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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning, Good morning, that's better, Good morning, all right,
wake everybody up. I want to welcome everybody today because
Tim is not here today and we have a guest
picker and we're all introducing a few minutes. But first
of all, I want to welcome everybody here and those
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of you that may be viewing on on television, streaming
or whatever you call that.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Those of you that are here. If you have a
if you're a guest.
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With us today, you might find one of these cards
in the pew in front of you, or if you
have a prayer request, you can fill that on the
back and hand that in as the plate goes along,
and we will pray and answer any questions that you
may have. The youth are supposed to go to the
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corn Maze today. I don't think they're gone because it's
a little wet outside and I believe that thing is
closed down, although the youth are still supposed to be
here at three point thirty and you're going to have
an activity that's indoors. So the corn Maids has been canceled,
but you're still going to have an activity. Next week
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is World Communion Sunday. We will take Home Communion to
the homebound members, So if you would like to volunteer
for that, please see Bev sav Asia and to volunteer.
Wednesday night we will continue with our suppers, and I
think the suppers have been going pretty well. This week,
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doctor Tim Burberry, professor from Marshall, will be starting a
three week series entitled The Gospel. According to Tokio, those
of you that have read The Lord of the Rings
can take a front seat. I'm not one of those.
I don't even know who that guy was, but anyway,
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Dinners at five point thirty and the session starts at
six point fifteen. The b CM tailgate is Saturday at
one thirty. See Lisa Dudley or Gena Finley to see
about that defeeding the Marshall students. This Wednesday, doctor Alexander
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Lee will join us. Is doctor Lee here today? Doctor
Lee will be joining us the staff, which we are
kind of short of right now, as the interim music director,
so please welcome him. Also, I'd like to thank John
for the extra work that he's done during his past
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six months acting. Yeah, I appreciate all that he's done. Today,
we welcome doctor Evan r Kel to our pulpit. He
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is the area minister for the West Virginia Baptist Convention,
and he recently served as pastor of Barbersville Baptist Finally,
I want to bring Spencer up, and Spencer's gonna talk
to us a little bit about what's coming up next week.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Good morning, everybody on behalf of your Pastoral Search Committee.
I wanted to speak with you this morning one to
extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who participated in our
second congregational Conversation which was held on September fifteenth. I
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am today providing a narrative summary of the many important
details of our church family shared during our meeting. So
you told us that you feel most deeply spiritually touched
during the special church services throughout the Advent and Lenten seasons.
Our church has built a culture of service and involvement
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through our work within the church, outreach to the local
community and mission work abroad. Our youth and children ministries,
our Wednesday Night studies and Sunday schools small groups serve
to fulfill our involvement with viv Avenue Baptist Church. Additionally,
we believe our church should remain focused on the Holy
Spirit and our collective spiritual growth through our music, minustry,
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and excellent preaching and sermons from the pulpit.
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No pressure of Him today.
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The core values of our church are deeply rooted in
our desire to serve, welcome, care, and love others. Our
congregation is solidly grounded in loving and following Jesus and
on developing a fellowship of believers who walk together by
living our beliefs, building our faith, and representing faith in
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action to others. To accentuate and promote these core values,
we identified many key talents our congregational members share. Our
congregation has an abundance of members who are excellent teachers,
excellent leaders, excellent organizers. Additionally, we are blessed with many
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members who share their musical talents, where their desire to serve,
and those who provide.
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A vision for our church's future.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We thank you.
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As challenges facing our church family, we identify the need
for strong ministerial leadership to drive our long term vision
and navigate needed change. We believe our church needs to
stabilize and grow its membership and weekly attendance and in
turn address the financial concerns of the congregation as well
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as the ongoing upkeep and improvements of our church facilities. Finally,
we believe we will need to grow our staff and
identify a permanent leadership for our youth and music programs.
Next Sunday, we will meet at nine point thirty for
our third and final conversation. I won't stop short of
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telling you it's the most important one, because it's the
conversation about our church's future and the pastor that we
look for to lead us in the future. So next Sunday,
October six, at nine thirty am, we will meet in
the fellowship Paul, please be on time. We will have
all the materials there necessary for the con station, and
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we will also send out three reminders this week the
email text. We may even shoot up smoke signals in
the air. You never know, but if you know friends
who are in the area, please invite them. We want
to make sure they're part of that conversation. As a reminder,
we will be using the information garnered from our three
conversations to put together an updated church profile for the
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Center for Healthy Churches Advent search process. We have read
every single comment, we have taken every single data point,
we have read the individual white cards that people have
provided to us, and we appreciate that feedback. One of
the cards this week mentioned that they would like a
reminder who is on the Pastoral Search Committee, and so
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the members are including myself, Spencer Murphy, Mary Beth Elmore,
Rachel Kemper, Donna Dinghis Bev's Evasia, Tony Williams, John Hayes,
Will Finley and Brett Hensley. Please say a prayer for
the members of our commission. Please say a prayer for
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the future of our church, and please say a prayer
for our future pastor of Fifth Avenue Baptist.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Shops sure.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
It's good morning. Please join me to call to worship.
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If it had not been the Lord who was on
our side, let us all say this together. If it
had not been the Lord who was on our side
when difficult days came our way, we would have been
swallowed alive. When jem HEAs attacked us, we would have
given we would have given up hope.
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We would have.
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Been swept away by the torrent of stress and worry,
drowning in the flood of difficult challenges. Blessed be the
Lord who revives our hope, strengthens our resolve, and gives
us courage to face life's challenges.
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Our help is.
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In the name of the Lord who made heaven and
earth and all that is within.
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Its school school school place.
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Pray with me, Holy Father. We come to you with
humble hearts today, giving praise and honor to you alone.
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We exalt you.
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Above everything else in our lives. We surrender all our
worries and concerns and ask only that your will be done,
knowing that your will is what's best. Eliminate any distractions
that pull us away from you, so we may focus
on your word and learn to truly abide in you.
With gratitude, we remember your many blessings and thank you
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for your constant goodness and loving kindness toward us. In
deep reverence, we pray the prayer Jesus taught us, our
Father who art in heaven. HALLO would be thy name,
Thy Kingdom.
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Come.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us as day our daily bread, and forgive us
our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not to temptation, but deliver us for
me evil, for that im is the kingdom in the power,
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in the glory forever.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Ah Man, Good morning again. We're gonna do our future
just a little bit differently this morning. And everyone here,
you're all part of our future, right, all part of
this church in the future. So you're going to help us.
We're going to sing a song and you can find
the words that you are going to be singing in
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the insert in your worship God. And we hope that
you guys enjoy this. And thank you to Miss Jennifer
Curry for bringing us this fun song and the kids
have been practice and yeah, Miss Jennifer and Miss Marsha
for leading mister.
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John Special.
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Just pray it's me.
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Heavenly, Father, thank you for the day. Thank you for
the opportunity to worship together and celebrate the many blessings
you have bestowed upon us. As we witness the awesome
power of the storms that have moved through the South
this week, We're thankful.
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For the impact here being rather mild in comparison.
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We pray Lord that those that are heavily impacted by
the storm that they are able to find safety and
shelter as they begin to rebuild. Father, let these stories
be a reminder to us that our earthly possessions are
not our final rewards. There are gifts given to us
through no fault of our own. Let us remember to
use those gifts to enrich the lives of others. As
we give our time and talents and service to you.
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We affirm our commitment by singing the doxology.
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I I I.
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I don't do to some I think that I shall have.
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Would you bat with the emprayer you turned to buy?
We thank you so much for the blessing of being
able to come out to your house today to worship you,
to honor you, to learn about you God, to fellowship
with our brothers and sisters in Christ, and to just
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bring our problems, our joys, all that life throws at us. God,
we come here today and we just bring it to
you and lay it at your feet, as the children
of saying today God, Come, let us worship God. Let
us worship You. It's food for the hungry, it's rest
for the weary, it's hope for the children. Come let
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us worship God. Lord. We certainly invite your presence here
to this place. We pray a blessing upon each and
everyone here. And Lord is I get ready to speak
your word. I pray that you would speak through me
the words that you would have us to hear. For
it's in Christ's name that we pray. And Amen. Good morning.
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We our text this morning and be out of the
Gospel of Mark chapter nine, will be reading verses thirty
eight through fifty, which I probably wouldn't have normally chosen
this text as I was praying through and I was
trying to figure out what to pray, and I actually
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went to the lectionary and I've looked in this week's God,
this was this week's Gospel, and I read through it,
and I studied it, and I read through it some more,
and I understand. I understood the Lord impressing upon me
that well, maybe he was speaking to me. Maybe this
was if this is not for you, it's for me.
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But I think it's for more than us, more than us,
then it's not. But before we get into the sermon
and the text, I just want to say, on behalf
of the West Virginia Baptist Convention family, thank you, thank
you for your prayers, thank you for your giving, thank
you for your time and volunteering throughout this year. It's
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been a pretty amazing year. At Camp Callen, we saw
over seventeen hundred kids, the students came through the gates
at Callen to go to camp. Out of those, we
saw at least ninety seven give their life to Christ
at camp. This year at Callan at Parchment Valley we
saw over one hundred and two people give their life
to Christ through ministries at Camp Callen and Ripley this
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year our Baptist campus ministries. I know Rob Ely has
been here and spoke before, but this little ministry that
happens down the street here at Marshall. If you're ever
awake at nine fifteen on a Wednesday evening, it starts
past to my bedtime. But if you're ever awake and
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you want to go down to the campus Christian Center,
it's pretty amazing. There's over two hundred and twenty students
on Marshall's campus praising and worshiping our God. Now not
on eight other campuses across West Virginia. There are growing
groups of students coming to worship God, and it's pretty
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neat for us to see that on nearly every campus.
In the last couple of years, their crowds have nearly
doubled on the campuses in their BCMS, and I believe
it's showing us the kids are realizing the world doesn't
have to offer what they truly need. And I pray
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that you and I have come to that conclusion as well.
So on behalf of the Baptist Convention family. You're three
hundred and fifty plus sister churches across the state. Thank you,
Thank you, and thank you because what you do not
only here, but you're giving and out there. It makes
a huge impact for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Now
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for our text today. In Mark chapter nine, beginning with
verse thirty eight, teacher said, John, we saw someone driving
out demons in your name, and we told him to
stop because he was not one of us. Do not
stop him, Jesus said, for no one who does a
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miracle in my name can in the next moment say
anything bad about me. For whoever is not against us
is for us. Truly, I tell you, anyone who gives
you a cup of water in my name because you
belong to the Messiah, will certainly not lose their reward.
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If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who
believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for
them if a large millstone were hung around their neck,
and that they were thrown into the sea. If your
hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It's better
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for you to enter life maimed than with two hands
to go into hell where the fire never goes out.
And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.
It's better for you to enter life crippled than to
have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And
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if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out.
It's better for you to enter the Kingdom of God
with one eye then to have two wives and be
thrown into hell, where the worms that eat them do
not die, and there is not clenched. Everyone will be
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salted with fire. Salt is good, but if it loses
its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have
salt among yourselves and be at peace with each other.
May God provide his blessing to the reading of his
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word this morning. To better understand the context of the
scripture that we've read this morning, we need to go
back and look at the scripture that proceeds just a
little bit where we are today, right before this in
Matthew Chapter nine. We're beginning in verse thirty three, we
see that the disciples are arguing about who would be
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the greatest. Anybody here want to you the greatest Christ
is we follow the one who is. Hopefully none of
us here are arguing and trying to be the greatest.
As they come that they were arguing about this, and
Jesus simply ask them, what are you guys arguing about? Christ?
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Ever spoke to you that way? When you're doing something
you shouldn't, what are you doing? Kind of like when
God spoke to Adam and Eve in the garden, Adam, Eve,
where are you? Well, we're kind of hiding from you
right now. But Jesus went on in verse thirty five,
he sat down, and he said to the twelve of them,
he said, anyone who wants to be first must be
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the very last and the servant of all. And then
he took a little child whom he had placed among them.
He taken the child in his arms. He said to them,
whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name,
welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me does not welcome me,
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but he but welcomes the one who sent me. So
the disciples as they're arguing about who's the greatest. I mean,
maybe that's something that doesn't make sense to us. But
yet Jesus gives his spill there if you will and
love verse thirty eight. So we're reading that Jesus sets
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this child in their mints, and he's talking about that,
And so what's John do? He does what we do
when somebody's fussing at us, or you know, maybe we're
not hearing what we want to. He deflects, right, he
changes the subject. Have you ever done that? I remember,
whether it's as a student or at home as a
son being corrected. Anybody ever been corrected by your parents?
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Hopefully you have because it's out of love. But it's
really click and easy to try to change the subject
and John. So John's wrestling with this, Well, if we're
not the greatest, yeh it? But teacher, we saw someone
driving out demons. He wasn't part of ice. We told
him to stop because we know what are the greatest.
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Right we told him to stop. Lord Jesus said, why
don't don't stop? Because those who forever is not against us,
is for us. So the very first point I want
us to understand here today is that we are either
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for Christ or against Christ. There was a time in
my own life. I was saved at ten years old.
I'm a kid who grew up in downtown own No,
West Virginia, right went to Milton High School. Fortunate to graduate.
Wasn't a good student. I had add before add was cool, okay,
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just saying so when you're distracted, you don't care what's
going on around you. But I realized accepted Christ. I
was ten year years old. We're going to Antioch Baptist
Church out Fudge's Creek, little Fudge if you know where
that's at. And life was great. I lived this life
for Christ for a long time. But then there was
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well for a few years. Then the teenage years hit,
like the thirteen, the fourteen year old, and unfortunately I
probably couldn't have been any farther away from Christ than
I was those years, we'll say fourteen until twenty five.
I was still saying that I was saved. I would
still say that I was a Christian, but yet I
wasn't living a life that was worthy of that. I
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wasn't giving God honor. I wasn't given him glory. And
if you will maybe I was trying to straddle the fence.
But yet we understand there is no such thing as
straddling the fence. When it comes to our faith journey.
We're either living our lives for Christ's glory or for
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our own glory, and unfortunately we don't really they get
to do both. We don't get to choose both. If
you remember the words John wrote of Jesus speaking to
the church of Lao to Sea in Revelation three fifteen
through sixteen, he says, I know your deeds that you're
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neither hot or you're neither cold nor hot. I wish
you were either one or the other. But so because
you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about
to spit you out of my mouth. See Leo to
see it didn't have very good water, so they had
to pipe it in from other places, and when by
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the time it got there, it was nasty, it was mineral,
it was lukewarm. And when people drank it. I mean
that when you go back and he doesn't not just
saying I spit it on, I pukea back up. I mean,
I know that's not what we like to hear. But yet,
when if they got the water and they cooled the water,
and it was when it's cold, it was good for drinking.
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When they got the water and they boiled it and
they cooked it and warmed it, it was good for cooking.
See whether it was when it was cold, it was
very useful. When it was hot, it was very useful.
But when it was just kind of lukewarm and trying
to hang out in the middle, it wasn't useful. Sin
Jesus saying in verse forty, whoever is not against us
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is for us. See, I can say in my own life,
I wasn't necessary living against Jesus. I wasn't being protagonistic
or whatever. I wasn't being anti Christian. I just wasn't
living that life. I wasn't speaking out against it. So
maybe at that time of my life I could have thought, hey,
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I'm doing pretty good. But then we read the words
in Matthew twelve thirty. Then he flips it and he said,
whoever is not with me is against me. And I
was just thinking back in Matthew chapter seven, if you
remember the story, because remember that they've just the disciples
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have just told people who are casting out demons in
Jesus name, not to well. Matthew Chapter seven. It tells
us there are people who came to Jesus. It's given
at death. They're coming to Jesus and they say, Lord,
we've prophesied in your name. Lord, we've cast out demons,
we've healed in your name. And although they did great things,
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maybe we all remember the words depart from me. I
never knew you, And that's not real uplifting this morning
is but the thing that I hope that we can
go on and see in our scripture here today is
the second thing I want us to get is that
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our actions reveal our hearts Verse forty one. Jesus, truly,
I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of
water in my name, because you belong in the SIA,
will certainly not lose it. Seem we see, as followers
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of Christ and ambassadors for Christ, how we treat people matters?
Would you agree with that? And who we do it for? Matters?
We can go and we can do great things with
wrong motives. We can do great things with the wrong
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objectives in mind. Are we there to glorify God? Are
we trying to glorify ourselves? And then he goes back
back to the subject, pointing back to the kids that
he's the children that he's placed in his mitts, and
he says, if anyone causes one of these little ones,
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those who believe in me, to stumble, it would be
better for them if a large millstone were hung around
the neck and then they were thrown into the sea,
which was a Roman type of punishment at the time.
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And I just wrapped my mind around that and causing
little ones to stumble, or causing new believers, we could
also translate that to stumble. It reminds me of there
any phisions Chapter four, verses fourteen through fifteen. Of course,
right before that, I think it was verse eleven, Paul writes,
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he said, for God gave us. He gave us apostles,
and he gave us prophets, and he gave us evangelists,
and he gave us shepherds or pastors, and he gave
us teachers. He said, to equip the people, to equip
the saints to do the work of the ministry, right
to teach, which I think is important because right now
you're without a pastor, and it shouldn't change the way
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you all functioned, because you all should be doing the
work of the ministry at the Avenue Baptist Church anyway,
and the staff should be equipping you to do so.
We don't pay pastors to do all the work. We
pay them to equip us to go and do the work.
Not that they're immune from it. They're called to do
that too, but they are not called to do all
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of the work. We do it together, doing Christ's work together.
We are taught and we do these things. As Paul
wrote Any Visions for fourteen through fifteen, he says, then
we will no longer be infants tossed back and forth
by the waves. When we learn and when we grow
in our scriptural knowledge and our biblical knowledge, we won't
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be tossed around. We won't be blown here and there
by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and
craftiness of people and their deceitful scheming. He said, Instead
speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become
in every respect the mature body of Him who is
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the head, that is Christ. So when we're looking at
the little ones being taught, and we're looking at as
he's saying, he's giving this warning, we better not cause
one of these little ones to stumble. See it's out
of love that God corrects us. It's out of love
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that God disciplines us. Remember as a child, I got spanked.
Anybody here ever gets spanked. I know it's like child abuse.
Now that wasn't ever abused. I'm very thankful for those times.
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My dad died in nineteen ninety three when I was eighteen.
He was just forty seven years old, so it missed
a lot. But I had a great dad. And when
we had those when my mom would say, when your
father gets home, you ever had those, wait till your
dad gets on and mey or my dad would swell up,
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saying the famous words, this hurts me more than it
hurts you, but with tears in his eyes. But we
don't know until we're parents what that means or what
that feels like. Because we don't like to tell our
children no, but we like to correct. We need to correct,
We need to discipline out of love because we're on
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this path that God is calling us to righteousness. So
since our actions and talk about our actions truly reveal
our hearts. Because we let our kids just walk off
the edge of the cliff, that would reveal something about us,
wouldn't it If there was a rattlesnake laying at your
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feet and I didn't say anything about it, and he'll
be all right, what'll happen. Don't happen. That wouldn't be
very loving. But since our actions reveal our heart, I
think the next few verses show us that we need
to evaluate ourselves. We need to look inside ourselves. We
need to allow Christ to look into our heart, to
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reveal our motives, to reveal who He has called us
to be. These verses are quite graphic. I'm not going
to read through them again about cutting off body parts
and this and that, But I believe that Jesus was
just trying to help us to grasp just how damaging
sin is in our lives. In my own life, going
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through these things, I can remember God tapping me on
the shoulder a time or two. Sometimes he had to
hit me over the head with a hammer a time
or two. See. I certainly don't think that literal self
mutilation is really what Jesus was calling for. That wouldn't
align with other Biblical texts, that wouldn't align with the
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whole Biblical s story. I do think, though, that this
shows us that Jesus wants us to cut sin out
of our lives. See, there was a time in my
life where I let my feet take me where I
shouldn't be going. I let my hands do things that
they shouldn't have been doing. I let my eyes look
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at things that they shouldn't be seen. And instead of
cutting these things off, were supposed to give them to
Jesus and allow him to heal us from these things,
and allow him to take care of those things. One
of the commentaries that I was reading states it says
giving up a relationship, a job, or a habit that
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is against God's will may seem just as painful as
cutting off a hand. But Christ is worth any possible
loss or discomfort. Nothing should stand in the way of faith. See,
he's just said to follow him. He said, to be
my disciple, you must deny yourself, you must take up
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your cross and follow me daily. And when we think
about these things, he makes it very clear that out
our eternity and our eternal state is very much at hand,
It's very much in his mind here, it's at stake
when it comes down to the decisions that we make.
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And then forty nine and fifty he leaves us with
this well there's this kind of obscure statement. Everyone will
be salted with fire. I think what he's calling us
to do these two verses number four would be to
live your life for Christ. Because our lives are not
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about us. Your life is not about you. It's about
who you live for, and that will be Christ, Jesus himself.
Because our saltiness impacts those that God has placed in
our past. We're going to go through high points, We're
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going to go through low points. We're going to experience
the best of life, We're going to experience the lowest
of life. But I think what reveals our heart is
how we respond to these things, how we grow in Christ.
We don't have time. I have plenty of stories to
share about loss. If it wasn't for having a stillborn daughter,
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I would not be standing up here on a stage.
But God used the worst day of my wife and
i lives to allow me to growl through the pain,
to call me into where he was calling me to.
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See.
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Our saltiness impacts those that God has placed in our path.
SYS review the main points, skip over some things here.
I'm going too long. We're either for Christ or against Christ.
One two Our actions reveal our hearts. Three, we need
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to evaluate ourselves. In four, it's just my call to
live your life for Christ. Send conclusion. I want to
leave us with this. He's talking about salt. Every one
will be salty or be salted with fire. Live a
salty life, live your life for Christ in the words
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of Joshua. You choose this day who you will serve.
But as for me and my house, what we will
serve the Lord. And it's with that I'd like to
read Verse fifty says salt is good, but if it
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loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?
Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.
Live a salty life for Christ. Would you bow with me?
Your God, We thank you and we praise you for
the blessings of your word, the warnings of your word.
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But your word that calls us closer to you, Your
word that calls us to you, Your word that allows
us to die to ourselves so that we can live
for You and God. At this time, as we prepare
for a song, a time of invitation, Lord, I just
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pray if there's any here today who have never accepted
Christ as their savior, who have never accepted Christ to
be the Lord of their lives. That today would be
the day that they would say, yes, there's any here
who would like to take membership in the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, to become a member here, that today would
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be the day they say yes. Or God, I just
pray that we take this time to lift up what
you have placed on our heart, whether that be for us,
whether that be for somebody else. God help us to
respond in the appropriate way that you have touched our
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heart for a tend Christ's name that we pray amen.
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Would you bow with me, Eternal God. We are humbled
in your presence, and we just thank you for all
that you've done for us and all that you will
continue to do for us and the war. Does each
and every one of us prepare to leave this time
of worship to enter the mission field that you have
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called each and every one of us too? God, help
us to do it with your wisdom, with your courage,
with your boldness to love people towards Jesus Christ. I
thank you, as we reminded of your words in number six.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord
make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord turned his face towards you and give you peace.
In Christ's name. We pray Amen, Thank you all, God bless.
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