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page number 55 when the roll is called up yonder.

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Page number five five, let's sing it together on the first.

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When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more,

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and the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair,

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when the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,

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and the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.

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called up yon-

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It is called a P-

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up yonder I'll be there.

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On the bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise and the glory of

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his resurrection share.

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When his chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies and the roll is called

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up yonder I'll be there.

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When they're all

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When the rule is called up yonder

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I'll be there.

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Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun.

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Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care.

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Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done

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And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there

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When the roll is called up yonder

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When the roll is called up yonder

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When the roll is called up yonder

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When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there

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Amen good scene brother Ryan. Could you have some water prayer?

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God, let you on stage and kids and please get brother Jason and his family back to church soon. We love you in Jesus name. Amen

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Amen our second song is song number 49 meet me there

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Song number 49, Meet Me There.

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Song number four nine. Let's sing it together on the first

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On the happy golden shore, where the faithful part no more,

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When the storms of life are o'er, meet me there.

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When the night dissolves away into pure and perfect day,

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I am going home to stay, meet me there.

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Meet me there. Meet me there.

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There!

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Where the tree of life is blooming, meet me there.

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When the storms of life are o'er on that happy golden shore,

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Where the faithful part no more, meet me there.

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Here our fondest hopes are vain, Dearest links are ent entwined,

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But in heaven no throb of pain.

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Meet me there

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By the river sparkling bright

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In the city of delight

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Where our faith is lost inside

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Meet me there

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Meet me there

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Meet me there

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Where the tree of life is blooming, meet me there.

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When the storms of life are o'er on the happy golden shore,

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Where the faithful part no more, meet me there.

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Where the harps of angels ring and the blessed forever sing,

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In the palace of the king.

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Meet me there.

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When in sweet communion blend heart with heart and friend with friend.

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In a world that narshall and meet me there.

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Meet me there.

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Meet me there.

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the tree of life is blooming, meet me there. When the storms of life are o'er on the happy

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golden shore, where the faithful part no more meet me there.

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Amen. A good scene at this time. We'll have our announcements.

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Welcome everyone. The verse of the week is Galatians 5 verse 16. Galatians 5 verse 16.

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This I say then, walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5 verse 16.

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Service times are 10.30-3.30 on Sunday, 6.30 on Wednesdays.

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Solding times are 12.30 on Saturdays and Sunday at 1pm.

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Salvation were 18 for April and it looks like they were 13 for May,

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for a total of 84 for the year so far.

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Alright, attendance is down below.

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Upcoming events for June is on the 16th will be the homeschool day.

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Just ours for you with Miss Kylie.

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And the June 21st will be the Father's Day.

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Bring a visitor to hear a Father's Day message.

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So looking forward to those.

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Kids, Psalms 59 verse 17.

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If you give them recited, you get a piece of candy.

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Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing, for God is my defense,

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and the God of my mercy.

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That's the verses there.

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Rules are down below. Tithes are down below.

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And still no further birthdays for the end of May.

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We wish to see for June.

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If you have any prayer requests, please let the Thompsons know they will get into the bulletin with that

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Let's turn the Lord in prayer. Holy Father. Thank you so much this day

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Amen. Our next song is song number 256, Look to the Lamb of God.

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Song number 256, Look to the Lamb of God.

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Song 256. Let's sing it out together on the first.

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256.

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If you from sin are longing to be free, look to the Lamb of God.

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He to redeem you died on Calvary.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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For he alone is able to save you, look to the Lamb of God.

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When saints intends and doubts and fears assail, look to the Lamb of God.

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You in his strength shall over all prevail.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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For he alone is able to save you.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Are you a weary? Does the way seem long? Look to the Lamb of God.

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His love will cheer and fill your heart with song. Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God.

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is able to save you look to the lamb of God.

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Fear not when shadows on your pathway fall, look to the Lamb of God.

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In joy or sorrow, Christ is all in all, look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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Look to the Lamb of God.

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For he alone is able to save you. Look to the Lamb of God.

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Amen. Good scene. Brother Paul, could you bless the offering for us?

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Thank you so much for what we have and will always be thankful for the things that we get to enjoy this life for the Lord.

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We all know where we are sinners. We all know what we deserve.

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Let us never overpass that we are all lucky by the blessings that we have in our life.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Good evening everybody.

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Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.

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If you could go ahead and take your Bibles

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and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

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1 Corinthians chapter 13 will be our text this evening and as always here at our church we read

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the entire chapter before the preaching. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 the Bible reads,

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though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity,

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I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.

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And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

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and though I have all faiths so that I could remove mountains and have not charity,

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I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be

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burned and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long and is kind.

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Charity envieth not. Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly,

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seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity,

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but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth

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all things.

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Charity never faileth, but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.

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Whether there be tongues, they shall cease.

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Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

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When I was a child, I spake as a child.

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I understood as a child.

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I thought as a child.

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But when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then, face to face, now I know in part.

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But then, shall I know, even as also I am known, and now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three.

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But the greatest of these is charity. Brother Paul, could you pray for the preaching?

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Brother Paul, thank you so much for saying thank you for allowing us to be here to hear this message.

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No one of you is willing to hear, and as we learn about the three greatest things,

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we shall always focus that charity is the greatest. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen, you guys are there in first Corinthians 13. We're gonna look into verse number four where the Bible says

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Charity suffered long and is kind charity and beeth not charity

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Vaunt upon itself is not puffed up does not behave itself unseemly seeketh not our own is not easily provoked

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Thinketh no evil and the time I turn the night is charity is not easily provoked. Let's pray give other God

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Thank you so much for a wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us God

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Thank you so much for this church God. Thank you so much for everybody that show

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tonight to hear your word preached. God, I just pray for that reason you fill me with your

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Holy Spirit, God, and help me to edify the people in this room. I pray that you help me to do justice

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to such a beautiful chapter and just help me to explain these attributes of charity in a way that

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you would want me to, in a way that pleases you, in a way that helps the people in this room. I just

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pray that you help us throughout this week, God, to apply these things to our heart, God, and help us

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to truly embody this principle and make it the chiefest thing in our life.

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ask all these things. Did you say I pray? Amen. Tell my sermon like I said again is

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charity is not easily provoked and we're here in 1st Corinthians 13 and we're

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getting pretty close to the end of the attributes of charity. In fact we might

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finish them all in this chapter tonight and then we would have the final sermon

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which would have to do with the when that which is perfect has come. That

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would be its own separate sermon.

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is what I put in my notes, okay?

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But the reality is we did not get through

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all the attributes of charity after I actually did it.

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I don't know what I was thinking.

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There's quite a few more or less.

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Not that we're gonna break every single one into parts.

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We're getting through a couple of the attributes tonight.

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But yeah, I was definitely biting off

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way more than I was gonna be willing to chew.

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But this is gonna definitely be like a record-breaking series, okay?

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And this has been a week for a lot of records for me

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because even on Sunday I preached for an hour and 20 minutes,

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which is the longest...

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I've ever preached and it's not even close. I think the second

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Longest sermon to that before that was like an hour and four minutes. So that was like a 16 minute jump. That was quite

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Big it was just I had a problem with reading the verse. I thought it said preach without ceasing but it was

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Okay, so I'd I realized after the sermon I got to close this thing

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Okay, but no, hopefully you guys enjoyed that sermon though because prayer like as I was saying

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I don't want to preach that whole sermon again, but it's a very huge aspect of our Christian walk

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We see it very highly emphasized in the Bible and that

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something that we definitely need to take seriously in our lives.

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But for now, I'm going to try to give you guys a little bit of a shorter

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sermon tonight.

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So we're just going to get right into this with no recap from last week so

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that we can get through these points.

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Uh, and so I can give you a little bit of a break cause I don't want to preach

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an hour in 20 minutes and then give you like another hour long.

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So it wasn't like that.

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So we're just going to get right into it.

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The first point of my sermon is what we saw in the verse.

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Charity is not easily provoked.

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We're going to read that verse one more time.

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First number five, it says, does not behave itself unseemly.

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Seeketh not our own is not easily provoked.

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Thinketh no evil.

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And so there's a couple things I wanna point out to you

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about this specific quality.

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Number one, when it comes to charity,

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when it comes to not being easily provoked,

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that tells us that we need to have control

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of ourself as Christians.

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We need to have self-control in our lives.

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Go to 1 Peter 2, verse number 21, 1 Peter 2,

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and keep your finger there, obviously,

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in 1 Corinthians 13.

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But first, Peter 2 21 to have charity, you have to have self control.

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You have to learn to control your emotions and not just be a super reactionary person.

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And first Peter 2 21 it says for even here on to recall because Christ also suffered

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for us, leaving us an example.

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Yeah.

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So you leave us an example.

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They should follow in steps who did no sin.

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Neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled or vile not again who when

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He suffered.

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threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth

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righteously. And we've seen that all the different aspects

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of charity manifest in many different ways so far throughout

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this series. But this is one I really want to highlight,

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especially because it's very important because I don't

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remember if it was in this same series, if it was a different

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sermon on another Sunday, but I brought up the idea of the fact

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that

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The good things that we do, the loving actions that we do as Christians, they can be erased just like that if we have an ill-timed outburst or if we just lose our temper and just freak out.

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It takes a long time to gain a reputation, to gain a testimony, but you can lose it very, very quickly by just one outburst, by one stupid thing that you do while you're provoked.

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and we as Christians need to make sure that we don't allow our testimony to be soiled or to be

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ruined in front of people because we were easily provoked because as we see in this verse charity

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is not easily provoked and I could think of quite a few ways to apply this I'm only going to play it

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two ways though the first main way that I think this is very relevant to us would be out-soulening

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we should we need to make sure that we're out-soulening we're not allowing people to

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provoke us easily and to get underneath our skin and to you know really piss us off while we're

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out-soulening through the dumb things that they say to try to get a reaction out of us because the

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The reality is that when you give someone a reaction out of soul wanting, there really

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is no profit in it.

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There's no good profit that comes from just freaking out and losing your temper.

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You really, especially when you're representing our church, you need to make sure that you're

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behaving yourself wisely.

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Not just for your sake, but for everyone in this room's sake and most importantly for

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Jesus Christ's sake.

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Because we are ambassadors for Jesus Christ, we represent Jesus Christ while we're out

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soul wanting.

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And if you, you know, and because everybody in this room is.

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soul winner. So I know that you all know that eventually when you go soul wanting enough,

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people are going to say things that gets underneath your skin. It really does happen. Like it's got to

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be something unique because when they just say the hail Satan, I just think that's so stupid. It

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doesn't even, it doesn't even affect me. It's just like, come on, you at least be unique about

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something. But what does tick me off a lot of times when they'll blast in the name of God,

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it really does bug me. It bugs me even when I'm not out souling him because rightfully so,

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because the Bible teaches that blasphemy...

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the name of God as a death penalty in the Old Testament and if we actually still had

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a righteous government when people blasphemed the name of God they would be put to death.

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And I'm sure there's a lot of Fox News batters out there that are like, oh but we have freedom

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of speech in this country. Oh but the Bible doesn't teach freedom of speech isn't that

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interesting? Isn't it interesting how people try to blend the Constitution with the Bible

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even though the Constitution constantly contradicts the Bible?

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And I'm not saying that there isn't some good things in the Constitution, and there's some good aspects of freedom of speech,

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I'd give you that compared to a lot of countries out there.

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But when did we as a Christian nation decide it was a good idea to allow people to blaspheme the name of our God?

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How is that righteous? How does that make any sense?

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Like, I'm not even saying that you have to, like, force someone to believe in God to live here,

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but at the very least, they should not be blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ.

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But that's against freedom of speech, and I would love to go off a rampage trail on that, but I'm going to save that for the fourth.

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July okay the emphasis on Jew in the fourth of July not really okay but that

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it's coming one day that sermon okay so you better just leave your Trump Bible

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at home that day leave your American flag you know pin that you got on your

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tie leave it at home that day fourth of July okay it's coming anyways what do we

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talk about though we're talking about not being easily provoked okay here's

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some of the reasons why you shouldn't allow yourself to be easily provoked out

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Sonning is because

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because number one, when someone is trying to provoke you out-soul-wanting

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and you give them a reaction, you've given them exactly what they wanted from you.

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You've effectively allowed that person to dominate you.

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You've effectively allowed them to win you and gain an advantage over you

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because you have given them exactly what they wanted in the first place if you freak out.

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So don't let people's words bother you out-soul-wanting.

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That's how I got on that rant, was because I was talking about blasphemy.

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Even when someone does say something very blasphemy,

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blasphemous to us out-soul-warning. The best reaction that you can have is no reaction at all. Just shrug it off.

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And that's not to say that that's because like blasphemy is some light thing. I just said it's a death penalty.

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But the reality is that God will give them theirs someday.

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There's every idle word that we speak, the Bible says, will be brought into judgment.

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So someone who's blaspheming in the name of Jesus Christ, they will be punished for that someday.

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But out-soul-warning, our main goal is not to fight that fight. Our fight is to get people

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same. So don't allow things like that to distract you out so willing just let

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Jesus Christ judge that and just shrug it off and just you know let it go for

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the moment. Not because it's good but because we have the goal of reaching

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people in the name of Jesus Christ and reaching people with the gospel. So

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don't give people a reaction out so wanting. The second reason I bring this

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up of why you shouldn't do this as well not to be easily provoked out so wanting

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is because the biblical response to evil

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It's good is what we see in the Bible.

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Go to Matthew 5 verse number 44.

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Matthew 5 verse number 44.

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Very popular set of verses.

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I'm sure I've even brought it up before in sermons.

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But as popular as they are,

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people have a hard time following them.

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Everyone has a hard time following them

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because these are some of the hardest commandments

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to follow in the Bible.

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But it says in Matthew 5, 44, it says,

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"'But I say unto you, love your enemies,

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"'bless them that curse you,

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"'do good to them that hate you,

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"'and pray for them which despitefully use you.'"

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you and persecute you. What I want to point out to you about these verses is that these

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are not suggestions. These are commandments from Jesus Christ because people get this

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idea that everything on that list is like extra credit. Basically, it's kind of like,

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well, you know, it's okay if you render evil for evil, but kind of the better thing to

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do would be to turn the other cheek. No, that's the only thing that you should be doing as

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a Christian. These are not extra credit. These are just the straight up commandments.

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of Jesus Christ. So don't treat them like it is exorguated. Don't treat it like it is

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just some light thing. I mean these truly are some of the most powerful verses in the

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Bible that start on the mount as one of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible. And

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you really need to allow these principles that Jesus Christ teaches here to ingrain

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into your life and to learn to, you know, not allow people to provoke you to do evil

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things. That's the whole point of Jesus Christ saying this right here along with the other

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things that I kind of brought up before.

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But you should also just realize even besides the fact that God commands you not to render

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evil for evil or railing for railing as we saw in 1 Peter, you also just realize that

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not everyone that blasphemes the name of Jesus Christ or that says something mean to you

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out-soul-warning is a reprobate.

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I mean think of the Apostle Paul who's blaspheming Jesus Christ, who's attacking the church,

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he's causing havoc in the church is what the Bible says in the book of Acts.

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And a lot of people would like look at that and be like, oh, well, that's the

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sign of someone's riverb

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of times I mean it can be

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in ignorance, but we should still like realize that there probably are more

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like people out there that, you know, grow up really zealous in whatever

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religion they have or, you know, have something in their life that makes them

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bitter against God, but not every single one of those persons is a reprobate, and

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we should be erring on the side of caution with these kinds of people and

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give them a chance to hear the gospel or at least give them a chance to have a

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good taste in their mouth from Christians so that the next time, you

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know, something bad happens in their life.

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or maybe something you know kind of event will happen in their life that cause them to seek God

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they'll think of Christianity in a good light. Sometimes that's the most loving thing you can do for someone

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just not being easily provoked. That's why it's an aspect of charity.

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The third thing that I was going to bring up about this is go to James

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119 James 119

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is that you should not allow yourself to be provoked out so wanting because again

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you represent Sure Foundation Baptist Church like I was saying earlier I kind of got ahead of myself

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but you need to realize that what you do out so wanting doesn't just affect you it affects

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every single person in this room. People get lost in the moment just think we'll all take the blame

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for it but it's like no you can't just take the blame for it all yourself because when you're

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handing out a card that says Sure Foundation Baptist Church you automatically are putting

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putting blame on the church if you're acting like an idiot.

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out so many. So behave yourself act like a Christian turn the other to you like we're just seeing this passage of scripture

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Do what Jesus Christ says because the last thing we need especially in this era of cameras that are just all over the place out

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There is some Christian holding a Bible in his hand some Christian holding a shirt foundation Baptist Church track in his hand

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Cussing someone out the door

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Flipping someone off at the door and letting that go viral on YouTube. It'd be terrible. It'd be terrible for this church

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It'd be terrible for the rep

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reputation of Jesus Christ. Blasphemy is the name of Christ. So get a hold of yourself because

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charity is not easily provoked is what we see in this passage. And I would just say even besides

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that, this kind of a side note, but because all these, you know, doors nowadays have the ring

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doorbell cameras where they're recording you as soon as you come out, by the way,

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I would also caution you guys to be careful with what you're talking about before you even go up

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up to the door.

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I think brother Sean Harrington preached this sermon about this one time.

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He's talking about how there's like this compilation on YouTube where it's like

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Mormons talking about like really disgusting things as they're coming to the door and it's

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catching on the ring doorbell camera and then you know they come out and they put their little

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dumb Kool-Aid face on like to smile. Hi brother!

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So, but the real I mean that because he looks like what a terrible reputation that is for

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them but we don't want that we don't want to be lumped in with that as Christian so

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just be careful with what you're talking about.

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Like maybe just say the craziest things for the sidewalk at the very least okay say the

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crazy things to the sidewalk if you're talking about crazy things at all while you're out

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zoning. Writing for the door? Not the best idea.

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But what we're talking about, we're talking about not being easily provoked yet.

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Don't allow yourself to be provoked easily out-sawning.

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And stop relying on this stupid excuse that every hothead dut, it says whenever they do

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something stupid, whenever they do something that's ridiculous, they'll just say...

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I couldn't help myself.

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Like, what do you mean you couldn't help yourself?

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Like, are you a child?

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Because children, that's the things that children literally say.

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Like, when Tyson and Karina get in an argument with each other,

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if they hit each other, they pinch each other,

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the thing that they always say when we're like,

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did you hit your sister, did you hit your brother, they'll say...

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Well, they made me mad. It's like that's not an excuse to having an idiot though. Okay, so the same is true

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Also, I'm like someone might make you mad out so many but just saying oh well, they made me mad

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It isn't an acceptable excuse as a Christian when you represent Jesus Christ. Someone made you mad

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Well, guess what turn the other cheek then be long-suffering

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Don't render evil for evil. That is what charity does because charity is not easily provoked

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Like, people, I don't...

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I just think it's the dumbest thing ever though, truly though.

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People are like, oh, they made me mad.

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They upset me. It's like, aww, are you okay buddy?

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It's like, literally what children, that's literally what they say.

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They made me mad!

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What?

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Like, grown men act like this though.

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It's insane. It's like, what do you...

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Even in this chapter itself, at the very end of the chapter,

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even though it's out of the order of the sermon,

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it says, when I was a child, I spanked as a child.

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I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish

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things and what's more childish than just saying I couldn't control myself?

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Get a grip!

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Man up!

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Follow what the Bible says!

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Stop just making dumb excuses for being a hothead.

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So dumb.

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Unacceptable when you're representing this church and when you're representing the name

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of Jesus Christ.

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Charity is not easily provoked.

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Are you guys already in James 119?

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Hopefully you can tell that pisses me off.

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Because it really does.

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I've seen this in multiple times, though.

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It's just going out soloing with people, though.

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I don't remember if I told you guys this story before,

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but there was one time I went to a guy's door.

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Not with anybody at this church, okay?

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This was when I was still in Vancouver

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and the guy doesn't even go to the church anymore.

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But I remember we went to a door and the guy opened up

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and to just be a little bit fair on this guy's part,

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the dude did seem a little sus when we opened the door.

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Like he, you know, instantly had like

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kind of effeminate mannerisms and he had a lisp when he talked.

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Not just quite a lisp, but just he was talking

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in that little girly voice that they always do.

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So I'm kind of like, you know, suspect,

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but my partner, who's the one who knocked on the door,

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as soon as he heard him talk, he just went.

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and walked away and went to the next door.

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Didn't give him a chance, didn't try to preach the gospel to him, didn't try to probe any

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deeper in that situation.

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He just, ugh, and walked away and then I'm left there and the guy's looking at me like

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what the heck is wrong with you guys?

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Like and I had to clean up the mess for that.

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Not acceptable.

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And when I went over to that guy, that's what, that's exactly what he told me.

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He went, sorry brother, I just couldn't help myself.

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I was just looking at him like what are you, you can't help yourself?

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Like I hate fags just as much as everybody else does, but guess what?

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You have to just learn to control yourself.

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out.

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Stop using dumb excuses.

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Stop using just fake excuses to justify your garbage behavior.

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Yeah.

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Charity is not easily provoked is what we see in the Bible.

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And this is what we see in James 1 19. It says,

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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,

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slow to speak, slow to wrath, for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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The reality is that most of the time when we get angry, we don't work the will of God.

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Most of the time when we get really angry, when we get really upset,

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we start to commit sins and we start to do things that we would not do if...

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we were in our right mind, if we were being level headed. That's why the answer to not

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being easily provoked is to just, you know, be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

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Don't just be a hothead and let things just get you from zero to 100 really quickly. You

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know, learn to be slow to wrath because this is how God Almighty himself is as well. So

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don't use this excuse. Here's the thing, I'm going to talk about men.

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Go to John 2.15.

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But this also applies to women too, by the way, okay?

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And women don't usually have,

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I mean, I guess they do have the outburst, okay?

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But usually when I'm thinking of someone

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having a really angry outburst,

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I am thinking of a man most of the time.

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At least in our circle of people,

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I don't really see women just freaking out

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as much as I've seen men do these kind of things.

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But this also applies to women as well,

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even if it's different, okay?

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Because this is what women do on the flip side of that.

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Because men are just like,

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I got so angry, I just couldn't help myself.

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Women do the same thing though.

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They'll be like...

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Oh, sorry, I just got emotional.

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Oh, oh, sorry, I just had hormones.

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That's why I acted that way.

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First of all, we all have hormones.

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But second of all, that's not an excuse anyways.

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Learn to grow up and actually control yourself

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like a woman, okay?

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When he, Paul, because Paul obviously says

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when I was a man, I put away childish things,

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but as a woman, you can also put away childish things as well,

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like not being able to control your emotions.

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It's a lame excuse.

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Oh, I was emotional, too bad.

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Learn to control your emotions, because God...

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I wouldn't command you to do something that's impossible from the Bible.

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And women get this pass sometimes, but you get no pass from me.

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It's ridiculous.

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Don't act like a child.

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Children are the ones that can't behave themselves, that can't learn to control their emotions.

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Like as men and women, we both need to control our spirit at all times.

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Don't just use your, you know, I'm emotional.

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And I know women have the different hormones.

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We have like the 24 hour cycle, the women.

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got like the, I don't even know the 48 day cycle. I know it's not that long.

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I'm just kidding. Okay. But I know that women have the different, you know,

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ranges and so maybe you have different things that, you know,

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make you irritable, but nevertheless,

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you need to realize you are always in control of your emotions, man or woman.

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You are always in control of your emotions,

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passing off your actions because of your hormones or because of your emotions is

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unacceptable though.

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So you just, you know, women need to kind of learn what men do sometimes when we're,

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you know, because men are not really allowed to show emotions or whatever.

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So what do you do as a man when you're feeling, you know, really sad, you want to cry, but

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you can't, when you're feeling really angry, but you can't burst out?

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Here's what you do.

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Here's a lesson for women.

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You just take that emotion and you just bury it.

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And then you just go on with your day.

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And it doesn't, like obviously it's not a good,

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it doesn't go away because it's still heavy in your chest,

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but it's just like, you just don't show it to people though.

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That's what men do.

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And obviously men or women are different,

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but learn to do that from situation to situation.

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As a woman though, it's a good skill to have

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that you can't, it's not good for anybody

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to just wear their heart on their sleeve.

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Truly it's not.

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Learn to, when you do get upset about something,

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when something ticks you off,

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when something makes you want to freak out,

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just still control yourself.

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Anyways and to reel yourself in and to not show people what you're always thinking. That's also another good thing

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Don't show people what you're always feeling

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Does that because when you do that it's just a sign of emotional immaturity. That's what it really is

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It's just that people get a pass for it though, but you should not get a pass

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Just learn to control yourself learn to not make excuses. You guys are there in John 2 verse number 15

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Because the point I made first was that charity is not easily provoked and that, you know,

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tab charity, you have to have self-control. But the second thing I want to point out to you is that

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charity is not easily provoked, but that does not mean that charity is never provoked.

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John 2, 15, it says,

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and when he had made a scourge of small cords,

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he drove them all out of the temple

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and the sheep and the oxen

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and poured out the changers money

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and over to the tables

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and said unto them,

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that soul does take these things hence

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and make not my father's house a house of merchandise.

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And his disciples remember that it was written,

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the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

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So I do wanna balance this point by saying

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that charity is not easily provoked,

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but that does not mean that it's never.

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provoke that there's never anything that should provoke you to anger this is

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just wrong because we see that in this story Jesus Christ is clearly mad he

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clearly is angry in this story and rightfully so because what these guys are

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doing is so egregious that it provokes him unto anger so I want to balance out

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and say that people get this idea that anger is always you know bad hates you

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know leads the path the dark side always right that that's the idea that people

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always have but this is not true

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However...

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Charities not easily provoked. You just don't go from zero to 100 level of anger really quickly you build up

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And you actually even see that in this story with Jesus Christ because if you remember in this story Jesus Christ makes a

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Small cord he makes a small scourge of cords is what the Bible says

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He doesn't just go and freak out right away

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So when he does that it's a good strategy implement anyways when you get really angry

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By him going and do that it allows him to calculate his anger and what he's gonna do to where he's not gonna do something

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That's sinful

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And this is just a good lesson to take from this, that when you are angry, sometimes things

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rightfully do make you angry, but don't be easily provoked.

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Allow your wrath to build up and to where it's a point where it's calculated.

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And we do see this all over the Bible.

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Go to Exodus 32 verse number 10 real quick.

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Exodus 32 verse number 10, we see this with God himself.

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And while you guys are there, I'm going to read for you Psalms 103 verse 8.

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It says.

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The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

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The Bible doesn't say that God never gets angry because the Bible says he's angry with the wicked

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every day, by the way, but it says that he's slow to anger. And in Exodus 32 10 it says,

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now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and

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I will make of thee a great nation. Even God Almighty, who's obviously not, it's not possible

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him to send. But the example that we see from him is that when he does pour out

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his judgment, it's not just as you know, snap, you know, on the, on, on like on a,

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uh, you know, what's it like on a dime kind of thing. Yeah. It's not always just

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like right in the moment, God himself allows his wrath and his anger to wax

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hot and to, and to, you know, that way he pours out perfect judgment and perfect

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vengeance. And we even see this at the very end of time with revelation, right?

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He builds up all his wrath and then when he pours it out,

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they deserve it because he's slow to anger, he's slow to wrath, and he's very merciful.

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So learn from God's example and learn to not to never be angry because it's not possible but to

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be slow to anger and to be slow to speak and to be slow to wrath. Go to Proverbs 16 verse 32,

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Proverbs 16 verse number 32. Kelly, could I get a water again for me please? Thank you.

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Proverbs 16 32 it says he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleeth his spirit than he that taketh

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City so allowing people to provoke you to anger quickly is not a good idea

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Because it allows people to take advantage of you as well

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And I made that point before so I'm not gonna dive too deep into this

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I want to kind of get the next part of the sermon anyways

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But just truly know that charity is not easily provoked and God Almighty himself is not easily provoked

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He's slow to anger so that is

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is how we should be as Christians as well.

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That we should be slow to anger.

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And this is something that I have to work on sometimes.

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Not with people, okay, because this is what's weird.

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I don't get mad at people very often.

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It takes a lot for someone to make me mad most of the time.

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It's objects that I get mad at.

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Truly, I don't know what it is.

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It's the dumbest things.

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It's inconveniences that really tick me off.

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It's like someone says something nasty at me most of the time

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and I'm kind of like, whatever.

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I laugh at when people make fun of me.

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Like when the trolls make videos of me,

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I think it's really funny too.

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It's like, I'll join in on the joke.

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But like what actually makes me mad though.

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is when I can't find something or when I'm trying to fix something and it won't fix and just like

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UGHH

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makes me angry but even in those moments it's like you gotta learn to control yourself though and not just freak out

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That's something I gotta work on because here's another thing that makes me mad and Kylie would be laughing about this if she was here

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When I get out of the shower

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If you like get a new sofa or whatever when I'm itchy when I get out of the shower like my arms

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I don't know if anybody can relate to this that ticks me off

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It makes me so upset

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like unreasonably angry okay but I'm confessing my faults before you go I'm

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like I gotta work on that okay cuz it really I'm not mad at anybody in my

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house just mad like what's going on anyways okay random random thoughts the

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first part of the sermon is that charity is not easily provoked the second point

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is that charity thinketh no evil read that verse one more time and as a matter

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of fact you guys can go to first Timothy 6 3 while I'm reading this it says doth

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not behave itself

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unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil."

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And there's two ways I want to apply this as well in this sermon, okay?

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The first way is then in evil surmising.

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First Timothy 6.3 it says, If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words,

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even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

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you

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He is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strikes of words whereof cometh envy strife

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Railings and look what that was us here. It says evil

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Surmising what is an evil surmising because it's not something that we say very often or at least it's definitely not in my vocabulary

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Very often an evil surmising is basically an evil assumption or an evil

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Thought or accusation that you put out about someone without having evidence or without having complete evidence is another way of putting this

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Just thinking the worst of someone like looking at someone's intentions and thinking the absolute

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loot worst. That's evil surmising giving people no benefit of the doubt, giving no charitable

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interpretation of someone's actions. Cause that's actually where that phrase comes from. Isn't that

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interesting if you watch debates at all, which I don't very much anymore, but uh, like that's

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something that they'll say a lot is like, you know, giving him a charitable interpretation.

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That's where this comes from because you're like giving someone a benefit of the doubt, like not

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just thinking the

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worst of someone's argument or try to misrepresent someone's argument to be the worst form of

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it that it is.

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So as Christians, what the Bible is teaching us, I think firstly here concerning charity is that we should not just think the worst about people's intentions.

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We should give people the benefit of the doubt up into the point where there is no doubt anymore.

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Because obviously when someone gives you, you know, when someone proves what you think about them, then it's like, OK, well, they proved it.

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OK, there is no better than that anymore.

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There is no evil surmising.

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But when you don't know someone's intentions, when you don't know someone's heart, you should not speak on what their intentions are.

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What the?

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the Bible's teaching us right here. That's what evil surmising is. And there's probably

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a little bit of nuance to that, but I'm not going to get into it right now for time's

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sake. Okay. But I think it's important because when the Bible was saying charity thinketh

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no evil, this is definitely a way you can apply that. Just people will be out there

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thinking just the worst of everybody. This is not love. That's not the love of God. That's

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not what God wants us to be like as Christians, as humans even. Uh, and I can think of multiple

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ways to apply this. You guys are there. Go to

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Matthew 527 Matthew 527 the first way you can apply this the first way that you know

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it can manifest that people are thinking evil with evil surmising is that you have Christians

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that are just paranoid 24-7 or Christians that have a victim complex.

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There's people out there that will take every single misunderstanding out there, every single

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action that they don't completely understand and they just add the worst intentions to

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it ever.

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That's not charity though.

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That's not right.

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evil, surmising, and people that are like this anyways when they think that everyone's

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out to get them, it's just a narcissistic quality anyways.

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Because like what a prideful and what a high attitude and what a puffed up attitude to

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have of yourself to think like, oh everyone's talking about me, everyone's out to get me,

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everyone's doing these things because they just don't like me.

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Nobody is thinking about you that much. That's the reality, okay?

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Like, people think that they're the main character sometimes, they're like,

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Oh yeah! Like, nobody is thinking about each other that much in this room.

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It's just the reality. Like, I mean, I love you guys, but it's like, you guys are not always on my mind 24-7.

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It's just not possible.

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So when people think like that, they just think that everything revolves around them.

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It's not charity and it's very narcissistic. It's very bizarre, it's very weird.

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This is not how we should be thinking as Christians.

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And the same thing, the way that this might manifest, as well as like with people that we don't like,

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like as far as evil surmising go, okay, that we need to be careful as Christians that,

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you know, in our flesh, when we, you know, like someone,

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we want to give them the benefit of the doubt. When we hear a rumor about them,

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we won't believe it right away because we're like, no, we like this person.

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But then when it comes to a person that we don't like and a rumor comes up,

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we're way more likely to believe it. Or if there's a rumor or some kind of accusation about someone

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that we don't like, we're way more likely to kind of hear it and receive it and just spread it like

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it's actually true. Here they know, both of these things are wrong though. Gossiping, backbiting,

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Slandering? These are sins no matter who...

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you're doing it to, whether it's to a person that you don't like or a person

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that you do like, it's wrong either way. So as Christians,

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we need to be giving people charitable interpretations of their actions because

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that's just what's right in the sight of God. And like people,

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they really struggle on this because you know, we're just biased. That's why.

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It's cause we're just, we're just biased.

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When something comes out about someone that we don't like, we just,

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we want to believe it because we don't like them.

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This is not right though. This is not just. This is not holy. This is not righteous judgment is what I'm pointing out to you.

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It's evil surmising is what it is. Unless you have the proof for something, you shouldn't just, you know, believe it full send even if it is about your enemy.

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Because let me tell you this as well.

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Like the way a man treats his enemies is to me one of the biggest displays of

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their character. How a man treats his enemy when they fall, how a man treats

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his enemies when they're down, when they you know have him on the ropes and they

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could pounce on them and nobody would judge him for it. How a man treats his

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enemy in that moment to me is the biggest display of integrity that someone

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can have. Because you can be you know like 99% of people and that when your

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down you just jump on you dog pile you attack and you beat him while they're

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down or you could be like David who even when nobody would have blamed him for

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killing King Saul he still doesn't do it anyways that's to me the biggest

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display of integrity that someone can have because it just shows like that

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you're not just partial you're not just super biased but that at the end of the

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day no matter how you feel you always appeal back to what's right to what God

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wants you to do

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So this is how we should we should be, you know, embodying this as Christians and

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and be people of discipline that don't just, you know, allow our emotions and our bias to

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guide us to think the worst about people.

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And this is really easy to slip into, but we got to be careful not to do it.

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You guys are there in Matthew five.

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27 because I know it's kind of slightly off track

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But it kind of does tie back to the fact that charity thinketh no evil because it's like you don't you don't want to just be

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Believing things about someone that's not true. That's a lie

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That's a slander or or just gossip or just hearsay just because you don't like them

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It's not right in the sight of God and it takes a person of integrity not to do that

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And that's how we should all be trying to live our life

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Obviously as Christians the last point about this in the last one of my sermon. Okay, so we're getting the end

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it's gonna be a short sermon is that charity thinketh no evil,

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which I already said, okay, but here's the different spin on it.

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Okay.

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Is that I truly want to focus on the idea of thinking no evil thinking like not

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the actions that you do, but what you think in your heart.

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1st Corinthians 13, you guys are there in Matthew 5, we're gonna read that after this, but it says,

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does not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not our own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.

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A huge theme that we see hammered throughout all of the New Testament is the idea that God doesn't

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just care about your actions, though he does care about your actions. Notice the modifier in that

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sentence, please, okay, before I crash out. He doesn't just care about your actions, he cares

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about what you think as well. God...

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cares about what's inside our hearts.

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And we see this in Matthew 5.27.

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It says, ye have heard that it was said by them of old time,

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thou shalt not commit adultery.

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But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman

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to lust after her hath committed adultery with her

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already in his heart.

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Jesus Christ and God the Father care so much about what's

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in our heart that he says here that even if you don't go out

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and physically co-

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Adultery with a woman if you're looking at her with lust in your heart. God basically sees it as if you've already done it

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in the flesh, which is really like a humbling and like a very sobering thought and just like

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something that like should really cause us to pause as Christians to think that God knows

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everything that goes on our heart and our minds. And sometimes we think we get away with stuff

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because we don't, you know, physically go out and do actions, but it should terrify you that

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God doesn't just judge you by your actions, but actually what's in your heart itself.

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Go to Luke 6 verse 45, Luke 6 verse number 45.

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This is also why, by the way, work salvation is stupid to the max because it's not even

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just the works that you do, unrighteous or righteous, that God is going to judge you

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by.

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He judges you by even the thoughts that you have in your heart.

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How could you say that you're gonna stand before God and be justified when every single person in this room in reality sins every single day?

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Even if it's not physically in your heart or in your brain. Certainly we sin every single day.

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This is why work salvation is garbage. It makes no sense. You're not perfect. Even if someone looks perfect on the outside, you can't see their heart. But God sees their heart.

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We're talking about...

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the heart, okay?

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Why is it sinful though, what you think?

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If you think about this,

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because there's like some philosophical argument out there.

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Other people would be like,

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well, if you don't act on something,

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did you really do something that's evil?

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God says, yes you did.

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Why is this though?

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Okay.

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Number one, I'd submit to you it's because what's in your heart almost never stays in

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your heart.

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It leaks out eventually.

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This is what we see in Luke six 45.

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It says a good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringing forth that which is

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good and evil man of the evil treasure of his heart, bringing forth that which is evil

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for out of the, or for of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaketh.

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The thing about us as Christians, as just as humans in general, okay, whatever is in

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our heart, it eventually comes out.

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That's what the Bible is teaching here.

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So you can see there very clearly why God cares about what's in your heart and why even

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thinking things that's wrong and lusting after things that's wrong in your heart is sinful

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because eventually these things manifest and they come out.

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I'm gonna not say that for right now. Go to Lamentations 3 verse 51. I'm gonna...

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I'm going to not say what I want to say right now.

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Okay.

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But the point about this, okay, that I don't have to bring up anyways is that, you know,

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the reality is as Christians, not just again, I keep on saying Christians.

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That's my like, I need to, I'm autopiloting.

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Okay.

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The reality of this humans is that when a person is righteous, when they're saved, okay,

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out of their heart usually comes out good things is the idea.

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If their heart is upright before God, obviously, but the flip side of that is that when someone

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has a perverted heart, it usually comes out and it makes sense.

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And this is

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is good in the sense that it allows people's folly to be made manifest.

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Like it's really repulsing when someone says really disgusting things or when they say

01:15:20.240 --> 01:15:24.340
something vile that just is like straight out of the depths of hell.

01:15:24.340 --> 01:15:28.380
But it also is good in a way because it allows you to look at that person and be like, oh,

01:15:28.380 --> 01:15:30.480
this person is a wicked person.

01:15:30.480 --> 01:15:34.120
They're an evil person and to get away from them.

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and I'll see you next time.

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Like an example of this would obviously be like Judas Iscariot because Judas played a good part for a while.

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But the reality about us as people is that eventually we slip up. What's in our heart will truly eventually come out and we can't hide it forever.

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It'll eventually will manifest like Judas plays a good part. But then you even see his mask start to slip when, you know, Mary goes and anoints Jesus Christ with the spike nard before, you know, he's about to be crucified.

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He just can't help himself because he's lusting after money so much.

01:16:03.900 --> 01:16:05.960
much. He's like, shouldn't this money,

01:16:06.060 --> 01:16:09.380
shouldn't this perfume be sold and then given to the poor? It's like, he just,

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he has to vomit that out because you know, especially with money,

01:16:13.060 --> 01:16:17.500
the love of money really manifests and it really comes out of people more than a

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lot of other sins will less included in that as well.

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So as a side note to that, of all things I'm saying right now,

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you should just realize that you should be careful what you allow into your

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heart in the first place. Cause lamentation three five 51, it says,

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mine eye effective, mine heart, because all

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the daughters of my city.

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I'm not going to go into the context of that right now, but I'll just say this.

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It's very evident in the Bible that what you put in front of you affects you as a Christian.

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The people that you hang around affects you as a Christian.

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The thing that your eyes see, the music that your ears hear, the people that you hang out

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with, they affect you.

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So be very careful what you allow into your life as a Christian because people will act

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some like sometimes like, oh yeah, I can just do a

01:16:59.900 --> 01:17:04.160
these wicked things but it doesn't affect me. Yes it does. That's a deception from the

01:17:04.160 --> 01:17:07.900
devil. It's a deception from your flesh is the reality. What you put in front of you

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affects you. So if you're just watching the most filthy things out there, if you're listening

01:17:12.420 --> 01:17:16.340
to the most filthy things out there, if you're hanging out with the most filthy people out

01:17:16.340 --> 01:17:22.020
there, all those things will eventually rub off on you. It's only a matter of time. Even

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righteous lot had his whole family worn down, even his wife, okay?

01:17:27.380 --> 01:17:27.880
They're all worn down.

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down not because he wasn't a good guy I mean the Bible says that Lot is a

01:17:31.380 --> 01:17:33.200
righteous he's an upright man

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But what happens? It's it's sodom around him that corrupts him and it corrupts his family.

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So that should be a lesson to us. Hey, be careful with what you allow into your life,

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who you allow your kids to hang around, who you allow your wife to hang around,

01:17:47.240 --> 01:17:51.160
what you allow your family to do as a Christian. These things are very important.

01:17:51.160 --> 01:17:55.320
Don't get this idea where just like, oh, it's just some sin. It's no big deal. It is a big deal

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because once something really infest your and infects your heart, it's hard to get out of your

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and once you

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it up some doors you just can't shut them so be very cautious of the Christian

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there's a reason I bring up that why what you think is you know can be

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considered evil or be considered sinful is because God sees everything that's in

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your heart Hebrews 412 I didn't have you guys turn there but I should have you

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guys know the revelation 223 as matter of fact just good I'll read for you guys

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Hebrews 412 we're even closer the end of sermon so hang with me

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It says, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any torched sword,

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piercing into the dividing and sundering of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,

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and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Bible itself, Jesus Christ says here,

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is a discerner of not just your actions, but the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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And in Revelation 2 23 it says,

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and I will kill her children with death

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and all the churches shall know that I am he

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which searcheth the reigns and the hearts.

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And I will give unto every one of you

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according to your works.

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And how like comforting and terrifying this verse can be.

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Like if you're trying to live an upright life

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and you're trying to serve God truly

01:19:04.420 --> 01:19:06.020
and you're trying to do good things,

01:19:06.020 --> 01:19:07.060
it should be comforting to know

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that God is searching your heart and he already.

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knows that before you even go and act out on what you do in your life.

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God knows if you have a good heart that you have a good heart, but also terrifying that

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if you just allow a bunch of filth in your heart.

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God sees inside your heart.

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Like we think that the things that we say to ourself,

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the things that we have in our mind,

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the thoughts that we have about other people,

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it's like, oh, they didn't hear it

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so it's not that big of a deal.

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But how terrifying is it that Jesus Christ knows everything

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that goes on in our brain?

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And how much of that encourage us

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to get the filth out of our heart,

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to get the wicked thoughts out of our heart,

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to get the evil out of our heart

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that sometimes we think is no big deal.

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Because the reality is that it was manifest before

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for everybody. A lot of things that I wouldn't maybe I shouldn't say a lot of

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things. I just say some of the things that we think sometimes it would be

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embarrassing. It'd be really unfortunate and praise God that he's merciful enough

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to not put us on blast all the time. But do know he knows what's in your heart

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anyways though. So that should be

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Something that encourages you to get the things that are wicked out of your life

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Go back to 1st Corinthians 13. We're gonna look at verse number

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No matter if I can get a problem 24 verse number 9 Proverbs 24 verse number 39. I'll read for you guys

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First Corinthians 13. We already read a lot

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Hopefully you guys memorize this as well or at least you got some of it down

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but the third thing I want to point out to you about

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You know this the idea of you know thinking things that is evil in the sight of God why these things are

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wrong, is because actions alone don't mean everything to God, as I've already kind of

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said in this sermon.

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But we even see this in the passage of first Corinthians 13 itself, that is, he says, and

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though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and

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have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

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Why you do what you do, the thoughts and intents behind your actions matters in the sight of

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God.

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But here's the flip side of that as well. Why you don't do what you don't do also matters to God as well.

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And what I mean by that is that, you know, if the only thing keeping you from evil...

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from doing some wicked kind of thing is like societal pressure or the fear of punishment

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or just following something because you just have to. God also knows that as well, which you know,

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can manifest like the examples I bring up about this like to show you like the great evil of that

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is like imagine if someone you know had a spouse that is just completely fallen out of love with

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them okay and but they don't leave them there they stay faithful to them.

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But imagine in their heart the whole time that they're with their spouse, they want to be with someone else.

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Like they're lusting after their girls, they're thinking about, you know, other girls, they're fantasizing,

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they want to be with someone else, but they just don't physically do it.

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Is that is that righteous though? No, it's still wicked as hell

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Like it's still evil to the point to where like if you figured out that your spouse was thinking like that

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You got a certain point almost be like well

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You might as well just go away then like go up because if someone is just obsessed with that to the point

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Where that's just like consuming their thoughts, but they just don't physically do it. That's not all that matters

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So, before God this is true as well that if the only thing keeping you doing the commandments

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of God is just the fear of punishment or just like because you have to do these things,

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that's a wicked as hell thought and you need to get your heart right with God.

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If that's the case, it shouldn't just be because you're just scared of the consequences,

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you should be following God's law because it's righteous and because it's upright and

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because that's the correct thing to do as well.

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Another good example of this as well is a pedophile.

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Think about this.

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Most people would understand this inside of you.

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It's like,

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Because well, I guess maybe I should rewind it back. Okay, I guess that's not true because sometimes people be like

01:22:52.400 --> 01:22:56.720
Pedophile, you know, can they even try to differentiate a pedophile from someone who's just like

01:22:57.240 --> 01:23:02.460
Attracted children or whatever some dumb thing that they'll say but a pedophile someone that acts on their urges

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But you know, you know, what do they call them a map, right? Yeah, like minor attractive person

01:23:08.280 --> 01:23:13.000
What the hell is that you're like there's the difference of this this person to control their actions

01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:15.200
But the reality is is that these are the same people they're with

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because given the opportunity, they would commit that sin.

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If they could get away with it,

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if they weren't scared of the society punishing them,

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if they weren't scared of the embarrassment of the shame,

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they would do that action.

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So obviously, you know, adultery

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and that is not the exact same thing,

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but the comparison I'm making right there

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is that if the only thing keeping you

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from going and doing something wicked against your spouse

01:23:38.200 --> 01:23:40.440
is just like the reasons why a pedophile doesn't do

01:23:40.440 --> 01:23:42.400
what he does in society,

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It's like you're just as wicked as a person that would go do those things. You understand what I'm saying?

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That's why your heart matters.

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And because also charity thinketh no evil.

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That's what we see in 1 Corinthians 13.

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So obviously, hopefully you guys get the comparison I'm making right there.

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Obviously there is a difference.

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But the reality is that when someone's just super obsessed with something,

01:24:04.400 --> 01:24:08.200
if they want to do something super evil just because they don't do that action,

01:24:08.200 --> 01:24:10.900
in the sight of God, he sees you just like...

01:24:10.900 --> 01:24:14.620
a man who looks like at a woman and loves her in her heart, he just thinks to himself,

01:24:14.620 --> 01:24:17.700
it's like you might as well have already committed adultery with that girl in your heart.

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And I bring that up because that's a big thing in our society is lust and people cheating

01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:26.980
on their spouses which is wicked as hell and it's evil and it's, I cannot believe there's

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guys out there that will go, they'll marry a woman, they'll get her pregnant, they'll

01:24:31.180 --> 01:24:35.260
have a bunch of kids with her and then they'll step out and they'll be unfaithful to their

01:24:35.260 --> 01:24:36.260
wife.

01:24:36.260 --> 01:24:40.220
That's wicked as hell, it's unacceptable and you need to be faithful to your spouse until

01:24:40.220 --> 01:24:41.300
the day that you die.

01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:46.480
people they like they get their wife they get the prize that they want and

01:24:46.480 --> 01:24:50.740
then they just step out as soon as it's inconvenient for them that is evil God

01:24:50.740 --> 01:24:55.240
will judge you whoremongers and adulterers God will judge what the Bible

01:24:55.240 --> 01:24:59.200
says be faithful to your spouse be faithful to the person that you've vowed

01:24:59.200 --> 01:25:03.440
before God Almighty that you'd be with them till death do us part and actually

01:25:03.440 --> 01:25:06.840
keep that vow that you made

01:25:07.700 --> 01:25:11.860
pisses me off like people out there like I just can't believe how

01:25:13.140 --> 01:25:17.220
not obviously this is common among men I mean it's common to man though that's for sure it's just

01:25:17.220 --> 01:25:22.980
like unacceptable though as Christians it really pisses me off that you know you'll have a girl

01:25:23.540 --> 01:25:29.220
that you know is basically sacrificing her youth her beauty to a man just for him to step out

01:25:29.220 --> 01:25:30.740
because you just want someone like

01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:37.160
Just just he just wants to be with someone else. It's just so wicked especially when you got the wife and kids at home

01:25:37.160 --> 01:25:42.360
It's like what are you doing with yourself? It's unbelievable. This is not my sermon though. Where we going?

01:25:42.360 --> 01:25:47.700
We're just freaking adultery man piss me off. We're talking about Proverbs 24 verse number 9 though, okay

01:25:49.400 --> 01:25:54.840
Proverbs 24 verse 20 verse number 9 really that's why I was bringing that up because I'm talking about like, you know

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You can't just

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You should not just be like allowing those thoughts to manifest in your heart and because that's what guys will do

01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:05.960
That's why I was that's my train of thought there

01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:09.360
I was going it's like because guys we're gonna think sometimes like oh if I'm like, you know

01:26:09.360 --> 01:26:12.420
Not actually acting on these things then it's okay

01:26:12.440 --> 01:26:16.860
But if you if you if you allow the devil to have that foothold in your life

01:26:16.860 --> 01:26:20.520
You've already lost the battle because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh

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Eventually if you fantasies don't stay fantasies forever. Okay, that's what I've been trying to say. Like if you just have this lust

01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:30.440
in your heart forever, it'll eventually become manifest.

01:26:30.440 --> 01:26:31.920
It'll eventually come out.

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So it's not enough just to not do these things.

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You have to purge out even the thought of doing these things.

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There's another reason why I was bringing this up.

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It's because I watched one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life, okay, when

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I was at work today.

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Who knows this guy Dennis Prager?

01:26:48.400 --> 01:26:50.400
You guys know this guy, this Jew?

01:26:50.400 --> 01:26:52.240
Okay, of course he's a Jew.

01:26:52.240 --> 01:26:53.080
Why would he be, right?

01:26:54.200 --> 01:26:58.400
I was watching this video that he was talking about this guy about pornography.

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And the reason why they got off on this rabbit trail anyways,

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that I'm gonna get to later on, is because he was basically making the argument

01:27:06.500 --> 01:27:10.500
that it's basically a good thing if a man

01:27:10.500 --> 01:27:13.600
you know, looks at pornography rather than

01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:18.500
cheating on his wife. He was like, well it's not like you physically doing something,

01:27:18.500 --> 01:27:19.700
it's just like a thought.

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So then like this Catholic guy, which is like a

01:27:22.200 --> 01:27:24.040
rare Catholic W, okay?

01:27:24.040 --> 01:27:26.580
A rare Catholic victory is like,

01:27:26.580 --> 01:27:27.600
at least setting this guy straight,

01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:28.440
and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

01:27:28.440 --> 01:27:30.800
it's not just, you know, the action that matters.

01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:32.800
He's like, even just looking after a girl

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and lusting after her in your heart is adultery.

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And he scoffs at that because he's a Jew.

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He's like, oh, that's Jesus's teachings, okay?

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But his philosophy is that when you think evil,

01:27:43.160 --> 01:27:44.900
he's like, it's not doing evil.

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Like, I don't know if that's the mainstream Jewish view, but it's his view.

01:27:49.260 --> 01:27:52.500
He thinks just thinking evil is not doing evil.

01:27:52.500 --> 01:27:55.940
It would make sense if that's the mainstream Jewish view because that's why Jesus hammers

01:27:55.940 --> 01:27:57.100
this so much in the New Testament.

01:27:57.100 --> 01:27:58.860
He's like, it's not just the law.

01:27:58.860 --> 01:28:00.880
It's not just what's written down on the page.

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It's the spirit behind these things that matter as well.

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It's not just enough to not commit adultery.

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If you look at a woman in lust, you've already committed adultery.

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That's why this teaching is so huge.

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But in this interview that I was watching with them,

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he was explaining that.

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And then they get off this tangent of child,

01:28:18.580 --> 01:28:19.580
but what do you mean to say?

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I'd say CSAM, OK?

01:28:21.040 --> 01:28:21.920
That's a fresh new term.

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I saw some video that I was watching where

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this guy was busting predators.

01:28:25.480 --> 01:28:27.960
So CSAM, it should be obvious what that is in context

01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:29.120
of what I'm talking about, OK?

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Child stuff, obviously.

01:28:32.120 --> 01:28:33.920
They were talking about that subject.

01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:36.920
And he was basically talking about, you know.

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It wouldn't be evil though if someone made like basically just animated CSAM okay to cut if you guys are catching my drift okay

01:28:45.240 --> 01:28:47.800
He's like someone just made an animation so there's no real persons

01:28:47.800 --> 01:28:52.680
He was like if a person was looking at that he was like that wouldn't be evil in and of itself

01:28:53.100 --> 01:28:57.920
disgusting, like what a freak, who would even say that out loud? Bizarre. Again,

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that this is like, this is something that only comes from the mind of someone who's

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blinded because they've rejected Jesus Christ though. What a disgusting thought.

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Not even the average unsaved person believes that and this weirdo is peddling

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this this idea that he's like as long as you didn't actually, there was nobody

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physically harmed, it's okay.

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So then in that interview, he's like sitting there arguing with him, he's like,

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as long as you've thought evil, but you haven't actually done it, it's not evil.

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But here's the thing where this guy's so wrong,

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is that it doesn't even take the New Testament to see

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that this is not what the Bible teaches.

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Because he's a Jew, so he subscribes to the whole Old Testament.

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Guess what the Bible says in the Old Testament? It says,

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the thought of foolishness is sin,

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and the scornor is an abomination to men.

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So even back in the Jewish Bible,

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Okay, if you would the Old Testament, okay, it says the thought of foolishness is sin

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It's not just the action the thought itself. What does he do with that verse?

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He probably ignores it just like the Jews ignore every convenient verse, but it's like what a stupid argument and

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Again, that is the only thing that could come from like a Christ rejecting religion go to Matthew 15 17 because this guy would do

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Well to actually believe the teaching of Jesus Christ anyways, it's way more level-headed than what he was thinking

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Matthew 15 17

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Look what the Bible says. It says,

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See this is where this Dennis Prager guy gets it all wrong.

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I'm sure nowadays he has all these stupid man-made traditions

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that he thinks are so wicked if you disobey them.

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All these traditions of men from the Pharisees

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that have been passed down all the way to now,

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he'd be like, if you do that, it's wicked as hell

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if you work on the Sabbath day right now.

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It's wicked as hell even though the Sabbath day

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is done away with, hello.

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That's not a tradition, man, but you guys understand what I'm saying?

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Like just the, the, the, the ordinances that the Jews are always so obsessed about.

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They're like, that's wicked as hell.

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But then this retard looks at someone and looking at animated CSAM is like, I,

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I just couldn't call that evil.

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I call you evil.

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You weirdo.

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You sicko.

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I gotta be careful. Okay, I can't be easily provoked here. Okay, I'm gonna freak out go to Romans 11 9

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This is a lot of you guys turn. Okay Romans 11 9 though. What an idiot though

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Like let this guy be an anathema or anathema. Let this guy be a curse

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Let him bow down his back always like David says

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Let him go into the lowest parts of the hell because what a filthy and disgusting mind that would submit an idea

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Like that's not evil because I didn't tell you the rest of the interview

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I got off track but then the next part of it just to clarify the Catholic guy

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He's like, so are you saying that a man looking at?

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animated stuff like this is not doing evil.

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He's like, I can't call it evil.

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And even the Catholic guy is like, that is despicable.

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It's like a rare Catholic W. That's what I'm saying.

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Yeah, amen.

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What in the world kind of dumb idea is that?

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That as long as you just don't act on something, it's okay.

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No, God cares about what's in your heart as well.

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And charity does because charity thinketh no evil

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is what the whole point of everything that I was showing you is.

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But the good news about this psychopath, this Dennis Prager guy, is that he had a crazy accident.

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And I was like, this could not have happened to a better person.

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Listen, I looked at this about him. It says,

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conservative talk show host and Prager U co-founder, Dennis Prager,

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suffered a debilitating fall in November 2024, which left him paralyzed below the shoulders.

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This accident caused severe injuries to his C3 and C4 vertebrae,

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severely damaging the neck.

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nerves connected to his diaphragm and making it difficult to breathe. Amen!

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Couldn't happen to a better person. I'm like, let's go!

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Sicko! That's even better than death because he has to suffer before

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he dies and goes to hell for rejecting Jesus Christ as Savior.

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And I'm sure people will be thinking like, oh, that's kind of extreme.

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That's why I have you guys there in Romans 11, 9, not as extreme as what David says.

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Look what he says, he says, and let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling

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block and a recompense unto them.

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Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow down their back always.

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And praise God, he's literally bowed down his back always because he's paralyzed.

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Praise God for his judgment.

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Praise God for striking down that filthy pervert, that wicked man.

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It shows you that the justice of God does come to people, just takes time sometimes.

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So you know, I can't, because I'm going to end this over here, but this is what bugs

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me because people I'm sure would say, but what I'm just saying like, they're like,

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oh, it's extreme.

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You can't wish that on people.

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It's like even by his own definition, that's not wrong because I didn't actually do it.

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Okay.

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I'm just wishing, I'm just wishing he'd die and go to hell.

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Oh, the loophole.

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I was wishing that he's paralyzed.

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I'm just wishing that he would die right this moment, but I didn't actually act on it.

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Okay.

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to show you his dumb logic.

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But I'm glad, I mean, obviously we can wish this upon this weirdo

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because that's what David is doing here.

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Who's he cursing here, by the way?

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The Christ rejecting Jews. That's who he's cursing. Let their back bowed on always and it happened literally to him.

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Praise God for that. It could make me more happy. People think we're extreme about these things though, but I'm just happy for him to suffer a physical fate.

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David right here is praying a prayer that they wouldn't even just suffer a physical fate, but that their eyes would be darkened so that they would go to hell.

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What a hateful man. No, the man after God's honor actually writing this song. So checkmate loser

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Anyways, what are we learning this sermon? Okay, we're talking about charity. We're getting into

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Paralysis, okay. We got to we got to re go back to love but hey charity thinketh no evil

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Charity rejoices not in iniquity

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But it rejoices in the truth and the truth is that because he rejected Jesus christ

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He will die and go to hell and amen for that

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Summon for this or when those charity is not easily provoked as a Christian you cannot be

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easily provoked you can't just allow yourself to be brought to anger quickly.

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This is wrong. And that's not to say that you can't be brought to anger at all,

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because that was what I was talking about. You should just be slow to anger and slow to wrath.

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But anger itself is not sinful. And the last thing is that charity thinketh no evil. We should not

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be thinking the worst about people. We should be giving them the benefit of the doubt. And we should

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realize that what we think in our heart...

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is important in the sight of God.

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It's important how you act in your day to day life anyways.

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Because what's in your heart eventually comes out

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of your heart and it affects every action

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that you do in your life.

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So don't get this stupid idea like Dennis Prager,

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lest you end up like this guy as well.

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Thinking that as long as something doesn't actually

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take form in the physical world, it's not bad.

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No, God looks at your heart.

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With that all being said, let's pray.

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Dear Lord God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.

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Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God.

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Thank you so much for this chapter of the Bible, God.

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Thank you so much for the attributes of charity, God.

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Thank you so much for your justice for sick people like this in this world, God.

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I just pray that this would happen to all these haters of God,

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these people that reject you and that blaspheme your name

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and that constantly defy you and want nothing to do with you, God.

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I just pray that you'd bow down on their back always.

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I pray that they'd never see the light.

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I pray that their heart would be hardened until the day that they die.

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Everyone that hates you everyone that rejects you God and that wouldn't believe on you

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I just pray you'd never give them the opportunity and we know that you're gracious and that you're here slow to wrath and that you're

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Slow to anger and slow to condemnation God

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But we just pray that the people that won't get saved and they're not willing and that are just filthy to their core

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God that they would not see the light of day

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I just pray that you'd be with our church and help us to get people saved and get people to believe the gospel before they

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End up like this wicked man

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And I just pray that you'd help us to see that the attributes of charity manifest in

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so many ways and it's important to apply them in every area of our life.

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Do you want to pray?

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Our last song is song number 75.

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Song number 75.

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On Jordan's Stormy Banks, song 7-5, let's sing it together on the first.

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On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye

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To Canaan's fair and happy land where my possessions lie

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I am bound for the promised land

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I am bound for the

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promised land. Oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land. All

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o'er those wide extended plains shines one eternal day.

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There God the sun forever reigns and scatters the night away.

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I am bound for the promised land.

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I am bound for the promised land.

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Oh, who will come and go with me?

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I am bound for the promised land.

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No chilling winds nor poisonous breath can reach that healthful shore.

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Sickness and sorrow, pain and death are felt.

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and feared no more.

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I am bound for the promised land.

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I am bound for the promised land.

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Oh, welcome and go with me.

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me I am bound for the promised land. When shall I reach that happy place and be forever

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blessed? When shall I see my Father's face and in his bosom rest?

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I am bound for the promised land.

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I am bound for the promised land.

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Oh, who will come and go with me?

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I am bound for the promised land.

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Amen. Can I sing for the writing? Can you close the word of prayer?

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Here, Heavenly Father.

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Thank you God for the preaching here Lord and I just pray God that you'll help us to be Christians that have

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the love that is not easily provoked have charity according to your will Lord. We love you in Jesus name, Amen.