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Good morning everyone. Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. It is time to go ahead and get started.

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At this time we'll go to our first song for the morning, number 224.

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Pim number 224 for our first song this morning, 224.

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There shall be showers of blessing.

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224, sing it out. We don't have any accompaniment this morning, so I definitely want to hear you guys singing.

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224.

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We'll sing it out all together.

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There shall be showers of blessing. This is the promise of love.

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There shall be seasons refreshing, sent from the Savior above.

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opportunity to gather together once again and to sing praises unto you and learn from your word

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Lord I pray that you'd be with us for the service that everything is done decently and in order

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I pray that you would give a pastor safety on his travel back as well as to strengthen him and give him good health and

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Restore him these things we pray in Jesus name. Amen

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For our next him will be number 159

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Him number 100

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59, blessed be the name.

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159-159, blessed be the name.

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We'll sing it out all together.

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All praise to him who reigns above,

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His majesty supreme.

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It's fun!

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We'll be grabbing Bulletin.

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Of course we have our information and service times there on the front inside.

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On the very front we have our Bible memory verse.

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Be sure to be keeping up with that.

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Service times and soul winning times of course inside on that left hand portion as well as

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our church stats for the year.

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So 1285 salvations total which is just great.

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Keep up the great work there.

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a visitor card there if you are visiting today and you'd like to fill that out so we have a record of your visit please do so

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and a QR code for giving

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Well, I don't really have any major announcements today. Pastor Oz is traveling back from St. Louis this morning

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So just keep his travel in your prayer and also you'll notice the top of the prayer list is

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An addition for Pastor Oz health. He's just not been feeling well at all

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the last couple days. He actually didn't even get a chance to preach at the St. Louis event

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because he was not feeling well. So definitely just keep him in your prayer and pray that he

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doesn't bring it back to us because I don't want to share that with him. But aside from that,

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I really don't have any other announcements. We'll go to the back for upcoming events. August 15th.

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It's going to be two weeks from yesterday.

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August 15th will be our marathon in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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So not too far out, 15 to 30 minutes.

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east of the metro depending on where you are sometimes even closer than that

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it's pretty close so be sure to make it out for that August 23rd is the next

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men's preaching night September 19th

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is going to be a marathon at the Osage Indian

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I don't want to call it a reservation right it's not really a reservation but

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like the Paw-Huska area the Osage tribe Indian tribe

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bull area whatever you want to call it I guess October 24th

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will be a trip to...

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the Ore Family Farm, which was super great last year. I highly recommend going, even

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if you don't have kids, it was fun for us to go. So we'll be going again this year.

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October 31st, the Chili Cook Off, and November 7th, there will be another soul winning marathon

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at Enid, which was very receptive last time we went, so excited to go back there. Details

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for the Shawnee Marathon are there at the bottom, as well as a QR code that will take

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you to sign up for the God Resource. There's also a sign up in the back. I know some of

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folks had been having issues with the online sign up. Outside of that, I have no other

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announcements to make, so this time we'll go to our third song. Our third song this

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morning is number 93.

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hymn number 93, art thou weary, art thou languid.

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So, H M. number 93.

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Ahem.

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We'll sing there all together, hymn number 93.

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Are thou weary?

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Are thou languid?

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Are thou sore distressed?

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are being passed this morning.

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Turn if you would to 2 Samuel chapter number 20.

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2 Samuel chapter number 20.

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2 Samuel chapter 20

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And there happened to be a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite.

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And he blew a trumpet and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son

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of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel. So every man of Israel went up from after David,

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and followed Sheba, the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan,

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even to Jerusalem.

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And David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women his concubines,

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whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in

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unto them.

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So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Then said the king to Amesa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou

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here present.

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So Amesa went to assemble the men of Judah, but he tarried longer than the set time which

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he had appointed him.

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And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bicri do us more harm than to Absalom.

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Take thou thy Lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest ye get him fenced cities, and escape us.

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And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Carathites, and the Pelopheites,

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and all the mighty men. And they went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri.

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When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amesa went before them, and Joab's garment

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that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins

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in the sheath thereof, and as he went forth it fell out. And Joab said to Amesa, Art thou in health,

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my brother? And Joab took Amesa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

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But Amesa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand, so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib,

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and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again, and he died.

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So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bicri.

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And one of Joab's men stood by him and said,

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He that favoreth Joab and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

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And Amesa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway.

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And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amesa out of the highway

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into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that everyone that came by him stood still.

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When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab,

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to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaicah, and all the

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Birites.

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And they were gathered together, and went also after him.

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And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaicah, and they cast up a bank against

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the city, and it stood in the trench.

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And all the people that were with Joab battered the wall to throw it down.

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Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear, say I pray you unto Joab, come near hither,

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that I may speak with thee. And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Are thou Joab?

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And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered,

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I do hear. Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying,

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They shall surely ask counsel at Abel, and so they ended the matter.

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I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel.

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Thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel.

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Why wilt thou swallow up their inheritance of the Lord?'

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And Joab answered and said,

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Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy.

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The matter is not so, but a mount of Mount Ephraim,

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Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king,

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even against David.

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Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab,

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Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

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Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and

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cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent.

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And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

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Now Joab was over all the hosts of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the

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Karathites and over the Pelopithites, and Adoram was over the Tribute, and Jehoshaphat the son of

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Ahilad was her quarter, and Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests, and Ibra also

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the Jehoarite was a chief ruler about David. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that you'd feel

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Brother Cameron, with your spirit,

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helping the Preach and edifying sermon for us,

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and through us to receive it. Amen.

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Amen.

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Alright, we're here in 2 Samuel chapter number 20 this morning,

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and there's this character introduced in 2 Samuel 20.

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in verse 1 that I want to take a look at and that is Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Sheba the son of Bichri.

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And my sermon title for you this morning is this, Beware of Sheba.

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Beware of Sheba.

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Look here in verse 1, 2 Samuel 20 verse 1, the Bible says,

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and there happened to be there a man of Belial,

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whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite.

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And he blew a trumpet and said, we have no part in David.

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Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse.

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Every man to his tense, O Israel.

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So we get this guy who's introduced...

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Let me give you some interesting facts about Shiba that you might not know if you're not super familiar with this character.

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He's never mentioned before.

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He's never alluded to or mentioned at all.

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Prior to second Samuel 20 he's never mentioned after this character exists only in this one chapter of the Bible

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So we don't have to do a huge deep dive and go like all throughout the Bible to find out all the information that we

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Want to know about Sheba?

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We've got pretty much all of it here

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And it's very interesting that when the Bible is introducing a character for you

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God is going to give you the details that you need pretty early on so I kind of want to do his character study of

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Sheba because when we talk about

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beware of Sheba, what I'm doing is I want to show you attributes of someone like Sheba

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the son of Bichri that we could look for today and say, hey, I'm going to beware of a person

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that's like Sheba.

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Here's just the first thing that God tells us in verse 1, and they happen to be there

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in Manabelial.

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A man of Belial.

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Look, the first most important thing that you can understand about Sheba, he's a reprobate.

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The descriptor, a man of Belial, it's like a son of the devil, a child of the devil is

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what this is talking about.

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This is a title in the Bible exclusive for reprobates, which is really funny because

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if you do any research, I wondered if AI would disagree with that.

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Because if you read the Bible, you'll see that it's true.

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It's always men of Belial.

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end of it.

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Eli's sons, men of Belial, right?

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And it just describes over and over,

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or a child of the devil,

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or two-fold more the child of hell, right?

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All these are similar descriptors

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for someone who is beyond hope of salvation.

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They hate God, they've rejected truth.

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But here's the danger, if you just look up, like if you ask your favorite AI, hey, is

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man of Belial, is that someone that's beyond hope of salvation?

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I could not get any of them to agree to that.

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Every AI was like, well, that's a really strong stance to take.

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You shouldn't say that they're beyond hope of salvation.

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It just means that one of them said, one AI told me, it just means they're not the most

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moral person at that time.

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Wow, you think she was not the most moral person right now at this time in verse 1.

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We don't even really looked into him and he's trying to turn people away from David.

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No, my friend, you got to rely on the Bible to define the Bible.

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You cannot rely on commentaries.

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You cannot rely on AI.

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I love AI.

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I use it every day at my job.

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You can't rely on that to teach you spiritual things.

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We cannot rely on that to ent-

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the Bible for you. You have the Holy Spirit, you're able to read the Bible,

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you're able to understand. When it says that Sheba was a man of Belial...

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It's saying that he was a reprobate, that he knew... when it's talking about the Bible

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says that they were sons of Belial, talking about Eli's sons, it then goes on to describe

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that they knew not the Lord.

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Matter of fact, let's just go look at that.

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That's in chapter 2, 1 Samuel chapter number 2.

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Keep your place in 2 Samuel 20, but go to 1 Samuel chapter number 2.

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This is not a descriptor of someone who's just got a little bit of a moral shortcoming

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at one time.

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Oh, you poor man of Belial.

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No, no, no.

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This is someone that hates God.

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They hate truth.

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They do not have any hope of salvation.

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And the reason I'm harping on this right now is for two reasons.

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One, it's the first thing that God brought up.

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It's the first thing that's recorded, so we're going to take the first thing first.

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And two, it's important to notice that people that are reprobate...

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They are implacable, they are unmerciful, they are opportunistic, they are looking for

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any reason to go against rightful God-ordained authority.

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Keep that in mind as we go through this.

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You turn to 1 Samuel chapter number 2, look at verse 12.

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1 Samuel 2 verse 12 it says,

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now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial.

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How?

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They knew not the Lord.

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Now let me also be clear, this is not saying every person that is unsaved is a child of

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Belial.

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Right?

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Oh, they knew not the Lord.

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This is very specifically, and if you look, I don't have time to get into like the sons

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of Eli, Hoth, Nathanael, they are extremely wicked.

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They are committing fornication at the church.

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They are lying with women at the door and they are causing the service of God to be

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like blasphemed.

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to the other nations because they're like,

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man, look at what's going on with the priest's sons.

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Like, that's God, that's your God.

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They're causing great blasphemy.

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And look, reprobates will do this.

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They will claim the name of Christ

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to cause great blasphemy against true Christianity,

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against true godliness.

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First Samuel, turn over to chapter 25.

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1 Samuel chapter number 25.

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I'm proving to you right now that when the Bible says they're a man of Belial, they're

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a reprobate.

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Now look, I think I'm in good company this morning.

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I don't think I'm necessarily convincing you, but it's important that we preach the Bible

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in season and out of season because if you try to just ride on the laurels or on the

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coattails of what you think you knew, you might misunderstand something for a long time

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just because you think, oh, that's very basic.

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Oh, I don't need to look over that again.

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We should constantly

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be renewing and refreshing our mind with the Bible, making sure those that be a Berean,

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right?

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Search the scriptures daily whether those things be so.

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First Samuel 25, look at verse 17.

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Because remember, A.I. is telling me, oh, he's just having a moral shortcoming right

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now.

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Maybe there's some hope for Sheba.

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Maybe we could talk to him, right?

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Get him to change his mind.

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1 Samuel 25 verse 17 says,

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Now therefore know, and consider what thou will do,

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for evil is determined against our master,

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and against all his household.

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For he is such a son of Belial,

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notice, that a man cannot speak to him.

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When you have someone that's a reprobate,

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that's a man of Belial,

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that's a child of the devil,

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you're not going to convince them.

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You're not going to pray away the gay.

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You're not going to shock therapy.

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You're not going to convince some reprobate of the truth of the gospel

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because you spend an hour, two hours, three hours preaching to them.

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You're not going to convince them.

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You're not going to restore Kenny Baldwin.

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Okay?

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Guy's a reprobate.

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I'm not praying for restoration.

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I'm praying for destruction.

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And look, that's a great example really here.

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This is not a sermon about Kenny Baldwin.

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But hey, if the dog is...

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there if the horse is there as I walk by I'm gonna beat that horse I'm gonna kick that

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dog because look all these people getting up praying for restoration look he's just

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a Sheba he's a man of Belial he's opportunistic he's taking advantage of his dad to ordain

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him he's getting in around all these people so he has access to all these kids what was

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he the biggest like children's ministry preacher and like old IFB or IFB I mean like come on

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He's opportunistic, he's a predator, and he causes,

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he gives.

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great cause for others, non-Christians or even Christians, to blaspheme the Bible.

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Oh wow, Kenny Baldwin is your guy, huh?

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Oh, the old IFB, excuse me, the IFB, because we refer to them internally as old IFB, but

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like, oh the IFB, right?

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That's really your go-to guys, huh, when you've got predators.

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Yeah, it's a Sheba.

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He's causing opportunity or giving opportunity for blasphemies to happen.

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And look, a man, in verse 17, the latter part cannot speak.

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to him.

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You're not convincing these people that they're wrong.

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You're not going to win them over.

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You're not going to...

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It's like that clip that I'm sure everyone has seen where they get that reprobate to

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come up and he's like, I'm not gay no more.

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I repented.

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It's like, no, you didn't.

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And all you're doing is you're fooling all the people in the crowd that don't read the

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Bible, that aren't going to the Bible, that aren't...

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Oh, a man cannot speak to him.

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Look, there's no point in ever trying to convince a reprobate or show them the reprobate doctrine

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or like, hey, I've just noticed that you have this reprobate sin that you can only commit

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because God gave you up.

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Let me just convince you that it's wrong.

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It's not worth it.

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You're not going to do it.

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It's not possible.

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What God has made crooked, no man can make straight, literally.

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You're not making that thing straight.

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This is chapter number 20.

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Turn over if you would, judges.

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Chapter number 20, you're going to go back in your Bibles just a hair.

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Look, there's an answer for men of Belial.

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There's an answer for children of Belial.

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There's an answer for a child of the devil.

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There's an answer for these people.

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I'll show you what that answer is.

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It's not talking to them.

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I'm going to show you what that answer is.

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It's not convincing them that they were wrong.

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It's not trying to persuade them that, you know, see the light, you know,

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Brother Baldwin, no, no, no.

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Stacy Schifflit can say that because they are false prophet brethren.

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That's why Stacy Schifflit can say that.

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And that's why Stacy Schifflit's prayer that he doesn't go down that path is right,

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because he's a false prophet and he is being filled with all unrighteousness.

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He will go down that path.

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If given long enough, he will go down that path.

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But, not for a saved person, but here's the answer, right, from a saved perspective to

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the children of Belial.

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Judges chapter 20 verse 13, it says, Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial,

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which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.

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Notice though, the verse doesn't end there, it says this, but the children of Benjamin

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would not hearken to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.

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Now two things I want you to notice from chapter 21. What's the answer for a reprobate? What's the answer for a man of Belial?

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It's put them to death, right? They are vessels for destruction. There is no help for them.

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The only way to end them being a predator and taking advantage of other people is to put them to death, right?

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And that obviously we're talking about from a legal, a government should be the one doing this.

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It is not a vigilante justice, but they should, this should be a crime and they should be tried for that crime and

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put to death.

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But notice, there was even a governmental problem,

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if you will, in Judges 20.

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Why?

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Because the children of Benjamin would not harken.

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And you know what, that's kind of where we are today,

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is that the world is not gonna harken to this message.

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The world is not gonna take men

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who are clearly men of Belial and put them to death.

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But it's interesting, it's the children of Benjamin.

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Let me help you out.

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There are great children of Benjamin,

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of the tribe of Benjamin in the Bible.

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I'm not saying that there are not.

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Saul was from, I mean, Saul had his problems, right?

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But there are many, Ehud, I believe, is a Benjamite.

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There are a lot of good men from the tribe of Benjamin.

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But they don't have a great track record when it comes to dealing with reprobates in the Bible.

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And if you read through, you'll always see it's like, but the benjamites, but you know,

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the benjamites are kind of like, oh, they've got like this bleeding heart for them.

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Now, here's what's really interesting. Turn back to 2 Samuel chapter 20.

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You kept your place there. 2 Samuel 20.

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So he's a man of Belial. He should be put to death, Sheba.

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The first description we get is, he's a man of Belial.

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The second description we get is his name, Sheba the son of Bichri, 2 Samuel 20 verse 1.

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But then it says what?

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Ah, Benjamite.

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It's like, great.

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He's already from the run.

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No wonder this guy has been given so much free reign.

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He's from the Benjamites.

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And they've not had a good track record with this.

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Of course, Judges Chapter 20, what's

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the context of what they're talking about putting the men

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to death in Judges 20?

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Judges Chapter 19, where the man and his concubine

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are traveling a long journey, they go to visit.

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And then the men gather around in Judges 19

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and beat at the door, wanting to know the men, right?

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The men are seeking to know.

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And it's not like, hey, how you doing?

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And no, it's talking about like in a marital sense to know them, right, in a carnal sense

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rather to come together.

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It is not a parallel, but it is a very similar story to Genesis chapter 19 of Sodom and Gomorrah

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where the angels came and the men of Sodom and Gomorrah, men and children and everybody

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gathered together and beat at the door.

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It is very similar, not a parallel because they're two different stories, but there are

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a lot of parallels.

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So beware of Sheba.

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Look, beware of dogs, right?

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Beware of reprobates, these reprobate people.

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Why?

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You're not going to convince them.

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You're not going to change their mind.

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I don't have to beware of benjamites, but it is funny.

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This is a bonus point because they have such a bad track record in the Bible.

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When it comes to reprobates, it's like, come on, you men of Benjamin, let's fix this.

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Now, notice though, I want to jump back in verse 1

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and get a little bit of context.

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Because there is one point that we kind of skipped.

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Notice the very beginning of 2 Samuel 20 verse 1, and it says,

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And there happened to be there a man of Belial.

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Now where are we talking?

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There, but we're just kind of starting chapter 20. Where is there?

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Like what is the context of where we are?

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Well, back up if you would, you're probably on the same page, to 2 Samuel 19 verse number 41.

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So, let's get the there from verse 41, just back up a little bit in your reading.

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Second Samuel 19 verse 41 says this, and behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and

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said unto the king, why have our brethren, so they're talking to David, right?

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And I'll give you a little bit of history after we read these verses.

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It says, why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen thee away and have brought the

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king and his household and all David's men with him over Jordan?

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Now...

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Let's just pause for a second because if you know the story, this is hilarious.

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Because what has happened in, like where are we even at in 2 Samuel 20?

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Absalom rebels against David, is like trying to kill him.

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David and Judah, who are like actually standing by God's ordained authority, flee with David

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beyond Jordan because Absalom starts this revolt and takes over the kingdom.

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Now, Absalom's dead.

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Judah is bringing the rightful king back across Jordan into Israel.

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And the Israelites are like,

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Hey, why are you guys bringing him back without talking to us first?

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It's like, you guys sided with Absalom!

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You guys were against David.

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You guys were trying to kill him.

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And then your king gets killed, and the right guy comes back.

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You realize that you're on the wrong side.

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But rather than just like take the L graciously,

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you're like, why didn't you guys ask us?

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We're not going to ask you when you're rebelling against the rightful authority.

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I'm not going to go ask some atheist if I've got the Bible right.

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I'm not going to go ask the heathen, I'm not going to go ask Life.Church if our service is okay.

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I'm on the right side, I don't need to do that. This is such a stupid, but it's hilarious,

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because isn't this really the nature of man? Like when you find yourself on the wrong side,

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when you should just go like...

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I sided with Absalom. That was rough. I should fix that. You're really just like well

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Yeah, I mean like it wasn't the best decision

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I made but you should have asked me first before we put the rightful king back in it's like

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No, because God set him as king. Why are we having to go ask your opinion on this? It doesn't matter

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Look at verse 42. It's so funny

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Does it all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel because the king of Neers is near of Kenda's?

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Wherefore then be angry for this matter?

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Have we eaten at all of the king's cost?

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Or have they given us any gift?

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The men of Judah are like, because we're of Judah,

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he's of Judah, he's like our brother.

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Like we care for this guy, we want him reinstalled,

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we want everything to go well.

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That's why we're on his side, that's

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why we're bringing him back to his rightful place.

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And then they're like, did we like?

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Take advantage of him? Are we eating at his cost? Is he giving us a bunch of gifts and bribing us?

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They're like, no, we're not making merchandise off the king. We're just helping the rightful king.

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Get back there. Verse 43, boy, if this isn't a picture of like Jews and Gentiles.

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I don't know what is.

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You get that so much of Saul and David and Absalom and David, all throughout the Bible,

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verse 43.

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The men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, ìWe have ten parts in the king.î

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They're like, we're way more of the king than you are.

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And which is so funny, you guys rebelled.

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What do you mean you have 10 parts in the king?

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You were just against him trying to kill him.

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And now when it's convenient for you,

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because your king died, and you're like, oh crap,

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you're like, well, we had 10 parts in the king.

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It's like, well, that's funny.

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You didn't like five minutes ago.

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How does that work explain that to me Israel and we have also more right in David than ye

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Why then did you despise us that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?

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But notice this it says in the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel

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So look the Israelites are saying some harsh things, but let me just this is also a bonus point when

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We are for peace David says I'm for peace, but when I speak there for war

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As Christians, we should be wise as serpents, but harmless as doves.

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But let me help you out.

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It says here that the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men

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of Israel.

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You know, you back a godly man into a corner, you back a righteous man into a corner, or

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you start throwing out some false doctrine.

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Let me tell you, the words of the men of Judah are fierce.

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And the words of God are fiercer than the haters.

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And then it's so funny to see like, oh, it's terrifying.

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You're right, it's terrifying.

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Because we have this on our side.

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We have God on our side.

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And so you know what?

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I am not for going out and being a blowhard

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and being just like this tougher than all whatever.

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But you better believe, and if you've been soul-winding with me,

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this is not a surprise.

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You better believe if you're going to try to stop me

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from preaching the gospel to somebody else,

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if somebody else comes in.

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You're going to get some fierce words.

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And look, that is not just a, oh, that's that, that's just a biblical attribute of godly

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men.

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They're trying to do what?

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They're for the king.

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Are we not for the king of kings here?

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Can I get an amen from any man in the crowd that we're for the king of kings?

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So when you go against the Bible and you go against the man of God, you better be ready

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for some fierce words from Judah.

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I don't care what you have to say.

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It's going to be fiercer coming from this end.

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Why?

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Because we actually can back it up with the Bible.

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And this is where true power comes from, not from you making a great argument.

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comes from the word of God.

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So of course I gave you the history there.

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Now notice though, what did they say, the men of Israel in verse 43?

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It says, we have ten parts in the king, and more right in David than ye.

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So what's their position? They're like, we have even more part of David than you.

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We're even more of his inheritance than you. We're the real Israel.

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But notice how quickly this changes. This is a red flag when someone changes overnight.

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Notice 2 Samuel 20 verse 1.

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There's no verse in between here that we skipped, folks.

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This is literally how it reads if you read your Bible through.

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We have ten parts of the King, chapter 20 verse 1, and there happened to be there, at this dispute, right?

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A man of Belial, whose name was Sheba the son of Bicriah, a Benjamite, and he blew a trumpet and said,

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We have no part in David, neither we have inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man to his ten, so Israel.

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Okay, so then logically these Israelites who just said that we have, you know, 10 parts in the king,

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they're gonna go like, whoa, Sheba, no, we have 10 parts in the king.

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Like, hey, you're totally wrong on this.

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No, no, no. Look what happens in verse 2.

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So every man of Israel went up from after David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Bro, you literally just said...

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You've got 10 parts in the king more than Judah this reprobate gets up. Hey

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Opportunistic much just kind of there

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No, look the Bible doesn't tell us if he's just like waiting or if he's like trying to put himself there

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And it's like oh, let me make sure and then just hey we got I mean it sounds a trumpet

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It's not just like he's like there's a conversation like hey guys. He's like dun dun. Hey, we don't have any pardon David

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And these people who just were siding with Absalom, oh yeah,

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because they're not genuine.

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Because they just are like, oh crap, we're on the wrong side.

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We better act like we like David or something.

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But then once someone's bold enough,

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once some reprobate is bold enough to get up and say,

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I'm going to call out the man of God,

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then you get all these other people who are like, oh,

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let's follow.

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Notice, Sheba says,

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Thanks for watching!

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To your tents, O Israel, nothing to see here, go back."

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Now, did they just all return to their tents, though?

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No, no, no.

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In verse 2 it says, they went up from after David and followed Sheba, the son of Bichri.

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You know, Sheba, he's doing a couple things here that I want to point out.

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One, he's opportunistic.

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He's just waiting for that moment to take advantage of a situation to do what?

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Two things that you can insert here.

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And look, these don't both always have to come together.

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But frequently they do.

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One, he's inserting himself into other men's matters.

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Because let me help you out, this guy has no inheritance in anything except hell.

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He's a man of Belial.

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He's a reprobate.

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He does not care about David.

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He does not care about authority.

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They despise dominion, the Bible says elsewhere.

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He doesn't want the rightful king to be back.

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He hates authority.

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But you know what he does want?

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Followers.

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You know what he does want?

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To pat himself on the back to blow his own trumpet.

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Because what's a trumpet signify in the Old Testament?

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In Ezekiel, blowing of the trumpet

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would signify like a authority or someone being on the watch.

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It says, hey, if you don't sound the trumpet,

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then their blood will I require at your hands

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if you're the watchman.

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So she was like inserting himself

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as like the watchman authority here.

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Oh, let me sound the trumpet, guys,

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because David's coming back.

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That's the rightful king.

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You guys just rebelled against the rightful king.

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You tried to kill him.

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Didn't work out for you so well. At all.

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And then if you read 2 Samuel 20, we're going to see more people that are kind of like, you know, on the side.

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They're getting killed.

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Look, destruction is what awaits Sheba.

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He's inserting himself into other men's matters.

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He's opportunistic.

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And he drew away disciples after himself.

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Hold your place and turn to Acts chapter number 20.

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Acts chapter number 20.

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You know, Pastor Oz covered this recently in his Bible study in the book of Mark about

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Judas, right?

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He was there, he was what?

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A reprobate, he was a devil from the beginning.

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He's opportunistic, he's inserting himself into other people's matters, right?

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Sure, you could say he was chosen by Jesus Christ, absolutely, but it's really so that

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we could see that these reprobates will come in, they'll creep in unawares, they assert

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themselves into matters that are not theirs.

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People that creep into churches that don't believe, but it's not your matters.

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Get out of here.

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Why?

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To draw away disciples after themselves.

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I mean, Judas, it says he bore the bag which was put therein for the money.

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I mean, like, wow, I wonder why.

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I wonder why.

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It's just like I wonder why Bo Ballard had so many issues with like his tithes or something

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going missing or whatever, allegedly.

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It's just like, okay, nobody else ever had that problem, bro.

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You have a weird money issue.

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Look, in Acts chapter 20 verse 28, it says,

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"'Take heed therefore unto yourselves and all of the flock,

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over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers,

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to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves

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enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

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Also of your own selves shall men arise,

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speaking perverse things, watch this,

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to draw away disciples after them.'"

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Therefore, watch and remember that by the space of three years, I cease not to warn

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everyone night and day with tears."

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Remember, the sermon title is what?

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Beware of Sheba.

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We need to be able to look and identify and before I even say this, the Christian life

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is not a witch hunt.

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The Christian life, the Bible clearly teaches that there are going to be tears sewn with

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the wheat.

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The tears are from an enemy.

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There are going to be people rise up, if you've been here long enough, we've seen this happen over and over and over and over again.

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There are people who rise up in our church that were not genuine, or that they were saved, they get very carnal and they leave for X, Y, and Z reason.

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And I'm not saying leaving the church always means someone's like a sheba, obviously.

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But look, there are people who, like the Bible describes, diatrophies, love to have the preeminence.

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You have phygellas and homogenes who turn against Paul, I believe are safe people, but they just end up going...

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against the authority and you can have safe people do this.

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Remember, Saul is a safe person.

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Saul ends up getting prideful and going against David.

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He's safe.

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You also though have people like Sheba who are not saved because they're reprobates.

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They are also opportunistic.

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They are also trying to draw disciples away after themselves.

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They are also trying to destroy the work of God.

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You know, some are destroying, they just want to destroy other churches because they're prideful.

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Some want to destroy because they genuinely want to just attack the ministry of God.

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Not because someone exhibits the attributes of Sheba, makes them a reprobate.

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And this is crazy because nuance is something that is just lost on people.

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I have to just make this very clear.

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If someone tries to draw disciples away after them, that does not make them a reprobate.

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It's just kind of the nature of man to want people to follow after you.

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A saved person could do this. Saul was saved.

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However, this reprobate, and reprobates according to Romans chapter 1, so not just this one,

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Sheba, are filled with all unrighteousness.

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So I cannot see anyone's heart.

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I cannot know for a fact what anyone genuinely believes because Jesus warns us that grievous

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wolves will enter in the Old and New Testament.

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Like Jesus is warning us about this.

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We're being warned about this by Paul.

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It's all throughout the Bible.

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We're seeing this in the Old Testament.

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We can't just automatically know, oh that guy's a reprobate because he did xyz.

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You don't know that, but you can beware of Sheba.

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And I can just be like, hey you've hit 9 out of 10 points of Sheba,

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I don't know if you're a reprobate, but you hit the rest of the list, I'm afraid of you.

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You hit the rest of the list, I'm good. I don't want to be on your side, you're on the wrong side.

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I want that to be clear, okay, as we go forward,

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because what Gainseries will do is they'll say,

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oh, well you're just saying if someone leaves the church,

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they're a reprobate.

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No, I'm not.

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That's a non-nuanced view.

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It's not true.

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What I am saying is that these are attributes of a reprobate,

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and that she was doing these, and I'm just like,

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you're not doing so hot if I compare the list,

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and the only thing that I don't know is whether or not you do

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or not genuinely believe.

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And then how much more scary is it if it is someone that just genuinely believe and they're still doing all the same stuff?

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I'm like, I'm kind of more afraid of you now because I don't really know what you're capable of.

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Well, these reprobates, I know what they can do.

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Everything.

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It's like, you, I don't know if you're genuine or not, dude. Like, get away from me.

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Sheba is drawing disciples away after him.

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Turn back if you would to 2 Samuel chapter number 20.

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So what have we learned about Sheba?

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One, he's a reprobate.

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He's a benjamite.

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Not a great track record for you guys, sorry.

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He's kind of like counterfeiting authority.

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He's opportunistic.

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He's waiting right for that moment.

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He looks for that disagreement.

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It's like he's just in the right place at the right time.

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It was funny too, I asked AI, I was like,

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do you think he was waiting for this moment

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to take advantage?

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Because that's what I get from this.

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Of course, AI's just always, no.

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The text doesn't say that.

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He was just making a moral bad decision and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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I'm like, no, he was in the right place at the right time for his means.

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I think he knew what he was doing.

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If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

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You know, the Lord rebuked him, so I don't have a railing accusation against Sheba, I guess.

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But here's the deal.

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It seems to me like he's kind of just waiting there.

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It seems to me like he's like, you know, how are we going to do this?

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What's going to happen?

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out.

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We've looked at this. He's opportunistic. He's counterfeiting authority with the trumpet, right?

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Kind of like blowing to get people's attention.

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He's asserting himself into other men's matters.

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He's drawing away disciples after himself.

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And they do. They end up... Israel... many of these Israelites follow him.

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But then, you get to the point where it's like, well, what do we do with it then?

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Like, what do we do about that?

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Well, you should just let it go.

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This is where everyone just like misquotes,

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turn the other cheek.

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Just turn the other cheek.

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Just let them leave.

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Let them depart.

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And look, there is a time to let them curse.

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David says about Shimei, let them curse.

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Whatever.

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But this is doing damage, real damage.

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Here's my next point is that Shiva was a danger.

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Shiva is a dangerous person.

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It's not my opinion.

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Look at verse 6 in 2 Samuel 20.

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2 Samuel 20 verse 6 says, and David said to Abishai, now shall Sheba the son of Bicri,

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notice this, do us more harm than did Absalom.

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Now think about it, Absalom literally revolted to take over the kingdom from David.

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They just had a massive civil war about this.

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And David is saying, hey, Sheba's going to do us more harm than Absalom did.

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And I believe he's right.

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I don't think this is just him firing off.

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It says, take thou thy Lord's servants and pursue after him, lest he get in fenced cities

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and escape us.

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Turn to Ecclesiastes 9.

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Ecclesiastes chapter number 9.

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Now how does this make sense?

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Because shouldn't you just let them leave?

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Let them leave quietly.

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He's not, Shiva's not leaving quietly.

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He's blowing a trumpet and taking people with him.

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Oh, you just gotta call the new IFBs.

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You just gotta call people out when they leave quietly.

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Source?

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That's never happened.

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But when people leave loudly with their trumpet?

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and they're destroying churches and destroying the work of God and then they get called out.

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Oh you just you guys are so mean you guys just have to call everybody out.

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Look David said that in this instance she would have done more harm than like an actual rebellion.

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It's like this is more dangerous than like your average everyday church split.

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Like this is a reprobate just totally going against the work of God trying to destroy.

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How does that make sense? How can one person

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destroy so much. Look, you don't have to understand how it works. You just have to believe the Bible that that is the truth.

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Ecclesiastes 9 verse 18 says this, wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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Look, it only takes one.

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And really, I know that we're looking at Sheba and we don't want to have these attributes,

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but let me just pause for one moment.

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Ecclesiastes 9.18, one sinner destroyeth much good.

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We have much good at Anchor Baptist Church.

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We do not need to be that one sinner that destroyeth much good.

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Because you don't have to be some big shot, who is Sheba?

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Bro shows up in one chapter, never heard of before, never heard of again.

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He's just there, he's at the right place, at the right time, right or whatever.

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But he's opportunistic.

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and he ends up causing, becoming a great danger to the kingdom, a great danger to David, a great

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danger to the work of God. And look, we're never going to go the manabelial route, but we could go

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the Saul route. We could go the route of any person really in the Bible who just gets wrapped

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up in the carnal things, who kind of gets that diatrophies mindset. Phygellus, Hermogenes,

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kind of go off on your own.

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Titus under Dalmatia, right? It's just like people that love this present world kind of just get swept up look

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We have a smaller church here, although it's pretty good turnout. We have a smaller church here

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You guys know what it's like when like one man is sick or something. It's like, okay, we got a lot of a lot of readjusting to do.

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Or what about just like one family? Think about if one family were to leave this church because of the actions of one family member in that family.

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One husband that doesn't want to lead his wife or one wife that wants to rebel against the husband.

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You end up losing one family in a church like this. That's a very noticeable difference because one sinner destroys much good.

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And look, that's not the main point of my sermon.

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I'm just trying to show you why Shiva is a danger, because I think people would say,

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well, it's just one guy.

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I mean, come on.

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If you're really on God's side, could just one person do that much damage?

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Yes.

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Yes, because Shiva is a danger.

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And who are you to go against what God says?

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God says, one sinner destroyeth much good.

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I'm not going to get wrapped up into this world's wisdom.

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Look, it's not a coincidence either that the beginning of this,

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I think it's not a coincidence that the beginning says

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wisdom is better than weapons of war.

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Look, you could be so prepared to fight whatever battle you want to fight,

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but it's sometimes, actually it's not sometimes,

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it's just always better to be wise.

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Right? Because you put 50 billion people,

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that's a crazy number.

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You put 1,000 people on one side with like,

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slingshots and a piece of wood and like one Marine with enough ammo and like some wisdom about rules of engagement

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And he's got the weapons of war right you're gonna win

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Not because you have just brute strength all the time

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But because there are tactics when it comes to war and look these reprobates have nothing else to live for

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Because they're going to die and go to hell that it just attack the work of God and look it doesn't mean that they don't have

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Wisdom in the sense of the world's wisdom

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You got a lot of reprobates that make themselves very smart in certain areas of this world, right?

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They divide that says they're inventors of new things. They're inventors of evil things. They're inventing right? So we need to be wise

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wise of serpents

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Harmless as death one center destroy much good Shiva is a danger. That's the point that I'm getting across here

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Titus turn if you would Titus chapter number one in the New Testament Titus chapter number one

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All your T-books are together.

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So right after 1st and 2nd, Timothy Titus.

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Chapter number 1.

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We'll look there at verse 9, Titus 1.9 says this, holding fast the faithful word as he

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has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the

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gainsayers.

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For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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whose mouths must be stopped, who, notice this, subvert whole houses, teaching things

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which they ought not for filthy lucres' sake.

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Why is Sheba a danger?

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because he is a vain talker, he's unruly, and he's subverting entire houses.

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He sounds his trumpet, he goes out, inserts himself, gets opportunistic, waits for the

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division, just exploits the wound, changes people's mind like that, which they didn't

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really want to change their mind, they're just not genuine.

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Right?

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Anyone that goes from like, Sunday they believe this, Sunday the new IFB is great.

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It is the greatest movement of God that you've ever seen.

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Everything is going well.

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Monday, it's a cult.

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And I'm ex-new IFB and everyone's an abuser.

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This is like, let me help you.

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You did not believe the former.

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You always believed the latter.

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Or how about someone getting ordained and like,

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I didn't agree with Pastor Shele on X, Y, and Z.

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I actually have always had a different view on that.

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Or not always, excuse me.

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That's the truth.

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It's hard for me to even say what's true.

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That's the lie, rather.

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That's what was true for Pastor Who.

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It's like, oh, I changed my mind.

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I've changed my mind on that.

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Really?

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In like one week of being a pastor,

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you changed your mind?

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That's interesting.

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It seems to me, Sheba, which again,

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you

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Not calling him a reprobate.

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But the other parts are sticking so far.

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Seems to me that you're waiting for your opportunity

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to say like, oh, well, we have no part.

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It's like, that's funny, because when you were here,

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you had 10 parts, didn't you?

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When you were here, it was great.

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When you were here, the grass was green.

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The birds were singing.

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I mean, it's just like, and then.

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Now you live in Florida, bro. That's rough. I just like what happened destruction and look there's more destruction coming for these people

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That are like this especially though. They they're saved because look what's what she was punishment hell

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We'll get this punishment to decide just hell he got there

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He got an express pass, but those that are saved that have the attributes of Shiva

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Great destruction is coming because God is going to destroy you in this life because he's not gonna kill you in or destroy you at

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hell

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He's got to punish you in this life.

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Verse 11 in Titus chapter 1, I want to make sure that we read this again.

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It says, whose mouths must be stopped.

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Who subvert whole houses.

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You know what?

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These people have to be shut up.

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You've got to shut their mouths.

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And I am not saying that we are going to go physically stop their mouths as much as the

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flesh.

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I think we would want to do that sometimes to these people that are Shibas in our life.

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But you know what? The Word of God will cut through their crap.

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This is what will stop their mouths.

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Preaching on Sheba and the attributes of Sheba and to beware of Sheba.

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You know, had they, had the men of Israel heard this?

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Hey, watch out for this guy. He doesn't care about...

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You think Sheba cares about the men of Israel?

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You think he really wants like, hey guys, let me help you out.

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Here's why.

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I just miss Chiba's alternative.

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Hey, actually we have an alternative.

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We have another person that's just really a good fit here.

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I just immediately, I don't even have this in my notes,

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I immediately now just start thinking of Adam Fanon.

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With the whole steadfast stuff.

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Just like all the Judas, like Pastor Shelley.

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And then like Israel way out in Florida is like,

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you guys didn't ask us first.

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It's like, OK, well, you're a church plant.

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No one's asking you.

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No one asked us either.

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We're a church plant.

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And you know what?

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We weren't here like, well, some people here

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were like that, I guess.

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Bye, bozo, literally.

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But it's just like, look.

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You are opportunistic, Adam Fannin.

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You are self-willed.

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You are looking for an opportunity.

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Do you think he cared about that church in Jacksonville?

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I submit to you the answer is no.

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I submit to you that he did not.

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And look, there were some people in Fort Worth also

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that were kind of like this, right?

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They wanted to break away, drawing away disciples

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after themselves.

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Adam Fannin really definitely wanted to do this.

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I just, it's funny you read these stories

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and this is why they're important,

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because you read these and the Holy Spirit

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is like calling to remembrance things

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that are happening today.

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This is not just for back then.

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I'm just like, oh yeah, this person,

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and oh yeah, this person, and oh yeah, that person.

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I mean, like how many people have I referenced?

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Three?

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I'm not done.

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I'm not even done!

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This is why it's important to read your Bible, to know what the Bible says, because we need

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to beware of Sheba.

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Whether that person is a reprobate or not, even if you're just all the other attributes

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of Sheba, I'm going to beware of you.

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Because you scare me.

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And I don't want to be led away.

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I want to be with Judah.

01:10:33.180 --> 01:10:34.940
I want to have fierce words.

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from the Word of God.

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I want to be on the side of the Man of God.

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Hey, why has that become a taboo phrase?

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The Man of God, which the Bible quotes multiple times.

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Hey, you know what?

01:10:46.340 --> 01:10:47.900
I'm for the Man of God.

01:10:47.900 --> 01:10:49.940
I'm on the side of the Man of God.

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I'm for keeping the Man of God in His rightful position of authority.

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I'm not with Absalom.

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And I'm dead sure not on the wrong side.

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And then Absalom gets destroyed and I have to make it about me.

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Oh well, and then change my mind instantly when someone else comes along that has the

01:11:07.160 --> 01:11:11.480
cojones as it were to say what they actually think because here's the thing, the men of

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Israel are just scared to say what they actually think.

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They're just trying to act like they want to be on David's side until what?

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The reprobate comes up, it's like, actually, we have no part.

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Then what?

01:11:21.380 --> 01:11:22.380
They all change instantly?

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Again, not because they changed their mind, because that's what they actually thought,

01:11:26.140 --> 01:11:27.500
but they're not genuine.

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They're liars.

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They're just not bold enough to stand up and say what they really believe.

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They've got to wait until a reprobate is ready to take the spear.

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That's why I'm getting a lot of imagery of the Man of God documentary.

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You're not bold enough, Paul Wittenberger, to get up and say what you believe

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until some faggot tranny is ready to get up and take the spear.

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And then, oh, let's help him.

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Pastor McMurtry, you're not ready to get up and say what you believe.

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You don't even know what you believe.

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You preached 15 different things to rile up the base.

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Oh, but then Dead Domain gets up.

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This faggot tranny gets up and wants to head the spear against Pastor Anderson.

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Now you got all these people.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Let's go after this guy.

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Again, folks, these stories are here for us.

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Beware of Sheba.

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This guy is a danger.

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Have I convinced you that Sheba is a danger?

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Oh, how is he dangerous?

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How is he dangerous?

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You know, the gates of hell will not prevail.

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Look, a gate is a defensive structure.

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And you're correct, the gates of hell, this is my take on that, the gates of hell aren't going to prevail because when I go out into the world,

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I'm knocking on people's door, busting through those gates where people oppose themselves to get them saved.

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Now look, if you have a different take on that than me, God bless you or whatever, but I've never seen a gate attack.

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It's like, I don't think it's talking about the gates of hell attacking us.

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I think it's talking about the gates of hell where these people are shut up that they can't

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be, not can't be, good night.

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They're not saved.

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We're getting them saved.

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They can be.

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That's why we're going out.

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Those who are going to prevail against us, because he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing

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precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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Right?

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That your labor is not in vain, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 says.

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But you know what, sheep is a danger because these people can attack the ministry.

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These people can attack good churches.

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They can attack men of God.

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And they can lead away good people.

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They can lead away saved people.

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It is not, and this is another one of those horribly un-nuanced views, it is not just

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that it's all unsaved and reprobates against the work of God and against the new IFB.

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that they're leading the spear.

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And then they end up leading away good people with them.

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These people aren't good people.

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Sheba's not a good person.

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No one cares about Sheba.

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But we kind of do want to preserve those that are good in Israel.

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We want to preserve those people.

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One sinner destroys much good.

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Go back if you go to 2 Samuel chapter number 20.

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I've got good news.

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Sheba has an appointed end.

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And we're going to see it.

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We're going to read a few verses here now.

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to go through as we start to wind down a little bit.

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And then I've got some really specific application

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I want to make at the end of this.

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Shiva hadn't appointed him, though.

01:14:19.320 --> 01:14:20.560
Shiva's opportunistic.

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He's a reprobate.

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He's waiting for his time.

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He's exploiting that wound.

01:14:24.640 --> 01:14:27.840
He's leading the charge.

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He's pulling disciples away after him.

01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:32.280
He's subverting whole houses.

01:14:32.280 --> 01:14:34.320
He's one center that destroys much good.

01:14:34.320 --> 01:14:34.920
He's a danger.

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to the ministry, but there's an answer to the danger.

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2nd Samuel 20 verse 7 says,

01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:43.800
And there went out after him, Joab's men,

01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:47.800
and the Karathites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men.

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And they went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichrite.

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Now, I want to pause here for a minute.

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Do you notice that the mighty men on David's side

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identified this threat and went to end the threat?

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Do you realize that the mighty men are not what the Bible, it's not the term the Bible

01:15:08.820 --> 01:15:12.740
uses to describe the men of Israel that had to wait for the reprobate to say what he actually

01:15:12.740 --> 01:15:14.460
thought and then get led away?

01:15:14.460 --> 01:15:16.400
That's not a mighty man.

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The mighty men are the ones that are seeing the danger and they're like to the king, they're

01:15:19.300 --> 01:15:23.060
like I'll go take care of that problem for you right now.

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I'll settle it right now.

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And look, would God, that is who we are as men in the new IFB.

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When someone goes against Pastor Oz, it is not that he needs to rambo out spiritually or carnally,

01:15:37.860 --> 01:15:41.220
but definitely not either, and go take care of matters on his own.

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Would to God, he has mighty men that would say, I'm going to take care of that.

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Don't you worry, spiritually.

01:15:47.540 --> 01:15:49.460
Okay, please, spiritually.

01:15:49.460 --> 01:15:52.580
I don't want another article specialized out of town.

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It's a bad track record of pastors being out of town,

01:15:55.780 --> 01:15:57.700
things being preached that end up in news articles.

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Spiritually.

01:15:59.700 --> 01:16:04.980
But look, the mighty men are siding with the rightful king.

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Look, as a mighty Christian, you need to side with the rightful king.

01:16:09.860 --> 01:16:13.420
As a mighty man, you need to side with the rightful king in the sense of the authority

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in the church that's pastoral.

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It's not you, it's not your emotions, it's not the guy that you like the best, it's not

01:16:18.860 --> 01:16:20.860
the woman that you like, it's not your wife, men.

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is you are the authority when it comes to your family coming to church.

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The authority at the church is the pastor, right?

01:16:28.980 --> 01:16:32.020
Or let's say you're at a church plant, it's whoever is the boots on the ground.

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That leadership is your authority, answering to the pastor.

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And you need to be a mighty man ready to get on the side of the man of God.

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And I'm not scared of that term.

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The media can try to make that term,

01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:46.920
Paul can try to make this term,

01:16:46.920 --> 01:16:50.200
man of God, you know, some pejorative.

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It's not a pejorative because I believe the Bible.

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And this is fiercer than any of Paul's documentaries.

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We read verse 7, jump down if you would in 2 Samuel 20 to verse 15.

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So Joab's men, they're going out to get together, they're going after Sheba.

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Verse 15 it says, and they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmeica, and they cast up

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a bank against the city and stood in the trench, and all the people that were with Joab battered

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the wall to throw it down.

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Notice this in verse 16, then cried a, notice this, it doesn't just say woman.

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It says, then cried a wise woman out of the city.

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This woman is smart.

01:17:28.100 --> 01:17:31.860
She said, hear, hear, I say, I pray you, unto Joab.

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So she's saying this to Joab.

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Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

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And when he was come near unto her, the woman said,

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art thou Joab?

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And he answered, I am he.

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Then she said unto him, hear the words of thine handmaid.

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And he answered, I do hear.

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Joab is so funny.

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It's almost like talking to Theodore.

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He's like, yes.

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Are you Joab?

01:17:49.580 --> 01:17:50.080
Yes.

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Okay, hear me. I'm listening. It's just funny to me. That's kind of how I

01:17:54.940 --> 01:17:58.140
Love Theodore, but I mean he's no nonsense, right?

01:17:58.660 --> 01:18:01.020
Job is not here to be like ha ha funny

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What Joe Ab is on a mission to kill an enemy of God to kill an enemy of the king?

01:18:06.220 --> 01:18:09.900
He's no nonsense. He's just like look I'm on a mission and

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The Christian life is not this joke fest ha ha comedy routine that we do

01:18:16.500 --> 01:18:18.180
I'm not against humor.

01:18:18.180 --> 01:18:19.740
I'm not against laughing.

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But let's be honest, the Bible says that we should be grave, we should be serious, and

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we should be no-nonsense.

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Especially in areas like this where Joab is going, this is not where Joab needs to spend

01:18:30.780 --> 01:18:34.300
a couple minutes practicing his 60-second Kill Tony routine.

01:18:34.300 --> 01:18:40.660
He needs to be ready to be serious to go to accomplish this mission.

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She's like, hey, this woman is why she knows what's going on.

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And he's like, that's me, I'm listening.

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What do you have to say?

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Look at verse 18, I think is where we left off.

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Yeah, verse 18 says, then she's saying, they were wont to speak in old times, saying, they

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shall surely ask counsel at Abel.

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So they ended the matter.

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I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel.

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Thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel?

01:19:06.540 --> 01:19:09.140
Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

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So she's like, look.

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That guy, yeah, what are you guys coming to do?

01:19:12.700 --> 01:19:15.500
You're just going to destroy all of us for this one guy?

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Go back Ecclesiastes 9.18, one sinner destroyed with much good.

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See how he's a danger?

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See how she, Abel's not even where this disagreement took place, if I'm right.

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I don't believe it even took place there.

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He's just fleeing there.

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He had to go from wherever this happened.

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He's fleeing to Abel of Bethmeica.

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And then this collateral damage is potentially on the table.

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Why? Because of one sinner.

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Who's destroying much good.

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Look at Joab's response.

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Verse 20, Joab answered and said, far be it, far be it for me that I should swallow up

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or destroy.

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The matter is not so.

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You know, let me pause before I go into verse 21.

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The man of God also is not just like the ends justify the means, let me cut down everyone

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in my path to get rid of one tear.

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That's why the Bible says let the tears grow with the wheat.

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It is not your job to like witch hunt and follow everyone around and hire a PI for every person in the church to find out who is the reprobate.

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When likely there's not one here right now.

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Okay, it's just like we're not in this and Joab's mentality was like, I'm not trying to destroy everybody.

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I'm not here for that.

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I'm not here to just utterly annihilate.

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I'm not here to just call down fire of everything.

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But I am here for a mission, and the mission's important.

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And look, sometimes, unfortunately, there is collateral damage in the work of God.

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But look, it's not the fault of Joab, and it's so wrong to blame Joab for the potential

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collateral damage when the real perpetrator is Shiba.

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Because no one would be in this situation if it wasn't for Sheba

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But then the man of God a mighty man of God comes out to handle the situation and everyone's like well

01:20:53.040 --> 01:20:56.060
Why are you doing it this way? You're causing so much division

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Joe apps causing division. I thought she was causing division and Joe apps just trying to handle the mess

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What do you mean Joeab is the problem here?

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And I like how Joeab, and look the wise woman is just kind of asking.

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I think she's genuine.

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I'm not saying that she's wrong about asking.

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It says she's wise.

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And I like that Joeab has the right mentality where it's like, no, no, no.

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I'm not.

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I'm not trying to destroy everything here.

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We're just handling business.

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Like we've got to take care of this.

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It's going to be worse.

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Because look, the longer you let something fester, the worse it gets.

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A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

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Why?

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Because it spreads.

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It's a yeast.

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A little mold, no one's ever opened their fridge and there's like a little bit of black mold

01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:39.480
and you're like, that's fine.

01:21:39.480 --> 01:21:41.480
It's just one spot.

01:21:41.480 --> 01:21:46.040
I mean like, are you really going to bust out the bleach and clean the whole fridge?

01:21:46.040 --> 01:21:49.440
Yes, I am because that's bold and we need to get rid of it.

01:21:50.100 --> 01:21:56.060
It's not the bleach's fault that it's cleaning. It's the mold's fault for being there, but it hasn't appointed in it's the same end of

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Sheba destruction

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Now look

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Verse 21 the matter is not so it says but a man of Mount Ephraim she but it's in a big ride by name

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Wow, Joe ad you're just calling him out by name

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Yeah

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I am because that's who the that's who the problem is have lifted up his hand against the king

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Even against David deliver him only and I will depart from the city

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And the woman said, remember this woman was wise.

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The woman said unto Jehovah, behold, his head shall be thrown over to thee over the wall.

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You know what we need?

01:22:25.220 --> 01:22:30.140
We need strong men of God to be ready to handle business on the king's account, whether we're

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talking the king of kings, whether we're talking your authority in this life.

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But we also need just some wise women, some wise people in the audience that are maybe

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Only the listeners, only the passerbys.

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To say, yeah, Shiva is actually the problem here. I see.

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And look, don't lose hope in humanity. It's very easy to do.

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I understand this. Where you're just like, is everyone retarded?

01:22:54.340 --> 01:22:57.940
Like, is everyone stupid now that's not saved? Like, sometimes you're just like, what in the world?

01:22:57.940 --> 01:23:02.500
But look, there are wise people out in the world that are watching what happens.

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And this is why we need to be clear.

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That's why we need to have sound doctrine, sound speech that cannot be condemned.

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That the gainsayers, gainsayers are someone that's arguing contrary to you,

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have nothing to really reproach you for.

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They're just going to attack you for what you believe.

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But they're not really finding fault in you, they're finding fault in the Bible.

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Why?

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There are good people in the world that are watching.

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You know in Acts, I believe it's chapter 13, I could be wrong on the chapter, but it's

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in Acts when you have Sergius Paulus and Alimus the sorcerer, Bar-Jesus, right?

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Both the same person.

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And Paul is trying to get Sergius Paulus saved and Alimus is withstanding him.

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Paul turns and curses the guy, curses this false prophet, he gets blinded.

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And Sergius Paulus, because of that, gets saved and believes.

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This guy that's not saved, he's just a rando guy,

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sees the man of God stand up, have some fierce words,

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like the men of Judah had, against a reprobate, an enemy of God,

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a false prophet, and then that's resulting in people getting saved.

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So we don't want to be scared that like, oh well, if they see us fight and contend,

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if they see us try to clean up a mess, they're just all gonna think that we're the worst.

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Look, that doesn't work because what's like the number one accusation, and it's true many times,

01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:32.760
rallied or raised against the old IFB is that when it comes to abuse scandals,

01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:34.040
they kind of just sweep it under the rug.

01:24:34.900 --> 01:24:38.380
It's like the old IFB has really tried in a lot of churches to sweep these abuse scandals

01:24:38.380 --> 01:24:41.780
under the rug and not call things out by name and people still get pissed.

01:24:41.780 --> 01:24:42.780
Why?

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They're forward.

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They're contrary.

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So look, if people are going to be mad either way, I'd rather them be mad and we're cleaning

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up the mess.

01:24:49.540 --> 01:24:52.700
I'm not going to, like, well, let's just leave it under Shiba.

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He left.

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No one's going to remember him.

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Let him go.

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Don't be mad.

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Don't preach against him.

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Don't preach against Shiba.

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Don't go out against Shiba.

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against Sheba, don't go out against Sheba!

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Let him do it. No, one sinner is destroying much good.

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We need to go as mighty men and fight those enemies of the king.

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And the wise people of the world are watching.

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It says she was wise.

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Wisdom cryeth in the streets. Right?

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It's a picture of the gospel. It's a picture of Jesus Christ.

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But there's also people out there that will get saved,

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that are watching, that are genuine,

01:25:25.020 --> 01:25:26.840
that are just waiting for that opportunity.

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And maybe they're waiting to see some real Christianity.

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Maybe they need that.

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I'm not advocating lifestyle evangelism,

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but maybe this wise woman is just like, she doesn't know.

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She's not meant, I mean, not all of us, but many of us.

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I was reached late into my 20s.

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I didn't know what the truth was.

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And then I saw a man of God, Pastor Stephen Anderson, get up and preach hard sermons.

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And I was like, that makes sense.

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That is what Christianity is.

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He's right.

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That is what the Bible says.

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That's not this weak, watered down mess that I've heard everywhere else.

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And then why is that into salvation?

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Right?

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So this lady says to Joab, hey, what's the deal?

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Joab's like, we need that one guy.

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She's like, you'll have his head.

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And she's a woman of her word because in verse 22 it says,

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then the woman, notice this, went unto all the people in her wisdom.

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It wasn't just her, folks.

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The world is watching.

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Makes me think of the woman at the well.

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The woman at the well, Jesus approaches,

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tells her some harsh things, you know not what you worship.

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You have no idea what you're worshiping.

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I feel like I've said that to people so many before.

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I'm like, you have no idea what you believe.

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But it's easy to get saved.

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And then the woman at the well does what?

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She's like, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

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And then she goes and spreads the matter abroad.

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She's like a day one soul winner.

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The woman at the well, if you remember the story in John chapter 5,

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it's like this lady's the same.

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She like hears how the mess is going to get cleaned up from Joab.

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And then it says that the woman went, in verse 22, the woman went unto all the people in

01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:52.960
her wisdom.

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She's smart about this.

01:26:54.080 --> 01:26:55.080
She's going to handle it.

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And it says, and they cut off the head of Sheba, the son of Bichri, and cast it out

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to Joab.

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And notice that this is so funny.

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What did Sheba do in verse 1?

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He blew a trumpet.

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He's like, hey, nothing to see here.

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Go to your tents.

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Careful.

01:27:10.280 --> 01:27:10.300
you

01:27:10.700 --> 01:27:13.040
careful what you do against the man of God.

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Because God has a way of UNO reversing that.

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Because look, his head gets cut off,

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the latter part of verse 22, it says,

01:27:20.100 --> 01:27:21.600
and they cast it out to Joab,

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and he blew a trumpet,

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and they retired from the city,

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every man to his tent.

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And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

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Hey, Sheba, you got what you wanted!

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Everyone's going home.

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Nothing to see here, because you got destroyed.

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You know, the Bible says, who so dig at the pit shall fall therein.

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And you roll a stone, it's going to roll back on you.

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And Sheba wants to get up, fake his little authority trumpet,

01:27:46.100 --> 01:27:48.180
and tell everyone, go home.

01:27:48.180 --> 01:27:50.780
OK, we're going to get the trumpet, and we're going to go home.

01:27:50.780 --> 01:27:54.540
After you die, after you're destroyed, you know?

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Amazing I have a family member. I'm not gonna get into the story, but that's funny

01:27:59.100 --> 01:28:03.340
That made me think of something I had a family member that was in my grandpa was in the military

01:28:04.180 --> 01:28:06.580
And they would give him a hard time about stuff. He was not very

01:28:07.980 --> 01:28:13.980
He was not very obedient. I'm not defending this and they put him in like therapy or something

01:28:15.500 --> 01:28:19.500
And the therapist kept asking him every week, Mr. Hall, are you a suicidal?

01:28:19.500 --> 01:28:20.740
Are you going to kill yourself?

01:28:20.740 --> 01:28:21.940
Are you going to kill yourself?

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And I don't know why the story just made me think of this.

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At one point, he told me, he told the guy, he's like, actually, yes, I am

01:28:26.500 --> 01:28:28.060
thinking about killing myself.

01:28:28.060 --> 01:28:30.300
So the therapist is like, oh, wow, what's going on?

01:28:30.300 --> 01:28:33.900
And my papaw was like, I think I'm going to kill myself right after I kill you.

01:28:34.400 --> 01:28:37.400
Now, this was a long time ago in the military.

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All they did was make him not do therapy anymore.

01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:40.400
But it's just funny.

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I don't know what made me think of that.

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There's your old IFB story for the day, I guess.

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It's just funny that it's like, hey, Sheba,

01:28:45.400 --> 01:28:46.500
you're going to get what you want.

01:28:46.500 --> 01:28:47.600
You're going to get the trumpets blown.

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You're going to get everybody back to their tent.

01:28:49.200 --> 01:28:50.800
The authority is going to sound.

01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:52.500
The danger is going to be done.

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And you are going to have no part.

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Actually, you're going to be in two parts the head and the rest of you and you have not neither of those parts have inheritance

01:29:00.340 --> 01:29:03.340
And you're dead and now everyone does get to go home and relax

01:29:03.340 --> 01:29:07.100
Why because we cleaned up the mess turn if you would have Proverbs chapter 26

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That's the last place will go this morning Proverbs chapter number 26 again. What's the sermon this morning beware of Shiba?

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Look, we need to watch out for these people.

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Watch out for reprobates.

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I'm not convincing anyone of that here, obviously, but you need to watch out for people who are

01:29:22.440 --> 01:29:24.840
like, they're opportunistic.

01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:29.480
They're just waiting for this moment to draw disciples away after themselves, whether it

01:29:29.480 --> 01:29:35.120
be for filthy lucre or whether it's because they want a big following or who knows why

01:29:35.120 --> 01:29:36.480
the reason is.

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They don't really have genuine beliefs.

01:29:38.360 --> 01:29:40.680
You don't really know what these people actually believe.

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Because they don't really say it, they kind of fake as if there's some authority.

01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:46.640
Why?

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They're destroying the work of the ministry.

01:29:49.640 --> 01:29:50.640
They're a danger.

01:29:50.640 --> 01:29:51.960
They're a danger to people.

01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:54.600
They're a danger to good people.

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Proverbs 26 verse 23 says this, burning lips and a wicked heart are like a posture covered

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with silver dross.

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that hateth.

01:30:02.500 --> 01:30:05.980
dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him.

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When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart,

01:30:09.820 --> 01:30:11.980
whose hatred is covered by deceit.

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His wickedness shall be shown before the whole congregation.

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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon

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him."

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Look, here's the good news.

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Wherever we are in a Sheba situation, and again, if you've been around for a while,

01:30:28.620 --> 01:30:29.120
We've seen it.

01:30:29.400 --> 01:30:31.680
I've seen it, we've seen it multiple times.

01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:35.860
No matter where you are, just realize this, Sheba has an appointed end, and it's usually

01:30:35.860 --> 01:30:39.320
whatever they're trying to leverage against other people ends up getting leveraged against

01:30:39.320 --> 01:30:40.420
them.

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That trumpet and the, you know, every man goes to his tents, well, God just one-upped

01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:49.740
you with the beheading and the trumpet and everyone to his tents.

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Because look, fear not he which can destroy your body on earth, but he which can destroy

01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:55.720
both body and soul in hell.

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Fear God.

01:30:56.900 --> 01:31:00.740
Now let's make some application. I already did some some references to this. Why does this matter

01:31:01.620 --> 01:31:08.820
nowadays? Why does this matter in August of 2026? Because we have people that again,

01:31:08.820 --> 01:31:12.660
I am not saying any of these people are reprobate, but here's what I am saying.

01:31:12.660 --> 01:31:17.940
Every other point on the Beware of Sheba checklist that I have, these people have checked the box.

01:31:18.400 --> 01:31:22.240
The only one that I can't check for all of these people that I'm about to mention

01:31:22.240 --> 01:31:25.280
is if they're reprobate or not because I can't see their heart and neither can you.

01:31:26.480 --> 01:31:32.240
So let's just assume that they're all saved. That would be safe, right? And you're still like Sheba.

01:31:32.240 --> 01:31:34.720
How about Paul Wittenberger? Sheba.

01:31:35.000 --> 01:31:38.360
the son of Bichri. How about Paul? Okay, well how is he like Sheba?

01:31:38.360 --> 01:31:44.360
Okay, he's an opportunist. He's opportunistic because he aligns himself with Pastor Anderson

01:31:44.360 --> 01:31:48.760
to make all these documentaries when it's good for him and he can make a bunch of money

01:31:48.760 --> 01:31:56.920
as a living and then leaves for whatever reason. I'm not even going to suppose because I don't

01:31:56.920 --> 01:31:59.320
know for a fact why he left, so I'll just leave it.

01:31:59.900 --> 01:32:06.500
Because again, we don't have to have evil surmising and rail, which rail is lying false accusations folks.

01:32:06.500 --> 01:32:10.500
It's not being mean. It's lying false accusations.

01:32:10.500 --> 01:32:14.900
We don't have to rail. We don't have to make up reasons why people are some type of way.

01:32:14.900 --> 01:32:18.400
You could just say, hey the Lord rebuke you. These are the facts.

01:32:18.400 --> 01:32:22.600
Okay, Paul's opportunistic. He inserts himself into other men's matters.

01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:25.300
Here's where he doesn't live. Phoenix, Arizona.

01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:27.800
Here's the church that he doesn't attend.

01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.080
Faithful word, Baptist Church.

01:32:30.080 --> 01:32:30.960
And what's he doing?

01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:34.920
Oh, I've got to make a documentary on the man of God.

01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:37.240
And look, every other documentary,

01:32:37.240 --> 01:32:38.560
why is he doing a documentary?

01:32:38.560 --> 01:32:40.960
One, he's got history with documentaries.

01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:42.800
But I mean, just by show of hands,

01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:46.200
how many people have watched an interesting YouTube documentary

01:32:46.200 --> 01:32:46.840
before?

01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:48.720
Whether that be one of the old marching

01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:50.800
desions or some crime one.

01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:52.880
Aren't they generally always true?

01:32:53.300 --> 01:32:57.720
I mean, usually you're watching some Ted Bundy documentary or something.

01:32:57.720 --> 01:32:58.720
It's true.

01:32:58.720 --> 01:32:59.720
They're like facts.

01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:01.320
They're opposed to those you're watching because they're interesting.

01:33:01.320 --> 01:33:02.320
What's Paul doing?

01:33:02.320 --> 01:33:07.560
He's counterfeiting factual authority by going on YouTube and all these other platforms with

01:33:07.560 --> 01:33:12.240
his Man of God documentary, trying to pass off that it's a fact that Pastor Anderson

01:33:12.240 --> 01:33:14.040
is abusive when there's zero evidence.

01:33:14.040 --> 01:33:16.640
And you're like, well, there's zero evidence.

01:33:16.640 --> 01:33:17.140
What's the problem?

01:33:17.500 --> 01:33:22.900
No, no, he's a danger because Shiva was a danger and he led good people away.

01:33:22.900 --> 01:33:24.420
And there are good people that have been led away.

01:33:24.420 --> 01:33:27.140
And look, Paul himself might be a good person in the sense that he saved.

01:33:27.140 --> 01:33:28.140
I don't know.

01:33:28.140 --> 01:33:29.140
You don't know.

01:33:29.140 --> 01:33:30.240
None of us know.

01:33:30.240 --> 01:33:31.740
But look, he's a danger.

01:33:31.740 --> 01:33:34.380
And let me help you out.

01:33:34.380 --> 01:33:36.300
What if they hadn't seen the end of Shiva?

01:33:36.300 --> 01:33:37.300
Was Shiva just not ever?

01:33:37.300 --> 01:33:38.300
No, he hadn't appointed in.

01:33:38.300 --> 01:33:38.940
He was going to die.

01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:41.440
It was going to get handled.

01:33:41.440 --> 01:33:43.040
But in the moment, they may have thought like,

01:33:43.040 --> 01:33:44.240
ah, what's going on with Shiva?

01:33:44.240 --> 01:33:45.920
He's just like kind of going.

01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:47.480
No one's really stopping this guy.

01:33:47.480 --> 01:33:48.360
Let me help you out.

01:33:48.360 --> 01:33:52.280
Paul Widenberger's end is destruction.

01:33:52.280 --> 01:33:54.560
Whether that's a loss of finances,

01:33:54.560 --> 01:33:56.400
I mean, bro feels like it's already done that,

01:33:56.400 --> 01:33:57.860
because every time I see him on YouTube,

01:33:57.860 --> 01:34:00.440
he's begging for money.

01:34:00.440 --> 01:34:02.680
Look, and it doesn't stop with Pastor Anderson.

01:34:02.680 --> 01:34:05.480
None of this is about me, but in one of his most recent videos,

01:34:05.480 --> 01:34:06.800
he has clips of me.

01:34:06.800 --> 01:34:07.400
I'm like.

01:34:07.900 --> 01:34:10.140
I am literally no one.

01:34:10.140 --> 01:34:12.940
I am a random layman in a church

01:34:12.940 --> 01:34:16.140
unassociated with Faithful Word Baptist Church.

01:34:16.140 --> 01:34:17.780
I show up and lead music.

01:34:17.780 --> 01:34:21.540
I preach when pastor's traveling or sick, maybe.

01:34:21.540 --> 01:34:23.020
Like, who am I?

01:34:23.020 --> 01:34:24.900
Oh yeah, because he's a danger.

01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:27.000
Because he's contrarian!

01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:29.000
Because he's opportunistic!

01:34:29.000 --> 01:34:32.000
Because he wants to destroy every church, including our church,

01:34:32.000 --> 01:34:35.000
not just Pastor Anderson, not just Faithful Word.

01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:37.000
He's attacking the ministry.

01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:39.000
I don't know if he's lost his mind.

01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:41.000
I don't know if he ever had a mind.

01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:42.600
I have no idea what's going on with him.

01:34:42.600 --> 01:34:45.800
But you know what? He's a Shiba and he's dangerous.

01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:47.960
How about Pastor Tommy McMurtry?

01:34:47.960 --> 01:34:51.080
And you know what? I'm going to call him Pastor Tommy McMurtry

01:34:51.080 --> 01:34:54.360
to respect the title and to respect the office of the bishop

01:34:54.360 --> 01:34:58.760
in the event that I'm just horrifically wrong on him for any of these things.

01:34:58.760 --> 01:35:01.800
But look, when I compare what he's doing,

01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:04.920
it's the same thing as Paul and it's the same thing as Shiba.

01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:06.520
He's opportunistic.

01:35:06.520 --> 01:35:10.200
He aligns himself with the new IFB to get in...

01:35:10.500 --> 01:35:16.100
To just draw disciples away after himself when you live in like a 1,000 population town

01:35:16.100 --> 01:35:17.100
or whatever it is.

01:35:17.100 --> 01:35:18.100
I mean good night.

01:35:18.100 --> 01:35:19.740
I could see why you want some followers.

01:35:19.740 --> 01:35:24.820
Why don't you just be humble and pastor a small church?

01:35:24.820 --> 01:35:27.220
He's inserting himself in other men's matters.

01:35:27.220 --> 01:35:31.580
The guy made a new IFB board game to make fun of the new IFB.

01:35:31.580 --> 01:35:33.780
I mean tell me you're mentally stable.

01:35:33.780 --> 01:35:36.500
Like dude, come on.

01:35:37.000 --> 01:35:41.480
Inserting into other men's matters, what does he have to do between beef?

01:35:41.480 --> 01:35:46.240
Let's just say, let's just pretend that the beef between Paul Wittenberger and Pastor

01:35:46.240 --> 01:35:51.680
Anderson was legitimate, which it's not.

01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:54.160
Why is Pastor McMurtry in it?

01:35:54.160 --> 01:35:55.160
What does he have to do?

01:35:55.160 --> 01:35:56.160
You're in Illinois!

01:35:56.160 --> 01:35:56.300
you

01:35:56.800 --> 01:36:06.600
What? Who? Who cares? And look! Oh, he's attacking Pastor Anderson. Okay, did you know before he ever attacked Pastor Anderson this hard, he was attacking Pastor Thompson and Pastor Shelley?

01:36:07.100 --> 01:36:09.980
So look, it's not like, oh, just one instance happened,

01:36:09.980 --> 01:36:12.220
and he's just, right now, he has, no, no, no.

01:36:12.220 --> 01:36:14.140
He's forward and contrary.

01:36:14.140 --> 01:36:15.980
And you know, the Bible says, against an elder

01:36:15.980 --> 01:36:18.520
received not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

01:36:18.520 --> 01:36:21.340
I guarantee you, I have two or three witnesses

01:36:21.340 --> 01:36:23.840
in every church that has seen this happen.

01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:24.820
This is witnessed.

01:36:24.820 --> 01:36:25.820
This is fact.

01:36:25.820 --> 01:36:27.940
I'm telling you, I don't have to bring the accusation.

01:36:27.940 --> 01:36:29.300
The video's on YouTube.

01:36:29.300 --> 01:36:30.700
The videos are on YouTube.

01:36:30.700 --> 01:36:31.660
Kool-Aid detox.

01:36:32.600 --> 01:36:34.600
Bro made a Kool-Aid Detox.

01:36:34.600 --> 01:36:36.600
First of all, it was Flavor-Aid, okay,

01:36:36.600 --> 01:36:38.100
that Jim Jones used or whatever.

01:36:38.100 --> 01:36:39.200
It wasn't Kool-Aid.

01:36:39.200 --> 01:36:40.200
Get your facts right.

01:36:40.200 --> 01:36:42.100
Second, why do you need to make,

01:36:42.100 --> 01:36:43.100
if you want to detox,

01:36:43.100 --> 01:36:44.200
do you really need to make like this

01:36:44.200 --> 01:36:46.700
Upteenth Part series of detox?

01:36:46.700 --> 01:36:48.800
Hey, I could think about some crazy person

01:36:48.800 --> 01:36:51.000
that made a multi-part series on something

01:36:51.000 --> 01:36:52.400
that they themselves were guilty of.

01:36:52.400 --> 01:36:54.700
It was called Bo Ballard's Pride Series.

01:36:54.700 --> 01:36:57.100
It's just like, wow, yeah, you could really speak on that.

01:36:57.500 --> 01:37:02.680
Okay, pastor and mercury opportunist inserting into other men's matters drawing people away

01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:06.040
Hey, what about sheba when sheba goes to the men of israel?

01:37:06.040 --> 01:37:09.820
They're like we have ten parts in david then she was like we have no part and everyone agrees

01:37:09.820 --> 01:37:14.760
How about pastor and mercury preaching whatever and then getting up and saying like oh, I just riling up the base

01:37:14.760 --> 01:37:16.340
I didn't really think that

01:37:16.340 --> 01:37:19.060
Okay, sheba then what do you believe?

01:37:19.700 --> 01:37:21.900
What do you mean you didn't believe that you were riling up the...

01:37:21.900 --> 01:37:25.420
Sheba, well I didn't really think we had no part in David, I'm just riling up the Israelites.

01:37:25.420 --> 01:37:27.740
Yeah, okay, that's a bad attribute.

01:37:27.740 --> 01:37:29.500
This is not a Christian attribute.

01:37:29.500 --> 01:37:33.540
Look, that quote, he said it, it's out there, he says that he flirts with...

01:37:33.540 --> 01:37:36.940
He says, I'm not... something along the lines, I'm paraphrasing this,

01:37:36.940 --> 01:37:41.180
Pastor Nerdy said, I'm not married to these other doctrines, but I do like to flirt around with them or something.

01:37:41.180 --> 01:37:43.700
I'm like, dude, that's a weird statement.

01:37:45.200 --> 01:37:46.800
Don't say that.

01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:48.880
Why are you flirting with other doctrines?

01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:50.840
I'm not flirting with the Bible.

01:37:50.840 --> 01:37:52.680
I believe the Bible.

01:37:52.680 --> 01:37:53.920
I'm married to my wife.

01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:55.360
I don't flirt with other women.

01:37:55.360 --> 01:37:58.240
I'm married to my wife.

01:37:58.240 --> 01:38:00.280
I'm saved by faith.

01:38:00.280 --> 01:38:04.640
I don't flirt with the Mormons or the Orthodox.

01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:06.120
And I'm not saying that he's done that.

01:38:06.120 --> 01:38:07.920
I don't have to flirt with other doctrine.

01:38:07.920 --> 01:38:09.760
I have the Word of God.

01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:11.080
What do you mean you flirt with other doctrines?

01:38:11.080 --> 01:38:12.280
You're weird, bro.

01:38:12.280 --> 01:38:13.040
That's weird.

01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:17.800
He's a danger and his end is destruction.

01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:20.800
How about Salvador Alvarez?

01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:22.600
Now he's already gone through all of it.

01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:25.440
I mean, he might just be teeing up for round two.

01:38:25.440 --> 01:38:26.720
He's an opportunist.

01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:29.320
By his own admission, moved to Oklahoma City

01:38:29.320 --> 01:38:32.040
because he thought he could help the mother.

01:38:32.040 --> 01:38:33.320
Somebody else knows.

01:38:33.320 --> 01:38:34.280
He said this to me.

01:38:34.280 --> 01:38:35.120
I might be misremembering.

01:38:35.120 --> 01:38:37.400
But he said, like, I moved here because it looked like you guys

01:38:37.400 --> 01:38:38.440
needed the most help.

01:38:38.440 --> 01:38:40.760
And I just thought that I could come in and help the most

01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:41.360
and blah, blah.

01:38:41.360 --> 01:38:42.080
Seems great.

01:38:42.080 --> 01:38:43.840
Sounds cool.

01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:45.920
All right, Shiva.

01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:47.900
Inserting himself into other men's matters.

01:38:49.100 --> 01:38:54.100
I'm not saying you can't move to a good church, but we now know what his heart was, don't

01:38:54.100 --> 01:38:55.100
we?

01:38:55.100 --> 01:38:56.460
It was the meal ticket.

01:38:56.460 --> 01:38:59.820
It was the ordination pathway.

01:38:59.820 --> 01:39:01.300
Drew people away after himself.

01:39:01.300 --> 01:39:04.820
Now nobody moved to Florida, but boy, when that whole thing happened, did we not lose

01:39:04.820 --> 01:39:06.620
families at this church?

01:39:06.620 --> 01:39:10.260
Yes, is the straight up answer.

01:39:10.260 --> 01:39:11.260
Do without what you will.

01:39:11.260 --> 01:39:14.340
He's a danger and his end was destruction.

01:39:14.340 --> 01:39:15.220
Where's Pure Words?

01:39:17.100 --> 01:39:23.160
Well, it was just him and pastor shelly. He just had some disagreements with okay, then why is he sending thousand dollar checks to kids?

01:39:23.160 --> 01:39:27.480
Cursing their parents. Oh, yeah, because it wasn't just pastor shelly

01:39:27.480 --> 01:39:33.260
He's inserting himself into other men's matters by sending thousand dollar checks with pure words money

01:39:34.160 --> 01:39:35.700
Because he's a danger

01:39:36.700 --> 01:39:38.420
This is why you need to read your Bible.

01:39:38.420 --> 01:39:40.540
Because you read 2 Samuel 20 and you're like,

01:39:40.540 --> 01:39:42.460
wow, I've seen this a few times.

01:39:42.460 --> 01:39:44.380
It's like that Leonardo DiCaprio was like, hey,

01:39:44.380 --> 01:39:45.260
I've seen this before.

01:39:45.260 --> 01:39:47.540
It's like, hey, I've seen this before.

01:39:47.540 --> 01:39:50.020
And look, you're going to see it again.

01:39:50.020 --> 01:39:52.500
It's going to happen again and again and again and again.

01:39:52.500 --> 01:39:54.420
But look, the only difference between Sheba

01:39:54.420 --> 01:39:56.740
and these people on my little checklist

01:39:56.740 --> 01:40:00.140
is that God verifiably told me Sheba is a reprobate.

01:40:00.140 --> 01:40:02.020
I'm not asserting that any of these people are.

01:40:02.600 --> 01:40:04.840
You might have that opinion, other people might have that opinion.

01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:06.440
I'm not asserting that whatsoever.

01:40:06.440 --> 01:40:07.800
That is not what I'm here to say.

01:40:07.800 --> 01:40:11.880
What I am saying is that verifiably, factually, all the other checks,

01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:13.240
all the other boxes are checked.

01:40:13.240 --> 01:40:14.280
They check all the boxes.

01:40:16.360 --> 01:40:20.280
And look, even if all these people are saved, which I tend to believe,

01:40:20.280 --> 01:40:22.200
I'll just be honest with you, I tend to believe they are all saved.

01:40:22.760 --> 01:40:26.120
It's even scarier because it's like I'd expect...

01:40:26.900 --> 01:40:32.500
This from a reprobate. I expect a person filled with all unrighteousness, but you know what? Saul was saved.

01:40:33.140 --> 01:40:35.700
He was chosen by God, and he went down a dark path.

01:40:36.420 --> 01:40:41.060
You know what? We should have some nuance. We should help me so quick to throw out the reprobate flag on everybody.

01:40:41.300 --> 01:40:43.400
I'm not saying it's not possible. It obviously is.

01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:48.200
But look, if we were in the time of Saul, we'd probably think some choice things about Saul.

01:40:48.200 --> 01:40:52.700
But the Bible is clear that you don't level a railing accusation.

01:40:52.700 --> 01:40:56.300
It says, Michael the archangel disputed with the devil about the body of Moses.

01:40:56.300 --> 01:41:02.100
He durst not, uh, levy or whatever, bring a railing accusation unto him that said, the Lord rebuke you.

01:41:02.100 --> 01:41:04.000
So look, don't rail.

01:41:05.000 --> 01:41:07.200
Don't rail. It's never okay to rail.

01:41:07.200 --> 01:41:08.100
Here's what you do.

01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:10.100
You're kind of scaring me.

01:41:10.100 --> 01:41:12.600
All these other points match up, the Lord rebuke you.

01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:14.640
Paul Wittenberger, the Lord rebuke you.

01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:16.980
Pastor McMurtry, the Lord rebuke you.

01:41:16.980 --> 01:41:19.080
Salvador, the Lord did rebuke you.

01:41:19.080 --> 01:41:21.940
And look, if you go down that patty up for round two,

01:41:21.940 --> 01:41:23.980
we're gonna, we'll take it all the way.

01:41:23.980 --> 01:41:24.980
It's a shutout.

01:41:27.100 --> 01:41:28.100
Beware of Sheba.

01:41:28.100 --> 01:41:29.100
Let's end with a word of prayer.

01:41:29.100 --> 01:41:31.860
Heavenly Father, we thank You for this day and for the opportunity to gather together.

01:41:31.860 --> 01:41:36.220
I pray that we would just be wise, that we would understand Your will when it comes to

01:41:36.220 --> 01:41:40.220
being vigilant, but that we would also have a heart for the lost and that we would not

01:41:40.220 --> 01:41:46.820
be so quick on a hair trigger to condemn someone without absolute proof, to condemn someone

01:41:46.820 --> 01:41:52.280
to hastily, but that we would be balanced Christians that are wise as serpents and yet

01:41:52.280 --> 01:41:54.220
harmless as doves as You command.

01:41:54.220 --> 01:41:55.100
These things we pray.

01:41:55.100 --> 01:41:56.100
In Jesus' name, Amen.

01:41:56.100 --> 01:42:05.700
At this time, we'll go to our last song for the morning, number 65, just over in the glory

01:42:05.700 --> 01:42:06.140
land.

01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:15.400
Ham number 6565 just over in the glory land.

01:42:20.200 --> 01:42:21.040
Ahem.

01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:27.100
Humming.

01:42:27.100 --> 01:42:29.140
Sing it out and help my voice, because I might lose it

01:42:29.140 --> 01:42:30.060
by the end of tonight.

01:42:30.060 --> 01:42:33.900
65, just over in the glory land there on the 1st.

01:42:33.900 --> 01:42:39.060
I the home prepared where the saints abide,

01:42:39.060 --> 01:42:41.000
just go for men good.