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turn to hymn number 210, Wonderful Grace of Jesus.

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Hymn number 210 to get started this morning, Wonderful Grace of Jesus, 210.

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210 let's sing it out all together

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One miracle grace of Jesus

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We thank you for this day for another opportunity to gather together

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I pray as always for this service that everything would be done decently and in order that you would

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Fill our hearts with your spirit as we sing out praises unto you and that you open our ears to the message that pastors prepared this morning

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These things we pray in Jesus name. Amen

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for our next him number 56

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Him number 56 56

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when we all get to heaven.

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Hymn number 56, 56, when we all get to heaven.

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56 let's sing it out

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I can't

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For our third song, we actually do have a handout.

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I'm on the winning side.

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We have ushers handing those out.

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If you still need a copy, raise your hand.

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Can I get one more usher also to help Brother Jorge, please,

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so he's not by himself?

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And then we'll hand these out.

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I'm on the winning side.

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Wide handout.

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I'm on the winning side.

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Let's sing it out all together.

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Once I drifted out in sin, I had no hope nor joy within,

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and my soul was burdened down with pride.

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Then my Savior came along, and He showed me I was wrong.

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Now I know I'm on the winning side.

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Well I am on the winning side I am on the winning side

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Genesis chapter 22 Genesis 22

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22, Genesis chapter number 22. Will you bring me that lapel mic, brother? Genesis chapter number 22.

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Genesis chapter number 22.

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The Bible says,

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And it came to pass after these things

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that God did tempt Abraham

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and said unto him, Abraham,

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and he said, Behold, here I am.

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And he said, Take now thy son,

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thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,

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and get thee into the land of Moriah,

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and offer him there for a burnt offering

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upon one of the mountains,

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which I will tell thee of.

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And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son,

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and claved the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him.

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Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.

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And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder,

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worship and come again to you.

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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son.

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And he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together.

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And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, My father, and he said, Here am I my son.

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And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

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And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

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So they went both of them together.

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And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there,

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and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the

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wood.

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Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

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And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham.

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And he said, here am I.

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And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now

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I know that thou fearst God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from

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me.

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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket

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by his horns.

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Abraham went and took the ram.

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and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said to this day,

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In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

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The angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By

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By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord.

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For because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,

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that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the

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stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess

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the gate of his enemies.

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And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed

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my voice.

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So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba,

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and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham,

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saying, Behold, Milka, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor,

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Huzz, his firstborn, and Buzz, his brother, and Kamuel, the father of Aram.

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Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Didloff, and Bethuel, and Bethuel begat Rebekah.

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These eight, Milka did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

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and his concubine whose name was Reuma, She-bear also Teba, and Gaham, and Thehash, and Meaka.

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Let's go ahead and have a word of prayer. Lord, thank you so much for Anchor Baptist Church.

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Thank you for the opportunity now to preach your word. I pray Lord that you please fill me with

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the Holy Spirit and I pray that you'd help me to be a blessing to your people this morning. Help us

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to get this powerful truth deep into our hearts and to make application where we need to.

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We love you and ask this in Jesus name. Amen

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All right. So genesis chapter number 22. Let's read a little bit here

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Let's start in verse number one

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Notice this phrase the bible says and it came to pass after these things that notice god did tempt

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abraham

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And said unto him abraham and he said behold here am I

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And he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee

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into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains

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which I will tell thee of.

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Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with

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him, and Isaac his son and claved the wood for a burnt offering and rose up and went

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unto the place of which God had told him.

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The title of my sermon this morning is Temptation.

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Temptation notice in verse 1 the Bible says that God did tempt Abraham

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A lot of people get this idea of well does that mean that God can tempt people to?

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Go ahead and give you the answer outright

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No, God does not tempt anyone to sin

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God does not dangle sin in front of your face and try to catch you or make you slip up or anything like this

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But the question is does God tempt people yes because the Bible says very clearly that God tempted

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Abraham now here's the thing in the Bible

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There are two types of temptation there is temptation meaning a test or to prove someone to test someone

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Then there's temptation like the enticement or alluring

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nature of sin and I want everyone this morning to really pay close attention and listen up because if you are a Christian

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Let me tell you you are gonna face both of these types of temptation in your life

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You and I are going to go through times of temptation from God being tested being tried

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God wanting to see what we're made of as his people and there's other times where you are going to be

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tempted by sin in this world

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The holier than now is today the false prophets today that tell you oh, you know once you get saved

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You're not gonna struggle with sin anymore. You're not gonna. You know have any issues with sin

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You're not gonna be tempted by those things

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You know those people are called liars because the Bible says if any man say he have no sin

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He deceive it himself and the truth is not in him

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So, you know the only people those people are tricking are themselves, you know guys on X like Bryson Gray

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this rapper who constantly posts about how he

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He's fulfilled all the law. He doesn't sin. He hasn't sinned anymore

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You know that guy is a complete liar and a fraud and that guy's a false prophet on his way to hell

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But for those of us that are normal people, okay

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We are gonna have temptation in the sense that God's gonna test us and we're gonna go through different areas of our life

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Where we are tempted by sin. I'll give you several statements this morning about this idea of

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Temptation keep your place there throughout the sermon and go to James chapter 1

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Number one this morning God never tempts you to sin don't ever foolishly charge God

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Don't ever rail against God when you're tempted to sin when you're feeling that allure of the flesh that

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Enticement of sin and be like, you know, I think God's you know tempting me with this sin

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That would be a foolish false accusation to lay against God. Look what the Bible says in James chapter 1 verse 13

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It says, let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God.

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Why?

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For, meaning because God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

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So the Bible, this is a very clear statement.

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When it comes to the temptation of sin, God is never going to dangle sin in front of your

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face.

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God does not desire for us to sin, and He's not going to try to make it harder on us to

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sin.

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In fact, God makes it easier on us to not sin by, for example, giving us the Holy Spirit.

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We actually can walk in the spirit and we're walking in the spirit

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The Bible says we're not going to fulfill the lusts of the flesh

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Anytime that we're sinning anytime that we're feeling that temptation of sin and we give into it

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That's because we're not walking in the spirit in that moment. Here's the thing

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It's not possible for us as human beings to just max walk in the spirit at all times only Jesus did that but

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theoretically

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If you just were walking in the spirit at all times then it's true that you would not sin anymore

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And here's the thing we as Christians we go through times where we're filled with the spirit

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We go through times where we're walking in the spirit, but when we're walking in the flesh, that's why we sin

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But during those times we shouldn't say like oh man God tempted me to sin there

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You know God's not like these stupid videos you see online

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stories you hear about spouses they want to like test their spouse's loyalty who's heard of this stupid idea where spouses want to like

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Test their spouse's loyalty so like some woman will like go hire one of her friends or hire some woman

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To like go hit on her husband to like see if he's faithful, but God doesn't do that to us

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You know that's a really stupid thing to do or a husband sending some guy to go hit on his wife like that is ridiculous

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That's wicked

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You know, we shouldn't be like tempting each other to sin like that.

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You know why? Because God doesn't do that to us.

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I'm against any type of this idea of like tempting people to sin.

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You know, for example.

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Spent a lot of my life in Idaho and I love hunting and one of the really stupid things that the Idaho Fish and Game Service does

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And I'm sure probably all states do this is they'll try to like do these sting operations to catch hunters

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Well, they'll put like this little robotic deer like in the middle of a road and it'll like turn and like feed where it kind of

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Looks real or whatever and they're trying to like entice people to like break hunting laws, right?

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Because it's like illegal to shoot across a road, right? So they'll put a deer

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the other side of a road or they'll just do it during times where it's not legal to hunt,

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right?

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And it's like here's the thing, you know, obviously we should obey the laws of the land

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but should we literally entice people to break those laws?

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Like if that little fake deer wasn't there,

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would the drunken redneck have shot across that road?

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No, because there wouldn't have been something there.

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So it's like I'm totally against these types of sting operations

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where you're just trying to entice people to sin.

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Here's another example.

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When I was a teenager, I went through like a law enforcement training program.

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People in my class we worked with the local police department and they would use my fellow classmates

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I never did this personally, but they would use my fellow classmates to be like little you know

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Agents for the police force and they would have my classmates go at a random gas station

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And they would just hit up Bubba redneck Bubba who's there getting gas and be like hey, man. It's my 16th birthday

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We're having some girls over. I just want a six-pack. Hey, will you help me out? You know and Bubba

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which obviously this is wicked to do, but Bubba's thinking,

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oh man, when I was your age I had some fun,

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and Bubba will go buy him a six pack,

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and then Bubba will go to jail.

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And here's the thing. It's like would Bubba have done that if there's that sting operation wasn't there maybe not

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Maybe he would have never had that opportunity, right? So here's the thing if God does not tempt us to sin

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I don't think we should be involved in these type of things either

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Where we're going around and trying to tempt people to sin does God tempt people?

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Yes in the sense of testing but God does not tempt us with sin. That is just not something that he ever does

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So why do we send them look at verse number 14, but every man is tempted notice when he is drawn away of his own

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lust and

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enticed

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Went then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death

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Do not err my beloved brethren

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So here's the thing God is not tempting you to sin, but you know who often is tempting you to sin is yourself

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People always want to blame somebody else for their sin. It's always someone else's fault. It's God tempted me

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It's other people tempted me when let's just be honest with ourselves the vast majority of the time that we sin

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It's our own fault

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It's our own wicked heart that is tempting us and leading us into sin. And here's the thing

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Yes, it is true that sometimes we can be tempted by outside sources

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but really most of the time that's just a cop-out because most of the time the

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The reason we sin is our own choice.

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You know, people talk about willful sin.

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Most people sin is willful sin.

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That's just a fact, okay?

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Now go to Proverbs chapter number one.

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Now here's the thing, it is true

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that the devil can tempt people,

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but I want you to keep in mind and remember,

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I think people give the devil way too much credit

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because the devil is not omnipresent.

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The devil is not omnipotent meaning the devil cannot be in multiple places at once. He is not all-powerful

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You know what you got all these people saying the devil made me do it the devil bro. Really? Are you sure about that?

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Now here's the thing. I'll read for you Matthew 4 verse 3 says this and when the tempter came to him

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He said if thou be the son of God command that these stones be made bread, you know, the devil did

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Personally tempt the Lord Jesus Christ to sin the Bible even calls him the tempter

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So is it possible that there could be times where the devil himself is tempting someone to sin?

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Yes, that is possible

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But I wouldn't try to give the devil too much credit because there's billions or trillions of people in this world and he can only

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Be with one person at a time. Okay now the Bible

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does teach that the devil has his devils that can go out and afflict people in this world.

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But you know what? The devil is not all powerful. He's not all present. He can only be tempting

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one person. And you know, let's be honest, it's probably not you. Okay. He was tempting

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Jesus. He was going straight to Jesus. All right. And the Bible says, you know, for example,

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resist the devil and he will flee from you. So that's not an excuse if the devil is tempting

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you anyways. You know, another form of people that contempt you is other wicked people.

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verse number ten of Proverbs 1.

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The Bible says my son if sinners entice thee

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Consent thou not what does that imply?

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Sometimes it is true that in life we are gonna have wicked people bad friends bad influences

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God and sometimes even wicked family members and they're going to entice you meaning they're gonna tempt you to sin

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But what is the answer consent thou not?

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Right, so you still bear the responsibility at the end of the day, even if someone else is tempting you you it's still on you to

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Consent not unto that sin say no to that sin verse 11 if they say

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Come with us, let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause.

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Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit.

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We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil.

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Cast in thy lot among us. Let us all have one purse.

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My son, notice, walk not thou in the way with them. Refrain thy foot from their path.

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Right. So what is the solution when it comes to other wicked people?

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Enticing you to do evil, you know

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If you have someone in your life that is tempting you to sin enticing you to do evil here step one consent thou not

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Don't do that. Then once you realize like hey, this is a wicked person

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This person's not trying to get me closer to God. This person's actually influencing me to do evil

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You know what the Bible says don't walk in the way with that person

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Get away from that person and it's so crazy to me. I've seen so many people in my life where they were on the straight and narrow

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They were serving God they were doing right they were a soul winner. They were plugged into church

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But then they have some wicked evil friend

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Like I'm thinking of people I know where they were doing what's right and they have some wicked evil friend that's into drugs

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That's into alcohol that's in the fornication and instead of that wise person who was doing right who was on the right way to say

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Hey, I need to get away from this person. I need to not be this person's friend

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Sometimes they think I'll be a good influence on them all change this person. You know, I've never seen it happen

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I've never seen it happen and you know what it goes against what the Bible says because what does the Bible say right there?

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My son walk not thou in the way with them

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Refrain thy foot from their path once you identify someone you're like what do you realize? Hey this person?

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They're not neutral about my service of God. They're not helping me with my service of God

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They are trying to drag me down. They are trying to cause me to sin

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They are trying me to get me to go off the right way with them. Just get away from that person

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Break fellowship with that person don't have that person in your life

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It's not saying you can't still be kind to them pray for them preach the gospel to them

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But you know you should not be close friends with someone that's trying to get you to sin. It's a bad idea

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You know even young children can understand this because one of my kids my kids recently started swim lessons

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And my wife asked one of my daughters, you know, hey, are you going to listen to the swim teacher?

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And my daughter just out of nowhere, she's just like, not if the swim teacher asked me to drink alcohol.

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I'm just like, I don't know where that came from, but it's like, but true though, right?

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Hey, you know, the chances are low, but never zero.

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And and if sinners entice you consent thou not right even a child has this wisdom is saying hey if there's someone that's trying

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To get me to do evil say no

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Here's what happens. You know the purity of a child often when they become a teenager

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They feel that peer pressure and they say man. I don't want to look different

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Don't want to you know people are gonna make fun of me for being a Christian

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Oh, you know all the other girls, you know

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They're wearing the bikini and they're wearing the short shorts and I'm gonna feel different if I wear a skirt or a dress

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I don't want to do that

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But here's the thing you got to realize what the Bible says is if sinners entice thee consent now not

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Be strong in the Lord be willing to stand up and oh well look a little bit different

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To a bunch of people that aren't even saved

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Like we should be more interested in pleasing God than pleasing man or pleasing woman pleasing your girlfriends or something like that

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Go to Proverbs chapter number nine

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Proverbs chapter number nine. There are people though that do entice you to sin and that's such a wicked thing to do

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You know, let us not be those people that are dangling sin in people's faces or trying to get people to go the wrong way

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You know we as christians we should be preaching the truth trying to get people on the lord side

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Trying to get people to do what's right

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Look at Proverbs chapter number 9 verse 13. The Bible says a foolish woman is

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Clarice what is it? What a stupid woman look like one that's clamorous one

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That's loud one that's always fighting one that's always called causing problems

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That's what a stupid woman is like according to the Bible. It says she is simple and knoweth nothing

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For she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city.

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Notice verse 15 to call passengers who go right on their ways.

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This wicked woman, this simple woman, she's just enticing people that weren't coming to her.

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They weren't paying attention to her. They were passengers just going right on their way

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But this is what a wicked person does and the bible is describing specifically what a wicked woman does

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Is she's calling out to the people just going right on their way. What is she doing?

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She's enticing people to sin

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Look at verse 16. Whoso is simple saying hey whoever's an idiot

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Let him turn in hither and ask for him that wanteth understanding. She sayeth to him

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Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, right? Oh come to me

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It's gonna be so much fun. We're gonna have such a good time. It's gonna be so sweet

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It's gonna be so pleasant

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But notice he knoweth not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell

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You know, we live in a world where of course when it comes to like these these sexual type predators

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Of course, there's men and women that fall into this category. But what's interesting is the bible really highlights the female predator

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What she's doing is she's not like, you know

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Just capturing people and violently holding them down or something like that

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She's calling out to simple people who are just minding their own business

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Going right on their way and she's just enticing them to sin through her words through her flattery

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Oftentimes through the way that she dresses, you know, what's interesting about this chapter is wisdom is personified

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And in the first part of the chapter, wisdom is sitting in the principal places of the

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city and wisdom is calling out to people saying who so is simple.

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Let him come in hither.

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Right.

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So you have kind of like two voices in this world.

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You have the voice of the Lord.

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You have the voice of the Bible.

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You have voice of preaching and of good influence and good influence is calling to you saying,

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Hey, come on the right side.

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Come do the right thing.

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Come follow the Lord.

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And then you have the wicked people of this world that are

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saying the exact same thing, hey, whoso is simple, let him turn in hither.

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Why do I say that?

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Because even though there are wicked people that want to entice us, that want to get us

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to sin, at the end of the day, it is still our choice.

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It is still our choice because you know what?

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Just as true as there could be wicked women in this world

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that call unto you and flatter you and try to entice you

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to be with her, to be in some sort of wicked situation.

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Just as much the Bible's calling out to you

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saying flee fornication.

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Just as much the Bible is calling out to you and saying hey don't go near the street of her house

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Don't go near her corner. Hey, this type of woman is evil

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Hey her feet lead down to death her steps lay hold on hell, right?

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So we have you know the call of wisdom and the call of the wicked when we fall into sin when we give into that temptation

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It still is our fault at the end of the day

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But that being said, please don't be the type of person that's enticing other people to sin

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Right because here's the thing this you know this type of relationship obviously is where a lot of people sin in this life

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Is it not and so how stupid and foolish would it be for a woman to try to dress as provocatively as she could?

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You know try to flirt with guys that aren't her husband try to be all flattering and stuff like that

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Look at the end of the day. It's still the man's fault

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But you know women should not be acting like that

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And we live in a society that kind of wants to just like blame one or the other but really both are at fault

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Go to Genesis chapter number 22.

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Genesis chapter number 22.

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So look, God's never going to tempt you to sin.

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But number two, when God tempts you, he is testing you.

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When God tempts you, he is testing you.

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He's not tempting you with sin, but he's tempting you, meaning he's testing you.

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Look at verse number one.

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And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham.

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Did he say Abraham committed adultery?

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Abraham do something wicked no and said unto him Abraham

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And he said behold here my and he said take now thy son thine only son whom thou lovest and

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Get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains

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Which I will tell thee of what is this this is a test and boy. Oh boy. Is this a hard test?

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And of course, what is this? This is obviously a picture of the gospel. He's saying hey take your son your only son

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Whom thou lovest and offer him and it's like that seems like an impossible thing to ask of

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But the Bible says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not

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perish but have everlasting life

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And so God is not going to eventually have him go through with this.

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God is not asking him to literally kill his son.

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But here's the thing, in Abraham's mind, he's saying, hey, I'm going to do whatever God

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asks me to do.

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And this is what a test is, is God wants to see where is it in life that you and I draw

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the line and say, God, I'll follow you up to right here.

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I'm going to put a line in the sand and say, yeah, I'll be a Christian.

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Yeah, I'll follow you in some areas of my life.

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Hey, I'll follow the commandments that I want to follow.

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But right here is where I draw the line.

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And you a lot of people fail that test.

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But you want to know why abraham was such a great man of faith because there was nothing

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That god could ask him that abraham would draw the line and say i'm not going to do that

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You've asked too much of me. I'm not going to obey you. You know what abraham thought in his mind

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He thought in his mind i'm going to go sacrifice my one and only son whom I love

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Now, of course he believes that god was able to raise him up from the dead again

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Right. He had that faith in god, but still just imagine this feeling

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Imagine, I mean Abraham waited so long to have a child.

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He has this child of promise, who he loves, Isaac, and God says, hey, go offer him.

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I mean that is an unbelievable amount of faith right there that he had.

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Verse 10, and Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

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I mean he was right there.

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He had the knife in his hand. He's ready to do it

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He's about to kill his son and the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham

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And he said here my and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad

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Neither do thou anything unto him notice this for now. I know that thou

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Fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me

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What is this? He's saying hey, I wanted to see what was in your heart. I wanted to see hey

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Was there anything that you were gonna withhold from me or Abraham?

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Are you just gonna be a hundred percent sold out and Abraham whatever I tell you to do

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You're just gonna do because you trust and fear the Lord. Abraham's right there with the knife

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He's ready to do it and he says hey now. I know that you fear me

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And you know you got to realize that when you're going through trials in your life when you feel like man

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I feel like God is just tempting me that God is just testing me

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You know he probably is testing you to see what is in your heart

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Because God does not want a bunch of robots following him that are pre-programmed to obey his every command

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You know those that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth

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He wants us to love him with all of the heart all of the soul all of our mind all of our strength and sometimes

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We feel like man God you're just pushing me right to the edge

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You're bringing me right to what I think is you know reasonable of you to even ask of me, but you know what?

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I'm just gonna trust you. I'm just gonna do it

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You know the Bible says we shall reap if we faint not and so many people they get right to the reaping point

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In their life, and then they faint

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Right, what if Abraham had not gone through with this you really think that he would have been the father of many nations

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No, because later on this chapter he says hey in blessing I will bless thee

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I'm going to multiply your seed as the stars of heaven

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Why because abraham was willing to go through the tests?

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He was willing to be tempted by god. He was willing to obey god in anything that god asked him of and man

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Wouldn't it be great today if we had some christians that stopped drawing their lines in the sand and stopped just living this christianity

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this burger king christian

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Christianity of have it your own way right where it's just like yeah

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I'll just kind of do whatever I want and if there's commandments in the Bible that match up with what I already want to do

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Then I'll go ahead and do that

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But man oh man if something's inconvenient for me if something's gonna cost me something if I'm gonna have to work at something

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Well, then forget that I'm not gonna obey God, you know makes me think about people who live

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You know 45 minutes away from a great church and won't go

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You know, I seen, you know, late next month I'm going to preach at a church in St. Louis, Missouri

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And I saw some comments. I have no idea who this person is

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He's just like an online listener and he was just talking about like yeah

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I live like 40 minutes away and and i'll make the drive for this one-time event

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And it's just like, dude, why just for this one weekend?

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Just because there's some other preachers coming into town,

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why don't you just make that drive every week?

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Is that really that big of a sacrifice?

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I mean, here you got Abraham, who's

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willing to sacrifice his own son.

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And some people are like, I can't drive 40 minutes

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to go to a good church.

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I can't drive 40 minutes to go preach the gospel.

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I can't spend a Saturday going and preaching the gospel.

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I can't tithe of 10% of what God has already given me.

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I can't go and learn how to become a soul winner.

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It's like, man, we're just missing some people today

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that are willing to be tempted by God.

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That are willing to go through some temptations.

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And look, when you're going through these temptations,

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it's good to remind yourself that the reason God

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is putting you through these temptations

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is because he's about to use you in a great way.

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And it's not like in this world only the Abraham's are used greatly only the pastors are used greatly

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No, no, no you yourself will also be tempted you yourself

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All of us will be tempted and tried and go through persecution and go through tribulation

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You know, it's in those moments that god is trying to see what is really in your heart

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And boy, oh boy

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Haven't you seen over and over in your life during difficult times? It just reveals what's actually in people's hearts

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People are all talk people are so dedicated until the first protest the protest comes they're gone, right?

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Oh, there's there's some drama there. They're out of here. They're gone and it's like you failed the test

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You're not a real one you fail and look I'm sure we've all failed tests in life

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And the answer is not just to sit here and just beat someone up for failing a test.

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The answer is to remind you, hey, the reason God was putting that test in your life is

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that he could see what was in your heart because he wants you to love him out of your own heart.

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And you know, if you failed a test in the past, why don't you just pass the next one?

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God's not just like going to give up on someone completely because they failed one test.

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Look, realize, hey, I messed up.

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I made a mistake.

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But you know what?

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back in the fight.

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And you know, I think that everyone should watch the Baptist bias episode last week where pastor Shelly and brother Ben just showed beyond any shadow of a doubt that these wicked people that have been falsely accusing pastor Anderson are just a bunch of liars.

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Their stories don't match their constant constantly contradicting each other and contradicting reality.

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Here's the thing, thank God I see a lot of people right now

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humbly waking up and saying like, hey, I was wrong.

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I was duped about this. I'm sorry and look I'm not saying this in any type of

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Condescending way but honestly I am I'm happy to see that attitude

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That is the right attitude to have but I think if you're that person

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I think you need to have an honest moment with yourself and you need to realize this very

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Uncomfortable truth about yourself and that is this is that your decision maker is broken

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Your judgment is broken

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Your discernment in life is broken.

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And you have been failing some tests.

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And here's what you need to do.

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Right now you just need to realize like,

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wow, I was duped, I was deceived.

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My decision maker is broken.

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I'm gonna stop making major life altering decisions

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in my life until my decision maker is fixed again.

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It's like here's what you should do when you're when you're not making right decisions when you're messing up your life when you're failing

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The tests and temptations that God is sending your way

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Here's what you should do only things that you absolutely know are right to do

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Read the Bible and say it's like okay

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I've been making a lot of bad decisions in my life, but I know I should go to church

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I know I should obey the Lord. I know I should read the Bible. I know I should fellowship with God's people

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I know I should preach the gospel, you know just for a little bit

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Stop making big decisions until you can get some wisdom again.

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Until you're back in church till you're reading the Bible until you're being filled with the spirit again because honestly a lot of people

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Have just been shown to have been carnal walking in the flesh not reading the Bible not making biblical judgments

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Not making biblical decisions leading their family poorly

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Ruining their lives and it's like now is the time to realize hey, I failed the test, but you know what?

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I'm gonna have way more respect for someone who failed a test, but then they get back up and they pass the next one

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Adjust man fall the seven times and rise it up again

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But don't be the person who just keeps falling and keeps staying down and keeps falling and keeps saying down learn from your mistakes

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learn from past failures

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You know think about that this works in the real life, too

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Whenever you're going to be used in some sort of great way don't you always go through some sort of test

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Right, you know if you're gonna be hired

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for a really important job,

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you know what they often do during the interview?

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They give you a test.

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They have you perform what you're going to do.

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They're going to ask you questions testing your knowledge.

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If you want to try out for the baseball team,

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there's this thing called tryouts where they're going to say,

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hey, it's cool that you tell me you know how to hit,

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but how about you actually hit this ball?

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How about you actually do it well?

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How about you field some grounders?

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How about you throw a guy out?

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How about you do some base running?

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Let's see where your fitness is at.

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What are the coaches doing?

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They're testing you.

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They're tempting you.

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They're saying, hey, are you actually ready

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to perform on this team?

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When Pastor Shelley was hiring me,

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before he actually offered to hire me,

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he just said, hey, I'd like to just fly you out to Texas.

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You wanna just preach for us on a Sunday?

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You know what he was doing?

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He was tempting me.

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He was testing me.

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He was like saying, hey, I wanna meet this person

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in real life.

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I wanna talk to him.

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I want him to preach a sermon.

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He asked me a really important question.

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He said, how do you like your steak done?

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I said, medium rare.

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He said, all right, that was a test.

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Because if it was well done, he probably would have said,

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this isn't the right guy, all right?

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You know, I've hired someone for some work before,

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and I said, hey, do you think the Artemis II mission

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was real?

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They said, yes.

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I said, okay, you're not fired.

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I will continue to hire you.

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You know, I don't want to hire some sort of idiot, okay?

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You know.

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I have family member that are in the special forces you think that they went through some testing before they're get hey do this super crazy

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Dark, you know black ops mission in the middle nowhere

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You think that maybe they had some testing before that mission you better believe it right drown proof training that sounds like hell

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You know that's like the worst thing ever being drown proofed

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Going through all the running going through all the survival in the wilderness going through all the shooting going through all the psychological

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You know tests that they go through it's a temptation

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It's the same thing with how God uses us today.

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Go to Deuteronomy chapter 13.

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You know for those of us that have daughters, don't you think we're going to have some tests

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someday for a man that's interested in one of our daughters?

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Or is it just going to be like, oh you say you're awesome?

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Go ahead, have her.

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Or are you going to actually have some tests?

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Is it going to be like, hey, let's go soul winning?

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Hey, I want to see you serving God on your own volition.

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It's like, hey, do you even know how to hold a gun right?

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It's like, hey, can you even lift weights?

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Can you even do anything?

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You know, there's going to be some tests coming for these men

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that want these ladies.

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Look at deuteronomy 13 verse 1 if there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams

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And give it thee a sign or a wonder and the sign or the wonder come to pass

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Whereof he spake unto thee saying let us go after other gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them

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Thou shalt not harken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams notice what he's saying

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Hey if some false prophet comes and they do some

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some miracle some prediction and that wonder actually happens that prediction actually comes to pass they actually say

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Something and it actually comes to pass but they're preaching false doctrine saying let us come and worship other gods

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He says don't listen to that person even if they they seem powerful even if they're doing miracles

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Why why should we not listen to them? It says right there for the Lord your God?

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proveeth you

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Whether to know whether he loved the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

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He shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice

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And he shall serve him and cleave unto him you ever asked yourself

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Why does God allow all these false prophets to exist?

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Ever ask yourself like what why is it that God lets the stupid Mormon Church?

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Go and evangelize every nook and cranny of this nation in the smallest towns that exist in this nation

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You're gonna find the Mormons evangelizing all over the place

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Why is it that God allows wicked false religions like the Catholic Church to thrive?

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Why is it that there's a guy who stands up and calls himself the vicar of Christ and God doesn't just

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You want to know why God allows these people to exist?

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To test you.

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To test this world.

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Because you know what God wants?

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God wants you to actually love truth.

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To actually seek truth and you know what false Gospels reveal about someone is whether or not they actually love the truth

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Whether or not they're actually seeking the truth because a lot of people you know what they're seeking

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I want to go to a big fancy building with stained glass and I want to feel like it's based and I want to feel

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Like it's old and ancient and traditions and I want to follow the traditions, bro

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But you know what they don't care about the Word of God

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What the Bible says?

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And so God says, hey, I will allow these people to exist.

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Hey, I'll allow some of them to even make a prediction

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and it come to pass,

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but they're preaching a false gospel just to test you.

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You know that young lady yesterday that got saved, Asia?

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You want to know why I think she got saved?

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Because she told me that she's been praying to God

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for weeks to find the truth.

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And that she's been saying, like,

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God, I don't even know if you hear me.

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I want you to hear me.

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I want you to listen to me.

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I want to know who you are.

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You know, it's because of that attitude

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that I think soul winners came

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and knocked on her door yesterday.

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But a lot of people, they've never prayed like that

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to God one single time.

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They've never one single time asked God to know the truth because you know those that ask will find those the sequel fine those that

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Ask it'll be given to them. It will be opened unto them. That's what the Bible teaches

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Good at Deuteronomy 6, I'll read for you.

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1 Timothy 3 verse 8, the Bible says,

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likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued,

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not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,

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holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

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And let these also first be proved.

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then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless.

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You don't want to put someone in a position of authority in ministry

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without that person first being proved.

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You know why?

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Because the ministry attracts both the greatest people in the world

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and also the absolute worst people in the world.

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And you want to see what's in someone's heart.

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Why is someone seeking to be in some sort of ordained position?

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Is it because they just want power?

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Is it because they just want money?

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Is it because they just want influence?

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Or is it because they're actually a servant of God

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and want to serve Him with all their might?

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So the Bible instructs you hey, don't just ordain someone right away as a deacon. It says first let them be proved

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Let them be tested let them be observed for a long amount of time to see their lifestyle

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To see how they're living on their own without having any position of power or authority

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You know David before he was a king the bible talks about how you were already David you were already that guy who led us

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Who who brought us out who brought us in you were already, you know serving us and being a leader before you ever had

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The position of king david was already leading the sheep david was already killing a lion and a bear with his own hands

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You know before he ever stepped up to goliath

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And you know what the lion and the bear was?

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Those were temptations in his life.

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Those were testings in his life to see,

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hey David, what are you made of?

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And you know what?

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When you pass those tests,

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you might get a bigger test in the future, Goliath.

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And you know you pass that test,

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you might become king someday.

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You might be used in a really greatly way by God.

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Deuteronomy six, stay there.

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Proverbs 23 verse 26 says this,

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my son, give me thine heart.

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You know, of course, this is Solomon writing to his son, but you could also just picture

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This is just the voice of God to us. What is God saying to us? My son give me thine heart

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God wants us to truly love him to truly want to serve him and to say like Lord though

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You slay me yet. Will I trust you?

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Though you ask anything of me, I'm not going to draw a line in the sand. I will obey what God asked me to do

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That's the right attitude

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Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 here. Oh israel the lord our god is one lord and thou shalt love the lord thy god with all

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Thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might

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These words which I command thee this day shall be in nine heart notice what God requires of us is not

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Viewing God is kind of like our side thing. I feel like a lot of Christians Christianity's kind of like their side focus

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Right where it's like hey, you know Sunday morning. I'll kind of think about God a little bit

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I'll maybe read a chapter on a Sunday or something like that

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But God doesn't cross their mind Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

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And what God is looking for in people is people that love him with all of their hearts

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You know that means while you're on the job site

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You know what that means when you rise up when you lay down when you're walking in the way look

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Christianity should be our life the Bible says Christ who is our life. That is the attitude you

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have whether you're a pastor deacon or someone that is a faithful servant of God a faithful soul winner is that Christ should be your life

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Go if you would to James again James chapter number one

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It's because of this it's because of this concept that i'm explaining to you

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Why the bible actually says that we should rejoice when we go through temptations

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Which look that is easier said than done but look what the bible says in james chapter 1 verse 2 my brethren

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Count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations. That's not saying sin. That's saying god's temptation

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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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But let patience have her perfect work, her complete work, that ye may be perfect and

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entire wanting nothing.

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When we go through a temptation,

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Let's just be honest the flesh oftentimes is saying like I don't want to go through this. This is hard. This sucks

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I don't like this

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Please take this away from me

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But the bible's saying hey on one hand what we should do is we should actually rejoice and be happy

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That we're going through these temptations. Why because we know hey god's testing me god wants to see what's in my heart

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This is an opportunity for me to show god that I actually love him with all of my heart

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And hey, you know god is about to use me in some sort of great way

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And I have no idea what that's gonna look like for me or for you

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But if God is testing you you know what that is saying the guy use you in some sort of great way

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He says hey go through that temptation knowing this that the trying of your faith work if patience

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Hey, I'm gonna become a better person if I go through this God's gonna sharpen me up if I go through this

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But here's the warning let patience have her perfect work

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Right we shall read if we faint not

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You've got to say hey, I got to go through the trial

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I got to go through the temptation and look I have no idea what your temptations are or will be or you probably don't

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Know a lot of mine

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But here's what I know is that ye and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution

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You will go through tribulation you will go through temptations and you just have to have this mentality before the evil day comes

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Hey, God's trying to test me. God wants to see if I really love him. God's gonna use me in some sort of great way

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God's not asking me to sin.

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God's not wanting me to do something bad.

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He just wants to see what's really in my heart.

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Go to Hebrews chapter number four.

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Number three, I want to say this.

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Temptation itself is not a sin.

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It's what you do after.

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Temptation itself, and I'm talking about

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sinful temptation now.

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Temptation itself is not a sin. It's what you do after look what the Bible says in Hebrews 4 verse 15 for we have not in high priest

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Excuse me, which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are

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Yet without sin

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Right, so the Lord Jesus Christ remember. Yes. He's God. He's a hundred percent God, but he's also

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100% man and the Bible says he was tempted in all points like as we are yet

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Without sin, you know what that tells us the temptation to sin the enticement to sin

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The alluring nature of sin is not what is sinful. What is it? It's when we give into that sin

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Here's the thing I cannot control

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What you know walks in front of me in this wicked world we're living in I can't control every woman that decides to dress like a hoe in front of this world but here's what I can control taking a look I can't control that every stupid restaurant in this world sells alcohol but here's what I can't control not ordering it I can't control the stupid billboards the stupid reels that pop up on every single stupid video in this world but here's what I could do I swipe away

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Right and here's the thing. I think some people beat themselves up because maybe they saw something and it's like here's the thing

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Seeing something in and of itself is not what's sinful the temptation to sin is not what's sinful

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It's when you actually give into that sin because the Bible says that Jesus was tempted in all points

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Like as we are yet without sin

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Job 31 one says I made a covenant with mine eyes. Why then should I think?

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upon a maid

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Right? Look, unless you want to lock yourself into a box,

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you're not going to live your entire life without seeing some sort of scantily clad woman

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because we just live in a fallen world. We live in a sinful world. And you know what?

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If you lock yourself in a box, yeah, maybe you won't be seeing those ladies,

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but you probably also won't be winning people in Christ. You won't be going to church.

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You won't be making money for your family. You won't be living life. And so look,

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what's the issue here? Hey, I've made a covenant with my eyes. Why then should I notice? Think

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Think upon a maid.

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It's like if you see that person, okay, that's not your fault that she walked in front of your path or whatever

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But you don't have to sit there and think upon it. You don't have to sit there and stare at her

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You don't have to keep going down that road. Okay. Here's a good example of this Genesis 39 go to Genesis chapter 39

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In Genesis 39, we get a story of Potiphar's wife

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just enticing Joseph to commit adultery with her.

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Is that, did Joseph choose for that to happen?

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Did Joseph ask for this woman to do this?

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No, but look how the story goes.

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Verse seven, and it came to pass after these things

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that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph,

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and she said, lie with me.

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This is a pretty intense.

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Temptation if you will right talk about being very forward. This is not subtle. This is not a subtle going on here

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This is just a woman literally just saying lie with me now

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Let's be honest how many men in this world would give into this temptation if this opportunity arose most of them

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But you know, Joseph was a righteous person.

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Joseph feared God.

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Joseph is not gonna allow himself to go down this road.

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It says in verse eight, but he refused.

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Hey, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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It's not his fault that this wicked whore

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is coming onto him, but he does have the decision to refuse.

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He can say, no, I'm not going down that road.

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Said unto his master's wife behold my master watteth not what is with me in the house

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And he have committed all that he hath to my hand

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There is none greater in this house than I neither had he kept back anything from me

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But thee because thou art his wife how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God now? Here's the thing

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Praise the Lord Joseph. He did not go down this road. He did not commit adultery with her

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But if if I was just to be like hyper critical of him, I would say that this is where he didn't do things perfectly

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Because here's the thing if a woman is so evil and wicked

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That she's just going to be just very forwardly

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Proposition herself to you as a married woman. I don't think sitting and reasoning with her is going to do anything

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Don't think she's gonna be like oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. I'm someone's wife. Oh, yeah

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He's trusted you with everything and I just totally forgot, you know, I'm just someone's wife

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Joseph is just wasting his breath here and the moment, you know that a woman is like this

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You just need to get the hell away from her

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You need to get away with from her as soon as possible and not sit here and explain your morality to her because she has none

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And she's let me explain to you why I'm not gonna go down this road all you're doing in my opinion is you're gonna

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Make it even harder on yourself because what if she responds and then you respond and then she responds you respond

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It's like just get out of that situation and that's eventually what he did

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But I'm just saying I don't even think he should have gone down this road of explaining to her

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You know guys if this ever happens to you

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I don't think your wife wants you to keep having a conversation with this girl

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I think she probably just wants you to run away. Okay, and he eventually did that cuz look what happens

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Verse number 10 it says this and it came to pass as she spake to Joseph day by day

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Every day of his life. This woman is propositioning herself to him. I mean that is an intense temptation

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That he harken not unto her to lie with her and then finally he gets this or to be with her

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He finally figured it out. Not only am I gonna not lie with her not even gonna be with this girl

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I'm gonna get far away from her. I'm not even gonna be in her presence because of this temptation. Okay

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And it came to pass about this time that joseph went into the house to do his business, right?

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He's just working and there was none of the men of the house there within that's a problem

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when you're alone with the opposite gender, especially one that has been coming onto you in this way.

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And she caught him by his garment saying, lie with me!

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And he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out.

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That has to have been you know a pretty strong grasp that she had because you mean ripping clothes

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I take some force that takes some some might to be able to rip some clothes and literally

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It's just like in her hand and he just runs and just rips off his body

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And she's just got his clothing in his hand again

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This is why you don't want to be around this type of a woman

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Because everyone wants to think the only type of predators in this world are men, but you know what once again

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We're seeing what is the Bible talking about the female predator that's coming on to

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Joseph.

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And it came to pass when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled

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forth that she called unto the men of her house and spake unto them, saying, See, he

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hath brought in in Hebrew unto us to mock us.

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And he came in unto me to lie with me.

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And I cried with a loud voice.

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And it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment

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with me and fled and got him out.

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This story just makes me mad.

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Such a wicked and evil person here

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She is being the one every single day of her life trying to commit adultery against her husband

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Trying to entice Joseph and he's been saying no, I'm not gonna do it

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He's been avoiding her then one day the Bible says he's just going in to do his business

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He's not trying to play with sin. He's not trying to flirt or do anything inappropriate

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He's just trying to do his business and you know what sometimes in life

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You're just gonna be trying to do your business and sinful temptations

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Just gonna come to you and it's like is it your fault when that happens not necessarily

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But what you do afterwards is your decision and sometimes you just got her literally run away

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Sometimes you got to realize hey, you know, I can't fight this temptation. I can't get too close to the fire

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Hey, I've just got to run away and he did that but here's the thing because there was no men there

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There was no witnesses or anything like that. She's able to now level a false accusation against him

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Look, it's very important that you take your testimony seriously because we live in this me too world

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where if you're even accused of doing something wrong,

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we live in such a world of sick and just stupid society

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that if you're even accused of anything,

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many people just automatically believe it with no evidence.

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And you know, like the Me Too movement, there's just like this great big movement of rich people, famous athletes, influential men,

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that it's like they're just constantly getting accused of this. It's like, oh yeah, 30 years ago this person did this to me.

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Oh, 40 years ago this person did this to me.

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And here's the thing, I'm not minimizing actual abuse because the Bible teaches the death penalty for rape.

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And if a man rapes a woman, let me be very clear, he should be put to death.

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But let me flip this on the other side the Bible also teaches that if you falsely accuse of someone

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And it's found out that you're falsely accusing

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Whatever you were falsely accusing them of now you receive the punishment that they would have gotten

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And you know what potiphar's wife should have been put to death because you know what she did

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She accused joseph of rape when it was not true

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But here's the thing we live in a wicked world where that's not going to happen

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If you get falsely accused, the government's not gonna care.

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They're not gonna do anything about it.

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So you know what you should do?

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Hey, let's go soul winning two by two.

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How about that one?

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You know, just yesterday, me and brother Garrett

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were falsely accused out soul winning.

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Just yesterday.

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Not of anything like this, but we were soul winning

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and we did not have a confrontation or an angry conversation

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or a yelling spat or a fighting match with anyone.

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Like here's the thing, we got three people saved,

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we had a great day.

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There was some people where they...

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opened the door and they were kind of cold to us and they kind of just closed the door

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not interested but like we didn't get in any fights with anyone I'm talking to this girl

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and all of a sudden this cop shows up and he's just saying like hey you know I got a

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call about you know guys with weapons and here's the thing like I can still carry no

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one's seeing my gun they didn't see my weapon or anything like that guys with weapons and

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you know they're getting into fights with people and they're getting computational people

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and I literally thought in my mind like surely this is Cameron he's talking about

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I'm like, you know, the open carry guy, you know, of course this is Cameron.

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I call him like, hey, did you get in a fight with anyone?

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No.

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You sure?

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And then I'm realizing like, wow, some wicked person just totally just falsely accused us.

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Because the cop even said no, and he kind of described the kids that we had with us.

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And all he said was two guys with this amount of kids.

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And I'm like, wow, that is our description.

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But nothing even close to that actually took place.

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And here's the thing, nothing even close to Joseph

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attacking Potiphar's wife ever took place.

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In fact, it was the exact opposite.

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And you know what wicked people do?

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They often accuse you of things,

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and the exact opposite is true.

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Here's what a fool does the simple believeth every word but a prudent man looketh well to the ways of his going the Bible says

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Okay, it's just crazy today

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You cannot just believe every slander you hear believe every accusation you hear and look you cannot in life control every temptation

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That comes your way, but you can control what you do after

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You can't control the scantily clad women.

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Look, you can't control the people on the freeway with the Texas license plate

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that don't know how to drive and act like they're trying to murder you.

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But here's what you can do, not pull out your pistol and shoot them.

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Okay, listen up, Texas.

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The greatest road rage murders in the nation.

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You know what a lot of them are doing?

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Giving in to temptation.

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I can't control this idiot cut me off, but I can not kill them.

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I cannot, you know, flip them off. I cannot engage and get them even more angry or something like that.

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You know, I I can't control when people lie about me, but I cannot lie back.

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I can't control when people, you know, make up stories and slander, but I cannot render evil for evil, railing for railing.

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You know, render blessing instead.

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You can control that.

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I'll just read for you. 1st Peter 1 13. The Bible says, wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober.

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Can't control the temptation that that befalls you in life, but you know what I can control what I think about

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I can control where my mind dwells I can control hey instead of thinking about these wicked things

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I could think about that which is pure and right and lovely and a good report

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I could read my Bible I could pray I could run away from bad

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Which look sometimes you just got to literally physically remove yourself from a situation you just got to say hey

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This is a bad place. I can't be here. I'm out of here. There's nothing wrong with that. That's okay

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Number four, I want to say this, it's easier to avoid temptation than to fight temptation.

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It's easier just to avoid temptation completely than to be real close to that fire and just fight temptation.

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Oh, don't give in, don't do it. You know, if you're on a diet, don't even have sweets in your house.

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Because it's easier to not eat the sweets when you can't eat them

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Than to be like how I was on wednesday when I was looking at the pizza

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And I was looking at it for like three minutes just fighting myself and look I overcame temptation

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But that doesn't mean you always will sometimes you can fight it and win

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But you know what's better just not even have it not even have it there go to roman 13

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Roman chapter number 13 as you're turning there. What does the bible say in first cretine 6 18?

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flee fornication

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It doesn't say get as close as you can to the line.

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It says run away from it literally.

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And that is what Joseph did.

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He literally ran away.

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Romans 13 verse 11 the Bible says in verse number 13 let us walk honestly as in the day

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Not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put

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eon the lord jesus christ notice this and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof

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starve it

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Kill it. Don't even give your flesh the opportunity to sin.

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If you know, like, hey, this particular person just makes me mad.

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They make me have a bad spirit. They make me upset.

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It's like, don't watch that person's stuff, right?

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It's so funny. You have so many people that hate watch the new IFB

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and it makes them all mad. It's like, bro, for your own health, go find a preacher you like.

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Go find a church you like, go find a movie you like,

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and you know, do something in your life that's positive,

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that's building something, rather than spending

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your entire life just angry and bitter and obsessive

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over people that you don't like.

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Look, if someone makes you angry,

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don't make provision for the flesh,

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just get away from that person.

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Speed around that person, you know men don't be in a situation

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We're gonna be tempted alone with the opposite gender. You say I'm better than that. No, you're not dummy

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No one is we all have the flesh

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You know you should fear committing sins like this and not have a holier-than-thou attitude like oh

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I would never ever do something like that. It's like wow, that's cool. That's your cool that you're better than King David

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I didn't know that we had someone in the room today that is more righteous than king david

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You know what come finish the sermon because you're better than everyone else

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It's like no one actually is that righteous what you have to do is just make not provision for the flesh

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Diets same thing go to proverbs chapter number 23

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Proverbs chap number 23

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You know if you struggle with drinking alcohol don't go to the bar with your buddies and order a soda

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Don't even make provision for the flesh

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Look at the Bible says in Proverbs 23 verse 31. It says

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Verse 31 don't drink out. Wait doesn't say that it says look not thou

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upon the wine

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When it is red when it giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself

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All right at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder thine eyes shall behold strange women

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And thine heart shall utter perverse things

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Here's the progression.

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Say in your mind, hey, I don't want to be a person

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that's tempted by strange women.

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I don't want to be a person who's uttering

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perverse things in my heart.

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So you know what I'm gonna do?

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I'm gonna not even drink alcohol.

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But I'm not gonna stop there.

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Not only am I gonna say I'm not gonna drink alcohol,

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I'm not even gonna look at it,

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so I'm not even tempted to drink alcohol.

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And look, especially if someone in this room has previously struggled with the sin of alcohol,

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you even more so should just get it far away from you, don't have it in your house, don't

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use it to cook Italian meals, your Italian meals can live without wine, especially if

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you used to be a drunk!

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Stay away from it!

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There's other people in this room I know have never once tasted alcohol in their entire

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life and that would never be a temptation to them whatsoever and it's not going to like

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throw them off to like accidentally see it somewhere.

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or something like that, but for some people it actually would.

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And how much more serious should people take things where if you used to struggle with

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a certain area of your life, you should just consider yourself as always going to be struggling

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with it and you should just get it away from you.

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Not fight temptation, avoid temptation completely.

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Go to Matthew chapter six.

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now.

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It's easier to avoid the sin temptation than to fight temptation. I'll even say this, you know, it's easier to avoid

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Going through some sort of trial or god's temptation or testing of persecution than to fight it. What do I mean by that?

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Look at matthew chapter 6 verse 9

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Jesus is giving us his model prayer

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He says after this manner therefore pray ye our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name

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Thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven

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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors notice verse 13 and lead us not

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Into temptation. What is Jesus saying? Is he saying, you know, hey guys, I want you to pray God

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Please don't lead me into being tempted by sin. That is not what he is saying

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You know how I know that for a fact because the Bible already told us that God does not tempt us with sin

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Just verbatim God

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Does not tempt us when it comes to actual wickedness or sin, but look at the next phrase but deliver us from what evil?

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You know what that is harm

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So you're saying hey pray God, please don't leave me in a temptation

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But rather just deliver me from that evil rather deliver me from that trial

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Deliver me from going through that sort of temptation for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever

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Amen go to Matthew chapter number 26 Matthew chapter number 26. Here's the thing

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Oftentimes the whole reason not every situation

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But oftentimes the whole reason God puts you through a temptation through a trial is to wake you up

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Right oftentimes God brings persecution trials temptations is to wake you up

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You know what would be better than God having to wake you up is just already be awake

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You know what, I am not kidding.

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I am saying this in 100% sincerity.

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I often pray to God, God, you don't have to put me

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through some sort of fiery trial right now.

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Hey, you don't have to come after my family.

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You don't have to put me through the wringer right now

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because God, I fear you right now with your blessing.

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God I'm reading the Bible right now with your hand on me

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I'm in church right now without you having to punish me without you having to put me through a trial

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And you know what if that's actually true for your life, then maybe he wouldn't have to often put you through a trial

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I think that's what Jesus is saying when he says Lord lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

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Otherwise, what interpretation are you gonna take God? Please don't lead me into sinning that doesn't match with James chapter number one

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That would be a contradiction there

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Matthew 26 here's an example of this verse 39 and he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying oh my father

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If it be possible

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Let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will but as that will you know what he's praying

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God lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil. That's what he's praying

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He's literally in his specific situation. Jesus is saying look I don't want to die on the cross

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I don't want to get beaten mercilessly

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I don't want my bones to be protruding from my body

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I don't want people to spit in my face and rip my beard out and put a crown of thorns on my head

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And beat me with a cat of nine tails and drive nails through my hands and my feet and hang me on the cross for six

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Hours and pierce my side and mock me and make fun of me. I don't want to go through that lord. Let this come

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pass from me but notice this nevertheless not my will but thine be done and that's the

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thing sometimes it is God's will for you to go through trial even if you are awake even

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if you are doing what's right I mean was Jesus backslidden no he never sinned

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He's max filled with the Holy Spirit. He's always doing what's right

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But you know what?

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This is just a trial that Jesus Christ had to go through and look we don't want to become Job's friends and say oh every

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Time someone's going through a trial that's because they're backslidden or they're wicked was Jesus wicked in his trial

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Was job wicked in his trial? Absolutely not

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Now look, sometimes God's gonna put you through the trial

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because you are backslidden and he needs to wake you up.

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And here's what you should do.

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In general, you should live a righteous life.

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You should fear God in the green tree.

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You should fear God when things are going well in your life

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and be able to honestly say to him,

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God, I am doing everything I can for you right now

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while things are good.

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You don't have to drop the hammer on me.

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Nevertheless, not my will be done, but thine be done.

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Sometimes you're in a trial and you're just like why is this happening?

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I feel like I am serving God feel like I am doing what's right

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I feel like I'm on the right side of things. Why is this happening?

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That's one of those moments where maybe you're just going through a battle that Christ that God's just wanting you to go through

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Not because you're wicked not because you're evil but because you know what?

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Yeah, and all that will have gobbling Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution

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I'll go if you would to John chapter 15. Now. Let me say this sometimes

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We're not quite as locked in as we think, right?

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Sometimes, maybe there's a little bit of pride

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or self-deception going on where people think in their mind,

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God, I'm doing what's right, God, I'm giving it all I got.

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But maybe you're really not.

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And maybe it's those times that God says,

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you know what, you're not as locked in as you think.

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Let me put you in a trial to prune you, to purge you.

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That's what the Bible says in John chapter 15, verse one.

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I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman.

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Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away.

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And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that he might bring forth more fruit."

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So notice, God is purging or pruning what type of branch?

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The branch that's bringing forth fruit.

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Right, so sometimes we think in our mind. Hey, I'm bringing forth fruit. I'm soul winning. I'm doing what I can but god is saying

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Yeah, but you're nowhere near your potential like okay. Yeah, you're bringing forth some fruit

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But you know what you need to be a lot more fruitful than you're being

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Why because you know some people are the five talent people some people are the three talents some people are the one talent

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And you know if the five talent person is not really giving it all his God, you know

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God's probably gonna purge that person even more

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Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself

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Except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me, right?

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So how are you gonna bring forth a lot of fruit abiding in Christ? That's what it says in the next verse

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I am the vine here the branches he that abideth in me and I and him the same

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Bring it forth notice this much fruit

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For without me you could do nothing.

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Maybe you're bringing forth fruit,

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and maybe God wants you to bring forth much fruit.

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Maybe you're not quite abiding in Christ as much as you think maybe God needs to put you some through some sort of trial

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Some sort of temptation to bring you down to your knees

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So you'll pray more to him

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Maybe God needs to put you through some sort of trial or temptation so that you're driven to this book

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To abide in the vine more so that you can bring forth much fruit and we should be very careful

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About the sin of pride because pride is the most self deceiving sin that exists

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When people are prideful, they often don't know that they're prideful.

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It's very frustrating.

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Okay.

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And so, hey, you know, again, let's pray to the Lord.

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You know, Lord, you know, examine my heart, see if there be any wicked way in me, make

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known to me areas of my life I need to improve so that he doesn't necessarily have to start

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pruning you and taking you through this process.

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I'll read for you job 23 verse 10 the Bible says but he knoweth the way that I take

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When he hath tried me I shall come forth as gold

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Was job righteous. Yes or no. Yes. Did he need more of a trying to become even more righteous? Yes or no?

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Yes, and that's that's humbling to think about because he was the most righteous man

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So if the most righteous man needed a trial and he was going to come forward as gold,

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how much more, wherever you think you are in your spiritual life, let me tell you,

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there's probably some improvements that could be made. Let me just say there's definitely some

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improvements that could be made. My foot have held his steps, his way have I kept and not declined,

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neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have esteemed the words of his mouth

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more than my necessary food.

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Does that describe the average American Christian today?

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Were there a steaming the words of God more than they're steaming food?

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Absolutely not. How did Job get to that place? Through the temptations and trials that God was putting him through.

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Where he got to the point where he was saying look I care less about filling my stomach

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about eating than I do about just getting the word of God.

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And you know what'd be great is if you could just get yourself to that place

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where you care more about the Bible than you do a food. That's where we should

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Try to get as Christians number five

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God's testing can become sin if we don't obey

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God's testing can become sin if we don't obey go back to Genesis 22 Genesis 22

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Remember God does not tempt us to sin God sends trials our way

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God does not dangle sin in front of our face, but God sends us temptations or tests in life and those tests are not sinful

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But I submit to you they can become sinful when we don't endure those tests when we don't obey those tests that God

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Has given us verse 1 and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham

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said unto him Abraham and he said behold here am I and he said take now thy son

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thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah and

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offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will

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tell thee of was this temptation from God a sin yes or no no but what if

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Abraham just took things into his own hand and said no I'm not gonna do it I'm

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not gonna sacrifice my son would that have been a sin yes it would have

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Or what if he said, oh you want me to do a sacrifice?

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Well, you said sacrifice my son.

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I'm not going to sacrifice my son,

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but I'll go ahead and bring this bowl with me

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and we'll go and sacrifice this bowl to the Lord

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and I'll go and do that.

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Would that have been a sin?

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Yes, it would have.

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The temptations and the trials that God sends us in life is not God trying to get you to sin

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But let me tell you what if you just put your foot down if you just draw a line in the sand and say God

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I'm not doing what you're asking me to do. I refuse you know what that could be a sin go to Genesis chapter number 16

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Genesis chapter number 16 now. What is an example of this? Here's the thing. Here's what I'm talking about

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I'm talking about violating clear commandments of God. Here's a clear commandment of God sacrifice your son

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I'm not talking about areas of life that are gray area or there's no commandment in the Bible

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Sin is the transgression of the law and sometimes God puts you through a trial to see what's in your heart

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And sometimes people say no, I'm not gonna go through that trial. I'm gonna sin instead

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How about this story here with Abram and Sarah, you know, Sarah is barren for a long time

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Is it a sin to be barren? No

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Is that a testing or a temptation that God is putting you through? Yes.

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But what happened? She says, Hey, go into my handmaid. Is that a sin? Yes. Yes, it is.

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Genesis 16 verse one. Now, Sarah, Abrams wife bear him no children. And she had in handmade

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an Egyptian whose name was Hagar. And Sarah, I said unto Abram, behold, now the Lord hath

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restrain me from bearing.

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I pray thee, go in unto my maid.

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It may be that I may obtain child by her,

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and Abram, I can't believe these words,

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hearkened to the voice of Sarah.

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This is why you don't listen to your wife, okay?

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This is a bad situation right here.

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Look, you have to just know that your wife is in a crazy state of mind

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when she's asking you to be with another woman.

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It's a trap.

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She is testing you to sin. She is trying to tempt you to sin run away. Don't fall for that situation

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But you know what abraham's is like, all right, you know if you're asking me to i'll go ahead and do that

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Whatever you want, honey, and he does it that was the sin

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Were they barren because they were wicked? No

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Was their testing and temptation from god a sin? No

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God was going to come through with them and God eventually does come through with them even with this in

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But here's the thing

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It was wrong and it was wicked for them to not wait on the Lord

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Not endure the temptation that God was asking them to go through and instead take it into their own hands

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You know, what does this look like today? You know, it doesn't look like women saying hey go be with another woman necessarily

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But you know what it often can be is like IVF

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IVF which let me translate what that is for you. That's murdering children is what IVF is because you're fertilizing multiple eggs

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And you're just gonna say which one you know

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Thrives and the rest just get thrown in the trash

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And the Bible teaches that life begins at conception.

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And so look, IVF is murder, it is wicked,

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no Christian should ever participate in that.

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You say, well, I don't like being barren.

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Okay, we don't like the trials that we're going through.

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But are you gonna be the person that draws the line

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in the sand and says, God, I'm not gonna do

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what you asked me to do?

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Or are you gonna be like Abraham, who says,

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okay, you asked me to sacrifice my son, I'll do it.

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I'll do whatever you're asking me to go through and I am not up here to tell you you're gonna like the trials and

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Temptations that you have in your life, but what I'm telling you is to follow God's commandments

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Whether you like it or not

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And most of the time you know what God's commandments are just gonna bring nothing but joy and happiness and blessing in our life

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Other times it's gonna be a grind

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Other times it's going to be hard.

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You know, I'll just say this.

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I also don't like this weird thing of like surrogate mothers.

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I think that's unnatural and gross and weird.

01:32:20.240 --> 01:32:25.360
You know, I don't like this idea of a baby being grown in some other woman.

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And then that mother, the baby's growing in this mother's womb,

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is being with the mother and then just ripped away from its mother.

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That's just weird. That's not natural.

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That's not how God has ordained things to do.

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You know, don't do stuff like that.

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Maybe you're going through some sort of financial struggles,

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and maybe it's God's will that you go through financial struggles,

01:32:43.740 --> 01:32:46.140
don't start making money in immoral ways.

01:32:46.400 --> 01:32:51.920
Don't start selling drugs. Don't start joining only fans. Don't start lying on your job

01:32:52.400 --> 01:32:56.600
Don't start, you know ripping off your customers or doing stuff like that

01:32:56.760 --> 01:33:02.760
These are real things that people are actually doing in this world when they're tempted with whatever financial struggles

01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:07.840
They have you know some young lady. She doesn't have much going forward her life should have sell her body on the internet

01:33:07.840 --> 01:33:13.820
You know, that's wicked as hell. Oh, but you're struggling financially. Well, then go ahead and keep struggling financially with your integrity

01:33:14.400 --> 01:33:16.760
Go ahead and keep struggling financially to your grave

01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:18.500
and not be a whore on the internet.

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What's better?

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You got trials in your marriage?

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Okay, keep going through your trials in your marriage.

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Don't get divorced.

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Oh, but we're having a rough time.

01:33:27.740 --> 01:33:29.780
Okay, we'll have a rough time then, married.

01:33:29.780 --> 01:33:30.980
And stay married.

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But you know what?

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Things can get better in the future.

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And I've seen people have really horrible situations

01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:37.280
and things get better.

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But you know what?

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It can't get better when you give up and you divorce.

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And the Bible says that the Lord hateth putting away. God hates divorce.

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You know, you're going through a trial in your church, you know church church splits issues. Don't quit serving God

01:33:51.140 --> 01:33:56.020
I didn't say you have to be faithful to any particular church your whole life because if a church starts preaching heresy

01:33:56.260 --> 01:33:57.600
Be faithful to god

01:33:57.900 --> 01:33:59.340
Keep serving God.

01:33:59.340 --> 01:34:00.700
Keep reading the Bible.

01:34:00.700 --> 01:34:02.700
Go to another good church.

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Your pastor turns bad.

01:34:04.300 --> 01:34:06.540
Is that your fault that that trial came into your life?

01:34:06.540 --> 01:34:09.340
No, but don't follow a bad pastor off a cliff.

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Keep following the Lord, okay?

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Now let me say this I just want to state the elephant in the room

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I am NOT talking about pastor Steven Anderson right now this sermon is not for him and his trials this sermon is for you

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And for me because of the fact that we are gonna go through trials in our lives

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We are gonna go through temptations in our lives

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And you know pastor Anderson already correctly pointed out that there is no Bible verse that says thou shalt be the pastor of faithful word Baptist

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church

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And you know, I'll just say personally, I don't appreciate seeing people going online,

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laymen going online and telling Pastor Anderson that he's in sin or that he would be wicked

01:34:43.220 --> 01:34:47.380
for stepping down because you know what? The Bible does not say thou shalt be a pastor.

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And pastor Anson already got up and said hey, I will never quit serving God. He said I'll never quit preaching the gospel

01:34:54.180 --> 01:34:59.360
I'll never quit reading my Bible. I'll never quit praying or going to church or serving God

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He just said like hey

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I just feel like I've put up with a lot and he's kind of at this point right now where he's saying God

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I need you to come through for me. I need you to avenge my enemies

01:35:08.280 --> 01:35:13.400
I need you to make it clear who's righteous and who's wicked. Otherwise, I don't even want to pastor anymore now

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Look, I am rooting and praying every single day

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that he's gonna continue pastoring and I believe in all of my heart that he will

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do that but let me say this if if I don't want this but if he chose not to I

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will still support him and love him as my friend I'm not gonna say he's bad for

01:35:28.940 --> 01:35:31.600
doing that I'm not gonna say he's bad for feeling the feelings that

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has. You know, I understand what he's talking about to a smaller extent. I understand the

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pressures and the trials to a smaller extent. And I'm not going to sit here in judgment

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of my friend that is going through the worst trial I've ever seen any Christian in my life

01:35:44.580 --> 01:35:45.020
go through.

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And I don't think it's cool for laymen right now to try to you know score spiritual points where it's like

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Oh, yeah

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This is my time to show that I'm more spiritual than the great pastor Anderson and I'm gonna tell pastor Anderson

01:35:58.220 --> 01:36:03.520
I'm more spiritual than you and you need to keep you know doing this and you can't step down or that's wicked or that's

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A sin, you know what just shut up

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And look, I love the people saying this but like did you not hear him? He already said he doesn't want the pep talk

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He doesn't need the pep talk.

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You know, I don't even know how many times

01:36:13.520 --> 01:36:14.880
he's read the Bible through cover to cover,

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but it's probably more than anyone who's criticizing him.

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By a lot.

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He already knows, okay?

01:36:20.400 --> 01:36:24.780
This isn't a time to sit here and belittle your pastor

01:36:24.780 --> 01:36:26.640
and to patronize your pastor.

01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:28.700
You know what it's a time to do is actually pray for him.

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And by the way, this should be a reminder for you to just pray for the men of God that are in your life in your life

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Because you know what? We're not just these invincible supermen that can just like go through everything and anything

01:36:39.960 --> 01:36:43.640
You know, he's he's at the point where he feels like he's being pushed too far

01:36:43.880 --> 01:36:50.460
And so my sermon right now is not saying like you're sinful if you're stepping down because the bible doesn't say that you have to be a pastor

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Let me be very clear what I'm saying.

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What I'm saying is if you're going through a trial

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or a temptation and you break God's commandments,

01:36:57.520 --> 01:36:59.160
that's what's sinful.

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Hey, you know, you're barren,

01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:02.160
there's nothing wrong with being barren.

01:37:02.160 --> 01:37:04.460
It's not the judgment of God necessarily,

01:37:04.460 --> 01:37:06.040
but you know, if you're starting to sleep with other women

01:37:06.040 --> 01:37:07.840
to have a child, that's a sin.

01:37:07.840 --> 01:37:09.360
IVF, that's a sin.

01:37:09.360 --> 01:37:10.880
You're going through financial problems,

01:37:10.880 --> 01:37:13.780
hey, that's not necessarily your fault, it could be,

01:37:13.780 --> 01:37:15.080
but not necessarily.

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Hey, there's nothing wrong with that,

01:37:16.440 --> 01:37:18.620
but going to OnlyFans, that's a sin.

01:37:18.800 --> 01:37:23.440
What I'm not saying is like, oh, you know, you're having a rough time as a pastor and you're still going to serve God

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Read the bible pray do everything that God has commanded you to do but you don't necessarily want to pastor forever

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That's not a sin

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And you know, you should not use this time to sit here and lecture a man of God

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Score brownie points on a man of God try to look more spiritual. You know what? It's wrong. People should stop doing it

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I also want to say this I understand that emotions are high so I'm not holding this against people

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I'm not you know gonna think negative of leave these people

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I'm just trying to lovingly you know point out to them that I don't think what they're doing is right

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Exodus chapter 16

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Do more praying and less posting that'd be great

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Exodus chapter number 16

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Here's another example Exodus 16 verse 1

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And they took their journey from Elam and all the congregation of the children of Israel

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came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day

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of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron

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in the wilderness.

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And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the

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or to the land of Egypt.

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when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full, for ye have brought us forth

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into this wilderness to kill the whole assembly with hunger." Don't you love how people just gaslight

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history? Wait a second, are you talking about when you were slaves in Egypt?

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The Bible says that you had cruel bondage every single day and your task masters were super hard on you and evil

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And you're having to gather straw to make the brick to do your job

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Is that what you're talking about they make it seem like they were on a camping trip

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I mean, they're just like yeah, we were just you know sitting by the flesh pots

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We're just sitting around the fire sitting around the flesh pot man. We were eating bread to the full

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No, you were slaves

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You were in cruel bondage every day.

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You were crying out to God for a deliverer,

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and he sent you one called Moses,

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and you didn't appreciate it.

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You complained and murmured against him.

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Then God split the Red Sea for you, dried out the ground,

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let you pass through on dry ground,

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brought the Egyptians in, and baptized them

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all in a forever baptism, and killed all your enemies.

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And now you're just sitting there crying, and whining,

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and complaining.

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This is just how people are.

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It's crazy.

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Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will reign bread. Notice how long-suffering God is.

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Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will reign bread from heaven for you.

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Here's his instruction though. And the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day.

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Notice this, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no.

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and it shall come to pass on the sixth day,

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they shall prepare that which they bring in,

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and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

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Notice how gracious and long-suffering God is.

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He's saying, even though you're complaining,

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even though you're not thankful for all the miracles,

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even though you're not thankful for me delivering you out of Egypt

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and giving you this great man of God, Moses,

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you know what I'm gonna do?

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I'm just gonna rain down bread from heaven.

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I'm just gonna give you angels food.

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I'm gonna give you, but notice, a rate every single day.

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And why does he say that?

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To prove you whether you will walk in my ways.

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I'm going to provide for you. I'm going to cause this bread to rain down from heaven, but you're only allowed to gather that day's worth of the bread.

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What is God doing? He's testing them to see if they'll trust Him.

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Give us this day our daily bread.

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Right they just God just wants to see that they have it in their heart to not become hoarders to not see all this bread

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And be like oh, we're gonna start hoarding. We're gonna start preserving. We're gonna start stockpiling

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It's just to say hey Lord give us this day our daily bread. Hey Lord

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We're gonna trust you that you're gonna give us every day that which we need

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He says those one exception on the sixth day gather twice as much because on the Sabbath

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You're not gonna be gathering anything together

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you're not going to be getting any more bread.

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Then it says verse number 19,

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the Moses then, sorry, and Moses said,

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let no man leave of it till the morning.

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Now they harkened not unto Moses,

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but let some of them left of it until the morning

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and it bred worms and stank and Moses was Roth with them.

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Right? You know what?

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And leaders get tired.

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of just preaching the commandments of God,

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showing people the right way to go,

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this will fix your marriage,

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this is what God wants you to do,

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thus saith the Lord,

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and then people are just rebellious and refuse to do it,

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and bring God's judgment on themselves,

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and when they bring God's judgment on themselves,

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what do they do?

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They complain, they blame God,

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they complain and they blame the leader,

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and you know what, it just gets tiring.

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It gets annoying.

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You know, we as God's people need to trust the Lord that His commandments and the things

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that the Bible says, God's promises to us, will come to pass.

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And you feel like, well, I feel like that's being tested.

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Yeah.

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You're probably going to be tested because god wants to see if you actually believe him

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You know, it's kind of like it's kind of like being a pastor because one of the things that I think people

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Fear before they become a pastor and i'll be honest. I've kind of had this thought as well is like man

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You know, i've preached a sermon before

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I've written a sermon before i've preached a few sermons. Maybe even some of them were edifying to people

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And you know praise the lord for that but man, can I really preach sermons like that?

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three times a week, every week for as long as God wants me to pass her. You know that can kind of

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test your faith, right? But you know what you have to believe is that God's just going to rain down

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that manna for you one sermon at a time. And you know what? God's going to test the heart of someone

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that wants to become a pastor and he's going to have to say like, hey, do I have all my sermons

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planned out for the rest of my life? No.

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But I just got to trust that God's going to rain down that manna from heaven

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I got to pray down that manna from heaven and just ask that God will give me something

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You know what?

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God's just testing to see if man's willing to trust him because you know

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You're not going to get to write out all your sermons in advance

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You know, sometimes people ask me days before like I don't know

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You know the Lord i'm waiting on the Lord to answer that prayer, you know, God

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Give me something out of your word, right?

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And but look it could be like that for you could be like that for your career. I don't see a clear path

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I don't see where this is going, but I do see seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall

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Be added unto you. I don't know how God's gonna provide but I know I'm gonna keep put God first and go soul winning

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I know what to put God first and go to church

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I know what to put God first and read the Bible

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You know what? God's gonna have to take care of finding out how to provide for me because I am gonna claim his promise that he's

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given me

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verse 25

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And Moses said, eat that today for today is the Sabbath under the Lord.

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Today you shall not find it in the field.

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Six days you shall gather it.

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But on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.

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And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather.

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And they found none.

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What is wrong with these people?

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What does God have to do to show people?

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That the Lord is going to provide that the Lord is going to fill his promises

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And here's the thing. She's like some people it doesn't matter what God does

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They're just always going to be on the wrong side and not trust God and not listen the commandments of God

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And you know what? It doesn't matter if God will open up the red sea

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It doesn't matter if the god raises up moses

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It doesn't matter if god rains down manna from heaven. Some people are just stubborn and rebellious and wicked

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And you know what? You don't be that person

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Don't be that person that just refuses to hearken under the Lord because you know what you're gonna reap the whirlwind and you're only

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Gonna have yourself to blame

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Verse 28 and the Lord said unto Moses how long?

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Refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws

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You know God is just frustrated here

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Moses is frustrated. God is frustrated. You know what I don't want to be someone that's just constantly frustrating God

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You know, we all have the flesh. We're all gonna make mistakes

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But I do not want my life to be one constant refrain of god in heaven just saying like how long do you refuse to harken?

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How long is it going to take before you finally wake up and figure out?

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What I want you to do what the truth is and actually do it

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You know what just be the type of person that you go through the testing that god gives you

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You go through the temptations and you say in your heart though. He slay me yet. Will I trust him?

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And you know what? We do have our limits that we could be pushed, but you know what?

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When it comes to God's commandments, God is not going to push you past the limit where he causes you to sin.

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That is absolutely not going to happen.

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And you know what? I will prove that to you. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 10. We're almost done.

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1 Corinthians chapter number 10.

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It's not saying that you're never gonna feel overwhelmed

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The Apostles said that they were pressed beyond measure and despaired even of life

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You know what that means? They wanted to die

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They were so done. They were so fed up

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They were so pushed past their limits that they just wanted to die did did they say hey, I'm pushed out of measure

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I'm gonna go commit adultery. I'm pushed out of measure. I'm gonna go do drugs. I'm gonna drink alcohol

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No, they're just saying like I just want to be done

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I just want to go to heaven. I just want God to take me. I want to give up

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But look what the Bible says in first Corinthians 10 verse 13

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There hath no temptation taken you that's trial that's testing but such as is common to man

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But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able

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But will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear

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Here's what this is saying.

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This is saying that when you are going through a trial when you're going through a temptation

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God is not going to push you to the point where you fall into sin where you cross the line and you're gonna start doing

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Wicked things if God is putting you through a temptation though

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You may feel overwhelmed though. You may feel like you cannot do it

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You know what God is always gonna provide us a way to keep God's commandments

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God's not gonna put you in a position where it's just impossible for you to avoid that

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sinful temptation to run away from Potiphar's wife. No, God always provides us a way to escape. So look.

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Whatever temptation you're going through right now or maybe you're at a high point

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You don't feel like you're being tested

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Well buckle up because the Christian life is one of temptation and trials and if you're not in one right now

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You will be in one very very soon

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And here's all I could tell you is that you need to remind yourself that hey God is testing me right now

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And though it's not fun

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And though I don't like it God wants to see what's in my heart right now

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God wants to see if I really love him God wants to see what's really what I'm really made of if I really want

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to serve him and you know what God's going to carry me through that temptation. God's going to

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carry me through that trial. God's not going to suffer me or allow me to be tempted above that

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that I am able but he's going to provide a way to escape. Last place James chapter one. James

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chapter number one. When you're being tempted it means that God thinks you can handle it.

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It means also that God is preparing you for something great.

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that God's about to use you in a mighty way. And because of that, you should rejoice.

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When you're going through a temptation don't start to lean on your own understanding and try to rationalize your way out of it

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And say hey, maybe IVF maybe surrogacy. Maybe be with another woman. Maybe start slinging drugs

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Maybe start going on only fans. Maybe start doing all this

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No, no, no trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him

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And he shall direct thy paths

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Last thing I want to say is this is that the future of your life?

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and those that you could potentially influence in the future is going to be determined by how you

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handle life's temptations and trials. That's it. The people that you can get saved in the future

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is depending on whether or not you're going to quit or keep going during those trials.

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James 1 12 blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he has tried he shall

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receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised.

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To them that love him. Let's pray lord. Thank you so much for your word lord

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Thank you for the trials and temptations that you've brought us through in life

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Lord, I pray that we would all do our best to fear you all the days of our life

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so that we can just have your blessings and your goodness in your hand of favor and support on us,

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Lord. But God, I pray that the future trials that we go through, that we would stand firm on the

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Word of God, that we would not waver, that we would not drift into sin or taking things into

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our own hands. I pray that you would just carry us through, that we would remain faithful to you.

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We love you in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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For our last hymn this morning, turn if you would to 452.

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PIN number 452-452, all I need.

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452 All I Need. Let's sing it out all together.

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Jesus Christ is made.