Honor One Another

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It says in the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands, so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
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Your adornment must not be merely external, the braiding of the hair, the wearing of gold jewelry, or putting on dresses, but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with imperishable quality of gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.
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For in this way, in former times, the holy women also, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, and you have become her children, if you do what is right, without being frightened by any fear.
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It says, and you husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman, and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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And to sum it all up, all of you, be harmonious, be sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, humble in spirit, not returning evil for evil, or insults for insult, but giving a blessing instead, for you are called for that very purpose, that for that you may inherit a blessing.
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For the one who desires life, to love, to see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit, he must turn away from evil and do good, he must seek peace and pursue it, for the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
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Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good, but even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed, and do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as the Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks the hope, and to give an account for the hope that is within you, yet with gentleness and do it with reverence, and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile against, I'm sorry, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be to their shame, for it is better if God should will it so that you suffer for doing what is right, rather for doing what is wrong, for Christ also died for sins, once for all, but just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, in which also he went and made proclamation to spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is eight persons, were brought safely through that water, corresponding to that of the baptism, now saves you, not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for good conscience, that a resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to us.
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Peter is talking about godly living.
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He is talking about how we should conduct ourselves and love one another.
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He begins in chapter 3, which is a continuation of our having honor to one another and honoring authority that is over us, because if you go back to chapter 2, it talks about being submissive to the institutions that are above you, meaning the authority of government, and then it talks about servants, you should be submissive to your own masters, whether they be good or whether they be evil, and it gives an example of who Christ was and how he submitted himself to the Lord, how he submitted himself to God, and even when people talked bad about him, raised reviles against him, Jesus did not speak any deceit against them, and then when he gets to chapter 3, he gives admonition to the wives to be submissive to their husbands, and then he gives one also to the men to live in their wives' understanding way, and if I remember correctly, Lee can correct me if I'm wrong, but when I first came here, I think Lee preached a passage on that when I first came.
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Was it Sunday school? Yeah, I remember that.
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I thought it was behind the pulpit, but it was when I had just started coming here, and you preached a passage on that.
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So what we're going to do as we get to, he gives these instructions of women being submissive to their husbands because it's the ordinance of God, and for husbands to live with their wives in an understanding way, one, because they're the weaker vessel, and the other is, hey, if we don't, men, if we don't want our prayers to be cut off, you better live with your wife in an understanding way, and it's interesting that God gives us no instructions on how to live with these un-understandable people at times in an understanding way, and then we get to verse 8, which is what we're going to focus on.
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Now, I know we have been primarily, it's been dealing with the word, the reciprocal word of aleleos, and it is the Greek word for one another's, and in the Greek vernacular, that word is not in this passage.
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I don't know if any, does anybody else's passage say anything different to what mine did? This gives a list because the Greek word for one another's is not in there, but it is implied, and that's why we're going to look at it, because you have, does anybody else's translation have something other than harmonious? Is that verse 8? Yes, ma'am.
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Anything, what's the first word? The first one? No, it says, finally, all of you have unity of mind.
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Okay, after it says, to sum it all up, all of you, what did yours say? Unity of mind.
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Anybody else? That's really a bad translation, actually.
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All right, what's the, when you get after harmonious, the next one's sympathetic.
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Is that where yours actually says compassion, Andy? I don't know, it gives me a one mind.
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Okay, there it is, hang on.
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The first one was one mind, there it is.
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Okay, we're getting there, hold on.
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After sympathetic, where we, because actually there's a lot of different ways it has been translated, so I want us to look at why the differences.
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After sympathy, you said brotherly love in the ESV.
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That is almost to the T.
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Anybody else have anything else for sympathetic? You said Is yours says compassion, Andy? Yeah.
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Let me move this one to a different spot.
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And what was the last one? In there, in that little, I got that.
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Humble mind.
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Humble mind, and that's it, yeah.
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Yours says humble mind? Oh, wow.
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My King James guy, what does yours say? What word? Each one of these.
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Harmonious, what does it say? It says we all have one mind.
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Okay.
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Compassion.
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I have compassion, Dan.
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Then it says love is brother.
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Okay.
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Be full of pity, be courteous.
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King James guy.
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King James guy.
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If I can't pick them, why can't he? One in every problem.
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Where was it? In between kind-hearted and sympathetic.
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We're up there.
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It needs to go right here.
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I may have to move these around.
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The reason why we're using this is because these are things by which we do to one another, although it's implied in the text.
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Harmonious, the Greek word here is homophronous.
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It's interesting how each translation is saying it differently.
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But it's trying to convey the one thing.
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What does harmonious mean? How are we to live harmonious with one another? Does it just mean just never causing a rift, never having a conversation? Everyone agrees with us.
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Yes, that's right.
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But we don't always.
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So what does it mean for us to live harmonious? I think the one mind really describes the harmonious, don't it? The one mind part? It can, but if we're not of one mind, you're right, we won't be harmonious.
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We won't live together in harmony.
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But if you follow the progression that we've been teaching, Andy taught submitting to one another.
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As we submit to one another, we're not submitting to one another as in having authority over, as it said here, as the government having to exercise its authority over us or as the husband exercising his authority over the wife or the husband and the wife being father and mother exercising authority over the children.
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It means submitting to, as we went through that, submitting to one another's needs.
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Yes, ma'am.
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I was thinking of a symphony, having their harmonious, have harmony, because you know the drum doesn't say, well here would be a good time for a little drum solo.
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No, it's a way of working together.
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That was a good example.
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That's why it's called a symphony.
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So, we're working together for God, for the good of the body.
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That's how we, do you remember when Andy was saying we were submitting to one another, not just because Lee tells me to take the trash out, okay? Well, I grabbed the trash, although I wouldn't do that if he told me to because he is my elder.
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So, anyway, we submit to one another's needs, okay? Putting them first.
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But being in one mind has to do with this here.
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We're working to serve God and to honor him.
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What's our chief goal? What's the chief goal of marriage? Love God.
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Love God, right? Love God.
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And what's the next one? Love your neighbor.
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Love God, love your neighbor.
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So, that's how we're going to live in unity with one another.
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One mind all has to do with loving God first, loving our neighbor.
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What does it mean to be sympathetic? And this actually, when it was translated into the sympathetic, does that mean sympathetic? That's the Greek word.
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So, it actually is almost transliterated.
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And you're so sympathetic? Sympathy.
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Sympathy, yep.
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Sympathetic.
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Sympathetic.
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Now, we, in some areas, it says compassion.
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If you remember, I can't remember what week it was, but we did Ephesians 4, verse 32, and compassion actually is the Greek word for usphaknon, which meant to feel something within.
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And here's the reason why some, it should be right here.
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That's what this means.
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Uphaknon is actually in the Greek right here for kind-hearted, meaning feeling with inside of you a compassion for one another.
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Feeling a desire.
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You remember when Jesus, he said that the crowds had been following him for many days.
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And he said, man, they're going to get weary if I send them back.
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And he says that God, that Jesus felt compassion over them.
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And what did he do? You remember? He fed 5,000 people.
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Okay? That was the word that was used here.
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And I think his translations translated it as compassion.
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But it actually means to be sympathetic in that here.
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So, for us to have sympathy for one another, what does that mean? Sure, it does fall upon love.
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But sympathy also has an action.
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There you go.
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Care.
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Yeah.
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If you say that you have sympathy for someone, doesn't it cause some type of action? It says that, and I think it's in Hebrews 4, verse 15, that we have a great high priest who's what? Sympathetic with you and I, and was tempted in all ways, just like you and me, but without sin.
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Well, how was Jesus sympathetic with you and me? But why? Because he became flesh.
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And then Jesus could now sympathize with our weaknesses because of the flesh.
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Andy? Sir? You look like you're really thinking down there.
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I am.
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What you got? He was doing the this.
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What you got? No, just keep on going.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So sympathetic has to do with caring.
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It's more than just loving someone.
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Hey, are we sympathetic for what's going on on the other side of the globe? Yes, we care.
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And there's parts of us that wishes that we could do something, reach out to the churches over there, because there are churches over there.
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Christian churches are being dislodged.
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People are being killed over some just retarded stuff.
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So we are sympathetic and we care.
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Therefore, we act in such a way that we're going to display our sympathy with action.
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So we're to live in harmonious or live in one mind with one another.
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We're to be sympathetic with one another and brotherly love.
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I remember.
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I remember what week it was, but we did one on loving the brotherhood.
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And I had to go back and see.
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And the word here is.
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You may remember what the Greek word for brotherly love was.
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Philea, brotherly love.
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Yep.
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This actually would be translated Philea Adelphoi, which means Philea, meaning brotherly, Adelphoi, brotherly love.
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Philea love, Adelphoi, brotherly love.
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What does it mean for us to have brotherly love for one another? These are all actions.
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So what would that look like? If the one another's are reciprocal, what's it going to look like? It's kind of like the first two put together because you feel compassion for your brother.
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You're ensuring his struggles and things like that.
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So your brothers.
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This would have to get your.
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Yes.
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I'm not disagreeing.
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Yes.
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This would require fellowship.
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How can we be a community of brethren? Although we have sister in here.
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How can we be a community of brothers if we my brotherhood, if we don't fellowship with one another? What group of men call themselves brothers and will not fellowship with one another? Not saying don't always.
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What? I mean, take any type of organization that called themselves the brotherhood.
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And what are they going to do? They're going to intentionally get time to do what? Fellowship with one another.
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Yes.
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I was just sitting here thinking as he was describing that.
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It's the same way in our family.
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I mean, our family gets together in fellowships because we love one another.
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Sure, because there's a familial relationship.
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Yeah.
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And there is a familial relationship between even you and I, although we are not from the same mother and father.
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But there is a unity between you and I that would not be that's there, that would not be with my unconverted family members.
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Exactly.
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We forget that.
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I understand that.
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Yeah.
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You understand that you and I have more in common with the people that are converted and more in harmony with those that are converted in the Dallo tribe than with your unconverted family members? Even to the point, if I may.
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Yes.
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Even to the point of your fellowship with that person.
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Yeah.
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I mean, you're probably not going to have as much fellowship with your unconverted brother than you would you and I.
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Oh, sure.
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I can take from my own.
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I was converted before my older brother.
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Me and my brother could not get along, did not get along.
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It caused my sister, I mean my wife, did not get along with my brother.
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And that was his sister-in-law because of his lifestyle.
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We could not, it didn't mix.
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Yeah.
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It just didn't work.
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Once he was converted, then obviously we have some same interests, then that changed.
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But yeah, we have to have this, the brotherly love we can fellowship because of what? We're of one mind, of one spirit, of one baptism, of one Savior.
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Now, does this take some time for all of this to work itself out? Well, sure.
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It doesn't happen in a split second.
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Yeah.
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And think of just getting to know new members or getting to know new people you work with, or what I say, or minister with.
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Yeah, it takes time.
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It takes time.
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All right, what does it mean to be kind-hearted? I thought that's what y'all would say.
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It's kind of weird.
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I'm going to move this up.
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I'm going to move it up so we can see it.
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All of those words kind of describe each of the other words.
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They are a description and sometimes can be used as a synonym.
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That's why when it was translated to compassion for the other, that's how we ended up.
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I mean, as far as kind-hearted goes.
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Let me erase that one down there.
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All right.
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Kind-hearted will produce an action.
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Remember, it seems black and white is the word that we use, and it was the feeling of compassion in your guts.
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So when Jesus had compassion or was kind-hearted towards those that were hungry, that had been following him for three days, he did what? He fed them.
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He fed them.
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He fed them.
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So if we're kind-hearted towards one another, what are we going to do? You can feed me.
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I'll always eat.
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We're going to do something to show that compassion, to show that desire, to show that action of love towards one another to our brethren.
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How that plays out can be, I don't know, a hundred million different ways.
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Let's say this.
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We'll use for instance, we already said that.
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We were kind-hearted to Scott when he was here.
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Were we not? We were.
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Andy has probably the numbers off the top of his head.
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We were very kind-hearted.
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I think we gave him, what was it? Andy, $3,300 as a gift to him.
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That is great.
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We couldn't go over there, could we? We all couldn't load up.
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Some of us probably don't want to go over there.
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But we all couldn't load up and go on a church field trip there.
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So what did we do? We gave out of, some of us gave out of our necessities, and some of us gave out of our abundance to see to it that he could get over there and do what he needed to do, him and his wife and his family.
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So that was the action.
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Sometimes it's giving money.
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How else can it be demonstrated? Time.
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Time.
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That's difficult, man.
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Hang a lot.
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We're all busy.
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But yeah, time.
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So it could be showing kind-heart, it could be money, time.
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And this could play out in multiple ways.
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Sometimes it could just be spending time with someone.
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Just literally spending time.
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But some of it is in the opening of the scriptures.
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Not everybody can spend the same amount of time with everybody.
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But I have some young men that I speak with during the week and early in the mornings.
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I'm kind-hearted towards them.
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They're going through some very difficult times, and we open the scriptures together.
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That's what we do.
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To see to it that they can apply the immeasurable riches, the infallible riches of God's word, and apply that to their life.
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That's what we do.
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That takes time.
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I don't care how.
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That takes time on any scale.
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And I am thankful for those men.
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They have decided that they're going to get up early because I'm up early.
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And Andy used to be the only one I could talk to at four in the morning.
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Now that he's retired, I can't do that.
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All right.
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Time and money.
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What else? Sure.
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I won't be grumpy.
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No grumpy spirit.
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A few weeks ago, we talked a little bit about this, about when we're serving one another.
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Do y'all remember? And sometimes when we look and we're serving one another, it looks, we're doing it in such a way that, well, a lot of long face.
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We should be serving one another with joy.
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And I think that's what you're pointing to.
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Yeah.
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Don't have a grumpy spirit about it.
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Yeah.
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Are you doing what you're doing out of a kind heart and compassion for your brother or sister? Are you doing it because out of compulsion, I would say this.
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If you're doing these things out of compulsion, don't do it.
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Don't do it because you're doing it out of obligation, not out of love for your brother or sister.
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Even when God says, Hey, don't give your money to the, to the local assembly out of compulsion.
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Y'all remember that passage, right? We read it almost or somebody quotes it almost every week.
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Don't give it out of compulsion.
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Do it with what? A cheerful heart.
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We should do everything with a cheerful heart with one another.
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Yes, ma'am.
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I think sometimes we do it out of obedience and God brings the feelings later.
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Sure.
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You know, so I think you go ahead and do it knowing it's in here and we're supposed to do it.
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And then God multiplies that.
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But if your lifestyle of serving, I agree with you if your lifestyle of serving the Lord is an attitude of grumpiness or an attitude of compulsion or out of, just out of Christian duty, you need to examine yourself because there should be a joy that comes to serving the Lord and serving your brother and sister in Christ.
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That should go, man, I'm happy.
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God has given me the opportunity to exemplify love towards my neighbor.
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Yeah.
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Is there a time that we, yeah, we have.
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Sometimes there is time for Christian duty.
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Yes, there is.
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But that shouldn't be the consistent pattern of one's life.
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Time, money, and not a grumpy spirit.
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And the last one in there is, what did yours say? Yours said what? Humble mind.
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Humble mind.
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That's actually the, translated almost to the T.
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Tiempo no fronos is what that would be in the Greek.
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Humble mind.
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Fronos meaning mind or intellect.
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Tiempo meaning the humility.
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So what does it mean to be humble in mind? Okay.
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Someone first.
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Anybody remember what it says in Philippians about Christ? Somebody quote that.
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I remember.
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Let this mind be in you.
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Keep going.
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Which was also in Christ Jesus who counted it not.
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What's the word that he used? To be equal with God.
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Okay.
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So did Jesus have the prerogative to say, look at me.
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I'm God.
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Did he have the prerogative to do that? Yeah.
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Did he have the prerogative to say, bow down and worship.
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I hate even saying that.
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That sounds like, to say bow down and worship me.
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Did he? He didn't do that.
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He didn't take that equality, God, that says to be something to grasp at this time of humiliation.
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So what did he do? He laid that prerogative aside and the first part of having a humble spirit is putting others first.
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Putting others first.
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Did Jesus Christ put others first above himself? Now let's just list a couple of those.
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Think about it.
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He came into the world because we had a greater need than he did.
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He didn't need anything.
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How about going to the cross? Yes, that was the greatest need.
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Look, anything after salvation is nothing but bonus.
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I mean, Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
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There's our salvation.
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He came in.
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He secured those who were decreed in eternity fast.
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He secured that.
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Anything after that to that believer is nothing but bonus and gracious and good.
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So Jesus came into the world in a humble mind putting others above himself.
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How else can we put others first as Christ did? Have to think of yourself more highly than other people.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Not conceited.
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That's right.
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Not conceited.
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Meaning don't be arrogant.
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Was Jesus arrogant? No.
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We read earlier that Jesus, when people reviled against him, caused and said deceitful things against him, did he respond in such a way that he responded in anger? He didn't.
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He kept it quiet.
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So we shouldn't be conceited.
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I do think when we put others first, this will diminish.
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Because when we put other people's first and we realize, you know what? They're more important than I am.
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I don't have any prerogative to look down on someone.
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That's actually when it comes to Juanda being looking down on somebody with arrogance.
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It's speaking down to them in a condescending way.
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How else can we have a humble spirit or humble mind? Can you see it? Yeah.
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I'm sorry.
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Let me slide the board up.
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Be teachable.
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Be teachable.
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How many of us in here go, yeah, I've achieved everything I need to know about the Christian life? Anybody want to raise their hand? So then we can say how unteachable and conceited.
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Nobody.
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We've got to be willing to learn from people.
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We've got to be willing to go, I've not achieved that level of sanctification that the Bible requires, therefore I can learn from anybody.
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That takes away pride.
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That will make your pride, or it will certainly expose it.
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It will expose it.
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Be teachable.
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I don't care how many biblical languages somebody knows.
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I don't care how many books they've read.
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I don't care how often they read their Bible through in a complete way.
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We can all learn from one another.
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We can all learn from one another.
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Just because God has given a person the ability and the desire and the giftedness to teach or preach does not mean they are now the rule and standard of all truth.
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That rule and standard of all truth is right here.
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And sometimes this right here tells me when I'm wrong, tells me when I have gone the error of my way, and that's why we should always be, one, be ready to be teachable, and can you see that one over there? Anyway, be ready to repent.
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We realize that we're absolutely in complete submission to the Lord and that everything we get from Him, and we know this, that we have to be ready to repent of our wrong thinking, wrong doing, and wrong acting.
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Anything else about being of humble mind? I was interested in King James.
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I have a new King James book translated.
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What's that? King James, that new King James translates that word as courteous.
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I know.
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I saw that when I was reading it.
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King James, what I use in the mornings to read on my dash, that's my Bible I've had for probably 17 years.
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And when I read that, I went, that's interesting.
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So let's just take that word courteous.
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What would the word courteous mean? Does it mean that we should open the door for the person that's coming into church? Is that what that means? It could, yeah.
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Does that display Christ's likeness? Well, a lost person can open the door.
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So I think there's a nuance to that within the Christian community, if that courtesy is how he translated it, than what they're trying to say.
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Are we thinking that courteous has the idea of doing what? Thinking of yourself less important than the other person.
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Be courteous.
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It's not holding the door open, although that can be an act of kindness.
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It's not courteous can be done by the unconverted.
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I don't think it's an issue of common grace, because that's many times when people will say courteous.
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It's just common grace.
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It really is a result of special grace, especially within the context of the people of God, that we prefer one another, we have compassion on one another, because we understand by grace, the grace of God that other people possess.
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Versus, like I said, just common grace.
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If somebody lets the door go, as you're walking in, how many of us say, man, thanks? I'm talking to you.
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But we don't think we're sinned against that.
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Right, right.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Some of you might.
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Humility seems to go way beyond courtesy, though, social courtesy.
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And it does.
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What it's trying to convey is the fact that we should be kind to one another.
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Kind.
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A lot of times we say just be nice.
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Well, I don't know.
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Y'all can search your Bible high, low, far, wide.
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Nice ain't in there.
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It ain't.
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The word nice ain't even a biblical word.
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It's not.
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Kindness is.
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When people say we should be kind to one another, that's true.
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So kind and love and patience are all what? Fruits of the Spirit that need to be honed within us because those are the fact that the Holy Spirit has come and regenerated us.
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Then those fruits of the Spirit begin to be evident.
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But they're not in perfect abundance.
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So how do we do that? We have to be humble of mind with one another.
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We have to be of one mind with one another so that those fruits can then be pruned to produce more fruit.
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It all goes back to this is what the Spirit produces.
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The Spirit will produce a some translations harmonious mind.
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It'll produce that of one mind.
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Why? Because we're all in unity of one Spirit.
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Then it will make us sympathetic for one another.
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Why? Because we can sympathize when our brother or sister is hurting whether it be financially, physically, spiritually.
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A lot of times we're more sympathetic when we see someone have a death in the family.
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Is that not true? Are we really that sympathetic when we see somebody who's struggling financially? Or we see that they're struggling spiritually? I'll tell you what, what bothers me more than anything because eventually just don't want to be cold hearted but death will eventually that will what life will get busy again.
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Man, somebody's in spiritual depression meaning they're struggling in the everyday in and out of life and you understand that the Bible talks about those then they have the tendency to want to turn away.
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That bothers me more than anything.
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Because that has damnable consequences.
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I'm not talking about that person losing their salvation.
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I have somebody I'm talking to right now.
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Man, they're light.
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They're going down this way, man.
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God's supposed to love me.
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He's supposed to cure me.
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Why are these things happening to me? Maybe this is all a farce.
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That's scary.
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So what do you do? Hey man, God's the author and perfecter of your faith.
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That which you began when you held on to see it to the end.
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But that bothers me.
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So we should be, and that would be extending brotherly love.
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Once again, brotherly love has to do with the act of the Spirit in the heart of the believer.
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Being kind and being humble in spirit.
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All of those are the fruit are a result of the fruit of the Spirit being exhibited in one's life.
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It doesn't mean that it's done perfectly.
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It just means that it's being done.
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We have two minutes.
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Look for us.
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It really is on a different.
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It's in the spirit.
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It's not in just in the flesh.
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And I think we get to see the thinking.
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Just do it in the flesh.
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It's right.
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It's really not.
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Because otherwise the glory of God is not involved.
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And I think that's where a lot of people will do it in a common kind of way.
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But yet their thought isn't to give God the glory.
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They see themselves as the result of his grace in their lives.
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Yeah, that's true.
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All right, well.
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You got something to say, young lady? All right, well, let's pray.
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Hey, talk to me.
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All right, let's pray.
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Father God, thank you so much for the example of your son, Father, which we can always point back to, who was kindhearted, who had the love for the brethren, who was of one mind and one spirit to accomplish that which you sent him to do.
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And he was certainly humbled.
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He put aside those prerogatives of deity to come and do that which you called him to do.
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Father, we thank you for your word.
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Thank you that we can examine it week after week and day after day.
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And, Father, never mine it down to its fullness, that, Father, your word is inexhaustible and your riches are inexhaustible.
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And, Father, we thank you for that.
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Prepare us now for a time of corporate worship that you would be honored in all that's said and done and the singing and the preaching of the word and the giving of offerings.
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In Christ's name, amen.
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