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[2316.80 --> 2317.68] nor Gentile,
[2318.28 --> 2319.52] neither slave nor free.
[2320.20 --> 2321.46] There is male nor female,
[2321.82 --> 2323.32] for you are all one
[2323.32 --> 2324.78] in Christ Jesus.
[2325.52 --> 2326.80] If you belong to Christ,
[2326.98 --> 2328.46] you are Abraham's seed
[2328.46 --> 2330.04] and heirs according
[2330.04 --> 2331.60] to the promise.
[2332.22 --> 2333.06] I don't have time
[2333.06 --> 2333.88] to preach on this today,
[2334.00 --> 2334.92] but when Paul says
[2334.92 --> 2335.46] you are heirs
[2335.46 --> 2336.34] according to the promise,
[2336.66 --> 2337.58] he says to the church,
[2337.68 --> 2338.74] by faith you get
[2338.74 --> 2339.80] to inherit the earth.
[2340.66 --> 2341.34] After death,
[2341.38 --> 2342.36] your bodies will rise
[2342.36 --> 2343.00] and the creation
[2343.00 --> 2343.50] will be renewed
[2343.50 --> 2344.38] and you will live on it
[2344.38 --> 2345.00] forever,
[2345.00 --> 2346.24] because the promise
[2346.24 --> 2346.84] to the church
[2346.84 --> 2348.00] is eternal life
[2348.00 --> 2349.28] in a resurrected world
[2349.28 --> 2350.64] with resurrected bodies.
[2352.54 --> 2354.46] God's plan all along.
[2355.52 --> 2356.96] It was a multi-ethnic,
[2357.30 --> 2358.22] global church
[2358.22 --> 2360.48] that is united by faith.
[2361.26 --> 2362.30] And can we just stop
[2362.30 --> 2363.12] and marvel together
[2363.12 --> 2364.24] that even as we worship,
[2364.90 --> 2367.04] we get to taste that together.
[2367.80 --> 2368.16] I mean,
[2368.28 --> 2369.34] there's a lot of us here
[2369.34 --> 2370.06] from different parts
[2370.06 --> 2370.42] of the world,
[2370.54 --> 2371.20] different backgrounds,
[2371.20 --> 2372.06] and we get to worship
[2372.06 --> 2372.98] Jesus together.
[2373.88 --> 2375.04] This week in my office,
[2375.12 --> 2376.90] I wrote down just a quick list
[2376.90 --> 2377.56] of the countries
[2377.56 --> 2378.48] that I know of
[2378.48 --> 2379.14] that are represented
[2379.14 --> 2379.86] in our church
[2379.86 --> 2381.32] and I'll read them off.
[2381.38 --> 2381.84] If you're missing,
[2381.98 --> 2382.96] it's not because I don't like you,
[2383.04 --> 2383.84] it's because I just forgot
[2383.84 --> 2384.52] about your country.
[2385.18 --> 2386.04] So here we go.
[2386.66 --> 2387.52] Whenever you make a list,
[2387.58 --> 2388.38] you always forget someone.
[2389.96 --> 2390.72] In our church,
[2390.80 --> 2392.28] people worship from Taiwan,
[2392.86 --> 2393.24] Korea,
[2393.92 --> 2394.30] China,
[2394.30 --> 2395.42] the Philippines,
[2396.12 --> 2396.46] India,
[2396.82 --> 2397.30] Nigeria,
[2397.70 --> 2398.02] Ghana,
[2398.40 --> 2398.72] Holland,
[2398.98 --> 2399.50] Honduras,
[2399.66 --> 2400.18] El Salvador,
[2400.60 --> 2401.02] Venezuela,
[2401.62 --> 2402.56] even the U.S.
[2402.92 --> 2403.72] and Canada.
[2404.82 --> 2406.00] Praise the Lord
[2406.00 --> 2407.70] for the diversity
[2407.70 --> 2408.50] of the church.
[2409.02 --> 2410.10] This was the plan
[2410.10 --> 2411.20] all along.
[2411.80 --> 2412.30] The plan
[2412.30 --> 2413.32] when God called Abraham
[2413.32 --> 2414.80] was that we would share
[2414.80 --> 2415.62] in the blessing
[2415.62 --> 2417.06] that our lives
[2417.06 --> 2418.06] would be put back together
[2418.06 --> 2418.90] by the work of Jesus,
[2419.12 --> 2420.42] that we could experience
[2420.42 --> 2421.30] the fullness of life.
[2421.50 --> 2422.48] That was the plan.
[2422.96 --> 2423.66] And here we are
[2423.66 --> 2424.44] worshiping Jesus
[2424.44 --> 2426.02] as part of proof
[2426.02 --> 2427.46] that the work of Christ
[2427.46 --> 2428.32] was accomplishing
[2428.32 --> 2429.58] exactly what it needed to.
[2430.24 --> 2431.18] That God's family
[2431.18 --> 2432.46] is a global,
[2432.86 --> 2434.06] multi-ethnic family.
[2435.72 --> 2436.12] Now,
[2436.24 --> 2437.36] just in the last couple weeks,
[2437.54 --> 2438.20] I've been able to meet
[2438.20 --> 2438.94] with some of the people
[2438.94 --> 2439.48] in our church