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raise your hand and today is October 25th our Sunday morning service is 10 30

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a.m. Sunday evening 4 30 p.m. and then the Wednesday service is 5 30 p.m. and

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our soul winning time is 2 p.m. our memory chapter is Philippians 2 and the

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verse of the week is Philippians 2 7

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but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the

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likeness of men." And then we have just a reminder we're a family integrated church.

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Then we have the mother baby room in the back and that's exactly what that is the mother baby room

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for the mothers and the babies and so they can take care of their kids if they just get a little

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little bit more rambunctious than normal.

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Obviously normal crying stuff. I mean we want them in the church. It's just like if it gets out of hand where I'm having it like

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Basically shout over the baby babies are loud. They'll beat me. They have better lungs

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But other than that souls one for the year so so far we're at

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1114 but we went out so winning I had four today brother Jerry you had three right three

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Who else had a so one for Sylvia, Sister Sylvia, one for Sister Gina.

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Anybody else? Oh, one for Lucy. Anybody else?

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So one and then I know Megan had one. And I want to say again, like so last week,

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I really appreciate the Capriotti's children. Last week, my son led his first soul to salvation.

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He's only eight.

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But he can't take all the credit because I can't get him, I can't allow him to get too big for his britches.

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And it was the help of Daniel who was there to guide him along and lead his first soul.

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I guess, you know, that's the nice thing about...

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Having other people do it, it gets a little competitive even if you don't want to.

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So my daughter actually led her first soul to Christ today with the help of Chloe.

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So give Lucia a round of applause and Chloe, you deserve a round of applause too for helping out.

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You know the Bible says that some plant and some water we all, you know, some of us harvest, some of us...

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you know, bringing the sheaves. It's a team effort and I don't want, number one,

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I don't personally want my kids to ever think that they've arrived.

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because nobody ever arrives and number two,

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I don't ever want to diminish the work other people are doing

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and investing in other people.

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Like that is a thing, a serious thing for me

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because I'm here today because other people invested in me

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and they believed that I could do this position.

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Pastor Cobb believed that I could do it.

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The soul winning, you know, many people have given us advice.

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I've gone to a lot of training.

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And so nobody just shows up

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and all of a sudden it has all the answers.

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Failure is part of life and it's great to have someone there to help you along the way

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And you know, I've noticed that

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Daniel just beats up on my son and he has him like on a tight regiment and that's good

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You know, we all need some tight regiment

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So unless I see something out of whack you're on your own son

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You decided to get with that team member good job. Okay. Good luck

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but also, you know, I appreciate everybody being here tonight and

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you know

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We're gonna have challenges, so just pray for my family and I.

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And after the service, I might have to need someone to stick around just a bit to see how we get home.

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Because we were out soul winning and we got towed.

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So yeah, brother Alex, I might just lean on you for that.

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And so, we've called. I can't get ahold of the tow company, so I probably won't get it until tomorrow.

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We'll figure that out.

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But these are the things that are gonna happen out soul winning.

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Honestly, I'm not that annoyed in the sense that...

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We've been soul winning since 2018 and this is the first time anybody's gotten towed so

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it might just be it was just a it was only a matter of time before somebody something came up right

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also just coming up this week we've got all the birthdays my wife's anniversary and I's

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and then uh on the 31st we have our soul winning marathon

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brother Jerry's going to get us some good areas but it's going to be near Baytown

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So I don't know if Kevin knows and that's okay. I mean I just giving you a heads up because we're

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doing it towards we have a lot of people towards that area from our church and so we figured it

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just be good to make it easy for them everybody's always coming this way so we'll go that way. What

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we're going to do more than likely we're probably going to try to knock it all out in the beginning.

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And the reason for that is because we want to come back and do something. It is Halloween,

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and so we'll have a fellowship here. We'll get some games and stuff like that. We're also planning.

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So I need your help. I was trying to keep it under wraps, but I need your help if you know of places.

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or whether Heath and I are gonna go to Salvation Armies,

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if you go to your Salvation Armies,

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or the Goodwills, or just any thrift shop,

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that you can get me idols, do so,

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and we're just gonna, and any Halloween,

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you know, goblins or goons or witches or whatever,

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just anything that's basically a graven image,

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go ahead and get it.

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If it's paper, I'll bring a burn bin

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and we'll just break stuff and burn stuff.

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you

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Before we started with festivities when it's still light out or even if it's a little bit dark

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So that would be fun. All the kids will just sit around and watch the adult have I'm just kidding

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We'll actually have the kids involved because that's why we're doing it. But you know

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Pastor Shelley did it number one. He inspired it. There's nothing wrong with

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Following someone's you know leadership on that but number two

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I'm also just getting blamed online for a lot of people think it was me and all it is weird

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He made a post when he came to preach for us in July

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And they keep going to that post saying that you know I'm a bad guy for doing that

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And I'm like, it wasn't me, first of all.

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I'm not going to take credit for something I didn't do.

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That's Pastor Shelley.

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And number two, I have no problem with what he did.

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But since I'm going to get blamed for it anyways,

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I might as well do it.

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So we're going to have some fun on October 31st.

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While everybody's out celebrating demons and ghouls

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and witches and stuff like that, we'll be destroying them

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in the name of Christ.

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And then November 21st, we have another Soul Winning Marathon.

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Then December 12th.

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And then we'll do like a pop-up.

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you

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soul-witting marathon somewhere between there. I did want to close the year out with five. We've

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already done one. We did one two weeks ago, so this will be number two. Then don't forget

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on November 8th we have the wedding shower for Megan McQuiller. And then she gets married,

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I think like the week of Thanksgiving. So I don't have all the details, but my wife does. And then

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and then Sierra.

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Texted my wife earlier that she's due very soon

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But that if she she hasn't delivered by the time we have her so when you met her on Saturday that she plans to be there

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So what I'm gonna pray for I'm gonna be honest with you is that she delivered the baby because she's like already

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You know on the last legs, but if she shows up a man, you know, well, we love the support

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and then just keep praying for sister Cynthia. She's not due until February. We've got some

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housekeeping items right there and then I just want to appreciate brother Alex not only visiting but

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he's the one that went to go pick us up at the location since we are not only not down a car we

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We just have no car.

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So with that being said,

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let's turn our handle door to page 379.

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379.

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Bringing in the sheeps on the first.

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Sewing in the morning, sewing seeds of kindness,

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Sewing in the noontide and the dewy evening,

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Waiting for the harvest and the time of relief,

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We shall go rejoicing!

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Bring it in the sheep. Bring it in the sheep. We shall come rejoicing. Bring it in the sheep.

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Bring it in the sheep. Bring it in the sheep. We shall come rejoicing. Bring it in the sheep.

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Sewing in the sunshine, sewing in the shadow,

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Fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze.

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By and by the harvest and the labor and death,

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We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,

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Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

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We shall come rejoicing.

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Ringing in the sheaves, ringing in the sheaves.

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Going forth with weeping, sowing for the master, though the loss of stain our spirit often grieves.

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When our weeping's over, he will bid us welcome, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheep, bringing in the sheep, bringing in the sheep.

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We shall come rejoicing, ringing in the sheaves.

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Ringing in the sheaves, ringing in the sheaves.

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We shall come rejoicing, ringing in the sheaves.

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All right, we'll have brother Daniel read for us.

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Number 14.

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Numbers 14 Numbers 14 verse 1 and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night and

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all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole congregation had said into them

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Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt or would God we had died in this wilderness and

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Wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey

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were not better for us to return to Egypt.

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And they said one to another, let us make a captain

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and let us return to Egypt.

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And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces

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before all the assembly of the congregation

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of the children of Israel.

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And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephenna,

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which were of them that searched the land

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to rent their clothes.

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And I spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,

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The land which we pass through to the search it is an exceeding and good land.

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If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us,

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a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land,

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for they are bred for us. Their defense is departed from them,

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and the Lord is with us. Fear them not.

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But all the congregation bade stone on them with stones, and the glory of the Lord appeared

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in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

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And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me?

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And how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among

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them?

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I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater

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nation, and mightier than they.

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Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest up this people and thy might among them.

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And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, for they have heard that thou,

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for that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen as face to face, and that thy clouds standeth

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over them, and that thou goest before them by daytime in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

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Because the Lord was not able to bring up this people into the land which he sweared unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

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And now I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

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The Lord is longsuffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty.

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visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children of the third and fourth generation.

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Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy,

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and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.

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And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

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But as truly as I live, the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

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Because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness,

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have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice.

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Surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provokes me see it.

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But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit with him, hath followed me fully,

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him will I bring into this land wherein to he went, and in his seed shall possess it.

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Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.

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Tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

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How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmureth against me?

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I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me.

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Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.

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Macrachises shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me.

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Doubtless you shall not come into the land concerning which I swear to make you dwell therein.

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Save Caleb the son of Jephanah, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

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But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.

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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.

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After the number of the days in which you had searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year,

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you shall bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.

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But I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness.

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They shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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And the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land,

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and even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephanah, which were of the men that went

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to search the land, lived still.

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And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people mourned

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greatly.

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And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up into the top of the mountain,

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saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up into the place which the Lord hath promised, for

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we have sinned.

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And Moses said, Wherefore now did ye transgress the commandment of the Lord, but it shall

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not prosper?

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you

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Go not up, for the Lord is not among you, that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword,

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because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

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But they presume to go up into the hilltop, nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

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Moses departed not out of the camp.

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Then the Amalites and Malachites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt on the hill

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and smote them and discomfited them, even unto Horma."

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This is about how you go to the Lord in prayer.

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Dear Lord, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for all those who are gathered here.

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Thank you for the souls we went out soulening today.

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Pray you will pastor with your Holy Spirit, teach him, and guide him to preach the Holy

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Word.

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Sorry.

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Alright, we're there in numbers 14 and we'll wrap up this next section of the overview in the Bible

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And then we'll probably take a break from it. I've got a couple of topics I want to touch on.

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And then we'll just resume wherever we left off. I think we've done this now for almost two years,

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or right around two years, but.

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Let me just make sure I got my timer here.

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I had it.

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Well, there's a lot to unpack here.

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So last week we saw that Joshua and Caleb

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were the only ones in numbers 13.

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that were ready to go and take the the promised land.

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They didn't fear, they didn't see themselves as grasshoppers.

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And this is just a continuation of that. So last year,

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I mean sorry, last week we saw this and you know I titled the sermon, We Are Well Able.

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We see the attitude of people that are not

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that fear the Lord and don't fear the people, but we don't get the whole conclusion until this chapter.

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And so the title of my sermon this afternoon is The Cost of Unbelief and really

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we obviously know the main cost, right?

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If you have unbelief towards the saving grace of Jesus Christ,

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where you're going to be damned to hell.

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But you can be saved and still have unbelief in God's promises.

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And it's interesting the wording that he uses here.

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If you go to verse 34, you know, the Lord can delay or can breach.

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He can actually break a promise.

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to a certain people but not break the promise. Here in verse 34 it says,

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after the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even 40 days each day for a year,

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shall ye bear your iniquities. And remember there's another group of people, the younger people,

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that are going to come up after 40 years and they're the ones that are going to get the

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promised land and he says and ye shall know my breach of promise

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And we know that God doesn't break his promises, but you know what?

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He can breach a promise.

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And a lot of people get that misunderstood, and that's why also I think there's a lot

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of confusion.

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This is a great verse to just point out the fact that God's chosen people are those that

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believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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That's why the Jews are, you know, a specific race can't be the ones that are getting it,

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because this is a specific race of people.

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This is a specific group of people that have been promised something, and God said, you

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You screwed up so bad.

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and it's against me that I'm going to breach my promise and it's going to go to the next generation.

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One that doesn't know your fear, one that doesn't know your backsliding, one that doesn't know your

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murmuring and your hardheadedness and your complaining. So there is a cost. Everything that

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we do has a cost, right? Everything that we do has an investment. If you think about, you know,

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I mean, it kind of works out perfect. Maybe that's why the Lord did it, just to give me some good

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preaching material, but...

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You know getting towed is gonna cost money

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But in the long term of in the long term like I'm not even worried about it

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I didn't even overreact like I mean other than I did I think sister Gina and her kids ran so that we wouldn't get

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Two cars towed that was the only real big reaction other than that. I mean

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This is the cost of doing business for the Lord.

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I mean, if that's the worst that's going to happen,

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I'll take it every Sunday and twice, you know, on Wednesday or whatever,

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because it's not going to like, it's not like anybody's persecuting us.

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Nobody's spitting at us or threatening to kill us.

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The cops weren't sent.

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It's just a nuisance of living in a big city.

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You know, if you've ever lived in Houston, if you've not been told,

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then you've just not lived in Houston.

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You know, welcome to Houston.

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In the time that I've lived here, this is the second

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time I've been toad and I'm pretty sure if you've met anybody who's ever grown up in Houston in the

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big city at some point sometime they got toad or some got some kind of ticket or something

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that's just run of the mill you know these are the things that happen but you know we have to think

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what are we willing to lose for the cause of Christ and what are we gaining for the cause of

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of Christ, right? And I'm using obviously a very simple, worldly example, but they had

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everything.

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The Israelites had the Lord on his side.

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I mean, they visibly saw fire and clouds.

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God was with them.

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I mean, the cloud would come down and rest,

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and they had to wait.

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Moses is like not only someone who's preaching to them,

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but he literally, with his voice, face to face,

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talks to God Almighty.

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He talks to Jesus Christ, and they still don't get it.

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and they still fear the Amalekites and the other groups,

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and they're really fearful.

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So I really want to go through this.

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Let's go through this real quick as a way of intro.

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But right there, we're going to spend a lot of time in chapter 14.

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But in verse number 7, it says,

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and they spake unto all the children of Israel,

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saying, the land which passed through to search it,

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it is exceeding, it's an exceeding good land.

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You know, they saw that it was good,

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and they knew that they could have it.

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They didn't have this like stinking thinking loser mentality like oh that I could never have that

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So that's like a reality of a lot of people

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I think a lot of people don't do more for the lord because they just don't think that they're they're the ones capable for it

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Right. Oh, I you know a lot of i've heard a lot of excuses of why people don't go so any

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Well, I just I just not wired like that. I'm just not a good speaker. I just can't do this

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Or I just can't do that. Hey, none of us can do it

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I was telling brother Jerry this morning because we're trying to get through all the hymns and actually sing them all because it's a new hymnal to me.

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I don't know all the hymns that are in there and like it's like pretty nerve-racking to just get up here just in general when I'm leading the hymns because I just I hate like it's just something I don't like.

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Maybe hate's a strong word but it's very uncomfortable for me.

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especially when it's something that's new, but you know you just got to go out

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there and do it and the Lord just takes care of it. Every time I get up and

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preach I don't get like butterflies in my stomach like I used to when I first

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started preaching, but I still always get a little bit nervous because it's a

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serious thing number one to preach the Word of God and number two you know just

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to get it out in the way that you want to like oftentimes probably more times

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than not you know I finished preaching and I'm like thinking to myself I don't

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even know if I got the point across. I can't even remember half the stuff that

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I said let alone was it even

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good, right? But the thing that we've got to do is when we, the reason that we do it

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is because when we look out there spiritually, what we should say is, hey, it is an exceeding

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good land. Like it's an exceeding good promise. Hey, going soul-winding is exceeding good.

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Going to church is exceeding good. You know, listening to the preaching, getting prepared,

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whatever it is that you're doing for the Lord, it's exceeding. That's the best thing that we can do.

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That's the best decision we can make. Hey, losing a thing here or there, getting slapped. I was

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reading a post just before we got started. Someone was doing soul winning for Faithful Word Baptist

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Church and I guess they're going to like the the res and I guess in one of the bathrooms some

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lady slapped another lady, you know, just randomly just because they were out soul winning.

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Hey, these are the things that are going to happen.

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But which was better?

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Getting the soul winning done, right?

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Getting the job done.

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That's what's better.

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Look at verse 8.

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It says, if the Lord delight in us.

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if the Lord delight in us.

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See, the problem is, don't just go do it,

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but let's go do it with a good attitude.

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He says, but he believes that.

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He says, if the Lord delight in us,

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then he will bring us into this land

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and give it to us, a land which floweth with milk and honey.

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And if you notice, Caleb really is the one that stands out.

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Right? Because Joshua's kind of like a shoe-in.

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He is the right hand to Moses.

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The more you read it,

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because it always kind of threw me off that Caleb kind of gets the spotlight.

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And the reality is the reason that Caleb's getting the spotlight

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is because Joshua's a shoe-in.

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You know, Joshua's there with Moses at the mount.

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Joshua's with him as his right hand.

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Like everywhere that Moses is going, Joshua's going.

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Like Joshua's getting corrected by the Lord

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and taking that correction and growing.

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But we don't really know much about Caleb.

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But then Caleb shows up on the scene.

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Caleb's got this awesome attitude.

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He's like ready to kick butt.

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He's ready to take names.

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He's ready to get this down.

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But go down to verse 10.

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He says there...

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But here in verse 10 it says,

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but all the congregation bade stone with stone them with stones

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and the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation

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before all the children of Israel.

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Have you ever heard the statement?

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Well, that escalated quickly.

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I mean, we went from like,

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hey, we don't agree with you guys to like, we're going to kill you.

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And what is that a picture of? That's a picture of the gospel.

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That's a picture of Jesus Christ.

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I mean, literally, you see that often in the gospels where Jesus is preaching

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and they were looking to grab him to kill him or to stone him

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and he has to like flee or disappear.

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And here, all Caleb is saying, I mean, think about how positive, Caleb's like,

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hey, that's a good land.

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And I'm not even saying we take it.

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I'm just saying if the Lord wants to, if he delights in us, we'll get it.

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So let's go get it. And they're like, we're going to kill this guy.

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And isn't that always the case? God's people will always, they'll always find a way to censor us.

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They're always going to find a way to try to shut us up, but nobody can shut the Lord up, right?

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The Lord does whatever he wants. That's why I really find that interesting, that, that wording

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that I'll rehash here in a second, but go down to verse 18.

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And I like this also, you know, Moses now interferes in verse 13, or intercedes better yet.

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And he's like, hey, let's not get these people, let's not let this thing happen.

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And in verse 18, he says, the law, the Lord is long suffering and have a great mercy

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for giving iniquity and transgression and by no means.

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Clearing the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation

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And what are we gonna see in numbers 15 because we just touched on it this morning is that Moses to say hey

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Nobody gets away with it even though you're merciful, but please spare them the greater judgment, right verse

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20 is the one that really I want to focus on to it says and the Lord said

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I have pardoned according to thy word.

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So the only reason God even pardoned the children of Israel

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wasn't because they were great people,

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wasn't because they were so good.

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This is a great picture of salvation.

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Why is it?

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Literally because Moses makes intercession.

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which is a picture of Jesus Christ.

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Why are we going to heaven?

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Because we're good people,

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because God's gonna let us get away with murder,

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or lying, or whatever.

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No, just because simply we're safe by the blood.

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Right? It's a beautiful picture.

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But I just love that Moses has so much pull.

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Can you imagine?

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This is what we should strive for,

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that we would have so much pull in our Christian walk,

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that when we get down on our prayers,

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on our knees and at night in our closet,

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and we're like, Lord, please spare so-and-so

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who wronged me or helped so-and-so,

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that the Lord would be like, you know what?

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Because you said it, I'll do it.

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Now obviously we won't get that kind of confirmation like Moses. Moses is the cool one of the coolest characters in the bible because he just gets like direct conf...

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Can you imagine? I mean we're always all waiting like is God gonna answer our prayers or we have to wait? You know you've heard these sermons like sometimes you have to wait for the Lord to answer.

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Often, what is it? Seldom early but never late things like that. But Moses he gets like direct answers right away. He's like hey can you please pardon these people and the Lord's like yeah because you said it I'll do it.

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That's pretty cool. That's how...

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cloud that's having influence you know that's having power to know that and

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then of course verse 34 we saw that but I just think that's important to know

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God does not need your permission to do whatever he wants you know and if God

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decides now this is a breach not a break there's a difference if there's a

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breach in contract it doesn't mean that you broke the contract it means that you

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you know, you change some of the terms in that contract.

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Of course, today the law would say that you broke it because you're so exaggerated.

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But what God is literally saying here is like, hey, I made you a promise and I'm keeping it,

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but not to this people.

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But the thing that really stands out is God can do whatever he wants.

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You know what? If God wanted to break a contract, God could break a contract.

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God can do whatever he wants, and I know there's sermons and I might even preach one,

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there's things that God can't do, but that's because God decided that he can't do those things.

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It has nothing to do with because he can't do them, that's just God's character.

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God said he is not a liar, so God won't lie because God just decided not to lie.

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Thank God that God is merciful and that he's true to his own word,

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because who would stop him from lying?

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Nobody.

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Not even the devil, right?

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He's the most powerful being.

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He is God Almighty.

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The only reason God doesn't lie is because God decided

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that's what you should do.

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We're not gonna lie.

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And of course that's great that we have a consistent character in God, because obviously

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we as humans don't have that character.

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We have character flaws.

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Of course we can maybe show a pattern of integrity and morality.

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We have people that come to church three times a week or that are here every Sunday, soul

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winning.

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So I can say, hey, I can count on these people.

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They have this character.

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They have this pattern of success or execution that I've noticed.

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there's always the danger that they could fall short of that, right?

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Including myself, I could be here, I mean, we saw that with even Roger Jimenez, right?

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He'd been preaching for ten years.

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I shouldn't get so high on a horse and say, hey, I've been ordained for ten years.

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I could, there's nothing that guarantees that I'll be preaching 11 years.

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There's nothing guarantees that I'll be preaching 13 years.

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or 25 years. You know that's why it's so like inspiring when you have someone in the congregation

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like Pastor Cobb who's been serving the Lord for 51 years at the same church because there's no

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guarantee that you're going to be here tomorrow let alone just in life but also from your character

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you don't know what's going to come in the way like we have to take heed we have to have

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self-examination and hold ourselves accountable and the other thing we learned from Joshua and

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Caleb is that when God

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puts a great plan in front of you, you should take it.

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Then it'll keep you from doing all the other stupid things.

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Because everybody else loses out.

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They're not going to get to see all the good stuff.

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The only ones that get to see it are Joshua and Caleb.

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And then let's just go to verse 44.

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And then I'll go straight into the,

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it's a shorter sermon today, but it's a good way

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to close this out.

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But in verse 44, it says, but they presumed.

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you

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to go up onto the hilltop and we read this right now. Now that they know they're in trouble,

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they're like, oh well now we'll do it. And Moses is like, no, don't do it. First, they're not going

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to do it. They're too scared to do it and they're going to stone Caleb and Joshua for wanting to

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even go to do it. But now that they know they're in trouble, they're like, no, now we're going to do it.

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And now this shows a pattern of rebellion where people, when people are rebellious,

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they're just going to be obstinate and rebellious about, they're just basically contrarious.

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What does that remind you of? The Bible says that the Jews are what? Contrary to all men.

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Literally, if you're going to go right, they want to go left. If you're going to go left,

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they want to go right. If you're going to go up, they're going to go down. If the sky is blue,

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they say it's green. I mean, isn't that what's going on here? It says, but they presumed,

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and I circled that word, presumed, because that word is the same word or the same

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base as what? Presumptuous. Premeditated.

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They're doing it on purpose.

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And of course, they get their butts whooped,

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they get beat up, they lose.

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But when you think about it,

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once you get into this pattern of rebellion,

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You don't even see straight. You don't even think straight. I mean Moses is literally proving to you that you're in trouble

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He's showing you time and time again that you are a bunch of idiots that you're you know

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You're you're hard-headed and you're stupid and you just keep falling for the same trap and even now he's having this conversation with him

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And what are they doing? They're like now we're gonna go do it anyways

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You know you sometimes and it's a good way to also understand

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That's why people are the way they are sometimes and why we shouldn't just maybe waste our time with them and move on

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Because you're going to get that in the christian walk like people just they're just stubborn like that

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So let's just kind of recap the last four chapters. We've gone through because uh, you know, we've covered a lot

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But really what's been the theme of the last four chapters is this theme of what unbelief?

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and its consequences.

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We've seen that.

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What does this unbelief do?

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I'm not talking about salvation,

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although I believe, obviously,

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in every group of people, there's always going to be

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people that look the part,

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knack the part, but they're not saved.

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But the people of Israel, they're his people.

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There's obviously a reason why

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he pulled them out of Egypt

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and saved them out of Egypt.

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But.

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When you constantly just see the signs that are positive and you just say, no,

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it's not going to happen or I don't believe it's going to happen or like,

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or like Thomas, I won't believe it until I see the nail pierced hands, right?

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Until I put my finger in the holes.

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What ends up happening is it just causes more disobedience, right?

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It's not just that the lie is growing, but it's also that you're just kind of like

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digging in and you're like, oh no, now I'm just going to be obstinate.

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It's like a.

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What it makes me think of is I've seen those things where, you know, it's known for a fact

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that mules or donkeys, now I didn't grow up in a ranch, but I have seen this when I visited

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other places where like a donkey or mule is stubborn, right?

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And anybody who's ever seen that, like, and they're trying to pull it and it just won't

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move.

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Pastor Cobb, you grew up out east, you know, seeing all this stuff.

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They're pretty stubborn, aren't they?

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Like when they want to be.

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And that's, it's like.

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There's water and there's food and they're pulling them and instead they just like plop down. You can't move them, right?

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Or you maybe you've had a pet like that and what ends up happening is you miss out on all the opportunities

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You're forfeiting all the chances like you're gonna suffer some serious consequences and some of those

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Cannot be reversed. So, you know right now there's a lot of like a couple young people here. Hey

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As a young person, often times you have to make decisions with no knowledge other than just the faith in Christ.

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And you know, that's a really important lesson.

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You know, we've got some newlyweds here.

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You have to make decisions in your marriage based on God's Word,

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on things that you probably don't understand and won't until like 10 years down the road.

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Because the problem is there's some decisions you can take back.

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You know, hey, I could maybe say something mean to someone and say, hey, you know what, I'm sorry.

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Please forgive me. And that person forgives me. We let bygones be bygones and then we move on.

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But other times you could say or do something that has irreparable damage. Like you just,

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you're never going to recover. It's never going to be the same. You know, it's just, it's, it's, it's over.

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And then that's the kind of stuff that you could carry for years, sometimes even decades.

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You know, there's people that just, you talk to them and they haven't talked to family members

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for decades, or you know, they missed out on stuff, all over something that was probably easy

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to solve. They would just submit it, humbled themselves, maybe swallowed their pride, just

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the things that we see here are going on. So real quick.

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We saw that with numbers one through ten, you know, the Lord's really mobilizing the armies.

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He's mobilizing his people and immediately after he gives them all these specific instructions,

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he spends 10 chapters setting up the armies, you know, setting up the ranks, setting up the

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royal priesthood and the Levites and all that stuff, make sure they're clean,

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they're organized and they're ready to roll. What do they do? They complain.

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And then it's interesting how it's just like a slippery slope that just got worse, right?

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Chapter 11, they complain. And then chapter 12, they complain even more.

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They're specific about their complaints. At first it's like, well, you know, you just pulled us out

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of Egypt and we missed the leeks and the onions and all the good stuff. And then chapter 12 is like,

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well, Moses married a black woman. I don't know what Moses is doing with this interracial marriage.

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Right. Then they get to chapter 13.

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And they're like, hey, we went to the land.

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But I mean, talk about, think about the lie, right?

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I mean, I talked about it last week.

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I think it's comical.

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We are as grasshoppers next to these giants.

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And then you get to 14 and it's so bad. They're like we're gonna stone you think now they're just like what does the bible say a double-minded man

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Is unstable in all his ways think about the instability of their thinking that they're like we're gonna stone you

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Oh, we're sorry. Oh, thank you. Moses for interceding with us. Well, you know what now

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We're gonna go conquer the land and mosas like wait a minute. You can't go anymore. God's not with you

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No, no, we're gonna do it anyways

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And it just becomes like it's it's a it's a crap

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It's like a, it's a disaster.

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And isn't that how sometimes, who's ever felt like that in life?

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Where you just like, you feel like everything's just going wrong.

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It's like one bad thing.

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And there's times where you just, like right now, you know, I, I, the car getting towed,

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actually I don't even look at it like it's a disaster.

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I just think like it's part of life, you know, you're going to solo win, things like that.

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But there's other times where I would have been like, man.

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cars getting towed my wife's mad at me my kids are you know sometimes it just

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feels like that it's a good time to just stop and think why is this happening is

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it because we're doing things for the Lord is this part of life or is it

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because we're being stubborn and the Lord's actually holding us accountable

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and if it's the second you really need to fix that and we're not nobody is free

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from that nobody's free from from those things so let's get let's get let's get

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to the crux of the matter here I've got four points for you today

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And I really want to just focus on that.

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But let's go to Numbers 14 right there in verse one.

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Like I said, we're going to spend most of our time there in Numbers 14

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because it's got a lot that we've got to unpack.

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And it says there in verse one, it says,

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and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried,

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and the people wept that night.

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Man.

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It's very dramatic.

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Right? Anytime that the Lord asks you to do something and you don't believe it,

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it's a very dramatic thing, right?

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It's like they stayed up all night, they wept that night,

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and then it says,

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and the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron,

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and the whole congregation said unto them,

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Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt,

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or would God that we had died in the wilderness?

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Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?

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Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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And they said one to another, let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

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I mean, what in the world is going on?

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But this is really good. This is why Christianity tends to lean right, right?

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Because...

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Our forefathers, the people who actually were preaching this, saw the signs.

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You know, it's really easy to enslave a society. You know, if you asked Americans today if they

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would rise up to defend this country outside of the military, probably most people wouldn't do it.

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You know why they wouldn't do it? Because we're too comfortable.

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You know, it's stuff that we don't want to lose.

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No, I'm not talking about you Heath.

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I know you like to shoot everybody.

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You guys are laughing over there, right?

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Outside of like people who have an arsenal of freedom,

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most people wouldn't do it because they don't want to lose their,

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their, you know, nice weekends, you know, their bike rides,

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their nice walks in the park.

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This is what people do, right?

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Think about what's going on right now. Houston's like, it's got the perfect weather. We were talking about how like right now

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This is the peak

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Of Houston's season and what are most people doing? They're probably going to the park

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They're probably you know going to eat and to fall festivals. That's all that stuff. Just just don't talk to them about God

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Right? If we went and by the way, I'm not for that. We're going to go into the highways and the hedges

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But if we went to like a fall festival and started preaching the word of God, what is the most likely scenario?

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Accepting or just like pure anger and like vitriol and probably call the cops on us. The latter, right?

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That's why we're not going to waste your time because

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God pulled them out of slavery and they're angry about it. They're crying about it

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Who's seen all those the memes right of the liberal, you know dyke who's crying because she's being held accountable for her actions

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Right. Don't groan adults throw tantrums today over the stupidest things

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I mean isn't like just quick violence at an up like at an all-time high like people just get mad for everything

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Like everybody think about anybody outside of our group getting toad. They would have lost it

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Just lost, and by the way, I'm not for, I'm not against,

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you have, sometimes I lose, you know,

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my kids drive me crazy sometimes,

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and I'm just like, I'll just lose it.

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You know, I just, you guys need to shut up,

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or daddy's gonna whoop everybody, you know,

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and then find a dungeon, right?

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I'm not against like human nature,

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I'm just saying like, it has to be mitigated.

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And here these guys are like losing their ever loving mind.

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So much so they're like, hey, let's get a cap.

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Who's their captain?

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Moses and they know who their captain is.

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They're murmuring against Moses and Aaron.

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I think about how quickly this is why Aaron is an idiot in previous chapters.

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But overall, Aaron, you know, obviously had his downfall.

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Aaron is being backstabbed.

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Didn't Aaron listen to these people?

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He made them a golden calf.

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He said, I will bake you gods because God is no, we don't know where Moses went.

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And now all of a sudden the guy who was on their side has become their enemy.

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Like Moses and Aaron, not just Moses, Moses.

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Can you imagine Aaron's like, Hey, wait, what did I do?

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Remember when you guys wanted a golden calf?

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I made you one.

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They're like, nah, man, we need a better captain.

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We need another captain here.

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Let us make a captain and what?

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And go back to Egypt.

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They would rather return to slavery, the face of giants.

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And as a Christian, look, we're going to be outnumbered all our lives.

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If you're here today, just know for a fact, we are never going to be the majority.

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As a matter of fact, I can guarantee you one thing, probably in the next 20 years,

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we will be even further down the minority food chain. Like we will just be the smaller,

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smaller minority. But we don't need to be the majority. We're with God.

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God's got our back. That's what I love about Joseph and Caleb is they really did believe that.

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So let's go to point number one. Hey Lucy, focus over here, honey.

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And let's go to point number one.

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Unbelief turns fear into rebellion.

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So point number one is what we already discussed.

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Unbelief turns fear into rebellion.

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And what ends up happening is the reason

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is because fear is what?

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What do we call that in modern day?

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Flight or fight response, right?

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So there's only two solutions to fear.

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That's psychologically, biologically, physiologically proven.

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I mean, you can read any textbook.

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I mean, I've learned this since I was a child.

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Like, I remember taking a biology class in Baylor in 1998.

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I've taken, if you read anything,

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fight or flight is just the norm.

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Like, that's how people react.

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You cannot control it.

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It's an involuntary response that you have to train

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to suppress if you're gonna be good at fighting anything.

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So, you know, if somebody walked in here today,

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I'm gonna right now I'm really calm, cool and collected because I'm just preaching to the congregation

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but somebody walked in here with a gun there's nothing to say what I would how I would react

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because I don't practice that scenario I mean I rehearse maybe sometimes in my mind like how

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would I do it but I don't know how I would do it in that moment other than I would just

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pray to God that I have his spirit to deal with it.

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I believe that I would stand up to it, but there's no guarantee.

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I mean, that's really the reality of it.

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Your heart's pumping, your adrenaline's flowing, you start to sweat profusely.

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So chances are I might be the first one out of here.

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Good luck, guys.

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Like, everybody's like, man, Pastor Reyes has like left everybody.

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Where's his wife and kids?

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I don't know.

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Just, you know, that's why they make those funny like movies and sitcoms.

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You know, they always pick on that one guy that ran away from everybody because that

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those are things that really happen, right?

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And so when you're in fear, you have to have already

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a predetermined response based on the word of God.

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Honestly, I really believe that we that probably wouldn't happen with most of them in here because we serve the Lord

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We believe that he's gonna see us through it and if he kills us or he lets us die

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It's for a reason and everything will be fine

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Like I'm not worried about my family people call me sometimes that our family members are like

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Why do you go so in in Mexico? You know, my dad didn't want me to go so in in Mexico this year

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he's like

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It's very dangerous to go to Soho in New Mexico.

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Mexico's very dangerous and all that stuff.

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I'm like, yeah, Dad, but I gotta go do what the Lord

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has told me to do.

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And he's trying to put this fear in me.

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And I know my dad.

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He has a good, fearful voice.

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I'm just trying to fight my old teenage instincts of being

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afraid of my dad.

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And he's like, well, what about your family?

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What if you die?

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And you know, my only response to my dad on that is just like,

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look, if the Lord allowed me to die,

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he's going to take care of my children and my wife.

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Like, I have to believe that.

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I would rather them not be without me.

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But if that's the case, because we're

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doing the work of the Lord, then that's the case.

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Right?

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We have to have that.

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So go to Deuteronomy 1.

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Go to Deuteronomy 1.

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But we see here that they fear the people,

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and they like want to leave.

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Right there in, well before I had to turn there, I'm sorry.

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Well, yeah, go to Deuteronomy, but keep your finger in Numbers 14.

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And let's read Numbers 14 right there in verse number 6 really quick.

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It says, And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,

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which were the men that searched the land, rent their clothes.

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And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,

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the land which passed through to search it, it is exceeding good land.

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If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which

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flowed with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of

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the land, for they are bred for us. Their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with them.

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Fear them not.

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You know, it's interesting how when you're a Christian,

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we keep saying that you need to fear the Lord,

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but when it comes time to fight,

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you know, you don't motivate people by saying,

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hey, don't fear them because we fear the Lord.

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You just don't fear them.

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You know, you don't fear the enemy

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when you have a healthy fear of the Lord.

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You know that the Lord's with you.

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And he says, only rebel ye not against the Lord.

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But go to Deuteronomy 21, I'm sorry, Deuteronomy 1,

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and we see that this is just the pattern.

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that they had this refusal to obey the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It says in verse 26 of Deuteronomy 1,

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notwithstanding you would not go up,

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but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,

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and you murmured in your tents,

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and said because the Lord hated us,

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he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt

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to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites,

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to destroy us, whether shall we go up?

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Our brethren have discouraged our hearts,

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saying the people is greater and taller than we.

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cities are great and walled up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the

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Anakims there.

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Then said I to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them."

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I mean it's so much so that they're like, now they're just making stuff up.

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It says the Lord hates us.

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I thought, I mean if the Lord hated you, why did he take you out of Egypt?

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It was pretty dramatic fashion too.

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I mean they saw it all, right?

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There was darkness in the land of the Egyptians and no darkness in their land, right?

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The firstborns were killed and they weren't like everything was in their favor and all of a sudden

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the Lord hates you. It's not logical. Go over to Hebrews 3.

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Go over to Hebrews 3, but in Proverbs 29 verse 25, the Bible says,

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the fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be saved.

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How do you get snared up when you fear man?

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You know, I don't even, that's why I don't even turn on the news or anything anymore,

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because I don't want to hear it. I don't. And back in 2000, when Sean Hannity was like at the peak

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of talk radio and Rush Limbaugh, who remembers all those guys? It was like before easy internet.

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Those were the guys you would listen to 7, 10 a.m radio here in Houston. I think it was like,

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you know, 10, 20 down in the valley. Like I always have it on.

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But you know what, I was always anxious too.

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Because I mean, it's like literally you get on,

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I guarantee you we just played it today,

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it'd be the same thing.

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You need to go out there and vote.

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Because this is the most important election of our lifetime.

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Right? Just like Iran's on the verge of getting nuclear weapons in the next 30 days for the last 34 years.

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Right? It's just constantly like boom and boom.

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Oh, you know, there's an outbreak in Timbuktu, you know, somewhere out in Timbuktu.

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And we're just trying to make stringent protocols.

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Make sure you're washing your hands and, you know, you guard your children and you shut your shades and don't go out for 30 days.

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Wait a minute. I'm in America. Like.

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You know, and I know COVID hit, but how many COVIDs have we had in our lifetime?

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Actually, how many COVIDs have we had in the last, maybe even, what was the last one?

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Before COVID, the last time it happened was like in the 1800s or something like that?

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Yeah.

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You were h1n1, but it wasn't like it is shut down the whole world like but yeah

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No, but ever the bird flu the avian flu the rat flu the crab flu

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I mean might as well just and every you know a monkey bit a frog and the frog bit a child and now everybody's gonna

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Die like it's it's always like some ridiculous thing because they just they don't see it. I

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Mean so much so that they just make it stuff up the Lord hates us

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Does the Lord really hate you? Go to Hebrews 10, I mean 3 right there in verse 10, it says,

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Wherefore I was grieved with a generation and said, They do always err in their heart,

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and they have not known my ways, so I swear in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

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Take heed, brethren, lest there be

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in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God, but exhort

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one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness

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of sin.

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That's why we need to preach daily, we need to talk daily.

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That's why it says, hey, teach your children at home, talk about it at home,

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have it plastered on the walls.

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Just at any moment, if you can talk about God, if you can talk about the things of God, do it.

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Don't spare a moment because you just don't know.

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you know, as a parent.

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We all, if you're a parent here today, you understand that this is actually a serious conversation.

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Because what do we find ourselves doing?

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We all said we were not going to be our parents.

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Whoever said that?

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I'll never do things like my dad.

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And you know what I end up doing?

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Everything like my dad.

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Right?

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I have lectures with my kids. My kids already finished my sentences.

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They know what I'm gonna say because I'm saying the same thing over and over and over and over again because it's dire, right?

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Because they don't understand they need I need to exhort them daily because their brains don't get it, right?

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And it's not just like, hey, the dangers of the world.

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Do kids have a tendency to just want

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to have poor little me syndrome and just kind of beat up

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on themselves and just be tough on themselves, tougher?

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Everything's very dramatic instead

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of being in its proper form.

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So go back to number 14.

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You know, and it really does affect the rest of the group.

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That's why we need to address things. That's why we have 1 Corinthians 5.

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That's why we have proper protocol on how to deal with

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bigger issues. That's why we call things out. That's why, you know,

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if our church grows, great. I want it to grow. But I'm not going to do it at the

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expense of just having people here. Right? We're not going to do Judges 18,

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hey priest, you're the priest to one person.

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and wouldn't you like to be the priest to 600 people?

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Oh yeah, let's go. And it's like they're just putting up altars and false gods and all that stuff.

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But go to Numbers 14 right there in verse 11.

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It says, in the Lord said unto Moses, how long will this people provoke me?

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And how long will it be air they believe me for all the signs which I have showed among them?

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I mean,

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God says the best, right?

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I just told you that.

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Like, God's like, I already did all this good stuff for them.

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What else do they need?

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So point number two, so point number one is unbelief turns to rebellion.

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Point number two is unbelief ends up leading you down a path where you despise God's faithfulness.

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Eventually, you just become one of those people who just, nobody can do anything good enough.

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Nobody, nobody's, you didn't win that many people to Christ.

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You know, oh you didn't, that guy didn't really get saved.

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Or that gospel wasn't given the right way. Guys,

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or you know, you didn't preach that correctly, or that doctrine is not the way

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you taught it, or whatever. You just end up, you just end up

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finding, when you're nitpicking all the time, you know what it is?

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That's despising something. Like when you're constantly just beating up on

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something it's despising look I got saved

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not in a new IFB church.

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I got saved in what we would refer today as an old IFB church.

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And I guarantee you that that gospel message,

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if I could go back 21 years,

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did not look like the gospel message I gave out today,

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because it's the power of God that does the saving.

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Right? We do need the saving individual.

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Like, I'm not going to change that.

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Like, hey, he got the credit.

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Pastor Poe, who led me to Christ, got the credit.

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But it's the power of the gospel that clears it up in my mind.

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And I was even telling Brother Jerry that it wasn't until years later that I realized

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I even got eternal security right.

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Because what was weird, you know, unless you're reading your Bible all the time.

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you're not really thinking about it. And so when I first like started trying to really get my

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soul winning presentation hold in, I was like this this thing of eternal security is pretty

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important, right? Like who would agree disagree with me, right? Eternal security is pretty

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important. And I was like, man, I don't remember like if that was preached to me in the gospel

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presentation, like I just don't remember. So then I went back, I'm so glad that I actually wrote it

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in the journal that I have, I wrote the time, the place, the location. I mean, of course, I was 25.

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when I got

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saved and in the bottom in script I said today I have perpetual rest. So I

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must have understood it somehow because I had the like the the wherewithal to

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literally those were the words that I penned at on there and I wasn't that

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sophisticated so the pastor, pastor Pope must have used the word perpetual for me

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to stay you know on on track because more than likely I probably would have

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used eternal from you just reading the Bible continually right?

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So we really got to stay on the thing, but you know, go over to or you're still there

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in Numbers 14. Sorry, let's go down to verse 19. Right there in verse 19, the Bible says,

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you know, God's angry at them and Moses comes in, he says, pardon, I beseech thee the iniquity of

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this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt

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even until now and the Lord said

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I have pardoned thee. Now let's go down to verse 22. He pardons them, but he doesn't eliminate the

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consequences of their rebellion, right? Because in verse 22 he says, because all those men which

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have seen my glory and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me

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now these 10 times. By the way, that's long suffering because these are not like little

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offenses. These are big offenses, right?

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It says, have not hearkened to my voice,

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surely they shall not see the land

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which I swear unto their fathers,

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neither shall any of them that provoke me see it.

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Now, here's sometimes where maybe,

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this is why reading your Bible a lot is very helpful.

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This is where we see the balance of God's mercy.

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Is this, this reads really negative,

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but if you think about it,

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you know what he allowed him to do?

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He allowed him to live the rest of their life for 40 years.

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They got their reward. They just missed out on the promised land.

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But you know they still live 40 years under God's protection

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under his rule. They just they suffered the consequences of not going to the promised land.

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You know it's still better to live in the wilderness punished to not go into the

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promised land for 40 years with God than to not be with God at all. You know he's like

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He didn't that's the difference between chastisement and just like direct punishment because the numbers 15 we saw that today

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That guy gets stoned immediately right like he just we're done with you. They they got to live out their lives

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They miss out but they got to live it out

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And that's how it also helps you understand, like, you know, you're like,

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hey, how do these churches that have all these people or these Baptist churches

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that have gotten watered down, they still have like a ton of members and all that stuff.

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Yeah, the gods just removed the candlestick.

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He's still letting them live it out.

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They're still getting some of the blessings that they built up,

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but they're just not going to get any future blessings.

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Right. I believe, you know, that you've got to put things in the right perspective.

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Like.

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Oftentimes, I know that, and by the way, I agree, but I've heard, because he's really

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kind of the forefront of our movement, Pastor Anderson, he preached that sermon earlier

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this year where he's a little frustrated with the whole situation, which I totally agree

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with.

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We don't even get persecution at any level like that, and it's annoying sometimes.

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I can only imagine waking up and it's like 24-7 just always being reminded of all the

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lies that don't even apply to you.

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There's got to be something that's like, I believe punishments come in, everything's

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coming to whoever is wrong, not necessarily just Pastor Anderson, but the Lord himself,

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but also there's a lot of good that they did before that, right?

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They were in the right group with the right people.

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So there's that grace and mercy from God.

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It's just that their punishment is just going to be different.

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You know, it's like, it's a really hard thing.

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You know, I don't want to play that game.

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This is just, by the way, I'm giving you an opinion based on what I'm reading.

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I'm not God, so I don't know.

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Maybe it's going to be worse than I think.

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Like I...

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How about I'll just put it like this. I don't know, you know, we don't know

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These are just thoughts that go through my mind psalm 78 right there verse 40 the bible says you don't have to turn there

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I'll just read these really quick for you

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but psalm 78 verse 40 the bible says how often they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert

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And they turned back and tempted god and limited it pay attention to what they did

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This is a dangerous thing to be in it says and limited the holy one of israel

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Now what I just say earlier is God limited? No, but he will limit himself

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based on our actions like he just won't come through in his full power and glory.

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Not that God's limited by us. They didn't have the power to limit him, but their actions limited

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his grace, his power, his mercy to do the things that he's going to do. Psalm 106.

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I said don't don't turn that because then I'll have you turn somewhere in a little second stay there number 14

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But in psalm 106 right right there verse 23 the bible says therefore

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He said that he would destroy them had not moses chosen his chosen stood before him

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In the breach to turn away his wrath listen

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He should destroy them. Yay

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They despised the pleasant land. They believed not his word but murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the lord

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In 2nd Timothy 2 verse 13 the Bible says,

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if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

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You know, just because you don't believe doesn't mean God doesn't believe.

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You know, they still conquered the promised land.

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Just because you don't think the end times are going to happen

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doesn't mean the end times aren't going to happen.

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Right? Just because you don't believe that

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Confrontation or sowing it doesn't work doesn't mean that confrontation sowing doesn't work like you know

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We need to be able to stand on our own and hope push people back

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Because people make like these blanket statements and most Christianity is so weak

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They don't know how to stand up and just call people out right oh

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That doesn't work or once saved always saved as a heresy

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How why?

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chapter and verse show me

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So you know go back to normers 14, but

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Just because the Lord pardoned you doesn't mean that there's the he doesn't he removes the consequences

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We all have to face the consequences of our actions, right? That's just part of life

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We're all sinners. We're all

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Fall short of the glory of god

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You know, it's by his grace that we're even standing here today

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It's by his mercy that we get to do the things that we do and i'm you know

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In a way i'm grateful not in a way. I am grateful that i'm saved and that

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The worst is going to happen is correction

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And it might even be correction to death, but the worst that's going to happen is here on this earth.

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This is the worst it'll ever get, right? Whatever happens here. And I'm just saying, I mean,

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my life could get worse, but no matter how bad it gets, when I die, guess where I'm going?

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Heaven. That's forever. But I would rather not push that envelope. Let's not push it.

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Go back to number 14. So point number one, unbelief.

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Turn fear into rebellion unbelief gets you to do you know it just causes you to despise God's faithfulness and point number three

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unbelief can cost

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can cost you what God wanted you to enjoy or

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Another way to put it because sometimes I get a little wordy unbelief

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You know can make you miss out it can cost you and you'll miss out on the things that that

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And this is a danger for like the young people right now all of you guys sitting over here on my left

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You're with your parents

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Right? So you get to enjoy all that you don't even know the blessings that God's given your life.

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One day you're going to turn 18 and then your brain's going to get dumb. It's going to turn to mush.

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Sorry parents of them, but it's the truth. And you're going to think that somehow you know best.

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And now you're 18 and you're a grown adult and then you should do that. And God willing,

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there's a small part of your brain that might not turn to mush. And as long as you have one small

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Brain cell that is right it can overcome all the mush because the other mush will start to harden back up into

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like smartness as you get older from like ages 18 to 25 you'll just live in mush land and

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God willing you just it maybe you God willing you don't have that much mush

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Because it really, you know, I've met people.

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I mean, you look at some of the pastors, they started out young.

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And, you know, Pastor Cobb's been preaching for 51 years.

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Like he didn't just go off the deep end.

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You don't have to live worldly.

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You don't have to live a life to understand the Word of God.

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But that's a decision that you have to make.

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But the thing is, if you decide that you know better than your parents

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and my kids, if you decide that you know better than that,

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the only one's going to suffer is you.

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And I hope that maybe you remember this conversation.

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I'm going to be happy at home serving the Lord.

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With my wife, your mother, we'll be happy at home doing

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whatever it is we're doing while you're out there suffering.

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You're going to call me saying life sucks and you're suffering.

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I'm going to be like, well, your mom and I are doing great.

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So call me when you want to do better.

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Bye.

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You know, like I'd rather not have that conversation.

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And you can avoid it.

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Don't be a rebellious punk.

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Go to Numbers 14, write the Numbers 28.

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And for the other two, because you're not my children,

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just listen to your parents.

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It's pretty simple.

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And I know you're not in your head right now, but when your brain starts to turn into mush,

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just ask, go to your dad and your mom and be like, is my brain turning into mush?

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And if they say yes, be like, okay, good, I need to listen better.

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I need to do more stuff.

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I need to obey better.

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And then when you start getting unmushed, you're like, thank you, I made it through

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the tough times.

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But it is possible.

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And the thing I don't want to discourage you is the majority of teenagers and young people

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will end up doing something stupid.

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But that's because they just didn't have good upraising and they weren't committed to the Lord.

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But you can make that decision now. You can pray about it now. And you don't have to suffer that.

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To be honest with you, it's not guaranteed that you're going to be a rebellious punk.

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It's not guaranteed. You know what is guaranteed? That if you serve the Lord, He'll see you through.

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I mean, we have examples like Joseph and Daniel and David. I mean, these are great men of God.

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Moses served the Lord. He was a young guy who grew up in Egypt.

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You know tempted by sin and he forsook the pleasures of sins per season. Those should be your heroes

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You know, you don't see it now, but you will see it one day and then go let's go to numbers 14 33

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I never thought i'd be that old guy saying that stuff, but you know what?

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I want you guys to succeed so whatever I don't care. But where was I unbelief costly what you would enjoy

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I mean right there in verse 28 the bible says say unto them

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As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my years, so will I do to you.

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Your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness, and all that were numbered of you according to your

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whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, doubtless ye shall

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not come into the land concerning which I swear to make you dwell therein. Save Caleb, the son of

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of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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Hey, you want to be in the minority?

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Two people and everybody else, all the young people were the ones that were going into

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the promised land.

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Verse 33 says, and your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years and bear your

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horidums until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.

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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."

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Now I just got done saying earlier that it's better to be with God, but you know what? There's still consequences.

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So they still got to live out their life, they probably had some good days and bad days.

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but they were aware of the breach of the promise.

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At some point, they were just gonna be like,

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man, I could have, I should have,

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I could have done my life this, I should have had this career,

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I should have married that young lady,

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or that guy was great prospect, or whatever,

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and it's gonna be too late,

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you're just gonna be looking from the outside in.

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I'm gonna make an attempt to tell a joke

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that I heard the other day,

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because it makes me think of the servant.

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But you know, like I heard a comedian say that he felt the worst in the zoo.

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The animal that made him the saddest in the zoo was the giraffe.

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Because the giraffe can always see his way out.

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You know, you don't want to be like the giraffe in the zoo.

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You can always see your way out.

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And I know I didn't deliver it well, but it's a pretty funny joke.

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Sorry about that.

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But you don't want to be that person that can always,

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you're just always seeing everybody's success.

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And then all you're doing is growing bitter and envious and frustrated and your life's just a miserable wreck.

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Life's already tough enough as it is, you just don't want to add that to the equation.

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I mean that just like makes it horrible.

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40 years of spying, 40 years of just wandering around, you know, just ruining their entire lives.

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Go over to 1 Corinthians 3, go over to 1 Corinthians 3, but in Hebrews 3 verse 18 the Bible says,

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and to whom swear.

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He that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not, so we see that

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they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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We know Galatians 6, I use this a lot, but I think it's worth using a lot, is be not

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deceived.

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God is not mocked for whatsoever math soweth.

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that shall he also reap.

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In 1 Corinthians 3, 14, the Bible says,

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if any man's work abide,

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which he hath built thereupon,

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he shall receive a reward.

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If any man's work shall be burned,

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he shall suffer loss,

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but he himself shall be saved,

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yet so as by fire.

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You know, you don't want to be that guy

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that your works are burned up

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because they weren't any good.

01:11:30.360 --> 01:11:31.640
I mean, you're still going to heaven,

01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:33.560
but everything that you did is just like...

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it was just a house of cards, it just crumbled really quickly. You want to have stuff that's

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lasting, that has foundation, that has like steadfastness, that is solid, that is red,

01:11:48.700 --> 01:11:53.020
you don't want your feet in the sand, you want it on solid ground. You know that's why we like

01:11:53.020 --> 01:11:56.460
those hips right? And then the final point I have for you today,

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Final point I have for you today. So I had a I forgot to put the other points here. So let me just

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You know point number one unbelief turns fear and rebellion point number two unbelief despises God's

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faithfulness and then unbelief will cost you what you what you should have enjoyed and then point number four is

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Disobedience is still disobedience even when you change your mind.

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I think that's one of the bigger ones especially as you get older you start to

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realize man just throwing up to your mistakes

01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:32.240
you know just this will be your hands in the cookie jar

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just because you said i'm sorry your hand's still in the cookie jar

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Right? Like, you know, remember the toddler? That's one of my favorite. I mean, it's cute, but it's also sad, right?

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When your kids are like, they're literally covered in whatever they weren't supposed to get into.

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You're like, did you get into the cookie jar? And they're like, no.

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And they're like, well, what's that cookie in your hand? I don't have a cookie in my hand.

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It's like, you know, like it's still diso- you're still disobeyed, right? Like you're still caught.

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Right? I already said, like,

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God said go up, they won't go.

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Now he says don't go, now they're gonna go.

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Like it's just constantly just the opposite.

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Go to verse 40, he says,

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and they rose up early in the morning

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and they gapped them up into the top of the mountain

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saying, lo, God, hey, we be here

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and we'll go up unto the place

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which the Lord hath promised for we have sinned.

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And Moses said, wherefore now do ye transgress

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the commandment of the Lord?

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But it shall not prosper. Go not up for the Lord is not among you that ye be not smitten before your enemies

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You know David admitted his sin he said against the only and against you lord have I sinned right like he said I

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But he didn't say

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Now, how do I fix it? He accepted whatever came his way. These guys are saying oh no we sinned

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But now let us fix it. It's too late to fix it

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You know

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The damage is done.

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Go to verse 44, it says,

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But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop,

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Nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp.

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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill,

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And smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

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And this is not the only time in the Bible where God's people

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people.

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decide to go fight a battle without God and every time they lose.

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You know we need to we need to be careful what we take on.

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We need to be careful about how we go about this thing.

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Hey, it goes every single way.

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Like, if you're rebellious and your back's lit,

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well, that's bad enough.

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That's easy to call out.

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But hey, if you're plugged in and you're serving,

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don't get so high and mighty because you're serving.

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Oh, you know, when I show up to church every Sunday morning,

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Sunday evening, Wednesday afternoon,

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you know, Wednesday evening, I'm just a solid,

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like a solid church member.

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You still gotta serve God according to his ways.

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You might not, if your thoughts are elsewhere,

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or if you think you're doing it because people are noticing,

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oh we go so in and all the time.

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Are you doing it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons?

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I mean then you see that even in our,

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like with social media it's so easy to just pinpoint all these people out, right?

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You know who are the ones that are trying to get all the attention

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for all these great works they're doing,

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and the people who are just keeping their head down and serving.

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You know one of the things I'm constantly trying to remind myself and I want I remind myself for the church also is

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We just need to keep our head down and just do the work

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You know, it is nice to be recognized. It's been great, you know that

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Other churches have come and visited us and we have more friends. It's nice, you know, it's nice to to know that

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We have people that we can reach out to and that think like we do and all that stuff

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But you know what? None of that really matters at the end of the day. We serve in houston, texas

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This is our region. This is our location. This is the work we need to do.

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And whatever anybody else is doing, that's their job. And if they're doing something better,

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and we think it's better, what we need to do is just learn from them and apply it here.

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Not be like, oh, well, you know.

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their dad must be a drug dealer.

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That's the one that always got me when I was growing up.

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Anybody who was rich, their dad must have been a drug dealer.

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Nobody could make money in my circles

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if their dad wasn't a drug dealer.

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Turns out people can make money in many, many forms,

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in many, many ways, right?

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We can all serve the Lord in many ways,

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and then we don't have to just be like,

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oh, they're just blessed, they're just happy,

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or their situation's better, whatever.

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We can all do it.

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So let's close this thing out. Go over to 1st Samuel 15.

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I'll read for you the other two verses I have here. In Proverbs 3 verse 5,

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the Bible says, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on thine own understanding.

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

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James 4 17 says, therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth not it is sin.

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You're there in 1 Samuel 15 and we're going to be in verse 22, but

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you can't make up for whatever happened even an hour ago. Like you just can't. So if you've

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disobeyed the Lord, like you can't change the past. The only thing you can do is start from now

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fixing whatever it is you're going to fix in the future. That's probably one of the hardest lessons

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to learn. The sooner you learn this in life...

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and the suit and if you forgot it then be reminded you know when you change stuff for the better

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like this minute this very minute if you're thinking about something if this service got

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you thinking about something that you need to fix don't be like oh i'll fix it later just fix it

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today like right now

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I mean if it requires prayer, if it requires you to call someone and apologize to them,

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I don't know what it is.

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I'm not, but we've all got stuff like that.

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And you know one of the things that really starts to make, especially men, manlier, is

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when they have the ability to just act on stuff right now.

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Like let's make a decision and do it.

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And then other, I mean there's other things, but that is a really important trait.

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And that's also for women.

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And for children, like when do you want to do something?

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Right now.

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Not the Mexican right now, like, because that would be right now, right now.

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But the American right now, which means right this very minute, right?

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Don't do right now, and then it's like 10 minutes later.

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If you don't know about that joke, just listen to my sermons in the past or ask my wife. She'll tell you quickly go to first Samuel 15 22

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We'll close out with this and it says and samuel said

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Hath the lord as great delight and burn offerings and sacrifices and obeying the voice of the lord

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Behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams

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And I think you know

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I said it last year. I was on a kick like that and I just keep adding to it

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We have a submission problem in America today.

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We have a submission problem in Christianity today.

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You know, I was listening to that, to like snippets of that podcast that that guy did.

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I think his name is Justin Cooper.

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I think he's a pastor of some church that's like tied to the sword of the Lord.

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And they're playing the clip of like Pastor Shelley, you know.

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breaking idols with kids and they're kind of knocking on them.

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And all I could hear was like, oh the word of God is we agree with it

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but we just don't agree with the execution. And oh

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you know as Baptists we have to do this but we don't want to offend these people.

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Well you don't agree with the word of God because the word of God is

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execution and it's offensive and it's in your face.

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And God's never asking for permission.

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God doesn't tippy toe around your emotions and your feelings.

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God's going to do whatever God's going to do.

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He didn't like, they cry.

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Think about it.

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They cried and wept all night.

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What does that sound like?

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The teenagers trying to get attention

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because mom and dad treated them wrong, right?

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You know, when do your kids cry the most?

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When they're trying to get attention, right?

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And they're like,

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I remember being 15, I was kind of a pain in the butt when I was like 15, 16.

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And I remember if I wanted my parents to get attention, I'd just like be real over dramatic.

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And it never, it just always bugged me when my parents wouldn't go for it, but they knew

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that I was just full of crap.

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You know, one time, and I'll close out with this, talking about rebellion, this will be

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in, I threatened to kill myself.

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I was in a fight with my mom and it was like, we were at it.

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Like we were screaming and shouting, we were at each other's hair.

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And my mom was like, and I remember I said, I don't remember exactly, but I was like,

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I'm going to kill myself. You know, like, I'm just, I'm going to take my own life.

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And my mom was like, yeah, she's like, I'll help you. She's like, do you want me to get the knife?

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She just like stopped me down on my tracks because she called my bluff because she knew that I would.

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She's like, she's like, let's get the knife right now and we'll take care of it right now.

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She's like, as a matter of fact, it'd be better.

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if you killed yourself because you're expensive and all I mean it's just like and you know

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That's God didn't care about the children, right?

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He's like they wept all night and they cried and God's like,

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you're still getting the consequences.

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Moses pardon you, but you're going to suffer for four years.

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So let's not be a suffering disobedient church, right?

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Let's not get our proverbial parents to like hand us the knife and say, hey,

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we'll go ahead and do it.

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Right. So let's close in order.

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Pray heavenly father, Lord, thank you so much for today.

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Thank you for your blessings.

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Thank you for the opportunity to be here.

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Lord, just thank you for the blessings and the opportunity

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that there's people here.

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church that we're able to pick us up and that we have the funds to be able to get our car

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out of the, you know, tow.

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tow field or the junkyard or wherever they keep it. Lord, but more importantly, thank you for the 14

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souls that were won today, where I think it was 10. But thank you for the 10 souls. I think 14 was

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last week. Thank you for the 24 souls over the last couple weeks in addition to all the the soul

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winning that goes on during the week. Thank you for the many opportunities we have. Lord, I just

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I just pray that you would just help us to have a really good.

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soul-winning marathon and a really good weekend next weekend and that we would do it.

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Yeah, it's fun, you know, to do the things and do it just, it gets people's attention,

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but reminds that we're doing it for you and not to do it just for the attention purpose,

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but that it's there to call attention to the gospel and to the message that we are trying to

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get out to the rest of the world. Thank you for all that you do Lord in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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Let's turn our handguns over to page 374.

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374.

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Send the light.

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Where the call comes ringing, or the restless waves send the light.

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There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save, send a light

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

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

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We have heard the mass adoning for today.

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And a golden offering at the cross we lay, Send the light, send the light, send the light,

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O bless the gospel light, let it shine from shore to shore.

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A blessed gospel light, let it shine forevermore.

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

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That Christ-like spirit everywhere be found. Send the light, send the light.

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Set the light, but bless the gospel light, let it shine.

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

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Let us not grow weary in the work of love's and the lie.

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the light, send the light, the blessed gospel light, let it shine.

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

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Alright, you are dismissed.