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I was with someone this week that said,

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"Mention things like Jesus,

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and then mention things like Gandhi

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in the same conversation."

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Listen, those two things,

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they can't come together.

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There is no Gandhi and 
Jesus coming together

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unless Gandhi repents of his sins,

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puts his faith and hope in Jesus Christ

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as the all-sufficient Savior.

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But there is no uniting of arms

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and just being one big happy

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kumbaya family with these people.

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These are the people that 
Paul is warning about.

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These are the plausible arguments

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that Paul says they appeal

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to your human intellect.

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They appeal to your emotion.

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Doesn't it make sense

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that Jesus would want us all to get along

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and set doctrine aside?

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And Paul says, "No!"

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You can't do that.

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And we as a body must say no.

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We must recognize this 
is happening out there.

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That's one of my jobs is 
defend against these things

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by proclaiming truth

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so when you hear heresies come in,

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you identify it.

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You mark it.

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I need a church

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because I need help to press on

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when the going gets really tough.

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I don't have the goods.

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I don't have the grace in myself.

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I don't have the strength or the wisdom

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or the perspective in myself

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to make it through

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this waste howling wilderness of sin

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without the brethren 
strengthening me in God.

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And you don't either.

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To press on with the going gets tough.

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To realize and remember

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that Christ saved me individually

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to include me in His body.

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And they were selling their possessions -

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look at that!

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They're selling their possessions.

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The things that they wanted to hold on to.

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Well, that's been in my family

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for three generations.

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That piece of property over there.
I can't part with that.

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That's how people are here.

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They've got to hold on to things.

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You know why they can sell

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that piece of property

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that's been in the family 
for three generations now?

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Because something's more important!

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This person over here,

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even though they may be

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another economic level than me

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and their skin color may be different,

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we have this in common:

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we have believed on the same Christ

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and I love them

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and I'm willing to sell my lands for them.

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The glory of Christ's Kingdom

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is what He's doing in the trenches

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in local churches

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where He's building your life

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and you sit under pastors and elders.

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And they teach you

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and they feed you

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and you grow.

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And the truth grows in you.

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You don't even realize it's happening.

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But you're in the atmosphere

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of where Christ pours His water.

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You see Christ is the 
fountain of living water.

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But He has a well in the earth.

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Guess what the well is?

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The well is His church.

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That's where He deposits His water.

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This is the church.

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It is a world of love

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and it goes back to the 
spring of God Himself.

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He overflows with love towards us.

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And if He so loved us,

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how can we not love the others?

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Look to Jesus.

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Turn away from yourself.

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Turn away from what 
you're believing today.

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Turn away from what you're trusting.

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Look to Jesus Christ -

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the dying Lamb of God.

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The Bible says,

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upon Whom God poured His wrath out

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for your sin and for my sin.

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God poured His wrath out

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on the Son of God,

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as if He hated Him because He hated us

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and our sins.

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But Jesus took that in our place.

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Our God took that in our place

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that we might be saved.

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Turn away from everything else.

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Turn to Christ.

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I admonish you.

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I beg you.

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I plead with you.

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Turn to Jesus Christ.

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