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Alright, good morning. Good to see you this morning.

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Would you please turn in your Bibles to the book of Ephesians, chapter 5.

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The book of Ephesians, and chapter 5 this morning.

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As is our custom, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1.

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Please read along silently with me. Ephesians, chapter 5.

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In Ephesians chapter 5 the Bible reads,

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Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children,

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and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,

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and hath given himself for an offering and a sacrifice to God

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for a sweet smelling savor. But fornication,

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and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as

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becomeeth saints.

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neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks.

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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,

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hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

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Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

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For ye were sometimes darkness,

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but now are ye light in the world.

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Walk, ye children of light.

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For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness

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and righteousness and truth,

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proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

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but rather reprove them.

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For it is a shame.

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even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light,

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for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,

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and Christ shall give thee light.

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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

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redeeming the time because the days are evil.

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Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

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speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your

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heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our

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our Lord Jesus Christ.

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submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord.

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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,

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and he is the savior of the body.

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Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ,

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so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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Husbands.

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Love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,

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that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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that he might present it to himself a glorious church,

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not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing,

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but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.

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He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth

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and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church. For we are members of his body, of his flesh,

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and of his bones. For this call shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto

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his wife, and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ

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in the church.

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Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself.

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And the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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Brother Alex, will you pray for us?

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Amen.

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Last week I preached a sermon called New IFB Hot Takes.

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Well, I'm preaching a part two to that.

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And basically what a hot take is in kind of modern slang

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is a strongly stated controversial or unpopular

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opinion that is shared quickly often to spark debate

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or get attention.

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Thank you.

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And what it means is that it's a bold and provocative statement.

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It goes against what most people think.

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And in reality, most of what Christianity teaches from the Bible is controversial.

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And it's against what most people think.

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So it doesn't really matter.

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You can just open up the Bible and put your finger on one of the pages

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and what the Bible says is going to be controversial to people.

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In reality, so pretty much the whole Bible is a controversial take.

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to most people. I mean, and the last topic I covered last week was

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just simple salvation. And I mean people have been burned at the stake

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and all manner of evil done to them over that doctrine alone.

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Because I mean in the Dark Ages the Catholic Church was burning people at the stake,

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boiling them in oil, in all manner of whatever evil devices they could think of

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to murder people

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and kill people. They did that because they refused to drink

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wafer and drink alcoholic wine in order to

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to be saved every single time that they were at mass.

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Or to dare to translate the Bible into a language that they could understand instead of listening

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to the Latin Vulgate or whatever Latin language that they couldn't understand.

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Because they wanted to keep people stupid, they wanted to keep people ignorant, and anything

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that went against the Holy Mother Church was completely condemned.

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So if you had a child and you didn't take them down to the church to get baptized,

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in other words, a little teaspoon of water put on their head or whatever,

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then you were haunted down the next spring whenever the snow thawed or whatever,

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and they'd come and kill you.

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So...

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I mean, salvation alone is, by faith alone, is a hot, controversial take by Christianity.

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And most of the time when someone says they're a Christian, when we go knock on their door,

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we find out by just a couple questions that they're not really a Christian because they

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don't believe what the Bible actually says about salvation.

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So, and so...

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It's also, so a hot take is something that might be quickly shared right away without

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a deep thought or research or careful planning, but I would say that that's where, that doesn't

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apply to us.

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Because obviously we believe everything that's based upon scripture.

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But I mean, I think that in place of that, we would just say that we don't really care

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what people think about what we say.

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But a lot of churches would be careful to say some of the things that we say and maybe

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not put that in a Sunday morning message.

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They might hide that on a Sunday evening message if they even have a Sunday evening church

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or a Wednesday message even though they might not even have that.

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So a lot of times churches won't even preach the stuff that's in the Bible.

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They'll just skip the gnarly parts.

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They'll skip the parts that are controversial like breaking.

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teeth out and dashing infants against the wall and all that kind of stuff.

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They don't want to preach that kind of stuff because it's too controversial.

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They don't want to run off the Sunday morning glories that...

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I just want to come to church and hear a Joel Osteen type feel good sermon.

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And so again, I'll probably just maybe preach a few of these sermons until I get bored with

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it and then I'll move on to something else.

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So if it's not your taste or whatever, then just hang on and I'll get past it, all right?

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So and it also might be an attention seeking thing.

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And I don't really see anything wrong with something being attention seeking because

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when Jesus preached

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Did the things he say draw attention?

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Of course they did.

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Do you think he knew in advance that they were going to draw attention?

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Of course he did.

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I mean, he's the son of God.

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He knew that what he, he knew that Judas was gonna betray him.

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I mean, he knew when he picked the disciples, he was picking the right disciples.

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He knew certain things were gonna happen.

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He knew that he was gonna go to the cross.

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He knew the night before, because he was sweating these great drops as if there was blood.

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He knew that the things he was gonna preach were gonna get him killed eventually someday.

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But yet he preached them anyway.

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So for people to say, well, you shouldn't have.

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preach that because you knew that that was going to cause some controversy.

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Well, everything's going to cause controversy if you preach it.

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But look, you have no business being in a pulpit if you're not afraid to preach something

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that the Bible says.

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You just don't have any business being there.

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If you're going to skirt the message, if you're going to shy away from preaching the whole

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counsel of God as the apostle Paul said that he did, then you just don't belong in the

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pulpit.

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You don't belong in church.

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You should just sit down and let somebody else do the preaching then.

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So, a common example of something that would be a hot take would be summer is the absolute

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worst season.

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Now, if you live in Texas, it actually probably is not a hot take.

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It's actually just the truth.

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Or if you live in Arizona, you know, those times of the year, if you're just not a warm

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weather person, I would say that winter is probably the best time of year to live in

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those places.

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Or pineapple belongs on pizza.

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This is the eternal debate, right?

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or...

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The most famous movie of the year was actually boring.

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People will cause a tumult about things like that.

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And again, we get accused in our types of churches,

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the new IP type churches,

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of just bringing up things just to simply cause controversy.

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Like preaching a sermon against homos during Pride Month.

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But I mean, we're supposed to preach in season

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and out of season.

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So we're not supposed to just avoid Pride Month topics

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during Pride Month, no, we preach them in season

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and out of season.

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So right now it's out,

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and then just maybe the signs of the times.

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Maybe because homosexuality is so popular in our culture,

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that to preach something like that would be caboo.

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That's why the other churches in this town won't even preach against it,

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because they're afraid of the backlash.

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Or they won't put it online because they're afraid of the backlash.

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Or they preach really soft sermons so they don't offend

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somebody who has a queer cousin that, you know, that they don't, they,

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oh, I let them babysit my kids. Why are you preaching about that?

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Well, maybe you shouldn't let them babysit your kids. How about that?

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You know, maybe we're supposed to look, shepherds are supposed to warn against the wolves.

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That's why we preach stuff like that.

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So that you are warned to stay away from things like that.

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And that's why we preach these hot take type sermons.

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So anyway, to move on with the sermon here, just a brief.

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Recap of what I preach about last week was the role of silence of women in the church and look I didn't just

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Try to seek these out just to try to jump on women or whatever last week

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But it just was the way that it went all right and then so I talked about

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Let women keep silence in the churches first Timothy chapter 2 first Corinthians chapter 14 verse 34

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Let your women keep just silence in the churches so essentially women are just not supposed to

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Talk or preach

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during the church services.

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It's okay to sing.

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Some people take this too far and just try to

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fight you on every ounce of this.

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Of course women are allowed to sing in the church services.

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It doesn't say don't sing.

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It says they're not allowed to what?

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They're not allowed to speak.

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So they're not allowed to speak during the church services.

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And what it's talking about is preaching.

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or saying amen and stuff like that.

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So, and that's a controversial topic

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because people always want to put women in the pulpit.

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They always want to make them preachers.

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And it's supposedly controversial, you know,

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but that's not what the Bible teaches.

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The Bible teaches it's not controversial at all,

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it's just the truth.

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So, and then of course, there's submission in marriage.

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And the Bible says that wives are supposed to submit

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yourselves to your own husbands as unto the Lord.

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And so if you're supposed to obey your husband like you would obey the Lord, that's a pretty strong statement.

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So in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 22.

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And so again, that's controversial today because they're like, oh, that's outdated, you know.

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It's equal rights. It's women's lives and all this other stuff.

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Well, I mean, but look, the Bible doesn't change with the times.

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The times need to change with what the Bible says.

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And Christians, you know, have this mentality.

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They might have had that mentality before they became a Christian, but once you become

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a Christian you need to allow your mind to be transformed by the renewing from the Holy

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Ghost, from the new man, from reading your Bible.

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If what the Bible says is different than your mentality, than your worldview, then you need

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to change your mind.

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That's just plain and simple.

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You need to change your mind.

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Now, I did cover this topic last week, but one topic I didn't cover was moving on from

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like, I didn't really cover the domestic violence portion of this that I wanted to cover.

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And my belief on domestic violence is that I adopt the rules of kindergarten.

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Who went to kindergarten that wasn't homeschooled necessarily?

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Okay, so lots of people in here.

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All right, what was the first rule that your teacher

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came up with on the first day?

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Keep your hands, feet, and all objects to yourself.

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I mean, that's what I go for in my marriage.

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That's a rule that I think that should apply.

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You don't put your hands on each other.

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You don't throw things at each other.

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You don't kick each other.

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You don't slap each other.

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You don't punch each other.

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This is just something that should be just a general rule for your marriage.

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I don't believe that you should hit each other.

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You don't, I mean, do you just let your kids hit each other?

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No, you don't let your kids hit each other.

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And so in your marriage you should not do this.

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This should not be a practice from either you or her.

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And so it just seems like some sort of a controversial topic, but to me it's not controversial at

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all.

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And you're like, well that's not a Bible verse.

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Well how about love your wives as you love yourself?

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Do you like to go around hitting yourself too?

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Just like, you know, just walk around.

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What's that, the guy's name, I forgot what his name is,

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but he's in movies where he's always hitting himself

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and flipping himself over and, you know,

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look, we don't hit ourselves.

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Now you're like, well, you can discipline your body.

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Okay, that's valid, I would say that.

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But you're withholding things from yourself, okay.

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I understand that, that's valid.

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But that's not whipping yourself with a whip.

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hitting yourself with a paddle,

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because that's what Catholics do

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when they're doing their little pilgrimages or whatever,

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and over in the Philippines where they crucify themselves

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on crosses and stuff like that, is that what we're doing too?

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No, we shouldn't be doing that.

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I mean, if you think you need to crucify your wife on a cross, then you've gone too far.

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Alright?

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If you've got a paddle on that says, you know, Daddy on it, then you're...

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I don't know.

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People can go too far with this stuff.

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Right?

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And so I just simply don't believe that it's right to hate your wife.

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I don't believe it's right for your wife to hate you either though.

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Like it goes both ways.

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So there's just, and I think that sometimes people just make this the, you know, these

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things like these things are just happening in Christian marriages all the time.

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And look, to some degree it might take place.

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Violent things happen in marriages sometimes.

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It might be just a nudge in the hall or a, you know, a push down or maybe someone does

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get slapped or hit or something like that.

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But look, you know...

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or is alcohol involved or drugs involved,

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that could be the case and you're not in your right mind.

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Does that need to end the marriage though?

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I look, let me just make myself really clear right now.

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The Bible says that the reason to get divorced

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is from fornication.

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So anything that you're gonna try to bring up to me

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is not valid besides that.

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Matthew chapter five, Matthew chapter 19.

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Now, sometimes people do get separated.

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The hardest of our hearts causes us to do things that we should not do.

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But that doesn't mean that it stops people.

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It doesn't stop people from getting divorced.

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People get divorced all the time.

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Now, look, I'm not saying I'm not going to forgive you, or that God's not going to forgive

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you if you've got a divorce, but the Bible does not give you any indication that that's

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okay.

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Jesus in the New Testament.

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Like, back that up.

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So, if you're like, well, yeah, but he slapped me.

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Does that give you a reason to get divorced?

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No.

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Oh, but she, you know, she threw something.

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She threw my favorite coffee cup and broke it on my head.

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Does that give you a cause?

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Did you say, except for the fact that she breaks

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your favorite coffee cup on your head?

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No.

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But look, again, you shouldn't be putting your hands

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on each other.

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Just period.

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Now, and here's the other thing, it's like, people say, well, sticks and stones may never hurt me.

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Or, sticks and stones may never break my bones, but words never hurt me, or whatever, right?

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Look, words do hurt people.

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And, look, God says that he will kill people for the things that they've said about him.

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God kills people for it. He throws people into hell for it. He punishes them for all eternity

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for the things, the hard speeches and things like that. The foward man, the one that is just

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constantly railing against God, he throws them in hell for it. And look, people all the time get hit

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in the face.

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for things that they just antagonize people over and over again.

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I mean, I'm sure you've seen videos where someone just is running their mouth

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and they get popped in the face. I'm not saying it's right,

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but it does happen. And look, we can push

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our spouse too far and to say, well, there's no

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never reason why you would ever hit. Look, people lose their tempers.

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They do. And women lose their tempers too. Let's not forget

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that there's two people in the marriage.

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And women lose their tempers and hit men all the time.

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But see, men aren't gonna call the cops and go,

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hey, my five foot two wife, she just won't quit hitting me.

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That doesn't really happen.

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But I've seen videos where women are just beating their men up

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and they just kind of sit there and take it, you know.

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But obviously women can't hit hurt men as much,

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but can they hurt them with items?

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Yeah, I mean, a cast iron skillet will do some damage.

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You know what a cast iron skillet is?

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I used to have a crew leader at my work, he'd say,

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you do that and your wife will hit you upside the head,

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wake you up in the middle of the night

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with a cast iron skillet to your head.

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And he would say that all the time, it was kind of funny,

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but it's a saying out there because it probably has happened.

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The old cast iron skillet, that's the equalizer.

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You wake up with one of those being smashed

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in your face in the middle of the night,

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I mean, you're not even gonna remember what happened.

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So look.

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It shouldn't be happening by either person.

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And do I think spousal discipline or whatever is weird?

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Absolutely, I think it's weird.

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Do I think it, I mean, obviously I'm not going to try to jump in people's marriages or whatever,

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but I do think it's weird. I think it's bizarre.

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I think taking Bible verses...

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and trying to apply them to that is bizarre.

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Here's one I've heard that I thought was very strange.

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Because look, there's not a lot talked about in the Bible about this subject,

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but obviously as Christians we're not supposed to be violent.

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I mean, did Jesus tell us to be violent towards people that are persecuting us?

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No.

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We're supposed to do good unto them.

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And even if someone hits us, we're

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supposed to turn the other cheek.

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Right?

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We're supposed to pray for them.

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How much more your own wife or your own husband?

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And look, I'm not saying that we should just

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be these battered people that just

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continue to put up with stuff.

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But we kind of do, in a way, need

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to put up with it to the point where we're not

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going to get divorced.

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But I mean, look.

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What I'm about to say is pretty controversial, and I've really thought about this before

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I say it.

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So, don't get all mad and leave, alright?

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But I'll say this.

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I want to make sure I'm saying this the way that I thought of it.

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There may be a context where, you know, hitting, slapping your wife might be acceptable.

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I don't know, like what? Is she literally trying to kill you?

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I mean, to slap the sense into her, to like, you know,

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knock the gun out of her hand or whatever,

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I mean, to knock the axe out of her hand

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that she's trying to chop you up with,

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I mean, in that context, is that okay?

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I mean, I would say so.

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She's literally trying to kill me.

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How about literally caught in the act of adultery?

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You walk in and adultery's happening.

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I mean, the guy, death.

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Like, literal death.

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But I mean, because the Bible talks about it, that the rage of a man through jealousy

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over such a thing, that even though he buys you all these presents and tries to apologize

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and apologize, then nothing is going to satisfy him but your death.

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So it's a big deal.

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And so what, if she catches a smack for that, like, I mean, to me, that's the lightest

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affliction.

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And look, I'm not saying that you should just go around smacking your wife for any reason,

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but there could be some suitable reasons.

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How about she just killed all your children?

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Like that weirdo in Boston or whatever, in Massachusetts.

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You walk in, she's killed all your children.

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I could see a smack coming from that.

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or pushed a nudge out the window?

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I don't know.

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Is everybody trying to say he did it?

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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if he did it.

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I mean, push her out the window anyway.

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But, you know, I don't think he did,

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but I could see why he would.

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So, also, are you trying to snap her out

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of some sort of a trance of insanity, you know?

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You're running from the tribulation police or whatever.

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And she's just freaking out, not knowing what to do.

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She's just like, get a hold of yourself.

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We gotta go.

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Grab the kids.

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Let's get hit.

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You know, something like that.

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I'm not saying like a punishment type of a slap.

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But I can see it happening the other way around too.

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So look, you can get mad about me saying that all you want.

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But there's probably some instances where things

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might be necessary to do.

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And I can see a woman doing the same thing.

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But women like to claw and bite and pull hair.

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and stuff like that too, alongside of it and scratch.

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Yah!

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You know, keep the truck.

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Or whatever, you know.

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But what I'm saying is that marriages can withstand a lot of things.

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They really can.

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And we should be able to withstand a lot of things in marriage.

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So, you know, before you ruin your whole life,

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before you ruin your children's life,

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You know, maybe have a cool down period.

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Maybe think about things before you just go to the next level.

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Before you call the police.

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Before, I mean, I'm talking about isolated incidents.

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I'm not talking about like some O.J. Simpson style stuff.

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Because look, she left him and he still cut her head off.

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Basically.

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So, I mean, if you're dealing with someone like that,

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he's a psychopath.

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Maybe he should have moved more than two miles away from his house.

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But I mean, obviously I'm not blaming her.

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You know, she should have gotten away from him because he was an evil person.

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But I mean, she's getting away from him and has a new boyfriend.

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So I mean, I don't know.

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I don't know what the exact, that he was acquitted in a trial, which of course...

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all the jurors admitted that they only let him off because he was black.

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So, I mean, there's that to think about.

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But, I mean, I don't know, man.

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There's just some reasons why things might be necessary.

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But here's the verse that I was told is condoning of slapping women.

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Isaiah 19, 16.

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which I disagree with this, but this is what I was told.

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Isaiah 1916, in that day shall Egypt be like unto women,

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and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of Hosts,

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which he shaketh over it.

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So, Egypt shall be like unto women, and shall be afraid of the fear of the shaking of the

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hand of the Lord of hosts, and he shall shake it over.

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It's like, I don't know, it's like he's keeping his pimp hands strong or something?

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Is that what they're thinking in this?

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I don't know.

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It's bizarre though.

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I don't know about that take. I think it's I think it's people that like to slap their wives that might come up with something

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stupid like that

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But I disagree with that so I think it's stupid

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And I think if you want to slap your wife you're gonna find some kind of gotcha verse in the Bible

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That it's gonna come up with that, but what is my take personally? I don't think you should slap your wife

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I don't think you should hit your wife. I don't think you should paddle her like she's one of your children

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I think it's weird. I think that I don't think

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that women should hit men either.

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Because there is like this not equalization

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when it comes to violence with women hitting men.

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It's just allowed.

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How many women actually get in trouble

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for brutalizing their husbands?

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Because there are some women in this world that are bigger than their husbands and they can hurt them.

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Or they just do it and the men don't do anything back because it's just not...

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Because look, most men are programmed early on, you don't hit women.

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You don't hit women. You don't hit women. You don't hit women.

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And if you do, all the men around are going to beat you up if you do it.

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Um, Remy when he was... when he was... he had broken... what?

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What did he break?

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He broke something.

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He had a cast on because of it.

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And this girl was tormenting him at school

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and she stabbed him with,

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she was stabbing him with the pencils.

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She poured water down his cast and ruined his cast.

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But she was like, I mean, she stabbed him with a pencil.

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That's assault, brother.

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I mean, that's, there's no,

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there's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

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So I went the right way, went to the principal.

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They said they'd take care of it,

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but she just kept escalating.

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And I went to the vice principal, kept escalating.

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He was just getting picked on because he came from a different school,

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a different place, and then he was just kind of the new kid.

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That's what people do.

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Kids are terrible.

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Kids will just do this kind of stuff because they're just little punks,

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especially a lot in public schools like that.

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But they can do it in churches too.

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But anyway, he was kind of getting tormented by a couple kids at school.

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And I just finally told him, hey man, if she does that again,

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you know, you're allowed to do something back.

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And it doesn't matter who does it.

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If someone puts their hands on you,

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do not just let them keep punking you like that.

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And he finally just, he didn't hit the girl, she stopped.

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But this one kid, like, pushed him out of line

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when he was trying to get a drink of water, and...

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He took them down and thumped them a couple of times,

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and the principal suspended him.

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And he called me after I'd already called multiple times,

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and they did nothing, did nothing, did nothing.

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And he's like, I was like, he's like, well,

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what are you going to do about this, Mr. Thompson?

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I was like, well, first of all, I'm

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going to come pick him up from school.

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He was suspended for like three days, I think.

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I said, I'm going to take him out to Dairy Queen

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and get him any treat he wants.

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That's what I said.

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And I did.

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I said, I'm gonna take them to do a bunch of fun stuff

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for the next three days.

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And I said, you failed to do your job.

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I said, I told him.

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I said, if this kid picks on you one more time,

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then you need to take care of business.

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And that kid left them alone.

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They didn't like each other for the rest of the year

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and they were both on the same wrestling team.

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And when they'd wrestle each other,

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they'd like wrestle each other extra hard.

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But they never did punch each other again or whatever.

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So sometimes there's a time when you have to defend yourself.

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It's all insane.

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But you can't just let people.

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you know, continue to assault you like that all the time

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without standing up for yourself.

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Now as Christians, we are supposed to turn the other cheek.

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We are supposed to, but there is a time

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when we should defend ourselves, okay?

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And if your wife is literally trying to kill you,

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you should probably try to defend yourself.

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And I'm not saying like beat her up

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and pulverize her or something,

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but I'm just saying that there's times

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when you might have to defend yourself

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in any situation in life.

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And, you know, we talked on Thursday night, I was talking about how that Kentucky Baptist

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had that split or whatever, if you told where your kid was hiding or whatever.

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But I mean, they weren't able to defend themselves.

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So if they're hiding, yeah, don't tell where they're at.

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But like, how weird is it that they would be like, oh, yeah, you got to tell them to

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let your kids get killed or whatever?

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like.

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What are you talking about?

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But Brother Bill was telling me after the service that the CIA still brings that up

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in training because they want to hire honest people in the CIA, I mean, supposedly.

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But I'm sure they do to a certain extent, but they don't want you to be so honest that

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you're going to do the wrong thing and let all these agents out in the field get killed.

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So I mean, they're just a time when you have to, you know, when what you're doing is seemingly

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going against.

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what is told to do.

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But sometimes the commandments are,

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I wanna be careful while I say this,

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sometimes the commandments,

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you gotta go by the spirit of the law,

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versus, if the commandments are harming you,

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then obviously you're not gonna tell

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where your kids are hiding,

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because they're not martyrs, because.

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they died because you told them where they were at,

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then it's just you're an idiot

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for telling where your kids were hiding.

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That's what it really boils down to.

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But sometimes you do have to defend yourself.

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If somebody's just trying to kill my family

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in a parking lot,

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it has nothing to do with me being a Christian.

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I'm gonna kill every single person

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that's trying to kill my family.

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So there's a time to turn the other cheek,

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and there's a time to not turn the other cheek.

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That's all I'm saying.

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Which I'm veering off of what I was talking about originally.

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So I know I kind of got on this for a long time,

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but if you just follow the kindergarten rules,

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were you able to follow them in kindergarten?

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Well, you should be able to follow them in your marriage.

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And obviously, there's a lot of things

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that happen in marriage, and things can get heated.

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Words can be said that really hurt.

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And look, women know how to push your buttons.

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Don't say that you don't.

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And there are women out there that are like,

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come on, just hit me.

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Yeah, come on.

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And they'll just be saying all kinds of stuff.

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Look, it happens.

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But men can be the same way.

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But we shouldn't be trying to push.

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Why would you push somebody to try to hit you?

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Why would you do that?

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I mean, do you really do want them to hit you?

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I mean, because sometimes people have a breaking point.

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Women have breaking points, men have breaking points.

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So what I would just say is don't do that.

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Don't push yourselves to get to that point.

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You know, you can't just walk away.

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You can't just go into another room and stop fighting.

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That's probably the best thing to do because I think that,

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you know, me and my wife have been in some fights and I think that the best time we work things out

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is when we just stop fighting and we both go in other rooms and then after a while we just cool

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down and then cooler heads prevail. Have you heard that term before? Cooler heads prevail.

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It really is true. You know, sometimes it takes...

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You know, 30 minutes. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes. Sometimes it takes a few hours.

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But cooler heads do prevail. You forget why you're even mad.

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So it doesn't have to get to the point of violence, is what I'm saying.

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So, but I mean don't try to use Bible verses to prove why it's okay to slap your wife.

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That's just retarded.

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You know, if you think that slapping your wife every week and every time she says something

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in public that you don't like, every time that you feel like it, you pull out some paddle

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that has her name on it or something or your name on it, that's just weird.

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It is weird, okay?

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And you're never going to win them over by doing that.

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You're just not.

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And you're like, well, who says I need to win them over?

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Look, I'm not, you can do what you want.

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I'm just telling you my opinion at this point.

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I think it's weird.

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Am I still coming through?

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Yes.

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Amen.

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Because I don't know, it's kind of quiet.

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But.

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You know, and if you're like,

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well, I don't think it's weird, Pastor Thompson,

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I think I should just be able to paddle my wife

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whenever I want, well, then okay.

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Well, then you just bear the consequences of those actions.

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So if you think that's gonna lead to you

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having some great marriage, then,

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but again, wives, you can tear down your own house

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with your own hands.

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You can be retarded too.

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By just constantly just nagging your husband to death, you think that's going to help things?

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You think that's going to make him want to be the husband that you want him to be?

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It's not.

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It just makes him dig in further.

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It makes him mad because you're trying to usurp authority over him.

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Look, the husband is the head of the wife.

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It's not the other way around.

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So stop doing that.

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And sometimes they just can't help it.

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But they do it.

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And then it just makes the husband's man.

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To not feel respected is the worst thing for a man.

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To not feel like you're, you know,

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you're like, well you just want to be in charge.

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Yeah, because I am.

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You're like, well, you don't like my opinion?

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I like your opinion just fine,

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as long as it's not telling me what to do.

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I'm the boss.

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As long as that is respected, then it's okay.

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Look, God's gonna hold me responsible

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for the dumb actions that I make,

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but as long as she's obeying me, my wife,

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then she's in the clear.

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The storm clouds aren't gonna reach her,

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they're gonna reach me.

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And then I'm gonna get punished,

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and then I'm gonna be like,

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oh man, I should do this better.

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I should do something different.

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But we have to allow God to work

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within our marriages and within our lives,

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and he's gonna be the one that corrects me.

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Because my head is Christ.

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And then Christ is the head of the man, and the man is the head of the woman.

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And that's how it works.

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There's a chain of command.

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The father is over the son, you know, and the son is over the man, the man is over the

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wife.

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Not the man is over the girlfriend, by the way.

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Don't get weird, guys.

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Until you put a ring on it, you're not her boss.

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Just, okay, let's move on.

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All right, severe judgments.

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warfare. This is another hot take that is in that people get upset about and

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they'll come after Christians about. So in the Bible God said to just nuke

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everybody and kill them all. Men, women, children, infants, sucklings, all their

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even all their animals. And that's where Peter really gets upset because they

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care more about animals.

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than they do about human beings, which is very bizarre.

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But let's look at some verses here.

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Deuteronomy chapter 21, Deuteronomy chapter 21.

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All right, you can breathe again.

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I'm over that part of the sermon.

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I don't care if you agree with me or not.

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I mean, I'm just trying to be sensible about it.

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If you just follow the don't hit each other rule,

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then you're doing really good.

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So it says if a man has a stubborn and rebellious son,

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that will not obey the voice of his.

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Wait, am I in the right place?

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Yeah, for man of a stubborn and rebellious son will not obey the voice of his father

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or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him they will not hearken

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unto them.

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Then shall his father and mother lay hold on him and bring him unto the elders of the

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city and unto the gate of his place.

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And they shall say unto the elders of the city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious,

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and he will not obey our voice.

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He is a glutton and a drunkard, and all the men of the city shall stone him with stones,

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and he shall that he die.

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So shalt thou put evil in the world.

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from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear." So okay so this is a severe

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judgment that people get upset about and say, yeah God said to just kill your

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children. Is that what it says though? No it says if they refuse to obey you've

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punished them already, you've tried to correct this child and they're just like

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incorrigible.

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which is what they said about Babe Ruth.

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His parents took him at seven years old

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and put him in a boy's home because he was incorrigible.

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And like that, he lived his life like that.

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Guys eating 80 hot dogs in a day.

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I mean, he's showing up drunk to the game

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and still knocking home runs.

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Imagine how good he would have been if he would have just

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kept himself in shape.

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I mean, he was already smashing home runs.

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He was the first person to just do all that.

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He was a great athlete, but he obviously

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suffered from alcohol, being an alcoholic, a drunk, I guess,

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is what you would call it, and a glutton.

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But his parents were right about him.

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But he was so good at baseball.

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that didn't matter. But, you know, he probably, they probably would, in the days of the Bible,

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they would have just taken him to the elders of the people and he would have just been stoned to

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death. But, you know, I mean, how many seven-year-olds are drunkards?

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I mean, I'm sure it's out there.

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I'm sure it's out there.

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But this is a controversial topic.

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But Jesus said if someone smites their parents,

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that they should die the death in the New Testament.

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So did Jesus still agree with that?

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Of course he did.

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He's the one that came up with the rule.

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I mean it's not like Jesus is a different God or that he's different than the God of

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the Old Testament.

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He's the same God.

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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Is it a hot take?

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Well it seems to be a hot take.

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But look, your kid has to be pretty bad for you to do this.

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And I'm sure that this was not enacted very many times in the Bible.

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Because look, we have a lot of grace towards our children.

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But what about Jeffrey Dahmer?

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I mean do you think that he should have had the grace that he had?

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Probably not.

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I mean, when they found a head in his closet,

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I mean, don't you think that that probably should

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have been the breaking point?

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I mean, maybe turn him in.

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I don't know.

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How about finding all these animals in his basement?

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I mean, he took taxidermy to another level.

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And then they're finding all kinds

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of stuff in his apartment of horrors that he was doing.

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But I mean,

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you

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There comes a time when someone's too far gone and they cease to be your little baby boy or your little baby girl and

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This was God's remedy to take care of these types of things because we don't want those people living on in society

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Do we I mean there's serial killers out there

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And I'm sure that people knew that something was off about them.

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Something was wrong with them.

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Obviously, sometimes we don't.

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There are some that are really good at hiding and some that aren't.

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But the world will say that this is a very extreme...

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Christians will say that this is extreme.

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Christians attack us when we preach this stuff.

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You're like, that's the Old Testament!

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Pastor Johnson, don't you know it's the Old Testament?

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Yeah, but is it still a moral law though?

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Look, if you're, and obviously there's no rules in this country about that, but there used to be.

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There used to be in the laws of Connecticut, and Connecticut is one of the most liberal places in

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the world now, but I mean, there used to, all these rules used to be in place in the state of

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Connecticut. So it's just gone super mega liberal now. How about this one? How about 1 Samuel 15,

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verse 3? 1 Samuel 15, 3.

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So this would be a severe warfare that people don't like.

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And these atheists will get up and say that God's

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the most bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser,

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homophobic and all the, what was that guy's name?

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Richard Dawkins, who just gets up and rails,

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and then he says that mild pedophilia is okay, so whatever.

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I wonder why he thinks that because he's a pervert.

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But 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse number 3, the Bible says,

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Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not, but

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slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Now, obviously Saul had a little heart for these people because he didn't do what he

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was supposed to do and that's why he got in trouble.

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He got in trouble by God because he didn't do this.

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And then old man Samuel had to come and hew ag-gag into pieces before the Lord and the

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Lord was happy with Samuel.

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So obviously this is right.

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And look, who are we to judge what God says is right and wrong?

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But Amalek had somebody that lived on into the Persian kingdom and tried to destroy all the Jews later on.

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And had he just taken care of business that day, that man wouldn't have lived on and been this evil,

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wicked person that was going to destroy all the Jews on the face of the earth when the Gentiles were in charge.

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Yeah, he was supposed to do that.

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Why?

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Because God didn't want that person to live on in history so that he'd come and try to

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kill everybody.

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But God obviously sent a savior then.

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Esther actually saved the whole empire by going to the king when she was afraid to do

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so that could have caused her life.

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But she had to do that because Saul refused to do his job back then.

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So he didn't kill everybody.

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So obviously, that error escaped.

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because Saul refused to kill everybody.

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So obviously, it wasn't just Agag that escaped.

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It was one of his children escaped.

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Because, what's the guy's name?

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Haman.

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Haman made those ropes, or those big, tall, 50-foot galos

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to hang Mordecai and kill all the Jews.

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But he was called Haman the Agagite.

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And so sometimes we don't understand like why God asked things certain things to be done

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Well, I mean he didn't want Haman the ag guy to live later on in history and try to kill his people then so God has

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To intervene in a different way to make things happen. So

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anyway, um, so that's why he said that and because they were wicked because amulet

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was wicked. They came out and attacked the children of Israel

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for no reason when they were coming out of Egypt when they were weak and

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didn't have a lot of food and water. They had millions of people,

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little children. They had little children.

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that they didn't care about slaughtering.

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They had women and old people

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that they didn't care about slaughtering.

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They had their own cattle and stuff

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that they didn't care about slaughtering.

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So what does God do?

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Well, he says, well, how about I just pay you back

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when it's time for me to pay you back later on,

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and I'm gonna have the same judgment happen to you.

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So that's how God works.

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You know, he's gonna make, he's gonna pay you back in kind.

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the way that you treated his people,

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he's gonna treat you later on.

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So if all those people get killed,

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he's just paying you back for the things

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that you did to them.

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So I mean, and look, there's tons of stuff like this

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where capital punishment,

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there's tons of capital punishment crimes.

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But in the Bible, smiting your parents

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is a punishment that is met with death.

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It is a capital crime.

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Blaspheming the name of the Lord is a capital crime.

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You know why people just go around blaspheming God's name all the time?

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Because it's not a capital crime anymore.

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I think people would stop doing that as much as if they would just put to death because

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of it.

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But it's like some people's favorite thing to say.

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I don't care what words people say, but those words, they make me upset.

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And I will say something to people when they keep doing it in front of my presence all

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the time.

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It's like, could you just stop?

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I don't care what you say, but then they're there to say if you accidentally say like the sh word or whatever

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Oh, I thought you were a Christian. It's like dude

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I've heard you say some of the most horrific things about God or use his name in such weird ways

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And you're gonna get on me about something a four-letter word for a human excrement that there's like multiple words for that aren't cuss words like

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Anyway, I'm getting off on different track here. All right. Well, how about

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I got room for a couple more here. Let's see.

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Now, there's some preaching where people have preached sermons and had hot takes and people

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freak out.

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I talked about Jesus, I think last week I talked about how Jesus, or I've talked about

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this before, how Jesus claimed to be the I Am and that the Jews pick up stones to stone

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now.

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said that he was God.

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People tried to kill him.

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But I've already preached about that recently,

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so I'm not going to go there.

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But he also said you had to drink his flesh,

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or eat his flesh and drink his blood in order

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to be his disciple.

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And people left him for that.

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That was a hot take, which of course was a spiritual thing

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that he was talking about.

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And then Stephen.

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OK, so Stephen preaches this sermon,

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and nobody has a problem whatsoever with what he's saying.

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Go ahead and turn to Acts chapter number 7.

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Stephen preaches a sermon and he's filled with the Holy Ghost, the Bible says, so nothing he's saying is wrong.

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He kind of just gives a history of Israel.

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And they're loving the sermon until he gets to their sin and they don't like it.

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So look, just preaching on sin is going to upset people.

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Preaching the things that they've done wrong. They're gonna get upset so you can just preach the you can preach history

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And people aren't gonna get upset

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We've got men in our church who like to preach about history and things that happen to I like to preach about stuff like that

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Too, it's kind of interesting

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But you then the moment you start preaching about something that someone's doing that's sinful

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They might gnash on you with their teeth

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You know they might they might get upset and people get killed in the Bible for the things that they preach

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And so why would it surprise us if people don't try to kill us for the things that we preach sometimes?

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And believe me, there's things that I preach where I get death threats and I get people threatening to kill me.

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I've had it happen many, many times.

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And so have my friends.

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And so have other laymen in our church that don't realize that the things that they say you can be attacked for.

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And, you know, it's kind of a...

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It's the first time ever it happens to you

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and people are just, you know, your phone won't stop ringing and things like that.

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It can be a little freaky, but then after a while it's just like, yeah, yeah, whatever.

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It doesn't bother you as much.

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But Stephen found out what happens when you tell the Jews that they killed Jesus.

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And they still get mad about it today. They try to just claim that they didn't do it, but look at Acts chapter 7 and

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Stephen's a deacon

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Let's look at verse. Let me get there real quick Acts 7

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Verse number 51 so he's preaching about the history of Israel. They're all into it and

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Actually, let's go to first 40.

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Let's go to verse 45. It says,

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which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus,

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this is talking about Joshua,

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into the possession of the Gentiles whom God

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drove out before the face of our fathers

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unto the days of David.

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They're probably like, amen. Yeah.

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They drove out the Gentiles who found favor before God

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and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

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But Solomon built him in house, howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

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as saith the prophet. Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will ye build

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me, saith the Lord? Or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things?

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ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised and heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost,

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as your fathers did, so do ye." Eert! There's an abrupt change in the sermon here.

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Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?

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And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one, of whom you

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have now been the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the dispensation

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of angels and have not kept it.

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When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with

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their teeth.

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But he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory

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of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God and said, Behold, I see the heavens

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open and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

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And they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon him with one accord."

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They just closed their ears so they could stop hearing the powerful sermon that he was

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preaching.

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They were so upset.

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individuation part one of our

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refuses about Schilling

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refuses about Schilling

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refuses about Schilling

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organisations who remand man

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while outside your encourage

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their

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behaviours as many As

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individuals who continue to

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existing

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incident at his

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Chief executive officer

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refuses about Schilling

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yourselves if there are

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differences between

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periods or

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!'ll

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draft course

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recognise if

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It says, and they cast him out of the city and stoned him and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet

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whose name was Saul.

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This is of course Saul of Tarsus.

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And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying,

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Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not

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this sin to their charge. And when he had said this he fell asleep.

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So

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Stephen

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was martyred because of him preaching that the Jews killed Jesus.

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And they're trying to make laws and pass laws today where if we say that in America,

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that we could be in trouble for those things.

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And they're trying to sneak it through legislature by saying that you can't do that on college campuses

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and that you have to go to this document on this website

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and it's a Holocaust remembrance website or something.

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So it's really bizarre.

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But, I mean, this is how things get snuck through.

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This is how pork bills get snuck through in Congress and the Senate by...

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It can't... you know, when you see a bill pass, it's not just that bill pass.

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They sneak a whole bunch of other stuff inside that bill,

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and things that we don't even realize are snuck into it.

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And then we find out later on how much that bill actually cost Americans.

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Because it's always got to be some bipartisan passing.

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It's always got to be, we're going to give you this,

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but you've got to give us that type of stuff that happens.

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But you preach stuff like that, and the Jews

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are going to come after you.

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And guess what?

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We've had our run-ins with the ADL

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and with the Southern Poverty Law Center, who, by the way,

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is in a lot of trouble right now.

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But, you know, seems like the ADL's not really getting attached to that very much.

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I mean, the ADL gets talked about, but they kind of took a lot of the stuff off their

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websites or hid it from people's eyes, but they have like pages dedicated to our church

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and other churches like ours and had a whole, you know, profiles of the preachers.

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But they kind of took that off for a while.

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I'm sure it'll come back.

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But the people always say, oh, they're a hate group

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from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Yeah, well, guess what?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center was paying millions of dollars

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to people to lie and to cause trouble

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and to attack all these different organizations.

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And of course, we're on the hate side or whatever.

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We're on the hate watch or whatever.

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But what about all the other hate groups?

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that aren't on it.

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They're just attacking whites, they're attacking white people, and they're attacking Christians

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that believe the Bible basically.

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They're attacking the Catholic, they're watching the Catholic Church too, which is, I don't

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know why, but they're just attacking Christianity in general too.

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So I mean when people say that, now it's going to have like an addendum probably attached

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to it.

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People are, I'm glad that that's been exposed, but what about the ADL?

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You know, the ADL has also, you know, they kicked a lot of our preachers off of YouTube,

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you know, and crippled our YouTube for a long time and it still barely gets added to very much,

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but I mean, we had to put it on private for...

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a long time and we're still barely over 5,000 subscribers, but we were dipping under 5,000 and going back and coming back forth back and forth

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But you know we're we're put down the memory hole. I mean I was

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Threatened to be fired over

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Sermons that weren't even on YouTube anymore. They had to find those clips

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The the sermon I preached in Florida

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Isn't even on YouTube you have to really search to try to find that and so it's not like because they're like well

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What if people at our work just happen across upon this video?

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It's like nobody's gonna just happen upon this video

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You have to search for it, and I don't think you can find it on YouTube, and I was like yeah

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I can't even find it so

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But you know, it's a hot take to say that the Jews killed Jesus.

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It really is.

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Because they'll be like, oh, well that was that generation.

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Well, you know, that's why is Babylon going to be destroyed years later?

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That, you know, because Jesus can hold any generation accountable.

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And obviously in the end times, it's going to be the worst generation of all times

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for those types of things.

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And the Jews that killed Jesus, don't you think that would be the worst?

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generation of Jews that have ever been on the planet?

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I mean, I think that it is.

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And the preceding generation after was

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a persecuting the prophets and the apostles.

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And trying to stop the early church from forming.

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Of course he's gonna destroy Jerusalem

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and destroy the temple and destroy the people that kill them.

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

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So, I mean, think about these types of sermons too.

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And I'm gonna finish up right now, but.

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things that I'm just going to call some sermons real quick that were preach I'm not going

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to turn to the verses but I mean sermons will get you just newt in the in the Bible it happens

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all the time Jeremiah prophesized the destruction of the temple what happened though the temple

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got destroyed the first time too didn't it but what were they doing smacking them in

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the face, throwing them in the outhouse.

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Jesus preaches, you know, he destroys hometown pride

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He goes to his hometown and they try to throw him off of cliff

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for preaching that the Gentiles are more spiritual than they are.

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And that he's going to have to go to the Gentiles because they won't hear him.

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They didn't want to receive him.

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And so they thought, isn't this the carpenter's son?

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Like, aren't his brethren around us?

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Like, who does this guy think he is?

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And they literally tried to throw him off a cliff

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for his first sermon back in his hometown.

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So and then Paul threatens

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You know, the local economy, because of all this preaching,

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people are just getting rid of their Diana shrines,

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their Diana statues.

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And then they, well, that's a hot take too.

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He's preaching against.

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idols and then so everybody starts to get rid of them and then they cause this big riot to happen where everybody's just shouting great is

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Diana the Ephesians and then Matthew 21 Jesus

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Preaches against the Pharisees and says that that the

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Kingdom of God to be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof and what do the Pharisees do?

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That's when they really get upset and and really plot harder to kill them

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I mean, they're always plotting to kill them, but that's when they they realize

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that what Jesus is saying is against them and then that really upsets him and

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then he just goes on a scathing rebuke and the whole sermon in Matthew chapter

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23 is directed point-blank at the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the

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lawyers and anybody else that wants to say something he's like what about us

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why are you getting going on us he's like well won't you also lawyers he's

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like just ripping their faces off

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Because look, anything that gets preached is a hot take.

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Literally.

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It seems like.

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It's not like there's just all these messages

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to receive and gladness from people.

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So in closing, I'll just say this,

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that we need to be able to receive what the Bible says

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and whether it's a hot take or not.

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Is it true, though?

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Is what the Bible is saying true?

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You know, and obviously I gave some of my own opinions.

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You don't have to agree with my opinions all the time.

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I'm not saying you do.

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But does my opinion make sense that you shouldn't

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put your hands on each other?

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I mean, I think it does.

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Does it jive with scripture?

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Like, should we be hitting people?

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I mean, obviously there's a time and a place

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where it might be necessary in some actions

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that have to happen like that.

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In self-defense and, you know, I brought up some other stuff.

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But in general, should we be hitting people?

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No.

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Does God like violence?

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No, he doesn't.

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So we should just avoid that if we can.

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It's just that they say that violence is a vicious cycle.

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Of course it is.

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And we should avoid being violent in our marriages, obviously.

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But of course, spanking our children is something that we need to do.

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But should we be committing violence on them?

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Should we be punching them and kicking them and throwing them downstairs and stuff like that?

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Chaining them to things?

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Putting them in closets and cages?

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I mean, people take this kind of stuff, people are like,

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well, this is what happens with these fundamentalist families.

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What fundamentalist families?

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cult real actual cults weirdos

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Psychos yeah that might happen there, but like if I saw one over someone's house, and they're like oh, yeah

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We just gotta let the children out of the cages. I'd be like

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I'd be calling 9-1-1

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That's weird that's going too far

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And I think that if you're a man, and you put your hands on a woman like that

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Like, where you're just punching women in the face, your wife, uh,

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Hey honey, how are you? I put a cookie for dinner for you.

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And you're like, oh really? Why do you want meatloaf tonight?

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Fix yourself! Fix me something! Fix me a steak!

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That's bizarre! You've got a problem!

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And look, I don't think that that's even happening.

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Honestly, in a real Christian home, that is not happening.

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So let's not always take everything to some extreme

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that's not really happening.

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But what about this?

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But what about that?

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What about just, well let's just be normal.

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What about that?

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What about quit worrying about the what ifs all the time

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and just focus on your marriage,

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focus on your spouse,

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and what you can do in your marriage to make it better.

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Because that's what we really want, right?

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We want our marriages.

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to be good.

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Amen.

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We want our marriages to be without violence.

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We want our children to be raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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And we want them to grow up and be saved.

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And look, we don't want them to see violent outbursts in our home.

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Because it does affect them.

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Okay?

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If they see mom and dad are always hitting each other and yelling and screaming at each

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other, how good, what good is that doing?

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I mean if all they see in home is, you know, we're acting all cool at church but at home we're just a mess.

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Look, you need to fix that situation.

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Make it better. For your children.

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If you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for your children.

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And, you know, as Christians we should try our best to have a good marriage.

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Look, it's not always perfect, it's not always flowers and roses.

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Marriage can be hard and difficult, I get that.

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But we should have control of ourselves, control of our spirits as much as possible, and we

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should enact those things into our life.

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Hey, you're like, well hey, I have some things that are out of control in my marriage.

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Well, it's not too late to fix those things.

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You can fix those things.

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Work on it.

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Fix it.

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Identify the problem and fix it.

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And then your marriage will be good.

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And you know what?

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Walking up and punching your wife in the face

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is not how to fix it.

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You know, hitting your husband and acting a fool

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is not gonna fix it.

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Bossing your husband around and nagging him all the time

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and trying to get him to hit you is not a way to fix it.

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Or just even not trying to get him to hit you,

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but just nagging him all the time about stuff,

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that's not how to fix it.

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Stay within the rules. I preach this at weddings all the time.

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Don't cross the streams.

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Ghostbusters, if they cross the streams, it's a bad thing and things blow up or whatever, right?

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Which is a dumb show, okay? I get it.

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But when you cross the streams in your marriage,

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things go wrong.

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When you're trying to run the house,

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women are supposed to guide the house, obviously the husband's in control of everything ultimately,

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but let your wife guide the house.

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You know, give her some slack to guide the house.

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And if she's failing in an area, then say,

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hey, you know, I wish you would do this better, or whatever.

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I mean, you don't have to raise hell just to, you know,

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and you can say things nice.

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You know, you don't have to always just

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be a jerk about everything.

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But again, I'm not trying to intrude in your home.

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You can do things however you want.

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But if you want your marriage to be good, look, love your wife.

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Love your wife.

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Sacrifice yourself for her.

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And again, we all have bad days, but we should never judge our spouse based upon their worst day.

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And you shouldn't judge your spouse on their worst day.

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We all have our worst days.

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And look, we should have grace in our hearts towards our spouse.

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We should love them. We should forgive them.

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And sometimes we just have a bad day and we should just chalk it up to that and just forgive them.

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Just like Christ forgave the church.

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Just like Christ died for the church and He gave Himself for it and He expects us, and

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of all people, who should we forgive?

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We should forgive the one that we married and said, till death do us part.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, we thank You so much for the Bible.

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We thank You so much for the truth of Your Word and we ask that You just help us.

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in our daily life and Lord that we would not just think things that are controversial in the Bible

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we should just look at what the Bible says and agree with it and believe it and receive it

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and change our mind. We've been wrong in our past and wrong about the things we believe.

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We would change our mind and believe what the Bible says and we thank you for the families in

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this church. We thank you for the husband and wife relationships. Thank you for all the children here.

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I pray that you just bless this church and bless us as we go about our day and in the

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service to come.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.