Because of You, Part 1: Because of You
Life.Church with Craig Groeschel
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4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're gonna do something different |
| 0:01.9 | that I believe is gonna minister to our church |
| 0:04.3 | and inspire you to continue to make a difference |
| 0:06.7 | around the world. |
| 0:08.0 | I wanna start with some scripture that will help set |
| 0:11.0 | the tone for us from 1 Thessalonians chapter three. |
| 0:15.0 | Paul really wanted to reach this city |
| 0:17.1 | because he knew if he could reach this city, |
| 0:19.9 | he could make a massive difference all over the world |
| 0:22.6 | because of the trade that would come into the city |
| 0:25.1 | from the east and from the west. |
| 0:26.9 | If he can just reach these people, |
| 0:29.4 | he could spread the gospel all over. |
| 0:32.1 | So Paul preached there three different times, |
| 0:35.4 | made an impact, but because of opposition, |
| 0:38.5 | they actually had to smuggle him out of the city. |
| 0:41.2 | So he was wondering, did we make a difference? |
| 0:44.4 | Did the message of the gospel impact lives? |
| 0:47.1 | In other words, would it stick? |
| 0:49.4 | Would they continue to follow Jesus? |
| 0:51.5 | So he heard really encouraging news |
| 0:55.2 | and he wrote them this letter with this little nugget |
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