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Hello, welcome to Short Foundation Baptist Church.

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Everybody please find your seats and grab a hymn book.

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For a song we're gonna sing a song number 30,

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Nothing But The Blood.

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Song number 30 in your hymn books, Nothing But The Blood.

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Song number 30. What can wash away my sin? On the first.

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What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.

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No.

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I know nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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For my part in this I see nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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What ends in this my plea?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.

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No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Nothing can force in a tone.

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Nothing.

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but the blood of Jesus. Not of good that I have done. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.

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No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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This is all my hope and peace, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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This is all my righteousness, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Oh, precious is the flow that makes me

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white as snow, no other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Alright everybody great singing.

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Brother Landon, can you please open us up with a word of prayer?

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Amen. Alright, next song is gonna be song number 32. He lives on high.

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Song number 32 in your hymn books.

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Song number 32. He lives on high.

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Christ the Savior, on the first.

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Christ the Savior came from heaven's glory To redeem the lost from sin and shame

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On His brow He wore the Throne crowned glory And upon Calvary He took my blame

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He lives on high, He lives on high Triumph and over

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sin and all is stained. He lives on high, He lives on high. Someday He's coming again.

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He arose from death and all is sorrow to dwell in land and joy and love.

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He is coming back some glad new tomorrow

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And he'll take all his children home above

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He lives on high, He lives on high,

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Triumphant over sin and all his stain.

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He lives on high, He lives on high,

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Someday He's coming again.

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Weary soul to Jesus come confessing,

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Redemption from

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He offers thee, look to Jesus and receive a blessing.

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There is life, there is joy and victory.

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He lives on high, He lives on high.

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Triumph and over sin and all its stain.

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He lives on high, He lives on high.

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Hi someday he's coming again

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All right great singing now. We're gonna have some announcements

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All right good morning welcome to show foundation Baptist Church Sunday morning service if you need the bulletin

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Please raise your hand and I'll show will bring one to you

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Yeah, all right. Let's look at the verse of the week

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2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 15 the Bible says this and that he died for all that they which should

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that they which should that they which should live should not henceforth live unto themselves

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but unto him which died for them and rose again that's a really wonderful verse and the reason

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we live for God is that he died for us so we should you know work to honor him so let's look

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at InsidePage, give us a follow on our social media platforms.

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We have Sunday morning service at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4, and Wednesday night

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Bible study at 7 p.m.

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This coming Wednesday we'll be going through the first half of Acts chapter 16, mainly

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about the Macedonian call.

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So please join us on Wednesday night if you are able to.

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We have Sunday morning this afternoon at 1.30 p.m. and Saturday morning Sunday morning at

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1030.

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AM upcoming events the fall picnic fellowship is

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You know less than a month. I got a sign-up sheet on the front table, so please sign up on the side dishes drink

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Dessert and the church will be providing you know high you know high quality patties, and you know beef and whatever so

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That will be on October 3rd on a Saturday

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So if you are traveling to a church and then if you want to go to a picnic, we do have a church discount code at a nearby hotel.

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So let me know so I can pay less on the hotel if you want to stay on that Saturday so I can come to church on that Sunday.

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So please let me know for the hotel discount.

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details. Also, the next two Saturdays we are going to Notre Dame Catholic College.

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So we'll be doing some tailgates. So when you marathon and the details are on

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GodResource.com. So please RSVP so we know how many people are coming.

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And if you go to GodResource, we are meeting at the address posted and then we'll

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shuttle you guys. Just depends on how many people are there and how many people are coming.

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coming and then if you want to show up

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at the campus on your own, there's a $40 parking,

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and then you can take the shuttle to the...

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to the spa. So again, go to God Resource for more details on the Notre Dame tailgate

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zoning.

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It's a lot of Catholics and stuff like that, so we'll have lots of fun.

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And then Pittsburgh is on October 10th. We are going to Pennsylvania.

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Again, that is on GodResource.com as well. And then Evansville on Halloween.

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So October 21st. That's a Saturday, okay? And that's not, you know, that's an accident.

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I don't know why I picked that day, but you know, we are going

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to Evansville on Halloween to share the gospel.

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And then...

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Gary is on November 28th.

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and then we'll finish up the year with Winter Wonderland on December 26th.

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So please join us if you want to, but we still have our logo so many times here if you are staying locally.

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If you want to know how to be saved or needs to be baptized, please see an usher or myself after the service.

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Also, please stay faithful and with tithe and offerings so we can keep reaching the lost.

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On the back, you can see the birthdays and the anniversaries for the month.

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of September and today is Brother Jared's birthday.

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Did you bring a cake?

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Too bad.

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Alright, so let's sing happy birthday to Brother Jared.

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Ready?

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Happy birthday.

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God bless you.

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Happy birthday to you.

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Alright, congratulations.

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How old are you now?

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34.

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34 years old.

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Congratulations for the Jared.

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Alright, let's sing one more song and then we'll take out the offering.

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Alright, next song is going to be song number 31, He Lives.

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Song number 31 in your hymn books, He Lives.

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Song number 31.

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On the first, I serve a risen savior. Song number 31.

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I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today.

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I know that He is living, whatever men may say.

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I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer.

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And just the time I need Him, He's all-

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ways near. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with

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me a long life's narrow way. He lives, he lives, salvation to impart. You ask me how

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I know he lives he lives

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Within my heart

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In all the world around me I see his loving care

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And though my heart grow weary I never will despair

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I know that he is leading through all the stormy blasts

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The day of his appearing will come at-

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last he lives he lives Christ Jesus lives today he walks with me and talks

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with me along life's narrow way he lives he lives salvation to impart you ask me

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how I know

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He lives, he lives within my heart.

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Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian, lift up your voice and sing

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Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ the King

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The hope of all who seek Him, the help of all who find

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None other is so loving, so good and kind

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He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today.

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He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way.

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He lives, He lives, salvation to impart.

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You ask me how I know He lives.

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He lives within.

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Alright great singing, ushers please come up for the offering.

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Brother Wade, can you please pray for the offering?

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Amen.

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Please turn in your Bibles, Proverbs chapter 10.

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Proverbs chapter 10.

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If you need a Bible, just please raise your hand,

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and I shall give you one.

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Proverbs chapter 10.

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Proverbs chapter 10 the Bible reads the Proverbs of Solomon a wise son

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Maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness delivereth from death

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The lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, but he casteth away the substance of the wicked

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He becomeeth poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent man maketh rich

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He that gathereth in summer is a wise son, but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causes shame.

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Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a praying fool shall fall.

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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely, but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

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He that winketh with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.

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The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covereth the mouth of the

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wicked.

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Hatred stirth up stripes, but love covereth all sins.

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In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back

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of him that is void of understanding.

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Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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The rich man's wealth is his strong city.

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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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The labor of the righteous tendeth to life, but the fruit of the wicked to sin.

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He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction, but he that refuseeth the truth ereth.

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He that hideeth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

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In the multitude of words there is want there there wanteth not sin.

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But he that refraineth his lips is wise. The tongue of the just is as choice silver,

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the heart of the wicked is little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many,

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but fools die for want of wisdom.

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the blessings of the Lord it maketh rich and and he addeth no sorrow with it.

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It is as sport to a fool to do mischief but a man of understanding hath wisdom. The fear of the

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wicked it shall come upon him but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

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As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

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As vinegar to the teeth, as smoke to the eyes, so is the slugger to them that sent him.

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The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

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The way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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The righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

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The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the forward tongue shall

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be cast out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of

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the wicked speaketh forwardness. Brother Matt, will you pray for a person?

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Amen. Proverbs chapter number 10, look at verse number 12, Proverbs chapter 10 verse 12.

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The Bible says this, hatred stirth up strife, but love covereth all sins.

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And the title of my sermon this morning is, soul winning covers all sins.

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Soul winning covers all sins.

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or sins.

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Now obviously the Bible doesn't really say that, right?

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But sometimes Christians act like it does, OK?

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Because they will say things like, hey, yes, I lied,

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but I go so many.

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Yes, I committed adultery, fornication,

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but I still go so many.

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Yes, I gossip about people, but look at how many people

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I've gossaped.

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Yeah, I cause division.

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I worship idols.

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But at least I'm still getting people saved, OK?

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But I will say this, that soul winning is one of the greatest works that a Christian can do.

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You know in Proverbs chapter number 10, go to Proverbs chapter 11,

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look at verse number 30, Proverbs chapter 11 verse 30.

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The Bible says this, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but he that wins souls is wise.

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So if you are a smart, wise Christian, you better go out and win people to Christ. Amen.

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The Bible says in Daniel 12 verse number three, and they that be wise shall shine as the brightness

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of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

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I believe it's pointing to the rewards in, you know, that's talking about the rewards in heaven.

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If you are willing to go to Christ, you will shine.

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You'll get lots of rewards in heaven.

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However, I'm actually preaching against every soul winning

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church this morning.

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I'm going to preach against every single soul winner

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this morning, because we need to have a reality check

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that one area of obedience does not cancel out

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another area of disobedience.

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Amen.

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Go to Romans chapter 3.

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Romans chapter number 3.

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You don't get spiritual credits from soul winning

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that you can cash in against your other sins.

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There's no spiritual credits.

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So let me just give you several points this morning.

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And I believe we are a great soul winning church,

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but let's also have a reality check.

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So point number one this morning is soul winning

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doesn't give you a license to sin.

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So winning doesn't give you a license to sin.

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Here's a simple truth, OK?

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Doing good does not justify doing evil.

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Doing good doesn't justify doing evil.

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Romans chapter 3, look at verse number 5.

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Romans 3, 5 says this, but if our unrighteousness

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commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?

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It's God unrighteous who take it vengeance.

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I speak as a man.

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So here Paul was making a hypothetical argument

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to make a point.

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Paul was arguing that if our unrighteousness,

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if in our sinful state we praise and elevate

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God's righteousness, so God gets the glory, right?

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So how can God punish us?

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Again, Paul was making an argument, hey, if through our unrighteous deeds, if we're being

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sinful but we still praise God and God be glorified, hey, why should God still punish

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us?

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But then Paul immediately rejects that thinking by saying, is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?

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So that's a rhetorical question.

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So even though men are wicked and men praise God

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in their wickedness, but that still

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doesn't mean that God can't take vengeance on men.

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OK, look at verse number six.

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God forbid.

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For then, how shall God judge the world?

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So the fact that God can bring glory out of man's weakness,

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out of man's sin, means that man is no longer guilty,

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and God couldn't judge anybody.

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So if you have that thinking that if God can bring glory out

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of the sinful man, but that means man is no longer guilty,

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if you use that logic, then God couldn't judge anybody.

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So look at verse number seven.

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For if the truth of God had more abounded through my lie

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unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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So the argument is essentially this,

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that if my lie ultimately resulted in God's truth

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being magnified and God received glory from it,

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why should God still call me a sinner?

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But then he said this in verse number eight.

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And now rather, as will be slanderously reported,

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and as some affirm that we say, let us do evil,

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that good may come, whose damnation is just.

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So again, this passage may be hard to comprehend,

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because Paul was constantly debunking

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his own hypothetical thinking, because he's going back

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and forth within himself.

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So Paul's argument is, if we have the mentality that through our sinful state, God be glorified,

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God can still judge us because all have sinned.

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So verse number eight, his argument is, if a good result justifies the sinful action

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that produced that result, then why not we just deliberately sin just to produce good results?

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And so Paul is condemning the reasoning

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that we should not have this attitude that the end justifies

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the means.

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And Paul condemned that reasoning by saying

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whose damnation is just.

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So Paul was condemning those people

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by saying that you deserve to be punished

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for having that attitude.

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You deserve to be destroyed.

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You deserve to be punished if you

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think we can do evil just because good may

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come out of that evil.

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And you know, notice Paul is, and Paul also said that,

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you know, people were actually slandering him

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by, you know, claiming this is what he taught.

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Because in verse eight, he said,

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as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm,

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that we say, let us do evil, that good may come,

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whose damnation is just.

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So again, I hope I'm making sense here,

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because the essence of the argument here is this.

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The end does not justify the means.

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Just because God be glorified and just because great works

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are done through our wickedness and through our lies and sin

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doesn't mean that God can't judge us because we still sin

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and we can't have the attitude that let

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us do evil that good may come.

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So this whole argument that, hey, yes, I lied,

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but just look at the good that came out of it,

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It's a bad hour.

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That's a bad argument.

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The argument that, hey, yes, I behave wickedly,

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but God still used it, but that still

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doesn't justify that wickedness.

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And the fact that God brought something good out

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of your sin, out of your wrongdoing,

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proves God's goodness and not yours.

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In fact, that's almost exactly Paul's point.

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Your unrighteousness may actually command the righteousness of God, but you are still unrighteous.

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Okay? That's his entire point in Romans chapter number three.

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So let's not have the attitude of let us do evil that good may come.

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The end doesn't justify the means.

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Suppose somebody lied, and then they said,

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because, you know, but because of what I did, somebody got sick.

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Hey, praise God.

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That person got saved, but you still shouldn't have lied.

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OK?

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Because God can bring good out of man's evil

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without approving of the evil.

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In fact, go to Romans chapter 2, Romans chapter number 2.

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The Bible says in Genesis 50 verse number 20.

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But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."

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So if you are familiar with Joseph's story, he was sold, his own brother sold him into slavery just for money, human trafficking, right?

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And God certainly used this evil situation to save much people alive.

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and got used to see.

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able to accomplish something good,

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but that did not make selling Joseph right.

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Imagine Joseph's brother said, hey, I sold you,

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but look, you are saving so many people.

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That's like nonsense, right?

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In Acts chapter 2 verse 23, the Bible talks about Jesus Christ being delivered by the

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determined counsel and for knowledge of God, he have taken and by wicked hands have crucified

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and slain.

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So the Bible is teaching that, you know, it's always been God's plan to sacrifice his only begotten son, the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, but wicked people still crucified Jesus, right?

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So even though through the crucifixion and through the sacrifice of Christ, you know, we get the redemption of our sins, but the Bible still says, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, right?

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The end doesn't justify the mix.

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Because God can't

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And God bringing good from your actions

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does not automatically prove your actions were good.

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Because God clearly used the crucifixion

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to bring the redemption of the whole world.

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But that doesn't justify the people who put him on the cross.

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So the whole point is doing good doesn't justify doing evil.

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Also, success does not always equal God's approval.

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Because some people have the attitude that, you know, if there are major sins in my life,

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if what we do is wrong, then why are we still getting so many people saved, right?

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That means God must approve every action of my life.

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Now, that's a terrible theology.

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And people love using this logic to justify their sins,

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like adultery, fornication, idolatry.

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In their mind, they really think that soul winning

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covers all sins.

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Romans chapter 2, look at verse number 4.

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Romans chapter 2, verse 4 says this.

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or despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering,

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not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance."

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So God is full of goodness, God is full of longsuffering, patience,

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and the Bible says in verse number four that God's longsuffering

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should lead you to repentance, not convince you that you are doing nothing wrong.

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God's long suffering should lead you to repentance and not convince you that you are doing nothing wrong.

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So don't mistake God's long suffering for God's endorsement.

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To me, verse four, you can apply to both the unsaved and the saved.

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So for the unsaved, hey, you may realize that God still provides for you

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and God still keeps you alive.

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It should lead you to repentance and to salvation.

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But for the saved, hey, if you know that you struggle with major sins in your life

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and God is still merciful to you, it should lead you to repent of your sins.

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Because don't abuse God's long suffering.

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Don't abuse God's mercy.

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Because the goodness of God...

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should lead us to repentance and not convince that there's nothing wrong in your life.

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Okay? And just throw the Bible, we see that God used imperfect men and God even used,

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you know, seriously flawed people just to do great works for God.

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Think about Samson, right? Samson was clearly used by God against the Philistines,

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and Samson was empowered, he was filled with the Spirit of the Lord,

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yet his personal life was a wreck. You know, he was involved in lust, foolish relationship,

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foolish women, and just repeated bad decisions concerning women, right?

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And God, using Samson, did not justify Samson's conduct.

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And God also gave the judge Jephthah great victory over the Ammonites, right?

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Yet his rash vow led to his own daughter getting burned.

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Okay?

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So again, God used, you know, seriously flawed people just to accomplish his will.

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David, a man after God's own heart, you know,

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nobody can argue against, you know, how much David has done for God, right?

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David wrote scripture and David, you know, defeated Israel's enemies.

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And David was part of the lineage leading...

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up to the Lord Jesus Christ, but we all know about his adultery, right? We all know about

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his murder against Uriah. And Solomon, you know, the wisest person ever lived, and God

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gave Solomon wisdom and helped him build a temple and gave Israel great prosperity during

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Solomon's reign. Yes, Solomon eventually loved many strange women and that his wife turned

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away his heart after other gods.

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and go to Philippians chapter one, Philippians chapter number one.

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Jonah was rebellious, you know, Jonah fled from God's command

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and Jonah became angry when Nineveh repented, okay,

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and Jonah argued with God, yet when he finally preached

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an entire city responded and the entire city

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repented.

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And you can almost imagine someone boasting,

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hey, look at the result of my ministry.

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Look at the city of Nineveh.

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So that justified all of my previous actions.

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But the problem is, in Jonah chapter 4,

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This chapter makes it obvious that God was not pleased with Jonah's attitude,

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just because his preaching produced great results.

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Okay, so Jonah was a great example on that.

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And Peter being, you know, one of the lead...

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one of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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and Peter was mightily used by God in the book of Acts,

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yet he denied Christ three times, right?

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And then even later, Paul says that,

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I was due him to the face because he was to be blamed,

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because Peter was involving, judaizing people, okay?

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So even one of the greatest apostles, Peter,

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has done something wrong.

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What about Balaam?

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You know, Balaam was clearly a false prophet

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based on the New Testament,

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but God's still using it to prophesy, right?

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So Philippians chapter one,

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now you say that people are still getting saved,

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so God must approve my ministry,

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while praise God that people are getting saved.

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This proves that,

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this only proves that the gospel works.

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But that doesn't prove that your gossip is right.

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This doesn't prove that your willing is right,

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it doesn't prove that your lying is right,

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it doesn't prove that your pride is right.

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All it proves is God is merciful, that the gospel works.

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Philippians chapter 1, look at verse 15.

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Philippians 1.15 says this,

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Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife,

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which are sins by the way,

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and some also of good will.

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The one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely,

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supposing to add affliction to my bounds,

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but the utter of love, knowing that I am sad

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for the defense of the gospel.

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This passage completely debunks the attitude

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that someone in covers all sins.

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Because this passage clearly says that some people

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preach Christ out of envy and strife.

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They're not doing it sincerely, yet people are still

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getting say, hey, praise God that the gospel is powerful.

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Amen?

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They are doing it thinking that God will overlook all

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of their other sins.

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But then Paul said this in verse 18.

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What then?

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Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense

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or in truth, Christ has preached, and either in due

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rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

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So the message can be true, but the messenger is wrong.

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Somebody may actually preach a clear gospel,

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and people may actually believe it and get saved,

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but that doesn't justify the preacher's envy,

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strive, contention, dishonesty, pride, or other sins.

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And God's word is so powerful despite the imperfection

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of the person speaking it.

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Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, 2 Corinthians chapter 5.

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So I said point number one, Song Wenning doesn't give you

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since.

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to sin. Point number two. Soul winning should come from charity. Soul winning should come

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from charity. Let me ask you this. Why do you preach the gospel? We are a soul winning

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church and we are aggressive in our soul winning. That's great. But ask yourself this. Why do

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you preach the gospel? Or just why do you live a separate life? Why do you live for

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God.

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You're in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, look at verse 14, 2 Corinthians 5, 14.

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The Bible says, for the love of Christ constraineth us,

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because we thus judge that if one die for all,

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then we're all dead, and that he die for all, that they which live should not

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henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.

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So these two verses give us the reason, hey, why do we serve God?

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And that's because of the love of Christ.

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And that because Christ died for us, so we should love other people.

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Right? Because we love God and that we love people.

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So soul winning should come from charity.

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Because only when we click God loved us, so we should love other people.

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Now go to 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

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1 Corinthians chapter 13.

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To me, Apostle Paul was a great example because Apostle Paul loved the lost.

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He loved his kindred so much that he said this,

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If I could wish that myself were a curse from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according

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to the flesh.

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Obviously, a saved person will never go to hell.

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So Paul was making an extreme hyperbole,

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just a figure of speech, saying that he would rather go to hell

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so that his own kinsmen can be saved.

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So apostle Paul really loved the lost.

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And not many people are willing to go to hell to save someone else.

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But apostle Paul loved his own kindred so much that he was willing to do that.

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So my point is soul-willing ought to be an expression of love.

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And we can totally do the work of God without charity and that would be wrong.

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In 1 Corinthians 13, look at verse number 1, 1 Corinthians 13, verse 1, the Bible says this.

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity,

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I am become as sounding breath, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy,

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and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could

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remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to

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feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity,

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It profiteth me nothing.

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What a powerful passage.

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So let me just translate this, OK?

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You can be the most eloquent speaker in the world.

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You can have the ability to speak multiple languages.

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You can stand behind the pulpit and preach.

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With power and boldness, you can understand every difficult

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doctrine in the Bible.

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You can explain every prophecy, every mystery, every parable, answer every single question,

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and have more Bible knowledge than everyone else in the world.

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You can have faith that can move mountains.

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You can empty your bank account to feed the poor.

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You can give away everything you own.

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You can sacrifice your comfort, your money, and your possession.

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And you can even sacrifice your own body for someone else.

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But if you don't have charity, you are nothing.

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That's what this passage is teaching here.

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So let's apply this to soul winning, OK?

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We can knock on hundreds of doors.

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We can preach the gospel every day, every week, every month.

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We can have great numbers.

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We can tell everybody how many people that we have got saved.

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But if our heart is filled with hatred, pride, envy,

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bitterness, and strife, our soul-warning

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does not magically sanctify the rest of our life.

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Okay, so let's do a reality check.

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Go to Keep Your Place in First Corinthians.

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Go to Matthew chapter six.

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Matthew chapter number six.

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So as a church, we need to examine our motives for serving God and winning souls, praying, Bible reading.

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Hey, we need to put everything into perspective.

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Hey, why are we serving God? Right?

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Matthew chapter 6, look at verse 1.

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Matthew chapter 6, verse number 1.

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The Bible says this,

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Take heed that ye do knock your arms before men to be seen of them,

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otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

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Therefore, when thou doest thine arms, do not sound a trumpet before thee,

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as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,

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that they may have glory of men.

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Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

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Now again, I'm going to balance this passage out with Maggis chapter 5, but

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some people think that this passage only applies to giving alms,

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which I disagree.

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I believe the principle should apply to all works of God,

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because the problem is not doing the work before men.

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What's the problem?

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The problem is the desire to be seen of them,

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because verse number 2 says that they may have glory of men.

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Verse 1 says, take heed that ye do not your arms before men,

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was the purpose, to be seen of them.

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So the Bible condemns us doing work of God

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just to be seen of men, and that you

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are desiring man's praise rather than God's approval.

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Now go to Matthew chapter 5.

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Matthew chapter 5.

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See some people only apply this to giving alms,

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but that doesn't make any sense because I can just brag about,

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hey, I read the Bible 100 times.

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Look at how great I am.

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The principle apply to every area of your life.

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Matthew 5, verse 16.

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Matthew 5, 16 says this.

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Let your light so shine before men

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that they may see your good works

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and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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There is no contradiction here, because in Matthew 5, verse

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16, God gives the glory and not you.

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In Matthew chapter 6, they may have the glory of man,

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but in chapter 5, the father is glorified.

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So what's your purpose?

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To glorify yourself or to glorify the father?

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Amen.

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That's why I don't believe there's anything wrong with sharing the great works that God has done through you.

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There's nothing wrong with posting someone in numbers if the purpose is to rejoice over what God did

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and to encourage other believers or to motivate people to do more work for God.

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Because even in the book of Acts, you know, the apostles rehearse all that God has done with them, right?

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And how God has opened the doors onto the Gentiles, okay?

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And even the apostles declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they cause great joy onto all the brethren.

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In Psalm 126, the Bible says in verse number 3,

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the Lord has done great things for us, where if we are glad.

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OK?

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So there's nothing wrong to rejoice and to share

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what God has done through your life,

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but your purpose is not to seek the glory of men.

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OK?

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But if your motive is to have people to praise you

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and give you the glory, then you have the wrong intention.

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then you are clearly doing the work to be seen of men and to have the glory of men.

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Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, 1 Corinthians chapter 3.

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So Matthew 5 says, let your light shine.

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Matthew 6 says, don't blow a trumpet.

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What's the difference?

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Who are you trying to glorify?

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Yourself or God?

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And you can apply this to all kinds of work

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that you've done for God, and not just to arms giving,

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sowing, anything that you do for God,

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and your intention is to have the glory of man is wrong.

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1 Corinthians chapter 3.

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Look at verse number 5.

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1 Corinthians 3.

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Verse 5 says this.

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Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos?

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But ministers by whom he believed,

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even as the Lord gave to every man,

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I have planted Apollos' waters, but God gave the increase.

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So then neither is he that planteth anything,

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neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.

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So that was you are nothing, you know,

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whether you're planting and watering,

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because ultimately it is God that gives the increase.

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Amen.

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Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 1.

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1 Corinthians chapter 1, look at verse 29.

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1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 29.

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The Bible says this.

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That no flesh should glorify in his presence, but of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

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That is the purpose, okay? No flesh should glory in his presence, because automatically, you know, it's God that gives the increase.

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Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 2 Corinthians chapter number 10.

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Look at verse number 12, 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse

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12.

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The Bible says this, for we dare not make ourselves

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of the number or compare ourselves

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with some that commend themselves,

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but they measuring themselves by themselves

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and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise.

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Now verse 12 can be a little bit tongue twister here.

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But basically, Paul and Timothy, they

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don't want to compare themselves.

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with those people who commend themselves,

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or elevate themselves.

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So it's not wise to compare among ourselves

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if our goal is to show off and to elevate ourselves.

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But then he said in verse 13,

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but we will not boast of the things without our measure,

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but according to the measure of the rule

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which God had distributed to us,

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a measure to each, even unto you.

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A measure to reach.

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even unto you."

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And then they are going to elaborate what it means

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to boast of things without their measure.

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Look at verse number 14.

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For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure,

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as though we reach not unto you.

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For we are come as far as to you,

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also in preaching the gospel of Christ.

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So Paul was making the argument that we're not

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taking credit for something outside of the ministry.

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that God actually gave us.

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Because Corinth is a legit part of the work

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that God has gave them, because they actually came and preached

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the gospel to them.

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So again, that's Paul's argument.

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But then he says in verse number 15,

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not boasting of things without measure,

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and then he defines it, that is, of other men's labor,

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but having hope when your faith is increased,

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that we shall be enlarged by you according to your will.

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into our rule abundantly, to preach the gospel in the regions

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beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things

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made ready to our hand."

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So let me just dissect this for you.

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Here's Paul's point.

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The reason that we should not be prideful and boast

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about the things that God has done through us

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is we don't know if someone else has watered the field for us

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before.

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We are entering into another man's labor,

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so we should not be taking all the glory.

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That's why Paul said, hey, let's not boast of the things

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without our measure, because we don't

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know who paid the bill for us.

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So imagine a pastor builds a church for like 20 years,

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and then he gets sick, and someone else replaces him.

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Can you imagine the new pastor said, look at what I built?

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That's nonsense, right?

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Or someone spends years, years and years teaching

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and discipling somebody, and then some other preacher

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influenced that same person for six months

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and just act like, look at what my ministry produced.

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See, that's a bad attitude, right?

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Because again, we don't know who has paved the field,

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paved the ground before us.

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And this can apply to both reaching the lost

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and helping other Christians.

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Maybe a different Christian has already

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admonished someone else.

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And you're just solidifying the truth.

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Maybe another soul winner has been preaching the gospel

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to a person, and all you did is sealing the deal.

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That's why he said this in verse number 17.

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But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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just glorying the Lord.

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Because he's the one that actually gives the increase.

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And it is the Lord that uses someone

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to pave the way for you.

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So we should not be boastful about anything.

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Verse 18 says, for Nahi that commended himself

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is approved by whom the Lord commanded.

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So verse 18 sums Paul's argument up.

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You can tell everybody how great you are.

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You can constantly brag about your accomplishment for God.

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You can compare your numbers to everyone else's number.

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You can surround yourself with people who tell you how great you are.

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You can commend yourself all you want.

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But there's one commendation that ultimately matters.

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And that is, what does God think about you?

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That's why he said in verse 18, for nah,

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he that cometh himself is approved,

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but whom the Lord commanded.

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What matters is, what does God think about you?

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Now, I do want to make a point that we should also not solely

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compare the soul-wanting members to say

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who is more right with God.

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We should not solely compare the soul-wanting members

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compare the soul-wanting members to say who is more right with God.

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And that can be a dangerous thinking.

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What if someone who is doing more soul-wanting than you,

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but he lives in an unrecited place?

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What if a church in Europe has fewer salvations than our church?

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Does that mean that that church isn't doing great works for God?

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Does that mean that that church isn't abiding in Christ?

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Does that mean that God isn't blessing that church?

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Obviously not, right?

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And God has indeed blessed us with many salvations,

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but let's not get into our head.

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We are not perfect.

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Nobody is perfect.

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We can all get better.

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We can all do more for God.

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However, if someone is not even doing the first works,

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then they're not even a follower of Christ.

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So we should have a balance.

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Obviously, numbers matter.

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But let's not only use the numbers

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to say who is more right with God.

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But if someone is actively sharing the gospel

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and that he is proficient in his presentation,

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Thanks for watching!

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And if he is not getting as many people saved as us,

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but that doesn't mean that we are more righteous than him.

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Maybe he's planting the seed.

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Maybe he lives in a different area.

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And we should never lift ourselves up just

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because we have more salvations than other people.

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But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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I'm making this point because God, again, has used our church greatly, but let's stay humble, okay?

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And we must not be lifted up with pride, because I want God to use us even more.

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Let's do more things for God out of charity and not self-recognition.

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Examine ourselves and just get the sins out of our life.

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Because if the applause of men is all you want...

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The applause of men may be exactly what you get.

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But don't expect a reward from God for something

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you did for yourself.

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That's what Matthew 6 is teaching, right?

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Right.

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Don't expect a reward from God for something you did for yourself

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Obviously nobody can lose the reward

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You know if you get someone saying you know nobody can take nobody can take that away

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But if you're boasting about that hey, you will lose the reward which you could have gotten you know so go to Proverbs

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27 Proverbs 27

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So let's serve God with the right motive.

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Share your stories and to motivate other people

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and bring glory to God, but make sure you are doing it out

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of love.

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You are doing it out of charity.

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And if you want people to compliment you,

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if you want people to think you are so spiritual,

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if you want people to view you as someone great,

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then you have your reward.

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In Proverbs 27, look at verse number 2.

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Proverbs 27, verse 2 says this.

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Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth,

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a stranger and not thine own lips.

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So don't praise yourself and don't commend yourself.

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Don't lift yourself up.

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The Bible says in Colossians chapter 3, verse 23,

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and whatsoever you do, do it heartily, ask the Lord,

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and not unto men.

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Knowing that of the Lord, he shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for he served the Lord Christ.

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But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done, and there's no respect of persons."

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So I said point number one, soul winning doesn't give you a license to sin. Point number two, soul winning should come from charity.

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And point number three.

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Love covereth all sins.

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Love covereth all sins.

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Proverbs chapter 10, look at verse number 12.

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Proverbs 10, 12 says this.

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Hatred stirth up strife, but love covereth all sins.

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That's what the Bible actually says.

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Not so when it covers all sins.

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So let's talk about what this verse actually means.

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Because the context defines what it means.

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Because the contrast is hatred stirs up, but love covers.

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So hatred looks for something to stir up.

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When you hate someone or when you despise someone,

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every little thing they do bothers you.

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And you remember every single older fans,

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and you bring them back up, and you tell other people,

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and you assume the worst intention,

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and you magnify their minor faults.

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That's what hatred does, right?

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And you enjoy hearing something negative about them.

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But go to Proverbs 17.

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Proverbs 17.

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So hatred looks for something to stir up, but love covers.

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Proverbs 17, look at verse 9.

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Proverbs 17, verse 9 says this.

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He that coverth a transgression

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seek of love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends."

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So covering a transgression is not talking about helping people to conceal a sin, because

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the opposite is, repeateth a matter.

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So in other words, if something has been dealt with, there's no point in bringing it back

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up again.

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That's why the Bible says, hey, if you truly love people,

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you will not repeat it a matter.

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For example, if someone gets right and restores back

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to the church after church discipline,

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don't repeat his sin again.

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That sin is past us.

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If you confront someone of his sins

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and you make things right with that person,

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don't bring it back up again.

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Because hatred stirs up, and love covers all sins.

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And love seeks for resolution, but hatred

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seeks for circulation."

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So that's a fancy phrase you can just write it down

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in your notebook.

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I'm kidding.

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But.

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But if someone thinks against you personally, and if you love that person, you don't spread it to everyone else.

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You should desire to follow the biblical process and to make things right.

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Go to Proverbs 19. Proverbs chapter 19.

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You know, when the Chinese president

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goes to different places, you know,

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the people that are with him always have a notebook

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to write down everything he says.

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You know, the wise saying of the,

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no, anyway, I'm kidding.

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Well, that's true, by the way.

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You know, King Zhong and the President Xi, so.

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We're here to help.

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Wise saying from the chairman, right?

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Anyway, Proverbs 19, we'll go to verse 11.

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Proverbs 19, 11 says this.

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The discretion of a man deferred his anger,

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and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

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So if one church member offends you,

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you don't need to tell it to another church member.

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You don't need to post it online.

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You don't need to repeat it after five years.

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And if something has been resolved,

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why are you still talking about it?

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Why are you telling people who are not even involved?

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Why are you bringing it up three years later, five years later?

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Hey, why are you telling new church members about something

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that someone did before you even joined the church?

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OK, it doesn't make any sense.

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So if it's something really petty, just let it go.

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And if you can't let it go, confound him alone,

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because love covereth all sins.

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Amen?

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And if someone does you wrong and your reaction

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is to tell it to everyone else, you don't have charity.

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You don't even care about what the Bible says.

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Sometimes it's even better to just

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stop yourself to be defrauded.

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Just let it go, like the frozen song.

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Now, if some major saints, especially the saints that

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will get people kicked out of the church, let me know.

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Let a person who actually has the authority

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to deal with the issue rather than broadcasting it

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to the entire world.

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And really, the greatest example of love, coverers, or sins

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is the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

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The Bible says in John 15, verse 13,

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greater love had no man than this,

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that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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And just think about what Jesus Christ did for us.

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He didn't die for us because we were righteous.

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Christ didn't die for us because we deserved it, right?

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And Christ didn't die for us because we had cleaned ourselves up.

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The Bible says, but God commanded His love toward us in that while we were sinners.

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Christ died for us.

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So we were the sinners, and we were the one

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who had done wrong against God.

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We were the ones who deserved the punishment of hell.

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And yet, because of his great love for us,

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Jesus Christ died and paid for our sins.

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So love covereth all sins.

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Obviously, we still suffer the consequence of our sins,

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but he just removed the ultimate punishment of hell.

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Love covereth all sins.

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So if Jesus Christ loved you so much,

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enough to pay for all of your sins,

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how can you claim to be walking in love

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while you're constantly digging up everyone else's past sins?

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Right?

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That's hatred.

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Hatred stirs up.

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How can Christ forgive you of a lifetime of sin,

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and you won't let go of one of the petty sins

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that someone committed against you?

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Doesn't make any sense.

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Turn to Proverbs 28.

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Proverbs 28.

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Charity does not delight in keeping things alive.

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Charity seeks to deal with the sin and to cover the sin.

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And you also apply this to soul winning,

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because when we share the gospel with the lost,

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we are covering other people's sin through the gospel.

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So.

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Now, I do want to clarify that covering sins does not

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mean hiding sins.

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The Bible does not say, if you love someone,

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help them hide their wickedness.

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In Proverbs 28, look at verse 13.

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Proverbs 28, verse 13 says this.

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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper,

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but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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So there's a difference between covering someone else's offense

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in love and just confront that person

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and to make things right versus covering your own sin

01:10:21.960 --> 01:10:25.120
without confessing and dealing with it.

01:10:25.120 --> 01:10:28.440
There's a difference between digging up someone's past

01:10:28.440 --> 01:10:33.240
to stir up strife versus concealing your own sin

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without getting right with God.

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OK?

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And if someone personally offends me,

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I don't need to tell the whole world about it.

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But if I'm the one who sinned against that person,

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I need to confess my sins and get right.

01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:51.280
Because the Bible never says we should cover our sin

01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:53.080
or to hide our sins.

01:10:53.080 --> 01:10:57.740
But you deal with it, and don't bring up the things

01:10:57.740 --> 01:10:59.560
that have been dealt with.

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21 Peter chapter 4.

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First Peter, chair number four.

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So covering sins is not the same as enabling sins.

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Charity covers up petty offenses.

01:11:13.580 --> 01:11:18.800
Charity does not get involved in deception,

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helping people to cover their sins,

01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:25.120
even if they have not made it right or dealt with it.

01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:30.960
So I believe there should be a healthy balance,

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because one extreme says that everybody

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needs to know everything.

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That's gossip and strife.

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But the other extreme is, if you really love them,

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just keep their sins secret no matter what.

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And that's not biblical either, right?

01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:51.920
Just like, if it's a personal offense,

01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:54.240
seek to resolve it personally.

01:11:54.240 --> 01:11:55.720
And if something's so major, hey,

01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:58.040
tell it to someone who has the authority

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to deal with the matter, OK?

01:12:02.440 --> 01:12:04.760
You're in 1 Peter chapter 4.

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And now let's take a look at the New Testament equivalent

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of Proverbs 10, verse number 12.

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1 Peter chapter 4, look at verse number 7.

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1 Peter 4, 7 says this, but the end of all things

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is at hand, be therefore sober and watch unto prayer,

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and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves,

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for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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So I wanted to know this, the phrase,

01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:37.720
at the beginning of verse 8, above all things.

01:12:37.720 --> 01:12:37.900
you

01:12:39.100 --> 01:12:44.060
So Peter was making a point that you can be sober and you can pray and that you can serve

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and you can have all kinds of spiritual gifts, but above all that, don't neglect charity, right?

01:12:51.340 --> 01:12:58.460
And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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You know, I don't care how much you prayed.

01:13:00.980 --> 01:13:03.540
You know, be sober and serve.

01:13:03.540 --> 01:13:06.820
But above all that, don't forsake charity.

01:13:06.820 --> 01:13:08.980
Make sure you are having charity.

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And he doesn't just say charity.

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He says fervent charity.

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Go to 1 Peter chapter 1.

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1 Peter chapter 1, look at verse 22.

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1 Peter 1, 22 says this.

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1 Peter 1, 22.

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Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto

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unthanked love of the brethren a love that's not fake see that you love one another with a pure heart

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fervently

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So we must have a genuine sincere and passionate love toward the brethren

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Right a fervent charity a pure fervent charity. Here's a reason

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Because all have sinned

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We are all sinners.

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So in order for us to dwell in unity,

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we need to have charity when someone does something

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wrong against us, when someone irritates us,

01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.640
or when someone sins against us.

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And it's easy to love somebody who never irritates you.

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I mean, it's easy to love people who agree with you.

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It's easy to love somebody who constantly complements you,

01:14:14.380 --> 01:14:18.940
but the charity gets tested when somebody sins against you.

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And that charity covers the multitude of sins.

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Why?

01:14:23.980 --> 01:14:26.260
Because sometimes charity means, I'm just

01:14:26.260 --> 01:14:28.740
going to let that go.

01:14:28.740 --> 01:14:30.620
Sometimes charity means that I will not

01:14:30.620 --> 01:14:32.900
make an issue out of that.

01:14:32.900 --> 01:14:34.860
Charity means, hey, he has apologized.

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It's over.

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Right?

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Charity is, hey, she probably didn't mean the way it sounded.

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Right?

01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:48.120
And some of the charity means that, you know, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Charity means that, you know, this happened three years ago.

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Why should I bring it up again?

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But that doesn't mean charity is proof of sin.

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Charity does not mean to conceal wickedness.

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Charity doesn't mean that there's never

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church discipline or that there's no confrontation.

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But charity does mean that not to turn every offense

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into a fight.

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Because in 1 Corinthians 13 the Bible says charity suffers long. You know charity is long-suffering, charity is kind, charity envied not,

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charity vaunted not itself and is not puffed up. Does not behave itself

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unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked. Thinketh no evil,

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rejoiceth not in iniquity, but

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but rejoiceth

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in the truth, beareth all things.

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believe with all things, hope with all things,

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endure with all things.

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So a real fervent charity means that we

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have to bear and endure with imperfect people,

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like you and me.

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OK?

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It means to just give people the benefit of the doubt.

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That's why take a look at 1 Peter 4, verse 8 again.

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1 Peter 4 says this.

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First be the 4A.

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and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves

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for charity cover the multitude of sins.

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But then Peter gets really practical in verse number nine.

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He said this, use hospitality one to another

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without grudging, because relationships

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are not convenient.

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Hospitality sounds wonderful until you are actually

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dealing with people.

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Right?

01:16:32.500 --> 01:16:34.500
You know, because people inconvenience you.

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People make messes.

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And people don't always appreciate what you do.

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People sometimes, you know, take more than they give.

01:16:42.500 --> 01:16:48.000
But, you should still show charity and hospitality without grudging.

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Without murmuring about it, without complaining about it.

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And this is the recipe for a healthy church,

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because this prevents a church from becoming a gossip factory.

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Imagine a church where every offense gets repeated.

01:17:05.280 --> 01:17:07.840
Did you hear what Brother So-and-so said?

01:17:07.840 --> 01:17:11.920
Hey, let me tell you what Sister So-and-so has told me.

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You won't hear three years ago, but let me tell you

01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:15.360
what this person did.

01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:22.440
Eventually, nobody trusts anybody.

01:17:22.440 --> 01:17:24.920
Eventually, nobody wants to confess a fault.

01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:27.880
Eventually, nobody wants to seek counsel.

01:17:28.200 --> 01:17:31.680
Eventually, nobody wants to admit that they made a mistake.

01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:33.880
Because everyone knows that if they messed up,

01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:37.800
they'll be talking about it for the next five years.

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But that's the exact opposite of having fervent charity

01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:42.400
among yourselves.

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Amen?

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So if you're going to stay in church, and not just

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this church, but any church, if you're

01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:52.520
going to stay in church for the long haul,

01:17:52.520 --> 01:17:54.520
you better learn how to let some things go.

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Because we are dealing with sinners every single day, right?

01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:01.400
We are dealing with imperfect people.

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Go to John chapter 13.

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John chapter 13.

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Now let's go back to my sermon title,

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soul winning covers all sins.

01:18:13.700 --> 01:18:15.400
If you are going soul winning every week,

01:18:15.400 --> 01:18:18.160
but you are constantly gossiping about your brethren,

01:18:18.160 --> 01:18:21.340
if you're constantly repeating people's mistakes,

01:18:21.340 --> 01:18:25.120
if you are stirring up old controversies,

01:18:25.120 --> 01:18:27.960
if you can't forgive somebody after they made things right,

01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:29.840
if every personal offense has to become

01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:31.360
everybody else's business,

01:18:31.360 --> 01:18:35.000
then your soul winning does not substitute for charity.

01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:38.120
Because sowing ought to come from charity.

01:18:38.120 --> 01:18:40.480
It cannot replace charity.

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Sowing is the first love.

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Yeah.

01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:45.920
I mean, it may cover some sins.

01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.960
It might cancel out with other punishment or whatever.

01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:50.840
But it does not replace charity.

01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:52.200
Amen.

01:18:52.200 --> 01:18:55.900
You love the lost, so you preach the gospel to them.

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But it would be completely backward to say that because I demonstrate my love toward the loss by soul winning,

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I therefore have permission to behave without love toward my brethren.

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That's the complete opposite, right?

01:19:10.040 --> 01:19:14.060
Real charity should affect how you treat both the lost and the saved.

01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:16.880
It's completely hypocritical to

01:19:17.420 --> 01:19:23.520
go soul winning every single week because you claim that you love the lost while treating your brethren like garbage.

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John 13, look at verse 34.

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John 13, 34 says this,

01:19:28.600 --> 01:19:34.600
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.

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As I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,

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if ye have loved one to another.

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So pretty much everyone here is a song winner.

01:19:50.500 --> 01:19:54.740
But ask yourself this, how do you treat your brethren?

01:19:54.740 --> 01:19:58.900
If you love the stranger so much and you knock on their door

01:19:58.900 --> 01:20:02.380
to spend 15 minutes to tell them how to go to heaven,

01:20:02.380 --> 01:20:04.140
you ought to love the brother you've

01:20:04.140 --> 01:20:08.500
sat next to church enough not to gossip about him.

01:20:08.500 --> 01:20:11.340
Don't boast about how much you love the loss while treating

01:20:11.340 --> 01:20:15.180
the same like garbage.

01:20:15.180 --> 01:20:16.940
Go to Matthew 23.

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Matthew 23.

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And don't use your good works to cover up your bad works.

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Matthew 23.

01:20:25.240 --> 01:20:26.460
Look at verse 23.

01:20:26.460 --> 01:20:28.780
Matthew 23 verse 23.

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Here, the Lord Jesus Christ is rebuking the Pharisees

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and the scribes.

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Matthew 23 verse 23.

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The Bible says, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,

01:20:39.300 --> 01:20:39.800
hypocrites.

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For ye paid tithe of mint and anise and cumin,

01:20:44.100 --> 01:20:48.180
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,

01:20:48.180 --> 01:20:50.100
mercy, and faith.

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Don't miss the next phrase.

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These art ye to have done.

01:20:53.980 --> 01:20:55.660
Hey, by all means tithe.

01:20:55.660 --> 01:20:56.540
Tithing is a command.

01:20:56.540 --> 01:20:58.540
Hey, do that, right?

01:20:58.540 --> 01:21:03.740
These art ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

01:21:03.740 --> 01:21:05.700
Amazing verse, practical verse.

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Don't stop doing the good things.

01:21:08.040 --> 01:21:14.360
Start obeying God in the areas you've been a glad ting to.

01:21:14.360 --> 01:21:17.200
And some Christians act like those Pharisees.

01:21:17.200 --> 01:21:22.160
Look how much I go sown in.

01:21:22.160 --> 01:21:23.640
Look how much I give.

01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:25.440
Look how much I know about the Bible.

01:21:25.440 --> 01:21:28.240
And just look at how much I preach.

01:21:28.240 --> 01:21:30.320
Look at how many people I've got saved.

01:21:30.320 --> 01:21:31.760
Here's my answer to them.

01:21:31.760 --> 01:21:32.960
These are all things you have done.

01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:33.460
Hey.

01:21:33.460 --> 01:21:33.500
you

01:21:33.900 --> 01:21:36.020
Good job for preaching the gospel, right?

01:21:36.020 --> 01:21:39.620
Good job for praying and not to leave the other undone.

01:21:39.620 --> 01:21:44.220
Don't forsake judgment, mercy, and faith.

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Hey, by all means, tithe, give as much as you want,

01:21:47.540 --> 01:21:49.580
and go song-winning, and do all these things,

01:21:49.580 --> 01:21:52.140
but don't leave the other undone.

01:21:52.140 --> 01:21:55.740
Every single command of God is important.

01:21:55.740 --> 01:21:57.740
Also on the other side of the spectrum.

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There are also Christians who talk big.

01:22:02.160 --> 01:22:04.000
They claim to be loving.

01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:06.240
They claim to have all kinds of charity,

01:22:06.240 --> 01:22:09.240
but they never go soul winning.

01:22:09.240 --> 01:22:10.520
My answer is the same.

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Hey, it's great to have mercy and judgment and faith,

01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:15.720
but not to leave the soul winning undone.

01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:16.800
Amen?

01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:19.880
Let's have a good balance.

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So I said point number one.

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Soul winning doesn't give you a license to sin.

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Point number two, soul winning should come from charity.

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And point number three, love covereth all sins.

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So the Bible never says soul winning

01:22:35.160 --> 01:22:37.400
shall cover the multitude of sins.

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The Bible does say charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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So yes, go soul winning and go often.

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Get as many people saved as you possibly can.

01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:55.560
Love the lost, preach the gospel, but don't use sown winning as a cloak for your sin.

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Don't love the lost and despise the brethren. Don't preach the truth at the door and lie when you get home.

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Don't tell everybody how to receive eternal life and then spend the rest of the week stirring up strife.

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Because God has blessed us tremendously.

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And I know we are not perfect.

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I know we have sins in our life that need to be dealt with.

01:23:21.140 --> 01:23:23.460
I know every single one of us can grow.

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We can become more charitable, right?

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We can become more forgiving.

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We can become more gracious to other people.

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We can get better at how we speak to other people

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and how we treat one another.

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So don't look at God's blessing and think.

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Well, God is still using us, so I must be okay.

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Don't mistake God's long-suffering for God's approval.

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Don't mistake God's mercy for permission to continue in sin.

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And don't ever get the attitude that, well, I'm still going soul-winding, I'm still serving

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God, people are still getting saved, so everything must be fine.

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Because soul-winding doesn't cover all sins.

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Charity does.

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And a genuine, fervent charity ought

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to change how we treat everybody, and not just the unsaved.

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Amen?

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So let's pray.

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Thank you all for your word, and thank you

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for having charity toward us.

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And what I pray that we'll have a good balance in our Christian life, that we have a real,

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fervent charity towards the lost as well as towards the saved.

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And I pray this in Jesus' name, Amen.

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All right, amen

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Last song is gonna be song number 373 so send iu

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373 so send iu on the first

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So send I you to labor unrewarded, To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought unknown,

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To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing, So send I you to toil for me alone.

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So send I you to bind the bruised and broken,

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Or wandering souls to work, to weep, to wait,

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To bear the burdens of a world I weary.

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So send I you to suffer for my sake.

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So send I you to loneliness and longing, With heart hungering for love unknown,

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Forsaking home and kindred friend and dear one, So send I you to know my love alone.

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So send I you to leave your life's ambition

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To die too dear, desired self will resign

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To labor long in love where men revile you

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So send I you to lose your life in mine.

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So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred.

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To eyes made blind because they will not see.

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To spend though it be blood to spend and spare not.

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So send I you to taste of Calvary.

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All right, good singing.

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Brother Dustin, can you please close that

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with a word of prayer?

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Amen, you are dismissed.