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Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church.

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This time we'll go ahead and get started with our service

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for the evening.

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Turn, if you would, in your hymnal to number 164.

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Praise Him, praise Him.

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164, 164.

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for

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164. We'll sing there on the first.

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Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus our

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husband Redeemer.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you again for this evening,

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for us to be able to safely and freely gather together

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to sing praises under your name, to learn from your word.

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Lord, I pray that you would this evening

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be with the children that receive salvation.

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this afternoon, this evening, that you would just protect them, strengthen their faith,

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and just guide them on the right path as they grow older.

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Lord, I also pray that you would be with those where seeds were planted, that you would be

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with all of those on our prayer list and any of those that have unspoken prayer.

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These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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For our next hymn this evening, number 44, we'll work till Jesus comes.

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Hymn number 44, 44, will work till Jesus comes.

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44 let's sing together

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in your white handouts will be holy holy holy

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and your white handouts, holy, holy, holy.

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Sing out nice and loud there on the first.

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Holy, holy, holy.

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Mark chapter number eight.

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Mark chapter number eight.

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Mark chapter 8. In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat,

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Jesus called His disciples unto Him and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude,

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because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away

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fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for divers of them came from far.

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And his disciples answered to him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

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And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

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And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground.

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And he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and break, and gave to his disciples to set before them.

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And they did set them before the people.

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And they had a few small fishes, and he blessed and commanded to set them also before them.

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So they did eat and were filled, and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets,

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and they that had eaten were about four thousand, and he sent them away.

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And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of

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of Damanuhtha. And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, seeking of

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him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

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And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why did this generation seek after a sign?

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Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation.

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And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.

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Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than

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one loaf.

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And He charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

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And when Jesus knew it, He saith unto them, Why reason ye because ye have no bread?

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Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?

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Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember?

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When I break the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?

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They say unto him, twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments

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took ye up? And they said, seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

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And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

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And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town.

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And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw aught.

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And he looked up and said, I see men as trees walking. After that he put his hands again upon

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his eyes and made him look up. And he was restored and saw every man clearly.

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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any

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in the town.

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And Jesus went out and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea of Philippi.

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And by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

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And they answered John the Baptist, but some say Elias, and others one of the prophets.

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he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

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And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

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And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

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And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,

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and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes,

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and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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And he spake that saying openly.

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And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

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But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying,

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Get thee behind me, Satan, for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

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And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them,

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Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for

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my sake in the gospels, the same shall save it.

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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my

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words, and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of

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Man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." Let's pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the great soul-winning this evening. I pray that you

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Amen. Mark chapter number eight. It's kind of a tipping point in the gospel of Mark.

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Because in the previous chapters, there's been a lot of people asking, you know, who is this guy is not this the carpenter?

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Don't we know his you know siblings? Don't we have his mother here?

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a prophets not without honor saving his own country in his own house and this chapter is where it gets plainly revealed that

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Jesus is the Christ of course Peter says thou art the Christ and then Jesus reveals that and talks about his coming

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Suffering his death his burial and resurrection

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And so this is kind of a big tipping point in the gospel of Mark starting verse number one

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The Bible says in those days the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat

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Jesus called his disciples unto him and

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Sayeth unto them notice this phrase. I have

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compassion on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat

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When you read the gospels, I would say the most common emotion that you see the bible recording the lord jesus christ have is compassion

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It's always talking about how he was moved with compassion. He had compassion on them

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He says here I have compassion on the multitude

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So notice jesus is paying attention to the needs of people

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And he recognizes their needs and he actually cares about those needs because of course he's going to be moved here to provide

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the physical sustenance

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that these people need. I think one thing right off the bat we can learn from this is that with

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the Lord Jesus Christ, his compassion is always compounded with action. And this is what biblical

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compassion is. You know, biblical compassion is not getting on Facebook and virtue signaling.

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We have a lot of people today in America that will tell you how compassionate they are.

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In fact, if you would just like describe the left-wing Democrats, how they would describe themselves as

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we're the party of compassion.

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Oh, the evil right they just don't have compassion on the immigrants. They don't have compassion on the poor

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They don't have compassion on the LGBT. That's very true. Okay, we definitely don't have compassion on the sodomites on the pedophiles

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But you know, they just like act like they have all this compassion

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But you know what real compassion is is matched with action, right? Jesus Christ. He has compassion

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the multitude and so you know what he does he feeds them he performs a miracle

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You know for us the Bible talks about enough some have compassion making a difference, right others save with fear

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Pulling them out of the fire the Bible teaches. How is it that a Christian actually shows true compassion? It's by preaching the gospel

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where you say, oh, I'm a Christian, I'm compassionate.

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I have compassion on people.

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Well, your compassion is actually proved by your actions.

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Right, so if there's a real hell and if there's people going there and you actually love those people

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You know what you do you would open your mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel and look we could also of course

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Apply this to other areas of life too where if you actually love someone in this church, yeah, and they need help you'd help them

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Right the Bible talks about as much as we have opportunity. Let us do good unto all men

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Especially those that be of the household of faith

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We should of course help people that are a Christian.

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And you know what?

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Here's another great thing you could do that is an action.

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If you have compassion is praying for someone.

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Now what's funny is, you know, the left will mock that.

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Oh, you know, you're just praying.

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You need to have action.

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Prayer is action.

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Because prayer actually changes things and we actually serve a god who could change things

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And so, you know having compassion on people could involve many different things preaching them the gospel

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Bringing someone who's sick a meal signing up for the meal train when the lady has a baby or just praying for one another

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You know compassion should be matched with action not just being this virtue signaller telling everyone how compassionate that you are

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Look what it says in verse three. It says and if I send them away fasting

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to their own houses, they will faint, by the way, for divers of them came from far.

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So notice, of course, we know that Jesus has compassion on us regarding spiritual things.

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I mean, he died for our sins that we could be saved. Obviously, he has compassion for us

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in this sense. But I also like that Jesus, too, has compassion and cares about helping us out

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physically as well.

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He also cares about our physical needs.

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Go, if you would, to Genesis chapter number 48, Genesis chapter number 48.

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You know, I like that the Lord Jesus Christ is a personal God, right?

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He's not like what the Gnostics would say that God just created this world and

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kind of backed up and doesn't care personally.

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No, he cares spiritually and he also cares for us physically.

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I like what

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Jacob says in Genesis 48

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Look at verse number 15. We're there it says and he blessed Joseph and said God

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Behold before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac did walk the God notice which fed me all

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My life long unto this day. You know what I like about Jacob

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He recognized that every single meal he ever received in his life was God taking care of him

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for our souls.

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He died on the cross for our sins, but you know what?

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He also cares about taking care of us physically in the Bible says how to

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receive his provision.

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What does the Bible say?

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Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these

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things shall be added unto you.

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Right.

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So how is it that Jacob was provided for all the days of his life?

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Even through times of famine?

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Well, he served God.

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Right. He was a servant of the Lord and this too is how we get God to provide for our needs.

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Right. It's not like you're just saved and you sit on your couch all day and God's just going to

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give you money. Right. He says to go out and work, but you know, having God's hand on your life

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is providing for you. Go back if you would to Mark chapter number eight.

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And also, you know what? I'm all for

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Children, you know, children, you better be very thankful to your parents for what they provide for you.

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You know, if you're a stay-at-home wife, your husband brings home the bacon,

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you ought to be very appreciative of the work that he puts in to provide for you.

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But at the end of the day, we should all realize that everything we have is ultimately coming from God.

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Right man woman boy girl. We all should be giving thanks to the Lord because he's the one who's looking down from heaven

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Having compassion on us feeding us taking care of us and look Jesus isn't just giving us the bare minimum in life

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Right. We are extremely blessed in 2026 America and we ought to give God the glory for that

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Then it says in verse 4 and his disciples answered him from whence can a man satisfy these men with bread

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And he said, and he asked them, how many loaves have you?

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And they said seven.

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Now, later in this chapter, we're going to see that it was about 4000 people

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that Jesus had to feed here and the disciples are like, how are we going to

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provide a meal for all these people?

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Jesus is like, how many loaves do you have?

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They said, hey, we have seven.

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And you know what that teaches me is that God can do a lot with a little bit.

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It's not like God needs this huge number, this huge quantity to do something great.

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I mean, he just needs seven loaves and a few fishes and he ends up feeding the multitude,

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right?

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Because some people, they may just like feel about themselves that, man, I'm nothing special.

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I'm inadequate when it comes to serving God.

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But you think about the poor widow woman who just gave two mites.

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She gave all that she had.

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And you know what?

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God said that she gave more than they all.

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Right, so it's not necessarily about when it comes to your service for God doing more than another person

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Those that compare themselves among themselves the bible says is not wise

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It's not like oh if you put in this amount of our soul winning

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You're automatically better what it is is doing what you can for the lord with what you have

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And here's how much you should do for the lord all that you can do

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Now that is going to look differently for different people.

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But what God expects of me is not necessarily the same thing he expects of you.

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But here's what he does expect, everything that we can give.

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Right? So I, you know, I understand, you know, women, they'll have a pregnancy.

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Maybe they can't go as soul winning as much as they did before or their postpartum.

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They can't go as much as they did before. Or you go through seasons of life where just

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your circumstances are different. You know, what God expects of you is just whatever you can give

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him all that you do have, give that to God and he can multiply that and do something great with it.

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Then it says in verse six, and he commanded the people to sit down on the ground.

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And he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and break notice this and gave

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to his disciples to set before them.

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And they did set them before the people.

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Now, what this obviously makes you think of is soul winning.

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Right because Jesus performs the miracle he multiplies the sacrifice that is sufficient for all of this great multitude

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But he gives this to the disciples then the disciples bring it to the multitude

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You have idiots today that attack soul winning. Let me tell you any person

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Who attacks soul winning is a wicked person and is a fool?

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If you ever hear any preacher, any online influencer, just talking down about going

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door to door, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, you should just know right off the

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bat, this is a loser.

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This is a wicked individual.

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This is someone you should not be listening to because the Bible teaches soul winning.

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There's this lie out there that independent fundamental Baptist came up with soul winning.

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I've seen this online this week where people are saying, you know, Pastor Jack Hiles in the 1950s

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invented door-to-door evangelism and then it was revived again by Pastor Steven Anderson for a

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short while. This is a lie, okay? And it's funny, this guy commented on my post, he's like, show me

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one time before 1950 where people are going door-to-door preaching the gospel of Jesus

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I said, okay, go to Acts chapter 5.

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Go, if you would, to Acts chapter number five.

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Let's look in the Bible.

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Where people are so was because you know, do you think it's a coincidence that this is how Jesus passed out the bread?

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I mean couldn't he have just done a miracle where just all of a sudden appeared in people's hands?

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Absolutely, couldn't he have gone and done it himself?

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Absolutely. Jesus doesn't do things by accident or by mistake. Okay, he's doing this because this is a picture of soul winning now

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This fool apparently has never read acts 5 because notice what it says in verse 41

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and they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were

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counted worthy to suffer shame for his name and daily in the temple and in every house

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and in every house you might need to underline that they cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ

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Here's what the apostles were doing in the book of Acts.

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They were preaching in the temple.

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Then they were going to every house, teaching and preaching Jesus Christ.

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You know what that is? That's soul winning.

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Show me one time before Jack Hiles or anyone did this.

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Right here.

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And what's funny, you know, I show this guy and it wasn't enough.

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He said, well, show me between 8070 and 1950.

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And here's the thing, I can show you that.

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But someone who's going to reject Acts chapter 5

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is just an idiot.

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They don't deserve a response.

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Now, for the listener, I'll just let you know,

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someone who did this way before Pastor Jack Hiles

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was Pastor J. Frank Norris.

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who was born in the late 1800s and he pastored until the 1950s.

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So you got today the new IFB and other Baptist churches were soul winning.

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You have Jack Hiles that was soul winning starting in 1950. You have

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J. Frank Norris who was soul winning from 1950 to the early 1900s and before that his predecessor

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also was a soul winner in the DFW area. Now look I don't have a time machine to show you every church

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in the 1800s 1700s 1600s 1500s but I could just go all the way back

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to the first century AD and show you where people are going house to house preaching

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the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now look, this is easy if you believe the Bible. This is just plain as

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the nose on your face. The Bible teaches soul winning. You know who doesn't like this? First of all,

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unsaved people because they can't get people saved.

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They preach a false gospel.

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They can't go and just in 15 minutes with the power of God,

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with the spirit of God, with the word of God,

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cause someone to change for being a Catholic,

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to change for being an agnostic,

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to put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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They can never do that because they're without fruit.

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Also, you know who doesn't like this wicked backs,

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slidden, lazy Christians who don't go soul winning because you know what?

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Every time someone that goes soul winning and preaches the gospel,

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it's a big finger in their chest reminding them that they are not

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compassionate, that they are not loving, that they are not obedient to the call

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of Jesus Christ to be fissures of men.

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This is why people attack Sony.

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Let me tell you, it's not.

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why people attack Sony.

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Let me tell you, it's not.

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It's just these lazy jerks do not work.

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That's the truth.

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Okay.

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Here's another example.

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Good acts, chapter number eight acts chapter number eight.

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It says in verse number 27 and he rose and went to behold a man of Ethiopia and eunuch of great authority under Candace

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Queen of the ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship

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Was returning and sitting in his chariot read

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Isaias the prophet so you got the Ethiopian eunuch here and he's sitting in the chariot reading the bible

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Reading the book of isaiah

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Then the spirit said unto Philip, notice this word,

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go near and join thyself to this chariot.

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And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet

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Isaiah and said, understandest thou what thou readest.

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Notice in this interaction, the soul

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winner wasn't waiting for the Ethiopian eunuch to come to him.

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If anyone wants to come, they'll hear the gospel.

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You can come down to an old fashioned altar.

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You'll have a worker here.

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You know, you could hear the gospel.

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No, no, no.

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He ran to this person.

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He joined himself to this person.

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You know, on Sunday, it's all right.

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It's just a baby.

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It's all good.

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I saw someone walking out, taking their trash out.

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It wasn't a door that we were going to knock.

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I just saw this lady, you know, we did, we just went up to her.

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And you know what we did?

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We initiated the conversation as the soul winner

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and that lady got saved.

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Who initiates the conversation in this story?

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The soul winner does.

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Philip, he goes, he sees a guy sitting by himself.

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By the way, that's always a good time to preach the gospel

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and someone's alone.

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That's a good opportunity.

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He sees a guy sitting by himself

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and even reading the Bible.

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I mean, that's a sign right there for you.

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He's reading the Bible and he asks the question,

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do you understand what you're reading?

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Folks, soul winning is so biblical.

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It's not even funny because this is what we do all the time.

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We go house to house and we ask people the question.

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We initiate the conversation.

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If you were to die today, are you a hundred percent sure that you're going to heaven?

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And if they say no, we give them the gospel.

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And if they say yes, and they give the right answer, then we give them the gospel.

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How are people supposed to get saved?

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If not by soul winning.

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How do people get saved? Does a light come shining in everyone's room?

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Does Jesus pay them a special visit? No, Jesus does not pass out the bread.

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He gives it to the disciples. And the disciples go and pass out the bread.

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And that's all we are. We're a delivery boy of the gospel.

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All we are is the newspaper boy, just throwing the newspaper at your

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house, delivering the message.

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And, you know, it's up to them to believe it or reject it, but it's

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up to us to preach it.

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Go back to Mark chapter number eight.

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I just get so tired of people attacking.

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So many, because, you know, they can't build anything.

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They can't do anything.

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So all they could do is attack.

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It just makes me mad.

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It says in verse seven,

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And they had a notice that word again few small fishes and he blessed and commanded to set them also before them

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So again, even with few in number as long as you have the blessing of jesus on it. That's all you need right there

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So they did eat and were filled and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven

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baskets

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They had eaten and they that had eaten were about 4,000 and he sent them away.

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So notice, you know the bread that's being distributed. It's more than enough.

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It's more than enough to feed everyone just like the sacrifice of Christ is for all and it's more than enough for this world.

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Yeah, there's going to be some in this world that reject it.

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There's going to be some baskets of bread left over, but it's not because it wasn't there provided for them.

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Jesus died for every single person.

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Verse 10 it says in straight way he entered into a ship with his disciples and came into the parts of dalmanutha

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And the Pharisees came forth and began to question him seeking of him a sign from heaven

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Tempting him now. I think what we just read was a pretty good sign already

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And the Bible talks about how the fame of Jesus Christ was already spread abroad,

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which is why he already had these huge multitudes following him.

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So it's not like these Pharisees are being, you know, sincere or they're like,

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man, I'm not sure if you're really special or if you're, you know,

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the Messiah or anything like that.

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They already know all the miracles that he's done.

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The Bible says that they're what? Tempting him.

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Notice Jesus's reaction. Verse 12.

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And he sighed deeply. This is where deep sigh comes from, right?

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You ever, if anyone's heard that just like you hear something stupid, you're just like deep sigh.

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This is Jesus's reaction. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and sayeth, why does this generation

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seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation.

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Now, I, you know this, if you're a soul winner, people don't read the Bible.

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People do not read the Bible because all the time I go out so winning all the time and I constantly hear people say

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That they're asking God for a sign. I just want God to show me a sign and I often show them this scripture

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I usually go to the one in Matthew actually but I show them this story and it's like Jesus doesn't like

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That you're constantly asking of him a sign. He's sighing deeply in his pictures like oh

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Why does this generation ask a sign?

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And in the other gospels it talks about how there shall be no sign given unto them save the sign of the prophet

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Jonas for as jona was three days and three nights in the whale's belly

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So shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Here's the sign. Jesus is the sign

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Jesus christ is your sign his whole ministry is your sign his death is your sign his burial is your sign

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His resurrection sure is a sign

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You don't need a special sign from God.

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God already showed the signs by giving you the gospel.

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God's already showed us a great sign by giving us the miracle that we hold in our hands right here the King James Bible

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The eternal Word of God that has been passed down to us that we have in

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2026 this is all the sign that we need

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Why is it that Jesus does not like it when you ask a sign of him because Jesus wants faith?

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The Bible says he that cometh to God must believe that he is that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him

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Right without faith. It is impossible to please him

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He wants us to just look at what the bible says listen to what he says and just believe it and just accept it

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Okay. Now today many people ask for a sign. What are some areas that people ask for a sign one would be salvation

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And this is a colossal mistake

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Because you're not going to get a special sign regarding your salvation.

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You are not going to get a special visit from an angel.

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You are not going to get a special visit from Jesus Christ.

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You're not going to get God speaking to you in a dream.

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Hey, Hebrews chapter one, verse one makes it clear that God used to talk to people that way.

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But in these last days, he's spoken to us through his son.

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That's the word of God. Here's your sign.

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When a soul winner knocks on your door.

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and asked if you're 100% sure you're going to heaven,

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and he offers to show you the gospel,

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that's the only sign you're gonna get.

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And look, we live in Oklahoma, we live in the Bible Belt.

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How often are people getting signs,

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meaning the Bible being preached to them?

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A Bible verse on a billboard or something like that,

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or just hearing the word of God,

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or hearing a family member or a grandma that's praying.

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Like there's lots of those instances

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that are happening for people in life,

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but God is not gonna give you

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some sort of special extra biblical sign,

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and if someone is waiting for that,

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they will die and go to hell.

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It's like, who are you to just hold God hostage that, that God's just going to

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like cater to your demands.

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He already gave us more than we deserve with the death of his son.

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Okay.

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Also don't be looking for some sort of special sign in a church because

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those types of churches are weird.

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Right the snake handling pentecostal the benny hent slapping people with his you know coat or whatever people falling over dead

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Barking like a dog those type of churches are wicked churches that always teach a false gospel

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And you know, what's the type of person though that's attracted?

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to the Pentecostal churches, a wicked person.

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Because didn't Jesus say,

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a wicked and adulterous generation seek it after a sign?

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Because for the Pentecostal,

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the King James Bible just isn't good enough.

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The words of Jesus Christ just isn't good enough.

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No, they got to have a pastor who gets a special word of knowledge,

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a special revelation, a special heavenly angelic language that no one else can speak.

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You know, Pentecostalism is just a self-centered religion of man is all it is.

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And it's a wicked and adulterous generation that shows up to church looking for a sign.

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You should show up to church ready to hear the word of God.

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That's the sign that we need to listen to.

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Here's another one.

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Don't be asking for God for, you know, special personal signs in your personal life.

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Here's what you need to do.

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You need to trust in the Lord with all thine heart.

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Lean not on thine own understanding.

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In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.

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Here's how you find the will of God for your life

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you actually have the faith to open up your Bible and read it and

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Believe what it says and do it

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That's your sign people there just constantly like oh, I just you know divorce people right people be divorced

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And I'm not gonna go into this for this sermon, but the Bible teaches against divorce

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And the Bible teaches that if you're divorced and you get remarried that that's adultery, right?

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And so people will be in that situation and they'll say like man, you know

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God just dropped this hunk into my life and I just feel like it's God showing me a sign

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But you know what? God is never going to do something contrary to his word

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You're looking for a sign because it's a wicked and adulterous generation that seek it after a sign

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and you're mistaking the lust of your own heart for a sign from God.

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That's why we need to read the Bible every single day.

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And look, I'm not saying that, oh, someone's, you know, extra bad because they could fall into that.

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Look, if we stop reading our Bible, our heart's wicked too.

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We could all fall into that type of a mindset,

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which is why we must renew our mind daily with the word of God.

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Alright, verse number 14 says this now.

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The disciples had forgotten to take bread.

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Neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf,

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which is kind of hilarious when you think about what

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Jesus just did. He just performed this miracle.

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He multiplies all this bread they get in the boat.

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The disciples just forget all of it except just one loaf.

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It's like come on guys.

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You can't just rely on anyone these days.

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It says in verse 15 and he charged them saying take heed.

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Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. Let me say this Jesus was not above

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warning against people by name

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Jesus Christ warned against groups by name and man

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There is just a culture in churches today where pastors are just afraid to talk about the elephant in the room and they'll describe a group

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They'll tell you their beliefs, but they just won't say the name

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They'll talk about a person. They just won't say the name. We need to be like Jesus and say hey beware of the Mormons

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Hey, they're a cult. They're not Christians. Let's not you know, pussyfoot around that true

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Let's just say like hey the Mormons are a cult. They believe a false gospel. They're not our brothers in christ

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They're on their way to hell. They're sending people to hell. Hey the catholics. It's a false religion

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They're pagans. They worship idols. They kiss bull

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Bunch of bone kissers.

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They go to a man in a dress and ask for forgiveness of sins.

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Let's just call it how it is today.

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Let's just say, hey, the pope is a false prophet who's going to burn in hell for all of eternity.

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Let's just call it what it is today that the Calvinists are a bunch of liars teaching limited

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atonement that Jesus didn't die for everyone. That the Calvinists are a bunch of false doctrine

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preachers saying that God has preordained before the foundation of the world who's going to heaven

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and who's going to hell. No, it's whosoever will may come. Right? You know, I just like that Jesus

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warns against these people by name saying, hey, watch out for the Pharisees. By the way,

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Watch out for the Jews.

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That's what the Pharisees were right?

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Today the modern day religion of Judaism is a continuation of the Pharisaical religion.

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That's what it is.

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And he says, hey watch out for those Jews.

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Beware of the Pharisees.

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And of the leaven of Herod.

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He'll even call out a political leader by name.

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He'll even just say, hey, you know, Herod's wicked too.

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The Jews are wicked, Herod's wicked.

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But verse 16 the disciples as is pretty common don't understand what's happening and they reason among themselves saying it is because we have no bread

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It's like come on guys. It's not at all what he's talking about verse 17

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And when Jesus knew it, he sayeth unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?

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He's like, Forget the bread.

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All right, it's all right.

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I can make more any time.

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I could, you know, I could duplicate it any time.

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It's all good.

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Forget about the bread.

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He says, Perceive ye not, neither understand.

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Notice this.

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Have ye your heart yet hardened?

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You know why they didn't get it?

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It's because their heart was still hardened.

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This is Jesus's diagnosis.

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It's like, have you your heart yet hardened?

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It was already hardened because they were a little upset that they didn't get the day off that they wanted.

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He's like, is your heart still hard? Is that why you're not getting this?

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Having eyes, see ye not?

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And having ears, hear ye not?

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And do ye not remember when I break the five loaves among five thousand?

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How many baskets full of fragments took ye up?

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They say unto him 12 when the seven among four thousand how many baskets full of fragments took he up and they said seven

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And he said unto them. How is it that you do not?

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Understand so notice he's saying like hey you guys don't get it your heart's hardened. We're not talking about bread

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If you don't have to go there, but if you go to Matthew chapter 16 verse 12

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He makes it clear that what he's talking about is the doctrine of the Pharisees when he says hey

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Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees beware of the leaven of Herod. He's saying beware of the doctrine

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Now, what is doctrine? Doctrine is teaching, right?

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So Jesus is warning people about false teaching.

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The Pharisees, of course, they're rejecting Christ.

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They're a bunch of hypocrites.

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You know, they're sitting in Moses' seat,

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but they don't even believe the Bible themselves.

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Jesus calls them out, beware of their doctrine.

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You know, Herod takes his brother Philip's wife.

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You know, he's teaching a doctrine just by his actions.

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And sometimes when someone in a position of authority sends that person needs to

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be called out so that people know this is not something that's okay.

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Right.

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You know, for example, pastor Shelley recently posted on Facebook and he

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wasn't even attacking the guy.

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He wasn't being mean spirited at the guy or anything like that.

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He just said like, Hey, this pastor, I'm losing his name now, Jeff Owens.

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He's like, Hey, this pastor, Jeff Owens just stepped down

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and he's divorcing his wife.

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People were like oh, how dare you ever say something like that well

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You know what when a pastor gets divorced that needs to be shamed that needs to be called out

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Yeah, and look I I like brother Jeff Owens. I think he's saved

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I think that he's done great things for God

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But I'll tell you what you know when you get up and you apologize for preaching against the sodomites you need to be called

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Out for that you know if I ever apologize for preaching against fags

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I would hope that my friends will call me out, and they would

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And you know what Jeff Owens should have done is he should have unapologized.

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You should apologize for apologizing that you backed off on the fags because you know what?

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Leviticus 20 13 didn't change in your Bible from when you preached it in the 90s.

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And the truth that you're preaching the 90s is still true today in 2026.

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And you know the same truth that the Bible gives of condemning divorce is still true today as well.

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And when a man of God just gets divorced, just a public figure, guy leading, you know,

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large number of people, hey, we need to say something about that.

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It's not an act of hatred, right?

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It's not, you know, oh, we just want to see this person.

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No, I want good for him.

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I hope that things go well in his life.

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I don't want to see him get destroyed because he's a child of God.

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And you know what?

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It's sad that this has happened.

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You know, it's sad seeing independent Baptist pastors constantly fail.

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You know, someone needs to say something.

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when King David said, hey, you know...

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Going quite, you know, he goes and inquires over Bathsheba

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You know what the Bible says and one said is not this Bathsheba the wife of Uriah

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The Hittite the Bible says and one said someone said something

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We need someone today to say something and Jesus was gonna say something

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He's gonna say hey watch out for the false doctrine of the Pharisees watch out for the bad example of Herod

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You know what we need pastors?

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You're not in a position, you're not given influence.

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You're not given a position where you speak just so that you could hide from

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all the issues like we need men of God today to actually speak and say something

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and say something that's uncomfortable every once in a while.

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You know, another thing we could take from this is that even disciples can grow

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cold in their heart and forgetful.

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I mean, they're around Jesus Christ, but they're not getting the preaching.

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They're not understanding what he's saying.

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And Jesus is saying, what have you your heart yet hardened?

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You know, I think that even in a church like ours, it's possible that someone's here today

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and their heart is hardened and they're not getting out of their walk with God the things

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that they should.

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You know what?

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You should diagnose that in yourself before God punishes you.

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before God has to come and correct your life.

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Let me say this, you know, I'll preach this.

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You might get tired of me preaching this.

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I will never stop preaching.

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You need to be a soul winner.

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Like you need to be a soul winner.

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Jesus said, hey, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

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And I am not here to coddle you.

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I'm here to be your pastor and tell you

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that someday you're going to stand before Jesus Christ

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and give an account of your life.

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And if you're not soul winning, you're wasting your life.

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Someone needs to say something today.

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Also, let me say this.

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Even disciples need correction.

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You will never get to your life where you're above being corrected.

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I don't care how long you followed.

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I don't care how close you are, you know, to the inner circle of some pastor or something like that,

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or how much Bible you know.

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No one is above correction.

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The pastor is not above correction.

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I'm reading this book every day and it's correcting me.

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It's instructing me.

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It's approving me.

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No one is above correction.

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You know what? You should crave correction.

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You should come expecting correction.

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Sometimes you should ask for correction.

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Ask for advice.

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Then it says let's go if you would to verse number 22

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it says and he cometh to Bethsaida and

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They bring a blind man unto him and besought him to touch him

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And he took the blind man by the hand and let him out of the town

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And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him he asked him if he saw ought

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And he looked up and said, I see men as trees walking.

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And sorry, after that, he put his hands again upon his eyes

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and made him look up.

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And he was restored and saw every man clearly.

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And he sent him away to his house saying neither go into the town nor tell it to any in the town

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This is a really interesting part of the gospel of mark whenever in my life. I'm reading through my bible

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This has always stuck out to me in the gospel of mark because it's just kind of a weird story

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Someone's blind Jesus just spits in his eyes and it's like can you see it? It's like I see men as

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Trees walking. How do I interpret that? He's got blurry vision. I don't know. I have good eyesight

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So I don't know what you know men looking like trees would look like but I just figure you know, things are blurry

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Things are distorted, but then Jesus touches him a second time and all of a sudden now he can see clearly now

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He could see every man plainly

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And why this is kind of sandwiched between the two stories we're going to see in this

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chapter is because what is happening to this man physically is what is happening to the

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disciples spiritually.

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The disciples, they're starting to see, but their side is still a little fuzzy, right?

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We're about to see Peter.

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He's about to say, thou art the Christ, right?

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So they've got some vision.

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aren't the Christ, right? So they've got some vision.

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They know who Jesus Christ is.

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They know this is the son of God.

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But you're also about to see Peter rebuke Jesus

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after Jesus tells him that I have to be crucified.

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I have to die.

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I have to be delivered up.

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And so what does he have here?

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He kind of has some sight, but he has glory sight.

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Right, and look, just because someone is saved

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does not mean they're going to understand all doctrine.

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We need to be patient with new converts.

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And let me tell you this, if you've gotten saved in the last five years, you should just

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know that you see trees as men walking.

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Men as trees walking.

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Don't have this prideful attitude where it's like, I've been saved for a year, two, year,

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three, four, five years, and I just know everything in the Bible.

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No, no, no.

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You haven't spent that much time with Jesus yet.

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But here's the good news is that, you know, he was touched the second time,

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then he could see clearly. What can we learn from that?

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The more time you spend with Jesus, the clearer you're going to see.

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The more you're going to know.

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And you know what's cool about the Bible? The Bible says we have the mind of Christ.

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It's so cool that I could get up and I could confidently say, I know what Jesus thinks

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about things.

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I know what Jesus teaches about things.

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And people love to just put a question mark on the word of God.

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You can't say that.

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You don't know what Jesus Christ thinks.

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Well, you know what?

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I've spent a lot of time around him and I know who Jesus Christ is.

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And if you've read the Bible many times,

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you know who Jesus Christ is.

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You know, it's so funny.

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You see people today commenting online,

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and they're like, you can't tell me that someone's unsaved.

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You can't tell me that you know for sure

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that someone is going to hell.

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Many times, I could tell you for sure.

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Yeah.

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You know Martin Luther King I made a post about him this week Martin Luther King denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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He's in hell

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Well, you don't really know no no no no there's not a single person who could reject the resurrection and be saved

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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that god hath raised him from the dead

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Thou shalt be saved you deny. He was raised from the dead. You're burning in hell my friend

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And look, you got chapters like Romans 1 that explains that men who burn in their lust towards

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other men, women who burn in their lust towards other women, that is a result of having rejected

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the gospel, hating God, not wanting to retain Him in their knowledge, and so they're given

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over to reprobate mind.

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Hey, I know that all faggots are going to burn in hell someday.

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I know that.

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How could you speak like that?

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Because I know Jesus.

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That's why.

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Because you know what? He hasn't just touched my eyes one time

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He's touched my eyes many times and I've spent a lot of time with the Lord Jesus Christ

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And I know who Jesus Christ is I know what he teaches. I know what he thinks about things

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I know that he said hey, whosoever offendeth

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One of these little ones, it were better for him

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that a millstone were tied about his neck

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and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

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Hey, I know what Jesus Christ would wanna do to Lindsay Clancy,

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even if the feminists in this world don't.

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I know that Lindsay Clancy should be shot in the back of the head

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by the government or drowned in the ocean.

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She should be put to death because she offended little children.

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Right. Oh, but postpartum psychosis.

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Okay, shut up because you don't know Jesus and I do.

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And your opinion about this is not going to supersede what Jesus teaches about this and you know

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Whosoever shedeth man's blood by his blood by man shall his blood be shed. That's what Jesus teaches man

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Why do you always just use the Bible to end conversations because this ends the conversation?

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Jesus ends the conversation, you know people these liberals be like we need to use the Bible to start conversations

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Not end them. I use it to start it and end it

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I show up at someone's door and I start the conversation with the Bible and I end it with the Bible

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I start a sermon with the Bible. I end it with the Bible

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I whatever I believe in this world it starts and it ends with Jesus's words

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And we ought not to back off as fundamentalists and just be afraid of these people that want to say

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Oh, you guys are using the Bible as a hammer. No, I'm using it as a sword actually

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It's a sword. It's a two edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit

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Man, I love this story here more time you spend with Jesus the more clearly you will see

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And we see that in the life of the Apostles. Don't we of the disciples we see Peter. He says thou art the Christ

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He then rebukes him. He ends up denying Christ, but he gets right later in life.

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He writes first and second Peter, right? And so their eyes are more and more enlightened as

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they're going along too. That's all of us. That's all of us. Verse 27. And Jesus went out

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and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea Philippi. And by the way,

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he asked his disciples saying unto them, whom do men say that I am?

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And they answered, John the Baptist.

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But some say Elias, and others, one of the prophets.

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You know, I love that the Lord Jesus Christ

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did not have a reputation of being a soft, weak,

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effeminate, long-haired, dress-wearing hippie.

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Jesus had a reputation about him

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of being a serious, hard-preaching man of God.

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And you know this world's report of a preacher often does match the culture of that person,

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the beliefs of that person, even if they lie in certain areas. You know Jesus is like John the

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Baptist. John the Baptist comes, he's what? He's wearing a rough garment, he's dwelling in the

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wilderness, he's eating locusts and wild honey, and he's preaching, hey repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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Right, and what is what is John the Baptist doing? He's calling out Herod

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And you know what Jesus is doing in this chapter calling out Herod, right?

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You know, I like his John the Baptist by the way

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What a good title that that is and then you know, Elias too, you know

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He had the same reputation as Elias. What did Elias do? I don't know kill 450 prophets of Baal

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Jesus was not some soft so weak watered-down person. They looked at Jesus. They're like you remind me of that guy that killed 450 false prophets

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You remind me of that guy that called down fire from heaven

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You remind me of that guy who had power in his prayers

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You remind me of a real one right and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not one of these soft guys

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Then it says in verse 29 and he saith unto them, but whom say ye that I am

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And Peter answereth and saith unto him, thou art the Christ.

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And look, it's not that it's bad comparisons to be compared to John the Baptist

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or to be compared to Elias, but the Lord Jesus Christ is way more than what those men are.

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Right? Because hey, John the Baptist, greatest of men born among women,

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but you know what? There's one greater than him that John said,

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I'm not even worthy to unloose his shoe latchet.

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I'm not even worthy to do this to the Lord Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is above Elias.

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Jesus Christ is above John the Baptist and he is the Christ. What does that mean? The Savior, the Messiah.

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One thing to note about this people who are living at this time, which keep in mind before the death of Christ, that's the Old Testament.

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Right.

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So new Testament is post-cross right now, this story, this is old Testament.

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Sincere Jews.

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Peter was a Jew, right?

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Sincere Jews who actually believed the old Testament.

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who actually believed Moses, who actually believed the scriptures,

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recognized that Jesus was the Christ. They were looking for Jesus.

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In John chapter 1, it talks about some of the apostles. When they saw him, they said,

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We have found him, of whom Moses and the law did right, and the prophets, Jesus of Nazareth.

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Anyone who's honest with the Old Testament when they saw Jesus,

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they believed he was the Messiah.

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Jesus, when preaching to the Jews who rejected him,

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he said, if you would have believed Moses, you would have believed me.

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What is he saying?

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The Jews didn't believe the Old Testament

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and the Jews today do not believe the Old Testament.

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That is one of the biggest lies about Judaism is they say, oh,

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we have the same God.

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is they say, Oh, we have the same God.

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They believe in the Tanakh.

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They believe in the books of Moses.

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They reject all of it.

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They reject 100% of the Bible

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because if you reject Jesus, you miss the whole point.

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Because to him give all the prophets witness

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that through his name, whosoever believeth in him

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shall receive remission of sins.

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All the prophets spoke of Jesus Christ.

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And if you miss that, well, you missed the entire point.

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Verse 30 says and he charged them that they should tell no man of him and he began to teach them that the Son of God

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Sorry that the Son of Man must suffer

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many things and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and

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Scribes and be killed and after three days rise again and he spake that saying openly and

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Peter took him

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and began to rebuke him.

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This is what I mean by Peter has some sight.

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But he's still fuzzy on some things.

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He had enough sight to look at the Old Testament

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and say, thou art the Christ.

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OK, this is the Messiah.

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This is the Holy One of God that we've been reading about.

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But he did not see clearly enough to remember

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that the Old Testament prophesied of the death, burial,

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and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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This is another big lie that is taught

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by hyper dispensationalists.

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They'll say that people in the Old Testament

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were saved by works.

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who are our future leaders.

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I say people were saved by their faith in the coming Messiah and you got people like

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Andrew Sluder who says well show me in the Bible where it talks in the Old Testament

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about the dead barrel resurrection. All right let's do that. Let's go to Psalm chapter 16.

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Get your place in Psalm 16 if you would and Acts chapter 2. Psalm 16 Acts chapter number 2.

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Psalm 16.

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Did I mean Psalm 18? Let me think here. Psalm...

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Someone help me out if you find it. It's what's being quoted in Acts chapter number two

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It's psalm 16

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Oh, yeah, there it is. Okay. Yep. Let's start reading it. Sorry about that psalm 16 verse 8

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I have set the lord always before me because he is at my right hand. I shall not be moved

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Therefore my heart is glad

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And my glory rejoice if my flesh also shall rest in hope verse 10 notice this for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell

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Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. I wonder who that could be talking about

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Thou wilt show me the path of life

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In thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right hand. There are pleasures forever more

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So who is thine holy one? It's like God the Father's holy one. Who is that? That's Jesus Christ

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That's the Messiah and David in the Old Testament is writing about prophetically that will not leave my soul in hell

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Which is prophetic of the Lord Jesus Christ neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption now. Why is it?

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He rose again from the dead.

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Now go to Acts, chapter number two, Acts chapter number two.

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And you'll see here that, you know, really Peter should have known this.

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Peter should have seen this coming.

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And of course, Jesus rightly rebukes him for this.

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But let's start reading in Acts, chapter number two, which is a commentary

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on what we just read in the Old Testament.

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which is a commentary on what we just read in the Old Testament.

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Start reading in verse 22 you men of Israel hear these words

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Jesus of Nazareth so there's our subject talking about the Lord Jesus Christ a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs

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Which God did by him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know

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Him being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands

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Have crucified and slain by the way the Jews killed Jesus. That's what Peter was preaching here

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whom God had raised up having loose the pains of death because it was not

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possible that he should beholden of it. Right. So he was loose from the pain,

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excuse me, pains of death. He experienced the pains of death until the moment he

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was resurrected because he was in hell. Verse 25, for David speaketh concerning

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him. I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand that I

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should not be moved. Notice what the Holy Spirit of God just told us.

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David speaketh of who?

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Jesus.

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The Holy Spirit just told us, hey,

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Acts six, or sorry, Psalm 16, what we just read,

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David was writing of Jesus Christ.

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So I don't have to guess that that's who he was talking

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about.

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Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest and hope

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Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption

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Thou may known to me the ways of life thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance men and brethren. Let me speak

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Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried in his sepulchres with us under this day

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Therefore being a prophet so he was a king and a preacher and

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Knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh

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He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. So notice David knew that Christ was coming of his loins

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He's seeing this before

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Spake of the resurrection of Christ.

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What was the Old Testament sweet psalmist of Israel

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writing about the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

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You know how you get resurrected?

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You have to die first.

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So if someone's honest with their Old Testament,

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the Bible does teach in the Old Testament,

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the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Hey, he says.

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Right there in verse number 32 or verse 31.

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He's seeing this before speak of the resurrection of Christ.

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That his soul was not left in hell because he didn't go there.

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Neither his flesh did see corruption.

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This Jesus have God raised up where we all are witnesses.

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So look, go back to you with the mark chapter eight.

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Peter's off here.

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Peter is off here and look.

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This is why you need to spend more time with Jesus.

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This is why you need to read your Bible more.

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Because really, Peter should have known that this is what the

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Old Testament prophesied of the Christ.

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He could recognize, hey, you're the Christ.

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But he didn't really connect the dots as to what all the Old

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Testament taught about Christ.

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This is why it says in verse number 33.

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But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples,

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I wonder how long he looked at them before he spake.

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That's what I always think about.

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He rebuked Peter saying, get thee behind me, Satan,

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for thou savors not the things that be of God,

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but the things that be of men.

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That's a harsh rebuke right there.

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But of course we know it's deserved

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because the Lord Jesus Christ is not just one

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that's gonna go overboard, fly off the handle, say something.

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He shouldn't have said, you know what?

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This was a just rebuke that the apostle Peter was receiving.

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And notice, Peter's not above correction Catholic Church.

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Even Peter gets rebuked by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And the rebuke is what?

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Get thee behind me, Satan.

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That's a serious rebuke right there.

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But you know what?

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Why is it satanic what Peter is doing?

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Make no mistake about it.

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What Peter is doing right here is satanic

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because you know what?

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I don't want you to say tannic.

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You know what satanic preaching is preaching that gets up and just

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corrects the Bible.

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That is satanic preaching.

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You know what satanic advice is advice that is going against what the Bible is

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teaching.

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It's of Satan because you know what Satan does.

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Satan just wants people to question the word of God.

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You see it in the garden.

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Ye have God said that's what a satanic message is, is questioning what God said.

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What is Peter doing?

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Granted, not necessarily intentionally, but what is he doing?

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He's just saying like, nah, nah, let's not listen to the Old Testament.

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Let's not listen to what the Bible says about your death, bear and resurrection.

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No, Lord, no, let's not do that.

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That's satanic to go against anything that the Bible says.

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Go, if you would, to second, Timothy, chapter number four.

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Second Timothy chapter before by the way, how do you know if someone is of God? Are they preaching what the Bible says?

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That's how you could tell if someone is of God if someone's preaching a false gospel

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They're not of God if someone just constantly is preaching false doctrine. I at least have a question mark on that person

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You know at bare minimum, it's like you're just not spending any time with jesus or you have a heart problem

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Where you just don't care what he says

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But there's something satanic going on there and a lot of times when someone just can't preach the truth

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It's because they're unsaved themselves

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But notice what second timothy chapter 4 says in verse 1

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I charge thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom

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preach the word

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Be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and

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doctrine what we should be preaching today is the bible the doctrine of the bible the words of jesus

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not man's philosophy not our opinions on things preach the word the bible says and he says to

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what reprove rebuke exhort that's two-thirds negative

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You know, so like these modern rock and roll churches where it's a Ted talk and

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it's always positive, that's not biblical preaching.

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They're not rebuking. They're not reproving.

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Why? Verse three, for the time will come when they will not endure

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sound doctrine. Right. So why is it you need to preach the word

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and reprove and rebuke things? Because people are not holding to what the Bible

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says. That's why Jesus what? Rebuked him.

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We as men of God, we rebuke when things aren't matching up with what the Bible says.

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And that's a satanic attitude when it's against the Bible.

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For the time will come when they will not endorse sound doctrine,

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but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.

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Boy oh boy does that sound like the day and age we are living in

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where people will just wiggle out of any verse in the Bible.

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Doesn't matter how clear it is when someone wants to reject something and still call themselves a Christian

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They will find a way to do it. I saw someone doing this this week some girl saying well the Bible doesn't say

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You have to obey your husband says you have to submit

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That that implies an equal cope. No, it doesn't first of all

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But what is that? That's satanic is what it is. It's satanic. Just say like I know the bible says this

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But yea hath god said yeah

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He did say that actually and someone who's actually spending time with jesus would know that

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And the reason you don't know that is because you're either not spending time with him or you're not saved yourself

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That's how it works. Go back to mark chapter number eight

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Mark chapter number eight

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So look we need to be on guard

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for bad doctrines, bad ideas, satanic influences, even from good people.

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I hope if our church has learned anything in the last two years, it's that just because someone

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is good today does not mean they will be good a year from now.

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Just because someone's teaching the truth on a subject today does not mean they will be teaching the truth on that a year from now

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we need to stick with what the Bible says and

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Not allow the new IFB to become a literal denomination

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Where people are just whatever headquarters says whatever their favorite person says whatever this personality says no no we stick with what the Bible says

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Because boy oh boy, have we not seen feminism take over churches that are new IFB, supposedly.

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And look, let me tell you, with what's happening in our country right now...

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with the way feminism is destroying our nation,

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this Lindsey Clancy case, and it's a hung jury right now.

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And our country can't even figure out

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if it's okay to criminally punish a woman

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who one by one choked out her own precious babies.

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If we can't figure that out,

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look, if pastors in the last couple months

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aren't raising hell about feminism now,

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they never will.

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Where is all the ex-new wife be preaching their red hot sermons against feminism today?

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It's because they're a bunch of frauds.

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It's because they're a bunch of cowards.

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It's because they've backslidden so far that they are no longer who they once were.

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We need to make sure that we stick with what the Bible says.

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We not allow ourselves to be watered down.

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And hey, no matter who jumps off the cliff in the future,

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we need to stick right here by Jesus' side.

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That's why we are a fundamental Baptist Church right here

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Then he says in verse 34 and when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also

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He said unto them whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me

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So notice

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following Christ is

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not adding Christ to the life that you keep

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It's losing your life and having a new life in Christ Jesus.

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There's very few people in this world that are saved, but salvation is easy.

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Right.

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved.

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Let me tell you what, being a disciple is not easy.

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Being a disciple is way above the threshold for being saved.

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Being a disciple is what it says there, denying yourself.

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We as human beings, you know, we like to do what we like to do.

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You know, we like to think what we like to think.

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The opinions we like to hold to are the opinions that we have.

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But being a disciple is when we deny ourselves.

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It's when we with sincerity go to the Bible and when our ideas contradict,

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we submit to what this says.

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We lose our life.

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We deny ourselves.

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We give up ourself to replace it with Jesus Christ.

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The Bible says Christ who is our life.

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Again, a disciple is not someone who has all of his life's dreams and goals and ambitions

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and all that this world can give them. Plus Jesus,

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a disciple is one who sacrifices that stuff and replaces it with Jesus Christ.

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Let me tell you what a true disciple does not wonder in their brain if they're going

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soul-winning next week. Because for a disciple, Christ is our life.

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A true disciple of Jesus Christ does not wonder, will I be in church a year from now?

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Christ is our life.

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We don't wonder if we're gonna read the Bible tomorrow.

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If we have eyeballs tomorrow, if we have eyesight,

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we are reading the Bible because we are a disciple of Christ.

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And you know, we've given our life for Jesus Christ.

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But you know what? Someone who actually does that, let me tell you what, they will have no regrets doing that.

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Someone who actually is a disciple and denies themselves and replaces themselves with Christ in their life

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I've never met one who's truly done that and has regretted doing that now

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I have seen Christians try to keep one foot in the world and one in church

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And I've seen them get run over and I've seen them have regrets in life

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But I've never ever ever seen a sold-out Christian regret being a sold-out Christian

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Not when they're being sued not when they're being lied about look

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They could be down times in life, but during those down times, you know what the most down

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days being a disciple of Christ is better than the best day in the world.

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That's just reality.

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He says for whosoever will save his life.

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Oh, you're just trying to hang on to everything.

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Whosoever will save his life shall lose it.

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But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, the same shall save it.

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He also teaches, you know, he teaches this multiple times throughout the gospels.

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Other words, he talks about if you lose your life for my sake, you'll find it.

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The idea that is is like, hey, if you give up your ambitions, your ideas, your dreams,

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your own opinions about things and you replace that with Jesus, you're going to find true life there.

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Now, look, this is some really comforting scripture, especially if someone's going

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through a really hard time in life where they can't necessarily see the end.

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You know, for example, someone could be in a really rough situation with their

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marriage and look, there's, there's some horror stories in marriage.

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There are some really bad situations and there could be times in life where

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someone, even a Christian has a temptation to cut things off in their

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marriage, has a temptation to give up, but you got to remind yourself that

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that's what that is, is you trying to save your life.

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That's you trying to hold on to your life thinking that somehow you're gonna make your life better

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You will never make your life better by disobeying God's commandments

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The reality is is if you lose your life and you say I don't get how this is gonna work out

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I have no clue how this is gonna be beneficial towards me

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But Jesus said to do that and I'm just gonna do that. You know what you often find you often find that you found life

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There's been a lot of people who have been on the brink of divorce

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But hard preaching kept them from doing it.

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Hard preaching kept them with their spouse, you know, godly counsel from their pastor, kept them with their spouse.

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And 20 years later, they're happy and they're thankful that they didn't give up.

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Right.

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And so look, I'm talking about marriage, but this could apply in any situation of your life where you're just like starting to lose faith.

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You can't see the end.

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Look, don't try to save your own life.

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Don't try to grasp your own life.

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Don't try to orchestrate your life

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with your own human brain and your own human hands.

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Trust in the Lord with all thine hearts

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and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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In all thy ways acknowledge him

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and he shall direct thy paths.

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I've always seen it work out when people do that.

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Says in verse 36, for what shall it profit a man

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if he shall gain the whole world?

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and lose his own soul.

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What shall a man give in exchange for a soul?

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Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me

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and of my words.

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In this adulterous and sinful generation

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of him also shall the son of man be ashamed

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when he cometh in the glory of his father

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with his holy angels.

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A big theme in this chapter has been what?

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Sight and blindness.

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There's a lot of people today who have a partial sight.

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There's a lot of people today that are saved.

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They know that Jesus is the Christ.

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But you know what, when it comes to walking with God,

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being a disciple of God, trusting the promises of God,

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things are still really blurry for them.

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But he's still off on doctrine.

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You know, what is the message that's being, you know, transmitted here is

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that we need to trust God's words because how, how is it that you be a disciple?

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It's that you're not ashamed of him and of his words.

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It's at the end of the day.

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How do you really test if you're a disciple?

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Do you believe these words?

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We'll close in Isaiah 55.

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If you will, Isaiah chapter number 55.

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Isaiah chapter number 55.

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Look at verse number eight.

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This is something good to remember.

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When you think, oh, I don't know if God's right about this.

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I don't know if I could trust the Bible.

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Verse eight, for my thoughts are not your thoughts.

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Don't be surprised if your peon brain disagrees

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with the Bible at first.

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You know, just realize that you're wrong and change.

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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts

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than your thoughts." Peter in his flesh may not have liked the message of Jesus going to be

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and suffering and dying, but you know what? Jesus was right and Peter was wrong. And Peter had

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the satanic attitude at that moment. I don't know about you, I'm glad Jesus died for my sins.

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I'm glad that Jesus was right, his plan was right, and here's the lesson.

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His plan is always right.

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His word is always right.

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Just trust him. Let's pray Lord. Thank you so much for your word. Thank you for this great chapter

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I pray that you'd help us to apply these lessons to our lives help us lord to have a big faith

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Please increase our faith lord help all of us in here to have a heart for souls and a compassion for souls

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Help us to spend more time with you every day so we can see more clearly as each day goes on

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I pray that you would bless this evening the fellowship and keep us safe on the drive home and in Jesus name. We pray amen

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Thank you.

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turn if you would to 210.

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Ham number 210-210, wonderful grace of Jesus.

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210-210, wonderful grace of Jesus.

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210 let's sing it out together.