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Thank you for this day, for just another opportunity

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that you've graced us with to gather together to meet here.

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at this building in this local congregation

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for the express purpose, Lord, of praising you

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from learning from your word.

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And I pray that you would just remind us

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in our hearts of the reason why we're here.

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Lord, I also pray just for the service

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that everything would be done decently and in order,

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that you would open our ears to the word

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and fill pastor with your spirit this morning.

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These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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For our next hymn, 143, Blessed Assurance.

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143-143, Blessed Assurance.

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143 let's sing there on the first

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This time we're going to go through our bulletins.

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If you need one, please raise your hand.

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And an usher will come and bring you one.

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On the front, we're working on 2 Timothy chapter number two

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for our memory chapter.

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And we're on verse number eight.

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So keep working hard on that memory chapter there.

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On the inside, our service times are listed there.

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Sunday morning at 10.30, Sunday evening at 4.30,

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and our Wednesday Bible study through the Gospel of Mark

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at seven o'clock.

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you

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Below that we have our soul winning times and all those meet here at the church building except for

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Saturday so watch that signal group for the address sent out on Fridays

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Below that we have our year-to-date soul winning statistics

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You can tell the heat is making a little bit of difference for the month of August, but

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we're going to go out today and keep preaching the gospel.

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Our updated totals for the month and year have been reflected there.

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1296 for the year.

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Praise God for that.

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Below we have our online visitor card as well as our online giving information, if that's

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something you're interested in there,

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as well as our prayer list.

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If you have any updates or new requests, please email the church and just indicate if that's

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a public or private prayer request and I'll make sure to get that reflected in the bulletin

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or to pray for that privately.

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On the back we have our upcoming events.

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We have August 15th, that's next Saturday, is the Shawnee Oklahoma Soul Winning Marathon.

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We do have a sign-up sheet in the back there. It looks like lots and lots of people have signed up

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So we're really excited for a great turnout and lots of good soul winning here in the metro area

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And so the schedule for next Saturday is reflected there below at 9 a.m

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We're gonna meet at Chick-fil-a the address is there and then round one of soul winning from 10 to 1230

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Lunch from 1230 to 2 and then another round of soul winning 2 to 4 p.m. So please join us for that

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August 23rd is the next men's preaching night for the evening service followed by just a potluck and game night

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There is a sign-up sheet for the men's preaching night if you'd like to participate in that

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Then we have September 19th

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We have the Osage Indian Soul Winning Marathon

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that's in Pawhuska and so we're gonna give that area a shot.

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Lord willing it'll be a little cooler,

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but we're gonna go out no matter what.

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We like to pad the end of the year

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with lots of soul winning marathons

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when the weather is just a little cooler.

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And so there is another one reflected there below.

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We have October 10th, we're gonna do a soul winning marathon

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in Joplin, Missouri.

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The reason we chose Joplin is because it's pretty much right in the middle of three churches that want to participate.

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We're going to be teaming up with Kansas City Baptist Church and with Straight Paths Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri.

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All three of us kind of come in the middle there to Joplin.

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I'm really looking forward to that. Please turn out for that one.

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We just want to get a lot of soul winners there. We're really excited to work with those couple of churches there.

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Then, October 24th, we'll have a fellowship day, the Orr Family Farm.

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I'll get you some more details soon as to when we need to be signed up for that buy,

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so I can purchase the tickets.

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But, please feel free to invite friends and family and neighbors and whoever.

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We like to have this be a big event throughout the year, and it's a lot of fun.

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So, plan on joining us for that Saturday.

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October 31st is the Chili Cook-Off. Looking forward to that.

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And then, November 7th is the Enid, Oklahoma...

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soul winning marathon.

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There'll be more stuff as well in November and December,

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but we're just kinda adding what is in the near future.

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So that's gonna be it for announcements.

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We'll go ahead and go to our third song together.

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Our third song this morning, turn if you would to 441.

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Great is thy faithfulness.

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Hymn number 441, 441,

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Great is thy faithfulness.

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441. Let's sing it out together.

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Turn if you would to 2 Chronicles chapter number 12.

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2 Chronicles chapter number 12.

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2 Chronicles chapter 12

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And it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself

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He forsook the law of the lord and all israel with him and it came to pass that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam

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Shishak king of egypt came up against jerusalem because they had transgressed against the lord

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With 1200 chariots and three score thousand horsemen and the people were without number that came with him out of egypt

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the Lubims, the Sukkians, and the Ethiopians. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah,

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and came to Jerusalem. Then came Shemaah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah,

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that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them,

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Thus saith the LORD, ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of

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Shishak. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said,

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The Lord is righteous.

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And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying,

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They have humbled themselves. Therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance.

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And my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

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Nevertheless, they shall be his servants, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

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So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the King's house.

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He took all. He carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

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Instead of which King Rehoboam made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the entrance of the King's house.

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And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the guard came and fetched them,

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and brought them again into the guard chamber.

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And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that he would not

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destroy him altogether.

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And also in Judah things went well.

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So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned.

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For Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign,

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and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had

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chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.

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And his mother's name was Naamah in Ammonitus.

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And he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

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Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,

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Are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet and of Ido the seer concerning genealogies?

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And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

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And Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

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Let's pray, dear Heavenly Father, I pray that you fill Pastor Oz with your spirit.

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Second Chronicles chapter 12 and keep your place there throughout the sermon.

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Let's read verse number one together.

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Bible says it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had

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strengthened himself.

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He forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him.

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It's a pretty scary verse because here,

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Rehoboam had gotten to a point in his life

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where he felt comfortable, he felt established,

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and because he felt comfortable,

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that led to his heart getting lifted up,

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him becoming prideful, and as a result of that,

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he forsook the law of the Lord.

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Now to give you some background

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of how he got to this point in his life,

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go back one chapter, 2 Chronicles, chapter number 11.

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Of course, Rehoboam was the son of King Solomon.

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and he reigned for 17 years over a divided kingdom.

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It was under his reign that the kingdom of Israel split,

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where you have the 10 northern tribes

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and the two southern tribes.

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And at one point he goes up to Shechem

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to be ordained as the king, to be established as the king,

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and the people said, hey, will you ease somewhat the burden

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that your father put upon us?

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And basically, just to summarize, he takes counsel.

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with the old men first and the old men were saying hey answer them kindly you know serve the people

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and they're going to love you they're going to serve you their hearts are going to be knit to you

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and then he goes and he gets advice from the young men and they're like you need to answer them roughly

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he ends up saying you know my my pinky is going to be thicker than my father's loins and as a result

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that the kingdom divided right they went from him and they divided and so that's kind of where

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where we're at in second.

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Chronicles chap number 11.

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Verse one it says this and when rehoboam was come to Jerusalem

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He gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin and hundred and four score thousand chosen men

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Which were warriors to fight against Israel that he might bring the kingdom again to rehoboam

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So this was right after the split and he's kind of worried. He's kind of upset and he's like, alright

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Well, I have these two tribes. Let's gather up all the warriors of these two tribes and let's go fight a war

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To bring back the unity of the kingdom. It's kind of like the US Civil War, right?

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We're gonna fight a war to bring back the unity but look at verse number two

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But the war what the word of the Lord came to Shema. I of the man of God saying

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Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin

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Saying thus sayeth the Lord ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren

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Return every man to his house for this thing is done of me

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And they obeyed the words of the Lord and returned from going against

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Jeroboam so rea bom did not get to do what he wanted to do. He wanted to reunify the kingdom

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But that ship has already sailed and god comes to the man of god and says hey

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Tell him that this division is actually from me and there's a side lesson there that sometimes division is of the lord

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Right. Sometimes there's a good division that we need to have and god said hey, you know what this division is actually sanctioned of me

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I don't want you to go fight a battle against your brethren to reunify the kingdom.

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He said that ship has sailed.

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Don't go up and fight.

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And so what does he respond with?

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It says in verse number five, and Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem and notice built cities

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for defense in Judah.

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He built even Bethlehem and Etom and Tekoa and Bethser and Shoko and Adulam and Gath

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and Marisha and Zeph.

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and Adorahim, and Lachish, and Ezekiah, and Zorah, and Eijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah,

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and in Benjamin, fenced cities. And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them,

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and store of vidal, and of oil, and of wine.

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And in every several city he put shields and spears and made them exceeding strong

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Having judah and benjamin on his side and the priests and the levites that were in all israel resorted to him

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out of all their coasts

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So notice that Rehoboam, he's at a point of distress in his life.

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I mean, here he was, he was supposed to be anointed king over all of Israel,

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and now he finds himself in a position where he's only king over the southern two tribes.

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And because of this distress, he doesn't feel established.

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His heart definitely is not lifted up at this point.

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He's a little bit scared. He's like, we need to go fight a war.

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We need to get into a battle to fix this situation.

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He can't fight the battle. He says, OK, I can't fight the battle.

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Well, here's...

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what I can do, I could build cities, I could build defense cities, I could fortify these

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cities, I could train these warriors, I can make sure that we strengthen ourselves, that

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we have shields, that we have swords, you know, what is he doing? He's working really

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hard.

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Right, because he does not feel established.

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His heart is not lifted up at this point.

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He's kind of freaking out about the state of his kingdom.

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And as a result of that, he's working hard.

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He's saying, hey, let's fight battles.

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Let's build, let's train up warriors.

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Let's defend our cities.

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Let's do all this work to make sure

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that we could get established.

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All right, so you understand the picture of how he got

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to this point in his life.

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Then that brings us to 2 Chronicles chapter 12.

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Look at verse 1.

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notice this and it came to pass when

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Ray of Balm had established the kingdom and

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Had strengthened himself. He forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him

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The title my sermon is the sin of complacency

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the sin of complacency.

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Notice that when there was danger in his life,

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when things did not feel certain,

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when he was not established, he was worried, right?

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And kind of like a good worry,

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like let's turn this worry into work.

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Hey, if we need to fight a battle, let's fight a battle.

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If we need to train soldiers, let's train soldiers.

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If we need to get weapons,

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let's get weapons and embattlements.

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Why?

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Because he wasn't prideful and just being complacent

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and sitting around and doing nothing.

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He's like, hey, I have to actually work to succeed.

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But there is a danger in human nature that whenever we feel

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Established whenever we feel like everything's okay

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what what could happen is your heart can get lifted up and

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Your heart could get lifted up and that could cause you to forsake the law of the Lord and end up getting destroyed

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This is complacency and it had it could happen to Kings. Let me tell you what it happens to everyday Christians

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And we often preach about what to do when you're down in life,

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how to get up when you're down.

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But just as dangerous of a point as being down is when you're up.

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One of the most dangerous points in life

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is when you feel like everything is OK.

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One of the most dangerous points in life is when you feel like,

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hey, I'm pretty established.

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Hey, the job's going good.

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The marriage is going good.

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Church is going good.

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My kids are going good.

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My health is going good.

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That's a pretty dangerous place to be,

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because that is the point where many people decide

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to get prideful, to get complacent,

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and then they're going to see their lives get

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knocked down big time.

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Alright, so let me give you a few statements this morning number one realize that you need God as much in the good times as you

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Need them in the bad. I mean, I just wish people would get this mentality because you'd save yourself a lot of heartache

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God would have to you know wouldn't have to keep knocking you down

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When things are going well if you just realize that you need God in the good times just as much in the bad

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Now during the bad times of life, that's when people are often drawn to become more spiritual

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And let me tell you what, there's never a bad time to be spiritual.

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Right, you know, hey, I wouldn't recommend getting right with God in the hospital room,

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but that's a better time than ever.

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I mean, you might as well if you're there at that point of life, you'd rather be right

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with God before that.

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But if tragedy or hardship or problems in your life drives you to be more spiritual,

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praise God for that.

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But you know, it'd be better is to be spiritual in the good times to not be complacent to

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not have to get to that point in your life.

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to Hebrews 12.

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While you're turning there, Psalm 18 six says,

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in my distress, I called upon the Lord

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and cried unto my God.

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He heard my voice out of his temple

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and my cry came before him even into his ears.

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Hey, it's great when you call out to the Lord

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in your distress.

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I'm not saying you shouldn't do that.

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You know, that's very natural.

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No one really needs a sermon of me telling you hey when times are bad cry out to God because everyone's crying out to God when times are bad

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When times are bad you're in church three times a week when times are bad

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You're like man. I need to soul win more when times are bad

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You're on your knees in prayer what you need a reminder of though is when things are good

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And you know what to the full soul every oh man. I'm gonna misquote this verse. I hate it when I do this

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You understand what I'm saying.

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The Bible teaches this concept of that when you're full,

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you don't want to desire things that are sweet as much,

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where to the hungry soul, there it is, to the hungry soul,

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every bitter thing is sweet.

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So you go to countries like the Philippines and the Bahamas.

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And in general, the Christian population

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is way more excited to serve God and to get in church

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and to do things of the Lord, because they're not

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so full on the things of this world,

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whereas we in America, we could become very full, can't we?

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We could get complacent because things in life can be very good here.

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And you know what?

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We shouldn't have to have God constantly knock us down.

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We should thank God for the goodness that we have and not be complacent.

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Actually continue to serve him in those times.

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Look at Hebrews 12 verse 11.

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The Bible says now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous.

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It's not fun to get chastised.

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It's not fun to get punished by God.

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It's not fun to get corrected.

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But notice what it says there.

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Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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Wherefore, lift the hands which hang down and the feeble knees, and notice, make straight paths for your feet.

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Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

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Maybe sometimes when people are at the lows of life, it's as a result of their own sin

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Right and they're being punished by God. They're being chastised by God. The Bible says whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth

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Scourge it every son whom he receiveth and you know what the right response

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When you're getting punished by God when you're in that low point of life the right response is to cry out to God is

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To try to be more spiritual is to allow the chastening to be exercised in your life

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Because notice there's a result when you do that it says that it yielded the peaceable fruit of righteousness

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unto them which are exercised thereby

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Right, so here's what happens you sin you get complacent you get backslidden you get worldly god punishes you

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And you get a wake-up call and what a wise person does is they say okay god, you've got my attention

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I'm gonna amend my ways. I'm gonna what make straight paths for my feet

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I'm gonna start walking in the straight paths

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I'm not gonna turn to the right hand or to the left and you know what you often see is god's blessing return on your life

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Now here's what many christians foolishly do is they live in this?

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Where they got punished they get right with God they feel established their heart gets lifted up

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They get prideful and they sin again and they get backslid again and God punishes them again

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And you know what would be wise is just to stop that crisis mode Christianity cycle and just realize hey

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I need God in the good times just as much as I need him when I'm down

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Need to be spiritual. I need to be walking with the Lord just as much in times where things are going good as when God's punishing

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Me as when he's chastising me or when I'm going through a trial this would help your life a lot

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Go to Deuteronomy chapter number eight

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Deuteronomy chapter number eight and man I feel like especially in America we need this kind of preaching we need this reminder

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Because let's just be honest from a coronal perspective

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So many Americans live a life. That's just really great carnally speaking and you know we should thank God for that

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We live in the land flowing with milk and honey.

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We have so much opportunity.

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We have relative safety compared to other places in this world.

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We just have so much entertainment and disposable free time.

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A lot of people in this world don't just have all this extra time

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that they get to just do fun things and watch TV and watch videos on YouTube.

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We are really blessed in America.

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But there's a danger look at Deuteronomy 8 verse 10. It says when thou hast eaten and art full

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Then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given me

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Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God in not keeping his commandments and his judgments and his statutes

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Which I command thee this day

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Right, so when you're eating, when you're full,

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when you're like, hey, the finances are good.

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Hey, everything's good at the house.

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Everything's good with my job.

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Everything's good with my finances.

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Don't forget the Lord.

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Don't forget the Lord.

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And how is it that you forget the Lord

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in not keeping His commandments?

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Right, so there's a very practical way

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to remember the Lord by keeping His commandments.

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It's not like you just enjoy all your riches and all your freedom in America and just be like, oh, yeah

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I remember God exists. No, it's that you enjoy the blessings of God and you go to church and

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You preach the gospel and you keep his commandments and you love God and you love your neighbor

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This is actually remembering the Lord is by the way that you live your life

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That's how you remember the Lord verse number 12 lest when thou hast eaten and art full

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And has built goodly houses and dwelt therein

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And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and my gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied

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Notice then thine heart be lifted up

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And thou forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage

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Look for some people the most dangerous point in their life is when they start seeing a lot of blessings from God

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Unfortunately, it just seems like it if I could just describe some people I've seen in my life

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It's like they cannot handle God blessing them and you know, I don't want to be that kind of person

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I don't want to be that type of person where God looks down from heaven and says hey this person can't even handle the blessing

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Because they're gonna get prideful

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Right, and so if we get something good, we receive a gift from God, the finances are

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good, we get a raise, we buy a home, something good happens, that is the point where you

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need to make sure you are staying humble.

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Because the Bible says that God is the one that gives you power to get wealth.

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And I've seen so many people, they pray, God, you know, help me with my business, help my

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business to grow, help me to get more money.

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And you see God answer that prayer.

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You see just the money coming in and you see them being blessed by God and then you see that person get backslidden

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You see that person what forget God?

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And you know what? God is very long suffering. God is a very merciful God.

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But you know what? He still does chasing his children.

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And there is a there's going to come a reaping point where you've just been rejecting or sorry,

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neglecting God. There's going to come a point where he's going to chastise you,

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where he's going to punish you. And so look, I would just rather be able to handle the blessings

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of God. I want the blessings of God. I want God to look at my life and say, Hey, I could trust

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Pastor Oz with this. I could enlarge his coasts. I could give him more. I could give, you know,

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I could give us more influence and we're not going to start becoming prideful and thinking that we're something special

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No, we always have to stay humble and remember the Lord by keeping his commandments go to James chapter number one

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You know here's here's some practical examples. You will never get to the point in your life where you don't need to read the King James Bible

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You'll never get to a point in your life where you've just figured it out. You're just established

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You just feel comfortable where you just say I don't need to read God's commandments anymore. You will never get to that point

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Psalm 119 103 says how sweet are thy words unto my taste?

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Ye sweeter than honey to my mouth through thy precepts I get understanding therefore. I hate every false way

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We live in a dark world, and in this dark world,

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there's never going to be a time where you don't need

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a flashlight on that trail.

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If I was just to drop you off in the middle of the night,

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in the middle of the Frank Church wilderness in Idaho,

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I don't care how long you've lived there,

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there's never going to be a point where you're just like,

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I don't need a light.

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I don't need a flashlight.

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I can just figure this out on my own.

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You will die.

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You will get destroyed.

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You will harm yourself and in the same way in this world this dark world that we live in you never will get to

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A point where you don't need the light of the King James Bible leading you in your life

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And a lot of people foolishly think hey, I've gotten to a certain point

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And so now I'm established yet forgetting that the reason they got to that point is because they were fearing God

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Right. Look at what happened to Ray of Bohem. He was kind of freaked out

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And he's like, okay, we need to fight this battle. Hey, we need to build these cities

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We need to strengthen these cities. We need to get this armor. We need to get these weapons, right?

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He's working really hard to get to the place where he's established, but then he gets established and forgets everything

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That's many christians. They're like man. I'm gonna be spiritual. I'm gonna pray

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Oh, i'm gonna pray that god gives me a wife and i'm just praying every day that god gives me a wife

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And then you get married and you're not spiritual anymore

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It's just like what happened you felt established

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I got you got to the point where you just feel established and you just feel like you don't need God anymore and your heart

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Gets lifted up and then eventually you see that person being chastised by God greatly James chapter 1

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Let me say this you never get to a point in your life where you don't need prayer

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Verse number 5 says this if any of you lack wisdom

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Let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and abradeth not and it shall be given him

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You will never get to a point in your life where you don't need wisdom

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If you're the wisest man on earth you still lack wisdom

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Because all wisdom the only person who has all wisdom is God, right?

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So there's always a need for us to get more wisdom

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And one of the things I pray for for every single day in my life is that God would give me wisdom

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Because I'm never gonna max out on wisdom

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I'm never going to be like the Lord Jesus Christ that just has ultimate wisdom, ultimate

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knowledge.

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And you know what?

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There's never a point no matter how established you are where you should stop asking God for

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wisdom, you should ask every single day.

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You're never going to max out on that.

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Verse 17, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.

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And cometh down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning so notice

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We ought to have this right perspective that okay. We have something good in our life guess who that came from God

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And let's say someone is very wise

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They've read a lot of Bible they prayed and asked God for a lot of wisdom

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That person needs to be careful that they never get to a point where they think this wisdom is of myself

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I'm so smart. I'm so much better than other people they need to remind themselves

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Hey this good gift of wisdom that I've been given it came from above

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It came from the father of lights and you know what God gives and God can take away as well

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Right and you want to keep your mind sharp you want to keep having wisdom you better keep fearing God

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You better keep being humble you better keep remembering where your blessings came from

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Go to Hebrews 10, Matthew 7, 7 says, ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find

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knock and it shall be opened unto you.

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Right?

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No one has a problem when they have a lack financially of asking God.

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When you have a lack financially, you're praying and asking God to help you.

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But what about when you've made it financially?

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Do you still ask God to provide for you?

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Because you know what just because you got to that point doesn't mean that you don't need God to continue providing in the future

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And what kind of a fool sits here and prays and works hard and gets all spiritual and then God opens that door

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And he provides for you, and then you just forsake him

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You just want to keep doing the cycle over and over and over again. It's like hey if you get blessed

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Thank God for it say God. I know that everything I have is from you

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And I know that for me to continue to succeed I need your blessing every single day

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Regardless of how established you feel in life because you know what life is just not that sure of a thing for us little pipsqueak human beings

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Right and never is gonna be a sure thing. We need the blessing of God always

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You never you never will get to a point in your life where you don't need church

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Hebrews 10 verse 24 let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works

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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more

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As you see the day approaching church is not going to become irrelevant for you

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It's always going to become more important for you

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Regardless if you got saved last year or 30 years ago

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Regardless if you're starting out in life and have no money or you're an established old man

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Everyone needs church and look everyone should be coming to church with the attitude of how can I improve?

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How can I apply this to my life?

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How can the sermon change my life instead of coming to church always thinking about someone else? That's a prideful thought

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Because you know what you're thinking you're thinking I'm established I

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Figured Christianity out. I've got my ducks all in a row and so this sermon is for everyone but me

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No, no, no the wise person says hey, even if things are good. I need this sermon

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Even if things are good. I need the Word of God

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I need to apply it to my life

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And I'm telling you do not make the mistake of coming to church constantly thinking about other people you need to think about yourself

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Go to second Timothy chapter number three second Timothy chapter number three. Let me say this

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You will never get to a point in your life where you don't need correction

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You'll never get to that point in your life.

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You'll never get to the point in your life where you stop sinning,

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where you stop doing foolish things.

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I don't care how old you are, how wise you are, how established you are.

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We all need correction.

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Pastors never get to the point where they don't need correction.

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We all need correction, and here's the best way to do it.

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Reading the Bible.

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2 Timothy 3, 16.

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All scripture is given by inspiration of God

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and is profitable for doctrine.

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For reproof telling you hey you're wrong for correction for instruction in righteousness

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Right so we need to approach our Bible reading with humility

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Right saying hey, I'm opening up this Bible right here, and I'm ready for it to reprove me

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For it to correct me for it to instruct me. You know, it's this is so true

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Prideful people are not going to get much out of their Bible reading

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If you're a prideful person and you're not sitting here

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You know ready to open your heart to God's Word and allow it to correct you

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You're not going to get much out of reading the Bible because the whole point of the Bible is to correct you is to reprove you

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Is to instruct you and you know hard preaching works on people who have a good heart

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The Bible works on people who have a good heart.

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Soul winning works for people who have a good heart.

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And it's like, people who are scorners,

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people who have a hard heart, you

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can just reprove this person all day long.

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The Bible says, reprove not a scorner lest he hate me.

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Because he's not concerned whether the information is

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correct, whether there's an issue in his life

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that needs to be changed.

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He's just mad he's being corrected.

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And if you just cringe when you're corrected,

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if you're just afraid of receiving reproof

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from the authorities in your life, you have a bad heart.

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And you're in danger of being like Ray Obum,

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where you just think, oh, I'm established.

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And your heart gets lifted up and you know what you're on the road to destruction

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It's better just humble yourself and say hey, you know

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This bible needs to correct me the sermon needs to correct me

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My authorities need to correct me so that you don't ever feel like you're just established

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That's a dangerous place to be

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Go if you would to second chronicles chapter 12, you know, you'll never get to the point

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You'll never get to the point where you don't need fellowship from god's people

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Right some people are just like I'm a lone ranger. I'm a lone wolf. I could just do you know Christianity all on my own

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Look you need other people

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We need each other to sharpen each other to keep us from having weird ideas people who don't go to church are weird

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I call them doorstep theologians you go soul winning and here's the guy who doesn't go to church

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He doesn't read the Bible, but man has he watched a lot of YouTube videos about the Ethiopian Bible

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Boy, does he want to talk about the Gospel of Thomas,

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and the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Gospel of Judas,

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and the Gospel of Mary, yet they know nothing

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about the scripture.

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You know what helps someone like that, getting in church,

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being around normal people, being

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under sound biblical preaching is

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going to help someone like that.

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Man, we live in a world.

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It's so crazy to me.

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We live in a world where everyone has a platform

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and every moron can just influence you.

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But you gotta realize there's a difference

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between someone having a platform

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and someone being platformed by God.

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Let me help you with this.

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Here's someone that's been platformed by God.

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Ladies, your husband.

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Your husband's been platformed by God.

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He may or may not have a platform in this world,

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but the Bible says if they will learn anything,

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let them ask their husbands.

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Right, so the husband should be the influencer over the wife.

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And if the husband can't correct you, you're prideful.

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Okay, children, let me tell you someone

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who's been platformed by God, your parents.

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Your parents have been platformed by God.

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I don't care if they have a social media platform,

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they've been platformed.

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Let me tell you this, your pastor has been platformed.

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Right?

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And there's so many people in this world that they're ready to just give their opinion.

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They're ready to give you their advice.

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They're ready to tell you what they think.

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But you know, one person you might consider listening to

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is your pastor who actually met some biblical qualifications

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and actually had a man of God lay hands on him and ordain him.

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Right, but we have so many people today. They're influencers. Let me tell you all my philosophy. No one asked you idiots

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You're prideful, right? We need to get back to hey, where's God given authority?

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Where is God actually ordained some people to have some authority?

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Second Chronicles chapter number 12 number two this morning pay close attention

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To your spiritual walk during times of great life change

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During during times in your life where there is great life change. Those are some dangerous times spiritually

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Second Chronicles chapter 12 look at verse 1 and it came to pass notice when

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Ray of Bohem had established his kingdom and had strengthened himself

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He forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him

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Right, so whenever there's a major life event change in your life

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This is a dangerous time and this is a time where people often get backslidden

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Having a baby changing careers moving to a new city

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How about this going from someone being under authority to someone having authority?

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Right cuz ray of Boehm when he felt like his kingdom wasn't that sure

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You know, he was like, hey, let's work hard.

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Let's fight the battles.

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Let's build the cities.

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Let's fortify.

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But then oftentimes, someone in a position of leadership,

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they all of a sudden feel established,

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and then they get complacent.

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Many times, a pastor will build a great church

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with hard preaching, with door-to-door soul winning,

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with being King James only, with sticking to the old paths.

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But there comes a day where he feels established.

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He's like, man, the church has grown.

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Man, the tithes are coming in.

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Man, I've got the invites to all the conferences,

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and I'm in the club with the old IFB.

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And often you could see that person change.

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Why?

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Because they felt established, their heart got lifted up,

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and they ended up forsaking the law of the Lord.

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You know, we should always be a little bit hungry in this world.

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We should always be just running scared a little bit

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where we don't feel too comfortable,

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regardless of where we are in life.

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Look, if you're in a position of authority,

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you shouldn't just,

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hey, I'm just gonna sit down and relax

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because I'm in authority.

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We should always be pedal to the metal as leaders,

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trying really hard.

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We should always be, hey, let's build cities.

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Hey, let's fight battles.

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Hey, let's get the battlements.

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Let's get the shields.

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Let's get the guns.

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You know, you should always have that mentality as a leader

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because there's a danger of saying like,

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hey, I've arrived.

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Right? Because who's going to hold you accountable if you're in a position of leadership?

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Oftentimes you got to keep yourself accountable.

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You got to let the word of God keep you accountable.

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And so this is dangerous.

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You know, what's what's an example of this?

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Well, what if someone, for example, could be like a booth on the ground at a church

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or maybe they're a church leader or maybe they're an evangelist

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and maybe they're under someone some pastoral authority.

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You know, if all of a sudden they get ordained, that's a defining moment right there.

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Because now they have the authority.

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And sometimes people will put on a good show

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while they're being trained,

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while they're the boots on the ground,

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while they're the evangelists,

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but then once they're established,

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their hearts lifted up

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and they forsake the way of the Lord.

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Right, haven't we seen that before?

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And you know what?

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As leaders in that position,

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we ought to pay very close attention.

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to how subordinates are acting, because if you see a bunch of red flags in a subordinate

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when they're under authority, you better believe when they're given authority it's going to be crazy.

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It's going to be wild.

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Right, so you got to pay close attention like if someone's in a position under leadership and they're already bucking at your authority

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They're already just preaching crazy crazy things. They're already doing a bad job

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Well, don't give that person more authority because it's gonna turn into a complete train wreck, right?

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That's a person needs to be checked very hard because then it could reveal their heart like hey

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Does being checked hard cause this person to repent and change and become humble or is the cause them to crash out?

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And it's like, okay, you crash out at correction.

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This is a good litmus test.

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How do people handle correction?

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Right, sometimes people come to me with just crazy stuff

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and sometimes I'm like, I just have to correct this person

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really hard right now because if I don't,

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I could just tell this problem's just gonna go forever.

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Right, and sometimes I just lay that correction hard

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and they take it really well and it's like, awesome, great.

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This is a good person, right?

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But sometimes you give person correction and they crash out.

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And it's just crazy. I remember there was this guy. I don't even remember this guy's name, but he's some online preacher

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And he was like trying to yoke up with the new ifb is kind of acting like he was friends with us

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And he's preaching online. I don't think he's a pastor. I don't think he was ordained by anyone

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Uh, but he started posting just this weird stuff online

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He started posting all these rukmanites and these rukmanites were saying about how like the king james bible corrects the original greek

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which is insane. That's not what we believe is King James only is.

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And I just gave this person like the slightest correction. Just like,

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hey, you know, that idea is ridiculous. The King James Bible doesn't correct

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the Hebrew. This person just blocks me. I'm just like, oh, okay. This person,

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you know, can't handle any correction whatsoever. And now this person is making

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live streams saying that you don't have to be the husband of one wife. You don't have to meet the

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pastoral qualifications to be a pastor. What a shock.

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And it's like, you just watch how someone takes correction

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and they can't take the correction right,

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and it's like, okay, this guy's a bozo.

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Right?

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Just because you're being corrected

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doesn't mean you're a bozo.

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We all get corrected.

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But you know what?

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You need to take the correction well.

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Take the correction well.

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Okay, getting fame or riches

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can often reveal a person's heart.

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Right?

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Someone is in a position where they struggle financially

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and all of a sudden they run into money

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and then they just forsake God.

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It's like, that person had a bad heart.

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Right? Whereas a steadfast person, they're serving God when they're poor and they're serving God when they have riches.

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Right? That's who we should be.

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How about this? You know, a teenager comes to church because their parents make them come to church.

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Then the teenager turns 18 years old. That's a defining moment in that person's life.

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Right when you turn 18 years old and you're viewed as an adult by this world. Do you still keep coming to church?

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Do you still keep reading your Bible? Do you still keep serving God? That's going to reveal the real person that you are

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How about this? You know a woman becomes a widow?

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Who you are after you're widowed often reveals your real heart, right?

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Because oftentimes a woman is being dragged to church by her husband

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being dragged out soul-winding by her husband

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being kept in check in some area of her life by her husband

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and that husband dies and all of a sudden she stops going to church

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She stops serving God, right?

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What did that show? It's like, hey, she was only doing this stuff

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because she was under some sort of leadership

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How about this? Young people

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while they're dating they often get real spiritual while they're dating right you know a young lady

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really wants to get that spiritual guy and all of a sudden she's reading her bible and she's

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going soul winning and she's going to church or vice versa some young man wants a spiritual young

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lady and now he's going to go soul winning now he's going to go to church but then they get married

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their spiritual life after their marriage is going to reveal who they really are right

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Okay, a pastor.

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Pastor gets ordained, does he suddenly change?

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Okay, he failed the test in this area.

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Or a pastor suddenly starts to have church growth

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and all of a sudden he becomes liberal and watered down.

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You know, he's failed the test in this area.

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Go to 1 Corinthians 15.

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1 Corinthians chapter number 15.

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What's the answer here is you just need to be steadfast.

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You need to be steadfast and say hey regardless of the situation of my life

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Regardless of whether i'm prospering or I feel like things are hard. Yeah, I'm just gonna do what's right anyways

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Verse 58 therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast

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Unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain

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In the lord, you know what that means. That means when you're barren you serve god

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And when you're fruitful, you serve God.

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You know what that means?

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When the church is small, pastor, you preach hard.

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You give it all you got.

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And when the church grows, you preach hard.

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You keep going.

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You know, when a child is born, you're a soul winner.

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When a loved one dies, you're a soul winner.

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When tithes are coming in, the pastor's still King James

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only.

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When it's not, he's still King James only.

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Be steadfast.

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Just be someone who says, hey, I'm gonna fear God,

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I'm gonna remember the Lord, I'm gonna serve God,

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I'm gonna put God first in my life,

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whether I'm rich or poor, whether I have a life or I don't,

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whether I have kids or I don't,

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whether I have influence or money or I don't,

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whether I like my life or I don't, be steadfast.

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Because it is a very dangerous part of your life

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whenever you have this major life change.

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And look, this is going to happen to you in your future.

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You're going to have major life changing events in your future.

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During those times, you need to pray to the Lord.

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You need to get along with God and you need to remind yourself, hey, I need to be steadfast.

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You lost a loved one, but you need to stay steadfast.

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You move you have to go to a different church. You still need to be steadfast, right?

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You know you have some sort of horrible tragedy happen in your life

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You get sick you still need to be steadfast and not allow these external changing characteristics in your life

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Change who you are as a person

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Go if you will to second chronicles chapter number 12 again

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Number three. I want to say this your spiritual complacency

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Will drag others down with you?

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Let's prove that.

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Second Chronicles chapter 12 verse 1,

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And it came to pass when Rehoboam had established

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the kingdom and had strengthened himself,

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he forsook the law of the Lord, notice,

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and all Israel with him.

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I get sick and tired of hearing people say

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that their sin does not affect anyone else.

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That is a lie.

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All of our sin affects other people.

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Don't have this you know this humble brag attitude people try to act humble, but it's really prideful when they're like oh, I'm no one

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No one's gonna miss me at church. I could just you know what you're trying to be humble

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But you're really being prideful because the truth is is that our sin affects other people

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Whether you're the pastor or you're not whether you're a father or you're not whether you're husband

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Or you're not our sin will affect other people because look what happened to him

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Right? When Rehoboam was right as the leader, when Rehoboam was running a little scared,

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when he had a little bit of worry in his life, and he was like,

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hey, we got to work hard, we got to fight, we got to build, we got to fortify, we got to defend,

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all Israel was there with him, at least the tribes that he had.

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But then once he feels, hey, it's all good,

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let's let off the gas, let's get complacent,

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now all Israel forsakes him with him.

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And this is crazy, but this is just reality.

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Oftentimes, the pastor of a church,

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if he goes bad, you just see the church go bad.

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And look, you should follow biblical leaders

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as they follow Christ.

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You should not follow leaders off a cliff.

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And you know what's funny about when there's church splits or church drama or pastors being

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exposed? You know what's funny is that every church member almost always decides with their pastor.

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And it's like you can't have everyone be right. Not everyone is right. Not every

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pastor is doing the right thing. Not every pastor is preaching the right thing.

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Again, what do you have to be? You have to be a steadfast person.

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saying hey at the end of the day I'm sticking with what the bible says

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at the end of the day I'm following Christ and yes we follow man as he follows Christ but you don't

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want to be like oh ray of bone forsakes God well I'm going to forsake God as well that's a bad

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attitude go to first Corinthians five first Corinthians chapter number five the bible does

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teach very specifically that your sin does affect other people

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And people like to gaslight themselves to make themselves feel better.

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You know, we've seen pastors step down and say,

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Oh my, my sin didn't affect my church.

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My sin didn't affect anyone else.

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Let me tell you, it always affects other people.

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It always affects your church.

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And when a pastor is just living some sort of secret,

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double life, and he's just in all sorts of wicked sins,

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it does affect your church because you see the fruit

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of the members that you have.

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All of a sudden, the membership is rotten,

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the sermons are rotten, the fruit is rotten,

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the work of God isn't being done.

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There's not tons of soul winning going on.

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There's not tons of mission strip being on.

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Who are you kidding?

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you

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First Corinthians five verse one it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication

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As is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife

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And you are puffed up and if not rather mourned that he that have done this deed might be taken away from among you

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We'll preach more on those verses this evening

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For I barely as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning him

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That has so done this deed in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ

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When you are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ

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To deliver such and one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord

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Jesus he's saying hey you need to cast this person out of church

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This person is under the curse of God and you're gonna deliver them up under Satan for the destruction of the flesh

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Right being church disciplined is the judgment of God on your life and they're cast out of the church

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To be basically made a prey unto Satan

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That's what the Bible says why it says verse number six. Your glorying is not good

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No, ye not notice this that a little leaven

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Leaveneth the whole lump

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Don't act like your sin doesn't affect other people.

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The Bible says a little leaveneth the whole lump.

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You know, when you're making bread,

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it does not take much leaven to make that loaf.

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It just takes a little bit, right?

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One sinner destroyeth much good.

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A little leaveneth the whole lump.

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And you say, hey, you guys need to stop glorying.

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You guys need to stop bragging about how gracious you are

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not taking care of this issue.

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This person needs to be cast out.

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because a little leaven, leaven it the whole lump.

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Right, this is why it's so important

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that churches practice church discipline.

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Because churches can be destroyed if sin is not dealt with.

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And it's not saying any sin,

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the Bible gives us a list of very specific sins

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that cannot be tolerated in the church

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because if it does, a little leaven,

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leaven it the whole lump.

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It says purge out there for the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you are unleavened for even christ

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Our Passover is sacrificed for us go to proverbs chapter number six

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Right, so pastors and churches we ought never to think that we could just tolerate a little bit of first

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Corinthians five sin that it's okay to just put up with it a little bit

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No, we got to realize that if we don't put up with it, it will affect other people

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Right and there's sometimes that even church discipline needs to be done publicly

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Because if it's not done publicly it could poison and hurt other church members

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You know if people are going around and going on little whisper campaigns in a church trying to divide people

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Railing against people, you know that often has to be done publicly because they're going around sewing discord

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Right or you know someone like really well known in the church all of a sudden started teaching damnable heresy

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We've seen that happen before in other churches that has to deal with be dealt with publicly

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I don't think it always has to be dealt with with publicly especially if someone's repentant right away, but you know oftentimes it does

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Proverbs 6 verse 23 for the commandment is a lamp and the law is light and

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Proofs of instruction or the way of life to keep thee from the evil woman

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from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman.

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Lust not after her beauty in thine heart,

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neither let her take thee with her eyelids,

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for by means of a horish woman,

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a man is brought to a piece of bread,

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and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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You know, don't get this attitude guys, where you can just go have a little fling, have

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a little affair, and it's not going to affect your family.

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Boy, sounds like this guy is being affected.

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Saying, hey, don't lust after her beauty in her heart.

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Don't even start going down that road in your mind, because people who go down that road

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all the way are often brought to a piece of bread.

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Oh, it won't affect me.

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Well how does it affect you when your wife divorces you?

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Divorce is always wrong, period, 100% of the time.

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But does that mean that people will never divorce?

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No, unfortunately they will.

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And you know what, you're playing with fire

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when you're committing adultery,

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when you're cheating on your spouse,

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because of the fact that you could end up

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being brought to a piece of bread.

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Your wife, unfortunately, can leave you

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and just take you to the cleaners,

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and you could lose your job,

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and you could lose all your money,

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and you could be brought to a piece of bread,

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and you're not gonna be saying then,

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oh, my sin didn't affect anyone.

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Well, how is it affecting your children?

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when all your money is being spent on alimony and court resources and lawyer fees.

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Now it sounds like that affected someone. Sounds like it affected your wife.

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Sounds like it affected your children. You don't think that would affect your church?

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Seeing families get destroyed by this kind of stuff? It does affect people.

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Look at verse number 27. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

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Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned?

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So he that goeth into his neighbor's wife, whosoever toucheth her, shall not be innocent."

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You know, saying that your sin doesn't affect other people

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is saying like you could heap up coals in your bosom and not be burned.

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Right? Oh, you know, you really think that your sins not going to affect other people,

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then why don't you just get a bunch of coals and just hide them in your bosom and tell me that

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you're not feeling the heat. Tell me that you're not feeling the pain. No, no, no. It does affect

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other people and you play with fire. You're going to get burned. That's just how it works.

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Go to Exodus chapter number 20. Exodus chapter number 20. When you think about it,

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this is just such a silly idea that your sin doesn't affect other people.

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Absolutely ridiculous. Look at Exodus chapter number 20 verse 3

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The Bible makes it clear that our sin can also affect our children and our children's children

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Verse number 3 thou shalt have no other gods before me

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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath

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Or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down myself to them nor serve them

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For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God notice this visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children

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Unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me

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And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments

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Okay, here's what this is not saying. This is not saying like hey

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Dad goes and commits adultery or mom goes and commits adultery and God's pouring out his anger for that sin on the children

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That's not what's happening

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What's happening is that there are consequences there are built-in consequences for sins

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That will affect your children and your children's children under the third and fourth generation. What's an example?

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Let's say parents decide to reject God

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They decide to be in a false religion. They decide to be I don't know

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What is this? What is this verse remind you of Catholicism?

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Right? You know parents want to be Catholics and they just want to worship idols and worship

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Mary and worship statues. Is that going to affect their children? You better believe

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it will because those kids are growing up in a church hearing a false gospel. You think

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that might affect their hearts? You think that there's a more likely chance that that

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person, that child will go to hell because they're being brainwashed by a false doctrine

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than a child being raised in a godly home? You better believe it.

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Oh, you know, it doesn't affect my kids. Yeah, if you're a Catholic it is affecting your kids

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If you're in a false religion, it is affecting your kids

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And look our sins oftentimes have built-in consequences that can affect your kids with or without God's

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You know actual hand of judgment going against your children

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Go to first Timothy chapter number two, you know, so what's the solution to this? It's to stay busy in life

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Right, because one of the best ways to avoid sin is to stay busy.

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Is to keep that schedule very, very full and not be idle.

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You know, busyness is a good thing and it's something people often complain about.

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But being busy is good.

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Look at first timothy chapter number two verse 11 the bible says let the woman learn in silence with all subjection

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But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man

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But to be in silence for adam was first formed then eve

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And adam was not deceived

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But the woman being deceived

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Was in the transgression notwithstanding

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She shall be saved

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in childbearing

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if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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Right, so the Bible's giving us a throwback here to the story of Adam and Eve.

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The Bible makes it very clear that Adam was not deceived.

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He was not deceived by the serpent's talk. He knew the rules that God gave forth. He said,

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Of all the trees of the garden thou mayst freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and

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evil, thou mayst not eat thereof. For the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

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That message resonated with Adam. He understood the message. He was not deceived. Who was deceived?

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The woman was deceived. And you could get as mad at this as you want to, but it's for this reason

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that the Bible says that I suffer not a woman to teach.

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nor do you serve authority over the man.

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Okay, so recently the Southern Baptist Church

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held a vote on whether or not to have women pastors

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and I think the vote ended up being like two to one.

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There was some one bozo who said that women can be,

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but the Southern Baptist Church said no,

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women cannot be pastors,

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but they have to have one more vote next year

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for it to be official.

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But let me tell you what, this was already settled

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in God's word before the foundation of the world.

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In 1st Timothy chapter number 2, there is no voting on God's Word, there's believing God's Word.

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And you know, want to know why we're not Southern Baptists? This is a great reason.

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Having a nomination is a train wreck. We are an independent church because we don't answer to church governance, we answer to the Word of God.

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This is what being a fundamentalist is we believe the word of God as the final authority

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But the Bible says hey she shall be saved in childbearing not salvation

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It's not doubt you know have push a baby out now shall be saved. It's not what it's talking about

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What is she gonna be saved from being deceived by the devil?

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Falling into a life of sin a woman that stays very busy is gonna be living the best life

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So look, do not complain about your busy life.

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Have you ever considered that your busy life is a blessing given to you by God so that

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you don't fall into sin, so that you don't fall into the trap and deception of the devil?

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I mean, the devil's working hard in this world, walking about to and fro, seeking whom he

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may devour.

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You know, it's good for you to stay busy.

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And you know what's not just for women, it's good for men to stay busy as well.

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We're supposed to be working by the sweat of our face all the days of our life six days shout

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Thou labor the bible says we need to stay busy as well go to first timothy chapter five

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first timothy chapter number five

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You know this will keep you from getting complacent in your life from getting to a point where you feel

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Ah, i'm established

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I could just ease back. I could just rest on my laurels. I could just be chill. No, no, you should always be working

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I don't like this idea of retirement

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Where does the Bible say you reach a certain age you just stop working?

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Right now look not saying at your secular job necessarily, but you should be working doing something till the day you die

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Work work work first Timothy 5 verse 13 and with all is the young widows they learn to be idle

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wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies

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Speaking things which they ought not right this chapter saying hey if you're under 60 years old and you're a widow

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You should get remarried

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Why? Because there is a danger for widows that don't have a husband to care for,

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that don't have a husband to wait on, that don't have a home and children to take care of,

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into falling into the trap of the devil and becoming a tail bearer.

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Becoming someone who's just wandering about, house to house.

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Look, it's important that men work and it's important that women work as well.

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And you know what? Young widows should be encouraged to get remarried.

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lose your stupid worldly philosophy,

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your little love story philosophies.

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I could never marry anyone else.

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You know what the Bible says?

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You should.

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Right?

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We've been brainwashed by these Hollywood love stories.

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Look, love your husband,

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but the Bible does teach this concept.

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Till death do us part.

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Till death do us part.

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You know what, if God forbid you ever find a place in your life where your spouse has

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died, that's horrible.

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You should go through a time of grieving.

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I'm not saying you got to get back out on the market right away, but if your husband

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dies ladies and you're under 60 years old, you should get remarried.

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Young men, God forbid you lose your wife, you should get remarried.

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This is what the Bible teaches.

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Here's number 14.

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Here's God's will.

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I will therefore that the younger women marry.

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You don't have to wonder what God's will is in your life.

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There's God's will.

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Young ladies, get married.

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Bear children.

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Guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully notice when a young lady is a widow

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She's not getting married. She's giving occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully of her

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Why because of the fact that she's a busybody because she's a tattler because she's being a gossip

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Notice what it says verse 15 for some are already turned aside

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after satan

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Unfortunately, this is just the reality of our world.

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A woman that is not under the leadership of her father or her husband is an easy target

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for Satan.

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Now, you can get all mad at that all you want, but you know what?

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A humble person would recognize the danger they're in and want to submit themselves to

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God's will for their life.

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Why?

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Because this is for your own safety.

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This is for your own good.

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You don't see ladies that don't have a husband that aren't under the authority of their father

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going out and living a godly life that often, do you?

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You do not see it that often.

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Psalm 119.71 says this, it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn

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thy statutes.

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Go back to 2 Chronicles chapter 12.

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2 Chronicles chapter 12.

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You know it's good for us to have some affliction in our life.

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It's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth, the Bible says.

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Ladies, it's good for you to have a lot of housework to do.

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It's good for you to have a lot of children.

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It's good for you to be constantly busy and have your to-do list full.

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It's good for all of us to do that because you know what?

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Complacency is a big danger in our life.

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Number four, last point.

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Complacency can leave permanent damage even after repentance.

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This should scare you.

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complacency in your life, just one lapse of complacency can leave permanent damage in

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your life even after repentance.

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Watch what the Bible says, 2 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 1, and it came to pass when Rehoboam

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had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord and

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all Israel with him.

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And it came to pass that in the fifth year of

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King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem because they had transgressed

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against the Lord.

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So this Egyptian army coming against the southern kingdom of Judah, this is a direct result

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of God's punishment.

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You got complacent and now here comes the foreign army to give you a whoop in here.

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three with 1200 chariots and three score thousand horsemen.

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And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, the Lubims and the

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Sukkims and the Ethiopians.

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Boy, this will wake you up at your complacency real fast.

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When death is on the door, complacency goes out the window.

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And you know what?

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It's a shame that often in our life, things are good.

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You have the opportunity for so many blessings.

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But because you get complacent, then God has to send an army against your life.

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And boy, that'll finally get your attention

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when you lose your house.

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That'll get your attention when you lose a loved one.

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That'll get your attention when you get sick.

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That'll get your attention when you lose your finances.

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All of a sudden, now, I bet you he's got his attention.

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It says in verse number four, and he took the fence cities which pertained to Judah and came to Jerusalem

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Then came Shema I other prophet to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shai

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Shaq and saith unto him thus saith the Lord ye have

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Forsaken me and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shai Shaq

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We don't have to wonder what the interpretation of this story is. This is the judgment of God

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Look at verse number six, this is key.

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Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king, notice,

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humbled themselves and they said, the Lord is righteous.

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Now look, this is the right response.

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Praise God for this response.

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There's never a bad time to get right with God,

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even if your life is destroyed,

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even if you see God's hand moving against you,

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you better get right with God at that point.

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Yeah, that's the right time to get right with God.

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But notice, does this absolve him of all consequences?

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No.

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Verse seven.

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And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaahiah, saying,

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They have humbled themselves.

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Therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance.

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And my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak."

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Did God say, hey, you humbled yourself, you repented,

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everything's going to go back to exactly how it was before,

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you're just fine?

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No, he says, hey, I'm not going to completely destroy you.

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I'm going to give you some deliverance.

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But does that mean there's no consequences?

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No, consequences are still coming.

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This is why we ought to fear God.

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Because look, if things are good in your life right now,

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there is no promise that if God punishes you and you repent,

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that things will go back to the way they are right now.

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Sometimes you could do permanent damage in your life

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that there's no going back from.

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That should be a terrifying thought in your life.

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Because what he did was the right thing.

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He humbled himself.

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He humbled himself and God recognized his humility and God eased off the punishment a little bit.

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But notice what happened. It said verse number eight, Nevertheless, they shall be his servants

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that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Hey, you humbled

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yourself, but you are still going to be servants now to a foreign pagan heathen army, the Egyptians.

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There's no going back.

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Verse number six or verse number nine. So Shai Shack king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away all notice this he carried away also the shield of gold which Solomon had made instead of which King Ray of all made shields of what brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard.

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Kept the entrance of the King's house

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Hey, they humbled themselves

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King Ray of Ome recognized. Hey, I'd forgotten the Lord. The Lord is righteous. I'm sorry

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I repent and God granted them some deliverance, but you know, there were still consequences

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they were now servants to the Egyptians and

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Those great shields of gold that his father King Solomon made they were taken away and you know

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They were placed with shields of brass

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And sometimes in our life, we have all this gold

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that's been given to us by God.

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We're handed down from the previous generations.

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And if we mess that up, there could come a point

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where you're never getting those golden shields back again.

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You're getting brass if you're lucky.

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And you know, some of us should take stock

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of our life right now and say, you know what?

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We've got a pretty golden life right now.

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Hey, we got kids that love us that have a relationship with us.

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Hey, we got friends, we got a church, we got freedom, we got the King James Bible,

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we got a receptive city to preach the gospel to, we've got so much good in our world,

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we should say, hey, we've got the gold right now, let's not mess this up.

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Because if you mess it up, even if you repent, sometimes you're only getting brass back in return.

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And then people want to cry about the brass, and it's like, hey buddy, why did you get complacent?

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Why did you start thinking that church wasn't important?

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Why did you get lifted up in your heart and think,

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oh, I've made it financially,

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and so I don't need to go soul winning anymore.

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I don't need to be three to thrive anymore.

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I don't need to read God's word anymore.

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I don't need to pray anymore.

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I don't need fellowship anymore.

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I don't need to tithe anymore.

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I don't need the man of God to correct me

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or give me advice anymore.

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I've got it all figured out.

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And then they find themselves losing the gold in their life.

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And if they're lucky, they get brass in return.

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Sadly a lot of people lose the gold their life and then they don't even repent they just stay down in the gutter

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That's a lot of people but I'm here to warn you I'm here to make you afraid of

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Getting complacent in your Christian life and I'm here to get you afraid of the fact that if things are golden right now

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You can permanently mess that up

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Right, you know there could be pastors. They've got a golden ministry and they just get into grievous in and you know

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What they're never getting the gold back

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Not saying they can't serve God,

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not saying they can't be a soul winner,

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not saying they can't be used greatly by God,

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but hey, I would like to have God's plan A for my life.

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Now look, if you're in God's plan B for your life,

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don't go to plan C.

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If you're at God's plan C for your life,

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don't trade that in for plan D, right?

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Don't get complacent wherever you're at in life.

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If you've gotten complacent in the past and you already reap the consequences, you've already had some permanent damage in your life.

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Look, don't beat yourself up, it's under the blood, confess it, forsake it, and you know what?

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Just stay in plan C for your life, don't go to plan D.

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Stay in plan D, don't go to E and so on.

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Some people, they just live crisis mode Christianity until their life is just an utter train wreck.

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And it's like, look, we need to fear God where we're at right now.

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The Bible says be not deceived. God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap

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God is not mocked. We need to fear him not just in the bad times in the good times

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Go if you will to hebrew chap number 12. We'll go to a few more places hebrew chap number 12

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I want to show you this principle here in the New Testament, Hebrews chapter 12.

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When you're there, look at verse 14.

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The Bible says follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord looking diligently

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Lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby

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Many be defiled right don't get complacent. Don't let it allow bitterness to get a root in your heart

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Whereby notice many are defiled it affects other people

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Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau

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who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright, verse 17 is the key, for you know how that

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afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place

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of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears.

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So there could be blessings in life that God has for you but you could cross a certain

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line.

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though you try to seek after it, though you try to turn back

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the hands of time, you can't do it.

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And even if you seek it with tears,

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I mean, how many fools just said, hey, I'm

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going to ignore the preaching against fornication?

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I'm going to ignore the preacher, what he says about fornication.

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I'm going to ignore 1 Corinthians 6.

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I'm just going to sow my wild oats.

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I'm going to do whatever I want to do.

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And they go out and commit fornication,

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and they get an STD that's a lifelong permanent disease.

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And you know what these guys and girls probably do?

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They probably literally cry in their bed at night, crying out to God.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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I should have listened.

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It's too late.

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It's too late doesn't mean that God doesn't still love you doesn't mean God still can't use your life

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But you know what there's some permanent damage done to your life. Oh

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I'm just gonna ignore the preaching of fornication, and then you know what your girlfriend gets pregnant

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There's no going back

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There you are. I will I take it back. I messed up. Yeah, you did mess up, but you know what it's permanent damage, right?

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Oh, you know I just made a mistake

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I just you know stepped out on my spouse one time you know that doesn't mean that your marriage can't be permanently destroyed

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Though you seek it with tears, though you cry, though you beg, though you say you're sorry,

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sometimes you could permanently mess up your life, and you know where it starts? Complacency.

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You know where it starts a husband just taking advantage of the fact that he has a good home life

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That he has a good wife a wife just taking advantage of the fact that she has a husband

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That's faithful to her that provides for her that works hard for her that loves her and she says i'm just gonna do whatever I want

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And then here comes god's hammer dropped on her and she cries and cries and oh I want to go back

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And there's no going back sometimes

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Right. We need to not be complacent in life. Go to first peter chapter five

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First peter chapter five. It'll be the last place to look at

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Second Chronicles 12 one again says and it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself

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He forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him Rehoboam

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He established the kingdom he felt secure he got prideful he forsook God he ended up suffering

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Greatly never get to the point in your life where you feel you don't need God

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The day you think that I don't need church is the most dangerous day of your life.

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The day you think, if I miss prayer, what's the big deal?

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The moment you stop thinking that God isn't important in intervening in your life,

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and blessing your life, and putting his hand upon your life,

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the moment you think that, you are in for a world of pain.

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And so what's the message this morning?

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Don't be complacent.

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Do not be complacent.

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1st peter 5 verse 8 notice what it says be sober, you know that means serious be vigilant

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Because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about

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Seeking whom he may devour right the opposite of complacency is vigilance

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Saying hey, i'm going to be vigilant. I know that there's a danger in this world

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I know that the devil's walking about seeking whom he may devour.

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I know that I could be drawn away and enticed of my own lust.

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I know that my life could be destroyed.

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I know that the gold can be replaced with brass.

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So you know what? Right now, while things are good, I'm going to serve God.

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Right now, when things are good, I'm gonna sing praises to him.

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Right now, when things are good, I'm gonna be in church.

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I'm gonna be soul winning.

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I'm gonna be reading the Bible.

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I'm gonna be praying.

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I'm gonna be around the brethren.

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I'm gonna accept the correction.

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I'm not gonna get complacent,

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because complacency is going to kill your life.

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Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for your word.

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Thank you for this warning.

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Lord, I pray that we would never get to a point in our life where we just feel comfortable

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without you, comfortable without your blessings, comfortable without church, comfortable without

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soul winning.

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Help us always to stay hungry for the things of God.

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And I pray that we would fear you all the days of our life.

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In Jesus name we pray.

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Last him this morning turn if you would to

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261

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M number 261.

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turn your eyes upon Jesus.

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261 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus let's sing it out.

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Oh soul are you weary and troubled

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No light in the darkness you see

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There's light more above, at the Savior, And life more abundant and free.

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He turned your eyes upon Jesus.

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Look full in his wonderful face.

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And the things of earth will grow strangely dim

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In the light of his glory and grace.

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Through death and to life everlasting,

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He passed and we followed Him there.

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And no more hath do me

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For more than conquers we are, are turned.

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Look full in his wonderful face

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And the things of earth will grow strangely dim

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In the light of his glory and

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His word shall not fail you, he promised.

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Believe him and all will be well.

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Then go to a world that is dying.

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His perfect salvation to tell.

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Turn your eyes upon Jesus,

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Look full in His wonderful face.

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And the things of earth will grow strangely dim

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In the light of his glory and grace

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Amen. With that, you are dismissed.