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This world could not

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Hello everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Thank you for all for coming, it's good to see you.

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Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Let's take our seats and open our hymn books

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to page 254, whosoever will.

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Page 254 in your hymn books, whosoever will.

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254. Busua Verilla, sing it out loud all together on that first.

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Busua Verilla

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Let's open up with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church. We thank you for another

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Sunday here in your house Lord. Thank you for the soul winning this afternoon. Thank you for the salvations that we saw.

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Please get them in a good church to hear the word of God.

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Please build us and edify us through your word this evening and fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.

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We love you in Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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Our second song page 306

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Have thine own way Lord. Page 306. Have thine own way.

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306 have I known way lower let's all sing it out on that first

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Thank you for coming to St. Fast Baptist Church.

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If you did not get a bulletin, you would like one,

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just lift up your hand nice and high.

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We have our Philippians 4 verse 9 for our verse of the week.

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On the inside is our service and soul winning times.

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We have a missionary update letter,

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so if you'd like to read about the work

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that Evangelist of Banneker is doing in the Philippines,

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you can.

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Please be in prayer for our expecting ladies.

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We have several who can be in prayer for.

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We have some upcoming events.

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Our missions trip is planning on going on this.

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upcoming week. If you are planning on attending and you can, try to just take some materials now with you.

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So that way you can just hit the ground running and you already got cards and invites.

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And we'll still have some extra and stuff like that that we're taking with us.

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But you know, you might as well just take what you can with you so you're prepared and ready to go.

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We have a special guest, Pastor Matthew Stuckey is going to be visiting us from the Philippines.

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He's going to be here September 20th for both services, but we're going to have a catered lunch that particular day.

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So really looking forward to that. Hopefully lots of people can come.

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And as far as parking, you might have to park a little bit up and down on the street, or there's always extra parking over here.

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If you never can find a spot, you can always just bring your car up and we'll just have the ushers get you a spot.

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So they'll just park your car for you. But I anticipate September 20th will be a big day and

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Really looking forward to that heritage the Lord conference October 9th to the 11th

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So we're looking forward to the kids conference with the mighty men's conference October 23rd to the 24th

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We have the faithful word preaching boot camp November 12th of the 14th

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There is a new thing on the list as far as a Trinidad do-it-yourself missions trip.

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Brother Marcel and Evangis Fur are planning on attending this particular event.

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I think they're spearheading it.

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And so if you have any questions, just ask one of them.

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I'm sure they could give you some of the details.

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Also Shreveport, soul winning marathon, Brother Marcel is leading that as well.

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So that's really exciting to go back to Shreveport and it'll be hopefully, God willing, a little cooler there in December.

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The Philippines missions trip is in 2027.

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So who's like interested or thinking about going to Philippines?

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I'm just kind of curious.

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Yeah, so we got lots of people that are interested in going.

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That's great.

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Really looking forward to getting to go back out there.

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It's been a year or two since I've been there myself.

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And so I'm looking forward to going back and visiting.

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The back of our bulletin does have our prayer list, so please just be in prayer for our church family.

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If you have an additional prayer request, you can always email that in, and we'd love to keep that updated,

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as well as try to keep it as fresh as we can.

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So that's pretty much all I have. We're going to sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 58.

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So if you get out your Psalm books, Psalm 58.

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Again, that's Psalm 58 in your special binder, page 5, Psalm 58.

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Let's all sing it out together on that first.

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To be me, be righteousness, for the foundation readaen,

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so that my things, so that my things,

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so that my things,

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great singing this evening at this time the offering plates will be passed around. You

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can turn your Bibles to Amos chapter 5. That's Amos chapter 5.

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Amos chapter number five, the Bible says,

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Hear ye this word which I take up against you,

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even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

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The virgin of Israel has fallen.

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She shall no more rise.

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She is forsaken upon her land.

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There is none to raise her up.

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For thus saith the Lord God,

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the city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred.

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And that which went forth by a hundred

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shall leave 10 to the house of Israel.

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For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, seek ye me and ye shall live.

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But seek not Bethel, neither enter into Gilgal and pass not to Beersheba.

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For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity and Bethel shall come to naught.

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Seek the Lord and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it.

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And there be none to quench it in Bethel.

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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning,

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and maketh the day dark with night, that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out

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upon the face of the earth. The Lord is his name, that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,

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so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

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They hate him that rebukeeth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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For as much therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat,

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you have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them.

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You have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins.

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They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time.

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Seek good and not evil, that ye may live. And so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you

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as ye have spoken. Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate.

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It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

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Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord saith thus,

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Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas, alas!

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And they shall call the husbandmen to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

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And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! To what end is it for you?

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The day of the Lord is darkness and not light, as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him,

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or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him.

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Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, even very dark and no brightness in it?

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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

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Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them, neither

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will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy vials.

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Cheyenne, your images, the stars of your God,

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which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,

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saith the Lord, whose name is the Lord, the God of hosts. Let us pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for this day.

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Thank you for the word of God. I pray that you would please fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.

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Please give him much boldness to preach the word of God to us and please help us to walk out better

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Christians in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I want to preach a sermon this evening called Be the One.

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Be the One. I drew inspiration from what I've heard about.

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and considering this Lindsay Clancy trial, apparently there was an 11 to 1 mistrial

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and essentially there was, as rumored, one man that has basically, was not willing to capitulate

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and to allow her to get off or quit her of her murder charge

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and that's the whole reason there was a mistrial.

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So it would have been very easy for that one person to have particular just gone along with the other 11

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and it would just been.

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an automatic acquittal and that she would have not been found guilty by insanity or

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whatever nonsense.

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But you know, I don't even know who this is.

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I don't know this person.

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I don't know if they're saved.

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Someone needs to buy a mistake though.

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That's how I feel.

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You know what I mean?

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So I volunteer.

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If we ever figure out who this guy is, I'll buy a mistake and give him the gospel.

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All right.

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So but you know, I just drew inspiration of this and I think this is a biblical principle

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that.

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You see often in the Bible, there's very few that'll do the right thing.

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And so we should take inspiration and say sometimes we need to be the one.

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when there's so many people stacked against us and there's only one willing to do the right thing

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or one that's going to do the hard job and we see in the book of amos he is a preacher that's kind

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of like the one because he's going to israel he's not even from the south from the northern kingdom

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he's like just going up there to preach and he's not really a part of their group but he's just

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he's willing to be the one guy that's willing to do the dirty job

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And what I would say in this text is he's the one that's willing to rebuke in the gate.

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Even though it's not popular, it's not what people want to hear.

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In fact, people are going to hate you for doing it.

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But let's read the chapter here a little bit more again.

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It says in verse 4,

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For thus say the Lord unto the house of Israel, seek ye me and ye shall live.

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This isn't even a bad message.

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Hey.

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trust God, you know, seek the Lord, you're gonna live, you're gonna have a good life here.

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And of course you get eternal life, but then you're gonna get the best life you're gonna have on this

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life by seeking the Lord. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba,

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for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.

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So, you know, there's been false gods and false religions set up in the northern kingdom

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of Israel and Amos is coming to warn them and say, hey, don't seek this false religion.

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Don't seek this thing that's turned away from God.

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No, seek the Lord and you'll end up living because this northern kingdom is going to

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go into captivity, is going to be imprisoned.

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And so you don't want to do that.

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You want to seek God.

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It says in verse six, seek the Lord and you shall live.

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lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour

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it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that

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make it the seven stars in Orion, and turn it the shadow of death into the morning, and

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make it the day dark with night, that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them

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out upon the face of the earth.

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The Lord is his name, that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled

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to come against the fortress.

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They hate him that rebukeeth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."

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So notice there is a proclamation here from the preacher saying this is what God is saying.

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We never left the context. Look at verse 4.

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For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel.

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So this is God trying to say, look.

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You know by and large mankind and evil they're gonna hate the guy that gets up and rebukes in the gate

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They're gonna abhor him that should be expected

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But you know what you need to listen to the man of God you need to listen to the guy that is is

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Rebuking but here's the thing in order for someone to hear the buque there has to be the one

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Who's willing to rebuke in the gate?

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And you know what? We need more people in this world that are going to be the one who

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rebukes in the gate. And again, the gate is a picture of the political sphere, the online

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discourse in the public arena. You know, the Bible talks about us earnestly contending for the faith.

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You know, I don't believe that fundamental Baptists should all hide and bury their heads in the sand

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and pretend like we're just waiting for the rapture. I...

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I think it makes sense to go out in the public square,

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in the public arena of ideas,

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and let our voice be known,

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because it's not really our voice,

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it's God's voice that needs to be heard.

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We need God's word and God's opinions

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to be thundered forth into the public marketplace,

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and it doesn't matter if people hate you,

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it doesn't matter if people get mad at you,

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because really they're just mad at God

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and they're mad at the truth.

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They hate the truth.

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But you know what?

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Sometimes we need just the one guy that's willing to go out there and rebuke in the

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gate.

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And what I would attribute this is us, we should be willing to say the truth and preach

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what God's Word says wherever we find ourselves.

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And to be honest, probably the most offensive message you can even say anywhere is that,

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hey, Catholics aren't saved, but you know, the Buddhist isn't saved, Muslims aren't

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saved, your non-denominational church is not saved. I remember the the embraced

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grace people that were near us in Hearst. The most offensive thing I ever said was

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that Robert Morris was a false prophet because I mean we were just discussing

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and she was kind of mad at me and whatever but as soon as I said that she

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just blew a gasket you know. I'm sure I was real disappointed to find out he's a

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pedophile literally.

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But, you know, and I wouldn't be sad if Gateway's hurting so much financially,

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they shut down funding programs like Embrace Grace or whatever.

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But, you know, here's the thing.

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The most offensive thing you can typically say is just the gospel.

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And tell people they're not saved, and say they're gonna go to hell,

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say their religion's false, say their teachers are false prophets.

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I mean, that's really, you know, people will be like,

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oh, why don't you just preach the gospel? Well, I do.

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And look, it is one of the most offensive things you can possibly say.

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You bring that up.

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You know, that or that, you know, fags should be killed.

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I mean, that for some reason.

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It's just like, any time I post something like that, you know, it's funny

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because now social media will tell you like how many net followers you get from a post.

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It's always negative.

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Like, like I post all the time and I'm always looking at the stats and analyzing things.

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There's only one topic that I get negative net views and it's always that.

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topic for some reason. It's just it's like crazy you know he's like you post

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you post something about the Jews it's just like thousand new followers right

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then you say like hey yeah here's the gospel it's like negative it's usually

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just like net zero then it's like hey fags should be executed according to

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Leviticus 20-30 minus 10 followers you know it's just like what the world I

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guess 10 fags left the room that's no problem with me you know what I mean

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But it's just funny how people just hate the truth.

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And they'll be like, oh well, it's just because you're preaching this message that they're mad at you.

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No, the gospel's pretty close to the same anyways, and it's virtually just as offensive anyways.

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And most people get mad when you say the reprobate doctrine even more than the death penalty one.

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So it's just like, this is really offensive, but you know what?

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We need somebody that's going to be the one that's willing to lose a few followers to say the truth.

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We need to be the one that's willing to, hey, confront people on the gospel,

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and confront people on the truth, and get the truth out there,

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and be willing to speak in the gate. And, you know, unfortunately, it just seems like

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in the political sphere, in the podcast sphere, and the culture sphere,

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there's virtually no one speaking the truth. And so, you know, we need someone to be the one.

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We need someone to be the one that's going to preach the truth and preach God's Word.

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It doesn't have to be one.

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It doesn't have to be limited to one, but we need at least one.

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We need someone to be the one.

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And you know, if you find yourself in a particular position, you know, there's 12 jurors.

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Not everybody can step in.

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There's only 12 people and we need one of those 12 to at least be the person to stand

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in the gap and say, hey, we're not going to just side with evil here.

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We're going to be the one.

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Look at chapter seven, verse 10.

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Sometimes you have to preach the hard message in Rebuke in the Gate.

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This is what Amos does.

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Look it says in verse 10, then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of

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Israel saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel.

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The land is not able to bear all his words.

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We should censor him.

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We should ban him.

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It's funny, he preaches against Bethel.

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And instead of this guy just preaching against him or showing him how he's wrong,

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it's like, we need to shut this guy up.

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We can't handle it.

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This is offensive.

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Think about it.

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The land can't handle the words?

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What do you mean, words?

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How about just the fact that you're shedding blood?

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How about the fact that you're killing people and oppressing people?

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It's like, that's fine.

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The land can tolerate murder, rape, adultery, theft, drunkenness,

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but you know what it can't handle?

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Words saying that it's bad.

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Shame on you.

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You know, that's the scary thing, right?

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Words today.

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It's just like, think about this.

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Social media spends way more effort and energy

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banning the Bible literally than it does actual adult content.

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actual violent content. I mean there's there is things that people are putting

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online that

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I'm not even offended that they censor. I'm not even saying you shouldn't censor

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some things.

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But isn't it funny that they can't seem to figure out a censor that,

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but boy, you say something about Jews, they'll censor that real fast.

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And they're real capable of threading that needle and figuring out which voices that they can say it

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Well this voice can say it because we've approved this person and we've not approved that person

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It's like you don't think they have the capability to shut the evil down. Oh, yes, they do and isn't it so funny

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It's like, you know, it's destroying the northern kingdom of Israel God's Word

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It's not it's not the drunkenness and the adultery and the idolatry and all the murder that the land can handle that but it cannot

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Handle God's Word. This is the non

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sense of false prophets today. And what you'll notice about false prophets is they love everyone

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and everything except for the real men of God. It's like everything's tolerated, everything's

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welcome there. I mean they say like everyone's welcome. It's like, am I really welcome? You

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know, I'm going to test that theory.

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Not really because I don't want to go in there, but I'm just saying I don't like AIDS, but

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I'm just saying we should shut down the AIDS clinics or whatever, but it's just at the

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end of the day it's funny how that's the only thing that's not tolerable.

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It's the only thing that's not allowed is God's Word.

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It is no new thing under the sun.

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Verse 11, for thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely

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be led away captive out of their own land.

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Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away in the land of Judah, and

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there eat bread and prophesy there.

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But prophesy not again any more at Bethel, for it is the king's chapel and it is the

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king's court."

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So he's just like, you need to just get away, stop, don't be the person here.

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And of course, why would he send him away?

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Because he's the only one speaking the truth.

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There's only one, and Amos is that one, but you know what Amos is not going to do?

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He's not going to go back.

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He's going to be the one to rebuke in the gate.

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He says, then answered Amos and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's

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son, but I was a herdman and a gather of sycamore fruit.

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And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, prophesy unto

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my people Israel.

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So you know what he's saying? God told me to come here.

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It's not, this isn't my job. I'm not doing it for money.

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I don't even want to do it. My dad wasn't like, you're going to do this.

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I was just minding my own business.

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And then God's like, hey, you need to be the one.

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You need to be the one to go and to preach to Israel and to warn them from me and to

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preach God's word and to rebuke in the gate.

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So he did it.

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And he says in verse 16, now therefore hear the word of the Lord.

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I got a special message from God to you.

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Thou sayest, prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of

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Isaac."

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So saying, you're telling me not to preach the Bible.

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You're telling me not to preach God's word.

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Well, verse 17, therefore, thus say the Lord, thy wife shall be a harlot in the city.

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and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword,

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and thy land shall be divided by line,

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and thou shalt die in a polluted land,

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and Israel shall surely go into captivity fourth of his land."

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Saying, hey, you don't want God's word here?

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You want me to stop preaching God's word?

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Okay, well guess what?

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Then your wife's going to be a whore, and your kids are going to die,

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and you are going to be taken captive, and you're going to die in a polluted land,

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and Israel's going to go into captivity.

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That's your punishment.

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You know, if you don't want to hear God's word,

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I don't think that this message is limited.

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to this particular false prophet.

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I think that God could do the same thing to anybody

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who has this particular attitude.

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You know, it's funny because we had, like, a crew of people from the Netherlands

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come and visit our church a while back.

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I don't remember exactly when this was, so forgive me.

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It was like a year ago or something, or months ago. I don't remember.

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But they showed up one Sunday and they want to ask me all about, you know,

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what do you think about fags or whatever, you know.

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That's the only thing people want to ask about for some reason.

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And it's just like, you know, I'm just, I'm pretty much just nonchalantly just like,

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yeah, they should be put to death. Yeah.

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He's like, how should that happen?

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It's just like, I don't know, hanging, shoot him.

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I guess I just say shoot him, you know.

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And I...

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Apparently this guy took this, made like a whole episode

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where we're included in this episode

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and he put out reels and stuff.

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One of the reels got like over a million views

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and all the comments are in Dutch,

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which I don't speak Dutch,

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but you can hit this button called translate

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and just instantly translate it, all right?

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So I don't know exactly what they said,

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but I'm trusting the translation

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and just to be honest,

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it seemed like it was probably accurate, all right?

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Now, you know, I was clicking one, he's like, man, this guy's talking about killing homos

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just like he's ordering a sandwich or something.

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It's like, yeah, you know, it's like, it's Syphil or whatever.

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And you know, like even the episode, you know, it included some of our church members and

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one of them, the guy's like, man, she seems like such a nice person, but then she's just

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saying all these evil things or whatever.

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And it's just like, well, I didn't think they were evil.

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I thought they were great.

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And she is a nice person.

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It's like a win.

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Well, the point that I'm bringing up about this,

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though, is that the vast majority, I mean, I don't know

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how many comments.

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There were thousands and thousands of comments.

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I didn't obviously read all of them, but I did look through

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a large percentage of them.

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And it's just like, by and large, they just really hate

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everything that I said.

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And they're saying, there's many comments that are saying,

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this guy should be arrested, this guy should be put in jail,

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he shouldn't be allowed to say that.

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And in fact, the episode is making clear, like,

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if he's saying these things here, he would be arrested.

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If he was saying these things in this country,

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like, we would arrest him and put him in jail, it is illegal,

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he's not allowed to say that.

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And you know, I think it's funny, it's like God, he realizes like if I visited there and

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was just preaching the Bible regularly and publicly, I could be arrested and thrown in

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jail.

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So in his providence, what he decided is just have them come here and film me.

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I didn't pay anything and then take it back so that I can still preach to millions of

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people in the Netherlands without ever have to go there and getting arrested, you know?

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It's like, thank you God.

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I don't mind rebuking in their gate without ever going to their trash area.

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And look, I'm not saying that the Netherlands is trash because I'm sure it's beautiful.

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But you know what makes it trash?

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All these fag-loving idiots in their country that hate God's Word.

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That's what makes it trash.

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And you know what?

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If you want to live in a country where you think God's Word isn't going to be, guess

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what?

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I bet your wife's going to be a whore against you and probably commit adultery against you.

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And not only that, I won't be surprised when all the Muslim invaders in Europe slaughter your children.

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And I won't be surprised when you guys are taken into captivity.

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And I won't be surprised when God punishes you just like this false prophet.

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Because you know what? You don't want to hear God's word?

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Well then fine, let the devil take you captive!

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And let your wife become a whore!

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And let your whole country just turn into Sodom and Gomorrah!

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Because you know what? You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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If you don't want God's Word, well then you know what?

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You're gonna be punished by God.

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And you know what? We need someone to rebuke in the gate

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and to warn the Netherlands and to warn the Dutch from God's punishment.

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Because you know what, there could still be a remnant there.

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There could still be someone that hears God's word and repents individually, and you know

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what, is preserved of this judgment.

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But by and large, that nation is doomed.

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I mean, by and large, I mean, this nation just hates God's word, hates the truth.

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I mean, I can't imagine, I can't imagine how stupid you have to be to literally be defending

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pedophiles and freaks and perverts against nature.

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against God's word.

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You know, they act like I'm weird for believing this.

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It's like, you're weird.

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Yeah.

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You're weird for defending these people

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and loving these people and thinking that they're great.

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Now, again...

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I would say like by and large, I mean it's like 99.9% of the comments are just like trash

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whatever I said and trash the Bible and just hating all the things of God. But occasionally,

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you know what, so you want to be like make this man the president, you know, and it's like,

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you know what, I put a heart and I said pray, you know, this is a good guy right here, all right?

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Hey, so even if many Dutch are crazy,

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I think I got like private message

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or I saw comments from a few people saying like,

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hey, everybody here is crazy, everybody here is insane,

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but thank you so much.

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Your word going on TV is just like thousands

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and thousands of people are seeing this,

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like hopefully somebody will wake up.

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And that's the point.

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It's not to reach the mass, it's to reach the minorities,

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to reach that one person out there that wants the truth,

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that's willing to.

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you know, believe what the Bible says.

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And, you know, we need at least one

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to just be the person that rebukes in the gate.

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Go to Ezekiel 22, go to Ezekiel 22,

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so just go back a little bit,

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and we're gonna look at another example.

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So, you know, we need to be the one

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that rebukes in the gate.

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Be the one that rebukes in the case.

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Even if it's a place that's doomed,

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even if it's a place that hates God's Word,

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even if it's a place where by and large they're not going to receive you,

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you know what? We still need at least someone to go there

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and warn the few and to preach God's Word.

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And you know, unfortunately, not...

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Not all the world's gonna get saved.

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I saw some video online, and it was two girls arguing or something about the Bible.

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This is already a fail.

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But one was just like, well, by your religion of Christianity, you're saying that 70% of the world's gonna die and go to hell then.

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And I'm thinking it's actually way higher, probably. Let's just be honest.

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The 70s is pretty mild. That's really hopeful, okay?

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think that. But it's like, you know, and this girl's just like trying to her heart is just

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not answer the question. Just, just to be like, why does it, you know, why are you asking

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this question? Or, you know, like, I don't know if you should ask the question or whatever.

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And it's just like, just be like, yeah, it's probably higher. Yeah. Yeah. You know, unfortunately,

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yeah, the vast majority of creation is going to just be trashed.

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That's reality.

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But you know, it's not like it's inconsistent in a sense of just how the world works in

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general.

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I mean, do you think that 90% of the world of the universe is even being used in any

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meaningful way?

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I mean, think about how much of the galaxies exist that, I mean, in grand scheme, it's

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just going to basically have been like, oh, so you're just telling me all these stars

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that we just saw, they're all going to be burned up and we're going to have a new heaven

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new earth. It's like, yeah. Oh, you just what about all these fish in the sea?

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They're just going to just live and die and you know, Nemo's never going to find

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his home or whatever. It's like, yeah. It's like, what about all these billion

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cattle that you're just slaughtering? You're just going to turn into a steak.

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It's like, yeah. I mean, I mean, like, what, you know, what about all this

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green, beautiful grass and all these trees? Well, the Bible says at one point,

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they're all going to be burned up.

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You know, I mean, like, it's not inconsistent.

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I mean, God's painting the same picture.

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It's like, oh, what about all the millions of people that probably lived on the earth

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when God flooded it and killed everyone except for Noah and his family?

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I mean, what, you're 70 percent, like, who cares about the 70 percent?

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I mean, what was the percentage of Noah and his family

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in comparison to humanity at that point in time?

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Okay, God, in many cases, is only saving a remnant.

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He's only saving a few.

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That's why you shouldn't be discouraged by the fact that the vast majority don't receive the Bible.

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Sometimes you need to just be the one.

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Yeah, sometimes there's 11 idiots and there's one person with a brain in their head.

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And you know what? You just have to be that person.

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But you know what's really sad?

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Is sometimes there's not even one.

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Look at Ezekiel 22 verse 24.

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Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the

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day of indignation.

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There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening

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the prey.

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They have devoured souls.

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They have taken the treasure and precious things.

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They have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

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Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things.

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They have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference

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between the unclean and the

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clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbath and I am profaned among them.

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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and

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destroy souls and to get dishonest gain."

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You know it makes me think of this Andy Stanley or is it his son?

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I can't remember.

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I think it's Andy Stanley.

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Yeah, because Charles Stanley was a famous online TV Christian name, and his son, Andy

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Stanley, has like a church.

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This is a guy that does not separate the clean from the unclean.

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He's like drawing on a board about like two dudes that are like fags together and how

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they can't serve.

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They can't serve in the church until they get divorced and like

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remarried to each other or something because otherwise it would be adultery.

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And it's like, what in the world is this guy talking about?

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He had like multiple services where it's all about explaining this

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particular event and just explaining these weird theatrics about

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like a guy, a dude drops his family, is with another dude in the church.

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And then he's like, well, you can't serve on our ministry team until you're officially divorced or whatever.

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And he's like, try to explain to the church why this is the case.

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And it's like, we can't let people that are divorced and still sleeping together do this because that's adultery.

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And it's just like, what are you talking about?

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They're not making a difference between clean and unclean and holy and just like.

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This is so backwards and weird and confusing.

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And it's like, that's what our society is like.

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We have preachers.

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I mean, think about this.

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Thousands of people are sitting there,

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listening to this and not leaving.

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Yeah.

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It's like, how is it when a guy gets up

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and is explaining the situation?

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Because he's saying they're still going to the church.

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He's still saying they're welcome.

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It's just they can't be the guy opening the door for you.

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Right? Because God forbid, I mean you can sit next to the faggot and hang out with the faggot

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and he can go to church with you, but he can't open the door for you.

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Wow.

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Right? Because the Bible says so.

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It's like, bro, what do you, what do you, show me where the Bible says anything about this subject.

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Let's talk about this subject, but only Bible verses for a minute, okay?

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But they can't even read a single Bible verse about this subject because it would just offend

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everyone.

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It's like you read a Bible verse on this issue, everybody leaves.

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You get up and explain why they can't open the door for you and everybody stays.

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And it's popular.

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It's like, this is the nonsense that we live in in our world.

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And it's like the Bible literally says that the prophets have committed a conspiracy.

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And honestly, when you understand these non-denominational churches, you'll realize they're all friends,

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and they're all buddies, and they're all in the same network, and they're all in the same

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groups, and they all preach for each other, and they all give each other big fat checks

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when they come and preach for each other, and it's a huge conspiracy.

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There is a huge conspiracy in America of these false prophets,

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let alone the Catholic Church, let alone the Orthodox Church,

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let alone all of these denominations that exist.

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There is a conspiracy of these evil, wicked people.

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Not only that, the First Baptist Church in Haltem City,

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or, not Haltem City, I'm sorry, in Watauga,

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the First Baptist Church of Watauga...

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That pastor was like buddies with, talking to, and befriending the Nazarene pastor

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about the issue of the sodomites protesting us.

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And of course, they're working together and being friends and talking about all this stuff.

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And of course, they're the ones giving the subway sandwiches and food and water, all the protesters against our church.

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I mean, it's just crazy, the world that we live in.

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And it's similar in many cases of how...

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The preachers are today is how it was back then.

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This is a horrible thing.

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He's saying that they would get dishonest game.

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Of course, lying for money is always wrong.

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It says,

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And our prophets have daubed them with untempered mortars,

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seeing vanity and dividing lies into them, saying,

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Thus saith the Lord God when the Lord hath not spoken.

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So again, notice these preachers,

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they're not denouncing God.

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They're not saying like we hate God.

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They're just saying God's saying things that He didn't say.

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Oh, you think it's a shock?

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The modern Bible versions and the non-Muslim churches,

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they're getting up and preaching things that God never said.

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They're just saying things that God didn't say.

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It's like, oh, this is different.

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This is a different, no, it's the exact same.

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They just get up and they say, hey, this is what God's saying

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and it's not what God's saying.

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This is God's message. This is not God's message.

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The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy.

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Yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land,

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that I should not destroy it, but I found none."

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That's sad. That's sad.

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Now, it's kind of confusing. A little bit.

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Because we don't maybe understand the context here because they're like what about Ezekiel

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But here's we have to understand is that the children of?

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Jerusalem have been you know besieged and they're kind of in a wartime scenario and they've already taken some people captive

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So they've taken Ezekiel captive they've taken you know Daniel and his buddies captive and whatever

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So what the text is saying is that Ezekiel is prophesying God's Word to those that back home

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and saying, hey, I was trying to find someone back home that would stand in the gap.

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I was trying to find someone that would be the one, and I found none.

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Of course Ezekiel would have stood in the gap.

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Of course Daniel would have stood in the gap.

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Of course Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego would have stood in the gap.

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But they were captives, and where they were, they were standing in the gap.

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Where they were, they were being the one.

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But here's the thing.

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There is nobody here that was willing to stand in the gap.

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That also tells me that we need more than just one preacher

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and we need more than one man of God because, hey, you need to be the gap filler in your area.

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You need to be the one that's standing in the gap wherever you find yourself.

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And you know what? We need someone to be the one who rebukes in the gate.

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We also need someone that stands in the gap and says, hey, we need someone to do the right thing here

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and try to give God a reason to keep us around.

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But he couldn't find one, so verse 31,

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therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them.

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I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath.

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Their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,

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say the Lord God.

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He destroyed the entire area because not even

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a single person would stand in the gap.

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Go to 1 Samuel chapter 17.

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Go to 1 Samuel chapter 17.

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So I'm just showing you some examples of the cases where someone does and where someone doesn't stand in the gap.

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But we need people to stand in the gap.

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We need people to rebuke in the gate.

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And sometimes God's even just looking for one.

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Just looking for one.

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Can't find one.

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That's sad when you can't even find one.

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First Samuel chapter 17, of course, we have the famous story.

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This is a really famous chapter.

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There is a famous story of Goliath.

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against David, David and Goliath.

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And in verse four, it describes this Philistine,

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says, and there went out a champion out of the camp

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of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath,

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whose height was six cubits and a span.

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So this guy's like nine plus feet tall.

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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and

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the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

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And he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass between his shoulders,

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and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred

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shekels of iron.

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And one bearing of shield went before him.

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and he stood and cried in the arms of Israel and said unto them,

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Why are you come out to set your battle in array?

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Am not I of Philistine, and ye servants to Saul?

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Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

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If you be able to fight with me and kill me,

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then will we be your servants.

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but if I prevail against him and kill him, then shall you be our servants and serve us."

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And the Philistines said, I defy the armies of Israel this day, give me a man that we may fight

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together. So they have this huge battle arrangement, one camp against the other, they send out their

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champion, their best warrior Goliath, and he says, look, we don't even need to fight.

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We don't even need to have all this warfare.

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Let's just have one man.

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I just need one guy to come.

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And if he kills me, then y'all will take captive all of us

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and we'll be your servants.

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But hey, if you can't beat me, then guess what?

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Y'all be our servants.

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And all they need is just one man.

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Verse 26, David comes by and David spake to the men that stood by him saying,

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What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine and taking away their approach from

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Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

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He's saying, like, who is this guy that gets to just trash talk God and trash talk the

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God of the Bible and specifically even trash talk his people, trash talking the armies

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of the living God?

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Who's the armies of the living God?

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That's the children of Israel.

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And what would be a modern day equivalent would be the Church of God.

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Who's trashing the Church of God?

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Who's trashing the members of God's church?

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Who's trashing the soul winners of God's church?

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You know, how dare some guy get up and be able to trash the armies of the living God?

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Can't there be at least one person to fight this guy?

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I mean, I can see why David's mad about it.

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How dare him get to trash these guys?

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And you know what? Some of them are cowards.

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Some of them aren't even really that worthy of respect.

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But you know what? David still has respect for them and says,

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this guy shouldn't be allowed to trash us and trash the armies of the living God.

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Verse 32, and David said to Saul,

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let no man's heart fail because of him.

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Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

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He said, hey, I'll fight him. I'll be the one.

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I'll be the one.

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You have every man in the entire nation, every warrior, every guy that's capable of fighting,

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and no one will do it.

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So David said, you know what?

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I'll be the one.

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He's not even in the army.

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He's not even, you know, ready for battle in a carnal sense, in a logical sense, but

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he says if no one's going to do it, I'll do it.

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I'll be the one.

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I'll go fight.

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Look at verse 43, and the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog?

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The answer is yes to that.

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That thou comest to me with staves?

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And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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And the Philistine said to David, Come to me and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls

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of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

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Then said David to the Philistine,

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Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield.

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But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,

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whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand,

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and I will smite thee and take thine head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the hosts

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of the Philistines this day and the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth,

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that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

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David said, hey, it's not okay for us to just pretend like God doesn't exist.

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Someone is to fight for God so that God can show himself strong on his behalf

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and that the whole world may know that there is a God in Israel.

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And you know what? We need someone to be the one who fights Goliath.

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We need someone to fight Goliath, and not just this Goliath, the Goliath of our day

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and the Goliath of this world, and say, you know what?

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We are going to fight you and we are going to win, and then everyone's going to know

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there's a God in Israel.

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Everyone is going to know that there is a God in Israel, and God is going to be the

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one that delivers them unto you.

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You don't even have to deliver them.

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You don't even have to defeat them yourselves.

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Now we've been building up.

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In this particular context, a narrative, we should have someone that's going to be the one who rebukes in the gate.

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What does this look like? Someone who's willing to preach God's word.

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Number two, be one who stands in the gap.

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What does this look like? I believe this is getting people saved.

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We need someone to get someone saved out there.

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Because you know what? God trashes everybody because there was no one to stand in the gap.

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And here's the thing, if our gospel will be hid, it's hid to them that are lost.

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And so if there's no one to stand in the gap and to preach the gospel, then why would God preserve an area?

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God is not going to preserve an area. And the Bible says if the salt is lost at Savor,

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well then it's good for nothing to be cast out and trodden foot of men.

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And if we hide our light under a bushel, well then no one can get saved.

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So you know what? We need people that are going to preach God's word and save the truth no matter what.

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We need someone that's going to go out and get people saved.

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Number three, we need someone that's going to fight against the enemies of God.

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And you know what? We've had.

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We've had enemies come and line up against our church and try to provoke us and they defied the God of the Bible.

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And you know what?

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Many churches, many pastors, many members of this world would have quit, would have cowered,

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and would have stopped fighting, stopped preaching God's word on that issue.

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But you know what? We're not going to give up. We're going to fight them.

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And you know what? God did deliver them into our hands.

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In fact, one of their protesters, Lynette Sharp, is in federal prison right now as we speak.

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And you say, hey, what did you do, Pastor Shelley, to cause that to happen? Absolutely nothing.

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You know what I did? I prayed to God and God delivered her and God delivered our enemy and God will continue to deliver our enemies so that all the world may know that there's a God in Texas in Cedar Hill!

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Hey, you know what? There's a God of the whole world.

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There's a God of the Israel of God.

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There's a God that loves Steadfast Baptist Church.

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The Lord Jesus Christ.

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I mean, we were hounded and protested and stolen from, whatever,

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and we still got a building.

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And where are the protesters now, buddy? Huh?

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Oh, wait, they're in federal prison. That's where they are.

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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are dead of AIDS already.

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I just don't know because I don't care, because it doesn't really matter.

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They don't matter.

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Nothing about them matters.

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And of course, the God of the Bible can drag these people wherever He wants and cause them

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to be destroyed.

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But you know what?

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We need to be the one church that's going to fight against Goliath and stand up to these

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people and not say, you're not going to bully us around.

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And then you know what God does?

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He says, hey, let's get the Netherlands to hear this message too.

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You know what I mean?

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Let's get other people to hear this message.

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And you know what? God works in mysterious ways.

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But you know what He always uses?

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Someone that's willing to stand up

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against the Goliaths of this day

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and preach God's word.

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And not say, hey, it's okay. We should just

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cower too. We should just be afraid

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of that bully. And let me be honest with you.

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The fags of this area are a bully.

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They are in many ways acting like the Goliath of the Bible

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and wanting to put pressure and heat

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and try to cause people to just cower at their feet.

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But you know what?

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Steadfast Baptist Church won't.

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And guess what?

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We destroyed that.

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I guarantee, I guarantee any church in our area now that preach the same message as I

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have, they probably would never have to go to those protests or whatever, because they

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already saw you lost because you're losers, and God goes to bat for those that'll stand

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strong on God's Word, and they know, hey, if we preach like this, steadfast will, you

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know, support them.

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And we don't want to mess with steadfast.

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You know what?

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You don't mess with steadfast because, guess what?

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We're God's children.

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Thanks for watching!

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And we're the armies of the living God and you know what you don't mess with them because of God being on our side

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It's not about us. We're not special

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I had no impact on these people committing other crimes and being degenerates and freaks and weirdos and getting caught that was God's doing

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That was God punishing these people for being wicked and evil and you know

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We need more people that are like little shepherd boy David that say hey, I'll fight him and notice

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He didn't say like I'm gonna kill you cuz I'm so awesome

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I'm so much better than all the other warriors, or I'm the best warrior here.

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He said, hey, God's going to deliver you into my hand.

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And of course when he slung the stone, that's a picture of, you know, Jesus Christ being

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that rock, being that stone, and that stone is what knocked him down.

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Then he picks up the sword, the sword of the spirit chops off his head, and you know what,

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he's running around with a head, you know, it's like awesome.

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It's just an awesome picture, spiritual picture here.

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Gov.

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Daniel chapter number six, so number one, we need to be the one that rebukes in the

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gate.

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Number two, we need to be the one that stands in the gap.

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3 we need to be the one that fights Goliath.

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You know what? Praise God there's still some Christians in this world that want to have a fight.

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Praise God there's still some Christians that will preach God's word. Praise God there's still some

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Christians that will have Leviticus 20 13, you know, committed to memory and they're not afraid

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to say it. In fact, it's like ordering a sandwich for them. You know what I mean?

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It just rolls off the tongue.

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They'll wear the shirt, they'll get the movie poster, you know, whatever.

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They're not afraid of these freaks and weirdos.

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They'll preach God's word.

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What about all the persecution?

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Well, you know what? The persecution pales in comparison to the punishment that these people received.

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The punishment that these people received.

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And look, people don't like them.

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They're gross and disgusting and evil and they had to stand outside.

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You know it's hot out there.

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Here's another thing we should do though is whenever we have these fights and we've

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gone through all these battles and we've done all this work and we've been preaching God's

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word in the beginning of evil save you know what we need to do we need to make sure that we don't

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give up. Look at Daniel chapter 6 verse 10. Now when Daniel knew that the rioting was signed he

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went into this house.

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and his windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem,

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he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God.

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Notice this, as he did a four-time.

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He receives persecution and he's going to be potentially punished for continuing,

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but you know what? He's steadfast and he does it anyways.

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And you know what? You need to be the one that's steadfast like Daniel.

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You need to be steadfast even when there's a threat of persecution, a threat of punishment,

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a threat of whatever is going to happen.

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You say, you know what?

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I'm going to preach God's word no matter what.

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I'm going to keep getting people saved and I'm willing to fight the Goliaths.

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And I'm going to be steadfast.

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I'm going to just rinse and repeat.

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Just, all right, where's the next time I need to preach?

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Where's the next soul-winning event that I need to be showing up to?

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And who's the next Goliath that needs to get their head chopped off?

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Not literally, okay?

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Now, it's fine if God does that with them somewhere else, but...

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I'm not going to literally do it.

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You know, at the end of the day, we need God to fight our battles for us.

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That's the best victory anyways.

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But we need to be like Daniel that says, you know what, I'm not going to give up.

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There's some people that have been in the fight.

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There's some people that have been doing the soul winning.

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There's some people that were part of the Goliath battle.

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And then they give up.

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They get tired of it, or they don't like the persecution, they don't like the heat, they don't like the drama.

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What do you mean drama? Drama is the action.

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What do you mean you don't like the action? I like the action. I don't want it to be boring.

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Go over to 2 Timothy chapter 4. Yeah, go to the Naam the Naam church where it's boring.

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Nothing ever happens until you find out that the pastor's a pedophile. That's the only time there's ever any drama, right?

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Until there's some kind of scandal that's basically I mean it's basically it's just like nothing happening

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And then it's just scandal and then you're shocked that there was a scandal

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It's shocked that the false prophets evil and weird and an adulterer and committing adultery with all the women

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He gave counsel to divorce their husbands. I mean it's just a shock right?

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It's a shock that he's ends up being a sodomite Kenny Baldwin or whatever

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It's a shock that, you know, it's gonna be a shock to some people when this guy up in Tulsa,

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what is his name? Todd something.

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Todd, no, it's a different Todd.

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Todd, what's the other Todd?

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Michael Todd, that's what it is.

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Yeah, Michael Todd.

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It's gonna be a shock to someone when it comes out that this guy's a faggot pedophile.

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It's not gonna shock me.

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The guy is a pervert, the guy is a freak, the guy is a weirdo.

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The things he's done on stage, I don't even want to say out loud, they're so perverted.

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They're so gross. On a stage in front of everybody.

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I mean the guy, I mean the guy was like caught wearing like women's clothes so much

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that even the non-the-non people were like, this is weird bro.

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Like what are you doing man? Like what are you wearing?

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The guy is a freak and he was like, I think he was like the number one YouTube channel for like churches or whatever for a long time.

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This transformation church.

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Trans.

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I'm sure, I'm sure that's going to be a shock too, okay?

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But you know, we shouldn't be shocked that those things happen.

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And you need to go to a church where the drama is because of preaching God's Word, not because you're violating God's Word.

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Because you know what? There's going to be drama every once in a while, but you'd rather have drama because people like the Bible as opposed to they're violating it.

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2 Timothy chapter 4, look at verse 16.

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At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.

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I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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So we notice the apostle Paul is alone.

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He's the only one.

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And everybody's given up on him.

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Everyone's forsaken him.

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But you know what?

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He was the one that was strengthened by the Lord.

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And so you need to be the one that even when everyone gives up on you,

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you choose to be strengthened by the Lord and you don't give up.

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You know, you need to be the one that rebukes in the gate.

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You need to be the one that stands in the gap.

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You need to be the one that fights Goliath.

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You need to be the one that's steadfast like Daniel.

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And you need to be the one that's strengthened by the Lord.

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And so, when you go through all these battles, and you go through all these difficulties,

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and you've been doing it for a while, you're going to still have a potential really big

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hardship.

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You're going to have a moment where there's a point of weakness.

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You could have a moment where people don't believe you.

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You could have a moment where people have turned against you.

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But you know what?

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You need to pray and read the scripture for strength in those moments.

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When you feel alone, when you feel like you're the only one fighting, when you feel like it's difficult,

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you need to be the one that's strengthened by the Lord.

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Because that's the person who will continue. That's the person who won't give up.

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When you're leaning on someone else, you can fall because everyone else can give up on you.

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I mean, the Apostle Paul, I mean, how great a person is the Apostle Paul?

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Yet he said there was a point in his life where literally everybody kind of gave up on him.

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How about Job? Doesn't Job, I mean, Job even has his own wife give up on him at one point.

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Job has everyone that he cares really about either die.

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or is like slaughtered and then he's kind of like with his wife and even his wife is kind of giving up on him at least emotionally

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in that particular moment and you know what sometimes you just have to be strengthened by God

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sometimes you just have to say you know what even though I feel alone

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even though it feels like I'm the only one in the in the battle right now

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I need to go to God and I need to allow Him to be the one that strengthens me

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And you know what? Be the person that's strengthened by God and nothing else.

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Because let me tell you this, God will never get by on you.

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God will always be willing to strengthen you.

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And so if you're the person that says, I will always go to God for strength,

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then you can always endure. You can always get through it.

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And you can always keep going. You can truly be steadfast.

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And notice the motivation for doing so.

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He says in verse 17,

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not withstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that by me the

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preaching might be fully known and that all the Gentiles might hear and I was

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delivered out of the mouth of the line. He said you know the reason why I needed to

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be strengthened you know the reason why I didn't need to quit so that they would

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hear all the Bible.

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so that all the preaching would be known,

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and that everyone would hear the gospel,

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and that everyone would get the chance.

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Because that's the point. We're rebuking in the gate,

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and preaching the Word of God, so that all of God's Word will be fully known.

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We're standing in the gap, so that people can get saved.

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We're fighting the Goliaths, that all the world may know.

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We don't want to just our little area.

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We want the whole world to hear about the God of the Bible.

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And we're being steadfast like Daniel. We're not going to give up,

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no matter what, because we need to get the job done.

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done and whenever everybody's turned against us and we feel so low we're

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gonna pray and lean on the Lord to strengthen us so that all the Gentiles

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may hear so that everyone may hear so that all the nations what is what does

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Gentile mean it's like nations is what that word means so it's saying all the

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nations all the people all the tongues all the languages all the people get to

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hear and have an opportunity to be saved you know what we need someone to be that

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one

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Go to Exodus 23, go to Exodus 23.

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And I'm just telling you, I got inspiration for the sermon, you know, because of this guy, but obviously,

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it's not that I didn't also think of the Bible.

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And you also gave me motivation for the sermon, Amos.

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You also gave me motivation for the sermon, Ezekiel, and David, and Daniel, and the Apostle Paul.

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And hey, how about this? How about Jesus?

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since He was the only one that was capable of dying on the cross for all of our sins and giving us salvation.

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And He was the one.

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The whole world lies in wickedness, and even all of His own disciples forsook Him.

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I mean, we think about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He was the one rebuking in the gate.

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He was the one standing in the gap.

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He was the one fighting the Goliath of his day.

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He was the one that was steadfast like Daniel.

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He was the one that was forsaken by all, but yet he was strengthened by God.

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And he was the one that died on the cross for all of our sins and rose again victorious

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so that we could be saved and so that all the Gentiles would be saved and so that all

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the world would know that there's a God in heaven.

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And you know what? Those are the people that also motivate me.

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And they motivate us to be the one in our generation, in our lifetime, in our family,

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in our church, in our state, in our country. And you know what? We need more people that are going

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to be the one. And not follow a multitude to do evil. Look at Exodus 23 verse number 2.

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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shalt thou speak in a cause of decline

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after many to rest judgment.

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You know what? I don't care if 11 feminists tell me,

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hey, this woman needs to get off.

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Premeditated murder is murder,

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and you know what? You shouldn't change on that.

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And you know what? Praise God there's still some people

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that'll be the one and say, hey, you know what?

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I'm not gonna change on my decision.

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I don't care how many people side against me.

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I don't care if it's 11 to one.

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I don't care if it's a million to one.

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I don't care if it's a billion to one.

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You know what? We should do what's right,

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because it's right.

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I have a list of some things that I think that we should all take application from.

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You know what?

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We need to be the one who doesn't back down to feminists.

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Doesn't matter how many there are.

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We need to be the one who doesn't lie.

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We need to be the one who loves God's word.

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We need to be the one that doesn't change based on the numbers.

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We need to be the one that loves Steadfast Baptist Church.

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publicly. Why don't you be the one who's always at church? You know there's some

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people they're just always at church. Why don't you be the one that's always

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early? Now some people are always early. Why don't you be the one that stays late?

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Why don't you be the one that always loves her husband and loves her

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children and only does good under husband?

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Why don't you be the one that pays attention to the sermon?

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Why don't you be the one who keeps His word?

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Why don't you be the one who's always willing to help?

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Why don't you be the one that's sober?

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Meaning that you're serious and you're taking life seriously.

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Why don't you be the one that's just always soul-winning?

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Why don't you be the friend who loves at all times?

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Why don't you be the one who memorizes the chapter?

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Why don't you be the one who does chores without being told?

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How about you be the one who does your homework without being told?

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How about you're the one who cleans up after yourself?

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How about you be the one that always has a good attitude?

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You know, I sometimes, I mean, there's lots of people I think about with some of these,

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but, you know, specifically like, I'll be honest,

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Pastor Oz is somebody that just always has a good attitude and it's one of the things I love about him.

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I'm not like that. I don't always have a good attitude.

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But I'm telling you like Pastor Oz is like, he's awesome.

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You know, why don't you be the one that thinks of things that others didn't?

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You know, there's somebody on my crew that always is thinking of things I didn't think about.

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I'm like, I love you. You know, you're so awesome.

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Why don't you be the one that always shows up when called?

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Why don't you be the one that prays for people at night?

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Why don't you be the one that is always there when tragedy strikes?

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There's some people in our church that I just noticed, I mean, they're almost just always there for people when something really bad happens.

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Why don't you be the lady who dresses like a lady every day of the week?

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Why don't you be the one who will not pretend that a man is a woman?

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Why don't you be the one that takes his family to church and doesn't make excuses?

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Why don't you be the one that sings when he doesn't feel like it?

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Why don't you be the one who ties when money is tight?

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Hey children, why don't you be the child who obeys mom and dad when they're not looking?

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Doesn't matter if your brothers and sisters, doesn't matter if it's 11 to 1,

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you'd be the one child that's going to obey mom and dad.

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Why don't you be the one that visits the hospital when it's inconvenient?

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Why don't you be the one who goes soul winning in the heat and the cold

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and even when it's embarrassing?

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Like, are you from that church?

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Yeah, I am from that church.

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Why don't you be the one that doesn't skip the midweek service,

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because we already go on Sunday?

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Why don't you be the one that takes notes during the sermon?

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Why don't you be the one that stops gossip in its tracks?

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Why don't you be the one that's not offended by the sermon,

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or wondering if it's about you, but you just implement the sermon?

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Why don't you be the one that apologizes first?

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Why don't you be the one that turns off his phone,

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and pays attention to those around him?

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Good.

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I need that one, all right?

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Why don't you be the one who spanks his kids instead of always just giving them a tablet?

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Why don't you be the one who corrects his children in private but praises them in public?

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Why don't you be the one that makes their kids finish the job that they started?

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Why don't you be the one that doesn't let his teenagers disrespect his mother?

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Yes.

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It's not welcome at my house.

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Why don't you be the one that doesn't let his daughter dress like a whore?

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Why don't you be the one that fixes what he broke?

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Why not be the example for his family?

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You know what we need more of in this world?

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We need more people to be the one.

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And I guarantee all of us have an area of our life, have a spot where we need to be that one that steps up.

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We need to be that one that goes against the grain and does the right thing

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and it doesn't cave to peer pressure or to the multitude or to the group think.

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but does what is right. And you know what? Praise God that Jesus Christ did that for us.

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Praise God for the men of God that follow in his example and praise God for the men,

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women, and children in this room that are going to choose to be the one. Let's close in prayer.

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Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word. Thank you so much for these examples. Thank you

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for what your Son has done for us. Thank you for his love. I pray that you give us courage,

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that you give us bravery, that you give us faith.

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that when we need to be the one, when we need to stand up, when no one else is doing the right thing,

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that we would be the one to do it.

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I pray that you would all convict us to be better versions of ourselves,

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to make applicable changes, and to love your word.

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And I pray that you would help our church to be the one that loves you.

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In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

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page 51 in your hymn books where we'll never grow old.

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Page 51, where we'll never grow old.

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Do you want us all to start there? On that first.

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On that first.