Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000060
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00:09 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS--" >> CAN YOU HAVE DISAGREEMENTS IN 00:13 A HOME BETWEEN THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER AND STILL HAVE LOVE? 00:17 YOU'VE GOTTA KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT THESE DISAGREEMENTS 00:20 IN AN AGREEABLE WAY. 00:21 YOU CAN DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE, RIGHT? 00:28 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:32 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:38 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:41 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:43 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:47 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:49 THE "EVERLASTING GOSPEL" VIDEO SERIES. 00:57 >> THE MESSAGE TODAY IS DEALING WITH VERY SIMPLE PRINCIPLES, 01:00 GONNA LOOK AT A NUMBER OF SCRIPTURES ON THIS DEALING WITH 01:04 THE SUBJECT OF DIVIDED OR UNITED TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHT KIND OF 01:09 UNITY, THE WRONG KIND OF UNITY AND WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR 01:13 US TO BE TOGETHER TO BE ONE AS FAMILIES, AS COMMUNITIES, 01:18 AS A CHURCH. 01:20 FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S A PRINCIPLE THAT THE DEVIL 01:23 OPERATES UNDER AND IT'S CALLED DIVIDE AND CONQUER. 01:27 EVERY MILITARY GENERAL HAS ALWAYS KNOWN THAT THE WAY THAT 01:30 YOU CONQUER AN OPPOSING FORCE IS YOU FLANK THEM, YOU DO THIS 01:35 PINCER MOVEMENT, YOU GET IN, YOU SEPARATE THEIR FORCES, YOU BREAK 01:39 THEM UP AND THEN IT'S A LOT EASIER TO OVERCOME THEM. 01:43 YOU READ ABOUT THIS IN ACTS 20. 01:45 PAUL REALIZING THE DEVIL WAS GOING TO USE THESE TACTICS ON 01:48 GOD'S CHURCH, HE WARNED THEM. 01:51 HE SAID, "FOR I KNOW THIS THAT AFTER MY DEPARTURE, SAVAGE 01:56 WOLVES WILL COME IN AMONG YOU NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. 02:01 ALSO FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES, MEN WILL RISE UP SPEAKING 02:05 PERVERSE THINGS TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES." 02:09 THE DEVIL WILL SEND IN SOME, THEY WILL BE COUNTERFEIT 02:13 CHRISTIANS AND THEY WILL BRING IN DIVISION. 02:16 THEY'LL TRY AND SPLIT YOU UP. 02:18 I ORDERED THIS RECENT DVD SERIES, THIS SPECTACULAR 02:25 PHOTOGRAPHY, IT WAS CALLED "PLANET EARTH." 02:27 SOME OF YOU PROBABLY SAW IT PRODUCED BY BBC AND YOU SORT OF 02:31 HAVE TO HOLD YOUR NOSE A LITTLE BIT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT 02:34 EVOLUTION, BUT THE NATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY WAS JUST 02:37 OUTSTANDING. 02:38 AND THEY SHOWED ONE SCENE UP IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS OF THE NORTH 02:42 WHERE THIS PACK OF WOLVES WERE HUNTING REINDEER, AND THEY HAD 02:48 A HELICOPTER THAT WAS ABLE TO VIDEOTAPE THEM IN THEIR NATURAL 02:52 ENVIRONMENT. 02:53 THEY HAD THIS CAMERA WHERE THE LENS WAS ENORMOUS AND THEY 02:56 HAD A GYRO THAT ELIMINATED ANY VIBRATION. 02:59 THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE LONG-DISTANCE, HIGH-RESOLUTION 03:02 PHOTOGRAPHY SUCH AS THEY'VE NEVER TAKEN BEFORE. 03:05 THE TECHNOLOGY HAD BEEN DEVELOPED BY THE MILITARY. 03:08 AND SO THE HELICOPTER WAS NOT INTERRUPTING THE HUNT THAT IT 03:12 WAS OBSERVING, ALMOST A MILE AWAY AND YET IT WAS ABLE TO TAKE 03:18 THIS CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHY OF THESE WOLVES CHASING THESE 03:21 REINDEER. 03:22 AND THE WAY THAT THEY WORKED AS A PACK IN AN ORGANIZED WAY TO 03:27 GET ONE OF THEM SEPARATED FROM THE FLOCK, IF THEY COULD GET ONE 03:31 SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE HERD, THEN PRETTY SOON THEY 03:36 RAN IT DOWN, THEY WORE IT OUT AND THEY HAD IT FOR DINNER. 03:40 LIONS DO THE SAME THING. 03:42 MATTER OF FACT, PETER TALKS ABOUT THIS, BE SOBER, BE 03:46 VIGILANT BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY, THE DEVIL, HE GOES ABOUT LIKE 03:49 A ROARING LION SEEKING WHOM HE MIGHT DEVOUR. 03:53 RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE FAITH. 03:55 BUT THIS IS THE DEVIL'S PLAN IS TO SEPARATE THE LAMBS FROM THE 04:00 FLOCK AND THEN BRING THEM DOWN. 04:02 IT'S A DIVIDE AND CONQUER. 04:04 HE DOES IT IN THE CHURCH. 04:07 HE DOES IT IN COMMUNITIES. 04:09 HE DOES IT IN FAMILIES AND MAYBE THAT'S WHERE WE OUGHT TO BEGIN. 04:15 THE DEVIL TRIES TO BRING DIVISION INTO FAMILIES. 04:17 NOW I'M STARTING HERE BECAUSE FAMILIES ARE REALLY THE 04:19 FOUNDATION BLOCK OF COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS AND CHURCHES. 04:24 AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE LEARN TO HAVE HARMONY THERE 04:28 IN THE HOME. 04:29 I KNOW WE OFTEN SAY AT OUR WEDDING CEREMONIES HOW MARRIAGES 04:34 ARE MADE IN HEAVEN, BUT LET'S NOT FORGET THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 04:37 IS MADE IN HEAVEN TOO. 04:38 AND IN MANY OF THE FAMILIES THERE IS DIVISION AND IT'S 04:42 THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD THAT THIS HARMONY 04:45 CAN BE BROUGHT BACK IN. 04:47 1 CORINTHIANS 10 HAS A PRINCIPLE FOR US TO REMEMBER TO HAVE UNITY 04:52 AND HARMONY IN THESE FAMILIES RATHER THAN DIVISION. 04:55 IT SAYS, "LET NO ONE SEEK HIS OWN BUT EACH ONE 04:59 THE OTHER'S WELL-BEING." 05:02 NOW I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BOTH SOMEONE 05:06 WHO IS MARRIED, THOUGH I AM A BATCHELOR, I AM A MARRIED 05:08 BATCHELOR, AND ALSO SOMEONE WHO IS A PASTOR THAT HAS DONE 05:11 A LOT OF MARRIAGE COUNSELING. 05:12 I HAVE NO REAL QUALIFICATIONS IN MARRIAGE COUNSELING OTHER THAN 05:16 I'VE JUST DONE A LOT OF IT. 05:18 IT'S NOT MY FAVORITE THING TO DO, BUT ONE THING I'VE OBSERVED 05:22 BOTH IN MY FAMILY AND IN THE COUNSELING I'VE DONE AND ALMOST 05:28 EVERY EXAMPLE WHERE THERE IS STRIFE AND DIVISION IN THE 05:32 FAMILY IT'S BECAUSE SOMEONE IS SEEKING AFTER THEIR OWN 05:34 RATHER THAN THE OTHER'S. 05:37 IT'S USUALLY PRIDE AND SELFISHNESS AT THE HEART OF IT, 05:40 MOST OF THE TIME ON BOTH PARTIES AND IT COULD BE THE CHILDREN AND 05:45 THE PARENTS, IT COULD BE MULTIPLE PARTIES, IT JUST COULD 05:48 BE THE HUSBAND AND WIFE. 05:49 VERY RARELY IS IT ONE, BUT IT'S SELFISHNESS, 05:53 PEOPLE SEEKING THEIR OWN. 05:54 THE PRINCIPLE FOR DEVELOPING UNITY IN THESE RELATIONSHIPS. 05:57 "LET NO ONE SEEK HIS OWN BUT EACH ONE THE OTHER'S WELL-BEING. 06:02 AND AGAIN, WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BEGINNING? 06:05 HOW DID THE DEVIL OPERATE WITH ADAM AND EVE? 06:07 AFTER SIN, THEY RAN FROM GOD, THEY TRIED TO COVER THEIR 06:10 OWN NAKEDNESS. 06:11 LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED, THE MAN SAID TO THE LORD, GOD 06:15 SAID, "YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THIS THAT YOU'VE DONE? 06:17 WHO TOLD YOU YOU WERE NAKED?" 06:18 MAN SAID, "THE WOMAN, IT'S HER FAULT, YOU GAVE HER TO BE 06:22 WITH ME. 06:24 SHE GAVE ME OF THE TREE AND I ATE." 06:26 THERE WERE CRIMINATIONS AND BLAME AND FEAR. 06:30 AND THE LORD SAID TO THE WOMAN, "WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE?" 06:33 SHE SAID, "IT'S THE SERPENT THAT DECEIVED ME AND I ATE." 06:36 THEY STARTED BLAMING OTHERS FOR WHAT THEY HAD DONE WRONG 06:41 INSTEAD OF SAYING, "I'M GONNA TAKE RESPONSIBILITY." 06:44 THEN, OF COURSE, THE LORD SPOKE TO THE SERPENT AND THE SERPENT 06:46 DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING 'CAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON, 06:49 RIGHT? 06:51 MARK 10:7-9. 06:54 JESUS SAID, "FOR THIS REASON, A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND 06:59 MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE AND THEY TOO SHALL BECOME ONE 07:03 FLESH. 07:05 THERE ARE NO LONGER TWO BUT ONE FLESH, THEREFORE WHAT GOD HAS 07:08 JOINED TOGETHER, LET NOT MAN SEPARATE." 07:11 MARRIAGE IS A METAPHOR FOR THE CHURCH IN THE BIBLE AND 07:16 THE CHURCH IS A METAPHOR FOR MARRIAGE, THAT'S WHY IT'S 07:18 IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND UNITY IN THE CHURCH 07:21 AND HAVE UNITY IN OUR HOMES. 07:22 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US IN THE SAME WAY THAT CHRIST LOVES 07:28 THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR THE CHURCH, A HUSBAND SHOULD 07:31 LOVE HIS WIFE AND WIVES SHOULD LOVE THEIR HUSBANDS. 07:36 THERE SHOULD BE THIS-- THIS ONENESS. 07:39 AND THE SAME TERMINOLOGY THAT JESUS USES IN IDENTIFYING HIS 07:43 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER, HIS LOVE FOR THE CHURCH THAT 07:47 THERE SHOULD BE THIS--THIS UNITY, THIS ONENESS IS WHAT 07:51 WE SHOULD EXPERIENCE IN OUR FAMILIES. 07:54 SOME OF THESE DIFFERENCES COME INTO THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 07:57 BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S A DIFFERENCE, ONE IS A BELIEVER, 08:02 ONE IS NOT AND YOU'VE GOT A BUILT-IN DIVISION. 08:06 SO WHAT DO YOU DO? 08:07 WELL, OBVIOUSLY GET DIVORCED AND MARRY A BELIEVER, RIGHT? 08:09 WRONG. 08:12 YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE 08:13 TWO UNBELIEVERS ARE MARRIED, ONE BECOMES A BELIEVER. 08:17 NOW WHAT DO THEY DO? 08:19 THE SPOUSE, THE HUSBAND OR THE WIFE JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN 08:22 TO BELIEVE, FOR WHATEVER REASON. 08:24 DO YOU SEPARATE OR ARE YOU STILL MARRIED? 08:27 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND CAN BE 08:30 CONVERTED BY BEHOLDING. 08:32 THIS IS--IS IT 1 PETER 3? 08:36 THE CONVERSATION, THE BEHAVIOR OF THE WIFE HAS A SANCTIFYING 08:39 CONVERTING INFLUENCE. 08:40 YOU STAY TOGETHER AND YOUR NUMBER-ONE MISSIONARY FIELD 08:43 IS YOUR UNCONVERTED SPOUSE. 08:46 AND BEFORE YOU THINK "WELL, I'M GONNA GO DIVORCE HER, DIVORCE 08:49 HIM AND MARRY A BELIEVER, WE'LL GO DO MISSION WORK OVERSEAS, 08:53 IT'D BE SO WONDERFUL TO BE ONE." 08:54 GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A MISSION PROJECT, THEY'RE IN YOUR HOUSE. 08:59 TRY AND REACH YOUR UNCONVERTED SPOUSE, NOT BY BADGERING THEM OR 09:05 PRESSURING THEM OR NAGGING THEM INTO THE CHURCH, BUT AS THEY 09:09 BEHOLD YOUR CONVERSATION, LET THEM SEE THAT THE JOY AND THE 09:15 LOVE, THE--HOW SUPERIOR YOUR LIFE IS BECAUSE OF YOUR 09:21 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 09:23 LET ME READ THIS TO YOU FROM 1 CORINTHIANS 7:13, "AND A WOMAN 09:29 WHO HAS A HUSBAND THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE, IF HE IS WILLING TO 09:33 LIVE WITH HER, LET HIM NOT DIVORCE HIM--LET HER NOT DIVORCE 09:36 HIM FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE AND 09:42 THE UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED BY THE BELIEVING 09:46 HUSBAND. 09:47 OTHERWISE YOUR CHILDREN WOULD BE UNCLEAN, BUT NOW THEY ARE HOLY." 09:53 THIS IS SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND BUT IT 09:56 SEEMS TO BE SAYING THAT IN THE SAME WAY JOSEPH'S BELIEVING 10:00 INFLUENCE SANCTIFIED THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR, THERE WAS 10:03 A BLESSING THERE. 10:04 AND THE BIBLE TELLS THE DISCIPLES WHEN THEY WENT OUT 10:06 PREACHING, HE SAYS, "WHEN YOU ENTER INTO A HOUSE SAY, PEACE OR 10:08 SHALOM TO THIS HOUSE AND THE SON OF PEACE WILL BE THERE," THAT 10:12 THE BELIEVING SPOUSE IN THIS HOUSEHOLD INVITES THE PRESENCE 10:16 OF THE SPIRIT, THE SON OF GOD INTO THAT HOME AND IT HAS 10:20 A SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE ON YOUR CHILDREN. 10:24 DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE THE CHILDREN OF BELIEVERS IF THEY 10:28 ARE NOT YET AT THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY? 10:30 CAN YOU EXPECT TO SEE THEM IN THE KINGDOM IF THEY DIE BEFORE 10:34 THEY REACH THAT AGE? 10:36 YEAH, THERE'S SOMETHING THERE AND I DON'T EVEN CLAIM TO 10:39 UNDERSTAND IT ALL BUT BY ALL MEANS, IF YOU CAN STAY TOGETHER, 10:42 STAY TOGETHER. 10:43 AND THEN PAUL SAYS, "YOU KNOW IF THE UNBELIEVER DEPARTS, 10:45 LET HIM DEPART." 10:46 YOU'RE NOT UNDER BONDAGE IN SUCH CASES, BUT DON'T DRIVE THEM AWAY 10:49 AND SAY, "WELL, THEY LEFT." 10:50 I'VE SEEN THAT GAME BEFORE. 10:53 GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART, YOU WANT TO DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN 10:56 TO MAKE IT WORK, AMEN? 10:57 AND IF THERE IS DIVISION, IF THERE ARE DISAGREEMENTS AND 11:00 IF THERE ARE CHILDREN, HAVE ENOUGH SENSE NOT TO BICKER 11:04 IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN. 11:06 NOTHING CREATES MORE INSECURITY, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN 11:09 WHEN THEY SEE MOM AND DAD GOING AT IT LIKE WOLVES. 11:13 IT JUST CREATES A FEAR AND AN INSECURITY AND ALL KINDS OF 11:17 OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS START TO BUBBLE UP IN THEIR 11:21 LIVES WHEN THEY DON'T SEE LOVE BETWEEN MOM AND DAD. 11:24 CAN YOU HAVE DISAGREEMENTS IN A HOME BETWEEN THE MOTHER AND 11:28 THE FATHER AND STILL HAVE LOVE? 11:30 YOU'VE GOTTA KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT THESE DISAGREEMENTS 11:33 IN AN AGREEABLE WAY. 11:34 YOU CAN DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEABLE, RIGHT? 11:38 AND YOU'VE GOTTA DEVELOP BETTER AND IF SOMETHING POPS UP AND 11:41 THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THE CHILDREN ARE IN THE ROOM AND THERE'S 11:44 THIS DISAGREEMENT, SAY, "MOM, COULD WE GO INTO THE ROOM FOR 11:49 A MINUTE AND TALK A LITTLE BIT?" 11:52 AND EXCUSE YOURSELVES, SHUT THE DOOR AND THEN THE KIDS WILL 11:54 HEAR THE PLATES BREAKING IN THE OTHER ROOM AND STUFF. 11:56 BUT AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, THEY THINK YOU'RE JUST PLAYING 11:58 IN THERE. 12:01 HAVING HARMONY IN YOUR HOMES REQUIRES WORK, HAVING HARMONY 12:07 IN OUR CHURCH REQUIRES WORK. 12:09 BY THE WAY JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING, I'M NOT PREACHING 12:12 THIS MESSAGE ABOUT UNITY AND DIVISION BECAUSE THERE'S SOME 12:15 GREAT SCHISM IN THE CHURCH, THERE'S NOT. 12:18 THIS IS A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE. 12:21 THERE'S GREAT HARMONY IN THIS CHURCH, AND I WANT TO KEEP IT. 12:23 ALL RIGHT, WE NEED UNITY IN OUR FAMILIES, AMEN? 12:27 IT TAKES WORK, TAKES INVESTMENT. 12:29 HAVE REGULAR DEVOTIONS IN YOUR FAMILY. 12:32 YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID MANY TIMES, THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER, 12:35 STAYS TOGETHER. 12:37 IT'S ALSO TRUE THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER. 12:40 DO THINGS TOGETHER. 12:42 WELL, THIS WHOLE MESSAGE IS NOT JUST ABOUT FAMILIES. 12:45 THERE'S ALSO DIVISION IN COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES 12:50 AND RACIAL DIVISION, CULTURAL DIVISION. 12:56 NOW I LUMPED THAT ALL TOGETHER BECAUSE I THINK IT'S INTERESTING 12:59 RIGHT NOW ESPECIALLY IN A POLITICAL SEASON, AND THIS IS 13:03 A UNIQUE POLITICAL SEASON WHERE YOU HAVE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT 13:09 PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND DIFFERENT 13:10 BACKGROUNDS AND DIFFERENT GENDERS AND DIFFERENT RACES 13:13 ALL RUNNING. 13:14 AND YOU KNOW IT HAS A TENDENCY TO POLARIZE A NATION. 13:19 AS CHRISTIANS, I'M NOT TAKING A POLITICAL POSITION HERE, BUT 13:22 I WILL TELL YOU WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT UNITY THAT WE ARE 13:26 ALL ONE PEOPLE. 13:28 ACTS 17:26, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR RACISM IN THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF, 13:32 AMEN? 13:34 "AND HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD, EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL 13:39 ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HE HAS DETERMINED THEIR 13:42 PREAPPOINTED TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS." 13:45 WE ARE ALL MADE OF ONE BLOOD AND, YOU KNOW, THE DEBATE ON 13:50 IMMIGRATION IS HEATING UP AND THERE ARE--THERE'S FEAR 13:57 AND FRUSTRATION AND IT CREATES DIVISION. 14:00 BUT AS A PEOPLE, AS A COUNTRY, WE OUGHT TO LOVE EACH OTHER, 14:04 AS CHRISTIANS, WE OUGHT TO UNDERSTAND LOVE. 14:06 IT DOESN'T MATTER, IF I'M ON MY WAY HOME FROM CHURCH AND I GET 14:12 HIT BY A MACK TRUCK AND I GET CUT AND I START TO BLEED AND 14:17 THEY TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEY SAY THEY'RE OUT OF BLOOD 14:19 AND THEY ASK FOR DONORS, IF AN ILLEGAL MEXICAN ALIEN 14:22 WITH THE SAME BLOOD TYPE AS ME SHOWS UP, IT DOESN'T MATTER. 14:26 I'LL PRAISE THE LORD. 14:26 WE ARE ALL MADE OF THAT ONE BLOOD. 14:28 IT'LL SAVE MY LIFE, RIGHT? 14:31 AND WE SOMETIMES FORGET THAT. 14:33 AND EVEN THOUGH I SPEAK A LITTLE SPANISH, I DON'T EVEN NEED TO BE 14:35 ABLE TO SPEAK THAT LANGUAGE FOR THAT BLOOD TO SAVE MY LIFE. 14:42 GALATIANS 3:27-28, "AS MANY OF YOU AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST 14:49 HAVE PUT ON CHRIST, THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, 14:52 THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, THERE'S NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE, 14:56 YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST." 14:58 WE DO ALL HAVE DIFFERENCE, DON'T WE? 15:00 MAKES IT INTERESTING BUT THOSE DIFFERENCES SHOULD NOT SEPARATE 15:03 US, THEY SHOULD UNITE US BUT THERE'S CERTAIN FOUNDATIONAL 15:07 THINGS THAT IF A PERSON IS WRONG ON THOSE, THE WHOLE TRAIN STARTS 15:11 JUMPIN' TRACK AND THOSE--THOSE TRUTHS SHOULD BE VIGOROUSLY 15:16 DEFENDED AND WE SHOULD SPEAK THE SAME THING. 15:20 YOU KNOW WHAT'S WONDERFUL FOR ME IS I GET TO TRAVEL AND I'LL GO 15:24 TO ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT HAS VERY DIFFERENT CUSTOMS. 15:28 AND I REMEMBER BEING IN JAPAN AND, YOU KNOW, THE SERVICE WAS 15:31 A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 15:32 YOU TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES AND BUT THEY BELIEVE THE SAME THING FROM 15:35 THE BIBLE I BELIEVE. 15:36 WE SPOKE THE SAME THING, AND YOU COULD GO TO CHINA, YOU CAN GO TO 15:41 NEW GUINEA AND IT'S WONDERFUL GETTING TOGETHER WITH THESE 15:44 BIBLE CHRISTIANS IN THEIR HUTS. 15:46 THEY SPOKE THE SAME THING. 15:48 HOW DO WE GET THAT KIND OF UNITY? 15:51 IF WE'RE ALL READING THE SAME BOOK, WE'RE GONNA SPEAK THE SAME 15:53 THING, THAT'S THE KEY TO HAVING THAT KIND OF UNITY. 15:58 UNFORTUNATELY, DO YOU KNOW ONE REASON THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF 16:02 DIFFERENT CHURCHES IN COMMUNITIES? 16:07 BECAUSE THERE'S A SPLIT IN THE CHURCH. 16:10 I CAN'T TELL YA HOW MANY TIMES A CHURCH HAS GONE THROUGH A 16:13 BUILDING PROGRAM OR DECORATING PROGRAM AND THE CONTENTION IS SO 16:16 SHARP OVER SOMETHING THAT THEY SAY, "WELL, WE'LL JUST GO 16:20 AND BUILD OUR OWN CHURCH." 16:22 AND SO BECAUSE OF THE DIVISION, A CHURCH SPLITS INTO TWO AND 16:27 A FEW YEARS LATER NOW THERE'S TWO OPTIONS WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO, 16:30 AND IT ENDS UP WORKING OUT AS A BLESSING BUT IT WASN'T 16:32 HEALTHY RIGHT WHEN IT HAPPENED. 16:34 IF OUR UNITY ADVERTISES--IF OUR LOVE AND UNITY ADVERTISES FOR 16:38 CHRIST, OR DIVISION ADVERTISES FOR THE DEVIL, RIGHT? 16:44 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD SOMEONE SAY, "OH, MAN THEY'RE 16:46 ALL AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. 16:48 I MEAN LOOK AT THE CHRISTIANS IN IRELAND, PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS, 16:51 KILLING EACH OTHER, CHRISTIANS, HA, HA, HA." 16:54 SO THE DIVISION, IT EVANGELIZES FOR THE DEVIL. 16:59 THE UNITY EVANGELIZES FOR JESUS. 17:04 THE LORD SAYS SO MUCH ABOUT ONENESS. 17:07 NOW WHEN I SAY THAT, I'M TALKING ABOUT GOD SAYS, "HEAR, O ISRAEL, 17:12 THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE." 17:15 BUT THEN HE SAYS GOD SAID, "LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, GOD, 17:18 THAT ONE GOD IS GOD THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT. 17:21 YOU GOT ONE FAMILY, TWO PEOPLE, MAYBE THE CHILDREN, THEY BECOME 17:26 ONE FLESH THROUGH LOVE. 17:28 THERE NEEDS TO BE A ONENESS IN OUR HEARTS, A ONENESS 17:31 IN OUR PURPOSE. 17:32 YOU KNOW, IT'S A MARVEL TO ME, YOU EVER WATCH THESE BIRDS, 17:35 THESE FLOCKS THAT ARE FLYING THROUGH THE SKY AND YOU WONDER, 17:39 WHO'S IN CHARGE? 17:41 AND YOU KNOW THEY JUST KIND OF TURN IN A CLOUD AND IT'S 17:46 AMAZING TO ME IT'S LIKE THEY'VE ALL GOT ONE PART OF THEIR BRAIN. 17:49 THEY'RE ALL IN TOUCH WITH THE OTHER, AND I'VE DONE A LOT 17:52 OF SCUBA DIVING AND YOU'RE DOWN IN THE OCEAN. 17:54 YOU SEE THESE BEAUTIFUL MASSIVE SCHOOLS OF SILVERLY FISH, 17:58 AND THEY SWIM AROUND SOME BUOY OR OBSTACLE AND THEY PARK JUST 18:02 LONG ENOUGH TO GET AROUND IT AND THEY'RE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. 18:04 IT'S LIKE THEY'RE JUST--THERE'S A ONENESS TO THEIR MOVEMENT AND 18:08 GOD IS INVITING US TO BE ONE. 18:10 THERE'S A NUMBER OF VERSES ON THIS THAT I'M SURE YOU KNOW. 18:12 IN OUR MEMORY VERSE, WE TALKED ABOUT JOHN 17 BUT WE DID NOT 18:15 READ VERSE 11. 18:17 JESUS SAID, "NOW I AM NO LONGER IN THE WORLD, 18:21 BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD." 18:23 JESUS IS PRAYING. 18:24 "AND I COME TO YOU, HOLY FATHER, KEEP THROUGH YOUR NAME THOSE 18:28 WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE." 18:35 WHAT KIND OF ONENESS DOES THE LORD WANT US TO HAVE WITH EACH 18:37 OTHER? 18:38 CAN YOU THINK OF HIGHER EXAMPLE OF ONENESS THAN THE ONENESS 18:41 OF JESUS AND THE FATHER? 18:44 HE SAID THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE. 18:48 THAT'S A PRETTY TALL ORDER, ONE MIND. 18:54 PHILIPPIANS 2:2, NOTICE HOW OFTEN IT SAYS THIS IN THE BIBLE, 19:00 "FULFILL MY JOY BY BEING LIKE-MINDED." 19:04 DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE ALL CLONED AND WE ALL THINK EXACTLY 19:07 THE SAME, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING EACH OTHER, 19:10 WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. 19:11 "THAT WE MIGHT BE LIKE-MINDED HAVING THE SAME LOVE, BEING OF 19:14 ONE ACCORD, OF ONE MIND. 19:17 IF WE ALLOW THE SAME--" I'M SORRY. 19:20 "IF WE ALL FOLLOW THE SAME WORD," THESE ARE MY NOTES 19:23 IN HERE, "IF WE ALL FOLLOW THE SAME WORD, WE WILL HAVE 19:25 THE SAME MIND." 19:26 IF WE HAVE THE WORD IN OUR MIND, WE'LL BE OF THE SAME MIND. 19:30 PHILIPPIANS 4:2, "I IMPLORE EUODIA AND I IMPLORE SYNTYCHE 19:35 TO BE OF THE SAME MIND IN THE LORD." 19:39 1 PETER 3:8, "FINALLY ALL OF YOU BE OF ONE MIND HAVING COMPASSION 19:45 FOR ONE ANOTHER. 19:46 LOVE AS BROTHERS, BE TENDER-HEARTED, BE COURTEOUS." 19:50 YOU KNOW CHURCH MEMBERS ARE SOMETHING LIKE COALS IN A FIRE 19:54 THAT WE JUST DON'T BURN WHEN WE'RE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER. 19:59 TWO PIECES OF WOOD KEEP BURNING A LOT BETTER THAN IF YOU HAVE 20:03 ONE WOOD, ONE PIECE OF WOOD AND YOU PLOP IT ON THE FIRE. 20:06 WE WARM EACH OTHER, AS SHARPEN--AS IRON SHARPENS 20:10 IRON THROUGH OUR STAYING TOGETHER, WE DEVELOP THIS 20:13 ONENESS, THIS UNITY. 20:16 AND THEN WE WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BEING 20:18 ONE FLOCK. 20:21 JESUS SAID IN JOHN 10:16, "OTHER SHEEP I HAVE THAT ARE NOT OF 20:26 THIS FOLD, THEM ALSO I MUST BRING AND THEY'LL HEAR MY VOICE 20:30 AND THERE WILL BE ONE FLOCK AND ONE SHEPHERD." 20:35 THE LORD WANTS US TO HAVE THIS UNITY IN OUR MIDST. 20:38 NOW WHEN I STARTED TALKING ABOUT FLOCK THERE, 20:41 NOT ONLY AM I THINKING OF SHEEP. 20:43 I REMEMBER READING SOMETHING. 20:44 I MAY HAVE SHARED WITH YOU YEARS AGO ABOUT SOME LESSONS 20:47 FROM GEESE. 20:48 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE FLYING NORTH RIGHT NOW, BUT 20:51 SOMEONE OBSERVED IN THE FALL WHEN YOU SEE GEESE HEADING SOUTH 20:55 FOR THE WINTER THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN WHAT SCIENCE HAS 20:58 LEARNED ABOUT THE WAY THEY COOPERATE TO GET WHERE THEY'RE 21:01 GOING AND WHY THEY FLY IN THESE "V" FORMATIONS. 21:05 AS EACH BIRD FLAPS ITS WING, IT CREATES UPLIFT FOR THE BIRD 21:09 IMMEDIATELY BEHIND IT. 21:12 FLYING IN A "V" FORMATION, THE WHOLE FLOCK ADDS 71% GREATER 21:16 FLYING RANGE THAN IF ANY BIRD IS FLYING ALONE. 21:20 HOW MANY OF YOU DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD HAVE GOTTEN IN THE BACK 21:23 DRAFT OF A TRUCK BEFORE? 21:25 YOU GET UP THERE, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE OR TWO CAR LENGHTS BEHIND A 21:28 LARGE SEMI, YOU CAN LET OFF YOUR GAS AND YOU CAN MAINTAIN YOUR 21:32 SAME SPEED BECAUSE YOU'RE CAUGHT IN THE BACK DRAFT OF THAT TRUCK. 21:35 NOW HE'S PAYING FOR IT. 21:37 THE ONE, THE LEAD GOOSE IS REALLY HAVING TO FLAP, BUT ALL 21:40 THE OTHERS BENEFIT BY STAYING IN A FORMATION AND GOING THE SAME 21:43 DIRECTION. 21:45 AS OPPOSED TO WHEN THEY GO OFF ON THEIR OWN, 21:47 IT CREATES DRAG FOR EVERYBODY. 21:49 IF WE ALL MOVE TOGETHER, EVEN IF YOU MIGHT DISAGREE WITH THE LEAD 21:53 GOOSE, IF WE ALL MOVE IN THE SAME DIRECTION, 21:57 IT IS SO MUCH EASIER. 22:00 WHEN A GOOSE GETS SICK OR IS WOUNDED AND FALLS OUT OF 22:02 FORMATION, TWO GEESE FOLLOW IT DOWN TO THE GROUND AND THEY HELP 22:06 AND PROTECT HIM. 22:08 THEY STAY WITH HIM UNTIL HE'S EITHER ABLE TO FLY AGAIN 22:11 OR UNTIL HE'S DEAD. 22:14 WHEN ONE OF US--AND THEN THEY JOIN ANOTHER FORMATION 22:17 AND CATCH UP WITH THEIR GROUP. 22:18 WHEN ONE OF US IS DOWN OR OUT, IT'S UP TO THE OTHERS 22:21 TO STAND BY THEM. 22:23 FOR ONE THING, THE LORD HATES DIVIDERS. 22:28 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FILE DIVIDERS THAT ARE IN YOUR FILE 22:31 CABINET, I'M TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE DIVIDERS. 22:34 SOME PEOPLE ARE INSECURE AND THEY SEEM TO FIND SOME KIND OF 22:36 HELLISH SATISFACTION BY GOING AROUND DIVIDING OTHERS. 22:40 THEY FEEL LIKE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS OR THEY'RE INSECURE 22:42 ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIPS, SO THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE ANYONE'S 22:45 FRIEND EXCEPT THEM. 22:47 AND SO THEY--THEY GO AROUND AND THEY GOSSIP AND THEY DIVIDE 22:49 AND THEY--THEY SPREAD THINGS THAT THEY SHOULDN'T SPREAD. 22:52 PROVERBS 6:14-15, "PERVERSITY IS IN HIS HEART, HE DEVISES EVIL 22:58 CONTINUALLY, HE SOWS DISCORD." 23:02 CAN YOU PICTURE A PERSON GOING AROUND THROWING SEED? 23:05 THESE PEOPLE ARE THROWING OUT WEEDS, WEEDS OF DIVISION. 23:10 "THEY SOW DISCORD, THEREFORE HIS CALAMITY WILL COME SUDDENLY. 23:13 SUDDENLY HE'LL BE BROKEN WITHOUT REMEDY." 23:15 PROVERBS 6:16, THIS IS REALLY HEAVY. 23:18 "THESE SIX THINGS THE LORD 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