382: Anthony Whitehorn – Exhortation: Fellowship

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Hello everyone, this is Brother
Simon.

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This week’s talk is an
exhortation by Brother Anthony

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Whitehorn in 2008 on fellowship
at the Idlewild Bible School.

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I love Brother Anthony’s energy
and excitement he has in this

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exhort.
He reminds us of our amazing and

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unique fellowship we have with
brothers and sisters all over

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the world and how we are so much
stronger together to help and

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build each other up on our
journey to God’s Kingdom on His

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earth.
So now here is brother Anthony

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Whitehorn on Fellowship.
Good evening everybody.

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Oh, thank you.
It’s lovely to be here.

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And I tell you what, I can see
something that you can’t.

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I can see over 400 really happy
looking faces and, and that’s

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incredible.
Not only they’re all looking the

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same, the same direction, I feel
that they’re all going in the

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same direction as well.
And the wonderful thing is, is

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that you’re all from all over
the world, literally, and that

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is really quite incredible.
Now us Brits, we’re not

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particularly prone to being
excited about lots of things,

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but this is really exciting for
us.

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So it’s, it’s really exciting to
be here.

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And, and I thank you very much
indeed for your friendship and

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fellowship that already I’m
starting to enjoy.

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And it’s that fellowship that I
just want to think about.

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By way of exhortation this
evening, I, I took a seminar at

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a Christadelphian conference a
few years ago now and I based

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the seminar on the letter to the
seven churches.

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And what we did is we split up
into different groups, and I ran

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the seminar for about 9 times
and I got the groups to have a

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look at what would Jesus say?
What would Jesus write to the

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Christadelphians?
And when you look at the letter

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to the seven churches, always
Jesus would write, first of all,

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some commendations, some good
things about the churches.

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And so I’ve said, what 2 good
things would Jesus have written

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to us, the Church of the
Christadelphians.

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You know what the amazing thing
is, is that without exception,

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every single group put down the
same two things.

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They said that Jesus would have
commended us, firstly for our

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Bible understanding, absolutely.
And secondly, for our unique

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fellowship.
Absolutely.

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And it is unique.
I talked to my my colleagues at

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work and I explained what I was
doing this week and they

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completely struggled to
understand it.

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But it is unique and it’s
tremendous.

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And it is so similar, I believe,
to what was going on in the 1st

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century.
Christians.

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Would you turn with me please to
Acts Chapter 2?

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So Acts chapter 2 and verse 42,
and I’m using the New

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International Version, and it’s
just this one verse I just want

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us to think about because it
says they devoted themselves to

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the apostles teaching and to the
fellowship, to the breaking of

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bread and to prayer.
Isn’t that asked this week?

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Isn’t that what we’re doing this
week?

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The apostles teaching
fellowship, breaking of bread

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and prayer?
And it’s almost as if when this

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first happened, when the
believers first got together,

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that it was a unique situation.
It was, it was as if people

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identified this as something
very different.

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And so they used a word here for
the very first time for this

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fellowship.
It is the word, as you probably

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know, Koinonia, and it’s the
first word, first time that it

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is ever used in the scriptures.
And so it is used continually

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after that when the believers
get together.

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Hence now Koinonia.
And what is that all about?

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What is Koinonia?
Well, I, I, I suggest that it is

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actually really referred to in
the book of Ecclesiastes.

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Would you turn back with me
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The book of Ecclesiastes and
it’s Ecclesiastes chapter 4.

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Keep your finger in Acts 2.
I was a bit late in telling you

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that was mine.
So Ecclesiastes chapter 4 and

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verse 9 to 12/2 are better than
one because they have a good

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return for their work.
If one falls down, his friend

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can help him up, but pity the
man who falls and has no one to

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help him up.
Also, if two lie down together,

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they will keep warm, but how can
one keep warm alone?

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Though one may be overpowered, 2
can defend themselves.

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A cord of three strands is not
quickly broken. 2 are better

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than one.
Absolutely.

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Why?
Because they have a better

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return if they work, because
they keep each other warm.

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But also, and it was quite
interesting, this in England we

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have a a game called rugby.
How can I describe rugby?

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It’s a little bit like American
football without the padding.

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And what happens is that you
have a group of eight men.

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This is going to be difficult to
describe, a group of eight men

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who get together into a scrum
and they push another group of

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eight men.
And what the it’s a strange

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game.
And what the, what the English

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rugby team did is they wanted to
test the strength of those eight

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men.
So they measured the pushing

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power of each of them
individually.

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And when they got each of them,
they put them up against this

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machine that that that measured
that pushing power of each of

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the individuals.
When you added it all together,

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it came to about 100, let’s call
it 100.

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They then got the eight men
together and got those eight men

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to push and it came to 120,
which means that actually

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together they were much greater
than the sum of the parts.

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And that’s what we’re exhibiting
here this weekend.

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The whole is much greater than
the sum of the individual parts.

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But just have a look at that,
that last, that last phrase,

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that last verse, verse 12.
Though one may be overpowered, 2

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can defend themselves.
A chord of three strands is not

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quickly broken.
What a strange phrase that

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Solomon uses there.
A chord of three strands is not

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quickly broken.
I put it to you that the chord

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of three strands is me to you,
you to Jesus, and me to Jesus.

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Now that is a really strong
three strands.

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I have colleagues at work that I
just have one strand with and

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that can easily break.
But with you and me and with you

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and your brothers and sisters
here this weekend is absolutely

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a chord of three strands.
And that is not easily broken.

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And I put it to you, that is
Koinonia.

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This is fellowship.
This is the cord of three

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strands that we’re we’re having
this weekend.

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And we are, if you like fellows
in a ship together.

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We have the same objective.
We’re going in the same

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direction.
We have slightly different jobs.

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Some of us are helmsman, some of
us are oarsman, some of us trim

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the sails, but we all have the
same boat and we all rely on

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each other.
We need a helmsman.

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If somebody catches A Trab when
they’re rowing, actually that

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puts the whole boat out.
We need each other, us fellows

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in a ship together.
This three cords is strong, but

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we, we require each other and
there’s just two elements that I

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just want to think about in
terms of that fellowship that

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perhaps we can think about now
and also moving forward.

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The 1st is this, we’re
different.

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I, I look out there and I see
400 or so completely different

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faces.
We’ve all got two eyes and nose

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and a mouth, but but there’s not
one of us who’s the same.

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And what does Paul write to the
church at Corinth?

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He says God has arranged the
parts of the body, every one of

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them, just as he wanted them to
be.

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Now, we accept that we’re
physically different, but we’re

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also emotionally and spiritually
different as well.

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And sometimes I found that a
little bit harder to accept.

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You see our brother president
here, But The thing is, is that

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God doesn’t want another one of
him.

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He’s already got one.
That’s the reason he doesn’t

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want another one of me either.
He’s got one of them.

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He’s already got a brother.
David Lloyd doesn’t want another

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one of those.
It is God who has arranged the

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parts, the body, every one of
them, just as he wanted them to

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be.
We’re all different.

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We all have absolutely different
strengths, and we have many,

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many different weaknesses as
well.

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But we are sometimes naturally
attracted to the people who are

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a little bit similar to us.
But the church requires us to be

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different.
That’s the strength of the

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church.
We should be challenged by each

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other.
Other people will give us

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different perspectives on things
and that’s how we change, that’s

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how we grow, that’s how we
transform by being different.

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And thank God that we are
different.

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We are fellows in a ship
together, but we’re all slightly

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different.
So having said that, we’re all

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slightly different.
Actually, we’re also, or one in

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Ephesus.
It was a very cosmopolitan town

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and so was the church.
And Paul recognised that.

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He recognised that there were
different dynamics going on in

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the church itself.
Oh, there were different

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barriers.
Most certainly when you looked

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at the temple there you had the
court of the Gentiles, the court

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of the women, then the
Israelites, the priests and the

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holy place.
It was all about separation.

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But Paul writes the church there
in Ephesus and he says this turn

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with you, with me if you
wouldn’t mind to Ephesians

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chapter 2.
And in my Bible, this section

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from verse 11 in Ephesians
chapter 2 is entitled One in

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Christ.
We’re different, but we’re all

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one.
And verse 19 and 20 says this.

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Consequently, you are no longer
foreigners and aliens, but

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fellow citizens with God’s
people and members of God’s

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household built on the
foundation of the apostles and

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prophets, with Christ Jesus
Himself as the chief

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cornerstone.
We’re different, but because of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, we are
all one, all going in the same

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direction.
In the First World War, there

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was a group of British soldiers
who were fighting together and

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one of their company got shot.
And so three or four of them

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took his body out of the battle
line.

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And this was in France and they
wanted to bury him.

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So they went looking and they
found a little Chapel in the

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middle of nowhere and they went
up and they knocked on the

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Chapel door and the priest
opened the door and the British

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soldiers in their broken French,
because the British aren’t very

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good at foreign languages.
They knocked on the door and

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they and they tried to explain
to the priest that their

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colleague was dead and they
wanted to bury him in the

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cemetery.
And the priest asked as to

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whether he was a Catholic.
And they, they looked at each

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other and they said, no, no, I
don’t think he is.

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And the priest said, oh, you
can’t bury him here.

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Then they thought, what are we
going to do?

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So they took him out and they
they buried him just outside of

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the fence.
And the next day when the

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British soldiers were together,
they thought we must go and pay

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our respects to our dead
colleague.

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So they went back to the Chapel
and they came to the fence and

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they started looking for the
grave and they, they couldn’t

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find it so went up to the Chapel
door and they knocked on the

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Chapel door and the same priest
opened the door again.

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They said hi, do you remember
us?

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We came yesterday with our dead
colleague, you know, and, and we

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buried him.
Oh yes, said the priest.

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They said, but we can’t find
him.

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Tell me, have you moved the
grave?

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And he said no, I moved the
fence.

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And that’s what it’s about.
It’s about removing the

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barriers.
We although we’re different, we

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are all one together.
When Christ chose his disciples,

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he didn’t choose them all
exactly the same.

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He chose, on the one hand,
Matthew the tax collector, and

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on the other hand, he chose
Simon the Zealot.

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Why do you, why do you refer to
him as Simon the Zealot?

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I put it to you, it’s perhaps
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contrast between the friend of
the Romans and the friend of the

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Jews.
And yet Despite that they were

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one.
And so we are different, but we

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are one all going in the same
direction.

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And now just flick back finally
to that passage in Acts that I

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ask you to keep your finger in.
It’s Acts chapter 2 and verse

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42, because it says about those
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They devoted themselves to the
apostles teaching and to the

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Koinonia and to the breaking of
bread and to prayer.

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How appropriate.
They devoted themselves to

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fellowship and to the fellowship
meal, because this is what this

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is, this bread and wine.
It is a fellowship meal.

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But why did Jesus institute two
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Why did he institute bread and
wine?

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I suggest that it’s because they
both have different meanings.

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When we look at the readings in
Luke and Mark for the bread, it

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was Jesus who gave it to the
disciples personally, and I

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would suggest that the bread
symbolises the fellowship with

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Jesus that his disciples have,
for the bread symbolises of

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course necessity, a bodybuilder.
Jesus being the true bread of

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life.
And the bread therefore, I would

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suggest is about focusing on the
life giving power of Jesus, us

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fellowshipping with Jesus.
The wine on the other hand is

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different.
The wine, as it says in in Luke,

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was offered by Jesus and then
the disciples passed it amongst

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themselves.
Jesus didn’t go round handing it

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to each disciple as he did the
bread, but the disciples passed

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it amongst themselves.
And I would suggest therefore

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that the wine symbolised a
fellowship with one another

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through Jesus.
The wine is a symbol of a union,

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that we are all in the same
state, and it is the wine which

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is given for the forgiveness of
sins.

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The bread is never referred to
for the forgiveness of sins,

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only the wine.
So the wine is about us sharing

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in our separation, but also us
sharing in His grace, in His

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forgiveness.
So, brethren and sisters, we are

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here now in a unique state
because of this Koinonia of this

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threefold chord that we have.
That is unique, but we are all

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different and we should be
celebrating the fact that we are

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different because God put us in
that state.

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But we should also celebrate now
the unity that we have.

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And as we come now to this
fellowship meal, we think about

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the fellowship with our Lord
Jesus Christ, but the fellowship

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that we have with each other as
we share together in that

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wonderful forgiveness and that
incredible grace that we have.

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