Sermon #S006 - "Shame On Us"
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Pastor Snell: I want to invite
you, saints, to go with me in
your Bibles to the Book of Luke
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10, Luke 10:25. Today, I want
to really just talk to us as a
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church local and to those who
are watching online from other
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places. There's some things that
the church universal needs to
hear from the word.
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Luke 10:25, when you get there,
just say, "I'm here, Pastor."
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Luke 10:25. [Congregation:
Laughing] just stand next to
them next Sabbath. When I say
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it, say it from your heart. Let
them know, "You look good in the
house today." Turn to your
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neighbor on the other
side. Come on and say it.
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Luke10:25, Jesus says, "And
beholds, a certain lawyer stood
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up and tested him, saying ,
'Teacher, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?' He said
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unto him, 'What is written in
the law? What is your reading of
it?' So he answered and said,
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'You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart, with
all your soul, with all your
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strength, and with all your
mind,' and ‘your neighbor as
yourself.' And He said to him,
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'You have answered rightly; do
this and you will live.' But he,
wanting to justify himself, said
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to Jesus, 'And who is my
neighbor?' Then Jesus answered
and said: 'A certain man went
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down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and fell amongst thieves, who
stripped him of his clothing,
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wounded him, and departed,
leaving him half dead. Now, by
chance, a certain priest came
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down that road, and when he saw
him, he passed by on the other
side. Likewise a Levite, when he
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arrived at the place, came and
looked, and passed by on the
other side. But a Samaritan, as
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he journeyed, came where he was.
And when he saw him, he had
compassion. So he went to him
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and bandaged his wounds, pouring
oil and wine; and he set him on
his own animal, and brought him
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to an inn, and took care of him.
On the next day, when he
departed, he took out two
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denarii, gave them to the
innkeeper, and said to him,
‘Take care of him; and whatever
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more you spend, when I come
again, I will repay you.' So
which of these three do you
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think was neighbor to him who
fell amongst the thieves? And he
said, 'He who showed mercy on
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him.' Then Jesus said to him,
'Go and do likewise.'" I want to
emphasize verse 31, "Now, by
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chance, a certain priest came
down that road, and when he saw
him, he passed by on the other
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side. Likewise a Levite, when he
arrived at the place, came and
looked, and passed by on the
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other side." Today, saints, I
want to talk for a little while
under the subject, Shame on Us.
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Shame on us. Let's pray. Father,
the same way You took two fish
into and five loaves and You
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multiply it, I'm praying that
You would take my little and
that You would make it
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sufficient for many. Lord, I
need your strength to be
perfected in human weakness,
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frailty, and lack. Lord, I'm
praying that in the hearing of
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the word, we would get a sense
of what it is that You require
for us in this time.
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Lord, would You please hide me
In the Shadows of the cross,
that Jesus alone might be seen,
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that Christ alone would be
heard. At the end of our time
together, may Jesus alone be
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praised. We ask this in the name
of him who is altogether lovely.
It is in the name of Jesus, that
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we pray. Let God's people say
together "Amen." And Amen. You
may be seated in the house of
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God. You know, saints, our text
today has many implications that
need to be considered.
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The very first thing this
teaches us is that your love for
God is not personal or
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invisible. Here, we find Jesus
surrounded by a very mixed sort
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of crowd. First, you have the
70, who have come back to report
to Jesus the great works that
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they have done in His name.
Supplementing the 70, you have
the religious establishment of
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the day who have shown up in an
attempt to discredit Jesus. Out
of this group, you have a lawyer
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or doctor of the law who stands
up and makes the inquiry. He
asked. Jesus, "What must I do to
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inherit eternal life?" Jesus,
understanding that his goal was
not to know, his goal was to
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discredit, he then centers His
answers on the lawyer's
understanding of the law. He
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asked the question, "What does
the law say? How do you
understand it to read?"
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The man then replies that the
law says that you are to love
God with all of your heart,
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with all of your mind
and all of your strength.
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The second commandment is
that you love your neighbor as
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yourself. The first thing this
teaches, friends, is that your
love for God is not invisible.
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You see the problem, saints, is
we see the two great
Commandments as distinct and
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separate Commandments, when the
truth is that the second
commandment is an outgrowth or a
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revelation of the first.
Remember Jesus said, when he
summarized the two,
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that you shall love the Lord
your God with all of your heart,
all of your mind, and all of
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your soul. He says that the
second is likened unto it, that
you love your neighbor as
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yourself. Now, understand, in
the Greek, when Jesus says that
the second is liken unto it,
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that word liken means that it is
reflecting, that it is similar,
that it is twinning the first
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commandment. In other words, the
second commandment is the proof
or the evidence of the first
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commandment. You all didn't
catch that. In other words, your
love for God is going to be
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mirrored or reflected in your
love for your neighbor. I want
to lay this out there, church,
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so that we have clarity. Because
too often, we measure our love
for God in very insulated ways,
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so that when we're trying to
track our love for God, what we
evaluate is how much we study,
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how much we pray, our
Sabbath-keeping, and our sin
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patterns, but those things lose
value if the byproduct is not
Christ-like love for your
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neighbor. Let
me say it this way,
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that you become a Commandment
breaker if the only person that
benefits from your walk with God
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is you. See, Jesus says that you
can't love the God you've never
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seen. If you can't love those
who are created In His Image, in
other words, saints,
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if your life only impacts you,
then you don't love God. If
you're only a blessing to
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yourself, you don't love God. If
you're only concerned with your
comfort, you don't love God.
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If you're only concern is
building your brand, then you
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don't love God. Some of you are
sitting with offense saying,
"Pastor, you don't know how much
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I pray. You don't know how much
I study. You don't know how well
I keep the Sabbath,"
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but Jesus is trying to get
us to know that true religion,
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that present truth is not how
impacted you are by the gospel.
It's how impactful you are for
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the gospel. Let me say it again.
That true real religion is not
just how impacted I am by the
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gospel. It's how impactful I've
been for the gospel. Because
just like the Jews of old,
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you can sit in a Sabbath School
class and debate theological
intricacies all day.
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You can be a part of 17 prayer
groups inside of the church. In
fact, some of us can sit at home
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and you can watch a sermon on
Eastern time and Central time,
and again, on Pacific time,
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but the issue with the
contemporary church is that we
have become consumer believers.
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In other words, look at the
language that has been
popularized in the church in our
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time. Look at how we talk
in the things that we expose.
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You'll realize that the language
of the contemporary church is
all about increase,
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but John the Baptist says
our goal should be to decrease.
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In the contemporary church,
it is popular to say, "I claim
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that," when the truth is we
ought to be saying, "I share
that." In the contemporary
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church, our goal is to receive
it and not necessarily to give
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it. In our time, we want to be
in the overflow so that we have
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a lot, but we learned last week
that the overflow is the
blessing that you share with
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those that are in
close proximity to you.
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The thing I want somebody to get
is that true Christianity may be
formed in the closet,
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but guess what? It shows up with
those that you are in contact
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with. How many of us know that
the truest measure of
Christianity is your love?
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Are you all
hearing me today, saints?
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In other words, the measure of
your walk with God is not what
you wear or don't wear.
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It's not in what
you eat or don't eat.
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It's not in what time you
keep the Sabbath or shut off the
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television. It doesn't really
matter. If you don't have love
for your neighbor. Okay, I see
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some of us are not convinced.
Look here in Desire of Ages page
502, there is a stunning
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statement I need somebody to
here. In fact, she says that
many who profess His name have
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lost sight of the fact that
Christians are to represent
Christ unless there is practical
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self-sacrifice for the good of
others in the family circle, in
the neighborhood, in the church,
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and wherever we may be. Then,
whatever we profess, we are not
Christians. Did you all catch
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that today? In other words,
she's saying unless you have
loved, it doesn't matter what
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you profess. Your Christianity
shows up in your home. It shows
up in your neighborhood.
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It reveals itself wherever you
are. Anything less than that
means that you're not a
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Christian. See, I need us to
understand that we've got to
shift out of a consumer-based
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religion, where it's about how
much I receive and realize that
it's more about what I give.
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Okay. You all are
sitting on your hands today.
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Let me say it this way. Have you
ever noticed, saints, that
whenever you get a new cellular
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phone, Are you all hearing the
word today, saints? Go back with
me, if you will, to Luke 10,
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and I want you to look together
at verse 29. Luke 10:29, the
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Bible says, "But he, wanting to
justify himself, said to Jesus,
'Who is my neighbor?'
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Then Jesus answered and said, 'A
certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho,
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and fell amongst thieves who
stripped him of his clothing,
wounded him and departed,
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leaving him half dead. Now,
by chance, a certain priest came
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down that road, and when he saw
him, he passed by on the other
side. Likewise a Levite, when he
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arrived at the same place, came
and looked, and he also passed
by on the other side." You see
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the second thing this story
teaches us, friends of mine, is
that our problem is not our
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message. Sometimes, our problem
is the messengers. I need you to
get that the problem is not
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always the message. Sometimes,
the problem is bad messengers.
Now, I need you to see
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something. This parable that
Jesus tells is actually
literally designed to shame the
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Jewish religious establishment.
What Jesus does is he juxtaposes
the fictional actions of a
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Levite and a priest, and he
contrasts them with the actions
of a Samaritan, who the Jews see
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as an outsider, whose life is
less valuable than that of a
dog. Understand, saints,
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that this shame is actually
twofold because the wounded man
had to find God's love outside
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of the church. He also had to
find love outside of his ethnic
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community, and that he could
only find help from one who was
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a Samaritan. See, as
the story has laid out,
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the Bible says that there is a
man that is traveling from
Jericho to Jerusalem. On his
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journey, he falls amongst
thieves who beat him bloody. The
Bible says that they leave him
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for dead. It so happens that on
that particular day, there was a
priest, a representative of the
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religious community, that sees
him bleeding out on the ground,
looks at him and passes by on
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the other side. Then, you have a
Levite, who is also a part of
the priestly community, who also
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looks at him, observes his pain,
assesses his situation, collects
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data for a study, but the Bible
says he doesn't do nothing about
it. He also passes by on the
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other side. Now, friends of
mine, lend me your imagination
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for a moment. See, I'm not
sure how much consciousness the
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wounded man has. In other words,
he is not dead, but we're not
told how much awareness he has
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of what's happening. Could you
imagine if this man was able, as
he looks on the ground,
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to see the blue border of the
priest garment and phylacteries
passing by him in his moment of
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pain? Could you imagine that he
could smell the incense in the
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Levite's clothes, that wasps
over the veil from outside of
the altar as he, too, passes by
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and leaves him in his pain? In
other words, what if he notices
that the representatives of the
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body passed by and leave him in
his pain? What is his response
to religion going to be when he
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comes to? When he wakes up and
realizes that his bill and
comfort and care has come from
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someone outside of the faith
community, you realize that no
one in the church is going to be
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able to talk to him about the
goodness of God. He's not going
to receive nothing about the
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power of prayer. He's not going
to entertain anything about you
coming to church and being a
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part of a fellowship. See, the
problem is that we would look at
somebody with that disposition
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and say their issue is that
they're rejecting the message.
The problem is that they become
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sour on the messengers. See, how
many of us know that when people
have been wounded by messengers,
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by and large, they don't parse
out the difference between the
message and the messenger.
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What they do is they tend to
lump it all together. What I'm
saying to the body is that,
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sometimes, the issue with the
Adventist Church is not that we
have the wrong message.
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In many instances, we have
empowered the wrong messengers.
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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Okay. Let me say it this way.
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Has anybody ever been to the
church where they have the
meanest ushers in the world
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working at the
door? In other words,
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their goal is to keep you
outside of the service instead
of getting you a seat inside of
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the service. Have you ever been
to the church where you've got
the mean deaconess who's always
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trying to correct young people
without connecting with young
people? In other words, it's all
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about correction, but
there is never any connection.
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Has anybody seen the church
where the health people become
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the food police? They literally
walk around at fellowship dinner
pointing out what you should and
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you should not be eating. Has
anybody grown up in the church
where the church board
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disfellowships every girl that
gets pregnant, but the boy that
got her pregnant is on the
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Junior Deacon bench and still on
the church basketball team? Are
you all hear what I'm saying?
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See, the problem is we think
folk leave because they don't
like the message, but the issue
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is that we got bad messengers
representing the work of God.
Are you all hearing me today,
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saints? See, it's just like
this. I remember probably about
two or three years ago. Here in
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Bridge Street, See, in this
moment, beloved, in this moment
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of need, I need you to notice
that the church has nothing to
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offer him. See, the shame that
Jesus is trying to communicate
is that His people have to find
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love outside of the church. The
shame of the contemporary black
church is that we have too many
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of in our communities that have
to experience the love of God
outside of the community of
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faith. You see, friends of mine.
You know what the appeal of a
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gang is? You see, friends of
mine, you know what the appeal
of a gang is. You se appeal of
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the gang. It's not
access to a weapon.
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The appeal of a gang is having a
sense of belonging for somebody
who's not going to judge me,
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but just receive me. Do you
realize what the appeal of a
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pimp is? The appeal of a pimp is
not just to get paid, but it's
to know that somebody's going to
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be covering me and looking out
for me. Do you realize the
appeal of the frat or the
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sorority? It's to know that
there is a community that's
going to help outline my
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success, and then celebrate it
when it comes forward. Do you
realize that these things have
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such a spill and appeal on our
community because they can't get
that type of covering?
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They can't get that type of
belonging. They can't get that
type of support inside of the
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household of faith.
Are you hearing me, saints?
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See, sometimes the issue is that
we've got great services, but we
have bad community services.
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See, if the priest and the
Levite did what the Samaritan
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did , you realize that they
would have to keep that brother
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out of church. But because of
what they did not do, they will
never be able to even force him
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into the church. Are you all
hearing what I'm saying, saints.
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See, I need us to understand
that the secret sauce to
evangelism and church growth in
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our time is not that we don't do
tense anymore. It's not that we
aren't studying with folk long
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enough. The issue is not that
we're not doing what we used to
do. The issue is that we don't
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have enough love
in the body of Christ.
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: You all will
believe this Testimonies for the
Church Volume 9. Look at this.
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Hear me on this, saints. Listen
to what the prophet is saying to
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the church. I need you all to
know that there is a secret
sauce, and is already in the
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pews of the body. She literally
says if we would humble
ourselves before God, and be
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kind, and courteous, and
tender-hearted, and pitiful,
watch this, there would be 100
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conversions to the truth, where
there is now, only one. In other
words, if we love like Jesus, if
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we cared like Jesus, take the
number of folks that were
baptized into your church.
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If we love like that,
multiply it times 100,
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and you would have a harvest
that's greater than what your
church can contain.
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It's funny because this brother
would function as an unbelieving
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person simply because the church
could not do anything for him.
Let me ask a question.
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Why would you join a community
that can do nothing for you?
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Why would you join a community
that passed by your pain, that
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notices your pain, but doesn't
do anything to facilitate your
pain? What I'm saying is the
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reason the church, not just
local, but global, the reason
we're not winning our
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communities is because we don't
have nothing to offer them.
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If your church is in a community
that's full of academically
challenged children,
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where then is your ministry
for academically challenged
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children? If your church is in a
community where you've got a lot
of ex-cons or offenders,
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where then is your ministry to
welcome back our brothers and
sisters from incarceration?
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If your church is in a community
that is filled with single
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parents, where then is
your ministry designed to build
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single parents? If your church
is in a community where there
are a lot of international
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refugees, where then is your
ministry to grow and build those
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refugees? If your church is in a
community where there's a lot of
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mental illness, where then is
your ministry that's designed
for mental illness?
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If your church is in a community
where there's drug addiction and
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violence, then where is the
ministry to address drug
addiction and violence?
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What I'm saying is we got to
stop all the surveys. Stop
gathering all this information.
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The needs are glaring and
obvious. We've got to build our
ministry not around what we
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like, not
around what blesses us.
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We've got to build the ministry
around that which is going to
bless the community.
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: What I need
somebody to understand is that
what you offer determines the
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kind of clientele you are going
to receive. Let me say it this
way. You see, as a brother,
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I don't go shop in
Victoria's Secret. Well, I do.
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[Congregation: Laughing]
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Pastor Snell: But it ain't
really for me. Are you all too
holy? You're on the Spirit.
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You all love the Lord more than
me. Come on, brothers. Every now
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and then... In other words, I
don't go there because guess
what? They ain't got nothing for
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me to wear. Do I have a witness?
In other words, what they offer
determines the clientele.
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In other words, there are
certain stores that, as a
brother, with a little extra
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anointing.
[Congregation: Laughing]
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Pastor Snell: Anybody else got a
little extra anointing? Come on
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and save it. You realize that
there are certain stores you
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can't even shop in because they
only have a size that's going to
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fit small people. In other
words, what they offer is going
to determine who their clientele
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is. In other words, I went into
one store and I even have my
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size. I put my leg and I
couldn't get my leg all the way
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in. In other words, it's a store
that only caters to people that
are in perfect shape.
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I guess what I'm saying is we
got to be careful about not just
catering to people who are in
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perfect shape. We've got to be a
people that's going to receive
not just one size or one class.
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God says, "My house shall be
called a house of prayer for all
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nations." How many of us know
that we don't just want people
from other churches, but guess
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what? We ought to want some
smoking people in this church.
We ought to want some drinking
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people in this. We ought to
receive some shocking people in
this church. We ought to want
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some cursing people in this
church. Jesus said the whole
have no need of a physician,
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but He said, "I have come
to seek and save that which is
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lost." Is there anybody that was
once lost and you're now found?
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And you just want to praise God
that He don't just cater to
those in perfect shape.
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But He says, "I'll take your
defects. I'll love your love
handles. I'll take your
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cellulite. Whatever's wrong with
you, you got a place in Me." Are
you hearing me today, saints?
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Pastor Snell: Praise God
everyone, thank you so much for
allowing us to bring the gospel
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right there to your living room
today. Listen I want to
encourage you to make sure you
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come back next week same
place, same time as I give you
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Part #2 of the message entitled
"Shame On Us". I want you to the
second half is going to be even
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better than the fist half, so
make sure you see us again next
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week. (Breath of Life Music)
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Pastor Snell: Hi, I'm Debleaire
Snell. Have you ever been in a
place where as soon as you
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started believing big, praying
big and thinking big someone
told you that you need to be
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more realistic? It was
unrealistic for Jesus to say
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I'm going to lay down my life
and in three days I'm going to
pick it back up again.
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I want to encouarge you to put
down your commonly held beliefs
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and it's time for
us to "Get Unrealistic"
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(MUSIC)
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[End]
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