00:00 Intro

00:32 Exciting News from Compass Bible Church SV

01:52 Discussion on Church Planting

03:18 Global Religious Dynamics

05:12 The Importance of Unity in the Church

07:21 Psalm 133: A Lesson on Unity

13:07 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast,

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and happy May 2nd to you.

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May 2nd.

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May 2nd.

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It's gonna, it is May.

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There you go.

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Yep.

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You need the curly bleached Justin

Timberlake hair, though, to pull it off.

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Oh, man.

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Did you ever have that?

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You probably did.

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I frosted tips, but not, I did not have

the curly bleached with the pooka shells.

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I did have the pooka shells.

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Oh, of course you did.

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Yep, I did.

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I rocked all of it.

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Yep.

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I never did the double polo.

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Look.

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Some guys did the polo, the double polo.

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I remember that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but it is, it's May 2nd.

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And hey, we've got exciting news.

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Not from necessarily

our camp, but from one.

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It's our camp.

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It is, but people, not like our backyard.

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It's not us, it's not our church.

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But it is our church.

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Big city.

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City network.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Our, our sister church in Treasure

Valley that's up in Idaho, they are

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launching their first church plant.

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And so Compass Bible Church South

Valley will be the newest Wow.

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Compass Bible Church crazy.

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Which I believe will

be the seventh, eighth.

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I stopped counting after three.

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Yeah.

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Anyways but it's their first church plant.

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They're sending it out

and it's gonna be awesome.

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Pastor Josiah Smith, who is actually,

some of you may have met him and his

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team while they were down here visiting

with us recently, but he's gonna be

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the lead pastor of that church and

they are going to be sent out there to

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help reach more people in the valley.

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I.

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And it's interesting they're not too far

away from the sending church as far as

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where this location is gonna be, but in

talking with them there's quite a, at

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least conceptually there's it is a lot

farther than it is geographically now.

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He said that they're literally

on the other side of the tracks.

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What you say, but that it's

a very different demographic.

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People think differently about

that area more rural versus

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the urban side suburban side.

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That is where Treasure Valley is.

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But should be great.

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And this is, if you sat through our

one-on-one session, we talk about

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one of our distinctives always

working to plant more churches.

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And this is an example of one of our

church plants who is doing just that.

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And church planting is one of the

best ways to reach people domestically

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for Christ is to plant more churches

and to get, go the gospel out there.

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And so we re we rejoice with them in this.

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And if you know anybody up in the

Idaho area, in, in the Boise area

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there the surrounding regions, we

would love for you to encourage

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them to check out our church plant.

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Some of you guys are here because.

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Some of their people told you

about our church plant, and so

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you, you found your way here.

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So I think we've got a few families

that are in that that camp.

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Yeah, this is a good thing.

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We're excited to see God continue

to multiply the church network

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here, compass Bible Churches.

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Which by the way is it's a network.

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It's not a denomination.

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It's, we are together, we

believe a lot of the same things.

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And so there's a, we're

together for the gospel.

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At least we're together for the gospel.

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Yeah we're almost a coalition of

gospel minded people minded churches.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's interesting.

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But yeah, it's.

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It's there's no Compass

Bible Church denomination.

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We are non-denominational, but we are

a network of churches that are all sent

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out from the same sending church there.

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Ultimately, as we trace our DNA back

there and we love to see our churches

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succeed and continue to do well.

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Guys, I put them on your prayer list.

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I'm sure there'll be a way to.

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Sign up for prayer

updates and what have you.

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But this is an exciting day for us.

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We could, we love seeing that.

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We just re recently witnessed

the launch and the birth of a

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new church even before them.

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A Compass Bible Church.

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Long Beach.

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Long Beach, yeah.

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So you got Pastor Josh Petras over that.

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This is an exciting time.

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It, the churches that have been planted

are planted new churches, which the

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multiplication of this should be really

cool to see as the years progress.

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Totally.

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In fact I saw a post on X yesterday

as we're recording this on Thursday.

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So it was Wednesday.

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That was, it's one of those clickbaity

posts, but it was somebody saying that

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three churches in Florida had just

recently been bought by Muslims and

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they're being converted into mosques.

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And it was this quote from this Muslim

cleric saying, we want to continue

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to do this, and we want to see by,

in his words, all's good favor.

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The United States come under.

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The control of Muslims.

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And we'll just say we see that

and we raise you church plants

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that are going out from our

church and we're gonna keep going.

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Yeah, what do you say?

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We buy a mosque and plant our

church in that would be awesome.

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That would be awesome.

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That'd be awesome.

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And then we could send an next post too.

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Yeah, I think we would have to do some

work to to cleanse it a little bit.

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No, just take it as is.

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Yeah.

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As is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But, yeah.

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Hey, people wanna know if we're gonna

plant a church where we're gonna plant.

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That's a great question, man.

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It's, and when and where, it's still

a ways out and who's gonna lead it.

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Still a ways out, but I, in my mind I

always think, you look at DFW, you've

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got Dallas, you've got Fort Worth, you've

got both sides of the metroplex there.

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So I could see somewhere over

on the Fort Worth side of

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things, north Prosper or, yeah.

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Prosper.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, but Denton, somewhere

over in Denton, Argyle in that

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area as that area is growing.

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How about Tennessee quite a bit too.

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Lots of people are

talking about Nashville.

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They're liking that area.

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You like Tennessee?

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Yeah.

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Tennessee's.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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Tennessee is good.

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Yeah.

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Hot Lana.

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Hot Lana, yes.

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We'll go to, we'll go us and Todd Fri.

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We'll go hang out over there with him.

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Hey, tell you what though.

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I feel called to plant a church.

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And either Maui or Malibu.

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Oh, do you?

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I'm sure.

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I'm just, I'm sure I feel the burden, bro.

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Just the, the lost people in those areas.

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You, but you don't have the right

dialect 'cause it's bra if you're

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gonna go down there, those ways

aren't gonna surf themselves.

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That's true.

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Someone's gotta do it surfing for Jesus.

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That's right.

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Actually, I don't like surfing.

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No.

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It's suffering for Jesus,

not surfing for Jesus.

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Oh yeah.

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You put the wrong fastest

on the wrong salable.

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Yeah.

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But crazy stuff going on in our world.

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Yeah, Molo talked about it in a

recent edition of the Briefing.

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He talked about the decline in,

in birth rates and Oh, yeah.

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What that means for everybody.

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Not in my family, but yeah, go ahead.

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No f for sure.

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And same here.

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And I bring that up along the, that.

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And this is connected to this conversation

about, what the Muslims are trying to do.

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And we've talked about this

before the long game that a

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lot of Islam is all about.

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And part of that is, comes down to having

more kids than anybody else is gonna have.

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And, and so that's why it's a good thing

for Christian families to have kids.

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And I understand that there are

circumstances and unique events

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wherein that may not be possible the

traditional way for every family.

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But there's still ways for us to

adopt and to bring children into our

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home and to raise children in the

discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Put them in the way, the gospel

as much as we possibly can.

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And that's something that's good.

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Not just for our church and for our.

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Our families, but also for the good of the

spread of the gospel all the way through.

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And we live in a world where our

enemies understand that if they

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have more kids than we have, then

eventually they're gonna win.

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Now we know that the end of the story,

but that's their mindset, that's their

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mentality, and they're doing that.

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Just something to bear in mind.

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Mueller also asked a question similar

last Friday or the Friday before,

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somebody wrote in and said, Hey,

what if I'm just don't want kids?

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And he said basically he the question was,

what if I don't feel called to have kids?

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And Mueller said, you don't to feel called

to obey a command of God was his response.

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Wow.

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He said, if you're gonna get married, he

said you have that biblical mandate there.

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And can you put a blanket statement

a hundred percent across the board?

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I don't think you can bat 10 for 10

on that one, but I do think those

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young families getting married

and starting out that's God's.

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Design.

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It's his his goal, his aim,

and and it's a good thing.

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And again it's a bigger picture,

not just for our local church

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and local families here.

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Yeah.

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It's important not only to have

kids, but also to raise them in the

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fear and admonition of the Lord.

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Totally.

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So it's a both and we need you

to have kids and we need you

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to raise them like Christians.

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Yeah.

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It's not moralizing them, it's not

creating behavioralists or Pharisees.

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It's teaching people

the way that life works.

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Yep.

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Which is of course, everything

that he's revealed to us in his

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scriptures, not the least of which.

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Psalm PSM 1 33.

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1 33.

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That was a great transition.

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Oh, you're welcome.

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Yeah I saw you pulling

us back in there yeah.

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Hey, Psalm 1 33, buckle up.

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This one is gonna take a long time.

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There's a lot here and no

it's three verses and so

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this is why we told you, hey.

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Grab this, read this.

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Maybe jump over, read one, Peter read

something else in concert with this.

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Spend more time in God's Word

than just in Psalm 1 33 today.

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But Psalm 1 33 three verses.

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In fact, we can read it together.

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So here we go.

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We'll do your daily

Bible reading together.

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Wow.

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Live.

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This is a first.

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It is.

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I.

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Behold how good and pleasant it is.

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When brothers dwell in unity, it's

like precious oil on the head.

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Running down the beard on

the beard of Aaron running

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down the collar of his robes.

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That sounds gross actually, but go ahead.

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Yeah, maybe we'll come

back and talk about that.

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It's like the dew of Heman Herman.

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Not Heman Herman which falls

on the mountains of Zion.

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For there the Lord has commanded

the blessing life forevermore.

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So the picture here is the anointing

of the priest there, the precious

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oil on the head, running down

the beard on the beard of Aaron.

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And that would've been a

day of celebration because

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of his role and who he is.

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And everybody uniting under the

leadership, the headship there.

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And so he, this is about that.

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And it's, you'll notice written by

King David in Psalm 1 33, which.

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Is significant force because

David was a man who knew much

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about divisiveness and disunity.

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He knew about betrayal, he knew

about just having enemies in general.

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And he saw the harm and damage

that Disunity can do both

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nationally and on a personal level.

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And we don't know exactly when he

wrote this whether or not this was at

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the time that we're reading about or

even post Bathsheba and the situation

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that he had with Absalom, but.

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But David knew what Disunity was and so

as he's writing this, I think we can even

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sense that the passion that he has, the

conviction that he has to say, man, it's

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so much better when people dwell in unity.

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And we would say that about the church.

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This is something to take and apply

to the church and say, we need a

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church that is united together.

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And it's such a good

thing when you have that.

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Yeah, this is cool because I think

it, even though it's not to the church

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obviously benefits from this concept.

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Scripture in the New Testament talks

about how necessary it is for the church

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to dwell in unity, even though it doesn't

use its exact language, and the oil that

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we have is not the consecration oil of

the priest or the levies or the Messiah.

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We have the oil of the spirit who

indwells within us, who by his

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grace, and makes it so that we're.

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Able to dwell in unity far better

than these guys ever could.

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The brothers here are the

brothers of Israel, the people

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of God under the old covenant.

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The brothers and sisters here in the New

Testament are those who have been bought

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by the blood of Christ and again, sealed

with the spirit, which consequently

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gives us the ability to pursue unity.

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Even at great personal cost to ourselves,

which I think is the point, the fact

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that Unity is so precious is because

it's so hard to obtain with any degree

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of consistency, without a lot of work

on the part of the people who experience

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the difficulty of infighting and

backbiting and all sorts of situations

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that are brought about because of sin.

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So in, in this particular text,

even though we're only looking at

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one passage and this is probably

not one that you would choose or I

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would choose, I don't know about.

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Anyone else listening, but I wouldn't

choose Psalm 1 33 to say, Hey, we're

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gonna spend time on one Psalm today,

guys, and it's only gonna be 1 33.

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But I think it's a great reminder

for us about how important it is to

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be united as the body of believers.

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Again, this is not us.

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We're not Israel.

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David's writing about a different

time and a place, but it is still

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sweet when the church is united.

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And I think our church

has that by and large.

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We haven't really.

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And not that I believe in superstition.

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I'm not.

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So I'm gonna say it knowing

that people are like, oh, you

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can't say things like this.

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We haven't really experienced

any major divisiveness.

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And I love that.

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And I think that, there's a lot

of reasons for that, but not the

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least of which is God's grace.

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He has protected us.

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He's continuing to

sustain us by his mercy.

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And as long as we keep our head on

straight about what we're here to do.

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And how we're about going and

how we're gonna go about that.

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Man, I think we have an incredible road

ahead of us where God's grace and his

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glory is honored because of our unity.

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Yeah I would agree a hundred percent.

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And I would add to that the, one of the

greatest threats that we would face is.

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To our future would be for disunity to

take root in our church for divisiveness,

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for grumbling, for complaining, for

bitterness to, to take root in our church.

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And you can have a church where the

gospel is sound, where the doctrine is

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intact and where the preaching is there.

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And yet, if you don't have a

church that's committed to a.

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Humility that produces unity to

a godliness that produces unity,

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then that church is going to fall.

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It's not gonna stand, it's

not gonna be able to survive.

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And it is a fruit of the spirit

when, even though unity isn't in

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there when we say let the fruit of

the spirit is love, joy, peace that

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peace is what we're talking about here

to have peace amongst one another.

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That's what.

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Is being envisioned here in Psalm 1 33.

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And it's crucial to our ability as

the church, to be the church and to

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carry out the mission that we have

of reaching teaching and training.

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If we're not united, we

won't be able to do that.

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And the devil would love

nothing more than to divide us.

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And so often the division

doesn't come over.

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You know the church stopped

teaching that Jesus is God.

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No.

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The division comes in the small areas.

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The division comes in the

areas of I disagree with you.

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This secondary or tertiary

doctrine that's out there.

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Yeah.

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Lots out there.

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And so this is what I believe,

and you turn that into your hobby

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horse and your platform and you

begin to try to amass a following.

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And that's where divisiveness creeps

in the church so much so that the

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Bible says, Hey, warn a divisive

person once and then twice, and then

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have nothing to do with them anymore.

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And so this is super significant and in

the Bible it takes this very seriously for

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the health and wellbeing of the church.

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And we can see it here in Psalm 1 33.

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Yeah.

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And probably the greatest thing to.

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To be sacrificed here is our humility.

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It takes a lot of pride to fight

with somebody to the point of saying,

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we just can't do this anymore.

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Our church has to guard our heart

with humility and to recognize that

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we are all products of God's grace.

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If we're knowledgeable about something,

if we've, if we're right about something

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it's not because we're inherently special

or more intelligent than the next guy.

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It's God's greatest that work within us.

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And if we can remember

that, I think we'll do okay.

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Yeah.

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Sacrificing our pride, not our humility.

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Yeah.

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Don't sacrifice your humility.

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Yeah.

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Philippians two would be a great

companion passage to this too.

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Maybe you jump over there

and read Philippians two.

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On the mindset of humility that

we should all have in Christ.

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Let's pray and then we'll be done.

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God, keep us a church that is

united, that is one that is protected

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and guarded from divisiveness.

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And Lord from backbiting

and from self-centeredness.

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God help us to be a church

that loves one another.

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That.

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Imitates Christ in that.

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And God, we thank you for a passage

like Psalm 1 33 with its focus

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on the the unity there that David

experienced and how good that was.

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And God, we just, we desire that for our

church and pray that would be a mark of

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who we are both now and into the future.

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And so we ask this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said