Aug. 5, 2024

Salt and Light

Salt and Light

A look at a conference and an assignment

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A look at a conference and an assignment

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Monday, August the fifth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently ten fifty nine am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. It is Monday. A

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brand new week, all right. I don't know if you

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get excited about a brand new week, or if you

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you aren't excited about a brand new week. You kind

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of look at it going, oh no, I gotta do this,

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I gotta do this, I gotta do this. Whatever, however

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you approach a new week, if you do so with excitement,

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or if you do so with oh no, almost like

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not looking forward to it, almost dreading it, I don't

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know how you approach it. But it's a brand new week,

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and with a brand new week comes well opportunities for study,

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opportunities for spiritual focus. Hopefully that we can accomplish something

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spiritually that by the end of the week we're somehow

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better off than we were at the beginning of the week.

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I know it doesn't always work that way, don't you

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don't you wish in some ways spiritually speaking, and I

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know I'm gonna I'm gonna just just bear with me here,

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just just be patient, all right. Just I wish in

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some ways right that physical or that spiritual health, spiritual growth,

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spiritual maturity. I wish in some ways our spiritual life

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worked in some ways like our physical life, right. Because physically,

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if you decide, you know what, I'm going to dedicate

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myself to a proper balanced diet I'm going to do.

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I'm gonna ensure that I'm exercising this many minutes per

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day per week. I'm going to I'm gonna come, I'm

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gonna work on my cardio, I'm gonna work on strength,

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I'm gonna work on building muscle. Whatever. You can set

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specific goals physically, you can begin to work on those goals,

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and you will begin to see the results. Right, if

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you put in the work, you put in the discipline. Typically,

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I mean, I know there's always exceptions because of different

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medical conditions, but typically you're going to begin to not

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you're going to be you're gonna actually see the results.

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You're going to fill the results. You may be able

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to get lab tests to show you how your exercise

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is helping with this, or this or this. It may

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begin to help with blood pressure or lower this, or

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help this building muscle masks. I mean, whatever the case

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may be, you will begin to see, feel, and you

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can even test and see the benefits of all of

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your hard work. It may take a while, it may

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take a month, it may take two months, but slowly,

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but surely you're going to see it now. The problem

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with our physical situation sometimes is a lack of discipline,

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a lack of effort, or a lack of desire. Like

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we may deep down we may say, well, I would

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like to do this, but we just we don't desire

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it enough to really put forth the work and the

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discipline to do those things. But we can accomplish something there.

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It can be seen, it can be measured spiritually speaking.

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Do you ever find it somewhat kind of frustrating, right?

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Because how do you really measure it? Right? How do

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you like if you're like, Okay, I'm gonna read my

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Bible this many times a week, I'm going to listen

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to this many sermons, I'm going to go to church,

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I'm gonna meditate, I'm going to pray. You're gonna how

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do you measure spiritual success. Typically what we do is

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we measure it based off some kind of external some

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external righteousness, or some external rule keeping, or some external

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law keeping, and so we and in some ways we

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treat our spiritual life somehow the same way we would

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treat our physical Like we'll look for some external way

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to be able to measure it and judge it. But

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the only problem with our spiritual life is that external

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doesn't prove. Literally, it doesn't prove anything. Someone can look

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all spiritual externally, right. They can look like the Pharisees.

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They can look like the Sadducees. They don't do this.

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I don't do this, I don't do this. I don't

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do this. But all you are is a whitewashed tomb.

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All you are is a cup that is clean on

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the outside but corrupt on the inside. The way to

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measure your spiritual success is much more difficult or your

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spiritual growth, or your or your spiritual health. It is

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much more difficult because well, so much of it is internal.

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So much of it is internal, and you may avoid

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this external behavior, but in internally you're just as corrupt.

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So I think it's very difficult to measure it. And

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not only that, if you're not careful when you begin

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to try to measure your spiritual growth or your spiritual victories,

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then sometimes it can become literally a source of pride,

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which then well, in a sense, throw out all of

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the spiritual success. That if your spiritual success becomes a

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source of pride arrogance, you become now judgmental and condemning,

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and you basically become phariseical and point your finger at

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everyone else, thinking you're better than everyone else, then that

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only demonstrates that all spiritual success that you thought you

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had actually it now is just your biggest failure. Wouldn't

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that be crazy? Your spiritual growth becomes your your greatest

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spiritual failure because of how you respond to it and

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handle it. I just think spiritually it's so hard to measure.

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It can be so difficult. Right because here we are,

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August the fifth. You all know that for twenty twenty four,

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it's all been about It's all been about the sermons.

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Two point zero app Sermon challenge. Every single day, opening

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the app, listening to a random sermon, right, writing it down,

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writing down a summary of what you learned, and so

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by the end of the year, you can open a

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notebook and say, look, I listen to this many sermons. Well,

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that's great, that is wonderful. And by no means am

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I anyway trying to take away from that discipline and

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what you accomplished, because it is very great. It's great

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that some of you have already listened to hundreds of sermons.

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That's amazing. That's awesome. And I don't even know how

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many I've listened to. But here's my frustration. It's August

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the fifth, Okay, so I've been listening to sermons, you know,

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since January. Now here's the question, am I better off spiritually?

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How do I measure it? Has it been beneficial?

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Now?

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In some ways, I don't think we can really look

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at our spiritual growth that way. I think I think

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we like. I think we like to measure things right.

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I think I think we like we like that. One

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of the things I sometimes complain about in martial arts,

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because I've been a martial arts you know, a good

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portion of my life is I don't like especially. I

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think it's very much an American mentality that you have

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these people who join a martial arts they'll they'll join

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a martial arts school and and they all they seem

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to care about is getting that next belt, taking the test,

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getting the next out, and the schools really push that idea. Right, Okay,

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you've been you've been a part of this martial arts

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school for this long. Okay, well hurry up and test

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and get your next bout now. Hurry up and test

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and get your nextbout now one because the testing usually

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costs more money. So that's another way the school makes money.

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But it's all about these I think it's superficial advancement

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by getting this belt and get this belt and this

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belt or this belt and this belt, and then sometimes

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when you look at it, you're look, what have you

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really accomplished. My approach in martial arts was I don't

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care about your belt system. I don't care about it.

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I don't care. They're like, well, you know you've been

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here a year, you should have already. I don't care

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about your superficial artificial belt. That belt doesn't mean anything.

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It's irrelevant if you haven't done the work. I would

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rather stay at this level, working these techniques over and

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over and over and over and over and over and

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over and over and over and over and over and

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over and over and over again, so that I've mastered

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them before I even come close to moving to the

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next belt. So when in every martial arts schools I

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have ever been a part of, it's always like everyone's like,

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you've been here two years, You've taken one test, and

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I'm like, and I don't care. My it has nothing.

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I know, the American mentality is, who get that belt?

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Look at me. I've got all these belts and I

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and it's all it's all about this superficial thing. Well,

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in some ways, I think spiritually we like to measure

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things that way. We like to measure things. So I

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know this year for this challenge, for the Sermon's two

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point zero app challenge, I mean, at least for me,

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there's a part of me though, to be honest, if

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I think in some ways I have a better mentality

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when it comes to martial arts than when it comes

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to my own spirituality, because sometimes I'm like, well, what

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what what? What? What have I accomplished? What has changed?

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Am I? How do I measure it? How do I

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how do I how do I quantify it? But I

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don't think we really can, I know, I know we

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typically use I mean there's certain illustrations used to describe

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the spiritual life. Right, we describe it as a race. Okay, Well,

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as a race, I need to know where I am.

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I'm in the race, how far ahead am I am?

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I am I running to?

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When?

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Right? And so we try to measure it. I think

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sometimes with our spiritual life, all we can do is

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each day we get up and we try to learn,

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We try to grow, We try to grow closer to God,

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we confessin we struggle with it. I think it's just

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kind of an ongoing process that we cannot really necessarily

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measure or quantify because in many cases it becomes a

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source of pride and arrogance. So I don't know how

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you measure it. I think physically it's it's much easier. Spiritually,

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I think it's much more complicated. I don't know if

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you've ever given it much thought. But I was just

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thinking about it because it's August. I'm getting ready to

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talk about the sermons two point oh app challenge, and

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so I was just thinking, Okay, so am I better

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off after listening to all these sermons? Have I grown?

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How do I measure it? So? I don't know if

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you ever look at it, But I just think it's not.

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I think spiritually it's just should he even be? Should

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we even try to measure it? Should we even attempt

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to measure it? Can all we do is today is

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another day that I continue my well. We can use

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the term relationship with God, my walk with God. And

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every day has its success and its failures. Sometimes the

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success is maybe external and the failure is internal. Maybe

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sometimes his success is internal and the failure is external.

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I think it's always it's never easy to measure, and

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I think maybe in some ways we have to be

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careful not to do that, because then it becomes more

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about kind of like some people in martial arts having

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that next belt. Look at me, I'm a blue belt,

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I'm a red belt, I'm a brat. What what depending on

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your school and your system, and it's like, yeah, what

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does that mean. It's just an artificial ranking system that

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you paid money to take a test, and so you

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memorize some moves, you memorize some basic facts. You passed.

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A test doesn't really mean anything. So I think some

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of our so called spiritual advancements, do they really mean anything?

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And are they becoming a source of pride? Now? Even

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though I say all of that, I just think maybe

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maybe it's a time to just consider that. But even

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though I say all of that, Hey, here we are.

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It's August the fifth, and we've got a new Sermons

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two point zero app sermon challenge for this week, something

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specific to look at. So I'm gonna this is what

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I'm going to do. First, I'm going to introduce you

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to what I want you to focus on this week

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for the sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge, what

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I want you to listen to this week. And then

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I'm going to provide you an assignment that maybe we

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will be talking about throughout the week. Are you ready? First,

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here's what I want you to do. I want you

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to take your sermon's two point oh app. I gotta

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unplug my iPad here, open up the sermon's two point

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oh app, and I want you to look for Tyler

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Primitive Baptist Church, Tyler T. Y L. E. R. Tyler

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Primitive Baptist Church. Okay, Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. For the

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rest of this week, You're going to become a member

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of Tyler Primitive Baptist Why I can't, I mean, you know,

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going to be attending all week. All right, Tyler Primitive

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Baptist Church. It's located in Tyler, Texas. Now, look, even

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if a church teaches absolutely heretical doctrine, if they're located

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in Texas, I mean that there's got to be like, well,

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you get a pass, right. I mean, you may be

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a heretic, but I'm not saying they're heretics. But I'm saying,

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even if you are a heretic, if you're preaching in

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your churches in Texas, there's got it. I mean, that's

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got to prove something, right, Okay, I don't know, Okay,

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but all right, I digress. Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. Look

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that up, Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. Once you get there,

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on the sermon's two point oh, app scroll down and

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you're gonna see recent series, recent series, and you're gonna

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see the one that says twenty twenty four Salt and Light,

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twenty twenty four salt and light. Currently there are thirteen sermons,

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thirteen sermons. All right, your mission, your job, your challenge

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is that this week you focus on simply listening to

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the sermons of the twenty twenty four Salt and Light

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Conference from Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. Look up Tyler Primitive

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Baptist Church on the Sermon's two point oh app. Scroll down,

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go to recent series look for twenty twenty four Assault

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and Light. Hey, Tyler Primitive Baptist Church. Get some artwork,

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get some artwork for your series. Okay, get some artwork,

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all right, it makes it look better. Okay, So about

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I won't go, I won't. Well, here's what we're gonna do.

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So I'm gonna I'm gonna play their welcome and introduction

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to the conference. I'm gonna play their welcome and introduction

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to the conference. I think it's really cool that they

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did that. I think that's really awesome. All the churches

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out there, listen to me. First of all, when you're

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going to have a conference that's going to be aired

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on you know you're gonna be broadcasting on the Sermon's

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two point oh app and you're gonna be uploading your

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content there a week out. Two weeks out, start recording

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messages promoting and talking about the conference and letting everyone

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know the schedule the I'm of the live broadcast, how

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quickly you're going to turn around and upload promote? I

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mean you've got the app right, You've got the sermon's

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two point oh app. Promote everything right, Promote it so

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that because there's there's so much content available on the

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your conference is going on until after it started. But

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if I'm seeing messages, you know the twenty twenty four whatever,

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you know, this one's called the Salt Light Conference is

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coming up in two weeks. We'll be broadcasting live each

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evening at this time. We'll be uploading the messages within

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thirty minutes after each live broadcast. Please tune in right

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and so, and then you can you can do you know, hey,

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we're going to be covering these topics and all that.

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I'll start listening, like what is going on? And then

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when you go find like the very first message that

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don't do much of an introduction. So I love this

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one that they do a welcome and an introduction and

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we're gonna play. I haven't listened to it yet, but

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we're going to We're going to pull this up. I

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didn't even know they had it. I was going to

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go review. I was going to possibly just do a

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review of one of the messages. And I'm like, well,

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let's not do this. Let's turn this into a challenge.

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then we're going to do an assignment. So right now,

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let's just talk about the twenty twenty four Salt and

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Light Conference. Here's the introduction and they call it welcome

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and introduction, and let's see, well what they had to

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say in regards to this conference. Are you ready? Here

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we go?

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All right, I wanna welcome everyone to the twelfth Annual

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Salts and Light Conference. We're so thankful for all of

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you who are here. We've been excited about and looking

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forward to this meeting ever since the meeting ended last summer.

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a meeting over in Alabama where you've spent a portion

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of the week already considering some of the messages and

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lessons in the Book of Ephesians.

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And we did not coordinate that.

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in a little bit of depth the teaching of Ephesians

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chapter four. We've entitled the topic of this meeting one Lord,

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one Faith, one baptism.

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And all right, so this week, now, this is not

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part of your assignment. Okay, I was. I was focused

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on the title Salt and Light. All right, So that's

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not really the theme. The theme is really Effesians four.

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this week, I just want you reading Ephesians four all week,

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Ephesians four, whenever you get a chance, Ephesians four. And

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then I want you to listen to all of these

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messages and the twenty twenty four Sault and Light Conference.

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to take you to Ephesians four. Okay, it's gonna take

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you somewhere else, because salt and light. That's what caught

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my attention. Salt and light. Salt and light. You know

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that comes from Matthew chapter five. Right, all right, you're

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gonna be given an assignment about that. But so for

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your challenge, you're gonna listen to all the sermons and

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the twenty twenty four Salt and Light conference, all right,

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and then you're gonna be reading Ephesians four all week,

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just over and over and over and over and over

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and over and over again. All right. Now, let's see

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what else they have to say in their introduction.

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is stated in Ephesians four five. But the context of

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Ephesians four is about the Church being built up together

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in unity, being built up together in Christ.

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of who Jesus Christ is. We can't serve him if

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we don't know who he is, and we certainly can't

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understand or or address how we interact with him if

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we don't know him. And Ephesians four is structured in

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exactly that way. The apostle writes by inspiration and says,

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I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech ye you

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that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called.

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That's our life's work. We're called to in.

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Christ, with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, for

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bearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity

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of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is

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one body and one spirit, even as you are called

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in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith,

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one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is

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above all and through all.

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topics have been very loosely assigned. But we're looking at

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this verse and these topics in groups of three. First

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three messages on one Lord, the nature, the person, the

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character of God, who he is that we worship and

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with whom we have to do. Followed by one faith,

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what is it that we believe? And how does that

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unite us together or draw us together? And then one baptism.

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another and with the Lord in his church? And what

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does this ordinance of baptism mean? And what does it

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then build in terms of the structure of the church.

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those three things, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One Lord,

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one faith, one baptism. You're going to be reading reading

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Ephesians chapter four over and over and over, but may

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write down that those phrases one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

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That's really where the focus is going to be. And

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then I want you, obviously to listen to every message

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right again, open up the sermons two point oh app

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recent series Salt and Light, thirteen sermons. That is your goal.

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Let's continue to listen to the introduction. But I just

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want you Ephesians four Effusions four, and I want you

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to just focus on those three phrases One Lord, one Faith,

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one Baptism. Very interesting structure. I love the way they're

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structuring this. I love the way they're approaching this. I

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love the fact they give an introduction. All of this

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is great. So hopefully we're going to make use of

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this this week. We'll probably be reviewing many of the messages.

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we will see what we can what we can accomplish. Now, again,

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as I stated in my introduction, my temptation will be

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well by the end of the week. How am I

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going to be able to measure how this has benefited me?

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that when it comes to spiritual growth and spiritual development.

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of the week something good will come from this. Well,

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let's continue to listen to the introduction.

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I'm just thrilled to have the group of speakers that

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the Lord has blessed us to have this year. I

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pray that it'll be a blessing to each and every

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one of us. I've been asked to make a few

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announcements by way of housekeeping, we are going to try

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to keep pretty strictly to the schedule, at least from

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the standpoint of start and stop times for messages, for

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song services and the events that are published and listed.

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Please work with us to make that happen.

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so try to be in here at the published start times.

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He's down with COVID and isn't going to be able

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to be with us. I know he was looking forward

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to being here, and I'm sure he and Sister Donna

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are watching the live stream. Mentioning that if you do

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have anyone who's not able to be here, be sure

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and let them know the services are being live stream.

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They're available on Sermon Audio, both live and as soon

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as they conclude. So do invite anyone to participate in

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that we're gonna ask.

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I do love the fact that says as soon as

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you know, they're going to be made available soon after.

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That's awesome because many of the broadcasters I see, like

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you did a live broadcast and you haven't uploaded that

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in six months? Where's the where is it uploaded? Now? Again,

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I am still baffled, even to this day, I am

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baffled beyond all comprehension on even when I look at

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my own analytics for the sermon Sermonadio platform, how many

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use the website not the app. I'm sometimes baffled by

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the So even he says sermonadio dock up. Why why

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wouldn't you say the sermon it's two point oh app

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or or even advertise their church one app, Like I

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don't understand, Like it's twenty twenty four and so. And

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even when I look at my analytics, I'm like, why

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are all these numbers coming from the website and not

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the app? Why wouldn't everyone be using the sermon's two point,

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I don't under who's using the website? Like I don't

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if you use the website, I would love to know

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why you use that versus the app. I would love

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to know that. I would love to know it because

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it just seems you use an app for everything. So

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why wouldn't you use the app? Now? If there's a reason,

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I would love to know, I really do. I would

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really love to know. But all right, so I do

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love the fact that hey, watch the live stream. That's great,

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give you at least a platform sermon audio and tell

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you they're going to be made available on the man.

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It sounds like immediately after. That's all. So everything I

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like the structure. I like everything they're doing here.

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That we'd be pretty strict and observing no food and

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drinks outside of the dining room. So if you need hydration,

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absolutely get it, but do it in the dining room.

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into the fellowship area, or really very much outside except

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for water that's provided out there. We want to try

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to limit the amount of trash and the amount of

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mess that is brought about by that. Also, no one

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in the flower beds.

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Seems like a strange thing.

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To ask, but especially little kids stay out of the

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flower beds. There are some dangers there. There's some sharp

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spikes there that they could step on.

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It could hurt them.

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And besides that, there's plenty of room to play, plenty

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of room to walk around that doesn't involve being in

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the mulch and in the flower beds that some here.

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Have worked hard to keep up.

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As far as housing and hospitality, if you need a

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place to we want to.

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Provide it for you.

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Sister Deborah and Sister Anna are coordinating that effort, So

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see them.

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If you don't know who.

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They are, reach out to me or anyone else from here,

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and we'll get.

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You to where you need to be. We do have shirts.

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We don't do a extremely formal registration anymore. We don't

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ask anyone to pay a fee to be here. We

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invite everyone to be here to worship. But if you

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do get a shirt, just mark off your name on

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the list of those who have received their shirt, because

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we did.

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WOW a conference that doesn't charge people. Man, this is

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checking all the boxes, okay, and I got no problem

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if they ask for donations or pass the plate or

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any I don't have any problem with that. But it

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should be free to get in to hear the word

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of God preach. Any conference that charges people money to

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come inside to hear the Bible preached, you're making the

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Bible merchandise. You're making the Bible of product that people

491
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are paying for. And now, if we're being really painfully honest,

492
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and nobody ever wants to admit this, conferences that charge

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people money to get in, you're paying for celebrity. You're

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not paying for the preaching of God's word because you

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can listen to millions of sermons on whatever topic they're

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preaching on for free. You're paying because it's John MacArthur.

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You're paying because it's body. You're paying you just name

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the preacher, whoever it is, it's Paul Washer. You're paying

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money to get into a conference because of a name.

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And well, obviously I know that at least MacArthur's conference,

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Shepherd's conference costs money, and I'm pretty sure Voddy's been

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a part of conferences that costs money. I can't speak

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of Paul Washer, but I'm just saying, whoever the popular

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person is, and you have to pay money to get

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inside a building to hear the word of God preach.

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And in some cases this is even more insane. Some cases,

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you're paying money to get inside a church to hear

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the word of God taught, and Christians just say amen

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to that and throw down their money. You should be

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walking away in total protest, because the Word of God

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is not a is not merchandise you can use to

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charge people money to hear someone preach from it. So

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conferences should be free. Conferences should be free, yet they

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cost money, so they've got to be supported. Right, That's

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the that's the weird that's the weird dynamic when it

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comes to ministry, right right, Like I I will never

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want to charge anyone for anything I do, but yet

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I have to have money in order to do it.

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So it's always all you can ever do is hope

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that people who benefit from what they hear will support

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what they hear, because if they don't support it, it

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goes away. And that's why some like I can't count

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on people to support it, so we have to charge

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money in order to accomplish it. I understand the mentality,

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but it's either if God's people don't want to support it,

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then then that's it. Then then fine, go find something

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you have to pay for. I guess, but but I

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think there's a lot of people trying to offer a

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lot of things for free that need support. All right,

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So I love so, I love this.

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Try to get shirts for everyone who registered. There are

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additional shirts and additional registration. Obviously, if you didn't pre register, register,

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we'd like you to sign on the list that's on

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the table out in the in the fellowship area. Sign

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your name, put your email address. We'd like to keep

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track of who's here and stay in contact with you.

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So that's it for the initial announcements. Again, help us

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keep things on track and we'll all have a wonderful

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time this weekend. Feel free to see me with any

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questions or any any ideas about how we can make

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your your stay here and your time here better. And

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let's keep in mind that our desire is to see

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the Lord and his word and to worship him, and

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we're all perfectly equipped for that. One thing we do

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learn in this chapter of Ephesians, as well as throughout

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the New Testament scripture, is that the church is built

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up of all of us, with all of our different personalities,

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all of our different places that we come from. We're

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all unique, but we're all uniquely qualified to worship the

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God who has called us. We're all uniquely qualified to

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to fit together, to be built up together into the

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measure of the stature of Jesus Christ. That's what we're

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trying to do. That also means we all have weaknesses,

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we all need to be built up, we need to

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be different than we are. So let's be patient with

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one another, let's labor with one another, and most of all,

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let's give our attention to worship.

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So I'm gonna lead us in prayer.

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Then we're gonna ask Brother Daryl to come and lead

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the next couple of songs, and then we'll call on

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song leaders throughout this service, and then we'll have our

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first speaker scheduled for three forty five.

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Let's go to the Lord in prayer.

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And there you have it. That's the introduction to the

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twenty twenty four Sultan Light Conference. Your task for this

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week is to start listening to all the sermons in

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that series. How do you find it? You download the

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Sermons two point zero app the app. Download the app

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once you download the app, do I search for Tyler

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Primitive Baptist Church. Once you find it, scroll down you

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will see recent series. You'll see the twenty twenty four

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Sultan Light. There are thirteen sermons. Start listening. All the

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sermons are based on Ephesians chapter four. Start reading Ephesians

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chapter four over and over and over and over and

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over this week, all right, and right down, I'm going

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to go to Ephesians right down these phrases one Lord,

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one Faith, one baptism, because all of the sermons are

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grouped around those three phrases, One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism. Right,

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So that is what you're going to do. But I

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would it would be I would be horribly foolish for

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me to ignore the name of the conference, which is

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Salt and Light. This is where your real assignment's going

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to come this week. Are you ready? Ephesians chapter five

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are Aphiesians. Matthew chapter five, verse thirteen. Matthew Chapter five,

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verse thirteen. You are the salt of the earth. But

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if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?

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It is then good for nothing but to be thrown

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out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light

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of the world. A city that is set on a

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hill cannot You are the light of the world. A

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city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

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Neither do they light a lamp and put it under

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a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light

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to all who are in the house. Let your light

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so shine before men, that they may see your good

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works and glorify your Father in Heaven. Salt and light,

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here is your assignment. So many pastors and preachers that

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we come, they open up the Bible, they say salt light,

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and they say salt means this, light means this. Well,

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Jesus saying your salt in your light. Obviously Jesus is

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pulling from the Old Testament. So here's what I want

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you to do. I want you to start looking for

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references in the Old Testament to salt and to light,

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and see why Jesus possibly is using these phrases salt

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and light, and what would be the meaning of salt

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and light, especially in light, and how the Old Testament

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uses salt and light. Now you may find countless references,

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so you may have to just skim through them and

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just start writing, compiling a list of verses about salt

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and light that you think gives some insight to what

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Jesus meant by saying you are salt and your light.

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But it's coming from the Old Testament. He's pulling from

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the Old Testament. I guarantee you he is, all right,

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So salt and light, look how those phrases, those two

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words are utilized in the Old Testament, and then see

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how what the possible then kind of import from the

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Old Testament to Matthew five and go when Jesus has

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salt in light, this is what he has in mind.

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And here are the verses that would seem to confirm this,

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because clearly I believe Jesus is pulling from the Old

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Testament when he uses those two phrases. That is your assignment.

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So the challenge is sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge.

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Your job is to grab the sermons two point zero app.

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Look up Tyler Primitive Baptist Church, scroll down, look at

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the recent series twenty twenty four salt and Light. Listen

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to all of those messages. Make sure you write a

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one sentence summary about there are now one sentence just

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a short summary about each message, and then you know

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in your notebook you want to be able to listen

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to all thirteen hopefully all thirteen messages. You want to

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be reading Ephesians four, and you want to be thinking

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of Ephesians four to five. One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

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There you go. That's it. That's all I wanted to

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do today. That's all I wanted to do today. And

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so and also, because the conference is called Salt and Light,

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I want you to look up all the Old Testament

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references to salt and light and try to determine what

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Jesus had in mind when he uses to free the

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words salt and light in Matthew chapter five. Now, I

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have my notes right here, and I can already tell you,

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all right, the use of sult and light. It has

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roots in the Old Testament. I'm going to give you

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a hint. The first one. Was there a covenant of salt?

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What was that all about? All right, I'll stop right there. Okay,

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there you go, simple, straightforward and only thirty seven minutes long.

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I feel like I should have done some actual teaching

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about the I mean, I've given you now plenty to

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do this week. Right, You've got something to listen to

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you've got things to look up, you've got a chapter

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to read, you got an entire study to do on

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sult and Light. I've given you everything you need. And

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guess what we're getting all of this from the sermon's

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two point oh app. That's why I so have been

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trying to get people to utilize it this year. All right,

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May God bless you as you study. I'd love to

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get your thoughts on how do we do how do

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we even measure? Can we should we even be trying

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to measure spiritual growth and spiritual victory and spiritual advancement?

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Or or is that are we importing kind of a

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fleshly idea over to that? I'd love to get your thoughts.

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And if you have any explanation why most people are

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using the sermon audio website not the sermon's two point,

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oh app, I would love to hear that as well,

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because I'm still baffled by that. All right, enjoy, let

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me know how you're preceding, what you think of the sermons,

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how you're doing in your study of Salt and Light,

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how you're doing with your reading of Ephesians. For anything

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you want to share, email me news if at Yahoo

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dot com that's news. IF at Yahoo dot com news

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I f at Yahoo dot com. Everyone have a wonderful day.

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God bless