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Pastor Josh here.

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I would like to give you a
preview of our Sunday morning service

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on October 13 here at Middletown

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 Baptist Church.

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We're going to be continuing
our sermon series in two corinthians.

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We will be in two corinthians,
chapter six.

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And we're going to start in
verse number three.

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We're going to see what Paul
says through the inspiration of scripture

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about what it means to be a successful

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minister of the gospel.

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Now, all of us are called to
be ministers.

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All of us are called to be
ambassadors, as we saw in chapter

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 five.

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And as ministers of the
gospel, we have a message to preach

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 to
the world.

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We have a message to display
to the world.

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And so anytime we do something
for God, we are called to be successful.

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But the true test is what are
we defining success as?

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Is success, popularity?

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Well, this passage of
scripture is going to tell us, no,

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it's not popularity is success, painlessness.

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No, the Bible says that there
is going to be pain, there's going

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 to
be struggles.

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And so what Paul is going to
describe here in this passage is

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the true test of success is faithfulness.

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And how can we be faithful?

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Well, we can be faithful
through having patience or endurance.

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And so we're going to look at
this week what it means to be a Christian

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who is focused on enduring difficulties,

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 to
present ourselves faithful to God

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in the midst of ministering to him

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with that message of the gospel.

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Sometimes it's not easy to
exercise endurance.

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It's not easy to be patient.

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But the Bible says that that
is something that we must have in

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our life as the focus, because as

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the Bible tells us in many occasions,

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 God
calls us to exercise that patience,

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 to
that endurance, so that we can keep

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our eyes fixed on the eternal rewards

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and not those that are here and now

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on this side of heaven.

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So I encourage you to come out
and learn from scripture what it

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means to be a faithful minister of

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the message of the gospel and how

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we can have endurance as christians

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 here today.

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So I'll be praying for you,
hope to see you this weekend.

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If you're not able to be there
in person, we will be replaying this

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on Monday morning.

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And also we'll be live
streaming on YouTube and on Facebook.

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Take care.

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Have a wonderful weekend.