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Good morning.

How many you are warm enough?

Now? You'll be thankful I crank the heat up this morning's just for you.

All right?

It's going to be hot in the second service by the time we're done it usually is but we might open some windows just to cool it off, but I figured the early service people, they come out early we'll crank the heat up for you.

So you can keep your feet warm, at least hopefully.

Lisa looks a little cold still though.

Aren't you thankful today For what God has done for you?

When you began to look at the things in, which he has provided for each and everyone of just, as I was just saying, God has provided for us.

He's giving us everything we ever needed ever wanted.

But yet there is something within us as long and for something more.

Something that really doesn't satisfy something that really doesn't fulfill us.

As if when we put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ, we get that feeling.

The Fulfillment of Truth in love.

Been looking at the world around us, the last few weeks and months seeing all the things that are going on around us all the Unhappy people.

Have you seen any on the news?

Have you seen any in life people arguing and fighting, and Not getting along.

That's one of those things that's probably worse than a pandemic.

When you think about it.

Because what happens is when we're not getting along when we're not dealing with other people.

We don't usually just keep it to ourselves.

We try to spread that around to those and get more on our side.

I mean, dealing with the things that I deal with, with doing funerals for families, and talking with different people about different things, this whole thing.

This pandemic thing that we've been in now, for almost two years has destroyed some families.

It's destroyed Some some friendships.

Why? Because, well, you know, whether you mask or you don't mask whether your vaccinated, you're not vaccinated.

You can't come over unless you do this, or we don't want to see you unless you do that in families are some families who have not seen each other for a period Of time because of all of that.

Now, you say well pastor what do you think about all this?

I think that you need to do what God has called you to do.

I need to do what God has called me to do.

Does that look different if it might God has called me to be pastor of hoosic Valley Community Church.

He may not have called you to be Pastor of Hoosic Valley Community Church.

If he has, raise your hand, I'll step aside.

You can you can run it.

29 years is a long run.

Okay.

I've been here 29 years.

But what he has called us to do is to minister to those people around us regardless of what position we might have.

Regardless of who that other person might be.

In fact, when we begin to look at what Christ has done for you and for me, when we get to look at the life that he lived in the life that he knew was coming.

He knew at 32 years of age He was going to lay down his life.

For a world that despised him for a world that rejected him for a world that wanted nothing to do with them.

He knew that when he called 12 men to walk with him in his three years of Earthly Ministry.

He knew that there would be those who would speak up on things that maybe they should keep silent about it and say that they will never deny you, I'll never deny you Lord.

When he knew that they would.

In fact, he knew that there would be one who would betray him.

All Along The Path.

Now some would look at that and well say well that was God's plan.

God just used Judas and threw Judas away.

I don't think God threw Judas away.

I think he used what was there just like he used Pharaoh in the Old Testament with the disease in the pestilences that we're going on pestilences.

that's more than one, right.

The things that we're going on and all the the plagues that were used God uses What's there for His honor for His glory.

He doesn't cast anyone to hell.

He doesn't say well, this is your spot other than Satan himself.

He prepared a place for Satan and his angels.

But for you, and for me.

He prepared a place that we may go to and enjoy worshipping with him.

Ephesians this morning, if you turn me the fishes chapter 4, look at verses 1 through verse 16.

What are you see within our country?

What I see with in the world around us and it's been going on for years.

It's not something new it.

What I see in the family's, what I see in the church and what I see in the lives of people is this disunity that's going if you don't agree exactly with me.

Then we cannot Fellowship We're not going to get along.

Well, let me tell you something in my own household.

My wife does not agree.

Exactly with me.

And I've learned very early in life, do very important words to say, Yes, dear.

Right?

Some are Still learning.

But those are important because even though she may ask me to do something.

I don't want to do a, hey, go out and fill the wood stove.

It's cold out yet.

It is cold out.

I don't want it, but I need to because if I don't, it's going to get cold out.

Well its not going to get colder.

Any colder out its going to get cold in the house.

You say, your wife has to ask you to do that and no she does not that's just part of what I do.

Why?

Because I know it needs to be done.

I know what the wood doesn't go in that outdoor wood stove.

The house is not going to stay warm and it's a house does not stay warm.

Not only would I be uncomfortable, but my wife would be uncomfortable in the moment.

We get uncomfortable, what usually happens.

The Grouch shows up, right?

The Grouch in me or the Grouch in her, the Grouch in all of us.

When we become uncomfortable we start looking at areas to tear down, Ephesians chapter 4, the first 16 vs.

I want to look at this this morning.

We'll talk about Unity.

So he says I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.

What does Paul say?

I'm a prisoner of the Lord.

So therefore I'm asking you to do what I'm what I need to do.

Walk worthy of being a prisoner of the Lord.

None of us like to think of ourselves as prisoners.

But paul is saying I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were call verse 2 with all lowliness in gentleness with long-suffering bearing with one another in endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of Peace.

There is one body.

One spirit just as you were called in one.

Hope of your calling on faith, one baptism, one God and the father of all, who is above all and through All and in you all.

But to each one of us, Grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.