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The first song will be from our binders.

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It's Redeemed.

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So first you have the Psalms in the binder and then after that you have all the other

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songs in alphabetical order.

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So find Redeemed in your binder.

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to proclaim it redeemed by the blood of the lamb redeemed through his infinite mercy his

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childhood forever I am

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I cannot be silent, love is the theme of my song.

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Redeem.

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By the blood of the land

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Now that forever I am

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I shall see in his beauty the king

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footsteps and giveth me songs in the night.

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by the blood of the lamb

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proclaim in His child that forever I am.

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Let's have a word of prayer.

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Dear Heavenly Father,

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thank you for the salvation this evening.

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Thank you for this opportunity for us to gather together

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and sing praise and hear your word.

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I pray that you'd help us to sing songs to you

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and to have the Holy Spirit teach us this evening.

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Amen.

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Let's go to our second song, number 145 in the red booklet, in the hymnbook.

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Number 145.

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It is well with my soul.

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145.

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Our third song is in the black binder again. It's Psalm 119.

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In the black binder.

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Psalm 119.

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Psalm 119.

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Your word is a lamp unto my feet and

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Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage

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My word is...

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F-I-B-C

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accept thy testimony taken as an heritage forever thy word is a lamp unto my feet and

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Bye!

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I accept thy testimonies have I taken as

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Forever thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my

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Open your Bibles to Mark chapter 14.

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And...

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We'll have the hot...

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Mark chapter 14.

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Mark 14. After two days was the feast of the Passover and of unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

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And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a

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woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious.

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And she broke the box and poured it on his head.

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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of

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the ointment made?

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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to

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the poor.

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And they murmured against her.

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And Jesus said, Let her alone.

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Why trouble ye her?

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you

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she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always,

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and whensoever ye will ye may do them good, but me ye have not always.

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She hath done what she could, she has come a forehand to anoint my body to the

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burying.

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Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the

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whole world,

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this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto

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them.

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And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money.

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And he saw how he might conveniently betray him.

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In the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said

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unto him, Where wilt thou that we go, and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover?

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and he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them.

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Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him.

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And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house. The master saith,

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Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? And he will show you

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a large upper room furnished and prepared. There make ready for us. And his disciples went forth

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and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them, and they made ready the Passover.

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And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.

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And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you,

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One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.

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And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one,

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Is it I? And another said, Is it I?

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And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve that dippeth with me in the dish.

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The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man

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is betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had never been born. And as they did eat, Jesus took

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bread, and blessed, and break it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat, this is my body.

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And he took the cup.

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And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.

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And he said unto them, This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many.

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Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it

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new in the kingdom of God. And when they had sung in him, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

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And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night, for it is written,

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I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

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But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

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But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.

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And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that this day, even in this night,

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before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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But he spake them more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise.

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Likewise also said they all.

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And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane.

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And he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here while I shall pray.

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And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, And began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy.

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And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death,

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Teary ye here and watch.

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And he went forward a little, And fell on the ground,

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And prayed that if it were possible, The hour might pass from him.

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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee, take away this cup from me.

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Nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.

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And he cometh and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?

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Couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

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The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

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And again he went away and prayed and spake the same words.

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And when he returned he found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

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Neither whisked they what to answer him.

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And he cometh the third time and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest.

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It is enough, the hour is come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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Rise up, let us go. Lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.

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And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great

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multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

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And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that

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same is he.

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Take him and lead him away safely.

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And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and sayeth, Master, Master, and kissed

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them.

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And they laid their hands on him and took him.

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And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and

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cut off his ear.

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out as against a thief, with swords

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and with staves, to take me?

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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

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But the scriptures must be fulfilled.

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And they all first took him and fled.

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And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body, and the young men laid hold on him.

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And he left the linen cloth and fled from the naked. And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

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And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest. And he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire.

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And the chief priests and all the councils sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

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For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

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And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

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We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands,

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and within three days I will build another made without hands.

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But neither so did their witness agree together.

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And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying,

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Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?

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But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said unto him,

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Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am, and ye shall see the Son

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of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming into the clouds of heaven.

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Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith,

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What need we any further witnesses?

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You have heard the blasphemy, what think ye?

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And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

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And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face,

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and to buffet him, and to say unto him, prophesy.

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And the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

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And as Peter was beneath in the palace,

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there cometh one of the maids of the high priest.

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And when she saw Peter warming himself,

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she looked upon him and said,

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you

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And thou also was with Jesus of Nazareth.

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But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest.

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And he went out into the porch, and the cock crew.

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And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.

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And he denied it again.

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And a little after they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them,

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For thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeeth thereto.

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But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.

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And the second time the cock crowed. And Peter called to mind the word

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that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crowed twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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And when he thought thereon, he wept. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.

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I pray that you fill Pastor Oz with your spirit, help him to preach an edifying sermon for us,

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and help us to receive it. Amen.

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Man, we're in Mark chapter number 14. It's definitely a longer chapter for the Gospel of Mark.

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It is total 72 verses. We're only going to get through 31 this evening, so keep that in mind.

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But notice there in verse number one, the Bible says, after two days

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was the feast of the Passover and of unleavened bread.

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and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death.

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So here we see the conspiracy to murder the Lord Jesus Christ and there's a lot of talk about

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conspiracies in our day and age but one conspiracy that we know for sure is true is that the wicked

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plotth against the just right the kings of this earth set themselves and take counsel against

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to the Lord and against his anointed.

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And here we're seeing the Jews coming together to conspire to murder the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And notice their heart here in verse number two.

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It says,

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But they said, not on the feast day,

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lest there be an uproar of the people.

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So notice their moral priorities here.

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They really don't have any issues with committing murder.

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They don't really have any issues killing the Son of God,

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murdering Jesus, but they're like,

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hey, let's not do this on the feast day.

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Otherwise people are going to be mad at us.

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There's going to be an uproar among the people.

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And you know, this is one of the most

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Wicked attributes of a person is to be a respecter of persons

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Because rather than caring what people think about us. Here's what we should care about what God thinks of us and

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Notice murder they don't they don't sit here and think oh, what is God gonna think of us murdering Jesus?

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They're like hey, let's not do it on the feast day

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So that people don't get mad at us and look not only do the Jews do this when it comes to the conspiracy to kill

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Christ a lot of people

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in their day-to-day lives do this, where they are respectors of people and they live their

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life based on what are people going to think about me.

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If I make this certain decision, how is that going to make my friends feel, my parents feel, my family, my church?

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Whereas we need to be people who only care what the Bible says, and only care what God thinks about us.

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And look, if you take this mentality, yeah, sometimes you'll make people mad, sometimes you'll lose friends,

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sometimes you can make family members upset at you, but it's better to have every human person upset at you and God happy with you

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you than to make.

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God mad.

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What does the Bible say?

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I'll read this for you.

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Proverbs 28 verse 21.

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The Bible says to have respect of persons in, excuse me, to have respect of persons is

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not good.

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for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

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Here's why people who are respecters of persons are very dangerous individuals

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is because they're willing to do whatever it takes to make people like them

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or to be on good standing with other people.

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And the Bible saying hey watch out for someone that is that much of a people pleaser

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that's a respecter of persons because they'll transgress pretty much for any reason

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for a piece of bread like they'll sell you out

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a piece of bread. They'll turn on you, they'll stab you in the back for a piece of bread

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if it means that it keeps them in good standing with other people. And so here, what are the

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Jews willing to do? They're willing to literally kill their own Messiah just so, but they don't

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do it at the time that they were talking about, oh, during the feast day, so that they don't

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get people mad at them.

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verse number three. Now we get this story here of this woman who anoints Jesus. It says,

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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman

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having an alabaster box of ointment of spike nard. Notice this very precious, and she break the box

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and poured it on his head. So here this woman is coming to Lord Jesus Christ.

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Elsewhere we read that she's doing this to anoint Jesus for his burial

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She's doing this service to the Lord Jesus Christ

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But notice how the Bible describes what she's doing is she's taking this ointment that is very precious

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What that means is that it's not very easily found. It's a very expensive item, right?

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So she's willing to spend she's willing to give something valuable to the Lord Jesus Christ

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Then of course the lesson for us is that we as Christians ought to be

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giving Jesus our best, right?

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Christianity, serving God, and reading the Bible,

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and going soul-winning, it shouldn't be like,

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these are side gigs in your life,

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but really what gets you up every day is your job.

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And look, I hope you like your job.

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You should work very hard at your job.

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You should be very dedicated to your job.

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You should be the best worker at your job.

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But you know what?

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I don't wake up in the morning for my job.

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You know what?

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I wake up in the morning to serve God.

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I wake up in the morning to love God, to commune with the Lord in prayer, to read His word,

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to preach the gospel.

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You say, no, that's because you're a pastor.

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That should be every Christian.

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All of us should view our service for Jesus as being very precious and we should give

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Him our best.

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Right?

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And so a Christian that's really giving Jesus their best, what is that going to look like

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on a very practical level?

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Well, certainly it's going to look like reading your Bible every day.

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Right? Can you really say like, oh, I'm really giving Jesus my absolute best if you're not at

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least reading his words every single day. That would be like step one showing God, hey, I esteem you.

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I esteem your commandments. I want to hear from you. Reading the Bible every single day is a very,

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very important foundational step in your Christian life. And it goes to show that you're being serious

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about the things of God. You know, what else would that look like? Practically speaking,

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praying to the Lord every day.

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Right? The Bible says to pray without ceasing.

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Someone who is giving Jesus their best is not someone who just neglects prayer for days or weeks

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or maybe you just don't even do it at all. Right? Someone giving Jesus their best is going to be

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praying every single day. A good time to do this. Hey, the Bible talks about early in the morning,

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you'll hear my voice, right? Seeking God early in the morning. Some of us have a long drive to work.

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That might be a good time to get your prayer in to

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listen to audio bible something like that you know if you're giving Jesus your

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best I think it's safe to say that you're gonna be a three to thrive

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Christian you know why because there's many many hours in a week and giving

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Jesus three hours a week at church isn't really that big of a deal and if you're

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not at least doing that I don't think you could say you're giving Jesus your

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best also what I like about this woman yes she's giving Jesus her best but

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she's also giving Jesus something that costs her

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And you know what, there's getting saved, which is a free gift.

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then there's serving God, then there's wanting to be a disciple of Christ.

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And you know what? We as Christians should be willing to give Jesus stuff that costs us something.

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What do I mean by that? Sometimes serving Jesus is going to cost you your reputation with your unsaved family members.

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Right? Sometimes serving Jesus is going to cost you having to endure persecution,

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or to endure ridicule, or to put yourself in a humiliating position.

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and do something as humble as knocking on a stranger's door

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and preaching them the gospel, right?

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But a lot of people, they want a Christianity

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that costs them absolutely nothing, right?

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Going to church is on the decline in general in America.

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Soul winning in a lot of churches is on the decline right service for others service for God, right?

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That's something that's above and beyond being saved and someone that does that is someone who's willing to have a Christianity that costs them

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Something and of course, that's how we should be as Christians

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But notice how the wicked respond to this in verse number four. It says and there were some

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that had indignation within themselves and said,

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why was this waste of the ointment made?

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Now if you read in the Gospel of John,

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the parallel account of this,

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the Bible makes it clear who's really mad about this

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is Judas Iscariot.

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Right? So here this woman does a good act for Jesus, sacrifices of her special ointment for Jesus,

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gives Jesus her best, is willing to spend for Jesus, and notice the wicked is mad.

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The wicked's reaction to people serving God is angry.

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He says he has indignation.

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And notice he says,

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why was this waste of the ointment made?

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Again, elsewhere, if you read in John the parallel account,

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the Bible makes it clear

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that Judas did not care about the poor.

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He didn't care that this was being wasted.

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Really, he was covetous and he wanted the money himself.

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The Bible makes that clear that Judas was a covetous person.

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Keep your place there and go to 2 Peter chapter number two.

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2 Peter chapter number two.

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2 Peter is the chapter that describes the attributes

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of a false prophet.

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Because you have people in this world that are saved.

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You have people in this world that are unsaved.

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Then you have people who are reprobates.

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People who are false teachers, who believe a false gospel,

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who have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ, who have been given over to a reprobate mind.

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That's what 2nd Peter 2 is about. And notice what it says in verse number 2. It says,

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And many shall follow their pernicious, that means harmful,

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ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

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Right? So a lot of people, they speak negatively about church or about pastors or about Christianity

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because of what evil false prophets do. Right? So some sort of evil Judas false prophet will

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steal the church's money.

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will just like steal all of God's money or something like that.

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And then people say like, oh, God's people are just crooks.

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God's people are wicked, right?

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But it's really the wicked that are causing the way of truth to be evil spoken of.

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Look at verse number three, and through covetousness,

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that's their desire for wealth and money, shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you.

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whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

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Now for us in this room, we know this is no surprise, this is like as obvious as the nose

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on your face. We know that the Bible teaches that a lot of people are in the ministry, a lot of people

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become some sort of spiritual leader, or want to front themselves as a disciple simply to make money.

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Right? And that's what false prophets do. All of them use feigned words and through covetousness

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make merchandise of simple people. Because any pastor that gets up and is making money

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on a false gospel is guilty of filthy lucre. Like there's no more wicked way to earn money

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in this world than preaching a false gospel.

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Right? So every single pastor in this world that gets up and takes a paycheck from people

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that are sacrificing and giving their tithes and paying their tithes to the church, and

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they get up and they teach you have to repent of your sins to be saved, you know what? That's

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a Judas Iscariot is what that is.

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That guy is a false prophet and that guy is guilty of filthy lucre.

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Through his covetousness, through his desire to make money,

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he's willing to teach damnable heresy.

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This is every single leader in the Mormon Church, right?

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Every single Mormon leader is guilty of this because they teach a false gospel.

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These are just, you know, you're Protestant, or not you're Protestants,

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you're Pentecostals, right?

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Going around the holy rollers, teaching repentant sins.

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You know, these people are guilty of this.

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Look what it says in verse number 14, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin,

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beguiling unstable souls and hearts they have exercised with what covetous practices cursed.

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So some people, you know, teach this bizarre doctrine,

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I've heard this doctrine taught, that like Judas was getting people saved.

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Who's heard this doctrine before, that Judas got people saved?

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Yeah, this was even taught by a guy who pretended to be new IFB for a while,

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his name was Manley Perry.

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Manly Perry got up and he was talking about you know Judas was the best soul winner Judas got the most people saved

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It's like really the Bible says that false prophets that they're beguiling unstable souls

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Not that they're reaching people with the gospel right so Judas never got a single person saved

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He never was doing anything for the right reasons

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He was a devil from the beginning the Bible says and what he was doing is he was there for the money

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That's why he was upset that this expensive item was poured out and spent on Jesus by the way

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It's a red flag when people get mad about churches spending money on the ministry

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Right because some people would criticize us you know for example last weekend

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We did a soul winning marathon in Joplin, Missouri

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And the church said hey any soul winner that wants to come to this the church will just pay for your hotel

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And they're not pastors, they're not staff members.

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It's just like, hey, you're a soul winner,

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you're gonna come here and preach the gospel,

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we'll put you up in a hotel,

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we'll even take you to get dinner,

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and you know what, we're not even gonna

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just give you McDonald's,

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we'll take you to Longhorn Steakhouse,

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we'll let you order whatever you want,

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and people get mad at that.

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But you know what, you're the exact same type of person

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that would have gotten mad at this woman

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taking this precious substance

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and giving it towards Jesus Christ.

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Because the way I look at it,

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at it is that there's no better way to spend church money than on people doing the work

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of the ministry.

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Right?

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And it's not that a pastor taking a paycheck is wrong.

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The Bible says he's worthy of double honor.

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The Bible says, hey, if we've given you spiritual things, it's meat that we're partaker of carnal

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things, of physical things.

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It's not that taking a paycheck is wrong, but you know what?

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They're worthy of double honor who are laboring in the word and doctrine.

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Whereas Judas was not doing that Judas was a false prophet. Okay, look what it says in verse number 15

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Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray?

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Following the way of Balaam. That's a false prophet the son of Bay's Bozor notice who loved

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the wages of unrighteousness.

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So wicked people in ministry,

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always doing shady things with money, stealing money.

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And you know what?

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That's definitely a super big, big red flag

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when a minister is involved in stealing money.

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It's a super, super wicked thing.

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Go back to Mark 14.

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So Judas is upset, he's super mad, and he's saying,

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why was this waste of the ointment made?

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Look at verse five.

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For it might have been sold for more than 300 pence

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and have been given to the poor.

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And they murmured against her.

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This is what wicked people do, is that wicked people feign

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as if they care for the poor as an excuse to be wicked.

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This is what the Democratic Party does.

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They're the party of caring for the poor,

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but really oftentimes these people are taking advantage of the poor.

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People want to criticize, again,

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churches that aren't just like giving free money to homeless people.

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You know, this type of an accusation, doesn't this sound like how people say to us, like,

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oh, you know, you're spending money on soul-winning marathons and missions trip and staff.

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You know, why don't you just take all that money and just give it to the homeless?

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Why are you wasting all this money going on soul-winning marathons when you could be giving it to

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the homeless? You know, that's like an attitude of Judas Iscariot. You know, that's a stupid,

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foolish, wicked attitude. First of all, the Bible says, if a man will not work, neither should he eat.

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So why would we take God's money and give it to people who refuse to labor?

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The Bible says, hey, if you don't work, you shouldn't even eat. Let me tell you this.

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You know what? I think it'd be a sin to give God's money to a bunch of derelicks refusing to work.

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That would be wicked as hell.

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That's different from someone who's working hard,

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who's down on hard times,

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someone struggling and working really hard.

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But you know what?

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It would be super wrong to just give God's money

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to a bunch of drug addicted, drunk, wicked people.

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Because let's be honest, in the United States of America,

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the vast majority of homeless people are homeless

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because of their choices and their wicked lifestyle

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and their refusal to work.

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I mean, there's day labor places all over downtown OKC.

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If you want a job, you can find one.

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But you know, people say,

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why don't you give all that money to the poor?

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Why don't you give all that money to the homeless?

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Well, first of all, we're spending that money

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on preaching the gospel to the poor,

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which is actually gonna benefit them.

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You know that just giving a free handout to a homeless person doesn't benefit them whatsoever?

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It doesn't actually help them because you're just enabling their wicked lifestyle,

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their lifestyle of laziness, you're just enabling them to continue going on that.

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You know what's actually going to help a poor person?

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It's getting them saved.

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And then maybe if the Holy Spirit of God is inside of them,

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you know that can help them to reform their life and go down a better road.

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But you know what? Step one, get saved.

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Why don't we just spend our money on getting people saved?

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But Judas says, oh, why don't you just give it all to the poor?

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And it's like, oftentimes rich people are the ones oppressing the poor.

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What James talks about it makes me think about this weekend?

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I was out soul winning and you know very often we go out soul winning to an apartment complex

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And I see other churches invites on the door right and you know what if they preach a false gospel if it's a bad church

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I rip those things down. I have no scruples about that. I just get rid of them, okay

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Well, I saw something I've never seen in my life this week out soul winning apparently a liquor store

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Literally was going door to door in this apartment complex

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and was putting up little invites to their liquor store,

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and it was just like, hey, a new liquor store

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is in your area, get your weed, get your cigarettes,

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get your beer, and it just had like this AI image

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of all this stuff.

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It's like, you wanna talk about people oppressing the poor?

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That's people oppressing the poor.

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You know what, liquor store owners are oppressing the poor.

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Marijuana shops are oppressing the poor.

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Lottery ticket salesmen are oppressing the poor.

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Payday loan areas, these are people oppressing the poor.

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You know what? Me not giving money to homeless people is not the problem.

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It's these wicked individuals making money off of poor, simple people.

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And guess what? This entire complex, it was just a 100% African American,

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black con- uh, apartment complex.

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You want to talk about people being hateful to black people?

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How about encouraging them to drink alcohol?

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You know, it's funny. Sometimes people accuse us of being racist.

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What you say why just because we exist and we're white and if you just exist and you're white in 2026,

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someone's going to call you a racist for something, right?

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So we get this stupid accusation sometimes, even though we spend the majority of our time

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preaching the gospel in the black areas of this town.

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But you know, who's the racist, the one going to the black man's door and saying, hey, come buy some booze.

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When you know what the results of alcohol is?

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Absent fathers, beating your family,

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going off with other women,

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being a derelict, not succeeding in the workforce.

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I wonder what's hurting black people in America more today.

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You know, hard preaching from a Baptist church,

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soul winning when we knock on their door

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and try to get them saved,

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or the stupid liquor store.

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It's the liquor store that is abusing poor people today.

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You know, there should be Black Lives Matter protests against all the liquor stores in America

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if you actually care about black people

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because unfortunately they're some of the people that are falling the most prey to these types of businesses.

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But just know that, that this is a tactic of wicked people is to feign care for the poor.

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When you see someone doing that, it's like their actions aren't really matching what they're saying.

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They're feigning care for the poor.

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You know, that's a red flag that that's a wicked person.

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And notice Jesus rebukes this mentality. He says in verse six, and Jesus said, let her alone.

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Why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on me. It's like, why are you hating on good works

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being done? Why are you hating on someone sacrificing for Jesus? You know, why are you

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hating on soul winners, sacrificing their time and money and effort and energy to preach the

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gospel to black people? Why don't you get mad at the liquor store instead?

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He says, for ye have the poor with you always.

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He's calling them out here.

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And when soever ye will, you may do them good,

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but me, ye have not always.

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He knows that Judas doesn't really care about the poor.

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He's like, don't worry, the poor's not going anywhere.

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You're always going to be ministering unto the poor.

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But you know what?

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Me, ye have not always.

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What does that go to show?

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The priority in our life should be Jesus Christ

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and serving Him and doing what He asks us to do.

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Verse number eight, I love this phrase.

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She hath done what she could.

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She has come a forehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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So notice, just one simple act that this woman did,

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this one sacrificial act, this act of love towards Jesus,

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Jesus is pleased with it, and he says,

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hey, she has done what she could.

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What should we do in our lives?

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You know what we should do in our lives?

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Do what you can.

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Do what you can.

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You know, some people, they're that five talent Christian,

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and maybe God's given them lots of opportunity,

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lots of time, lots of skills, lots of resources.

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Hey, if you've been blessed with a lot, do a lot!

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You know, but what if someone gets saved at 85 years old?

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You don't think there's never been an 85 year old that's gotten saved?

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And someone could be 85 years old or you could have gotten saved later in life

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and you could say like, man, you know, I missed my 20s and I missed my youth where I could have

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gone on all these missions trips and one souls to Christ. And it's like, yeah, but you know what,

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that time has passed and you can't do anything about that now. You know what you should do?

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You should do what you can with what you can right now.

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Whatever station you are in life wherever you find yourself at any point in time do what you can

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You know there's situations in life, and I know we're getting off a little bit off

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What this text is really about but this is just true you can end up in situations in life where you're not living the ideal

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Right where some people are in prison some people sin they do something stupid

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They're in prison what you don't want to do is find yourself in a less than ideal situation and just give up

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Like, oh, because my situation isn't perfect,

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then I'm not gonna serve God.

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It's like, okay, you're in jail.

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Well, do what you can.

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Preach the gospel to people in jail.

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You're like, man, you know, I'm not really happy

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with my family situation.

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I thought things would turn out for me differently in my life.

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And it's like, yeah, that sucks.

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I'm sorry, but you know what you should do?

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You should do what you can.

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Do what you can.

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Right? Things in life are not always going to go our way.

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And you know what? Thank God that we can come boldly to the throne of grace and obtain help in time of need

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and go to Jesus Christ and we can cast our cares upon Him because He cares for us.

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But no matter what we're going through, you know what Jesus expects us to do?

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What we can.

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Do what you can tonight.

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He cares about that.

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He's pleased with what she could do.

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He's not holding against her what she couldn't do, right?

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He's pleased with this one simple act,

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doing what she can.

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Jesus loves that.

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Verse number nine, Verily, I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached

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throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of

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her. So these are amazing words right here. Look at how highly Jesus values this one act

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of service towards him, showing truly God is not unrighteous to forget our labor,

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to forget our work, right? And he's saying, hey, wherever this gospel's preached,

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What she's done is going to be told as a memorial to her.

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Some people have been confused about this verse.

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I've had some people ask me they're like you know Jesus said that whenever the gospel is preached

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this is going to be brought up and so should I include this in my gospel presentation?

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No okay you have to understand that the word gospel strictly speaking yes the gospel is the

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death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ but also understand that the new testament is the

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gospel realize that mark is the gospel pretty much all the word of God you could say is the gospel

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So really what this is saying is, hey, this isn't going to be a

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of God, this story is going to endure, this is going to be preserved, this is going to

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be in our Bibles. Hey, when the Gospel is preached, this is going to be, remember, just

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showing the premium that Jesus put on this act. He cares about it. Verse 10, in Judas

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Iscariot, one of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him unto them. So

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So in verse one we saw the Jews are scheming.

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They're plotting how to kill the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Judas is kind of their human instrument that gets them

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to be able to arrest him.

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And Judas goes and betrays him.

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Go if you would to Psalm 23.

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Psalm 23.

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Judas is a very interesting character because some people

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just wonder like why was Judas in Jesus' inner circle?

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Why did Jesus allow there to be a Judas, right?

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A betrayer, a reprobate in his midst.

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Why did Jesus have this?

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Because obviously Jesus didn't make a mistake

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in picking him.

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He didn't misjudge him or something like that.

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I believe that Jesus intentionally allowed Judas

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to be a part of his inner circle.

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And here's why, is because we are gonna have

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Judases in our midst.

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right? And we may have one now, I don't know, I hope not, we may not have one. If we're around

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long enough, we absolutely will have them in the future. And you know, I think he's just showing

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an example that, hey, you're going to have Judas's in your midst. This is a reality of the ministry

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that all of us are going to have to deal with. Look at Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall

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not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters.

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He restoreth my soul.

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He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness

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for his name's sake.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

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I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

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Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

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Notice this, thou preparest a table before me

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in the presence of mine enemies.

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Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. So notice this the psalm of David here,

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probably the most famous psalm in all of our Bible. David is saying, hey Lord, you are preparing

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a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. David had Judas's in his midst, right? Ahithophel.

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David had people that were traders that would turn on him and you know what despite the traders

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Despite the wicked individuals turning against him notice that David was still recognizing that God was still being good to him in

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Preparing a table before him in the presence of his enemies, right?

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And so some people they their faith can be really shook by experiencing a Judas situation

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I've seen it many times in church where someone's friend, it turns out that they're a complete

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false prophet, they believe a false gospel, they're Judas. Or someone is in church and then it comes

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out that this person's like a literal pedophile or something like that. And look, this can really

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shake people's faith. That's why it's important that Jesus gave us this example of Judas beforehand,

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knowing that hey, these type of people are going to exist.

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But regardless about whether they're here or not,

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we know that hey, even if they're here,

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God's still preparing a table before us.

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Hey, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

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we fear no evil because God's with us,

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His rod and His staff comfort us.

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So let me just warn you, you know, in the future,

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some wicked person has to get kicked out of church,

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some Judas Iscariot gets exposed.

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Don't make, don't let that be the reason that you stop serving God.

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Don't let that be the reason to get bitter at God to act all confused and shocked

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No, just realize that hey, yeah, we had a Judas in our midst

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But guess what God was still taking care of us while they were here

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God was still blessing God was still leading and guiding and you know if you end up someday go into a different church and experiencing it

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There it's just it's gonna happen everywhere. It happens at every good church because if it happened to Jesus

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It's gonna happen to us go back to mark 14

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You know, also good pastors should take solace in this, you know, because there's been good pastors who have ordained bad people.

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And it's like a pastor shouldn't sit here and just like beat himself up and just be like, how come I didn't know?

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It's like, look, Jesus had a Judas, disciples had to deal with the Judas.

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You know, that's going to happen in ministry too. And a good pastor even can ordain sometimes a bozo.

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All right, go, I told you to go to Mark 14.

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I'm sorry, keep your place there actually.

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Go to Acts chapter number 20.

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Acts chapter number 20.

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I want to show you the Apostle Paul's warning

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of false prophets.

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This is a big issue for the Apostle Paul.

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In verse number 28 of Acts 20, he says,

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take heed therefore unto yourselves

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and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost

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hath made you overseers to feed the church of God,

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which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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So he's talking to pastors.

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He's telling them, hey, pay attention to this.

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Take heed to this.

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For I know this, that after my departing

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shall grievous wolves enter in among you,

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not sparing the flock.

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you

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Also, notice this, of your own selves shall men arise,

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speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years,

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I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears.

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Now that's pretty extreme.

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Could you imagine for three years, night and day,

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not just Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night,

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just imagine preaching every day, morning and night,

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and you know what the sermon is?

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In the morning, it's warning you about false prophets.

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And you know what the sermon is in the evening?

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It's warning you about false prophets.

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And then the next day, it's about false prophets.

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And the next day, it's about false prophets.

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Why? Because this is a serious big issue.

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Guess what these wolves are deceptive right? That's why they're called sheep

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I'm sorry wolves in sheep's clothing that that analogy is given to show you that they're deceptive sometimes

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They can look like a sheep sometimes. They have the characteristics of a sheep

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They appear as a sheep but notice what the indicator he told you to watch for is he says that they speak perverse things

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The best way to identify false prophet is by what they say

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is by what they teach.

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If they are teaching damnable heresy,

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you could say that's a false prophet.

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Okay, let's go back to Mark chapter number 14.

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Mark chapter number 14.

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So I think that's why Jesus allows Judas

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to be in his inner circle.

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And it says in verse number 11,

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and when they heard it, they were glad

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and promised to give him money.

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So there's Judas' motive there.

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And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him,

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Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the Passover?

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And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and sayeth unto them, Go ye into the city,

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and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him. Wheresoever he shall go in,

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Say ye to the good men of the house, the master saith.

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Where is the guest chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples?

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And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared there make ready for us."

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Now, this is quite an amazing prediction.

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He's just saying, hey, go find a guy who's bearing a pitcher of water.

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Go up to him and say, the master's asking you a question.

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Where's the guest chamber where we could eat this supper?

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And then it just so happens that this guy is going to have an upper room

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that's already furnished, that's already ready to go for you.

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Doesn't this remind you of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem

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where he says, hey, go in to this village and find someone

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and just say like, hey, the master has need of your ass.

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I'm just going to take this donkey and hey, don't worry,

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this guy's going to let you do it.

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I think one of the reasons why you kind of see both of these stories is to show that Jesus and his ministry

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He's not just like reacting to events that are happening to him

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Like Jesus is fulfilling scripture and Jesus is control is in control here and Jesus is not just you know going through life on a whim

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Subject to the things that happen to him the Bible makes it clear that Jesus laid down his life willingly

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And so why does he say all this?

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Because here's the thing, Jesus is entering the Passion Week here.

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He's about to go to the Garden of Gethsemane.

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He's about to be crucified.

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The reason why I think it's important that Jesus is foretelling all of the stuff that's going to happen

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is because Jesus knows that he's going to die.

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And guess what? He's going anyways.

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He's willingly doing this.

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Keep your place there. Go to John chapter number 10.

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John chapter number 10.

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John chapter 10, look at verse number 17.

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Jesus said, therefore doth my Father love me,

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because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

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No man taketh it from me.

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But I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again

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This commandment have I received of my father go back to mark 14

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And really this just amplifies the love that jesus christ showed for us the fact that hey, he's going into to jerusalem

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He's entering into this passion week here

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Knowing that he's going to die

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Willing to die for our sins and he's saying hey, no one's taking my life. I'm laying it down willingly. I'm gonna take

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it again someday. Now you don't want to misinterpret this verse to act like there are no human beings

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responsible for Jesus' death. Because here's the thing, all over the New Testament, the

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Bible clearly says that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus.

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Right? The Holy Ghost, the narrator of the Bible, says multiple times, 1 Thessalonians

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chapter 2, all over the book of Acts, that the Jews killed Jesus. Some people who don't

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like that, who don't like that little inconvenient truth, that the Jews killed Jesus, will go

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to John 10 and they'll say, see, Jesus laid down His life. No man took it from Him. So

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the Jews didn't kill Jesus. Okay, so you're saying there's a contradiction in the Bible,

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is what you're saying.

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Anytime you come away with an interpretation that causes the Bible to contradict your interpretation is wrong

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Here's the truth Jesus knew he was gonna be killed Jesus allowed himself to go through this situation

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But the Jews also are responsible for killing him, right?

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So just because Jesus knew he was gonna die and just because he willingly laid down his life

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Does not absolve the Jews of the wickedness of murder

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Right? It does not absolve Judas of the wickedness of betraying Jesus,

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because guess where Judas is right now? Burning in hell.

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Right.

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Oh, but Judas didn't betray Jesus because Jesus gave himself up.

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No, that's a warped view, okay?

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Jesus willingly subjected himself to the cross,

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but there were still human beings that did it,

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and God still holds them accountable.

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God is still angry at that.

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Okay, so this is the last supper here being described in verse number 16

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It says in his disciples went forth and came into the city and found as he had said unto them like always right we find

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It as Jesus said and they made ready the Passover and in the evening

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He cometh with the 12 and as they sat and did eat Jesus said verily I say unto you

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One of you which Edith with me shall betray me

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So notice we got 12 here and Jesus and Jesus just saying hey one of you are going to betray me

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right so we don't have to wonder if like oh this nebulous Judas who knows who it is they know it

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has to be one of the 12 right notice how deceptive false prophets are verse 19 and they began to be

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sorrowful and to say unto him one by one is it I?

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and another said, is it I?

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So you say like, why did the apostle Paul

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warn night and day for three years about false prophets?

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Probably because this is how deceptive they can be.

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The false prophets can often be so deceptive that when there's a room of 12 guys

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and Jesus straightly tells them,

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one of you are gonna betray me,

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you would think that they all be like,

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yeah, there was a lot of red flags with Judas,

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yeah, we kind of all know it's Judas.

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They're kind of convicted in their own hearts, saying like, Lord, is it I?

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Right? Because, you know, these men are sincere, not Judas, but the rest of the disciples are

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sincere, and they're probably thinking about times in their ministry where they messed up.

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times when they sinned, times where maybe they criticized Jesus and they shouldn't have,

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times where they back talked Jesus, Peter, you know, saying, oh, oh, let it not be so, Lord.

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Right. They're probably thinking about times that they did wrong and they're like smitten by that.

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And they're saying, oh, man, it's I, by the way, this is what people with a conscience do.

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Right. You actually are bothered by your own sin and bothered by your mistakes.

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But someone without a conscience doesn't feel that. And so the disciples are

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saying Lord is it I they don't suspect Jesus or they don't suspect Judas excuse

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me and so a lot of people though because false prophets are kind of hard sometimes

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to spot obviously there's some that are very easy but there are some that are

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more difficult some people feel like they have to make it their life's

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mission to be like a reprobate hunter or to be like a false prophet hunter and I

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want to encourage you not to be that person

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Because you know what the disciples they didn't lose rewards in heaven for not knowing as Judas right away

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They wouldn't have gained any rewards in heaven for pointing him out

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Really you should be worried about yourself and your own spiritual walk

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And you know what don't try to you know out every single person that you think is bad because oftentimes you might just be mistaken

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And you want to end up being a railer right falsely accusing someone of something that's not true

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I do have scripture to back this up go to Matthew chapter number 13

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Matthew chapter number 13 because look some people they're the reprobate police they want to call everyone and everything a reprobate and you know what every

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American leader we've ever had has ever been a reprobate and you know every single person

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That's not exactly an independent fundamental Baptist is a reprobate

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Okay, this is a bad attitude

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Matthew 13 look at verse number

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24

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The Bible says another parable put he forth unto them saying,

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The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field.

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But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tears among the wheat.

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It went his way. That's the devil sowing wicked people among the congregation.

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But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tears also.

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By the way, when you're bringing forth fruit, that's usually when the devil would want to attack and bring forth wicked people.

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So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field?

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And from whence hath it then tares? It's like, Jesus, did you not pick the right twelve disciples? Why is there a tear here?

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He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. Theodore, will you get that timer going off in there? Thank you.

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enemy hath done this, the servant said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and

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gather them up? He's saying, hey, should we gather up all these wicked tares? Verse

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29, but he said, Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat

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with them.

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Let both grow together until the harvest.

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And in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers,

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gather ye together first the tares

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and bind them in bundles to burn them,

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but gather the wheat into my barn.

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Hey, if we expose a false prophet, great.

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If they expose themselves, great.

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But don't be the person where it's like my ministry

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is to root up all the tares

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because the danger with doing that

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is that you might accidentally also root up some wheat with it.

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Not everyone is a false prophet.

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You know, some people are just weird.

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Some people are just weird.

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Some people are just autistic, right?

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Some people just have bad social skills.

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Some people are just different, and it's like, look,

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not every person where your radar is starting to go off

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is some sort of reprobate, and you know what we're not going to tolerate?

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False accusations.

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I mean, the Bible says that Michael the Archangel, when contending with the devil, durst not

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bring a railing accusation, but said the Lord rebukety.

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Right?

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So if we're not even supposed to rail against the devil, then why would we sit here and

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just bring a false accusation against someone that you're not absolutely 100% sure about?

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And you know, you see this in church, especially as churches grow, you know, people start having

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conflict and there's people that want to be friends with others, don't want to be friends with others.

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Look, you should in church endeavor to keep the unity. And even if you don't want to be best

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friends with someone, you should strive to be friendly to people in this church and say hello

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and greet each other and not create all these cliques and factions because you're the reprobate

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police. You know what, eventually it's going to be exposed. Eventually they'll make a mistake.

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They'll mess up, but you don't need to be that person

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You're not going to get extra rewards in heaven to do that go back to mark 14 now obviously if you see red flags

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Let me know but don't let Facebook. No don't let everyone in church. No all right

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It's one thing to go to the pastor with concerns another thing to start gossiping around the congregation about everyone else

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Okay, so then look at verse number 20. He says, and he answered and said unto them,

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It is one of the twelve that dippeth with me in the dish.

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Makes it super obvious who it is, and they still have a hard time with it.

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But notice verse number 21.

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The Son of Man indeed goeth as it is written of him.

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But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!

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Good were it for that man if he had never been born.

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So does it sound like just because we know that Jesus is willingly sacrificing his life,

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that that means it's okay to murder Jesus or okay to betray Jesus?

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No, he says, you know what? It were better for him that he were never born.

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He says, Whoa, unto that man that betrays me.

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There's a few lessons we can learn from this.

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One is that sin is not all equal, right?

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There's this weird doctrine that's taught out there

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that says that all sin is equal.

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Here's the thing, committing any sin makes us worthy of hell

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and in need of a savior, but not all sin is equal.

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Are you going to tell me stealing a pen from your workplace is the same as betraying the Lord Jesus Christ to be murdered?

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That's crazy.

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And you know what? It's not, he doesn't say, oh it's good for all sinners that they were never born.

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Oh we're all sinners, it was just better for all of us to have never been born.

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No, it's better for Judas to have never been born because he has a special curse

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and a special place in hell because of the fact that his sin is unlike other sins

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in that he betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ. Also a good lesson of this is that hey, you know what?

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Anyone who goes to hell, it were better for them that they were never even born.

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born, because there's nothing worse than going to hell.

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And that's exactly where Judas is headed.

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Keep your place there.

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Go to Psalm 109.

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Psalm 109.

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Psalm 109 is actually one of the gnarliest chapters

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in the entire Bible.

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This is not a chapter you're gonna see on a Hallmark card.

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You're not gonna get a Christmas card

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with Psalm 109 written on it.

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But this is the inspired word of God.

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And notice how God feels about what...

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This is about the prophetic of Judas.

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Verse 5,

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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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Set thou a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

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Of course, the Bible tells us later that Satan entered Judas Iscariot.

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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned.

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Let his prayer become sin, you know, sometimes people are going through judgment

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They're going through court and we pray for mercy for them

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The Bible saying hey when Judas is judged let him be condemned if he prays turn that prayer into sin

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Verse 8 let his days be few saying let this guy die

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Let this guy die in early death and let another take his office verse 9. Look how gnarly this gets

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Let his children be fatherless

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and his wife a widow.

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God hates this guy so much.

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God's so angry at this guy, he's saying,

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you know what, let his children be fatherless

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and his wife a widow.

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You know what, it's probably better for them in the long run anyways.

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Getting rid of Judas Iscariot.

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Let his children be continually vagabonds.

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Let them be wanderers and beg.

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Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

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So notice even, he's like putting a curse basically on Judas' kids.

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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the strangers spoil his labor.

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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children."

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Now let me remind you, again, this is the inspired Word of God,

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and this is what we would call an imprecatory prayer.

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Did you know that sometimes it is actually the godly and righteous thing to do to pray against someone?

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This is lost in many churches today, and many people will look at you like you have two heads.

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if they heard what I just said, but are you following along in the Bible tonight?

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This is David praying an imprecatory prayer and it's prophetic of Judas and what is he asking God

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to do? He's asking for his days to be few. He's asking God to kill him.

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He's asking for his children to not have a father.

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He's asking for his wife to not have a husband.

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He's asking for his kids to wander and beg.

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He's asking for his posterity to be cut off.

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He's praying against someone.

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And you know what? There's time and a place to do this.

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You know who you're always safe to be praying against?

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A false prophet, like Judas.

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Let me give you a very practical application as a church of something you could be praying for

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in an imprecatory prayer manner. This week there is some news that Pope Leo has lung cancer.

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And guess what? Pope Leo is a false prophet.

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He's the vicar of hell.

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He blasphemes Jesus Christ.

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He teaches false doctrine, works salvation.

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He claims the title Holy Father.

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He's the leader of one of the biggest false religions on Earth.

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And you know what I pray for Pope Leo?

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That he dies and goes to hell.

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I pray that the lung cancer consumes him quickly.

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I pray that his days are short.

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Because you know what? Pope Leo is leading millions of people to a fiery hell.

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You say, oh, that's so hateful to pray again.

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No, no, no.

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What's hateful is preaching a false gospel.

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What's hateful is Judas betraying Jesus.

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What's hateful is pedophile Catholic priests molesting

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little boys.

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That's what's hateful.

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You know what?

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Me praying for their death, that's love.

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That's godly. That's being filled with the Spirit.

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That's doing what the Bible says.

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And so hey, you know what? Add it to your prayer list this week

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that Pope Leo will die and go to hell because he's a false prophet.

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It says in verse number 14,

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let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord.

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And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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I mean, he's bringing his mama into this.

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That's the Word of God. He's just like, you know what?

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Let your mom go to hell too.

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It's quiet, but you know what?

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That's what the Bible says.

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That's what God's word says there.

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Let's go back to Mark, chapter number 14.

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Hey, I told you, I told you,

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it's like the gnarliest Psalm in the Bible.

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It's not a postcard type Bible verse you're gonna see,

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but it's God's word and I love it.

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Okay, we're here on verse number 22.

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So now it's the last supper.

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It says, and as they did eat,

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Jesus took bread and blessed and break it.

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and gave to them and said, take, eat, this is my body.

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Now, of course, this is happening during the events

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of the Passover.

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And if you read the Old Testament, the Passover,

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they eat what kind of bread?

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Unleavened bread.

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right? And that makes sense how he's talking about breaking bread, right? Where it's literally some

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sort of hard type bread. It does not have leaven in it. Jesus is breaking this bed, bread, and he's

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saying, Hey, break this, eat it. He says, take, eat. This is my body.

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Right? So the bread that's given at the Last Supper, it's representing the sinless body of

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Jesus Christ. The Bible says he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be the

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righteousness of God in him. So Jesus Christ never sinned. The unleavened bread, it doesn't have

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leaven inside of it. What is leaven? Leaven is a picture of sin.

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The Bible says, Purge out there for the old leaven that you may be a new lump.

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Right? The Bible says a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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Leaven is a picture of sin. Leaven is yeast. Right?

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And so if you want to make fluffy bread, bread that rises that really good sourdough,

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of course you have to use starter. You have to use yeast when you make that type of bread.

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That's leavened bread. But the Lord's Supper, we don't use leavened bread because of the fact that

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that leavened picture sin, so why would we use something

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that's representing Jesus' body and use something

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that represents sin to do that?

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That would be blasphemous, right?

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So we use unleavened bread during the Lord's Supper,

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just like he did.

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Okay, now, if we use unleavened bread.

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When it comes to the Lord's body, the bread that represents the Lord's body,

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what would make you think we would suddenly use leavened wine to represent the blood of Christ?

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What am I talking about? Using alcohol.

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A lot of churches will use alcohol to represent the blood of Christ. This is wicked.

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Okay, look what it says in verse number 23.

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He says, and he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and

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they all drank of it, and he said unto them, This is my blood of the New Testament, which

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is shed for many.

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So we don't have to wonder what does the cup represent, what does the juice represent?

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It represents the blood of Christ.

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which by the way is shed for many. Jesus died for everyone and you need the blood of Christ to be

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saved. Let me read for you Romans 5 9. Much more than being justified by his blood, we shall be

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saved from wrath through him. How is it that we are saved? Because Jesus shed his sinless blood

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on the cross for us.

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And faith in Him, the Bible says, were justified by His blood.

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So this drink, whatever this drink is, it represents Jesus' blood.

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Jesus is sinless.

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Jesus doesn't have leaven.

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Jesus never sinned.

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Okay, now look at verse number 25.

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The Bible says, Verily I say unto you,

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I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine.

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until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

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So even just with this verse, he tells you what the drink is.

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It's the fruit of the vine. What is that? That's juice.

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Okay? He's basically saying, like, hey, this is the last time

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that I'm gonna get to enjoy this until the kingdom of God.

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He's saying, hey, I'm gonna drink this, but I will drink it no more

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of the fruit of this vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

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I believe...

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that one of the most blasphemous teachings

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that so many Christians misunderstand,

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and honestly, I have no other way to put this

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than that this is a wicked, stupid, evil, retarded view,

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is that Jesus Christ drank alcohol

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or that Jesus Christ turned water into alcoholic wine.

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If you believe that, I believe that you believe

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a stupid, wicked, blasphemous thing.

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Because again, why would we have the unleavened bread?

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Picturing the sinless nature of Christ, but all of a sudden now we're gonna put leaven in juice

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Yeast in juice which causes the fermentation to become alcohol. We're gonna use poison

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To represent the blood of Christ. That's wicked

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That is blasphemous and you know why people want to believe this because they want to believe it because their drunks is why?

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They want to justify drinking alcohol because they're loser drunks and because they're idiots and that's why they believe it

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You say you shouldn't call them idiots. Okay. Well wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is men

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Not wise translation. You're an idiot. You're a fool

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So, you know the type of person that would say that Jesus drunk alcohol. Let me just help you. You're an idiot

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You're a fool. You're not wise source the Bible. Okay. Now, let's go ahead and go to John chapter number two where people pervert

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This miracle and try to teach

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that Jesus both made and drank alcohol.

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They'll say, He drank alcohol at the Last Supper.

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Really, the Bible says the fruit of the vine.

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It doesn't sound like alcohol to me.

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He did unleavened bread.

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What makes you think He's gonna have leavened juice?

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That doesn't make any sense.

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Okay, look at John chapter two.

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This is the first miracle Jesus did,

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and this is, you know, the only chapter of the Bible

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that many Calvinists seem to know.

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John chapter number two, their favorite miracle,

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Jesus turning water into wine.

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Look at verse number one.

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In the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.

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So context, this is a wedding. Right away a lot of people will say there's no way it could be

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juice because it's a wedding. It's like look not everyone is a loser like you and has to drink

01:34:22.820 --> 01:34:26.580
alcohol and get drunk to have a good time at a wedding. I've been to many weddings where there

01:34:26.580 --> 01:34:31.620
was no alcohol. I've in fact every wedding I've ever been to had no alcohol but you know what it

01:34:31.620 --> 01:34:33.540
did have? Juice.

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It had fruit punch, it had nice sodas, it had pure juice,

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it had good sparkling cider or something like that.

01:34:41.200 --> 01:34:43.440
Oh, it has to be alcohol because it's a wedding.

01:34:43.440 --> 01:34:45.360
No, no, no, it's just you're such a loser

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that you couldn't imagine doing anything in life

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without having to be inebriated.

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No, guess what?

01:34:50.960 --> 01:34:52.240
There are weddings out there that happen

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where you don't get drunk.

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Specifically, the one that Jesus goes to.

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Like I wonder, is Jesus going to the drunken wedding?

01:34:59.040 --> 01:34:59.920
You're an idiot, man.

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That's such a stupid view.

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Okay, look at verse two.

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His mother saith unto the servants, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

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Always kind of a funny story there and definitely something I wish that Catholics would read.

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Hey, stop worshiping Mary.

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Mary said, do whatever Jesus said.

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All right.

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Okay, now look at verse number six.

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And there were set there six water pots of stone after the manner of the purifying of

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the Jews.

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containing two or three firkins apiece, Jesus saith unto them,

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Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. So hey, water goes into the

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basin. Verse 8, and he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast,

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and they bear it. Verse 9, when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine,

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and knew not whence it was, but the servants which drew the water knew. The governor of the feast

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called the bridegroom and sayeth unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine,

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and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.

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So here's what the drunken interpretation of this story is, is that Jesus went to a wedding,

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They ran out of alcohol.

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They ran out of alcohol.

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You know what that means?

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They had to have drank all the alcohol in these pots.

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Jesus sees the need for more alcohol,

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according to these people,

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fills them all with water.

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Even my daughter's looking confused

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because this is a silly story right here, okay?

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Right, they fill it up with water

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and Jesus supposedly turns this into alcohol.

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The governor of the feast tastes it

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and he goes, man, usually people set out the best stuff first

01:37:03.220 --> 01:37:06.160
and then when men had well drunk,

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then that which is worse.

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So their view is that everyone's at the...

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party, they're drinking like crazy, they drank all this wine, then Jesus gave them more alcohol

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after they already had drunk.

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Which is funny because on one hand they'll tell you, well the Bible doesn't condemn drinking

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alcohol, it only condemns getting drunk.

01:37:25.940 --> 01:37:27.460
Well what do you call this?

01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:32.400
What do you call a wedding where everyone's already well drunk?

01:37:32.400 --> 01:37:36.320
According to the governor of the feast testimony, they've already well drunk,

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but then Jesus gives them more alcohol? You know what that would make Jesus? That would make him a sinner.

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Because people say, oh, it's not a sin to drink, but it's a sin to get drunk.

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Well, is it a sin to give people who have been drinking already more alcohol?

01:37:49.300 --> 01:37:54.420
Absolutely. But what this is, is that this is a perverted sinful view

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that's being imposed onto the Bible. In reality, let me tell you what he made.

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Pure fruit juice. And look, people could laugh all they want about that.

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Oh, Baptist propaganda. Oh, Welsh's. You're the idiot, folks.

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People that believe this, you're the idiot.

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They're the blasphemer.

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Guess what one of the dictionary definitions

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of the word wine is?

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Fermented or unfermented juice.

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You literally just go to dictionary.com,

01:38:21.180 --> 01:38:25.120
you type in the word wine, here we are in 2026,

01:38:25.120 --> 01:38:28.980
and one of the definitions in 202026 of wine

01:38:28.980 --> 01:38:31.860
is fermented or unfermented juice.

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You know what unfermented juice is?

01:38:33.100 --> 01:38:34.060
Regular juice.

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And doesn't that make sense?

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You know, imagine, for example, growing up,

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at Thanksgiving and at New Year's,

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my family would always just go all out on Thanksgiving

01:38:41.880 --> 01:38:42.700
and at New Year's.

01:38:42.700 --> 01:38:45.080
And you know what we love is we love sparkling cider.

01:38:45.300 --> 01:38:49.380
And you know what you do is you have guests over, family comes over, and you know what

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you do, you put out the good stuff first.

01:38:51.420 --> 01:38:53.340
You put out the sparkling cider first.

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And you drink up all the sparkling cider.

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And then if you're still thirsty, then you got water or you got cans of Sprite or soda

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or other stuff like that.

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That's the natural order of things.

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The reason why the governor of the feast is so shocked is because it's kind of like if

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you went to a wedding and they just like gave you garbage first and then gave you the good

01:39:13.080 --> 01:39:13.300
Good stuff.

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You know what Jesus does the Bible says he hath done all things well, right? So the wine that Jesus makes

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It's like the best tasting is the best tasting juice. It's super high quality. It's delicious

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So in comparison to what they were drinking before they're like man

01:39:27.220 --> 01:39:32.660
Usually people save or they give the good stuff first. That's really what's happening in this story now

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We can prove this by many different places. First of all, just logic itself should tell you

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When people have well drunk, that our savior would not give them more alcohol.

01:39:43.100 --> 01:39:45.100
Logic itself should teach you that.

01:39:45.100 --> 01:39:47.100
Also the Bible says be not drunk with wine.

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So if these people are already drinking and Jesus is giving them more,

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He's violating that.

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Also if you would, go to Isaiah chapter number 65.

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Isaiah chapter number 65.

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I want to prove you that not every time you see the word wine in the Bible,

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does it mean alcohol.

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Now, I get in 2026 when we in our common vernacular say the word wine, we are almost always referring

01:40:09.380 --> 01:40:10.380
to alcohol.

01:40:10.380 --> 01:40:12.380
That's just how our language has evolved.

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If you know you're buying wine at the store, I'm going to think you're buying alcohol,

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right?

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But let's let the Bible define words for us.

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Look at Isaiah chapter 65 verse 8.

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Listen carefully.

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Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine...

01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:30.160
is found, notice that, in the cluster.

01:40:31.900 --> 01:40:35.940
And one saith, destroy it not, for a blessing is in it.

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So will I do for my servant's sake,

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that I may not destroy them all.

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The Bible says that wine exists in the cluster.

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Now, juice that is inside of a grape,

01:40:48.480 --> 01:40:50.220
is that alcoholic or non-alcoholic?

01:40:50.220 --> 01:40:51.780
Non-alcoholic.

01:40:51.780 --> 01:40:54.800
So the Bible here is calling wine juice.

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When the wine is in the cluster, that's juice.

01:40:57.900 --> 01:41:01.240
And notice what the Bible describes it as, a blessing.

01:41:01.240 --> 01:41:04.480
So we use context in the Bible to help us determine

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when is the Bible talking about wine alcohol,

01:41:06.980 --> 01:41:10.180
when is the Bible talking about wine juice.

01:41:10.180 --> 01:41:12.820
If the Bible says it's a blessing, that's juice.

01:41:12.820 --> 01:41:15.580
If the Bible calls it the vine of Sodom.

01:41:15.900 --> 01:41:19.820
If the Bible calls it the poison of asps, which one do you think that is?

01:41:19.820 --> 01:41:23.180
If the Bible's talking about how it's going to make your eyes behold strange women,

01:41:23.180 --> 01:41:27.660
which one do you think that is? You see, people don't want to actually be honest with the Bible.

01:41:27.660 --> 01:41:32.940
They want to sin and they want the Bible to affirm their sin. Look, if you want to be a stupid drunk,

01:41:32.940 --> 01:41:38.380
that's between you and God, but I'm here to tell you the Bible teaches complete abstinence of alcohol.

01:41:39.200 --> 01:41:42.400
Not only does the Bible teach that you shouldn't get drunk,

01:41:42.400 --> 01:41:45.740
the Bible teaches no alcohol whatsoever.

01:41:45.740 --> 01:41:46.740
I'll prove that to you as well.

01:41:46.740 --> 01:41:48.840
Go to Proverbs chapter number 23.

01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:52.680
Proverbs chapter number 23.

01:41:56.500 --> 01:41:58.740
Proverbs chapter number 23.

01:41:58.740 --> 01:42:01.740
All right, let's practice our context here, okay?

01:42:01.740 --> 01:42:03.740
It says in verse number 29.

01:42:06.300 --> 01:42:15.020
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause?

01:42:15.020 --> 01:42:19.500
Who hath redness of eyes? Now what this is describing is what you'd expect to see where?

01:42:19.500 --> 01:42:24.780
At a bar, a place where people are getting a bunch of, doing a bunch of, drinking a bunch of alcohol,

01:42:24.780 --> 01:42:30.060
right? Babbling, getting in fights, having contentions, having wounds without cause.

01:42:30.060 --> 01:42:34.140
The Bible says who has all these things? Look at verse number 30. They that tarry

01:42:34.300 --> 01:42:39.300
long at the wine. Context, this is talking about alcohol.

01:42:39.380 --> 01:42:42.060
That they may, it says, they that tarry long at the wine,

01:42:42.060 --> 01:42:44.480
they that go to seek mixed wine, right?

01:42:44.480 --> 01:42:47.740
Some people mix drugs and alcohol or create super potent

01:42:47.740 --> 01:42:50.260
alcohol. Okay, verse number 31, notice,

01:42:50.260 --> 01:42:55.260
look not thou upon the wine when it is red.

01:42:55.700 --> 01:42:59.860
When it giveth his color in the cup when it move it itself, right?

01:42:59.860 --> 01:43:05.040
So notice the Bible doesn't say don't look at wine. The Bible says there's a type of wine

01:43:05.040 --> 01:43:08.600
You don't look at there's a situation where you don't look at the wine

01:43:08.700 --> 01:43:12.220
When is it you don't want to look at the wine when it's red? What does that mean?

01:43:12.220 --> 01:43:17.140
It's been fermented when it gives its color in the cup when it notice this moves itself, right?

01:43:17.700 --> 01:43:19.980
If you've ever seen a glass of alcohol, a glass of wine,

01:43:19.980 --> 01:43:20.780
you know what it does?

01:43:20.780 --> 01:43:21.500
It bubbles.

01:43:21.500 --> 01:43:22.740
It moves itself, right?

01:43:22.740 --> 01:43:26.500
The Bible says, do not look at this type of beverage.

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And if the Bible says not to look at it,

01:43:28.380 --> 01:43:30.300
am I supposed to think it's OK to drink it?

01:43:30.300 --> 01:43:31.660
If the Bible says don't even look at it,

01:43:31.660 --> 01:43:33.260
am I supposed to think that Jesus

01:43:33.260 --> 01:43:34.900
drunk it at the Last Supper?

01:43:34.900 --> 01:43:37.660
Or that Jesus went to a party where they drank so much,

01:43:37.660 --> 01:43:40.320
they drink it all, and Jesus gave them more wine?

01:43:40.320 --> 01:43:42.100
That is blasphemous, and that is stupid.

01:43:42.800 --> 01:43:47.000
It says at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.

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

01:43:52.300 --> 01:43:55.440
When you drink fruit juice, you don't start committing adultery.

01:43:55.800 --> 01:43:59.320
You don't start speaking perverse things, but you know what happens when you drink alcohol?

01:43:59.320 --> 01:44:03.560
You lose your judgment. People go and commit adultery when they wouldn't have if they were

01:44:03.560 --> 01:44:07.800
sober. They start speaking perverse things. They start babbling. They start having wounds without

01:44:07.800 --> 01:44:13.880
cause. The Bible completely condemns alcohol. And you know what? All these proof verses that

01:44:13.880 --> 01:44:18.600
the drunks try to give you, oh, use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. Guess what? That's

01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:20.040
talking about juice, my friend.

01:44:20.600 --> 01:44:25.000
because all of the antioxidants and health benefits

01:44:25.000 --> 01:44:27.000
that you supposedly get from drinking alcohol,

01:44:27.000 --> 01:44:30.840
you also get from a glass of pure fruit juice.

01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:31.680
Right?

01:44:31.680 --> 01:44:33.440
Oh, not given to much wine.

01:44:33.440 --> 01:44:35.160
So that means you could drink a little bit.

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Wine also in the Bible is a picture of luxury.

01:44:38.280 --> 01:44:40.440
The Bible says that whoredom and wine

01:44:40.440 --> 01:44:42.880
and new wine takes away the heart, right?

01:44:42.880 --> 01:44:46.800
Whores, alcohol and luxury can be one of those things.

01:44:46.800 --> 01:44:48.360
Okay, go back to Mark 14.

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Mark chapter number 14. I just go on that rabbit trail there because don't don't think that you're reading the last supper and that Jesus is boozing it up at the last supper.

01:44:57.900 --> 01:45:04.460
Absolutely not. And you know we will never have alcohol during the Lord's Supper because that would be blasphemous and wicked.

01:45:04.460 --> 01:45:09.020
And you know the Catholic Church when they have their alcoholic communion that's wicked.

01:45:09.020 --> 01:45:14.540
Their transubstantiation where they say the bread turns into Jesus's literal flesh that is wicked as well.

01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:20.680
He says in verse number 26, when they had sung in him, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

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And Jesus said, saith unto them, all ye shall be offended because of me this night. For it is

01:45:27.080 --> 01:45:33.480
written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. When he says offended, he's

01:45:33.480 --> 01:45:37.800
not necessarily talking about their feelings being hurt. He defines what he means there saying, hey,

01:45:37.800 --> 01:45:39.000
you're going to be scattered.

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And often in the Bible, when you see that word offended,

01:45:42.700 --> 01:45:44.840
it doesn't always mean your feelings being hurt.

01:45:44.840 --> 01:45:47.960
It could mean like you stopped or you stumbled

01:45:47.960 --> 01:45:50.480
or you ceased serving God or something like that.

01:45:50.480 --> 01:45:51.320
And he's basically saying,

01:45:51.320 --> 01:45:53.920
hey, you guys are gonna not be faithful tonight.

01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:55.840
You're not gonna be faithfully following Christ.

01:45:55.840 --> 01:45:57.280
You guys are gonna be scattered.

01:45:57.280 --> 01:45:58.840
You guys are gonna forsake me.

01:45:58.840 --> 01:46:01.540
You guys are gonna be offended because of me this night.

01:46:01.540 --> 01:46:03.280
Because of what I'm gonna go through,

01:46:03.280 --> 01:46:05.760
you guys are gonna scatter and leave me.

01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:07.600
And of course, the Bible says great.

01:46:07.600 --> 01:46:11.760
have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.

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Right. So the the greatest way that we could try to prevent ourselves from being offended by persecution

01:46:17.820 --> 01:46:21.420
By problems in life is having a deep love for the word of god

01:46:21.580 --> 01:46:25.180
And quite honestly we have a great advantage as christians in this day and age

01:46:25.340 --> 01:46:29.260
Because we have the entire printed word of god with us at all times the disciples

01:46:29.260 --> 01:46:33.580
They had the word of god in the flesh, but it's not like they have a genesis revelation to read every night

01:46:33.980 --> 01:46:36.560
We do and so we need to take advantage of that

01:46:37.000 --> 01:46:43.200
Verse 28, but after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

01:46:43.200 --> 01:46:46.720
So once again, we see him predicting his resurrection.

01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:52.600
Verse 29, notice this, but Peter said unto him, although all shall be offended, yet will

01:46:52.600 --> 01:46:53.720
not I.

01:46:54.300 --> 01:47:00.220
And Jesus sayeth unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that this day, even in this night,

01:47:00.220 --> 01:47:05.700
before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

01:47:05.700 --> 01:47:10.660
But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any

01:47:10.660 --> 01:47:11.660
wise.

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Notice this, likewise also said they all.

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Kind of a sad portion of scripture here because Peter is just, you know, promising the moon,

01:47:20.500 --> 01:47:25.380
I'm never going to forsake you, I'm not going to turn on you, I'm good, I die before I'll turn on

01:47:25.380 --> 01:47:30.100
you, but Jesus is saying, actually, you are going to betray me, Peter, you are going to be one of

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those offended. And it reminds me of 1st Corinthians chapter number 10, go ahead and turn to Matthew 7.

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1 Corinthians 10-12 says,

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Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth,

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take heed, lest he fall.

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I don't know about you, I do not want to forsake Christ.

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I do not want to stop serving God.

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I don't want to face a trial in my life where I reject God, where I am ashamed of God, where

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I don't want to speak up for the Lord.

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And you know what?

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You ought not just to say, oh, I would never do that because the Bible said, likewise said

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they all.

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Right? Peter said that. Peter said, I'd rather die.

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Hey, just because you say that now doesn't necessarily mean that it's true.

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Let him that think if he standeth, take heed, lest he fall.

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Realize that we all have the same flesh,

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and that, you know what, it is possible for us to go down the road

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to being weak in a moment of testing,

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to denying our Savior,

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to being ashamed of Him in public.

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And that's why, hey, great peace have they which love thy law,

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and nothing shall offend them.

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Right? We got to get our roots very deep into the Word of God.

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so that when those trying times come,

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our foundation is strong and we will not be offended.

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That's what we'll close with with Matthew chapter number seven.

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Let me get there myself.

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Matthew chapter number seven.

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Matthew seven, look at verse number 24.

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Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine

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and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man,

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which built his house upon a rock.

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and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house,

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and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that hear these sayings of mine,

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and do with them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand,

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and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house,

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and it fell, and great was the fall of it." Notice that in this

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you know parable if you will it's the same storm for both houses same wind same rain same storm

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one is standing firm one has a strong foundation the other one it falls and great was the fall of it

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what's the difference hey it's those that hear the word of god and do it and you know what i don't

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know if tonight

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You're going through a major battle.

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Maybe some of you are.

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You know, if you're not going through a major battle right now,

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you probably will be soon.

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You probably have before.

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You know why? Because life is just continuous battles.

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Life is just hard situations and trials and temptations

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and the trying of our faith.

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And you know what?

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If you go through a trial,

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that's not the time to build your foundation.

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The trial is gonna reveal your foundation

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during that trial, right?

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You know, today we had a bunch of flooding in Oklahoma City.

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That was revealing the strength of the roads

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and of the bridge.

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You don't start building a bridge in a flood.

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You don't start building roads in a flood.

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You build the foundation, you build a strong road,

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you build a strong house before the storms come.

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And so look, you don't wanna be short-sighted in life.

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You wanna know, hey, I'm gonna face tough days,

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my faith is gonna be tried,

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I'm gonna go through hard things.

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And you know, building your foundation for that starts today.

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It starts tomorrow.

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And you know, every single time you wake up in the morning

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and you thank God for His goodness to you

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and you praise Him and you ask His favor upon your life

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and you pray to God every single day you do that,

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you know what you're doing?

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You're strengthening your foundation.

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Every single day you crack open the King James Bible and you read God's Word

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You're strengthening your foundation every time you go soul winning every time you go to church

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You're strengthening your foundation that someday will be revealed in your trial and you know what the days that you skip church

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The days that you don't read your Bible you don't pray you don't go soul winning you just stay out of church for weeks or months

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At a time you are harming your foundation

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And you know what? Some day that's going to be revealed during your trial.

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And you know what? Others can pray for you, others can be there for you, but you know what? Your

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foundation is yours alone and you need to take that seriously for yourself. Don't be short-sighted in

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life. Build that strong foundation because hey, if the apostle Peter can deny Christ, if he could

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have a massive lapse of faith, you know what? So can I. So can you. Let him that think if he stand

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and if take heed, let's default.

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Lord, thank you so much for this chapter.

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Thank you for your Word.

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I pray, Lord, that you'd help us all to take our Christian lives very seriously,

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that we would just continue to build a strong foundation and faith in you every day.

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I pray that you'd please give us strength and grace to make it through our trials.

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I pray that you would be with anyone struggling with a trial tonight,

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that you would just give them faith and favor and that you'd be with them,

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that you would give them the power of the Holy Spirit and that you would comfort them.

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And I pray that you'd continue to bless the remainder of this Bible study,

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that you'd reveal truths to us.

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We love you and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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Thank you.