WEBVTT 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.559 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:12.640 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.199 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.440 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:26.719 I want you to turn with me this morning in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 4. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:35.439 Now, you're saying, Pastor, I thought we're starting the new series after Easter in the book of Colossians. 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.359 We'll be going verse by verse through the book of Colossians, and we will. 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:53.280 In fact, what I'm going to do today, because it fits the message that I was going to preach anyway, and uh I've been doing a very quick mini-series on the church making its move. 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.600 The church making its move. 00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:03.679 And I said, in order for the church to make its move into the community, number one, the Holy Spirit has to move in. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:10.640 And if you missed that message two weeks ago, you need to go online and watch us because that's very important. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.040 These three messages couple up just like a train. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.640 In fact, I got caught with the train today trying to come to church. 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:23.359 And I was thinking about how, you know, trains couple up the cars. 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.439 Well, these three messages go together. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:38.719 Before we can be a blessing to the community, before we can reach the community, before we can exercise our gifts to the community and our talents to the community, we got to be spirit-filled Christians. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.840 Can I get an amen? 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:50.799 So we got to be saved, and the Holy Spirit has to not just save us but fill us for his work through the gifts and the talents that he's given to us. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:56.959 And then, secondly, we saw last week, the laity has to move up. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.040 In other words, all of us, and we're going to see that today, all of us have to what? 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:10.400 Move up and start exercising the gifts and the, hey, the talents that God's given to us. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.560 And you're going to see that this morning. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:19.360 And so that then brings me to the third and final message, which will be the last part of chapter four. 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.520 So actually, I've never done this before. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.439 When I start a book series, it's to preach the last chapter first. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:25.919 Ha ha. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:26.800 Well, I'm going to do it. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:27.759 There's a first for everything. 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:28.879 Can I get an amen? 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.039 So we're going to turn to Colossians chapter 4. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:36.879 Paul is writing to the church at Colossae. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:41.759 He's also wanting this letter to be read to all the other churches. 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:50.639 And you know what he's doing that he always did that we don't see a lot of because you couldn't write everything Paul said and did. 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.680 But he did write, I think, most of the New Testament. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:03:01.759 But in Colossae, he wanted the people, he wanted all the churches to know that it wasn't about Paul. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:02.879 Amen? 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:04.719 It wasn't about Paul. 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:10.960 In fact, if you remember, he's the one that wrote Galatians 2.20, I am crucified with Christ. 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.599 Nevertheless I live, yet not I. 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:22.560 But Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:29.439 So he's got to realize that it was not about him, that it was about others. 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:38.800 And so what he does is phenomenal at the end of the book of Colossians, as he's writing this for the church there in Colossae. 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.080 And you know what he says? 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:50.800 Wow. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.280 In fact, I'm going to give you a little history this morning. 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.599 But first of all, let me give you the definition of a church. 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:01.759 You know, in Matthew 16, 18, Jesus said, Upon this rock, I will build my church. 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:03.360 Echolosia. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.680 It's the Greek word, Echolosia. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:07.120 So what does that mean? 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:12.000 It means a called out group of believers. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.919 It means a called out group of believers. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.800 I don't want to be falling over this microphone. 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.240 I'm already feeling caged in. 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:24.639 But hey, watch this. 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:25.439 What's this? 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:37.199 It's a called-out group of believers that God has called out and set apart in a place to exercise their gifts and abilities to what? 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.480 Reach the community with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.800 Now here's a formal definition of ecclesia. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:05:06.720 Here it is: an organization composed of many members, varying in their gifts and talents and background, and yet the same in that God uses together them, not separately, but together for his purpose. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.000 That is the definition of a what? 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:11.040 Ecclesia. 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:21.279 A called-out group of people of different backgrounds, different gifts, different talents, different, hey, different uh backgrounds, different cultures. 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.920 Hey, Tanzania, Africa. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:29.759 I meant all, but coming together for one purpose, and that's to what? 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:36.720 Preach the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ or wherever God's placed them as a community. 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.319 So with that said, let me give you a little bit of history. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:48.959 Between 1787 and 1795, Baptists became the largest group of Christians in America. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:57.199 They did it without a whole mission board or society or national convention or state conventions or even seminaries. 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:04.079 They did it with small missionary associations and lay preachers, most of them not paid a salary. 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.199 They were without formal theological training. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:12.000 Most of them had been licensed to exercise their gifts by little Baptist churches. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:30.720 The Presbyterian, the Episcopalians, and the Congregationalists insisted that they were not clergy at all, but untrained, never going to seminary, never being formally trained, undisciplined laymen who should be at home working instead of out preaching. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:33.680 Now watch this. 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:41.199 Between 1795 and 1820, the Methodists then overtook and surpassed the Baptists in total members. 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:54.879 They did it with lay preachers going everywhere, sharing their faith, forming this, hey, disciplined small groups, and gathering those small groups in two churches. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:06.399 Hey, there never has been nor there will be multiplication of disciples and churches apart from the mobilization of laity in the ministry. 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.279 Laity to the ministry. 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:13.120 See, there are basically two ways we can go. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.120 And here we go in your outline. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.920 You know, I didn't get an outline, so I, but you got it. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:18.560 Go ahead. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.319 I'll follow y'all, fill it in. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:21.120 All right. 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.240 First of all, the first one is church edition. 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:25.839 Church edition. 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.920 And church addition means the pastor is the only minister. 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:35.199 In other words, the pastor's the only one doing any work far as ministry work. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.279 That's why, now watch this. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.240 That's why you have so many really small churches. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.680 Because you have a pastor that does all the work. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.120 And he can only do so much. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.839 Let me tell you, if he's really good, about a hundred people is about all he can take care of. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:56.160 Maybe if he's really exceptional, 130 to 50, but after that, you're going to kill him. 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:58.720 Hello? 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:04.319 Because I'm telling you, you people have problems every day. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:05.279 Every day. 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:06.000 Every day. 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:06.560 Every day. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:07.759 You say, no, I don't. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.199 Well, you're going to have one today. 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:11.040 Hello. 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:13.759 It's coming. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:14.720 Okay? 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:22.720 So, hey, the second way though, instead of just, hey, church addition, the pastor is the only minister. 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.680 Secondly, we've got church multiplication. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.079 Woo! I like church multiplication. 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.720 That's what we see taking place right here, right now. 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.080 Church multiplication is everyone ministers. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.320 Every, come on, let me hear an amen. 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.480 Everyone ministers. 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:40.480 We see that right here. 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.240 1 Peter 2 9. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:47.279 We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:47.919 Watch. 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:55.440 A peculiar people who God has called out and set apart to show forth the praises of Him. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:02.000 You are chosen not to just be a member, but to be a minister of the gospel. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:02.799 Amen? 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.240 A servant of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.240 I like 1 Peter 4.10. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.720 I don't know if those are those verses in there. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:12.080 I don't know if they are not. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:13.759 I'm going on where they are or not. 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.879 But uh 1 Peter 4.10 says, every man has received the gift. 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.639 Listen, every man has received the gift. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:30.159 Even so minister that same gift one to another as good stewards of the grace of God. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.759 We are stewards of what God has given to us. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:41.120 And that means not just our material things, it means our gifts, our abilities, everything that we have, God has given. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:42.240 Can I get an amen? 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:49.919 So we are to be ministers of the unbelievable gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:10:07.600 Now, in Colossians chapter 4 here, at verse 7, I could read all those verses, and I but and I'm going to read them, but I'm going to read them individually as I preach through these, the end of the chapter, the last paragraph, chapter 7 through verse 18. 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:17.279 It's so exciting because he goes and he lists names, some of the names, the only place they've ever been listed, and the only place they are listed, a few of them's right here. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.120 You never hear of them again. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:26.320 You never heard of them before, and you never hear of them after he mentions their name right here. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.720 But I want you to see Paul loved the people that made it happen. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.159 Can I tell you something? 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:38.799 Most of the time, if you think it's the platform people that make it happen, you're wrong. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:40.879 You know, it's wrong. 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:41.679 It's wrong. 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.200 It's those behind the stage that make it happen. 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.399 You know, when there's a great production, I mean, think a minute. 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:49.120 Look at this. 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.399 Is this not beautiful? 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:55.039 Now, somebody had to come over here and spend a lot of time making this happen. 00:10:55.279 --> 00:11:01.039 Happens to be Rosemarie, and it happens to be Ival and other people that help her that makes this happen. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:10.879 But see, while you're out there doing what you're doing, hey, people are behind the scenes getting it ready to make this Sunday morning worship experience happen. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.039 See, the world is a big stage, and everybody likes the world stage. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.600 They just don't like to be the stage hands. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:19.679 Hello? 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:21.759 Somebody didn't hear that. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.200 I'm gonna say that again. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:30.879 The world, hey, is a big stage, and everybody likes the big stage, they just don't like to be stage hands. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.480 But if you don't have the stage hands, guess what? 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:35.679 You never have a stage. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:36.559 Hello. 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:37.279 Amen. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.200 So everyone's important. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.840 Everybody is important. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.679 So let's look at the observations Paul gives to these folks. 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.799 Number one, Paul was surrounded by helpful people. 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:52.240 Helpful people. 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:53.360 I want you to see this. 00:11:53.519 --> 00:12:09.519 Colossians 4, 11 says that, and Jesus, which he is called justice, who are of the circumcision, these only are my watch, fellow workers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.039 The Greek word there means an encourager unto me. 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:19.840 In other words, Paul surrounded himself with workers and encouragers. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.440 Can I get an Amen? 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:27.200 Woo! If I didn't have some workers and encouragers, I'd quit the ministry tomorrow. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.120 Hello, you said, well, no, you wouldn't. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:30.399 The Holy Spirit won't let you. 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.399 Well, that's true. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:33.840 But guess what? 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.840 The Holy Spirit's my comforter. 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:37.600 Pericalesis. 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:38.080 Okay? 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.399 Hey, he comes alongside and encouraged me. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.039 But aren't you glad you got more than just the Holy Spirit? 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.360 Aren't you glad you got some friends that, hey, when everybody walks out, they walk in? 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.360 Can I get an amen? 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.679 He had people around him that was workers and encouragers. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.879 I'm not talking about the people that talked a good show. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.960 You know, we got a lot of people in church that talk a real good show. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.080 They talk a good work, but they just don't work. 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:05.679 Hello? 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:06.559 Hello? 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.720 You know, they talk about how they, or here's the other thing where they do. 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.440 They talk about how it used to be. 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.000 Or how they used to be involved. 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:17.279 I've got news for you. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.120 I don't live in the used to be. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.799 I live in the now, and hey, right now, what are you doing now? 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:24.159 Amen. 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.120 So, so Paul didn't surround himself with that. 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:37.679 If he had, he'd have never accomplished what he did reaching the whole, hey, part of the world back during his small time because he had fellow workers and encouragers. 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.039 Tremendous. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.080 I want you to see this. 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.720 Go to Ephesians chapter 4. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.080 You got to see this. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:44.960 Here it is. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:45.600 Here it is. 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:47.200 I meant, boy, this is it. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.759 Here's our calling as ministers. 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:57.519 He says, He's given some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:58.399 Now, watch. 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.600 For the perfecting, underline it, circle it. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.039 That is the Greek word there of equipping. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.080 That's what it means. 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.120 Equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:09.919 Now, why? 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:10.559 Why? 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.440 For the building of the body of Christ. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:14.399 Wow. 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:15.200 Whoa. 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.559 In other words, that word perfecting there, you know what it means? 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:26.080 It's used also when Jesus called the fishing disciples, they were mending their nets when he came by. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.759 The word there, equipping, okay, also carries another synonym of mending nets. 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:46.399 And here's what it means: it means as the reason that the disciples, the fishing disciples, the fishermen were mending their nets is so that they could take those nets and throw them out to reach fish where they couldn't go. 00:14:47.679 --> 00:15:04.080 And the reason that you and I are equipped, and then once we are being equipped, and God's called us and saved us, we start equipping others so that they, every one of you here today, are part of that net, that mending that net. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:09.039 And when I leave here this morning, it won't be me just going into the community next week. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:14.799 I'll be throwing a 230, a 240 life net out into Chelsea Westover. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:16.399 Amen. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.879 Give God a hand on that. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:19.759 Amen. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.600 That's what it means. 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:24.799 That's what it means. 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:29.120 Everywhere you go this week, I want you to think about you're a part of that net. 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:40.960 Wherever you are, a fireman, a policeman, a businessman, a school teacher, wherever, you're a part of that net to reach out and to be a blessing and to be a hey, a ministry to those people. 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:43.120 Catch those fish. 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:43.759 Amen. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:44.879 Catch those. 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.279 Jesus said, Follow me and I'll make you what? 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.679 Fishers of men. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:51.919 So that's what he's talking about. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.519 But notice what else he did. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:16:02.639 Not only did he, hey, Paul surrounded himself by helpful people, but secondly, these people possess mutual love and commitment. 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.039 Woo! Look at verse 11. 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.399 They were workers and encouragers. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:10.720 They were workers and encouragers. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.480 And by the way, Galatians 6.2, and look at 2 Timothy 1.16. 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.039 The Lord, go, yeah. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.159 Stay right there. 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:20.799 Here's what an encourager does. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:22.879 Hey, here's what a fellow worker does. 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:25.039 They bear one another's burdens. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.600 How many of you got a burden this morning? 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.720 My hands up. 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:29.440 I got a burden. 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.120 I got a burden for Darren right now. 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:32.320 He lost his mother. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:33.840 I'm hurting for Darren. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.240 I've been praying for Darren and thinking about Darren. 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:37.440 I've been thinking about my mama. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.799 I've been thinking about my daddy. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:40.399 I've been thinking about my papa. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.399 I've been thinking about my mama. 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.759 And I've been thinking, bless God, this is not the end. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:47.200 It's just the beginning. 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:51.039 To be answered from the body is to be present with the Lord. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:58.720 And one day there'll be a family reunion where there are not deaths, what separating the circle of the family. 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.879 Ladies and gentlemen, listen, when you die a Christian, you don't die. 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:05.200 You just change addresses. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:06.000 Amen. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.119 Amen. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.519 So don't you forget, Jesus said, I am the resurrection and life. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.640 He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.400 Whosoever liveth and believeth in me, woo! I'm about to have a spell. 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:19.839 Shall never die. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:21.920 Never die. 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:23.680 Amen. 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:28.640 Now, in Tanzania, you know what they'd be doing about right now? 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.599 I'm a close Ben. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.440 You said, what in the world does that mean? 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:38.960 That means hallelujah, amen. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.160 Preaching, preacher. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:41.839 Amen. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:43.279 Praise the Lamb. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:44.400 Amen. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:52.480 So, they had, hey, they possess mutual love and commitment together. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.759 Now, watch this, look at verse 10 in that same chapter in Galatians. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.119 As you have opportunity. 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:57.599 Now, what? 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:00.240 As we therefore have opportunity. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:01.920 Uh-oh, there's the nets. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:02.640 They're out. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.640 Let us do good unto all men, especially unto those of the household of faith. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:11.920 Listen, if, hey, hey, our ministry needs to start at home and then work abroad. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:12.559 Amen. 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:16.240 If we can't bless each other, how can we, hey, bless other people? 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:20.640 If we can't be a blessing to our own family, how can we be a blessing to others? 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.920 If your Christianity doesn't start at home, how can it go abroad? 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:28.079 If your Christianity doesn't start in your home, how can it go to your neighborhood? 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:29.200 Hello. 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.359 You listening, church? 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:37.839 So we see he possessed people that had mutual love. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.240 The character was fellow workers. 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.240 Their comfort was they were encouragers. 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:43.599 Look at number three. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.599 They possessed different backgrounds and gifts. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.119 Boy, aren't you glad that we're different? 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.680 That was about three. 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.200 I'm gonna try that again. 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.759 Aren't you glad that you're different? 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.200 Amen. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:01.839 That's good. 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.359 I know what you're thinking. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:04.000 Is that bad? 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:05.519 No, that's good. 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:08.000 I'm glad we're not all like me. 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:10.640 We wouldn't last long. 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.640 I'm glad. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.200 I I hey, I hate administration. 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:18.319 I hate it. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.559 We just took our gift test on Wednesday night. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.240 You're missing a great Wednesday night. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:25.839 And by the way, somebody said, Well, I don't get a little nervous about that praying together. 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:27.440 You don't have to pray out loud. 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:28.799 You can just pray while we pray. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:29.920 But it's been so sweet. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.799 And God's answering, so we don't put you on the spot. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:34.240 I'll never put you on the spot. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:35.359 I love you too much. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:40.880 But but we study and we took the spiritual gift test and we saw how different we are. 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:43.599 And my lowest was a ministration. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:44.240 Why? 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:46.000 I would rather dig a ditch. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:50.799 Now don't ask me to, Darren, but I'd rather dig a ditch than do a ministration work. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:52.559 I mean, but guess what? 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.240 My best friend, David Wilson, loves administration. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:57.440 Absolutely loves it. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:58.240 You know what he told me? 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.319 Here's what really sold me, other than the Lord. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.759 He said, if you come down here, all you gotta do is preach and go tell people about Jesus. 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:04.720 I'll do the ministration. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:06.000 I said, done. 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:09.440 Done. 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:10.880 And that's all I do here. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:14.880 In fact, if I start getting into him, he every once in a while he'll say, I thought you wanted to just preach. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:17.359 I said, excuse, excuse me. 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:18.079 I walk out. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:19.519 I'm gone. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:20.880 Just tell me what y'all want to do. 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:21.519 I'm preaching. 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:22.000 Bye. 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:23.200 And I love it. 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.119 I'm having the time of my life. 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.839 Because I'm doing my gifts, my strengths. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.200 I'm a people person. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:29.759 I'm a go. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:30.880 Now I see the vision. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:35.920 I cast the vision, but now, hey, if if I didn't have, and my wife's a great minister, unbelievable. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:37.359 And she and David love alike. 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:38.559 It's just unbelievable. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:41.839 If I didn't have people like that to put it together, we never would make it. 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:46.319 But if they didn't have me, every once in a while to hey, that's time to take the heel. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:46.720 Let's go. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:47.200 Let's go. 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.640 We've thought enough, we've put it on paper enough, now charge. 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:53.279 So we help each other. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.799 We help each other. 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.880 Or sometimes I just charge and they say, oh my, there goes that crazy preacher. 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:00.240 Let's go help him. 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:02.240 Right, Bob? 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.880 Look how I tell Bob saying, oh, there he goes. 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.680 Let's go help him. 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:06.960 He's got to have help. 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.200 But but yeah, that's right. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:11.039 But bless God, I'm charging. 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:12.400 Amen. 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:13.759 I'm not going to stand still. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:14.319 I can't. 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:14.880 I've tried. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:15.359 I can't. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:15.839 I can't. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:16.480 I can't. 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.039 I was going to retire when I'm 61 years old. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.640 I'm at 60 years old. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:22.559 I've retired and look what we're doing. 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:26.799 Well, hey, you can't. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.839 Because God's gifted you and called you. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.400 We've got different backgrounds, different gifts. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.839 You got melancholies. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:35.039 You got sanguines. 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:36.000 You got cholerics. 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:37.039 You got a flag manic. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.799 Let me tell you what a choleric is. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:40.640 You know what a chleric is? 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:46.000 He's the one that always knows what they are and wants to tell you what you should be. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:50.480 I mean, Danny Lovett's got a plan for your life if you tell me. 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:52.720 I can direct you in the right way. 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:54.880 Then you have, hey, then, hey, then guess what? 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.359 Then you've got her, you got the melancholies. 00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:58.480 Yeah. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.680 They are the ones that can't. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:05.200 Hardly let go of the pen because they're taking such meticulous notes. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.119 Right now, you already, if we've messed up because I don't have one, you're saying, Where is he? 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:09.599 Where is he? 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:11.119 He missed this, he skipped that. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.880 He, you know, where is he? 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:14.000 Fill it in. 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.400 Well, if I miss one, just raise your hand and I'll try to get to you when I can. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.680