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I believe God has amazing things in your future. 35 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message. 36 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 4: So I'm one thirty three, one and three. 37 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 5: It is good and it is pleasant when God's people 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 5: live together in unity. How many of you want to 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 5: live in a good and pleasant place? 40 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 6: I do. 41 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 4: It is good and pleasant when God's people live in unity. 42 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 5: That's what I want to talk about, just for a 43 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 5: second today, is unity. Getting ourselves in a place of unity. 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 5: Because that scripture goes on to say that there is 45 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 5: an anointing that flows when we're in unity, a power 46 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,239 Speaker 5: that flows in our life it goes down through us 47 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 5: and through everything that we touch when we're in unity. 48 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 5: At the end of that verse, at the end of 49 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 5: that chapter says this, for where there is unity, there 50 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 5: is a commanded blessing. Do you see the promise. There's 51 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 5: a promise when you have unity in your life, there 52 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 5: is a commanded blessing. Where you have unity, there's an annointy. 53 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 5: And I really feel like today that in a world 54 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 5: where we feel like we're anything but united, that we 55 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 5: need to realize we can be in unity. And the 56 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 5: best efforts to put our unity is in our families. Listen, 57 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 5: when you start with your family, that blessing not only 58 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 5: flows down. 59 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 4: Through you, through your children, through. 60 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 5: Your family, but it flows and follows you everywhere you go. 61 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 5: That commanded blessing will follow you to your workplace, That 62 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 5: commanded blessing will follow you into any difficult situation. Because 63 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 5: God says, where there is unity, there is a commanded blessing. 64 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 5: And when God commands a blessing, there's nothing that can 65 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 5: stop it. And may look impossible, it may be difficult, 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 5: but you've got to remind yourself when I am in 67 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 5: unity and at peace, then I walk in the commanded blessing. 68 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 5: You know, the enemy wants to separate us. The enemy 69 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 5: of our soul wants to bring division in our life. 70 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 5: He doesn't want to bring us together. He wants to 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 5: bring us apart. He wants to put a wedge of strife, 72 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 5: a wedge of discontentment, so that wedge can grow bigger 73 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 5: and bigger until we have no unity. But God is saying, 74 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 5: when you're united, you're strong. You ever heard that saying 75 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 5: united you're strong? Divided you fall? And that is so 76 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 5: much truth in that saying that when we are united, 77 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 5: we are strong. God has commanded a blessing where there's unity. 78 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 5: Jul and I have been married twenty nine years. An 79 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 5: we've been together twenty nine years. We've raised two children 80 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 5: together now they're in college. We've built two houses together, 81 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 5: we've built a business together over this past twenty nine years, 82 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 5: and now we're leading. 83 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 4: One of the greatest churches in the. 84 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 5: Nation together together. And when I look back, I can 85 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 5: see that it's not because we're so smart, it's not 86 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 5: because we're so privileged, it's because we've stayed in unity. 87 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 4: Now does that mean we agree on everything? 88 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 5: I personally don't think it's possible In our human nature 89 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 5: to agree with everyone all the time. 90 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 4: So I'm not saying that's where the unity came. 91 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 5: Where the unity comes, it's through a bond of peace. 92 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 5: Listen to what it says in Ephesians four. It says, 93 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 5: make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit 94 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 5: through the bond of peace. Do you want the commanded 95 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 5: blessing keep the unity through the spirit. How do you 96 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 5: do that through the bond of peace. Peace doesn't hold grudges. 97 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 5: Peace is willing to be wrong. Peace doesn't have to 98 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 5: be right all the time. Peace isn't bitter. Peace doesn't 99 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 5: have to have its way. Peace is a place of power. 100 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 5: The Bible talks about God's presence reigning in peace. If 101 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 5: you want the power of God and the commanded blessing 102 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 5: of God, stay in unity through the bond of peace. Listen, 103 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 5: you may not see eye to eye with everyone in 104 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 5: your life. Does it make one person right and one 105 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:34,239 Speaker 5: person wrong? That's what we must understand. It makes us different. 106 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 5: It makes us different people with different opinions. But that 107 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 5: doesn't have to fragment us. That does not have to 108 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 5: cause us to be bitter towards one another. We can 109 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 5: keep the bond of peace. That's what the common there's 110 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 5: where we find the common ground. Can I tell you 111 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 5: that peace is a beautiful thing, That's what the scripture says, 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 5: that it's pleasing and it's pleasant and good when you 113 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 5: dwell together in unity. I just believe that our families 114 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 5: will go completely different levels and be so effective on 115 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 5: this earth when we decide we're going to have peace 116 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 5: in our homes, we're going to come together under the 117 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 5: common bond of unity. 118 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 4: Who gives us that peace? The Holy Spirit. 119 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 5: You See, you've got to be in relationship with God 120 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 5: before you can ever be in relationship at peace with 121 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 5: anyone else. Peace trusts, Peace believes the best. Peace knows 122 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 5: that there is a better way. Do you know God 123 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 5: can do more in us and through us when we're 124 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 5: at peace than when we're at odds. See, too often 125 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 5: we fight against each other when we should be fighting 126 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 5: for each other. How do we fight for each other? 127 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 5: We fight for peace in our home. We understand that 128 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 5: we can do more together than we can apart. Is 129 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 5: it so important to have our own way all the time? See, 130 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 5: there is a blessing attached to unity. And can I 131 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 5: suggest this when we're tempted to say what we shouldn't 132 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 5: say when we're tempted to be right all the time. 133 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 5: Can we think about this? If we say it, and 134 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 5: if we do it, we may very well miss out 135 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 5: on a blessing. We may very well forfeit our blessing 136 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 5: because we want to feed our flesh, because we want 137 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 5: to get some temporary gratification. 138 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 4: We want to show each other who's right. 139 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 5: You know, I believe when we begin to put things 140 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 5: into perspective and we begin to realize, hey, listen, we 141 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 5: are the solution. We are not the problem because we 142 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 5: serve a great, big God. That's when we can walk 143 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 5: in peace and unity in our homes. God's kingdom is 144 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 5: built on joy, peace and righteousness. Build our homes on peace. 145 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 5: Let's let God establish our homes. We don't want to 146 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 5: build vain homes. We want to build strong foundations. We 147 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 5: want to be people who are quick to listen, slow 148 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 5: to speak, and slow to get angry. 149 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 4: That's what the scripture says. 150 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 5: God is quick to listen, slow to seek, and slow 151 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 5: to get angry with us. We need to have those 152 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 5: attributes in our life. You know, people can't teach us something. 153 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 5: Sometimes it doesn't feel like it, but they really can 154 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 5: I think about my children. You know, I love to 155 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,479 Speaker 5: listen to my children. I love to listen to their ideas. 156 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 5: I have been on this earth longer than they have. 157 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 5: I don't always agree with every idea that they have. 158 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 5: But you know what's important to me, A willingness to 159 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 5: learn from them, a willingness to show my respect, a 160 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 5: willingness to grow. 161 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 4: With them and to keep peace. I don't want to. 162 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 5: Fix them all the time. I don't want to reprimand 163 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 5: them all the time. I want to learn the way 164 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 5: to keep peace, to keep unity, to keep strife out 165 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 5: of our home. You know, Joel and I don't see 166 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 5: eye to eye all the time. The truth is, we 167 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 5: agree on more than we disagree on. But it's those 168 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 5: small foxes, you know, those small things that can make 169 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 5: big things if you're not careful and ruin everything. It's 170 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 5: the small foxes who's spoil the vine. So we don't 171 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 5: always see eye to eye. And when we don't, I 172 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 5: listen to his perspective. He's a very smart man. I 173 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 5: want to hear what he has to say. I want 174 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 5: to know what he's thinking. 175 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 4: And if I still can't get to that place in 176 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 4: my own mind, guess what I do. I keep my 177 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 4: mouth shut. I zip it up for peace. We need 178 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 4: to learn to zip it up for the sake of peace. 179 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 5: I know it's only a matter of time before he 180 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 5: comes to my side. 181 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 4: There's a bond in the spirit, a peace. Listen. 182 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 5: We can stay bonded in the spirit by keeping peace. 183 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 5: Let's learn to listen to one another. Let's learn to 184 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 5: grow with one another. Let's learn to communicate. When we 185 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 5: have good communications with our family, we know what they're thinking, 186 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 5: we know what they're doing. We all know what's expected 187 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 5: of each other. That's how we grow in this place 188 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 5: of peace. Learn to laugh together, not only work together, 189 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 5: but laugh together. Laughter is like a medicine. Unity is 190 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 5: worth fighting for. Hold your peace, don't give it up, 191 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 5: pursue it, chase it down, because that's where the commanded 192 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 5: blessing is. 193 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 4: Amen. 194 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 7: Hey, Amen, Thank you for listening to the Joel Ostein podcast. 195 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 7: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 196 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 7: those all over the world. Visit Joelostin dot com slash 197 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 7: give Hope to give a gift today. 198 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 6: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. I hope 199 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 6: you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest podcast to 200 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 6: keep you inspired all through the week. 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