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[2439.48 --> 2440.08] who are new
[2440.08 --> 2440.98] from different parts
[2440.98 --> 2441.38] of the world.
[2442.06 --> 2442.48] You're going to meet
[2442.48 --> 2443.26] some of them next week
[2443.26 --> 2444.22] as we have our new members
[2444.22 --> 2445.28] welcome and we baptize
[2445.28 --> 2445.74] two people.
[2446.46 --> 2447.32] But two families
[2447.32 --> 2447.82] that I met with,
[2447.88 --> 2448.64] one was from China,
[2448.90 --> 2450.16] the other was originally
[2450.16 --> 2450.70] from India
[2450.70 --> 2451.64] and then Qatar.
[2452.62 --> 2453.60] And it was such a privilege
[2453.60 --> 2454.42] I'm looking for
[2454.42 --> 2455.10] some of them right now.
[2455.20 --> 2455.74] I see one of them,
[2455.82 --> 2456.64] Avesh and Siali.
[2457.08 --> 2457.96] Such a privilege
[2457.96 --> 2459.36] to hear the stories
[2459.36 --> 2460.44] of how they came to faith,
[2461.32 --> 2461.86] hear the stories
[2461.86 --> 2462.72] of how people share
[2462.72 --> 2463.58] the gospel with them,
[2463.66 --> 2464.58] the churches they found,
[2464.66 --> 2465.76] the people who discipled them.
[2465.92 --> 2466.80] And I just get to see,
[2466.92 --> 2467.14] wow,
[2467.28 --> 2468.20] God is at work
[2468.20 --> 2469.10] in Qatar
[2469.10 --> 2469.84] and India
[2469.84 --> 2470.50] and China.
[2470.74 --> 2471.30] He's at work
[2471.30 --> 2472.06] in all these places.
[2472.20 --> 2473.12] He's forming churches,
[2473.26 --> 2473.86] planting churches,
[2474.22 --> 2474.92] raising up leaders.
[2475.10 --> 2476.40] Praise the Lord for that.
[2477.14 --> 2478.44] But equally so,
[2479.26 --> 2480.46] I was talking
[2480.46 --> 2480.74] with someone
[2480.74 --> 2481.50] after the 9 a.m. service
[2481.50 --> 2481.88] about this.
[2481.94 --> 2482.74] I had one of those moments
[2482.74 --> 2483.40] where your heart
[2483.40 --> 2484.30] is burning within you
[2484.30 --> 2485.02] thinking to yourself,
[2485.42 --> 2486.10] this person
[2486.10 --> 2487.42] who was discipled
[2487.42 --> 2488.84] by someone in Shendu
[2488.84 --> 2490.90] or Southeast Asia,
[2491.28 --> 2492.20] they are now sitting
[2492.20 --> 2493.06] with me in my office
[2493.06 --> 2493.96] and we're brothers
[2493.96 --> 2495.86] and sisters in faith.
[2496.78 --> 2498.52] What an amazing reality
[2498.52 --> 2500.38] that we get to share
[2500.38 --> 2501.44] in the life of the Spirit.
[2501.56 --> 2502.26] We get to share
[2502.26 --> 2503.68] in being part of Abraham's family
[2503.68 --> 2504.96] because of what Jesus has done.
[2505.36 --> 2506.40] Praise the Lord
[2506.40 --> 2508.60] that we get to be the church,
[2509.18 --> 2509.86] that we share
[2509.86 --> 2510.44] in the blessing
[2510.44 --> 2511.24] that God promised
[2511.24 --> 2513.48] thousands of years ago.
[2514.58 --> 2514.92] Amen.
[2516.40 --> 2517.18] And I could say
[2517.18 --> 2518.12] a lot more about this,
[2518.24 --> 2519.12] but I want to be short.
[2520.08 --> 2520.76] Did that come up
[2520.76 --> 2521.26] on the screen?
[2524.06 --> 2524.84] Thanks, Trev.
[2527.74 --> 2529.20] In Galatians 3.28,
[2529.30 --> 2530.18] one of the things
[2530.18 --> 2530.72] that he's trying
[2530.72 --> 2531.28] to communicate
[2531.28 --> 2532.94] is the beautiful way
[2532.94 --> 2533.50] in which everyone
[2533.50 --> 2534.36] comes into the church
[2534.36 --> 2534.86] by grace
[2534.86 --> 2535.44] and there can be
[2535.44 --> 2536.90] no upper and lower class.
[2537.16 --> 2537.74] So when he says
[2537.74 --> 2539.20] there's no Jew nor Gentile,
[2539.30 --> 2540.04] slave nor free,
[2540.18 --> 2540.84] male nor female,
[2540.90 --> 2541.60] what he's saying is
[2541.60 --> 2543.38] everyone enters the church
[2543.38 --> 2544.06] as equals.
[2545.08 --> 2545.76] And that means
[2545.76 --> 2546.48] there's no lording
[2546.48 --> 2547.34] over anybody,
[2547.44 --> 2549.08] your socioeconomic class.
[2549.46 --> 2550.08] There's no lording
[2550.08 --> 2550.70] over anyone,
[2550.76 --> 2551.74] the kind of family background
[2551.74 --> 2552.36] you came from