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Speaker 5: thank you again for coming out. I like to start

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Speaker 5: song leader that weren't getting along, and it started to

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Speaker 5: about being a giver. Afterwards, the song leader got up

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Speaker 6: The next week he talked about not gossiping.

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Speaker 5: The song leader got up and led, I love to

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Speaker 5: Being willing to change, and songleader got up and led,

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Speaker 5: I shall not be moved. Pastor was so frustrated he resigned.

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Speaker 5: Told the congregation Jesus brought me here, and Jesus is

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Speaker 6: The song leader then led, what a friend we have

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Speaker 6: in Jesus. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 6: mean it.

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Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about invisible but invaluable. A

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Speaker 5: friend of mine is the equipment manager for a professional

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Speaker 5: being content when you're invisible. A lot of times we think, well, Joel,

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Speaker 5: And this scripture talks about how what you give in secret,

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Speaker 6: That company wouldn't be what it is without you.

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Speaker 5: That person you've been investing in, they wouldn't shine as brightly,

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Speaker 5: they wouldn't be as successful without your efforts. They may

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Speaker 5: God knows every seed that you've sown, every sacrifice you've made,

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Speaker 6: Now do it quietly in humility, unto God.

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Speaker 5: Do you know how many people are making this service?

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Speaker 5: Their names are not on the sign. They're not getting

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Speaker 6: They're invaluable. You have to accept the role that God

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Speaker 5: If not, you'll try to promote yourself, compete with people,

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Speaker 6: God puts people in our lives.

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Speaker 5: So we can help them succeed, so we can push

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Speaker 5: You're just as good as they are. No, God put

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Speaker 5: I'm going to do my best to make them look good,

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Speaker 5: We were created to help others. One of the greatest

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Speaker 5: up with your relative, did you outperform your coworker, Did

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Speaker 5: And in the scripture there was a young man named Jonathan.

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Speaker 5: If you will become a Jonathan to someone and help

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Speaker 5: using this time and energy to put into my own dreams,

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Speaker 6: When he saw the faith of his friends, he healed him.

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Speaker 5: When you're behind the scenes pushing people forward, helping them

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Speaker 5: to succeed, you may feel invisible, but God sees what

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Speaker 5: Your faith can be what God uses to push that coworker.

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Speaker 6: Into their destinies.

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Speaker 5: There are times in life we have to carry someone.

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Speaker 5: They don't have the faith they need right now. They're

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Speaker 5: God will use us to carry a friend, carry a neighbor,

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Speaker 6: This is what happened with my father.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't raised with any kind of spiritual upbringing, and

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Speaker 5: as a teenager, my dad loved a party and have fun,

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Speaker 6: My dad said, Sam, that's just not me. I'm not

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Speaker 6: Sam didn't get discouraged.

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Speaker 5: Day after day told my father, John, you have a

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Speaker 6: God has a purpose for your life.

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Speaker 5: What was Sam doing carrying my father when my dad

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Speaker 5: God saw the four friends carrying the paralyzed man, God

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Speaker 5: saw Sam carrying my father One night when Daddy was

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Speaker 5: seventeen years old. He was walking home from a nightclub

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Speaker 5: his destiny. That was God drawing him to himself. He

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Speaker 5: got home and he called his friend Sam. The next

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Speaker 5: The end of the service, the pastor said, if you

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Speaker 6: My father was too afraid to go.

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Speaker 5: Sam looked at him and said, John, if you'll go,

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Speaker 5: down front gave his life to Christ, arm in arm

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Speaker 5: with his friend Sam Martin. My dad went on to

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Speaker 5: become a prominent pastor and touch the world. Sam remained invisible.

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Speaker 6: But in fact he was invaluable.

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Speaker 5: It was his faith that pushed my father into his destiny.

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Speaker 5: Now I wonder where I would be if Sam Martin

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Speaker 5: had not been willing to carry my father. I'm asking

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Speaker 5: a loved one. They may not have the faith they

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Speaker 5: need right now to step into their destinies, but God

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Speaker 5: can see your faith for them. My prayer is, God,

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Speaker 5: let us become so secure in who we are that

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Speaker 5: we can be invisible, that we can carry people that

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Speaker 5: we don't have to have the credit. Friends, whether your

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Speaker 5: be content to play your role. You may feel invisible

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