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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:12 Let's get into this message, the health you'll never find alone. Hebrews chapter 10, the health you'll never find alone.0:24 Now at all locations, we have prepared at the end of our services, out in the lobbies, an opportunity for you to sign up for0:36 LifeGroup at Waters Church. Somebody say, I need a LifeGroup. That wasn't very confident, so we'll get you there. And this is exactly my problem with0:47 preaching on community in this church. Can I confess something to you? Every preacher feels confident that his words are0:59 heard on certain topics. And some of you probably knowing me long enough can understand what those topics are. But there is 11:11 particular topic that I preach on from this stage, and I have preached on it for 20 plus years. And every time I preach on it, and it just1:23 might be me, but I don't think it is, I feel a resistance from you.1:34 Are we still friends? I really sense that this is the 1 topic, if I talk about it, no matter what I say, some of you are just1:46 gonna say, well, that's good for some people who need it, but I'm good. I'm okay. I don't need a life group.1:58 Friends, yes, you do. You need Christian, Christ centered, holy spirit2:10 empowered community. You need a friend who can battle the devil with you. Do you know that they've studied horses?2:22 1 horse can pull 6000 pounds. 2 horses can pull what do you think? 12000. Not2:34 12018 thousand pounds. When you add 1 horse to 1 horse, you don't add2:46 power, listen to this, you multiply it. The same is true with oxen. An ox can tow 8000 pounds, but2:58 2 oxen can pull Anybody good with math? Same present. Yeah. 24000 pounds. God has3:09 written this genetically into the code of creation that 1 person can do some stuff, but 2 people can do more than the3:21 sum total of the parts. Some of you are are dragging through life because you've never partnered with another believer in3:33 Jesus. You think that because Steve Jobs gave you this thing that you can get on by yourself. Nothing could be further from the truth. The3:45 first thing that Jesus did when he came to this earth was he started a small group. Those are the disciples. Do you understand that when he went to the cross, do you know what he said to the disciples when he went to the3:55 cross? He said, pray with me. I, in my humanity, I need some friends to be with me as I face the things that God has prepared for me. Some of you never4:07 put this together, but if Jesus, the lord of lords and the king of kings needed a life group, you need a life group. Because news flash, you ain't Jesus. You are not4:19 as strong as him. You are not as holy as him. And if he needed it, you needed it. Now, I think that your resistance to life groups ends4:30 today. Today is the day you all stop resisting. And and many of you are in life groups, so I'm not talking to you. But the people who aren't, I'm talking to you, today's the day you4:42 stop resisting. Write this down. Here's the fact. Loneliness is toxic, and it is a4:53 increasing global pandemic. The real pandemic is loneliness. Interestingly enough, what did they tell us to do during the the pandemic? Get alone. Stay5:05 at home. It must be good for you. No. It wasn't. And we all learned it was very unhealthy emotionally, mentally, physically. They that who who who knew staying5:16 inside out of the view of the sun, separated from all your friends and loved ones, and watching 24 hour news networks would be bad for you. Who knew?5:28 Here's why I think today the resistance ends. Okay? I have been talking to you about all the things that you need to start doing to be healthy, like avoiding5:40 ultra processed foods. Silly rabbit, trickster for no. They're for the devil. Leave them at the shelf. Alright? Avoid the middle aisles of the grocery5:52 store. We talked about that. Just go on the edges of the grocery store. Avoid all that packaging. If if bacteria won't eat it, you don't eat it. I've been talking about, the need6:04 for activity out in the sun, about eating red meat. Praise God. Barbecue is biblical.6:17 Also, when you should eat and how, you should govern your stomach so that your stomach doesn't govern you. We've been talking about inflammation. The it is6:29 suffix of the all the words meningitis and all the other it is out there that just means inflammation of something. Your body cannot be inflamed because when it's inflamed, it resists immunity. It resists it6:41 can't resist, disease and chronic illness and autoimmune disease. These things these things are not mystical problems. These are physical problems that we can solve if we get a6:52 hold of what we put into our temples. And I've been saying this from day 1. Our temple our our body is the temple of the holy spirit. God dwells in us. Let's treat our bodies right.7:04 So here's the thing that I think is gonna stop the resistance for some of you when it comes to life groups. I think you could ignore a lot of the stuff that I have said during this7:16 series If you just got into community with other Christians. I don't recommend it,7:28 but I'm gonna tell you why. Loneliness is not just a sociological issue. It's actually a physical illness. It weakens your7:40 body. Some facts. Loneliness increases dementia risk in adults by 1 third. 30 percent higher risk of dementia later in7:52 life if you spend your life alone. Chronic loneliness is linked to depression. You have a 60 percent greater risk of sliding into depression8:04 if you do life alone. Loneliness is associated with immune dysregulation, higher inflation, increased viral reactivation. In other words, you kind of get better8:16 has anybody ever heard of this? You kinda get better from a virus and then you slide back into it. Do you know why? You're alone. Your loneliness will cause your immune system to shut down. Social isolation increases8:26 heart disease risk by 30 percent. Blood pressure is higher amongst individuals who do life alone. A United Kingdom study found that, cardiovascular disease,8:38 type 2 diabetes, stroke, and mortality are all found at increasingly higher risks of people who do life alone. In an article from USA Today in January of this past year, January of8:50 20 25, 1 in 5 adults say they feel lonely on a daily basis in America and is the highest rate of loneliness in the past 29:02 years. Now we were coming about we were coming out of pandemic 2 years ago, and and the pandemic pushed us all alone. And and now we're we're we're almost sliding back into the loneliness9:13 pandemic. The from this article in in USA Today, psychiatrist doctor Sue Varma, she told CBS that loneliness is a medical problem that must be taken very seriously. Persistent time alone is the9:25 equivalent of having somebody listen to this. Having somebody smoke 15 cigarettes a day. It increases our risk by 30 percent for heart disease, stroke, 50 percent for dementia, 60 percent for9:36 premature mortality. So in sum, heart disease, stroke, dementia, premature death all skyrocket when you are alone, which tells me this. You can ignore a lot of9:48 what I've talked about previously in this series if you just get into a life group at Waters Church. Amen. Not recommended, but it's an option on the table.10:00 And all the people who are mad about the alcoholic message last 2 weeks ago are like, amen, brother. I'm going out and have me a beer. Amen. No. No. No. No. No. Here it is. Here it is. Okay. Do both.10:13 Don't just treat yourself as an individual that thinks you can do life strong on your own. You can't. Jesus modeled it. We encourage it and teach it and10:25 pastor it, and today is the day to drop your resistance to life groups here at Waters Church. Can I get a good amen from every location? Amen. So the first time that10:37 God was disappointed is in Genesis 2 18. The first time he's disappointed, sin hasn't even entered the world. He's disappointed. Genesis 2 18, he's been making the sun, the moon. He's made he's made the animals.10:49 He's made a man. And the scripture says, what? Genesis 2 18, it is not good for a man to what? Underline not good.11:01 Lo tov in the Hebrew. Lo tov. Lo tov. Not good. Lo, meaning not, no, and never. In other words, it11:13 is never good for man to be alone. The word tav in Hebrew, good, means pleasant, agreeable, beneficial,11:25 excellent, morally right. Think about what scripture is saying here. It is never agreeable, pleasant, beneficial, or excellent for you to be11:37 alone. Now, of course, I'm not talking about never having some times where you get alone. I mean, the older I get, the more precious time alone becomes.11:49 Amen, somebody? I've got 3 kids and 2 boxer dogs. Alone time is rare in my economy, so I value that. But when you're12:01 consistently and chronically doing life alone, the scripture says it's not good. Now when we get to Hebrews chapter 10, we hear God speak to this issue.12:13 Through this message, Hebrews, the book of Hebrews is written to does anybody wanna guess? Hebrews. Yeah. Okay. Usually, in the12:25 Bible, it's either the person who wrote it is the name of the book or the person who's written to is the name of the book. So the Hebrews, these are Jewish people who had come to Christ. Now even to this day, it is very12:35 difficult for Jews to come to Christ because when they come to Christ, they basically, in faith anyway, have to disavow their entire12:47 heritage, not just their religious system. They have to, in some ways in some ways, disavow their Hebrew heritage. They're always Jewish. I'm not saying that they're not Jewish. They become messianic12:59 Jews, but there there is such a vitriol. There is such a a a horrible reaction to the to the coming to Christ. It's very difficult for Jewish people even to this day to come to Christ. But in the13:11 first century, it was darn near impossible. Because if you came to Christ, you were kicked out of your synagogue. You were kicked out of your church. And if13:23 you were kicked out of your church, you were basically excommunicated from your entire town because everything flowed through the synagogue in Jewish culture in those days. And here's what Hebrews is about. The book13:35 of Hebrews is written to first century Jews who had come to Christ. They'd been kicked out of their synagogues, they had probably been disowned13:46 by their families, they had probably been excoriated by the people that used to love them, and here was their temptation. Their temptation can anybody guess what their13:58 temptation would be? What? Say it if you know it. Somebody said it over here. Go Simple. End the pain. Go back14:10 to your Jewish religion. Go back to Judaism. Disavow Christ and that's so listen. Whenever you read Hebrews, please understand that that is the main point14:22 of the entire book. And the way the writer talks about this is to teach these Jewish people who are thinking about going back to Judaism 1 simple14:34 fact. Here's the simple fact. Are you ready for Jesus is better than Judaism. He's better than your old system. He's better than he's better than14:45 angels, chapter 1. He's better than Moses, chapter 2. He's better than Aaron and the high priest, chapter 4. He's better than David, chapter 4. He's better than the high priestly sacrificial system, chapter 6 and 7. And14:57 when you get to Hebrews chapter 10, he's summing up the entire argument of the entire book. And and all you gotta do is go back to verse 1 of chapter 10. He tells us that Jesus is better than the law because the law is15:08 just a shadow of the good things that are to come. And then he goes on to verse 4, and he says, it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to do what? To take away sin. All the blood and sacrifice of15:20 the old testament, they covered sin. They covered it, but Jesus doesn't cover your sins. Friends, Jesus washes your sins away, and God never brings15:32 up your sins again if you are in Christ Jesus. He says in verse 12 that Jesus offered for all time. Somebody say, all time.15:44 All time. A single sacrifice for sins. We do not resacrifice Jesus at the communion table in this church because15:56 Jesus offered for all somebody say, all time. A single sacrifice for his and then he sat down at the right hand. Do you understand that in the Old Testament temple, they never could sit down? The priest could never sit16:07 down? Do you know why the priest could never sit down? Because sin never stopped. And every time somebody sinned, they had to bring they had to bring an offering. They had to bring a lamb. They had to bring an oxen. They16:15 had to bring a bird, and this priest had to stand there and kill the bird and slaughter the ox and slaughter the lamb and pour out the blood and then burn the offering up to God and pronounce forgiveness for sins through16:26 the sacrifice. So the the priest of the old testament, they were never sitting. They were always standing, always walking, always exhausted. Here's the good news of the gospel. Are you ready? When Jesus brought his blood16:38 to heaven after dying on the cross for us, the scripture says that he sat down at the right hand side of God the father because the work to make you right with God is finished16:49 in Jesus' name. That means you never have to make up for your sins. Amen. I don't know if you believe17:01 that. You're awfully quiet. I think this is the human condition. We fall into this trap. Oh, I did wrong last week. I better do 5 good things this week.17:13 You've just fallen right back into dead works religion. You don't live like that through the cross of Jesus. You say, but it's not fair. That's right.17:24 There's no fairness in the gospel. You understand this? The gospel of Jesus is not fair. The gospel of Jesus is grace.17:37 Deserved. In fact, I would like to say something to somebody here at all of our locations. The more unworthy you feel of God's grace,17:49 the more you're getting it. And he says, now he's waiting until his enemies are put under his foot for a single offering by a single offering. It says18:01 in verse 14, he is perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. That means that you stand and somebody this is hard to get into your head, and it's hard for me to even understand, but this is what scripture is18:11 teaching us. At the end of the day, your question is, is my feeling truth or is scripture truth? And the the scripture says that you have been18:22 perfected for how long? And it's up on the screen. For how long? For time. For all time. You have18:34 if you're in Christ Jesus, you have been perfected by the blood of Jesus for all time. And then he adds a self emphasis. For those who are being sanctified. That's the process by18:46 which God reshapes our hearts, our passions, our longings, our inclinations, and we become more holy in practice. And we start to live up to the way God18:57 sees us. That is what Jesus has done. So here's what Hebrews is saying. You can't go back. You can't go back. And here's the most important19:09 reason why. Because your life in Christ is not about moving backwards, it's about moving forwards. So in verse 19, back to the original text,19:22 he tells us now since then we have what? Confidence. Confidence to enter the holy places. Underline holy places. How do we get into the holy where19:34 what is a holy place? A holy place is where God is, where God dwells. And the scripture says we have confidence to enter places where God dwells.19:46 How? By the Blood. Blood of Jesus. And then you have to understand,19:58 the blood of Jesus is the testimony of our salvation. First John chapter 7 says, the blood of Jesus, God's son, cleanses us from what?20:11 All sin. What you did last night is cleansed by the blood of Jesus. What you will do tomorrow morning is cleanse20:23 by the blood of Jesus, And all your sins have been cleansed because Jesus is the final sacrifice for20:35 all time, for all of God's people forever. Amen. That's good news. And we have confidence not to enter the holy places. Verse 20, by the new and living way that he20:47 opened up for us through the what? Through the curtain, underline curtain, that is through his flesh. Every Jew would have understood what that's talking about. What do you mean curtain? Here's what that means. In the20:58 Old Testament, there was a temple where God dwelt. It was separated into 3 sections. The Old Testament temple was separated into 3 sections. The first section was the outer court. That's where the average21:10 ordinary worshiper would come, and they just called that the outer court. Anybody could go there. They'd bring their sacrifices there. They'd come and they'd start to stand in line for offering their sacrifice. But the21:20 priest would meet you at the gate of the inner court. This was called the holy place. And the priest would take your sacrifice and place it on the bronze altar, and then he would slaughter it, and then he would burn it.21:32 And then he would, burn incense. Those are the prayers of the saints. And there's the the the the the tree of 7 lights. We call that the menorah, and it was in that holy place. But there was a third category, a third21:43 section of the temple called the most holy place. And in that place, a little cubicle area was the ark of the covenant. In the ark was the law of testimony, the rod of Aaron that budded, and some21:55 manna samples from when they wandered in the wilderness. And on top of that ark were 2 angels who faced each other with their wings down, but their faces with their wings up, but their faces to the to the center of the22:06 top of the ark. That was called the mercy seat. And once a year, the high priest would take an atonement offering for the sins of nation and bring the blood of that atonement offering and place it on the mercy seat, and22:17 God would receive the sacrifice for the sins of nation on the mercy seat, and the priest would leave and never enter for another 364 days. Once a year, 1 man would22:28 go into the most holy place where God dwelt. And separating the holy place from the most holy place in Jesus' day was a curtain.22:41 The curtain, we have, information on this from a guy named Josephus, a historian of the Jews from 90 AD, said that the curtain was a foot thick, and it was22:53 embroidered with Sarah, cherubim on the outside of it and a flame. A picture of what God puts at the Garden of Eden when he exiles23:04 Adam and the woman after sin. He puts a flaming cherubim with a sword standing at the entrance of the Garden of Eden, meaning that you can't go back to the23:16 presence of God in paradise because of your sin. And so to symbolize that, the Jews put on that curtain 2 cherubim with the flaming sword in their hands saying, there's no entrance23:27 allowed for you. And and so I have a picture here on the screen of the separation. Here's the holy place, and here's the most holy place. And in the middle of the temple was the 1 foot thick curtain23:39 with the embroidered angels on it. And every Jew would have understood exactly what the text is talking about because here's what it says in Mark chapter 15 verse 38. When Jesus died, the scripture23:51 says, and the curtain of the temple was torn in 2. Look at the last line. From what? From what? That people didn't do it. God the father did it. In other words, there's24:03 now no limit to the presence of the most high God through the blood of Jesus Christ. You and I can walk into his presence because the work24:15 is done. So here's the question. Where's the holy place today?24:27 At temple. Now I've been saying something to you this whole series. Your body is the temple, the holy spirit. Yeah? God dwells in24:38 you if you're in Christ. If you're not in Christ, God does not dwell in you. The good news is the curtain has been torn in24:50 2, you can come to Christ through the blood of Jesus Christ today and have God almighty fill your life. But we're not done.25:02 There are too many Christians, way too many people in this church, and I'm your pastor. It's my job to confront you, not just to encourage you. Come on somebody. Say amen. Amen. Way too many people in25:14 this church who think I got my bible, I got my Spotify worship playlist. I got my podcasts of preachers that are25:26 better than you, pastor Tim. I'm good. No. That's not how you grow. That's not how you grow. That's how you25:37 that's how you become an armchair theologian who becomes insufferable to everybody around you. Because you're drinking from the streams of all the different waters out25:49 there, and you're not accountable to a local assembly of believers who will talk to you face to face and maybe challenge you, also encourage you, but also say,26:01 let's do life together and stop acting like it's a competition about who gets to God closer, but it's a partnership wherein we pull more weight together26:13 than we could ever pull alone. Look at what Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2, unpacking this. He says, so then you are no longer strangers26:25 or aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints. And check this out. And members of the household of26:37 God built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. Jesus himself is the cornerstone in whom, in Jesus, the whole structure. Underline the next 3 words,26:49 please. Being joined together. Look at those words. Say them with me again, those 3 words. Being Joined together.27:01 Oh, say them again. Being joined together. Say them 1 more time. Being joined together. The next word? Gross.27:13 Are you putting this together yet? You don't grow until you're joined. Are you hearing this? You don't grow27:25 until you're joined. It can never be you and Jesus against the world. It's us. The body of Christ, the27:37 household of God. And then he goes on and he uses again more Old Testament language. In whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a what? Holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being27:49 built, how? Together into a dwelling place for God by the spirit. All that to say 0.1.28:02 When we gather, God's presence shows up. I pray that when you come into this room or our other locations and you start to worship with us and the28:13 preaching of the word happens and we start to celebrate Jesus, I'm praying that you feel and I mean this, that you feel this place28:26 is different. That you sense God in this place. And if you don't,28:38 2 reasons. Number 1, you're not a Christian yet. And, again, the way has been open, so we're gonna give you an opportunity at the end of the service to get to get you into that holy of holies. Or number 2, you've28:50 never put it together yet that in the presence of 1 another is the presence of the lord Jesus. I am your29:01 pastor, and I'm gonna tell you something. I need to be here with you. I when I go on vacation and I'm not here or I take a29:13 week off, it's like a double edged sword for me. I'm thankful for the rest, but then I start to get restless. Because I feel29:25 alone, and I feel isolated, and I start to look at me. And I start to think about me, and I start to focus on me. And I've learned something over the course of my life. Me is29:37 nasty. I don't like me. And the more I think about me, the more me comes out. It's like a magnifying glass. This is29:49 why this is why the ultimate punishment of our prison system is what? Solitary confinement. Because they know that somebody left to themselves30:01 will literally mentally decompose in on themselves. And some of you are allowing the devil to put30:12 you in solitary confinement in your life with Christ. And this is why you're not growing. And this is why you're still wrestling with30:24 the same habits from 19 83. You haven't put yourself next to another horse. You haven't30:36 decided to walk with the family of God. When Jesus sent the 72 out in the middle of30:48 Matthew's gospel, he sent them out. How? 2 by 2. Don't go alone. When the holy spirit falls and30:59 Peter and Peter goes to the temple, he brings John with him. Peter and John go to the temple to pray. Peter and John heal the lame man at this at the cake called Beautiful. And in Acts chapter 13, when the Holy Spirit31:10 speaks to the church and says, need somebody to go to the gospel. I need somebody to bring the gospel to the Gentiles. He says, set apart Saul and Barnabas for the work that I've called them to. 2 by 2. 2 by 2. 2 by in31:21 other words, you need somebody with you. You can't do this alone because when we're together, God's presence shows up, not just here, but in our life groups. And if you're watching or listening31:33 from Pennsylvania, join our e groups. Or from Arizona, got people that listen to me from Arizona, got people from listening to me all over the country. We have e groups. You can go to water church dot org31:45 slash life groups and sign up today and do it by Zoom. So Hebrews chapter 10 verse 21, it says, we have a great priest over the house of God. We have a and then this means that we have Jesus31:57 in authority over us when we gather. And that that word authority scares a lot of Americans. We don't like authority. I don't like authority. I don't like anybody telling me what to do. But in the scriptures, authority32:06 is not about domination. Authority is about responsibility. Here's what it says. Jesus takes responsibility for you in the gathering. You understand? Jesus takes32:18 responsibility for this gathering right now. Here's the here's my absolute courage to preach to you and to allow other people to get up here and preach to you. Do you know why? Because Jesus will take responsibility for32:29 you. He will take responsibility for you. He will sometimes I will say something that might not be right. I'm human. I'll make mistakes. I'm fallible. Do you know what I think happens when I say something that's not32:40 right? You know what I think happens? The holy spirit just comes over your ears and says, don't listen to that. This is why I believe that there are Christians in every single church and every single cult32:52 that don't hear the wrong things from the teacher, but they have somehow, someway been shielded by the holy spirit from the false teaching to receive Jesus Christ and trust in him for their33:03 salvation. I don't want them there, but I believe that God can preserve them there. So in verse 22, he says this, then let us draw near. We're we're drawing near to what? To the to the presence of God.33:15 But where's the presence of God? Where's the presence of God? In the gathered church. Let us draw near with a heart of full assurance, full33:27 assurance of faith, and our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience. How many of you you you've got guilt on your brain right now? Guilt because of what you did last night or last33:38 week. You got this evil conscience, and you're thinking about yourself all week. You've been thinking about yourself. You've been stressing, worrying. And the moment you try harder, you do worse. You know what you need?33:50 You need to come back to the gathered church this moment and let me remind you that the price has been paid for you, and you are34:02 now accepted in the father through the blood of Jesus Christ. And that message washes your conscience again clean. Amen.34:14 Number 2, write this down. When we gather, faith powers up. God's presence shows up. Faith powers up. I grow in faith when I gather with God's people.34:27 Verse 23, he says, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. Some of you waver. The reason why you waver is because you don't have a fellow believer that you can text, that you can34:38 call, that the moment you get the bad news from the doctor or from the bank, you immediately go inward and you fret and you struggle and you stress and you34:50 don't have the phone number of someone that you can reach out to and say, hey, pray with me. Prayers together35:02 carry more weight than prayers alone. Amen. Everybody who has a smartphone, there are, text things. I don't know. I love this, but you got people that you have35:14 pinned to the top. And I wonder who's pinned to the top of your text message system. I'm not gonna do this fast, but you don't see who's pinned to mine. But do you know all of my pins are people who love Jesus?35:28 Is that your story? I hope this is starting to connect some dots for you. The smartphone isn't the problem. It's how you use it. The the35:40 the the the job is gonna be the job. The the family is gonna be the family, but the house of God is the source of our faith empowerment. Then he35:51 goes to verse 24 and he says, let us consider how to stir 1 another up to love and good works, and then this very key phrase, not neglecting to meet how? As is the habit of36:03 some. Here's what goes on in so many Christians' lives. You skip 1 Sunday, and it becomes easier to skip a second Sunday. And before you know it, it's 5 Sundays, and then you're sitting there saying, well, I can't go36:14 back now. It'll be weird. No. It won't. First off, we're not even aware of whether or not you're here sometimes. This is a big church with multiple locations.36:27 You show up after some people say, hey. I'm back. And I'm like, I didn't even know you left. That's the best thing of a big church. You never have to worry about the stress of coming back. Okay?36:40 And multiple services. But it's the same with LifeGroup, getting into LifeGroup. You miss 1, miss 2. And some of you this is the thing with LifeGroup, and I hear you. I hear you on this. I hear you on this. It's36:52 Wednesday 10 AM, and you're at work, and suddenly it clicks on you. Oh. 0, no. I have LifeGroup tonight. Oh, I was37:03 hoping to binge watch Friends for the 40 fourth time. What will happen with Ross and Rachel? I need to know. Okay? But if you get over that37:15 moment and force yourself to get to LifeGroup, how many know you walk out of LifeGroup the same way you walk out of the gym when you forced yourself to go there when you didn't want37:27 to? And you say, I'm thankful that I did that because I already know what happened with Ross and Rachel. I don't need to see that again. I need to know what's gonna happen with me.37:40 Am I gonna finish my story? Am I gonna get to the end of my race? Am I going to cross the finish line and hear my savior say to me, well done, good and faithful servant. Enter37:52 into the joy of heaven. That's the story I want finished for you. So the bible says the holy spirit falls to the church in acts chapter 2, and they speak in tongues and everybody thinks they're crazy. And Peter38:04 says, we're not crazy. We're filled with the holy spirit. The old testament talked about this, and he preached about the cross of Jesus, and 3000 people are added to the church. 3000 people in 1 day. And the chapter ends38:14 in verse 46 and says, and day by day attending temple, how? Together. And breaking bread in their homes, they receive their foods with glad and sincere hearts. Together, they were together. And then it goes on and says,38:25 in each other's homes. Do you know that there are 51 another commandments in the New Testament? 50 statements of 1 another in the New Testament. Let me give you a smattering or a sampling. Here we go. John 1338:37 34, love 1 another as I have loved you. Romans 15 7, welcome 1 another as Christ has welcomed you. Colossians 3 13, forgive 1 another as the Lord has forgiven you. Galatians 5 13, serve 1 another. First Thessalonians38:48 5 11, encourage 1 another, build 1 another up. James 5 16, pray for 1 another that you may be healed. Colossians 3 16, teach and admonish 1 another with all wisdom. Romans 10 12 12 10,39:00 outdo 1 another in showing honor. My personal favorite, Ephesians 2 3 of 4 2 says this, bearing with 1 another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit and the body of peace.Show more
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