This week’s talk is an exhortation given by Brother Anthony Whitehorn at the Idyllwild Bible School in 2008, entitled “Fellowship.”<\/p>\n
We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n
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\nWelcome to good Christadelphian
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\nHello everyone, this is Brother
\nSimon. <\/p>\n
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\nThis week’s talk is an
\nexhortation by Brother Anthony <\/p>\n
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\nWhitehorn in 2008 on fellowship
\nat the Idlewild Bible School. <\/p>\n
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\nI love Brother Anthony’s energy
\nand excitement he has in this <\/p>\n
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\nexhort.
\nHe reminds us of our amazing and<\/p>\n
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\nunique fellowship we have with
\nbrothers and sisters all over <\/p>\n
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\nthe world and how we are so much
\nstronger together to help and <\/p>\n
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\nbuild each other up on our
\njourney to God’s Kingdom on His <\/p>\n
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\nearth.
\nSo now here is brother Anthony <\/p>\n
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\nWhitehorn on Fellowship.
\nGood evening everybody. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, thank you.
\nIt’s lovely to be here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I tell you what, I can see
\nsomething that you can’t. <\/p>\n
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\nI can see over 400 really happy
\nlooking faces and, and that’s <\/p>\n
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\nincredible.
\nNot only they’re all looking the<\/p>\n
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\nsame, the same direction, I feel
\nthat they’re all going in the <\/p>\n
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\nsame direction as well.
\nAnd the wonderful thing is, is <\/p>\n
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\nthat you’re all from all over
\nthe world, literally, and that <\/p>\n
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\nis really quite incredible.
\nNow us Brits, we’re not <\/p>\n
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\nparticularly prone to being
\nexcited about lots of things, <\/p>\n
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\nbut this is really exciting for
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s, it’s really exciting to
\nbe here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, and I thank you very much
\nindeed for your friendship and <\/p>\n
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\nfellowship that already I’m
\nstarting to enjoy. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s that fellowship that I
\njust want to think about. <\/p>\n
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\nBy way of exhortation this
\nevening, I, I took a seminar at <\/p>\n
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\na Christadelphian conference a
\nfew years ago now and I based <\/p>\n
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\nthe seminar on the letter to the
\nseven churches. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we did is we split up
\ninto different groups, and I ran<\/p>\n
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\nthe seminar for about 9 times
\nand I got the groups to have a <\/p>\n
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\nlook at what would Jesus say?
\nWhat would Jesus write to the <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphians?
\nAnd when you look at the letter <\/p>\n
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\nto the seven churches, always
\nJesus would write, first of all,<\/p>\n
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\nsome commendations, some good
\nthings about the churches. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I’ve said, what 2 good
\nthings would Jesus have written <\/p>\n
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\nto us, the Church of the
\nChristadelphians. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what the amazing thing
\nis, is that without exception, <\/p>\n
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\nevery single group put down the
\nsame two things. <\/p>\n
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\nThey said that Jesus would have
\ncommended us, firstly for our <\/p>\n
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\nBible understanding, absolutely.
\nAnd secondly, for our unique <\/p>\n
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\nfellowship.
\nAbsolutely. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it is unique.
\nI talked to my my colleagues at <\/p>\n
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\nwork and I explained what I was
\ndoing this week and they <\/p>\n
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\ncompletely struggled to
\nunderstand it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it is unique and it’s
\ntremendous. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it is so similar, I believe,
\nto what was going on in the 1st <\/p>\n
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\ncentury.
\nChristians. <\/p>\n
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\nWould you turn with me please to
\nActs Chapter 2? <\/p>\n
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\nSo Acts chapter 2 and verse 42,
\nand I’m using the New <\/p>\n
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\nInternational Version, and it’s
\njust this one verse I just want <\/p>\n
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\nus to think about because it
\nsays they devoted themselves to <\/p>\n
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\nthe apostles teaching and to the
\nfellowship, to the breaking of <\/p>\n
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\nbread and to prayer.
\nIsn’t that asked this week? <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t that what we’re doing this
\nweek? <\/p>\n
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\nThe apostles teaching
\nfellowship, breaking of bread <\/p>\n
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\nand prayer?
\nAnd it’s almost as if when this <\/p>\n
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\nfirst happened, when the
\nbelievers first got together, <\/p>\n
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\nthat it was a unique situation.
\nIt was, it was as if people <\/p>\n
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\nidentified this as something
\nvery different. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so they used a word here for
\nthe very first time for this <\/p>\n
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\nfellowship.
\nIt is the word, as you probably <\/p>\n
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\nknow, Koinonia, and it’s the
\nfirst word, first time that it <\/p>\n
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\nis ever used in the scriptures.
\nAnd so it is used continually <\/p>\n
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\nafter that when the believers
\nget together. <\/p>\n
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\nHence now Koinonia.
\nAnd what is that all about? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is Koinonia?
\nWell, I, I, I suggest that it is<\/p>\n
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\nactually really referred to in
\nthe book of Ecclesiastes. <\/p>\n
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\nWould you turn back with me
\nplease? <\/p>\n
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\nThe book of Ecclesiastes and
\nit’s Ecclesiastes chapter 4. <\/p>\n
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\nKeep your finger in Acts 2.
\nI was a bit late in telling you <\/p>\n
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\nthat was mine.
\nSo Ecclesiastes chapter 4 and <\/p>\n
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\nverse 9 to 12\/2 are better than
\none because they have a good <\/p>\n
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\nreturn for their work.
\nIf one falls down, his friend <\/p>\n
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\ncan help him up, but pity the
\nman who falls and has no one to <\/p>\n
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\nhelp him up.
\nAlso, if two lie down together, <\/p>\n
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\nthey will keep warm, but how can
\none keep warm alone? <\/p>\n
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\nThough one may be overpowered, 2
\ncan defend themselves. <\/p>\n
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\nA cord of three strands is not
\nquickly broken. 2 are better <\/p>\n
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\nthan one.
\nAbsolutely. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy?
\nBecause they have a better <\/p>\n
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\nreturn if they work, because
\nthey keep each other warm. <\/p>\n
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\nBut also, and it was quite
\ninteresting, this in England we <\/p>\n
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\nhave a a game called rugby.
\nHow can I describe rugby? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a little bit like American
\nfootball without the padding. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what happens is that you
\nhave a group of eight men. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is going to be difficult to
\ndescribe, a group of eight men <\/p>\n
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\nwho get together into a scrum
\nand they push another group of <\/p>\n
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\neight men.
\nAnd what the it’s a strange <\/p>\n
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\ngame.
\nAnd what the, what the English <\/p>\n
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\nrugby team did is they wanted to
\ntest the strength of those eight<\/p>\n
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\nmen.
\nSo they measured the pushing <\/p>\n
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\npower of each of them
\nindividually. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when they got each of them,
\nthey put them up against this <\/p>\n
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\nmachine that that that measured
\nthat pushing power of each of <\/p>\n
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\nthe individuals.
\nWhen you added it all together, <\/p>\n
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\nit came to about 100, let’s call
\nit 100. <\/p>\n
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\nThey then got the eight men
\ntogether and got those eight men<\/p>\n
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\nto push and it came to 120,
\nwhich means that actually <\/p>\n
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\ntogether they were much greater
\nthan the sum of the parts. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s what we’re exhibiting
\nhere this weekend. <\/p>\n
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\nThe whole is much greater than
\nthe sum of the individual parts.<\/p>\n
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\nBut just have a look at that,
\nthat last, that last phrase, <\/p>\n
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\nthat last verse, verse 12.
\nThough one may be overpowered, 2<\/p>\n
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\ncan defend themselves.
\nA chord of three strands is not <\/p>\n
\n00:08:04,280 –> 00:08:06,960
\nquickly broken.
\nWhat a strange phrase that <\/p>\n
\n00:08:06,960 –> 00:08:10,400
\nSolomon uses there.
\nA chord of three strands is not <\/p>\n
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\nquickly broken.
\nI put it to you that the chord <\/p>\n
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\nof three strands is me to you,
\nyou to Jesus, and me to Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that is a really strong
\nthree strands. <\/p>\n
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\nI have colleagues at work that I
\njust have one strand with and <\/p>\n
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\nthat can easily break.
\nBut with you and me and with you<\/p>\n
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\nand your brothers and sisters
\nhere this weekend is absolutely <\/p>\n
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\na chord of three strands.
\nAnd that is not easily broken. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I put it to you, that is
\nKoinonia. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is fellowship.
\nThis is the cord of three <\/p>\n
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\nstrands that we’re we’re having
\nthis weekend. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we are, if you like fellows
\nin a ship together. <\/p>\n
\n00:09:08,160 –> 00:09:10,720
\nWe have the same objective.
\nWe’re going in the same <\/p>\n
\n00:09:10,720 –> 00:09:14,000
\ndirection.
\nWe have slightly different jobs.<\/p>\n
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\nSome of us are helmsman, some of
\nus are oarsman, some of us trim <\/p>\n
\n00:09:18,560 –> 00:09:29,200
\nthe sails, but we all have the
\nsame boat and we all rely on <\/p>\n
\n00:09:29,200 –> 00:09:31,520
\neach other.
\nWe need a helmsman. <\/p>\n
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\nIf somebody catches A Trab when
\nthey’re rowing, actually that <\/p>\n
\n00:09:35,720 –> 00:09:41,440
\nputs the whole boat out.
\nWe need each other, us fellows <\/p>\n
\n00:09:41,440 –> 00:09:47,360
\nin a ship together.
\nThis three cords is strong, but <\/p>\n
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\nwe, we require each other and
\nthere’s just two elements that I<\/p>\n
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\njust want to think about in
\nterms of that fellowship that <\/p>\n
\n00:09:55,080 –> 00:09:59,680
\nperhaps we can think about now
\nand also moving forward. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:00,840 –> 00:10:04,680
\nThe 1st is this, we’re
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:05,880 –> 00:10:11,440
\nI, I look out there and I see
\n400 or so completely different <\/p>\n
\n00:10:11,440 –> 00:10:14,080
\nfaces.
\nWe’ve all got two eyes and nose <\/p>\n
\n00:10:14,080 –> 00:10:17,600
\nand a mouth, but but there’s not
\none of us who’s the same. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:20,760 –> 00:10:22,600
\nAnd what does Paul write to the
\nchurch at Corinth? <\/p>\n
\n00:10:22,920 –> 00:10:27,960
\nHe says God has arranged the
\nparts of the body, every one of <\/p>\n
\n00:10:27,960 –> 00:10:30,640
\nthem, just as he wanted them to
\nbe. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:32,080 –> 00:10:35,800
\nNow, we accept that we’re
\nphysically different, but we’re <\/p>\n
\n00:10:35,800 –> 00:10:38,680
\nalso emotionally and spiritually
\ndifferent as well. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:39,400 –> 00:10:42,160
\nAnd sometimes I found that a
\nlittle bit harder to accept. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:43,800 –> 00:10:49,040
\nYou see our brother president
\nhere, But The thing is, is that <\/p>\n
\n00:10:49,440 –> 00:10:51,120
\nGod doesn’t want another one of
\nhim. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:54,640 –> 00:10:58,760
\nHe’s already got one.
\nThat’s the reason he doesn’t <\/p>\n
\n00:10:58,760 –> 00:11:01,800
\nwant another one of me either.
\nHe’s got one of them. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:02,280 –> 00:11:05,480
\nHe’s already got a brother.
\nDavid Lloyd doesn’t want another<\/p>\n
\n00:11:05,480 –> 00:11:10,120
\none of those.
\nIt is God who has arranged the <\/p>\n
\n00:11:10,120 –> 00:11:14,840
\nparts, the body, every one of
\nthem, just as he wanted them to <\/p>\n
\n00:11:14,840 –> 00:11:18,080
\nbe.
\nWe’re all different. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:18,080 –> 00:11:22,680
\nWe all have absolutely different
\nstrengths, and we have many, <\/p>\n
\n00:11:22,680 –> 00:11:24,280
\nmany different weaknesses as
\nwell. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:26,960 –> 00:11:29,600
\nBut we are sometimes naturally
\nattracted to the people who are <\/p>\n
\n00:11:29,600 –> 00:11:35,600
\na little bit similar to us.
\nBut the church requires us to be<\/p>\n
\n00:11:35,600 –> 00:11:38,080
\ndifferent.
\nThat’s the strength of the <\/p>\n
\n00:11:38,080 –> 00:11:41,400
\nchurch.
\nWe should be challenged by each <\/p>\n
\n00:11:41,400 –> 00:11:43,920
\nother.
\nOther people will give us <\/p>\n
\n00:11:43,920 –> 00:11:49,320
\ndifferent perspectives on things
\nand that’s how we change, that’s<\/p>\n
\n00:11:49,320 –> 00:11:54,240
\nhow we grow, that’s how we
\ntransform by being different. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:54,840 –> 00:11:57,440
\nAnd thank God that we are
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:58,240 –> 00:12:03,880
\nWe are fellows in a ship
\ntogether, but we’re all slightly<\/p>\n
\n00:12:03,880 –> 00:12:07,480
\ndifferent.
\nSo having said that, we’re all <\/p>\n
\n00:12:07,480 –> 00:12:16,520
\nslightly different.
\nActually, we’re also, or one in <\/p>\n
\n00:12:16,520 –> 00:12:19,720
\nEphesus.
\nIt was a very cosmopolitan town <\/p>\n
\n00:12:22,040 –> 00:12:27,600
\nand so was the church.
\nAnd Paul recognised that. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:28,800 –> 00:12:31,720
\nHe recognised that there were
\ndifferent dynamics going on in <\/p>\n
\n00:12:31,720 –> 00:12:34,640
\nthe church itself.
\nOh, there were different <\/p>\n
\n00:12:34,640 –> 00:12:36,360
\nbarriers.
\nMost certainly when you looked <\/p>\n
\n00:12:36,360 –> 00:12:41,320
\nat the temple there you had the
\ncourt of the Gentiles, the court<\/p>\n
\n00:12:41,320 –> 00:12:43,880
\nof the women, then the
\nIsraelites, the priests and the <\/p>\n
\n00:12:43,880 –> 00:12:46,280
\nholy place.
\nIt was all about separation. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:48,000 –> 00:12:52,120
\nBut Paul writes the church there
\nin Ephesus and he says this turn<\/p>\n
\n00:12:52,120 –> 00:12:54,280
\nwith you, with me if you
\nwouldn’t mind to Ephesians <\/p>\n
\n00:12:54,280 –> 00:13:04,760
\nchapter 2.
\nAnd in my Bible, this section <\/p>\n
\n00:13:05,160 –> 00:13:11,040
\nfrom verse 11 in Ephesians
\nchapter 2 is entitled One in <\/p>\n
\n00:13:11,040 –> 00:13:14,440
\nChrist.
\nWe’re different, but we’re all <\/p>\n
\n00:13:14,440 –> 00:13:18,560
\none.
\nAnd verse 19 and 20 says this. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:19,120 –> 00:13:26,880
\nConsequently, you are no longer
\nforeigners and aliens, but <\/p>\n
\n00:13:27,360 –> 00:13:33,360
\nfellow citizens with God’s
\npeople and members of God’s <\/p>\n
\n00:13:33,360 –> 00:13:38,000
\nhousehold built on the
\nfoundation of the apostles and <\/p>\n
\n00:13:38,000 –> 00:13:43,000
\nprophets, with Christ Jesus
\nHimself as the chief <\/p>\n
\n00:13:43,000 –> 00:13:47,520
\ncornerstone.
\nWe’re different, but because of <\/p>\n
\n00:13:47,720 –> 00:13:52,760
\nour Lord Jesus Christ, we are
\nall one, all going in the same <\/p>\n
\n00:13:52,920 –> 00:13:59,320
\ndirection.
\nIn the First World War, there <\/p>\n
\n00:13:59,320 –> 00:14:05,760
\nwas a group of British soldiers
\nwho were fighting together and <\/p>\n
\n00:14:06,360 –> 00:14:11,040
\none of their company got shot.
\nAnd so three or four of them <\/p>\n
\n00:14:11,800 –> 00:14:13,800
\ntook his body out of the battle
\nline. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:14,960 –> 00:14:19,080
\nAnd this was in France and they
\nwanted to bury him. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:20,320 –> 00:14:24,800
\nSo they went looking and they
\nfound a little Chapel in the <\/p>\n
\n00:14:24,800 –> 00:14:29,000
\nmiddle of nowhere and they went
\nup and they knocked on the <\/p>\n
\n00:14:29,000 –> 00:14:34,200
\nChapel door and the priest
\nopened the door and the British <\/p>\n
\n00:14:34,200 –> 00:14:37,080
\nsoldiers in their broken French,
\nbecause the British aren’t very <\/p>\n
\n00:14:37,080 –> 00:14:41,000
\ngood at foreign languages.
\nThey knocked on the door and <\/p>\n
\n00:14:41,000 –> 00:14:43,960
\nthey and they tried to explain
\nto the priest that their <\/p>\n
\n00:14:43,960 –> 00:14:47,200
\ncolleague was dead and they
\nwanted to bury him in the <\/p>\n
\n00:14:47,200 –> 00:14:51,080
\ncemetery.
\nAnd the priest asked as to <\/p>\n
\n00:14:52,000 –> 00:14:57,040
\nwhether he was a Catholic.
\nAnd they, they looked at each <\/p>\n
\n00:14:57,040 –> 00:14:59,600
\nother and they said, no, no, I
\ndon’t think he is. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:00,560 –> 00:15:02,640
\nAnd the priest said, oh, you
\ncan’t bury him here. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:02,640 –> 00:15:05,880
\nThen they thought, what are we
\ngoing to do? <\/p>\n
\n00:15:05,880 –> 00:15:10,400
\nSo they took him out and they
\nthey buried him just outside of <\/p>\n
\n00:15:10,400 –> 00:15:15,600
\nthe fence.
\nAnd the next day when the <\/p>\n
\n00:15:15,600 –> 00:15:18,800
\nBritish soldiers were together,
\nthey thought we must go and pay <\/p>\n
\n00:15:18,800 –> 00:15:21,200
\nour respects to our dead
\ncolleague. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:22,720 –> 00:15:25,880
\nSo they went back to the Chapel
\nand they came to the fence and <\/p>\n
\n00:15:25,880 –> 00:15:30,320
\nthey started looking for the
\ngrave and they, they couldn’t <\/p>\n
\n00:15:30,320 –> 00:15:34,240
\nfind it so went up to the Chapel
\ndoor and they knocked on the <\/p>\n
\n00:15:34,240 –> 00:15:37,040
\nChapel door and the same priest
\nopened the door again. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:37,200 –> 00:15:38,480
\nThey said hi, do you remember
\nus? <\/p>\n
\n00:15:38,480 –> 00:15:42,040
\nWe came yesterday with our dead
\ncolleague, you know, and, and we<\/p>\n
\n00:15:42,040 –> 00:15:44,400
\nburied him.
\nOh yes, said the priest. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:45,800 –> 00:15:47,360
\nThey said, but we can’t find
\nhim. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:48,560 –> 00:15:50,720
\nTell me, have you moved the
\ngrave? <\/p>\n
\n00:15:52,000 –> 00:15:55,000
\nAnd he said no, I moved the
\nfence. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:58,600 –> 00:16:02,320
\nAnd that’s what it’s about.
\nIt’s about removing the <\/p>\n
\n00:16:02,320 –> 00:16:07,800
\nbarriers.
\nWe although we’re different, we <\/p>\n
\n00:16:07,800 –> 00:16:13,040
\nare all one together.
\nWhen Christ chose his disciples,<\/p>\n
\n00:16:13,200 –> 00:16:16,000
\nhe didn’t choose them all
\nexactly the same. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:16,400 –> 00:16:22,240
\nHe chose, on the one hand,
\nMatthew the tax collector, and <\/p>\n
\n00:16:22,240 –> 00:16:26,280
\non the other hand, he chose
\nSimon the Zealot. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:28,240 –> 00:16:31,520
\nWhy do you, why do you refer to
\nhim as Simon the Zealot? <\/p>\n
\n00:16:32,480 –> 00:16:35,800
\nI put it to you, it’s perhaps
\nbecause he wanted to show the <\/p>\n
\n00:16:35,800 –> 00:16:41,280
\ncontrast between the friend of
\nthe Romans and the friend of the<\/p>\n
\n00:16:41,280 –> 00:16:46,760
\nJews.
\nAnd yet Despite that they were <\/p>\n
\n00:16:46,760 –> 00:16:53,520
\none.
\nAnd so we are different, but we <\/p>\n
\n00:16:53,520 –> 00:16:56,280
\nare one all going in the same
\ndirection. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:57,320 –> 00:17:01,080
\nAnd now just flick back finally
\nto that passage in Acts that I <\/p>\n
\n00:17:01,080 –> 00:17:06,520
\nask you to keep your finger in.
\nIt’s Acts chapter 2 and verse <\/p>\n
\n00:17:06,520 –> 00:17:13,000
\n42, because it says about those
\n1st century Christians. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:13,400 –> 00:17:17,800
\nThey devoted themselves to the
\napostles teaching and to the <\/p>\n
\n00:17:17,800 –> 00:17:24,000
\nKoinonia and to the breaking of
\nbread and to prayer. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:26,319 –> 00:17:30,080
\nHow appropriate.
\nThey devoted themselves to <\/p>\n
\n00:17:30,080 –> 00:17:36,400
\nfellowship and to the fellowship
\nmeal, because this is what this <\/p>\n
\n00:17:36,400 –> 00:17:40,880
\nis, this bread and wine.
\nIt is a fellowship meal. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:44,040 –> 00:17:48,000
\nBut why did Jesus institute two
\nthings? <\/p>\n
\n00:17:48,000 –> 00:17:51,360
\nWhy did he institute bread and
\nwine? <\/p>\n
\n00:17:53,800 –> 00:17:58,320
\nI suggest that it’s because they
\nboth have different meanings. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:00,720 –> 00:18:08,480
\nWhen we look at the readings in
\nLuke and Mark for the bread, it <\/p>\n
\n00:18:08,480 –> 00:18:15,960
\nwas Jesus who gave it to the
\ndisciples personally, and I <\/p>\n
\n00:18:15,960 –> 00:18:21,360
\nwould suggest that the bread
\nsymbolises the fellowship with <\/p>\n
\n00:18:21,480 –> 00:18:27,680
\nJesus that his disciples have,
\nfor the bread symbolises of <\/p>\n
\n00:18:27,680 –> 00:18:33,520
\ncourse necessity, a bodybuilder.
\nJesus being the true bread of <\/p>\n
\n00:18:33,520 –> 00:18:38,960
\nlife.
\nAnd the bread therefore, I would<\/p>\n
\n00:18:38,960 –> 00:18:45,720
\nsuggest is about focusing on the
\nlife giving power of Jesus, us <\/p>\n
\n00:18:46,360 –> 00:18:51,520
\nfellowshipping with Jesus.
\nThe wine on the other hand is <\/p>\n
\n00:18:51,520 –> 00:18:58,200
\ndifferent.
\nThe wine, as it says in in Luke,<\/p>\n
\n00:18:58,640 –> 00:19:05,440
\nwas offered by Jesus and then
\nthe disciples passed it amongst <\/p>\n
\n00:19:05,440 –> 00:19:08,360
\nthemselves.
\nJesus didn’t go round handing it<\/p>\n
\n00:19:08,360 –> 00:19:12,640
\nto each disciple as he did the
\nbread, but the disciples passed <\/p>\n
\n00:19:12,640 –> 00:19:17,240
\nit amongst themselves.
\nAnd I would suggest therefore <\/p>\n
\n00:19:17,240 –> 00:19:23,400
\nthat the wine symbolised a
\nfellowship with one another <\/p>\n
\n00:19:24,200 –> 00:19:29,880
\nthrough Jesus.
\nThe wine is a symbol of a union,<\/p>\n
\n00:19:31,120 –> 00:19:38,200
\nthat we are all in the same
\nstate, and it is the wine which <\/p>\n
\n00:19:38,200 –> 00:19:44,320
\nis given for the forgiveness of
\nsins. <\/p>\n
\n00:19:44,600 –> 00:19:48,360
\nThe bread is never referred to
\nfor the forgiveness of sins, <\/p>\n
\n00:19:48,520 –> 00:19:55,400
\nonly the wine.
\nSo the wine is about us sharing <\/p>\n
\n00:19:56,360 –> 00:20:04,600
\nin our separation, but also us
\nsharing in His grace, in His <\/p>\n
\n00:20:04,600 –> 00:20:10,800
\nforgiveness.
\nSo, brethren and sisters, we are<\/p>\n
\n00:20:10,800 –> 00:20:21,560
\nhere now in a unique state
\nbecause of this Koinonia of this<\/p>\n
\n00:20:21,560 –> 00:20:28,120
\nthreefold chord that we have.
\nThat is unique, but we are all <\/p>\n
\n00:20:28,120 –> 00:20:33,200
\ndifferent and we should be
\ncelebrating the fact that we are<\/p>\n
\n00:20:33,200 –> 00:20:37,840
\ndifferent because God put us in
\nthat state. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:39,680 –> 00:20:43,680
\nBut we should also celebrate now
\nthe unity that we have. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:45,440 –> 00:20:51,000
\nAnd as we come now to this
\nfellowship meal, we think about <\/p>\n
\n00:20:51,000 –> 00:20:56,760
\nthe fellowship with our Lord
\nJesus Christ, but the fellowship<\/p>\n
\n00:20:56,760 –> 00:21:03,920
\nthat we have with each other as
\nwe share together in that <\/p>\n
\n00:21:03,920 –> 00:21:10,080
\nwonderful forgiveness and that
\nincredible grace that we have. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:11,320 –> 00:21:27,360
\nAmen.
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