 Okay. Okay, let's resume from where we left. Keep the unity of the spirit, strive, do everything you can to keep the unity. And the next section is everyone works. So the three important family practices is walking, brotherly love. Okay. And then keep the unity and fellowship of the spirit and finally everyone works. So just like in a household, except for children or kids, they are doing their own thing. The adults are expected to work. Right. If someone is not working, then in Indian languages, there are many different words you can use to describe a person who is not working. Isn't it? This is not very nice. So just like the household, everyone in the house of God are commanded to work. Right. I mean, just that very permission, the great commission is not a great suggestion. We treat it like that, isn't it? If you want, you can go and make disciples and if you want, you can baptize them. If you want, you can chill, you know, the remaining time you can just peace out Netflix and chill. No, so go. That in itself is a verb, isn't it? It means action. So you go and do things. So everyone in the house of God are also expected because we are all, we've all been given a certain responsibility according to our talents and gifts. So let's read this scripture. Yeah. Everyone works. Are we talking about work towards the church or work in general? So here in this context, it is in the house of God. Yeah, but that also. So, yeah, in this scripture from two to five Galatians chapter six, it says bear one another's burdens, that is weight load, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, effort toil as in an occupation, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load as well. Okay, now there are two things. First one, it starts verse two, it starts up by saying bear one another. Okay. And then finally it ends up by saying for each one shall bear his own load. So what are you trying to say, Paul? Another, isn't it? So you can't just say, for example, again, as a church staff, if another team from the church office needs my help, I'm not going to say, hello, don't you know I'm the worship pastor? I have nothing to do with it. Why are you coming and bothering me? No, but we're in this together. It's not like, okay, it's my team. It's my thing. You know, 19 different teams make to work together to make one service happen. 19 different teams at ABC on one Sunday. And so everybody say, you know, we can't just say, okay, I'm not going to help you, but I'm going to help you so that we can accomplish what, you know, like a greater purposes. Are you with me? Right? We have to help one another. We help one another. We, you know, we bear each other's burden. However, having said that, each individual should take responsibility for their work. Okay. You can't always be dependent on help. As in people will be willing to help. But then if that is your go to response, do this anyways, you know, Anand will be there to do this. You know, why should I? You get what I'm saying. That means you're not being accountable for your responsibility for your work. Are you with me? So if it is your responsibility to set up the roster for the worship team, it is your thing. Now Pastor Jakes might help me, you know, putting it together, but primarily it is my responsibility. That's what I'm paid to do. Are you with me? So that's what, you know, it's, the scriptures are saying here that everyone works, everyone has their own responsibility. And that they need to work towards. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's move on to the next section. There are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the local church family. Are you all okay? Okay. All right. So just like any household, the house of God will have fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. Now this is again referring to the spiritual maturity boundaries. Remember that. You know, in, in John's first epistle, one John, he's referring to three different kind of groups, little children, young men and fathers. Okay. So in all the references are there. So you can look at where not going to go through all of it. So a little children, young men and fathers. So he's referring to all of them, three different kind of groups in the household of God. So how we relate to what we expect and what we assign to people will be based on their levels of spiritual maturity. Okay. Again. So with children, if they do mistake, we can tend to oversee. Isn't it? We can forgive them. Their well-being is more important. Isn't it? Like they do a mistake or it's okay. Sometimes she just goes like, why did you do this? But we make sure they get their food on time. They sleep on time. All of that. Isn't it? But for a more mature adult, accountability is high. Have you heard this statement that says with more power comes more responsibility? With great power comes great responsibility. It's the same thing in our case as well. So as we grow, we are expected to grow. Growing and growth is God's idea. We've spoken about this in the previous section. A baby grows. As we grow physically, we also grow spiritually. And we are expected to grow spiritually. And a lot of bad things happen. Like spiritually, if you become stagnant, it just begins to attract a lot of unnecessary things. Like what happens in a stagnant water? Yeah, it's not very healthy. Isn't it? And so the river always needs to flow. Right? And yeah, it's out of that. All the beautiful things happens. Okay. So in the household of church, God, we are all expected to work. And grow spiritually and spiritual maturity. And another aspect on the house of God is a sun mentality versus a servant mentality. Can anyone say what the difference? Paraphrase, summarize. What do you think? It's self-explanatory at this point. Sun mentality versus servant mentality. So what kind of person will have, or the person with the sun mentality, what will be their actions versus the individual with the servant mentality? When it comes to sun mentality, it's like he has this. This is mine. I have to take care of it. That's the worship he will have. He will have that accountability towards it. And he does it. I have to do it. No other option, but he has a vision for it. He has like, he has that burden for it. He's like, okay, this is mine. I have to carry it. That's mine. He has that kind of mentality. When it comes to servant mentality, it's like they were forced to do. Like even if they don't want to do it, it's because they don't have another option. They have to do it like that. And I think there is no life when it comes to doing in a servant mentality. Okay. All right. Thank you. Anybody else? Nina. Similar? Okay. Anybody else? Yeah. Right. Okay. It's very simple, isn't it? Again, so self-explanatory. So a person with a sun mentality is, you do it because you love. Isn't it? And we see that in the life of Jesus. The greatest example is time and time again from the Gospel of John, you read that I am not here to do my own will. My father's, the words I say are not mine, but my father's, what I teach, my teachings are not mine, but my father's, right? And scripture after scripture, he says that what I'm here to do is not my own will. This is the Son of God we are talking about. Who is the second head in the Trinity? You know, he can say that I'm here to do my will and nothing could be wrong. Are you with me? Right? This is my teachings. You know, me and my dad put this together, you know? But then he loves his father so much that, you know, everything what he did, he did with that identity of that he's a son of the most high, right? Versus the seven mentality. Oh, so we'll just look at a few differences from the notes. John 835, it says a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Beautiful, isn't it? A servant does work in the house for a reward, while a son does work in the house because he belongs. That is powerful, guys. A servant's commitment can change and can leave one house to work in another house. A son is firm in his commitment. He knows where he belongs. A servant receives a reward for his work, his or her work, but a son receives an inheritance because he belongs. Whoo! If that point doesn't make you say amen, I don't know what will... But look at that, you know, a servant receives a reward for the work, right? You get paid or whatever it can be, right? But a son receives the inheritance because he belongs. That is so powerful, beautiful, so divine. It's so full of Kingdom. You know, again, when you read through Exodus, through Deuteronomy, you'll see 12 different tribes getting different lands. Okay, for Dan, this is the land. For this one, you get this. For Judah, this is where you are, the south part and all of that. When it came to Levites, what did God say? No. They will not get any of the pieces of land, anything. But I am their inheritance. Whoo! That is... Yeah, it's just so powerful. And we have that, you know, so Levitical priesthood, right? They represent the priesthood. But in 1st Peter chapter 2, we see that we are royal priesthood. And then that he is our inheritance. That means if he is our inheritance, that by default, we are his sons and daughters. And we have to function from that mentality. Not that, okay, if I do this, I will go to heaven on the judgment day. You know, if he asks what you did, I'll say that I did all this in your name. Only to hear, I don't know who you are. Please go away. Right? So anything that we do, guys, see, you know what? It is a possibility. No, it's a possibility. The reality is that there will come a day, a time where you will not feel like working. Like, oh man, I don't feel like leading worship today, like someone was saying. I don't feel, I'm just kidding this. I didn't. I'm just saying, you know. I mean, I'm just saying, you know, example. It's normal, right? It's not that every day I wake up and I feel great to lead worship. He's like, yes. You know, I woke up this morning, I couldn't get up. But I had to come, isn't it? You know, because there's a responsibility. But we're not going to feel great all the time. But the point is that you find your way back. You keep finding your way back. You keep finding your way back. You keep finding your way back. Your heart always stays connected. Isn't it? So yeah, that's what a son mentality is. You take a break when you have to, but then you come back, be plugged in, okay? Some of the characteristics of the sons and daughters of the house demonstrate faithfulness. Full of faith. That's what it is. They are faithful to the family. They stay aligned to the vision and the direction given. Right? Faithfulness is connected with, if they are following directions of the vision. They're not taking off as, okay, let me start my own para church. Kind of a thing, you know, okay, I have my own vision. That means you're not staying faithful to the calling. Right? So demonstrate faithfulness. Serve as sons and daughters. They are like-minded with the vision and direction of the leadership of the house. Okay, they are like-minded. So let's come down to that scripture down there. Philippians chapter 2. Philippians chapter 2 was 19 to 22. It says, actually, let's look at that verse 20. It says, for I have no one like-minded who will sincerely care for your state? I read that one more time, verse 20. For I have no one who is like-minded who will sincerely care for your state. Now that we've read that verse, let's read the verse before and after, verse 19. But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly that I also may be encouraged when I know your state. For verse 21, for all, seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character. It's talking about whom? Timothy. But you know his proven character. That means his character has been tested and has been proven that as a son with his father, he's served with me in the gospel. That should be a testimony that I would want to hear about all of us, at least all of you, 10, 15 years from now. If you say that you're on fire for God and I'm faithful to God now, I'm not too excited for you. I'd be very excited if I see you 15 years from now, 20 years from now and saying, Pastor, you know, and then someone else testifies about you and nothing else will make me proud, right? And Timothy, this is the very proud moment for Timothy, isn't it? It's also a moment when you read Numbers chapter 12, where God is talking on behalf of Moses to Aaron and Miriam. Like Aaron and Miriam come forward. How dare you talk about a person? You know, other prophets I speak in visions and dreams but whom I serve in Moses, I speak in, I speak to him face to face without any interpretation needed. I speak plainly and he sees the form of the Lord. How then were you not afraid to speak of my servant? You know what I'm saying? So God is testifying about Moses. Paul is testifying something beautiful about Timothy. Will you carry the same thing later? So faithfulness goes a long way, demonstrating faithfulness, serving sons and daughters in the house of God. Okay, and then receiving correction with the good spirit. Receiving correction in the good spirit. Please don't be offended when someone corrects you. It's a possibility that you can get offended. Who are you to tell me I'm wrong? Right? Correction is not received when your heart is filled with pride. Right? Please, who are you teaching? My mom, every now and then if she's cooking something, if I tell her to do something differently, you're teaching me. Not so much chili powder. It's like, oh, you're teaching me. You know, I raised you. Okay. So I know how much to put I know to take care of my husband who is kidding, but you get the point, isn't it? To have someone to correct you with good intentions is very special. We have to be blessed and privileged that someone actually cares about my well-being. Right? If I didn't care, I wouldn't bother correcting you. Right? And if it's again coming from a place that you want the best for the person. Isn't it? In realistically as well, sportsmen, you say Roger Federer, you know, anybody who's great, they all have a coach. What is the responsibility of a coach? Is one of the responsibility of the coach is to correct their mistakes. Isn't it? Hey, I think in this shot, it can be a little bit more better. Your straight drive is not straight enough. Get what I'm saying? Right? In all these major athletes, when they retire, they will give a thanks to their coach. If it's not okay, if you're not a sports follower, then it's fine. But you get what I'm saying, isn't it? Be very thankful that you have someone who cares to correct you. Right? And even if that correction doesn't come from a good place, don't be offended. Okay? Offense is Satan's trap. I'll say that again. Being offended is a Satan's trap. And ministry, you will find there will be a lot of times where you will get offended. The chances will rise. But refuse to live a life of not being offended. I simply say I choose not to be offended. Yeah, this what this person did and said hurt me, but I'm not going to carry it on. Offense is what you do after you're being hurt. You're with me, right? Yeah? So I've hurt you. So you can't avoid being hurt. You can't walk around with this like you know, hurt me kind of thing. So how you respond after you're being hurt is very important. So, yeah, receive correction with good spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Trust me, guys, ministry is challenging. Yeah, it's not easy. I have 10,000 people saying 10,000 different things. Let God be your your defender. Yeah. All right. Very quickly let's move on. Honor Father and Mothers of the House. This section talks about the story where Noah gets drunk. Apparently, Noah was the first person to discover wine. I'm like, I didn't know that. So, huh? Sorry? I beg your pardon? Really? I guess, yeah. I mean, that's the claim. So he was the first person to discover wine. Anyways, so the story says that he got drunk. Maybe he didn't know what he was drinking. Oh, this grape juice is really nice. You know, so he got a zinc to it. But then, so here's what happened. Ham goes, one of his sons, Ham, he goes and sees, he sees his father's nakedness and then he comes back and he talks to his brothers. While the other two brothers, Shem and Japheth, go and cover him and walk backwards without seeing. So, one made fun. One wanted to spread the gossip. One wanted to spread the shame. One wanted to make the leader's mistakes big. While the other two wanted to cover it, help the leader. Right? And so in that, as leaders, we will do genuine mistakes. Right? But how you respond again is very important. What are you willing to do to help your leader who's made a genuine mistake and who's willing to accept or take accountability for their actions, isn't it? So that's very important to, and that's how you honor your leaders and father-mothers is just a spiritual words. In closing, I just want, we'll skip a few points, but because other points are self-explanatory and I'd like you to read it. At the bottom of page 64 in your PDFs, Becoming Family Developing Community Becoming Family and Developing Community. Tell me what's the difference between a community and a group of people? What is the difference between community and a group of people? Some things to do. It's like, yeah. Yeah, talk to me guys, it's okay. Yeah, all right. Think, think, Francis. No, no, tell me. Okay, Francis. Community is a group of people they can do whatever they want to do. No, you can't do it. They're kind of people. But community, come to community. No, you're saying community is a group of people. Yeah, it's a group of people is a group of people. They're hitting the nail on the head. High five. Yeah, so okay, anybody else want to say? Nikhil, I don't know where that came from Francis, but that was amazing, bro. Community is like where people live out of families and our like, where people live out of families and relationship like that way where they can live together and where they can make that group. Yeah, thanks, Nikhil. Yeah, I think so there's so many different ways, aspects of looking in communities and so this is, let's say we can define community to a certain ethnicity group, ethnic group, okay, this is so and so and this is a certain different community that belong to a certain ethnicity or a religious group even for that matter. But the main difference between a group and a community is a group is just coming to chill hang out, no real aim or objective. There's no real objective. Maybe objective was to just come have pizza and watch a football game get together. But a community has an objective. A community has a goal or an objective mainly that's the thing. So when we talk about developing a Christian community what is it supposed to look like? Is it supposed to look like just any other world or whatever? Okay. So again from your notes page 65 in your PDFs Christian community should look like where Jesus is at the center where spiritual things are emphasized spiritual growth is emphasized where serving one another and loving one another in compassion is emphasized. Encouraging one another is emphasized. You know all the good things of the kingdom is emphasized. Okay. So a Christian community is very simple. Christ is the center of it. If Jesus is not the center of the Christian community then it's just a title. It's just another group. So towards the end it says what Christian community is not okay Christian community is not it's not where a group of people would come together and watch an indecent movie that anybody that the world group can do that. It looks very worldly. It's not a Christ centered community. What it is not we don't get together to just gossip. Alright guys let's get together. We're going to talk smack about this person. Alright you start. How much do you hate when tell me I'm just kidding you know that meetings like that can happen isn't it? You know the whole the sole goal of that and the purpose of that meeting is to talk everything what the person did. You know get what I'm saying. That's not what Christian community is right. It's not an escape from going out into all the world to make disciples. Now so what we say Christ centered community is like oh community community community community we come together we play games we build fellowship I think but nobody's bothered about evangelism going out you know spreading the gospel. You know so it's like almost like this is a license community Christ centered is like a license to escape from evangelism. Don't mind that. It's not not an escape from going out into all the world to make disciples and not a substitute for true spiritual fellowship. Okay we can talk more about community probably the next year. In youth ministry we'll speak about community. Okay because this is a beautiful subject here. So this is the house of God and let's quickly think about everything that we have covered today. The house of God as a family of God from the first time we saw that the house of God is mentioned in the Bible Genesis 28 oh sure yes sir I know the answer sir pick me sir right yeah right cool okay yeah absolutely so yeah don't forget that the house of God like what is mentioned in Genesis 28 is it was gate of heaven right it's like ladder that connects to realities right where angels ascending and descending is not a big deal imagine that you know oh hey hey hi okay bye yeah all right yeah it should assure people in from one reality into another that into the reality of God that's his heart right and and Jacob realizes that and he calls that place the house of God when there is no building he saw something and he realized something that we you know that we are struggling to understand these days okay three important important implications a proper way to conduct yourself boundaries and a family has a culture it is very important for your ministries to have a certain culture three important family practices in a local church walk in sure oh yeah walk in brotherly love keep the unity fellowship of the spirit everyone works son mentality versus the servant mentality characteristics of the sons and daughters of the house that's demonstrate faithfulness receive corrections and good spirit protect your leaders okay there's a book by pastor ashish a pc publication called how to help your pastor it's such a beautiful book it's what 20 pages long 25 pages max so yeah your pastors also need help okay once in a while message your pastors and ask how they are doing okay so that's about it guys for today I will stop I know we're just stopping a little early but then there's enough information content for today yeah Nina I see you have raised your hand may I I'm not texting is it okay if I speak can you hear me yeah okay just that a little bit of clarity on the servant and son thing because on on the one hand we always talk I mean even even Jesus himself says he came not to be served but to serve yes and Paul also refers to himself as even a bonded slave yeah so from that point of view in the house they said that you don't shouldn't I mean you need to have a son son mentality is okay knowing who you are in him and that way but I mean why is there that I mean the kind of since there's a lot of it that is said about being you know reducing yourself to nothing unless even when the disciples came and they said unless you really you were exalts himself will be humbled and humbled himself to be exalted yeah so just wanted a little clarity on that sure I'll share what I understood so when we're talking about the son mentality and servant mentality it's really talking about your thinking like your identity but work still needs to be done and so now you can do the work with the servant mentality that means you can serve one another because you've been assigned a certain responsibility and you may not really feel like right so you know I can set up the chairs you know saying okay you know I have to set it up it's a Sunday come in okay at the end of it they'll put biryani you know so that's you are serving you're doing the work but there's a different intention with a different mentality versus the son mentality is I want to get to the house of God you know I want to arrange the chairs because I will not get to arrange chairs in heaven I will get to fold cables because I will not get to fold cables in heaven right you know I do it with that joy with that and I treat every opportunity that I get as an honor so because I love him and especially this is the house of God and I want to take care of my father's house really well and so work is still getting done but how do you do it is what matters so this is very famous quote and it's always impacted me it says rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king I'll say that again okay rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king so serving never stops how do you serve is what matters so I hope I made sense Nina alright well thank you thanks for joining in guys so we'll connect again next week alright God bless you have a good one thanks for joining in everyone online take care have a blessed day