following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works let us think of ways to motivate one of the acts of love and good works if we are rocking of faith in christ jesus and in faith that stead of doubt we should be finding ways to motivate each other and to do acts of goodness so i want you to take this from innocence let us think of ways to motivate what does motivate me to courage to build up to challenge it says let us think of ways to motivate and courage to challenge others to do right acts of love and good works so one of the things of real people of faith that we are walking with jesus christ part of our goal are the zire each of us listen all of us not just the pastor all of us should be finding ways that we can motivate each other and create each other do acts of law up the good deeds healthy fellowship he burst in twenty five and let's not neglect our meeting together some people do but increased one another especially now that the day of his return is drawing near so i've got a question for you do you think that we're closer jesus coming back now than twenty years ago so you think it's drawing nearer do you think a strong real near it's i think it's around the corner and only is down the road i think it's around the corner so it says especially when it's been it's getting melissa this was written two thousand years ago so two thousand years ago the people were being t neglect and bt with each other not to neglect fellowship two thousand years ago because the coming of jesus coming near two thousand years ago so we're two thousand years closer ok and this is let us not neglect or meeting together what if i tell you for a walk in faith in our pride in our faith in relationships we should be excited to be with other christians shouldn't we shouldn't be excited be with other believers should we want to have fellowship with each other sh to build more relationship with each other and yet out many know that within the christian church overall in america people don't talk to each other just because there are different denomination still christians i can't talk to you because you're director meeting together because you left your hands up in your worship and i don't do that does it put any stipulations there's none there so how about of getting fellowship with each other and how do we encourage each other how  to be part of a group that's very organized but you become part of the an organized church and so whether it's really saying is they don't like the fact because they don't like the fact that there's there's offerings taken they don't like the fact that they're structured all that kind of stuff so most people that say that then they would they do the bible says encourage one another and then not the glick meeting together why because if the jesus coming back how many know that we need to get in courage because of jesus coming back how many things get worse he do know these are groups now two from two thousand years ago if you understand that you understand the days are going to get worse how many know it's already going to happen anybody see there's division in america reverie you feel about donald trump he's going to be the in the twentieth and there's people they're going to protest they're going to rebuild they're going to put up all their protests and as without stopping for being president well stopping whatsoever have we ever had that happen before not that i know reading together in creation whether building up one another with your struggle what's your trial what's your temptation how can i be of help to you how can i encourage you how can i build you up how can i lift you up should that be what we're about as christians and this is talking about with disbelievers i give you all kinds of first we should do it with the last but why should take about what to do with a lot of you can't do it believers so if if a turn around a church over here has an event what should we do participate be part of what they're doing support one another if we can't support each other know how we're going to ever support the last if you can even support or brothers and sisters yeah but i don't agree with you  everything i hate to tell you carmen i don't agree on everything i don't know if you know that or not now i know it's because of me you think we don't agree on everything that it's my fault i don't drink and everything we don't communities here three to two you're different for different communities is there's people that are part of that form and they share different things that's going on i've never seen so much hate at times somebody share something if your neighbor is called next door neighbors one of your neighbors they share something and people get in an opera or about it because a person voted a certain way because they support something they'll support something the words of hate how rolled does god get glorified in that and i had a lady who tells me she's a christian and she wrote to me and says i won't say what faith she is that she says she's a christian but of a certain group and she says i don't like the fact that you talk about religion and i said to her i don't talk about religion because i hate religion i don't like religion i think religion is bondage i think religious man made isis so i don't know exactly your time i said what we want to do is bring some more of god into an apartment complex where there's games yeah why get to bring up the god thing why would a christian ask that question why do you have to bring up the god thing about bring the god thing they already have god yes and no if there's again shooting each other how much is god is in there ok and so out of it as well we bring god in their will because i brought gone up she's in a poor she's a christian there's something wrong with that picture gentle we should be patient and we should make allowance for each other that each of us foster why because of our love what should be our motivating factor in all that we do love it for a walk in faith in christ jesus and plan a faith in relationships we should be more than one to show each other mercy and love i mean mercy and grace we should be going to help fellow christians who are struggling we should humble ourselves to receive help from other christians so this take the principle here is a says we should be humble do you think as christians we should be humble do you think that people are more like to receive of us that for humble k should we be gentle should we be soft how many know that i'm not always soft will take that off the video i'll help you out how many they see me as gentle all the time the videos on give the right answer oh i seen this i don't know what that means as a mean cake i say that because i mean no rather fast short in this all going to force short of that but is that our goal is that our desire and let me tell you something to be confident is not the opposite of humble can you be humble and confident just be confident in your pride for somebody is confident on what they believe does that mean that they have to have pride this means that they're confident  what they believe but can you become what you believe and have pride absolutely to be gentle gentle means are you know you just got to be soft all the time so if somebody is robbing me i say please don't rob me  humbly ask though rob me i'm going to be patient with you as you're trying to rob me is that what that principle would be if you rob you know i want to do i'm a take you out if we possibly can at least try had to raise your hand does anybody have a fault in here ok i think probably every has some kind of fault is there something you know that's a fault do you want people to make allowance for you for it you have people love you in spite of your fault i mean jeff has tons of faults and i still love the guy and so i we all have faults and the concept is that we love each other in spite of the false but i mean no i don't like your fault i don't like your sin i don't like your whatever so i don't want to be with you you know what happens division happens with not unity division we have to accept each or whether ad and if we start making an issue about somebodies fault there's probably something going on within us how many know that is it to help them is that to encourage them is it to build them up is the help in that victory great but if you're doing it just to point out what does a solve doesn't solve anything so if we're going to to walk in faith in our relationships we should show mercy and grace to whomsoever in spite of what they do even when it is hard we should find ways to show love next one unity and peace fishes for two and three or fifty three make every effort to keep yourself united in the spirit bind yourself together with peace if it says make every effort what does that mean do your best try the best that you can how many that takes work how many know to to be patient was somebody can take work to but here says to be in unity to bring peace have unity make every effort to keep united in the spirit by yourselves together with peace we should do all we can to bring unity and peace and am i know if you're doing all you can to bring bring unity and peace there will be humbleness there will be gentleness there will be patience and so this i did make every effort to keep yourself she noted in the spirit that means to be united in jesus christ if i'm a believer does crush you believe in jesus christ we should be united preserving the same god isn't it crazy that you have christians who all believe in the same god who have christ in them but they can't be in unity with other christians and so that's how church splits happen that's how there's division that's how people can you know there if your church of christ this is to be a church of christ it's a domination that means of a nation is more than one church of christ you know in the church of christ that if you're not part of the church of christ that is made in this building you can have commune with them because you're not the right church of christ that you can a fellowship with them that there's churches that turn around and say that you have to believe what we believe or you can have communion when jesus had those disciples there together do you think they all believe the same what do you think i think they all had a little bit of messed up stuff in them but they did what they were honoring the lord what are we doing take a million rahner in the lord or do it in every member it's of him and so we may have some different perspectives a certain that we believe the only way to go to heaven is through jesus christ as your lord and savior we believe you need to be water baptized that if you believe in jesus christ you should be water baptized not to be saved but to show that you are saved to make a public confession now what happens when you were back to sit guess what we have a take back there and we fill it up as high as we can because we want you buried all the way we want to baptize you all if you don't go down the way i'll shove down i want you down all the way ok but there's other people when they do are bad his and they take a little bottle and they pour a little bit over your head and there's other people that sprinkle now i believe by the principles and you read the book because that's not one of these centers of how you water baptize now there's a lot of things i believe that the bible teaches that i believe is truth and some of you day i'm your pastor some you don't even agree with me and i'm your pastor but is that a sign of fellowship shouldn't be are we go let those they stop us from the unity now of course if you believe strongly in water baptism by for emergency you probably should go to what a church that believes that when that makes sense because you'll be more unity and so if you believe in sprinkling and every time you see somebody go under is bothering you then you probably shouldn't be here but regardless of where you fellowship as a church what about as believers river may be so i'm a same where you go to go where many believe everything the same so unity is a believe in the same unity is showing honor and respect each other and the reverse of the fact the picture of christ so i got here is i got a little puzzle puzzle anybody know this guy and we know who he is toy story with his name light years right ok there's a problem of this puzzle don't guess what's wrong with the puzzle there's pieces missing off the puzzle right ok so do we have unity here we have disunity here don't we so how do we get we get a unified picture we need the rest of the pieces ok now tell me something does it look like the pieces are all different or are they not different are we all different i think what we need to do this see i think we need feet we need feet for this guy so who has feet anybody have feet right there so we have the foot come up welcome to the foot of the body of christ threat and he's so gifted he's actually feet not just a foot he's actually feet so there's two feet in there so we put it right there and it goes right now wait a second this put it over here appreciate it so this but austan we have i need a head is anybody have a head you've got a head a right so we have the head of the body of christ now i hope he doesn't get prideful because he's the head so right is the head and they had goals where they had supposed to go don't it this is the head that wants to be the feet is not going to be very good bad is it but most of the time the problem the body of christ the head doesn't want to be the feet it likes being the head it's the feet wanting to be the head when it's not called to be so what else do we have do we have in the house here i need a mouth there's a guy here that doesn't have a map you don't know how much she speaks into my life she speaks a lot into my life i don't always listen but she speaks into my life i need her to speak into my life that keeps me on track so we put the mout is the puzzle looking better is a start to get unified why because the pieces are starting to go in the place where they're meant to be so what else do i have i think i have one other piece here i have two pieces are missing i know look at this there's a problem that's supposed to spell heroes but there is no here old we need the age for here old we have a here old curtis is the hero of the day how many know that some time you're going to be a hero for somebody if you're obedient to god cause you to so how many how i love this how many know that some of you know here know curtis here always come across as the hero because we think of heroes as what energetic fighters are they're well years of this and that curse is not necessarily seen as somebody like that but you know that he can speak or say some to somebody that gives them life that gives them hope he's spot many an obstacle he gives me hope because he keeps on fighting to the obstacles that he's through so a puzzle is looking good is looking more unified right with different pieces different traits different giftes different callings are missing one piece who has the last piece who has the last piece we need the dinosaur piece who has it nobody has the piece to fill this puzzle up you know why they're out there they're out there someplace wandering around to put that last piece and you know what the problem is because a lot of times the body of christ is unified or we're fighting each other that the reality there is nobody that wants to come in because they don't want to be part of the conflict now praise god our church as an add that we've had a lot of unity in this church amazing unity this been this church since i've been here i don't know bobbie for i know now we've had great unity overall you've had challenges always  challenges but what if i tell you that maybe that piece that's missing is that muslim that's over at the complex that we're visiting that has to come to christ still and that we will not have the full picture what does churches to be until he comes to christ and comes here so what is our job then our job is to witness to him to share with them to lead him to cry so that he can be part of the puzzle no over here he's a good hispanic pastor and he lives in the complex where there's a lot of muslims wouldn't it be interesting that the gentleman who speaks some english a lot more spanish witnesses to the muslim who speaks mainly somalian and he ends up coming to christ and they both come here when that be amazing how does that happen but i want to see unity among god's people and out of that this church will not be what is meant to be until we have all that's supposed to be here now you know what the problem is i don't know who they are do you do you know who this piece is do you know their name so the next time you walk out the door next time you meet somebody somewhere someplace you might ask yourself am i bringing my faith into this relationship river it may be in my brain jesus into that relationship of my brain the character of jesus and their relationship churches are vision is loving god loving people loving life now that's the vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life they don't love or they don't love people if you love god you don't love people don't love life let me tell you something else when you love life you will of people you know love god it goes both ways and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me laura i just love you lord what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love the lord what can i do you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him and he but he know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second greatest commandment is what love others as yourself so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here almost are you start loving people start loving god you don't think there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire in me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try it if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god  love people and let me tell you you will be able to love people the way god has you to love him unless you start loving god alone i am my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the most boring christian there is god change me love people you realize you don't have the ability when you go until you got to god god gave me the ability to love people and you know how do you know you do mr show you how much he loves you and we realize how much he loves you you can't help but get back to lo people so that's a vision you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west