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 Okay, how we doing?

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 After that passage, really good?

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 So, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, you know, I was at this wedding reception last night too,

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 and about 10.30 I've been praying through this sermon and the implications of it,

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 and I was like, what am I doing teaching on 1 Corinthians 5?

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 It's craziness.

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 Usually people skip these passages.

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 These are kind of like the hot potato passages in Scripture.

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 We're about to hit a whole bunch of hot potatoes.

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 I mean serious hot potatoes in Scripture and theology,

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 and I have realized over the years of being married to my wife

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 that I'm not as good of a communicator as I thought I was.

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 And so I'm sure that I might bother some of you in my communication.

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 I'm sure and hopefully that Scripture will bother you also.

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 And so this is just a beginning, an introduction.

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 Hopefully you will continue to discuss these things in your community group

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 and talk to each other.

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 And if I say something that really offends you, please come up and talk to me

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 because, again, these are huge topics, right?

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 And so you're studying these and you're reading these,

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 and we're going to talk for about 30 minutes.

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 And I've been thinking about this, you know, for weeks

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 and trying to figure out what's going on here and how do we do this

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 and how do we teach this well.

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 And so I think maybe I should just start off by asking,

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 is there anybody in here sleeping with their dad's mom, dad's wife?

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 Anybody?

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 Okay, maybe we should just close the sermon then and say amen and we can go home

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 because we don't want to think about this because it's too crazy.

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 But then I started thinking about verse 11.

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 Is there anybody in here who's a Christian

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 and they're struggling with pornography or immorality?

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 Are there anybody in here who's a believer and they're struggling with greed and covetous?

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 Or is there anybody in here who's struggling with idolatry,

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 that we've made idols and we've worshipped them instead of God?

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 Is there any of us in here who struggle with drinking too much?

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 Is there anybody in here who struggles with swindling

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 and being greedy and vicious with their words?

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 And is there anybody in here who's a reviler, that they gossip,

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 they use their words abusively to people and they hurt people,

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 especially those above them in leadership or their spouses?

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 Are there any of us in here struggling with those things?

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 And I realized that I have to say yes to many of these things.

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 You know, and I wanted to talk about that today.

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 What does it look like for us as a church to go on a journey?

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 When we started this church, we prayed that we'd be a church

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 that would open up and share everything with everybody

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 and that we would not hold things back,

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 realizing that if we keep things in the dark,

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 in our soul, in our brain, and in our heart,

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 that Satan destroys us, right?

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 So one of the things we pray about as staff and elders all the time

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 is that we would be a church that would realize that

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 and realize that we've been hiding in the dark too long

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 and it's time to bring these things into the light

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 and let God and the Holy Spirit heal us from these things.

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 And so I wanted to start to talk about this passage

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 by sharing a story that I remember really well.

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 It was October 25, 2010.

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 And the reason I remember that is only two weeks after we started Watermark.

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 And the story and the true story, what happened was that

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 in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra,

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 there was this massive earthquake that hit

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 and it rumbled everybody about 9.45 at night.

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 And this earthquake triggered this massive tsunami

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 that just kept building up and building up.

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 And it started pushing and it started heading towards these

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 Mitanawe Islands and towards these areas.

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 But this wasn't the first time the earthquake had happened.

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 And so in 2004, this huge earthquake hit and caused a tsunami

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 and it wiped out half of India.

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 And so what they did is they placed these buoys, these NOAA buoys,

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 these dark buoys all around the islands to act as a warning sign.

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 And so that whenever the water level went up,

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 these buoys would go, you know, alert, alert, alert.

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 And they would send out this warning to all the villages and all the islands.

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 And so people would be aware that this huge wall of water is coming

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 and we need to get away.

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 And so this water of wall is coming.

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 But over time, those buoys that they had placed in there in 2004,

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 it's, you know, it's 2010 now, they were just neglected.

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 I mean, no one checked up on them.

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 No one bothered to check them out and make sure they were functioning properly.

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 No one tested them.

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 No one even went out and said, hey, are they still there?

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 They just assumed that these buoys were still there

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 and they were going to be protected by it.

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 And when this big wave of water hit these buoys,

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 instead of saying, alert, alert, alert, nothing happened.

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 I mean, there was no warning and the people were sleeping

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 and this huge tsunami slams these islands.

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 And in an instant, 4,000 homes are destroyed

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 and 20,000 people's lives are upturned

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 and hundreds of people are washed out to the sea,

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 all because this system that they had designed and put in place

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 didn't function properly because we neglected it

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 and we didn't talk about it.

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 We didn't discuss it amongst ourselves.

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 It's terrifying, isn't it?

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 It's terrifying to think if you were one of those people

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 and you're thinking that you were going to go to sleep

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 and you were safe because people were taking care of you

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 and in an instant, you're wiped out.

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 And that's kind of what's going on in this church in Corinth.

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 We've been studying about this church in Corinth

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 and this church started in this city that is very much like Hong Kong.

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 It's all about power and it's all about money

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 and it's all about education and it's all about relationships

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 and it's all about idols and it's all about image.

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 I don't know if you've realized it, but in Hong Kong it doesn't really matter

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 how well you're doing.

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 It just matters that you look like you're doing well, right?

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 And that's what we struggle with in the church all the time

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 because we come in and we wear these masks

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 and it looks like we're doing well, but inside in our soul we're not doing well.

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 We're really getting beat up by these tsunamis

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 and this is what's happening to this church in Corinth.

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 These tsunamis are hitting

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 and what we're going to see is the problem that it causes is

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 that people just become arrogant.

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 The people become prideful and they've become just like their city, the church.

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 This small group of 150 people who've been struggling and fighting

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 to walk with the Lord and to be good businessmen

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 and to be good husbands and to be good wives and be good children.

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 They've just become complacent and they've become prideful

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 and they've just stopped thinking about what it means to walk with God

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 and instead of having this protective barrier of buoys

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 around their families and their church and their community,

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 these things have been wiped away

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 and now their lives and their hearts and their families

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 and their churches are at risk.

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 I mean, there's this huge disconnect in these people's lives.

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 They don't realize what is going on and what the church is all about

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 and they've separated their spiritual life from their physical life.

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 Have you ever done that?

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 I struggle with that often that we separate what we do with who we are.

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 We forget what the church is about.

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 We just come in and most of us struggle with thinking about

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 whether the church is just a club that we come on Sunday

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 and that we leave.

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 And we struggle with this idea of sin entering into our midst

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 and what does it look like and why we're here as God's people.

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 What do we do with these things as we get buffeted by these waters

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 that continually beat us and beat us and beat us?

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 I mean, there's a lot of stories in the Old Testament

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 about this happening to God's people.

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 I was reading one rabbi's commentary

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 and I know you're going to think I'm incredibly boring.

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 I told one of the staff that.

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 He goes, well, you got a lot of free time.

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 And I was reading this commentary about this guy

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 talking about these Old Testament stories

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 and he was talking about the community of God and the people.

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 And he said that, you know, most people don't understand

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 what the community of God is all about.

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 And he says it's kind of like you're on this boat.

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 And you're on this boat that's going on this journey.

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 And all of a sudden you turn over and you look down

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 and there's this guy on this wooden boat

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 and he's drilling this hole underneath his bed.

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 And he's drilling it through the wood of the boat.

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 And you look at him and you say, what are you doing?

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 He goes, don't worry about it.

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 It's just my area.

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 It's just my area.

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 It's not going to affect everybody else.

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 It's just me.

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 It's just me.

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 It's my area.

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 And this rabbi said that's how we think of the community

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 and that's how we think of sin in our lives.

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 We think that we can just drill holes in the bottom of the boat

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 and it's not going to affect anybody.

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 It's just going to affect us.

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 But what he says is that you and I are here

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 and we're in this journey.

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 If you're God's people, you're in a ship

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 and you're on this journey.

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 And everything you do affects everybody in God's family.

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 I mean, I think we don't.

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 And I struggle with this, right?

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 We come in and we don't realize that the person next to you

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 and the person next to you,

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 these are people that are going to be in heaven with you.

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 You don't realize that the person next to you

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 and the person next to you,

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 they might need the gifts, the talents, the care, the love,

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 the personality that you have.

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 And if you just get up and leave

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 and never communicate with people or never serve,

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 then that means that that person next to you

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 and the person next to you,

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 they're worse off

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 because the hand or the leg or the foot

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 just walked out the door

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 and they really need a hand or a leg or a foot

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 or a heart

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 or an ear.

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 And the story says that we don't realize it

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 because we don't realize also

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 that we're sitting in here in this community

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 and that we actually need the person beside us.

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 And that person beside us

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 might be the person that we need to talk to

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 because we're really struggling with something.

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 They might be a little further along

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 in their journey in business

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 and in marriage and family and singleness

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 and we're just getting beat up by the storms

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 over and over and over

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 and we get up and we leave

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 and we don't realize that the answer to this

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 is what God has said all along

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 and the answer is the church

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 and the community and the people of God.

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 But we don't realize that

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 and so we teach our kids

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 that it's okay not to value those things

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 and we might not say it

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 but we do it by our actions and our words

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 and so our kids learn

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 and so what we do

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 is we pass on this crippledness

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 from our generation

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 to our kids' generation

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 to the next generation.

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 But you and I

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 are meant to be in this ship together

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 and we're moving in this direction

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 and whatever we do

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 affects everybody else.

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 Does that make any sense whatsoever?

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 I hope I'm not getting too heavy

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 but for me it's just a burden

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 because I feel like I struggle with this a lot

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 and the people of Corinth struggle with that a lot too.

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 There were things going on in their church

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 that were out of control

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 and in fact

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 the problem in this passage is intense

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 and it's leaven, it's sin

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 and the idea about leaven

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 is that when you put the leaven

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 in the dough

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 you put the yeast in the dough

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 it permeates everything.

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 Okay, so I have a confession to make.

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 I've tried to stop drinking Diet Coke.

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 There's something in me

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 I just, okay

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 so I went to Christina's parents' mom's funeral

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 and there was something in me

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 like you need to just cut down

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 and stop it

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 so I've tried to stop drinking Diet Coke

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 and so I've been drinking tea instead

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 and so I've been boiling tea

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 and making tea

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 and drinking tea like a madman

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 because I'm addicted to caffeine

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 I'm sure

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 and the thing I've learned about

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 the tea pot

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 and the kettle

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 is if I don't boil it well enough

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 or if I leave it sitting

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 just for a little while

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 that the sugar in it

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 starts to ferment

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 and if I don't handle it just right

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 I mean I can go out of the room

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 and studying

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 and I can come back

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 in an hour and a half

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 and the tea starts to get cloudy.

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 Have you ever noticed that?

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 And then if I just leave it

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 for like three hours

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 that the tea is undrinkable, right?

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 It's like in some of those restaurants

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 you're going in

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 and you take a drink of tea

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 and you're like

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 oh wow this is really bad

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 you need to clean out the leaven

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 out of this thing

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 and the guy goes what?

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 And but it's

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 but that's how sin affects us, right?

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 And that's what goes on

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 and that's what's happening

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 in the church

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 because we forgot

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 what the church is about

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 we forgot that we're God's people

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 we forgot we're hands and feet

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 and we're in a ship

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 and everything we do

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 affects each other

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 and the sin that we do

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 affects each other

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 and so Paul writes this letter

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 and it's not the first letter

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 he wrote to this church

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 and this church is struggling

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 with this guy

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 and he is actually

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 he's sleeping

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 he's shacking up

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 with his dad's wife

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 and so it's not his

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 probably his mom

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 but it's his dad's wife

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 and we know that it's

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 a continual thing

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 that it's happening

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 over and over

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 because Paul wrote about it

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 in a letter that we don't have

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 maybe a year or two before

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 and so he's readdressing it

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 here again

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 and the thing that surprises him

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 as he talks about this

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 is that this sin

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 isn't even what the Romans

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 would do

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 if you read Roman law

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 and you read the Greek law

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 this thing is like

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 out of control

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 most Greeks and Romans

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 they believed in everything else

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 and everything else is good

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 but what you don't do

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 is you don't sleep

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 with your dad's wife

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 because that's

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 that's like the Oedipus syndrome

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 right

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 Oedipus the boy

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 who falls in love

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 with his mom

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 and the Greeks

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 have a whole tragedy

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 about that

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 and so you just don't

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 do that

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 but they were doing that here

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 and Paul is just

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 freaking out over that

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 and the biggest thing

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 that concerns Paul

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 in verse 2

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 is not that this guy

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 is doing it

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 but the biggest thing

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 that concerns Paul

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 is that people

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 aren't doing anything about it

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 and so they just look at him

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 and they kind of smile

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 maybe they say things like

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 well you know

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 that's a personal matter

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 maybe we shouldn't be

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 too involved

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 or you know

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 this is just the age of tolerance

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 we need to be tolerant

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 and we don't want to be

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 intolerant

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 or intolerant

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 or we don't want to be harsh

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 we don't want to be mean

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 maybe if we say something to him

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 and a lot of commentators

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 think that this guy

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 was probably a very wealthy person

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 in the church

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 that he's probably

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 a very well to do person

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 that he was donating

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 a lot of money to the church

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 the church might have

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 even been meeting

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 in his home

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 and so there's a sense

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 that they didn't

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 they were afraid

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 to say anything

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 because they would lose

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 this money from this patron

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 and so instead

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 they let this yeast

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 just continue in his heart

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 and it just became deferment

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 and get more difficult

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 and more difficult

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 and people in the church

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 were saying

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 you know it's grace

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 and God has freed us

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 and Christ has freed us

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 and who cares about

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 what we do sexually

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 and it's okay

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 we can do anything

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 and Paul's looking at this

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 and he goes

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 what are you doing

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 this guy's been drilling holes

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 in the bottom of the boat

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 for two years

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 and you haven't done

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 anything about it

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 you gotta do something

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 about it guys

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 because it's not good

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 I mean in the Hebrew culture

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 you know what they would have done

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 they would have taken

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 the guy and the girl

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 and taken them outside the city

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 and they would have

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 stoned them to death

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 I mean it would have

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 happened just like that

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 there wouldn't have been

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 no discussion over the sin

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 and the blatantness of it

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 but as Christians

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 we struggle with that

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 we don't know

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 what to do

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 and Paul was talking to them

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 and we struggle with this idea

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 well that's not loving

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 because Jesus wouldn't do that

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 right

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 but Jesus

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 did do that

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 and it's my fault

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 because I didn't put it

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 in your bulletin

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 but I put Matthew 7

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 which talks about

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 before we go to talk to people

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 we guard our hearts

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 we ask our hearts

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 we take the logs out of our eye

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 before we talk to our brother

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 but in Matthew 18

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 Jesus lays out

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 these very specific

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 strict guidelines

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 for how we deal

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 with people in sin

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 and so I'm going to read it to you

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 this is what he says

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 if your brother sins

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 and go and reprove him

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 in private

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 and if he listens to you

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 you have won a brother

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 and you just mark over that

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 love

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 because that's what love is

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 he goes

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 but if he doesn't listen to you

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 take one or two more with you

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 so that by the mouth

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 of two or three witnesses

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 every fact may be confirmed

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 love

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 and if he refuses

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 to listen to them then

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 tell it to the church

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 and if he refuses

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 to listen even to the church

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 then let him be

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 as a Gentile

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 sorry tax guys

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 but as a tax gatherer

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 that's the worst thing

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 you could be

00:15:50.300 --> 00:15:50.940
 in Jesus' day

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 was a tax gatherer

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 IRS

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 Ed

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 back there

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 you had the worst profession

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 in Jesus' day

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 sorry about that buddy

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 anyway

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 but he

00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:03.700
 Jesus said really clearly

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 hey this is

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 this is what we do

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 and this is how we treat people

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 and this is what we do

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 when our brother sins

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 and we follow these rules

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 and we follow this pattern

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 and if we don't do that

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 we don't love them

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 because he says

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 the problem is

00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:19.560
 that with Christians

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 we see something happening

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 in a person's life

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 we see a person walking around

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 and they have a booger

00:16:24.040 --> 00:16:25.120
 hanging right on their nose

00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:25.440
 right here

00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.379
 and we think

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 if we don't say anything

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 about the booger right there

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 that the booger will go away

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 am I freaking you out

00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:31.960
 little BT

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 and so there's

00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:34.820
 little BT hanging there

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 and so

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 but you're not saying anything

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 to the people

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 it's just hanging on there

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 and that person's walking around

00:16:39.779 --> 00:16:40.299
 and they have a booger

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 hanging on their nose

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 and we look at those people

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 and we say

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 wow we love them so much

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 we're not going to tell them

00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:45.399
 that there's a booger

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 hanging out their nose

00:16:46.259 --> 00:16:47.740
 but Jesus

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 but Paul says no

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 and he says

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 the problem with the church

00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:53.139
 is that by the time

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 we get to say something

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 to somebody

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 all the holes

00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:56.399
 have been drilled

00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:57.220
 in the bottom of the bolt

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 all the damage

00:16:58.360 --> 00:16:58.799
 is done

00:16:58.799 --> 00:16:59.980
 and the person's heart

00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:00.659
 who's struggling

00:17:00.659 --> 00:17:02.039
 with the sin

00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:02.720
 their heart

00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:03.779
 has become so hard

00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:06.059
 because no one's

00:17:06.059 --> 00:17:06.700
 loved them enough

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 to say to them

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 at an early age

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 dude you have a booger

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 hanging out of your nose

00:17:09.199 --> 00:17:10.459
 but they just walked around

00:17:10.459 --> 00:17:10.879
 for years

00:17:10.879 --> 00:17:11.279
 with a booger

00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:11.939
 hanging out of their nose

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 and I'm probably

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 going to stop right now

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 because my wife's

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 going to talk to me

00:17:14.459 --> 00:17:15.119
 about that afterwards

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 but it's kind of like cancer

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 right

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 we don't want to go

00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:18.839
 to the doctor

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 because we're afraid

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 he's going to tell us

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 we have cancer

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 and that's crazy right

00:17:22.979 --> 00:17:24.839
 you think you have cancer

00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:25.679
 you go to the doctor

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 so he can tell you

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 and so you can get it fixed

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 but most of us

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 live in the church

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 and we just ignore

00:17:29.979 --> 00:17:30.939
 those signs

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 and those things happening

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 and so Paul says

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 you know I can't ignore it

00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:34.879
 anymore

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 because I've been talking

00:17:35.579 --> 00:17:36.099
 to this guy

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 and we've gone through

00:17:36.619 --> 00:17:37.139
 this process

00:17:37.139 --> 00:17:37.859
 and he says

00:17:37.859 --> 00:17:38.779
 this is what I'm going to do

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 because it seems like

00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:40.519
 they're waiting for him

00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.399
 to come make a decision

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 and Paul says

00:17:42.259 --> 00:17:42.959
 you make the decision

00:17:42.959 --> 00:17:44.339
 even though I'm not there yet

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 because I'm coming

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 but this is what

00:17:46.139 --> 00:17:46.559
 I'm going to tell you

00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:46.980
 we're going to do

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 we're going to push

00:17:47.740 --> 00:17:48.539
 this guy outside

00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:50.399
 because we love him

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 because if we don't

00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:52.480
 push him outside

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 he's going to be destroyed

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 and if we don't

00:17:55.719 --> 00:17:56.179
 push him outside

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 he's going to not only

00:17:56.980 --> 00:17:58.039
 destroy himself

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 but he's going to destroy

00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:00.000
 the people around him

00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.039
 and if he don't push

00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:01.419
 him outside

00:18:01.419 --> 00:18:02.219
 he's not going only

00:18:02.219 --> 00:18:02.899
 destroy himself

00:18:02.899 --> 00:18:04.159
 and the people around him

00:18:04.159 --> 00:18:05.139
 he's also going to destroy

00:18:05.140 --> 00:18:06.420
 the name of Christ.

00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:10.360
 That's love.

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 And so Paul says, make him out, push him out there,

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 give his body over to Satan.

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 It's very strong words in verse 5.

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 There's a lot of controversy over what it means,

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 but what it basically means is you're in this boat,

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 and this guy's acting up, and you stop at the next island,

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 and you drop the guy off at the island,

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 and you keep sailing.

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 You put him out into the world.

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 Sometimes we don't do that because we want to love people,

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 but what happens when we keep people in the church

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 is that they just get into this atmosphere,

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 and there's sin in their life, and things are eating their lunch,

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 and they're getting hit by tsunamis,

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 but they're in other Christians,

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 and so they don't ever think about it.

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 They don't take it as a serious thing.

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 And so sometimes you can do really well in a church surviving, right,

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 even when you're struggling with things.

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 And that's why people, when they get kicked out of churches

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 or when their sin gets found out,

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 they go to other churches right away

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 because they realize that the church is this safe place

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 because there's grace and there's love,

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 and they can just keep doing what they've always been doing,

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 drilling holes in the bottom of the boat.

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 And Paul says, no.

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 I mean, if you love that guy, you go to him.

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 If you love that girl, you go to him,

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 and you tell them what's going on

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 because their soul's at stake, their heart's at stake.

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 It's going to hurt them.

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 The buoys are going off all around them,

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 and you're seeing those buoys flashing,

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 but you're not telling them about those buoys.

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 And so they're just going to get drowned and drowned and drowned.

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 He goes on and he says,

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 he gives three reasons why we, as God's people,

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 we must talk to each other about this sin.

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 We must allow people to speak to us and talk about these things.

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 And the first reason he gives is in verse 5,

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 he says it's for that person, for their soul.

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 That if you don't love that person enough to talk about

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 the struggles they're having and their lives they're having.

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 And again, I'm not talking about just sin, right?

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 I'm not saying, okay, the guy messed up,

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 you saw him yelling at his wife.

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 But you're seeing this pattern of things happening in people's lives,

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 and you love that person enough,

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 you want to go to them and talk about,

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 yeah, I see this pattern happening.

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 What's going on?

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 How are you doing?

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 Are there holes being driven in your boat?

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 Are you drowning?

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 Do you need help?

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 How can I help you?

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 You know, one of the things I think

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 why the church doesn't want to talk about these things,

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 about disappointing people and sin and things like that,

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 it's because we also don't do a very good job

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 when people need us, do we?

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 I mean, there's people sitting right beside you

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 who need you.

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 And they're struggling.

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 They need you to pray for them.

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 They need you to ask how they're doing.

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 They need you sometimes to give them money

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 because they can't make it to the next paycheck.

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 They need you to help them with their kids.

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 They need you to a billion different things

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 that we all have needs as a body and as a family.

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 And sometimes as a church,

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 we just don't do very well with that, do we?

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 I mean, I remember when my mom was going through a divorce,

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 my dad left our family, you know.

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 All the guys in the church, the elders and the leaders,

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 when a divorced woman comes walking in the house,

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 man, they'd step away and get away from her.

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 They didn't want to come and minister to her and help her.

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 And a lot of us do that.

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 I do that, guys.

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 We're so busy.

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 We're so focused on our own worlds and our kingdoms.

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 And there's people around who are drowning.

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 And so if we have a hard time encouraging people

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 when they need it,

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 for sure we're going to have a hard time encouraging people

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 when there's sin in their life

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 and they're drowning and they're struggling.

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 And so Paul says we do it for that person

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 because we want to save them.

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 And we're hoping that as they go forth into the world

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 and Satan beats them up

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 and they look at what they're going on,

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 that there's this wake-up call

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 and they wake up and go,

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 what have I done?

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 Where have I left?

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 You know that most of the men I counsel

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 who have extramarital affairs with their wives

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 and they leave their families,

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 within three months,

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 there's this huge sense of regret for doing it.

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 Because it's almost like they've woken up

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 and they've realized what they've done,

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 what they've given away,

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 the choices they've made,

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 and there's this huge sense of regret.

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 And they've had this wake-up call.

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 And that's kind of what Paul's talking about here.

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 That when you put people outside of the church

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 after this process that has gone through,

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 that there's this wake-up call

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 and that people see,

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 what have I done?

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 And the Holy Spirit starts to soften their heart

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 and they come back.

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 Now the amazing thing about this guy

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 is that eventually the church does this.

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 And in 2 Corinthians 2,

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 we read about this guy coming back

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 into the church family.

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 But it's taken them a long time

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 and as they've done it,

00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:49.319
 the damage has been done.

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 The second reason we do it,

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 Paul says is found in verses 3 through 8.

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 It's this idea of leaven

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 and the sin coming into our lives.

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 And basically what he says is that

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 if you don't remove people who struggle overly

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 and they don't have any desire to get better,

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 they don't have any desire to get fixed,

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 that this sin, this leaven,

00:23:06.580 --> 00:23:07.759
 goes into everything.

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 It affects everybody.

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 And you know that.

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 If you have a really bad performer in your work,

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 they have a terrible attitude,

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 do you leave them in your workplace?

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 I mean, you don't, do you?

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 Because if you do,

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 then everybody's going to start grumbling.

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 Everybody's going to be angry, right?

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 If you're on a sports team

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 and you have one selfish player,

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 you don't leave that selfish player

00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:30.560
 on your sports team.

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 Because that leaven, that sin,

00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.300
 that disgruntledness spreads out into everything

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 and it affects everything.

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 And Paul's saying as Christians,

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 one of the reasons we deal with sin,

00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:43.600
 one of the reasons we talk to people,

00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:45.020
 one of the reasons that we might ultimately

00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:48.119
 have to remove people from church

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 for a period of time.

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 And again, the heart is that they always repent.

00:23:52.539 --> 00:23:54.079
 They always come back.

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 But one of the reasons we do that

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 is because the sin in their life

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 affects everybody.

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 And it will start to tear up the church.

00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:03.279
 And then after a while,

00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.000
 everybody's going to start drilling holes

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:05.960
 in the bottom of the church.

00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.039
 And the boat is going to start to sink

00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:10.119
 because everybody has a bad attitude.

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 And it's happened throughout

00:24:12.579 --> 00:24:13.920
 the history of the church.

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 And there's a lot of stories about it in the Bible.

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 There's a lot of stories about people who said,

00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:21.119
 this is my sin, it's only going to affect me.

00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:22.500
 And they go out and they do it

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 and it decimates the whole family of God.

00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:28.379
 David did it.

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 Moses did it.

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 There's a story after story

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 of people who think it's just my sin,

00:24:34.539 --> 00:24:35.039
 it's just me.

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 But what we realize is that we're in the same boat

00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:39.240
 and everything affects it.

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 And the reason we don't think that

00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:41.720
 is because we're prideful.

00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.980
 We've stopped listening to God's spirit.

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 The final reason that Paul says,

00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:51.180
 we have to do it, we must do it,

00:24:51.180 --> 00:24:53.539
 we must let go of these people,

00:24:53.659 --> 00:24:54.980
 we have to deal with these things.

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 And he talks about some serious things there.

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 When you go back to verse 11,

00:24:59.299 --> 00:25:00.399
 you look at that, he's talking about,

00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:02.079
 hey, if there's people who are dealing

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:03.700
 with sexuality, sensuality,

00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:05.640
 they're struggling with pornography,

00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:08.779
 prostitution, extramarital affairs.

00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:10.140
 If they're, and you know,

00:25:10.340 --> 00:25:12.120
 what I've come to learn is,

00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:14.259
 it's not bad to struggle with these things.

00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:15.620
 I mean, we struggle with these things.

00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:17.080
 We're all broken, we're all sinful.

00:25:17.620 --> 00:25:19.019
 The problem comes is when we stop

00:25:19.019 --> 00:25:19.920
 struggling with these things.

00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:22.799
 The problem comes when we start saying,

00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:24.920
 that's okay, because God's going to forgive me.

00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.779
 Well, that's okay if I do this,

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:27.860
 because it's going to be okay,

00:25:27.940 --> 00:25:28.900
 because God's going to forgive me.

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:31.000
 And that's where the sin starts to grow

00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:31.960
 and starts to multiply

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.540
 and starts to affect everybody.

00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.380
 And Paul says, you have to be careful of that.

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:38.460
 And he finally says,

00:25:38.560 --> 00:25:39.740
 and the last thing he says is,

00:25:40.080 --> 00:25:41.400
 the number one reason,

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:42.580
 I think the number one reason

00:25:42.580 --> 00:25:45.120
 we deal with sin and issues in our life,

00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:47.180
 the reasons we put up these buoys

00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:48.280
 in our community group,

00:25:48.340 --> 00:25:49.200
 and we put up these buoys

00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:50.220
 around our relationships,

00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:50.940
 and our marriage,

00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:52.120
 and around our church,

00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:53.700
 and these buoys are called community.

00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:57.259
 And these buoys are called elders.

00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:00.500
 And these buoys are called fellowship.

00:26:01.940 --> 00:26:03.700
 And these buoys are called the word of God.

00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:06.840
 And Sunday gathering,

00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:08.380
 and wherever else you gather,

00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:08.980
 and prayer,

00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:10.940
 and all these buoys we put around ourselves

00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:11.720
 to protect ourselves.

00:26:12.120 --> 00:26:14.019
 And Paul says that when the person

00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:16.100
 finally steps out from those buoys,

00:26:16.580 --> 00:26:18.779
 the number one reason we talk to them

00:26:18.779 --> 00:26:19.860
 about these things is that

00:26:19.860 --> 00:26:21.000
 their sin,

00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:23.420
 their sin,

00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:25.779
 and I know people hate to use that word today,

00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:27.680
 their brokenness,

00:26:28.620 --> 00:26:30.960
 they're not doing what God has called them to do,

00:26:31.860 --> 00:26:33.740
 that their sin not only affects them,

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:34.799
 and not only affects the church,

00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:36.680
 but it affects everybody.

00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:41.400
 I mean, people who are not Christians now

00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:42.700
 look at the church,

00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:46.360
 and they see that this church

00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:50.600
 is allowing a guy who's sleeping with his dad's wife

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:52.220
 into the service.

00:26:54.299 --> 00:26:55.660
 People don't want to go to church anymore.

00:26:58.019 --> 00:26:58.960
 I mean, how would you feel

00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:00.160
 if you're sitting right next to somebody

00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:02.080
 and they swindle you out of millions of dollars?

00:27:03.779 --> 00:27:05.980
 And the church continues to allow them to do that.

00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:09.620
 How would you do in your communion time

00:27:09.620 --> 00:27:10.340
 when you're sitting down

00:27:10.340 --> 00:27:11.240
 and the person next to you

00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:12.160
 has stolen your wife away,

00:27:12.220 --> 00:27:12.900
 or your husband away,

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:13.799
 or your boyfriend away?

00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:16.740
 How would you do

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:18.259
 if you know that that person next to you

00:27:18.259 --> 00:27:19.500
 is totally unethical?

00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:21.960
 And the elders have looked at it

00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:22.940
 and they've just kind of smiled

00:27:22.940 --> 00:27:23.559
 and go, yeah, it's okay,

00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:24.539
 but we're a different type of church.

00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:25.799
 We're not going to talk about those things.

00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:28.419
 What would that do

00:27:28.419 --> 00:27:29.919
 to your feeling about the church?

00:27:32.419 --> 00:27:33.079
 What would that do

00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:34.299
 to your feeling about God?

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:38.359
 I have many friends

00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:40.879
 who don't come to church

00:27:40.879 --> 00:27:43.779
 because of the way their friends

00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:46.139
 acted to them as Christians.

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:49.519
 And what they say to me is,

00:27:49.579 --> 00:27:49.879
 well, you know,

00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.759
 they're acting no differently

00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:52.799
 than my friends.

00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:54.799
 The only difference is

00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:56.159
 they use church as a cover

00:27:56.159 --> 00:27:57.279
 for their lives.

00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:59.920
 And Paul says,

00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:01.859
 if we don't deal with these things,

00:28:02.259 --> 00:28:03.339
 Christ is hurt.

00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.299
 And the body of Christ

00:28:06.299 --> 00:28:08.019
 is made the less.

00:28:09.539 --> 00:28:11.680
 I'm not talking about sinlessness.

00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:15.940
 And I'm not talking about perfection.

00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:18.059
 And I'm not talking about

00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:19.079
 never stumbling.

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.519
 Because if you know me,

00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:21.660
 you know that I stumble.

00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:22.399
 We all stumble.

00:28:22.579 --> 00:28:23.099
 All the elders,

00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:23.639
 all the leaders.

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:25.119
 Watermark is a place

00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:26.519
 for broken and sinful people

00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:27.460
 in God's word,

00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:27.940
 the gospel.

00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:30.759
 But what I'm talking about

00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:31.599
 is people who sin

00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:32.779
 and then they don't repent.

00:28:35.099 --> 00:28:35.920
 People who sin

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.099
 and don't ask for forgiveness.

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:39.559
 People who sin

00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:40.139
 and hurt people

00:28:40.139 --> 00:28:41.579
 and don't make things right.

00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:44.099
 People who sin

00:28:44.099 --> 00:28:44.339
 and say,

00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:45.079
 yeah, I understand that,

00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:46.279
 but they just keep doing it

00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:50.680
 over and over and over.

00:28:52.220 --> 00:28:53.839
 That's what he's talking about here.

00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:55.559
 And he's saying,

00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:56.899
 we need each other.

00:28:58.220 --> 00:28:59.759
 I need people in my life

00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:00.839
 who care enough about me

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:01.519
 to come alongside

00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:01.819
 and say,

00:29:01.899 --> 00:29:02.579
 how are you doing

00:29:02.579 --> 00:29:03.299
 in these areas?

00:29:04.919 --> 00:29:05.980
 And you need people

00:29:05.980 --> 00:29:06.559
 in your life

00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.740
 who care enough about you

00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:09.240
 to come alongside with you

00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:09.980
 and ask you,

00:29:10.059 --> 00:29:10.679
 how are you doing

00:29:10.679 --> 00:29:11.399
 and what kind of holes

00:29:11.399 --> 00:29:11.819
 are you drilling

00:29:11.819 --> 00:29:12.879
 in the bottom of the boat lately?

00:29:14.879 --> 00:29:16.440
 And are your buoys connected?

00:29:18.379 --> 00:29:19.619
 And how are the warning signals

00:29:19.619 --> 00:29:20.799
 happening in your life?

00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.399
 But the church in Corinth,

00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:24.740
 they didn't listen.

00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.599
 And so because of that,

00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:29.720
 God's name was made worse

00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:30.819
 and things were hurt.

00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:33.200
 And so Paul is writing this letter

00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.359
 and he's urging them

00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:35.279
 and he's urging you

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:37.539
 and he's urging all of us

00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:39.899
 to take church seriously.

00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.180
 To take sin seriously.

00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:48.159
 To take loving

00:29:48.159 --> 00:29:50.359
 your brothers and sisters

00:29:50.359 --> 00:29:52.200
 next to you

00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:54.139
 seriously.

00:29:54.140 --> 00:29:57.680
 You guys don't understand

00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.460
 and I don't understand

00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:59.640
 but what we have here,

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:01.720
 what you have

00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.780
 and the people around you

00:30:02.780 --> 00:30:06.160
 is God's gift to you

00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.300
 while you're on this journey.

00:30:11.620 --> 00:30:12.700
 And the question is,

00:30:12.780 --> 00:30:14.360
 how are we going to use this gift

00:30:14.360 --> 00:30:15.920
 and how are we going to build this gift

00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.040
 and how are we going to make

00:30:17.040 --> 00:30:17.880
 this gift stronger?

00:30:19.620 --> 00:30:20.560
 Does that make sense?

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:24.440
 We need to hear this guys

00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:26.619
 because there are waves

00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:27.700
 that are going to hit you this week

00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:29.720
 and they're going to mow you over.

00:30:31.339 --> 00:30:32.259
 And you might get up

00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:33.139
 and reset those buoys

00:30:33.139 --> 00:30:33.960
 but you might not.

00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:36.539
 And you might let those waves

00:30:36.539 --> 00:30:37.379
 just keep drowning you

00:30:37.379 --> 00:30:37.940
 and drowning you

00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:38.940
 and if you don't have somebody

00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:39.359
 in your life

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.319
 who's going to come alongside of you

00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:41.279
 and loves you enough to say,

00:30:41.679 --> 00:30:42.240
 how are you doing?

00:30:44.779 --> 00:30:45.539
 What's going on?

00:30:46.859 --> 00:30:47.899
 How can I pray for you?

00:30:48.980 --> 00:30:50.059
 How can I help you?

00:30:51.379 --> 00:30:52.279
 If you don't have people

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:53.119
 in your life like that,

00:30:53.159 --> 00:30:55.299
 you're going to be lost.

00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:57.759
 And in the same way,

00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:59.019
 if you're not one of those people,

00:30:59.099 --> 00:30:59.799
 if you're not one of those people

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:00.899
 who come alongside of people

00:31:00.899 --> 00:31:01.899
 and you're not one of those people

00:31:01.899 --> 00:31:02.799
 who are helping them

00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:03.679
 patch up those holes

00:31:03.679 --> 00:31:04.679
 as quick as they drill it,

00:31:04.899 --> 00:31:06.039
 you're trying to patch them back up

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:06.740
 and you're trying to help them

00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:07.519
 understand what it's doing

00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:08.379
 to the whole community.

00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:09.779
 If you're not one of those people,

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:10.599
 then you're not being

00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:12.659
 who God meant for you to be.

00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:16.539
 And the church is the less.

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.799
 And God is the less.

00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:21.299
 God's people are the less.

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:26.019
 So how are your sin buoys?

00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:31.339
 What are the things in your life

00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:32.460
 that warn you?

00:31:33.899 --> 00:31:35.799
 Alert, alert, alert.

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:43.659
 I want to end with three questions

00:31:43.659 --> 00:31:44.500
 or three thoughts

00:31:44.500 --> 00:31:46.079
 that have been going through my mind

00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:47.279
 these last couple weeks.

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:49.339
 The first one is this.

00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:53.000
 is there someone around you right now

00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.019
 who's being torn up

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:57.159
 by sin

00:31:57.159 --> 00:31:59.799
 and struggles?

00:32:01.459 --> 00:32:02.639
 Bad choices they are making?

00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:04.019
 Is there somebody around you right now

00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:05.139
 that you've been ignoring

00:32:05.139 --> 00:32:07.639
 for a long time?

00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:09.839
 And you know in your heart

00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:10.839
 there's something going on.

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:12.500
 You know in their heart

00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:13.579
 that they're not doing that well.

00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:14.500
 You know in their heart

00:32:14.500 --> 00:32:15.279
 that maybe they're struggling

00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:16.059
 with their finances

00:32:16.059 --> 00:32:17.139
 and how they're using them.

00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:18.379
 Maybe they're struggling

00:32:18.379 --> 00:32:19.299
 with pornography.

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.039
 Maybe they're struggling

00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:21.899
 with being a little too nice

00:32:21.899 --> 00:32:22.740
 to people who aren't

00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:23.519
 their spouses.

00:32:23.899 --> 00:32:25.440
 And you've watched these things

00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.879
 but you haven't said anything

00:32:26.879 --> 00:32:28.460
 because you're in your mind

00:32:28.460 --> 00:32:29.419
 you might be saying

00:32:29.419 --> 00:32:30.740
 you know that's not loving

00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:31.559
 for me to judge

00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:32.539
 and to come into their life.

00:32:32.700 --> 00:32:33.399
 Or you might be saying

00:32:33.399 --> 00:32:35.460
 I'm just too busy

00:32:35.460 --> 00:32:36.539
 to help them.

00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:40.159
 Who is that person?

00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:45.740
 My prayer for you this week

00:32:45.740 --> 00:32:46.440
 and for all of us

00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:47.420
 is that we would ask God

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:48.420
 to come into our hearts

00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:49.200
 and to give us the courage

00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:49.859
 to talk to them.

00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:52.819
 Now don't go to them

00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:53.139
 and say

00:32:53.139 --> 00:32:54.019
 Tobin

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.899
 Pastor Tobin told me

00:32:54.899 --> 00:32:55.420
 you're a sinner

00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:56.619
 and I gotta tell you

00:32:56.619 --> 00:32:57.399
 about these things

00:32:57.399 --> 00:32:58.960
 and that's not the process.

00:32:59.059 --> 00:32:59.659
 The process is

00:32:59.659 --> 00:33:00.139
 you're praying

00:33:00.139 --> 00:33:01.119
 you're talking to them

00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:02.059
 you're coming alongside

00:33:02.059 --> 00:33:02.680
 and you're saying

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:03.339
 hey can you help me

00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:04.019
 I want to help you

00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:05.379
 what's going on in your life

00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:06.080
 because I want us to be

00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:06.940
 on this journey together

00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:07.680
 and I want the boat

00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:08.160
 to be healthy

00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.320
 and I want you to be healthy.

00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:12.460
 Usually after I do

00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:13.080
 a talk like this

00:33:13.080 --> 00:33:13.800
 there's a lot of people

00:33:13.800 --> 00:33:14.460
 going out there

00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:15.920
 and be careful

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:16.740
 because you might have

00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:17.620
 people come to you.

00:33:20.600 --> 00:33:21.600
 I mean if people love you

00:33:21.600 --> 00:33:22.260
 at Watermark

00:33:22.260 --> 00:33:22.960
 and in your family

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:23.980
 hopefully people will come

00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:24.500
 to you sometime

00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:25.120
 in your life.

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.640
 And they'll ask you questions

00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:28.080
 they'll ask you

00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:28.580
 how are you doing

00:33:28.580 --> 00:33:29.120
 and how are your

00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:30.440
 how are your sin buoys doing

00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:31.500
 and are they up

00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:32.780
 are they working perfectly

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:35.300
 and how they ask you

00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:36.579
 might really offend you.

00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:41.059
 You might really get angry.

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:44.059
 But the passage says

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:45.339
 that they're doing it in love

00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:47.220
 and even if they don't do it

00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:47.919
 totally the way

00:33:47.919 --> 00:33:48.700
 you would like for them

00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:49.099
 to do it

00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:50.460
 my prayer is that

00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:51.259
 you would realize

00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:52.000
 that they love you

00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.799
 and they care for you.

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:56.519
 And even if there's

00:33:56.519 --> 00:33:57.700
 20% truth

00:33:57.700 --> 00:33:58.480
 in what they're saying

00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.319
 even if there's

00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:00.419
 5% truth

00:34:00.419 --> 00:34:01.079
 in what they're saying

00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:01.960
 the message

00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:02.639
 that they're giving you

00:34:02.639 --> 00:34:03.940
 is God's message to you

00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:05.059
 to wake up

00:34:05.059 --> 00:34:06.259
 and to check the things

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:07.220
 in your life.

00:34:11.200 --> 00:34:12.159
 So who's struggling

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.960
 around you?

00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:16.900
 What does it look like

00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:17.679
 for us to go to them

00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:18.059
 this week

00:34:18.059 --> 00:34:18.780
 and pray for them?

00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:21.000
 And finally

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:21.800
 this is the one

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:22.539
 that we need to

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:23.400
 really look at

00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:23.700
 is

00:34:23.700 --> 00:34:25.820
 are there areas

00:34:25.820 --> 00:34:26.440
 in your life

00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.619
 that you're ashamed of?

00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:35.679
 Are there areas

00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:36.579
 of your life

00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:38.400
 that you

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.299
 don't want

00:34:39.299 --> 00:34:40.139
 the buoys around?

00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:44.259
 Are there areas

00:34:44.259 --> 00:34:44.839
 of your life

00:34:44.839 --> 00:34:45.679
 that you realize

00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:46.179
 that if people

00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:47.279
 look deeply

00:34:47.279 --> 00:34:48.059
 into these things

00:34:48.059 --> 00:34:48.880
 they would see

00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:50.779
 holes

00:34:50.779 --> 00:34:51.880
 drilled

00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:53.099
 all over your property?

00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:55.699
 Or maybe it's

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.619
 with your relationships

00:34:56.619 --> 00:34:57.420
 and how you're treating

00:34:57.420 --> 00:35:00.400
 people in your office

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.239
 or your helpers

00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:01.960
 or your spouses

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:02.799
 or your children

00:35:02.799 --> 00:35:03.420
 maybe it's

00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:04.099
 your ethics

00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:04.619
 at work

00:35:04.619 --> 00:35:05.219
 maybe it's

00:35:05.219 --> 00:35:06.099
 your money

00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:06.799
 and how things

00:35:06.799 --> 00:35:07.299
 are happening

00:35:07.299 --> 00:35:08.739
 maybe it's

00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:09.579
 your sexuality

00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.339
 maybe you're

00:35:10.339 --> 00:35:11.239
 an immoral person

00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:11.819
 and you're struggling

00:35:11.819 --> 00:35:12.440
 with pornography

00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:13.699
 and these other things

00:35:13.699 --> 00:35:14.199
 and they

00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:15.420
 they're killing you

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:18.319
 but you've put up

00:35:18.319 --> 00:35:18.960
 this facade

00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:19.799
 and this face

00:35:19.799 --> 00:35:20.519
 and this wall

00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:21.659
 that looks like

00:35:21.659 --> 00:35:22.299
 there's 10 billion

00:35:22.299 --> 00:35:23.659
 buoys protecting you

00:35:23.659 --> 00:35:25.940
 but in reality

00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:27.079
 there are 10 billion

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:27.500
 buoys

00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:29.179
 but they're not

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.639
 connected

00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:31.899
 they're not saying

00:35:31.899 --> 00:35:33.059
 warning warning warning

00:35:33.059 --> 00:35:35.239
 and the waves

00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:36.239
 just keep kidding you

00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.779
 my prayer for us

00:35:39.779 --> 00:35:41.839
 right now

00:35:41.839 --> 00:35:44.159
 and this week

00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:44.599
 is that we

00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:45.279
 as God's people

00:35:45.279 --> 00:35:46.199
 would get our lives

00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:47.839
 right before him

00:35:47.839 --> 00:35:50.440
 the passage says

00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:51.119
 that we celebrate

00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:52.059
 the Passover lamb

00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:52.619
 what it means is

00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:54.079
 that Christ died

00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:54.880
 for you

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:56.839
 it means that

00:35:56.839 --> 00:35:57.799
 God takes sin

00:35:57.799 --> 00:35:58.639
 so seriously

00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.219
 that he sent

00:36:00.219 --> 00:36:00.980
 his only son

00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:02.679
 to die

00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:03.779
 for you

00:36:03.779 --> 00:36:05.699
 and in response

00:36:05.699 --> 00:36:06.219
 to that

00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:07.079
 as God's people

00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:08.079
 our response

00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:08.859
 is to clean out

00:36:08.859 --> 00:36:09.299
 the leaven

00:36:09.299 --> 00:36:10.659
 clean out the sin

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:11.719
 clean out the things

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:12.500
 that entangle us

00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:13.159
 and slow us down

00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.159
 and ask for forgiveness

00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:15.799
 and help

00:36:15.799 --> 00:36:16.380
 and repent

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.259
 and hand those

00:36:17.259 --> 00:36:17.679
 to the Lord

00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:18.259
 and walk

00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:19.759
 in newness

00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.800
 the words

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.240
 he used

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:22.860
 is truth

00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:23.600
 and integrity

00:36:23.600 --> 00:36:25.160
 again it doesn't

00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:25.840
 mean perfection

00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:26.500
 it means

00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:28.220
 truth

00:36:28.220 --> 00:36:30.960
 and integrity

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:35.019
 my prayer for us

00:36:35.019 --> 00:36:35.699
 as a church

00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:36.059
 is that we

00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:36.579
 wouldn't forget

00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:37.280
 this message

00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:37.800
 of the church

00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:38.260
 of Corinth

00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:41.179
 that we wouldn't

00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:41.960
 allow our lives

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:42.980
 to go so long

00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:45.639
 until we get swamped

00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:47.460
 and that we'd realize

00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:48.699
 that people around us

00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:49.380
 need us

00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:52.300
 and we need them

00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:54.960
 because we're not

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:55.480
 going to make it

00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:55.980
 on our own

00:36:55.980 --> 00:36:59.019
 a lot of us

00:36:59.019 --> 00:36:59.260
 in here

00:36:59.260 --> 00:36:59.740
 think that

00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:00.679
 church

00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:01.800
 is you

00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:03.539
 in a little dinghy

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:04.940
 going by yourself

00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:07.519
 but the reality

00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:07.980
 is

00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:08.740
 according to

00:37:08.740 --> 00:37:09.420
 God's word

00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:11.500
 it's this large

00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:11.980
 ship

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:14.079
 and if you're

00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:14.860
 in deep sin

00:37:14.860 --> 00:37:16.639
 you're swimming

00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:17.940
 beside the ship

00:37:17.940 --> 00:37:21.400
 the passage

00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:21.800
 is about

00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:22.539
 getting back in

00:37:22.539 --> 00:37:26.279
 amen

00:37:26.279 --> 00:37:29.719
 the amazing thing

00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:30.320
 about the gospel

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.039
 is that Christ

00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:31.539
 and God

00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:31.900
 is a God

00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:32.619
 of second chances

00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:35.079
 my prayer

00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:35.519
 is that we

00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:36.219
 as a people

00:37:36.219 --> 00:37:37.139
 would remind people

00:37:37.139 --> 00:37:37.860
 about this

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:40.239
 and be involved

00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:41.019
 in each other's lives

00:37:41.019 --> 00:37:43.119
 father thank you

00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:43.639
 for this day

00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:45.119
 thank you for your word

00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:45.739
 that is living

00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:46.239
 and active

00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:47.019
 thank you for

00:37:47.019 --> 00:37:49.300
 your spirit

00:37:49.300 --> 00:37:50.039
 that comes into

00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:50.699
 our lives

00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:51.800
 and prompts us

00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:53.500
 father I thank you

00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:54.400
 for this community

00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.180
 the people of God

00:37:56.180 --> 00:37:58.000
 I pray that we

00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:58.519
 would not be

00:37:58.519 --> 00:37:59.120
 like the church

00:37:59.120 --> 00:37:59.539
 of Corinth

00:37:59.539 --> 00:38:00.140
 I pray that we

00:38:00.140 --> 00:38:00.760
 would not become

00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:01.920
 prideful and arrogant

00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:03.340
 and self-sufficient

00:38:03.340 --> 00:38:03.920
 but that we would

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.680
 realize that we

00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:05.220
 need you

00:38:05.220 --> 00:38:06.560
 and that we

00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:07.019
 would need each

00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:07.340
 other

00:38:07.340 --> 00:38:09.060
 I pray that we

00:38:09.060 --> 00:38:09.500
 would realize

00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:09.960
 that we are in

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.660
 a world that is

00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:11.780
 hostile to us

00:38:11.780 --> 00:38:13.660
 and wants to

00:38:13.660 --> 00:38:14.400
 destroy us

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.260
 and the only thing

00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:17.180
 that will save us

00:38:17.180 --> 00:38:17.980
 is you

00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:20.800
 sometimes you do

00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.680
 that through your word

00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:22.419
 sometimes you do

00:38:22.419 --> 00:38:23.239
 that through your spirit

00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:24.299
 but your word

00:38:24.299 --> 00:38:25.000
 says you always

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:25.539
 do that

00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:26.899
 through community

00:38:26.899 --> 00:38:29.379
 may we be a people

00:38:29.379 --> 00:38:30.480
 who understand that

00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:32.039
 and know that we're

00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:32.940
 in the same ship

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:34.759
 going in the same

00:38:34.759 --> 00:38:35.279
 direction

00:38:35.279 --> 00:38:37.039
 worshiping the same

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:37.419
 Lord

00:38:37.419 --> 00:38:39.619
 father I pray for

00:38:39.619 --> 00:38:40.460
 my brothers and

00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:40.960
 sisters in here

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:41.500
 right now who

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:42.319
 aren't in that ship

00:38:42.319 --> 00:38:44.299
 who think that

00:38:44.299 --> 00:38:45.059
 they're doing well

00:38:45.059 --> 00:38:45.559
 and they're

00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:46.460
 basically

00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:48.980
 not doing well

00:38:48.980 --> 00:38:51.039
 I pray that they

00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:51.760
 would ask the

00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:52.519
 people around

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.159
 them who brought

00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:53.699
 them today

00:38:53.699 --> 00:38:54.280
 or me

00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:54.820
 or somebody

00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:55.139
 here

00:38:55.139 --> 00:38:55.519
 what does it

00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:55.900
 really mean

00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:56.280
 to be a

00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:56.579
 Christian

00:38:56.579 --> 00:38:58.820
 what does it

00:38:58.820 --> 00:38:59.300
 look like to

00:38:59.300 --> 00:38:59.800
 be a person

00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:00.480
 who is a

00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.139
 saint but a

00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:01.679
 sinner at the

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.199
 same time

00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:02.519
 what does it

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:03.199
 look like a

00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:03.619
 person who

00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:04.219
 struggles with

00:39:04.219 --> 00:39:04.679
 these things

00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:05.119
 instead of

00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:05.699
 allowing them

00:39:05.699 --> 00:39:07.119
 to overwhelm

00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:07.599
 us and to

00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.440
 control us

00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:09.480
 what does it

00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:09.940
 look like to

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:10.360
 be a person

00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:10.920
 who understands

00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:11.780
 grace and

00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:12.119
 mercy

00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:14.219
 most of all

00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:15.099
 an awesome

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.740
 savior and

00:39:15.739 --> 00:39:16.059
 God

00:39:16.059 --> 00:39:18.419
 and what I

00:39:18.419 --> 00:39:18.859
 pray for us

00:39:18.859 --> 00:39:19.459
 as a church

00:39:19.459 --> 00:39:19.839
 that we would

00:39:19.839 --> 00:39:20.359
 never forget

00:39:20.359 --> 00:39:20.759
 why we're

00:39:20.759 --> 00:39:21.179
 here

00:39:21.179 --> 00:39:23.579
 that we're

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:24.239
 not here just

00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:24.719
 to start a

00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:25.559
 club and to

00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:26.339
 make it look

00:39:26.339 --> 00:39:27.059
 really nice in

00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:27.599
 our boat and

00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:28.059
 have everything

00:39:28.059 --> 00:39:28.559
 we need in

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.119
 our boat for

00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:29.719
 ourselves but

00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:30.739
 we're here to

00:39:30.739 --> 00:39:31.319
 reach people who

00:39:31.319 --> 00:39:31.779
 aren't in the

00:39:31.779 --> 00:39:32.000
 boat

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.579
 we're here to

00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:36.179
 be real and

00:39:36.179 --> 00:39:37.079
 authentic and

00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:38.939
 honest to

00:39:38.939 --> 00:39:39.619
 challenge each

00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:41.239
 other to

00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:41.939
 encourage each

00:39:41.939 --> 00:39:43.959
 other to

00:39:43.959 --> 00:39:44.359
 point each

00:39:44.359 --> 00:39:44.859
 other to your

00:39:44.859 --> 00:39:45.279
 son

00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:47.120
 what I

00:39:47.120 --> 00:39:47.480
 pray that we

00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:47.800
 would never

00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:48.340
 forget

00:39:48.340 --> 00:39:50.540
 that we

00:39:50.540 --> 00:39:50.820
 would never

00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:51.220
 allow the

00:39:51.220 --> 00:39:51.860
 waves to

00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:52.600
 sink us

00:39:52.600 --> 00:39:54.720
 that we'd

00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:55.340
 always trust

00:39:55.340 --> 00:39:55.980
 in you

00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:58.380
 father we

00:39:58.380 --> 00:39:58.820
 love you

00:39:58.820 --> 00:40:00.700
 we desperately

00:40:00.700 --> 00:40:01.300
 need you

00:40:01.300 --> 00:40:03.280
 we pray these

00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:03.580
 things in your

00:40:03.580 --> 00:40:04.360
 son jesus name

00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:05.400
 amen