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Hello everyone, good evening, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Good to see you all.

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Let's find our seats, open up our hymn books to song number 26.

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We're going to sing Hallelujah for the Cross, page number 26.

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Hallelujah for the Cross.

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26, hallelujah.

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Let's all stick it out together.

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this evening let's all bow our heads and open up with the word of prayer.

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Heavenly Father we thank you for this church. Thank you Jesus for dying on the

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cross for our sins so that we can have eternal life. Thank you for all the soul

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owners who went out and preached the gospel.

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so that others could have eternal life as well.

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Thank you for this church and all the blessings that come with it.

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We pray that you would fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit,

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help him to preach bold and with power.

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Help us to be edified as believers and help us to walk out as better Christians.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Our second song, page 142, the old time religion.

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Page 142, the old time religion.

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142, give me that old time religion on that verse.

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Is the old time religion, is the old time religion.

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afternoon. Thank you for coming to Zad Vast Baptist Church. If you didn't get a

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bulletin and you would like one, just lift up your hand nice and high. We have our

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Bible memory passage, so we're finishing our final verse here for the Bible

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memory passage, Psalm 119 verses 1 through 8. On the inside is our service

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and soul winning times, church stats. On the right is the expecting ladies, and I

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apologize I missed this this morning, but we do have the Coopers out of the list,

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so congratulations to them. That's exciting. Also upcoming of

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We have the Springdale Arkansas Marathon.

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If you are interested in attending,

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there is a QR code on the back

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or on the front of our bullet somewhere on the bulletin

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that you can scan.

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Please register if you are attending that particular event.

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We wanna make sure we have an accurate count

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and we have food and everything in preparation for you guys.

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Several events here,

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a lot of international missions trips, teen summer event,

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Corsican in Texas, so any marathon August 1st,

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that's pretty close to here.

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There's a Make America.

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Strait Again Conference in Plainfield, Connecticut. I'm going to be preaching out there August 6th,

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so very exciting to do that again. 2.0.

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It's hard for me to forget because it's my birthday, so I'm excited to be out there.

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I've never even been to that part of the country that I remember.

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I was technically born in New York, and it was in Stormville, like White Plains, which

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is really close.

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I mean, it's only like a stone's throw into the Connecticut border, but I don't ever remember

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being in that part of the country, and certainly not as an adult.

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So I'm excited to go to the Northeast, and we'll have an event up there.

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We'll preach the gospel and try to make America straight.

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You know what I mean?

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Mesquite, Texas, so winning Marathon August 22nd. We've got the Barbados missions trip in September

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We have a lot of people signing up for that. So

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Highly encourage you it's not too late. You can still join us. It'll be a lot of fun

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And not only will be a lot of fun. Honestly, the soul winning should be, you know anticipated be really good

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Hopefully God willing he'll open some doors. We can get in some schools and stuff like that

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Also, we have the heritage of the Lord Conference October 9th to the 11th

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there's a preaching boot camp in November if you'd like to just get a little bit better at preaching

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and then in the in the February of 2027

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we are going to have the Philippines missions trip.

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And this one also, this one's kind of almost a guarantee.

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If you want to preach in schools,

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this is pretty much a guaranteed trip

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as far as that's concerned.

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They have so many opportunities in the Philippines.

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There's a particular person that their entire job is just

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basically getting opportunities to preach in schools over there.

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And so, you know, Soling Baptist Church really

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just has infinite opportunities to go and preach

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in the Philippines.

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And so if you want to go to a place that's very receptive, more people than you can count,

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opportunities to preach in schools, it's worth it to travel across the country.

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I tried to make sure this part in February, usually the tickets are relatively well priced.

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So sometimes if you're flying to the Philippines, like in the Christmas season, it can be a

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little bit more expensive.

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So if you're looking at flights in that time, a lot of times it's a lot more expensive,

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kind of right towards the end of February.

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it starts to get a lot more reasonable, more economical.

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And so I haven't priced it personally.

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Has anybody bought their ticket already?

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I have no idea. Okay, no one. All right. I'll have to go look it up. But I think it's usually around

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a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars. Don't quote me on this, but I think it's around that price

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probably at this time. But virtually everything else is so cheap over there that the plane ticket

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is going to be the vast majority of whatever the cost is to visit the Philippines. And so,

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if you'd like to go, I highly encourage it. Who's kind of just interested or planning on maybe

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going next year just so I have some kind of an idea.

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Okay, yeah, a lot of different people,

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so that'll be exciting.

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We're gonna visit also our church plants

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that Fast Baptist Church in the Philippines has one

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with our evangelist Duncan Urbanek,

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and so we can go over there and give him a hard time,

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make sure he's doing a good job, all right?

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So, but we've got a great work going over in the Philippines.

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Love to go over there and join up with them.

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On the back is our prayer list.

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Please be in prayer for our church family.

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And that's really all I have as far as announcements.

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We're going to sing our Psalm of the Week Psalm 139.

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Psalm 139.

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Psalm 139, it's in your special binder in front of you.

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Page 13, Psalm 139.

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you

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you

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all singing out together on that verse.

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Surely now it's day...

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offering plates will be passed around. And you can turn in your Bibles to Acts

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chapter 28. That's Acts chapter number 28.

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Acts chapter number 28, the Bible reads,

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and when they were escaped,

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then they knew that the island was called Melitta.

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And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness,

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for they kindled a fire and received us every one,

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because of the present rain and because of the cold.

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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks

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and laid them on the fire,

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there came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand.

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And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves,

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No doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea,

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yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly.

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But after they had looked a great while and saw no harm come to him,

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they changed their minds and said that he was a god.

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In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius,

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who received us and lodged us three days courteously. And it came to pass that the father

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of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux, to whom Paul entered in and prayed and laid

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his hands on him and healed him. So when this was done, others also which had diseases in the island

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came and were healed.

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who also honored us with many honors, and when we departed they laded us with such things as were

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necessary. And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle,

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whose sign was Castor and Pollux, and landed at Syracuse. We tarried there three days, and from

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thence we fetched a compass and came to Regium. And after one day the south wind blew, and we came

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the next day to Petuyo.

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where we found brethren and we were desired to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.

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And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appi Forum,

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and the three taverns, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.

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And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard,

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but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

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And it came to pass that after three days,

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Paul called the chief of the Jews together.

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And when they were come together,

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he said unto them, men and brethren,

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though I have committed nothing against the people

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or customs of our fathers,

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yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem

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into the hands of the Romans,

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who when they had examined me, would have let me go,

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because there was no cause of death in me.

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But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar, not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

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For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you and to speak with you, because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

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And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came showed or spake any harm of thee.

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But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest.

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For as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.

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And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging,

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to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus,

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both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

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and some believe the things which were spoken,

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and some believe not.

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And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed.

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After that Paul had spoken one word,

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well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet

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unto our fathers, saying, go unto this people and say,

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hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand,

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and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.

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For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed,

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lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart,

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and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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Be it known therefore unto you that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it."

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And when he had said these words, the Jews departed and had great reasoning among themselves.

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And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him,

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preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concerned the Lord Jesus Christ with

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all confidence, no man forbidding him. Let us bow our heads for prayer. Dear Heavenly Father,

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thank you for this day. I want to thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Thank you for our services this morning and I pray that you would please bless Pastor Shelly now.

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Give him boldness to preach the word of God and to preach just an edifying sermon.

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Help us to be attentive and walk out better Christians. In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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When we look back at verse 25, the Bible says,

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and when they agreed not among themselves, they departed.

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After that, Paul had spoken one word,

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well-spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet

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unto our fathers, saying, go unto this people and say,

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hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand,

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and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.

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For the heart of this people is waxed gross,

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and their ears are dull of hearing.

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and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears

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and understand with their heart and should be converted, and I should heal them."

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Now, here the conclusion of the book of Acts is in the context of Jews

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that the Apostle Paul is preaching unto.

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And the Bible says that some believed, but then others don't believe.

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And what's the implication is that the vast majority did not believe.

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So that's why it's being quoted here by the apostle Paul, well spake the Holy Ghost by

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Isaiah, the prophet and her father saying in general, if you go to the Jews and you

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preach the gospel unto them, you preach the word of God unto them, what are they going

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to be like as a whole?

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For the most part, they're going to be people that are hearing and they hear, but they shall

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not understand and seeing they shall see and should not perceive.

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But this is where I think it's interesting. Verse 27, it says,

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For the heart of this people's waxed gross.

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Let's talk about gross people. This is Jews. This is what the Bible says.

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It says, and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed,

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lest they should see. Notice this. Their eyes have they closed, lest they should see.

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So what the Bible is saying is that someone choosing not to see something.

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They don't want to see it.

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And often when we use the word seeing,

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we're not necessarily talking about our vision.

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We're not talking about a literal observance of something.

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When we talk about seeing something,

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we're talking about understanding,

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we're coming to the knowledge of something.

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Oh, I see what you're saying.

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I can't actually see the words coming out of your mouth.

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What are we saying?

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We're describing the phenomenon of someone understanding and accepting what is being spoken.

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So by purposely closing their eyes, it's not that like when Paul preached to them,

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they were sleeping like some of y'all do in the afternoon.

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What he was doing is he's saying that they were mentally deciding to shut off their brain

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and choosing not to understand, choosing not to believe.

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And what I would call this phenomenon is pretending not to understand.

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Pretending not to understand.

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It's not that they can't understand.

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It's that they don't want to look at it because if they just looked at it, if they just saw it, they would understand.

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They're purposely closing their eyes because they just don't want to see it.

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They just don't want to see the truth. They just don't want to know the truth.

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And they're willingly ignorant in many cases.

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And so you see this phenomenon where people will just pretend to not understand.

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And why is it that someone pretends not to understand?

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Well, I would suggest to you the reason why is because they know they're guilty,

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they know they're rebellious, they know they're wrong, and they don't want to have to deal with it.

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They just don't want to have to deal with it.

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So instead of dealing with it, they just pretend to not understand.

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Now we're going to see this phenomenon constantly in the Bible here.

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Go over to 2 Peter chapter number 3, go to 2 Peter chapter number 3.

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But why are the Jews unwilling to see it?

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It's because the whole testament is just all about Jesus.

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So when the apostle Paul's coming and he's opening and alleging that Christ must need

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suffer, they're going to see the cross everywhere.

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They're going to see the fact that Jesus Christ paid for our sins everywhere.

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They're going to see the Lamb of God slain for the foundation of the world.

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They're going to see all these truths.

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And so they just have to pretend like they don't understand what Paul's saying because

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they don't want to change religions.

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They don't want to be kicked out of the synagogue.

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They don't want to be ridiculed.

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Most of the other Jews aren't going to believe, so they'd be separated from.

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So there's a consequence to believing it.

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And as a result, they don't want to say that they've been wrong.

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They don't want to be like the Apostle Paul that counted all of his religion dung as before,

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and have to convert and change churches and change religions and admit that they were wrong.

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So they just pretend not to understand.

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You know, and there's just so many people that are just pretending not to understand.

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What would be a great example of this would be the boomers on the doctrine of Zionism.

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and old IV preachers on the doctrine of Zionism.

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They just refuse, they just refuse to act like they know what we're talking about

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so that they don't have to address the fact that they've been wrong.

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that they preach so many sermons ad nauseum that are wrong.

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And they just keep doubling down.

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Why? Because they don't want to eat some humble pie

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and just admit what the Bible really says on these issues.

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And so they just make up all kinds of crazy ideas

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or say things that aren't true.

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They'll be like, oh well,

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you're saying that God breaks promises.

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There was an old IEP preacher recently that said,

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you know, if you don't believe that the Jews are God's chosen people,

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then you're not even saved because you think God can break promises.

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And if you think he can break that promise,

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then he could break the promise of eternal life.

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And so therefore, you can't even believe the gospel.

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So in order to believe the gospel now,

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you have to believe that Harvey Weinstein is God's chosen people.

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Adam Sandler you have to believe all these people you have to believe that Ivanka Trump is God's chosen people because she now is converted to Judaism

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So I guess she converted to God's chosen people without believing in Jesus Christ. I don't know how that works

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But again, it's just like oh, that's not what I'm saying

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Right because you just make stuff up because you just don't want to see the truth on this issue

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You don't want to address it and again

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You know, would we really afraid, like am I just really afraid of you guys listening to some pro-Zionist message from the old IV?

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Am I just like terrified that you guys are going to get tricked and deceived by some message?

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But why are they so afraid of anybody listening to us?

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Why are they so afraid of watching movies that we've made or documentaries or visiting our churches?

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It's because they know they're wrong.

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And they're just pretending to not understand that we're right on these issues.

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And it's just really frustrating. Go to 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 5.

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This is the Bible bringing up this concept.

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He says,

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What does the Bible say? The Bible says that scoffers in the end times

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are willingly ignorant of certain facts.

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What's one of those?

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They're willingly ignorant of the global flood.

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Because if the global flood is true,

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then their evolutionary theory vanishes like that.

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Why is denying the flood so important to evolutionists?

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Why?

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Because of their geologic column.

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That's why.

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Because here's the thing.

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There's only two explanations really

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for the geologic column.

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And again, the geological column is an idea.

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It's not an actual physical thing that we can go look at somewhere.

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But it's just this idea of we see fossils in different layers.

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If you do digging, you go somewhere.

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And they basically find, hey, things are flying.

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And then things that are a little bit smaller and it goes all the way down to the fish.

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And so they believe we evolved from fish.

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like fish slowly turned into the mammals,

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and the mammals turned into dinosaurs,

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and the dinosaurs turned into chickens,

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and then everything could fly,

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and of course, we have all this weird evolutionary nonsense.

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But here's the thing,

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if all of those layers were deposited quickly by the flood,

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well, now there's zero evidence for their evolutionary theory,

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because the evolutionists will constantly say,

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oh, we have tons of evidence for evolution.

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We have millions of fossils and look at the fossil record and look at the geological

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But if all of that is a result of the global flood well now they have zero evidence

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Even though they have zero evidence currently

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But I'm just saying even then they would really have zero evidence and they would have to be like oh

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I guess the Bible's true then oh, I guess it really is 6300 years old. Oh, I guess there really was a global flood

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Oh, I guess there really is a God. Oh, I guess I have to believe in him and guess what they're in

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Rebellion to God and they don't want to believe in him. So they're willingly ignorant. They're willingly ignorant of biblical facts

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They're willingly ignorant of the truth and they just want to claim they believe in quote science

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But again, it's science falsely. So called as the Bible would call it. I

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Want you to go to Matthew 21 Matthew 21?

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Why am I bringing this up because

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This is what I've noticed in debating, in the debate world that exists out there,

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is that there's all these people, they just spend all their time debating with people that are pretending not to understand.

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And again, I'm not against debates in general.

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I'm not against contending for the faith.

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I think that, hey, we should go out there

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and shut the mouths of these false teachers

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and false prophets and gainsayers,

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and we should get our views out there.

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But at the end of the day,

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I don't wanna just waste all my time

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talking to people that are pretending to be dumb on purpose.

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Now again, if I can do that for a giant public audience to just show how this guy is just

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a liar, then I might do that.

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But I'm not, I don't want to have one-off conversations with atheists.

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I don't want to sit here and have one-off conversations with these people because at

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some point it's just, how am I going to convince somebody with logic that's being dumb on purpose?

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You can't really do that.

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That's why the Bible says a man that is heretic after the first and second ammunition rejects

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because there's many people that are just pretending not to understand because they

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realize, hey, if I actually go down this train of thought with this guy.

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I'm going to have to believe what he believes and I'm not willing to believe that,

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so I'm just going to pretend to not understand.

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People do that about our church in general.

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People call it a cult or just argue about things in the Bible.

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And it's not that they don't understand, they do understand.

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That's why they're arguing with you.

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That's why they call it a cult is because they know

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that if they just were honest with the conversation,

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they would have to join you.

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They would actually have to come to your church and do what you're doing and they don't want to do that.

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So then they have to just pretend to not understand and just call it, you know, a cold or just make these accusations.

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You know, Pilate, whenever he's contending with Jesus a little bit and Jesus is talking about how he's here for the truth.

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And then Pilate's just like, what is truth? Really? Is that a real question?

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No, Pilate's just pretending to not understand

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so that he doesn't have to address the fact

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that he's about to give license to his men

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to slay someone that's innocent.

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He knows he's innocent.

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He knows Jesus Christ is here for the truth.

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He just wants to pretend to not understand

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so then that way he seems not guilty.

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That's why he has to, why did he go wash his hands in water

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and say like, okay, well his blood's on you guys?

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Because he knows what he's doing is wrong.

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You think he does that for every convicted felon?

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You think he does that for every criminal?

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You think he did that for Barabbas?

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No, he knows those guys are guilty and he knows Jesus is honest.

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He knows that Jesus is true.

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He knows that what they're saying is not true about him.

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I mean, he could perceive that for envy they delivered him, is what the Bible says.

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And so then why is he saying what is truth?

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He's pretending to not understand so that he doesn't have to take

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accountability for what he's doing.

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Matthew 21, we see a clear example of this with the Pharisees and Jesus Christ, and they

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would ask him a lot of different questions.

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They're contending with them.

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And it says in verse number 23, and when he was come into the temple, the chief priests

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and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching and said, by what authority

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doest thou these things?

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And who gave thee this authority?

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And Jesus answered and said unto them,

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I also will ask you one thing.

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And then Jay Dyer said, tu cuocue.

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Yeah, I guess if Jesus does it, it's okay, all right?

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He says, hey, I'll answer your question.

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You answer my question first, right?

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Which if you tell me, I, and likewise, will tell you by what authority I do these things.

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The baptism of John, whence was it?

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From heaven or of men?

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So Jesus says, all right, I'll tell you exactly what my authority is if you tell me what was

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going on with John the Baptist.

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Was it legit?

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Or was it fake? That's basically what he's asking. Is this of God? Is this of heaven? Or is this of men?

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Notice what it says, and they reasoned with themselves saying,

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If we shall say from heaven, he will say unto us, why did you not then believe him?

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But if we shall say of men, we fear the people for all hold John as a prophet.

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And they answered Jesus and said, we can't tell. We cannot tell.

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And then you think, at any point in this reasoning among themselves,

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did they try to figure out what was true?

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Did they try to figure out what was right?

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Did they even assert what they believe?

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No.

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And then what do they do?

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They pretend to not understand the question.

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Because if they answered honestly, what would they have said?

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Well, we don't believe in John the Baptist.

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We don't really think he's a prophet.

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And then what would happen?

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All the people would have lost respect for them.

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So they lie and pretend not to understand.

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So then that way they don't lose the respect of the people.

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Now I'll give you a clear, clear example of this.

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Okay?

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When we were in Watauga, there was a church across the street.

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It was a Nazarene church.

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And this Nazarene church was giving subway literally to the protesters against us.

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Now, why was that? It was because Pastor Oz, thanks, he preached a sermon about these people,

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saying like, why we won't shut up. And he was right, we're not going to shut up about it, right?

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Now, he got this viral rant where he said, and most of you probably remember this, but

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he said like we should line them up all against the wall and shoot them in the back of the head, okay?

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Which he was talking about, sodomites receiving the death penalty according to Leviticus 20, chapter 20, verse 13.

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So this Nazarene pastor decides to address that verse to his congregation.

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And he brings up the verse and he kind of like, he's kind of like talking and then he's like,

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he whispers it. He's like, now we all know Leviticus 20 13 says that they should be put to death.

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He's like, what?

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And it's like he said that and he's like me and all my seminary buddies.

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We were all just wondering, like, what does it mean?

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You do know what it means.

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You just told us.

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You didn't quote the verse.

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You actually worded it in different words

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and told us exactly what it meant,

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because you said homosexuals should be put to death.

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And it doesn't say homosexuals.

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It says men with men.

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It wasn't temple shrine prostitutes.

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Like, some will then, that's another way

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to pretend to not understand.

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But it's like he's literally saying it does say homosexuality put to death.

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We were like, what does it mean?

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And it's like, why in the world is he saying he doesn't know what it means?

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Because he does know what it means.

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And if he applies that, then he himself can't give them Subway sandwiches.

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And if he says what it means, then everybody in his church is going to leave

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because they don't want to believe that doctrine.

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So what does he have to do?

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He has to pretend to not understand.

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Oh, I don't really know what it means.

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I don't really know what it says.

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He knows what it says.

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He just told us what it says.

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He just doesn't want to say it out loud, just like the Pharisees don't want to,

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because they're afraid of the people not giving them respect or honor.

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So they just lie and pretend to not understand and pretend like they don't understand the issue

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or want to realize what the problem is.

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And this is what's happening so much in our religious context,

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where people just pretend to not understand what we're talking about.

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Go to John chapter 11, John chapter 11.

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We're gonna see this everywhere in the Bible.

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This is a common thing where people just pretend to not understand

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Why because if they if they say you're right, then they're forced to deal with the issue

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They don't want to deal with the issue

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Therefore their escape is I don't understand or I don't know you know it's one of the most frustrating things

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We'll ask our kids. Hey, why did you disobey? I don't know

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Yes, you do know

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Why did you lie? Why did you steal? Why did you punch your brother?

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It was an accident.

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How is it that my kids are always accidentally punching each other,

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pushing each other down?

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Like, it's just a crazy... I mean, you're just walking around like this,

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just like, oh man!

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Just accidentally, just like, smashed him in the face, you know?

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And it's like, well, he took my toy,

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so then you accidentally hit him? That was convenient.

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Right?

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He stole your toy and then you accidentally fell down on him and you know punched him or twisted his arm or something

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It's like look they just pretend to not understand because they want to deal with the consequences

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But you know what it doesn't ever get you out of the problem

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Just answer the question just say hey, I was mad at him. I messed up. I'm sorry. You're right

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This is how you should respond when someone calls you on the carpet

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Hey, I guess that Baptist church was right.

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Leviticus 20, 13 really does say this.

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All right, so we're going to preach it too.

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That's what he should say.

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Well, he's a false prophet, so he wouldn't say this.

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But that's what every pastor should say.

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Hey, why are you oppressing them?

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You should protest all of us because we all believe it,

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because we all believe the Bible.

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And that's what the Bible says.

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John chapter number 11, I want to look at verse 47.

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Here's another example of this.

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Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees, a council,

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and said, what do we, for this man do with many miracles?

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You know, it's interesting, it's like the Catholics and all

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of them, they love councils, but they never like to go

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to these verses about councils.

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They always want to go to Acts 15 and pretend

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like that was a magical council, but it's like,

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what about this council?

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This council's not a very good one.

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What do we do for this man do with many miracles?

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Like, why is that a problem?

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This guy's healing people. What do we do about it?

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This guy's doing good. What do we do about it? What are we going to do?

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If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him.

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And the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

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What do they care about? Do they care about the truth?

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Do they care about the gospel? No, no, no. They care about their possession.

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These are the first Zionists you can find in the Bible.

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They want their land and they don't want people to believe in Jesus.

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They say, hey, if everybody believes in Jesus, we're going to lose our land.

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Hey, if everybody believes the Bible, they're not going to be pro-Zionist anymore.

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And we're going to lose our land.

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We need people to be pro-Zionist.

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We need people to not believe in Jesus, right?

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And of course they don't want Christ to be the seed of Abraham

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because then if everybody believes Christ is the seed of Abraham,

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again they're going to lose their land.

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They're afraid.

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Says it here in verse number 46,

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but some of them went their ways to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus had done.

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I'm sorry, let's keep, skip down even further.

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It says, if we let them alone, everyone's going to believe in him.

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Verse 49, and one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said to them,

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He knew nothing at all.

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nor consider that as expedient for us, that one man should die for the people

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and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself, but being high priest

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that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation and not for that nation only,

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but that also he should gather together and one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

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So it's like obviously Jesus didn't die just for the Jews, he died for everyone.

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Now think about this though.

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Did they deny that Jesus did miracles?

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That's the whole reason that they're having this conversation,

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is they believe he's having the miracles, okay?

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But go back to John chapter 3 now.

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Go back to John chapter number 3.

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Verse 1, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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The same came to Jesus by night and said in him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God.

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For no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

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What is the Bible saying? The Bible saying, and he's saying, look, we as teachers of the law,

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we that know the Bible know it's impossible for someone to do these miracles unless God's with them.

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Then you have all those same religious leaders saying,

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this guy's doing miracles.

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And then they're like, let's kill him.

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It's like they know the truth.

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They know that him doing the miracles is proof that God is with him.

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But why do they not want to believe this?

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Because then they'll lose their position and their authority

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and they're afraid of the consequences carnally.

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And so they choose not to believe in Him

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and pretend not to understand that He's the Messiah.

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Pretend not to understand that He's the Christ.

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Because what is it that they're going to drag Jesus before them

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and take Him off the pilot?

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Why do they take Him off the pilot?

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Because they ask Him if He's the Son of God.

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And He says, I am.

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and Mark, they ask him, you know, tell us plainly whether they'll be of the Christ.

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They say, hey, art thou the son of the blessed?

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And he says, I am.

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And they said, you've heard the blasphemy, what further questions do we have?

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And then they drag him off.

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Well, wait a minute.

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He's doing the miracles, that proves that he was the Christ.

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And they just pretend not to believe that, pretend not to know that,

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because they don't want to lose their position, they don't want to lose their authority,

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they don't want to lose the respect of the people.

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And so as a result, they pretend to not understand the truth about Christ,

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so that they can slay him and they can kill him.

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They don't want to deal with their own issues.

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Then they not only that, they pay...

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soldiers, they pay soldiers that literally come to them and say,

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we know he was resurrected, angels came and moved this stone,

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and they say let's lie about it. They literally pay money

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to these Roman soldiers who are also

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pretending to not understand what happened

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because of money. And look, there's a lot of Zionists out there today

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that they know the truth on this and they're just letting Jews pay them so that they'll keep lying about it.

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pretending to not understand. $7,000 a post or whatever it is.

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Go to Romans chapter 1, Romans chapter 1. Look, this is just all over the Bible.

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People just pretend to not understand. It's not that they don't understand.

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They do understand. They pretend to not understand

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because they want you to be suckered. They want you to be gullible

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and think, I need to explain it to them.

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I need to, you know, come here and I need to win them over with logic.

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Look, you're not going to win feminists and Democrats over with logic.

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They're pretending to not understand that a man is a man.

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They're pretending to not understand that a woman is a woman.

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They're pretending to not understand that men can't get pregnant.

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They're pretending to not understand these things. Why?

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Because they are willingly ignorant of the truth and they don't want to deal with consequences.

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They don't want to deal with the God of the Bible and they don't want to believe in the reprobate doctrine.

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Romans chapter 1.

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In verse number 18, the Bible brings this up as well.

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Oh, but I just think they didn't understand.

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You know, and this is what I hear a lot, soul winning and talking with people

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when they're contentious, is they'll say,

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well, I just don't think that someone out in the jungle that doesn't know

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it's fair that they would have to go to hell.

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I don't think it's fair. What about the Muslims? What about all these other religions? It's not fair

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No, no, no, what does the Bible say Romans chapter 1 verse 18?

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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and the righteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness

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Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath showed it unto them

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for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,

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being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead,

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so that they are without excuse." What does the Bible say? The Bible says that God is obvious.

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Not only is he obvious, he's clearly seen. He's clearly seen so that no one has excuse.

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So how can you stop seeing something?

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You have to close your eyes.

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Just like the Jews were doing,

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they were closing their eyes,

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lest they should see, and then what?

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Be converted.

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And here's the thing,

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the people that don't believe in Jesus Christ,

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they're closing their eyes

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because they don't want to see what they clearly see.

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They don't want to understand

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what they obviously understand.

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And so they pretend to not understand.

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They simply pretend to not understand.

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There is no one that is going to stand before Jesus surprised.

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They were pretending to not understand because they didn't want to.

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They didn't want to understand.

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They don't want to give up their sin.

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I mean, everyone that hate the light.

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You know, everyone that do with evil, hate to the light, neither cometh to the light,

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lest his deeds should be reproved.

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They just don't want to confront the fact that the rebellious or wicked are wrong,

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and so as a result they hide from the light and pretend to not understand it.

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Pretend to not get it.

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And it's just, you just have to understand this truth about people.

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Why are the reprobates reprobates?

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Because they don't want to confront the reality of God.

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They hate God, they know God is and they hate God.

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And as a result of hating God, he punishes them by making them

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a homosexual or a reprobate or a fag or whatever you want to call it.

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A bundle of sticks.

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Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 4.

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And then isn't it interesting that people then...

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You know, pretend like they don't understand what we said in this reprobate doctrine.

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It's like, oh, so you're saying Jesus didn't die for everyone?

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Yes, Jesus died for everyone.

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As, uh, so you're saying he's done for a good little sin?

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No, I'm saying that they don't believe in him.

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As, uh, you're saying that you, you know, you have to be born a certain way in order to be saved?

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No, because guess what? Everyone is born straight.

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So you're saying that it takes works to be saved,

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you have to believe in Jesus and be straight?

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That wasn't work!

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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If it's work for you, it's because you're not straight.

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And you're not saved and you're a reprobate.

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Okay?

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Ray Comfort, it was like a post I saw this week.

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He's saying like, oh, there's these people

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that struggle with same-sex attraction.

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And we need to pray for them. I pray for them to die and go to hell.

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Yeah.

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There's, look, if any guy in our church is like,

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Hey pastor, I've been struggling with same-sex attraction.

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You are immediately blacklisted from our church.

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Amen.

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And get away from me, okay?

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I might even fight you a little bit, all right?

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Right.

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Like, I don't want to be around you.

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Queer, struggling. What does that even mean?

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You're just a faggot. There's no such thing as struggling with it.

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Struggling with this. No, you're not. You're just a faggot, okay?

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Straight men aren't like, I'm kind of struggling in this thing.

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This is zero struggle.

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Not only, not only we're not struggling, we hate it.

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It's the most disgusting thing imaginable.

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It's just like, pastor, I'm struggling with whether or not to eat my dog's feces.

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What?

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No, you're not struggling. I'm not struggling about that.

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It's foul. It has this odor. It's putrefying.

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You're not even kind of interested.

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You could be starving all day. You could have a fast for a whole week.

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And you're like, this dog crap is not interesting to me.

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Okay? And the same with dudes. They're just not interested in other dudes ever.

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And if you are, leave immediately.

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I won't be mad if you leave. I just don't want you to stay, all right?

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And again, it's just funny how people just pretend to not understand what we're saying.

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Oh, you think that sin's different. Yes, I do. I think that sin's different.

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How could you sit here and act like that's the same sin or a normal sin?

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Or it's just like every other sin.

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The Bible clearly calls it abomination.

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He killed everybody inside of him to mourn for that.

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Again, people just pretend to not understand.

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Oh, well we're all sinners.

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Yeah, but we're not all faggots.

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I mean, it's just, it's just not reality.

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Now, 2nd Timothy chapter 4, look at verse 3.

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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,

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but after their own lusts shall they heath to themselves teachers.

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Notice this, having itching ears.

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This is where it gets really important, verse 4.

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And they shall turn away their ears from the truth.

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and shall be turned unto fables."

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Does it say that they didn't understand the truth?

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No, no, no. They did understand the truth.

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That was the whole reason that they turned away from it.

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That was the whole reason that they heaped unto themselves.

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Teachers, heaping.

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When you think about heaping, what is the idea?

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You're thinking about a lot.

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I mean, you're thinking about like just a ton.

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Just tons and tons.

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And isn't that what we see in America today?

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Tons and tons of false prophets and false teachers

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and bad churches and bad pastors.

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Why?

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It's because Americans do not want to hear the truth.

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They do not want someone to get up and tell them that they're wrong.

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And so they want to pretend to not understand.

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They want to go to church and pretend like they don't know what the Bible really says.

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They want to pretend like they don't know which Bible is the right Bible.

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They want to pretend like they don't know that drinking is wrong.

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They want to pretend like they don't know getting a tattoo is wrong.

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They want to pretend like the fornicators in their church shouldn't be dealt with.

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They want to pretend like they don't understand all that stuff,

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so they heap unto themselves teachers having itching ears,

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and they turn away their ears from the truth.

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And we want to sit here and we want to pretend like everybody in these non-denominational churches is just ignorant,

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but in many cases they know exactly what they're doing,

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and they're doing it on purpose, and they're pretending to not understand.

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You know what's right, and you have a heart issue.

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And you know what? America has a heart issue today.

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And they just want to just live in their sin, and they just want to be rebellious,

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and they want to be lazy, and you know what? They need to be called out.

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Oh, how dare you yell and scream and whatever. Well, you know what? Go to the Sassock church

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and pretend to not understand why this is important. And pretend to understand why you

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don't like yelling, while you then go to a rock concert and having someone yell at you.

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Yell at you on a microphone. It'll be louder than I could ever even imagine being.

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They'll go to a football game where they'll literally measure the decibels of how loud it is in the stadium.

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Go to the bar where someone is screaming at them about nonsense,

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because whenever you drink you just lose all faculties.

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You don't even understand that you're screaming at someone two feet away.

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And it's just loud in there anyways.

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You gotta compete with the loud country music.

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And it's just like, you know, you're trying to overtalk some sad guy about to kill himself or whatever in the country music song.

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Just pretending to not understand what the Bible says.

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I mean think about how many Christians are pretending to not understand

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how to get someone saved so they don't have the soul winning.

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What people it's not that people don't know is that they have a bad heart.

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So they have a bad heart and they're not willing to hear what the Bible says.

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And you know what?

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Why why preach a sermon like this?

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Because I'm not that person.

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Yeah, I don't want you to become that person.

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And I'm trying to tell you this, when you leave, we know that you're pretending not

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understand.

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Look, people, when they leave a church like ours, they just have the dumbest excuses I've

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ever heard, and they just pretend to not understand what they're doing.

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They just pretend like, no, no, no, I'm leaving because of this really lame reason that I

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have.

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Exactly.

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It's not lame.

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You just know what you're doing is wrong, and so you want to give this stupid lame excuse

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because you know what you're doing is wrong.

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You know what you're doing is wicked.

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But you just want to do it anyways.

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Go to Isaiah chapter 30.

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And you know what's wrong with America?

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All the non-denominational churches in our country,

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all of these little Bible churches,

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all the Pentecostal churches,

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all these Word of Faith churches,

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it just, our group of people, Americans,

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they're just heaping to themselves, teachers,

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because they want to hear anything but the Bible.

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And look, this is not a new phenomenon.

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This is a common phenomenon.

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This is something that's always been the case, where the vast majority just decide,

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I don't want to hear what the Bible has to say, and so we're going to just try and find someone

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to lie to us. You know, when you have prophets in the Bible, they stand against the 450 false prophets.

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It's just like Elijah against the 450 prophets. It's like, why is it one to 450?

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I don't know. That's like the ratio it was back then.

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But you can see from the attitude of the people why it was like that.

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Look at Isaiah chapter 30 verse 8.

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Now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book

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that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

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Because they couldn't read back then.

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No, I'm just kidding. It's just a joke. Alright.

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It says that this is a rebellious people, lying children,

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children that will not hear the law of the Lord.

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So it's like, what is God saying?

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These are people that are rebellious and they're lying.

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What are they lying about?

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It says in verse 10, which say to the seers, see not.

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And to the prophets prophesying not unto us right things,

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speak unto us smooth things.

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Prophesied deceits.

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Isn't it interesting that they were called seers

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and then they're telling you to see not.

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This sounds like the Jews which are closing their eyes

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lest they should see and be converted.

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And he's saying, hey, they don't want you to see,

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they don't want you to show them,

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they don't want you to bring it up.

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Why is it that the non-denominational churches,

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why is it that the churches,

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they're not turning in their Bible?

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Why is it they use very little Bible?

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Because they don't want you to see it.

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Why is it that the old I of B will not turn to Matthew 24 verse 29?

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Because they don't want you to see after the tribulation.

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Because you know what that might do?

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It might cause you to believe those few words in the Bible.

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It's like they just don't want you to turn.

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Why is it that the Zionists use very little Bible?

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How can you turn anywhere in the Bible and not see replacement theology?

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How can you turn anywhere in the Bible and see, you know, not see all the doctrines that we're teaching?

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The emphasis of soul winning, the emphasis of replacement theology, the emphasis of persecution.

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I mean, there's just so much emphasis of this everywhere in the Bible.

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It's just like, let's go to 1 Corinthians 13, Psalm 23.

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Let's just, they have to cherry pick just the nicest parts of the Bible and then just preach lies of them.

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You know what's a smooth lie?

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that we're all going to be raptured out of here before the tribulation.

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Don't tell me what the Bible says on that issue.

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Just tell me I'm going to get out of here.

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That just sounds nicer.

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I've had some, someone of my wife said that she was talking to somebody about this,

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and they were like, well, I just kind of choose to believe that because it just sounds nicer.

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It's just like...

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It's like, I know there's different views out there.

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There's different opinions.

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There's an opposite.

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I just kind of like the pre-trib rapture because it just just

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sounds a little bit like nicer, right?

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It's like, are we picking our doctrines on which one sound

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nicer?

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Are we picking our doctrine on which is right?

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But then they pretend to not understand why because it's not

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a convenient truth.

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It's not something that they want to believe and notice again,

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these people they're literally asking for the pastors to lie

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to them.

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They're begging it.

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Verse 11, get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel

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to cease from before us.

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Verse 12, wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, because ye despise this word.

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So when God rebukes him, he says, hey, it's not that you didn't know, it's just you hate the Bible.

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You hate the Word of God. You hate what it's saying. And so you're just choosing lies.

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And so many people today, they're, they're heaping themselves teachers that itching ears.

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They want lies. They want the deceits. They want people to just tell them what they want to hear.

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And they will not hear the law. The Bible says people that will not hear the law.

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It says people lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord, they just

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don't want to hear it. Stop telling me what the Bible says. How dare you bring up the Bible?

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Why? Because they don't want to be called out for the sins that they pretend to not understand.

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Now I'm going to go through some examples of this and then I'll finish with one last

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place but go to Romans chapter three, Romans chapter three.

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You know, I did a debate not that long ago with an Orthodox guy, and we were contending

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on Jesus Christ being the Word of God, specifically.

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Because, you know, at the end of the day, the Orthodox Church doesn't want to elevate

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this book and doesn't want to say that this is the final authority.

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They want to claim that their traditions of their church are on par with the Bible.

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So again, obviously we all use tradition on some level, but we put tradition underneath the Bible.

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We say, hey, we make sure our traditions are in line with the Bible or we'll change your tradition.

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They say you have to use their tradition to understand the Bible, to even have the Bible, according to them.

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And I'm like, what do you mean have the Bible? They're like, well, we're the ones that gave you the Bible.

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It's like, no, no, the Bible's always existed. In the beginning was the Word.

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And they're like, oh, no, no, that's just Jesus.

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It's like, yeah, that is Jesus, but that's because Jesus is the word.

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Oh, so you're saying Jesus is a literal book?

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And it's like, no, no, I'm not saying that this is that Jesus is now leather and paper and ink.

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But again, most of our argument was whether or not this physical book is eternal.

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Why? Because he's just pretending not to understand.

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He doesn't want to understand.

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Because if Jesus really is the Word of God

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and it's really eternal,

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well now he has to be the final authority

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because it's God.

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And their church isn't.

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And then he'd have to switch churches

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and then he'd be wrong

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and then all the debate would be over.

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So he can't afford that.

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So he has to just pretend

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to not understand what I'm saying

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and just make a strawman argument.

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Oh, so you're saying leather binding?

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So you're saying Jesus didn't come

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into existence until 1611?

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That's what a lot of people say about the king.

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Oh, so you don't think the Bible existed before 1611?

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No.

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Well, you're King James only, hmm?

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And they try to pretend to not understand our view.

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Why?

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Because if they did, then they'd have to get a King James Bible.

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And then they'd have to believe what it says, and they realize that they're wrong on these

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issues.

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So he just pretends to not understand, pretends to act like what I'm saying is crazy.

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But it's just like, okay, I said this to him.

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If Jesus is not really the word of God,

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there's no connection here,

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then why is it written on his name?

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Like written on his thigh, I'm sorry.

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Why is the name written on his thigh the word of God?

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Like why is he called that?

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Oh, well because he's the Logos.

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Look, saying word in a different language

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does not change the argument.

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Okay.

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And you know what he doesn't want you to do is he doesn't want you to turn to Revelation or anywhere in the Bible where it just says like the words of this book and you know what underlying Greek word is there? Logos.

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Because it's like it didn't change the argument, it's just pretending to not understand what I just said so that he doesn't have to deal with the issue.

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Because it's like if there's no connection between this book and Jesus, why the heck does he have the name written on his thigh, bro?

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It's because he is the word of God.

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That's why it's that simple.

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But he just doesn't want to understand it because they need to be proven wrong.

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And that's why a lot of times these debates don't really go very well is because they just pretend to not understand what you're actually saying.

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Here's another one that I constantly run into and we constantly hear is that, oh, if you go out and you preach the gospel and you tell people salvation is free, you're giving them a license to sin.

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It's like...

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Okay, yeah, well it's interesting that today

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We went into an area of the city that I would argue is the most sinful place that you could go

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I mean these people are all on drugs all drinking alcohol all committing fornication

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Doing everything bad you could think of and then when every single one of them

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I asked them what do you have to do to be saved? You know they told me be a good person

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So if believing that being a good person is what stopped you from sinning, it really failed.

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And then you go to a church like ours, where none of us believe that,

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and none of us are on drugs, that I know of, and drinking alcohol,

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and committing fornication and all that. I mean, we're not over here living these derelict lives.

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It's like, oh, but they just want to pretend to not understand.

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Why? Because they're a false prophet, because they're a false teacher.

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You know, it's brought up in Romans chapter 3 verse 7 and 8.

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It says,

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whose damnation is just.

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So, the apostle Paul has to bring up

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that by going around telling people

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that salvation is free,

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by going around and telling people

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that it's just by faith in what Jesus did,

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by telling people that you don't have to do any of the works of the law to be saved,

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then people lie about him,

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they slander him,

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and they say, oh, so you're saying

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we can do evil and still go to heaven.

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And it's just like,

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well, technically, but why in the world would anybody do that?

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And you know what I've never seen a soul winner ever do is tell someone to do evil.

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You know I've never been to the door and I've been like hey you should kill a couple people

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after this conversation. You should do some drugs later. You should make sure to skip church.

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No, aren't we giving them an invite to go to church?

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Are we telling them to actually follow those commands?

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I always tell people to follow the commandments.

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Every time I go sawing, I'm telling them to follow the commandments.

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I've never told them to break a single commandment.

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I've never said, let's do evil.

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But you know what?

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We're slanderously accused of telling people, hey, go commit some murder.

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You know who actually did do this?

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the Catholic Church with their indulgences.

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They were literally selling indulgences pre-crime.

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You would show up and be like,

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hey, I'm going to commit fornication this weekend.

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Here's my 50 bucks.

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That's a license to sin.

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The group that teaches work salvation, sold indulgences.

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Us over here that believe salvation is a free gift

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has never told anybody to sin ever

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and definitely not taken money.

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At the door, I mean, can you imagine?

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It's like, hey, at this conversation,

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if you want to smoke a joint later,

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you have to give me 20 bucks.

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And it'll be OK.

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God's OK with that.

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If you give me $20, you can smoke a joint later.

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Look, if people are doing that, yeah,

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then I can see how we're giving them a license to sin.

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OK, then we're selling the excuse to sin.

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But you know what's never happened in a Baptist church?

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But what are they doing? The Roman Catholics are pretending to not understand what we're saying

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because they know they're wrong about what the Bible teaches on salvation by faith.

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And they know it's a free gift and they know Jesus paid for all of our sins

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and they know that that's what we're saying but they don't believe Jesus paid for all of our sins.

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Because if they believe Jesus paid for all of our sins they become a Baptist

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and they have to get re-baptized because they know their baptism didn't count.

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They would know that their faith didn't really work.

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Go to Matthew 24, let's go to Matthew 24.

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I've already mentioned this, but I'm going to mention it again,

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is that many people refuse and pretend to not understand our position on end times,

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so that they don't have to convert on it.

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And this is what they'll call it. They'll call it the mid-tribulation rapture.

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The mid-tribulation rapture.

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But here's the reality.

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No one believes in the mid-tribulation rapture.

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It's a fake, strawman position that doesn't exist.

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And none of us have ever even said that.

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I mean, what's the documentary that many of us learn this truth on?

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It's called after the tribulation.

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It's not called during the tribulation.

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It's not called in the middle of the tribulation.

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It's called after the tribulation.

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And why is it called that?

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Because that's what the Bible says.

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Verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened,

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and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,

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and the powers of heaven shall be shaken, and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven.

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Oh, so you think Jesus is coming after the tribulation? Yeah.

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Because it says right here, well that's mid-tribulation. How? How is that mid-tribulation?

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It literally just says after the tribulation.

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And then they're like, oh, that's mid-trib.

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Why? Because here's the thing.

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Anybody that knows the Bible knows that mid-trib

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doesn't make sense because mid-trib

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is when the Antichrist is revealed.

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And that's when he clears himself God.

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And that's when he's asking for everybody to receive a mark.

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And they're like, see, they're waiting for the Antichrist

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because they're mid-trib.

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And that's when the Antichrist shows up.

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Yeah, except for we don't believe that.

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So they pretend to not understand our position because if they got up and said,

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now there's some people that believe that Jesus doesn't come until after the tribulation.

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And it's based on this verse in Matthew 24, 29 that says after the tribulation.

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Then it would be like, uh, so how are they wrong again?

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So they pretend to not understand our position.

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Why? Because then they'd have to switch and they'd have to join to our club.

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And there's plenty of people that can articulate our position on Zionism

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and on the Rapture perfectly.

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And then they pretend like they just don't understand it.

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Why? Because then they'd have to switch.

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Go to Matthew 23.

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We're right there.

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I mean, you don't even have to turn the page, probably.

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Look at verse 7.

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This is what the Bible says, and greetings in the markets.

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Let's keep that in our mind. This is the context. Greetings.

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Greetings in the markets. And to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. So he's saying not to do this stuff.

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Not to have a greeting in the market to be called a Rabbi, Rabbi.

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He says, but be ye not called rabbi, for one is your master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren,

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and call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your father which is in heaven.

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So what's the context here in Matthew 23 that in the market someone would not call you

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father as a greeting, saying father so and so. And then it's like what does the Catholics do?

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They go to their priest and they call him father so and so when they greet him.

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They do exactly what this is saying.

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And then you tell them that.

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You say, hey, look, it says here to call no man father,

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like you're doing to your priest, you're calling him father.

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And this is what they say.

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Well, what do you call your dad?

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What do you mean, what do I call my dad? I call my dad, dad.

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Well, do you call your father, father? Yeah, I call him father.

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But you know what? I don't, I'm not like hanging out with my dad in the marketplace greeting him.

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I'm living in his home and he's my biological father.

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And you know what? Jesus didn't say, don't call your biological father, father.

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He said, don't call the religious leaders in the marketplaces.

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Don't greet them with this title of father.

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Because we have one father, which is God the father.

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And he says, don't give that title an greeting and a salutation to someone that doesn't deserve it.

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Does he say here we can't describe a father?

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Does he say that you couldn't tell someone who your father is biologically?

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No. But again, what do Catholics do?

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They pretend to not understand what you're saying

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because if they were forced to answer the question, they would realize we're guilty of this verse

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and we don't apply this verse anyway.

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There's no way Catholics apply this verse.

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There's not a person...

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Show me a person on the planet

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that Catholics want to call Father

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and they're not calling Him Father.

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Show me a person on the planet

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that Catholics could be calling Father

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but they're choosing to apply this verse

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to not call a man Father.

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And notice that the Bible didn't even say

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certain people, it said call no man Father.

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There's got to be some people in some context that are never supposed to be called father.

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What is it? A religious leader is never to be greeted with the title father as his title.

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And you know what? You never see that ever in the New Testament.

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You never see someone coming up to the apostle Paul and saying, father Paul,

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father Peter. You don't see them talking to each other in that way,

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never addressing. How do they address each other? Brother Saul.

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They say brother so and so. They never say father.

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Why? Because one is your father, which is in heaven, which is God the father.

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But again, the Catholics pretend not to understand because if they did,

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if they're forced to answer the question, they would say, you're right,

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we don't apply this verse in any meaningful way.

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And you're right, we do call all of our priests father.

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And that is the context of what Matthew 23 is saying.

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And that was about the Pharisees who were not saved.

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I guess our priests are not saved and we're not applying the Bible

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because we don't believe the Bible.

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But why would a Catholic say that?

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He wouldn't.

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So therefore, he pretends and not understand.

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And he says, oh, do you call George Washington a forefather?

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Hmm?

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Yes, I do call him a forefather.

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But guess what?

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He's a biological father to many people that live in America.

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And he's one that fathered our nation in many ways.

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So it's a description of who he is.

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But you know what?

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If George Washington came out of the grave

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and stood right in front of me, you know what I wouldn't say?

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Father Washington.

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I might call him president.

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I might call him George.

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But you know what I wouldn't call him?

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I might call him Freemason.

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You know what I wouldn't call him?

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I wouldn't call him Father Washington.

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But can I say, hey, George Washington is a forefather.

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He's a father of our nation.

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Absolutely.

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Can I call my dad at home a father?

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Yeah, but how is that a violation

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of in the market greeting people?

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You're already with your dad at the store.

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You don't need to greet him while you're at the store.

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You're already with him.

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This is not what this is talking about.

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And of course, they pretend not to understand.

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I preach into the choir.

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I don't know.

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Let's go to Hebrews 3.

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I'm just going to make a few last points.

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There's so much more I would love to say on this.

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It just pisses me off how much people just pretend that I understand.

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Here's one.

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How about cops pretending like they don't know what the definition of soliciting is?

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and apartment managers pretending like they don't know what soliciting is.

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Apparently our church van today went out and was getting harassed.

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They were trying to arrest Ben or something, I don't know.

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Said something about 9-11, I don't remember what they said.

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But it was from years ago, they had a picture of him, I don't know,

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passport or something, I don't know what they had.

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But they were saying, hey, criminal trespass warning, we're going to arrest this guy.

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It's like, look, we weren't selling anything.

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We're giving away the gospel for free.

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And look, it's already been ruled and judged on that we can do this.

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But again, cops pretend to not understand what the definition of soliciting is.

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They pretend to not understand what we're doing. Why?

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Because then they would have to reconcile with themselves that, hey,

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they're probably believing the gospel. Because isn't it interesting that cops

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in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, that they're enforcing this law differently?

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Look, when we go into the black ghetto, I've never had the cops call to me for soliciting, ever.

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Ever. You know what it is? It's the white neighborhood.

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And of course, why? Because the white people aren't receptive to the gospel,

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because they don't want to believe in salvation by free.

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And think about it. They don't want to believe salvation is a free gift,

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so they falsely accuse us of selling stuff.

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because they want to pretend like they don't understand.

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They're pretending like they don't understand the gospel's free

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because of them, salvation's by works.

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So they're like, oh, they must be selling stuff.

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They're selling their works or whatever.

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Why? Because they are a false prophet themselves.

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They don't want to deal with the gospel themselves.

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They don't want to accept the free gift.

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Because here's the thing, if they believed it was a free gift,

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they wouldn't accuse you of soliciting.

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And if they understood it was a free gift, they would be saved and they wouldn't be calling the cops on you.

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It's because they believe in works and they're projecting their own wicked false religion onto you

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and then falsely accuse you and try and get you in trouble.

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Look, I've gone soul-witting and down for worse since I've been the pastor here weeks, every week, every week.

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Tons, tons of times, tons of times.

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You know where I got the cops calling me the most?

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One neighborhood, there's one neighborhood where I've been harassed by cops the most,

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more than all the other neighborhoods combined.

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You know, it's called white settlement.

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It's just like, what's wrong with white people, you know?

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It's just frustrating.

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They just, you know, by and large, many of them are not receptive.

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They're not interested in the gospel.

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And it's frustrating, you know?

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It's just like, you don't, when you go so many, you don't want to see a white neighborhood.

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You don't want to see the rich HOA.

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You don't want to see the caring apartment managers.

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Now again, I'll still give the gospel to the white guy, you know?

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And it's like, I don't want to become Europe-lite though.

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And you know, it's just really frustrating

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how they pretend not to understand.

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It's also annoying how people,

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when we bring up anything in the Old Testament,

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whether that be about sodomites or anything,

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they're like, oh, are you wearing mixed fabrics?

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No.

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Number one, no.

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But number two, I can, and it's fine.

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Because there's a difference.

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It's like, oh, do you eat bacon?

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You little bacon-eating Zionist, you?

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It's like.

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I mean, it's so frustrating how they want to sit here and say like,

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oh, you have mixed fabrics, you know, or whatever.

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You don't believe the Bible.

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It's like, of course I believe the Bible.

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That's the reason why I could wear mixed fabrics, even if I wanted to.

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It's an inferior garment, and I'm not going to do it, but I would anyways.

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They're like, oh, well, your polyester is mixed fabrics.

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It's not even what the Bible's saying.

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It's not...

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We're not wearing a garment of linen and woolen.

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But you know what? They have the NIV because they have the wrong Bible,

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and the wrong Bible does say, you know, weird stuff or whatever.

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So they just pretend to not understand what we're saying.

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There's one more that I wanted to bring up,

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and then I want to read Hebrews chapter number three.

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But there was this false accusation,

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and sorry, I'm bringing up again,

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but Tommy McMurtry accused our church

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and the churches of the new IFB

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for teaching some weird, disgusting, perverted thing.

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And he like tried to put this all on Pastor Mejia for the most part, but he was basically

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trying to teach that the new IFB is green lighting abominable acts to be done in marriage

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that would only be done between sodomites or something like this, and acting like that

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we literally teach this.

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And it's just like nothing could be further from the truth.

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And he's trying to blame like something that Pastor Mejia said on a podcast,

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which where he's not green lighting this and not endorsing this whatsoever,

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and not saying that this is cool at all. And he's pretending to not understand what he actually said

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so that he can just lie about us and lie about our church and lie about everyone. Why? Because

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he doesn't want to deal with the fact that he's a wicked railer that's accomplishing nothing for God.

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and he wants to be the king of the anti-Zionist movement.

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And guess who really is kind of the king of the anti-Zionist movement?

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Pastor Mahia.

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I mean, let's just be honest, the guy is knocking out of the park.

01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:13.900
Why is he bringing up, oh, he went on this really popular big podcast

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where tons of people are watching him,

01:33:15.900 --> 01:33:19.900
and he's trying to not understand what he actually said,

01:33:19.900 --> 01:33:22.900
because he just wants to throw shade at people.

01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:26.440
and falsely accuse them so that he can then what?

01:33:26.440 --> 01:33:31.240
Become the king of the hill, the king of the anti-Zionist crowd or something like that.

01:33:31.240 --> 01:33:37.160
And again, look, there are going to be tons of people that will pretend to not understand what I'm saying,

01:33:37.160 --> 01:33:42.520
what our church is saying, things that have happened over the course of our church.

01:33:42.520 --> 01:33:45.640
Just know that they have a bad and wicked heart.

01:33:46.600 --> 01:33:55.040
There are people that have left our church and they just pretend to not understand what's been going on or what we do or what we believe.

01:33:55.040 --> 01:34:03.040
Why? Because they don't want to be confronted with the fact that they're wicked, that they've walked away from God, that they're not right with God,

01:34:03.040 --> 01:34:09.920
that they're backslidden, that they're not getting people saved, that they're not saved themselves or whatever their issues are.

01:34:09.920 --> 01:34:12.360
And they're just pretending to not understand.

01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:14.600
Don't you fall victim of this?

01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:19.200
Don't you get sucked into lies and slander and railing?

01:34:19.200 --> 01:34:22.700
And don't you allow your wicked evil heart to give an excuse

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so you also then start pretending not understand.

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And look, the Bible brings this up.

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Look at Hebrews chapter 3 verse 8.

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Harden not your hearts as in the provocation

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and the day of temptation in the wilderness.

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

01:34:36.600 --> 01:34:39.800
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said,

01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:40.600
They do all the work.

01:34:40.600 --> 01:34:44.160
all way err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

01:34:44.160 --> 01:34:46.820
So I swear in my wrath they shall not enter in my rest.

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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing

01:34:51.280 --> 01:34:55.200
from the living God, but exhort one another daily.

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While it is called today, lest any of you be hardened, notice this, through the deceitfulness

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of sin.

01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:08.560
for we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast

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unto the end. While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,

01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:19.600
as in the provocation." So we started the sermon with the Jews, how they harden their hearts.

01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:22.000
and they close their eyes,

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lest they should see,

01:35:23.700 --> 01:35:25.000
and lest they should be converted.

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And of course, from a salvific perspective,

01:35:27.300 --> 01:35:28.000
this is important.

01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:28.900
And I think that, you know,

01:35:28.900 --> 01:35:30.000
for the vast majority of our church,

01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:31.400
we're already saved.

01:35:31.400 --> 01:35:34.200
But look, Hebrews is now addressing a saved crowd.

01:35:34.200 --> 01:35:35.300
We see how that...

01:35:35.700 --> 01:35:40.260
could be in an unsaved group of people, but can also be in a saved group of people

01:35:40.260 --> 01:35:44.500
where they also decide, I don't really want to hear what the Bible has to say anymore.

01:35:44.500 --> 01:35:48.340
I don't really want to be confronted about what the Bible is saying.

01:35:48.340 --> 01:35:51.620
You know, why do people stop wanting to go to a hard preaching church?

01:35:51.620 --> 01:35:53.940
It's because they don't want to be confronted on their sin.

01:35:54.400 --> 01:35:56.100
Why do people not like hard preaching?

01:35:56.100 --> 01:36:00.000
Why do they want the preacher to get up and not say the hard things,

01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:01.900
not say things that are uncomfortable,

01:36:01.900 --> 01:36:04.300
not have the red hot preaching,

01:36:04.300 --> 01:36:07.100
not bring up things that make them uncomfortable?

01:36:07.100 --> 01:36:09.600
It's because they don't want to deal with their sin.

01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:13.600
And they allow the deceitfulness of sin to cause them to choke,

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it chokes the word,

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and then they're not fruitful,

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and they don't actually do anything in their lives.

01:36:18.800 --> 01:36:20.800
And look, there's so many people...

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that will just pretend, they pretend to not understand why church is important.

01:36:27.240 --> 01:36:32.600
I've had, you know, one of my pastor friends, you know, he had a church member in there,

01:36:32.600 --> 01:36:39.720
free to thrive, soul winning, has been there for years and years and years and years,

01:36:39.720 --> 01:36:43.640
and now they say, oh, we don't need to go to church,

01:36:43.640 --> 01:36:47.880
because God doesn't care if we go to church or not. God doesn't punish us anymore.

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God's of grace, you know.

01:36:50.400 --> 01:36:52.900
That's a boogeyman to say that church is important.

01:36:52.900 --> 01:36:55.500
It's a boogeyman to say that we need church anymore.

01:36:55.500 --> 01:36:56.400
No, no, no.

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You are sinful, and so you're pretending to not understand

01:37:00.500 --> 01:37:03.600
why church is important, and so you just don't want to go

01:37:03.600 --> 01:37:05.400
and you make up excuses for it.

01:37:05.400 --> 01:37:08.200
You've hardened your heart against the things of the Bible,

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and you don't want to hear what the Bible really says on this issue.

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You want to just, you know, people just, they want to drink alcohol,

01:37:15.140 --> 01:37:18.020
and so they just don't want to go to a church like ours,

01:37:18.020 --> 01:37:19.860
and so they just harden their hearts,

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and they just allow the deceitfulness of alcohol.

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Look, alcohol will ruin your life!

01:37:24.460 --> 01:37:26.620
Alcohol will destroy you!

01:37:26.620 --> 01:37:30.700
They just pretend to not understand what the Bible says when it says,

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don't print marks on your body,

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because they just want to get a tattoo so bad.

01:37:36.100 --> 01:37:38.460
And look, the tattoos look stupid!

01:37:39.100 --> 01:37:42.100
I've never looked at a tattoo and thought like, wow, that is so cool.

01:37:42.860 --> 01:37:44.700
Man, I wish I had that one.

01:37:44.700 --> 01:37:49.100
Where can I get this awesome, you know, Chinese inscription on your arm here

01:37:49.600 --> 01:37:51.140
that you don't even you're not even trying.

01:37:51.140 --> 01:37:53.780
You've never been to China. You're not Chinese.

01:37:54.640 --> 01:37:58.040
You maybe eat Panda Express every once in a while.

01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:02.080
But I'm like, why in the world do you just want this on your arm so bad?

01:38:02.700 --> 01:38:07.500
And even worse, getting a tattoo of the Bible or a Bible verse on your hand.

01:38:07.500 --> 01:38:08.000
Yeah.

01:38:08.700 --> 01:38:11.740
You know, it's just they pretend to not understand what the Bible's saying,

01:38:11.740 --> 01:38:14.460
to excuse their sin because of the deceitfulness of their sin.

01:38:15.180 --> 01:38:20.620
They just want to drink and commit fornication and do drugs and get backslidden and be selfish

01:38:20.620 --> 01:38:23.820
and chase money and pretend like what I'm saying doesn't matter.

01:38:23.820 --> 01:38:25.420
Pretend like hard preaching doesn't matter.

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Let me tell you something.

01:38:26.380 --> 01:38:28.220
Hard preaching is why people don't sin.

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Being in church three times a week often is keeping people accountable to where they won't go into sin.

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There's some people that if they went to a church where they could drink they would just do it,

01:38:38.700 --> 01:38:41.700
but because they go to a church where they're not allowed to they just don't.

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They would, but they're not.

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And then they pretend like they don't understand why church even matters.

01:38:46.700 --> 01:38:51.700
They pretend like there's people that if they didn't come to the evening service they wouldn't go so many in the afternoon.

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And so they just pretend like they don't need to go soul hunting because then they would be like,

01:38:57.300 --> 01:39:00.300
well, if I went soul hunting, I might just go to the evening service, you know.

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I might as well just hang out a little bit longer.

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There's, there's, look, there's so many different areas where this could apply.

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But what is the admonition to us?

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Obviously, there's the brain dead liberals and the idiots and there's the fools and those.

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We should just not debate with them.

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A man doesn't heretic after the first and second admonition reject.

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We also should do our best to not become like them,

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to where we ourselves allow the deceitfulness of sin to trick us into saying,

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you know what, I'm just going to pretend not to understand what the Bible is saying on this issue.

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I don't want to hear what the Bible has to say on that.

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I don't really want to know what the Bible means by this.

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You know, not forsaking the sembling of ourselves.

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I don't really want to know what that means.

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I don't really want to know what printing marks on our body means.

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I don't really want to know what it means that, you know,

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men should not put on a woman's garment and women should not put on a man's garment.

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I don't want to know what that means.

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There's so many people in my life where I said,

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okay, what is Deuteronomy 22.5 even saying?

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It's like, I don't know.

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You do know.

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You just want to pretend like you don't know because you don't want to actually do it.

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You know what you should never have an attitude of?

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I don't know what the Bible is saying.

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You should be like, I want to know what the Bible is saying here so I can apply it.

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And the people that don't know, it's usually that they don't, it's not that they don't know,

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is they don't want to apply it. They don't want to do it.

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Because they're allowing the deceitfulness of sin to choke the Word

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and cause them to not believe it.

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But what is the Bible saying?

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Don't harden your heart. Stay soft.

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You know what that means? If the pastor gets up and he preaches a sermon, it's about you.

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Just take it.

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Don't harden your heart.

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Be soft to the word of God.

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Say, you know what, I needed that.

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I want that.

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I need more of that.

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I need church.

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Don't sit here and think I don't need church.

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Look, I don't care who you are, myself included.

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If I got out of this,

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if I stopped going three times a week,

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I guarantee I would be way more sinful.

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I guarantee I would get in all kinds of trouble

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and cause myself way more problems.

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I need church.

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I need the Bible. I need soul winning.

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And I know that you need it too.

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Don't sit here and pretend like you don't know what I'm saying.

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Don't sit here and pretend like you don't need hard preaching.

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Don't sit here and pretend like we don't need each other.

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Don't sit here and pretend like you don't need to read the Bible.

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Quit lying to yourself.

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Quit hardening your heart because you want to excuse your laziness,

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your selfishness, and your sin.

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And you know what?

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Get on your knees humbly and ask God to allow your heart to stay tender for the things of God.

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And quit pretending like you don't know what I'm saying.

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Makes me mad.

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You know, this stupid Tommy Mercer said our entire church is gullible.

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when he ordained a flat earther.

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Wow.

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And it's just like the irony of this stuff.

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It's just palpable.

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But, you know, at the end of the day,

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hey, we need to make sure that we don't get prideful and arrogant

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and allow the deceitfulness of sin to turn our hearts into rocks

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and then we look like idiots and fools.

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Because you know why people believe stupid stuff?

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There's some pride or issue with their heart.

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and they're not willing to hear what the Bible says.

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We should always be willing to humble ourselves and hear what the Bible says and realize we

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need church, we need the Word of God, and not to allow ourselves to be like the children

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of Israel and just have an evil heart of unbelief and depart from God.

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We want to be steadfast.

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That's what the text told us.

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Let's close in prayer.

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Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your Word.

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Thank you for giving us so much instruction and for being so clear.

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I pray that we wouldn't excuse sin by saying, oh, we don't understand, or we don't see,

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or we can't hear it.

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I pray that you would just stop people from having such lame excuses, from stop pretending

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to understand.

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I pray that you would help us to just soften our hearts and just do what the Bible says.

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That we just...

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take church attendance important, that we would take preaching the Word of God important,

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we'd take hearing the Word of God as important, we'd take soul winning as important,

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we'd take staying away from sin as important.

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I pray that you would just help us to have a humility and a heart that wants to hear

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and then not just allow excuses to pretend that we don't understand.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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Amen. For our last song, let's turn to page 38.

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Hallelujah we shall rise page 38.

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Hallelujah we shall rise.

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

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In the resurrection morning when the trump of God shall sound,

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we shall rise.

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Shabbat!

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We're all dismissed.