045: Tim Badger – Exhortation: Love One Another with a Pure Heart Fervently

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Welcome to the good Christian
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We’re listening to an excitation
that was given by brother Tim

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Badger earlier this year at the
southern fraternal and South

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Australia.
We got this as a recommendation

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from a couple different
listeners who had heard this

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live and were able to get the
download link and sent it to us

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and really really enjoyed how
encouraging it was and after

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listening to it.
I can see why they were super

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excited to share it and to have
as many people listen to it as

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possible.
It’s a fantastic excitation

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really looking at the concept of
loving Each other brother Tim’s

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title for this class is love one
another with a pure heart

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fervently and he spending most
of the time in 1st Peter jumping

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around the different chapters
looking at the concept of

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showing love and how we go about
doing that and how we’re

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commanded to love each other and
kind of segueing off the class

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that brother Ben Brinckerhoff
did just a couple weeks ago that

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we published as our bonus
episode that just in the same

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way that God has shown us love
in the same way.

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We need to show show our love to
each other not just in word only

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but in action and in the
beginning as he’s going through

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his excitation, he’s laying the
groundwork for the type of love

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that were called to show and
without spoiling anything on his

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specific details because he goes
through it in great detail and

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offers a lot of really good
points and just good bible study

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on it near the end.
You can really hear Tim get

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really really passionate about
it.

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You can tell it’s a topic that
is close to home for him as he’s

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experienced being shown and In
the love that he’s talking about

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both when he was younger.
And now as he’s gotten older and

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his married through his
different stages of life and

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offers some really really
practical advice that I found

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useful that no matter the stage
of life that you’re in there is

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a way and something that you can
do to show love to each other

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and kind of breaks it down
through the different stages

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whether you’re a teen newly
baptized newly married family

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with young kids family with
older kids older brothers and

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sisters or anywhere in between
those stages some really good

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practical calls to action. of
ways that we can demonstrate our

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love to each other and he
focuses a lot on the concept of

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love is not just having a good
conversation with somebody but

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making sure that we show it
through doing things right

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making sure that people feel the
affection and the care that we

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have for each other by inviting
people over to do things meeting

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with people having conversations
with them reaching up to them

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making sure that we’re not just
passively sitting by and kind of

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doing the the fly by love but
showing truly that For each

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other and in the end that if
that is the ultimate focus of

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what we’re trying to do in our
walk that we should show that

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same compassion and love that we
would hope that other people

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would give to us to each other.
So it was an awesome class

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enlisted to I really really
enjoyed it.

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I can see like I said why
multiple recommended it to us

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and I was really excited to
share it with everyone as soon

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as I finish it.
I was like Yep.

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This is the next one that’s
going up as soon as it’s my

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turn.
If you have any other

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suggestions feel free to send
them in we’ve gotten a handful

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more which have allowed us to
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we’re working.
Working through to find new

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classes excited to share some
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Feel free to keep sending those
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feedback or comments on these
classes, we’d love to hear about

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them with that.
I’m going to turn it over to

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brother Tim Badger for as
excitation love each other with

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a pure heart fervently brothers
and sisters.

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I feel that the theme that we
have for this morning that these

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emblems speak to us of in a
weighty and Powerful way is

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actually at the very core.
Of our entire Brotherhood

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worldwide in a sense for this
disused we want to with the

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emblems before us in the word of
God in our laps.

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Go back to the Grassroots of why
we’re here what we’re on about

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and where we’re going.
I just want you to think before

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we do of one particular thing in
particular and that is just

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reflect back over the last
little while maybe the last week

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or the last couple weeks and I
want you just to think of when

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you were last really provoked by
someone.

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I mean stirred up and we use
those words and I think we know

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what we mean.
But when was the sounds like a

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funny way to start off a
memorial meeting, but just think

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back at last time someone really
stirred you up really provoked

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you when was that?
It might have been might have

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been an action or A word it
might have been something that

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you saw that you witnessed
between a brother or sister or

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that was done to you.
When were you last provoked?

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Well, I’ll I’ll tell you I’ve
been provoked already this

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morning, which doesn’t sound
great, but I can I can tell you

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that there was a moment not too
long ago that I was really

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provoked.
I mean really stirred up it was

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in Lounge room of brothers and
sisters house.

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There was a number of us in the
lounge room, and there was a

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number of young people.
People there and the

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conversation started going
towards a number of young people

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in our group Crystal from young
people that had either never

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really grasped hold of the truth
or who were wandering away.

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And one of the persons one of
the people in that group

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suggested that we pray and we
had a list of 15 young people

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and that brother provoked me and
all of us there and stirred us

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up the pray for all those young
people.

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And so we did we prayed for all
15 young people that we’ve been

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chatting about in the last 45
minutes.

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This President sisters is
exactly what Hebrews chapter 10

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is talking about come to Hebrews
chapter 10 verse 23 Let us hold

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fast the confession of Our Hope
without wavering for he who

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promised is faithful and let us
consider one another in order to

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stir up provoke.
Love and good works not

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forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together as the manner

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of some but exhorting one
another and so much the more as

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you see the day approaching no
interesting Lee Brothers and

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sisters that word provoked If
used in Acts 15 of the sharp

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contention that was between
those two brothers in Acts

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chapter 15, just just turn back
there Acts chapter 15.

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And in this case, it’s a word
that we’re all too familiar with

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used in this context of
provoking to anger or angst.

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But here’s here’s a provocation
that existed between two

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brothers.
Here’s a sharp dissension.

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Look at like the same word that
Hebrews uses.

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This is Acts chapter 15 verse 39
then the contention.

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Became so sharp that they parted
from one another and so Barnabas

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took Mark and sailed to Cyprus.
But Paul chose Silas and

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departed being commended by the
brother into the grace of God

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and he went through Syria and
cilicia strengthening.

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The Ecclesia has so later in
Hebrews chapter 10.

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The author of Hebrews uses that
same word that described a

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negative stirring up and
provoking that says actually we

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need to take that same ability
that same sort of sense of

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stirring up.
Provoking but to provoke loving

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each other and that’s what
happened in that Lounge room of

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that Sunday afternoon that I was
telling you about where we were

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in and the conversation could
have quickly gone to a negative

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place where we’re sort of being
more critical of those young

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people or whatever and who knows
what it could have been done but

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that brother stirred us up to
pray and and we left that

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conversation full of love and
care for those young people

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rather than just being critical
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Brothers and sisters this
morning.

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We just want to go back to that.
We want to look at how crucial

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it is.
In the teaching and example of

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Christ to provoke each other to
love to Stir It Up to incite

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each other not to criticism not
to angst not to division but to

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stir each other up in love.
In order to just to think about

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this.
I want you just to listen to a

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short fictitional situation.
Here’s how it goes.

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I think We could work on raising
the standards in our Ecclesia

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life.
That’s what one brother said to

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another in a car park after an
occlusal business meeting.

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What he meant when he said that
and what the other brother

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thought he meant was quite
different.

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What he meant was the standard
of love in the interactions of

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the Ecclesia young and old with
Christ brothers and sisters with

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each other.
He was moved to say this from

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his experience in that meeting
that evening from some things

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that he himself had said the way
he had said it and wished he

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hadn’t he had noticed it not
only in the meeting but in a

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recent conversation with another
brother and he was part of it.

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Almost like there was an
acceptance as he started to

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realize of the need to vent and
criticize others to be fine with

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not really being able to work
with each other and saying so

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rather than working on it.
He’d become content to criticize

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content with speaking rudely in
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Even when he felt Justified to
do so can comfortable to spread

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around grievances against others
not all the time, but sometimes

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and maybe he thought maybe the
measuring stick of Christ

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himself for the standard had
been waning in the Ecclesia.

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Some other standards have
changed in the last few years in

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the Ecclesia and perhaps on a
wider level in the Brotherhood.

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But these were on his mind.
These were not the standards

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that Jesus had spoken of for the
Paul had given ecclesial advice

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on he was thinking of Brotherly
Love wondering if he was being

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this was being neglected in an
own self and his Brotherhood

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music Leisure susceptible to
slipping perhaps not being

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placed at the center at the core
the Grassroots as it should he

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wanted to call attention to it
in his own life and to help

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others.
To Endeavor to raise it the

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standard love as Christ did he
felt he could see the effects of

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himself and others maybe it was
the impact of a selfish society

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around him.
Maybe it was a result of some

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other some other imbalance.
Maybe it was just human nature

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taking a little upper hand in
the Ecclesia and in

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conversations between members of
the body at times to be sure

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there were many examples of
brothers and sisters he could

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think of Who were wonderful and
consistent at practicing love

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but he thought it’s time for me
to raise the bar.

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He determined not to let the
standard slip for himself and

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not brothers and sisters is the
standard of love and that

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standard is what these emblems
that we shared this morning as a

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Brotherhood remind us of in our
calling.

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You know this standard of Love
brothers and sisters and I feel

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it’s those times where you
tremble before the word of God.

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And as you survey what the what
the Bible says about the

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standard of love in the
Brotherhood it can make us

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tremble when we think deeply
about it because sometimes we

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realize how high that bar is and
how far I need to go as a

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brother as a family as an
Ecclesia to work towards that

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let’s just take a little survey
of some of those this Morning,

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are we to come to Romans chapter
12.

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We’re just going to read a
number of these absolutely

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challenging passages that are
all the way through from Genesis

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to Revelation.
It come to Romans chapter 12,

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and let’s be impressed this
morning brothers and sisters by

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the strength of these words the
calling that cuts right to the

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root of our Ecclesia life and
our Brotherhood.

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Look what it says.
For example in Romans chapter 12

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verse 10 and I’m reading from
the new King James.

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Be kindly affectionate. to one
another With Brotherly Love now,

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we would we would call that a
commandment of Christ.

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A commandment of Christ spoken
through the Apostle Paul in

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honor giving preference to one
another not lagging in diligence

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fervent in spirit.
Serving the lord rejoicing in

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Hope patient in Tribulation
continuing steadfastly

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Distributing to the needs of the
Saints Eve given to hospitality

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bless those who persecute you
bless and do not curse.

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That’s an amazing little
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If you’re writing them down, the
next one that we’re looking at

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is in Romans 13, and I suggest
maybe you do write them down

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button sisters because they’re
worth meditating on during the

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week.
Look at Romans chapter 13.

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This one is just absolutely
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Look what it says in verse 8.
Oh, no one anything except to

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love one another.
For he who loves another has

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fulfilled the law now.
That’s an incredible statement.

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Love is the only debt we should
build up to each other.

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Love is the only debt brothers
and sisters what Paul is saying

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that we should have that we can
certain of may be certain of

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never paying back love is always
owing in the Brotherhood other

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debts are eventually paid back
or payable.

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But not love you can never pay
it off you keep working on it

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and you keep building up a
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He says owe no man anything but
to love because he says that’s

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fulfillment of the entire law
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What a challenging verse.
We know if we just flip over to

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the next epistle that right at
the heart of that epistle is

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First Corinthians 13, and we
know that passage really well we

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think about The call that’s in
that passage a more.

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Excellent way is love you see in
first confused 13 brothers

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sisters.
He’s dealing with ecclesial

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divisions and strife.
All these brothers and sisters

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have the Holy Spirit gifts and
we would think of all times in

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history in the first century.
At least with the Holy Spirit

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Guidance the gift of healing the
gift of Prophecy the gift of

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teaching the gift of faith of
any place in scriptural

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Brotherhood history.
There should be Unity here. and

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there wasn’t And Paul makes the
point in First Corinthians

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brothers and sisters that you
can have every spiritual gift

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that you would want and speak in
tongues.

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And prophesy but he says there’s
nothing more spiritual Than

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Love.
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practical as just not being rude
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Not giving cold shoulders.
Not sharing the news when

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someone falters in slips.
That is far more powerful far

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more excellent far more
spiritual than any gift that

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anyone in the Corinthian
Ecclesia could have had and it

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will last forever is what that
chapter says.

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It’s the core of a collegial
life it is what Christ stood for

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its what Christ came to teach
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himself, of course showing love
presents sisters is going to be

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more powerful than any of those
other temporary gifts that they

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had and that was at the heart of
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You think about Paul presents
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He had he had people in Corinth
that didn’t like him that would

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spit on him if they saw him and
he says to them in 2nd

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Corinthians the more I love you
the less.

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I’m loved in return and he says
to his Ecclesia Corinth in the

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Brotherhood.
He says, I’m willing to spend

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and be spent for your souls.
That’s the love of the

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Brotherhood that the Apostle
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That’s the leadership that we
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That’s the brotherly and
sisterly interactions that we

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need so much come over to
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Here’s another amazing little
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Galatians chapter 5 and we’re
just taking a little survey of

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how consistent is messages.
This presidency is uses the

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standard of Love.
Look what it says in chapter 5

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verse 13 for you.
Brethren of Galatians 4 You

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Brethren have been called to
Liberty only do not lose use

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your Liberty as an opportunity
for the flesh but through love

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serve one another you see Paul
saying, whoa, you do have

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Liberty.
You’re not bound by these rules

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and regulations under Christ.
But he says even when you’re not

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you have the Billy to use your
Liberty in a way that’s divisive

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in the Ecclesia.
That’s actually breaking an

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entire other standard of love
and when you do that you’re not

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of Christ.
And he says for all the law is

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fulfilled in one word and that’s
the word logos interestingly.

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Even in this you shall love your
neighbor as yourself and look at

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the warning.
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I wonder if you do this I
certainly have but if you bite

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and devour one another beware
lest you be consumed by one

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another that is a powerful thing
to think about was in sisters.

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through love serve one another
and yet the opposite that I have

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found myself doing before.
And you probably have to when

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you bite and devour other
brothers and sisters when you

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take a chunk out of their
character Paul says beware

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because you’ll Doom your
Ecclesia and the Brotherhood to

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destruction by doing that.
That’s the result of that type

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of action.
It’s why John says in Chapter

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13.
It’s actually Jesus he says and

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we know this well by this all
people will know that you’re my

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disciples.
If you have love one for another

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no other standard nothing else
buzzin sisters.

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He says if you want people to
know that you’re my true

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disciples you need to have love
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So if you come to a fission,
there’s a number of passages in

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here that are just really
challenging.

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Look at Ephesians.
Welcome to chapter 4. there’s

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lots in this chapter but have a
look at verse 1 that all sorry

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verse 31 Ephesians 4:31, let all
bitterness wrath anger clamor

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and evil speaking be put away
from you with all malice and be

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kind to one another
tender-hearted forgiving one

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another even as God in Christ
forgave you that’s a pretty high

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standard for the Brotherhood
isn’t it a high standard of Love

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brothers and sisters, you know,
if we ever discuss in our

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conversation The things that we
stand for as a Suburban youth

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group the things that we stand
for as a Brotherhood.

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This needs to be right at the
core nothing else matters.

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Truth and love and how we’re
treating each other and how we

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go about it.
This is what we stand for.

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This is what the Brotherhood
stands for, you know brothers

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sisters.
We read from First Peter chapter

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3.
And the reason is I want to show

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you that first Peter brings out
this whole thread of love.

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And I want to show you that it’s
a thread all the way through his

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epistle and it’s a curious
thread that I didn’t expect to

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find in Peters epistle.
Let me just show you where it

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is, and we’re going to let Peter
speak to us as particularly a

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couple of his references.
Come to these First Peter

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chapter 1 1st Peter gives us
more insight into this standard

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of love that we need to aim for
in our Brotherhood.

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He challenges us to do so if you
have a pen or something to Mark

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these in or something to scratch
these down on we won’t be able

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to look at all of them in
detail, but brothers and

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sisters.
It is a great line of personal

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reflection.
Come to First Peter chapter 1.

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Here’s the first reference.
There’s one in every single

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chapter.
First Peter chapter 1 verse 22,

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here’s the first one since you
have purified your souls in

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obeying the truth through the
spirit in sincere love of the

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Brethren love one another
fervently with a pure heart.

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That’s the first reference to
love the Brotherhood in First

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Peter brothers and sisters.
And in this sense the focus that

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he’s using for love in the
Brotherhood is that love is

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sincere.
It must be Sincere your

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motivation and my motivation
brothers and sisters must be of

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sincerity for our brothers and
sisters.

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Before love ever gets off the
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It’s motives must be pure and
that’s what Peter says now he

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comes back to the same theme in
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With a different slant on the
focus of unloved.

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It’s worth noting these down
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Look what he says verse 17
Here’s his second reference

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honor all people.
Love the Brotherhood.

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Fear God honor the king now if
you look in the context, but

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Institute this is actually
striking because what Peter is

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saying here in this context is
that love submits to each other?

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This is all in the context of
submission submission to

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governments to employers
husband’s two wives and wives

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two husbands and all to each
other and he says actually that

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needs to be a preeminent
characteristic of the

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Brotherhood that love true love
the standard of love shows us.

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mission to each other willing to
serve the next references in

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chapter 3 that we read it begins
a new section verse 8 of chapter

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3 finally wonder if it’s almost
like he’s trying to wrap up the

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letter but he gets a little
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Didn’t quite get there, but look
at what he says in verse 8,

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finally all of you be of one
mind having compassion for one

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another love as brothers.
I think the King James says be

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pitiful which is I get it with
possibly an unfortunate

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translation, but love is
brothers be tender-hearted.

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Be courteous not returning evil
for evil or reviling for

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reviling but on the contrary
blessing knowing that you were

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called to this that you may
inherit a blessing so that the

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focus on love here brothers and
sisters is this is loves

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blessing.
So he’s taking us through

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already that love is submissive.
In Chapter 2 love is sincere in

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chapter 1 and now he’s saying
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He says when evil is done to you
in the Brotherhood as a brother

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or sister as a young person in
Christ when evil is done to you,

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it could be an evil word and
evil thought a snubbing or

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whatever it is.
He says never return like for

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like you always repay a blessing
for evil.

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That’s what love does love
Rapace blessing for evil.

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Chapter 4 is his next reference
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And again, this has a different
Focus look at verse 7, but the

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end of all things is at hand
therefore be serious and

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watchful in your prayers and
above all things.

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Don’t miss that brother and
sisters above all things have

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fervent love for one another for
quote.

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Love will cover a multitude of
sins from Proverbs chapter 10,

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which is what he quoted.
So in this context the Apostle

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is saying love forgives and
that’s a characteristic of love

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in our Brotherhood love is
sincere love submits to each

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other love returns blessing love
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And the last one is the very
last verse of the epistle in

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chapter five.
Look what he says in verse 14.

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greet one another with a kiss of
love Peace to you all who are in

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Christ Jesus.
Amen?

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now that’s not necessarily our
Middle Eastern or European way

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of doing things and I don’t
think he’s actually mandating

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that we do handout kisses to
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There’ll be lots of cases where
that’s probably not appropriate

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but what he is saying, is that
love and braces in Fellowship.

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That’s what that is.
This is this is the embracing

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the fellowship.
Of love and that’s his final

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note now province is why is
Peter talking about this?

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Why why of all things as he had
this little thread that runs

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right from chapter 1 to chapter
5 about love of the Brotherhood

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love the Brotherhood fervently
with a pure heart love submits.

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You need to submit to each other
forgive each other for Christ’s

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sake you need to embrace each
other in Fellowship.

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And you need to be sincere and
what you’re doing.

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Why and why is this presence
sisters?

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You think about it?
He says the end of all things is

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at hand.
That’s exactly what Hebrews 10

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said.
Do you remember it said that the

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in so much the more as you see
the day approaching he says if

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there’s anything for the
Brotherhood in 2019 to really

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get their their mind around
their actions around above

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everything else in the
Brotherhood in a collegial life

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brothers and sisters.
It’s love one another fervently

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do Let that go.
Why is Peter saying that?

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Well, these brothers and sisters
are going through persecution

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and they’re scattered abroad as
we read in chapter 1 verse 1.

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They’re scattered all over Asia
and these people are facing

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persecution from the likes of
Nero.

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He’s the devil roar like a
roaring lion as we see in Peters

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epistle in chapter 5 verse 8.
This is what they’re up against

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and for the Brotherhood brothers
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In the face of persecution it
all boils down to practical love

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for each other.
If we lose that the very fabric

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of our Brotherhood comes apart
disunity Creeps in And it may be

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marched and promoted in the name
of upholding certain standards.

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But if that standard of love is
not present through all of that

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brothers and sisters, then we do
violence to the Brotherhood and

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we have so much in Peter to be
strengthened around on that

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theme.
You know, I don’t know if you

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noticed but when we read chapter
3 of First Peter, and we’re just

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going to focus just briefly this
morning on on his little

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references in chapter three and
four.

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Did you notice that he quoted
Psalm 34?

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There it is in verse 10 11 and
12.

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In the context of him saying be
of one mind have compassion

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verse eight have love as
brothers and be tender hearted

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don’t return evil for evil.
He quotes Psalm 34 and he first

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10 for quote he who would love
life and see good days.

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Let him refrain his tongue from
evil.

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So the evil that he was talking
about in verse 19 is not

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something like if someone
punches you you don’t punch him

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back the evil.
He’s talking about is actually

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through Word of Mouth through
the lips and he says, Refrain

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your tongue from that evil and
your lips from speaking deceit

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Turn Away From Evil and do good
and seek peace and pursue it.

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So he’s quoting Psalm 34 and
saying that this applies to the

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Brotherhood our love of the
Brotherhood if we don’t want to

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return evil for evil then we
must return blessing for that

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00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:56,300
evil.
And that means locking our lips

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and not speaking unkind and evil
things.

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Why some 34 come Psalm 34 this
is absolutely beautiful.

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Look what it says.
He’s lifted it straight out of

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this song and it’s entirely
relevant to him the Ecclesia and

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what he’s saying.
Remember when I was just turning

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this up a little while ago.
I almost fell off my chair

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00:30:24,600 –> 00:30:25,600
thinking.
Wow.

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The message is so powerful what
he’s saying.

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So he’s quoted some 34 verses 11
12 13 and 14 when you read the

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song they actually don’t seem to
really fit like why are they

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what why the verses here notice
that this song is in the context

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of what it says a Psalm of David
when he pretended Madness memory

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when he was scratching at the
door, and he’s there’s foam

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coming out of his mouth.
And he was in this little this

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world large.
He was in a pickle a really

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00:30:53,700 –> 00:30:58,400
tricky situation and he had to
fake Madness before been lack

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when he went down to death who
drove him away and he departed

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that’s the context of Psalm 34
now, I’ll say this brothers and

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sisters that this song is
written in the in the midst of a

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Brother’s mistake.
Weakness poor choice, maybe lack

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of faith.
This was at a low point in

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David’s life.
He even in the in the context of

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1st Samuel 21 where this record
is is put forth.

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He even goes and grabs the sword
of Goliath and he says I need

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that UPS the best one around and
he goes down to gas and it’s

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like he’s he’s acting and making
mistakes out of disbelief in God

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and he’s clearly in a state of
desperation brother and sisters,

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but that’s the context of Psalm
34.

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David prays in verse 4 and says
this I sought Yahweh and he

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heard me.
He delivered me from all my

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fears.
They look to him and were

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radiant and their faces were not
ashamed speaking of himself.

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He says this poor man cried and
Yahweh heard him and saved him

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00:32:01,400 –> 00:32:04,200
out of all his troubles and the
troubles that David’s talking

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00:32:04,200 –> 00:32:06,900
about brother and sisters are
not just the troubles from the

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00:32:06,900 –> 00:32:09,800
enemy those troubles are some of
the ones that he got himself

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into by taking glass sword and
running down to gath.

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This was part of partly his own
mistakes and misgivings and he

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00:32:17,500 –> 00:32:21,300
said, I cried to God and he
helped me through my troubles.

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Look what it says in verse 17.
The righteous cry out in Yahweh.

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00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:30,100
Here’s and delivers them out of
all their troubles and not all

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00:32:30,100 –> 00:32:33,800
those troubles are just because
other people have done unjust

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00:32:33,800 –> 00:32:35,700
things to them.
Sometimes our troubles come

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00:32:35,700 –> 00:32:38,700
brothers and sisters because of
our own mistakes.

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And right in the middle of that
he says in verse 7 what he

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believed to be the case.
The angel of Yahweh encamps all

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00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:55,700
around those who fear Him and
delivers them.

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So back to our question brothers
sisters, why did Paul quote

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Psalm 34 and this little bit
about speaking kindly and

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refraining your tongue from evil
and verses 11 to 14.

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And the reason is but and
sisters I believe.

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That if it’s true that someone
like David when he makes a

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00:33:19,208 –> 00:33:22,900
mistake maybe a little period in
her life.

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That’s a low maybe lacking faith
for period like we all go

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00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:31,500
through if it’s true that Yahweh
listens to people who are

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00:33:31,500 –> 00:33:36,700
praying in their trouble and
delivers them and he even sends

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00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:39,100
his angels to encamp around
them.

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How dare we brothers and sisters
in our Brotherhood speak evil of

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00:33:47,100 –> 00:33:52,800
each other in our failings?
How dare we because that brother

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00:33:53,200 –> 00:33:56,800
could be on his knees at home
praying desperately to his God

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00:33:56,800 –> 00:33:59,100
to help him out of that trouble
and that trouble might have been

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00:33:59,100 –> 00:34:01,000
brought on by him by his own
self.

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It might have been brought on by
whatever the circumstances but

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he’s on his knees and we don’t
know if he is or not, but he

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could be and he’s praying to
God.

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Please be with me and gods.
Angels are surrounding that

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00:34:11,800 –> 00:34:15,199
brother or that sister that
young person and trying to help

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00:34:15,300 –> 00:34:20,000
Hebrews chapter 1 says the
angels are deliberately sent to

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minister to those who will
inherit salvation now brothers

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00:34:23,100 –> 00:34:26,800
and sisters.
If it’s true that we spread evil

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00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:30,900
reports about each other if when
we see a young person stuff up

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00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:35,100
or a brother or sister mess up
and we talked about their sins

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00:34:35,600 –> 00:34:39,699
even confidentially.
Without A View to help or to

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00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:43,500
pray for them if we are speaking
evil of our brother and

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00:34:43,500 –> 00:34:46,100
condemning them and taking
chunks out of their character.

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00:34:46,900 –> 00:34:50,300
How dare we go against the
angels of God who might be in

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00:34:50,300 –> 00:34:53,500
that person’s life doing
everything they can to help them

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00:34:53,500 –> 00:34:57,600
out and we as a Brotherhood or
brother and sister young person

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is going against the very work
of God trying to deliver

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00:35:02,100 –> 00:35:05,700
brothers and sisters the
righteous out of their troubles

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00:35:06,300 –> 00:35:07,800
that’s powerful brothers and
sisters.

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00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:11,500
Are we going against the work of
the angels and our brothers and

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00:35:11,500 –> 00:35:15,400
sisters life?
Are we there and here this

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00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:19,100
morning and in our Brotherhood
to deliver our brothers and

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00:35:19,100 –> 00:35:22,000
sisters out of trouble that’s a
massive difference.

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It’s one thing to notice
something’s wrong.

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It’s one thing brothers and
sisters for us to identify when

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someone has done something wrong
and there’s a need for that and

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00:35:30,200 –> 00:35:33,500
the Apostle Paul sometimes does
that but it’s entirely different

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00:35:33,500 –> 00:35:36,600
to speak evil of that brother.
It’s entirely different to

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00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:38,700
spread that when we catch up
with our friends.

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Unless of course we get down on
our knees and pray to God that

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00:35:43,900 –> 00:35:46,300
the angels will work in that
brother’s life that sister’s

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00:35:46,300 –> 00:35:50,300
life that young person’s life to
deliver them as Psalm 34.

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So refrain brothers and sisters
our lips from speaking evil.

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knowing that God with his angels
are working to deliver.

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Do you know it’s interesting to
that in First Peter chapter 4 we

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just come back there.
First Peter chapter 4 business

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00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:19,300
sisters Is that other reference
another one of the references

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that Peter makes?
But he adds.

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00:36:24,400 –> 00:36:27,700
A level of intensity to this
message of the love for the

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Brotherhood.
It’s in our theme for this

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00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:39,500
morning First Peter chapter 4
verse 7, but the end of all

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things is at hand therefore be
serious and watchful in your

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00:36:42,300 –> 00:36:47,500
prayers and above all things
have not just love look.

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00:36:47,500 –> 00:36:53,900
He says fervent love fervent
that’s worth reflecting on this

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00:36:53,900 –> 00:36:56,800
morning business sisters how
fervently do we love our

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:59,700
brothers and sisters?
It’s easy in a sense.

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It’s not to to be acquaintances
rather than loving the

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00:37:02,900 –> 00:37:05,300
Brotherhood.
He says fervently loved you

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00:37:05,308 –> 00:37:07,000
know, what’s amazing about that
word.

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This is is beautiful how the
word of God is written in the

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messages.
It contains that word fervent

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00:37:13,000 –> 00:37:16,900
uses a really similar one
chapter 1 verse 22 love one

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00:37:16,900 –> 00:37:19,400
another fervently Peter.
It’s Peters little word.

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00:37:19,400 –> 00:37:20,900
He loves it.
Do.

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00:37:20,900 –> 00:37:25,100
You know where else has used?
The only other time is in Acts

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00:37:25,100 –> 00:37:29,800
chapter 12 verse 5 And this is
staggering.

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This is what Acts chapter 12
verse 5 says.

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00:37:36,400 –> 00:37:41,000
Peter Was there for kept in
prison?

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00:37:43,200 –> 00:37:48,900
But fervent prayer was offered
to God for him by the Ecclesia

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00:37:49,900 –> 00:37:52,100
that little word that Peters
using his Epistles present

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00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:56,200
sisters come straight out of his
own experience and having the

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00:37:56,200 –> 00:37:59,600
Brotherhood all around him
praying for him while he’s in

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00:37:59,600 –> 00:38:03,000
prison and he says when the
sisters that he felt the love of

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00:38:03,008 –> 00:38:05,800
the Brotherhood when he was in
prison, they were all meeting

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00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:08,800
member Rota when he comes to the
door road is like that can’t be

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00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:10,600
you and she almost closed the
door in his face.

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They’re all they’re praying
together.

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The love of the Brotherhood and
so when he writes his epistle,

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00:38:15,600 –> 00:38:18,400
he says do it.
I’ve I’ve experienced when

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00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:23,500
people pray for me fervently.
That was when I was in prison

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00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:26,700
and you know, it’s interesting
here all all of Psalm 34 is that

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00:38:26,700 –> 00:38:29,600
acts chapter 12 and you can look
into that yourself, but here

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00:38:29,700 –> 00:38:37,300
here it is verse 7 Now Behold an
angel of the Lord stood by him

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and a light Shone in the prison
and he struck Peter on the side

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00:38:41,300 –> 00:38:45,200
and says quick Get Up and the
chains fell off his hands and so

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00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:47,700
Peter was was confessing at that
time in verse 11.

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He says now I know for certain
that the Lord has sent his Angel

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00:38:52,300 –> 00:38:55,100
and has delivered me from the
hand of Herod.

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00:38:55,700 –> 00:38:58,900
It’s a beautiful beautiful
representation of the truth of

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00:38:58,900 –> 00:39:02,100
Psalm 34, and although Peter was
not in prison.

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00:39:02,300 –> 00:39:04,700
His own mistakes wasn’t sisters.
The same was true.

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00:39:05,100 –> 00:39:09,100
God was working to deliver him
from prison and the Brotherhood

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00:39:09,100 –> 00:39:11,600
was right behind that angel the
same thing.

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00:39:11,600 –> 00:39:14,300
But the angel was doing was what
the Brotherhood was doing for

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00:39:14,300 –> 00:39:17,100
that individual for Peter and he
loved it.

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00:39:17,100 –> 00:39:25,600
It meant everything to him.
No brothers and sisters we

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00:39:25,600 –> 00:39:29,600
depend on each other maybe more
than we think.

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00:39:31,300 –> 00:39:34,400
I know there was times,
especially when I first arrived

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00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:38,400
in Australia from Canada that
the love of the Brotherhood that

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00:39:38,400 –> 00:39:43,100
I experienced here in Adelaide
at Brighton and many people in

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00:39:43,100 –> 00:39:47,100
other classes.
Made all the difference for me.

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00:39:48,500 –> 00:39:52,600
The kindness the fervency of it
the generosity in the

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00:39:52,607 –> 00:39:55,600
hospitality of that love.
We need that brothers and

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00:39:55,600 –> 00:39:57,300
sisters.
It’s the lifeblood of the

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00:39:57,300 –> 00:40:00,300
Ecclesia and it’s the standard
to which we live.

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00:40:01,800 –> 00:40:05,500
That’s how we treat each other.
That was when I was I was single

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00:40:06,500 –> 00:40:09,800
this isn’t just a message use it
for families in the Ecclesia or

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older brothers and sisters.
It’s message for young people in

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singles and the love of the
Brotherhood is to love all of

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00:40:15,500 –> 00:40:18,400
those.
And to encourage and strengthen

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00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:22,500
each of them, but if brothers
and sisters if we find ourselves

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00:40:22,600 –> 00:40:25,800
in the position of not being
tender-hearted if we’re dropping

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00:40:25,800 –> 00:40:29,600
our ecclesial standards, and
we’re slack with care and

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00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:35,200
pursuit of peace.
Then that does damage to our

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Brotherhood.
Instead of feeling the warmth

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00:40:38,900 –> 00:40:41,600
and the kindness that is so
often amongst us.

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We may experience the cold
shoulder and the harshness and

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00:40:47,500 –> 00:40:50,900
Peter is saying no above all
things.

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00:40:50,900 –> 00:40:55,000
Do not do that.
The end of all things is at hand

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00:40:55,000 –> 00:40:58,500
Christ is at the door.
His angels are working to

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00:40:58,500 –> 00:41:02,300
protect and be with the
righteous even when they fail so

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00:41:02,300 –> 00:41:06,300
let us do the same brothers and
sisters we cannot and we do not

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00:41:06,300 –> 00:41:11,300
have time to criticize The Lord
is near you know, first Peter

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00:41:11,300 –> 00:41:13,100
says that love is forgiving as
well.

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00:41:13,100 –> 00:41:16,500
You see that?
This is in the context of

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00:41:16,500 –> 00:41:20,200
forgiveness verse 8 and above
all things in 1st Peter 4 verse

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00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:23,800
a have fervent love for one
another for love will cover a

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00:41:23,800 –> 00:41:28,000
multitude of sins.
You see he quoted Proverbs

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00:41:28,000 –> 00:41:32,000
chapter 10 verse 12 and the
other side of that verse it says

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00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:37,600
in Proverbs chapter 10 verse 12
hatred stirs up Strife, but love

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00:41:37,600 –> 00:41:43,000
covers a multitude of sins.
We have a responsibility

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00:41:43,000 –> 00:41:46,500
brothers and sisters not to stir
up Strife not in our own minds

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00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:50,900
not in our spouses.
Mine’s not in our family’s Minds

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00:41:50,900 –> 00:41:55,500
around the dinner table.
We have an obligation in Christ

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00:41:55,900 –> 00:41:59,300
to stir up and provoke love in
each other.

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00:42:02,100 –> 00:42:06,200
Proverbs 16 verse 9 says one of
the things that the Lord hates

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00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:08,800
is sowing Discord among
brethren.

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And that can be as simple
brothers and sisters as

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00:42:14,000 –> 00:42:18,200
mentioning to your best friend
the sin of someone else that you

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00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:21,400
learned about.
But didn’t need to be shared

655
00:42:22,200 –> 00:42:25,900
that would bring no fruit of
repentance by you sharing that

656
00:42:25,900 –> 00:42:30,800
information criticizing.
You know, I think it’s true but

657
00:42:30,800 –> 00:42:34,600
ancestors of all my all my time
in the Brotherhood Canada and

658
00:42:34,600 –> 00:42:38,900
here I can’t I cannot think and
I’ve done it many times, but I

659
00:42:38,900 –> 00:42:44,700
cannot think of one time.
We’re I demeaned or spoke.

660
00:42:46,500 –> 00:42:51,800
unkindly Of a brother and sister
or sister a young person and it

661
00:42:51,800 –> 00:42:56,300
brought about useful results
never once can I can I remember

662
00:42:56,500 –> 00:43:00,200
that my criticism of another
person in my Ecclesia has ever

663
00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:05,000
brought anything good never
that’s not to say that you don’t

664
00:43:05,000 –> 00:43:08,500
talk about things that are wrong
and and things that have that

665
00:43:08,500 –> 00:43:12,400
need help that’s done hopefully
in a spirit of prayer and care

666
00:43:12,700 –> 00:43:16,500
but never has any criticism that
I’ve ever waged against another

667
00:43:16,500 –> 00:43:18,100
brother or sister brought any
good.

668
00:43:18,800 –> 00:43:22,300
Paul says no, and actually I’ve
missed all those opportunities

669
00:43:22,700 –> 00:43:29,100
to show love to build up.
To be fervent in kindness, you

670
00:43:29,100 –> 00:43:33,600
know brother Robert says in the
Second Diary of a voyage on page

671
00:43:33,600 –> 00:43:36,800
69.
He said I have made it a rule of

672
00:43:36,800 –> 00:43:41,100
my life to be silent on the
faults of other men.

673
00:43:41,800 –> 00:43:44,400
And from this rule.
I will not depart now.

674
00:43:46,400 –> 00:43:51,100
That is a very high calling.
You know, brother sister is

675
00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:56,300
those who don’t highlight The
Faults of other people who have

676
00:43:56,300 –> 00:43:59,500
that fervent love of the
Brotherhood always at their side

677
00:44:00,000 –> 00:44:04,800
make an impression on all of us.
I know one person in Adelaide

678
00:44:05,900 –> 00:44:08,700
that has never in all my time
around them.

679
00:44:08,700 –> 00:44:13,500
Never never once have I ever
heard them say anything.

680
00:44:14,500 –> 00:44:20,200
negative about any other brother
or sister or young person and

681
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:23,400
that’s not because they’re
they’re they’re spineless.

682
00:44:23,500 –> 00:44:27,000
It’s not because they’re wofully
and they don’t really no way

683
00:44:27,700 –> 00:44:31,600
that brother to me is so firm
and so solid, but he will not he

684
00:44:31,600 –> 00:44:35,200
will never stoop to that level.
I’ve never heard him say it.

685
00:44:36,800 –> 00:44:40,600
And when I compare myself to
that I full far short, but it’s

686
00:44:40,600 –> 00:44:47,000
something to Aspire to.
You know, it says in First Peter

687
00:44:47,000 –> 00:44:51,500
to of First Peter for right
after that forgiveness, he says

688
00:44:51,700 –> 00:44:56,200
and be hospitable to one another
without grumbling grumbling do

689
00:44:56,200 –> 00:44:59,300
that weird hospital just means
fond of having guests.

690
00:45:00,300 –> 00:45:01,500
And you know, maybe brothers and
sisters.

691
00:45:01,500 –> 00:45:04,400
That’s how the warmth of our
Brotherhood spreads and builds

692
00:45:04,400 –> 00:45:07,800
and deepens by having people
back to our houses.

693
00:45:08,900 –> 00:45:11,800
Our houses, I believe are
extensions of the Ecclesia where

694
00:45:11,800 –> 00:45:16,700
this is possible and I’m
convinced that we can use our

695
00:45:16,700 –> 00:45:19,700
houses in our Hospitality to
deepen the love of the

696
00:45:19,700 –> 00:45:23,000
Brotherhood doesn’t mean every
waking moment does it it doesn’t

697
00:45:23,000 –> 00:45:25,400
mean that our house is
necessarily an open Hotel.

698
00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:28,800
Not everyone can cope with that.
And nor is that even healthy but

699
00:45:28,800 –> 00:45:31,100
it does mean that our home is
welcoming and warm.

700
00:45:31,200 –> 00:45:34,000
It’s not judgmental.
It’s not full of corals.

701
00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:36,300
There’s just warmth and
generosity.

702
00:45:37,500 –> 00:45:40,500
And in that house is willing
Spirit to forgive and have that

703
00:45:40,500 –> 00:45:43,600
brother or sister young person
by who needs that encouragement

704
00:45:43,900 –> 00:45:47,300
who is currently experiencing
the angels of God working in

705
00:45:47,300 –> 00:45:50,600
their life to support and
deliver them and so we can join

706
00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:54,700
hands with those angels and it
work of Christ himself in that

707
00:45:54,700 –> 00:45:58,900
person’s life.
It’s not about extravagance

708
00:45:59,000 –> 00:46:02,300
hospitality.
It’s about the atmosphere of

709
00:46:02,300 –> 00:46:06,800
hospitality and warmth and if
your circumstances I and I had

710
00:46:06,800 –> 00:46:09,900
this when I was single If your
circumstances prevent you from

711
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:14,700
Hospitality, I remember being
single have people over.

712
00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:17,300
You’re not really a good cook.
So it doesn’t really always turn

713
00:46:17,300 –> 00:46:22,300
out too well, but who cares I
didn’t matter and so when I was

714
00:46:22,300 –> 00:46:24,700
really appreciative of when I
had some friends over from

715
00:46:24,700 –> 00:46:26,900
various Ecclesia has I remember
one.

716
00:46:27,300 –> 00:46:30,300
I was living up in Bridgewater.
Remember this time where I said,

717
00:46:30,300 –> 00:46:32,600
I’m just going to You had I
don’t you know, I don’t have a

718
00:46:32,600 –> 00:46:35,000
wife to help me in the kitchen.
I have no idea.

719
00:46:35,100 –> 00:46:37,600
Yeah, like a little bit of
cooking spray and I invite these

720
00:46:37,600 –> 00:46:40,500
people on the really cool thing
was they came and they brought

721
00:46:40,500 –> 00:46:43,500
all their kids and I remember
this awesome feeling of all

722
00:46:43,500 –> 00:46:46,100
these kids just sleeping in
their sleeping bags in the

723
00:46:46,100 –> 00:46:48,800
corridor and like by the front
door because there wasn’t much

724
00:46:48,800 –> 00:46:52,700
space and we were just playing
board games after the readings

725
00:46:52,700 –> 00:46:55,800
the rest of the evening and it
was so good.

726
00:46:56,700 –> 00:47:00,300
It was so good and that’s been
repeated lots and times.

727
00:47:00,800 –> 00:47:05,000
But we need that residence
sisters and not just I want to

728
00:47:05,000 –> 00:47:07,400
stress this morning because I
need to hear it too.

729
00:47:07,600 –> 00:47:13,800
Not just with your friends. with
your brothers and sisters and

730
00:47:13,800 –> 00:47:18,200
young people I needed that as a
single person and there are

731
00:47:18,200 –> 00:47:21,500
families here and families.
I dearly love in this city.

732
00:47:22,600 –> 00:47:25,700
Who included me even when I was
single and man that made a

733
00:47:25,707 –> 00:47:28,600
difference?
That’s the love of the

734
00:47:28,600 –> 00:47:31,900
Brotherhood.
Do you know where the sisters

735
00:47:32,300 –> 00:47:39,300
first John three verse 14 says
this we know We have passed from

736
00:47:39,300 –> 00:47:42,000
Death to life the think about
the weight of this.

737
00:47:42,600 –> 00:47:47,000
We know that we have passed from
Death To Life.

738
00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:56,700
Because we love the brethren.
He who does not love his

739
00:47:56,700 –> 00:48:01,700
brother?
Is dead that is a staggering

740
00:48:01,700 –> 00:48:05,200
statement.
We know we’ve passed from Life.

741
00:48:05,600 –> 00:48:09,100
Sorry from Death to life because
we love the Brethren and if we

742
00:48:09,100 –> 00:48:12,500
take First Corinthians 13 at its
word brothers and sisters, that

743
00:48:12,500 –> 00:48:17,000
means simple practical things
like not being rude by stop

744
00:48:17,000 –> 00:48:20,000
talking about other people’s
frailties and weaknesses.

745
00:48:20,400 –> 00:48:24,300
That’s how we know.
We’ve passed from Death to life.

746
00:48:24,500 –> 00:48:29,400
It’s that simple When we stop
being critical of another

747
00:48:29,400 –> 00:48:32,800
Ecclesia down the road because
they have slightly different

748
00:48:32,800 –> 00:48:37,400
standards in us and and by doing
so we compromised the very

749
00:48:37,400 –> 00:48:41,100
standard that Jesus did teach
about that’s love brothers and

750
00:48:41,100 –> 00:48:44,900
sisters and that standard will
see us through to the kingdom to

751
00:48:44,900 –> 00:48:47,600
injure perilous times in the
Brotherhood.

752
00:48:48,500 –> 00:48:50,700
There will be differences in the
Brotherhood.

753
00:48:50,900 –> 00:48:55,400
We cannot expect uniformity on
every jot and Tittle and every

754
00:48:55,500 –> 00:48:58,000
standard And that may come from
Century to Century.

755
00:48:58,100 –> 00:49:03,500
No, but what do you think should
be sure and consistent young and

756
00:49:03,500 –> 00:49:09,900
old alike?
And that is tenderheartedness an

757
00:49:09,900 –> 00:49:14,600
active pursuit of Peace in the
Brotherhood that doesn’t mean we

758
00:49:14,600 –> 00:49:17,900
ignore wrong Doctrine.
It course not Northern Paul.

759
00:49:18,500 –> 00:49:20,700
It doesn’t mean we don’t stand
for things, but they need to be

760
00:49:20,700 –> 00:49:26,000
stood for but it does mean when
we do we do it in the spirit of

761
00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:30,600
love and we don’t character
assassinate other people in the

762
00:49:30,600 –> 00:49:41,500
process. 1st John says to us We
know that we’ve passed from

763
00:49:41,500 –> 00:49:44,200
Death to life because we love
the Brethren.

764
00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:47,500
You know, it’s really sad, but
the first the first brotherly

765
00:49:47,500 –> 00:49:53,500
interaction in all of scripture
ended murder, that’s why first

766
00:49:53,500 –> 00:49:56,500
John uses that at right at the
center of his whole message uses

767
00:49:56,500 –> 00:49:59,600
Cain and Abel is the center of
that and the fact that this

768
00:49:59,600 –> 00:50:02,900
Brotherhood relationship was
broken right at the very start

769
00:50:02,900 –> 00:50:05,300
and he says no we need to aim
for higher.

770
00:50:09,000 –> 00:50:12,700
Brotherhood needs this standard
we all do we love to see it.

771
00:50:12,700 –> 00:50:15,100
We feel the warmth of those
around us here in an arc.

772
00:50:15,100 –> 00:50:17,200
Lygia.
We have so much to be thankful

773
00:50:17,200 –> 00:50:21,200
for and to build on we have much
provoking to do brothers and

774
00:50:21,200 –> 00:50:24,500
sisters.
The bar can always be raised our

775
00:50:24,500 –> 00:50:28,700
standards if they are slipping
need to come to life again to

776
00:50:28,700 –> 00:50:33,300
live what we all believe what
binds us together the Life of

777
00:50:33,300 –> 00:50:41,200
Christ first.
John also says In verse five and

778
00:50:41,200 –> 00:50:45,300
six that Jesus was manifested
you think about this.

779
00:50:46,100 –> 00:50:49,900
Jesus was manifested to take
away our sins.

780
00:50:51,100 –> 00:50:55,800
And in him, there is no sin.
So again brothers and sisters if

781
00:50:55,800 –> 00:51:00,600
we take John’s message.
How can we?

782
00:51:02,300 –> 00:51:07,300
Talk about brothers X or sister,
why drag up their sins at our

783
00:51:07,300 –> 00:51:10,000
dinner table or in our car or
with our friends?

784
00:51:10,300 –> 00:51:13,900
How can we go through and and
and actively criticize each

785
00:51:13,900 –> 00:51:15,400
other organically?
Shh.

786
00:51:19,400 –> 00:51:22,600
When Christ came to take away
our sins he was manifested to

787
00:51:22,607 –> 00:51:25,100
destroy them.
How can we how can we bring them

788
00:51:25,100 –> 00:51:29,000
back up and spread them around
we’re going right against the

789
00:51:29,000 –> 00:51:33,000
very mission that these emblems
speak to us of that’s a powerful

790
00:51:33,000 –> 00:51:37,100
thought so brothers and sisters.
Let’s raise the bar as a

791
00:51:37,107 –> 00:51:44,000
Brotherhood next time.
You post rethink your standard

792
00:51:44,000 –> 00:51:48,600
of love and kindness next time
you caught catch up as a group

793
00:51:48,600 –> 00:51:52,500
of moms for coffee.
I challenge you this morning and

794
00:51:52,500 –> 00:51:57,200
scripture does to talk about the
standard of your conversations

795
00:51:58,200 –> 00:52:02,200
and do it explicitly chat about
how you as a group are going to

796
00:52:02,200 –> 00:52:06,200
set the standard of love to be
kind tender hearted pursuing.

797
00:52:06,200 –> 00:52:08,900
Peace not returning evil for
evil.

798
00:52:09,200 –> 00:52:13,700
That’s the Standard of Christ on
a practical level we all

799
00:52:13,700 –> 00:52:15,800
struggle with that but let’s do
that.

800
00:52:16,000 –> 00:52:18,900
Let’s set it and let’s actively
talk as friends in the truth and

801
00:52:18,900 –> 00:52:21,800
say right how could we leave the
standard of love?

802
00:52:23,300 –> 00:52:25,000
Next time you have a business
meeting.

803
00:52:27,600 –> 00:52:29,400
And I’m just putting this out
there.

804
00:52:30,600 –> 00:52:32,200
And I become accountable to
this.

805
00:52:34,400 –> 00:52:37,100
What about starting by talking
this about the standards?

806
00:52:37,100 –> 00:52:41,200
We set put it on the agenda.
What’s our standards in the

807
00:52:41,200 –> 00:52:46,000
Ecclesia for love how we comment
to each other how we talk to

808
00:52:46,000 –> 00:52:47,800
each other and try to understand
each other?

809
00:52:49,000 –> 00:52:53,600
We all need that.
Next time you have an A B

810
00:52:53,600 –> 00:52:56,700
meeting.
Talking about how things are

811
00:52:56,700 –> 00:53:01,100
going in your cliche put love on
your agenda how you’re going is

812
00:53:01,100 –> 00:53:06,500
an Ecclesia.
How you can promote it and

813
00:53:06,500 –> 00:53:11,000
Foster it?
It was on the top of Paul’s list

814
00:53:11,000 –> 00:53:15,300
of a collegial standards young
people next time you catch up

815
00:53:15,300 –> 00:53:21,300
with your bestie and have a DM.
Talk about things in your family

816
00:53:21,300 –> 00:53:25,700
or other young people or
Suburban or particular group in

817
00:53:25,700 –> 00:53:31,100
Suburban.
Talk about how you can show love

818
00:53:31,600 –> 00:53:33,700
before you enter that
conversation set that as a

819
00:53:33,707 –> 00:53:38,900
priority determined to do it.
Husbands and wives do the same

820
00:53:39,700 –> 00:53:44,700
go home this week.
An explicitly talk about the

821
00:53:44,700 –> 00:53:47,400
standard of love the
tenderheartedness in your house

822
00:53:47,400 –> 00:53:50,700
and around your dinner table and
how you talk about brothers and

823
00:53:50,700 –> 00:53:55,200
sisters and our older brothers
and sisters.

824
00:53:55,500 –> 00:54:00,100
We need your constant love this
Brotherhood is fueled by that

825
00:54:00,100 –> 00:54:03,200
and powered on by your example.
We love your energy and

826
00:54:03,200 –> 00:54:05,800
consistency your shepherding
love.

827
00:54:07,400 –> 00:54:09,600
We asked you not to be
pessimistic about the younger

828
00:54:09,600 –> 00:54:13,200
generation coming up.
They have the Brotherhood to

829
00:54:13,200 –> 00:54:16,100
care for.
And when you were in the grave

830
00:54:16,100 –> 00:54:19,700
if Christ has not returned, we
need to go on by your faithful

831
00:54:19,700 –> 00:54:22,000
example of support and
commitment to the Brotherhood.

832
00:54:23,400 –> 00:54:27,200
We need to transparently see
that your love is not motivated

833
00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:31,000
by personal preferences.
But as motivated by Paul’s

834
00:54:31,000 –> 00:54:35,800
powerful messages on love what
really matters.

835
00:54:36,900 –> 00:54:41,400
We’ll listen.
This was a note written of a

836
00:54:41,408 –> 00:54:44,600
beloved brother in our community
in the Christian magazine in

837
00:54:44,600 –> 00:54:49,500
2001.
This brother is says he loved

838
00:54:49,500 –> 00:54:52,400
the Brotherhood but was fully
aware that it was not an

839
00:54:52,400 –> 00:54:56,000
impersonal entity but was made
up of a multitude of real people

840
00:54:56,200 –> 00:54:59,400
while he was loving cheerful
encouraging to all there were

841
00:54:59,400 –> 00:55:02,000
probably four groups that
benefit especially from his love

842
00:55:02,000 –> 00:55:05,400
and care the elderly and the
sick they knew him.

843
00:55:05,400 –> 00:55:10,200
Well lost sheep also saw a lot
of him, especially though this

844
00:55:10,200 –> 00:55:13,500
brother had a tremendous
affinity for the young he knew

845
00:55:13,500 –> 00:55:17,200
the uncertainty and self death
doubt with which youth is.

846
00:55:17,400 –> 00:55:20,300
And plague and he met plaque
then he met this with a deep

847
00:55:20,300 –> 00:55:23,500
genuine and very patient love
and understanding he offered a

848
00:55:23,500 –> 00:55:25,900
friendship.
There was an inspiring call to

849
00:55:25,900 –> 00:55:28,100
service.
He was always encouraging us to

850
00:55:28,100 –> 00:55:30,900
give the first fruits of our
minds and hearts our talents

851
00:55:30,900 –> 00:55:33,300
time and energy to the Lord’s
service.

852
00:55:34,500 –> 00:55:37,200
It wasn’t about his talks was it
or the books that he wrote and

853
00:55:37,200 –> 00:55:40,100
you wrote many?
It was about his care for the

854
00:55:40,100 –> 00:55:44,300
Brotherhood and young people
this morning as you reflect on

855
00:55:44,300 –> 00:55:49,200
all that Christ does and has
called us to remember that first

856
00:55:49,200 –> 00:55:52,200
Peter spoke of a love that
submits.

857
00:55:53,500 –> 00:55:56,000
Add fire to the Ecclesia not
division.

858
00:55:59,000 –> 00:56:03,600
Before you ever show your
Ecclesia, the things that you

859
00:56:03,600 –> 00:56:08,700
think should be changed show
them how much you love them and

860
00:56:08,700 –> 00:56:10,800
love the Brotherhood and commit
to that.

861
00:56:11,700 –> 00:56:13,600
This is your mission and
occlusal life.

862
00:56:15,300 –> 00:56:16,700
If you have a difference in
view.

863
00:56:18,300 –> 00:56:21,900
Pass it through the standard of
provoking love and nothing else.

864
00:56:23,000 –> 00:56:26,200
be caring and considerate
tender-hearted respectful to the

865
00:56:26,200 –> 00:56:31,900
older generation who has gone
before listen to them you as

866
00:56:31,900 –> 00:56:34,700
well as the older people in all
of us together cannot be

867
00:56:34,700 –> 00:56:39,200
presumed to be friends of the
master and yet unkind in

868
00:56:39,200 –> 00:56:45,900
impatient towards his body
Harrington wrote this in will

869
00:56:45,900 –> 00:56:50,200
finish on these thoughts but as
and sisters, This is taken from

870
00:56:50,200 –> 00:56:55,700
The Man David page 182.
And I want us to think about

871
00:56:55,700 –> 00:57:00,700
these words a man’s response to
the needs of the community of

872
00:57:00,700 –> 00:57:03,800
the body to which he is
supposedly given his Allegiance

873
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is often a measure of the true
character of the man himself

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00:57:07,700 –> 00:57:11,200
self-seeking and disregard for
the lasting well-being of the

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community weakens the bonds
which are intended to be

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00:57:14,100 –> 00:57:19,000
channels of strength rather than
Strife our attitude to the body.

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Is our attitude to Christ the
Ecclesia is his body if we are

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00:57:25,300 –> 00:57:27,800
superior to it, we lack
humility.

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00:57:28,200 –> 00:57:33,000
If we are divisive within it, we
deny the atonement by which we

880
00:57:33,000 –> 00:57:36,700
have and were reconciled and
made one if we neglect it the

881
00:57:36,700 –> 00:57:39,500
body we diminish our affection
for him.

882
00:57:39,600 –> 00:57:42,800
If we serve it we do him service
if we edify it.

883
00:57:42,800 –> 00:57:47,000
We continue his work if we bind
up its wounds and take care of

884
00:57:47,000 –> 00:57:49,300
the week.
We Fellowship his sufferings.

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00:57:50,300 –> 00:57:53,500
Brother and sisters if we love
the Brotherhood, we are of

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00:57:53,500 –> 00:57:57,100
Christ and we love him our
Endeavor this morning brothers

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00:57:57,100 –> 00:58:02,300
and sisters. is to be Disciples
of Christ love not in word or in

888
00:58:02,300 –> 00:58:07,500
tongue, but in deed and in truth
not on paper, but in practice

889
00:58:07,800 –> 00:58:11,900
not merely in confession, but in
conduct this morning we come

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before these emblems and we feel
the weight of Love behind them

891
00:58:15,600 –> 00:58:19,200
the sheer imperative that they
confront us with and encourages

892
00:58:19,200 –> 00:58:23,300
to in his life changing.
These emblems stirs up to love

893
00:58:23,300 –> 00:58:28,500
and good works and when Christ
comes and he examines us and he

894
00:58:28,500 –> 00:58:32,200
asks Timothy George Do You Love
Me?

895
00:58:33,900 –> 00:58:37,700
And I say yes, Lord, you know
that.

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00:58:37,700 –> 00:58:42,200
I love you and he says to me
love the Brotherhood.

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00:58:51,800 –> 00:58:54,500
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