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 the Gospel of John, chapter number 15.

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 John 15, I'll go ahead and read the whole chapter

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 and then I'll get into my sermon.

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 So John 15, the Bible reads,

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 "I am the true vine and my father is the husband then.

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 "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit,

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 "he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit,

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 "he purgeth that it may bring forth more fruit.

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 "Now ye are clean through the word

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 "which I have spoken unto you, abide in me and I in you.

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 "As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself,

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 "except it abide in the vine,

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 "no more can ye except ye abide in me.

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 "I am the vine, ye are the branches.

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 "He that abideth in me and I in him,

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 "the same bringeth forth much fruit,

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 "for without me ye can do nothing.

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 "If a man abide not in me,

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 "he is cast forth as a branch and is withered,

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 "and men gather them and cast them into the fire

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 "and they are burned.

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 "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you,

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 "ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.

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 "Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit,

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 "so shall ye be my disciple.

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 "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you,

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 "continue ye in my love.

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 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love,

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 "even as I have kept my Father's commandment,

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 "abide in his love.

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 "These things have I spoken unto you

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 "that my joy might remain in you

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 "and that your joy might be full.

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 "This is my commandment, that ye love one another

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 "as I have loved you.

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 "Greater love hath no man than this,

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 "that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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 "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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 "Henceforth I call you not servants,

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 "for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth.

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 "But I have called you friends,

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 "for all things have I heard of my Father,

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 "I have made known unto you.

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 "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you

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 "and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit,

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 "and that your fruit should remain,

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 "that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name

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 "he may give it you.

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 "These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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 "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me

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 "before it hated you.

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 "If you were of the world, the world would love his own,

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 "but because you are not of the world,

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 "but I have chosen you out of the world,

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 "therefore the world hateth you.

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 "Remember the word that I said unto you,

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 "the servant is not greater than his Lord.

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 "If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

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 "They have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

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 "But all these things will they do unto you

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 "for my name's sake, because they know not him

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 "that sent me.

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 "If I had not come and spoken unto them,

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 "and they had not had sin,

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 "but now they have no cloak for their sin.

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 "He that hateth me, hateth my father also.

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 "If I had not done among them,

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 "the works which none other man did,

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 "they had not had sin,

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 "but now have they both seen

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 "and hated both me and my father.

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 "But this cometh to pass,

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 "that the word might be fulfilled,

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 "that is written in their law,

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 "they hated me without a cause.

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 "For when the comforters come,

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 "whom I will send unto you from the father,

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 "even the spirit of truth,

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 "which proceedeth from the father,

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 "he shall testify of me,

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 "and ye also shall bear witness,

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 "because ye have been with me from the beginning."

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 Let's go ahead and pray.

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 Heavenly Father, thank you again

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 for allowing us to be here in church.

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 I just pray that you'd bless the preaching of your word,

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 that you fill me with your Holy Spirit

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 to preach boldly your word, Lord,

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 and that we'd learn and be edified by it

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 and become better Christians.

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 Praise in Jesus' name, amen.

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 Man, so you're there in John chapter 15,

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 and I wanna start reading there in verse 18,

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 where it says, "If the world hate you,

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 "you know that it hated me before it hated you.

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 "If you were of the world,

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 "the world would love his own.

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 "But because you are not of the world,

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 "but I have chosen you out of the world,

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 "therefore the world hateth you."

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 So here Jesus is talking about the reality

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 that a Christian, not just that is saved,

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 but a Christian's actually following God's commandments,

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 that is actually wanting to serve God,

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 that a Christian will be hated by this world.

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 They will be hated by the people outside of these walls.

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 And the title of my sermon tonight

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 simply is You Will Be Hated.

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 You Will Be Hated.

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 There's this idea in a lot of modern Christianity,

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 especially in non-denom that says like,

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 "Oh, you can be a great Christian

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 "and you can be loved by everybody."

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 Right, you can be loved by the Muslim,

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 you can be loved by the Jew,

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 you can be loved by the Hindu,

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 you can be loved by every person, no matter what.

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 But that's just false,

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 and that's not really what the Bible teaches.

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 Bible is clear that we will be hated for being Christians.

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 We will be hated because of Jesus.

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 And so I wanna look at that tonight.

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 In verses 18 and 19, that really was emphasized.

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 And I wanna go ahead and read a few more verses here.

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 Look at verse 20.

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 It says, "Remember the word that I said unto you.

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 The servant is not greater than his Lord.

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 If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

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 If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

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 So Jesus is saying, look, just like the Lord,

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 the master, Jesus Christ was persecuted,

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 was attacked, was hated.

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 We can't expect the disciple, the servants,

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 would not also experience that.

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 Right, if Jesus is being the perfect son of God,

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 was hated by the Pharisees, hated by the world,

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 for doing nothing wrong,

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 how could we expect as flawed human beings

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 not to also be hated by this world?

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 It's obvious that we are hated by the world

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 because really the world hates Jesus.

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 It's not that they hate us

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 because necessarily we're bad people

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 'cause of our personalities

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 or because of our character necessarily,

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 it's that the world will hate us

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 because we are representing Jesus,

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 because we're trying to follow Jesus

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 and the world hates Jesus.

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 Look at verse 21,

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 "But all these things will they do unto you

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 "for my name's sake,

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 "because they know not him that sent me.

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 "If I had not come and spoken unto them,

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 "they had not had sin,

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 "but now they have no cloak for their sin."

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 So what Jesus is saying is,

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 look, if I hadn't showed the Pharisees and the Jews,

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 he hadn't come down,

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 then they would be able to have some sort of excuse

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 or claim ignorance that they didn't really know

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 that he was the son of God.

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 But he's saying, look, I came and I did miracles

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 and I showed without any doubts that he is the son of God.

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 And so now they have no excuse to say that he isn't.

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 They have no excuse to deny him.

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 Verse 23, "He that hateth me, hateth my father also."

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 That's a really important verse,

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 especially for the Zionists today.

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 So I'm gonna read again.

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 It says, "He that hateth me, hateth my father also."

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 There's this idea sometimes amongst Zionist Christians

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 that says, well, the Jews, they have the father,

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 but they don't have the son.

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 But notice that the Bible says that if you hate Jesus,

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 you also hate the father.

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 If you have not the son, you also don't have the father.

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 You can't love the father and not love the son also.

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 There's also this idea that I was even taught in school

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 that says, well, you have all these Abrahamic religions,

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 right, you have the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians.

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 And they're all really pretty similar to each other,

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 but they just kind of branched out in different ways.

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 And that is also a false idea.

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 These religions are not remotely close to each other.

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 They're not similar to each other in any way.

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 The Muslims hate Jesus.

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 The Muslims don't believe that he's the son of God.

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 The Muslims don't believe that he is God.

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 They deny him.

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 And the Jews hate Jesus.

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 They spit whenever they say his name.

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 They spit on Christians.

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 Their Talmud says that Jesus burning in excrement.

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 The Jews hate Jesus.

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 And so neither the Muslim or the Jew loves God at all.

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 Don't be fooled by their rhetoric.

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 Don't be fooled when the Muslim tells you,

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 Oh no, we believe in Jesus.

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 We, you know, he's one of the prophets.

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 No, no, they hate God because they don't believe in Jesus.

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 The Jew hates God because he doesn't believe in Jesus.

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 Look at verse 24.

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 If I had not done among them the worst,

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 which none other man did, they had not had sin.

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 But now have they both seen and hated both me and my father.

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 So again, Jesus and the father are package deal.

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 But this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled

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 that is written in their law.

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 They hated me without a cause.

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 And again, so there's no real legitimate reason

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 why they hate Jesus other than just because he's the truth.

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 'Cause he's the light, 'cause he's exposing their sin

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 and they just hate the truth.

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 But there's no legitimate cause

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 that Jesus gave them to be hated.

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 Go to Matthew 10, Matthew 10.

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 The Bible really emphasizes this concept

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 that we will be hated by men.

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 We will be hated by the world.

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 And so I just wanna explore several verses

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 explaining that concept before I get into some application.

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 So Matthew 10, look at verse number 21.

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 Matthew 10, look at verse number 21.

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 Says, and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death.

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 And the father, the child, and the children

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 shall rise up against their parents

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 and cause them to be put to death.

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 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

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 But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

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 So here Matthew 10 is explaining, right?

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 Persecution's gonna come.

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 And notice in verse 21,

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 that even says amongst household it's gonna come, right?

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 There's gonna be division, there's gonna be hatred.

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 The brother's gonna deliver, the brother to death,

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 the father, the child,

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 the children shall rise against the parents.

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 So there isn't this idea that well,

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 if you're just a good Christian,

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 you'll be loved by everyone.

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 Bible actually planes the opposite picture

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 that if you're actually a good Christian,

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 you'll actually be hated even by your own family.

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 Even by those closest to you,

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 you will be betrayed and hated and lied about.

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 Look at verse number 24.

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 The disciple is not above his master,

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 nor the servant above his Lord.

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 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master

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 and the servant as his Lord.

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 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub,

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 how much more shall they call them of his household?

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 So there it says again, that we as Christians

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 cannot expect to be better than Jesus.

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 If Jesus got, you know, railed against,

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 if Jesus got called Beelzebub

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 and was accused of doing things

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 through the power of the devil,

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 then we can expect that we're gonna get accused

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 of all types of things too.

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 They're gonna falsely accuse us of doing all types of evil,

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 but you know, that's to be expected as a Christian.

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 As a Christian, believing the Bible, following the Bible,

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 that's just par for the course.

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 Look at verse 34.

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 "Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth.

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 "I came not to send peace, but a sword.

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 "For I came to set a man at variance

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 "against his father and the daughter against her mother

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 "and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

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 "and a man's foes shall be day of his own household."

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 So again, this is Jesus speaking.

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 And Jesus himself says,

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 "Look, don't think I came to send peace.

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 "I came to divide.

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 "I came to send a sword."

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 And again, you see that even within a household,

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 there will be division.

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 And Jesus even says that in verse 36,

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 "And a man's foes shall be day of his own household."

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 So what I'm trying to say is that if you're being a Christian,

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 if you're following the Bible,

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 that you will be hated even by your own family,

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 even by those closest to you.

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 There's not this idea in the Bible

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 that a lot of Christians believe

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 that Jesus is just this kind of hippie

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 that just came to only bring peace and only came to unify.

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 The Bible actually sets a lot of the opposite picture

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 that if you believe in Jesus, if you follow Jesus,

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 you will have persecution.

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 You will have hatred by the world.

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 Go to Luke chapter six.

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 But again, notice that the world is hating us,

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 is hating Christians because of Jesus.

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 And that is the key here, is that we're gonna be hated

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 because we believe in Jesus and we follow Jesus.

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 We shouldn't be hated for legitimate reasons.

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 We shouldn't be hated because we're bad people.

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 We're, you know, have a huge flaw or sin.

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 You know, that's not necessarily praiseworthy.

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 What the Bible's really emphasizing

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 that it's praiseworthy is when we're just hated

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 for doing nothing wrong.

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 We're just hated because we believe in Jesus.

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 Look at Luke six, look at verse 22.

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 Luke six, 22, said, "Blessed are ye when men shall hate you

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 "and when they shall separate you from their company

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 "and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil

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 "for the son of man's sake.

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 "Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy,

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 "for behold your reward is great in heaven,

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 "for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets."

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 So notice here that Jesus is actually saying

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 that you're blessed when people are just gonna hate you,

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 when they separate from you, when they reproach you,

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 when they say all types of evil against you

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 for being a Christian.

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 It's not saying that you did something wrong.

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 It's not saying, well, if you're just a better Christian

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 and everyone would just love you and get saved.

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 No, no, no, Jesus is saying, look,

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 you're blessed when this happens.

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 And notice that it says that they did in like manner

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 their fathers unto the prophets.

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 Every true man of God, every true prophet of God

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 has been hated.

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 There's not a great pastor out there

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 that's just being loved by everyone.

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 Let's keep reading, the Bible will just tell us that.

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 Look at verse 24, "But woe unto you that are rich,

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 for ye have received your consolation.

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 Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger.

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 Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

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 Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you,

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 for so did their fathers to the false prophets."

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 Bible is actually saying that it's the false prophets

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 that are actually loved by this world.

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 It's the false prophets that everyone will cry about

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 and mourn when they die.

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 It's the false prophets, you know, like Billy Graham,

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 that when he died, you know, I remember seeing on TV,

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 you know, America's preacher died,

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 and he was just, even the news,

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 the mainstream media was just praising Billy Graham.

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 Hey, that's actually a sign that he's a false prophet.

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 That's not actually a good thing.

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 It's like John MacArthur, when he dies,

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 that everyone's just sad and, you know,

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 that he died and all these things.

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 No, no, that's a sign that he's a false prophet

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 because the true prophet of God is hated by the world

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 because of his message.

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 He's hated by the world

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 because he's actually just preaching the Bible.

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 Look at Philippians one, Philippians,

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 and even sometimes so-called Christians,

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 they act like if you're being persecuted,

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 you must be a bad person, right?

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 They act like, oh, that church's being protested,

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 that church's being persecuted.

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 What'd he do wrong?

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 What'd he say wrong?

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 But the Bible's actually painting the opposite picture

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 that hey, it's actually a good thing.

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 It's a sign that that church

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 might actually be a good church

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 if they're being protested.

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 It actually might be a good church

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 if everyone hates them.

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 Look at Philippians one, look at verse 27.

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 Philippians one, 27.

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 Only let your conversation be

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 as it becometh the gospel of Christ,

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 that whether I come and see you or else be absent,

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 I may hear of your affairs.

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 They stand fast in one spirit,

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 with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.

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 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries,

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 which is to them an evident token of perdition,

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 but to you of salvation and that of God.

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 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,

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 not only to believe on him,

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 but also to suffer for his sake.

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 So again, here are the Philippians,

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 they're not doing anything wrong,

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 they're just preaching the gospel, they're serving God,

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 and it says they have adversaries

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 and they're suffering for the sake of Christ.

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 That's just what happens when a church is serving God.

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 And I'm not even just talking about like,

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 our group of churches or like the new IFB.

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 I mean, I went for several years

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 to a church that people would consider like old IFB,

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 and even just in that church,

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 we had so many weirdos and freaks come through

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 trying to destroy that church

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 because it just was doing so much soul winning.

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 And so any church, any Christian

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 that's just gonna believe the Bible and follow it

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 will have persecution, will have sufferings,

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 will have afflictions,

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 not because they're doing something wrong,

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 not because they're being rude necessarily,

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 not because they are at fault,

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 but because people just hate Jesus.

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 People hate the truth, people hate the gospel,

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 people hate people getting saved.

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 Go to Acts 14, Acts 14.

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 And again, I'm just trying to set the stage here

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 with a good foundation showing a lot of verses

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 that says here that if we're a Christian,

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 you're gonna have enemies, that you're gonna be hated,

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 that you're gonna have persecutions,

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 that you're gonna suffer.

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 And then I wanna make several applications about that.

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 So Acts chapter 14, look at verse 21,

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 Acts 14, look at verse 21.

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 And when they had preached the gospel to that city

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 and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra

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 and to Iconium and Antioch,

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 confirming the souls of disciples

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 and exhorting them to continue in the faith

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 and that we must through much tribulation

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 enter into the kingdom of God.

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 So Paul just got done getting stoned at a city,

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 then he comes back and he's exhorting the disciples

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 hey, look, through much tribulation,

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 we need to get into heaven.

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 We're not just gonna have an easy life.

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 You're on earth, right?

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 Getting no persecution, just being great and awesome,

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 and people are just gonna bow down to us and say,

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 hey, what must I do to be saved?

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 No, no, no, hey, we need through much tribulation

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 get into heaven.

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 We can expect persecution.

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 We can expect affliction of living the Christian life.

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 Look at 1 Peter 4, 1 Peter, chapter number four,

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 1 Peter 4, look at verse number 12,

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 1 Peter 4, look at verse number 12.

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 "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial,

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 "which is to try you,

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 "as though some strange thing happened unto you.

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 "But rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers

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 "of Christ's sufferings,

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 "that when his glory shall be revealed,

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 "ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

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 "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,

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 "happy are ye, for the Spirit of glory

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 "and of God resteth upon you,

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 "on their part he is evil spoken of,

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 "but on your part he is glorified.

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 "But let none of you suffer as a murderer,

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 "or as a thief, or as an evildoer,

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 "or as a busybody in other man's matters.

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 "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,

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 "let him not be ashamed,

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 "but let him glorify God in his bath."

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 So a few things here from this passage

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 is that first it says, don't think it's strange.

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 Don't think it's weird when the fiery trial comes,

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 when persecutions come, when affliction comes.

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 Look, that's normal.

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 That's not weird.

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 What's weird is a Christian that claims to be serving God

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 and isn't getting persecution,

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 and isn't getting affliction.

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 That's weird because that's not what

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 the Bible teaches at all.

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 But notice also that it says we should rejoice,

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 we should be exceeding glad.

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 But in verse 15 and 16, it really emphasized the part of,

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 look, don't suffer as a murderer,

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 or as a thief, or as an evildoer,

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 or as a busybody in other men's matters.

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 There is no glory if you're just suffering

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 for your consequences of your sin.

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 Right, if you're suffering because you're a murderer,

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 'cause you stole money, or because you did something evil,

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 that's not persecution for Christ's sake.

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 That's your own fault.

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 But if you suffer for being a Christian,

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 for just preaching the gospel, for just serving God,

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 then that's where God is pleased with you.

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 So of course, I'm not saying that we should just

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 have no discretion what we say.

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 I'm not saying that we should just be rude to be rude.

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 I'm not saying that we shouldn't use principles

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 in the Bible being wise.

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 But what I am saying is that it is normal

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 for a Christian to be hated,

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 especially if it's being hated for just being a Christian.

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 Go to 2 Timothy 3, 2 Timothy 3, 2 Timothy 3.

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 Yeah, obviously if someone is at work

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 and they're just a bad employee,

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 they're getting there late, they're a jerk to everyone,

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 and everyone hates them, that's not thankful for them.

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 That's not what the Bible is saying.

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 That's not what the Bible is communicating.

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 But if an employee is actually just hardworking,

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 they're doing their job, they're living their life right,

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 they're doing things right,

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 but they're hated just because they believe the Bible.

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 They're hated 'cause they go to a church

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 that believes the Bible.

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 They're hated because they won't drink,

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 or because they won't go and do certain things,

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 they won't steal from the company.

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 That's different, that is thank worthy,

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 we're just hated for being a Christian.

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 Second Timothy three, look at verse 10.

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 Second Timothy three, look at verse 10.

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 Says, "But thou hast fully known my doctrine,

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 "manner of life, purpose, faith,

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 "long-suffering, charity, patience,

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 "persecutions, afflictions which came unto me

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 "at Antioch, Iconium, at Lystra,

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 "what persecutions I endured,

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 "but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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 "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus

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 "shall suffer persecution."

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 I mean, the Bible's just saying that you can just

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 take it to the bank.

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 It's a promise that if you're gonna live godly

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 in Christ Jesus, you will suffer persecution.

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 And if you're not suffering persecution,

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 it's, you should ask yourself,

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 am I living godly in Christ Jesus?

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 Because if you're living godly,

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 you will suffer persecution.

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 I mean, that's just a statement of fact in the Bible

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 that is just as true as John 3:16,

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 just as true as any other verse in the Bible.

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 That if you're living godly, you have persecution.

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 Now I have two points this evening of why we are hated.

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 And my first point is simply,

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 we will be hated for our beliefs.

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 We'll be hated because of what we believe.

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 Good at John 17, I kind of thought of two main reasons

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 of why people hate us.

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 And first one that I thought of was that we're hated

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 because of what we believe.

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 Look at John 17, look at verse 14.

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 This is Jesus' prayer to the Father about his disciples.

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 It says, "I have given them thy word,

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 and the world hath hated them,

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 because they are not of the world,

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 even as I am not of the world."

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 So Jesus is saying of his disciples

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 that he gave them the word of God,

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 and the world hated the disciples,

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 because disciples were not of the world

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 because they're Christians,

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 because they're set apart.

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 And so we'll be hated

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 simply for standing on the word of God.

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 We'll be hated simply because of what we believe.

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 And I have a few things that, for example,

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 will cause people to hate us

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 just for believing these things.

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 Go to John 14, I asked Chad GPT simply,

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 hey, what are some of the most controversial things

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 the Bible teaches?

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 And the first thing it said

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 is that was the most controversial thing the Bible teaches

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 is that the salvation is only through Jesus Christ.

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 Just by believing that Jesus is the only way to go to heaven,

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 already people will hate us.

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 And if you go soul winning, you'll see this

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 because I'm not gonna adore people

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 be real friendly with me.

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 They'll really seem like, you know, they'll be cordial.

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 But as soon as I tell them, hey, you know,

00:24:05.270 --> 00:24:07.010
 you keep trusting your Catholic church,

00:24:07.010 --> 00:24:08.520
 you're not gonna go to heaven.

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 Or as soon as I tell them, hey, you know,

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 you're believing you repent of your sins

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 to get you to heaven, you're not saved.

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 You know, they flip on a dime, don't they?

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 Then all of a sudden they don't wanna talk to you.

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 Then all of a sudden they get offended.

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 Then all of a sudden they're mad at you.

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 They're acting like you're the bully or you're the problem

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 when you're just lovingly trying to show them

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 what the Bible says that they're on their way to hell.

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 But we don't want them to go there.

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 That's why we're there to try to get them saved.

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 So this is a big reason why just people hate you.

00:24:33.070 --> 00:24:34.720
 You just simply believe the gospel,

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 believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven.

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 People will hate you.

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 But this is what the Bible clearly teaches.

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 John 14, familiar verse, verse number six,

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 says Jesus sayeth unto him,

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 I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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 No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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 The only way to go to heaven is through Jesus Christ.

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 It's not through our good works.

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 It's not through being a good person.

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 It's not through turning over a new leaf

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 or repenting of all my sins

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 and changing my life completely.

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 It's simply by believing in Jesus.

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 It's not by the Muslims.

00:25:06.830 --> 00:25:09.910
 It's not by Mohammed or keeping the commandments.

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 It's not by the Catholics praying their little rosary.

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 It's not by the Catholics praying and worshiping Mary.

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 It's not by the Catholics doing their sacraments.

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 There's no other way to heaven but through Jesus.

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 There's a lot of people that have these ideas

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 that, well, you have these different religions,

00:25:26.710 --> 00:25:28.990
 these different roads, but they all lead to heaven.

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 They all lead the same place.

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 But that's just not true.

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 The Bible is clear that that's not true.

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 There's one way to heaven, it's only through Jesus.

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 And if you don't put 100% of your trust in Jesus

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 to go to heaven, you're not going to go there.

00:25:42.100 --> 00:25:46.930
 Go with me to Proverbs 20, Proverbs 20.

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 So what are some beliefs that would cause people

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 to hate us as Christians?

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 Well hey, first of all, just simply believing

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 that Jesus, the only way to go to heaven,

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 is enough for a lot of people to just hate you.

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 Especially people that are caught up in false religion,

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 they really hate that.

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 Because they want to keep trust in their works,

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 they don't want to change their mind at all.

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 And the Christian that doesn't tell that person

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 that they're going to heaven,

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 or that they're on their way to hell,

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 the Christian that just keeps their mouth shut

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 and just tries to live a nice, peaceful life,

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 and hopes that the Catholic coworker

00:26:20.910 --> 00:26:23.420
 will just someday magically ask them how to get saved,

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 that Christian doesn't actually love his coworker,

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 because he's letting him go to hell

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 without telling him anything.

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 The loving person is actually the person that says,

00:26:31.070 --> 00:26:33.170
 "Hey, bro, you're on your way to hell.

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 "Why don't you stop believing in your Catholic church

00:26:34.830 --> 00:26:36.720
 "and believe in Jesus?"

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 But a second reason why,

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 or another belief that will cause people to hate us,

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 is simply how about believing that alcohol,

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 drinking alcohol, is a sin.

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 Look at Proverbs 20, verse one, says,

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 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,

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 "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."

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 Bible simply says, look, if you're deceived by alcohol,

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 you're not wise, you're stupid, you're an idiot,

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 is what the Bible is saying, if you fall for alcohol.

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 Man, that will make a lot of people angry,

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 that will get a lot of people to turn on you and hate you,

00:27:12.450 --> 00:27:15.420
 even just by being at a company party

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 and not drinking alcohol.

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 People will feel kind of offended

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 without you even saying things sometimes,

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 but even more so if you say something like,

00:27:24.060 --> 00:27:25.320
 hey, why don't you drink?

00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:26.130
 Well, I'm a Christian.

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 Bible says you shouldn't.

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 The Bible says that it's actually dumb to drink alcohol.

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 People get really offended real quick.

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 Look at Proverbs 23.

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 This will even offend a lot of so-called Christians

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 that defend drinking alcohol and pervert the word of God

00:27:48.370 --> 00:27:51.850
 to make it seem normal, to make it seem like it's okay.

00:27:51.850 --> 00:27:53.050
 Right, you got a lot of people that say,

00:27:53.050 --> 00:27:57.390
 well, Jesus turned water into wine.

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 It's like, yeah, but it wasn't alcoholic wine.

00:28:00.050 --> 00:28:02.370
 It was like grape juice.

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 But people will mock that.

00:28:03.410 --> 00:28:05.520
 People will hate you for believing that.

00:28:05.520 --> 00:28:09.250
 Proverbs 23, look at verse 29.

00:28:09.250 --> 00:28:11.780
 Proverbs 23, verse 29, says,

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 "Who hath woe, who hath sorrow,

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 "who hath contentions, who hath babbling,

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 "who hath wounds without a cause,

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 "who hath redness of eyes,

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 "they that tarry long at the wine,

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 "they that go to seek mixed wine.

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 "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,

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 "when it giveth his color in the cup,

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 "when it moveth itself aright."

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 So verse 31 is a very explicit command

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 that just says, "Look not upon the wine,"

00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:44.150
 when it's fermenting, is what it's talking about there,

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 is that fermentation process.

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 Look, once it's fermented, once it's alcohol,

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 and the Bible clearly says, "Look not upon the wine."

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 Much less grab it, much less drink it,

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 and this isn't just talking about getting drunk,

00:28:56.290 --> 00:28:59.770
 it's talking about any drinking of alcohol at all, right?

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 You have a lot of Christians that wanna say,

00:29:00.950 --> 00:29:03.050
 "Well, drinking's not the sin,

00:29:03.050 --> 00:29:05.230
 "it's getting drunk that's a sin."

00:29:05.230 --> 00:29:06.040
 The Bible didn't say that.

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 The Bible says, "Look not upon the wine."

00:29:09.100 --> 00:29:10.860
 Didn't say it's okay to have a little bit.

00:29:10.860 --> 00:29:14.040
 It's okay to have your social drink every now and then.

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 It's okay to go in the happy hour

00:29:16.250 --> 00:29:18.550
 and get a little, you know, just talk with friends,

00:29:18.550 --> 00:29:20.340
 get one or two little cups.

00:29:20.340 --> 00:29:21.330
 The Bible didn't say that.

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 The Bible says that it's wrong.

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 It's always wrong.

00:29:24.190 --> 00:29:25.830
 You should never drink wine.

00:29:25.830 --> 00:29:27.100
 You should never drink alcohol.

00:29:27.100 --> 00:29:28.340
 It's a sin.

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 That's what the Bible is clearly saying, that people will hate you for saying that.

00:29:32.260 --> 00:29:35.070
 People will hate you for believing that.

00:29:35.070 --> 00:29:35.990
 Look at verse 32.

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 "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stinketh like an adder.

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 Thine eye shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

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 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth in the midst of the sea, or he that lieth upon the

00:29:50.540 --> 00:29:51.490
 top of a mass.

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 They have shaken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick.

00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.570
 They have beaten me, and I have felt it not.

00:29:59.570 --> 00:30:00.610
 When shall I awake?

00:30:00.610 --> 00:30:03.800
 I will seek it yet again.

00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:07.760
 So even by this description of alcohol, that you're just going to have woe, you're going

00:30:07.760 --> 00:30:13.190
 to have sorrow, you're just going to be constantly fighting, you're going to see perverse women,

00:30:13.190 --> 00:30:19.210
 you're going to just say perverse things, just that alone should tell you to stay away

00:30:19.210 --> 00:30:21.270
 from it.

00:30:21.270 --> 00:30:23.240
 To not ruin your marriage through alcohol.

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.680
 To not make stupid decisions through alcohol.

00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:32.720
 To not drink and then go and get behind a car and then kill someone because of alcohol.

00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.520
 Hey, before you ruin your life, you should just realize the Bible says that it's always

00:30:36.520 --> 00:30:38.300
 wrong to drink alcohol.

00:30:38.300 --> 00:30:42.030
 You should never take a sip ever.

00:30:42.030 --> 00:30:44.640
 But people will hate you for believing that.

00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.910
 Go to 1st Timothy chapter 2, 1st Timothy chapter 2.

00:30:48.910 --> 00:30:52.960
 People will hate you for believing that salvation is just by Jesus.

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.770
 People will hate you for believing that alcohol is a sin.

00:30:55.770 --> 00:31:00.650
 People will hate you for believing what the Bible says about gender roles.

00:31:00.650 --> 00:31:11.180
 1st Timothy 2, 1st Timothy 2, look at verse 11, "Let the woman learn in silence with

00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:17.150
 all subjection, but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,

00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:21.230
 but to be in silence, for Adam was first formed, then Eve."

00:31:21.230 --> 00:31:29.970
 The Bible is very clearly saying that a woman is forbidden from teaching, preaching, anything

00:31:29.970 --> 00:31:31.000
 at a church.

00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:36.310
 The Bible is just completely forbidding that, that's the man's place, and a woman is not

00:31:36.310 --> 00:31:38.480
 to take, usurp that authority from the man.

00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:44.250
 You have a lot of churches, you know, especially in the non-denominational realm, the Pentecostal

00:31:44.250 --> 00:31:48.810
 realm, they just flat out have women pastors, and if you tell someone, "Hey, that woman

00:31:48.810 --> 00:31:54.120
 pastor that looks like a dyke shouldn't be preaching at your church," people hate you.

00:31:54.120 --> 00:31:55.730
 People say, "Oh, that's not nice.

00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:58.460
 Oh, well, this is antiquated.

00:31:58.460 --> 00:31:59.440
 That was for back then."

00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:04.580
 Well, I didn't see that in the Bible, I just saw it as explicit command.

00:32:04.580 --> 00:32:07.780
 There's no, you know, people try to go to the historical context.

00:32:07.780 --> 00:32:08.940
 This is what people will do.

00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:11.390
 They'll say, "Look, the Bible's not saying that."

00:32:11.390 --> 00:32:14.600
 And they won't point to another Bible verse, they'll point to their historical context.

00:32:14.600 --> 00:32:18.520
 And they'll say, "Well, you have to understand back in history, you know, these women were

00:32:18.520 --> 00:32:22.260
 just chatting too much in church, so Paul's just saying they should be silent and not

00:32:22.260 --> 00:32:23.550
 chat in church."

00:32:23.550 --> 00:32:24.510
 But the Bible didn't say that.

00:32:24.510 --> 00:32:25.980
 The Bible says that they can't teach.

00:32:25.980 --> 00:32:29.260
 The Bible wasn't saying that they were just gossiping during the sermon, the Bible says

00:32:29.260 --> 00:32:30.240
 they can't teach.

00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:33.110
 That they can't assert authority over the man.

00:32:33.110 --> 00:32:37.000
 And people hate just what the Bible says, so they don't want to take the plain reading

00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.700
 of the text.

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:48.610
 Go to Ephesians 5, and even a lot of fundamental Baptist kind of skirt this line by having

00:32:48.610 --> 00:32:52.190
 women Sunday school teachers.

00:32:52.190 --> 00:32:53.230
 I'm not a fan of that.

00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:54.190
 I'm not for that.

00:32:54.190 --> 00:32:58.900
 I don't like that because the Bible says that women should keep silence and also is

00:32:58.900 --> 00:33:03.570
 conditioning the children to be used to a woman teaching them.

00:33:03.570 --> 00:33:07.500
 Maybe that's why they grow up and go to the non-denominant and listen to Joyce Meyer.

00:33:07.500 --> 00:33:11.090
 Maybe that's why they grow up and go to these lame church where they have a woman pastor

00:33:11.090 --> 00:33:17.780
 because they were conditioned from a young age to listen to a woman teach them the Bible.

00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:24.030
 In Ephesians 5, look at verse 22, Ephesians 5, 22, it says, "Wives, submit yourselves

00:33:24.030 --> 00:33:28.340
 unto your own husbands, and unto the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even

00:33:28.340 --> 00:33:32.020
 as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the saviour of the body.

00:33:32.020 --> 00:33:36.700
 Therefore is the church subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:38.380
 in everything."

00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:45.790
 The Bible here is saying that the role of the wife in marriage is to submit to her husband.

00:33:45.790 --> 00:33:50.040
 Not to nag him or boss him around, but to submit to her husband.

00:33:50.040 --> 00:33:54.610
 And notice at the end of verse 24 it says, "So let the wives be to their own husbands

00:33:54.610 --> 00:33:56.660
 in everything."

00:33:56.660 --> 00:33:58.930
 There is no limiter on this.

00:33:58.930 --> 00:34:00.770
 There is no caveat to this.

00:34:00.770 --> 00:34:06.530
 It just says in everything they should be in subjection to their husbands.

00:34:06.530 --> 00:34:10.440
 And all these feminists out there today just don't like this.

00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:14.880
 They will hate anyone that even says anything remotely close to this.

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:18.000
 But that's just what the Bible is saying.

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:38.130
 Go with me if you would to Deuteronomy 22, Deuteronomy 22.

00:34:38.130 --> 00:34:42.240
 So simply believing what the Bible says about gender roles is very controversial in our

00:34:42.240 --> 00:34:45.430
 world and is enough for people to hate you.

00:34:45.430 --> 00:34:50.180
 Deuteronomy 22, look at verse number five, says, "The woman shall not wear that which

00:34:50.180 --> 00:34:55.180
 pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do

00:34:55.180 --> 00:34:58.610
 so are an abomination unto the Lord thy God."

00:34:58.610 --> 00:35:02.810
 The Bible is very clear that the way that a man dresses and the way that a woman dresses

00:35:02.810 --> 00:35:05.600
 should be distinct, should be different.

00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:12.140
 And it is not hard to tell that what pertains to a man is pants.

00:35:12.140 --> 00:35:14.180
 Everything else is kind of universal, right?

00:35:14.180 --> 00:35:20.090
 Think about shirt, think about shoes, socks, everything else kind of like universal or

00:35:20.090 --> 00:35:24.070
 not necessarily inherently distinct.

00:35:24.070 --> 00:35:26.670
 But when you look at pants, that is where the distinction is.

00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:31.130
 Even the Bible talks about Daniel when they're thrown into the fire, talks about them having

00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:38.160
 bosun, Bible talks about the priest having britches, you know the Bible talks about men

00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.120
 wearing pants.

00:35:39.120 --> 00:35:46.420
 The Bible never says women wearing pants and the Bible even talks about woman being basically

00:35:46.420 --> 00:35:49.630
 like her husband's skirt.

00:35:49.630 --> 00:35:54.050
 So what I'm saying is that what the Bible is saying here is that men and women should

00:35:54.050 --> 00:36:00.390
 not be you know cross-dressing and in our modern society and what the Bible is pointing

00:36:00.390 --> 00:36:04.040
 out is that look women shouldn't wear pants.

00:36:04.040 --> 00:36:07.490
 Women should wear skirts and dresses and men should wear pants.

00:36:07.490 --> 00:36:09.990
 And this is another one that gets people to hate you.

00:36:09.990 --> 00:36:14.080
 But this is normal you know if you just go back 40-50 years this was normal.

00:36:14.080 --> 00:36:17.290
 Women would wear skirts, dresses, men would wear pants.

00:36:17.290 --> 00:36:21.840
 This wasn't a controversial issue but you know in this feminized society just a lot

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.930
 of people have an issue with this and will hate you for this.

00:36:23.930 --> 00:36:28.940
 But if you just look at the bathroom sign you know the woman has a little triangle for

00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:34.850
 the dress, the man has doesn't have that because he's wearing pants okay it's not hard.

00:36:34.850 --> 00:36:39.810
 But even fundamental baptists today are retreating on this doctrine, retreating on this idea.

00:36:39.810 --> 00:36:47.390
 Fundamental Baptist pastors are allowing their wives to wear pants in church, to wear pants

00:36:47.390 --> 00:36:50.630
 to try to make people feel welcome or feel comfortable.

00:36:50.630 --> 00:36:55.060
 Hey no no that's not what the bible says, you're just compromising.

00:36:55.060 --> 00:37:00.590
 And notice what it said at the end there, it says for all that do so are abomination.

00:37:00.590 --> 00:37:05.630
 It didn't even say that the wearing of the pants is abomination, it says that they themselves

00:37:05.630 --> 00:37:09.580
 are an abomination when they do these things.

00:37:09.580 --> 00:37:16.670
 So this is a belief that will get you, get a lot of people to hate you, simply believing

00:37:16.670 --> 00:37:20.560
 that women should not wear pants.

00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:23.850
 Go with me if you would to Matthew 21, Matthew 21.

00:37:23.850 --> 00:37:27.970
 I'm trying to highlight, I'm trying to give some examples, I'm trying to give some application

00:37:27.970 --> 00:37:32.790
 of what are some beliefs that would just get people to hate you.

00:37:32.790 --> 00:37:36.460
 Well just believing that salvation is through Jesus alone will get a lot of people to hate

00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:37.960
 you.

00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:41.570
 Believing that alcohol is a sin that you should never drink it will get people to hate you.

00:37:41.570 --> 00:37:45.190
 Believing what the bible says about gender roles, that they shouldn't be in authority,

00:37:45.190 --> 00:37:48.280
 that they shouldn't be running a government, right?

00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:53.090
 Like in Mexico you have a woman president, like hey Claudia Schoenbaum shouldn't be president

00:37:53.090 --> 00:37:54.480
 at all.

00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:56.000
 She has a lot of issues going for her.

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.560
 Number one that she's a woman being president.

00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:05.560
 Number two that she's a Jew and along with that territory she's a communist too.

00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:09.120
 But saying that, saying hey I don't support Hillary Clinton, I don't support Kamala Harris,

00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:14.330
 I don't support you know Marjorie Taylor Greene, I don't support any woman politician.

00:38:14.330 --> 00:38:20.770
 I don't care if she's on our side or their side, right or left, it's wrong.

00:38:20.770 --> 00:38:27.110
 I'm not for Kristi Noem being in any level of authority, I'm not for any of these women

00:38:27.110 --> 00:38:28.830
 politicians.

00:38:28.830 --> 00:38:35.470
 But another point that will get people to hate you is believing that the church has

00:38:35.470 --> 00:38:38.400
 replaced Israel.

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:44.170
 Look at Matthew 21, we're going to read a parable here starting verse 33 and this won't

00:38:44.170 --> 00:38:48.960
 just get the world to hate you, this would even get some of our brethren to hate us.

00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:54.350
 Unfortunately, Matthew 21, look at verse 33, says, "Hear another parable.

00:38:54.350 --> 00:38:58.460
 There was a certain householder which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and

00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:03.150
 digged a winepress in it and built a tower and led it out to husbandmen, and went it

00:39:03.150 --> 00:39:05.220
 to a far country.

00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:09.100
 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that

00:39:09.100 --> 00:39:11.910
 they might receive the fruits of it.

00:39:11.910 --> 00:39:16.890
 And the husbandmen took his servants and beat one and killed another and stoned another."

00:39:16.890 --> 00:39:24.580
 So in this parable, you have a man that has a vineyard, a householder that has a vineyard,

00:39:24.580 --> 00:39:31.110
 and he let it out, he lent it, he leased it to certain husbandmen, and he's expecting

00:39:31.110 --> 00:39:32.080
 something from it.

00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:35.630
 He's expecting fruit, he's expecting them to produce results, he's expecting them to

00:39:35.630 --> 00:39:41.040
 get people saved, to bring them closer to God, but they're not doing that.

00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:47.730
 And so he sends someone to go check it out, to go look at the fruits of it.

00:39:47.730 --> 00:39:51.680
 And it says in verse 35 that they took that servant, they beat one, killed one, and stoned

00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:53.170
 another.

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 So if you just think about this in a carnal sense, imagine you have some garden somewhere

00:39:57.140 --> 00:40:00.570
 that you really care about, and you let someone just take care of it.

00:40:00.570 --> 00:40:04.730
 And you say, "Hey, you know, I want to collect some of that fruit of the garden," you send

00:40:04.730 --> 00:40:06.030
 someone and they just kill.

00:40:06.030 --> 00:40:08.240
 You send an employee and they just kill him.

00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:12.330
 You send another one, they just beat him and bruise him badly.

00:40:12.330 --> 00:40:17.670
 And that's what's happening here, and obviously this is talking about the children of Israel

00:40:17.670 --> 00:40:23.390
 being the husband men, God the Father being the householder expecting to bring forth fruits,

00:40:23.390 --> 00:40:28.480
 sending the prophets as the servants and they're just getting killed, they're getting beaten,

00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:31.510
 they're getting, you know, just all types of persecution against them.

00:40:31.510 --> 00:40:37.770
 Look at verse 36, "Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did unto them

00:40:37.770 --> 00:40:39.670
 likewise.

00:40:39.670 --> 00:40:44.470
 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.'"

00:40:44.470 --> 00:40:49.470
 So it's talking about Jesus, "But when the husbands saw the son, they said among themselves,

00:40:49.470 --> 00:40:54.950
 'This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us cease on his inheritance.'

00:40:54.950 --> 00:40:59.140
 And they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him."

00:40:59.140 --> 00:41:03.370
 So this is talking about Jesus, how they grabbed him, took him out of the city, and just crucified

00:41:03.370 --> 00:41:05.290
 him.

00:41:05.290 --> 00:41:13.950
 Look at verse 40, "When the Lord of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

00:41:13.950 --> 00:41:19.780
 They say unto him, 'He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard

00:41:19.780 --> 00:41:25.430
 unto another husbandman, which shall render him the fruits in their season.'"

00:41:25.430 --> 00:41:30.160
 Now I want you to notice that this is Jesus talking to the Pharisees, and Jesus gives

00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:31.130
 this parable.

00:41:31.130 --> 00:41:35.590
 He says, "Look, what would be reasonable for this Lord to do?"

00:41:35.590 --> 00:41:40.210
 And the Pharisees, the Jews, are the ones that say, "Hey, he would destroy those wicked

00:41:40.210 --> 00:41:44.270
 people, and he'd replace them with some other people."

00:41:44.270 --> 00:41:50.520
 The Jews themselves are saying that they should be replaced in this parable.

00:41:50.520 --> 00:41:55.620
 Verse 42, "Jesus sayeth unto them, 'Did you never read in the Scriptures, the stone which

00:41:55.620 --> 00:41:59.050
 the builders rejected, the same as become the head of the corner?

00:41:59.050 --> 00:42:02.450
 This is the Lord's doing, and is marvelous in our eyes.

00:42:02.450 --> 00:42:07.980
 Therefore, I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to

00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:12.020
 a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof."

00:42:12.020 --> 00:42:19.100
 Jesus himself plainly states that the kingdom of God was taken away from the Jews, from

00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:26.590
 the physical nation of Israel, and given to another nation, called believers, represented

00:42:26.590 --> 00:42:27.770
 in the church.

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 And our purpose to bring forth fruit, our purpose as believers, is to get people saved.

00:42:33.640 --> 00:42:35.600
 That's what Jesus is expecting here.

00:42:35.600 --> 00:42:39.510
 But notice that Jesus is plainly saying that they were replaced.

00:42:39.510 --> 00:42:45.240
 Some people don't like this term of replacement theology, but the Bible is just saying, "If

00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:51.040
 I fire someone and I put someone else to take their job, wouldn't we all say, "Yeah, they

00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:52.510
 were replaced."

00:42:52.510 --> 00:42:57.310
 It'd be silly to fight against that because that's just logic.

00:42:57.310 --> 00:42:59.260
 But people will hate you for believing this.

00:42:59.260 --> 00:43:01.730
 The Zionists out there will hate you for believing this.

00:43:01.730 --> 00:43:06.850
 Go to Romans 2, Romans 2.

00:43:06.850 --> 00:43:10.690
 The Zionists will hate you for believing this and will even try to pass laws, they have

00:43:10.690 --> 00:43:14.180
 tried to pass laws, of anti-Semitism laws.

00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:17.130
 People will say, "Well, this is anti-Semitic to say that the Jews were replaced.

00:43:17.130 --> 00:43:21.840
 It's anti-Semitic to say that the Jews killed Jesus."

00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:23.000
 That's just what the Bible says.

00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:27.310
 I mean, if just preaching the Bible is anti-Semitic, then I guess I'm the anti-Semitic.

00:43:27.310 --> 00:43:33.120
 I'm not going to shy away from what the Bible says just because of label.

00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:36.870
 Romans 2, look at verse 28.

00:43:36.870 --> 00:43:44.200
 Romans 2 verse 28, "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision,

00:43:44.200 --> 00:43:49.820
 which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and circumcision

00:43:49.820 --> 00:43:56.090
 is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men,

00:43:56.090 --> 00:43:57.420
 but of God."

00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:00.980
 The Bible is saying that the Jew is not the one that's physically a Jew, that's physically

00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:02.020
 circumcised.

00:44:02.020 --> 00:44:05.650
 The real Jew is the one that's circumcised inwardly, is the one that just puts their

00:44:05.650 --> 00:44:07.140
 faith in Jesus.

00:44:07.140 --> 00:44:09.440
 He's the person that's actually the Jew.

00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:13.880
 He's the person that's actual, spiritual Israel, the Israel of God, as the Bible describes

00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:15.570
 it.

00:44:15.570 --> 00:44:29.520
 Go with me, if you would, to Philippians, Philippians chapter three, Philippians chapter

00:44:29.520 --> 00:44:38.010
 number three, Philippians three, look at verse one.

00:44:38.010 --> 00:44:41.830
 It says, "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord, to write the same things to you

00:44:41.830 --> 00:44:46.170
 to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

00:44:46.170 --> 00:44:51.200
 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concession."

00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:54.720
 And here he's talking about Jews, you know, that's, he's kind of mocking them by saying

00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:56.820
 beware of the concession.

00:44:56.820 --> 00:45:02.610
 "For we, for we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ

00:45:02.610 --> 00:45:06.940
 Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh."

00:45:06.940 --> 00:45:11.550
 So Paul talking to the Philippians, not to Jews, not to the Israelites, but to Philippians.

00:45:11.550 --> 00:45:17.830
 He says, "For we are the circumcision, we believers are the Israel of God, we believers

00:45:17.830 --> 00:45:25.290
 are the Jews, the true spiritual Jews, not some place in the Middle East, not some people

00:45:25.290 --> 00:45:26.240
 that hate Jesus."

00:45:26.240 --> 00:45:32.670
 Go with me if you go to Proverbs 13, Proverbs 13.

00:45:32.670 --> 00:45:38.140
 So I'm saying if you actually believe the Bible, if you actually believe the truths

00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:43.380
 of the Bible, people will just hate you for simply believing the Bible.

00:45:43.380 --> 00:45:47.820
 People say it's hate speech, for just preaching what the Bible says, believing what the Bible

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:49.570
 says.

00:45:49.570 --> 00:46:00.260
 In Proverbs 13, look at verse 24, Proverbs 13 verse 24, "He that sparreth his rod hateth

00:46:00.260 --> 00:46:04.810
 his son, but he that loveth him chasteth him betimes."

00:46:04.810 --> 00:46:11.570
 Bible says that the person, the parent that won't spank, physically discipline, corporately

00:46:11.570 --> 00:46:18.320
 punish their children, does not love them, but rather hates them.

00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:22.080
 But if the parent that actually does discipline them and disciplines them early, that's what

00:46:22.080 --> 00:46:26.050
 betimes means, they're the ones that love their children.

00:46:26.050 --> 00:46:34.690
 Look at Proverbs 23, Proverbs 23, a lot of people are just against physical discipline

00:46:34.690 --> 00:46:36.260
 at this point.

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:39.270
 A lot of people would just automatically say that it's abuse for just disciplining your

00:46:39.270 --> 00:46:42.910
 child in any way, which is insane.

00:46:42.910 --> 00:46:49.620
 In Mexico, it's actually illegal to physically, corporately punish your child.

00:46:49.620 --> 00:46:55.020
 You can go to jail in Mexico for simply punishing your child as the Bible says, disciplining

00:46:55.020 --> 00:47:01.230
 your child physically with a rod as the Bible says.

00:47:01.230 --> 00:47:07.420
 Verse 23, look at verse 13, "withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest

00:47:07.420 --> 00:47:10.520
 him with the rod, he shall not die."

00:47:10.520 --> 00:47:13.990
 Bible's just saying, look, don't withhold correction.

00:47:13.990 --> 00:47:17.810
 If you discipline them, no, there's no permanent damage that's happening.

00:47:17.810 --> 00:47:18.810
 They're not going to die.

00:47:18.810 --> 00:47:20.830
 They'll be fine.

00:47:20.830 --> 00:47:27.980
 Look at verse 14, "Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell."

00:47:27.980 --> 00:47:33.860
 Physically disciplining children helps them get saved at an earlier age.

00:47:33.860 --> 00:47:38.420
 They understand the concept that, hey, they do wrong, they get a punishment.

00:47:38.420 --> 00:47:40.510
 They understand those concepts.

00:47:40.510 --> 00:47:44.330
 But children that don't really have their parents' involvement in their life or aren't

00:47:44.330 --> 00:47:48.860
 even getting disciplined at all, I've literally run into children out soul winning.

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:51.140
 I've asked, "Have you ever sinned before?"

00:47:51.140 --> 00:47:53.510
 "No."

00:47:53.510 --> 00:47:54.490
 I'm like, "Have you ever lied?"

00:47:54.490 --> 00:47:56.060
 "No."

00:47:56.060 --> 00:47:57.990
 "Have you ever gotten trouble in school?"

00:47:57.990 --> 00:47:59.620
 "No."

00:47:59.620 --> 00:48:03.250
 They just literally don't think they have any sin.

00:48:03.250 --> 00:48:05.940
 I bet you that those children do not get disciplined at all.

00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:09.830
 I bet you the children just roam around doing whatever they want and it's probably evident

00:48:09.830 --> 00:48:14.360
 by the fact they're like five or six and they're just walking by themselves in this ghetto

00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.040
 neighborhood by themselves.

00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:20.620
 That's probably evidence that they're not really getting a lot of attention or discipline

00:48:20.620 --> 00:48:23.460
 at home.

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:28.720
 So corporal punishment of children is one that gets people to hate you, gets people

00:48:28.720 --> 00:48:31.050
 not like you.

00:48:31.050 --> 00:48:34.350
 It's not a popular opinion in this world today.

00:48:34.350 --> 00:48:45.330
 Look at Leviticus 20, Leviticus 20, believing in capital punishment will get people to hate

00:48:45.330 --> 00:48:46.640
 you.

00:48:46.640 --> 00:48:51.740
 A lot of liberals just don't even believe anyone should be put to death ever.

00:48:51.740 --> 00:48:55.820
 And even just suggesting the idea that hey, some people should be put to death is insane

00:48:55.820 --> 00:48:57.720
 for them.

00:48:57.720 --> 00:49:01.880
 But the Bible describes a lot of different capital punishments.

00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:05.540
 Now I'm not going to look at all of them, but I'm going to look at some of them.

00:49:05.540 --> 00:49:08.520
 Leviticus 20, look at verse 9.

00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:14.110
 Leviticus 20 verse 9 says, "For everyone that cursed his father or his mother shall be surely

00:49:14.110 --> 00:49:15.920
 be put to death.

00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.860
 He hath cursed his father or his mother, his blood shall be upon him."

00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:25.790
 Bible says that if a child were to curse his father or his mother, that he would be put

00:49:25.790 --> 00:49:28.560
 to death.

00:49:28.560 --> 00:49:34.910
 That's not a popular opinion, people don't like that, but that's what the Bible says.

00:49:34.910 --> 00:49:42.750
 Look at verse number 10 with me, Leviticus 20 verse 10 says, "And the man that committed

00:49:42.750 --> 00:49:47.620
 adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife,

00:49:47.620 --> 00:49:50.490
 the adulterer and adulteress shall be put to death."

00:49:50.490 --> 00:49:55.460
 The Bible says that adulterers would be put to death.

00:49:55.460 --> 00:50:00.310
 It doesn't call it an affair, it doesn't say you know it's just an accident or a fling,

00:50:00.310 --> 00:50:02.840
 it says that they should be put to death.

00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:08.340
 God takes this sin seriously.

00:50:08.340 --> 00:50:14.190
 Look at verse number 13, "If any man, if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with

00:50:14.190 --> 00:50:19.740
 the woman, both of them have committed abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood

00:50:19.740 --> 00:50:20.750
 shall be upon them."

00:50:20.750 --> 00:50:24.760
 The Bible says that sodomites, no fags, queers, whatever you want to call them, should be

00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:26.220
 put to death by the government.

00:50:26.220 --> 00:50:31.030
 I mean that's just what the Bible says, that's just the plain reading of the text, is that

00:50:31.030 --> 00:50:36.720
 hey these are capital punishment crimes.

00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:39.040
 And there's no real way to soften the blow on this.

00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:42.230
 There's no real way that I can package this to make it more palatable to people.

00:50:42.230 --> 00:50:43.960
 Right?

00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:47.150
 So people will say well you should just be nice about it.

00:50:47.150 --> 00:50:51.230
 So what way could I even word this to where people would like what I'm saying?

00:50:51.230 --> 00:50:53.180
 Or to where people wouldn't be offended by what I'm saying?

00:50:53.180 --> 00:50:58.830
 I mean I'm sure if I just told a liberal, "Hey, I just think that the members of the

00:50:58.830 --> 00:51:03.050
 LGBTQ should be put to death."

00:51:03.050 --> 00:51:04.560
 They would still hate me for that.

00:51:04.560 --> 00:51:06.530
 They would still freak out about that.

00:51:06.530 --> 00:51:12.330
 I don't think there's any way that I could word it that would make it any better to

00:51:12.330 --> 00:51:15.110
 where they wouldn't get offended.

00:51:15.110 --> 00:51:17.890
 The only way that they wouldn't get offended is if I just didn't say it.

00:51:17.890 --> 00:51:21.740
 The only way that they would get offended is if I just didn't believe the Bible.

00:51:21.740 --> 00:51:24.210
 And then they wouldn't get offended because I'm not saying anything controversial.

00:51:24.210 --> 00:51:26.260
 I'm not saying just what the Bible says.

00:51:26.260 --> 00:51:31.060
 It's not even that it's even controversial necessarily.

00:51:31.060 --> 00:51:34.550
 They just wouldn't get offended because I'm not preaching the Bible.

00:51:34.550 --> 00:51:37.300
 That's really what a lot of liberal Christians want us to do.

00:51:37.300 --> 00:51:38.930
 They just want us to ignore parts of the Bible.

00:51:38.930 --> 00:51:41.570
 They just want us to not believe parts of the Bible.

00:51:41.570 --> 00:51:42.750
 And then people will like us.

00:51:42.750 --> 00:51:46.070
 Then people, you know, will be on our side.

00:51:46.070 --> 00:51:50.080
 But what good is it to have people that are on our side if they're not even getting the

00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:51.810
 truth?

00:51:51.810 --> 00:51:54.610
 I mean, there's people that have this mentality in church, "Hey, you shouldn't preach hard

00:51:54.610 --> 00:51:58.930
 against Satan in church because you don't want people to drive away visitors.

00:51:58.930 --> 00:52:00.600
 How can you help people if you drive them away?"

00:52:00.600 --> 00:52:03.840
 Well, how can I help people if I'm not preaching the Bible?

00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:06.030
 How can I help people if I'm not telling them the truth?

00:52:06.030 --> 00:52:11.560
 I mean, if I go to the doctor and they just tell me, "Hey, you're all fine when I'm really,

00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:16.100
 you know, I have serious medical issues or I have some disease," they're not loving,

00:52:16.100 --> 00:52:17.840
 they're not helping me.

00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:21.740
 Then tell me, "Hey, you have this disease, you have to change radically, you have to

00:52:21.740 --> 00:52:24.370
 stop eating what you're eating, you have to change your diet."

00:52:24.370 --> 00:52:25.910
 That is the loving thing to do.

00:52:25.910 --> 00:52:30.730
 Even if it does offend me, even if I don't like it, that would be what the loving person

00:52:30.730 --> 00:52:33.310
 does.

00:52:33.310 --> 00:52:40.290
 Look at verse 16, Leviticus 20 verse 16, "And if a woman approach unto any beast and

00:52:40.290 --> 00:52:43.820
 lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast.

00:52:43.820 --> 00:52:46.950
 They shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them."

00:52:46.950 --> 00:52:51.060
 So this is one that's not really talked about a lot, the bestiality should be put to death.

00:52:51.060 --> 00:52:53.980
 And the only reason I even thought to bring this up is because in Mexico a few weeks

00:52:53.980 --> 00:53:00.320
 ago I saw this trend where there are people called Therians, where basically just people

00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.720
 that identify as animals, and again I couldn't really tell if they're like trolling or not,

00:53:04.720 --> 00:53:07.470
 but I think some of them are serious.

00:53:07.470 --> 00:53:13.050
 And I think this is just a step to get closer to just where people are just accepting bestiality.

00:53:13.050 --> 00:53:16.720
 That's my opinion on this, and so I think it's important to say, "Hey, you know what?

00:53:16.720 --> 00:53:19.310
 The Bible says these people should be put to death."

00:53:19.310 --> 00:53:24.380
 I think a lot of people that just are identifying as these freaks are just reprobate anyways.

00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:32.290
 Look at verse 27, "A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard

00:53:32.290 --> 00:53:37.400
 shall surely be put to death, they shall stone them with stones, their blood shall be upon

00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:38.690
 them."

00:53:38.690 --> 00:53:42.410
 So the Bible says for being a wizard or being involved in witchcraft, you should be put

00:53:42.410 --> 00:53:44.260
 to death.

00:53:44.260 --> 00:53:47.190
 And it's just a sampling of capital punishments, the Bible says that kidnappers should be put

00:53:47.190 --> 00:53:48.360
 to death.

00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:53.960
 The Bible says that people that force, like a man that would force a woman would be put

00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:55.040
 to death.

00:53:55.040 --> 00:53:59.660
 The Bible has other capital punishments, someone that blasphemes God, someone that's just actively

00:53:59.660 --> 00:54:02.770
 teaching a false gospel would be put to death.

00:54:02.770 --> 00:54:06.110
 The Bible has other capital punishments, I'm just trying to give you a sampling of if you

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 believe any of these people are going to hate you, people are going to get offended, people

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 are not going to like you, and it's not that people are going to hate you because you're

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 not friendly.

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 It's not that people are going to hate you because you're not a good worker.

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 It's that people are hating you because you're believing the Bible.

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 You could be the friendliest, best person ever, but if you believe the verse I just

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 read, people will hate you because they just hate the Bible, they just hate the truth.

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 Go with me if you would to John 3, Gospel of John chapter number 3.

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 So my first point is that people will hate us for what we believe.

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 My second point is that you will be hated for being righteous.

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 You'll simply be hated for simply being righteous.

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 Go to John 3, John 3 look at verse 19, John 3 verse 19 says, "And this is the condemnation

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 that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because

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 their deeds were evil.

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 For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should

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 be reproved.

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 But he that doeth truth cometh to light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they

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 are wrought in God."

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 Bible's saying there's certain people that don't want to get and come to the light, they

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 don't want to come to the truth, they don't want to come to Jesus because he is the light,

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 they don't want to come to him because they're just simply evil, because they're simply wicked.

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 They're just simply doing bad things and light exposes the bad that they're doing, so they

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 don't want to get close to the light because they are evil, because they are wicked.

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 Go to 1 Peter chapter 4, what I'm saying is that there are certain people that are just

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 going to hate you because they're wicked and you're righteous.

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 You're actually living a Christian life, you're actually following what the bible says, there

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 will be people that hate you, not because you're mean to them, not because you're rude,

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 not because you're a jerk, but because you're good and they're evil, but because you're

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 righteous and they are wicked.

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 Look at 1 Peter 4, 1 Peter 4, look at verse 3, 1 Peter 4, 3, "For the time past of our

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 life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness,

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 lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banqueting, and abominable idolatries, wherein they think

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 it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you."

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 So notice, why do these people speak evil of you?

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 Why do these people don't like you?

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 It's because you're not participating in the same sins that they are.

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 It's because you're actually following the Bible.

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 You're saying, "Hey, all the sins, let that just be in my past.

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 Let me actually try to live for God now."

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 And they hate that.

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 They hate that you won't do evil with them, so they just hate you for being righteous.

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 It's not that you did anything wrong.

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 They're evil.

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 They hate you because you're good, because you're righteous.

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 Look at 1 John 3, 1 John 3, and this is shown perfectly in Jesus.

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 He is sinless.

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 He did nothing wrong.

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 He had the perfect balance of being nice and being stern.

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 He has the perfect balance of what he preached, right?

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 Sometimes people say, "Well, I didn't like the way you said it."

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 Well, you couldn't say that about Jesus.

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 He always had the perfect balance of how he said everything.

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 He had the perfect balance on things and they still hated him.

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 They still killed him.

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 Why?

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 Because he's righteous and they're evil.

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 First John 3, look at verse 11, 1 John 3, look at verse 11, "For this is the message

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 that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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 God is Cain, who is out that wicked one, and slew his brother, and wherefore slew he him?

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 Because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous."

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 The Bible is just telling us, why did Cain slay Abel?

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 It's because Cain was evil and Abel was righteous.

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 Look at verse 13, "Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you."

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 Say, don't be surprised if the world hates you, because sometimes people are just going

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 hate you because they're evil, they're wicked, and you're good and you're righteous and you're

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 actually following God. This last Saturday I was out soul winning up there in DFW in Arlington and

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 me and my soul winning partner got the cops called on us by some sodomite, by some faggot and it's

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 not because we did anything wrong. Like we didn't even talk to him, we had no interaction with him,

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 we weren't rude with him, we didn't provoke him, we didn't do anything to him. We were simply just

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 knocking door, soul winning and he saw us and he got mad and he called the cops on us. Why? Because

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 we were righteous and he's evil and he's wicked. People just hate you because they're evil and

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 you're righteous. Go to the book of Daniel, book of Daniel, I mean when you see someone that's just

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 you know soul winning, serving God, doing great things and just a bunch of people hate him,

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 you might want to consider hey maybe he just hated so much because the people that hate him are evil

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 and he's righteous. Maybe he's hated because all these people are wicked and in sin and he's

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 actually doing something for God and a lot of the haters of our churches you know that have left

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 their churches and are haters, they're evil, they're wicked, they're doing nothing for God

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 and they just hate us because we're doing great things for God. I'm sure there's people that

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 hate Pastor Reyes not because he did anything wrong to them but because he just simply believes the

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 Bible and he's trying to serve God the best he can, he's righteous. I mean I can think of someone

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 that used to come to this church, you know, Jack As, Pastor Reyes has nicknamed him, that hates him,

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 hates me, not because we ever did anything wrong to him, we were always good to him, but he hates

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 us because he's evil, he's wicked, he doesn't believe the Bible and we believe the training.

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 I mean it's just that simple. Why did he hate us? Why does he hate us? Why does he come against us?

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 Why is he railed against us? Because he's evil and we're righteous. Daniel 6, we see this illustrated

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 well in this story of Daniel where Daniel's not doing anything wrong, but he's getting persecuted.

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 He has haters just simply because he's righteous. Daniel 6, look at verse 1, says, "It pleased Darius

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 to set over the kingdom and 120 princes, which should be over the whole kingdom, and over these

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 three presidents, of whom Daniel was first, that the princes might give a counsel to them, and the

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 king should have no damage. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,

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 because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

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 When the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom,

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 but they could find none occasion nor fault for as much as he was faithful, neither was there any

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 error or fault found in him. So here the Bible is just saying that Daniel was preferred above the

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 presidents and princes. Why? Because just God was blessing him, because he was doing his job,

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 because he's faithful. They're trying to find something that Daniel's doing wrong. They can't

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 find it. They're trying to see if Daniel steals. They're trying to see if Daniel did something

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 is being a little dishonest or being a little deceptive in his work, and they can't see it. They

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 can't find it. So look at verse five, "Then said these men, 'We shall not find an occasion

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 against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.'" Daniel had

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 integrity. Daniel was doing right. Daniel had good character. Daniel was doing everything, as far as

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 we know, he's doing everything right. But why do these people hate him? Just because he's righteous.

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 Why do they hate him? Because he's doing well, because he's excelling, because God is blessing

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 him, and they just hate him for that. But notice it says that they can't find any occasion against

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 Daniel unless it's against him concerning the law of his God. It says, "Hey, the only thing bad that

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 we can find is that he actually takes religion seriously, that he actually loves God, that actually

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 serves God." So then they go and get the King Darius to write a decree that basically says that

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 you can't ask or pray to anyone except him, right? And then they look to see what Daniel would do.

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 I believe it's verse number 16. Well, maybe before that. Verse number 10. "So after this was signed,

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 now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house and his windows being opened

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 in his chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave

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 thanks before his God as he did a four time." Daniel just kept serving God, kept being righteous,

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 kept praying to God. They obviously grabbed him. He's thrown into the lion's den, but God delivers

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 him. What I want to just show through the story of Daniel is that Daniel isn't being bad. Daniel

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 isn't being rude. Daniel isn't just being a jerk. Daniel's great. Everyone likes Daniel because of

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 his work and his character, but people hate him. Why? Because he's righteous and they're wicked.

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 Because he's doing right and they don't like that. They get envious of that. There's a lot

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 of people like that. In the workplace, there's a lot of people like that. That if you're just

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 actually honest and doing a good job and you're not slacking off, they'll hate you for that because

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 you make them look bad. They hate you for that because then they might actually have to put in

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 some effort in the workplace. But it's not that you're doing anything wrong. It's that they're

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 wicked. It's that they're wrong, but they don't want to change. I mean, even Kane was giving

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 the opportunity by God, "Hey, if you do well, shall you not be accepted?" Kane just decided

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 to not do that. And people just decide to not correct their way, and they decide to

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 stay wicked and be mad that you're not wicked like them. So what's the point of the sermon?

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 The point of the sermon is just to simply say, "Look, you will be hated by this world."

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 Don't believe this lie coming from the non-denom or watered-down Baptists that say, "Well,

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 if you're really right with God, you can actually have everyone love you and like you, and you'll

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 have this lifestyle evangelism that just wins everyone to Christ by never being controversial,

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 by never taking a stand on anything." But that's a lie. The Bible is making a promise that if

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 you're a Christian, and you serve God, and you believe the Bible, and you live righteously,

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 that you will be hated by this world. You will be hated by people. And that's all right, because the

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 reason they hate you is because they hate Jesus. And they'll hate us because of what we believe,

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 and they'll hate us because we're righteous and they're wicked. That lets us end with the word

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 of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be in church. I pray you'd help us to

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 live right, to believe right, and to not be discouraged by people that hate us, but rather

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 being encouraged, knowing that we will be rewarded for that, knowing that you are with us.

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 And I just pray that you'd bless us as we go home. Pray that you'd help us apply this sermon

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 to not compromise. And I just pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. So with that, y'all are dismissed.