Loving Your Neighbours (Love your Neighbours)

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Bring some soda. Before the white comes, I just want to say the word comes. I just want you to open your heart. To receive what God has for us today. He seemed to bring Deliverance to bring healing to bring restoration or he expects of you is to accept his invitation. As I said, Elia on his already said, hold on to me. Call unto me. He's got the solution to every problem, every challenge, every situation. I don't understand why times we just want to do it in your own strength because the King of Kings who created heaven and the Earth. He's got it manual.

You won't be able to fix it, so you'll be able to resolve it yourself. So this morning as the word comes forth, just open your heart and receive from the King of Kings at supposed to be bringing the weight. I want us to just pray and as he comes over at 4, me to pray for him, but we just want to thank you. We want to praise you this morning as your weight comes forward. Make it come forward to a device. And courage has strengthened us. Restore has renew our minds. And above all else to bring holness in. Jesus name. Amen.

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We good morning, everybody. When I'm sleeping, I'm going to share the wealth with you this morning. I'm excited. I'm excited because goats on the Move, anybody notice something different about you if you bring him before, if you've never been here before, welcome but if you put in there before, they putting up to something different about church today, what's that you did? Yeah, the lights were different, I didn't get the memo. I was riding, I was paying for last week and months of 2025 as we step into February, it's an opportunity. We start with some, he is loving your neighbor, loving your neighbors. Anybody only got one neighbor. I did. It's not with the title, playing loving your neighbor and then I thought right now, Close to you. If you ever lived in the country and some of you might have lived in the country by your neighbors are miles away cuz you know, when you can have a bonfire, you can do things and nobody knows. But, you know, here when we live in the city of these Subs Suburbia, I see you do something. You're going to be snow for the students in the room when your neighbors and noisy night. But you know it when they play music at 2:00 in the morning you know it I went they got friends around at 3 in the morning and you were trying to go to sleep because you got an essay to write for tomorrow. Wow. Look it up with a schedule like that you feel stressed but you know what church, I believe on neighbors need the church. I'm starting with an awesome. Let me step back a little bit. This is not church. This here is not church. It's a church meeting. Going to church, leave church. And so I'm going somewhere and now I'm going away until she's a building or me to church is not a building roommate. Sing, We Are the church. So that means when somebody says they're asking you a very personal question, what are you doing? Cuz you wouldn't lie Apostle Church? When do you hear? If I can I buy, I remember many, many years ago. There was a gentleman. In Australian.

A no one had noticed. Do you know what, when he was taken into hospital? I thought. Wow, I might not by the neighbor, but I didn't even notice that he's a happy mood for a week. It was one of our local pretty lit in the church. We need to know.

I thought you was just think about. This is, I asked you to notice, you're not even what do you know about your neighbors?

Is the lady who lives on the left? I'm supposed to say, I'm just asking to be honest. I'm just asking some questions cuz we need to love all night and we can make a difference because that means

we are Church in action. Just imagine you came home today, you pull up outside your house, and your neighbors. Got that body open on that car. And your life is not particularly mechanically gifted. I just staring at the cook, the car, maybe, you know, a little bit more about mechanics.

And it might just be that need a push start. That's all I need to know. I could do that. I'm not mechanically gifted but I could, I could do that, I could push it go and help them. Something. The first thing is to notice on Avis. And then, how about Bubble?

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Okay, great. Matthew 22 verses 36 to 40. I'm trying to trick Jesus. And so, they often is question teacher, which is the great commandment in the law. Jesus said to him, you shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart. We going to your mind with all your soul with all your strength and then love your neighbor as yourself. Love your garden. The second is love your neighbor as yourself. Loving themselves. Who's good at looking after themselves? Well done. You know, sometimes we know sometimes we Little nickel or playing. Always eat some things. We shouldn't have eaten, love your neighbor as yourself if you're going to love them the way we love ourselves. Love your neighbor as yourself on these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The great commandment love the Lord your God. That's what we just as we worship God. This morning. Thank you so much for singing. One of my favorite songs that song and I don't surprise you sometimes. Lost and I wasn't here. I was speeding down the road in the United Church, in a game-high Strait's, and the organist Play the song. It Is Well, with My Soul, you might know it. It Is Well with My Soul, written by a sheriff's back, with something insightful to Europe and light the ship stop in the ocean where the previous ship is sunk. And this is when he painted this hit him, it Is Well with My Soul, imagine losing it with your family and then being able to write 80 as Well with My Soul. My wife is Tim means so much to me and it meant so much to me last Sunday. I had the privilege of singing too long a story, but I got to sing in a clot in both, why they put on the concert for the hold of the city of Barre. With The Three Tenors. I still I still Blown Away by, I was lost twice to sing with The Three Tenors before he passed away that we were outside the Royal Crescent. If you know it on this big stage with the double Orchestra and the guy who organized the concert was a Christian businessman. And he said, I want someone to sing this song of the him was arranged for The Three, Tenors to sing. It's just imagine hearing that him with those words. Sung over the city and I didn't know that.

Isn't it beautiful?

How many capital talk about? God needs his people and then he introduced the niece of Horatio spafford who was in the congregation.

I'm going next to me who was in the Christian in the car. He elbowed me and said,

I suddenly realized I was making a connection with my night by my night. At that moment was a member of the choir and he was just

I just said he's going to work. It's go to work. Goats blessed Francis to put his concert on, the council has been put on. And we have the privilege to sing some great music in front of thousands of people. And then there was lots of fireworks at the end but in that moment I reached out to my neighbor and I said, you know what, Remember this part of the song, It Is Well with My Soul. We're just about to sing this hymn. It Is Well with My Soul. How is it with you?

Do you know what? Even though it's cuz I'm telling you, this is on the back of my neck is. Cuz I knew it was a good moment. He was just say you just to say, But he didn't realize. The cobras on his case after the end of the concert we went privately to a small part of the stage and he said that I don't really know much about this so many times in rehearsals. How can a man, who lost his whole family? Say it Is Well with My Soul. I said, because of God because of God in times of trouble. In times of trouble, we need go to the mall and that's not just for us, but true for our neighbors as well. So, let's love our neighbors as love. All night was generously. Let's love our neighbors without necessarily counting the cost.

Let's be prepared for our neighbors to have a need. I don't know what your catering. What do you cook just enough when you cook them in? My wife's pretty and cook. You can tell that from my waistline but one of the things to toys. He's cooked too much. From time to time, somebody can turn up, we can say, would you like to stay for dinner and then we'll see stand for summer. Family holds about some sometimes he's actually if you've only got six chicken legs and somebody stays extra for dinner, you go out the chicken like somebody in the family, goes without a chicken leg. We can love our labors with extravagant generosity.

And we read in one piece of 48, but love covers a multitude of sins Labs really important.

Reminder in time to time something happens. Are we not going to detail parking? I'm not going to say anymore. I don't want to embarrass anybody but when somebody parked outside, who's play pops inappropriately, what a dreadfully pops, and I know that's an issue, but but love covers a multitude of sins. Anybody else anybody in the room for a fact? We need the love of God and the grace to be able to love one another. See how you are precious. You are precious. You are precious those people online, you are precious. I'm going to loves you. God loves you so much that he sent his one and only son that whosoever believes in Him. Should not perish but have everlasting life. That's going to the ER if you wouldn't mind. Thank you.

I'll give you an example of a song I said. Now we all we need to do is just put more chairs out. Most of the other stuff is just in place them online. So we have an online Bible study on the Bible, study in South Africa that week. Thanks for new call Maureen, who she just had a new knee. She had a new knee, the previous Thursday in the following Tuesday, she's back home on the Bible study. So you caught and uni, and then Cheryl who now has moved down into Hampshire husband, Eric might have a new granddaughter code, even safely Bowl in the last 3. All exciting stuff.

Illinois Wednesday, Bible study and then and student bible study on Wednesday and then the Spanish gathering for prayer on Saturday. So those groups already happened to Will online, but this week, we might come over and we're going to start small groups on Thursday, December 1st. If I smoke, I'm sharing it because

Hospitality House. No one gives a wife. No, he's already got so many chess 22. People turned out for the festival group, some of you will be sitting on the floor but that's okay. That's okay. I had the privilege of sharing my fights with a Chinese student. I'm who I feel like to find out was already going again, and we would just do a university. Is it, my check by calling me? So when it first started, there was eight or nine of us. We met downstairs. It said that it was 10 or 12 on the floor cuz they weren't any more chairs, then people sit on the stairs. This isn't that we put the microphone downstairs. We had a speaker upstairs and people came to church and they started my bedroom.

It didn't have a choice building but that was church. Labeled Gathering is judged and laying pipe with amazing things. Sometimes you will come across in need and you will not have an ulcer.

Might be Financial, might be physical. Might be practical. You might like to know what? Like, kind of help you there, but I know someone who can one of my favorite places. He says, at the end of many of my power points is because if I come help you, I know someone who can. And that's a spiritual statement. At least I can pray, do not be afraid. Do not be ashamed to don't be bashful and going to your neighbors and saying can I help Because the one thing you might do just go away and pray. Let me go downstairs at fry. Why are you excited?

Be generous when we are hospitable.

I'm going to give you a challenge for February. I'd like you each week this month. Because today's the first time I'd like you to give away a smile every week this month. Now you might think I need to do small tattoos easily and I smile. Okay, I'm just giving his wife's mom and I think he's just giving it back to me. So I'm going to give you a challenge this month. I want every one of you to give away one smile each rate. If you want to go, try doing it once a day, you'll be surprised how hot it is. You smile at someone.

Do you know what sharing a few Smiles was. If you come to say she's tossing, a few conversations would like them some tools and suddenly you'll have some new neighbors. I said the finals.

Loving your neighbors. Let me think, I'll see you to think about your neighbors. Let me ask you to think about, who I you and I was buzzed, but it was at work. Think about who your neighbors are.

Okay, from Luke chapter 10 verses 25 to 37. On the next day when he departed, he took out to dinner. This is the story of the Good Samaritan, gave them to The Innkeeper. And take care of him and whatever more you spend. When I come again, I will retire.

So which of these three do you think was the neighbor to who him who fell among Thieves? So that was three, To who didn't help the Samaritan one, who did, and he said, he who showed him mercy, and Jesus said to him go and do likewise go and do likewise. Going to show Mercy to Summer, show Grace to show. Love to them. Because you know what? This world would be a different place if the church was on fire and we were sharing the love of God with all night. But I don't just mean. I mean the Broadchurch it's the church was on fire on Nation would not be in the message. Saying if if the church around the world the world would not be in the message thing. We can think of things that we got to wish that was better with you and me, we can be a smile to someone who's having a terrible day. We can be an encouragement to someone. When there is no, hope we can change the atmosphere prayerfully, we can change the conversation. Purposefully I'm so let me pray.

Call me, I pray that you help us to be more like your son, Jesus across the road who walked across the room who had a conversation. We strangers in the street but neither has, he met people? He sat with, with his disciples with his friends, he had a conversation. The change that. I change that week, change that Weld and change their life. For the right price, for conversations, we would have with others. It will be bold fresh and real father. I pray that all conversation would be mixed with pride. Build a supernatural elements to our conversation. Even if I'm praying right now, I just sent someone is sitting there thinking this baby. If you only knew this week's been such a tough week, I can't even think about sharing anything with my neighbors right now, cuz I'm in a mess. Your son to you. I'd love to play with you off cuz I'm not going to ask you to come out now but if it if that's you, I'd love to pray with you after it's over in in the comedian, time in the service. But you know what, go to a new case to not just on the case of all night was his own choice. To he wants to lift us off and encouraged her. She wants to open doors of opportunity. He wants to release resources and people into our into our world, into our tie. It would show his hand at work and he's Kingdom, he's will being done in our lives. So father has to be pressing to loving our neighbors at the initial part. I sent it says, as we love ourselves. That's what. Father, stairs up to be better. People to be like, in Dark Places to be sold in conversation, and to change our world For Your Glory. We pray in Jesus name, amen.

Thank you Dave, for the wet.

I just want to. I'm supposed to just spend some quiet time with the Lord, at least a minute before we Asha into communion. I just want us to close our eyes. And just spend time with the Lord, as to what has come forth. Just ask the Lord. What he wants you to do. This week. Or your neighbor.

Father, we thank you for your word and I'll see where it has come forth. I pray that you give her the grease and the strength. To go and do exactly what you commanders. That would be good. Neighbors. even if We can go to unpleasant neighbors. Thank you, Lord. Give us the grace, in Jesus name, a man would want to like to invite kelda and summer too, I'm up for a stew. Do the communion?

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