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 Now, I want to ask you a question about diversity.

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 Diversity.

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 Does anyone know what diversity means?

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 What is diversity?

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 Difference, yes.

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 It seems like the average age over this side is a lot lower than the average age over this side.

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 What's the gravity of the kids over here?

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 But anyway, yes, difference.

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 Diversity is difference.

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 Kids, anything to add?

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 Diversity, what does it mean?

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 Nobody knows.

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 A group?

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 It is a group.

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 It's a dance group, isn't it?

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 Is that right, yeah?

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 Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of, Jane, as well.

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 Diversity, the idea that we're all different, yeah?

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 We're all different.

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 There is difference between us.

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 Now, with the person next to you, ask this question.

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 Who invented diversity?

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 Cameron said it so loud that we all heard him.

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 Who invented diversity, Cameron?

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 God invented diversity.

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 Okay, that was an easy question.

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 Ask this one to the person next to you.

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 It might make you think a bit more.

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 God invented diversity for what reason?

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 For what reason did God invent diversity?

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 Talk to the person next to you about that for a second.

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 Okay, sorry to interrupt your conversations.

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 But turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 7, verses 9 and 10, and we will answer the question,

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 why did God invent diversity?

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 God invented diversity for what reason?

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 Let's have a look.

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 Revelation chapter 7, verses 9 and 10.

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 Let me read it to you.

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 After this...

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 Hi, guys.

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 Welcome.

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 No, don't worry.

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 It's fine.

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 Oh, they're going to run out of chairs.

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 You're going to have to sit on this side.

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 There you go.

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 Don't worry.

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 So we've just been chatting and thinking about the answer to this question.

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 God invented diversity for what reason?

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 Revelation chapter 7, verses 9 and 10 says this.

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 After this, I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count,

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 from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,

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 which is the Lord Jesus on the throne.

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 They were wearing white robes, and they were holding palm branches in their hands,

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 and they cried out in a loud voice,

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 Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

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 Why did God invent diversity?

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 He invented diversity for his glory.

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 Because God is glorified by people of all languages and nations and tribes gathering together

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 and worshipping and praising him.

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 If we were all the same, God would not be as glorious,

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 because we wouldn't see the glory that God has made in the diversity of different people

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 and different gifts and different cultures and different backgrounds.

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 Now, one last question.

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 I wonder this morning how many different languages there are in the room

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 that we could say, praise the Lord, in a different language.

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 You want to have a guess at how many languages you think you've got in the room?

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 How many different languages?

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 Have a guess.

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 What do you reckon?

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 Kerry-J, have you got a number in your head?

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 What do you think?

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 Alice thinks five.

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 Okay.

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 You think just four different languages.

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 Okay.

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 Well, let's start.

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 We can say, praise the Lord in English.

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 Yeah?

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 Anyone?

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 Praise the Lord.

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 Praise the Lord.

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 Okay.

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 Any other languages in the room that want to say praise the Lord?

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 Can we do it in French?

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 Alice, can you give us praise the Lord in French?

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 You can say it.

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 Can you do it in two?

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 Lordi.

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 Lordi.

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 Lordi.

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 Lordi.

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 Lordi.

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 Dieu.

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 My French is not very good.

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 But thank you, Dan.

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 That's brilliant.

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 Alice, let's give you another.

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 Go on, say it in your language.

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 Soma Yorba.

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 We're up to three now.

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 Dan, have you got another one?

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 Yeah.

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 Go on.

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 Kumisun Zambi.

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 Kumisun Zambi.

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 That's four.

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 We're up to four languages.

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 Okay.

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 So, any other languages?

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 Mortessa, you've got another language for us.

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 Just wait.

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 It's hard to say.

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 It's hard to say, so I will not repeat it.

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 I'm not going to say that.

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 I'm not going to say that.

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 Would you?

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 Mortessa's got no confidence in me.

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 Go on.

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 Okay.

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 So, we've got a fifth language.

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 Well done, Mortessa.

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 Just wait a second.

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 Vicky.

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 There we go.

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 We're up to six now, yeah?

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 I'm going to stop saying these because of fear of offending people with my...

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 Yes, where were we up to?

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 Do we have another one?

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 Oh, yes.

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 In Chinese.

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 In Chinese.

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 That's great.

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 We're up to seven.

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 Yeah, Google Translate doesn't count, right?

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 Nick?

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 Nick?

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 Doxa?

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 Doceo.

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 Doceo.

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 Doceo.

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 Doceo.

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 There we go.

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 So, we're up to eight.

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 Eight.

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 So, curry...

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 Is that right?

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 Yeah.

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 Well done.

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 So, we're up to nine.

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 Come on.

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 Have you got another one?

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 I think Nigeria is like...

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 So, we've got some Nigerian down the front as well.

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 So, we're up to...

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 We're too shy to say it too loud.

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 So, we're up to ten.

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 We're up to ten.

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 Get off your phone, Cameron.

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 That's not...

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 Mike?

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 Okay.

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 So, we're up to eleven.

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 So, we're...

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 There was a bit of Hebrew, I think, over there.

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 Eleven languages.

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 Isn't that amazing?

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 That in this room...

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 Are we...

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 Have we got any more?

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 That's great.

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 That's twelve.

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 That's twelve.

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 That's great.

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 Any...

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 Any more?

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 You must have...

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 Yes.

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 Yes.

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 Great.

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 We're up to twelve.

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 We're up to twelve.

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 More...

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 Come on.

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 You can say it in Turkish as well.

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 So, where are we up to now?

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 Thirteen.

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 Thirteen.

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 So, that's Turkish as well.

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 Lucia?

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 Who's...

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 Lucia?

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 Neva's going to say it for you.

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 Don't worry.

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 How do you say praise the Lord?

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 Come on, Lucia.

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 Don't be shy.

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 Don't be shy.

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 It's the same as the French.

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 She doesn't know.

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 Don't worry.

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 Great.

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 Listen.

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 Listen.

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 Okay.

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 I'll try.

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 I'll try to get it all back together.

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 That's great, isn't it?

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 The Lord, even in this room, has given lots of different languages so that in our difference,

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 we can say the same thing, which is praise the Lord, because God in his greatness has made

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 us all different.

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 And we're going to be thinking some more about that together in our sermon.

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 But let me pray for us.

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 I'm going to pray for us as we read God's word and then listen to it taught.

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 Kids, I'm going to pray for you and for your Sunday school teachers this morning as you go

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 out to Sunday school.

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 So, let me pray for you before you go.

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 Let me pray.

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 Heavenly Father, thank you that you made us all different for your glory, that you are such a

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 great God that you couldn't just make one kind of person in one way, but you made all sorts of

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 different people and different languages and cultures.

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 And we thank you especially that as a church here, we get a taste of that with so many different

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 languages in the room.

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 And we want to say together, praise your name.

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 Praise the Lord in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Kids, go out to Sunday school.

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 Sunday school teachers, go well.

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 Right, we're going to read God's word together.

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 So, if you have a Bible, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 12, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verses

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 12 to 31, and Liz is going to come and read God's word for us.

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 Liz.

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 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts.

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 And though all its parts are many, they form one body.

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 So it is with Christ.

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 For we are all baptized by one spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free.

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 And we were all given the one spirit to drink.

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 Now the body is not made up of one part, but of many.

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 If the foot should say, because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, it would not,

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 it would not for that reason, cease to be part of the body.

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 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?

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 If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

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 But in fact, God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

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 If there were all one part, where would the body be?

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 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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 The eye cannot say to the hand, I don't need you.

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 And the head cannot say to the feet, I don't need you.

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 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable.

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 And the parts that we think are less honorable, we treat with special honor.

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 And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty.

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 While our presentable parts need no special treatment,

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 but God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

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 so that there should be no division in the body,

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 but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

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 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.

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 If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

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 Now you are the body of Christ.

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 And each one of you is a part of it.

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 And in the church, God has appointed, first of all, apostles,

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 second, prophets, third, teachers, then workers of miracles.

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 Also those having gifts of healing, those able to help with others,

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 those with gifts of administration,

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 and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.

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 Are all apostles, are all prophets, are all teachers,

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 do all work miracles, do all have gifts of healing,

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 do all speak in tongues, do all interpret,

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 but eagerly desire the greater gifts.

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 And now I will show you the most excellent way.

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 Great, thank you, Liz, that's great.

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 Well, keep the passage open,

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 because we're going to be looking at it together for the next few moments.

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 And I want to start, if I can, by telling you what my goal is for the next,

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 I don't know, 20 minutes or so, 25 minutes maybe.

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 Here's my goal.

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 You can tell me then, after lunch, whether we hit the goal or not.

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 Here it is.

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 I want, if I can, through this passage,

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 the word of God and by the help of the Spirit of God,

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 I want us to be excited together as a church,

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 that here at West Kilburn Baptist Church,

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 we are the local expression of the body of Christ.

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 So much so that when we gather as a church,

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 when you walk in those doors at the back,

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 when you come together and sit with one another,

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 that you and I get to glimpse the Lord Jesus.

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 Not just each other.

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 And we get to glimpse him in a way that just wouldn't be possible

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 if we stayed at home and didn't come.

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 Now, I want to suggest that we see that, we see the body of Christ,

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 not because we're all the same, but because we're all different.

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 And as we gather together, we see, don't we,

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 that God hasn't in church created, I don't know whether this works,

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 but like a sausage machine,

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 where basically he just churns out the same kind of person each time,

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 and everyone's exactly the same.

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 But rather the body of Christ, rather than a sausage machine,

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 is more like a mosaic,

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 as God knits together different people

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 from different cultural backgrounds with different gifts,

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 to make something in the combination of it,

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 which is wonderful and glorious and beautiful,

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 and so wonderful that it carries the label,

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 the body of Christ.

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 Now, I want to show you from 1 Corinthians 12

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 that we see that in at least four different ways.

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 So let's get on with it and see how we see the glory of the Lord Jesus.

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 So here's the first one.

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 We see Jesus in how we join the church.

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 We see Jesus in how we join the church.

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 Now, this is super important,

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 and in a way it's assumed by the rest of the passage.

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 So we need to get this clear in our minds as we start.

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 We join the body of Christ

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 by what Paul calls baptism by one spirit,

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 or later on, being given the one spirit to drink.

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 So look down at verse 13.

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 I'll read it to you again.

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 For we were all baptized by one spirit

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 so as to form one body,

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 whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free,

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 and we were all given the one spirit to drink.

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 Now, I grant you that Paul's language is not immediately clear here.

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 1 Corinthians is actually the reply to a letter

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 that the Corinthian church wrote to Paul.

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 So as you read 1 Corinthians,

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 it's like you're listening to just one half of a telephone call.

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 And so sometimes it's a little bit obscure what's going on.

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 But actually we do know bits,

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 and you can put it together as you read both Acts

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 and 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.

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 And it seems as though the church have a particular problem

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 that they are rating one another's spirituality

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 on the basis of what people are able or not able to do.

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 It seems that they're especially excited

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 by people who can speak in tongues.

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 And they assume that if you could speak in tongues,

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 that's because you were a mega Christian.

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 You had a mega dose of the spirit.

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 And Paul is saying here,

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 no, that's not right.

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 That's not right.

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 Why?

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 Well, because every member of the church,

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 every part of the body

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 has been baptized into the spirit

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 and has drunk of the spirit.

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 All of us.

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 Because here's the important thing.

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 That's what conversion is about, says Paul.

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 In other words, Paul's point is that

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 regardless of who you are,

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 we join Christ,

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 we join the one body in the same way.

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 It doesn't matter who you are

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 or where you're from

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 or what language you speak

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 or what clothes you like

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 or what food you eat

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 or even how esteemed you are

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 by others in the church.

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 You all join church

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 in exactly the same way.

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 And what is that way?

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 Well, it's by recognizing

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 that before a holy God who made us,

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 we need to be washed clean

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 from the things that we've done wrong.

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 Or to use his language here,

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 we need to be baptized,

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 washed, dipped, dumped in one spirit.

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 And we need to admit, don't we,

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 that we need his help

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 to live for the Lord Jesus

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 because we cannot do that

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 in our own strength.

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 We need to drink of one spirit.

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 Now, stand back from this for a moment

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 and you can see why church gives us

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 a unique glimpse of the Lord Jesus.

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 You are getting to see something this morning

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 by being here with one another

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 that you would not be able to see

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 on your own at home

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 because the truth is that

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 every individual here,

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 regardless of who they are,

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 they're a Christian this morning,

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 they belong to the churches

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 because they've had the same

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 transforming experience of the Spirit

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 where we realize that living life for ourselves,

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 going our own way,

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 pursuing our own goals,

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 is not taking us to glory

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 but is dragging us to hell

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 because we're not the gods we thought we were.

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 And so instead we come to Christ,

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 we turn from our sin,

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 as the Bible calls it,

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 and we turn to him.

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 And by faith in him,

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 we reach out and receive the forgiveness

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 and mercy of the cross.

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 He exchanges our sin for his rightness,

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 doesn't he?

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 So Paul says we've all been baptized

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 into the one Spirit,

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 drunk of the one Spirit.

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 Now let me tell you,

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 I think that has two very big practical implications

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 for church life.

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 If we see Jesus by all joining church the same way,

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 it has two really big implications.

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 The first one is this.

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 It doesn't matter how many

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 West Kilburn Baptist Church services

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 that you have been to

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 or how long your association with the church.

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 It doesn't matter if you've been on the cleaning road

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 to the welcome team,

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 the Sunday school team.

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 It doesn't matter even if you've preached here before.

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 If you have not trusted Christ for yourself,

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 if you have not experienced this new life

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 by the Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ,

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 then in a profound sense,

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 you are not a member of the church.

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 At least not in the way that Paul is thinking about here.

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 You're not part of the body.

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 Now I say that not because I'm trying to exclude you.

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 I'm not trying to slam the door in your face.

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 Quite the opposite.

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 I say that because I want to invite you

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 not only to attend here,

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 but to belong here,

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 to join here.

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 Not by asking you to join a rota

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 or give money

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 or even let alone dressing the same

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 as everybody else who comes through the door.

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 I'd be like trying to join a school

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 by starting to do the homework.

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 You need actually to join the register,

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 don't you, first?

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 So perhaps you've been coming here for years,

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 but still I want to invite you

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 to join West Kilburn Baptist Church by what?

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 Putting your faith in Jesus Christ

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 and experiencing new life by the Spirit

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 because the door is wide open

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 and there's no other door to membership.

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 There's no other door.

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 The other implication,

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 which I think is just as serious,

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 is that you can't become a Christian

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 without joining the body.

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 Not because joining a local church

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 makes you a Christian, does it?

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 Joining a local church

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 doesn't make you a Christian

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 in the sense of like coming along

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 or signing up for membership

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 doesn't make you a Christian.

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 Just like if you walk down the middle of the road,

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 it wouldn't make you a car, would it?

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 It would like to get you run over.

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 Rather, the point is that actually

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 as the Spirit makes us Christians,

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 we want to join a local church.

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 Just like a car when it has been made

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 drives down the road.

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 So a Christian, when they have been made,

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 join a local church.

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 So let me say to you this morning,

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 if COVID or maybe historic difficulties

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 at church or relational struggles

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 have made you cold on attending church,

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 made you withdraw a bit,

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 let me say to you,

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 I understand that,

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 but can I encourage you to come?

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 Not because all of those things

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 will immediately disappear,

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 but because if you're a Christian,

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 you need to be in church.

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 Cars that don't drive on the road

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 cause a mess.

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 So too that Christians

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 who try to live their lives

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 outside of any local church

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 also end in disaster, don't they?

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 So here's point one,

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 you see Jesus in the body of Christ here

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 because of the way that we get here.

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 We all join in the same way.

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 Secondly, you see Jesus in my difference

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 from others.

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 You see Jesus in my difference from others,

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 not just me,

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 my as in everybody's difference from others.

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 In the context of the passage,

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 Paul is talking about gifts.

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 If you glance down at chapter 12,

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 you'll notice in verses 7 to 11

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 and again in verses 27 to 31,

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 he is talking about gifts.

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 So part of the differences between us

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 in viewing the passage

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 is this idea that we've all been given gifts

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 by God to use for the good of one another

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 and for the growth of his kingdom.

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 We are all good at different things.

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 God has made us and gifted us that way

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 for the good of others.

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 One body, many parts, as he puts it.

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 Now that's certainly what's going on here,

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 but I want to start somewhere else

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 because I think Paul has something else in view

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 as well as our gifts.

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 Look at verse 13 and notice the differences there.

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 Notice in verse 13, he says,

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 Jews and Gentiles,

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 or Jews and Greeks,

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 slaves and free.

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 Here they are made into one body

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 through the work of the Spirit in conversion.

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 And the differences here

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 are not to do with what we are good at,

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 but rather to do with where I'm from,

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 my cultural background.

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 Now some of the church are Jews by birth,

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 says Paul.

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 They've been raised in the synagogue.

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 They've been taught the law of God,

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 but probably not taught the gospel.

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 Some of them are literally Greeks,

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 synonym there for Gentiles,

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 but with an emphasis on the Greek cultural background,

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 taught to think and reason in a slightly different way,

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 eating different foods,

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 considering all days the same.

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 And those people,

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 Jews, Gentiles, slaves, free,

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 are, verse 14,

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 many parts of the one body.

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 Now I warn you this morning,

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 I'm going to labor this

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 because I think this is super,

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 super important for us.

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 You can't miss this

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 all the way through the scriptures,

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 that God's people are made up

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 of all kinds of people.

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 Revelation chapter 7

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 that we were looking at

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 with the kids earlier,

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 this great final gathering

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 of God's people

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 is people from every tribe,

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 language, and nation.

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 And it's not that those cultural

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 and historic differences

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 are obliterated

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 by membership

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 of the local church,

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 but rather they are

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 an important aspect

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 of membership

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 of the local church,

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 where languages

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 and people groups

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 are visible

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 within the body of Christ

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 so that we can praise God

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 because in a way

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 that only he can,

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 he has brought together

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 a diverse group of people

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 without obliterating

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 their difference,

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 but by sanctifying

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 their difference.

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 The Greeks aren't pagans

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 in glory,

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 they're worshipping Jesus,

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 not the pantheon of gods

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 that they used to worship.

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 The Jews are no longer trusting

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 in their own righteousness

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 and glory either,

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 they're trusting in Christ alone,

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 but still in a refined

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 and glorified

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 and sanctified ways,

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 those differences

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 remain visible,

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 but united in Christ.

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 Why?

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 Well, because part of the way

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 the church represents Christ

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 as his body

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 is by its diversity

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 and not its uniformity.

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 Let me try and put it

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 like this if I can.

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 The goal of Islam

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 is to make all of its worshippers

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 look the same.

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 Yeah?

00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:40.659
 To pray in row upon row

00:23:40.659 --> 00:23:41.599
 of uniformed men

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 bowing down

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:43.039
 at the same time.

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 I think the little kid

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:44.779
 there in the middle

00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:45.480
 didn't get the memo,

00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:45.899
 did he?

00:23:46.619 --> 00:23:47.019
 Why?

00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:48.700
 Well, because Allah,

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:49.599
 the God of Islam,

00:23:50.019 --> 00:23:51.399
 cannot handle

00:23:51.399 --> 00:23:52.559
 cultural difference.

00:23:53.099 --> 00:23:54.679
 So he obliterates it,

00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:55.740
 bans it even.

00:23:56.879 --> 00:23:57.299
 But instead,

00:23:57.439 --> 00:23:59.299
 as we gather as a church

00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:00.059
 on a Sunday,

00:24:00.059 --> 00:24:01.539
 what we long for

00:24:01.539 --> 00:24:02.940
 is not row upon row

00:24:02.940 --> 00:24:03.700
 upon row of people

00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.980
 who look exactly the same

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:05.440
 and are doing

00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.419
 exactly the same thing.

00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:07.419
 We're looking for

00:24:07.419 --> 00:24:08.519
 row upon row upon row

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:09.200
 of people who look

00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:11.000
 different to one another.

00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:12.720
 Men and women,

00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:14.299
 boys and girls,

00:24:15.139 --> 00:24:16.039
 some in suits,

00:24:16.159 --> 00:24:16.899
 some in shorts,

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:17.700
 some with tattoos

00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:18.240
 at their arms,

00:24:18.379 --> 00:24:19.159
 others with knots,

00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:21.359
 faces from all over the world.

00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:22.579
 And when they sing,

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:22.859
 you know,

00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:24.359
 some people stand and sing

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 and they're hardly moving.

00:24:26.179 --> 00:24:27.179
 Wonder whether they died

00:24:27.179 --> 00:24:27.980
 standing up.

00:24:27.980 --> 00:24:29.400
 That's me.

00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:31.120
 Others are dancing around

00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:32.000
 with their arms in the air.

00:24:32.120 --> 00:24:32.480
 Why?

00:24:33.299 --> 00:24:34.640
 Well, because our God,

00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:36.180
 the true God,

00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.079
 is the God who made

00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:39.339
 the whole world

00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:40.799
 and all of its languages

00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.680
 and cultures

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:43.099
 and all of its difference.

00:24:44.579 --> 00:24:44.960
 You see,

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:46.480
 our God,

00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:47.839
 the God of the Bible,

00:24:47.980 --> 00:24:49.200
 the God who is really there,

00:24:49.299 --> 00:24:51.099
 the God who made us,

00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.240
 is the God who put rhythm

00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:54.180
 in reggae music.

00:24:54.579 --> 00:24:54.720
 Yeah?

00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:57.799
 He put spice in chicken.

00:24:58.799 --> 00:24:59.240
 Incredible.

00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.440
 He's the God

00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:02.319
 who put the twang

00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:03.579
 in the Scouse accent

00:25:03.579 --> 00:25:04.120
 that you'll notice

00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:05.180
 some of my children have.

00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:06.880
 He's the one who put the rhyming

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.500
 in Cockney rhyming slang.

00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:11.039
 Our God is the God

00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:12.200
 who made some people

00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:13.000
 to dance

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:14.599
 and other people like me

00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.400
 who can't dance.

00:25:17.099 --> 00:25:18.019
 He's glorified

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.980
 in the excitement

00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:19.960
 of a child

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:21.559
 because he made

00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:22.279
 that excitement.

00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:23.559
 He's glorified

00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:24.420
 in the steadiness

00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:25.319
 of a grandparent

00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:27.180
 because he made that too.

00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:28.779
 And the point is

00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:29.940
 that coming to God

00:25:29.940 --> 00:25:30.599
 in Christ

00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:31.759
 doesn't obliterate

00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:32.339
 those differences.

00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:34.400
 It sanctifies them.

00:25:34.900 --> 00:25:35.480
 It rives them

00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:36.140
 of lust

00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:36.900
 and pride

00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:38.019
 and self-obsession.

00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:39.660
 But the spice

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.380
 is still there.

00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:41.000
 The rhythm

00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:41.920
 is still there

00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:43.079
 because God,

00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:43.779
 the true God,

00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:44.339
 is worshipped

00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:45.480
 by all languages,

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:46.259
 tribes,

00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:47.019
 peoples,

00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:47.799
 and nations.

00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:50.659
 I used to have

00:25:50.659 --> 00:25:51.799
 this vague hope

00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:52.819
 when I was at school

00:25:52.819 --> 00:25:55.419
 because I was so bad

00:25:55.419 --> 00:25:56.220
 at French.

00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:57.519
 I thought maybe

00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:58.759
 we'll all speak

00:25:58.759 --> 00:25:59.579
 the same language

00:25:59.579 --> 00:25:59.960
 in heaven

00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:01.379
 and maybe there won't

00:26:01.379 --> 00:26:02.159
 be French in heaven

00:26:02.159 --> 00:26:02.480
 anymore.

00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:03.460
 I won't have to learn it.

00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:04.980
 But that's not right,

00:26:05.019 --> 00:26:05.440
 is it?

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:07.099
 In eternity,

00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.419
 God is glorified

00:26:08.419 --> 00:26:09.919
 by a plethora

00:26:09.919 --> 00:26:10.559
 of languages

00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:12.000
 and we have

00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:13.680
 thousands of years

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.379
 to learn them.

00:26:14.380 --> 00:26:16.420
 What a great,

00:26:16.580 --> 00:26:17.440
 diverse bunch

00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:17.880
 of people

00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:19.100
 worshipping God

00:26:19.100 --> 00:26:19.700
 for his praise

00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:20.240
 and his glory.

00:26:21.380 --> 00:26:21.580
 Now,

00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:22.220
 if you come back

00:26:22.220 --> 00:26:22.700
 to the passage,

00:26:22.800 --> 00:26:23.420
 you can see that

00:26:23.420 --> 00:26:23.900
 Paul's point

00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:24.680
 with this body image

00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:25.900
 in verse 15 to 20

00:26:25.900 --> 00:26:27.240
 is firstly

00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:28.180
 to help us

00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.680
 understand ourselves.

00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:31.720
 Look down at verse 15.

00:26:32.360 --> 00:26:33.020
 Let me just read it

00:26:33.020 --> 00:26:33.360
 to you again.

00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:33.640
 Now,

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:34.720
 if the foot should say,

00:26:35.260 --> 00:26:36.220
 because I'm not a hand,

00:26:36.280 --> 00:26:37.400
 I don't belong to the body,

00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:39.340
 it wouldn't for that reason

00:26:39.340 --> 00:26:40.620
 stop being part

00:26:40.620 --> 00:26:41.180
 of the body.

00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:43.880
 And if the ear

00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:44.440
 should say,

00:26:44.620 --> 00:26:44.740
 oh,

00:26:44.780 --> 00:26:45.860
 because I'm not an eye,

00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:46.760
 I don't belong to the body,

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:48.280
 it wouldn't for that reason

00:26:48.280 --> 00:26:49.560
 stop being part of the body.

00:26:50.260 --> 00:26:51.100
 If the whole body

00:26:51.100 --> 00:26:51.820
 were an eye,

00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:52.480
 where would the sense

00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.100
 of hearing be?

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:53.800
 If the whole body

00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:54.520
 were an ear,

00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:55.260
 where would the sense

00:26:55.260 --> 00:26:55.900
 of smell be?

00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:56.780
 But in fact,

00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:57.980
 God has placed the parts

00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:58.380
 in the body,

00:26:58.600 --> 00:26:59.540
 every one of them,

00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:01.760
 just as he wanted them to be.

00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:03.480
 If they were all one part,

00:27:03.560 --> 00:27:04.420
 where would the body be?

00:27:04.840 --> 00:27:05.540
 As it is,

00:27:05.600 --> 00:27:06.620
 there are many parts

00:27:06.620 --> 00:27:07.300
 but one body.

00:27:08.620 --> 00:27:09.280
 Notice this.

00:27:09.300 --> 00:27:10.660
 This is so important.

00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:11.680
 In this first part

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.120
 of the passage,

00:27:12.580 --> 00:27:13.320
 the voice,

00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:14.500
 the person speaking

00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:16.259
 is not the hand

00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:17.539
 speaking to the foot

00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:18.899
 to exclude it

00:27:18.899 --> 00:27:20.819
 or the eye

00:27:20.819 --> 00:27:21.799
 talking to the ear

00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:23.039
 to exclude the ear.

00:27:23.439 --> 00:27:23.779
 Rather,

00:27:23.879 --> 00:27:24.559
 this is the foot

00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:26.200
 saying to itself,

00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:27.179
 I'm not a hand

00:27:27.179 --> 00:27:28.059
 so I don't belong.

00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:30.279
 The ear saying to itself

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:31.159
 that it's not an eye

00:27:31.159 --> 00:27:32.019
 so it doesn't belong.

00:27:33.099 --> 00:27:33.720
 In other words,

00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:35.480
 the first thing

00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:36.339
 the passage is addressing

00:27:36.339 --> 00:27:38.399
 is personal insecurity.

00:27:39.099 --> 00:27:40.559
 How do I understand

00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:41.619
 my own difference

00:27:41.619 --> 00:27:42.319
 to everybody else

00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:42.819
 in the room?

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:43.899
 Why?

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:45.059
 Well, I think because

00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:45.799
 Paul thinks

00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:46.859
 the first person

00:27:46.859 --> 00:27:48.339
 who has to come to terms

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:49.299
 with their difference

00:27:49.299 --> 00:27:50.119
 from everybody else

00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:50.579
 at church

00:27:50.579 --> 00:27:52.399
 is not everybody else

00:27:52.399 --> 00:27:53.819
 but you, me.

00:27:53.819 --> 00:27:56.240
 I have to come to terms

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:56.599
 with the fact

00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:57.179
 that I'm different

00:27:57.179 --> 00:27:57.839
 to everybody else

00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:58.220
 in the room.

00:27:58.939 --> 00:27:59.980
 I have to come to terms

00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:00.339
 with the fact

00:28:00.339 --> 00:28:01.559
 that by belonging

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:02.139
 to church

00:28:02.139 --> 00:28:03.099
 is by definition

00:28:03.099 --> 00:28:04.099
 belonging to a group

00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:04.419
 of people

00:28:04.419 --> 00:28:05.839
 who are not like me.

00:28:07.339 --> 00:28:07.899
 In other words,

00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:09.000
 I don't walk into church

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.299
 and go,

00:28:09.579 --> 00:28:10.099
 brilliant,

00:28:10.539 --> 00:28:11.119
 that's a church

00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:11.720
 for old people

00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:12.779
 and I'm an old person

00:28:12.779 --> 00:28:13.879
 or brilliant,

00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:14.480
 that's a church

00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.159
 for rich people

00:28:15.159 --> 00:28:16.220
 and I'm a rich person

00:28:16.220 --> 00:28:17.779
 or even the opposite

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:18.779
 or that's a church

00:28:18.779 --> 00:28:19.299
 for rich people

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:20.179
 and I'm a poor person

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:20.660
 and I don't belong

00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:21.480
 or that's a church

00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.420
 for Caribbean people

00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:23.259
 and I'm from Nigeria

00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:24.060
 so I don't belong

00:28:24.060 --> 00:28:25.039
 or that's a church

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.920
 for suit wearers

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.100
 and I don't have a suit

00:28:27.100 --> 00:28:27.920
 so I don't belong.

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:29.279
 That's not true.

00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:30.019
 Why?

00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:31.340
 Look at verse 18.

00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:32.519
 What's the true story

00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:33.120
 of diversity

00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:34.039
 in the local church?

00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:34.980
 It's that God

00:28:34.980 --> 00:28:35.980
 is placing people

00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:36.980
 exactly where

00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:38.160
 they're supposed to be.

00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.660
 This is fantastic,

00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:41.279
 isn't it?

00:28:41.840 --> 00:28:42.539
 Through the door

00:28:42.539 --> 00:28:43.500
 of faith in Christ,

00:28:43.620 --> 00:28:44.480
 through God's sovereignty

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.600
 over where you live,

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:46.420
 who you know,

00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:47.840
 the twists and turns

00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:48.539
 of your life,

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.779
 God has brought

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:51.000
 you to this fellowship

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.740
 with your cultural difference

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:53.559
 and background

00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:55.240
 and your particular gifts,

00:28:55.379 --> 00:28:56.279
 your particular wounds

00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:56.899
 and needs,

00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:57.940
 your insights

00:28:57.940 --> 00:28:58.639
 and perspectives

00:28:58.639 --> 00:29:00.220
 because this

00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:01.139
 is exactly

00:29:01.139 --> 00:29:02.559
 where he wants you

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:04.899
 and without you

00:29:04.899 --> 00:29:06.460
 and without your difference

00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:07.160
 to everyone here,

00:29:07.259 --> 00:29:08.500
 well, we'd all be worse off

00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:09.839
 like a body

00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:10.920
 with no sense of smell

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:12.059
 or no feet

00:29:12.059 --> 00:29:13.779
 or no eyes for seeing

00:29:13.779 --> 00:29:15.819
 and just because

00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:17.279
 you think you don't fit

00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:18.480
 doesn't mean

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:19.339
 you don't belong

00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:21.099
 because actually

00:29:21.099 --> 00:29:22.439
 the fact that you don't fit

00:29:22.439 --> 00:29:24.279
 means you do belong.

00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:26.819
 See, this is it.

00:29:27.439 --> 00:29:28.179
 When you and I

00:29:28.179 --> 00:29:29.079
 walk into church,

00:29:29.659 --> 00:29:30.399
 we say,

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:30.819
 brilliant,

00:29:31.399 --> 00:29:33.000
 this is where I belong.

00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:34.240
 Not because everybody

00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:35.279
 looks like me,

00:29:35.639 --> 00:29:36.299
 not because everybody

00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:37.199
 sounds like me,

00:29:37.259 --> 00:29:37.799
 not because everyone

00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:38.740
 dresses like me.

00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:40.259
 That's a terrible church.

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:40.859
 If you find yourself

00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:41.659
 in that church,

00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:42.419
 run away.

00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:44.279
 Instead,

00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:45.199
 you walk into church

00:29:45.199 --> 00:29:46.039
 and you see,

00:29:46.179 --> 00:29:47.199
 what do you see?

00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:49.640
 You see the Lord Jesus.

00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.120
 How do you see

00:29:51.120 --> 00:29:51.720
 the Lord Jesus?

00:29:52.140 --> 00:29:52.980
 Because you see

00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:53.539
 that everybody

00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:54.960
 is different to you

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:56.200
 but that you belong

00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:56.900
 to them through

00:29:56.900 --> 00:29:58.039
 the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:59.200
 That you are part

00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:00.480
 of this mosaic

00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:01.740
 that Jesus is putting

00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:02.880
 together to his glory.

00:30:03.340 --> 00:30:04.400
 Jesus and the power

00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:04.860
 of his cross

00:30:04.860 --> 00:30:05.980
 is the only one

00:30:05.980 --> 00:30:07.160
 who can bring together

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:08.279
 all of these

00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:09.039
 cultural differences

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.620
 and hold them

00:30:09.620 --> 00:30:10.259
 for his glory.

00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:12.539
 Thirdly,

00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:14.220
 see Jesus

00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:14.799
 seeing others

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:15.880
 difference from me.

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:16.839
 This then,

00:30:16.940 --> 00:30:17.100
 I think,

00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:17.740
 is the focus

00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:19.180
 in the next part

00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:19.759
 of chapter 12

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.559
 and verses 21

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.539
 down to verse 26.

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 The temptation here,

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 I think,

00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:24.319
 is slightly different.

00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:26.240
 And I don't think

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:26.600
 the temptation

00:30:26.600 --> 00:30:27.660
 is so much

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:28.799
 to say to others,

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:30.640
 oh, you don't belong here.

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:31.519
 I think perhaps

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:32.559
 we all know that's wrong.

00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:33.420
 Rather,

00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.339
 the temptation is,

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:34.779
 I think,

00:30:34.860 --> 00:30:35.900
 to say that other people

00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:37.720
 aren't so valuable here.

00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:38.539
 Do you notice that?

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:39.720
 The temptation

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:40.600
 is that we look

00:30:40.600 --> 00:30:41.039
 at others

00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:41.819
 who are different

00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:42.500
 in the church

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:43.319
 and we don't say,

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:44.180
 oh, you don't belong

00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:44.640
 because we know

00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.220
 that's too rude.

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.539
 Rather,

00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:45.900
 we say,

00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:46.660
 oh, no,

00:30:46.819 --> 00:30:47.940
 you're not as honourable

00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:49.599
 or as important

00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:50.700
 as everybody else

00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:51.480
 to use the language

00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:51.940
 of the passage.

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:53.720
 Let me give you

00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:54.660
 a concrete example

00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:55.279
 so that we can

00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:56.039
 work out

00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:56.700
 what we're talking about.

00:30:56.779 --> 00:30:57.220
 Turn back,

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:58.000
 just if you will,

00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:58.880
 to chapter 11

00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.299
 of 1 Corinthians.

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:01.519
 You see a practical

00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:02.259
 outworking of this

00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:03.220
 in verse 17.

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 The Corinthian church,

00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:06.359
 you should,

00:31:06.460 --> 00:31:07.259
 if you've never read

00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:07.660
 1 Corinthians,

00:31:07.779 --> 00:31:08.500
 read 1 Corinthians

00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.240
 because it will

00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:10.660
 fill you full of joy

00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:11.700
 because the Corinthian church

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:12.680
 was such a mess

00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.160
 and yet Paul still thinks

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:16.279
 they're full of saints

00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.340
 and they're worshipping

00:31:18.340 --> 00:31:18.900
 for the glory of God.

00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:19.420
 If you thought,

00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:20.680
 if you think our church

00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:21.200
 is messy,

00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:22.660
 you should read 1 Corinthians.

00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:23.220
 It's really,

00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:23.539
 really,

00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:24.700
 really great.

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:26.420
 They come together

00:31:26.420 --> 00:31:27.299
 to celebrate the Lord's Supper.

00:31:27.340 --> 00:31:28.380
 This is how chaotic

00:31:28.380 --> 00:31:29.279
 their church life is.

00:31:29.340 --> 00:31:29.900
 They come together

00:31:29.900 --> 00:31:31.000
 to celebrate the Lord's Supper.

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:32.180
 They're gathering

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:32.900
 on a Sunday,

00:31:33.340 --> 00:31:34.420
 and so some people

00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:35.100
 are having to work

00:31:35.100 --> 00:31:35.700
 on a Sunday

00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:37.039
 and they celebrate

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.720
 the Lord's Supper

00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:39.460
 but they don't wait

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:40.120
 for one another

00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:41.699
 until the slaves

00:31:41.699 --> 00:31:42.319
 in the church

00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:43.639
 come late to church

00:31:43.639 --> 00:31:44.319
 because they've been

00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:45.199
 working all day.

00:31:45.379 --> 00:31:46.500
 They've been working late

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:47.299
 and they don't get there

00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:48.519
 as quickly as everybody

00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:49.399
 else is able to get there.

00:31:49.899 --> 00:31:51.359
 By the time they arrive

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:51.959
 in church,

00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:53.439
 all of the Lord's Supper

00:31:53.439 --> 00:31:54.239
 has been eaten

00:31:54.239 --> 00:31:55.479
 and people are even

00:31:55.479 --> 00:31:56.979
 drunk in church

00:31:56.979 --> 00:31:57.599
 because they've drunk

00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.659
 so much of the wine.

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 The slaves don't get

00:32:01.959 --> 00:32:02.819
 to have any

00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:04.259
 of the Lord's Supper.

00:32:04.859 --> 00:32:05.939
 It was totally,

00:32:06.159 --> 00:32:06.919
 totally chaotic.

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:07.580
 He says that

00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:09.340
 there's nothing

00:32:09.340 --> 00:32:09.980
 to commend

00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:10.600
 the way they do

00:32:10.600 --> 00:32:11.180
 the Lord's Supper.

00:32:11.300 --> 00:32:11.620
 In fact,

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.880
 it's doing more harm

00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:13.300
 than good.

00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:14.580
 He's saying to them,

00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:14.740
 listen,

00:32:15.080 --> 00:32:15.880
 your church gathering

00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:16.500
 is so bad.

00:32:16.600 --> 00:32:17.060
 Close the doors

00:32:17.060 --> 00:32:17.680
 and don't do it

00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:18.380
 because it would be better

00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:19.140
 if you didn't do it

00:32:19.140 --> 00:32:20.480
 than the way you are doing it.

00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:21.380
 Crazy, isn't it?

00:32:22.539 --> 00:32:24.019
 But what does he say

00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:25.500
 in verse 20

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:27.140
 about what that means

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:27.720
 for everybody

00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:28.180
 in the church?

00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:29.539
 Listen to how he puts it.

00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:30.500
 Verse 20,

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 so then when you come together

00:32:31.900 --> 00:32:33.039
 it's not the Lord's Supper

00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:33.560
 you eat.

00:32:34.820 --> 00:32:36.019
 For when you are eating,

00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:37.000
 some of you go ahead

00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:38.420
 with your own private suppers.

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:39.720
 As a result,

00:32:39.879 --> 00:32:40.920
 one person remains hungry,

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.779
 that's a person coming late,

00:32:41.879 --> 00:32:42.960
 and another gets drunk.

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.779
 Don't you have homes

00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:45.599
 to eat and drink in

00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:46.720
 or do you despise

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.400
 the church of God

00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:48.740
 by humiliating

00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:49.779
 those who have nothing?

00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:51.440
 What shall I say to you?

00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:52.139
 Shall I praise you?

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.279
 Certainly not

00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:54.839
 in this matter.

00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.500
 Now notice what he says.

00:32:57.940 --> 00:32:59.039
 Because of the way

00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:00.339
 they are doing it,

00:33:00.819 --> 00:33:01.639
 this ceases

00:33:01.639 --> 00:33:02.900
 to be the Lord's Supper

00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:04.920
 even for the rich people

00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:06.120
 who get to eat it all

00:33:06.120 --> 00:33:07.000
 and drink it all.

00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:08.259
 Do you notice that?

00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:10.080
 Because the rich

00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:11.580
 aren't valuing the poor

00:33:11.580 --> 00:33:12.259
 in the sharing

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:13.140
 of the Lord's Supper,

00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:15.220
 then not even the rich

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:15.880
 are celebrating

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:16.640
 the Lord's Supper.

00:33:17.380 --> 00:33:17.600
 You know,

00:33:17.620 --> 00:33:18.460
 they're eating and drinking

00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:19.500
 but it's not the Lord's Supper

00:33:19.500 --> 00:33:20.200
 they're celebrating.

00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:21.360
 In other words,

00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:22.900
 the lack of honoring

00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:23.720
 of the weak

00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:24.720
 in the church

00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:25.840
 means that church

00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:26.940
 is no longer church

00:33:26.940 --> 00:33:27.960
 for the rich.

00:33:29.100 --> 00:33:29.900
 Now bring that back

00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:31.160
 to chapter 12

00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.180
 and it seems

00:33:32.180 --> 00:33:32.940
 that this tendency

00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:33.560
 of the church

00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:34.300
 to overlook

00:33:34.300 --> 00:33:35.840
 or not value

00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:36.560
 certain people

00:33:36.560 --> 00:33:37.700
 from certain backgrounds

00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:39.660
 or not to esteem

00:33:39.660 --> 00:33:40.180
 their gifts

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:41.300
 as much as other people's

00:33:41.300 --> 00:33:42.580
 particularly if people

00:33:42.580 --> 00:33:43.560
 can't speak in tongues

00:33:43.560 --> 00:33:44.040
 it seems.

00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:45.019
 They treat those people

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:46.280
 as second class citizens

00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:48.100
 and Paul says

00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:49.560
 using the body metaphor

00:33:49.560 --> 00:33:50.019
 listen,

00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:51.500
 that's the opposite

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:52.120
 of what church

00:33:52.120 --> 00:33:52.780
 should be like.

00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.519
 When it comes to a body

00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:55.180
 the parts

00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:56.240
 that we are most

00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:57.360
 embarrassed about

00:33:57.360 --> 00:33:58.560
 work out which parts

00:33:58.560 --> 00:33:59.340
 those are yourself

00:33:59.339 --> 00:34:00.599
 we don't want to

00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:01.199
 show them in public

00:34:01.199 --> 00:34:02.059
 those are the parts

00:34:02.059 --> 00:34:02.759
 over which we take

00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:03.679
 the most care

00:34:03.679 --> 00:34:05.099
 verse 23

00:34:05.099 --> 00:34:07.159
 whereas the parts

00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:08.319
 that we don't

00:34:08.319 --> 00:34:09.219
 worry about

00:34:09.219 --> 00:34:09.699
 that we think

00:34:09.699 --> 00:34:10.719
 are great and attractive

00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:11.420
 well we don't need

00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:12.059
 to worry about them

00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.679
 at all do we

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:13.340
 verse 24

00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:15.059
 and so it should be

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:15.579
 in the gathering

00:34:15.579 --> 00:34:16.380
 of the local church

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:17.019
 that the weak

00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:17.659
 the vulnerable

00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:18.599
 those whose contribution

00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:19.420
 might be small

00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:20.659
 those are the people

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:21.179
 we should take

00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:22.139
 extra care over

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:23.059
 those we should

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:23.900
 make sure we are

00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:24.819
 honoring in the

00:34:24.819 --> 00:34:26.079
 gatherings of the church

00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:28.299
 again let me say to you

00:34:28.299 --> 00:34:29.219
 this is unique

00:34:29.219 --> 00:34:29.839
 in the church

00:34:29.839 --> 00:34:30.819
 of Jesus Christ

00:34:30.819 --> 00:34:32.019
 now if we said

00:34:32.019 --> 00:34:32.679
 before that the

00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:33.319
 God of Islam

00:34:33.319 --> 00:34:34.579
 obliterates cultural

00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:35.079
 difference

00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:36.199
 then notice that

00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:36.779
 the God of

00:34:36.779 --> 00:34:38.079
 Western materialism

00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.819
 runs over all

00:34:39.819 --> 00:34:40.439
 the weak and the

00:34:40.439 --> 00:34:40.759
 vulnerable

00:34:40.759 --> 00:34:41.879
 you've noticed

00:34:41.879 --> 00:34:42.480
 that haven't you

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.980
 yeah at work

00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:45.099
 who is it that

00:34:45.099 --> 00:34:45.799
 gets esteemed

00:34:45.799 --> 00:34:46.539
 at work

00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:48.039
 is it the person

00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:48.739
 whose health

00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:49.219
 means that they've

00:34:49.219 --> 00:34:49.639
 had to drop

00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:50.379
 to part time

00:34:50.379 --> 00:34:51.500
 because they can't

00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:52.339
 any longer work

00:34:52.339 --> 00:34:52.939
 full time

00:34:52.939 --> 00:34:53.919
 no it's not

00:34:53.919 --> 00:34:54.339
 is it

00:34:54.339 --> 00:34:55.699
 everyone's

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.619
 sort of scowling

00:34:56.619 --> 00:34:57.000
 about them

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.839
 or talking about

00:34:57.839 --> 00:34:58.319
 them behind their

00:34:58.319 --> 00:34:58.759
 back

00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:00.060
 is it the

00:35:00.060 --> 00:35:00.960
 cleaner who

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:01.840
 nobody notices

00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.120
 who empties the

00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:03.720
 bin down the

00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:04.600
 row of desks

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:05.540
 and no one even

00:35:05.540 --> 00:35:06.220
 stops to say

00:35:06.220 --> 00:35:06.780
 thank you

00:35:06.780 --> 00:35:07.400
 of course they

00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:08.020
 don't honor that

00:35:08.020 --> 00:35:09.460
 who's the person

00:35:09.460 --> 00:35:09.900
 who's honored at

00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:10.060
 work

00:35:10.060 --> 00:35:10.420
 it's the person

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:10.760
 who makes the

00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:11.260
 most money

00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:11.740
 isn't it

00:35:11.740 --> 00:35:12.560
 the person who

00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:13.240
 produces the

00:35:13.240 --> 00:35:13.680
 most

00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:14.480
 it's the person

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.080
 whose name is

00:35:15.080 --> 00:35:15.920
 at the top

00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:17.620
 of the headed

00:35:17.620 --> 00:35:18.100
 paper

00:35:18.100 --> 00:35:18.940
 whenever we used

00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.460
 to have that

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.700
 of course that's

00:35:20.700 --> 00:35:21.160
 how the world

00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:21.780
 works

00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:22.780
 not in the

00:35:22.780 --> 00:35:23.600
 church

00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:24.900
 in the body

00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:25.299
 of christ

00:35:25.299 --> 00:35:26.000
 it's different

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.079
 because listen

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:28.099
 your value

00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:28.960
 here is not a

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:29.679
 function of your

00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.360
 productivity

00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.460
 your value

00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:33.119
 here is not

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:33.460
 about the

00:35:33.460 --> 00:35:34.099
 glamour of

00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:34.779
 your gifting

00:35:34.779 --> 00:35:36.440
 your value

00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:37.159
 here is in

00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:37.679
 what

00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:39.079
 you're attached

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:39.559
 to christ

00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:40.179
 jesus the

00:35:40.179 --> 00:35:40.519
 head

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:42.599
 and the

00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:43.079
 weaker and the

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:43.519
 more vulnerable

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:44.039
 you are the

00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:45.059
 greater discretion

00:35:45.059 --> 00:35:45.639
 and care we

00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:45.960
 should treat

00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:46.480
 you with

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:48.019
 see this is

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:48.779
 it when you

00:35:48.779 --> 00:35:49.259
 walk into

00:35:49.259 --> 00:35:49.980
 church

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:51.179
 you see

00:35:51.179 --> 00:35:51.840
 jesus

00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.400
 how

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:53.260
 well you

00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:53.860
 see jesus

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:54.320
 because that's

00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:54.880
 how everybody

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:55.539
 joined the

00:35:55.539 --> 00:35:55.880
 church

00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:56.639
 you see

00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:57.340
 jesus because

00:35:57.340 --> 00:35:57.800
 you see

00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:58.179
 that you are

00:35:58.179 --> 00:35:58.760
 belonging to

00:35:58.760 --> 00:35:59.599
 a mosaic of

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:00.480
 people that

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.219
 he is gathering

00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:01.940
 in his name

00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:03.139
 and you see

00:36:03.139 --> 00:36:03.900
 jesus because

00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:04.740
 you see weak

00:36:04.740 --> 00:36:05.500
 and vulnerable

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:06.199
 people being

00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:07.139
 cared for and

00:36:07.139 --> 00:36:07.719
 loved in a

00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:08.440
 way that cannot

00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:09.380
 be explained

00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:10.360
 other than

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:10.740
 the work of

00:36:10.740 --> 00:36:11.240
 christ

00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:13.320
 jesus loves

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:13.860
 the weak

00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:14.400
 and the

00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:14.780
 broken

00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:15.860
 gathers them

00:36:15.860 --> 00:36:16.300
 into his

00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:16.760
 church a

00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:17.400
 bruised reed

00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:17.740
 he doesn't

00:36:17.740 --> 00:36:18.940
 break and a

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:19.480
 smouldering

00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:19.940
 wick he

00:36:19.940 --> 00:36:20.320
 won't put

00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:20.760
 out

00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.639
 finally then

00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:23.159
 we see

00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:23.800
 jesus in

00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:24.340
 our shared

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:25.000
 priority

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.079
 our shared

00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:26.519
 priority

00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:27.079
 i want you

00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:27.440
 to notice

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:27.760
 as we

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.200
 finish that

00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:28.579
 the passage

00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:29.079
 comes on

00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:29.400
 to say

00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:30.720
 one more

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:31.320
 important thing

00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:31.579
 in these

00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:32.220
 closing verses

00:36:32.220 --> 00:36:33.139
 see if

00:36:33.139 --> 00:36:34.139
 church displays

00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:34.940
 jesus by

00:36:34.940 --> 00:36:35.400
 being one

00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:35.740
 body in

00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:36.340
 many parts

00:36:36.340 --> 00:36:37.079
 then it

00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:37.920
 also shows

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:38.400
 jesus in

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:38.639
 what it

00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:39.200
 does together

00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:39.639
 let me

00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:40.420
 reread these

00:36:40.420 --> 00:36:41.039
 closing verses

00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:41.639
 to you

00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:43.340
 verse 27

00:36:43.340 --> 00:36:44.579
 now you

00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:45.320
 are the

00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:46.000
 body of

00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.599
 christ and

00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:47.220
 each one of

00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:47.659
 you is a

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:48.440
 part of it

00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:49.380
 and god has

00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:49.920
 placed in

00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:50.500
 the church

00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:51.159
 first of

00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:51.920
 all apostles

00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:53.159
 second

00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:53.940
 prophets

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:55.300
 third teachers

00:36:55.300 --> 00:36:56.039
 then miracles

00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:56.519
 then gifts

00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:56.940
 of healing

00:36:56.940 --> 00:36:57.900
 of helping

00:36:57.900 --> 00:36:58.480
 of guidance

00:36:58.480 --> 00:36:58.860
 and of

00:36:58.860 --> 00:37:00.099
 different kinds

00:37:00.099 --> 00:37:00.599
 of tongues

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:01.420
 are all

00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:02.119
 apostles

00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:02.659
 are all

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:03.079
 prophets

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:03.539
 are all

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:03.940
 teachers

00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:04.340
 do all

00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:04.539
 work

00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:05.000
 miracles

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:05.619
 do all

00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:05.960
 have gifts

00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:06.360
 of healing

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:06.720
 do all

00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:07.159
 speak in

00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:07.480
 tongues

00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:07.920
 do all

00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:08.440
 interpret

00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:08.900
 now

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:10.380
 eagerly

00:37:10.380 --> 00:37:10.880
 desire the

00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:11.599
 greater gifts

00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:12.440
 and yet i

00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:12.980
 will show you

00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:13.360
 the most

00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.300
 excellent way

00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:15.519
 now as you

00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:16.139
 first read

00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:17.139
 that it

00:37:17.139 --> 00:37:17.840
 sounds like a

00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:18.440
 contradiction of

00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:18.880
 everything else

00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:19.300
 we've just

00:37:19.300 --> 00:37:20.380
 been saying

00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:21.400
 surely the

00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:21.940
 whole point

00:37:21.940 --> 00:37:22.420
 that we've been

00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:23.139
 noticing is that

00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:23.440
 there's not

00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:24.159
 supposed to be a

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:24.960
 hierarchy in

00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:25.800
 church but now

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:26.679
 it seems as if

00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:27.200
 paul is giving

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:28.579
 one but look

00:37:28.579 --> 00:37:29.200
 carefully with me

00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:29.619
 at the verses

00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:30.200
 and let's see the

00:37:30.200 --> 00:37:30.679
 point together

00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:31.960
 there's a theme

00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:32.500
 running through

00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:33.119
 these chapters

00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:33.840
 which we notice

00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:34.639
 in chapter 11

00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:36.220
 and it's carrying

00:37:36.220 --> 00:37:36.700
 on all the way

00:37:36.700 --> 00:37:37.019
 through into

00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:37.639
 chapter 14

00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:38.700
 it's all about

00:37:38.700 --> 00:37:39.340
 their gatherings

00:37:39.340 --> 00:37:39.880
 as a local

00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:40.539
 church what they

00:37:40.539 --> 00:37:41.079
 do when they

00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:41.639
 come together

00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:42.940
 and the point

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:43.420
 is that a

00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:44.280
 diverse company

00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:44.679
 of people

00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:45.200
 the body of

00:37:45.200 --> 00:37:45.500
 christ

00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:46.219
 should have

00:37:46.219 --> 00:37:46.900
 a particular

00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:47.980
 focus when

00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:48.500
 they gather

00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:49.039
 together

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:50.519
 and what is

00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:51.440
 that purpose

00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.659
 well it's the

00:37:52.659 --> 00:37:53.159
 purpose of

00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:53.840
 building one

00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:54.360
 another up in

00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:54.880
 the lord

00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:56.119
 he calls it

00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:57.239
 edifying one

00:37:57.239 --> 00:37:57.519
 another

00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:58.340
 if you glance

00:37:58.340 --> 00:37:58.780
 over to

00:37:58.780 --> 00:37:59.599
 chapter 14

00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:00.500
 and verse 12

00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:01.679
 you'll see paul

00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:02.239
 spell it out

00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.659
 there let me

00:38:02.659 --> 00:38:03.539
 read chapter 14

00:38:03.539 --> 00:38:04.260
 verse 12 to

00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:04.780
 you

00:38:04.780 --> 00:38:06.059
 so it is with

00:38:06.059 --> 00:38:07.480
 you since you

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.179
 are eager for

00:38:08.179 --> 00:38:08.679
 gifts of the

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:09.599
 spirit you

00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:10.300
 really want

00:38:10.300 --> 00:38:10.920
 these exciting

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:11.239
 gifts of the

00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:11.619
 spirit if you're

00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:12.099
 eager for those

00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:13.059
 try to excel

00:38:13.059 --> 00:38:14.480
 in what those

00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.719
 that build up

00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:16.699
 the church

00:38:16.699 --> 00:38:18.639
 now those gifts

00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:19.440
 that edify the

00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.360
 church or build

00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:20.860
 up the church

00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:22.059
 are listed in an

00:38:22.059 --> 00:38:23.079
 order at the

00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:23.639
 end of chapter

00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:25.239
 12 and the

00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:25.799
 point is not

00:38:25.799 --> 00:38:26.320
 that this is a

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.440
 complete list

00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:28.960
 it's not supposed

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:29.699
 to be a complete

00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:30.699
 list instead the

00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:31.380
 point is that the

00:38:31.380 --> 00:38:32.099
 list is in the

00:38:32.099 --> 00:38:33.239
 opposite order to

00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:33.519
 which the

00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:34.099
 corinthian church

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:34.579
 would have put

00:38:34.579 --> 00:38:35.380
 them right

00:38:35.380 --> 00:38:36.759
 because right at

00:38:36.759 --> 00:38:37.400
 the bottom of the

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:38.320
 list the least

00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.739
 valuable thing to

00:38:39.739 --> 00:38:40.340
 do when you're

00:38:40.340 --> 00:38:41.019
 gathered together

00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:41.539
 is what

00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:42.840
 speaking tongues

00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:43.360
 he says it's

00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:43.720
 right at the

00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:45.260
 bottom and it

00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:46.079
 starts instead

00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:46.960
 with the apostles

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:47.880
 and prophets and

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:48.760
 then teaching and

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:50.059
 then the signs that

00:38:50.059 --> 00:38:50.519
 in the first

00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:51.360
 century particularly

00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:52.100
 accompanied the

00:38:52.100 --> 00:38:52.860
 apostles ministry

00:38:52.860 --> 00:38:53.500
 miracles and

00:38:53.500 --> 00:38:54.460
 healing then

00:38:54.460 --> 00:38:55.539
 helping and

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:56.300
 guidance or

00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:57.300
 administration and

00:38:57.300 --> 00:38:57.920
 last of all

00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.460
 tongues now at

00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:00.880
 the end of a

00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.300
 long sermon I am

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:02.840
 not going to get

00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:03.340
 into a debate

00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:04.000
 about charismatic

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.300
 gifts you can

00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:06.140
 ask me that after

00:39:06.140 --> 00:39:07.260
 lunch as we

00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:07.920
 gather again

00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:09.180
 rather the point

00:39:09.180 --> 00:39:09.860
 seems to be here

00:39:09.860 --> 00:39:11.140
 the big point is

00:39:11.140 --> 00:39:11.840
 that the church

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.300
 is to have a

00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:13.320
 particular focus

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:13.860
 when it gathers

00:39:13.860 --> 00:39:15.600
 together and the

00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:16.260
 focus is not

00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:17.019
 showing off your

00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:18.539
 gift not on

00:39:18.539 --> 00:39:19.720
 impressing others

00:39:19.720 --> 00:39:20.880
 but on building

00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:21.680
 one another up

00:39:21.680 --> 00:39:23.300
 and how is the

00:39:23.300 --> 00:39:24.280
 church built up

00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:25.740
 well it's done by

00:39:25.740 --> 00:39:27.280
 prioritizing the

00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:28.100
 teaching and

00:39:28.100 --> 00:39:29.080
 proclamation of the

00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:30.380
 apostles message

00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:31.380
 you notice that

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:32.880
 that's why they're at

00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:33.260
 the top of the

00:39:33.260 --> 00:39:34.539
 list a message

00:39:34.539 --> 00:39:36.340
 testified to by

00:39:36.340 --> 00:39:37.140
 the miracles and

00:39:37.140 --> 00:39:37.640
 healings that

00:39:37.640 --> 00:39:38.600
 accompany their work

00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:41.259
 it means that the

00:39:41.259 --> 00:39:41.799
 gathering of the

00:39:41.799 --> 00:39:42.539
 local church is not

00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.759
 primarily about

00:39:43.759 --> 00:39:44.860
 self-expression

00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:46.659
 you might be good

00:39:46.659 --> 00:39:47.799
 at many things that

00:39:47.799 --> 00:39:48.519
 you don't get to

00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:49.279
 show off in the

00:39:49.279 --> 00:39:49.839
 gatherings of the

00:39:49.839 --> 00:39:50.400
 local church

00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.619
 that's okay because

00:39:52.619 --> 00:39:53.319
 the gatherings of the

00:39:53.319 --> 00:39:54.199
 local church are not

00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:55.259
 meant to be the

00:39:55.259 --> 00:39:56.159
 occasion for us to

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:56.759
 show off all the

00:39:56.759 --> 00:39:57.400
 different things we're

00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:58.000
 good at

00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.519
 rather gatherings of

00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.339
 the local church are

00:40:00.339 --> 00:40:01.440
 to be about building

00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.579
 one another up

00:40:02.579 --> 00:40:04.619
 and we do that

00:40:04.619 --> 00:40:05.259
 don't we as the

00:40:05.259 --> 00:40:05.759
 message of the

00:40:05.759 --> 00:40:06.259
 apostles and

00:40:06.259 --> 00:40:07.079
 prophets is made

00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.460
 clear as the

00:40:09.460 --> 00:40:10.539
 gospel is made

00:40:10.539 --> 00:40:11.739
 clear we are

00:40:11.739 --> 00:40:13.460
 built up and

00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:14.239
 that doesn't make

00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:15.119
 the teacher a more

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:16.779
 important person it

00:40:16.779 --> 00:40:17.519
 doesn't even make the

00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:18.739
 apostles and prophets

00:40:18.739 --> 00:40:20.039
 more important than

00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:22.000
 us you know they're

00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:23.079
 Christians just like we

00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:24.500
 are they're standing

00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:25.699
 before God is exactly

00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:26.599
 the same as ours they

00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:28.059
 have been baptized by

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:29.000
 the same spirit and

00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:29.860
 they drink the same

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:31.880
 spirit but it does

00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:32.719
 give their work an

00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:33.819
 important place in the

00:40:33.819 --> 00:40:34.420
 gatherings of the

00:40:34.420 --> 00:40:35.900
 church even as we all

00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:36.799
 use our gifts to make

00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:37.860
 those times useful

00:40:37.860 --> 00:40:40.500
 even as we guide and

00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:41.400
 encourage one another in

00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.620
 the body of Christ and

00:40:43.620 --> 00:40:45.060
 we do that verse 31 in

00:40:45.060 --> 00:40:46.220
 the most excellent way

00:40:46.220 --> 00:40:46.960
 what is the most

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:49.760
 excellent way love

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:53.620
 chapter 13 so here it

00:40:53.620 --> 00:40:54.660
 is let me finish now

00:40:54.660 --> 00:40:56.240
 when you walk into

00:40:56.240 --> 00:40:57.120
 West Kilburn Baptist

00:40:57.120 --> 00:41:00.720
 Church you see Jesus

00:41:00.720 --> 00:41:03.340
 because you are seeing

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:05.860
 his body a body of

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:07.360
 people you have been

00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:09.360
 uniquely joined to him

00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:12.160
 by faith where everyone

00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:13.620
 is different in a way

00:41:13.620 --> 00:41:14.700
 that reflects the

00:41:14.700 --> 00:41:17.440
 glorious diversity of

00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:19.380
 our triune God Father

00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:22.260
 Son and Spirit a place

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:23.760
 where we value the weak

00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:25.579
 and the needy just like

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:27.800
 the Lord Jesus did and a

00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.059
 place where you find his

00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:30.800
 message of salvation is

00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.680
 sung about is read is

00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:35.760
 prayed and is preached

00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.100
 that together we might

00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:40.140
 see the Lord Jesus in his

00:41:40.140 --> 00:41:42.740
 beauty and his glory let me

00:41:42.740 --> 00:41:43.800
 pray for us

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:54.600
 heavenly father thank you

00:41:54.600 --> 00:41:57.140
 that you have made us all

00:41:57.140 --> 00:41:59.940
 different and that we

00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:01.440
 gather and come to church in

00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:03.420
 the same way by faith in the

00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:05.960
 Lord Jesus Christ thank you

00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:07.019
 that that means that nobody

00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:08.440
 here is a better Christian

00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.039
 than anybody else because we

00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:13.639
 have all been made right by

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 Jesus and not by our

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 actions thank you that

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 you've made us all

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 different to one another

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 and that that difference

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 doesn't mean that we don't

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 belong but that means we

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 have a unique opportunity to

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 bring you glory as we

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 gather together in Jesus

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 name and we pray that our

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 church and our gatherings

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 together would build one

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 another up in faith as we

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 make the gospel clear in the

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 words that we sing in our

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 conversations with one

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 another in the things that

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 are prayed in your word as

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 it's opened and taught bring

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 yourself glory we pray in

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 Jesus name amen amen