to me.
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  • I'd rather go build a house.
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  • You see, i'm a shepherd.
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  • A shepherd loves me with sheep,
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  • But i have to exercise inside my gifts.
  • 00:14:29.314 --> 00:14:32.050
  • I'd love to go to that.
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  • Mission trips. going to india, man.
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  • I would be thrilled to go.
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  • I know i can't do that,
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  • So you got to decide your gifts and find out what they are
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  • And use your time, your effort energy to use those gifts
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  • That mean we don't have going one gift.
  • 00:14:44.896 --> 00:14:47.031
  • It doesn't mean that all of us will not just do anything
  • 00:14:47.031 --> 00:14:49.367
  • We have to do to enhance the church.
  • 00:14:49.367 --> 00:14:52.070
  • Certainly we work outside of our gifts,
  • 00:14:52.070 --> 00:14:54.172
  • But find out what your gift is and use it.
  • 00:14:54.172 --> 00:14:56.441
  • If it's prophecy, tell forth
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  • If it's service, service if it's teaching,
  • 00:14:59.243 --> 00:15:01.913
  • That's a next gift.
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  • A teaching has an unusual calling about it.
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  • It means that you really spend time in the book.
  • 00:15:06.284 --> 00:15:09.387
  • Here it says in teaching
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  • Teach teachers who teach.
  • 00:15:12.256 --> 00:15:14.258
  • By the way, after every one of these gifts, there is a verb.
  • 00:15:14.258 --> 00:15:18.563
  • You don't just have prophecy, you prophesy.
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  • You don't have the gift of teaching.
  • 00:15:21.599 --> 00:15:23.034
  • You teach.
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  • I saw last week a man who taught for several
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  • Years in our church.
  • 00:15:27.638 --> 00:15:28.573
  • I mean, he was a terrific bible teacher,
  • 00:15:28.573 --> 00:15:31.676
  • But he's no longer teaching.
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  • He hadn't talked for about four years.
  • 00:15:33.978 --> 00:15:36.681
  • You see, his children left home,
  • 00:15:36.681 --> 00:15:39.283
  • His wife go place on the weekend.
  • 00:15:39.283 --> 00:15:41.652
  • They may go to a football game, they may go here,
  • 00:15:41.652 --> 00:15:43.855
  • They're gone.
  • 00:15:43.855 --> 00:15:44.856
  • And and they said, you know, we're just doing
  • 00:15:44.856 --> 00:15:46.457
  • So many things.
  • 00:15:46.457 --> 00:15:47.325
  • I don't have time to teach right now.
  • 00:15:47.325 --> 00:15:49.594
  • Now, in the years, he said, where do my children leave?
  • 00:15:50.728 --> 00:15:53.164
  • I really have time to give the church, though.
  • 00:15:53.164 --> 00:15:54.999
  • They have time for themselves.
  • 00:15:54.999 --> 00:15:56.434
  • I can tell you he taught for 3 or 4 years.
  • 00:15:56.434 --> 00:15:58.403
  • I can tell you this gift of teaching
  • 00:15:58.403 --> 00:16:00.204
  • Has begun to shrivel up.
  • 00:16:00.204 --> 00:16:03.007
  • When you use the gift, it gets bigger.
  • 00:16:03.007 --> 00:16:05.977
  • It has more significance,
  • 00:16:05.977 --> 00:16:08.813
  • Whether it's teaching or prophecy.
  • 00:16:08.813 --> 00:16:11.049
  • Was it service?
  • 00:16:11.049 --> 00:16:12.784
  • Oh yeah.
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  • That's the way god operates.
  • 00:16:13.584 --> 00:16:14.952
  • He gives us this book says just as much faith.
  • 00:16:14.952 --> 00:16:17.688
  • We need to handle the gift that he's given to you and me.
  • 00:16:17.688 --> 00:16:21.159
  • So teaching is a very, very important gift.
  • 00:16:22.026 --> 00:16:24.595
  • It has tremendous responsibility with it.
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  • Look. look at your next gift there.
  • 00:16:27.331 --> 00:16:28.866
  • If exhortation, watch the exhortation.
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  • It's a comfort. people.
  • 00:16:32.003 --> 00:16:34.038
  • It's to encourage people.
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  • Barnabas was the biblical example,
  • 00:16:35.273 --> 00:16:37.475
  • The exhortation, did you know the apostle paul
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  • Ten years after damascus road experience was on the bench?
  • 00:16:40.678 --> 00:16:45.083
  • He wasn't on god's team.
  • 00:16:45.616 --> 00:16:47.285
  • He went home to mama.
  • 00:16:47.785 --> 00:16:48.920
  • He was hiding out in tarsus.
  • 00:16:48.920 --> 00:16:50.855
  • Barnabas had the gift of exhortation.
  • 00:16:50.855 --> 00:16:53.291
  • He said, where is that guy?
  • 00:16:53.291 --> 00:16:54.859
  • So let's go get him. we need him.
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  • He's he's a roman citizen.
  • 00:16:57.361 --> 00:16:59.664
  • He's he's familiar with the jews.
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  • He knows the greeks and brought barnabas,
  • 00:17:02.100 --> 00:17:04.802
  • Encouraged paul to come back and get in god's game.
  • 00:17:04.802 --> 00:17:08.473
  • And he did and became the most effective instrument
  • 00:17:08.473 --> 00:17:12.009
  • Perhaps the lord has ever used in his church.
  • 00:17:12.009 --> 00:17:15.213
  • You see, barnabas had the gift to actually,
  • 00:17:16.147 --> 00:17:18.683
  • Give exhortations, a cheerleader.
  • 00:17:18.683 --> 00:17:21.619
  • You cheer people, you encourage people.
  • 00:17:21.619 --> 00:17:24.188
  • You build them up.
  • 00:17:24.188 --> 00:17:25.556
  • But he always sees something wrong.
  • 00:17:25.556 --> 00:17:28.359
  • It was a delicious cake, but the icing was a little thick.
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  • Well, hurrah for you.
  • 00:17:33.598 --> 00:17:36.868
  • The gift of exhortation
  • 00:17:37.368 --> 00:17:39.804
  • How it needs to be exercised in the church.
  • 00:17:39.804 --> 00:17:43.374
  • And we all can do that.
  • 00:17:43.374 --> 00:17:44.575
  • Some are exceedingly gifted in it doesn't mean phony stuff.
  • 00:17:44.575 --> 00:17:48.246
  • Real stuff.
  • 00:17:48.246 --> 00:17:49.981
  • All right.
  • 00:17:50.281 --> 00:17:51.749
  • And then he who gives with liberality.
  • 00:17:51.749 --> 00:17:54.819
  • By the way, this is not just giving up our means.
  • 00:17:54.819 --> 00:17:57.522
  • This is giving of ourselves.
  • 00:17:57.522 --> 00:17:58.956
  • A lot of people are reticent to make new friends,
  • 00:17:58.956 --> 00:18:02.693
  • To get involved with new people,
  • 00:18:02.693 --> 00:18:04.929
  • To ask leading questions because it may cost you
  • 00:18:04.929 --> 00:18:08.466
  • Something.
  • 00:18:08.466 --> 00:18:09.834
  • They may have some needs that you can meet.
  • 00:18:09.834 --> 00:18:12.837
  • They may have a problem you can counsel them about.
  • 00:18:12.837 --> 00:18:15.506
  • Therefore, we sort of don't give ourselves.
  • 00:18:15.506 --> 00:18:17.842
  • We say, you know, hello, how are you?
  • 00:18:17.842 --> 00:18:20.611
  • Fine.
  • 00:18:20.611 --> 00:18:21.412
  • If they say, no, i'm
  • 00:18:21.412 --> 00:18:22.346
  • Not too good, you say, oh, i'm sorry, i'm
  • 00:18:22.346 --> 00:18:25.483
  • Okay. how are you? fine.
  • 00:18:26.017 --> 00:18:27.485
  • How are you? i'm fine. how are you on everybody? fine.
  • 00:18:27.485 --> 00:18:29.153
  • And then the bottom fall out. even life.
  • 00:18:29.153 --> 00:18:31.088
  • When somebody has a gift of giving, they get well.
  • 00:18:31.088 --> 00:18:33.958
  • What what what's going on?
  • 00:18:33.958 --> 00:18:35.826
  • How am i? let's listen.
  • 00:18:35.826 --> 00:18:37.395
  • Let's let's be a part of the healing.
  • 00:18:37.395 --> 00:18:39.397
  • See that you got the gift of giving.
  • 00:18:39.397 --> 00:18:41.499
  • Everybody doesn't have it, but you have it.
  • 00:18:41.499 --> 00:18:43.734
  • That's giving.
  • 00:18:43.734 --> 00:18:45.236
  • All right, look, give a liberality.
  • 00:18:45.236 --> 00:18:47.438
  • And then he who leads lead with diligence.
  • 00:18:47.438 --> 00:18:50.575
  • Leadership is the most misunderstood gift.
  • 00:18:50.575 --> 00:18:53.110
  • I know anything about. it really is.
  • 00:18:53.110 --> 00:18:55.379
  • People think, well, teach me how to be a leader.
  • 00:18:56.380 --> 00:18:58.583
  • You don't learn how to be a leader.
  • 00:18:58.583 --> 00:19:00.751
  • It is a gift.
  • 00:19:00.751 --> 00:19:03.087
  • If you have the gifts, you're gifted as can be enhanced.
  • 00:19:03.087 --> 00:19:06.457
  • But it's a gift.
  • 00:19:06.857 --> 00:19:08.593
  • And how we need leaders is the body of christ
  • 00:19:08.593 --> 00:19:12.230
  • Leading in the marketplace?
  • 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:14.765
  • Do you know the principle of gleaning?
  • 00:19:14.765 --> 00:19:17.168
  • Gleaning?
  • 00:19:17.168 --> 00:19:18.502
  • Very few people do.
  • 00:19:18.502 --> 00:19:20.304
  • It's an old testament principle.
  • 00:19:20.304 --> 00:19:21.572
  • You read about it in the book of ruth and in other places
  • 00:19:21.572 --> 00:19:25.243
  • In jewish days when you would own a field,
  • 00:19:26.110 --> 00:19:29.480
  • You could harvest only the center of your field.
  • 00:19:30.448 --> 00:19:33.117
  • You left the corners of the field that you own
  • 00:19:33.117 --> 00:19:36.954
  • For the poor, for other people to come and harvest.
  • 00:19:36.954 --> 00:19:41.359
  • Now it was a principle of gleaning no road.
  • 00:19:42.293 --> 00:19:45.096
  • You don't take all the profits for yourself.
  • 00:19:45.096 --> 00:19:48.232
  • And the last year of megyn is a gift of mercy.
  • 00:19:48.232 --> 00:19:51.869
  • And it says, we are to be merciful.
  • 00:19:52.603 --> 00:19:54.572
  • With cheer.
  • 00:19:54.572 --> 00:19:55.873
  • We got to be cheerful people who have the gift of mercy.
  • 00:19:55.873 --> 00:19:58.542
  • So what does that talking about?
  • 00:19:58.542 --> 00:20:00.645
  • Well, you know, sometimes we hear someone who's
  • 00:20:00.645 --> 00:20:02.880
  • Been called an unseemly thing
  • 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.617
  • And you go and say, oh, i'm so merciful.
  • 00:20:06.617 --> 00:20:08.953
  • I'm sympathetic with you, but it's about time you got caught.
  • 00:20:08.953 --> 00:20:14.592
  • You know, there can't be mercy with judgment.
  • 00:20:15.459 --> 00:20:18.462
  • There should be mercy with cheer and encouragement.
  • 00:20:18.462 --> 00:20:21.032
  • Say, man, i'm broken with you. you're.
  • 00:20:21.032 --> 00:20:22.933
  • I don't want to be here.
  • 00:20:22.933 --> 00:20:23.901
  • I want to help you. i want to sympathize.
  • 00:20:23.901 --> 00:20:25.436
  • I want to get down there with you.
  • 00:20:25.436 --> 00:20:27.204
  • You know, you can get back up.
  • 00:20:27.204 --> 00:20:28.606
  • You can recover.
  • 00:20:28.606 --> 00:20:29.540
  • That's the gift of mercy and compassion.
  • 00:20:29.540 --> 00:20:32.076
  • You have that gift you need to be exercised.
  • 00:20:32.076 --> 00:20:34.145
  • The body of christ needs that gift.
  • 00:20:34.145 --> 00:20:36.714
  • So we look at
  • 00:20:37.081 --> 00:20:37.848
  • All of these gifts that we have,
  • 00:20:37.848 --> 00:20:40.551
  • And we see how we all have a role in the church.
  • 00:20:40.551 --> 00:20:43.454
  • And we have to go back to the question,
  • 00:20:43.454 --> 00:20:44.989
  • What would this church be like if everybody were like
  • 00:20:44.989 --> 00:20:47.858
  • You or everybody were like me?
  • 00:20:47.858 --> 00:20:50.995
  • Scary, isn't it?
  • 00:20:51.395 --> 00:20:54.265
  • Therefore, we need to determine what is your giftedness?
  • 00:20:54.265 --> 00:20:58.035
  • What is my giftedness?
  • 00:20:58.035 --> 00:21:00.871
  • And we need to utilize that gift
  • 00:21:01.572 --> 00:21:04.775
  • In the kingdom of god, especially in this moment
  • 00:21:04.775 --> 00:21:07.445
  • In history.
  • 00:21:07.445 --> 00:21:10.214
  • Cassie was 11 years old.
  • 00:21:10.214 --> 00:21:12.983
  • She went with her mother to the store
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  • And noticed the perfume her mother particularly liked,
  • 00:21:17.355 --> 00:21:20.491
  • But it was pretty expensive.
  • 00:21:21.092 --> 00:21:23.527
  • But kathy waited and saved her money from her allowance,
  • 00:21:23.527 --> 00:21:27.598
  • And had a chance to go back to that store
  • 00:21:27.598 --> 00:21:29.800
  • And buy that special perfume for her mother,
  • 00:21:29.800 --> 00:21:32.803
  • And got a little faceted bottle to put the perfume in.
  • 00:21:32.803 --> 00:21:36.340
  • It was a little sort of a specially shaped bottle,
  • 00:21:36.340 --> 00:21:39.143
  • You know,
  • 00:21:39.443 --> 00:21:40.511
  • Sort of like a little, little, little pump like look.
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  • And she wrapped that perfume up in some beautiful light
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  • Blue 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,
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  • And her mother opened this one and that one,
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  • And she looked at that gift from our daughter, 11 year
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  • Old daughter kathy, and said, you know,
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  • I know what's in that one.
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  • I'll open it later.
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  • Kathy was sort of disappointed.
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  • But, you know,
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  • A few weeks went by and she saw that little pink,
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  • That little blue gift there on the counter
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  • In her mother's room, and she said, mama,
  • 00:22:13.244 --> 00:22:16.213
  • Where are you going? over my gift.
  • 00:22:16.213 --> 00:22:17.448
  • She said, oh, i know what's in it.
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  • I'll open it later.
  • 00:22:19.450 --> 00:22:21.986
  • And then suddenly kathy was 60
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  • And she was running around, and there was that same gift
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  • She gave when she was 11 and said, mom, i'm 16.
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  • Why don't you open my gift?
  • 00:22:30.828 --> 00:22:32.563
  • 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.
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  • Kathy went back home, going through all of a mother's
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  • Thing, and saw the gift she'd given as a 11 year old girl.
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  • That little beautifully wrapped,
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  • Light blue bottle wrapped up with perfume.
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  • And her mother never opened it.
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  • She was tearful.
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  • Why? she knew her mother
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  • Got to experience a fragrance that she knew would.
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  • Her mother would have loved.
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  • She knew her mother had never got a chance
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  • To share that fragrance with others around her,
  • 00:23:12.603 --> 00:23:15.606
  • And she herself, kathy, felt hurt and deprived
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  • Because she'd never had the joy of seeing
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  • Her mother experience and use the gift that she'd
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  • So carefully planned for and save for and given to her
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  • Because it had never been opened.
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  • Let's
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  • Listen.
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  • God has given
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  • Every single one of us here a unique gift.
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  • If your gift is
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  • Not used in the church, nobody else can fill that gap.
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  • Nobody else can.
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  • Nobody else can
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  • Discover what the gift is.
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  • Open up that gift.
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  • Maybe another one will be there.
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  • Try out this gift and you'll discover that you're
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  • In the orchestra of god, the body of the church
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  • And you'll be part of a music
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  • And a message and a mystery and a magnificence
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  • That you never imagined.
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  • Open the gift.
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  • Discover your gift.
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  • We're transformed.
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  • Transformation leads you humility.
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  • Transformation discovers
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  • In the church there's unity, but there's diversity.
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  • We all have an answer to play for god.
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  • And then finally, we see that there is ministry
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  • And transformation.
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  • Discover your gift.
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  • If it's not opened.
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  • Nobody else
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  • Can play that part.
  • 00:24:52.536 --> 00:24:55.406
  • What if everybody in the church
  • 00:24:55.406 --> 00:24:58.842
  • Were like, you?
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  • What kind of church
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  • Would we have?
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  • Your word is a lamp
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  • To my feet, a light into my path.
  • 00:25:09.186 --> 00:25:12.456
  • Notice the promise in that verse.
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  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
  • 00:25:15.593 --> 00:25:18.395
  • A light for your path.
  • 00:25:18.395 --> 00:25:19.964
  • We can see out there.
  • 00:25:19.964 --> 00:25:22.299
  • Not just inspiration.
  • 00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:24.101
  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
  • 00:25:24.101 --> 00:25:29.440
  • The christian life
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  • Was never meant to be lived casually,
  • 00:25:31.909 --> 00:25:35.446
  • But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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  • Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • That's the heartbeat of this book.
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  • The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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  • Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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  • A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
  • 00:25:52.162 --> 00:25:56.867
  • In the practical realities of everyday living.
  • 00:25:56.867 --> 00:26:00.304
  • This isn't about religion.
  • 00:26:00.871 --> 00:26:02.973
  • It's about relationship.
  • 00:26:02.973 --> 00:26:04.908
  • It's about learning to trust god step by step
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  • And stay in step with our lord.
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  • The christ.
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  • So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk.
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  • Do it today.
  • 00:26:18.889 --> 00:26:20.424
  • And then we begin walking victoriously,
  • 00:26:20.424 --> 00:26:23.327
  • One step at a time.
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  • Thank you
  • 00:26:31.001 --> 00:26:32.002
  • For being a part of the winning world family.
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  • It's always a privilege and a joy to open
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  • God's book, his word the bible together.
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  • As we go through this week remember spiritual growth
  • 00:26:39.777 --> 00:26:43.514
  • Happens.
  • 00:26:43.514 --> 00:26:44.748
  • That one fateful step at a time.
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  • It keeps us close to the lord.
  • 00:26:48.118 --> 00:26:50.387
  • We stay grounded in his word and trust that he is working.
  • 00:26:50.387 --> 00:26:54.391
  • Even in the quiet moments.
  • 00:26:54.391 --> 00:26:57.294
  • Many times we study the bible.
  • 00:26:57.294 --> 00:26:58.896
  • We take on too much.
  • 00:26:58.896 --> 00:27:01.198
  • Oh man, it's so many aspects of the scripture.
  • 00:27:01.198 --> 00:27:03.834
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:27:03.834 --> 00:27:05.169
  • Just take 1 or 2 verses.
  • 00:27:05.169 --> 00:27:07.471
  • Read them, maybe read them in another though
  • 00:27:07.471 --> 00:27:10.841
  • The translations and say, what does this say?
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  • He will lead us always to a
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  • Life that has significance.
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