This week’s talk is an exhortation by Brother James Walker on the topic of “Friendship” given at the Simi Hills Ecclesia in California, USA, on May 3rd, 2026.<\/p>\n
We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n
Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n
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\nthis week’s talk.
\nThis week’s talk is an <\/p>\n
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\nexhortation by Brother James
\nWalker given at the Simi Hills <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia on May 3rd of this
\nyear. <\/p>\n
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\nI have attended Simi Hills for
\nmost of my life, so this I did <\/p>\n
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\nhear this in the audience.
\nThis is my first time posting <\/p>\n
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\nexhortation from Simi Hills.
\nObviously massive bias here. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve known Uncle James my whole
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nHe interviewed me for baptism
\nand I so enjoyed this talk. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd to be frank, it’s because
\nusually Uncle James talks for a <\/p>\n
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\nvery long time in a very
\nunfocused way. <\/p>\n
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\nI think he would say that.
\nI would say that to his face. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s something he knows about
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this excitation was not
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a, a, a, a, a really
\nwonderful excitation talking <\/p>\n
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\nabout the difference between
\nkind of human friendship, godly <\/p>\n
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\nfriendship or Jesus’s friendship
\nto us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that was something that I
\nreally enjoyed thinking about <\/p>\n
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\nand was really refreshed by
\nlistening to. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I hope it’s the same for
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I guess, yeah, usually I, I
\npull a talk down from the <\/p>\n
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\nrecommendations list, but this
\none was kind of kind of one for <\/p>\n
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\nme.
\nSo I hope, I hope you enjoy it. <\/p>\n
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\nI hope it’s beneficial for you
\nas well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here is James Walker on
\nfriendship. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, good morning everyone.
\nGood to see everyone here today.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd I want to talk to you today
\nabout what Jesus said. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s printed on the board when
\nhe says you are my friends, you <\/p>\n
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\nare my friends and I would have
\nthis chapter serve as a backdrop<\/p>\n
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\nto what we’re going to talk
\nabout today. <\/p>\n
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\nIt contains the elements of
\neverything that I have put <\/p>\n
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\ntogether tryingly and I just
\nhope it it it it’ll come out in <\/p>\n
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\nsuch a way that it helps us to
\nthink about our our friendships <\/p>\n
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\nand friends.
\nAnd probably more importantly is<\/p>\n
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\nwhen Jesus looks at his own that
\nhe’s called his friends that be <\/p>\n
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\nyou and that be I.
\nWe are his friends and in that <\/p>\n
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\nfriendship we are in friendship
\nwith each other. <\/p>\n
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\nHe adds to that when he says, I
\nam your friend if you do what I <\/p>\n
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\ncommand you.
\nAnd I often looked at that and I<\/p>\n
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\ngo, Oh my goodness, that’s a
\nthat’s a heavy load to carry if <\/p>\n
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\nI do what he’s commanded me.
\nBut I’m not too sure that we <\/p>\n
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\nwant to venture too far out of
\nthis chapter to determine what <\/p>\n
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\nthat is, because what he’s
\ncommanded us is to love one <\/p>\n
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\nanother.
\nWhat he’s asked of us is to be <\/p>\n
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\npart of the vine, to be the
\nbranches of the vine that he is,<\/p>\n
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\nand to bear much fruit.
\nThat’s our goal of being friends<\/p>\n
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\nof Jesus, to be a branch grafted
\ninto the vine, bearing much <\/p>\n
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\nfruit, fruits of the Spirit.
\nThat’s what he’s commanded us to<\/p>\n
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\ndo, to love one another, that in
\nthat love with one another, we <\/p>\n
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\nbear much fruit.
\nThat’s the backdrop to what <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ll talk to about to today and
\nthe reason why I want to talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout it because sometimes I
\nfeel very friendless. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t feel as though I’m
\nfriendly. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you would think out of all
\nof the places that you can <\/p>\n
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\nbefriend somebody, it would be
\nin the ecclesia of God. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think I’m alone in this.
\nThere are those that I befriend,<\/p>\n
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\nI have a closeness to that I
\nspeak to every Sunday. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are those that are a
\ndistant in this meeting that I <\/p>\n
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\nspeak to, not at all.
\nI don’t know if you have that <\/p>\n
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\nsame experience, but I think you
\ndo. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are those that you say hi
\nto every Sunday and there and <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s those that say hi to you
\nevery Sunday. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then there are those in the
\nmedium and then those on the <\/p>\n
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\noutside, often the fringes of
\nour company. <\/p>\n
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\nFriends, Jesus says Jesus has
\ncome to each one of us. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, you’re my friend.
\nHello. <\/p>\n
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\nEvery Sunday he does that,
\ndoesn’t he? <\/p>\n
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\nEvery Sunday when we come here,
\nwe befriend him. <\/p>\n
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\nWe come here and we partake of
\nbread and wine to remember him <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he’s befriend us and we
\nenjoy that experience and we <\/p>\n
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\ncome to befriend him.
\nSometimes we struggle in <\/p>\n
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\nfriendships.
\nWe we know the difference. <\/p>\n
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\nWe experienced that with just
\nsaid it this morning. <\/p>\n
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\nWent to the Philippines to see
\nto to encamp with friends. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we all do that.
\nWe as human beings are <\/p>\n
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\nfundamentally social creatures
\nwho generally desire friends and<\/p>\n
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\ncompanionship to combat
\nloneliness, boost happiness, and<\/p>\n
\n00:07:07,460 –> 00:07:09,860
\nimprove physical and mental
\nhealth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when Jesus says you are my
\nfriends, we come here and we, we<\/p>\n
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\nmay come not feeling friendly or
\nlike we have friends, we may be <\/p>\n
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\nnot feeling that connection.
\nBut yet when we leave, by the <\/p>\n
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\ntime we leave, we, we, we feel
\nmore happy about our experience <\/p>\n
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\nhere with one another, with what
\nwe have done together and <\/p>\n
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\nremembering he who befriended
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nSo when we think of Jesus
\nbefriending us, what do we look <\/p>\n
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\nfor when we think of a friend?
\nWhat is it that we see in others<\/p>\n
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\nthat we are friendly too?
\nWell, certainly there’s a lot of<\/p>\n
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\nthings, right?
\nThere’s that, that <\/p>\n
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\ncompatibility.
\nYou know, if you were in a <\/p>\n
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\nmotorcycle club, you’d all have
\na motorcycle and we could hang <\/p>\n
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\nout together and be friends and
\ntalk about our motorcycle, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nOr whatever the club may be or <\/p>\n
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\nwhatever the group might be.
\nWe have similar interests. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have similar passions.
\nWe might even find and say that <\/p>\n
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\na friend is somebody that we can
\ntrust, we can have confidence <\/p>\n
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\nin, we can confide in, we can
\ntell them perhaps our closest <\/p>\n
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\nsecrets.
\nSo, so to speak, things we <\/p>\n
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\nwouldn’t just tell anybody.
\nWe could tell our friend, right?<\/p>\n
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\nSomebody that has your back,
\nsomebody that can be there for <\/p>\n
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\nyou and stick up for you and,
\nand, and fight your battles with<\/p>\n
\n00:09:00,040 –> 00:09:03,360
\nyou, your challenges and help
\nyou get through whatever those <\/p>\n
\n00:09:03,360 –> 00:09:06,200
\nchallenges might be.
\nThose are friends. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the Proverbs, it talks about
\na friend. <\/p>\n
\n00:09:10,560 –> 00:09:14,720
\nA friend’s chastisement is
\nrespectful. <\/p>\n
\n00:09:15,440 –> 00:09:21,160
\nSometimes a friend needs to do
\nthat for a friend to let us know<\/p>\n
\n00:09:21,160 –> 00:09:24,920
\nthat perhaps we may be a little
\nout of line here or there. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd certainly there’s that
\nsocial connection that, you <\/p>\n
\n00:09:32,920 –> 00:09:35,960
\nknow, there’s just people you
\nhave easy time communicating <\/p>\n
\n00:09:35,960 –> 00:09:38,280
\nwith back and forth.
\nAnd there’s that social <\/p>\n
\n00:09:38,280 –> 00:09:41,040
\nconnection.
\nBut I think All in all, we all <\/p>\n
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\nknow what a friend is.
\nAnd so the bottom line is, is to<\/p>\n
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\nhave a friend.
\nFriends are important. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you’re coming in the door
\nand you feel friendless, this, <\/p>\n
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\nthis that it represents Jesus
\nsays, you are my friend. <\/p>\n
\n00:09:56,360 –> 00:09:58,680
\nAnd he’s telling each one of us
\nthat. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:01,160 –> 00:10:04,000
\nAnd later on he, what does he
\nsay? <\/p>\n
\n00:10:05,560 –> 00:10:10,760
\nHe says something.
\nHe says Jesus says you’ve not <\/p>\n
\n00:10:10,760 –> 00:10:16,920
\nchosen me, I’ve chosen you.
\nThat’s an interesting statement <\/p>\n
\n00:10:17,760 –> 00:10:20,920
\nto find someone that you choose
\nto befriend and you want them to<\/p>\n
\n00:10:20,920 –> 00:10:25,800
\nbe friends with you too.
\nAnd sometimes you can say I want<\/p>\n
\n00:10:25,800 –> 00:10:29,160
\nthis person to be my friend, but
\nthey don’t want to befriend me. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:29,160 –> 00:10:32,200
\nIt’s like the old sandbox days,
\nright when you were little kids,<\/p>\n
\n00:10:32,240 –> 00:10:36,160
\nyou know, when the guys, when
\nthe little kid says I don’t want<\/p>\n
\n00:10:36,160 –> 00:10:39,880
\nto be your friend, you know that
\nhurt. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:39,880 –> 00:10:42,080
\nWhat do you mean you don’t want
\nto be my friend? <\/p>\n
\n00:10:42,080 –> 00:10:46,720
\nI, I try my whole life to be
\nfriendly and be and, and I know <\/p>\n
\n00:10:46,720 –> 00:10:49,960
\nI’m not I’m not sometimes I’m
\nthe most unfriendliest person <\/p>\n
\n00:10:49,960 –> 00:10:59,160
\nthere is why I can find more
\nreasons to not be your friend <\/p>\n
\n00:11:00,080 –> 00:11:01,840
\nthan for reasons to be your
\nfriend. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:04,880 –> 00:11:18,240
\nWhy do I do that?
\nThe prejudices, the judgments <\/p>\n
\n00:11:19,440 –> 00:11:22,520
\noutweigh love.
\nLet me say that again. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:22,880 –> 00:11:26,560
\nOur prejudices, our judgement,
\nour sizing people up. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:27,720 –> 00:11:36,440
\nWe used to say you’re not my
\nfriend, you can’t be friends <\/p>\n
\n00:11:36,440 –> 00:11:40,520
\nwith me.
\nI have a higher standard for you<\/p>\n
\n00:11:40,520 –> 00:11:46,040
\nto be friends with me.
\nSo our prejudices, our judgments<\/p>\n
\n00:11:46,640 –> 00:11:51,960
\noutweigh love.
\nJesus chose us. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:52,440 –> 00:11:57,800
\nJesus loved us while we were in
\nour sins. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:59,920 –> 00:12:05,680
\nHe had every reason to build
\nthat list of why we cannot be <\/p>\n
\n00:12:05,680 –> 00:12:09,400
\nfriends with Him.
\nJesus did not sin. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:10,440 –> 00:12:20,920
\nJesus was just and holy, but
\nJesus was like his Father God in<\/p>\n
\n00:12:20,920 –> 00:12:30,480
\nheaven above God is love, full
\nof compassion, full of mercy. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:31,160 –> 00:12:35,760
\nHe looks at you and I and he
\nsays you know because you <\/p>\n
\n00:12:35,760 –> 00:12:40,440
\nbelieve in my son, I cleanse you
\nand absolve you of your sin and <\/p>\n
\n00:12:40,440 –> 00:12:44,320
\nhe makes us right before him
\ndespite our awkwardness. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:45,480 –> 00:12:50,360
\nWhat we see in each other that
\nsometimes say that I just wish <\/p>\n
\n00:12:50,400 –> 00:12:58,000
\nthey were a little more.
\nJesus is asking us to love him. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:59,960 –> 00:13:06,560
\nHe’s asking us if we love Him,
\nto love whom He has chosen, the <\/p>\n
\n00:13:06,560 –> 00:13:10,320
\nbrothers and sisters that make
\nup who He is. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:11,320 –> 00:13:16,240
\nRemember the Vine and that we
\nare the branches grafted into <\/p>\n
\n00:13:16,240 –> 00:13:18,520
\nthe vine.
\nWe become one with Him. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:20,480 –> 00:13:25,280
\nJesus is asking us to abide in
\nHim, not independently. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:26,160 –> 00:13:28,240
\nWe’re not here today
\nindependently. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:28,240 –> 00:13:30,800
\nYes, it is.
\nWe have to size things up in <\/p>\n
\n00:13:30,800 –> 00:13:34,760
\nourselves to make right, right.
\nWe, we, we want to, you know, <\/p>\n
\n00:13:34,760 –> 00:13:37,320
\nbeef set afresh and new and go
\non our way. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:37,920 –> 00:13:42,520
\nBut brothers and sisters, this
\nis the, the, you know, what I <\/p>\n
\n00:13:42,520 –> 00:13:48,240
\nsee in my head as of late is
\nthat when Jesus is speaking the <\/p>\n
\n00:13:48,240 –> 00:13:52,360
\ngospel message to us, yes, it’s
\nindividually, but we have to <\/p>\n
\n00:13:52,360 –> 00:13:55,280
\nremember that we’re not alone.
\nWe are not an island. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:55,560 –> 00:13:58,840
\nWe are connected together.
\nWe are part of the vine. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:59,280 –> 00:14:06,880
\nWe abide in Him, and He abides
\nin us, not me, us. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:08,400 –> 00:14:10,760
\nThe letters to the seven
\nchurches were written to the <\/p>\n
\n00:14:10,760 –> 00:14:13,400
\nchurches, and most of the
\nletters were written to <\/p>\n
\n00:14:13,400 –> 00:14:19,200
\nchurches, to people not
\nindividually, but collectively. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:19,880 –> 00:14:26,880
\nTogether, as an ecclesia we will
\nlive and die, I think, by our <\/p>\n
\n00:14:27,080 –> 00:14:29,520
\ndisposition in the ecclesia of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:31,640 –> 00:14:36,560
\nI think more that way today that
\nI have to give up my own <\/p>\n
\n00:14:37,160 –> 00:14:42,200
\npassions, my own likenesses, and
\nconcentrate and focus more on <\/p>\n
\n00:14:42,200 –> 00:14:46,920
\nthe health, the spiritual health
\nand direction of the ecclesia of<\/p>\n
\n00:14:46,920 –> 00:14:52,720
\nGod, which I am responsible to,
\nwhich is this ecclesia most <\/p>\n
\n00:14:52,720 –> 00:14:56,680
\nimportantly and foremost, my
\nrelationship with you and you <\/p>\n
\n00:14:56,680 –> 00:15:01,280
\nwith me, each one of us
\nresponsible for one another. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:01,680 –> 00:15:05,960
\nThat’s what Jesus is asking.
\nHe laid down his life for us and<\/p>\n
\n00:15:05,960 –> 00:15:11,040
\nHe’s asking us because friends
\nlay down their lives for one <\/p>\n
\n00:15:11,040 –> 00:15:19,630
\nanother.
\nI wrote a 20 minute exhortation <\/p>\n
\n00:15:20,750 –> 00:15:23,550
\nthat I know that if I gave it,
\nit’d be 35. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:28,510 –> 00:15:32,430
\nI’m off my notes.
\nThis, I hope you can see, is <\/p>\n
\n00:15:32,430 –> 00:15:39,560
\nfrom my heart and it’s what I am
\npassionate about, the spiritual <\/p>\n
\n00:15:39,560 –> 00:15:43,360
\nhealth of this ecclesia, the
\nrelationship each of us have for<\/p>\n
\n00:15:43,360 –> 00:15:49,960
\none another.
\nI guess if I was to say anything<\/p>\n
\n00:15:49,960 –> 00:15:58,760
\nfrom my notes, I would say that
\nJesus is broadening our concept <\/p>\n
\n00:15:58,760 –> 00:16:03,080
\nof what a friend is.
\nTypically, we look at it very <\/p>\n
\n00:16:03,080 –> 00:16:07,600
\nselfishly, how I feel about a
\ncertain individual. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:08,520 –> 00:16:12,600
\nI think he’s asking us to
\nbroaden our scope, to be more <\/p>\n
\n00:16:12,600 –> 00:16:19,080
\ninclusive with one another and
\nto bring each to think that <\/p>\n
\n00:16:19,240 –> 00:16:21,400
\nwe’re all together in this
\ntogether, right? <\/p>\n
\n00:16:21,480 –> 00:16:25,240
\nWe’re moving forward through,
\nyou know, the children of Israel<\/p>\n
\n00:16:25,240 –> 00:16:29,200
\nmove forward together through
\nthe wilderness. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:30,480 –> 00:16:35,960
\nIt was almost like they were
\nblessed and punished <\/p>\n
\n00:16:36,600 –> 00:16:43,240
\ncollectively.
\nWe together are highly blessed <\/p>\n
\n00:16:43,800 –> 00:16:49,640
\nwith a large ecclesia, with a
\nhealthy Sunday school, a healthy<\/p>\n
\n00:16:49,640 –> 00:16:54,920
\nmeeting, and together we want to
\ncontinue and, and, and do that. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:00,640 –> 00:17:04,160
\nI had a lot of important things
\nto say, but I think I said it. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:05,720 –> 00:17:09,440
\nSo now we remember he who
\nbefriended us and now all we <\/p>\n
\n00:17:09,440 –> 00:17:14,800
\nhave to do is befriend him by
\nbefriending one another and <\/p>\n
\n00:17:14,800 –> 00:17:18,520
\nhelping each other.
\nThat we together will be ready, <\/p>\n
\n00:17:18,760 –> 00:17:25,359
\nwaiting, watching for Jesus when
\nhe comes, so that when he knocks<\/p>\n
\n00:17:25,359 –> 00:17:32,320
\non our door, we’re ready to go
\ntogether with him, wherever it <\/p>\n
\n00:17:32,320 –> 00:17:37,720
\nis that He takes us, and we’ll
\nenter into the joy of the Lord <\/p>\n
\n00:17:38,360 –> 00:17:55,510
\ntogether.
\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n
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