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Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message.
Speaker 4: So good to have you in the House of the Lord.
Speaker 5: The older that I get, the more I live on
Speaker 5: this earth, the more I understand how important relationships are
Speaker 5: and how important it is is to be in community
Speaker 5: with one another. You know, I can look back over
Speaker 5: my life and I can see how God placed me
Speaker 5: in an amazing family. Do you know, sometimes when we're
Speaker 5: in the moment, we don't understand how great the moment
Speaker 5: really is. But I look back now and I see
Speaker 5: how God put people, friends, family in my life that
Speaker 5: not only held me accountable, that not only sharpened me,
Speaker 5: but prayed with me, supported me, linked arms with me
Speaker 5: so that I could weather the storms of life. And
Speaker 5: I believe that is what God has intended for all
Speaker 5: of us, to live a life that is together. You see,
Speaker 5: God intended us to have families and make community. When
Speaker 5: he created Adam, he stood back and he said, it's
Speaker 5: not good that Adam is alone, and he created Eve.
Speaker 5: What he was doing was putting in the heart of
Speaker 5: every one of us community, family, love. He said, Adam, Eve,
Speaker 5: I want you to go. I want you to multiply,
Speaker 5: increase the earth.
Speaker 4: He was saying.
Speaker 5: I want you to grow your family strong, bring the
Speaker 5: other people that are.
Speaker 4: In community with you.
Speaker 5: See, that's what God intended for every single one of
Speaker 5: us to do. I can truly say today that I
Speaker 5: am what I am not because of all my great decisions,
Speaker 5: not because I was so smart, because I had people
Speaker 5: in my life who helped me, who motivated me, who
Speaker 5: challenged me.
Speaker 4: Even when I didn't want to hear it. I listened.
Speaker 5: It made a difference in my life, and I believe
Speaker 5: you could probably say the same thing. I've had good
Speaker 5: people in my life. You see, we need to be
Speaker 5: those good people. We were never intended to live this
Speaker 5: life isolated as an island unto ourselves.
Speaker 4: God intended us to.
Speaker 5: Be in community with one another, to motivate, to strengthen
Speaker 5: and support one another. You see, that's the healthy way
Speaker 5: to live. Ecclesiastes says it like this, two people are
Speaker 5: better off than one for they can each help one
Speaker 5: another succeed. If one person falls, the other one can
Speaker 5: reach out and help them up.
Speaker 4: You see, we need each other.
Speaker 5: If you're going to live a successful life, you've got
Speaker 5: to understand the people in your life that are like
Speaker 5: minded are important and they are worth developing. A strong
Speaker 5: relationship with a strong community with good relationships are two
Speaker 5: way streets. It's as much about what you give than
Speaker 5: what you receive. The Bible tells us to encourage one
Speaker 5: another daily. It doesn't say weight around.
Speaker 4: To be encouraged.
Speaker 5: It says we are to have an exchange of encouragement
Speaker 5: on a daily basis.
Speaker 4: You know, when you need encouragement.
Speaker 5: The greatest thing that you can do is to speak
Speaker 5: encouragement because when you speak encouragement to them, you literally
Speaker 5: breathe God's life into them, and as a result, you
Speaker 5: breathe God's life into your own soul. You see, God
Speaker 5: says this should be an exchange of encouragement. We can't
Speaker 5: live as islands to ourselfs. You know, sometimes it feels
Speaker 5: like it would be easier to do it alone, doesn't it,
Speaker 5: Because sometimes the people in our life are annoying and
Speaker 5: they're aggravating and their troublesome. But you know what God
Speaker 5: is saying, It's okay if you're with the right group
Speaker 5: of people, the people I've put you with, you have
Speaker 5: potential in.
Speaker 4: That group of people.
Speaker 5: If there are people in your family that you don't
Speaker 5: think that they can get it right, that's okay because
Speaker 5: you're there for them, and I can tell you someone
Speaker 5: else is there for you.
Speaker 4: It's interesting because I.
Speaker 5: Believe that we're our happiest and our healthiest when we
Speaker 5: are helpful to other people.
Speaker 4: In fact, there was a study on happiness and.
Speaker 5: It was interesting because it talked about what actions that
Speaker 5: we can do that create this emotion of happiness.
Speaker 4: Within us, and.
Speaker 5: You would think it was when we go on vacation
Speaker 5: that we're our happiest. When we get a present, we're
Speaker 5: our happiest. But it was saying that the emotion of
Speaker 5: happiness is really a sense of when.
Speaker 4: You are helpful and your purpose.
Speaker 5: Is tied to someone else and helping them, that gives
Speaker 5: you the greatest heightened sense of happiness. In fact, it
Speaker 5: was interesting they called it the helpful high.
Speaker 4: That's how that's what they labeled it. It's the helpful high.
Speaker 5: See, I can't imagine getting high on anything but being helpful.
Speaker 5: Knowing that it's such a euphoric feeling. It doesn't even
Speaker 5: have a hangover. You can be helpful and get high
Speaker 5: at the same time. I believe that's why this church works.
Speaker 5: I believe that's what makes this church what it is,
Speaker 5: because this church is a place that you can come
Speaker 5: and be loved and encouraged and prayed for. This church
Speaker 5: is a place that people will link arms with you.
Speaker 4: And I love this.
Speaker 5: Church because you don't have to be perfect to be loved.
Speaker 5: You don't have to be perfect. No one's judging you,
Speaker 5: They're just loving you and being helpful. You know, it's
Speaker 5: interesting because we all have people around us. You know,
Speaker 5: sometimes we think, well, God, I can't help everyone. But
Speaker 5: can I tell you that if you'll look very closely,
Speaker 5: God will have many people around you that you can
Speaker 5: invest into that can be a part of your life.
Speaker 5: I was talking about how well you know one way
Speaker 5: to be a helpful person is to be a person
Speaker 5: that has the best interest of someone else. And what
Speaker 5: I mean by that is the Bible says we're to
Speaker 5: be sharpeners to one another. And think about that word
Speaker 5: just a minute. If you've ever cut your hand on
Speaker 5: a knife, you'll understand. Sometimes sharp things hurt, they don't
Speaker 5: always feel so good.
Speaker 4: But God is saying I want the.
Speaker 5: People in your life to sharpen you as you sharpen them.
Speaker 5: But that only comes from a trusted community, a place
Speaker 5: where you know there's a sincere love. I can tell
Speaker 5: you that my greatest growth has come when I've been
Speaker 5: challenged by the people that love me the most, when
Speaker 5: I've been held accountable by the people who love me
Speaker 5: the most, Because they not only hold me accountable, they
Speaker 5: not only sharpen me, but they're also there to link
Speaker 5: arms with me and support me. You see, that is
Speaker 5: where we're going to find help and growth. What am
Speaker 5: I saying today, I'm saying we're better together.
Speaker 4: We were meant to be together.
Speaker 5: I found that this wonderful story about the redwood trees
Speaker 5: in northern California, and these trees grow three hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty feet up in the air. They grow very close together.
Speaker 5: The interesting part is their roots are very shallow. They're
Speaker 5: only about five and a half feet underground. You would
Speaker 5: think something so incredibly tall would have to go very,
Speaker 5: very deep in the ground to hold itself up. But
Speaker 5: the extraordinary fact about this tree is that the roots
Speaker 5: don't go deep, but they spread wide.
Speaker 4: Those roots find.
Speaker 5: The other trees' roots, and they begin to intermingle their
Speaker 5: roots together. And they say that they find nutrition with
Speaker 5: one another. And that literally the way their roots are
Speaker 5: so intermingled they hold le each other up. That a tree
Speaker 5: in the middle of those trees can die from old
Speaker 5: age and it can stay there a hundred years because
Speaker 5: it's so intermingled with the other trees. You see, it
Speaker 5: finds its strength in all climates from being woven together
Speaker 5: with the other trees. So whether the winds are blowing,
Speaker 5: the rains are coming down, or whether there's a drought,
Speaker 5: there is always stability in the forests of the redwood trees.
Speaker 5: And if we could be as united together in our
Speaker 5: lives as those redwood trees are, I believe we could
Speaker 5: withstand any storm, that we could withstand any droughts.
Speaker 4: Because we're not only holding.
Speaker 5: One another up, but we are giving nourishment to one another.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 5: God intended us to be together. He intended us to
Speaker 5: start in our families. The Bible talks about giving your
Speaker 5: life away. Who are you entwined with today? Who are
Speaker 5: you investing in? Who are you giving your life too?
Speaker 5: I believe there should be people in our lives that
Speaker 5: we ask God, can I invest in this person? You see,
Speaker 5: you can give people money, you can give them cars,
Speaker 5: you can do nice things for them. But can I
Speaker 5: tell you when you give them your greatest commodity, which
Speaker 5: is yourself, It makes all the difference.
Speaker 4: In the world.
Speaker 5: When you entwine your life with someone else, even if
Speaker 5: it's seasonal, and you.
Speaker 4: Invest in them, I believe that's.
Speaker 5: When you'll stand strong, you'll grow, and you will be
Speaker 5: able to withstand the storms of this life.
Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. He's created us to
Speaker 4: be better together.
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