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Welcome to Spring Crest Baptist.

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Today is July 5th.

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Today, I mean yesterday, was the 250th anniversary

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of our nation.

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So that was pretty cool.

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We took just a few minutes.

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I tried to read it all, but it was just trying

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to keep the kids focused.

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So we read just the Declaration of Independence,

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I think the first part of the Constitution.

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And then after that, I kind of lost on the other.

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But it was pretty cool.

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It's nice.

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I don't recommend.

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you

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You should read your Bible every day, but you should read some of the founding documents

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on occasion just to see where we come from and just some of the, you know, they really

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thought it through and God was definitely part of the equation.

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Our Sunday morning service is 10.30 a.m., Sunday evening 4.30 p.m., Wednesday service

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5.30 p.m., and then our soul winning time is 2 p.m.

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And then I'm going to give you guys one more week.

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This is the last verse on Philippians 1 and it's Philippians 1 30 having the same conflict which

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you saw in me and now here to be in me. So next week we'll start on a new chapter if you can quote

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the chapter to be uh individuals that are not your family members well then you get a good prize.

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And then down there at the bottom just a reminder we are a family integrated church

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and I just want to point out we do have a mother baby room.

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and it really is for the mothers and the babies. So even if you have older children,

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it'd probably just be wise to just have them either sit in with the dad or in the audience.

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That way the little babies don't get distracted. It's already, you know, when you have like two or

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three screaming babies, then the moms just really need to focus, right? And so that's the goal with

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that. And then right there at the bottom, 2026, sold one for the year 700.

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And then baptisms for the year we have one.

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And then over here on the right we have the birthdays and anniversaries.

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This is a packed month.

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So already Boaz Mlutich had his birthday.

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Brother Trey's birthday was just two days ago.

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And then Sister Gina's birthday was yesterday.

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So I have a nephew whose birthday was that.

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And then don't we have a...

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Thanks.

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and then one of her sisters. We have a lot of people not only in the church but just in our family.

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I think I have two sister-in-laws. Is it two or three? No, one sister-in-law and one brother-in-law

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and then my daughter and then my daughter they're all in July. And then we have Daniel Capriotti

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and then we have Gentry coming up on the 16th. I know some people are traveling

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as well for the holidays. We have Aubrey coming up on the 22nd, my daughter on the 27th.

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Kevin on the 28th

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Jerry on the 29th for the Jerry and then the Rogers anniversaries on the 24th, so

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Just I mean if you don't know who's birthday this just say happy birthday to someone pretty sure you're gonna

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Just like one out of four people in our church have a birthday coming up so

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But if sister Gina and Daniel could stand up we'll sing happy birthday to them before I forget

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So you guys will stand up on the first?

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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, God bless you, happy birthday to-

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Now as far as upcoming activities on the 19th we have Pastor Jonathan Shelley from Steadfast coming

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to preach both services for us so I definitely would encourage you to just have a big you know

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turnout invite people you know if uh if you know anything about Pastor Shelley he's going to bring

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it so you know it's always a fun sermon to listen to and then there on the 26th we have the baby

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Maybe a shout out for Christian Rogers.

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And then just pray for the expecting mothers, Christian Rogers on the 31st of August,

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you know, give or take, and Sister Marcel in October.

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And then there's just there in the small print we have a couple of housekeeping rules.

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The only thing I will ask, you know, on occasion I still come in

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and you know do some of the cleaning myself whenever we're just low on people.

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And I just this week I cleaned up the kid like the fellowship area

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and I found a lot of chicken nuggets and pizza and stuff like that.

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So if you guys would just help me after you eat to just.

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Sweep that's it. Just I mean, I don't need anything. You don't need to get down there and scrub with a toothbrush

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I mean if you want to punch your children's I got I'm just kidding

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But if you'll just help me sweep up after yourselves, that would be great

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I mean we do do regular cleaning here in the church as a

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You know, I have a couple of families that help out

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Including ours, but just the major stuff like that does take a lot more time. And of course, we don't want any rotans

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If you guys don't know, we're not on a regular foundation.

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So there's like a four foot, like a three foot,

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two and a half foot gap or something like that underneath.

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So it's really great for rodents and like animals

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and possums and cats to live under there,

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which if we leave food around,

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it'll be great for them to want to figure out

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a way to get in there.

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So.

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So.

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If you don't want to find any little feces of any kind, please just pick up the food

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because that's the way to keep it clean.

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But as far as on the back, just prayer requests.

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I did add, and I'll put it officially, Brother Chris who's back there.

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Brother Chris is Pastor Cobb's grandson and he's just got some vascular issues.

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Just pray for him and then continue to pray for everybody on the prayer list.

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If you have anybody you want to add.

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go ahead and just text the church number or just let me know now or after the services and if nothing else

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Yeah, and then we will try to schedule a church workday. We haven't had one. I try to do one once a quarter

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I think we've skipped a couple of quarters, so

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There's always things that we're trying to just you know fix up and and clean up around the church

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So if you guys would just keep an eye out for that and show up

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I would we would greatly appreciate it other than that if there's no announcements

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Let's turn our handles over to page 235. We're gonna get on a patriotic theme here

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And just thank God for the wonderful country we live in,

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in spite of all its challenges.

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435, oh beautiful for spacious skies.

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Oh beautiful for spacious skies.

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Beautiful for spacious skies forever

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And let's go to hymn number 438.

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And then we're going to be in Galatians 5.

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438, my country, tis of thee.

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My country, tis of thee.

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country to serve me.

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Galatians chapter number five.

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Galatians chapter number five.

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And that's for this week.

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We will be right back.

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Galatians 5 verse 1, the Bible reads,

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stand fast therefore in the liberty

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wherewith Christ hath made us free,

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and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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Behold, I, Paul, say unto you,

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that if ye be circumcised,

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Christ shall profit you nothing.

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For I testify again to every man that is circumcised

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that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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Christ has become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.

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For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

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Ye did run well, who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth.

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This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you, but little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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I have confidence in you, through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded.

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But he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. I, brethren,

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And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,

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why do I yet suffer persecution?

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Then is the offense of the cross ceased.

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I would they were even cut off with which trouble you.

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For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty.

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Only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh,

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but by love serve one another.

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For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this.

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thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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But if ye bite and devour one another,

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take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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This I say then, walk in the spirit,

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and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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For the flesh lusteth against the spirit,

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and the spirit against the flesh.

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And these are contrary one to the other.

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so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these.

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adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,

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wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, enviains, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such

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alike, of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which

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do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ have crucified the

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flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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Let us not be desirous of vainglory provoking one another and being one another.

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Let's bow our heads and go to the Lord in prayer. Father, thank you for all that you've given us here.

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Thank you for this church. Thank you for your word, Lord. Thank you for the country that you've given us,

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that where we can worship freely.

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Lord we just want to take a moment and say thank you for all you've given us.

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Lord please bless the service, bless Pastor Reyes and fill him with the Holy Spirit and

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allow him to preach your message with boldness and clarity and it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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Alright, we're in Galatians 1.

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All right, we're there in Galatians 1 and the title of my sermon this morning is Free

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from Bondage.

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Free from Bondage.

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And of course, it's on theme with the 4th of July, but specifically the fact that it's

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the 250th anniversary.

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We're still a very young country.

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If you think about it, the children of Israel in the Old Testament were in bondage for 430

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years.

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So we're basically just about halfway through that and we've still got this great heritage,

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this great nation, still probably, in my opinion, it's still the greatest nation in the entire world.

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And in the annals of history, I think it's the greatest nation just ever built. I mean,

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there's nothing like it to compare in history. There's no other, you know, if you study history,

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there's no nation that just has the freedoms that we've been awarded, the li-

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that we've been awarded and just the heritage built on Christ. Other than, you

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know, you have the children of Israel but that's the theocracy that God led and

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they hardened their hearts and they turned against God and God just

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basically said, you know, I'm gonna pluck it out and give it to someone that brings

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forth fruits but

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Let's go there to Galatians. We're going to focus there in Galatians 1.

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And what I want to do today is just, I want to emphasize that we need to not take this freedom for granted.

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And because there is a historical cycle of countries that get freed and end up coming

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back into bondage when they experience a lot of success and wealth and grace, it's just,

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you know, liberty.

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And then they confuse freedom with liberty.

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And the goal is not to do that.

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As Christians, it's our duty to just put on blinders, neglect what the world is saying

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about these definitions and let...

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Let the Bible define what it is for us to be free, right?

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Because we don't believe just in the freedom of this country, but you know, if we were

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anywhere else and we were still oppressed, you know what?

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We would still preach the Word of God, God willing, right?

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The goal is to be free in Christ, knowing that no matter what comes down the pipe, no

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no matter what.

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what direction countries take, whether they're more oppressive or they're more free,

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we should always preach Christ. I mean, Paul definitely did not live in a free country,

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and he preached hard even though he was always, you know, at times he felt like he was unto death.

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Right? And so we're there in Galatians 1, and it says there in verse 1,

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I mean, sorry, we're there in Galatians 5, and it says there in verse 1, it says,

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Stand fast, therefore.

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And that word stand fast, you know, in the old King James just means like to hold on to, you know, be ready to deal with all the attacks, right?

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You're not going to be moved.

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You're standing fast.

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Therefore in the Liberty, wherewith Christ hath made us free.

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and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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And you know, this is one of those things where

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do we want people to get saved to change their lives?

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Absolutely, this verse points to that.

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but it's also a part of a work that says don't be again entangled, meaning with the yoke of bondage,

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meaning that you can be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. As a matter of fact,

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I started the series on Galatians. On Wednesday in Galatians 1, Paul starts out before he gets

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here. He says, hey, I marvel that you are so soon removed from the gospel, which was delivered

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I'm like, I cannot believe that you got this freedom and this grace and it's not

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not by works, then somehow you just keep putting works in everything.

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And it's not affecting you, and I'm just giving you the synopsis, right?

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It's affecting those that would need to get saved, that are now confused, wait,

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is it by grace or is it by works, right?

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And today, we have the same problem.

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I mean we have the same problem from a spiritual aspect, we have the same problem from a carnal

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aspect.

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I mean if you were to go around and we would just poll people probably, if we would have

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gone down to the park yesterday, I think it's Eleanor Tinsley, they had a big fireworks

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display.

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If you would have gone down there and just started interviewing people and asked, hey,

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what does freedom mean?

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You know, you'd get all kinds of answers, right?

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It just depends on who you're doing.

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And the problem is because we've just gotten away from the fundamentals.

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Let's just look at a couple of things here before I get deep into it.

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I've only got four points for you today, but right there in verse number three, it says,

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for I testify again on every man that has circumcised that he is what?

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Debtor to the whole law, right?

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If you're doing the things of works, where do you owe your allegiance to?

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It's to the law.

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It says, Christ has become of no effect unto you whatsoever of you is justified by the

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law, ye are fallen from grace.

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So if you're lost, then you're a debtor to the law.

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But if you're saved and you're now going, you're backsliding, now you're subject to

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the law instead of the Spirit.

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And we'll touch on that here in a second.

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Verse 6 says,

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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything,

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nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

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And then right there in verse 13, these are famous verses.

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I love these verses.

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It says,

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For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty.

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Only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another

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For all the laws fulfilled in one word even this thou shall love thy neighbor as I self

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So just because you have freedom doesn't mean you know Paul said all things are lawful to me, but not all things are expedient

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Right? And people confuse freedom with liberty.

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And there is a slight difference.

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And we're going to touch on that.

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It was interesting.

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That's why I wrote that note.

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I'll touch on that.

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But in one of the hymns, it actually like,

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actually emphasizes one of my points.

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Now, before I go too deep.

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This was not part of my sermon, but I think it's interesting that this is not like a thought that

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I would normally like that I just came up with on my own. This is a biblical concept of being free.

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You know, as I walked in this morning, Pastor Cobb handed me this old article from 2023,

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where the Southern Baptist Convention is purging female pastors. So back in 2023,

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they got rid of all the female pastors. Then in 2026,

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They brought him back in.

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But what's interesting about Pastor Cobb's comment on this article wasn't this.

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He's like, the problem with this thing is not that.

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It's that there's a convention, the Southern Baptist Convention,

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that's telling churches what to do.

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He's like, that's wrong.

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Before we can even address any of the biblical issues, we need to address the foundation, which is

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that every church is an independent church and should function as one. So if an independent

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church wants to have a female pastor and disobey God, that's their prerogative. They'll deal with

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between God, but there should never be a convention that, you know, we are an independent, free,

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We libertarian, I guess, baptist church, right?

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We do what the Bible says, and then we interpret it and we act accordingly.

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But not what anybody says now we associate with friends in the new IFB you've heard me say that you know

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Pastor shall he's my friend pastor Anderson my friend pastor Thompson

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I would say of all the guys he's probably my best friend in the group like

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He's the one that I've known the longest him and I have a good relationship

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Going back several years, but you know I don't ever get a call from any of them telling me what to preach

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Pastor Cobbs never called me and said hey you should preach on this or talk about

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this. Now our congregation is really good about letting me know what they think I should

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preach on, but I like that, you know what I'm saying? But they never say that's what

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you should preach, or if I don't preach what they think I should preach, nobody's coming

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up to me afterwards and be like, you should have preached that, right? Now I appreciate

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all the feedback, but at the end of the day we preach and we're independent because that's

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how God ordained the church.

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And so the reason the Southern Baptist Convention is never going to get it right is because

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they can't even get the foundation right.

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The reason our country will either be successful in the future or fail is because we've got

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to get the foundations right.

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If you read the Constitution, I love the opening statement, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

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If you think about it, where are they getting this from?

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From the Bible.

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What's the ultimate truth that we hold to be self-evident?

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The Bible.

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There's really no other way to compare.

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You know, we say this is an accurately historical book.

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It's infallible. It has no error.

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And you say, well, compare it to something.

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There is no comparison.

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It's self-evident. It's self-containing.

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At times, the only way that I can prove something to you is from the Bible.

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Now, other times I can go outside of the Bible, we can go somewhere else, but the majority

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of our doctrine is just derived from the Bible and people are like, well that's a cop out.

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Yeah, but it's the truth.

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I mean, I don't know what to tell you.

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That's God, right?

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So these are important concepts that we need to understand.

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And oftentimes when you're preaching on ideas, idealistic concepts, it's hard.

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I was an investment banker for many years.

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I had my Series 6, 63, my Series 7.

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And the one thing they taught us is they're like,

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hey, it's harder.

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You make more money selling investments,

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but it's harder to sell an investment.

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because you can't touch it, you can't feel it, right?

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It's harder to sell an intangible thing than the tangible one.

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But when you are able to sell it, it reaps bigger rewards, right?

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What's the same thing with ideas, right?

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If you think about like presidents and governors and senators and re-

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What are they selling you? They're selling you their platform.

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They're idealistic and they're trying to line up with your viewpoint of that.

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And sometimes it's kind of like this, it's-

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It's hard to put it in a box, right?

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When we talk about freedom or we talk about liberty

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or we talk about being free in the spirit,

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it's not something that's really tangible.

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When Jesus says,

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faith is a substance of things hoped for,

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the evidence of things not seen.

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That's a hard concept. You've got to do it by faith, right?

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We believe that this country is a free country by faith.

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We believe that the founding fathers had all the best intentions in mind.

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You could make that argument later that maybe some of them weren't good.

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Well, they're human. Not everybody.

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The Bible says there's none good. There's none righteous.

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What is it? Romans 3, 10.

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For there's none righteous, no, not one.

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And so, and I think that maybe I got my verses wrong.

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But anyways, that's a correct verse.

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I just don't remember if it's Romans 3 10.

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So, but let me just give you a couple of definitions here.

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That word free, I mean, it has like 40 definitions.

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We're not gonna go through all of them.

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I just wanted the main definitions are the first six, right?

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And it's what is the word free?

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It's enjoying personal rights or liberty

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as a person who's not in slavery.

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right? So we're free people pertaining to reserve for those who enjoy personal liberty existing

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under characterized by or possessing civil and political liberties that are as a rule

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constitutionally guaranteed by representative government enjoying political autonomy as a

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people or country not under foreign rule independent exempt from external authority interference

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restriction as a person's one's will thought choice action independent

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unrestricted, able to do something at will or liberty.

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And that was the goal of the founding fathers, right?

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If you read the Declaration of Independence, it's like, hey,

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people need to be able to be free within the confines

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of our government, to be able to worship freely,

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to be able to think freely, without somebody else trying

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to impose their viewpoint.

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You know, oftentimes we get, I mean, I've gotten that accusation probably the most in

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my entire life is that I'm so imposing that I'm trying to get other people to live their

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lives like I do.

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Well, the truth is I do want you to live not as I do, but as Christ does.

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So if I, if you're following me is because of Christ, but I'm not forcing anybody.

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I mean, I've literally had conversations where I'll go through the entire gospel presentation

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and I can just tell that person is a little hesitant.

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I'm like, look.

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I don't want you to feel pressured or I don't want you to agree with me just because I made a good case

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because it is a good case that we make. If you don't want to pray it's your choice because at

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the end of the day it's that's the decision you make between you and God. I don't want to put a

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gun to your head because at the end of the day even if I put a gun in your head God knows the heart,

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he knows exactly what you believe right and so the the concept of the United States is derived

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from the Bible.

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I mean, that's that we're endowed by our creator with certain unenalienable rights, right?

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Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness now that word liberty is different and

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This is where people get mixed up

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Because that word liberty is freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control

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freedom from external or foreign rule

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Independence, freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions,

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power of right of doing, thinking, speaking according to choice, meaning you're not censored,

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that would be freedom of speech, right? Freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint,

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synonym, liberation, right? Isn't that what Christ does? He liberates us from the bondage of sin,

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Right?

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Permission, oh that's not that one,

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it's permission granted to a sailor.

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I mean it is liberty, but it's a different liberty.

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Freedom or right to frequent or use a place unwarranted

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or impertinent freedom in action or speech

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or a form of instance of it, right?

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And so this is important because we have liberty,

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liberty is freedom under the law.

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And that's why I picked that, you know, if you were to turn to that hymn, they were consistent

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in that message. We've gotten away from that message in hymn 435, which was, oh beautiful

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for spacious skies, right there in verse number two, he says, confirm thy soul in self-control,

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thy liberty in law.

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Like they wrote it into law, right?

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The Constitution.

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And then of course, we just sang 438,

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which I love the way it ends

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because it's really the hymn of the Brits.

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And, you know, just in case you didn't know, it's okay to call people out and even sometimes indirectly take some of their stuff and make it better.

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Because it says, you know, thy might great God our King, right?

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Instead of the King or Queen of England.

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And so we see these things that are, that stand out.

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Now, the final thing I'll have and I'll bring you the points is that...

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This is an important concept and we need to not only focus on ourselves but the next generation.

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Otherwise we're going to lose not only our freedoms but our liberty.

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And when we do that it just makes it harder to do what we were doing for Christ.

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Right? And people have a bad taste in their mouth about America.

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You know, and I agree America has done some horrible things.

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I mean, we start with the fact that we let Israel just dictate our terms.

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You know, we can start with the fact that we just were huge in debt.

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I think it's like last time I checked it's $36 trillion.

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And we, you know, you can go down the line.

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But if you compare it to other countries, we're still the greatest and most free country in the world.

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In Canada, I just got done talking to Pastor Wiebe.

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By the way, if you don't know who he is, he's for Fortress Baptist Church.

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You know, support him, subscribe to his channel, back him.

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They just passed a law called C9, don't worry about it in Canada,

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where they're making it illegal to basically preach the Word of God.

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And he's literally preaching against those rules and he's calling it out,

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where here, we can preach on anything we want.

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Now that doesn't mean that the liberty doesn't hold back the opposition.

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They're free to come and attack us if they want and say all kinds of manner of evil against

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us but we're still free to do it.

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The most they can do is just throw a pout, scream and kick and cry but they could basically

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I guess if they wanted to personally they could just take action but they can't force

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the government to stop us.

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We have freedom of speech.

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I can say anything that's in this book freely today

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without any repercussion of the law coming down on me.

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Right?

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I mean, that's the fact of the matter.

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And there's a real famous quote I've

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been listening to for 20 years.

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I revisit it every once in a while.

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But the following quotation has been attributed to Tylette,

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although it's also been occasionally attributed

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to Alex de Tocqueville.

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We will be right back.

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And it says that democracy is always temporary in nature.

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It simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

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Democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they

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can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

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From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promised the most benefits

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from the public treasury with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to

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loose fiscal policies. Sound familiar? By the way, this is kind of scary, right? This is like

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several hundred years ago, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the greatest,

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of the world's greatest civilizations from beginning of history has been about 200 years.

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During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence, right?

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from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, courage to liberty,

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liberty to abundance, abundance to selfishness, selfishness to complacency, complacency to

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apathy, and then from apathy to dependence, and then from dependence ultimately back to bondage.

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So we want to always be free from bondage. And if you were, we were to go deep into this,

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This is not the lesson, but you know, many will speculate that we're somewhere.

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between apathy and dependence. I mean look at New York. They literally voted, I mean

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the guy doesn't even mince words. He says, I am a socialist. And everybody voted for

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him. Why did they vote for him? Because he promised, you know, child care and rent and

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all kinds of, you know, basically let's just get New York City more in debt. And not the

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state but the city by the way, which most people would just say New York City is the

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this day.

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And so we're headed down that road if we're not careful.

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Now the reality from the Bible is that we're probably not going to stop this train, but

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we can just slow it down.

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And that's ultimately the goal, right?

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We don't want to get on stupid trains like,

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oh, you know, let's rebuild the third temple.

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That's not a good train.

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You know, I always find it funny when Christians are excited about the third temple.

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I'm like, the third temple, that means that the bad guy's coming.

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Like, that's not a good part of the story.

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I don't understand this part.

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Like, I'm confused about why you would want to support something that brings in the bad guy.

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Right? Like...

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Come on. And you're like, who's the bad guy? The devil, right? The beast, the false prophet,

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and the mark of the beast is coming down the pipe. It's just like, doesn't add up. You know why?

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Because people gotten away from the principles that founded this country, which is really

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our biblical principles. People will say we're a Judeo-Christian nation. We're not a Judeo-Christian

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nation. We're a Christian nation.

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Our entire thing is based on the Word of God.

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Right? Our foundation is from Genesis to Revelation.

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If it's not in there, I'm not interested.

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You know, if you want me to explore it, you want to talk about it, great.

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But if it doesn't line up with the Word of God, I don't care.

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I mean, seriously, it just comes down to that, right?

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And so just to close this thing out right here on my first point or my intro is that

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philosophers will often summarize the distinction between stating that freedom is the ultimate

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ability to act.

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While liberty is the legal framework that protects that ability.

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Total freedom means you can do whatever you want, while liberty ensures that you are not

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subjective to the oppressive will of others.

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Meaning, I can do whatever I want, but if it starts making everybody else's life difficult,

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then it's not, you know, it's not right.

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We can take an easy example.

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You know, why do we hate the queers?

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Well, God said we hate the queers.

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But if we were to take it a step further, our country should do something about it,

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not only because it's in the Bible, but because it's literally affecting our lives.

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Public nudity, as long as last I checked, is still punishable by law in the entire country.

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I mean, I'm not talking like something egregious, and yet you have these queer pride parades

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where everybody's running around naked and nobody's getting thrown into jail or a citation

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or anything like that, right?

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Well, then my liberty has been imposed upon because they overstepped on their freedom.

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And so, and by the way, I was trying to use these examples with my kids,

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we were going, you know, like about this stuff, but these are important concepts

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that we need to teach the next generation and we need to maintain ourselves.

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Right, so the first point I have for you today, I have four points for you, is that

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It's point number one, and by the way, I don't know why I got on this kick.

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I rarely do that, but today and tonight, I'm all illiterating.

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It was just easier for me.

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Or it all starts with the same letter.

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I was just like, I just don't want to, I knew this was a long weekend, so I was just like,

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let's make it easy.

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But point number one is false freedom, right?

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And it's what the world, what the devil's always doing.

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It's the counterfeit.

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it.

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I mean, even you think about information, now we have artificial information.

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Artificial intelligence, it's funny that we get excited about AI, and by the way, I use

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it as a tool, but I'm not so excited because I'm always reminded artificial is not real.

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Artificial is not the real thing.

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I've got some pins in my clavicle when I broke it from the surgery.

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and artificial.

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People say, well yeah, but you know, steel is better or whatever.

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No, what God did is better.

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Now I just kind of like, I'm patched up.

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You know, it's an artificial clavicle.

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It's not going to be the same as it was before.

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It's okay, but life goes on.

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So, but not everything that looks free is freedom.

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And I think that's the biggest challenge we have in America today, that people confuse

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freedom with liberty.

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They're just wanting to do whatever, you know, let live and let live.

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L'as-et-faire.

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And I remember back in 2012, we were at the Texas National Delegate in Fort Worth.

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and we went to listen to Ron Paul. You know we're huge Ron Paul fans but when we listened to him

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it was kind of wild like we had never really ever heard a full speech from Ron Paul and Ron Paul

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was a little bit too laissez-faire like he was like let let live in every aspect of your life

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to to an extent it was almost maybe better that he didn't get put in office just because of some

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of the super like it didn't lie and not everything was uh Christian in in his thinking. I still think

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Ron Paul was way better than Mitt Romney.

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Romney by eons. I mean, Mitt Romney was a Mormon. I'm so glad we never had a Mormon

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in office. Mormons are not Christians. I don't know why they're offended in the military.

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Mormons are of the devil. It's one of the dumbest religions that exist in the entire

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planet. If you're a Mormon, stop being a Mormon. Turn your Bibles over to Numbers 11. Turn

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your Bibles over to Numbers 11.

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But just to kind of give you an idea, and I think I skipped some stuff on my notes,

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or maybe I didn't know, I'm good.

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So we've got to remember that freedom, right, we don't want to have the false freedom.

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I really appreciate freedom and the liberty we have,

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because I am a first generation American.

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Like I was naturalized on May 5th of 2000.

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You know, my dad sacrificed a lot and he was actually scammed into coming into the country.

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He lost a lot of money and opportunity and he didn't just go back because he wanted us

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to have the opportunities that we've been afforded.

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I live and have the privileges that most people in the world won't have ever just because

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my dad took a risk to get here and to make sure that we had this upbringing.

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You know, some people take that for granted.

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You know, when we first moved here, we moved in with my grandma.

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We were really poor.

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And yet, probably in our poverty, it was way better than anywhere in Mexico.

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People don't realize, like, because America does a lot of filtering.

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I mean, I think every country does, but we do a lot of filtering.

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There's parts in Mexico where they just go without water for days and electricity for

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days.

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Most people don't have central ACs and they can just turn on their AC in their car and

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then they go from their car to their building, from their building to their house and you

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know, and God forbid that you don't have AC for a little bit because you know, it's the

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end of the world.

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Most people live like that every day in countries outside of the United States.

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You know, I mean, that's just like par for the course.

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And so I'm thankful and I want you to be thankful for all the freedoms you have every day.

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You know, when you catch yourself just murmuring and complaining, just be reminded,

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you still live in the greatest country in the world.

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You know, I did a whole sermon a couple weeks ago.

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You want to check it out, but don't take things for granted.

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I'll just touch on it briefly.

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But the World Cup, I don't know if you know,

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the majority of the games are hosted in the U.S. this month, right?

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And the biggest news isn't even the World Cup.

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You know what's the biggest news?

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Is that the world's like, whoa, America is awesome.

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Like it's one of the greatest countries in the world.

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They're like, look at the size of this rib.

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You know, who saw that one with the Japanese guy?

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He's like, oh, so big.

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Arr.

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Like, he's never seen anything like that in his life, right?

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And guys are, I mean, literally Brits are grabbing the, the, what is it, the ranch.

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And they're like, oh, this is like, this is, they're, they've never seen anything like

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it.

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That's a merit.

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Like, for us, we walk into like a, you know, like a restaurant and they give me the portion

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of chicken fried steak, this, this big, and I don't even bat an eye.

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Who's, when was the last time you were like, whoa, that's a lot.

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That's just what we expect.

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in America, right? But somebody comes over and they're like, this is amazing. I've never seen

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anything like this in my life. Yet everybody's grumpy. Everybody, I mean, just drive down Houston

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roads, right? I mean, road rage is like at an all-time high. Everybody's got an attitude.

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I mean, it's amazing. But the biggest freedom that we have in this country, think about,

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my dad didn't even think about it like that. My dad wasn't saved when we moved.

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The greatest thing that my dad did by staying here and enduring all the grief and all the

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challenges and trials that he had to go through is that all three of his children are saved.

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I don't even think he knows how great of an accomplishment that is.

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I know my brother and sister don't see eye to eye with the type of Christianity we, like,

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you know, live, my family and I, but I know they're saved.

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My mom is saved and I'm almost pretty sure that my dad's saved.

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He doesn't, you know, he might not realize that he's a scholar.

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He kind of fights things sometimes.

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But the greatest thing that was accomplished was that we're saved

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and that my children are saved.

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I married a saved woman.

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I'm serving in a Christian church, in a Baptist church that preaches the right gospel.

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I mean, that is the American dream right there.

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Like the greatest thing that could have ever happened to me was just be able to be here,

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here.

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Speak English without an accent.

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and preach the King James Bible on the 250th anniversary of our nation's history.

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Right? Like that's that to me that's just like that's awesome. Right? And the Bible

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says, I had you turn to numbers but I'm gonna read for you really quick. In

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Romans 8 verse 1 the Bible says, there there is therefore no condemnation in

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them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the

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spirit for the law of the spirit of life

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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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For what the law could not do and that it was weak through the flesh,

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God sending his own Son in his likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemn sin in the flesh."

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I mean isn't that the greatest thing? Those are some awesome verses. Like we're not under the law.

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You could kill me in the flesh but you're never going to kill me. You could condemn me to hell.

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all you want you can say go to hell you want it's not going to happen you know you're going to lose

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a lot of sleep Bible says in John 8 36 if the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free

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indeed right and we need to not take that for granted so like I said we need to be careful

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with this counterfeit uh freedom right there in numbers 11 in verse number one the Bible says that

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and when the people complained, it displeased the Lord.

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And the Lord heard it and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burned among them and

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consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. The people cried unto Moses and when

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Moses prayed unto the Lord the fire was quenched and he called the name of the place Tibera because

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of the fire of the Lord burned among them. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell

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a-lusting and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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Pay attention here, I mean this is just like a crazy mindset, but this is how we're living in America.

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It says, we remember the flat, the fish, which we did eat in Egypt really, the cucumbers and the melons

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and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now our soul has dried away.

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There's nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes, and the manna was as corned

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or seed, and the color thereof is the color of bedelium.

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And the people went out and gathered it, and ground it in mills, and beat it in a mortar,

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and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh

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oil.

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And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

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Then Moses heard the people weep through their families, every man in the door of his tent,

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when the anger of the Lord was killed.

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Jesus was also displeased.

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It's not just enough that the Lord should be angry.

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You know who should be angry?

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We should be angry.

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That everybody is always complaining that they wish they had this.

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You know, it was better.

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Only if we were more like Europe.

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Or only if we were more like this.

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You know, you're always hoping for the free stuff in the flesh

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instead of the freedom in the spirit.

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God freed them, but they just wanted the comfort.

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I mean, think about the stupid mentality

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of being freed from slavery, and they're like,

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we would rather be in slavery carrying mortar and bricks

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just so we could eat leeks and cucumbers

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and all this stuff, right?

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And that's the mentality that we need to get away from

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in this country every day.

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You know, people just want...

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They want welfare state, they want stipends for their phones, their housing, and they want SNAP benefits.

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And they want all that. And then the minute you say, hey, but you know, you can have a better life.

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If you don't have the government telling you everything you need to do, you could just, you know, build you up by your bootstraps.

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This is a great country.

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And then they start to do it and they're like, oh, it was just better when I had all the benefits.

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And that's why they don't do anything.

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You know, and then you get this this basically devilish mentality.

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I mean, the Lord is angry.

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So is Moses, right?

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It's Israel's confusing all this free food for freedom.

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And then that what, you know, just because you're getting stuff

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doesn't mean that you're free.

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You're being enslaved, right?

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I would rather just go without than just continuously get like the long arm of the government and then they're creeping into your house

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And telling you what to do and you know how to you know raise your children and how to feed your families

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I mean to me it's not like it's not anything marvelous that New York is now socialist

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when the big controversy

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You know many years ago. I don't remember how long ago was over maybe over a decade ago was you know remember when they they got rid of the big slushies

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Because you know they were trying to get people to not be so fat

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I guarantee you they're still fat people in new york city today like i'm just like I don't think it solved anything

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Go to john eight go to john eight

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But isn't that what satan always does he's going to disguise freedom with free things

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And really what sin does is what? It advertises liberty but brings you to bondage. I mean that's a theme throughout the entire Bible.

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And then you have this mentality. Who's ever heard it?

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I mean, I think I don't know if it's popular in the young guys anymore or not, but YOLO, right?

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You only live once. You know, do whatever feels right. Do whatever feels good. If it feels good, do it.

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Well, yeah, but

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You know, I'm pretty sure if you were to talk to any drug addict, they're like,

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oh, that, that first hit of crack felt good for a few seconds.

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And then my life's been a wreck ever since.

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And then they're like, and every after one, I need more because I could never

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the other doing is chasing that first moment.

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I'm not making that stuff up.

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Just talk to any drug addict and they'll tell you that's all they were ever

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chasing was that fake freedom.

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Right.

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John 8 right there in verse 31 the Bible says that Jesus said unto the Jews which believed on him

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It's interesting that even in the Bible the Jews have to believe on who?

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Jesus Christ right says the Jews believed on him if you continue my word then you are my disciples indeed

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He shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free

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They answered him we be Abraham's seed and we were never in bondage to any man

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How say is thou ye shall be made free?

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Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I send to you whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin,

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and the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore

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shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Hey, if you go study the founding fathers and the

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founding documents, it was all based on the Word of God. The only way we're free is because the Son

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Sun Meat is free.

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Not.

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the revolution, you know, God ordained this country to be this beacon of light.

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And I think eventually it won't be that light, but we still send the most missionaries.

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We still preach the clearest gospel. We're still out there fighting the spiritual fight

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more than any other nation in the world. Right? Who's the most famous and hated pastor in the

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world? Is it from somewhere else or is it some guy in Phoenix, Arizona?

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I mean let's just be, I know seriously from a spiritual perspective

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and people say oh you're just kissing the ring, no I'm not I mean look it up

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just type in the name Stephen Anderson he's been banned from countries and his

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family's trying to destroy him

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and people that used to associate with him are trying to extort him and hold him

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account

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where's the pastor from some other country doing the same?

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Now, I know Pastor, and I think somebody corrected me the other day, so let me see if I get it right.

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Is it Peter Bogart or Oscar? Is it Oscar?

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Oh, Oscar. I see I did get it wrong. Oscar Bogart.

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He's being persecuted in South Africa for preaching the Word of God, but he's only famous in his country.

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The reason we know him is through who?

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through another pastor, right?

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We're still, think about some other hated pastors, right?

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Or people that are making waves like on social media.

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Pastor Mejia's been on a bunch of podcasts.

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Where's the other pastors making waves on podcasts?

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If they are, it's all the same stuff, right?

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You got this young guy, I forget his name.

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He's like a 19, 20 year old with blonde beach hair,

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and whatever, and he thinks he's a Christian.

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And he's the next guy making waves and he talks all kinds of dumb crap.

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I mean, the guy's about as saved as my pinky.

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Like just, you know, he's not, he's a devil, but our guys are making the waves.

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It's our country and even the watered-down churches. I mean one of the biggest churches in Mexico City

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I'm gonna go to Mexico in the month of August. We're gonna visit that church

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It's by a pastor of the last name is when I forget his first name and he comes from

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Hiles Anderson, he's a graduate of Hiles Anderson, which if you know anything pastor Jack Hiles led the charge before the new FB

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This guy, his church runs 3,000 independent, fundamental, saved by grace, Baptists in Mexico.

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The biggest church in Mexico run by a Baptist is from an American missionary that started that church.

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You know, where is the Mexican Baptist just tearing the world upside down?

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He isn't there.

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I mean this one, but I'm naturalized.

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So, yeah.

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But I mean, I'm kind of like, you know, I'm on one side, I'm on the other side.

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Go to first John 3, go to first John 3.

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By the way, I am a Mexican.

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If you've been here, I've brought my birth certificate.

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So just so you know.

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First John 3, right there, we're going to be in verse 4.

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But you know, when we are in the Spirit, you know what?

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We're obviously free from sin.

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And this is a concept that's hard to understand,

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you know, the first times.

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But it is possible to not commit sin.

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Just not, what's not possible is that we're not

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going to do it perpetually until we get to heaven.

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But when we're like, for example, when you're out soul winning, you're in the Spirit, I don't think you're sinning.

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You know, unless you have a bad attitude. I mean, it's possible, but for the most part, I would dare to say that most soul winners,

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when they're actively soul winning and they're just actually in the game, they're focused on it,

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they're not committing sin because they're just focused on the Word of God.

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The minute you remove yourself from that, then you're exposing yourself, you're weak in the flesh, you know, the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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as there in verse four.

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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, for the sin is the transgression of the law.

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And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

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Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not, whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

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Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous,

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even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil.

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For the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,

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that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin,

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for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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In this, the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil,

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Whosoever doeth not the righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

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Notice how it is, doeth.

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Right? We're saved by grace, but if we want to be actively not sinning,

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we're doing what? The righteousness of God.

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You're in church today, God willing, you're focused on it, you're not letting your thoughts

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flee, and you're not fleeting thoughts or things like that, then you're not capable

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of sin.

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But the minute we activate the flesh and there's it's a constant battle the Bible tells us that it's a daily war

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between the flesh and the spirit right the spirit lesteth after the flesh and the

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And the the uh the flesh lesteth after the spirit one's going to win out every few hours or minutes or days

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Proverbs 5 22 go to 2nd Peter 2 go to 2nd Peter 2 Proverbs 5 verse 22 Bible says his own iniquity

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Shall take the wicked himself and he shall be holden with the cords of sin

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He shall die without instruction and in greatness of his folly. He shall go astray

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Look sin is still deadly even to us in the flesh

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But we can kill the body and then we're no longer useful to the Lord here on this earth

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2 Peter 2 verse 18, sorry I said 19 but it's 18 says,

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for when they speak great swelling words of vanity,

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they allure through the lust of the flesh,

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through much wantonness, those that were clean escape

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from them who live in error, while they promise them liberty.

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Isn't that what we're promised all the time?

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While they promise them liberty, they themselves

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are the servants of corruption.

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Thank you.

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for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought into bondage.

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Right. And I mean, we see that you see all these lobbying groups that are making, you know,

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they do these egregious things. You think about like, for example, the pharmaceutical industry,

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right. And you think about the vaccinations in general, right. It's been documented that

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Autism has increased as vaccinations have increased.

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And then what did the pharmaceutical companies do?

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They're like, well, you can't sue us for what?

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One specific thing.

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This one thing that we can't,

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we've never done these studies,

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you just can't sue us for it.

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They just promise liberty and give you corruption.

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But on the other hand, everywhere you go,

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if you go to any medical facility,

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they're constantly pushing what?

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medicine and vaccines and all that stuff.

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I let my kids, we were watching one of the World Cup games.

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Usually I'll mute it during the commercials,

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but there was a pharmaceutical commercial.

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I said, kids, pay attention.

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I said, this drug saying that it's going to cure you of depression.

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I said, now pay attention at the end.

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And all of a sudden it's like, oh, side effects

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are suicidal thoughts, diarrhea, heart attack, blah, blah, blah.

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It's like this long list.

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They're like, what?

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It's insane.

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Any person that is a little sane will

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know that that's just the stupidest thing in the world.

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Point number two, we don't want to have counterfeit freedom.

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Point number two is found freedom.

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And where do we find it?

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in Christ and his word, right? True freedom is found in Christ. You know, we don't find it in the

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government, we don't find it in money. What are the things that people think that they're going to

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have freedom in, right? We don't find it in ourselves. I mean, there's a thing about it.

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Government is huge, right? People love money, people love self-help.

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And the only way we find is in the truth and nobody wants to listen to the truth of Christ now

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I'm generalizing we still I still believe so when he works it works

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I mean obviously we have 700 souls one but the majority of people just don't want to listen to it

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Go to Galatians 5 your go back to Galatians 5 but in Romans 8 verse 18

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The Bible says for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory

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Which shall be revealed in us?

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And here's the theme, if you notice the progression, we've got to get a little uncomfortable if

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we want to actually enjoy our freedoms.

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That's the problem is that false freedom promises complacency and apathy and comfort, but life's

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not like that.

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Says for the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the sons of God for the creature was made subject to vanity

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Not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope because the creature itself also shall be delivered

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From the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of god

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Go back to galatians 5 right there verse 13. We saw it but let's let's go through this again. It says for brethren

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You have been called unto liberty

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Only, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love, serve one another,

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in other words stop being selfish jerks.

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Right?

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Who are the biggest social media influencers?

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Are they the ones serving the most people or the ones that just love themselves the

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most?

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You tell me, right?

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says but if you bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another this

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I say then walk in the spirit and ye shall fulfill she shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for

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the flesh lesteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary

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the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that ye would do that ye would

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I know if we were to go to roman 7 paul says oh wretched man that I am

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You know the things that I want to do I don't do and the things that I don't want to do those are the things I do

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He's obviously talking about the battle go to jose of 14 go to jose of 14

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You know what Enrique? Get me a bottle of water please. Thank you. Go to Hosea 14 and verse number

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one the Bible says there in Hosea 14 says, oh Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou

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has fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him take away all

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iniquity and receive us graciously so we will render the calves of our lips.

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Asher shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more

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to the works of our hands, ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."

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Verse number four, I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely for mine anger is

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turned away from him.

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You know, if you want God to love you freely, we need to turn back to God.

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We need to turn back to serving God, you know, from the Bible.

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the way that God has taught us and expounded in the Word of God.

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Right? It's not just enough to be saved to get the blessings of God here on this earth,

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but we need to live for Christ. Right? These are the things that we need to do.

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Thank you. And so the problem is that most people don't want to do that.

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You know, they want the leeks and the cucumbers.

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There's a nice thing about going to any restaurant and just getting a big meal, but you also

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just get a little bit, you take it for granted.

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God sent them manna and they're like, mmm, manna.

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The Bible says it was heavenly food.

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They're like, we'd rather have cucumbers and leeks and all that good vegetable.

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I like cucumbers and leeks and onions.

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I like a good salad.

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But if I had God's food, I'd rather have God's food.

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You know, that's really the point.

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Point number three, I've got two more points for you.

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We want to find the freedom, but then you know what?

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We don't want to forfeit our freedom.

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And how do we forfeit our freedom?

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We abuse the liberty that God has given us.

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And we see it all the way from the carnal,

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you know, where the governments are abusing the liberty and the freedom we have in this country.

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I got here in 1985, and I've just seen this decline in our country.

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Censorship, is that an all-time high?

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Government is an overreach, you know, debauchery and vile and wickedness and just all kinds of

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manner of evil and imaginations are just rampant. I mean it's just gross, right? Like,

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it used to be, we were talking about it earlier, like I remember growing up and watching the movie

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Rocky, by the way I'm not for Hollywood or anything, but it was just the underdog story.

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Name me the movie that's popular now that has an underdog.

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So I guarantee you, I don't know what's out there,

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but I guarantee you it's all just vile and wicked

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and lewd jokes and gross and violent and bloody

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and just deceitful.

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It's all, that's all that's ever been pushed.

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And you know, it's all kinds of just adultery

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and fornication and drugs.

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I mean, that's all that all the movies are lately.

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I don't even have to go online.

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I'm not going to do it because I can guarantee you.

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You can quote me on that, that nine out of 10 movies

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at the theater right now have one of those themes in there.

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I mean, it's just a fact.

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Go to Jeremiah 34.

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This is a pretty important.

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If we tie it with numbers 11.

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We see here in Jeremiah 34 that we are responsible for not abusing the liberty God has given us.

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Right? Jeremiah 34 verse 8, the Bible says, this is the word that came unto Jeremiah

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from the Lord after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at

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Jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them. Now, Zedekiah was a good king or a bad king?

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He was a bad king. Just to help you out for the sake of taking the time.

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And he says he's proclaimed liberty unto them, that every man should let his man servant

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and every man his maid servant, being in Hebrew of Hebrews, go free, that none should serve

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himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother.

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Now, when he's going, he's back to the old law and the Jubilee.

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You would let them all go, you know, every seven years.

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You would, especially your brothers, they were in bondage to you, right?

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When all the princes and all the people which had entered to the covenant heard that everyone

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should let his man servant and everyone his maid servant go free, that none should serve

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themselves of them anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

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Awesome.

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Good job.

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They listened, they paid attention.

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But then, listen to verse 11, it says,

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but afterward they turned and caused the servants

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and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return

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and brought them into subjection for servants

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and for handmaids.

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Therefore, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah

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from the Lord, saying, thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,

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I made a covenant with you, your fathers,

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in the day that I brought them for.

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out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of Bonman, saying, At the end of seven years,

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let ye go every man his brother, and Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee.

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And when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee.

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your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither incline their ear.

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And ye were now turned, and had done right in my side,

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In proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor.

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And ye had made a covenant before me in the house,

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Which is called by my name.

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But ye turned and polluted my name.

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and cost every man his servant and every man his handmaid, whom they had set at liberty at their

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pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

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Therefore, thus saith the Lord, ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty

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everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim in liberty for you,

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you say it the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence,

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and to the family.

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and I will make you removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." It's interesting

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how God works it. He says, Behold, I proclaim in liberty to you, saith the

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Lord, to the sword and to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you

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removed into all the kingdom of the earth. What do you say? Hey, I'm gonna change my

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law, God's law. I'm gonna change my mind and I'm gonna let

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the barriers and the hedge of protection I had about you,

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and I'm just gonna let it go free.

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You wanna be free?

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Here you go.

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Every time we attack another nation without cause,

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guys just like, what we're doing

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is just making them angry.

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Trump was making a big deal about the 250th anniversary.

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We needed the reflecting pool.

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It was a big deal.

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We needed to have gladiator-style fighting in front of the lawn of the White House.

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It's all just forfeiting our freedom.

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Our debt is up $36 trillion.

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Most people are in debt.

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You know why they're in debt?

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Because we don't follow any biblical laws.

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I mean, how hard would it be in this digital world to just say,

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hey, every seven years we're going to clear all your debt and start all over again?

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It would be awesome, and it's doable.

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You know why they don't do it?

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Because of greed, and because of power, and because they're polluting the liberty that God has given us.

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And you go to the churches, and you're like, hey,

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I saw, you know, I hear these stories. They'll tell me, they're like,

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Hey pastor, I saw this. I, you, you said this about, you know, the pre-trip rapture,

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but the Bible says this. They're like, oh, mark and avoid.

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Wait a minute. I thought we were for truth. Hey pastor, you know, uh,

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the Jews aren't God's chosen people.

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Galatians is pretty clear about that. Mark and avoid, right?

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Hey, but repenting your sins probably shouldn't be in our vocabulary when we're given the gospel.

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Mark and avoid.

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They're just polluting the liberty that God gave us.

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Because they want to have the preeminence.

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You say, that's not true.

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They're preaching Christ.

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If they were preaching Christ, they'd preach it all.

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And if you were corrected, you would take that correction.

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I had some guy on YouTube correct me on a comment I made.

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It wasn't necessarily wrong.

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I said.

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What did I say? I said, it'll come to me as I'm going through this. I used...

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Oh, I used the word regeneration, like that, you know, on my Wednesday service, it said,

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hey, you know, the outward regeneration is not what's necessary, but, you know, we need

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it or something like that.

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And obviously, the Bible is actually talking about the regeneration of the spirit.

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And he's like, that's not really a proper word to use.

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I was like, look, when you preach three times a week, you're going to mix up words.

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And I said, but there could be a better word to be used than you are correct.

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You want to be more correct.

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In the context of the sermon, it makes sense.

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But hey, he's right.

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Let's use a better word.

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I don't even know who this guy is,

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if he's a good guy or a bad guy.

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Made a good point.

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Life goes on.

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I'd rather be more on truth than not on truth.

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You know, like I'm not offended.

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It was, I used it incorrectly.

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Don't worry, my wife calls me on it all the time,

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so I'm okay with it.

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in a nice way. My wife's really loving but she does catch me on all my like backward sayings and

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all that stuff and now I have Sister Liberty remind me as well so don't worry about it.

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I will get it right. Go to Romans 6. Go to Romans 6. You know you see here in Jeremiah,

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Israel abused God's liberty. I mean they release the servants and they bring them back to bondage.

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It's all just fake right? And why? Because

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They want money and they want power and they want addiction, you know, people are addicted people addicted to public opinion now

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That's why everybody's on social media, right? They're addicted to the flesh. I mean

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guys

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Usury is bad. It's not biblical and yet everybody here pays some form of interest, right?

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That's not a that's not a founding principle

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It's not something that we as a founding nation would espouse, but nobody goes back and reads

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their constitution.

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Nobody goes back and reads the founding documents.

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They just keep adding laws to laws.

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It's kind of interesting what our country's become.

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When Jesus shows up on the scene, what have the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes

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done to the Word of God?

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They just added and added and added and perverted it.

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It doesn't look like the original thing anymore.

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Go to Romans 6, right there, verse 16.

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The powerful contrast between freedom and bondage, the Bible says,

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No ye not.

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To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants are ye to whom ye obey,

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whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness.

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But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin,

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but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

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I speak after the manner of man because of the infirmity of your flesh, for as ye have

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yielded your members' servants to uncleanness unto iniquity, even so now yield your members'

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servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?

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where the end of those things is death.

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But now, being made free from sin and becomes servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness

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and the everlasting life."

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And it's interesting because we quote this one, right, because he says, for the wages

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of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ the Lord.

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So the way we get to this verse, when we're quoting it, is he's explaining the contrast.

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You're either servant to sin or a servant to righteousness.

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You know what? You're serving somebody somewhere.

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So you do have liberty under the servanthood of who you serve, of Jesus Christ, right?

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I hope that made sense.

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1 Corinthians 9, right there in verse 16, the Bible says,

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For I though preach the gospel, I have nothing the glory of,

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For necessity is laid upon me, yet woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

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It's one of the only woes that's like, hey, all the other woes are cursing, woe unto you

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uh scribes and Pharisees, but here he's like, if I don't preach the gospel,

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God's gonna come down on me. So that's where if I do this thing willingly,

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I have a reward, but if against my will a dispensation of gospel is committed unto me,

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What is my reward then?

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Verily that when I preach the gospel,

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I make the gospel of Christ without charge,

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that I abuse not my power in the gospel,

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for though I be free from all men,

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yet have I made myself servant unto all that I might gain more.

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Look, the way that we avoid bondage,

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because the only bondage we want to avoid is sin,

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is to live in servant.

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in service to the Lord Jesus Christ. You're here on Sunday morning,

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serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Go soul-winning in the afternoon.

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Show up Sunday evening. Show up Wednesday night. Hey, spend time with your family

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educating them on the principles of God. Teach them to read. Teach them math.

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Teach them arithmetic. Teach them all that history. But more importantly, teach

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Teach them the word of God.

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And then the last point for you, it's a short point.

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is that we need to be faithful in our freedom, right?

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Look, we're free to serve God, but we need to use that

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and, you know, basically abuse it. Our faithfulness,

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our loyalty should be to the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we have the freedom to

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choose, well, I'm tired, it's hot, I don't want

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to go out today, just remind yourself we need the freedom

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to just go out there and do it.

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And I mean, it's going to happen.

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This happens all the time.

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There's times where I, I mean, today, you know, it's, it's, we just came out of the

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4th of July.

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I just think back to all the things that my parents struggled.

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Like it's exciting for me to celebrate, you know, the nation's birthday.

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because it's awarded me and my family so many great things.

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Right? So I get excited about it.

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There's times where I come to church

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and I've told my wife, I was like,

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I can't believe I just preached.

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As a matter of fact, Wednesday, I told her, I was like,

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and by the way, I'm not, I'm just personally,

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this is just a personal thing.

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Please do not comment on the Wednesday service at all.

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Other than if you want to critique me.

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But I just, I just got off and I was just like, man,

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I totally just bombed that thing.

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Like it was just horrible.

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I was like, I cannot believe that just,

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like I just wasn't in the, I couldn't get in the...

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I just couldn't, I don't know if I couldn't get in the spirit,

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I just couldn't get in the flow, right?

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I just felt like I was off and everything.

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But you know what?

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I was here, we showed up.

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Cause you know, I don't want to waste that freedom

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even when I don't know what to do with it.

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And I just, I mean, I honestly, I'm just going to tell you,

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if you were here on Wednesday, I dropped the ball,

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but you know, we just pick ourselves up

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and go back at it again.

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But you know what?

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I'm glad that I had the ability to drop the ball

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and get back on the horse again, right?

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The fact that you can make mistakes in America,

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and you can lose, how many stories is there every day

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of people who've lost everything,

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and in a matter of months turned around

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and just had much more?

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You know, how many people do you not know

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in your personal life, they're like,

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I lost everything, and now I'm better off than I was before.

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Only in this country can you do that so quickly.

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Go to 2 Chronicles 25, I'll close out with this, give me 5 more minutes, I appreciate your time.

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The greatest use of freedom is to serve God.

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In 2 Chronicles 25, within verse 5, the Bible says,

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Moreover, Amaziah...

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gathered Judah together and made the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds according to the houses of their fathers

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Throughout all Judah and Benjamin and he numbered them from 20 years old and above and found

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300,000 choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield. He hired also

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100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver

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But there came a man of God to him saying,

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Oh, King, let not the army of Israel go with thee,

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for the Lord is not with Israel to wit with all the children of Israel.

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It's interesting. The Lord's not with Israel.

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I thought he was always with Israel.

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By the way, that's just a side point.

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But he's not with Israel. That's interesting.

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Verse eight says, but if that will go, do it.

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Be strong for the battle.

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God shall make the fall.

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God shall make the fall before the enemy for God hath power to help.

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and to cast down. And Amaziah said to the man of God,

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but what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?

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And the man of God answered, the Lord is able to give thee much more than this.

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And the reason I chose to close out is because, you know, that's what we're always holding on

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to all the things that, all the money we spent and all the time we spent doing this. And what

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about my career and what about this house that I bought? Hey, how about you just look at the grand

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scheme of things and say, where can I serve the Lord the best? You know, my wife and I were talking,

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man, it would be nice.

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to live like in a mid-western country,

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like I mean, not country state,

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maybe not so far up north, it's too cold.

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We were like, man, it'd be nice to just have seasons

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and just like smaller town.

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We were in Oklahoma and it was nice.

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It was just like tiny town.

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I don't know if Oklahoma City thinks they're big,

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but they're not.

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Like, we were like, this is great.

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It's like five minutes to everything.

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But we're serving here

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because this is where the Lord has us.

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Right? So we're giving up all these things.

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Like, sometimes, you know, when I get down on myself, I'm like,

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man, I just, I could have had millions of dollars in the bank account right now.

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I was an investment banker. I thought I just stuck it through.

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But the Lord had other plans. The plans are His.

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This is where we invest our time.

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And when you look back, I like the man of God.

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He says, hey, don't worry about it. God's with you.

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He's either going to cast you down or lift you up.

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And I'd rather be lifted up by God.

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then lift myself up and then have him cast me down.

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Right? And so today, you know, with the freedom that you have,

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don't take it for granted. Don't, you know, mess around with God.

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You know, like they say, don't fool around and find out. Instead,

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just be grateful that you have.

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Salvation, that you have the King James Bible, that you have the ability to go soul winning.

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Nobody's, who's been slapped in the face soul winning?

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That's right, nobody.

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Who's been threatened at gunpoint?

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Soul winning, nobody.

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Now I know a couple of you guys have been threatened with a knife once, soul winning.

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That's about it.

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That's the most egregious thing, right?

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People get stabbed every day and shot at gunpoint.

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I mean literally in Mexico's nuts.

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People are just driving up in bikes,

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shooting someone in the back of the head and leaving.

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This is like an everyday occurrence.

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This is just like, you know, par for the course in Mexico.

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Not in Houston.

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Maybe some parts, but not where we live.

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So let's take advantage of it and let's just, I mean,

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I don't know how else to say it,

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but let's just kick some butt spiritually.

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So let's close in a word of prayer.

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Heavenly Father, Lord.

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Thank you Lord that my dad for some reason whatever the reason was decided to just come over here

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and that we landed on these shores in 1985. Thank you that this country is so welcoming that I could

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become a naturalized citizen and that I could serve that I could have these freedoms but more

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importantly Lord thank you that not only my saved but my family saved and that all our church members

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here for the most part.

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God willing, are saved. And more importantly than that, Lord, that we can proclaim the gospel of

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Jesus Christ. That we can be a beacon of light on a shining hill, Lord. And so, Lord, thank you so much

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for 250 years. And my prayer is that the next 250...

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would be better than the last 250, that we would do greater works, that we would spread more gospel,

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and that we would turn more of the world upside down in 250 years. In Jesus name we pray, amen.

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Let's turn our hymnals over to page 437, 437, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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Where the graves of wrath are stored, He hath loosed the fateful lightning,

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His terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on.

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I have seen... I'm sorry, my eyes are going back, hold on.

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Let me put on some glasses, that might really have been a hard time.

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I'm trying to avoid them, but not anymore. Let's go.

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On the second.

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I have seen him in a wildfires of a hundred circling camps

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They have built in him an altar in the evening news and damns

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I can read his righteous sentence by the demi-flair in laughs

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His day is marching on

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Glory, glory, alleluia

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He has sounded forth a trumpet that shall never sound retreat.

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He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat.

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O, be swift, my soul, to answer him by jubilant my feet.

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Our God is marching on.

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of the lilies Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that

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transfigures you and me as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free

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while God is marching on

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Glory, glory, hallelujah