And if you look at puzzle pieces, they start to feel a little bit like society in general. Some of them are darker some of them are lighter. Some of them have male edges some of them have female edges. Some of them have straight edges some of them don’t. You see puzzle pieces come in all different shapes and sizes. Without Jesus in the equation, life, society, even a church feels a lot like a puzzle with a glaring hole in the middle of it, a huge piece missing. He makes the picture come to fruition it becomes complete when Jesus is in the equation. Notice, that word one is all caps, because that word refers to completeness. Jesus is the piece that makes the whole human puzzle ONE In fact, here's what I want you to understand from the last few verses from this Bible book today: I wanted you to think about the Christian life, like a puzzle with lots and lots of different pieces. Today, we wrap up a four-week study through this Bible book called Philemon. So, I'm going to use a puzzle today as an analogy, we're going to talk from the Book of Philemon. Don't act like you're not one of those people too. Life is messy sometimes, and I'm one of those guys who wants to see everything in its proper place and everything put together. When I was thinking about, I started to wonder, why am I so worked up about this puzzle piece? Why is it such a big deal to me? And then it dawns on me this puzzle is kind of like a metaphor for life. I’m going to smash stuff, and I'm going to have to kill somebody if I can't find this last puzzle piece. I'm just looking at this blank hole in a puzzle, and I start to fill like Ben Affleck from the movie, The Accountant.

I don't think I have obsessive compulsive disorder.

I'm one of those guys that if I look at a puzzle and it's got one piece missing, I want to go bonkers. How did it go from a brand new box to a sofa cushion underneath a half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich? How is that even possible? Pretty soon, you find the puzzle piece, three rooms away, buried in a sofa cushion. Where on earth did this puzzle piece go? And you start to look all over the house. It's a brand new puzzle out of a brand new box. You've been there, right? You're searching frantically. Where on earth did the other puzzle piece go?

There are five more empty spaces on this puzzle, and I only see four pieces in front of me. And now you're five or six pieces away from completing the puzzle when you start to look down and notice, w ait a second. You know what I'm talking about, right? You just got a brand new puzzle.

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