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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, the Surgeon General of the United States rolled out a new warning saying that if major changes are not made, we will splinter as a society. The loneliness epidemic is now upon us. We need each other more than ever. God made us for belonging.

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0:00.0	You're listening to audio from the Village Church.
0:02.2	If you'd like to check out more resources or give to our ministry, please visit us
0:05.8	at the Villagechurch.net.
0:09.0	Good morning, church.
0:10.4	My name is Earl Mejia.
0:14.4	I love you.
0:15.2	I love you.
0:16.5	There was a point in my life where I allowed my circumstances and my pain and my hurt to lie to me.
0:26.6	They lied and told me that God's love, goodness, and promises did not belong to me, that God wasn't for me.
0:37.3	But God, in his goodness, kindness, and patience,
0:43.2	he opened my eyes and he called my heart.
0:46.3	And he showed me that through the finished work of Christ on the cross,
0:50.6	I could be called the Son of the Most High.
0:53.1	Amen? Our passage today is in the book of
0:59.9	Ephesians chapter 2 verses 19 to 22. So then you are no longer foreigners or
1:06.0	strangers but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household built on the foundation of the apostles
1:13.1	and the prophets with Christ Jesus
1:15.3	himself as a cornerstone
1:16.8	in him the whole building
1:18.7	being put together grows into a
1:20.8	holy temple in the Lord
1:21.9	in him you are also being built together
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