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228.

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228 so we've been having problems with the internet all morning, so we're scrambling

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228 228 on the first

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this church. If you do not have a bulletin I'll have Gentry pass them out.

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Just help out with that. Just raise your hand if you do not have one. Today is

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September 6th and our service times are Sunday morning 1030 a.m. Sunday evening

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430 p.m. Wednesday service 530 p.m. and then our soul winning times is 2 p.m. on

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Sunday.

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Then the memory chapter is Psalm 15. We're on the last verse. I'm giving you guys one more week and then we'll move on to another chapter

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But I just think it's a really good chapter. So

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Especially for the kids. I mean, this is just really good

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like

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just

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Practical applications for life. So Psalm 15 5

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He that puteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent he that doeth these things shall never be moved

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Just a reminder, we are a family integrated church.

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And we back there in the other building,

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I mean, through that back door, we have the mother baby room

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back there.

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And that's specifically what that is.

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It's the mother baby room.

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If you need a disciplined child, like an older child,

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we do have a room back here.

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And that says stay out.

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That's stay out for the kids, not for the parents.

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Like, if you need it, you can go in there and just.

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Have a talking to your kids and then our soul our year-to-date souls

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We have nine hundred and thirty two souls for the year one and we have two baptisms

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So I think that's a great number

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But I just saw that and I'm not like competing but I am like just competitive and I saw that like sure foundation Baptist Church

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And Indiana just hit a thousand. So I think that we just need to like

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I'm just kidding. I mean, I'm glad that everybody getting souls. I was like, man, it's so close.

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I wish it would have been another, right? But I'm happy with the 932. Obviously, we

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obliterated last year's record. You see that. We had 301 for last year in total. So it's

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just been a really big blessing to have everybody come out regularly and just go out there and

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just put in the work.

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So I just want to say thank you. I know we still got another four months for the year, but I mean we just keep this up

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We'll definitely surpass a thousand and you know eclipse that number by the end of the year

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And we have the birthdays coming up pastor Cobb will be here. He had to go home really quick to get some medication

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But he will be here because that's I know I sent out the text

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So if a lot of you might be here for that pastor Cobb will be 90 years old on

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Tuesday

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And so I just thought it'd be cool to just give him a big party.

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And you know, at nightie, I know him well.

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I'm not saying we're like the best of friends, but we're really good friends.

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And the one thing that he loves is the church fellowship.

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So I was like, I think if anything, we could just throw a big old party.

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So I know he'll be excited about that.

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And then we have still Sister Sylvia on the 23rd.

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And then just upcoming activities. We had the soul winning marathon yesterday. It was really good.

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We were out in like, um, what was it? What was it called? Set a guest. We were out in set a guest,

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which is off of like six 10 over by what's the, is it the Harris County? What's the hospital?

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We were out by LBJ. So if you guys know Houston, you know that we were out there.

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we were out there in the ghetto and it was great. The soul winner was really receptive. We only had

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12 soul winners and of course we got a bunch of little kids with us too. We just came on everybody

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because it's all the support. We ended up with 36 souls for the day and honestly I think we would

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have ended up with more if there would have been just like another apartment complex similar to

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the one we were at. So in the morning we got the majority of our souls won like

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we ended up with like 25.

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Then in the afternoon we actually had to go into neighborhoods. We still got it was still receptive, but we just

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For those of you who do regular sewing, you know

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If you're going into neighborhoods, you're just doing a lot of walking door to door and it just takes a lot longer

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So that was really great. But I think for the week

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I think the number was like something like 58 souls one for the week. So

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That's really good. The next Sunday. We have the baby shower for Marcel Wycliffe

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So just a couple of things she is registered in Amazon if you want the link my wife has it or she has it and

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If you have any questions on baby showers my wife or some ladies the one to ask

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I just know that it's happening and then September 24th

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We have pastor Steven Anderson of faithful word Baptist Church coming to preach for us that Thursday

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I'm gonna probably do seven but you know once I get a little bit more info we if we need to we can

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push it to 7 30 just because I know it's a Thursday night and that way people are coming from

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beating traffic and fighting it that way everybody can get here on time so I'll I'll make that

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adjustment right there no kids this is not what you think so because anytime I say something now

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my kids like you know

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That's a horrible trend. If you don't know what it is, don't worry about it.

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And then just pray for the expecting mothers. Actually, I need to clear that up. Christian

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Rogers had her child, so just pray for the recovery. She had, I think it's two weeks now.

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And then just pray for Marcel, pray for Sister Sierra. Back there, I think she's due at the end

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of October and then Cynthia Garcia is in February of next year.

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They're just a couple of housekeeping rules and we have the prayer request right there in the back.

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And I just want to, how's your back? It's better. We'll keep praying. Were you walking like this?

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I did. I blew out my back when I was 38. This is like almost a decade ago and I

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I vow to never go through that ever again.

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It is, man, it's horrible.

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Yeah, you need to go to the chiropractor or something because that's the worst. It's the worst pain ever

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Well, I don't know if it's ever but it's pretty bad and are there any other announcements anything I might have missed

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As we close out. No. All right. Let's turn our handles over to page

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374

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374

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Send the light

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All right, 374.

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There's a call come ringing o'er the restless waves

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Send the light, send the light

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There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save

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Send the light, send the light

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Send the light, the blessed gospel light

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Let it shine

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From shore to shore, send the light!

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Let it shine forevermore.

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We have heard the Macedonian call today,

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Send the light, send the light,

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And a golden offering at the cross we lay,

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Send the light, send the light,

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Send the light, the blessed gospel.

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Let it shine from shore to shore.

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Send the light, the blessed gospel light.

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Let it shine forevermore.

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Let us pray that grace from everywhere about.

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Send the light, send the light.

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And a Christ-like spirit everywhere, we found, send the light!

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Send the light, the blessed gospel light, let it shine from shore to shore.

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A blessed gospel, let it shine forevermore.

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Let us pray that grace may everywhere about send the light, send the light.

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For a crown with command from the

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Send the light, send the light, send the light

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The blessed gospel light, let it shine

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Send the light, the blessed gospel light, let it shine forevermore.

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Alright, let's turn our hymnals over to page 277. You know what we need on the prayer request is we need to just have someone come in and lead the singing. It's not me.

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I butcher that stuff, I'm sorry. So 277, 277. I didn't realize I was on the wrong stance. I apologize, guys.

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Only trust him.

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now

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Alright, 277 on the first.

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to take up the tithes of the offerings while the chapter is being read.

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We really appreciate it.

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James chapter number two.

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James chapter number two.

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James chapter 2.

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James chapter 2 verse 1 the Bible reads,

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My brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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the Lord of glory with respect of persons.

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For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel, and there

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come in also a poor man in vile raiment, and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay

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clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here, in a good place, and say unto the poor, Stand

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thou there, or sit here under my footstool.

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Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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Harken my beloved brethren.

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Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which

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He hath promised to them that love Him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men

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oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? Do they not blaspheme that worthy name

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by which ye are called? If ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture,

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. You do well.

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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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For whosoever shall keep the whole law, yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

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For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.

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Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the

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law.

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So speak ye, and do so, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shown no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth

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against judgment.

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What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works?

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Can faith save him?

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If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them,

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Depart in peace, be warmed and filled. Notwithstanding ye give them not those things

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that are needful to the body, what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

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Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works.

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Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

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Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well.

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The devils also believe and tremble.

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But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

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Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

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And the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him

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for righteousness that he was called the friend of God.

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ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only likewise also was not

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Rahab the harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out

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another way for as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also let's bow

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our heads and go to the lord in prayer father thank you for gathering us here this morning thank you

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Thank you for giving us this church.

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Thank you for giving us Pastor Cobb and Pastor Reyes to lead us.

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Lord, please fill Pastor Reyes with your Holy Spirit and allow him to preach the message

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with boldness and clarity from your pulpit.

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Lord, please soften our hearts so that way we may receive your word and receive the teachings

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of your word and allow it to form us into better servants for you.

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We love you and we thank you and we ask this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Alright, we're there in James 2, famous contended chapter for Baptist.

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And although it would seem that that would be the sermon I'm going to bring today, that

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is not the sermon.

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That's actually next week.

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But let me just get this thing started here.

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We're there on James number two and the title of the sermon this morning is

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Is all sin equal? The title of the sermon this morning is, is all sin equal? We're actually asking the question, is all sin equal?

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And let me just, I'm not gonna like draw you out or anything, I'm just gonna give you the answer right away.

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Absolutely not. All sin is not equal. But the reason that I'm preaching this is, number one,

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it is actually a really hard, not a hard sermon for me to bring. Sometimes these are the sermons that I don't always like think about bringing.

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Because when I'm thinking about Baptists, and I'm thinking about people-

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but are saved by grace, I'm thinking,

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this should be like the easy answer, right?

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If you read your Bible, there's absolutely no way

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that you can draw any other conclusion

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other than all sin is not equal.

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But...

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You know, I talked to a couple of people in the last couple weeks, and these are individuals that are saved by grace. They're going to heaven.

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You know, if they were to die today, thank God they have eternal security,

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but they just don't have the the doctrines of the Bible understood, and they're listening to social media

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influencers, they're listening to these guys that maybe preach what may sound like the word of God, but it really isn't.

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And people believe this. Even in 2026, people believe that all sin is equal. They think

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that just because we're all sinners that everything is equality and

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Even as a reflection of the things that I've preached this in the past couple of weeks and what we see in the media

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You would think that this is actually a dangerous doctrine

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I mean, I know you wouldn't think I know this is a dangerous doctrine to believe that all sin is equal

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That's how you get off on these tangents like, you know

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the Lindsay classy case or you know

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even the other might like it just people are confused about all kinds of things and number one is because we don't have the proper order in

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the church and in the home and in government based

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on what God has said, but also we just don't have people actually just reading

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their Bibles. I mean today this should be like a basic recap for probably anybody

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who's ever read their Bible be like yeah that's duh that makes sense, but

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apparently this is a pretty important thing and if you believe that all sin is

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equal then it's hard for you to be able to discern good and evil, right? It's

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hard for you to even discern how to even raise your children properly, how to

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create the proper standards.

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your home, how to even just make sure that you have the proper set of rules, right?

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And so I really want to focus on that and build into also, and it was interesting the

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same individual also brought up that one of the things is he believes that salvation is

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by grace through faith, but James 2 does confuse him because it says, if your faith without

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works is dead.

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And so I thought it was interesting that these two tie together in this chapter.

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So we'll spend some time in this chapter over the next couple of weeks, but let's go right

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there to verse 8.

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And if we see there in verse 8, it says,

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if ye fulfill...

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the royal law according to the scripture thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself

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ye do well but if ye have respect to persons you commit sin and are convinced

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of the laws transgressors here you know a lot of people get this confused that's a

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probably whole other summer but I do want to touch on this when the Bible says

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that we have we're not respecter of people

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It doesn't mean that we don't respect our elders or others.

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It means that we just don't have this bias towards people in judgment.

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We're trying to basically either kiss the ring or find some way to flatter them or make

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them feel special so they will rule or they'll basically be biased in our favor.

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We want people in judgment to actually just rule by the letter of the law.

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I don't know if you saw the post.

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mistrial individuals. You know, there was a lawyer and there was a district attorney.

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And I love the district attorney because the guy, I don't know who he is, I don't know if he saved,

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I'm not saying that I would vote for him or anything like that, but just in this one instance,

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you know, he got up there and he's like, all we care about is that somebody murdered three children.

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And according to the law, that should be enough to, you know, convict them.

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And then I think one of the reporters asked like,

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well, you know, with social media going on and everything,

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don't you think that what you're saying is insensitive?

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And I just loved his response.

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He's like insensitive.

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You know what's insensitive?

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To kill three innocent children.

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That's insensitive, right?

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But the reason that everybody's confused

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is because they just don't have this basic premise, right?

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Everybody's trying to figure out how to flatter everybody

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and take it, get an advantage, like a one-up

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for their own self instead of doing things for what's right.

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You know, when you do something that's right,

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sometimes it doesn't benefit you.

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Sometimes it's not for your benefit,

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it's for the benefit of others.

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You know, anybody who has kids and a wife

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or just a family knows that sometimes you do things

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in life for others and it's no fun.

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You know, there are times where you're just lacking sleep

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or you're just overworked or you just have too much

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on your plate because you're taking care of others

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and that's just life.

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You just gotta deal with it.

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Like this is what you gotta do.

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But right here it says in verse nine,

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but if you have respect to persons,

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you commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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He says, hey, I mean, sorry, you commit sin.

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So if you respect others that are in judgment, you're committing sin.

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And it says, and are convinced of the law's transgressors.

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For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

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For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.

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Now if thou commit adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

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So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that he hath showed no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth

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against

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So he's saying, hey, let me first establish this thing that, you know, if you break the

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law then you're a sinner.

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Right? That's the most basic premise.

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But we need to actually bring that down to this level

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before we can even understand why all sin is an equal.

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Right?

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Because every sin makes a transgress—

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every sin is a transgression of God's law.

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Right? And it separates us.

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For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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I mean, we use those verses all the time, right?

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As it is written, there's none righteous, no not one.

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And so we all fall short.

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And that is that understanding really is important in the crux of like life and death eternally

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But as we live our lives here on this earth

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There's more to then just salvation once you've got this thing of salvation settled. Hey, you still got to live life

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Right, and you still got to figure this thing out and you want to live according to God's rules

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Not our rules not what we think

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Right? So we know that every sinner needs Christ. I mean, that's literally what we did yesterday for

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hours. That's what we do every week. Anytime we think about just like a lost member, a family

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member, a friend, or just the world, what are we thinking about? That they're sinners, they don't

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realize that there's a penalty for their sin, and that penalty is eternal damnation. Right?

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But the Bible doesn't teach that every sin is equally wicked.

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They carry different consequences.

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What's interesting to me is that we have human laws and people understand that there's different

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consequences.

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I mean, I'm not going to get thrown in jail for a speeding ticket, but I will get thrown

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in jail for involuntary manslaughter if I was driving under the influence.

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I mean, those are just two different things.

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So it doesn't always receive equal chastisement, and it doesn't deserve the same degree of

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judgment.

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There's a major difference between saying all sin is sin and all sin is equal.

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And so as a way of introduction, you're there in James 2 and right there in verse 8 it says,

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If ye fulfill the royal law according to scripture, thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself ye do well.

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But if you have respect to persons he commits it and you know, we've already gone through this

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but he said but basically it says in james 2 verse 10 he is guilty of what of all

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Right. So if you mess up one thing you mess it up messed it all up. That's it. I mean so

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That is just the separation

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But we might as well drive that point home because at the end of the day

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We have a soul winning heart and we want people to understand that

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for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is no hope for you without Jesus

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Christ. There's no hope to get into heaven other than through the finished work that Jesus did on

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the cross. I mean, if you think that there's anything else, then you're just living like this

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delusion, right? But like if I break a law in the state, then I'm a law breaker, but that doesn't

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doesn't mean that I'm like a serial criminal.

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Right? Like, I mean, when I was young, my dad, like, would make fun of me so much,

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because, you know, who remembers back in, like, the 90s when we started driving? I know I'm

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dating myself. And we had the five-mile rule. Whoever told yourselves that, like, right?

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Whoever, did you ever hear that? Texas? Remember the five-mile rule? You know what I mean by that?

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Like, if the speed limit is 65, you could go 70, because the cops gave you five.

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and my dad would make fun of me because obviously that's just made up.

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Like that's like an unwritten rule. There is no such thing as the five

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mile rule. Like yeah, it's like kind of understood, but a cop can actually,

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if you're over by one mile, the cop has every right to stop you at the one mile,

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like one mile over, right? And so my dad would make fun of me because I'm the one that would

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be driving like for family vacations or family gatherings and I would do the five,

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whatever I would be like if it was 65, I'd be at 70 or 75, I'd be at 80.

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And he's like, oh yeah, te dan quebrada.

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Oh, they give you a break, right?

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They give you a break.

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And the reason he gave me so much crap is because obviously I got a lot of speeding

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tickets when I was young, right?

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Like, but I was breaking the law.

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Like it was just a law breaking, but that didn't make me like some serial murder.

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That didn't make me worthy of going to jail.

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You know what it made me worthy of spending a lot of money just to make sure I didn't

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get those points so that I didn't suspend my license or take it away or anything like that.

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Right?

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I needed to be careful not to get those speeding tickets because...

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Eventually, I could just end up not being able to drive.

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Ever since then, thank God for cruise control, because now just cruise control, just set

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it and forget it, and then I don't have to worry about it.

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And it registers it, so if a cop stopped me, I would be like, hey, just check the computer,

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and I can tell you that I didn't go over the speed limit.

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But that's a whole conversation for another day, right?

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But it's interesting that James here, he illustrates this.

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He says, do not commit adultery.

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do not kill.

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But if you just do one of those,

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you're already a transgressor of the law.

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And what happens is,

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because people want to justify their own morality,

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they want their own version of God,

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and so then they don't want to listen to the Word of God,

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they want to make everything equal.

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See, because if everything's equal, then I can decide what's worse and what isn't.

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If everything's equal, I can say, hey, Lindsay Clancy, poor woman.

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She murdered her children, but was it really her fault?

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Was it really her fault?

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Because now I can just kind of make it up.

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If we don't have to follow any rules, I can make up my own rules.

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And the Bible speaks of that.

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Right?

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Actually, if we go all the way back to the book of Judges, the Bible says that everyone

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did right in his own eyes.

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We're getting to the point in society where everybody just does what they think is right

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in their own eyes.

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You know what's one of the most frustrating conversations I have about soul winning?

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Well, I think...

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or I feel, or I believe, well I don't care what you think, I don't care what you feel,

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and I especially don't care what you believe, I just don't want to know that you believe on the

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Lord Jesus Christ. You know what I care about? I care about what the Bible says. I want to think

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what the Bible says. I want to feel what the Bible tells me. I want to do what God tells me to do,

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right? And that does require sometimes removing that emotion deeply to maybe even loved ones

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or people that we care about. You know, Pastor Shelley,

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Like there's a clip, I guess he got interviewed by like some Swedish or I don't know what

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it was, it was like maybe the Netherlands, something like that.

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What was it?

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What was it?

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It was the Netherlands?

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Oh yeah, it's like some Netherlands group came to his church and like interviewed him

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and they were like, well what if your son turned out to be queer?

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Which is always like that, like the quintessential, like what if your family, well look.

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I've told my children, if you screw up with God, don't look to me.

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I'm going to follow God.

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And so I love my children, but if my children screw up with God, I'm going to toe the line.

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So, first of all, I don't think my children are going to come out, you know, playing for

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the other team, but if they did, we tow the line just the same as anybody else.

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I mean, you're like, well, that sounds really harsh and mean.

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Well, blood is thicker than water, but spiritual blood is way thicker than all, you know.

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I'm going to lean on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We all have to account for ourselves at some point, and I want to get to heaven and say,

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I've answered as best as I could to the Lord Jesus Christ based on the word of God.

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So point number one, point number one, this is really a recap, but I just want to drive this point home,

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is number one, all sin makes us transgressors before God.

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Like everybody, when God knows everything, all your sin makes you unworthy of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Everyone is a sinner, you know.

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So don't get this attitude, right? When we hear servants, we all love those servants, right? When

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we're preaching against like the murderers and the adulterers and the sodomites and the reprobates

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and the thieves and you know wicked men in wicked places. The Bible, their imagination was evil

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every day. The Bible says where people are like amen and all that stuff but don't get this attitude

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like the Pharisees and the hedges. Thank God I'm not like them.

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Don't get this attitude like, oh, well, you know, I'm not a...

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Because that is the problem, right?

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You go door to door, soul waiting, and they're like, well, I'm not a bad person.

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I'm a good person.

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You know, I don't sin.

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Yeah, just because you're not murdering doesn't mean you don't sin.

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The Bible says even the thought of foolishness is sin.

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Right?

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So just remember, first of all, there's earthly consequences, but they're not all the same.

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But you know what?

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You're still a sinner.

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All right?

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When God looks at us, God the Father...

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He doesn't look at the murderer and the liar.

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He says,

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For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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Right?

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So that's step number one.

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The only reason that we will get to God the Father

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is because the Bible says Jesus sayeth,

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I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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No man cometh unto the Father but by me.

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So, you know, I mean, obviously this is just like me

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trying to explain this.

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This is not how the Bible points it out.

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But if you were to stand before God the Father

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and he says,

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Hey, why should I let you into heaven?

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You know what he's gonna see is you covered in the blood of Jesus Christ

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And if he doesn't see that you're not even he doesn't even know you the bible says

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You won't there's no conversation

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You won't even be able to stand before god the father you'll be in hell burning in for all eternity

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Like that's just the way it works. So james 2 right there says for whosoever shall keep the whole law

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And yet offend in one point. He is guilty of all go to romans 3

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And one sin is all it takes to establish the fact that you're a sinner.

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You know there's a small gap, a small moment in time, it's called the age, there comes a point

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where we all get to the age of accountability. It's not like a hard line, some children reach

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it sooner, some reach it later in life.

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And I believe like those children especially like in the Lindsay Clancy case,

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those children didn't reach the age of accountability. The Bible is clear

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that they're in heaven, right? If they didn't have that knowledge of good and evil, they're in heaven.

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But there comes a time where your kid knows he's lying or that he's doing something wrong, right?

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Or you walk in and it looks like they're doing something, you know, you're not even thinking

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about it and who's walked in on their kids doing something and they're like...

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What's going on?

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Wait, wait.

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How can I help you, Dad?

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It's like, hold on a second.

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What's going on here?

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Now I have questions.

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Like, I want to know what is going on.

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Nothing.

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Nothing.

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Well, then why did you get like that?

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Well, no.

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It's nothing.

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Nothing's happening.

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Right?

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And we've all done it, right?

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I've done it with my dad and my mom, like, where it's like...

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What's wrong? Nothing. What do you mean nothing? Nothing. Nothing's wrong. Everything's great.

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I remember we had a friend of ours, we love to play basketball, and we had a fence that

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it would go, the ball would go over the fence into the backyard. We were in the garage,

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like in the driveway, and the ball went over and my friend, his name was Rolando, we'd call him

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Rolo, he threw the ball and he threw it so far he broke the windshield of the Suburban. Of course,

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All three of us were in like the house.

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And now, I mean, all the parents knew, they're like,

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hey, what's going on?

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No, not that, you know, we all spoke Spanish.

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Nothing.

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I think they're like, they left us alone.

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You know, parents are always way smarter.

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And then they came and they're like, all right, come on,

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like, tell us what's going on.

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And then we broke the windshield.

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It was a whole thing.

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But go to Romans three, like, it's always like,

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we're always giving it away, but once you're a sinner,

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you're always a sinner, right?

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So Romans three, right there in verse 10, it says,

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as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.

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There is none that understandeth,

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there is none that seeketh after God.

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Hey, we need to understand,

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we don't understand by ourselves,

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we don't even instinctively want to seek

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after God by ourselves.

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We need a model.

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I didn't wake up one day, it was just like,

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oh, I just, I want to find God.

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I want to figure this thing out.

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Now, instinctively we know there's a God,

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but we also need that model of distinction

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from church, from our parents, from our peers,

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from the people that surround us.

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Verse 12 says, they are all gone out of the way.

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they are together become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good, no not one. And what's

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interesting if you, this is drawn from the book of Ecclesiastes where Solomon is telling us,

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there's none that doeth good, no not one. None of you, including me, will do good. You know,

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I'm glad that God has already, that Jesus paid for our sins because you know what, in a few hours,

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maybe in a few minutes, maybe in a few seconds, somebody here is going to commit some sin.

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It might be me. Like we're just, we're sinners. It says,

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Their throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues they have used to seat.

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The poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

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Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known.

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There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Now we know that what things soever the law say is,

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is say it to them who are under the law,

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that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.

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Hey, this is...

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The crux of the matter right says therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight

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For by the law is the is the knowledge of sin

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But now the righteousness of God without the laws manifested be witnessed by the law of the prophets even the righteousness of God

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Which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there's no difference

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For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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But then I love this verse being justified freely

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by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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So, but it's saying all of us are capable of that long list.

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Swift to shed blood.

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We're all of the sea.

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We have poison like the asp, like it's under our tongue.

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Right? But then, obviously, this is how you know people don't read and get these weird ideas,

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because verse 20 is one of the greatest verses, right?

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Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified.

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There's no way that any kind of work can ever get you to heaven.

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That's why we're so staunch on it. That's why we want a clear gospel message,

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because we don't ever want to leave anybody with the idea, this falseness of security,

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that they might go to heaven with any other form other than through the blood of Jesus Christ.

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It's just, you know, and the standard for our life is Jesus Christ.

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Period.

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And the story, right?

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You notice the standard isn't like your neighbor,

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it's not your friends,

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it's not the murderer,

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it's not the divorced person you know.

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The standard is Jesus Christ.

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Go to Galatians 3, go to Galatians 3.

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Let's just keep driving this point home and then we'll go to point number two.

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I only have a few points for you this morning. Galatians 3, right there, verse 16.

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One of the famous 3 16's. It says,

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Now to Abraham and his seed where the promise made, he saith not, and to seeds as of many,

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but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ. I've touched on this, but just it's always good to

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touch it.

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Touch these verses. This is not talking about the Jews

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I mean it is but not in a positive light those that are the seed of Abraham of the seed of Jesus Christ

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Are those that are saved by grace?

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Not those that are in Israel and that are puppeteering the United States of America

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That's a whole other conversation

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But just thought to throw that in there number 17 says in this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before God in Christ the law

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Which was 430 years after cannot disoan all that it should make the promise of non-effect for the inheritance be of the law

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It is no more of promise, but god gave it to abraham by promise

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Wherefore then?

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Serveth the law it was added because of transgressions

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till the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand

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of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the

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promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could have given life,

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verily righteousness should have been by the law.

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But the scripture hath concluded all are under sin.

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Hey, let me just tell you another way, in case you didn't get the first way.

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Everybody is under sin.

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That the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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Right?

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And so, basically salvation is by faith alone, Jesus plus nothing minus nothing.

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You say, pastor we know this.

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Yeah, I know, but apparently you might not.

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And it's important for us to preach everything because unfortunately, how do you get someone

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to understand some of the harder things in the Bible if they think everything is equal?

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Right?

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And how do you get them to actually get a heart for soul winning if they still think everything's equal?

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If there might be the possibility that it might not be what you just said.

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Point number two, so now let's get into the actual...

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you know, importance of the message.

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Point number two, so point number one is that all sin,

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you know, just makes us sinners before God, transgressors before God.

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It's a repetitive statement, but it's an important statement.

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Number two is that all sin is sin, but not all sin is the same.

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And I know you should know this and I'm assuming you do and you might even feel like this is kind

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of like maybe below you and this maybe was not a necessary sermon but you know maybe you you

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might learn a way to overcome this because people believe this crap.

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People believe that all sin is equal.

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You know, that you got all these little platitudes.

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People get their little daily devotionals,

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and they get their little emails,

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or their little, you know, their awesome

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group on Facebook that gives

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them their little, you know, feel-good

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message of the morning. And oftentimes

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you hear stuff like, oh well, you know,

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Jesus hates the sin, but

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not the sinner. And they don't know that that's from

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like, Mohammed Gandhi, who's burning in hell.

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and they'll hear stuff like, well, you know, Austin is equal. That's not true.

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I don't want Austin to be equal. You know, my wife and my kids and myself and you guys,

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I know you commit sin, but I don't think you're murdering three innocent children just because

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you want to. They say, why do you keep bringing this up? Because I'm going to just push this

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harder and harder because I just think women need to shut up.

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You mean women just need to shut up and go serve their husbands and go serve in the church

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and stop saying stuff like this?

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Because honestly, I really think a lot of this is perpetuated by just women spouting

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ideas that they have no idea what they're talking about.

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It's like all this stuff is equal.

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What's the?

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You're just a misogynist.

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Okay, thanks.

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Go to John 19.

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Go to John 19.

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By the way...

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I'm talking like the liberal, loudmouth, purple haired, you know, Karen.

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I want to listen to women that talk about things of God.

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You know, yesterday, I would say half our group was women.

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I would say half of our salvations came from all the women.

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I'm glad that there's women. I mean, I think Chloe and my daughter, but Chloe was the one giving the gospel got like four or five

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Salvation something like that, you know sister

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And Aliza was out there Megan

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Sister Gina like these are the women that that I'm not telling you don't shut up

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You keep preaching the word but you know, you're doing in the context of what God's asked you to do

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You're opening your mouth boldly to preach the Word of God

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Not to try to tell other men how to run life and what judgment is and what judgment is not.

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Go to John 19.

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And so this is where people confuse guilt with degree, right?

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Because every sin violates God's law. We've already established that.

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But Scripture plainly describes that certain sins are greater than others.

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Like it's clear.

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that certain sins are greater than others.

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I'm going to prove this to you from the Bible.

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John 19, right there, verse 10, the Bible says,

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Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me?

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This is Pilate speaking to Jesus.

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Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee

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and have power to release thee?

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Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me,

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except that they were given thee from above.

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He says, Therefore he that delivered me unto thee.

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hath the greater sin.

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I mean honestly we could just close the sermon right there.

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This is the thing I've been saying for probably years now.

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Read your Bibles! Like read your King James, and read a King James

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Bible, not these watered down, just, I mean who's heard some of these versions?

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They just sound idiotic. Right here, I mean that's pretty clear.

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He hath the greater sin.

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Not the smaller sin, not the equal sin, the greater sin.

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Who said this? Jesus Christ himself.

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You know, you can't have a greater sin unless there's a lesser sin,

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and maybe even a greater sin than that.

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Right? If there's degrees, then obviously we have to know what those degrees are.

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Matthew 12, I'll give you a second to turn there, but I'll read for you Matthew 23 verse 14.

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The Bible says,

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Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye devour widows' houses,

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and for pretense make long prayer.

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Therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

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So even in hell, there's a greater damnation.

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Man, I thought hell was bad enough as it is.

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I didn't realize it was another level.

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Matthew 12, and I'm being facetious. I mean, I've read these obviously we know there's different levels

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But I'm being facetious for the sake of sermon

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But Matthew 12 right there verse 31 says wherefore I say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men

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But the blasphemy

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Against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven in a man

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So there's there's the one that isn't the same as the others says all these other blasphemies. They can be forgiven

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But this one specifically can't

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So it's different.

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And whosoever speaketh the word against the Son of Man,

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it shall be forgiven him.

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But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost,

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it shall not be forgiven him,

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neither in this world,

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neither in the world to come.

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Notice how Christ is the one making the distinction

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between the sins.

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Go to mark seven go to mark seven

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You know right there in Mark 7 and verse 21 the Bible says for for from within our heart from from

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For from within out of the heart of men

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proceed evil thoughts

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adulteries fornications

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murders thefts

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covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye

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blasphemy pride foolishness all these things come from within

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and defile a man.

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So first of all, we're capable of all of it,

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but all of it has different consequences.

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And I'm driving this point home because, number one,

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the Bible warns constantly that we should never get puffed up

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and think that we, it says,

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let to him that thinketh he stand,

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take heed lest he fall.

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Right?

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First of all, we always need to be aware of ourselves.

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I'm getting there, but also,

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There's different levels of degrees of this thing.

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You don't want to start down one path because sin just gets worse and worse once you've

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activated this and you don't stop yourself from it, right?

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So don't minimize the little sins.

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Like yesterday I was leading a guide, the Lord, he got saved.

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And this guy was talking to me about how he had like 12 kids, you know, they're all running

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around and we, and I remember I got to the point in Revelation 21, it says in all liars

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and he goes, Oh man, you know, cause he was thinking he was good. He's a Catholic that,

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you know, he was going and I was like, yeah, but if you even told a lie, you're going to hell.

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He's like, Oh, he's like, but sometimes you got to fib your kids. I said, yeah,

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Yeah, but even if you fib your kids.

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You're still lying, you're still worthy of hell.

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Well, I'm sorry to say it, I mean, if you think that's how it, you know, I, you know,

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you know what I didn't do, I'd be like, oh yeah, you know what, I do the same.

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I fit my kids all the time, don't worry about it.

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No, the Bible says that even all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire

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and brimstone, which is the second death. Don't minimize stuff, and people do that all the time.

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I mean that's why we get all these terms like fib, white lie. It's a lie, period.

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You know who hates lying? God. Point number three, go to Leviticus 10. Point number three,

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go to Leviticus 10. But so all sin obviously makes a sinnage before God. Pretty simple.

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And even though all sin is sin, not all sin is the same.

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Point number three is God himself has dealt differently with has dealt with different sins differently

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Not just you know, I'm talking God the Godhead right like Jesus got the Father the Holy Spirit

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That's what we believe is three persons individually with their own will with their own center of consciousness. This is God

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That's a whole other sermon, but like these are serious consequences.

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In Leviticus 10, we're dealing with Nadab and Abihu, and what happens to them?

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They get immediate death. You think that other priests didn't mess up the Levitical priesthood at times?

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but they obviously in their hearts sinned worse than anybody else. The Bible tells us here in

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Leviticus 10 verse 1 says in Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his censer

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and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the Lord which he

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commanded them not and there went out a fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before

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the Lord. Then Moses said unto Aaron this is it that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified

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in them that come nigh.

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And before all the people, I will be glorified.

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And Aaron held his peace.

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Hey, you know, when people ask that stupid question,

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what if your kids did it?

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Well, Aaron's kids did it.

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And what did he do?

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He held his peace.

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He's like, God's right.

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Everybody's wrong.

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I don't know what my kids did,

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but apparently it was justifiable to death.

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And Aaron held his peace.

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I mean, they crossed the line.

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What did God do?

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He killed him immediately, like on the spot.

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You go to Acts 5, we have a very similar story.

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In Acts 5, we know the story of Ananias and Sapphira,

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and what had happened to them?

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Immediate death again.

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Right there in Acts 5, verse 3, the Bible says,

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but Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart

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to lie to the Holy Ghost

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and to keep back a part of the price of the land?

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While it remained, was it not thine own?

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and after was sold was it not in thine own power?

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Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast lied unto men,

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I mean thou hast not lied unto men, but unto who? Unto God.

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And then Aniah's hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost,

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and great fear came upon all them that heard these things. Hey, it's good to know.

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that God says, hey, not all of a sudden it's created equal,

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to create fear in man.

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Because then we just read in Romans 10 that says,

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we don't even fear God, just naturally,

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we're just not going to do that.

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But you know, if we were here in church,

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and you guys all of a sudden, let's just say it was me,

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and God struck me down, you guys would be like,

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oh, something's going on.

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That's pretty serious, right?

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These are the things that we need to pay attention to.

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By the way, I don't think I've done anything to, but I'm not going to also mess with it.

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So if he takes me home, at least I know I'm going home.

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But you know, I don't know.

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I'm not trying to foresee my future here on top of the pulpit.

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But Acts 5 right there, go to verse 9.

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It says,

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Then Peter said unto her,

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This is Sapphira coming in.

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How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?

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Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door,

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and shall carry thee out.

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Then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost and the young men came in

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and found her dead and carrying her forward buried her by her husband. God made an example

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so that they would fear the Lord.

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Go to 2nd Samuel 12. Go to 2nd Samuel 12. This is the famous part in the scripture where David now has

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been, he's about to get exposed by the prophet Nathan for what? For committing adultery and

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conspiring to kill Uriah. And I mean that he just like this horrendous act that David did.

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But also God knows the hearts of people because you know what he didn't do? He didn't kill David

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it immediately.

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But pay attention because a lot of people are like, well, but he also didn't let him get away with it

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He just reduced the sentence with mercy and grace, which god can do

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Right. He can he's the only one that can look at the severity of a sin and then decide

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I'm going to show you mercy and grace

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And you say, why did he do that?

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Well, I believe because David was a man after God's own heart.

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But really, why did he do that?

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Because he's God.

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And he doesn't need an answer to us.

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And he can do whatever God wants to do.

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And by the way, whenever God does something,

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God does it right.

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So it doesn't even matter if it makes sense in our own eyes.

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It's right.

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Just.

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God determined the punishment right there in 2 Samuel 12.

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Verse 13 says, and David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord, and Nathan said unto David,

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the Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die.

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I also believe this is a great foreshadowing because what do we see like in Romans 4?

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It says that David said, hey, he didn't impute my sins on me, right? He didn't make me pay for them.

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These are great examples. It says in verse 14,

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How be it because by this deed thou has given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme

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The child also that is born of thee

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shall surely die

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You know just because god forgave you the greater consequence doesn't mean that he's going to eliminate the earthly consequence

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There still was a consequence. It's just he was shown mercy by not being taken

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Which actually might have been a greater punishment

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because twice David had something like this happen to him.

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He numbered the people, remember?

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And then the destroyer came and killed a ton of people.

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And David was like,

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man, it would have just been better to take me out.

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Like he had to witness this consequence with his own eyes.

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So it's not all equal.

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Point number four, the greater sin,

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the greater the consequences can be.

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You know, I mean, this is pretty simple, pretty textbook, but it's really important that you

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know where to go with these examples.

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And hopefully, you know, you're thinking of others because people believe this and people

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go around confused as to why things are happening the way they are.

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That's why we get those stupid questions like, oh, you know, why does God allow bad things

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to happen to good people?

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Who said you were good?

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How is it that you're so arrogant and puffed up that you think God's actually doing bad

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things to good people?

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Name a good person.

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Name me one.

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And if you are good, if there are good people here, you know what it is because you're in

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the Spirit of Christ and you're doing the works of God.

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I'm not negating the fact that there are good works and that there are people that are doing

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good things, but hey, at times you're in the Spirit.

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Yesterday, I think we had a great day. We went out soul-winning. You know, we had really good tacos

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Yeah, I said I wasn't gonna eat tacos for a long time because I just got back from Mexico City

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But the Mexican in me can't we you know, I just couldn't stay away, right?

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I wanted more tacos, right?

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But then and then we went to get go some snow cones and we had a good breakfast

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But you know what? I think the fellowship sweet because we're in the spirit. We're all just thinking of soul-winning

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We're thinking of God's Word. We're thinking of anything, but you know, it just takes a few minutes

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You know to get home and find a you know, I found a alt my my son

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I'm telling on him because it's not anything egregious

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But I guess he he took a bath and he left all his clothes, you know

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Like in the trail like you just left them on the floor and it's like in two seconds

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I'm just like what in the world's going on here like and then you know now you're in the flesh

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You go from the spirit of the place these things happen. This is part of life

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Go to Galatians 6.

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Go to Galatians 6.

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You know, this is where Galatians 6 just kind of makes like a really strong statement, right?

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The greater the sin, the greater the consequence.

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Verse 7 of Galatians 6, be not deceived.

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Don't be lied to yourself.

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Hey, don't let the media tell you that it's okay to have psychosis and you're not guilty

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of murder.

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Because if that's the case...

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Well then what's the stop of why from just killing her husband or the neighbor or the

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doctor?

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I mean the doctors were bad for prescribing her medicine so why can't she kill them?

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I mean at this point she sounds like the judge, jury and executioner so why don't we just

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wait for her to decide who's worthy of life or death?

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I mean at this point.

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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth

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to the spirit shall of the spirit reap ever life.

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Hey, you will reap what you sow.

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And it's not called karma.

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Karma wasn't smart enough to come up with their own thing, so they had to copy the Bible

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and they just called it karma.

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That's a principle that comes from God, not from these Eastern philosophies where they're like,

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oh, I just figured out it's karma, whatever.

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Go to Proverbs 6, Numbers 32, verse 23. The Bible says,

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But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord,

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and be sure your sin will find you out.

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So when you sin, it's going to find you out.

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Where we spend our time planting, like if we spend time planting to the flesh, we're

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going to reap to the flesh.

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It's a pretty easy biblical concept.

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I mean I think most people understand the concept of planting a seed, watering it, and

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reaping the fruits thereof, right?

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I think that's a pretty common thing.

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Proverbs 6 right there in verse 27, the Bible says, can a man take fire in his bosom and

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his clothes not be burned?

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

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

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Romans 6. Romans 6. Go to Romans 6.

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You know, once we get saved, we have freedom.

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But you know, the flesh, there's always a little door.

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There's always a little path.

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It's called the flesh.

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It always has access to its original slave master, sin, right?

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And if you're just not careful, it just wants to go back.

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It's like the Israelites.

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They're like, hey, can we just go back to the leaks?

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And the onion went, it's like, wait a minute,

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didn't you hate working for the Egyptians?

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Like, weren't they like abusing you

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and working you to the core?

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Yeah, but the leeks and the onions, they were so good.

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You know, so some sins can destroy you faster than others.

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Romans 6.20 right there in verse 20 says,

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"'For when you were the servants of sin,

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"'ye were free from righteousness.'"

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

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For the end of those things is death.

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But now being made free from sin and becoming servants to God,

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you have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.

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

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You know why it's appointed a man that I was? Because we've sinned.

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We have to, it's just the natural progression.

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Why is our, you know, and I'm not actually picking on him

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because just like he has it right now, I also have,

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Heath is walking around and he's limping.

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I guess he woke up with a bad knee.

01:05:25.200 --> 01:05:26.000
It's all right.

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I don't feel bad.

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I mean, I feel bad for Heath, but I also relate

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because you know, yesterday I woke up with bad knees myself.

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Like I had done squats the day before

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and then my knees were killing me.

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You know, it's called just entropy, right?

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Your body's just decaying.

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It's corrupting because it already has sin in it.

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The spirit is what's incorruptible.

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When I die, the great thing is that my soul will go to heaven.

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But this whole body, I mean, I'm kind of trying to avoid using these, these readers, but I'm

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really have, I'm forcing myself not to use the readers.

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Like my eyes are just like, some of you guys look really blurry to me, especially way out

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in the back.

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So I know I see some new faces, but I can't really see the faces.

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I just see silhouettes.

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It's like, I just know there's people back there, but point number five, and I've, I'm,

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and we'll start to run this thing out.

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Go to Matthew 18.

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Thank you.

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You know, Jesus even teaches us that debt and punishment.

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like they have degrees. And I love all these examples in the Bible and I'm giving you just

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different ways to look at this thing because it just really, number one, it brings this thing home.

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But number two, the more examples you realize, the more that we need to really just work in

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our spirit and allow God's grace to take over, right? Because there's some serious consequences

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to not being a good steward, not listening to the Lord, and obeying, you know, kids, obey your parents.

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Because if you don't, there's consequences to that.

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Wives, submit yourselves into your husbands,

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because if you don't, there's consequences to that.

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It's called purple hair, and it's weird.

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Husbands, hey, how about husbands, lead your homes.

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Man up.

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Like, get some stones.

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How about don't be afraid of your wife?

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Say no sometimes.

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You're like, no, we're not doing that.

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No, we're not going to listen to this.

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I mean, I know I love my wife and I hate saying no to her, but sometimes I got to say no.

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Other times I don't, you know, it just depends.

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This is many, many, many, many, many years ago, so I can talk about this, but

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one of our very, very first fights.

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And this is a credit to my wife actually.

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It was one of our very first,

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by the way, we actually, my wife and I fight.

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I think a healthy fighting relationship is fine.

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It helps the marriage just be better.

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And my wife's a good fighter too.

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She knows how to fight good.

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But I'm the one who just likes to just keep the fight going.

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So just let me be that clear.

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I'm Hispanic.

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A good fight for me is just like a run for the mill.

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I grew up around it.

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It's horrible.

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I've gotten away from it.

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But we got in a fight.

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And all of a sudden, I left the house.

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Like, I was just mad, so I went to cool off.

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And my dad called me.

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And he's like, hey, what are you doing?

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You know, your wife called me and stuff.

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And I just, I wasn't like, I just kind of hung up on him.

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Like, I mean, we dealt with it and I hung up on him.

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I remember getting home and I said, look,

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never call your dad, my dad, your mom, my mom.

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Our fights are our fights.

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You know, I knew I was like, kind of, this was going to be a tough thing, because she

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just loves, you know, she's close to her family.

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And to her credit, she just obeyed.

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And since then, you know what it had to do.

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But here's the thing, if you're going to ask something like that, then you better figure

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out how to actually properly end the fight and improve the thing, right?

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Because the purpose of a fight is you're at odds about something.

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There's selfishness on both ends.

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And somebody needs to give way.

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And you know who usually needs to give way? The man.

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But not to the woman, like, to actually learn how to deal with her and lead her the right way.

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Right? You can't always just like, it's not always kicking and screaming,

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it's not always punching a hole in the wall or something.

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Sometimes it's just like listening and being patient.

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Although sometimes, you know, just, if you need to punch something, go punch a tree outside

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or something.

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But, you know, women don't understand that.

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And by the way, I don't have any fear of saying that.

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Men, like, if you push a man far enough, like, his only instinct is he just wants to hit

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stuff.

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So if you're a man and you just get angry, don't hit your wife because these women are

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like, wow, you know, it's abuse.

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Well, don't hit your wife.

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Go hit a, go punch a bag or something.

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You know, when my son's like all frustrated, I'm like, just punch me.

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If you're mad at your sisters,

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Daddy's here. Just kick my butt. It's not gonna like don't worry about it, right?

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Because it's just like how we want to deal with stuff, right? My brother he didn't play with Barbies

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You know, he did he destroyed Barbies like it was just like

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How many brothers have done that to their sisters, right? Like, you know, anyways, but go you're there Matthew 18 point number seven

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I mean point number five. Sorry Jesus taught us different degrees right there in verse number 23 says therefore

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is the kingdom of heaven likened to a certain king which would take account of his servants

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and when he had begun to reckon one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents

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but for as much as he had not to pay his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife and his

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children all that he had and payment to be made and the servant therefore fell

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down and worshiped him saying lord have patience with me and i will pay thee all

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Then the Lord of that servant was moved with compassion and

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loosed him and forgave him the debt.

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Hey, this is a great example of God's forgiven us.

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Speaking of like even husband and wife.

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How about you just learn to forgive your wife?

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Don't be so petty.

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God forgives you everything and then you turn around and you hold a grudge on your wife or your kids or your family member for years

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And then you ask somebody why are you mad at your family? Like why haven't you spoken your brother's sister for 30 years?

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I don't know, but I ain't speaking on for another 30. It was like

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You know, okay. Thanks for not listening the Bible but go down to verse 28, but it says but the same servant

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Went out and found one of his fellow servants which owed him a hundred pence and he laid hands on him and took him by

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the throat saying pay me

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That thou owest.

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And his fellow servant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying,

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Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

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And he would not.

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but went and cast him into prison till he should pay the debt.

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So when his fellow servants saw that what was done, they were very sorry and came and told

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unto the Lord all that was done. Then his Lord, after that he had called him, said unto him,

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O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt because thou desirest me. Shouldest not

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thou also have compassion on thy servant, fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee?

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And his Lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due to

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to him.

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So likewise, shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you,

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if ye free me from your hearts, forgive not everyone his brother their trespasses.

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8. Not all debts are equal, but you know what? We can also forgive.

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Not all sin is equal, but we can also learn to discern good and evil.

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Some require forgiveness, some require punishment.

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We need to have both, right? There's a balance. I'm not just all hammer, hammer, thunder, nails.

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And by the way, I love the hammer of God. I love the thunder of God. I love the fire of God.

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The Bible says God is a consuming fire.

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I love that he's going to avenge us.

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I love the closing in Isaiah 66 where it says that we're going to look down at those that

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were against the Lord and then we're going to look at them and we're going to just be like,

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that's an abhorring to us.

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Like we're going to come down regularly from heaven,

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we're just going to look down on them and be glad that they're down there.

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I love that.

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But you know what?

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I also love the grace and the mercy and the patience and the love of Christ.

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I love that it's not always like that because if we were we deserve it all but thank God that Jesus died for us

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And all we have to do is believe go to Luke 12

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Go to Luke 12 real quick

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And here's the differentiator right here in Luke 12.

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Stop worrying, and I've said this before, stop worrying about your sin.

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Like the way to fix sin is not to focus on sin, right? If you have like a bad sin,

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the more you focus on it, the more you're likely to end up doing it. You know what?

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Fill that gap or that mind with work. The work is what God's looking at. He said,

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that hey, when you get to heaven.

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You're gonna, the works that you did that are rubies and gold and silver,

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those are the ones that count. Everything else is gonna be wood, hay, and stubble. It's gonna be

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burned up. But you shall be saved, right? Notice it's not talking about sin because the sin already

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separated you, right? The sin already separated you from God. The only reason you're saved,

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this has nothing to do with your sin. It has to do with Christ. And that's important because

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because that's why people don't get...

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the Bible's version of salvation because they're like well what if I continue sinning you're going

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to continue sinning oh are you giving me a license to sin you don't need a license to sin you're a

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sinner like you're screwed up you're messed up sorry to say that this morning but you came

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and you're like man I thought I was going to get a positive message no it's a negative message

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you're a sinner remind yourself of that and fill it with work

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That's why God gives us so much work. Go to Luke 12 verse 42 says,

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And I know it's a parable, but it's a parable of when Jesus comes back, right?

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What does God want us to find? What does God want us doing when he comes back? The work of the Lord.

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Now being like, well, you know, I didn't want to go out because, you know, when you go to the ghetto,

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sometimes women are wearing scandal-y clothes. I mean, we've gone out to the ghetto. I didn't

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witness it, but Brother Jerry witnessed it with some lady who wasn't even wearing under,

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like she was naked from the waist down. So, you know, Brother Jerry, you sit and

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looked upon a woman and I don't know what your thoughts were. That's stupid. Like,

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you know what he was doing? He was doing the work.

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Right? It says right there, it says,

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blessed is the servant whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

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Not wondering if you're going to do it or not.

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Doing.

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Active.

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Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

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But

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And if that servant say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to be

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the men's servants and the maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken, the lord of that

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servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour when he is not aware and

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will cut him asunder and will appoint him to his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant,

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which knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will shall be

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beaten with many stripes.

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But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few

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stripes for unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required and to whom men

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have committed much of him they will ask more."

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So even in the work, some of you work more than others.

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Some of you know that you need to work more.

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Hey, if you know you need to work more and you're not working more, your punishment will

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be worse.

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Right? And I'm talking here on earth. This is, you know, like here on earth if we're not doing,

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you know, you know why a lot of Christians have mental health issues? Like those that are actually

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saved? Because they're not doing any work. They got too much time on their hands. They have a woe is

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me mentality. You know what I rarely have time to think about? How sucky my life is. Because this is

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like one thing after another. Yesterday I got up at...

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I don't even know what time I got up, like at seven?

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And then we went soul-winding.

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I went to get the breakfast, and I went soul-winding all day.

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Then I got back here.

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Brother Heath was waiting for me.

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And we set up the podcast room.

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And then I got on a podcast for two hours.

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And then I got home, and I hadn't done my reading for the sermon.

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So I ended up reading for another hour and a half.

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And then I went to bed at midnight, and I woke up really groggy this morning.

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You know what I didn't have time to think about?

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Like, all the how sucky my life is.

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I wasn't able to get depressed.

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It's just because I don't have time.

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And by the way, I have a tendency to just get depressed really easily because that's

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how my family was.

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My family members on my dad's side and my dad himself would often have bouts of depression.

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And so when I was growing up, I just thought that was the norm.

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But then you just got busy.

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I just don't have time to do it.

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I'm not saying that I've cured it.

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You leave me alone for a little bit,

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I'll start feeling sorry for myself real quick.

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Woe is me is very common, right?

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Go to Matthew, you don't have to go there.

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Matthew 11 says,

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but I say unto you in verse 24,

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I'm sorry about that.

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Matthew 11, 24 says,

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but I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable

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for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

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So even

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Like when Jesus shows up and he gives you opportunities, if you reject them, some of

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those rejections are going to be worse than others.

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You think about it, Houston has a great, I believe our church is awesome.

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I think it's really the best church in our area.

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I don't know about the world, I don't know about the rest of the city, but here in our

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area, this is the best church.

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I just don't think the other churches are doing the work we're doing.

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So the people that reject the work that we're doing, I think that that's a greater consequence

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for them than someone who maybe doesn't have a good soul winning church near them and they

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just don't have soul winners knocking their doors.

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Like if you're denying our work, well then the punishment is on you.

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We're doing our job.

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Let's go to the last two points. I'll make this quick because I think at this point I'm getting a little repetitive

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But like I said, it's kind of hard for me to preach some of these sermons because it just feels so basic

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But it is necessary because the world is so confused and then we just need more clarity on issues where people are confused on

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The bible says that god is not the author of confusion, right?

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That's the devil's job point number seven point number six is don't magnify other people's sins

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While minimizing your own

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I know I've touched on this back and forth here a little bit, but it's important go to Matthew 7

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Go to Matthew 7

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Right there verse 1 says judge not that ye be not judged

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By the way, most people don't always just stop there

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We are an independent, fundamental, King James only church.

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We're going to finish the whole, you know, at least five verses because, yeah, don't judge unless you want to be judged.

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But what does it say?

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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.

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And with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.

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And why beholdest thou the moat?

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that is in thy brother's eye, but considers not the beam that is in thine own eye.

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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mode out of thine eye,

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and behold the beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine

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own eye, and then shall thou see clearly to cast out the mode out of thy brother's eye."

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And this is an important concept. You know,

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I know we're all observant of each other.

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So I know I notice things sometimes.

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I'm pretty sure you guys notice things in that,

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you know, I'm not going to just call you out for everything.

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And I hope you don't do the same.

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You know what's more important?

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But I will call you out if you're not like,

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I will maybe give you a hard time.

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I might even razzle a little bit if you're just like

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dropping the ball and so winning.

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But the rest of the stuff like that's not for me to judge.

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That's for God to judge.

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But hey, the work will judge that all day long.

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You know, when people come to me, like, my immediate action whenever somebody comes and complains to me about something in the church,

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is the very first thing that I do is I'm just like,

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this church member, where are they in the hierarchy of work?

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I mean, are they showing up three times a week? Are they going soul-winding?

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Are they doing all these things? If they are,

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then I might give them a little more time than someone who's just not doing that.

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I don't judge it on the sin, because we're all sinners.

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And by the way, I don't have the solution to all the sins. The Bible does.

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In 1 John 3, right there in verse 15, the Bible says,

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"'Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer,

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and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.'"

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Notice it's a heart issue. James 2, go to verse 12,

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the Bible says, "'So speak ye, and so do,

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as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty,

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for he shall have judgment without mercy,

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that he hath showed no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.'"

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Go to Galatians 6 verse 1 and then we'll close this thing out.

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I've got one more point and it's literally just a couple of minutes.

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But in Galatians 6 right then verse 1 the Bible says,

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Brethren, if any man be overtaken in a fault,

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notice it didn't say sin, but a fault.

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I don't want to know your sins.

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I don't want to know all the details.

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I just want to know if you're messing up with something,

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I'll pray for you.

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Don't tell me what you're messing up on.

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I don't need to know.

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It says, ye which are spiritual restore such in one in a spirit of meekness, considering

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what?

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Thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveeth himself.

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Hey, I wasn't just picking on you.

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God says you're nothing.

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The only way you're something is through Jesus Christ.

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It says, verse 4, but let every man prove his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing

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in himself alone and not another, for every man shall bear his own burdens.

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Don't excuse sin.

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Just don't excuse it.

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And consider yourself. Don't just jump to conclusions. Remember you also are being watched by God.

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We got a bunch of holier than thou's in baptist churches today and that's why they won't go out

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soul-winding. And then point number seven that if we don't explain this well, sin has a progression.

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It starts out as a white lie.

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But then it can be just like this contrived serial liar, you know, like a habitual liar.

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It could just end up, you know, David just looked on a woman and then all that's all

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it took.

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And then he committed adultery and he committed murder.

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I mean this thing just got out of hand.

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Right?

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And actually the worst thing was that he actually did, what did, what was David's problem?

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It wasn't that he looked upon a woman.

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David's a man.

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The fact is he didn't go out to war when it was time for kings to go out to war.

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When it was time for him to work, he was a little bit too comfortable and then he got

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in trouble.

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You know, so let me give you the last verse here.

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Go to, go to Romans one, go to Romans one.

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I'll read for you really quick.

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In second Timothy three, verse 13, the Bible says, but evil band and seducers shall wax

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That's worse.

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worse. It's not just worse, worse and worse. And here's, I always love this verse

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because it's interesting. It says deceiving and being deceived. They're not

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just lying, they're also being lied to and falling for it. Because once you're a

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liar, you just, you fall for lies too. You'll lie to yourself, you'll lie to

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others, others lie to you, you're just like everything's a lie. Let's just live it.

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But in Romans 1 verse 28 says that even as they did not like to retain God in

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their knowledge, God gave them over to reprobate mind to do those things which

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are not convenient.

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being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy,

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murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiteers, haters of God, despicable, proud, boasters,

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inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,

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implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, the day which commits such things, are worthy of death,

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not only do the same,

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but have pleasure in them.

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Hey, it's a serious thing not to call out sin

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for what it is at the level it's at,

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because eventually it just gets to a point

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where people are just like,

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we're just gonna enjoy it anyways.

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We know we're gonna die.

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And what do you hear a lot now?

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You only live once.

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I mean, it's a common thing now to hear.

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I think my wife was telling me somebody,

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and this is not the first time I hear,

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where you're like, hey, are you 100% sure

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you're going to heaven?

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They're like, no, I'm going to hell.

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They were just like, ah, I'm just going to hell.

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They just think it's funny to say, oh, I'll see you down there.

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We'll have a big party in hell.

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Who's ever heard stuff like that?

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I mean, it's a common thing.

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I'll read for you these really quick and then we'll close out.

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It says Proverbs 4, verse 14,

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I just want to get these verses to you.

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In Proverbs 4, verse 14, the Bible says,

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enter not into the path of the wicked

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and go not in the way of evil men.

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Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it and pass away.

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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief,

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and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause them to fall."

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Hey, if all sin was equal, why would it be bad to hang out with Batman?

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Ecclesiastes 8 verse 11, Bible says,

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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,

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therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set.

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in them to do evil.

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Because we think all sin is equal,

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we're not punishing people the way they need to be punished.

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I mean, actually, you think about it, society feels like

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they think all sin is equal.

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I mean, people are in death row for decades.

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Why?

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I mean, if the judge said kill them,

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well then just kill them.

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I'm not a murderer, and I'm not a vigilante,

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just let the government do their job.

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Six days to deliberate whether someone who killed their three children, you know should go scott-free. I thought it should have taken like five seconds

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It's like

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death

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And it was like oh, yeah good honey. Let's get let's get you some help because that's I don't want that to happen to you

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right

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Let's close out in a word of prayer guys. Heavenly Father Lord. Thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings

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Thank you for teaching us in your word that not all sin is equal.

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It is tempting in the flesh to just want to make sure that there is no greater consequences

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because then we could get away with anything.

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Then we could just do whatever we want.

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But you've given us governor, you've given us guardrails,

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you've given us things, rules, law and order

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so that we could live a long, healthy, peaceable life if it's possible, Lord.

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And even if it's not, Lord, no matter what, we're careful for nothing but to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and to stand on your word.

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So Lord, just bless the rest of the efforts. Bless the food we're about to eat.

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And Lord, thank you for Pastor Cobb. Thank you, God willing. You'll give him his life till,

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you know, 100, 120. I told him he needs to at least beat 120 like Caleb.

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and Moses. But Lord, whatever life he has left, you know, that he continues to be a blessing to all of us.

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Bless his birthday, bless his wife, bless his family, and just help us to have a great time of fellowship.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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All right, let's turn our hymnals over to page 351.

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I already went over a little bit so...

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351, tell it to G.

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Are you heavy-hearted? Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus.

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Are you grieving over joys departed? Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus. He is a friend that's well known.

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You know I'm...

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Such a friend or brother,

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Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Do the tears flow down your cheeks,

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Unbidden,

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Tell it to Jesus.

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alone. Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus, He is a friend that's well known. You've no

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other such a friend or brother, tell it to Jesus alone.

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You fear the gathering clouds of sorrow?

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus.

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Are you anxious what shall be tomorrow?

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Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus.

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He is a friend that's well known.

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You've no other such a friend or brother, Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Are you troubled at the thought of dying? Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus,

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For Christ's coming kingdom are you sighing? Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus, He is a friend that's well known.

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You know I'm such a friend or brother, tell it to Jesus alone.

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Really quick before you're dismissed.

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Yeah, before you're dismissed, actually I'm glad you stood up pastor because we're

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gonna sing happy birthday to you so stay standing.

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And then afterwards we have a fellowship. Pastor Cobb's birthday will be on Tuesday. He will be 90 years old.

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Not only that, how long have you been preaching, Pastor?

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63 years.

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63 years faithfully preaching.

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50 of those years here at over 50 years,

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51 years here at Spring-Crest Baptist alone.

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And so Pastor Cobb is like a spiritual father to me.

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He's a great friend and mentor.

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But saying happy birthday to him, you know,

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we love him and on the first.

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Happy birthday to you!

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Happy birthday to you!

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Happy birthday, God bless you!

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Happy birthday to you!

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Really quick just...

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Just some simple instructions.

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I'll have the lady set up, but women and children first.

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We have plenty of pizza.

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We have drinks.

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And then I think some people might have brought

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like desserts and snacks.

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So just enjoy the fellowship and let Pastor Cobb,

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just let him know, have a happy birthday.

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What a blessing he's been to all of us.

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On that, you are dismissed

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and hopefully you guys stick around for the.