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Hello everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Good to see you here this evening.

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Thank you for coming back.

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Let's all find our seats and open up your hymnals

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to page 274.

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We're gonna start out singing Come Unto Me,

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page 274 in your hymn books.

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Come unto me.

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H274, let's all sing it out together on that first.

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this evening. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this church and all that was gathered

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here this evening to worship you. Thank you for the salvations this afternoon, soul winning.

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We pray Lord that you would fill Brother Ben this evening with your Holy Spirit, help him

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to preach boldly and powerfully through your spirit unto us, help to edify us through your

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word this evening, and please bless the fellowship afterwards. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Our second song will be page 58.

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He the pearly gates will open.

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Page number 58, he the pearly gates will open.

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Thanks for watching!

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page number 58. Let's all sing it out together on that verse.

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We

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Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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If you need a bulletin, raise your hand nice and high,

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and we'll have one of the ushers come around

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and get that to you.

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On the front is our verse for the week.

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I encourage you guys to keep up the hard work there in memorization.

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We have our service times, our sowning times.

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Just a quick reminder, if you had salvations to report this afternoon, make sure you get

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those submitted to our group chat.

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On the right-hand side, we do have our expecting ladies, our list of expecting ladies to be

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in prayer for.

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In the month of August, we are doing a promotion for Ice Cream Sundays.

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You'll receive a $10 Ice Cream gift card if you can make it to every service in the month of August.

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There is a sheet out there to indicate each service, so just make a little check mark there.

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And I encourage you to do that. I'm going to be condensing that down, probably on Wednesday.

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And so I'll give you some grace if you're not able to remember to do it tonight or today, or if you missed a day.

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Just make sure that you do that on Wednesday.

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It did get kind of wet, so I get it.

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If you're not able to mark on it,

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I'm gonna get a better copy for us on Wednesday.

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So you can wait till then if you wouldn't like

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to do that for today's services.

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some upcoming events to look forward to.

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We have the last teen summer event of the year

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on this Saturday, August 15th,

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and there's a sign-up sheet in the four-year as well.

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Make sure you get signed up for that if you haven't already.

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The Mexico City Missions Trip, August 17th through the 21st,

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there's a QR code on the back.

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If you would like to register online for that,

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that will help Brother Diego out greatly.

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Also, we have the Mesquite Texas soul winning marathon August 22nd right around the corner. I am planning

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You know to have a meeting location at a park so we'll have breakfast there

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Do some soul winning and then we'll have some lunch in the Mesquite area and then again so winning in the afternoon

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So if you are anticipating being there for that, there is a sign-up sheet on the table as well

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Please sign up or you can scan the QR code on the back. That'll definitely help us out with planning for

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that. The Barbados missions trip September 7th through the 12th is right

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around the corner as well. Definitely looking forward to this trip. It's gonna

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be a lot of fun. If you haven't already please send in your itinerary to the

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to our email address so we can get you down on the list. We're expecting a

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really good turnout for that so make sure that you get that submitted to us.

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September 20th pastor Stuckey is gonna be in town preaching for us and it'll be

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a just a big day.

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where we're going to be celebrating him and his work and we're going to be doing it with

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barbecues so definitely want to be in your place for that. October 9th through the 11th is the

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Heritage of the Lord conference which is a conference kind of dedicated for the youth here

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and our church and anybody if you have any family members friends anybody that you know that would

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benefit or just want to encourage them to attend we would love to have them as our guest for that.

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And then November 12th through the 14th is a preaching boot camp.

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If you would like to fine tune your preaching skills, that's going to be hosted by Faithful Word Baptist Church.

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But Pastor Shelley is going to be there for that as well. He'll be teaching some classes along with Pastor Anderson.

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And they'll be going through basically some different workshop type scenarios.

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So if you're a man that would like to participate in that, you can see us.

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You can email the church for your interest. You want some more details.

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Talk to me after the service. I can get that to you and then February 12 through the 20th is the Philippines missions trip as well

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So definitely want to put that on your calendar

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That's really all the announcements for this evening great to see everyone back

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We'll go to our next song in your special song binder thou shalt be saved brother Brandon's gonna lead us

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Thou shalt be saved. It's page 37 in your special binder.

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Page 37, Thou shalt be saved.

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See you now on the first.

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Oh, lost sinner in this world.

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Oh, oh.

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plates will be passed around.

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You can turn your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 19.

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That's Leviticus chapter 19.

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Leviticus chapter number 19, the Bible says,

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and the Lord spake unto Moses saying,

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speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel

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and say unto them, ye shall be holy,

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for I the Lord your God am holy.

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Ye shall fear every man, his mother and his father

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and keep my Sabbaths, I am the Lord your God.

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Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods,

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I am the Lord your God.

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And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will.

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It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow. And if it remain until the third day,

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it shall be burnt in the fire. And if it be eaten at all on the third day,

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it is abominable. It shall not be accepted.

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Therefore, everyone that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the

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hallowed thing of the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of

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thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest, and thou shalt not glean thy

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vineyard.

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Neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard.

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Thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.

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I am the Lord your God.

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Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

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And ye shall not swear by my name falsely.

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Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God.

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I am the Lord.

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Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him.

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The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind,

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but shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment.

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Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty,

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but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people,

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neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor.

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I am the Lord.

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Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart.

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Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor and not suffer sin upon him.

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Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people,

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but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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I am the Lord.

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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.

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Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed. Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and

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woolen come upon thee. And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid,

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betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, she shall be scourged.

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They shall not be put to death because she was not free.

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and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord,

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unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

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even a ram for a trespass offering.

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And the priest shall make an atonement for him

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with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord

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for his sin which he hath done,

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and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

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And when ye shall come into the land

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and shall have planted all manner of trees for food,

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Then you shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised.

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Three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you.

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It shall not be eaten of.

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But in the fourth year, all the fruit thereof shall be holy

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to praise the Lord withal.

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And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof,

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that it may yield unto you the increase thereof.

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I am the Lord your God.

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You shall not eat anything with the blood.

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Neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

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Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print marks, print any marks upon you.

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I am the Lord.

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Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore,

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lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness.

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Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

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Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them.

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I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man,

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and fear thy God. I am the Lord.

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And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

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But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you.

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And thou shalt love him as thyself. For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God."

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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meat yard, in weight, or in measure.

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Just balances, just weights, a just ifah, and a just hen shall ye have.

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I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes and all my judgments and do them.

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I am the Lord. Let us pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. I want to thank you for our salvation.

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Thank you for the Bible.

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And I want to thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church. Thank you for our pastor.

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I pray that you would give him safety as he travels home.

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And please fill Brother Ben Naim with your Holy Spirit to preach the Word boldly to us.

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Help us to be attentive to it and to hear the message that you've laid on his heart.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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I want to thank Pastor Shelley for the invitation to preach.

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We're in Leviticus 19.

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Let's look down at verse 19.

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The Bible reads,

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Ye shall keep my statutes.

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Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender,

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that's talking about breeding,

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with a diverse kind.

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Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed.

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Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen

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Thank you.

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come upon these. So we have a component here of the holiness code.

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And in the Old Testament

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you've got different sets of laws. You have the moral law, you have ceremonial laws,

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you have feast days,

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etc. And when it comes to these ceremonial laws...

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You know, the New Testament makes it clear that they have been done away with in Christ,

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but that doesn't mean that there aren't spiritual applications and truths that we can extract

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from a passage like this.

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And in this section, it says, you shall keep my statutes.

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And then it lists a bunch of improper mixtures.

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So things that shouldn't be combined together, they should remain separate.

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It lists several different items here.

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and statutes where God is saying,

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do not mix these things together.

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What do we see?

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Well, first of all, it says, you shall keep my statutes.

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It's gonna go into statutes on improper mixing.

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And then it says, you know,

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no breeding different kinds of animals.

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So again, gender is referring to breeding.

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And it's saying, you know, you have one kind of animal,

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it shouldn't be breeding with another kind of animal.

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This can produce like a weird sterile hybrid of some kind,

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so you don't want that to happen.

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It talks about no mingled seed.

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You don't want to sow your field with mingled seed.

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and

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Then it talks about no woolen and linen being mixed together as well in a garment.

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Now when the Bible uses the term mingling, it's talking about mixing, combining, blending.

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And look, in some instances, God is saying you have two mutually exclusive options.

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You have to pick one. You can't combine the two. It's one or the other.

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binary options here.

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Why?

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Because you may have two options that are incompatible with each other, and so you can't

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have both.

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Let's look at Deuteronomy 22, and we'll get another angle of this passage right here.

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Because in Deuteronomy, it restates the holiness code with a little bit different wording,

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but it's still a warning against mixture, and it's warning against mixing things.

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Thank you.

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Like I said, there's spiritual application.

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I'm not going to be up here for the next hour giving a dissertation on farming and livestock.

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I would imagine that if I did that there would probably be a lot of sleeping heads.

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I don't know how it would make that very exciting.

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But there's going to be some spiritual application.

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But first we have to understand what God's saying practically.

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Because the practical truth can help us to extract spiritual truths.

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and

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Again, certain mixtures are forbidden.

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Now, not every mixture.

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It's not like all mixing is wrong,

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but there are some cases where it is wrong.

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And in Deuteronomy 22, we get an example of that.

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Now, verse 5 talks about not cross-dressing.

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I just wanted to make that point.

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If you're a man, you wear man's clothing.

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And if you're a woman, you wear woman's clothing.

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How about that for not mixing?

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Our society needs to get that through its thick skull.

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That men should dress like men and women should dress like women.

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This shouldn't be a controversial point.

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And yet it is in 2026 because our society has lost its mind.

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I'm going to calm down now and let's read verse number 9.

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So look what it says in verse number 9.

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The Bible reads in Deuteronomy 22 and verse 9.

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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds,

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lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown

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and the fruit of thy vineyard, notice, be defiled.

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So you don't wanna have a mixture,

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an improper mixture of seeds,

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because the result will be a defiled product.

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It says in verse 10, thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

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And so this is distinct here.

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Whereas before it was in Leviticus, it was talking about,

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you don't want to cross breed animals.

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Here it's saying you don't want the ox and the ass to be plowing together and ass of course in

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reference to a donkey. Verse 11, thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of

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woolen and linen together. So no diverse seeds.

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Lest the fruit be defiled, you have no plowing of the ox and the ass together,

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and then you don't want woolen and linen to be mixed as well.

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And the title of my sermon is, These Things Cannot Be Mixed.

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These things cannot be mixed.

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I'm going to talk about mutually exclusive options here,

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where you cannot combine the two.

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You see, there's a tendency for Christians to think that they could have the best of both worlds.

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That they could take A and they can combine it with B and be right with God.

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But that's not how it works in certain situations.

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And I'm going to talk about exactly what those are here in just a minute.

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But let's go back to Leviticus 19.

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Again, these things cannot be mixed.

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I'm talking about mutually exclusive options.

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It's either one or the other.

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It can't be both.

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And Jesus says this multiple times.

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How about in the book of Revelation,

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when he rebukes the church at Laodicea,

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and he says,

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Hey, I would that you were either cold or hot.

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but you're lukewarm.

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It's like pick a side.

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You can't have both.

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Which one do you want to be?

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Do you want to be zealous and hot for the things of God

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and on fire for the things of God?

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Or do you want to be lukewarm?

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Do you want to be on autopilot spiritually

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and not accomplishing much

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and kind of just going through the motions?

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And we as Christians should strive to be hot.

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We should strive to be zealous.

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It shouldn't be said of us that we're Laodicean Christians.

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I know that the old IFB likes to pretend

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that we're in the Laodicean Church age,

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but I would say to them, speak for yourself.

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I don't see any Laodicean church age in front of me right now on a Sunday night.

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I see people who are zealous for the things of God as it should be. All of us can improve though.

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We all have a lot of work to do. We shouldn't be satisfied with where we're at in terms of our zeal

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and so we should take passages like that as an admonition for us. In Mark 2, I had you turn back

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to Leviticus 19, Jesus said this though, I'll quote it for you, no man also soweth a piece of new cloth.

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on an old garment.

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else the new piece that filled it up take it away from the old and the rent is made worse and no man put a new wine into old bottles

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else the new wine doth burst the bottles and the wine is spilled and the bottles will be marred

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but new wine must be put into new bottles so again Jesus he did preach certain things cannot be

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mixed in this parable and he talks about you don't want to put a new cloth in an old garment he says

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You don't want to put new one.

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into old bottles.

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These things should remain separate from each other.

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They shouldn't be mixed.

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You can't mix these things.

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And, you know, it kind of reminds me of these bozos

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who want to combine the Old Testament law

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that has been done away with and the New Testament.

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And they basically want to just destroy the distinction between these two

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and sort of improperly combine them together

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and make the claim that you have to follow old covenant law that has been done away and fulfilled in Christ.

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Things like the meats and the drinks, the diverse washings, the carnal ordinances.

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And some of them will go even so far as to claim that the name of Jesus...

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is wrong and that it should be Yeshua.

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I had somebody preach this to me.

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I got in an Uber in California and I was thinking to myself,

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you know what, how cool would it be to get the Uber driver saved?

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But unfortunately for me that didn't happen.

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Instead, that guy wanted to preach to me and he wanted to preach about blending

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the old and new covenant together and this Yeshua trash.

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Now the Bible says no man by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.

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I find it personally offensive for somebody to tell me that Jesus' name shouldn't be Jesus.

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It's personally offensive.

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Look, there's tons of jokes that you could make and I'm going to laugh along right with you,

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but you don't mess with the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and expect me to be okay with it.

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And in fact, as I'm sitting in the car, sometimes you have intrusive thoughts and...

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I kind of looked at the door handle,

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and I thought to myself, you know, I could open it.

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And get out, right?

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But needless to say, I didn't jump out of the car.

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I stayed in, and I did argue with the guy.

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But regardless, we could all move on from that story.

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The point is, there's people out there

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who preach this trash, and it deserves to be rebuked.

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They're called Judaizers, folks.

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Thank you.

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These are the Judaizers today and they don't understand this concept that you can't mix that which is not supposed to be mixed, which God said not to.

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The reality is there are elements of the old covenant that have been done away with and so we don't have to follow them.

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The Bible says, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse washings and carnal ordinances,

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which were imposed on them until the time of Reformation, Calvary.

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And so there's been a change of the law.

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And the thing is, a good way to help you understand this would be like, let's say you have...

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you know, you're working and you have a boss who leaves,

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and now you have a new boss come in.

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Well, here's the thing, the new boss isn't going to necessarily restate everything

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that the old boss had in place, in terms of rules and statutes and hours and things like that,

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but you could expect them to tell you what did change.

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And when it comes to the Old Covenant and New Covenant,

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the New Testament tells us what changed.

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Where it's silent, we can conclude that it must be the same.

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So let's look at Leviticus 19 and verse 19 here.

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Again, it says, Ye shall keep my statutes, thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse

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kind, thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shall a garment mingled of linen

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and woolen come upon thee.

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And look, there's carnal reasons for this.

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If you have mingled seed, the product is going to compete for sunlight.

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It'll compete for, you know, soil and nutrients and things of that nature.

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And it'll just not work.

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You could have a messy harvest, disunity.

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It might not even grow.

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The ox and the ass, if they're plowing together, they have different strengths.

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And so the ass will be left behind or killed.

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If you crossbreed, you could have a weird hybrid that's sterile.

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And woolen and linen creates a garment that is cheap and of a very low quality and easily rips.

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Now let's look at Romans 11 and we'll get into some spiritual application, Romans chapter 11.

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So the first thing that the Bible tells us is,

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neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee.

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Linen is plant-based.

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And this represents works.

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Whereas woolen is what you would find on a sheep,

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this represents the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We are all sheep spiritually and we have His imputed righteousness on us.

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And the first point is this, you can't mix faith and works for salvation.

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You can't mix faith and works for salvation.

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And I realize I'm talking to a saved audience here,

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but for us, we need to make sure that we emphasize this

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when we get other people saved.

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Because we don't want them to be confused.

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We don't want them to think that they can just add Jesus

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to whatever false religion they currently believe.

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But rather, they have to actually change their mind.

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Now in Romans 11, the Bible makes this clear when it says in verse 5,

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even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace,

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and if by grace, then is it no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace.

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But if it be of works, then is it no more grace, otherwise work is no more work.

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So notice salvation can only be faith or works.

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They cannot be blended together.

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They cannot be mixed together.

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These are mutually exclusive options.

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You have to pick the finished work

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of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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His blood shed for us at Calvary,

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or your works, not both of them.

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And Romans 11 makes that crystal clear

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that when you mix these two concepts together,

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it is insufficient to save.

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Just as sure as that garment of woolen and linen is what I would describe in the Bible describes it, strange apparel.

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I think that, you know, the Bible makes reference to this in Zephaniah chapter 1 when it talks about people receiving the judgment of God who have on strange apparel.

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And it is, it is strange apparel. Those who are walking around with woolen and linen, it's easily damaged, easily torn.

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That's not the imputed righteousness of Christ.

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Let's look at Galatians 5 together. Galatians 5.

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chapter five.

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Meanwhile, I'll read to you.

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this verse where it says,

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knowing that a man is not justified

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by the works of the law,

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but by the faith of Jesus Christ.

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Even we have believed in Jesus Christ

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that we might be justified by the faith of Christ

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and not by the works of the law,

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for by the works of the law

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shall no flesh be justified.

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I don't know how many times

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the Bible has to tell you this.

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It's just over and over and over again

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that the scripture says,

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faith not works. You cannot combine the two. That's strange apparel. That's woolen and linen together.

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Mixing that which cannot be mixed. Let's look at Galatians 5 and verse 4.

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The Bible says, Christ has become of no effect unto you. Whosoever of you are justified by the

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law, ye are fallen from grace. Those who are trusting in the law.

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trusting in their ability to be good.

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The Bible says they are fallen from grace.

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Now you have to understand that,

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see the Bible says,

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the grace of God which bringeth salvation

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hath appeared to all men.

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Now those who've rejected that grace,

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they've rejected the gospel in God.

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They've fallen from grace because they're not trusting in that to be saved.

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Now some people will twist this and take it out of context

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to teach that you could lose your salvation

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when in fact the passage is actually talking about them.

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It's talking about them and yet they want to use it to attack us

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when in reality it condemns them because they're trusting in the law.

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And they've fallen from grace and they're the false prophet.

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Let's look at Romans 6, Romans chapter 6.

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So there has to be a total and complete trust in Jesus alone.

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We need to make sure we emphasize that out-soul-warning

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so that people are not confused.

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Because if there isn't, then Jesus will say to them,

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as he does in Matthew chapter 7,

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I never knew you, because they're trusting in their works.

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They talk about how have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works.

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And Jesus says I never knew you.

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Now Romans 6, I believe it talks about this as well in verse 3.

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It says Romans 6 and verse 3.

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Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

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How is someone baptized into Jesus?

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Well, you have to understand that baptism is a full immersion.

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So for me to be baptized into Jesus...

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You know, there's a figurative sense in which that can take place,

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which is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and fully being immersed in Jesus,

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rather than 50% Jesus, 50% myself.

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There has to be a full immersion. It's not faith and works.

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You're fully immersed in Christ alone to get you to heaven.

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Now, what is this called?

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This is called repentance.

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And let me tell you something. We believe in repentance here.

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The church that you're sitting in right now believes repentance.

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You say, why are you mad?

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Because people keep saying the opposite.

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And you know what?

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It pisses me off.

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Because it's a lie.

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And I hate lies.

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And I hate false accusations.

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And yet we're constantly plastered with this lie that we don't believe in repentance when

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we do believe in it.

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We preach it every single time we go sowning.

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Every single time we get someone saved, we preach repentance.

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But someone said we don't believe repentance.

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I'm going to tell you who it is, and I'm going to use the name

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because I don't care.

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He deserves his name to be shouted out.

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Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church and Apologia Radio is a slanderer.

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I'll get to that.

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Don't spoil it. All right. All right. Let's keep going here. So he says this look listen to this quote, okay

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He says he does talk it about so let me explain the context here he's talking about pastor Anderson

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Now what he says about pastor Anderson believe it or not is wrong and

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He's attacking all of us because we believe the exact same thing and every saved person in the world believes the exact same thing

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This is what he says

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he does preach a false gospel without question.

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Now I'm gonna stop right there and say,

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if you think Pastor Anderson preaches a false gospel,

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you're not saved.

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and he's a false teacher.

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He denigrates the gospel of the apostles

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and essentially mocks the idea of calling people to repent and believe

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no we don't

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to turn from sin to trusting in Christ.

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All of that. Direct quote right here.

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You can't say that I'm, you know, misrepresenting the guy.

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He says he does not.

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He denigrates that idea of repentance and faith,

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so he is a false teacher.

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He does preach a false gospel.

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So he's accusing us of not believing

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in repentance and faith.

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He's saying that we preach a false gospel.

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And again, we.

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Why?

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Because we believe the exact same thing.

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So he's accusing us too.

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Now this is utterly preposterous.

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We don't deny repentance.

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But you know what?

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If you believe repentance is a turning from sin,

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yeah, we deny your false repentance.

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But we believe in true...

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Here's the thing.

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We believe in the right definition.

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True repentance in the context of salvation.

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Because we define repentance correctly,

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that doesn't mean that we reject it wholesale.

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We reject your false-mard version of it, Jeff Durbin.

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He says repentance is a turning from sin.

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The problem is God repents in the Bible more times than man. Did God sin?

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Of course not. The word repent is a neutral word. It just means to turn or change. So

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you can have it even used

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in the context of something positive.

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Like in the book of Jeremiah, it literally says that God may repent of the good blessings

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if the people continue down their wicked ways.

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And then obviously God does in some instances repent of the evil that he said he would do unto the people

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if they decide to change their ways as well.

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They don't get destroyed physically as a result of God's judgment.

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But the point is God repents in the Bible.

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The word is defined by its context.

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And in the context of salvation, it is a turning from unbelief to belief.

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And this is why when we get someone saved, we ask them, hey, did you change your mind

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about how to go to heaven?

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And if they say yes, you proceed to pray with them.

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But this guy, Jeff Berbin, he literally, or Durbin, whatever, he literally says that we

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We deny.

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repentance and of course this is a total lie but

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here's the thing he's pretending to not understand he's pretending to not

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understand

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because this individual is cunning he is a cunning

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person he knows better he knows what we believe

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he's misrepresenting on purpose and you know this is a guy thinks drinking is

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okay

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And you know what? He allegedly told his drill sergeant that he was a homo to get out of the military.

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Does this seem like a guy that we should get doctrine from?

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First of all, he doesn't even have salvation right.

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And second of all, he literally, allegedly, according to his own parents, told the drill instructor that he was a fag.

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So an unsaved sodomite, let's all rally around him, right?

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Does that make any sense whatsoever? Of course not if you have a working brain.

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But yet some people can't figure this out. This Jeff Bourbon is a false prophet bound for hell.

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He's a devil. He perverts the gospel of Christ. The Bible says let him be accursed.

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I want nothing to do with this fool.

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I want nothing to do with somebody preaching damnable heresy,

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falsely accusing us of denying repentance when all we do is actually define it correctly.

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Because we don't mix faith and works here in this church.

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The Bible is, you know, obvious.

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It obviously tells us it's clear that you can't mix these two concepts.

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Jeff Berbin does.

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And so, guess what?

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As a result, he's going to burn in hell when he dies.

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But you know, I'm not surprised that somebody like that would lie.

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False prophets, of course, have a proclivity to lie.

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But regardless, you know, turning from sin is works.

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You know, the Bible says in God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and.

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So he teaches a workspace gospel.

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The Bible also tells us the time is fulfilled

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and the kingdom of God is at hand.

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Repent ye and believe the gospel.

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Turn from whatever you were trusting in before

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and believe only in Jesus Christ to be saved.

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Let's go to 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1.

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You could look at Acts 19 for Acts 20 21 and it defines repentance for you.

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This is the milk of the word folks.

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But he pretends to not understand our position.

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You can't mix faith and works therefore you we need to make sure we emphasize that when we

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evangelize. But what else did we see in the holiness code? It said thou shalt not sow thy

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field with mingled seed.

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So God prohibits mingled seed and I already explained why practically, but let's look at a

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spiritual application of that in 1st Peter 1 and verse 23 where the Bible reads, being born again,

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not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, pay attention to this part, by the word of God,

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which liveth and abideth forever.

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So the incorruptible seed is the word of God.

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And remember in Leviticus it said,

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don't sow your field with mingled seed.

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As believers, we need to make sure that we're sowing

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not with mingled seed, but rather

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with the incorruptible seed of the word of God itself.

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Now what would be mingled seed?

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Well,

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A lot of churches are trying to sow with mingled seed,

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meaning that their congregations are filled with every Bible you could imagine.

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There's people with the KJV, there's people with the ESV,

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there's people with the NASB.

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And, you know, imagine just, like, trying to fulfill the Great Commission

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with a bunch of mingled seed where you're sowing different kinds of seeds everywhere.

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It's not going to work.

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Imagine trying to fulfill the Great Commission,

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where some people are going out with a King James,

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other people are going out with a new King James,

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other people are going out with an ESV,

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with an NIV, with these critical text Bibles.

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The product will be defiled fruit.

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Just as sure as the agricultural law told us,

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not to mingle these seeds,

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lest the vineyard ends up with a defiled product.

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And the thing is...

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you

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The Word of God can't be our final authority if we're using a whole bunch of different

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Bibles that say different things. And the modern versions are completely distinct from the King

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James Bible. And they produce false doctrine as a result. They produce false doctrine, which is

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defiled fruit.

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and churches shouldn't be blending these together.

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Let's look at Isaiah 30, Isaiah chapter 30.

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My next point is you can't mix modern Bibles with the King James.

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You cannot mix modern Bibles with the King James Bible.

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Isaiah 30, it says in verse number 8,

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a passage here that articulates the doctrine of preservation.

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Isaiah 30 and verse 8.

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Again, you cannot blend a whole bunch of Bibles together in one congregation and expect to

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be effective when you go out and sow seed that has been mixed together.

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You have to have the incorruptible seed, the Word of God, in order to be successful at

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the Great Commission.

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Look at Isaiah 30 and verse 8.

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The Bible says in Isaiah 30 and verse 8, now go write it before them in a table and note

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in a book that it may be for the time to come for

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forever and ever.

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How long does God's word last?

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Forever.

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It has been preserved throughout all ages.

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It lasts forever.

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This is the doctrine of preservation,

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and the modern versions are incompatible

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with the doctrine of preservation

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because they stem from corrupt manuscripts

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that were literally unearthed in the 1800s.

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So they were absent for all of that time.

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They weren't in use.

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They weren't being preserved.

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They weren't being passed down from generation to generation.

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And so we shouldn't be mingling our seeds with the NIV, the ESV, the NASB,

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and going out and sowing, because these things say different things.

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They teach different doctrines.

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They're opposed to the King James Bible that you have in your lap.

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Now, I want to prove this to you, because here's the thing.

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If the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God, we can expect that the received text

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Bibles that came before it say essentially the same thing.

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And that's exactly the case.

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You could watch the Preserved Bible documentary for proof of that,

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where we go through and we show you the Tyndale and the Coverdale Bible and the Matthews Bible.

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Why? Because in the English language, God did preserve His Word.

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And yes, the English Bible did go through a refining process

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up until the King James Bible when it reached its completion point.

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And I think the same thing is true for the printed Greek New Testament,

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where it starts out with you have...

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the Erasmus Greek New Testament, and you go through, you have Stephanus, you have Elsevier's

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edition of the Greek New Testament, which is where we get the term, textus receptus,

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you have Biza, and then you have, in 1894, the Scrivener.

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This, by the way, is essentially just a synthesis of the Greek that underlies the King James

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Bible.

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It was not back translated from the English.

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That's stupid.

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In reality, it just synthesizes Stephanus and Beza to give you the Greek that the translators used

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when they translated the King James Bible. And then of course you have the Daniel Bomberg Hebrew

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Old Testament as well. And that is the preserved word of God, the Hebrew, the Greek, and the

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lingua franca of our world, the English.

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And yes, it went through a refining process.

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And that's why these Bibles that come from the right source,

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the right textual stream, the received text of Scripture,

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say the same thing.

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Meanwhile, here are your modern versions.

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Matthew 17 verse 21, absent.

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They omit entire verses.

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They're just gone.

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So literally, if you have a modern version of the Bible

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and you open it up to Matthew 17, 21,

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you'll see nothing.

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You'll see an empty space there.

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Now, there's still a verse number.

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Why? I have no idea.

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It's still there, but there's no verse.

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And you know what? That's also true for Matthew 18 verse 11.

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That's also true for Matthew 23 verse 14. That's also true for Mark 7 verse 16.

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That's also true for Mark 9 verse 44. Mark 9 verse 46. Mark 11 verse 26. Mark 15 verse 28.

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Luke 17 verse 36. Luke 23 verse 17. John 5 verse 4. Acts 8 37. Acts 15 34. Acts 24 7.

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Acts 28, 29, Romans 16, 24.

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They're all gone.

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They're just deleted, gone, not there.

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But there's a problem because my Bible says,

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man shall not live by bread alone,

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but by every word of God.

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How am I supposed to do that if I'm literally reading

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in the Bible and there's just parts that are just gone,

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deleted, blank spaces?

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And not only that, the modern versions say the opposite of the King James in many places.

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And I'm going to demonstrate that for you now.

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That's why we can't sow with mingled seed. It'll create a different product.

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You'll get strange and new doctrines from the modern versions.

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You'll get defiled fruit from the modern versions.

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Go to Hebrews 6, Hebrews chapter 6. I'll prove this to you.

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The Bible says in 1st Timothy 3,

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and without controversy,

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great is the mystery of godliness,

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God was manifest in the flesh.

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So the Bible tells us God was manifest in the flesh.

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How did that happen?

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Of course, through the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God.

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So this is a great passage you could use

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to prove the deity of Christ.

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Now here's the NLT.

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It says, without question, this is the great mystery of our faith.

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Christ was revealed in a human body.

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So it's not that God was manifest in the flesh according to the NLT,

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the New Living Translation, even though it's not living.

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It's a new load of trash, if you ask me.

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It says Christ, you know, came in a human body, revealed in a human body.

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Now, Hebrews 6.

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We're just talking about repentance. Notice in verse 1.

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Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,

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let us go on into perfection, not laying again the foundation of

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repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.

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So what is this talking about? It's saying that the foundation

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of our faith is what?

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One of the components is repentance from dead works

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faith toward God.

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Dead works don't save you.

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So you have to repent of trusting in those

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and instead place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Well, here's the NLT again.

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It says,

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so let us stop going over the basic teachings

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about Christ again and again.

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Let me just stop there for a second and say,

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it's amazing to me how these modern versions

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not only accomplish just deleting a bunch of scripture,

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but they also sound dumb.

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They don't have that majestic awesome sound of the King James Bible.

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It says, let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding.

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Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of

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repenting from evil deeds.

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Well, there's your repenting your sins. If you're looking for that,

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you could just grab an NLT, I guess, and you'll find it right there.

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So is the foundation of our faith repentance from evil deeds,

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or is it repentance from dead works?

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Those are two completely different concepts.

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Again, you cannot mix these things together.

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You want to read the NLT?

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You want to read the King James Bible at the same time?

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You're going to come out with two very different doctrines.

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You've got to pick one.

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Look at 2 Corinthians 2, 2 Corinthians chapter 2.

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A few more examples of this I want to get to.

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Second Corinthians 2 and verse 17.

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It says, second, second Corinthians 2 verse 17, for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God.

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Here's the ESV.

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For we are not like so many peddlers of the Word of God.

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Okay, again, there's a problem here.

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Is Paul not as many which corrupt the word of God or pedal it?

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What?

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Now to pedal, what would be wrong with peddling it?

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I mean, isn't that just giving it to somebody?

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Maybe I'm wrong. You can correct me afterward, but this is totally different.

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And so you can't have both.

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Let's look at 1 Samuel chapter 1.

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1 Samuel chapter 1. I'll read for you a different example here as you go to 1 Samuel chapter 1.

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The Bible says elsewhere,

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I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety,

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so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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But the NIV says,

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I'm afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning,

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your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

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So is it simplicity that is in Christ or devotion to Christ?

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These are two opposite concepts. You can't have both.

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Is it simplicity or devotion? You gotta pick one.

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Now in the Old Testament,

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The modern versions also have a bunch of issues because they either translate poorly or they appeal to the Septuagint,

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which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament, or they appeal to the Dead Sea Scrolls,

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and it creates a bunch of weird issues.

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But here in 1 Samuel 1, look at verse 24, 1 Samuel 1 and verse 24,

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and when she had weaned him she took him up,

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this is talking about Hannah, with her, with three bullocks.

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So she has three bullocks with her.

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The NIV says, after he was weaned,

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she took the boy with her, young as he was,

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along with a three-year-old bull.

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And the NIV cites the Dead Sea Scrolls for this change.

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So you can see how the source text changes the English.

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So what's the point?

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OK, did Hannah have three bullocks

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or one three-year-old bull?

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You got to pick one.

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You say, well, this isn't that important.

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Folks, I want to have the right story here, okay?

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And look, I want every detail to be accurate.

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If I don't care about accuracy,

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then I'll just go ahead and read the Koran's version

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of Joseph's story.

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Like, we can just all do that then.

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What's the difference, right?

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We want to have the accurate story,

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and these are two very different things that it says.

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How about Proverbs 18? It says,

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the words of a tale bearer are as wounds

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in the incorruptible seed, the word of God.

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The ESV says, the words of a whisperer

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are like delicious morsels.

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Well, hold on a minute.

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Are they as wounds or are they delicious morsels?

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You can't have both. They're different.

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You can't mix them together.

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So people are like, oh, it doesn't matter.

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You know, the modern versions, they're

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just changing the these and the those

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and making it easier to understand.

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No, they're changing the meaning.

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That's the issue that we have with it.

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It's changing the meaning and saying something completely

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opposite to what the King James Bible says,

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which is why you cannot mix the modern critical text

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Bibles with the Bibles that came from the preserved line,

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the received text of scripture.

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you

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How about this, also in Proverbs 18?

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A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.

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Here's the NLT.

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There are friends who destroy each other.

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What in the heck did I just read?

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Here's another one.

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A person of too many friends comes to ruin.

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Total opposite.

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The King James is telling you, hey,

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if you want friends, be friendly.

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These other ones are just saying the dumbest crap.

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One who has unreliable friends comes to ruin.

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The critical text Bibles don't even agree with each other in this passage.

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So you know what? You need to be NIV only. You gotta pick one then.

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Hey, it's like what Joshua said, it's like choose you whom you shall serve.

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Choose you this day whom you shall serve.

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Which false god you want to pick if you don't like the God of the Bible so much?

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You don't like the King James? Too hard for you to read?

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Well, you better pick one of these modern versions because even in,

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they don't agree with each other in a lot of places.

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You got to pick one mutually exclusive options.

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These things cannot be mixed.

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Proverbs 11, he that winneth souls is wise.

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You want to be wise? You go soul winning.

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Here's the NLT again.

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A wise person wins friends.

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Speaks for itself. I have nothing else to say. Let's look at Ecclesiastes 4. Ecclesiastes 4.

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A wise person wins friends. Wow, great. Thank you for that, NLT. I really appreciate you changing

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out a verse that tells us about the importance of soul winning to tell me about how a wise

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person wins friends. Wonderful. That's awesome.

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except it's not. Let's look at Ecclesiastes 4 and verse 4.

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Ecclesiastes 4 and verse 4.

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Again, I consider it all travail in every right work that,

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pay attention to this,

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for this a man is envied of his neighbor.

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The ESV says then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor

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This isn't gonna be okay. You guys got it. All right. I was gonna say it's not immediately obvious, but everybody was like what?

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It says the opposite folks

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Okay

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The King James is saying for this a man is envied of his neighbor

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The ESV says that work comes from a man's envy of his neighbor

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So, are you envied because you work hard,

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or do you work hard because you're envious?

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Which one is it? It can't be both.

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So you want to mingle these seeds together

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and go out and sow your seed.

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Don't be surprised when you have a corrupt fruit

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that results from that.

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And you have people believing a bunch of weird garbage

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because that's what those Bibles say.

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And again, if you didn't get it, the King James is using the word envy passively.

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A man is envied by his neighbor because of his labor, whereas the modern translations are using

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it actively as the source of envy, the complete opposite message, because they're opposed to the

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King James 100%. I got to move on. I can go all night about that.

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Let's look at 2nd Corinthians 6 together, 2nd Corinthians chapter 6.

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So you know what, instead of walking a thin line

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between all these critical text Bibles and the King James Bible,

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why don't you just stick to the preserved word of God this evening?

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And we need to educate ourselves and show people these differences

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because there's a lot of confusion about this topic and people think that it's no big deal.

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Oh, you're just splitting hairs.

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No, I'm not.

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I just showed you how they're totally different from each other.

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The meaning is different.

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It says the complete opposite of the King James in many places.

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And it teaches work salvation.

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And it deletes a bunch of verses as well.

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So the next point I want to make is this.

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You can't mix, excuse me, you can't mix a believer with an unbeliever.

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These are two things that shouldn't be mixed together.

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The Bible tells us that, you know, thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

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So God is prohibiting plowing the ox with the donkey because then the donkey would

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probably just die, wouldn't be able to keep up with that work.

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And also something else to keep in mind too is that the ass is an unclean animal,

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whereas the ox isn't. And so you're mixing the clean with the unclean.

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These two things should remain separate.

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You don't want to mix believers with unbelievers.

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In this context though, I'll get into that.

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I'll get specifically which context I'm talking about.

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I'm not saying like you have to go live in a compound

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and not ever interact with an unsafe person.

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That would make no sense.

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Second Corinthians 6 verse 14.

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Second Corinthians 6 verse 14.

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It says,

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

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for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness,

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and what communion hath light with darkness,

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wherefore, verse 17, I'm gonna skip down for time,

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verse 17, wherefore come out from among them,

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and be ye separate, saith the Lord,

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and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.

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So just to assure us the ox and the ass

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aren't supposed to be plowing together,

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we don't wanna be mixing with the unsaved.

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Now, the ox can represent a pastor.

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The Bible talks about this in 1 Thessalonians 5 where it says,

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you know, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn,

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and in reference to the elder of the church.

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And the way I think about it is this.

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You don't want to have a church where it's mixed with saved people and unsaved people.

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The church is for the saved.

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The church is for the saved.

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We shouldn't be unevenly yoked with unbelievers in church.

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So we don't want to have an improper mixing there in the context of the New Testament Church.

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Now if somebody...

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comes in and they're not saved, we'll give them the gospel, no problem.

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And that happens all the time, where somebody comes in, they get the gospel,

01:13:39.100 --> 01:13:43.800
Lord willing they get saved, maybe they even get baptized, that happens.

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But this church is geared toward the saved.

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And you say, well this is obvious, you know, why would you have to even say this?

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Well you know, there's a lot of churches, even in the old IFB,

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where, and God bless them, there's old IFB churches that are doing great works for God.

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I'm not trying to be overly negative.

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here. So, you know, there's the caveat, all right? You can not be offended now. But the

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point is, a lot of the, they don't really seem to understand this, because they like

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gear their service toward getting people saved every single Sunday. And it's like the issue

01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:20.180
with that is people aren't going to grow, because if you're just hearing salvation every

01:14:20.180 --> 01:14:20.900
week,

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You're not getting other doctrine, you're not getting fed, you're not going to grow.

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But here's what they'll say.

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They'll say, well, if you want the meat of the word, brother, you better, you know, you're

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going to have to sign up to the Bible college.

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You go to the Bible college and they'll give you the meat of the word.

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You can learn all about dispensationalism, brother.

01:14:37.740 --> 01:14:43.980
You could learn about the pre-trib rapture there, or they just bring a guy in to teach

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you the pre-trib rapture and things like that because they don't really know end times prophecy,

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whatever.

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But my point is, you know, I don't agree with this mentality.

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because I believe that church should be geared toward the saved

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and you shouldn't have to go sign up to pay thousands of dollars

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to learn the meat of the word.

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It should be done every Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night at church.

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And praise God we're part of a church, don't take it for granted,

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where the man of God gets up and he feeds you the Bible

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and he doesn't filter it and he gives you everything from the milk to the hard meat,

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whether you like it or not.

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That's what we have here.

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And that's the way it should be, because how is the ox supposed to plow with a bunch of asses?

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Some of you laughed and you're immature.

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How are you supposed to plow with donkeys?

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It doesn't work.

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And the pastor has to have saved brethren

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to fulfill the great commission,

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to go out and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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And he can't do that if there's a bunch of unsaved people

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in the church.

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It's not going to be as effective.

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In fact, I would argue it'll be dysfunctional.

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If you have like the repent your sins section here,

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the Yeshua section there, the Judaizers there,

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and the baptismal regeneration,

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you have to be baptized to be saved.

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section over here, sorry Diego and Samuel.

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It's like, what the heck is this?

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Hey, I want to go to a church where everybody believes

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the same thing about how to go to heaven at the very least.

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Yeah, we have different views on food, I get it.

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I understand that.

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Some of you may not like what I eat on a regular basis.

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That's all right.

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Hey, no problem with that.

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Some of you may cheer for different sports teams.

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OK, great.

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I don't care.

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Doesn't bother me, but you know what?

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At the very least, we understand and we agree on how to go to heaven.

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And that's how it should be in every New Testament church.

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I shouldn't have to walk in and be worried that somebody's going to preach to me some

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damnable heresy.

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That's not the way it works, and that's not how church should be geared.

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It should be geared toward the saved so we can grow together in the Lord.

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Let's look at...

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Nothing. I have more to say.

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So here's the thing, folks.

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Another way you could apply this

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is when it comes to friendships.

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You know, the Bible asks the rhetorical question,

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can two walk together except they be agreed?

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You want to be evenly yoked.

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Your closest friends should be people

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who are saved, in my opinion.

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Your closest friends.

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I'm not saying it's impossible to have a friend who isn't saved and you're trying to work on him or whatever.

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That's not what I'm saying.

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But I think the closest people that you have in your life, hey, they should be spiritual family.

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And that's the case for me.

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I love my spiritual family.

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They are my family, just period.

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Now let's talk about, I want to talk about marriage here, marriage.

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Now in Leviticus 19 it said, thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.

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So you don't want cross breeding of the livestock because it will lead to a weird

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offspring that is either just not going to live for very long or it'll be sterile or just

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you know just dysfunctional in some way. All right.

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And so you need to marry a saved person, is the point I'm trying to make here.

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You don't want to go outside of the family of God in the sense like you want to marry somebody at the very least who is saved.

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Now look, I think beyond that, my recommendations would be, hey, make sure you're aligned on serving the Lord as well though.

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So yes, the person should be saved.

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Bare minimum, they gotta check that box.

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But they should also be somebody who you're aligned with

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on serving Jesus Christ as well,

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on where you're gonna go to church, level of zeal.

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Etc. Now look, it's totally normal for within a marriage to have one spouse that's a little more zealous than the other and sometimes

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It ebbs and it flows where perhaps the wife is more zealous at some points the husband's more zealous at other points

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Whatever I get that but you don't want to put yourself in a scenario

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Where you're fighting about where to go to church or you're fighting about doctrines of the Bible

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You say well, I'm married to an unsaved person. Well, look

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That could be the case.

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And if it is, be the best spouse you can possibly be.

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And you may win them over.

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That's what the Bible teaches.

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Let's look at James 4.

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James 4.

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I'm going to go to my last point now, James chapter 4.

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So we want to make sure that we're evenly yoked.

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We want to make sure we're evenly yoked at church.

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You don't want to mix saved and unsaved at church.

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You want your closest friends to be saved.

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You don't want a mixing, improper mixing,

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of saved and unsaved in terms of your closest relationships.

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And when it comes to marriage, hey, single guys,

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don't go out and marry a Muslim.

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Don't go out and marry a Jew.

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Which, that's never going to happen anyway,

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I would imagine, but.

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at least make sure they repent of that.

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Make sure that you're marrying somebody who's saved

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in alignment with you doctrinally.

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And then there's other things as well that you should look out for,

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and you can listen to some marriage sermons on that.

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James 4, so I'm talking about crossbreeding here,

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it produces a weird hybrid.

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The thing is that this sterile hybrid may not be able to actually reproduce anything.

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It can't produce anything.

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And I think of how if you combine, it makes me think of how, if you combine the friendship

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with God with the friendship of the world, what you're doing is you're creating a weird

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hybrid that's not going to be productive at all.

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And this is why the Bible tells us you have to pick one.

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You can't have both. Mutually exclusive options.

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Look at James 4 and verse 4.

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My last point is you can't mix the friendship with the world

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and friendship with God.

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Not possible. James 4 and verse 4.

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Notice what the Bible says.

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Ye adulterers and adulteresses.

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in a spiritual sense.

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Know ye not that the friendship of the world

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is amnesty with God.

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Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world

01:21:09.100 --> 01:21:11.600
is the enemy of God.

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So you either are a friend of God

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or you're a friend of the world.

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It is not both.

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You can't have both.

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You can't mix both.

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These are things that cannot be mixed.

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They're mutually exclusive.

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You gotta choose being a friend of God

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or a friend of the world, which means what?

01:21:29.200 --> 01:21:32.700
You gotta get rid of the world's philosophies on marriage.

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You gotta get rid of the world's philosophies

01:21:34.900 --> 01:21:38.400
on the family and on general conduct.

01:21:38.400 --> 01:21:40.800
And you gotta go with what the Bible says,

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whether it appeals to you or not in the flesh.

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And look.

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There's people out there who used to identify as new IFB,

01:21:51.620 --> 01:21:55.340
and they did seem to be separated in that sense.

01:21:55.420 --> 01:21:58.420
But you know what? Now they look like the world.

01:21:59.380 --> 01:22:03.580
Now they left, and they're morphing more and more into the world

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and adopting the world's philosophies.

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What does this look like? They start getting soft on the sodomites.

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They start getting ultra-sharmin tissue paper soft on the sodomites today.

01:22:16.400 --> 01:22:22.800
And it's disgusting and it's embarrassing and it's a shame and a reproach to the name of Jesus Christ.

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If you're going to claim Christ and be soft on a bunch of filthy, disgusting faggots today.

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We need more men of God to repent and go from thinking that,

01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:34.940
oh, you need to love them and be good unto them,

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to having a righteous kind of hatred that the Bible talks about

01:22:38.340 --> 01:22:41.680
in Psalm 139 and 2 Chronicles 19, 2.

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And guess what?

01:22:42.880 --> 01:22:46.460
The sodomites fit under that umbrella of us, you know,

01:22:46.460 --> 01:22:48.760
being able to hate them since Romans 1 tells us

01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:49.760
that they're haters of God.

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You read Jude, you read 2 Peter chapter 2,

01:22:53.300 --> 01:22:54.900
but what's the point I'm trying to make here

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is that there's people who they leave a church like ours

01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:01.300
and then they slowly but surely start to adopt

01:23:01.300 --> 01:23:05.300
the world's philosophy on a number of different topics,

01:23:05.300 --> 01:23:08.300
including this one, and they get all soft on the sodomites.

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Let me tell you something, I believe that this is

01:23:11.700 --> 01:23:13.600
a judgment of God on them.

01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.400
You know what? You want to hate your brother so much,

01:23:16.400 --> 01:23:19.600
and you want to walk in darkness, and you want to be so blinded.

01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:23.600
Well, you know what? Hey, don't be surprised if you end up

01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:27.900
being some kind of sodomite sympathizer like an idiot.

01:23:27.900 --> 01:23:30.700
No, this is a judgment of God. If you're looking around,

01:23:30.700 --> 01:23:34.000
and all you see are a bunch of fag, fag sympathizers,

01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.200
and some faggity little group that you have,

01:23:36.200 --> 01:23:38.800
you know what? You're under the judgment of God and the curse of God.

01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:41.640
And you know what? My Bible says,

01:23:41.640 --> 01:23:44.280
you know, he that saith unto the wicked, thou art righteous,

01:23:44.280 --> 01:23:46.180
nations shall abhor them.

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I don't want to be in that position.

01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:49.220
And you want to hate the brethren,

01:23:49.220 --> 01:23:50.820
you want to look more like the world,

01:23:50.820 --> 01:23:52.480
and you want to become a friend of the world.

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Don't be surprised if that's what happens to you.

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And I think it's the judgment of God on some of these people.

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They want to hate their brethren so much,

01:23:59.900 --> 01:24:01.220
well, then they just become a bunch of

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faggity little sodomite sympathizers.

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And I get it, some of them were infiltrators

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from the beginning, I understand that.

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but you become more like the world, what happens?

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You start preaching feminism,

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and you start preaching a bunch of boss, babe,

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you go girl slop.

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It's like vomit inducing.

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I can't even say it without wanting to vomit.

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You start preaching dishonoring your parents.

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You start preaching heresy,

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and then you fight on the wrong team.

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You start fighting on the wrong side of the war.

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And make no mistake about it, we're in a war today.

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And you know what?

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The forces of hell are coming against our movement right now.

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And so we need to have a bunch of people who say in their heart,

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you know what, I'm not going to be a friend of the world right now.

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I'm going to be a friend of God.

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I'm going to get zealous and hot for the things of God

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and be a friend of God and just eschew the things of this world

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because we're in a battle right now

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and the forces of hell are coming against us.

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So we need as many soldiers as possible.

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Here's what the world says, no spanking, always, the teenager doctrine, that just gets them

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totally triggered about not spanking teens.

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So they say no spanking, they say 50-50 marriage, they say love the homos, which nobody does

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naturally anyway, every normal person on the inside is like, they're gross and filthy and

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disgusting.

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It's okay to be gay.

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Which I do think it's okay to be gay, it's okay to be happy.

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I want everyone to be gay.

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But you know, I don't want everybody to be a filthy disgusting fag.

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Serve money, listen to blasphemous music,

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dress like a whore in the miniskirt, like a prostitute,

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divorce and drink and party and live it up,

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because tomorrow we all die.

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That's their mentality.

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And what does this produce?

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What is the world offering you in summation?

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What are they offering you?

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Something that is meaningless.

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Okay?

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This is nothing but a bunch of just vacuous, empty nonsense

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that will not fulfill you.

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This is vanity.

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And that's why a lot of people are depressed today and they don't know what to do with themselves

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because this is what they're looking, or excuse me, this is what they're living for.

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But the Bible says the grace of God teaches us to live soberly,

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righteously, and godly in this present world instead.

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And so if you want to be God's friend, you need to stay separated.

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You need to make sure not to mix that which God has told you not to,

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which is of course being a friend of God and a friend of the world.

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You know, don't ever give into the temptation to mix the world's philosophies.

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The Bible says that, hey, the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

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Don't get given to the temptation to mix the world's philosophies with the Word of God.

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You can't do it.

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They're opposed to each other.

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The fact is they're mutually exclusive options.

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mutually exclusive options.

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And you just can't have both.

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You can't mix both.

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You gotta have one.

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And I'm telling ya, if there's ever a time

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to make the decision

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to be a friend of God

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and get all in and stop

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being apathetic, it is right now.

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Because we've got friends who are under attack. We've got the forces of hell coming against us

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Relentlessly and you say oh well if they succeed at getting rid of pastor iderson, then maybe we'll be okay

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No, they will set their big ugly target on us next

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It'll embolden them and they are going to come after us.

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We need to be ready.

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We need to be sold out for the things of Christ.

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We need to be more excited about soul winning than ever before

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because at the end of the day, there's only one side that you could pick,

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the friendship of the world or the friendship of God,

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and you better pick the Lord's side.

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Amen.

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Because if there's ever a time to do that, it's right now.

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as we are under relentless attack from the most obsessed,

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satanic, evil, rotten degenerates

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that I may have ever seen in my life.

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Yeah.

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And they're not gonna stop.

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They watch everything. They are obsessed. They are stalkers.

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They're probably watching this right now.

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And you know what? I am so happy about that because I want them to watch.

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I want them to hear what I have to say.

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And I want them to see the contempt that I have for them because I stand against evil.

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That's why they hate me so much.

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And you know what? We need to stand against evil as a church.

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And we need to be sold out.

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And we need to be a friend of God and say nuts to this world.

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You can't mix it anyway.

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So when we look at these statutes here, I just want to recap.

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I said you can't mix faith and works for salvation,

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the woolen and the linen.

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You can't mix the King James version and the modern versions,

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the mingled seed.

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You can't mix the saved with the unsaved.

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in the context of church and you're close to friends and your marriage as well,

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the ox and the ass, and then you can't mix friendship with God and friendship with the world,

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which I would classify as a weird cross-bred hybrid.

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And we look at these statutes, I think that we can look at them through the lenses of New Testament Christianity.

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Meaning what?

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If you apply these separation statutes,

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you'll have a successful Christian life

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and a successful church.

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It starts with, hey, faith alone for salvation,

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and making sure people understand that

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when we evangelize.

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It's sowing unmingled seed,

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the incorruptible word of God,

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which is without error,

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100% accurate.

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It's being equally yoked with fellow believers.

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And you know what?

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It's friendship with God rather than this world.

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And in the Christian life, I'm just warning you,

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you're going to come across mutually exclusive options.

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You can't have both.

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Don't mix together what God has told you not to mingle.

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Because understand, there's some things that just don't mix.

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Now look, colors mix.

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I don't care.

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You want to marry somebody who's a different color?

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Go right ahead.

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Sorry, racists.

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But.

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I don't care. Black, green, yellow, red, doesn't matter to me.

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You can go brown, you can go whatever you want. You can go desert color if you want.

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But what matters is spiritually, where do they stand? And that should be the way that we think.

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That's all I have.

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Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

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Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord God, for our church.

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And I just pray that you help us to understand

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that there are certain things that don't mix together.

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Help us not to mix them.

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Help us to be separated.

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And help us to be your friend rather than

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the friend of the world, because we

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know that we are under attack every day, Lord God.

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And

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you

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We need to make sure that we're on the right side and being effective in the battle and contributing positively.

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We love you and in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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Amen. Our last song this evening is page 266. There's honey in the rock.

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Page 266. There's honey in the rock.

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Page 266, let's all sing it out together on that verse.

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Oh, my brother, do you know the Savior who is