128: Jamie Scott – Exhortation: The Ecclesia of God

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Brother, Jamie Scott which was
given at the Cumberland Ecclesia

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in South Australia from this
past.

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August in 2020, it comes from a
recommendation we received and

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the accompanying letter was so
incredibly hard felt and it

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So to The Listener who sent this
in, Thank you for making the

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time to choose the words that
you did as it was just such an

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encouragement for me, just to
read it.

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So we have a bit of parallel
themes from the past few weeks

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on g, c t.
So just like last week’s talk

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this excitation as well.
Evidently was steeped in some

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Ecclesia specific issues.
Then yet we’re reminded that.

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These could be words for any
Ecclesia to hear and to soak in.

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So there are a few points made
in the first few minutes that

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make it seem a bit like, hmm,
where’s this going?

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But I sure you by the end, the
brother makes an ending remark

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that will give you Goosebumps
and relight your fire for this

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week.
Another interesting parallel by

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coincidence is that a few weeks
ago we heard from Brother David

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Hill on the beautiful breakdown
of our weekly Memorial mindset

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when we read through 1st
Corinthians 11.

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And, you know, I meant to
consider the company that we

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share well for this.
Excitation, the focus chapters

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are also on First Corinthians
spread out a little bit more

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from First Corinthians, 10 to 13
and brother.

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Jamie focuses on.
And why these four chapters need

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to be read and lived together as
an Ecclesia rather than

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segmented and highlighted for
their specific thematic content.

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So we hope this strengthens your
faith and brightens your day

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brother.
Jamie Scott, the Ecclesia of

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God.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters and what a beautiful
bunch of people.

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You asked to look out on this
morning, you know, brothers and

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sisters this morning.
We’ve got a full Ecclesia.

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The event was sold out.
I think, brother, Phil sent the

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little message around last
night, which means that we’ve

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got enough.
Well, people in our Ecclesia

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without sniffles and sneezes and
sore throats this morning that

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we can have 133 people here.
And and the other funny thing

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is, you come to the occasion.
There’s so many things at the

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moment is look at on and and
amuse me.

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All right, maybe it’s just my
childish mine but I’ll see you

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Uncle Barney out there looking
like, he’s working at the

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airport with his Hive is on and
I expect him to see a pair of

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ping pong bats.
Guiding you to the chair like

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this as he’s bringing the plane
until the end and you’ve got, it

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won’t stop there and sit down
and and I’ll see brother Ian

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walk in And out in the back hall
there and he’s doing this with

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his hands and hmm, alcohol with
the scent of grape and

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everything is alcohol with a
scent of something else.

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Now isn’t it?
And brother Mack wigs.

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Of course, the Lord of doors
lie, he comes in late,

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fashionably late every time, you
know, he rocks up 10 minutes on

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time late to every meeting.
He goes to he’s perfectly on

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time 10 minutes late.
It could be 10 minutes early.

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But that’s what he chooses to do
and there’s all sorts of funny

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things, aren’t there?
That just are amusing.

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When you look out on the
Ecclesia as we come together and

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the other one is this morning.
All four of us doing things on

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ele, Brother, Ali, and and Uncle
Mac there and myself.

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We’re all feelings this morning.
That’s not according to the

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schedule.
Just Chuck it all away.

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And here we are all feeling in
doing things to exhort, and

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encourage our brothers and
sisters this morning.

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And always seems a little bit
sobering, a little bit somber on

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a Sunday morning, isn’t it?
But if you have an immature mind

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like mine, you start to get the
giggles.

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And of course when you giving
the exhaust that’s no good is Is

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it but of course when I when I
got asked to fill in this

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morning, I open up the daily
readings and and really brothers

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and sisters.
I’ve hit the exaltation Lottery.

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Jackpot this morning, have an
eye with first acquaintance 11,

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12 and 13 are the readings for
this weekend. 11 yesterday, 12

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and 13 for today.
And how could I, how could I

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speak on Elijah?
Or how could I do a talk on

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Jeremiah.
When I’ve got first 2

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Corinthians to look at this
morning?

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And we’re very, very familiar
with these chapters, aren’t we?

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And we’re very familiar and
we’re very good at taking each

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of the themes in these chapters
and extracting them from the

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context of Corinthians and
expanding amount.

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And looking at the meanings and
giving exultation Zahn, parts of

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these chapters.
And we’re at home with that.

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And we could probably tell you
what, all of these chapters are

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about individually.
And yet, brothers and sisters,

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Paul didn’t write the letter of
Corinthians like that, he wrote

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it as a continuous thought,
process from start to end and

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what I realized something that I
never appreciated before.

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When I started to look at these
chapters all together, is that

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when you take each of those
topics that we know so much

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about and you put them back into
the Text of Corinthians, the

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exultation here, this morning is
is a Oneness of Mind in the

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Ecclesia.
That’s the thought that he’s

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trying to to get the brothers
and sisters in Corinth to think

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about its Oneness of mine.
That’s what he’s doing through

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the, through the whole of the
book of Corinthians.

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And really, when we want to
start to look at this section

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here in Corinthians, 11 12 and
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It starts back in chapter 10,
doesn’t it because inverse 17 of

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chapter 10.
He he talk in the middle of

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talking about a section on
Fellowship.

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He says for we being many are
one bread and one body for we

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are all partakers of that one
bread and then after making that

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statement, he goes on to Prime
up his readers with a couple of

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very searching statements and
questions for what is coming, in

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the following chapters.
And in particular these

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statements in these questions
are referring to the, the issue

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of eating meat, offered to
Idols.

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But in reality, these same
questions and statements are the

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very Foundation the basis of our
ecclesial life, aren’t they?

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So he says stuff, like in verse,
23, and 24, all things are

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lawful for me, but all things
are not expedient.

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All things are lawful for me but
all things edify.

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Not let no man seek his own. but
every man another’s, wealth and

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what he’s really saying here is
that, you know, I have the right

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to do anything I want But that’s
not always helpful in an

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occlusal context.
I’ve got the right to do

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whatever I want, but that
doesn’t always build up my

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Ecclesia.
So rather I seek to build up my

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brothers and sisters rather to
build than to build up myself.

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And that’s what he says in that,
those two verses there, isn’t

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he?
But then he comes over to verse

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29 and he asks a very relevant
question.

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He says, at the end of twenty
nine will, why is my Liberty

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judged of another man’s
conscience?

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Why?
Indeed, it’s an excellent.

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Question isn’t it?
Why should I give up?

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What is my right?
What I can have for another

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person’s sake?
And he goes on to say, in verse

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33, here is the reason even as I
please all men in all things not

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seeking my own profit, but the
profit of many that they may be

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saved and that is the reason
isn’t brothers and sisters.

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That last word there that my
brothers and sisters, I would

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give up what is my right?
That my brothers and sisters

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might be saved and it’s
short-term pain.

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Isn’t it for long-term gain in
the future and what he does here

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in this chapter, is he points
out and he highlights the

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anomaly of ecclesial life in
Christ because we do have

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Liberty in Christ and there are
many many things in a collegial

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life that a perfectly lawful and
perfectly OK at is as a citizen

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of kingdom and as a citizen of
Australian or whatever country,

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we happen to be in that a
perfectly lawful and Acceptable

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for us to do.
And the truth is logical and the

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truth from the gospel is
straightforward and the

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principles we use to govern our
lives that they’re simple and

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they’re sound, they’re not
complicated, are they brothers

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and sisters and yet in a clear
visual life for the sake of our

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salvation of our brothers and
sisters, we would be willing to

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take that Liberty.
We would be willing to take all

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of that logic and all of that
freedom in Christ and throw it

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away.
Wouldn’t we just throw it out

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the window to do something
illogical?

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Cool for the sake of our
brothers and sisters, we would

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be willing to do something
irrational.

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Now, that doesn’t make sense.
That curbs, our freedom or

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curbs, our Liberty.
So that others in the Ecclesia

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would feel nurtured and and safe
and cherished.

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Because the reality is that the
longest time that that difficult

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is going to extend for all that
curbing is 70 years, maybe a

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little bit more.
For the sake of having our

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brothers and sisters beside us
forever.

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And that brothers and sisters is
also logic, not logic, is in the

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way that we would logic.
But logic to the mind of Christ

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logic to one who accepts the
mind of Christ, to take that

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Liberty and throw it away.
And that awareness of our

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brothers and sisters and their
needs becomes the theme.

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And not the only theme, but it
becomes a theme for the next

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three chapters.
And with that he then segues

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into 1st Corinthians chapter 11
that we know so well.

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So brothers and sisters, he
starts off in verse 2.

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Now I Praise You Brethren that
you remember me in all things

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and keep the ordinances as I
delivered them to you.

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So he see starts off by praising
them for keeping the ordinances

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that Christ delivered to him and
that he delivered to them, but

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he wants to give them some more
information behind one of those

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ordinances in particular at this
point in the chapter and that’s

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the chapter relating.
That’s It.

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That’s the theme of head.
Coverings in an occlusal setting

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and it does this by painting
occlusal Life as a spiritual

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Parable.
And in verse 4, he says every

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man praying or prophesying
having his head, covered

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dishonoureth his head and in
verse 7 for a man indeed ought,

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not to cover his head forasmuch
as he is the image and the glory

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of God.
But the woman is the glory of

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the the man.
And so a brother in an occlusal

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setting, he comes to the
Ecclesia with his head uncovered

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because he is the image and
glory of God.

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And in the parable of a closure
life, when we meet together, he

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simply represents the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who loved the Ecclesia?

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And who gave himself for.
He literally died because of the

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love he had for the Ecclesia.
And it’s a sobering thought for

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brothers, when they come to the
meeting with that, thought in

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mind, what are we prepared to
give that the Ecclesia of God

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might live?
What are we prepared to give for

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our brothers and sisters here
that meet here today?

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Would we die if that was what
was necessary for our brothers

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and sisters to live?
It’s an interesting thought,

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isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters and I’ve

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often wondered how that would
work out in our occlusal setting

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and maybe it’s a little bit hard
to imagine what it would take

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for a brother to have to give up
his life for his brothers and

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sisters.
Would it be in another country

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that we were meeting in that the
Army burst through the door?

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And decided to take us or decide
to start killing at random.

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With our brothers here, be
willing to give up their life

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for our sisters, or brothers and
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It’s a very sobering thought,
and our, and our answer to that

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might be an indication of our
Brethren’s investment in this

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Ecclesia here or in the
inclusion of God in the family

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of God, but it’s a pretty
sobering thought isn’t it?

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Would you do that Brothers?
And of course a sister in a

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classroom setting she covers her
hair that natural beauty that

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that our God has given her
because she is the glory of the

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man and in the parable of a
collegial life.

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When we meet together, she
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That Cumberland, not not the
equator here at Cumberland in

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total, but that’s what our
sisters here, represent.

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But the Ecclesia of God
worldwide really is what they

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represent.
And to give us a background to

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this parable of a cliche life.
Paul takes us back to Genesis

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to, he takes us back to the
creation of Adam and Eve and

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they’re in the garden, Our
Father performed, a miracle, we

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know this quite well.
He formed, Man, Out of the Dust

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of the ground.
And he breathed into his

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nostrils, the breath of life,
and Man became a living Soul,

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God, created life.
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And when Adam realized that he
was alone, God put him into a

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deep sleep.
And while he was asleep, he

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pierced his side, he took out a
rib and he formed a woman to

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make him whole to complete him
and when he woke up, God brought

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the woman to him and he loved
her and he loved her because his

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comment was when he met Eve for
the very first time, he said to

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her, this is part of my own
body.

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That’s incredible isn’t it
brothers and sisters because in

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that Parable we see four
thousand years later God once

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again created life from nothing.
The Holy Spirit Came Upon a

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virgin called Mary and without
the input of any man, a baby was

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conceived and in 1st
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chapters on from where we are
Paul calls him the last Adam or

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in Colossians 1.
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firstborn of Every creature and
he was the beginning of a new

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creation.
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life, our Lord Jesus Christ was
put into the sleep of death.

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And what happened or the Romans
pierced his side, didn’t they?

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With the spear?
And when he woke up, I bribed

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the Ecclesia was formed and our
Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
Loved it.

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He absolutely loved it.
And when we come to First

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Corinthians 11 and verse 11 and
12 it says here, nevertheless,

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neither is The Man Without The
Woman.

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Neither the woman without the
man in the Lord, for, as the

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woman is of the man.
Even, so is the man, also by the

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woman, but all things are of God
and NaturallySpeaking, a man,

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and a woman, do their very
existence to each other.

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Is he in the beginning?
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And the formation of Eve, was
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Adam in the first place.
But from that point on Every man

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owes his existence to a woman
giving birth from generation to

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generation.
And so Paul says, as the woman

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is of the man even also is the
man by the woman, every woman

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has been born due to the input
of a man.

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Men and women are totally
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That’s the message of Genesis
chapter 2, but all ultimately

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owe their existence to their
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And so, when we look at these
natural lessons from that story

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of Genesis, chapter 2, We see
that they can also be seen in

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the second creation.
The Ecclesia of God, owes its

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existence to the Messiah.
Who was the beginning, the

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firstborn from the dead yet at
that.

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Same time from that time.
Sorry, the Ecclesia that was

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first form.
Begins to grow, doesn’t it?

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And it begins to grow from
generation to generation as

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brothers and sisters are born
into that family by water, and

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by spirit.
And by this, the Ecclesia is

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nourished and sustained.
Our own Allegiant, is nourished

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and sustained throughout the
ages.

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And when we think brothers and
sisters, Of the baptisms that

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we’ve had over the last couple
of years.

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You know, that a lot of those
baptisms have not come from

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within this, Ecclesia, Eric
Leisure has been added to by the

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by God, hasn’t he?
You know, when we see brothers

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and sisters, like, brother, Greg
and sister Corrine Patterson

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when we see brother, Tim and
brother, Ellie and brother Bill,

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And we see also sister Haley and
sister Emily, you know the

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Ecclesia grows from within and
from without they are added to

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by the father and this brothers
and sisters is the parable of

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the Ecclesia, isn’t it?
That there is in this Parable, a

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complete entwined dependence of
the Ecclesia and our Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Just as there is a complete

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entwined dependence of men and
women upon each other.

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We are inseparable from our
Lord.

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You cannot have an occasion
without the Messiah, and the

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purpose of Messiah is made void.
If there is no people to save

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and when we meet as an Ecclesia,
we need both brothers and

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sisters willing to come together
to submit to each other in love,

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in the fear of God in order to
show this parable.

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Brothers willing to come to the
meeting with their head

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uncovered signaling, their
intent to give himself to build

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up the Ecclesia that exist here
at Cumberland And sisters

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willing to come to the enclosure
with their beautiful hair.

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The glory that God has given
them covered.

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Showing the Ecclesia that this
group that meets here is not

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saved by their own strength, or
by their own might, but by the

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sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and that language of

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covering is not foreign to us,
is it come over to Galatians

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chapter 3.
Because we see it here as well.

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Galatians chapter 3 and verse
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Any Galatians 3 and verse 26.
He’s talking about the family of

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God.
He says for ye are all children

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of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you have been

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baptized into Christ, have put
on Christ like a Garmin

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completely covered like a coat
so that when our father looks at

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us, he sees his son in us the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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There is neither Jew, nor Greek.
There is neither Bond nor free.

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There is neither male or female
for, ye are all one in Christ

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Jesus.
And if you be Christ’s then are

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ye Abraham’s seed and heirs,
according to the promise.

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You know, brothers and sisters.
This Parable can only be

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properly properly represented in
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If you are willing to put aside
our differences from time to

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time early, And look for the
edifying and the building up of

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our brothers and our sisters.
When we see our brothers and our

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sisters come together and humbly
and act these symbols and play

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their part in the Ecclesia of
this.

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Parable, a brother committing to
his sits sisters to die for this

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occlusion to literally die.
If that is, what is required and

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a sister come to the Ecclesia
and saying to her brother’s, I

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Empower you to be that man, the
Lord Jesus Christ, in the

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seclusion.
And Paul is telling us here that

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a family needs each other, don’t
we?

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We need each other.
We cannot dwell alone.

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We need each other for our
identity to be strong.

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We can’t exist alone because you
can love the Lord, your God,

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with all your heart, your mind,
your soul, and your strength on

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your own.
You can love him with all of

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that.
But you can’t love your neighbor

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as yourself without anyone to
love.

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Kenny.
So, you can only fulfill half of

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that greatest commandment
without your brothers and

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sisters. and as with the natural
family, you can’t choose who

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your brothers and sisters are.
You might want to be a part of

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somebody else’s family from time
to time and we sometimes express

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it, don’t we?
I wish I was part of such and

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such as family.
They have heaps more fun than we

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do.
But you can’t you get what God

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is given and they are good for
us.

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But you also can’t get to know
him without letting them

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intimately into your life.
So when we, when we look at a

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natural family, if you have one
brothers and sisters, sharing

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rooms, I’m I shared a room with
my brother till I left home

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sharing rooms.
You’re on top of each other.

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You’re in each others face.
You’re fighting.

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You’re laughing.
You’re carrying on.

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You go through the whole of life
together.

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That’s what the occlusal family
is in each other’s Pockets,

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annoying, the heck out of each
other, from time to time and yet

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there is something about
brothers and sisters that can

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never be removed through time.
They have that commonality of

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spending so much time together.
There is a bond there that can

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never be replicated and that’s
the natural lesson that we’re

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trying to achieve.
Isn’t it brothers and sisters

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with our Ecclesia to let each
other intimately into our lives

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to get to know each other and
that lesson Is dependence on

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each other.
Come back to First Corinthians

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11, brothers and sisters because
now he moves into another

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section where he begins to talk
about the bread and the wine and

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we know this section.
So, well, don’t we were here at

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almost every single Sunday And
he starts.

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In this section here by rebuking
the Ecclesia for the way that it

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is acting.
When it comes together.

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Have a look at verse 17.
Now, in this that I declare unto

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you, I praise you.
Not that when you come together,

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not for better.
But for the worse and the manner

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in which they were coming
together was destructive rather

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than building each other up,
wasn’t it?

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And in verse 20, he says, when
you come together therefore into

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one place that is, this is not
to eat the Lord’s Supper.

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For eating everyone taketh
before another his own supper,

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and one is hungry.
And another is drunken What have

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you not houses to eat into
drinking?

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Despise you, the Ecclesia of God
and shame them that have not.

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What shall I say to you?
Shall I Praise You In This?

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I praise you.
Not and the manner in which they

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were coming together in that
occasion to celebrate the

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Lord’s.
Feast also have the memorial

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Feast was not an imitation of
the supper that the Lord set out

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was it.
And so we have a section of

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scripture here that we have
read.

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Almost every Sunday of the year.
That’s really a solution for a

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selfish attitude that existed in
the Corinthian.

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Ecclesia.
Because the brothers and sisters

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in coming together, we’re taking
some of them were taking food

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before another, rather than
sharing between themselves as

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the Lord did in his last supper.
Remember what he did.

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He, he imitated what he did in
the feeding of the 5000, didn’t

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he?
And he broke the bread and he

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distributed to them evenly so
that they all shared of the same

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Loaf and they all took of the
same cup.

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But these brothers and sisters
here, some of them were taking

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before another and they were
eating through access.

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Those that could provide for
themselves at this Memorial Mill

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were coming and they were having
the time of their life in the

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occlusion.
And there were other brothers

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and sisters.
Who are coming together.

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They were ashamed to be there
because they didn’t have

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anything to eat.
They either couldn’t provide or

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they didn’t have time to provide
for themselves.

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And so the section here causes
us to think about Selfishness,

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doesn’t it?
because in verse 23, on the same

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night in which he was betrayed,
the night of Terror, a night of

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pain and fear for our Lord, the
night of doubt.

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A night of uncertainty in which
the Lord Jesus Christ wanted to

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run away and hide the worst
night of our Lord’s life.

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The night he submitted his will
to his father, he took bread.

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00:27:21,500 –> 00:27:25,700
He shared it amongst his
disciples, he gave them a symbol

436
00:27:26,200 –> 00:27:28,900
of his body that was about to be
broken for them.

437
00:27:29,300 –> 00:27:34,900
And he said to them in verse 24
This do in remembrance of me.

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00:27:36,300 –> 00:27:40,200
And in verse 25, he took the cup
and he gave them the symbol of

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00:27:40,200 –> 00:27:45,700
his blood shed.
And he said this do as often as

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you drink it in remembrance of
me.

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00:27:49,100 –> 00:27:53,400
And then he says in verse 26,
for as often as ye, eat this

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00:27:53,400 –> 00:27:58,000
bread and drink this cup, you do
show the Lord’s death till he

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00:27:58,000 –> 00:28:00,000
come and it’s an unusual Focus,
isn’t it?

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00:28:00,000 –> 00:28:02,700
Brothers and sisters that he
should focus.

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00:28:03,600 –> 00:28:08,300
On one part.
Of the Lord’s death and

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00:28:08,300 –> 00:28:09,900
Resurrection.
Because when we come to a

447
00:28:09,900 –> 00:28:14,800
memorial Feast, we would say
that this is the Lord’s life,

448
00:28:14,800 –> 00:28:18,700
his death and his resurrection
and the death has no.

449
00:28:18,700 –> 00:28:22,400
Meaning at all, without the
life, to give it power, the

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00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:27,200
resurrection from the dead again
and yet Paul focuses only on the

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00:28:27,200 –> 00:28:30,500
breaking of the body, the
shedding of the blood, the

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00:28:30,500 –> 00:28:34,200
Lord’s death, till he come, why
does he do that?

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00:28:34,300 –> 00:28:37,800
Why does he only focus on the
Fiction the Death part of the

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00:28:37,800 –> 00:28:41,800
memorial Feast here.
Well, the answer is brothers and

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00:28:41,800 –> 00:28:46,900
sisters that before life.
Came a painful death that the

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00:28:46,900 –> 00:28:50,600
Ecclesia might be saved and the
enclosure at Corinth had

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00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:54,000
forgotten what it meant to die
to self.

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00:28:55,300 –> 00:28:57,700
They needed to be reminded that
before they could walk in

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00:28:57,700 –> 00:29:00,100
newness of life with their lord.
Jesus Christ.

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00:29:00,300 –> 00:29:03,500
They first, had to sacrifice
themselves for other brothers

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00:29:03,500 –> 00:29:06,700
and sisters in the Ecclesia.
By crucifying the lust,

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00:29:06,900 –> 00:29:10,100
crucifying the flesh with the
lusts and affections.

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00:29:11,600 –> 00:29:16,800
I had to give up their rights
and what they wanted to do for

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00:29:16,800 –> 00:29:21,400
their brothers and sisters.
And it causes us to stop and

465
00:29:21,400 –> 00:29:24,500
pause for a minute, doesn’t it?
Do we come to and the Ecclesia

466
00:29:24,500 –> 00:29:26,600
here?
When we meet for better or

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00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:30,000
worse, does our attitude make
our meeting with the Ecclesia

468
00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:32,700
Better or Worse?
Does that attitude build the

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00:29:32,700 –> 00:29:34,600
Ecclesia?
Despite the difficulties that we

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00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:37,100
might face from time to time?
Or does it pull it down?

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00:29:38,500 –> 00:29:42,600
and when we come together as an
Ecclesia, We have to realize

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00:29:42,600 –> 00:29:44,800
don’t weed that like the
brothers and sisters here in

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00:29:44,800 –> 00:29:49,800
Corinth that Fellowship that
Oneness of mind, will certainly

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00:29:49,800 –> 00:29:52,300
come at a personal cost
somewhere along the line.

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00:29:53,900 –> 00:29:58,500
And so that’s why Paul picked to
focus on the death and the

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00:29:58,500 –> 00:30:00,500
crucifixion of our Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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00:30:00,500 –> 00:30:04,300
Only in first of Corinthians 11
here.

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00:30:05,400 –> 00:30:10,600
And he says, when you meet
together in verse 28, let a man

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00:30:10,600 –> 00:30:14,400
examine himself, let a man
examine himself.

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00:30:15,800 –> 00:30:18,500
Let him think about his attitude
to the Ecclesia.

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00:30:19,200 –> 00:30:21,500
Let him think about the
crucifixion of our Lord Jesus

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00:30:21,500 –> 00:30:24,000
Christ.
And whether he has put to death

483
00:30:24,200 –> 00:30:29,400
that which Rises up in him the
natural process of selfishness,

484
00:30:29,900 –> 00:30:34,700
let him put that to death.
And let him eat and drink of

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00:30:34,700 –> 00:30:41,800
that bread, and that wine.
And in Romans 12, he says, to us

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00:30:42,500 –> 00:30:44,800
present your bodies a Living
Sacrifice, it’s an

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00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:47,000
impossibility, isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters, you can’t

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00:30:47,000 –> 00:30:49,600
have a Living Sacrifice.
A sacrifice is dead.

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00:30:51,600 –> 00:30:55,100
Except that in Romans 6.
He says we’re dead to sin, but

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00:30:55,100 –> 00:30:57,700
we’re alive to God or in
Galatians.

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00:30:57,700 –> 00:31:00,700
I am crucified but Christ lives
in me.

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00:31:00,900 –> 00:31:02,700
That’s a Living Sacrifice, isn’t
it?

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00:31:03,200 –> 00:31:04,900
And it’s an attitude that is in
us.

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00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:07,600
That’s others centered rather
than self-centered.

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00:31:07,700 –> 00:31:10,900
And what greater example could
we have them when we come this

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00:31:10,900 –> 00:31:15,800
morning to a memorial meeting?
To remember a man who took care

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00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:20,400
of the needs of his brothers and
sisters on the night that he was

498
00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:23,300
going to die.
That’s dying to self.

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00:31:23,300 –> 00:31:24,500
Isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters?

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00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:30,800
What an example. and so then we
find ourselves in 1st

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00:31:30,800 –> 00:31:37,800
Corinthians, chapter 12, And
here the theme of our exultation

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00:31:38,700 –> 00:31:41,100
is written plainly.
In fact it’s reinforced five

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00:31:41,100 –> 00:31:43,800
times.
Isn’t it in verse 4 to 6?

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00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:47,900
Now there are diversities of
gifts but the Same Spirit, there

505
00:31:47,900 –> 00:31:50,100
are differences of
administration’s but the same

506
00:31:50,100 –> 00:31:54,000
Lord, there are diversities of
operations but the same God,

507
00:31:54,000 –> 00:31:58,200
which works in all.
And then in verse 12, he says,

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00:31:58,200 –> 00:32:01,900
for as the body is one and hath
many members and all the members

509
00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:08,200
of that one, body being many are
one body, So also is Christ,

510
00:32:08,500 –> 00:32:12,700
come over to verse 14.
For the body, is not one member,

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00:32:12,700 –> 00:32:16,500
but many and in verse 20.
But now are they many members

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00:32:16,500 –> 00:32:17,600
yet?
One body.

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00:32:18,300 –> 00:32:23,400
And finally, in verse 27 now ye
are the body of Christ and

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00:32:23,400 –> 00:32:28,700
members in particular, and Paul
is telling us that after we

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00:32:28,700 –> 00:32:32,000
learn to appreciate that the
members in the Ecclesia are

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00:32:32,000 –> 00:32:35,200
completely dependent on one
another after we learn to

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00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:37,900
appreciate.
The spirit of self-sacrifice is

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00:32:37,900 –> 00:32:41,600
the only way and Ecclesia can
live harmoniously together.

519
00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:46,800
Will also come to understand
that all the members of the

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00:32:46,800 –> 00:32:50,900
family are different from one
another, with different

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00:32:50,900 –> 00:32:54,900
strengths, and different
weaknesses, and have a look at

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00:32:54,900 –> 00:32:59,000
why that is in verse 18 now.
God has set the members every

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00:32:59,000 –> 00:33:02,000
one of them in the body as it
hath pleased.

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00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:07,100
He makes us different because he
wants us to be different, that’s

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00:33:07,100 –> 00:33:10,300
why we’re different.
He could have made us all clones

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00:33:10,600 –> 00:33:13,400
which would have had a perfect
harmonious Ecclesia.

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00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:16,400
We would have all been going in
the same direction and yet,

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00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:19,400
brothers and sisters.
He chose not to, he chose to

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00:33:19,400 –> 00:33:23,500
take the most disparate group of
people you can possibly have and

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00:33:23,500 –> 00:33:26,000
plot them into one occasion.
That’s it.

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00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:29,700
Now, you are a family work it
out.

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00:33:32,200 –> 00:33:39,700
And brothers and sisters.
People cannot say I’m not of the

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00:33:39,700 –> 00:33:42,900
body.
I’m not at the body.

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00:33:43,300 –> 00:33:45,300
I’m not a leg.
So I can’t be part of the body

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00:33:46,100 –> 00:33:48,400
and the Ecclesia can’t say,
because you’re not a knows

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00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:54,000
you’re not part of the body.
because in verse 24, God hath

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00:33:54,000 –> 00:33:57,400
tempered the body together.
He’s made everyone different.

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00:33:57,800 –> 00:34:03,400
He’s put us all together.
And in verse 25, he wants us to

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00:34:03,400 –> 00:34:07,600
understand that so that there
will be no Schism in the body,

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00:34:08,500 –> 00:34:13,500
but that all the members should
have the same care, one for

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00:34:13,500 –> 00:34:20,600
another And this appreciation of
difference.

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00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:24,900
Is what he wants us to
understand in chapter 12 here.

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00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:29,699
And that careful one.
Another can only stem from a

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00:34:29,699 –> 00:34:33,600
patient, understanding that
there are no two people in an

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00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:38,800
occlusion that are the same.
And that the talents and the

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00:34:38,800 –> 00:34:43,300
abilities within an Ecclesia are
so varied, and different

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00:34:43,300 –> 00:34:46,800
situations will see those
natural gifts that the father

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00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:50,400
has given to each one of us come
to the surface and shine.

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00:34:51,900 –> 00:34:56,800
But it will take time, why not?
And it will take persistence and

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00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,400
sometimes it will take years and
years and years.

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00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:05,200
Before we at the value of any
part of the body becomes evident

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00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:12,200
But to understand that the
father has placed value on each

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00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:15,500
member in the body, whether it’s
evident or not and he has

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00:35:15,500 –> 00:35:17,500
brought them to be a part of
this family.

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00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:23,200
Is enough for us to love that,
brother and sister. and when we

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00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:28,300
look at an occasion, there is
such diversity in and Ecclesia.

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00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:32,000
It really is a big Melting Pot
of humanity, isn’t it?

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00:35:32,700 –> 00:35:36,400
And at times that, diversity
will produce a unified Direction

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00:35:36,900 –> 00:35:39,700
just like the first century
occlusion, they had all things

560
00:35:39,700 –> 00:35:42,900
in one Accord, they were moving
in the same direction, weren’t

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00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:44,600
they?
But at other times within the

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00:35:44,600 –> 00:35:49,000
Ecclesia, it’ll produce times of
tension, and both are okay.

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00:35:50,100 –> 00:35:54,300
It’s okay to have tension in a
closure if we are willing to

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00:35:54,300 –> 00:35:57,300
stick it out.
If we are willing to play the

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00:35:57,300 –> 00:36:01,200
long game with our brothers and
sisters to see the value that

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00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:04,600
God sees in them, and to work
through those times of

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00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:09,800
difficulty, so that we can enjoy
those times of unity. and those

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00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:13,100
times of difficulty, produce
opportunities, for self

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00:36:13,100 –> 00:36:17,400
Examination for self-sacrifice
and to grow in understanding of

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00:36:17,408 –> 00:36:22,300
our brothers and sisters,
Because those times of unity and

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00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:26,100
those times of tension are just
passing stages in our overall

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00:36:26,100 –> 00:36:28,600
life, aren’t they?
And we’ve all seen them both a

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00:36:28,607 –> 00:36:32,200
cliches, go in cycles and
sometimes they’re good and

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00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:36,300
sometimes they’re not as good.
But they’re passing Cycles.

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00:36:36,300 –> 00:36:39,700
They do not abide forever yet.
The one thing that abides

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00:36:39,700 –> 00:36:42,800
forever and that will exist
after all of those occasions

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00:36:42,800 –> 00:36:48,000
have passed is our attitude to
the Ecclesia during those times.

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00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:51,100
And so we have our segue into
first 2.

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00:36:51,100 –> 00:36:54,900
Corinthians 13 verse 4.
Because here is the attitude

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00:36:54,900 –> 00:37:01,600
that abides forever.
Love suffereth long.

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00:37:03,400 –> 00:37:05,900
Now that’s important, isn’t it
brothers and sisters because

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00:37:05,900 –> 00:37:09,200
sometimes it feels like we do
have to suffer long in and

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00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:13,600
Ecclesia when things don’t feel
Rosy and you have to keep

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00:37:13,600 –> 00:37:17,600
rocking up and keep talking to
people and brothers and sisters.

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00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:21,800
Those long-term relationships
are what we’re looking for.

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00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:25,100
And I’ve personally seen the
benefits of working in a

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00:37:25,100 –> 00:37:28,600
collegial life and a, my own
workplace of being somewhere.

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00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:30,600
I’ve been working the same place
for 20 years.

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00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:35,100
And I work with the same people,
the same six people for the last

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00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:38,500
10 years, you know exactly what
makes them tick.

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00:37:38,700 –> 00:37:40,900
You know what their triggers
are, you know, how to get the

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00:37:40,900 –> 00:37:43,500
good and the bad out of all of
them.

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00:37:44,700 –> 00:37:48,400
It’s the long game we’re playing
isn’t that patient, waiting that

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00:37:48,400 –> 00:37:53,400
long suffering with brothers and
sisters to allow God, to extract

595
00:37:53,400 –> 00:37:56,800
that value out of them in an
occlusal environment and show it

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00:37:56,800 –> 00:38:06,400
to the Ecclesia?
love suffers long, its kind It

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00:38:06,400 –> 00:38:11,600
doesn’t Envy.
Doesn’t want itself and is not

598
00:38:11,600 –> 00:38:15,600
puffed up.
It does not behave itself

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00:38:15,600 –> 00:38:18,600
unseemly.
It seeks not her own.

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00:38:19,400 –> 00:38:23,200
It’s not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil.

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00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:28,600
It rejoices not in iniquity, but
it rejoices in truth.

602
00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:34,200
It Bears, all things believes
all things, it hope of all

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00:38:34,200 –> 00:38:37,200
things.
It endures all things.

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00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:43,400
Love never fails. and when we
get to the kingdom, brothers and

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00:38:43,400 –> 00:38:48,600
sisters in verse 13, Now, abides
faith, hope, and love these

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00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:51,500
three, but the greatest of these
is love.

607
00:38:51,500 –> 00:38:53,700
Why?
Because in the Kingdom age

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00:38:53,700 –> 00:38:57,100
Faith, and Hope will be realized
everything that we have looked

609
00:38:57,100 –> 00:38:59,800
forward to will be realized
Faith and Hope will be made a

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00:38:59,808 –> 00:39:03,500
reality.
They’re finished with.

611
00:39:04,700 –> 00:39:11,300
But love is not it continues on.
And it continues on past the

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00:39:11,300 –> 00:39:15,400
kingdom age, it continues on
into Revelation, 21 and 22

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00:39:15,400 –> 00:39:19,400
beyond the kingdom age.
And brothers and sisters, when

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00:39:19,400 –> 00:39:22,600
we think about that Kingdom age.
When we stand with our Lord,

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00:39:22,600 –> 00:39:25,100
Jesus Christ, praising the
Father in heaven.

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00:39:25,200 –> 00:39:28,600
For all the work that he has
done. if we haven’t learned to

617
00:39:28,607 –> 00:39:33,000
love our brothers and sisters,
it’s going to be a whole, isn’t

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00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:34,700
there?
If we don’t want our brothers

619
00:39:34,700 –> 00:39:38,500
and sisters in the kingdom of
God, says no, they’re going to

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00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:41,700
be there, so, whatever you’re
going to feel in the kingdom.

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00:39:41,700 –> 00:39:43,800
When you stand beside those
brothers and sisters in

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00:39:43,800 –> 00:39:46,800
immortality, let’s try and
develop that now.

623
00:39:48,100 –> 00:39:50,100
And you can only love what, you
know.

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00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:53,200
And you can only love your
brothers and sisters.

625
00:39:53,200 –> 00:39:56,500
If you spend time with them, if
you choose to work with them,

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00:39:57,100 –> 00:40:01,100
through every situation that
arises in a collegial life, both

627
00:40:01,100 –> 00:40:04,500
joyful both, sorrowful both
happy and sad.

628
00:40:04,500 –> 00:40:06,500
Both enjoyable and both
difficult.

629
00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:11,600
All of those situations give us
the opportunity to spend time

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00:40:11,600 –> 00:40:14,100
with our brothers and sisters
and develop that love their a

631
00:40:14,100 –> 00:40:19,800
First Corinthians chapter 13.
And the reality is that, at the

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00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:23,300
end of this life, when the angel
knocks on our door.

633
00:40:23,300 –> 00:40:27,300
And at that point, This life is
ended.

634
00:40:28,300 –> 00:40:30,200
We’re going to step into a new
life, aren’t we?

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00:40:30,300 –> 00:40:34,000
At that point, that’s it.
This life is over.

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00:40:34,600 –> 00:40:38,300
There are only two things that
we walk out of the house, with

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00:40:39,000 –> 00:40:42,900
only two things.
Our relationship with our father

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00:40:42,900 –> 00:40:45,800
in Heaven.
And our relationship with our

639
00:40:45,808 –> 00:40:48,800
brothers and sisters at that
point in time.

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00:40:49,400 –> 00:40:53,700
Nothing else matters.
And so what would be the perfect

641
00:40:53,700 –> 00:40:57,100
environment to develop those
relationships with our brothers

642
00:40:57,100 –> 00:40:59,900
and sisters to develop that
attitude of love?

643
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:03,100
Here it is.
Brothers and sisters.

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00:41:03,100 –> 00:41:05,300
This is what we have.
Look around you.

645
00:41:07,100 –> 00:41:10,500
The perfect Ecclesia is the
imperfect leisure.

646
00:41:12,700 –> 00:41:15,200
Because the imperfect Ecclesia
gives opportunity.

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00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:20,300
For courage to develop, when
fear is there for love to

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00:41:20,300 –> 00:41:25,200
develop when hate and anger, is
there for self-control when

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00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:28,600
annoyances there, the imperfect
Ecclesia.

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Rubs the natural man in us up
the wrong way, doesn’t it?

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And gives us opportunity to
overcome it.

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That’s where the perfect
occlusion is in the imperfect

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occlusion.
And here, brothers and sisters.

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When you look around, you here
by the grace of the father are

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the Saints of the coming age.
Here are the vessels of Honor.

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Being shaped by the hands of the
master Potter himself.

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00:41:56,000 –> 00:41:59,000
Look at your brothers and
sisters, see the lines of worry

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00:41:59,000 –> 00:42:01,200
on their face when things are
stressful.

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00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:05,800
That’s the father’s hand,
pressing into them to shape

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00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:10,300
their character.
See the corner of their eyes,

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00:42:10,300 –> 00:42:12,600
which have got lines from
smiling and laughing.

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00:42:13,600 –> 00:42:16,500
That’s the father’s hand
strengthening, and squeezing the

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00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:18,800
best out of that vessel.
That is making on The Potter’s

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Wheel.
All of those lines on our

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00:42:24,207 –> 00:42:26,500
brothers and sisters face, are
the marks of the Potter.

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00:42:27,700 –> 00:42:31,900
And he’s working on them till
the very last breath. and when

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00:42:31,900 –> 00:42:38,500
he’s done, he takes that vessel
off of the wheel and he puts it

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00:42:38,500 –> 00:42:42,800
on the Shelf, a vessel of Honor,
ready for a time of his calling.

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Every one of our brothers and
sisters are his workmanship.

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A family created to fill the
world with his glory and here

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are brothers and sisters of
Cumberland.

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00:42:58,900 –> 00:43:01,600
I just a small part of that
entire cage around late, but

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it’s what we’ve got to work with
our brothers and sisters.

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Here are a small part of the
Ecclesia of the Living.

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God, the pillar and ground of
the truth.

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