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00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:24 Addressing Sermon Questions

00:58 Baptism and Communion in the Church

02:47 Communion Outside the Church Context

09:50 Frequency of Communion

13:38 John Chapter 5 Discussion

21:19 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

21:59 Outro and Podcast Information


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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and happy Wednesday to you all.

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Happy Wednesday.

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We have recording happening right

now, so this is gonna be locked in.

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We don't have to restart and cancel our

episode or anything like that as the

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late great prophet, well, he's not late.

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He's actually still quite relevant.

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Justin Bieber once said.

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Never say never.

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Never say never.

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I think he said that also some

other prophets said, don't count

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your chickens before they hatch.

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Or something like that.

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Something like that.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we got some questions from

people from a sermon that you preach

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recently and the people demand answers.

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Okay.

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They demand it.

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We will do our best pitchforks

and torches and hint sometimes.

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Well, I dunno if they had any

this time, but here are some of

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the questions that came up from a

sermon that you recently preached.

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You said something to the effect of.

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Baptism and the Lord's Supper, that

is communion as we often refer to.

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It should only happen in the

context of the local church.

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And for some people that

was brand new information.

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So, let's deal with a couple of pushbacks

on that and you help us to understand.

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How to best interpret this.

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And of course there are exceptions,

and maybe we can mention some of

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those, but why do we believe that

baptism and the Lord's Supper communion

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should only be done in the church?

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Let's start there.

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We believe that there are two

of what we know is ordinances.

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And if you go into other churches,

for example, the Catholic Church,

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there are more than two ordinances.

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There's seven what do they call them?

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They don't call them ordinances.

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Sacraments.

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Sacraments.

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Thank you.

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And.

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They would say that there's seven

of these and there's more than just

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communion and baptism included in that.

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We as the Protestant church

largely just identify those two.

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And there are two things that are

meant to be we believe as scripture

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or instructs us to be carried out

within the context of the local church.

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So that's why I would say these

are for the church specifically.

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So is it okay then?

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Is it okay then to take communion?

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And you brought up this example,

so I know where you're gonna answer

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on this, but let's clarify this.

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Is it okay to do this during my wedding?

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If I'm getting married and we wanna

honor Christ we wanna do communion.

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And I know that many Catholic

weddings still do something like this.

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Yep.

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So is this okay for us?

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Can I do this?

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Full transparency, my wife and I did.

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And I will give the caveat because we

didn't know, nobody told us not to.

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This is a tricky situation because.

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It's in the church.

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It's in the church, right.

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And not, although not all weddings

are right, ours happen to be.

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But communion is for the church.

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And my wedding was not the church.

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My wedding was us inviting all kinds

of different people from all kinds of

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different backgrounds and there were

believers and unbelievers there alike.

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And granted, we didn't serve

communion to the whole church.

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It was just my wife and

I doing this up front.

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But even that in and of itself is

a perversion, not well perversion.

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Strong, strong it misses

what communion's for.

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Communion is for a

corporate participation.

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It's meant to be all of us coming together

to unite around this the elements,

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the bread and the juice, or in our

context or the wine in some context.

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So, I would say no, it, it's not

meant for your wedding because

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it's not the church that's not.

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What's happening there?

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You're getting married, but that's

not a gathering of the church.

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So where do we see in the Bible that

it tells us that we have to be in

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a church context to take communion?

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Yeah.

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It's admittedly not explicitly stated,

thou shalt take communion in the church.

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Right.

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But we see once a month on a Sunday.

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Yeah, exactly.

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We see context clues.

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And I read from one Corinthians chapter 11

in the broader context on Sunday morning

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before we actually got to observing

the elements and taking the elements.

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Partially for this purpose

because Paul is writing.

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When we jump to for I received from

the Lord, what I also delivered to you,

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that the Lord Jesus, I'm not, he was

betrayed when we all often start there.

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But right before that, Paul is actually

confronting the local church there in

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Corinth for, for taking communion in

an unworthy manner for coming together.

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And he says the phrase come together three

or four times in the context leading up

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to the part that we all, all the time

read for the Lord Supper communion.

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He's confronting them for not

coming together the right way,

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with the right attitude to unite

together to take the elements.

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So that's one context where we

see that this is where we would

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say, this is for the church.

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When the church comes together.

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Acts chapter two.

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Now you might say, well, this seems to

argue against your position, but Acts 2 46

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in there they're talking about gathering

in the homes and breaking bread together.

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That would probably indicate that

the Lord's supper was being observed.

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So somebody might point to that and

say, well, that seems to contradict

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what your argument is, except that at

that time in the, . Stage of the church.

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These were local churches.

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This was the house church

that was gathering together.

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And so it was not so much that these

are private homes and individual homes

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in different places, but the birth of

the church, the dawn of the church,

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there's different things happening during

that time as the church is still being

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formed into what we know it to be today.

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We often talk about in acts,

prescriptive versus descriptive

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and can we point to something in

acts and say, this is prescriptive.

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Everything needs to happen this way.

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Most of the Book of Acts.

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A lot of the book of Acts is gonna be

more descriptive of a specific time in the

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birth of the church versus prescriptive.

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But I think when we look

at one Corinthians 11.

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It seems that the normative principle

is community needs to take place

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within the context of the church.

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Okay.

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I guess it depends on what

you mean by the word church.

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And in this we have to delve a

little bit into ecclesiology.

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Isn't it true though that my wife

and I, or my, my grandmother and

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I, we're Christians aren't we the

church and therefore when we're at

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home and, we're doing something.

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We can't make it to church that

Sunday, but we're streaming it.

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We're watching it together.

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Can't we say, Hey, we are the church.

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You know?

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And Jesus said, didn't he?

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Where two or three are gathered,

there I am in the midst of them.

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Yeah.

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So help us understand then why a two

person unit who are both Christians.

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Yeah.

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Do not count as the same thing

as a church as you're using it.

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Let's start with where

two or three are gathered.

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There I am.

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So Matthew 18 is the context

there, and he's talking about

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church discipline there.

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And he's saying you have the

authority the God, and endowed

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authority there to discipline.

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Because when two are gathered for the

purpose of discipline, I'm present.

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There, my authority is present there.

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So often we use that in the terms

of, well, the church is there because

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when two or three are gathered,

that's not the context of Matthew 18.

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We're talking about church

discipline in Matthew 18.

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But to come back to the idea of can't I

just stay home and do communion by myself?

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And that comes back to that idea that

I was talking about at my wedding when

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it was just my wife and I, that's.

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That's not what communion is for.

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Communion is for all of us

to come together corporately.

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That's even in the word communion.

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We are community together,

communing together coming

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together to to testify, right?

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And that's what Paul says at the

end of the communion formula.

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In one Corinthians chapter 11, when

he says, we'll do this until the,

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until Christ returns testifying to

his death, until Christ returns.

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And that's a corporate voice

that we're meant to do this with.

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So there's something

that we are testifying.

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Even Ephesians three, the manifold

wisdom of God is being displayed.

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Three 10.

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Through the gathering of the church body.

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And this is one of the ways that we

are doing that together, corporately

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coming together as brothers and

sisters in Christ to remember all of

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us together, the common bond that we

have in needing the death of Christ

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for us to be part of the family of God.

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So that's where, when I stay home and I

just decide to do it by myself or with the

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people that I like because I'm comfortable

with them that's not the design that

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God had in mind for communion when he

was saying, this is what you should do.

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So it sounds like communion then is

best in the context of a local varied

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gathering of the body of believers.

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And so you're getting at this idea

that doing it at home violates the

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principle behind the idea of communion.

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Yes.

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Communion, even as the name suggests,

is happening best and community.

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Right.

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And to do it so lower, to do it with just

people that you select that you like, is

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it seems like it goes against the grain.

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Okay.

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So here's a bigger question then.

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Is this a sin to do it?

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Or let's say, I have a neighbor who

I preached the gospel to and they

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get saved and they're saying, Hey,

what prevents me from being baptized?

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And you say, I have a pool

right in my backyard here.

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Come on the backyard.

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We're gonna baptize you right now.

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And I do that instead of you or one of

the other pastors on staff doing that.

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Is there sin in this if

I choose not to do this?

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Or is this a matter of a

difference of tradition?

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Is this what level?

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Do I put this on?

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Yeah.

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When I'm considering my church attendance,

or even whether I wanna be part of a

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church that does this or doesn't do

this, how do I think this through?

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This is where we in the

Protestant tradition are.

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I don't wanna say a disadvantage to

those in the Catholic church because

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we often look at tradition and we kind

of look down our nose at tradition.

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We look at church history sometimes

and we say no creed, but the Bible

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alone, or something like that.

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And I think we miss out on a lot of.

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Instructional benefit there.

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And when we look at the tradition of the

church from the outset, what we found is

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that baptism became something that was

done within the confines of the church.

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The Lord's Supper was something,

communion was something that was observed

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within the confines of the church.

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And this is how it's been

throughout church history.

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As we have emerged into more of an

individualized American society, we've

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been wanting to look for exception

clauses to that rather than to say,

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okay, let's just do this the way

that it's been done for:

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And that is.

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In the confines of the local church.

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And I think there's something to

that to be able to say, okay, why

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has it always been done that way?

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Perhaps because this was the design from

the very outset, even though we don't have

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it written in the inert, authoritative

word of God, thou shall do this within

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the confines of the local church,

and a pastor has to administer this.

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I think church tradition points

to the fact that that is what

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the intent was from the outset.

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And we can hold to that and we

can look at that and say, yeah,

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that that's a good pattern for us.

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So if your neighbor gets saved and says,

I wanna be baptized, you'd say, great.

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Why don't you come to church?

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Because , number one.

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Baptism is an important step of obedience,

but being involved in the church

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like you heard this past Sunday, also

massively important for a new believer.

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So get them connected to the church, bring

them in, have them meet with the pastor.

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Say, let's talk about

getting you baptized.

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And communion.

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Yeah, bring them into the church again.

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And here's the risk we run if we rush

too quickly into these things, is we

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run the risk of conflating trust in

Christ with trust in the ordinance.

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And we wanna be careful not to do that.

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And so you don't want somebody to walk

away saying, well, I, I feel like I'm

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confident in my salvation because Joe

baptized me in his pool, in his backyard

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after I came to faith in Christ.

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You want them to go, no.

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This is something that is, is.

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Part of of a community affirming this,

confirming this, for example, with baptism

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and then with the Lord's, with communion.

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I want to participate in this meal

with my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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In fact, in one Corinthians 11, that's

part of what Paul's condemning is he's

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saying, Hey, you guys all you care about

is yourself and your own comfort in this,

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and you're neglecting the fact that this

is about the unity of the body of Christ.

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And so when we say, well, I'd rather

just do this at home by myself and

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not with the church, we're falling

prey to the same mentality there

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in one Corinthians chapter 11.

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That's helpful.

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One final question.

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I know we're running a little longer,

but that this is an important subject

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matter to at least ask some of

the more pressing questions about.

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And here's one that I know we get maybe

with some degree of regularity, and it has

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to do with the frequency of our chosen.

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schedule.

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Yeah.

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So some people come from a

different tradition where, hey you

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do this as often as you gather.

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Doesn't Jesus say or doesn't the

scripture say do this as often as

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you gather or something like that.

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Help us understand why

Compass chooses to do it.

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The frequency that we do, and we happen

to do it once a month, but there's other

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churches that do it once a week, right?

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Others who do it once a quarter

and some even beyond that.

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I'm not sure what all goes into their

decisions, but help walk us through

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your decision about our frequency.

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Yeah.

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So the Bible doesn't say, do this.

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Anytime you gather it, every time

you gather, it says, whenever

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you do this, do it this way.

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Mm.

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That's a big, that's a big difference

in what most people understand.

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Huge.

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Yeah.

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Big distinction.

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Yeah.

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There's no verse that says, do

this every time you come together.

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One of the reasons why we landed on it

monthly is because of the danger of it

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becoming something that is so rot and

so routine that it loses its impact and.

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That's something that we have to

guard against in other aspects of

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the church too, not just communion.

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We show up at church and we sing and we

hear the scripture reading and we hear

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preaching, and then we're dismissed.

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Right?

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We do things in a rhythmic

pattern, in a routine.

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So not all of that is wrong, but when

we're doing something that is so.

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Often similar, which is the

observance of the Lord's table.

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It's easy for us to let

that become white noise.

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And I think if we were to say, Hey, next

week we're gonna start doing communion

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every single week, that for a short amount

of time, the people that are really high

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on that would say, yeah, this is great.

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This is great, and it would be great.

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I'm not saying it wouldn't necessarily be

great, but the risk that's, that somebody

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could run is it becomes so commonplace,

so familiar that it loses its impact.

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So we do it monthly because

I think it allows us for that

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time to say, man, this is good.

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I've been looking forward to this.

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I've been wanting to do community,

I've been wanting to observe the

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elements again, and we can approach

it with that intentionality and

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purpose that I think it's due and

so that's why we do it once a month.

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Other churches that do it.

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Every week.

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Not wrong.

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Churches that do it less

frequently, not wrong.

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I don't think we would ever do it

less frequently than once a month.

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But the scripture never says,

every time you gather, it

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doesn't give us a prescription.

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So it sounds like there's freedom to

choose in this particular case For sure.

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Some churches can choose to do

one thing and another, another.

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Approach.

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But the point is that the church

does it, and the frequency is

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chosen by the leadership and

the direction of the pastors.

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And you're free to enjoy as you see fit.

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I like that.

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In fact, first Corinthians 11, lemme

just point this out to you in case you,

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you happen to be surprised by what PPJ

said which is that there is nothing

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that says you have to do it weekly.

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So he says here in chapter 11, first

Corinthians Chapter 11, I guess

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you might wanna start at verse 24.

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He says, this is my body,

which which is for you.

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Do this in remembrance of me.

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Verse 25.

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In the same way, also, he took the cup

after supper saying, this is the cup

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this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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Do this as often as you drink it in

remembrance of me for as often as

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you eat this bread and drink this.

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Drink the cup, you proclaim the

Lord's death until he comes now.

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And that's the passage that most

people refer to when it says to

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do it as often as you gather.

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It doesn't say that it says as

often as you drink it and as

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often as you take the bread.

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So there it is, one Corinthians

11 verses 24 through 26.

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That'd be our key text there.

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One other note I would say is.

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If you're doing this in a gathering

in your home, like you're having

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people over for dinner you're getting

together with, you know, a large

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group of people and you're going,

Hey, we should do community together.

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I'm gonna do community

with all these people.

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Lemme just caution you because

the Bible's warnings about taking

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community in an unworthy manner.

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That if you're leading that and

you are leading unbelievers into

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participating in the Lord's table I

think there's a danger there for you.

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And so I, I would say that's another

reason to trust your church in that,

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because that they get to cover you

in that, to say, okay the pastor's

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saying, Hey, I'm gonna fence the table

appropriately, which is important,

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but then this is gonna fall on me.

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And ultimately I'm the individual who

eats or drinks in an unworthy manner.

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But we gotta be careful not to do

community in a mixed company of believers

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and unbelievers and not make sure that

we're fencing the table there to say, Hey,

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this isn't for you who are unbelievers.

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This is only for

Christians in this context.

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All right, let's get

into John chapter five.

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John chapter five, only one chapter today.

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And John chapter five is not in the.

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All too distant rear view

mirror for us as a church.

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But Jesus begins by healing a guy that

was paralyzed for almost 40 years.

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And I love it because he asks him

this question, do you want to be made?

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Well?

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And the guy is laying there

as a paralytic going yes.

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And Jesus is really asking

a double sorted question.

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A double-edged question there.

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He's asking him, do you

wanna be made physically?

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Well, but more significantly.

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Do you wanna made, be made

spiritually well, and the man is

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healed by Jesus and he is then.

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Takes off excited about this and

goes, but because it was the Sabbath

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the religious leaders are not happy.

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And they go to the man and

they say, Hey, who did this?

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And the man says, well, I don't know.

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And then Jesus finds him, seeks him

out and says, Hey, you know what?

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You've been healed.

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Now go and sin no more.

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Put this healing to work the way

that God wants you to put it to work.

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The man instead of doing that then goes

back to the religious leaders and tells

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on Jesus and says, it was that guy.

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That guy did it.

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Don't be mad at me about

breaking the Sabbath.

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It's his fault.

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So that leads to this sparring match

between Jesus and the religious

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leaders where Jesus is going to

defend himself, not by justifying.

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His actions, but rather by doubling

down and making himself equal with God.

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And this is one of those passages to

go to when you have people challenge.

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Well, Jesus never made himself

equal with God, but indeed he did.

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If you fact, in fact, if you look at

verse 17, Jesus said, my father is

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working until now and I am working.

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Remember context, the Sabbath, you

weren't supposed to work on the Sabbath.

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The Jews believed rightly so that

God continued to work on the Sabbath

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because if he wasn't doing the

work of sustaining the universe,

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then everything would fall apart.

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And so Jesus makes this claim to say,

if God is working on the Sabbath,

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I'm working on the Sabbath too.

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And then the Jews, they

understand what he's saying here.

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Verse 18.

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This is why the Jews were seeking

all the more to kill him because not

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only was he breaking the Sabbath.

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But he was calling God his own

father, making himself equal with God.

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And from here on there's this back

and forth between Jesus and the Jewish

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leaders, or really not much of a back

and forth, really just a fourth from

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Jesus with the religious leaders here

where he's making statement after

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statement after statement of his power

and authority and is equality with God.

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And there's some amazing verses in

John chapter five where we look at and

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say, okay, I don't know how you can

argue that Jesus did not believe that

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he was fully equal with the father.

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Amen to that.

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And I'll even echo the fact that in John

five there I have highlighted things

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and underlined all sorts of things.

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I think there's two things that

I wanna bring to your attention

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that I think are helpful.

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And the first one is at verse 14,

he says to him after he healed

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them, see you are well sin no more.

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That nothing worse may happen to you.

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What conclusions should

we draw from that phrase?

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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There's speculation that this guy was

a paralytic because of sin in his life.

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That this could have been God's discipline

or judgment in his life or this is just

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Jesus simply saying to him, Hey, as

bad as you had it there's discipline.

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There's consequences that are even

worse than what you just came out of.

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If you continue in sin in your life, and

so either one of those we could see is

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a valid warning to us and something that

we should fear God as a result of that.

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Amen.

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I actually lean on the

former, not the latter.

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That is, I think that there is

something in this guy's life

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where he brought it upon himself.

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How he does that, I don't know.

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I don't pretend to know, but I think he's.

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Warning him to say, look,

you sinned and this happened.

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I do also believe he's saying sin

no more, because there's a lot worse

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that could happen as a result of

ongoing habitual rebellious sin.

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And so I think that's important for us.

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He's gonna say to someone else later,

this is, this didn't come because of sin.

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It became from, it came from my glory.

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So that's not to say that every

ill or malady that afflict

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you is because of a sin.

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But it might be, and it's up to you

to determine and discern whether

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or not you see that in your life.

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And I think that's an important point too.

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You have to do the work when you go

undergo some kind of affliction, it's

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up to you to say, okay, Lord, help

me to see things that I can't see.

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Am I in, am I sinning here and

this is your chastisement or.

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Is this one of those things that you're

doing it for your glory and you're just

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asking me to go through it faithfully?

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That's a good thing for

you to keep in mind.

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Here's one more now.

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John chapter five, verse 44.

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He says, how can you believe

when you receive glory from one

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another and do not seek the glory

that comes from the only God?

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Okay, help us untangle that.

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I think that's profound, and I think

there's something really important

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there that many people might miss.

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Do you have any insights

or thoughts on verse 44?

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PPJ?

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The, this is similar to when I believe

when Jesus was confronting the Pharisees

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for loving the seats of honor and

praying at the corners and, fasting.

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So other people notice their fasting

and, all of that that we're even

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gonna get to in the Sermon on

the mountain a couple days here.

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They were willing to receive the

praises of man, they were willing

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to receive glory from one another.

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In other words, as he puts it

here, but do not seek the glory

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that comes from the only God.

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They're not seeking the true

manifestation of God's glory.

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John chapter one, which is found

in the person of Jesus Christ.

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They're rejecting that we have seen

as glory glories of the only begotten.

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Full of grace and truth from the father.

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The, they're rejecting him and

instead all they're really focused

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on and concerned about is, is the

glory that comes from mankind.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's so powerful because

he says here at the beginning of

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verse 44, how can you believe in other

words, there is a kind of love Yeah.

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Of a man's praise and man's applause

that you can't believe in God.

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You can't see his glory 'cause

you're so infatuated with your own.

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Oof.

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That'll hurt.

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Beware of the love of man's

applause and his approval.

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Lest you become so ensnared by

that, that you can't believe Yeah.

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You're so consumed.

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You have no room for God.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let me circle back really quick

to our ordinance conversation.

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No, we're done.

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Because you mentioned the

exception clauses and I, we did

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get some questions about that.

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Oh yes.

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That is worth bringing up.

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It's worth bringing up.

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There are gonna be times wherein if

somebody's sick and homebound and they

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can't make it to church, that's it.

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It's appropriate.

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Ideally probably for a pastor or

somebody from the church to go

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and visit that person because they

love them and they care for them.

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Yeah.

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And bring elements of communion there and

do communion with them in their living

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room there or wherever they happen to be.

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So shut-ins or people that are

sick or in re rehab centers,

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they can't get to church.

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That's a time to go and do that.

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Other times I think it's not outta

bounds is when somebody is nearing their

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death and they want to do this again.

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Last rites last.

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Well, no, not last.

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Right?

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It's not last rights.

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That's Catholic.

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It's not the same thing.

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Yeah.

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No.

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But to go and have this as a, another

memorial of where their hope is ultimately

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placed as they are on the pre Pacific

eternity to, to testify once more,

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one more time to the death of Christ.

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I think again, that's a good thing to do.

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And again, the church should

be involved in that through

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the pastor being there doesn't.

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Have to be, but ideally that's

the right situation for that.

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Similar with baptism we've heard stories

of somebody who was saved literally on

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their deathbed and wants to be baptized.

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Mm-hmm.

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And you go you do put them the

bathtub, what's not normative.

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You put 'em in the bathtub or I've heard

of pastors who are Baptists and full

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immersion that will go and do a baptism

of pouring or sprinkling because of the

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physical limitations of the person that

they're, I will bring the pool to them.

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I will turn the pool

upside down on top of them.

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On top of them.

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Yeah.

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And the reason why, guys, even

with something like this, this is

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still the church authorizing this.

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Yes.

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This is still the pastor saying, yes,

we agree to this particular expression

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of the Lord's supper or baptism.

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And this exception is through the church.

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Yeah.

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I think far too much.

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We as.

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Protestants Evangelicals, we as Westerners

are looking at our religion through

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the eyes of an individual expression.

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Yes.

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And that's probably at the heart of

many of our issues with some of these

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things because we like our individuality.

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We like to have authority over

ourselves and we really don't like being

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under the authority of anybody else.

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But this is how God has

designed the church.

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He meant it to be a community of

believers submitting to the leadership

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of their pastors and their elders who are

submitting to the leadership of Christ.

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This is the way that he's designed

it and could you find flaws in it?

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Sure.

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But this is what Jesus designed

and therefore I wanna do my best to

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submit to that and live underneath

that blessing and that benefit.

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Oh yeah.

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A hundred percent man.

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Yeah.

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I think, yeah, our Protestant

tradition has lost some of the sense

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of the authority of the church.

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Even in, in that the represent

how important that is,

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that yeah, you're right.

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That it is a communal thing.

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It's not the individualized thing.

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Yeah.

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In fact, we're gonna talk a little

bit more about that on Sunday too.

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Are we?

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We are.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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That's the idea.

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At least Lord willing.

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Okay.

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Let's pray and that we're done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, we are grateful for the church.

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We truly are.

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And I just pray that you would

continue to stir our affections

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and love for the church.

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Is she perfect?

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No, she's not perfect.

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Not a single one is.

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And if we found one, then we would.

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Bring the flaws ourselves by showing up.

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But God, we are so thankful that

you have designed the church to

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be our family and to be the place

that we live out our Christianity.

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So help us Lord, to do

that with excellence.

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We pray as pastors that we would

lead well and faithfully and not

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with a heavy hand, but but genuinely

wanting to see Christ formed in

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the people that are under our care.

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And so we thank you so much for our

church family and for this time.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your bibles.

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Tune it again tomorrow for another

Editioning of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

about our Church at compassntx.org.

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We would love for you to leave a

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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