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 I have the privilege of introducing Bauer.

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 I've known Bauer longer than most pastor friends I have.

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 I mean, because I got to know Bauer.

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 I've known him probably for like 10 years now, 9, 10 years.

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 And Bauer, I met him through Paul at King of Grace when I was still a green seminary student.

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 And something that really stood out to me even from my early interactions with Bauer is just his humility.

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 And how I remember whenever we would go to a conference together or attend a seminar together,

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 I could always hear Bauer's keyboard just in the back because he's always taking copious notes.

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 And even though he already knows so much and has learned so much, he's always learning.

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 He's always a student of God's word.

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 And also, even though I was such a young seminary student, he always treated me with so much respect,

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 which is he didn't need to, but he did.

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 And I just remember that.

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 It stands out to me about Bauer.

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 Bauer has been pastoring for 21 years.

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 He's been ordained for 21 years.

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 He's been in the same church, Crossway Church, that Bailey was a part of at one point.

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 And Will was a part of at one point.

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 Will is obviously Bauer's son.

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 And, you know, I mean, there's increasingly a lot of pastors think of pastoring as a profession.

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 And you try to climb the ladder in the same way.

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 And time and time again, I'll see sometimes pastors go to greener pastures,

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 whether it's out of New England or to a bigger church or to where you can get paid more

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 or where you could have less to do directly with people.

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 You know, or it's just people always doing that.

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 But Bauer has been in the same church his entire pastoral ministry, 21 years.

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 I look up to that.

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 And I aspire to that.

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 And that's a testament to your calling, God-given call, but your character, Bauer.

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 We're grateful for you.

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 So it's my joy to welcome you to our retreat to be our speaker.

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 Thank you.

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 Please come.

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 Thank you for that kind welcome, Sean.

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 Sean, those are very meaningful words.

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 One of my reflections on our history together, I don't know where we were when we had this conversation,

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 but there was a phrase that was attributed to you as I was trying to understand more deeply

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 our understanding of Scripture.

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 And I think the phrase, Sean, I don't want to attribute something that doesn't accurate like you said,

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 but in essence, what I took from it was that all Scripture is covenantal in nature.

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 And that phrase, like a key, like a master key that unlocks all the doors and houses,

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 I just began to turn it both in the Old Testament and new after our conversation,

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 and also in my reading and study,

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 and began to look at Scripture over time from more as how Scripture operates on us

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 in a dynamic way through King Jesus than simply me approaching the text and pulling from it.

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 And it was one of those inflection points in our journey.

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 So I appreciate you taking what was a very thick understanding,

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 kind of narrowing it down that I could start to...

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 Is that... Did you say that?

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 Yeah.

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 Yeah. Is that Jeff? And you were quoting Jeff?

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 Well, Jeff Percival then, through his brother, Sean.

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 Jeff didn't say that, or I didn't listen when I was with Jeff in the same way.

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 So that was a...

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 Let me begin this way.

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 I was praying on the way up, as I'm sure many of you were,

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 taking in the beauty of the leaves and the less beauty of the traffic.

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 And I was thinking about how best to begin a time with you on mission mindfulness,

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 for I'm here to learn, too, and hear from the Lord and engage with you afresh this topic.

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 And I was thinking about, and we've been thinking about this as a church,

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 what Paul meant when he said to the Corinthians in his second letter,

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 in chapter 12, I know a man in Christ.

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 I know a man in Christ.

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 And then he introduces 14 years earlier a vision he'd been given.

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 When Paul speaks of being a Christian,

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 he never says of himself,

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 I'm a Christian, like we would.

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 It doesn't mean what we're saying is wrong.

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 He never uses that phrase.

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 When the word Christian came into use, you know,

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 because you studied the Book of Acts as a church,

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 it was in the church in Antioch where that word Christian first came into use.

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 But up to that time, people who were Christians were called people of the way,

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 which is found in Scripture, or disciples.

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 And Paul uses neither of those to refer to himself.

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 He refers to himself almost without exception in terms of his identity as being in Christ.

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 And so I was reflecting on that as I thought about beginning our,

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 and I thought 41 years ago,

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 as a senior in high school,

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 a man who was in Christ shared with me during a study hall

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 in the cafeteria of our high school

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 the message of the gospel.

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 And if you knew me as a senior in high school,

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 there's no reason why I should have listened to anything George said in that moment.

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 Except George was the individual who sold us our weekend supply of hashish

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 and was a devout fan of,

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 this will date me,

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 but the Jackson 5.

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 And we liked the Jackson 5 in the 1970s.

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 George had become a Christian earlier that month.

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 And there he is with me in study hall at a cafeteria table

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 reading from the Bible,

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 from the Gospel of John,

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 and calling me to repent of my sins

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 and put my hope in Jesus.

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 And I shouldn't have been listening.

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 But I know a man in Christ.

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 And he, Christ, had my attention.

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 Two weeks later, I'm in a meeting

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 with, I don't know, probably 500 or more people,

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 not much younger than you.

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 And Phil Perry and the other pastor,

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 Paul, who's, I forget his last name,

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 gave a gospel message

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 to primarily public school students

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 there in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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 This was a church plant, not unlike Trinity,

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 and everyone had been invited

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 by people like George to come to this meeting.

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 And boy, the message was crystal clear.

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 There was a clear invitation given,

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 and I didn't respond to it that moment.

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 But I know a man in Christ

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 who, when he went home that night,

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 Jesus revealed himself.

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 And 41 years ago, I repented of my sins,

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 tears flowing out of my tear ducts in my bedroom.

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 And that next morning,

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 I got up and greeted my parents,

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 who at that point, I was alienated from my parents,

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 even though I lived in their home.

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 And I said, Mom, Dad, brace yourself.

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 This is the only language I knew.

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 I'm a born-again Christian now.

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 And I might as well told them I was a communist.

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 I mean, they were, you're a what?

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 And they didn't believe it,

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 but I know a man in Christ.

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 41 years later, last story.

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 This introduced mission mindfulness.

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 We shared the gospel with my parents,

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 because all of my sisters came to the Lord

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 by God's grace, different ways.

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 One through me, which is remarkable,

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 since she hated me prior to Christ.

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 And the other through John Stott's ministry

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 there in All Souls Church in London,

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 at a time when she was being proposed to

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 by a very wealthy young Muslim man there in Europe

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 who was in love with Bobby.

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 And yet she's sitting under the preaching

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 of the gospel through John Stott,

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 realizing if I choose this way,

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 she didn't, she became a Christian,

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 she's walking with the Lord now,

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 as is my youngest sister Day.

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 But my parents both came to the Lord,

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 and the reason I should share this

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 is because my dad,

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 who rejected Christianity for his entire life,

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 and although loved his kids,

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 would always say to us,

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 I don't wanna hurt your faith,

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 but I think what you believe is totally bananas.

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 He said a little more strongly than that

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 if you knew my dad.

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 He was a lawyer, corporate lawyer in Philadelphia,

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 big man, kind of a John Wayne sort of figure

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 if you know who that is.

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 So the last summer before he died,

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 we shared with him again,

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 we all shared with him in different ways,

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 the simple message of the gospel.

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 We called him to believe in Christ.

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 We said there's a,

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 even mom believes now, dad.

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 Please.

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 He got angry, he got abusive.

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 We couldn't tell if it was the alcohol he was drinking,

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 we couldn't tell if it was just,

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 turned out that at that point,

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 his lungs had deteriorated

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 due to a 40-year habit of smoking Lucky Strikes,

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 that's an unfiltered signal.

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 He had about 13% capacity in his lungs.

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 He was basically suffocating.

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 Couldn't, but we didn't know that.

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 This physician on the main line,

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 you'll have to edit this out,

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 basically he lied to him about the condition of his health.

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 And I visited dad in the hospital there that fall

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 and basically said goodbye to him.

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 He was in and out of consciousness.

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 We're putting him on oxygen,

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 but he was fading, drove home.

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 And my phone went off,

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 and it's my sister Day who,

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 and she says,

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 you are not gonna believe this.

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 And I said, what?

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 I just drove six hours,

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 and she said, dad wants to talk to you.

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 Dad wants to talk to me.

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 He came too?

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 And there's my dad without his oxygen on.

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 And he says, Bauer,

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 I wanna become a Christian.

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 And then my sister, you know,

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 is doing this thing with the phone, you know.

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 And I asked my dad in so many words,

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 probably the wrong question, Sean.

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 I'm not a very effective angel.

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 I said, dad, why do you wanna become a Christian?

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 And why he was unconscious or in that,

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 he was aware of eternity in a way

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 that we had spoken to him for years about,

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 but that his eternity was Christless

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 and that our eternity was in Christ.

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 And so there on his deathbed,

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 a man who was unconscious,

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 coming to due to being oxygenated,

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 he repented of his sins,

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 confessed Christ for the first time as Savior,

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 and he went on to live for another two or three weeks.

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 And so we brought in every Christian we knew

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 to really test his faith,

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 to see if this was sincere.

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 We'd read scripture to him.

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 We'd talk about counting the cost.

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 We challenged him.

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 And I know a man in Christ.

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 It was my dad.

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 So before conversion,

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 we hear the invitation,

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 come to me,

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 all of you who are weary and laden,

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 Matthew 11.

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 Come to me, Christ says,

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 and I will give you rest.

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 Take my yoke upon you,

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 for I'm gentle and lowly,

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 humble in heart.

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 My yoke is easy.

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 My burden is light.

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 But then when you walk through that door

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 by God's grace

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 and you look back at Ephesians 1,

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 it doesn't say come to me anymore.

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 From beginning to end,

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 from before the foundation of the world

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 to when we're face to face with Christ.

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 If you're a Christian

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 and you put your trust in Christ,

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 it says you are in Christ.

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 It's our identity.

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 It's so mysterious

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 and yet it's so gloriously gospel-centered

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 that that really becomes the basis

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 for me of standing here before you

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 to talk about mission mindfulness,

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 not because only I responded 41 years ago

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 to a gospel call,

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 but because I can say with the Apostle Paul,

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 as can you,

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 we know a person in Christ

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 by God's grace.

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 It's us.

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 It's a miracle.

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 So please open in your scriptures

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 to Matthew 5.

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 I'm gonna pray

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 and then we'll look at

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 the passage together.

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 Over the next three days

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 and then again on Sunday,

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 we're gonna look at this

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 from some different vantage points.

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 We'll use Jesus' Sermon on the Mount

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 to get us started,

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 both today and tomorrow,

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 and then we'll consider

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 one of his parables of the kingdom.

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 Let me read the scripture.

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 I'm gonna read for the sake of context,

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 Matthew 5, verses 1 through 16,

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 but I'm gonna focus tonight

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 on verses 13 through 16,

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 which are familiar words to you

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 and I hope makes a meaningful application

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 for our small group time together.

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 As we go,

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 this is God's word.

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 May God give us his grace

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 to listen attentively to it.

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 Seeing the crowds,

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 verse 1 of chapter 5,

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 Jesus went up on the mountain

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 and when he sat down,

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 his disciples came to him

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 and he opened his mouth

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 and taught them saying,

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 blessed are the poor in spirit,

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 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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 Blessed are those who mourn,

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 for they shall be comforted.

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 Blessed are the meek,

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 for they shall inherit the earth.

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 Blessed are those who hunger

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 and thirst for righteousness,

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 for they shall be satisfied.

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 Blessed are the merciful,

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 for they shall receive mercy.

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 Blessed are the pure in heart,

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 for they shall see God.

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 Blessed are the peacemakers,

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 for they shall be called sons of God.

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 Blessed are those who are persecuted

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 for righteousness' sake,

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 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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 Blessed are you

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 when others revile you

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 and persecute you

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 and utter all kinds of evil

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 against you falsely on my account.

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 Rejoice and be glad,

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 for your reward is great in heaven,

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 for so they persecuted the prophets

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 who were before you.

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 You are the salt of the earth,

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 but if salt has lost its taste,

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 how shall its saltiness be restored?

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 It is no longer good for anything

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 except to be thrown out

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 and trampled under people's feet.

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 You are the light of the world.

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 A city set on a hill

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 cannot be hidden,

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 nor do people light a lamp

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 and put it under a basket,

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 but on a stand,

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 and it gives light to all in the house.

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 In the same way,

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 let your light shine before others

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 so that they may see your good works

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 and give glory to your Father

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 who is in heaven.

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 Let's pray.

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 Jesus, you call us to join you

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 in your mission,

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 and for those of us,

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 I presume most of us,

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 if not all of us,

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 who have put our faith in you,

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 Lord, it is not only a privilege,

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 joining you in your mission

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 is part of who we are.

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 So grant us,

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 grant us, Lord,

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 by your spirit of illumination,

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 a deeper perspective,

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 understanding, and vision

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 for this mission you have joined us to

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 and use us individually and collectively

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 to call others into your glorious light.

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 We pray this in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 That's my main point.

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 I'll repeat it again at the end of the message,

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 and I'll introduce it again this morning

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 as we'll look at the first 11 verses,

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 first 12 verses of this Sermon on the Mount,

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 is that Jesus calls us to join him

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 and his mission

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 in everyday ways.

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 And this evening,

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 I just want to introduce this idea

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 of salt and light,

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 which I'm sure is familiar to many of you,

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 but give you perhaps a fresh perspective on that,

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 and then make some fresh applications

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 through an illustration or two

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 and then set you up for some discussion.

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 In verse 13,

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 as we just read,

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 Jesus says to his disciples,

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 you are the salt of the earth,

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 but if the salt has lost its taste,

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 how shall its saltiness be restored?

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 And so the question that we ask of scripture

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 when we see a statement like that

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 is what does Jesus mean by salt?

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 It may surprise you.

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 One of the commentators I consulted

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 when I did this message for Crossway

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 at the beginning of the year,

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 in the ancient world,

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 there are actually 11 options

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 for what salt could refer to here,

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 11 different options,

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 which in light of the reductionist tendency

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 of modern-day evangelicalism today,

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 that number shocked me

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 because most people assume it's one thing

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 when actually in the ancient world,

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 the original hearers

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 could have heard preservation,

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 which salt certainly functions as with meat,

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 but it was also used in sacrifices.

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 Salt was added to Old Testament ritual sacrifices.

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 It's a symbol for peace,

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 friendship,

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 even wisdom.

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 So with that in mind,

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 and without a lot of time

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 to walk us through all 11,

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 I think Jesus is quite clear

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 in what he means

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 when he says of salt

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 that salt,

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 to be salt,

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 can be tasted.

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 It says if salt has lost its taste,

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 it's right there in the text,

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 how saltiness be restored.

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 So,

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 if we are to be salt

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 in our mission mindfulness,

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 then there must be something

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 about our lives that's tasty.

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 Imagine I invited you,

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 I'm having a hard time, Gary,

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 with this mic,

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 just because I'm very,

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 I use a lot of mannerisms,

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 so I apologize.

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 Imagine if I invited you over

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 for an Easter dinner,

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 which we did with dear friends.

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 I don't think it was your parents,

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 Bailey,

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 but it was someone like that,

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 and we love having people

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 in for meals,

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 as I'm sure many of you do.

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 Hospitality is a privilege.

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 And it got to be dessert,

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 and Linda had made a type of,

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 is it good?

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 Awesome.

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 That's great.

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 Thank you.

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 Linda had made a casserole for dessert.

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 I think it was,

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 it was kind of like coffee cake.

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 That's probably not what it was.

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 She'll be here tomorrow,

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 which she can correct me

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 on my illustration.

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 And the individual,

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 the male individual,

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 dove into this

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 before any of us

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 had an opportunity

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 to take a taste of it.

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 And he took a very large bite.

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 I'm not sure he chewed it

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 quite as thoroughly

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 as he should have.

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 And he swallowed it,

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 and he started choking

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 on our table,

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 which I don't know

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 any first aid.

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 So I kind of looked at Linda

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 like,

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 if he's going to die

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 at our table

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 over your dessert,

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 I'm not of any use here.

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 And he spit out

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 on the plate

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 what he had been chewing,

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 which that's usually

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 a sign that it's,

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 something's very wrong.

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 And he starts laughing.

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 And we ask him,

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 what's wrong?

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 What are you laughing about?

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 And he says,

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 your coffee cake,

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 your casserole,

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 doesn't have cinnamon.

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 It's full of red-hot

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 chili pepper.

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 And Linda's jaw dropped

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 and I was like,

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 really?

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 What a great prank.

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 So I took a big bite

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 and I threw it in.

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 I goes,

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 oh my gosh.

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 It's like,

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 it was just

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 throat-burning,

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 flame-hot.

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 so the point is simple.

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 If you trust in Christ,

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 when people get a taste

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 of your life,

00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:24.159
 they should notice

00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:26.479
 something very distinct.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:26.599
 distinct.

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 The world notices

00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:32.940
 distinct flavors.

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 So what is it about

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 our lives

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 that cause

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 our coworkers

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 or fellow students

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 or Tony,

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 the Uber driver,

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 who if there's time,

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 I'll share a story,

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 which probably is

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 what we'll wait

00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:48.880
 till tomorrow.

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 Or,

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 I'll change your name.

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 Sarah,

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 the classroom student.

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 Or,

00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:59.240
 someone in your family member

00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:00.059
 that's belligerent

00:23:00.059 --> 00:23:01.119
 when you share the gospel

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 with them

00:23:02.399 --> 00:23:04.160
 and is angry.

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 Or a neighbor

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 who mistreats you.

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 What stands out?

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 It's when we

00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:12.460
 obey the commands

00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:13.259
 of Christ

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 in ways

00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:16.559
 that they

00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:18.119
 recognize.

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:23.460
 The point is simple here.

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 There should be

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 no

00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:28.519
 diluted

00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:29.400
 disciples.

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 This is not a command.

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 This is an indicative.

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 If you're a Christian,

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 you are

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 salt

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 in Christ.

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 I am salt

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 in Christ.

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 Trinity

00:23:38.259 --> 00:23:39.460
 is salt

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 in Christ.

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 The red hot

00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:42.740
 chili pepper

00:23:42.740 --> 00:23:44.240
 is in us

00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:44.740
 already.

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 And when we

00:23:46.259 --> 00:23:46.920
 obey

00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:47.579
 the commands

00:23:47.579 --> 00:23:48.359
 of Christ

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 in

00:23:50.299 --> 00:23:51.460
 relationship

00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:52.079
 with others,

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:53.259
 they taste it.

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 of course,

00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:55.519
 there's a lot

00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:55.799
 of things

00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:56.379
 we can do

00:23:56.379 --> 00:23:56.920
 as Christians

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 that aren't

00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:58.379
 explicitly connected

00:23:58.379 --> 00:23:58.900
 to a command

00:23:58.900 --> 00:23:59.519
 and they may

00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:00.759
 sense it there too.

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 But there are

00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:02.799
 those clear commands

00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:03.259
 in scripture

00:24:03.259 --> 00:24:03.859
 that when we

00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:04.460
 obey it

00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:06.079
 in our culture,

00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:07.319
 in relationship

00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:08.000
 with others,

00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:08.500
 oh,

00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:09.180
 they see it.

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 And then they have

00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:11.839
 to respond

00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:12.319
 to it.

00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:15.039
 Jesus doesn't

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 just call us

00:24:16.159 --> 00:24:18.439
 salt here.

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 He doesn't

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 just tell us

00:24:19.419 --> 00:24:20.079
 to be who we

00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:20.240
 are.

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 He says

00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:21.819
 that we're

00:24:21.819 --> 00:24:23.279
 also the

00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:23.799
 light of the

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:24.159
 world.

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:24.879
 Verse 14,

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 you are the

00:24:25.399 --> 00:24:25.960
 light of the

00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:26.279
 world.

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 A city

00:24:26.919 --> 00:24:27.579
 on a hill

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 cannot be

00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:28.359
 hidden.

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 And then he

00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:30.159
 goes on to

00:24:30.159 --> 00:24:30.579
 talk about

00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:31.139
 a lamp,

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 not putting

00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:32.279
 it under

00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:32.839
 a basket,

00:24:33.639 --> 00:24:34.339
 but giving

00:24:34.339 --> 00:24:34.779
 light to

00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:35.159
 all the

00:24:35.159 --> 00:24:35.439
 house.

00:24:35.439 --> 00:24:35.799
 So,

00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:36.960
 so,

00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:38.720
 Jesus calls

00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:39.079
 us the

00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:39.259
 light.

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 He doesn't

00:24:39.579 --> 00:24:39.980
 say be

00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:40.379
 the light.

00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:41.100
 He says

00:24:41.100 --> 00:24:41.740
 this is

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 who you

00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:42.540
 are.

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 You are

00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.660
 visible.

00:24:44.520 --> 00:24:45.000
 I have

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:45.440
 made you

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:45.800
 visible

00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:46.500
 through my

00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:47.780
 work of

00:24:47.780 --> 00:24:48.360
 regeneration,

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.240
 big words,

00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:49.560
 through my

00:24:49.560 --> 00:24:50.600
 work of

00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:51.440
 gracious

00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.340
 gospel

00:24:52.340 --> 00:24:53.240
 conversion,

00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:54.520
 a new

00:24:54.520 --> 00:24:55.040
 heart,

00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:55.480
 a new

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.100
 mind,

00:24:56.560 --> 00:24:56.780
 new

00:24:56.780 --> 00:24:57.540
 affections,

00:24:57.660 --> 00:24:57.980
 a new

00:24:57.980 --> 00:24:58.740
 orientation,

00:24:59.320 --> 00:24:59.980
 and then

00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:00.880
 are growing

00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:02.700
 into that

00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:03.240
 identity.

00:25:03.620 --> 00:25:04.380
 As Christians,

00:25:04.560 --> 00:25:05.700
 we're visible

00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:08.840
 and we

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:10.240
 are salty

00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:12.279
 Jesus puts

00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:12.620
 it this

00:25:12.620 --> 00:25:13.200
 way in

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 verse 16

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:16.140
 then as

00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:16.579
 he rounds

00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:17.120
 out this

00:25:17.120 --> 00:25:18.660
 brief teaching.

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 Let your

00:25:19.779 --> 00:25:20.960
 light shine

00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:21.680
 before others

00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.279
 so that they

00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:22.900
 may see

00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:23.539
 your good

00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:24.740
 works and

00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:26.140
 give glory

00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:27.359
 to your

00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:28.059
 Father who

00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:28.420
 is in

00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:28.680
 heaven.

00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:30.640
 So,

00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:31.220
 the connection

00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:33.180
 between our

00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:35.039
 tastefulness and

00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:35.880
 our visibility

00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.920
 is our good

00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:37.460
 works,

00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:37.500
 grace,

00:25:37.900 --> 00:25:39.880
 which gives

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:42.299
 glory to

00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:42.740
 God the

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:43.259
 Father in

00:25:43.259 --> 00:25:43.460
 heaven.

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 And the

00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:44.799
 good works,

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 I just want

00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:46.900
 to suggest

00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:47.519
 to us,

00:25:48.299 --> 00:25:48.840
 are the

00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:49.559
 good works

00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:50.579
 of obedience

00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:51.200
 to the

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:52.120
 commands Jesus

00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:53.100
 gives us in

00:25:53.100 --> 00:25:53.980
 this most

00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:54.980
 fundamental of

00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:56.079
 sermons like

00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.640
 you must

00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:00.579
 love your

00:26:00.579 --> 00:26:00.920
 enemies.

00:26:01.420 --> 00:26:02.279
 You must love

00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:02.960
 them and I

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.440
 must too.

00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:05.720
 our friend

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.120
 Edward,

00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:07.080
 Bailey knows

00:26:07.080 --> 00:26:07.400
 Edward,

00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:08.440
 is a

00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:08.840
 Dominican.

00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:09.480
 He moved

00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:09.860
 to a

00:26:09.860 --> 00:26:10.259
 neighborhood

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:12.160
 near where

00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:12.759
 I live

00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:13.920
 where although

00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:14.759
 the Dominican

00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:16.240
 is the

00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:17.160
 largest minority

00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:18.180
 group there

00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:19.420
 in that

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:19.960
 community,

00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:21.420
 they are not

00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:22.140
 the majority

00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:25.180
 race in that

00:26:25.180 --> 00:26:25.620
 community.

00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:27.660
 He would be

00:26:27.660 --> 00:26:28.460
 lower income

00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:29.380
 but the way

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:29.880
 this community

00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:30.460
 is laid out

00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:30.820
 is you can

00:26:30.820 --> 00:26:31.259
 have higher

00:26:31.259 --> 00:26:31.960
 income across

00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:32.500
 the street from

00:26:32.500 --> 00:26:33.220
 lower income

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:34.799
 mixed neighborhoods

00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:35.500
 missing income

00:26:35.500 --> 00:26:36.460
 and it was

00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:37.100
 trash day

00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:39.059
 and my

00:26:39.059 --> 00:26:39.779
 brother Edward

00:26:39.779 --> 00:26:40.539
 put his trash

00:26:40.539 --> 00:26:41.799
 out with

00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:42.140
 his little

00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:42.940
 recycle can

00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:44.799
 and like me

00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:45.279
 I love

00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:45.880
 trash day.

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:46.200
 He was

00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:46.839
 excited to

00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:47.240
 see his

00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:48.039
 trash carted

00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:48.360
 away.

00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:50.380
 Came home

00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:50.680
 that night

00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:51.180
 from work

00:26:51.180 --> 00:26:52.680
 and someone

00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:53.079
 had moved

00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:53.559
 his trash

00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:54.960
 can and

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:56.039
 put it where

00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:56.579
 the trash

00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:57.100
 truck wouldn't

00:26:57.100 --> 00:26:57.660
 see it and

00:26:57.660 --> 00:26:57.980
 there was

00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:58.640
 still trash

00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.140
 in the can

00:26:59.140 --> 00:26:59.779
 and still a

00:26:59.779 --> 00:27:00.380
 bucket full of

00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:00.980
 recycles and

00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:01.120
 he thought

00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:01.700
 that's weird.

00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:03.539
 That would

00:27:03.539 --> 00:27:03.840
 be very

00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:04.220
 disappointing

00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:04.559
 for me.

00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:05.039
 I always

00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:05.700
 look forward

00:27:05.700 --> 00:27:05.960
 to coming

00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:06.180
 home to

00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:06.720
 empty trash

00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:07.200
 cans and

00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:07.779
 empty recycles.

00:27:08.620 --> 00:27:09.200
 My wife

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:09.640
 says I have

00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:10.200
 a trash

00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:10.779
 fetish.

00:27:12.059 --> 00:27:12.440
 Put him

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:12.759
 out again

00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:13.100
 the next

00:27:13.100 --> 00:27:13.400
 week.

00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:14.400
 Now he

00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:14.980
 had two

00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:15.580
 cans of

00:27:15.580 --> 00:27:16.100
 trash and

00:27:16.100 --> 00:27:16.880
 two buckets

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.640
 of recycles.

00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:18.420
 Goes off to

00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:18.840
 work, comes

00:27:18.840 --> 00:27:19.380
 back 12

00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:20.000
 hours later

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.759
 and the

00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:22.480
 trash cans

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:22.799
 have been

00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.680
 moved again

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:24.340
 and the

00:27:24.340 --> 00:27:24.940
 trash hasn't

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:25.299
 been picked

00:27:25.299 --> 00:27:25.840
 up and now

00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:26.240
 he's getting

00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:27.299
 suspicious like

00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:30.180
 who's messing

00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:30.940
 with my

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:32.419
 trash, right?

00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:33.019
 I mean there's

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:33.859
 nothing more

00:27:33.859 --> 00:27:34.659
 infurious to an

00:27:34.659 --> 00:27:35.799
 American than

00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:36.359
 messing with

00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:37.000
 their trash.

00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:38.960
 So the next

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:39.599
 week he decides

00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:40.159
 to stay home

00:27:40.159 --> 00:27:40.659
 from work.

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.039
 I don't know

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:41.460
 maybe he was

00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:41.819
 sick.

00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:42.639
 Now he's got

00:27:42.639 --> 00:27:43.419
 three cans of

00:27:43.419 --> 00:27:44.159
 trash and three

00:27:44.159 --> 00:27:44.579
 things of

00:27:44.579 --> 00:27:45.599
 recycles and

00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:46.180
 he's watching

00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:46.759
 in the window

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:48.700
 and there

00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:49.579
 across the

00:27:49.579 --> 00:27:51.440
 street comes

00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:52.980
 his neighbor

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:54.859
 who is a

00:27:54.859 --> 00:27:55.639
 different race

00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:56.700
 and upper

00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:58.759
 income and

00:27:58.759 --> 00:27:59.680
 he moves

00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:01.040
 Edward's

00:28:01.040 --> 00:28:03.400
 trash and

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:04.040
 he moves it

00:28:04.040 --> 00:28:04.900
 to the back

00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:05.320
 where the

00:28:05.320 --> 00:28:05.900
 trash truck

00:28:05.900 --> 00:28:06.460
 won't see

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:08.340
 it and

00:28:08.340 --> 00:28:09.420
 Edward who

00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:09.920
 is a very

00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:10.800
 godly man

00:28:10.800 --> 00:28:13.220
 gets very

00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:15.840
 angry and

00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:17.259
 I don't know

00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:17.840
 the Spanish

00:28:17.840 --> 00:28:18.620
 language very

00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:19.520
 well but I

00:28:19.520 --> 00:28:21.000
 suspect his

00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.480
 wife does and

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.000
 what she was

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.800
 hearing coming

00:28:23.800 --> 00:28:24.660
 out of Edward's

00:28:24.660 --> 00:28:25.240
 mouth in that

00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:26.200
 moment was

00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:27.079
 not bless you

00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:27.740
 oh father

00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:29.359
 for my

00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:30.960
 neighbors but

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.599
 I am going

00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:33.460
 to give that

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:34.019
 man the

00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:35.420
 business and

00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:36.339
 Lillian says

00:28:36.339 --> 00:28:37.099
 to her husband

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:37.539
 Edward I

00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:38.019
 think you need

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:39.480
 to pray to

00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:40.160
 the Lord before

00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:41.019
 you go confront

00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:42.039
 him because

00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:43.160
 God brought us

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.779
 here not only

00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:44.599
 this country but

00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:44.940
 to this

00:28:44.940 --> 00:28:45.819
 neighborhood to

00:28:45.819 --> 00:28:46.299
 love our

00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:46.740
 neighbors and

00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:47.180
 to share the

00:28:47.180 --> 00:28:47.779
 gospel with

00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:48.539
 them and if

00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:49.000
 you go into

00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:49.880
 that conversation

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:51.059
 angry at him

00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:52.579
 and hate him

00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:53.319
 and begin a

00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:53.960
 fight with him

00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:55.279
 that's not

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:55.640
 why we're

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.160
 here and so

00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.340
 he prays he's

00:28:57.340 --> 00:28:58.539
 convicted of his

00:28:58.539 --> 00:28:59.120
 anger because

00:28:59.120 --> 00:28:59.960
 he's really angry

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.920
 like any American

00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:01.720
 is when you mess

00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:02.600
 with their trash

00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:04.400
 and the Lord

00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:05.539
 convicts him

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.559
 breaks his

00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.059
 heart he then

00:29:08.059 --> 00:29:09.059
 goes out to the

00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:11.100
 man not as an

00:29:11.100 --> 00:29:12.620
 angry you know

00:29:12.620 --> 00:29:15.220
 trash defending

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:18.799
 but as a person

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.920
 who realizes I

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.220
 am salt and I

00:29:21.220 --> 00:29:22.240
 am light and I

00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:23.140
 am called to love

00:29:23.140 --> 00:29:24.640
 my enemies and

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:25.320
 he confronts the

00:29:25.320 --> 00:29:25.759
 man and he

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.060
 says you know I

00:29:27.060 --> 00:29:27.940
 saw you move my

00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:30.080
 trash and I was

00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:31.060
 angry with you but

00:29:31.060 --> 00:29:32.340
 I'm a Christian I'm

00:29:32.340 --> 00:29:32.980
 an evangelical

00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:35.020
 Christian and

00:29:35.020 --> 00:29:36.460
 Jesus loves you he

00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:38.540
 died for you and

00:29:38.540 --> 00:29:40.020
 he wants me to tell

00:29:40.020 --> 00:29:41.340
 you that and I

00:29:41.340 --> 00:29:42.240
 want to ask you

00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:43.320
 because I love you

00:29:43.320 --> 00:29:44.600
 too why are you

00:29:44.600 --> 00:29:45.480
 moving my trash

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:47.759
 you know what he

00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.280
 said he said I've

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.079
 been watching your

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:53.779
 family every Sunday

00:29:53.779 --> 00:29:55.079
 dressed up so

00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:56.099
 nicely getting into

00:29:56.099 --> 00:29:57.460
 your minivan and

00:29:57.460 --> 00:29:58.379
 driving off to

00:29:58.379 --> 00:29:59.859
 church and I've

00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:01.660
 been saying to my

00:30:01.660 --> 00:30:02.819
 radio audience I

00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:03.859
 have a radio show on

00:30:03.859 --> 00:30:05.319
 Sunday that I live

00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:06.220
 across the street from

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:07.619
 a Christian from an

00:30:07.619 --> 00:30:09.579
 evangelical and

00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:10.819
 they're all hypocrites

00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:12.599
 because they don't

00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.279
 love their enemies

00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.660
 they hate their

00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:17.379
 enemies and I only

00:30:17.380 --> 00:30:18.900
 need to mess with

00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:20.940
 their trash to

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:22.500
 expose how

00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:23.340
 hypocritical they

00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:26.840
 really are that's

00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:29.180
 convicting but he

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:30.200
 didn't stop there he

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:32.100
 said but now I have

00:30:32.100 --> 00:30:34.340
 to tell my audience I

00:30:34.340 --> 00:30:35.400
 met a real Christian

00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.540
 someone who really

00:30:37.540 --> 00:30:40.080
 does love his

00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:41.900
 neighbor even when

00:30:41.900 --> 00:30:44.360
 I was doing

00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:46.379
 something that to

00:30:46.379 --> 00:30:48.599
 him could have

00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:49.479
 been hurtful can

00:30:49.479 --> 00:30:49.819
 you imagine where

00:30:49.819 --> 00:30:50.379
 Edward could have

00:30:50.379 --> 00:30:51.579
 gone he could have

00:30:51.579 --> 00:30:52.639
 said this man's

00:30:52.639 --> 00:30:53.459
 moving my trash

00:30:53.459 --> 00:30:54.079
 because we're a

00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:54.799
 different race

00:30:54.799 --> 00:31:02.079
 this man's moving my

00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:02.859
 trash because we're a

00:31:02.859 --> 00:31:03.679
 different income level

00:31:03.679 --> 00:31:06.319
 this man's moving my

00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:07.159
 trash because we don't

00:31:07.159 --> 00:31:07.879
 agree politically

00:31:07.879 --> 00:31:10.500
 this man's messing with

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 my property for every

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 reason that seems to

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 fracture our culture

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 and fracture the

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 church today and

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 instead he encountered

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 a Christian who was

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 who he was supposed

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 to be salt and

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 light and obeying

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 Matthew 5 verse 43

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 you have heard that it

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 was said you shall love

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 your neighbor and hate

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 your enemy but I say

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 to you love your

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 enemies and pray for

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 those who persecute

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 you so that you may be

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 sons of your father who

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 is in heaven for he

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 makes his son rise on

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 the evil and on the

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 good and sends rain on

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 the just and on the

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 unjust for if you love

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 those who love you what

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 reward do you have you

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 therefore must be

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 perfect as your heavenly

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 father is perfect there's

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 no invisible Christians if

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 you're a Christian you're on

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 display and there's no

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 Christians that don't taste

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 differently because we are

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 the song but the call here

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 right Jesus calls us to

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 join us in his mission in

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 everyday ways is there any

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 more any everyday than

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 putting out your trash to

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 join him in everyday ways in

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 our relationship with others

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 as those who are in

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 Christ I know a church in

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 Christ it's Trinity

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 Cambridge and the Lord

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 providentially has put you in

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 relationships with dozens if

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 not more of non-believers in

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 work in neighborhood and in

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 life may God by his grace give

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 us the ability to taste

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 differently and look

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 differently and obey Christ

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 differently for his glory let's

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 pray Lord as we begin this

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:08.899
 weekend of mission

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 mindfulness first Lord we are

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 humbled and grateful that you

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 are mindful of us in calling us

00:33:16.339 --> 00:33:19.259
 to yourself through the clear

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:25.000
 compelling transforming message

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.299
 of the good news of the gospel

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 thank you Jesus for dying on the

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 cross in our place you being the

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 perfect obedient unique son of

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 God thank you Lord for in dying

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 and being buried being raised

00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:46.359
 again that we would not only be

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 forgiven of our sins but receive

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:52.700
 Lord righteousness through faith

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 an adoption into your family and a

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 new identity as sons and

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 daughters as part of your

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 glorious kingdom help us Lord now

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:03.360
 as we go to our small groups to

00:34:03.360 --> 00:34:06.220
 to not think so much about perhaps

00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:08.179
 what the text means so that

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 important but give us eyes to see

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 what are the the little and maybe

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 not so little ways that we are

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 visible to others that our lives are

00:34:19.619 --> 00:34:22.240
 are in a sense flavoring

00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.959
 their experience of you and use us

00:34:25.959 --> 00:34:29.879
 Lord to call them into your

00:34:29.879 --> 00:34:33.159
 glorious kingdom courage us Lord as

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 we meet in small groups to be

00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:36.619
 missionally mindful we pray this in

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 Jesus name and everybody said

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 amen

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 amen

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 medici

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 amen