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The way of the cross I need, the way of the cross we go, the way of the cross we go.

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It is sweet to know as I all were grown, the way of the cross we go.

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My misdeeds go on in the cross, with the way, the path, and the Savior's love.

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If I ever find to hide someone, when my soul is full with pride,

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the way of the cross we go, the way of the cross we go.

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It is sweet to know as I all were grown, the way of the cross we go.

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Can I bid farewell to the way of the world, to love in evermore?

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Though my Lord says, Come and I seek my own, when we wait at the open door,

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the way of the cross we go, the way of the cross we go.

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It is sweet to know as I all were grown, the way of the cross we go.

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Whosoever he may shout, shout his sound, spread the last design, eat all the world around,

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from hell to life, from years, where ever man is bound, whosoever will may come.

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Whosoever will, whosoever will, send an inclination over male and female,

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he's a loving father and cause of wonder of all, whosoever will may come.

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Whosoever come, let me not delay, now the door is open and true while you lay,

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Jesus is the truth, he opened every way, whosoever will may come.

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Whosoever will, whosoever will, send an inclination over male and female,

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he's a loving father and cause of wonder of all, whosoever will may come.

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On the last now, whosoever will, the promise is secure,

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whosoever will forever best endure, whosoever will design forever more, whosoever will may come.

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Whosoever will, whosoever will, send an inclination over male and female,

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he's a loving father and cause of wonder of all, whosoever will may come.

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On Jordan's north, he hangs high, stand and cast a wishful eye,

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to David's fair and happy land where my possessions lie,

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I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land,

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though he will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land.

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All o'er those fire-extended plains shines the eternal day,

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there God the Son forever reigns and scatters light away,

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I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land,

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though he will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land.

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No chilly things are poisonous, red with wings that help the shore,

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sickness, strength, sorrow, pain and death are felt and near no more,

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I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land,

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though he will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land.

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When shall I reach a happy place and be forever blessed?

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

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I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land,

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though he will come and go with me, I am bound for the promised land.

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When peace by the river was end in my way,

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when sorrow's light see in billows flowed,

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but ever my heart now has God be to say,

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He tends to love me, though trials to come,

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let this blessed assurance control

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that I am happy are in my helplessness,

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that I am saved and have shed his own life for my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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I sing, O the bliss of this glorious song,

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I sing, I inquire that the Lord is built in the cross

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and I bear with the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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And Lord, is the day when my faith shall be signed,

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the cloud be rolled back as a strong,

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the strong shall be downed, and the Lord shall descend,

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He has so, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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He is well, He is well with my soul.

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One in the sunlight all of my journey

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over the mountains through the decay,

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Jesus has said, I'll never forsake thee,

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promise divine that never can fail.

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Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,

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flooding my soul with glory divine.

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Hallelujah, I am rejoicing,

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singing His praises, Jesus is mine.

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Shadows around me, shadows above me,

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never conceal my Savior and guide.

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He is the light, in Him is no darkness,

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never I'm walking close to His side.

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Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,

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flooding my soul with glory divine.

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Hallelujah, I am rejoicing,

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singing His praises, Jesus is mine.

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In the bright sunlight, ever rejoicing,

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resting my way to mansions above.

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Singing His praises, heavenly I'm walking,

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walking in sunlight, sunlight above.

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Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,

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flooding my soul with glory divine.

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Hallelujah, I am rejoicing,

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singing His praises, Jesus is mine.

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I am happy to be with you,

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Jesus is mine.

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Forever, surely meeteth me,

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whatsoever meeteth me.

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All my hopes have been raised, so His name be praised.

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His glory has filled my soul,

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I've been lifted up ever since and free,

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forever, surely meeteth me,

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forever, surely meeteth me.

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Oh, what wonderful love, oh what grace,

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the invite that Jesus should die for me.

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I was lost in sin, for the world I've died,

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but now I am set free.

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Forever, surely meeteth me,

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oh, surely meeteth me.

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Forever, surely meeteth me,

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oh, surely meeteth me.

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On Calvary's mountain, what dreadful morn,

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what Christ my Savior, weary and gone,

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facing poor sinners, dead on the cross,

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carrying my sacrament from endless dust,

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blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,

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seems now I see Him on Calvary's stream.

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Through live and bleeding, for sinners weep,

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by head of leading, dying for me.

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Father, forgive them, lest in Him reign,

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give all His life, blood, don't pass away.

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Reign, for sinners, for sinners,

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reign, for sinners, love and God's love.

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Know I'm a Jesus, that rule of saints,

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blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,

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seems now I see Him on Calvary's stream.

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Through live and bleeding, for sinners weep,

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by head of leading, dying for me.

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Oh, how I love Him, Savior and Friend,

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how can my praises ever find Him?

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For He is the Gap-Bird of Heaven's shore,

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I touch and praise Him forevermore.

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Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,

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seems now I see Him on Calvary's stream.

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Through live and bleeding, for sinners weep,

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by head of leading, dying for me.

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Oh, worship the King, oh glorious of love,

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and praetorily sing, praise Him forevermore.

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His love and His love are children we thank,

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for the ancient grace, for the living slender and virgin.

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Give with grace, O tell of His might,

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and sing of His grace, whose love is alive,

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whose man of peace is,

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His Spirit so breath-blooding, thunder-blast forth,

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and our ears is well on the wings of the sea.

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I bow to Him for care, a tongue-filling sign,

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in reach in the air, in shines in the light,

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in streams from the sea.

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Song number 415,

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Victory Through Grace,

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Song number 415, let's all sing that out together.

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Now it's true to God's truth,

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I in the dream in His light,

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I see the hosts of all the faithful,

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into the midst of the fighting,

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I see them with fervent red and sweet,

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having their brilliant array,

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shouting the name of their leaders,

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in an exulting way, saying,

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Not to the strong is the battle,

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not to the swift is the race,

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yet to the true and the faithful,

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they scream from His true praise,

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conquering now and still to conquer,

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who is the wonderful King,

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that's what the armies raise to dream it,

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from His holy place to gain,

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He is our Lord and Redeemer,

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Savior and Monarch divine,

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they are the stars that forever,

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bright in His kingdom will shine,

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Not to the strong is the battle,

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not to the swift is the race,

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yet to the true and the faithful,

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they scream from His true praise,

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conquering now and still to conquer,

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Jesus our ruler of all,

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from His endless centers all shall perish,

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from His great splendor shall fall,

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yet to the armies how we dance,

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faithful and true to the plan,

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by His ancient eternal,

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rest in their warm, fairest hands,

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Not to the strong is the battle,

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not to the swift is the race,

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yet to the true and the faithful,

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His great promise to praise.

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Great singing everybody, let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.

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Lord thank you so much for this great church, thank you for allowing us all to get here safely tonight.

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Thank you for these awesome songs we get to sing unto you Lord.

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We just ask that you help us lift up our spirits, or lift up our voices as we sing unto you this afternoon.

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It's in Jesus name we pray, amen.

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Alright for our next song, let's go to song number 292.

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Song number 292.

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His way with thee.

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Let's all sing that together.

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His love can make you free.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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The peace and peace that comes by giving all.

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What you have in sin, you so that you can never fall.

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Let him have his way with thee.

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His love can make you what you are to be.

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His love can cleanse your heart and make you free.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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What's best for him to have his way with thee.

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Would you win this kingdom by the grace of God's address.

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Would you prove it true in providential test.

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Would you win his service labor always at your best.

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Let him have his way with thee.

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His love can make you what you are to be.

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His love can cleanse your heart and make you free.

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His love can fill your soul and you will see.

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What's best for him to have his way with thee.

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All right, welcome everyone to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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If you need a bulletin, raise your hand nice and high and we'll have one of the ushers come around and get a bulletin for you.

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We do have there on the front our Bible memory passage.

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If you're under the age of 18 and can quote that to a non-family member, you can receive an ice cream treat after the service.

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On the inside, we do have our service times and our soul winning times along with our regional soul winning times.

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Down below that we do have our church stats and those are updated numbers as of today.

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So praise God for all the hard work that's went into soul winning.

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Obviously, Vangels of Panic is destroying us.

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I decided early this year, if you can't beat them, you just got to join them.

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We have a lot to do with that number too.

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People in our church that are able to make it out there.

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But hey, praise God.

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It doesn't really matter which church is doing the soul winning as long as it's getting done.

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So praise God for Vangels of Panic and the hard work his church members are doing.

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There on the right side, we have our expecting ladies to be in prayer for.

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Also, we have some upcoming events.

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We started the children's choir practice after the Sunday evening service.

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That will continue this coming Sunday.

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There's going to be an Aisle soul winning marathon this Saturday.

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I know it's kind of last second, but Brother Ryan is going to be hosting that.

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If you need any information on that, you can always reach out to him or you can ask me and we can get that to you.

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That is going to be in Aisle, Texas this Saturday.

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And I believe there's barbecue involved.

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So whenever there's free barbecue, most people are going to show up for that.

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So if you have an opportunity to get out there, I know he would really appreciate it.

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It is in memory of Ms. Natalie's grandmother passing away.

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So if you can make it out there, I know it would be a great encouragement to them.

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We have the Foley baby shower also on March 7th.

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And then the Carthage, Texas soul winning marathon is March 21st, a couple weeks away.

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The soul winning mega marathon is going to be the Saturday before Easter, April 4th.

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And then we'll have Easter service on April 5th.

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And then of course that's when our children's choirs will be performing as well.

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On the back, we do have a couple notes here.

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Some more information about the baby shower for the Foley's.

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So make sure that you are aware of that.

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If you have any questions, you can see Ms. Southered.

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And then we'll go through our prayer list at this time.

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We're going to continue to pray for Brother Tony and his back so that we continue to heal.

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We're continuing to pray for Brother Suhail's mother and also Brother Billy Day's mother as well.

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She's got pretty severe surgery that's going to be upcoming.

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Keep her in your thoughts.

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Also his cousins, Adam and Gabby, and then his son Tatum.

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And we're going to continue to pray for Brother Spurgeon for his job opportunity.

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And the Urbanic family, as I'd mentioned before, that funeral service is this Friday.

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So be in prayer for that.

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Maybe some lost family members could get saved through that service.

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Definitely be in prayer for that.

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And then also Ms. Natalie and the baby.

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And then we're continuing to pray for Brother Nick's brother, Elliot, for his salvation and health.

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And then we have Brother Brian.

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And he gave me an update that he's doing much better, so I'll have to get that update on the list here.

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But he is doing much better, so thank you for praying for him.

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And then also we had a request to pray for Brother Jameson as he's in the Philippines as well, kind of doing a solo mission strip there.

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And so at this time we'll say a quick word of prayer.

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Definitely follow the Lord.

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Thank you for all that you do for us, Lord.

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Thank you for this great rain that you're giving us.

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It's much needed.

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Thank you for keeping us all safe and able to get here.

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And God, we pray for those here on our prayer list.

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We have various health needs to be in prayer for.

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God, just pray that you would have your hand of protection about them.

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Lord, that you would help them through those difficult times, difficult seasons in their life.

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God, we pray for those that are family members that are in need of salvation.

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God, we pray that you would open a door unto them, that the gospel could be preached unto them.

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And just that their heart would be softened to hear the gospel.

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God, we pray for those that are going abroad and preaching the gospel and serving you.

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God, we pray that you keep them safe and bring them back safely as well.

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Lord, we are thankful for all that you do.

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We're thankful for your son.

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We pray these things in his name. Amen.

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All right. And we'll go to our next song.

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Brother Dustin's going to lead us.

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All right. That was Psalm 126 in your black binder.

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Should have one nearby.

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If not, you can use your King James Bible.

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Psalm 126.

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Psalm 126.

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Let's all sing that out together.

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When the Lord turned to give the captivity of Zion,

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We were like dead that dream.

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Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

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And our tongue with singing.

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Since the day of month and even,

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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Whereof we are clashed,

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Turning in our captivity,

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O Lord, as the streams in the south,

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Made us go and tears shall weep in joy.

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Made us go and tears shall weep in joy.

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Since the day of month and even,

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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Whereof we are clashed,

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He that goeth forth from weeping,

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Bearing friends you see,

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Shall doubtless come again.

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Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,

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Bringing his sheaves with him.

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Then said they among the heathen,

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The Lord has done great things for them.

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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Whereof we are clashed.

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Great singing everybody.

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Now as the offering place are being passed around,

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Go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy,

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Chapter number 20.

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That is Deuteronomy chapter number 20.

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Deuteronomy chapter number 20,

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The Bible reads,

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When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies,

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And seest horses and chariots,

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And a people more than thou,

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Be not afraid of them,

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For the Lord thy God is with thee,

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Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

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And it shall be when ye come nigh into the battle,

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That the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

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And shall say unto them,

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Hear O Israel, ye approach this day

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Into the battle against your enemies.

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Let not your hearts faint, fear not,

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And do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them.

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For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you

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To fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

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And the officers shall speak unto the people,

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Saying, What man is there that hath built a new house,

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And hath not dedicated it?

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Let him go and return to his house,

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Unless he die in the battle,

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And another man dedicate it.

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And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard,

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And hath not yet eaten of it?

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Let him also go and return unto his house,

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Unless he die in the battle,

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And another man eat of it.

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And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard,

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And hath not yet eaten of it?

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Let him also go and return unto his house,

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Unless he die in the battle,

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And another man dedicate it.

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And the officers shall speak further unto the people,

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And they shall say,

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What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?

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Let him go and return unto his house,

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Lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

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And it shall be when the officers have made an end

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Of speaking unto the people,

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That they shall make captains of the armies

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To lead the people.

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Let them asnigh unto a city to fight against it,

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Then proclaim peace unto it.

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And it shall be, if it make the answer of peace,

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And open unto thee,

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Then it shall be that all the people that is found therein

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Shall be tributaries unto thee,

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And they shall serve thee.

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And if it will make no peace with thee,

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But will make war against thee,

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Then thou shalt besiege it.

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And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,

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Thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword,

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But the women and the little ones and the cattle,

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And all that is in the city,

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And all the spoil thereof,

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Shalt thou take unto thyself.

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And thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies,

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Which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee,

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Which are not of the cities of these nations.

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But of the cities of these people,

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Which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance,

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Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.

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But thou shalt utterly destroy them,

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Namely the Hittites and the Amorites and the Canaanites

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And the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

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As the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

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For they teach you not to do after all their abominations,

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Which they have done unto their God,

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So should ye sin against the Lord your God.

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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time,

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And making war against it to take it,

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Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof,

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By forcing the axe against them.

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For thou mayest eat of them,

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And thou shalt not cut them down.

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For the tree of the field is a man's life,

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To employ thee in the siege.

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Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,

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Thou shalt destroy and cut them down.

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And thou shalt make bulwarks against the city

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That maketh war with thee until it be subdued.

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Let us pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be in church, Lord.

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Thank you for all the soul winning and all the souls that are getting saved.

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I just pray that you bless Pastor Shelley,

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Fill him with the Holy Spirit to preach your word unto us,

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Help us to receive it, and apply it in our lives to become better Christians.

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Praise in Jesus' name, Amen.

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Amen.

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Deuteronomy chapter 20 is focusing in on war efforts

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And the strategy that the children of Isis are to embody.

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When taking over the promised land.

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And so it's identifying here in verse one battle situations.

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It says in verse one,

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When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies,

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And seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou,

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Be not afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is with thee,

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Which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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Now, I'm not going to go to the verse,

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But the Bible talks about how God was even,

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He was not afraid of the people of Egypt.

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And so he was not afraid of the people of Egypt.

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And so he was not afraid of the people of Egypt.

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And so he was not afraid of the people of Egypt.

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And so the Bible talks about how God was even worried

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That the children of Israel would repent in their hearts

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Once they saw warfare.

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And just basically that there is a legitimate fear of warfare

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And a lot of people can become very afraid during the actual battle,

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During the actual conflict, seeing people killed.

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It's very gruesome.

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And anybody that still has a conscience,

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Or has not been just defiled by a reprobate mind,

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Still has great empathy for seeing someone slaughtered,

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Or injured, or hurt.

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It's definitely very gruesome.

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I think with Hollywood movies and video games,

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Sometimes we can be desensitized to that.

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Someone who is in a medical profession,

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Where they see a lot of people that are constantly injured,

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Can sometimes become desensitized to these things.

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But for most people, just seeing just bloodshed,

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And someone being slaughtered, and just death,

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And all these kind of things,

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Causes us to typically become squeamish,

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And fearful, and afraid.

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And just the thought of fighting,

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Or the thought of battle, sometimes scares people.

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And he's basically painting this picture that when you're going to go out to war,

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In many cases, you're going to possibly be outnumbered.

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They're going to have strong forces against you.

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They're going to have horses, chariots.

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You know, potentially also there's going to be situations

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Where the soldiers themselves are intimidating.

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They're sizely.

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You know, the Bible talks about giants being among some of the Canaanites.

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And God is just trying to say, like, don't be afraid.

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Don't be afraid in this situation.

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And why is he having to say this?

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Because the natural tendency would be to be afraid.

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Be afraid just to fight in general, let alone to be outnumbered.

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Let alone to go against chariots, and giants, and just all these different forces.

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And you just have to understand that war itself, not everybody can really handle it.

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Not everybody is going to have the same type of reaction.

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And a lot of people are going to be afraid.

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And it's important that the children of Israel prepare themselves.

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And that when they go to war, they're not going to allow fear to destroy them.

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In case, you know, a lot of times you lose a battle just simply out of fear.

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It's not even necessarily that you couldn't win the battle.

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It's just because you're afraid.

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And that's why you want to be afraid.

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Confidence is a big thing.

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And, you know, this is a big thing in all areas of life.

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You know, sports, a lot of times, it's a big and important factor to not get intimidated, to be fearful.

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You know, to have a lot of confidence is important when you're going to succeed in competing or performing at a high level.

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Same would be in warfare.

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That in warfare, when a foe is very timid or afraid, it can have dire consequences on the battlefield and in some kind of a conflict.

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You don't want to have confidence.

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You don't want to go out there and be afraid or be timid or be shy.

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So these are just concepts that God is giving to them.

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And these are definitely applicable to any warlike scenario today.

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If you were to have a battle today, you want to make sure that you're not going to battle afraid.

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You're basically already setting yourself up for failure.

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You need to be going out to the battle, not being afraid, not being intimidated, basically willing to die.

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If you're not willing to die, then you're basically going to be afraid.

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And he's going to kind of explain like different scenarios here that are important.

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And this is what I think is fascinating.

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They're about to go to literal carnal warfare.

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I mean, in the Old Testament, they went to real warfare, bloodshed, really slaughtering people and say, hey, this is a very important job.

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We need to make sure no one's afraid.

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So who do they pick to make sure no one gets afraid?

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Who do they assign to basically rally the troops?

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The priest.

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Notice that they're a very religious group.

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Notice that they think the preacher is the one to actually keep the troops in line, even in a carnal warfare.

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It says here in verse number two, and it shall be when you're come nigh into the battle that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people.

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So notice again, it's the priest that's kind of reminding them.

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Why? Because the priest is the one that's trying to have, have them have the courage and faith that God is going to deliver them, that God is going to be with them, that God is on their side.

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Who would want to enter into battle or war when God's not on your side?

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It doesn't really matter how many foes you have.

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Doesn't matter who's against you.

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It matters if God is for you or not.

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That's the most important aspect to any war, to any battle.

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Even if it's a carnal warfare, even if it's a physical battle, you want to make sure God is on your side.

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Now, what is the preacher?

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What is the priest supposed to say?

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And he shall say unto them, hero Israel, you approach this day and the battle against your enemies.

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Let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be terrified because of them.

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For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you.

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Notice he's saying the thing that's going to save you is me.

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It's not your strength.

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It's not your ability.

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It's not your chariots.

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It's not your horses.

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It is God that will be with you and it's God that will deliver you.

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And it's God that will save you in the actual battle.

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And so, of course, it's God that will deliver them that's going to give them this encouragement.

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Keep your finger, go to Psalm 3 for a moment, because Psalm chapter number 3.

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So it doesn't matter if you're outnumbered.

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It just matters if God's with you.

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Now, this is a principle employed by Jonathan in the Bible.

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Jonathan gets his armor bearer to go with him out to the battle.

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And he's basically trying to encourage him saying it doesn't matter if we be few, you know, if God be for us, who can be against us?

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And he's trying to tell his armor bearer, let's go.

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And they take on, they kill like 20 people by themselves.

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And they basically cause the entire group of Philistines to become so discouraged and distressed that they basically just all are just fleeing and killing themselves and harming themselves.

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And it rallies their small hundreds of troops to basically slaughter thousands.

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Because again, it's not so much about the numbers.

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It's about the confidence.

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It's about God being on your side.

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And so the Bible gives us this idea that we shouldn't care about the numbers when it comes to the number of troops on either side of the aisle.

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We should care if God is with us.

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Psalm 3, look at verse number 6.

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You can go back, but notice again the Psalm, really popular Psalm.

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Hey, I am not even going to be afraid even if 10,000 people were encircling me.

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Even if I have to go one against 10,000, I'm not going to be afraid.

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And notice it was God that was going to smite them upon the cheekbone.

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He didn't even say he was going to smite them on the cheekbone.

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He says that God was going to smite them on the cheekbone.

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That God was going to fight for him.

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That God was going to deliver him.

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This is a consistent theme that you're going to see throughout the entire Bible.

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And of course it's really important here in Deuteronomy.

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They're going to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than them.

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They're going to go and basically pretty much be untouched for the most part.

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I mean they're going to just slaughter just a crazy number of people and have very few casualties on their side of the equation.

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This is not a normal experience.

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This is God simply delivering them and fighting for them and causing them to be victorious.

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Now it says in verse 5,

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Now it says in verse 5,

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Now it says in verse 5,

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So in verses 5, 6, and 7, why these three examples?

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Now I don't think it's limited to these three examples, but this is what I believe the Bible is trying to indicate is that

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there could be someone on the battlefield or engaged in the battle that has a hesitation to die.

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That is afraid of dying and there's something kind of holding him back.

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And what's the thing that's holding him back?

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Well it could be what's holding him back is that he has this new house and he just really wants to see it.

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He just wants to experience his new house.

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Or he got married recently and he just wants to be with his wife.

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And so it's just kind of holding him back.

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He's made that vow that you see in every single love story where he's like, honey, I'm coming back.

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You know, honey, I'm going to be there or whatever.

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And so, you know, he kind of feels like he's made this oath unto his wife.

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And so he feels like he's going to be held back on the battlefield.

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And so he's not ready to essentially take a bullet for his neighbor.

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He's not ready to go and be on the front lines of the battlefield.

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He's not ready to basically lay down his life for his brethren because there's something holding him back.

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Whether it be his vineyard, his house, his wife, you know, something that could be very sentimental

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and incentive to someone to be afraid of dying.

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Like I'm going to lose out on this particular experience.

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And so what the officers are doing is anybody that has that hesitation now,

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we need to go ahead and just get you out.

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So that way when we're on the battlefield, you don't hesitate that you're not fearful.

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You don't turn back, that you're not someone that can't be relied upon.

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You say like, hey, you got my back?

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And then all of a sudden he doesn't have your back because he's afraid of losing his house

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or losing his wife or whatever.

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Because then it's going to cost more people to die, more people to get afraid, more problems in the battle.

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You know, the famous movie and story of the 300,

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it's basically like 300 Spartans fighting just a whole host of enemy.

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But what's necessary is that every single one of them plays their part for them to be successful.

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You can't have a single breach in their shields, in their formation,

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and someone guarding the other guy's back because as soon as you have a breach,

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as soon as you have a hole in the wall, well now they can just get in

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and it's basically going to be a disaster.

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So you have to have them all courageous, all fighting, all battling, all in lockstep.

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The guy that's afraid of losing his house, his wife, his vineyard or whatever, he's just not that guy.

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And so we just want to go ahead and just weed him out.

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And then of course these three examples, like I said, are not enough.

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So then they just give a catch-all.

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Here in the next verse, he says in verse 8,

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And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say,

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What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?

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And let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

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So he's just saying not only these three specific,

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he's just giving some examples so that people will be triggered in their mind like,

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Oh yeah, I don't want to lose my house.

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Oh yeah, I don't want to have some other guy be with my wife or whatever.

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And so he just, yep, bye.

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But then there's just someone there that he doesn't even have a house.

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He doesn't even have a wife.

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He has no vineyard.

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He's just a coward.

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He's just afraid.

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He's just not willing to die.

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Then they're like, You need to go as well.

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Because you just can't have the fearful on the battlefield.

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You just can't have the guy that isn't willing to lay down his life

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because then you're going to basically cause more damage by having him on the field.

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You're not going to cause, you would think like, Oh, well we have all these extra troops.

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Yeah, but all the fearful troops actually make it worse than if you got rid of them.

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You just basically want only strong people on your roster.

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You only want people that are ready to go.

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You don't want the fearful and incompetent and the person that's not capable of laying down his life

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because then you're going to cause problems.

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Not only are you going to cause problems for himself, he's going to cause problems for other people.

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Did you notice this in verse 8, less his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart?

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You know, someone that says like, I'm steadfast.

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I'm unmovable.

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I'm not going anywhere.

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Whenever they backslide, whenever they let you down,

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whenever they show their cowardice, boy, it affects a lot of people.

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It causes other people to think, well, if that guy's quitting, if that guy is a problem,

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if this guy is not going to stick in there, if this guy is losing faith,

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well then it causes other people that were looking up to them,

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that thought, wow, this guy's better than me or this guy has been here longer than me

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or this guy has more faith in me.

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If this guy can't even believe, if this guy doesn't even have faith,

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if this guy is going to slide back, well then I'm going to go with him.

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And you often see the fearful dragging others down with them.

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You see the coward and the backslidden and the fearful and the selfish and the carnal,

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often dragging other people down with them.

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And so of course this is a problem when you're going to battle.

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When you're going to battle, you don't want that fearful person to be there

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to just drag everybody down with them.

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And so this again, we're just talking about actual carnal literal warfare.

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Now we can make some applications and for sake of this sermon,

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I'll probably go ahead and just start making some of the applications as well.

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But go to Luke chapter 14.

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This could also be applied into the spiritual battle.

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Everything that we've said so far.

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God doesn't want us to be afraid in the spiritual war.

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He doesn't want to use those people because he's also,

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going to deliver us in the spiritual war.

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In the spiritual war, he's the one that delivers us.

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We don't have to think about like, oh, well we're outnumbered.

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Or they have chariots or oh, they have giants on their team.

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Or they have more money than we do.

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Or they're in the land. It doesn't really matter, does it?

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If God be for us, who can be against this is what our attitude should be.

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Not only that, notice who's supposed to encourage the people.

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It's the priest, just like in today's world,

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that the preacher, the pastors, are supposed to be there to encourage the troops for the battle.

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And to say, hey, let's trust in God.

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And you're supposed to remind them of what the Bible says.

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And prepare them for war.

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And making a certain sound with the trumpet.

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You know, not this uncertain sound,

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where people don't know where to go and don't know how to fight,

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and don't really know what to do.

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It's just so frustrating when you listen to someone preach a sermon,

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and you feel like you understand less aptly what the Bible says.

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And you're like, what's going on after the sermon?

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Like you have more questions.

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You feel more uncertain about their position.

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You're not sure where they stand.

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You're not sure where they're leading.

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Because they didn't actually lead you anywhere.

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They actually made it more confusing.

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You thought there was two options, and they presented five.

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And now you're sitting here thinking like, well, now I have no idea what to do.

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And they're not even necessarily saying, here's five and I'm going down this path.

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They're like, there's five, where y'all going?

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Well, that's not a leader.

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A leader says, this is where I'm going.

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Who's with me?

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You're going to make a certain sound, make it clear, and go and lead the charge.

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That's what pastors and preachers are supposed to do.

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That's what the priest is supposed to do.

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Get up and say, hey, we're going to conquer them.

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God is with us.

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Don't be afraid.

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We're going to win this battle.

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That was the priest's message.

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And notice that there is no hesitation for the priest to just openly declare triumph immediately.

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We will win.

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Look, if God be for us, who can be against?

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When we're on God's side, we automatically win.

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You just already won.

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The only way to lose is to be afraid and quit and not be on God's team because God will win.

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So the best thing to do is just get on God's team and you can just already know we already won.

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We're already going to win.

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We will win every battle.

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We'll always be victorious, whether that be through martyrdom,

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whether that be through persecution,

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whether that be through literal triumph.

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It does not matter because we'll still be a winner at the end of the day.

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And notice the preacher and the priest just says, hey, we're going to win this battle.

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Just because we're going to win every battle.

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Christians win every single battle, even over the Antichrist.

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The Antichrist will try to kill every single Christian and he will fail.

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And many Christians will rise up victorious in the rapture of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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They won't even die.

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Now, will it kill a lot of us?

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Absolutely. I mean, the Bible says it's going to be the worst slaughter ever.

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But you know what? At the end of the day, hey, you shouldn't be afraid to die.

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Because the die is gained.

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That's what the Bible says.

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I mean, the die is gained and you're a partaker of his sufferings.

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You're counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

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I mean, to die as a martyr for the Lord Jesus Christ is one of the highest honors that could ever happen in this universe.

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You know, people think like, oh, laying out for that game winning touchdown, even though he gets smashed by the defender is like the coolest thing.

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No, no, laying out for the Lord Jesus Christ and getting smashed by the Antichrist is a way better honor.

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Hey, dying triumph.

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I mean, John the Baptist, the greatest man born among women, slaughtered by the Romans in prison, just beheaded in prison.

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And of course, many of the other disciples and apostles through history's lens says that all of them died a martyr's death.

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I don't know how accurate that is, but it seems very likely that most of them died a pretty horrific death.

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It's obviously foreshadowed about the Apostle Peter through the Gospel of John.

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And so, you know, it's kind of nice of John, right?

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Hey, I wrote this letter about you.

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Do you want to read it?

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Do you want to read it?

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You know, Peter's all reading. He's like, he ran faster than me.

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And then he gets to the end and it's just like, dang, you know.

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But, you know, Peter lived it. Peter was actually there when Jesus already said him the word.

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So it shouldn't really offend him that, hey, John's like, hey, I wrote that down.

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Just FYI.

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It's like, that's even the funnier part, right?

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Jesus is like selling Peter this and then John's like, by the way, I got notes on that.

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I recorded that just in case you wanted to know.

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Oh, yeah. And it's going to be the most famous Gospel ever that everyone's going to read.

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Don't worry.

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But, I mean, at the end of the day, hey, even if you are Peter, you really think you'd be ashamed to be Peter for all of eternity?

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I mean, that guy is going to be one of the greatest rewarded people to ever live.

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One of the greatest men to ever live.

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Had some problems. Had carnal issues.

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Backslidden, you know, was fearful at one point.

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But at one point he's also converted.

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What was he converted from? His fear of death.

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He was afraid of dying, so he couldn't be used by God until he was converted.

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Then once he was converted and he was no longer fearful, now he can be used by God greatly.

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And Peter was used greatly by God because he wasn't afraid.

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Okay. Now this is what's kind of being brought up here in Luke chapter number 14.

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Look at verse 26.

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Boy, it seems like all those people that hate Pastor Anderson cannot be his disciple.

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Because you know what they all say, I'd rather sacrifice everyone than my children.

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Well, you know what? That's not what the Bible teaches.

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You know what? The Bible said specifically here that if you do not hate your children, you cannot be his disciple.

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Now, again, we're not talking about being mean to your children.

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We're not talking about not loving them.

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We're not talking about doing something weird or bizarre.

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We're saying in a competition between the work of Jesus Christ, the calling on your life to serve Jesus,

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and prioritizing your children above them, you should in contrast hate your children to abandoning the work of Christ.

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You should elevate the work of Christ and your relationship with God above your own children

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to the point that you'd be like Abraham willing to sacrifice your own son Isaac on the altar.

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That is what the Bible teaches from Genesis to Revelation.

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I mean, think about the ultimate picture of this is God the Father himself sacrificing his own son so that we could have eternal life.

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Praise God that the Father was willing to sacrifice his son so that I could have eternal life.

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Because he could have easily sent all of us to hell.

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How much more than I should have the same attitude of being willing to get people saved than to say,

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you know what, my children are more important than people getting saved.

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Well, I'm glad that God the Father didn't have that attitude.

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And you know what, that's not what Jesus said.

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The red letters of Jesus say you have to hate your own children to be as a disciple.

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Now, for some people, they may never even have to make this decision.

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But you know what? I think people that are going to be disciples of Jesus Christ,

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probably one of these will affect you at some point in your life.

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Maybe not all of them. Maybe all of them.

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I don't know. But I think the guy that's really dedicating himself to the Lord and really going to serve him for his entire life,

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probably someone on this list at some point you're going to have some kind of run in with.

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Whether it be your mother, whether it be your father, whether it be your wife, whether it be your children, your brethren, your sisters, or hey, even if it's none of them, maybe it's just you.

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Maybe you just have to die to self.

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That in many cases is probably the hardest enemy that we all have, is your own ambitions, your own hopes, your own selfish, and carnal desires.

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You have to crucify the flesh daily.

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You have to be willing to die to self and say, hey, it's not about me and my life and my ambitions.

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It's about the cause of Christ.

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Oh, you know who did that? Oh, yeah, Jesus Christ did.

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Because he said in the garden, nevertheless, not my life, but my own.

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I will, but thine be done.

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Even Jesus Christ himself had to face oppositions from his own family, from his own brethren, from his own father in heaven in the sense that his father has a will and his is not in perfect agreement in a sense.

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And so he has to basically say, I have to submit.

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Now, again, obviously the son of the father have a perfect alignment and agreement and in a big picture perspective.

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But the Bible is clear that in the Garden of Gethsemane, he said, not my will.

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He said he asked God to take away this cup from him.

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He didn't. He wasn't joking.

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He wasn't lying. He wasn't being insincere.

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He really didn't want to do it.

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And I think what we have to understand is that in our flesh, in our carnal nature, none of us wants to die.

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None of us wants to suffer.

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Like the Bible says that Jesus Christ despised the shame.

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He didn't want to experience shame.

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He didn't want to be spit upon.

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He didn't want to be mocked.

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He didn't want a crown of thorns to be shoved on his head.

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He didn't want to have to be crucified for six hours.

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He didn't want to have to die and go to hell.

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But he said, hey, the only hope I have is that you will not leave my soul in hell.

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But you know what? He was willing to do it.

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In fact, he was so, you know, earnest about this.

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The Bible says he was sweating so much, so profusely, that it was almost as much as blood.

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It was like drops of sweat as it were blood.

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But you know what? He said, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.

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He even had to learn obedience, as the book of Hebrews says.

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He himself had to submit and obey the Father and basically lay down his life.

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And we should follow Jesus's example.

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Being willing to lay down his life, that's the kind of example that's set before us.

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He says in verse 27, whosoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

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Jesus will give you a cross.

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And I don't know what that looks like.

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Some people it was a literal cross.

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Some people it will be a relationship that you have to crucify.

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For some people it will be your own personal life's ambitions or goals or selfish and carnal desires that you have to crucify.

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But if you want to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, there is a cost.

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Verse 28, for which of you intending to build a tower siteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether you have sufficient to finish it.

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This is what basically is happening in the story of Deuteronomy chapter number 20.

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We're setting everybody down and saying, hey, we're going to count the cost.

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You could die and never see your house again.

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You could die and never be with your wife again.

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You could die and never eat of your vineyard.

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Are you ready to die?

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Because that is the cost.

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That is the cost of going to battle.

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Now don't be afraid because God's with us.

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But I want you to realize this is the cost.

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And I want you to realize that this is the cost.

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I want you to realize this is the cost.

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And you have to be willing to lay down your life.

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You have to be like David that's saying, I'm going on this battlefield.

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And only one of us is walking away from this, me or Goliath.

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I mean, I either kill him or I die.

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That's the cost.

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But, he said, but you know what?

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God's going to deliver you into my hand.

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And he went and he ran toward him, is what the Bible said.

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And he slaughtered him.

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But you know what?

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He had to realize that by stepping on that field, it was a life or death situation.

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Kill or be killed.

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And you know, in many cases when it comes to the spiritual battle,

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we have to realize there's still a cost.

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Look, getting saved is free.

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You don't have to do anything.

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All you did is accept the free gift.

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But you know what?

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Once you're saved, being a disciple is a different decision.

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To be saved is to accept a free gift.

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To be a disciple is to say, hey, I'm also willing to give up everything.

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And of course, that's why work salvationists love to twist these passages

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to try and teach that's what you have to do to be saved.

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If you praise God, you don't have to do that to be saved

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because there'd basically be no one in heaven.

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If the entrance into heaven was being willing to sacrifice literally everything,

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well, it's going to be a really, really small group up in heaven.

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Very few people are actually willing to do this.

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And that's why there's few disciples.

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But there's still many people that are saved.

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And of course, this is the test that we have in life.

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Those who will accept the free gift

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and those who also will be willing to sacrifice everything for the cause of Christ.

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And of course, you have to.

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You have to carry your cross.

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You have to take up your cross.

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You have to think about this.

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It costs something.

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You have to bear your cross.

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Think about the craziness of having to carry your own cross up the hill

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that you're going to be nailed to.

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That's interesting.

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That's an interesting cross.

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I mean, you have to literally bear the thing that's going to kill you.

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But you know what?

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That's what Christianity is.

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Often you're bearing the thing that's going to kill you.

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It's Christianity.

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It's being a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It's the Word of God.

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This is what people will hate you for.

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People are not going to hate you by being nice and kind and loving.

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They're going to hate you for his sake.

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They're going to hate you for the gospel's sake.

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They're going to hate you for not only just the gospel,

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anything in this book and everything in this book,

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whatever is not popular at the time.

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John the Baptist wasn't killed for the, quote, gospel's sake.

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In a strict sense, what was he killed for?

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For saying it was not lawful for Herod to have his brother's wife.

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He said it's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

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And that's what caused him to die.

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Oh, does that mean he shouldn't have said that?

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He should have been tactfully disruptive.

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That would cross the line or whatever.

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Let's look at the Bible.

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That would cross the line or whatever.

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Look, you know what?

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You not preaching the Bible crosses the line with me.

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Amen.

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Okay, and you know what?

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There's nothing in this book that we shouldn't preach.

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I get so tired of people trying to pander to unsaved people.

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What did that even help Herod anyways?

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Oh, I'm sure if John the Baptist had come to Herod and just said,

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oh, you're such a wonderful king, he would have gotten saved, right?

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Look, if you hear that you're a sinner and you don't want to get saved,

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nothing's going to fix that.

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If they turn again and rend you and attack you and whatever,

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hey, that's their problem.

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But you know what?

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It's not like John the Baptist wasn't trying to get people saved.

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And look, even Herod had respect towards John the Baptist.

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He respect him.

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It was, you know, that witch of a wife that he had that was, you know,

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leading him around.

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Isn't it interesting?

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It's always the women leading the men to do the feminist bidding.

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And, you know, it's the weak men like Herod that vote the men and

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allow them to have voting rights and allow them to tell them what to do.

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And you know what?

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It's sad.

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It's sad that there's men like that that let their wives tell them what to do.

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But, you know, it's because they can't stand up to their wife.

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You know?

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If you can't stand up to your wife, how are you going to be a Christian?

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I mean, you have to hate your own wife even, as the Bible says.

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You have to hate your own life and your own wife.

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Now, it also says not only are you counting the cost financially.

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It says, verse 29, let's happily offer our lives to God.

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It also says not only are you counting the cost financially.

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It says, verse 29, let's happily after you lay the foundation,

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he is not able to finish it.

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All that behold it begin to mock him, saying,

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this man began to build, was not able to finish.

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Or what king goeth to war against another king,

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sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with 10,000

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to meet him that cometh against him with 20,000.

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Now, isn't this basically what Deuteronomy, chapter 20 is bringing up?

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You have 10,000, they have 20,000.

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Well, let's figure out first if we can do it.

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It's like, yeah, but one of those people on our team is God.

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So, yeah, we got it.

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But you know, you have to realize, hey, this is a real war,

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this is a real battle, can we take them on?

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He says in verse 32, or else, while the other is yet a great way off,

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he sendeth an amassage and desireth conditions of peace.

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So likewise, whosoever be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath,

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he cannot be my disciple.

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Salt is good, but if the salt have lost its savor,

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wherewith shall it be seasoned?

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It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dung hill,

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but men cast it out, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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He's saying, man, whenever you stop being salty,

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you're just basically worthless.

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And you know, as Christians, we have to be willing to forsake all

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and say, hey, I'm willing to die for Christ, lay down my life,

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I've counted the cost, well, now you're salty.

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Whenever you're not salty, you're good for nothing.

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On the battlefield, whether that's physically or mentally,

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or whether that's spiritually.

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And you know, our church, you know, we try, our hardest

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to actually do the whole Bible.

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We're not like a 50% Bible club or a 95% Bible club.

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You know, I want disciples at this church.

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And if we're going to be disciples, then we have to say,

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hey, you know, we're willing to sacrifice it all.

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And we don't want the fearful at our church.

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And you say, oh man, your hard preaching is going to turn away people.

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Yep, the guy that wants to go home and dedicate his house.

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Oh, well, your preaching is going to cause someone to leave.

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Yeah, the guy that's afraid of losing his job at the vineyard.

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The job at the vineyard is too important for him.

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Oh, well, you're going to cause some people to leave

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because their wife doesn't like the church.

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Well, you know what, go hang out with your wife then.

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Let her tell you what to do, Herod.

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Oh, well, some people just can't handle it.

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There's protesters sometimes.

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You have a low star review on Google.

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Well, be afraid.

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Pastor Shelley is scary.

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It's a cult.

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Woo!

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Okay, then be afraid of the cult.

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You know, while you go join, you know, some group,

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the Dallas Cowboys, where you all are so excited,

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even though they lose all the time,

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that you're going to buy really expensive merch from them,

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no matter what,

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that you have to basically pretend like you all are going to go to the playoffs when you're not.

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I mean, who's the cult here?

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I mean, you support a losing squad repeatedly.

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It's a blast for me to say anything negative about them, right?

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I mean, you go and just waste tons and tons of money.

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I mean, just, you know, people just throw these terms around, cult and whatever.

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It's like, oh, okay, go to Life.Church or something,

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where they have 60 campuses with one pastor that comes on the television screen.

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That's not a cult, right?

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That's not the cult.

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The one with independent pastors and independent churches,

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that's not a cult.

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You know, it's just crazy what people think and dream up cults.

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Oh, the cult is the group of bitter people online that basically just,

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they can't even believe two plus two equals four anymore,

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because they're so hateful and so blinded by hate,

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that they'll basically accept heretics and freaks and weirdos and heresy,

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but, you know, we're in the cult.

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You know, I'm not really afraid of labels like this.

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You really expect me to go to actual warfare, and now I'm afraid of labels?

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Do you think the Philistines were talking sweetly to the Israelites

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when they were lined up on the battlefield?

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Hey, y'all are cool, man.

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I like y'all.

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I'm sure they were trash talking each other pretty hard.

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I mean, ever heard Sennacherib trash talk?

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I mean, Sennacherib is going around trash talking,

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and he's telling you you're going to drink your own piss,

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and they're going to kill everybody on the wall.

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I mean, it's like, they're saying like nasty things.

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They're saying all kinds of crazy trash talk that you can think up and dream up.

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Okay?

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You know, don't be afraid of the trash talking.

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Maybe just make a meme or two, dish it back.

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Okay?

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The truth hurts them.

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Trash talking doesn't bother me.

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But have you counted the cost?

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You know, don't come to a church like ours unless you counted the cost.

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That's all I have to say.

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Go back, you had to do it on me, chapter 20.

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You know, people are like, oh, I moved across the country to come to this church,

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and, you know, your sermon offended me.

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Pro, count the cost, man.

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Oh, I came across, I thought that you and me were going to be best friends.

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That was a bad decision.

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You know?

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Like, what were you signing up for?

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Oh, I showed up, and then there's just, you know, everybody hates you.

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Okay.

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Really?

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It's like, oh, you taught this doctrine that you've taught for the last seven years.

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Right, because I'm going to keep teaching it.

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Oh, here's the best thing.

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I'm going to keep teaching it.

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Oh, here's the bad word.

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Well, you should have figured that one out, you know?

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It's just like, hey, shouldn't you count the cost a little bit?

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Oh, all you do is emphasize soul winning.

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Yep, we're going to keep doing it.

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Oh, you just keep pushing us to go soul winning, and you just want to go soul winning,

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count numbers, and, you know, numbers, numbers, and soul winning, and whatever.

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It's just like, yeah.

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Oh, you tell us to come to church three times a week.

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Yep.

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And, oh, you're against Israel.

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Welcome to the club.

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You should count the cost.

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And look, here's some of the hidden costs that sometimes people don't see.

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You know, I'm going on a tangent for a second, but here's some of the hidden costs, okay?

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Because obviously some of that's on the surface.

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You know, this is like the, when you buy a hotel or whatever,

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and there's like 50 extra taxes or whatever.

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Look, you go to a church, the devil will try to attack you in all kinds of subtle ways too.

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You know, gossip, lying, slander.

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You should basically just take it to the bank.

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Someone in your life will just lie about you just for sure if you come to this church.

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It doesn't matter, like, if you are the nicest, kindest, most honest-hearted person,

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just coming to this church, someone close to you will probably just lie about you for no reason.

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Just out of the blue.

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People will just turn their back on you.

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Gossip.

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You're going to have people that don't like you.

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You're going to have little conflicts that you never had before in your life.

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You're going to have all these little things.

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Look, but don't let that distract you.

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Don't let that discourage you.

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Don't let that get you down.

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That's par for the course.

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You should expect that kind of stuff.

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Why didn't you already count the cost?

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I mean, it's warfare.

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It would be kind of like thinking like you might not,

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you're thinking like you're going to go on a battlefield,

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and you're never going to catch like any mud in the eye.

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You're never going to like stub your toe.

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You're never going to get, you know, maybe a twisted ankle or something.

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I mean, you really think like after the battle,

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just everyone's just perfect afterwards.

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No one's sore.

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No one's injured in any way.

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Sorry, it's like raining outside.

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I don't know if you knew that.

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My phone has to tell me and everybody else.

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Yeah, obviously when you go on to the battlefield,

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you're going to probably be a little sore.

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You're probably going to get some minor cuts and scrapes

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and some little afflictions and stuff.

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You're probably going to get a little sore.

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You're probably going to get a little sore.

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You're probably going to get some minor cuts and scrapes

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and some little afflictions.

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Don't think that you're going to literally go up and down the runway

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when you're on the battlefield.

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Some glamour shot.

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Look, it's just not how it is.

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It's messy.

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It's ugly.

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There's going to be mud.

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You're going to get dirty.

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Your clothes are going to rip.

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Your shoes are going to come undone.

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You might even catch a stray arrow,

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but you didn't die.

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But did you die?

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You know, all they hit me, but did you die?

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You know, hey, a bullet ricocheted off my helmet.

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But did you die?

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No, but I almost died.

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Okay, but we don't care about almost dying.

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We care about deaths, right?

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And so at the end of the day,

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it's like you have to realize like, hey, I'm plugged into a good church.

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We're going soul winning.

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Expect a couple of grazings.

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Expect some mud.

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Expect clothes every once in a while.

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Expect a little bit of just ugliness every once in a while.

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It's just life.

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And frankly speaking, when you get off the battlefield,

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you can have just the same and worse anyways.

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Don't think that you're going to escape.

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Oh, I didn't go to the battlefield, so I'll escape.

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Well, you're just basically going to be taken advantage of

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when the armies and the troops just march through

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just slaughtering everything in their sight.

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You have nobody on your side to fight with you.

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Now, let's keep reading here.

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I already made some application,

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but it's important that you count the cost,

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that you're not afraid,

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that you're willing to lay down your life.

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If you want to really be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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that's the real test.

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Now, he says here in verse 9,

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and it shall be when the office has made an end

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of speaking unto the people,

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that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

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So it's important to have leaders,

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and it's important to have captains.

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It says in verse 10,

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that they shall not let the armies of the Lord Jesus Christ

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and his disciples lie unto a city to fight against it,

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then proclaim peace unto it.

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Now, this is what I like about this chapter,

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is even though they're talking about warfare,

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notice that, and they're the aggressor,

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that they're not just willing to slaughter to slaughter.

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If they can have peace, they seek peace first.

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You know, the Bible says that we should be

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peaceable among all men, you know, if possible.

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As much as possible,

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that we should be seeking peace with all men,

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but that doesn't mean it's always possible.

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Obviously, we should try our best to be at peace.

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That should be our first response.

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This would be our default.

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Hey, we just want peace.

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But if they don't want peace,

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well, then we have to go to war.

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Now, if they do want peace here,

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it says specifically in this chapter,

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in verse 11,

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and it shall be, if it make the answer of peace,

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and open unto thee,

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then it shall be that all the people that is found therein

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shall be tributaries unto thee,

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and they shall serve thee.

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Now again, for the most part,

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this never happened with the children of Israel.

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The Gibeonites,

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or the inhabitants of Gibeah,

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they kind of tricked them into a peace agreement.

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But for the most part, you really don't have this.

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So you can kind of tell from this passage alone

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that the land of Canaan was very obstinate

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and rejected the peace of the Lord.

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They did not want the salvation of the Lord,

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but rather they wanted to what?

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Go to war and fight against the Lord,

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and so therefore they were slaughtered,

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they were destroyed.

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Now it says in verse 12,

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And if the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,

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thou shalt smite every male thereof

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with the edge of the sword.

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So if there's no peace,

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we have to kill them,

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and we have to kill every male,

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specifically besiege the city,

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which means to encircle or basically surround the city.

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But the women and the little ones and the cattle

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and all those in the city,

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they were slaughtered,

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and they were slaughtered,

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and they were slaughtered,

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and the women and the little ones and the cattle

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and all those in the city,

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even all the spoil thereof,

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shalt thou take unto thyself,

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and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies,

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which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

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Thou shalt do unto all the cities

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which are very far off from thee,

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which are not of the cities of these nations.

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So he's also making it clear,

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this is kind of like a later thing.

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The initial cities that they take over,

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they are to slaughter everyone.

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That's what he says here in the next passage,

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he says in verse 16,

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Which the Lord thy God hath given thee for an inheritance,

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thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,

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but thou shalt utterly destroy them,

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namely the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites,

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the Perizzites, the Hibites, and the Jebusites,

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of the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,

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that they teach you not to do after all their abominations,

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which they have done unto their gods,

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so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

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So if they go to a city and it's peaceful,

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they make peace and they just serve them.

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If they go to the city and it's not peaceful,

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they slaughter all the males,

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keep everybody else alive,

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but only the really far cities,

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any of the near cities,

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they slaughter anything and everything.

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That's basically the principles.

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Spiritual lessons that we can learn from this,

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again, number one, that we should seek for peace in general.

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Notice, if any time these cities made peace with them,

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then they would just make peace with them,

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but that was, again,

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there's the exception of this specific group,

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but this other group doesn't want to make peace,

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they're the enemies of the Lord.

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They're the enemies of false religion,

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enemies of the Lord.

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People that don't want to make peace

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are going to fight, slaughter them anyways.

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These specific groups need to be dealt with.

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A couple lessons we can learn,

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number one, that you kind of need to set a harsh example at first,

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and this harsh example at first

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is then to basically strike the fear into the enemies

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to say like, hey, we're not messing around here,

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hey, we are taking this serious

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and trying to give them the fear of God in their lives,

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and I think that's why God allows

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these horrific deaths, horrific situations

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to be an example unto others.

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You know, Sodom and Gomorrah is an example

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unto those that should afterward live ungodly.

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San Francisco should be repenting in dust and ashes right now

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because of what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.

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He set that city as an example unto nations afterwards.

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No, like, don't go down this road,

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don't allow your city to be infested with Sodomites

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and freaks and weirdos like this,

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because God will pour out his fierce wrath,

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and God didn't spare in the day of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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God slaughtered all men, women, and children.

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And look, people get squeamish about this.

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God does this all the time.

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How many times is someone just driving down the road

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with their whole family in the car and die,

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and everyone dies in the car accident?

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How many times there is tsunami

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and just wipes out an entire city,

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men, women, children, and grandmas?

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It's not like the grandma survived the tsunami.

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It's not like the grandma survived the earthquake.

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Look, God slaughters man, woman, boy, child, girl,

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all the time, every single day.

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Look, God slaughters man, woman, child, girl, all the time,

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everywhere in this world constantly.

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So if you don't like this story,

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well, welcome to reality.

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That is the reality,

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and this is an example that God is setting.

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You guys across the line,

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you've gone so far against me,

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you've gone into wicked, evil, false religion.

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I mean, the women are slaughtering their own children

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and worshiping the devil with it.

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I mean, what should happen to women

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that are literally burning their children

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in fire to Satan?

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I think we would all sit here and be like,

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I'm fine with that feminist being toasted.

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But then you read the story and you get squeamish,

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like, oh, how dare God kill women?

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Look, these aren't just like women.

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These are femme tard, psychopathic freaks

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that are murdering and slaughtering their children,

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laying with beasts, committing incest, committing sodomy,

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and God's just like, hey, we're going to just wipe out everything here.

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It makes it the murderers.

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I mean, look, these are all people worthy of heaven.

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They deserve capital punishment.

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God's just saying, let's execute capital punishment.

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And obviously, this whole group of people

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could very easily be diseased

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and have physical diseases

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that if they bring into the camp

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would just slaughter all the other people.

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Oh, we're going to be gracious

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and bring some of these children into our city that are diseased.

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But then it's going to kill everybody.

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Look, you don't understand why God does everything he does,

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but you need to trust it.

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And just because you think you're more merciful

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and gracious than God doesn't actually make you

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more merciful and gracious than God.

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God is the most gracious and the most merciful

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and the most kind.

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And in his wisdom, he understood, hey, these people have to be slaughtered.

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And sometimes people have to be slaughtered.

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Now, does that mean that we should just kill women and children?

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No. God's general policies do not be like that.

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It's just this specific example,

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and there's a really specific reason.

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Read Leviticus chapter 20 and then come back to me.

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Okay?

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It's a lot different picture than is being painted by a lot of people,

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by atheists and phagnostics and whatever.

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Now, also take note of the fact that women of foreign nations

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were often just brought in to be wives of the children of Israel.

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So they didn't have a perfect genetic line, some pure blood line.

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And many cases, women were just brought into the children of Israel

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and they had women.

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You have Rahab the harlot just brought in to the children of Israel.

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She's going to be one of the first of the captives brought in.

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And then guess whose descendant is hers is Jesus.

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Literally, Jesus is a descendant of a woman

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who's not of the descendants of the children of Israel.

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And of course, this can happen in multiple situations.

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But again, it's not this, quote, pure blood line

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of just, quote, Hebrews with weird noses.

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No, in some cases, they brought in some genetic diversity.

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And there was nothing wrong with genetic diversity in the Old Testament.

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I mean, Moses marries an Ethiopian woman.

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There are going to be a lot more mixed than you probably realize.

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They're probably more mixed than almost any other nation in the world.

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Kind of like America is today.

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I guarantee the children of Israel probably had more mixing

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because people that wanted to serve God would come of foreign nations

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and want to join the nation.

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Whereas other nations are much more racist.

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Nations that are not Christian, way more racist than Christian nations.

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Christian nations by and large are less racist

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and have a little bit more tolerance of being racist.

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Again, people in general are very prejudiced and very racial

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and very tribal by nature.

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But just in general, the Lord's people were the most open

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throughout history and continue to be so, Christians.

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Look at our church. Our church is way more diverse.

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You think if you and I go down to the local mosque,

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there's going to be a lot of diversity there?

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You think if we go to some Hindu establishment,

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you think if we go to some synagogue,

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there's going to be a lot of diversity there?

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You think if we go to some Hindu establishment,

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you think if we go to some synagogue,

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there's going to be a lot of racial diversity there?

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How many Filipinos do you think are at the synagogue?

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Sometimes we've had people come in and criticize

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that we don't have a ton of black people in our church,

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which is like, well, you're only 13% of the population, number one.

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But even if we didn't have 50% black people or something,

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it's like, is that at the synagogue?

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Is that at the mosque?

01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:10.000
Is that at the country club?

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Let's ask Dallas Country Club,

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what percentage of black people they have there?

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Are they now bad?

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Now, again, look, I wish our church was 50% black,

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but that just means we had more saved people in our church.

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Because you know what? I don't give a rip.

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Somebody like, oh, you teach mixed racing is fine.

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Yeah, I do. Get over it.

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God is letting these people mix race.

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Did he say, hey, do not bring these women in

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and do not marry them? No.

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He said, hey, you want to marry them? Marry them.

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And it doesn't say what ethnicity. It says any.

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Look, there are white supremacists that are alive and well

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in our nation and in our country that think

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that we need to just be a white nation.

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Let me tell you something. Europe was white

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when they hated the gospel too.

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The Roman Catholic Church slaughtered Christians

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by the droves and they were all white.

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White man is not your, quote, friend.

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He's not the dog of this world, man's best friend

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or something like this.

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Okay? And look, I'm not dogging on white people.

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There's great white people.

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In my opinion, it's like white people are some of the best

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and some of the worst people in this world,

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frankly speaking. Okay?

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It's not to say that white people are superior

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to other people is stupid.

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It's foolish. It's nonsense.

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The children of Israel were not genetically superior

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and they could intermarry.

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In fact, according to the text, they were genetically inferior

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to their counterpoints in many ways.

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He said that the nations were taller and greater than them

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and I believe that was physical, not only in number of people.

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And look, who cares about this kind of stuff?

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Only racists care about this kind of stuff

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because they're carnal.

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Who gives a rip?

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We should stop being carnal and care about souls.

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What color is a soul?

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I don't even know. Does it have a color?

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I don't know. But you know what?

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It doesn't matter to me.

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And you know what? In heaven,

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there's people from every nation in heaven.

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How did that happen?

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Because new people went there and got them saved.

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That's how it happened.

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Now, for a second time, I'm just going to kind of get through

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the rest of this quickly so I can make a few more applications.

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But he says in verse number 17,

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he gives the list of the cities that we can't save

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or the nations, but that's what utterly destroyed them,

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namely the Hittites and the Amorites and the Canaanites

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and the Hivites and the Jebusites

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and the Lord thy God of command.

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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,

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which they have done unto their gods,

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so should you sin against the Lord your God.

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Again, another application is that you shouldn't marry

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an unsaved person because they could drag you down

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to their false religion.

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Verse 19, when thou shalt besiege a city a long time

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in making war against it, to take it,

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thou shalt not destroy the trees thereby forcing an axe against them,

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for thou mayest eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down,

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for the tree of the field is man's life,

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to employ them in the siege.

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Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,

01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:08.000
thou shalt destroy and cut them down,

01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:10.000
and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city

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that maketh war with thee until it be subdued.

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So kind of the last point is about the siege

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or siegeing a city.

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This is a tactic typically employed in warfare,

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especially historically, even in modern times,

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where you basically just stop the going in and out of a city.

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When you surround the city with the city,

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they can no longer come and go to the city,

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so it cuts off their supply lines.

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By cutting off their supply lines,

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they're going to run out of food, water,

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just all the necessary goods for that particular city,

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and you're basically putting them in a bad position.

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Because if you go against the city,

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well they have the walls of the city

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to basically throw rocks and shoot arrows,

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and it's basically a disadvantage to try and go against a city.

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That's why the city exists, that's why the walls exist.

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But if you can't outlast them,

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then you're basically in a world of hurt.

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We see this in the Bible.

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There's many stories that this is going to happen,

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where cities get besieged.

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You have the famous story of the four lepers that are just,

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they're like, why sit we here until we die?

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And they just, they run out,

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and they realize that all the enemies had fled from the siege,

01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:19.000
and they left all these goods.

01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:23.000
Now the siege can be dangerous to the army too though,

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because you're also just an unprotected,

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just circle around a city.

01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:28.000
So you're not really in a good position

01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:31.000
if enemies came and kind of attacked you.

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So what cities often hope for is that they hire some other country

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or troops and they come and they basically run off the siege,

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and then they're rescued.

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Or that they fight them, or they outlast them.

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They don't have enough supplies to basically last in the siege,

01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:49.000
and they can kind of wait them out.

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But in general the siege is more advantageous to the group

01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:54.000
that's besieging the city.

01:27:55.000 --> 01:27:57.000
It's more likely they can keep having their supply lines come,

01:27:58.000 --> 01:27:59.000
they're good, and they're just going to wait it out.

01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:01.000
And if you think about it, you basically just wait them out,

01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:03.000
they get all starving and hungry,

01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:05.000
and then they just surrender and you didn't have to fight.

01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:08.000
It's just kind of a superior warfare tactic.

01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:10.000
America does this.

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In modern situations we do these kind of things.

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You know, Japan specifically was basically blockaded by the United States

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to where we were not allowing imports to come and go to Japan.

01:28:23.000 --> 01:28:28.000
And Japan was a country that relies upon imports in a major way,

01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:31.000
because it's like this tiny little island doesn't have all the natural resources.

01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:33.000
It's used to importing all kinds of goods.

01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:37.000
Well when the United States military and navy is basically blockading that,

01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:39.000
well now they're in trouble.

01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:41.000
So then they bomb Pearl Harbor.

01:28:42.000 --> 01:28:45.000
Why? Because we did the first act of war against them

01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:49.000
by performing a siege against them.

01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:54.000
Yet, history books want to tell you that Japan just randomly attacked Pearl Harbor, right?

01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:57.000
I mean, who in here is just like going to school and just like,

01:28:58.000 --> 01:28:59.000
yeah, and then they just bomb Pearl Harbor.

01:29:00.000 --> 01:29:03.000
You're like, why would Japan just randomly bomb Pearl Harbor?

01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:05.000
You know why?

01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:08.000
Because they were literally blocked in with no food or water.

01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:10.000
Think about it.

01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:12.000
What if a whole bunch of Muslims just surround your house

01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.000
and you can't come and go inside and outside your house?

01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:17.000
You might attack them eventually

01:29:17.000 --> 01:29:19.000
instead of just staying there and starving to death, right?

01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:22.000
And then they're like, oh, you initiated this.

01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:24.000
You're like, heck no, I didn't.

01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:26.000
You guys surrounded my house.

01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:28.000
You guys were stopping me from coming and going.

01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:30.000
That's not fair, okay?

01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:34.000
So again, I'm not trying to defend Japan, and I'm not trying to defend America.

01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:36.000
I'm just telling you what happened.

01:29:37.000 --> 01:29:38.000
America was stopping the trade.

01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:40.000
That was the first act of war.

01:29:41.000 --> 01:29:43.000
The second act of war was them bombing Pearl Harbor.

01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:45.000
And then we bombed back way harder.

01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:47.000
It's kind of like that guy that's just like getting in your face

01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:49.000
and just kind of forcing you to throw the first punch

01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:51.000
so then he can destroy you.

01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:53.000
So then he can claim like, oh, you threw the first punch.

01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:55.000
That's basically their tactic.

01:29:56.000 --> 01:29:58.000
And this happens all the time today.

01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:01.000
So this is a typical warfare tactic.

01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:04.000
I just, you know, I want to make sure that we understand this.

01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:08.000
So when you're sitting there, just waiting it out,

01:30:09.000 --> 01:30:11.000
God's saying, don't cut down the fruit trees then,

01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:14.000
because you guys are going to have to wait this out

01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:16.000
because you're going to have to wait this out.

01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:18.000
You need to eat.

01:30:19.000 --> 01:30:21.000
So it makes sense if you're going to build bulwarks.

01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:23.000
Again, you know, when you're besieging the city,

01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:26.000
they're often going to build like little temporary houses.

01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:29.000
They're going to build like long stakes and pikes

01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.000
and different instruments of war that they can use against the city, right?

01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:35.000
They're going to build like little fortresses

01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:37.000
and they're going to build weapons and all that stuff.

01:30:38.000 --> 01:30:40.000
Well, it's like, don't cut down the trees that have food on them though.

01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:42.000
Only the trees that don't have food on them

01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:45.000
because you're hurting yourself by cutting down these fruit bearing trees.

01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:49.000
You want to keep them alive so you can eat, so you can keep doing what?

01:30:50.000 --> 01:30:51.000
You can keep fighting.

01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:55.000
So if you don't keep the food, then you don't keep fighting.

01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:59.000
You know, and we can apply a lot of applications to this.

01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:03.000
Here's one is that, you know, you don't want to just sacrifice your job

01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:09.000
and career completely to where you can't actually keep doing soul winning.

01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:10.000
Like some people just want to basically like,

01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:14.000
I'm just going to quit my job and my career and just become a soul winner.

01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:16.000
It's like, well, do you have any money? No.

01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:19.000
Well, that might not work out.

01:31:20.000 --> 01:31:23.000
Like it doesn't necessarily work to just cut down all the fruit trees

01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:25.000
to just go to war.

01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:29.000
Like you might have to keep some fruit trees around so that you can keep warring.

01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:31.000
And what's better in the long term?

01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:33.000
It's probably better in the long term that, you know what,

01:31:34.000 --> 01:31:35.000
you still have some money coming in

01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:37.000
and then you can also keep doing the soul winning, right?

01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:38.000
And so there's kind of that balance.

01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.000
There's that balance of like, I don't want to just cut everything off of my life

01:31:43.000 --> 01:31:45.000
just so I can quote go soul winning so much.

01:31:46.000 --> 01:31:48.000
It's like, hey, you might actually need to keep the fruit trees going too

01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:50.000
and tend to them and take care of them.

01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:54.000
Oh, well, taking care of fruit trees doesn't win the battle.

01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:56.000
No, it doesn't.

01:31:57.000 --> 01:31:59.000
No one won a battle by watering an apple tree.

01:32:00.000 --> 01:32:03.000
You going and being nice to the apple tree will never win the battle.

01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:05.000
But you know what it does?

01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:07.000
It keeps you alive and then you can win the battle

01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:10.000
in the same way that, hey, providing for yourself

01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:12.000
and taking care of your needs and having the trees

01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:15.000
help so that people can fight the battle.

01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:18.000
Aren't you glad that other people take care of apples so that you can eat them?

01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:21.000
I mean, what if no one took care of apples?

01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:23.000
What if no one had food?

01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:25.000
Well, then now we're in trouble.

01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:28.000
And you know, don't get mad at the guy that's over here just cranking out apples.

01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:30.000
You should be thankful for that guy.

01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:32.000
You should like that guy.

01:32:33.000 --> 01:32:34.000
We like the apple tree guy.

01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:36.000
He cares about apples.

01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:38.000
Well, are you eating them?

01:32:39.000 --> 01:32:40.000
Well, yeah.

01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:42.000
Don't get mad.

01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:44.000
Don't bite the hand that feeds.

01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:46.000
Right?

01:32:47.000 --> 01:32:48.000
And look, there's a lot of people that supply the economic means

01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:50.000
for us to do the battle and for us to do the work.

01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:52.000
We should be very thankful for those people.

01:32:53.000 --> 01:32:54.000
We don't want to cut them off.

01:32:55.000 --> 01:32:56.000
Let's take another application.

01:32:57.000 --> 01:32:58.000
Isn't he that win his souls wise?

01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:00.000
And the Bible says that he's a tree of life.

01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:02.000
So we could look at the fruit bearing trees as like someone that's bearing fruit

01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:04.000
is like a soul winner or someone that's getting people saved.

01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:08.000
And here's another idea that in the battle, in the spiritual battle,

01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:10.000
you know, is not our enemy.

01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:15.000
Soul winners in the spiritual battle, you know, is not our enemy.

01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:20.000
Churches bearing fruit like and there's so few of them.

01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:24.000
Why would we want to cut them down in the battle?

01:33:25.000 --> 01:33:27.000
We want to keep them going so that we can keep going to.

01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:31.000
We need as many fruit trees as we can get on our team.

01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:33.000
We don't want to cut them down. We want to destroy them.

01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:35.000
Now, trees that have no fruit, the Bible says just destroy it.

01:33:36.000 --> 01:33:39.000
So it's like, you know, you look at churches like Gateway,

01:33:40.000 --> 01:33:41.000
it's like just destroy it, burn it, cut it down.

01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:44.000
Right. Look, there's other trees in the Dallas Forest area

01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.000
that are fruit bearing trees that preach the gospel,

01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:49.000
that are doing soul winning.

01:33:50.000 --> 01:33:51.000
You know, they are not my enemy.

01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:55.000
They are not somebody that we should want to wish harm to or do harm to.

01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.000
We should leave them alone. We should be good to them.

01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:00.000
We should be kind to them.

01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:01.000
We should be nice to them.

01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:04.000
We don't want to harm other churches that are preaching the right gospel

01:34:05.000 --> 01:34:07.000
and doing soul winning other churches like this in the world.

01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:09.000
We want to be nice to, we want to be kind to.

01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:12.000
In fact, we should be the nicest to those people.

01:34:13.000 --> 01:34:14.000
We should want to do the best to those people.

01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:16.000
We won't want to cut them down.

01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:19.000
We wouldn't want to harm them in any kind of way.

01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:21.000
What a detriment to the overall battle.

01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:24.000
If we're over here trying to cut down a literal fruit tree

01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:26.000
and you know what could be cutting down a fruit tree?

01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:28.000
How about the fruit tree needs water, right?

01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:29.000
Water.

01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:32.000
So you know, you could just be stealing water from the fruit tree.

01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:35.000
No, no, no. We want to make sure that we're watering the other fruit trees.

01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:38.000
We want to water the fruit trees and give them nutrients and take care of them.

01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:41.000
We don't want to cut down the literal fruit tree.

01:34:42.000 --> 01:34:43.000
We want to make sure the fruit tree is going well.

01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:48.000
Now, what I'm not saying here is that a church that is soul winning

01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:52.000
could never in any way be corrected or called out.

01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:54.000
That is not what I'm saying. Okay.

01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:56.000
But what we wouldn't want to do is cut them down.

01:34:56.000 --> 01:34:57.000
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4.

01:34:58.000 --> 01:34:59.000
Let's look at a few more verses here.

01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:01.000
Buckle up.

01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:04.000
I know you're excited to drive in the rain, but you know, you can wait.

01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:07.000
2 Timothy chapter 4.

01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:16.000
You know, Steadfast Baptist Church in 2019 was a fruit bearing tree.

01:35:17.000 --> 01:35:18.000
Had good soul winners in it.

01:35:19.000 --> 01:35:21.000
But you know what? The pastor got called out.

01:35:22.000 --> 01:35:23.000
And look, for good reason.

01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:25.000
You know, the pastor was called out by Pastor Stephen Anderson.

01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:27.000
Donnie Romero was the pastor at the time.

01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:29.000
He's being called out.

01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:32.000
You know, Pastor Anderson wasn't trying to cut down Steadfast Baptist Church.

01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:35.000
He wasn't trying to destroy Steadfast Baptist Church.

01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:38.000
He wanted good for Steadfast Baptist Church.

01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:40.000
You know, 2 Timothy chapter 4.

01:35:41.000 --> 01:35:42.000
Look at verse 10.

01:35:43.000 --> 01:35:44.000
For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world.

01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:46.000
You know, I don't think Demas is a bad guy.

01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:48.000
Demas is mentioned positively in the Bible.

01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:50.000
But then he became bad and now he's getting called out.

01:35:50.000 --> 01:35:51.000
Look, sometimes Christians still get called out.

01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:54.000
And not only him, it says, and his departed on a Thessalonica,

01:35:55.000 --> 01:35:56.000
Crescent as a glacier, Titus unto Domitia.

01:35:57.000 --> 01:35:58.000
Only Luke is with me.

01:35:59.000 --> 01:36:00.000
Take Mark and bring him with me, for he's profitable to me for the ministry.

01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:05.000
Antichokas have I sent to Ephesus, the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus,

01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:08.000
when thou comest bring with thee and the books, but especially the parchments.

01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:10.000
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.

01:36:11.000 --> 01:36:12.000
The Lord reward him according to his works.

01:36:13.000 --> 01:36:14.000
Of whom be thou, and of whom be thy children.

01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:16.000
And I am the son of the Lord.

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01:36:22.000 --> 01:36:42.260
Tasteemo

01:36:42.260 --> 01:36:48.500
God's house and its money to be going to literal casinos and prostitutes, folks.

01:36:48.500 --> 01:36:52.540
That's taking the money, that's taking the watering of the fruit tree and giving it to

01:36:52.540 --> 01:36:53.540
a dead tree.

01:36:53.540 --> 01:36:56.500
You want to say like, hey, stop watering the dead tree.

01:36:56.500 --> 01:37:00.260
We're going to cut that one down and we're going to put more water back on the actual

01:37:00.260 --> 01:37:01.820
fruit bearing trees.

01:37:01.820 --> 01:37:04.940
You know, we're going to put it on the Bahamas, okay?

01:37:04.940 --> 01:37:06.340
We're going to put it on the Philippines.

01:37:06.340 --> 01:37:07.620
We're going to put it on Mexico.

01:37:07.620 --> 01:37:10.780
We're going to put it on somewhere where we're going to actually produce some fruit.

01:37:10.780 --> 01:37:12.740
That just makes logical sense.

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Look bad people can be called out and look bad people were exposed and the trash was

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taken out and you know what?

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The soul winners got better at St. Basil's Baptist Church, not worse.

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So we brought forth more fruit.

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Go if you went to 1 Timothy 1 and look at verse 15.

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Whole churches may be called out.

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In the book of Revelation chapter 2, the church which is at Ephesus, which is going to forsake

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the first works is not going to have the first love anymore.

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God says he'll take their candlestick away.

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Why?

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That's basically was producing fruit, but now it's not producing fruit.

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Well then why cumbers at the ground is basically what the passage says, you know.

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And in 1 Timothy chapter 1, look at verse 15.

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I'm sorry, I meant, I think I meant chapter 2.

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I probably meant chapter 2.

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Sorry, I meant chapter 2 and I wrote down the wrong number.

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Chapter 2 verse 1 verse 15.

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This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me of whom are

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fidelis and homogenes.

01:38:07.180 --> 01:38:10.620
The Lord give mercy on the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed

01:38:10.620 --> 01:38:11.620
of my chain.

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Look, isn't it interesting that Asia turned away from the Apostle Paul, like the entire

01:38:18.100 --> 01:38:21.020
group turned away from the Apostle Paul.

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And then what did the Apostle Paul do?

01:38:23.300 --> 01:38:24.660
He called them all out.

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Did he not?

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I mean, they're funding, I mean, they're funding, this is their missionary.

01:38:29.260 --> 01:38:32.500
This is their evangelist and they're not funding him.

01:38:32.500 --> 01:38:34.020
They're not supporting him anymore.

01:38:34.020 --> 01:38:35.700
And so you know what the Apostle Paul does?

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Well, fine, you guys are going to, you're going to turn off the water spigot to me,

01:38:39.580 --> 01:38:41.580
then I'm going to call all of you out.

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Asia's turned away from me.

01:38:43.220 --> 01:38:44.900
Asia's not supporting me.

01:38:44.900 --> 01:38:46.820
Asia's not funding me anymore.

01:38:46.820 --> 01:38:48.100
Asia's not doing this anymore.

01:38:48.100 --> 01:38:49.100
You know what?

01:38:49.100 --> 01:38:50.100
They get called out because you know what?

01:38:50.100 --> 01:38:52.580
They're harming the fruit production again.

01:38:52.580 --> 01:38:56.500
It doesn't matter if some of them are saying, I mean, the letter of Revelation is written

01:38:56.500 --> 01:38:58.180
to the seven churches which are in what?

01:38:58.180 --> 01:38:59.420
Oh, Asia.

01:38:59.420 --> 01:39:01.580
But then the Apostle Paul called all of them out.

01:39:01.580 --> 01:39:05.180
Oh, well, I don't think you should ever call anybody out.

01:39:05.180 --> 01:39:07.580
Well, then don't read the Bible because it calls everybody out.

01:39:07.580 --> 01:39:10.300
Go to Revelation 3.

01:39:10.300 --> 01:39:12.380
How about 2 John where he calls out,

01:39:12.380 --> 01:39:15.940
Deotrophes who loveth thou the preeminence and was

01:39:15.940 --> 01:39:18.420
parading against them with malicious words.

01:39:18.420 --> 01:39:20.700
Neither doth he receive the brethren.

01:39:20.700 --> 01:39:26.700
You know, hey, guys that are rejecting God's people and getting rid of people and calling

01:39:26.700 --> 01:39:28.620
them weasels and low character and whatever.

01:39:28.620 --> 01:39:31.380
Hey, well, this guy, you know, this guy's a bad guy.

01:39:31.380 --> 01:39:32.580
Sorry.

01:39:32.580 --> 01:39:34.660
He gets called out.

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In chapter three, verse number 14.

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And under the angel, the church of the Laodiceans write, these things say of the Amen, the faithful

01:39:41.620 --> 01:39:43.580
and the true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.

01:39:43.580 --> 01:39:46.820
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.

01:39:46.820 --> 01:39:47.820
He should be red hot.

01:39:47.820 --> 01:39:48.820
He shouldn't be this way.

01:39:48.820 --> 01:39:50.900
I would that thou were cold or red hot.

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You know what I mean?

01:39:51.900 --> 01:39:53.020
I added the word red.

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So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth,

01:39:58.500 --> 01:40:04.060
because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and of need of nothing.

01:40:04.060 --> 01:40:07.420
And knowest not that thou are wretched, miserable, poor and blind and naked.

01:40:07.420 --> 01:40:11.980
I counsel thee to buy of me gold, triad and the fire that thou mayest be rich.

01:40:11.980 --> 01:40:12.980
What is he saying?

01:40:12.980 --> 01:40:16.260
This is another church that's not really soul winning again, because he's trying to get

01:40:16.260 --> 01:40:18.780
them to buy gold, triad and the fire.

01:40:18.780 --> 01:40:20.780
That's getting people saved, folks.

01:40:20.780 --> 01:40:23.540
And he says that they're actually poor even though they think they're rich.

01:40:23.540 --> 01:40:24.540
Why?

01:40:24.540 --> 01:40:25.740
Because they think that money is riches.

01:40:25.740 --> 01:40:27.520
They think that a building is riches.

01:40:27.520 --> 01:40:29.820
They think that having a big bank account is riches.

01:40:29.820 --> 01:40:31.000
Whereas he says, you know what?

01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:33.340
You're poor and you're miserable and you're naked.

01:40:33.340 --> 01:40:34.340
You have nothing!

01:40:34.340 --> 01:40:35.340
You're meaningless!

01:40:35.340 --> 01:40:36.340
You're worthless!

01:40:36.340 --> 01:40:38.300
Think about a tree.

01:40:38.300 --> 01:40:39.300
There's no fruit.

01:40:39.300 --> 01:40:42.860
He's your poor, you're blind, you're miserable, you're naked.

01:40:42.860 --> 01:40:46.700
But the trees are sitting here like, oh, but I'm green.

01:40:46.700 --> 01:40:48.140
Look at all the money I have.

01:40:48.140 --> 01:40:49.140
Well, you know what?

01:40:49.140 --> 01:40:52.460
Who cares about all the green on the tree when you have no fruit?

01:40:52.460 --> 01:40:58.340
In the same way, who cares about all the green a church has when it has no fruit?

01:40:58.340 --> 01:40:59.980
It's poor, miserable, blind and naked.

01:40:59.980 --> 01:41:02.100
He's like, I wish that you were just red hot.

01:41:02.100 --> 01:41:03.600
You know?

01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:04.900
Not lukewarm.

01:41:04.900 --> 01:41:07.320
Lukewarm is lame.

01:41:07.320 --> 01:41:12.780
And so, you know, I basically just want to just explain a few more things.

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Let's recap the chapter for a moment, OK?

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We don't want to be afraid when we go out to the battle.

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We want to be willing to die.

01:41:20.260 --> 01:41:24.740
And when we go out to the battle, we have to make sure that we count the cost.

01:41:24.740 --> 01:41:26.740
The leaders themselves have to have a killer instinct.

01:41:26.740 --> 01:41:30.860
And, you know, I wish that more pastors would have a killer instinct.

01:41:31.540 --> 01:41:37.020
There's one thing to be a teacher, to teach the Bible and preach the Bible good.

01:41:37.020 --> 01:41:41.460
But to be a true leader, you have to have a killer instinct.

01:41:41.460 --> 01:41:44.460
You have to have moments where you just say, you know, my eye is not going to pity.

01:41:44.460 --> 01:41:46.940
Like I'm just going to say no.

01:41:46.940 --> 01:41:48.260
You have to be able to say no.

01:41:48.260 --> 01:41:49.260
And you know what?

01:41:49.260 --> 01:41:52.580
You have to be able to say no to your kids.

01:41:52.580 --> 01:41:55.380
You have to be able to say no to your wife.

01:41:55.380 --> 01:41:57.820
You have to be able to say no to yourself.

01:41:57.820 --> 01:42:00.740
You have to be able to say no to church members.

01:42:00.740 --> 01:42:03.540
You have to basically just tell everybody that they're wrong.

01:42:03.540 --> 01:42:05.140
You have to sometimes stand alone.

01:42:05.140 --> 01:42:09.340
You have to sometimes just endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

01:42:09.340 --> 01:42:11.420
You have to not be afraid of their faces.

01:42:11.420 --> 01:42:13.420
You have to make unpopular decisions.

01:42:13.420 --> 01:42:17.460
You have to have times where everyone's going to question you or think, hey, I don't know.

01:42:17.460 --> 01:42:18.260
I don't like this.

01:42:18.260 --> 01:42:19.460
You have to lead.

01:42:19.460 --> 01:42:21.740
You have to go where others will not go.

01:42:21.740 --> 01:42:24.380
You have to say what others will not say.

01:42:24.380 --> 01:42:26.700
You have to do what others will not do.

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That's what a leader is.

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And we need more leaders in our country.

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We need more leaders in the home.

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We need more men in the home that are leaders, that have the killer instinct, that say, hey,

01:42:39.300 --> 01:42:43.900
if someone broke into my house, I will kill them and lay down my life for my family.

01:42:43.900 --> 01:42:47.980
And spiritually, they have the same attitude, that anything that's stopping and attacking

01:42:47.980 --> 01:42:51.420
their family spiritually, hey, I'm going to bat, and I'm going to fight that, and I'm

01:42:51.420 --> 01:42:52.740
going to take that to task.

01:42:52.740 --> 01:42:55.060
And I don't care if I'm the popular husband.

01:42:55.100 --> 01:42:59.380
I'm going to be the husband that's going to lay down his life for his family.

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Sometimes that means saying no.

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Pretty easy.

01:43:03.620 --> 01:43:05.420
I mean, when you're a kid, you said it all the time.

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Just keep saying it, all right?

01:43:07.420 --> 01:43:08.220
No, mine.

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And at the end of the day, we need to make sure that when we go to warfare that, hey,

01:43:14.300 --> 01:43:17.740
we seek peace, but we're ready to slaughter.

01:43:17.740 --> 01:43:19.260
We're ready to slaughter.

01:43:19.260 --> 01:43:22.540
But we want to make sure that when we slaughter, we have the right vision.

01:43:22.540 --> 01:43:24.900
Hey, if it's a non-fruit bearing tree, slaughter it.

01:43:24.900 --> 01:43:25.660
But it's got fruit.

01:43:25.660 --> 01:43:27.620
Hey, we don't want to slaughter this thing.

01:43:27.620 --> 01:43:31.380
But I also don't want to get so weak and lame that it's like, oh, well, we would never

01:43:31.380 --> 01:43:33.220
call anybody out, though.

01:43:33.220 --> 01:43:36.300
We would never expose anybody for anything.

01:43:36.300 --> 01:43:39.420
We would never point out these problems.

01:43:39.420 --> 01:43:46.420
Look, if the trees are being destroyed by someone in the camp, and you don't call it

01:43:46.420 --> 01:43:49.580
out, then you hate the work of the Lord.

01:43:49.620 --> 01:43:55.500
We want to make sure that the fruit is in good place, that the fruit is at its maximum,

01:43:55.500 --> 01:43:58.820
that we're taking care of it.

01:43:58.820 --> 01:44:05.500
You know, it's just so frustrating to me how people are just so afraid to basically

01:44:05.500 --> 01:44:07.260
just go all in on soul winning.

01:44:07.260 --> 01:44:09.780
That's why we're here.

01:44:09.780 --> 01:44:13.140
You know, billions of people are going to go to hell, whether we go out there and preach

01:44:13.140 --> 01:44:14.900
the gospel or not.

01:44:14.900 --> 01:44:18.820
But if we go out there, we can make a difference.

01:44:18.860 --> 01:44:19.860
I'm not a Calvinist.

01:44:19.860 --> 01:44:23.580
I think that we make a real difference and that we are really the person standing in

01:44:23.580 --> 01:44:24.580
the gap.

01:44:24.580 --> 01:44:26.300
Churches have a false gospel.

01:44:26.300 --> 01:44:27.940
We need to destroy them.

01:44:27.940 --> 01:44:30.340
Churches with a bad leader, they need to be called out.

01:44:30.340 --> 01:44:33.060
Churches not going soul winning need to be called out.

01:44:33.060 --> 01:44:35.860
Churches abandoning their missionaries need to be called out.

01:44:35.860 --> 01:44:40.340
Hey, churches that are peaceable unto us, let's be peaceable unto them.

01:44:40.340 --> 01:44:44.620
Churches like Stacey Shifflett attacking soul winning need to be called out.

01:44:44.620 --> 01:44:46.380
That guy needs to be called out.

01:44:46.780 --> 01:44:53.860
He wrote this post saying, oh, we should be against the churches that teach quick prayerism.

01:44:53.860 --> 01:44:58.180
As opposed to long prayerism.

01:44:58.180 --> 01:45:01.540
Like, is he advocating like you can't get saved in a shorter prayer?

01:45:01.540 --> 01:45:05.580
You need to pray really long prayer to get saved.

01:45:05.580 --> 01:45:07.460
I mean, think about what's the opposite.

01:45:07.460 --> 01:45:08.740
Long prayerism.

01:45:08.740 --> 01:45:11.900
I mean, show me the long prayer in the Bible.

01:45:11.900 --> 01:45:16.100
I'll show you the guys that get saved in basically a moment's breath.

01:45:16.100 --> 01:45:18.300
Lord, be merciful when I come in thy kingdom.

01:45:18.300 --> 01:45:20.100
Lord, remember when I come in thy kingdom.

01:45:20.100 --> 01:45:22.340
God, be merciful me a sinner.

01:45:22.340 --> 01:45:24.620
Give me this living water.

01:45:24.620 --> 01:45:27.180
I mean, it's just like what about the Lord's Prayer?

01:45:27.180 --> 01:45:27.860
What does that take?

01:45:27.860 --> 01:45:29.460
Ten seconds? Ask a Catholic.

01:45:29.460 --> 01:45:30.860
He'll tell you.

01:45:32.500 --> 01:45:36.420
And then then then they'll be like, oh, I'm not saying that when you pray, it has to be long to get saved.

01:45:36.420 --> 01:45:38.940
And you're like, OK, then what are you saying?

01:45:39.660 --> 01:45:44.900
Well, I just think that, you know, you just go out and show people the gospel and you think they can just get saved right on the spot.

01:45:44.900 --> 01:45:46.740
You mean like the woman at the well?

01:45:46.740 --> 01:45:47.700
Yeah.

01:45:47.700 --> 01:45:49.700
I mean, didn't she get saved that day?

01:45:51.100 --> 01:45:52.780
So how long is it?

01:45:52.780 --> 01:45:56.260
I mean, it's basically like they go to get lunch, come back and she's already saved.

01:45:56.260 --> 01:45:58.340
How long was that?

01:45:58.340 --> 01:46:00.700
Not only not only that, how about the Philippian jailer?

01:46:00.700 --> 01:46:03.620
Guy gets saved in the night.

01:46:03.620 --> 01:46:04.980
How about the thief on the cross?

01:46:04.980 --> 01:46:06.980
Got saved, wasn't there for very long.

01:46:06.980 --> 01:46:10.380
I mean, Jesus on the cross for only six hours, Max.

01:46:10.380 --> 01:46:13.140
How long do you think that was?

01:46:13.140 --> 01:46:17.100
How about three thousand people getting saved in one day in the book of Acts?

01:46:17.100 --> 01:46:20.020
How does that happen if it takes a long time?

01:46:20.020 --> 01:46:24.180
It seems like people are getting saved the same day someone tries.

01:46:24.180 --> 01:46:27.020
I mean, you got the eunuch on the way.

01:46:27.020 --> 01:46:31.260
He just jumps in the chariot, saved, and then he's just gone.

01:46:31.260 --> 01:46:32.660
He's gone, gone.

01:46:32.660 --> 01:46:34.700
Like he really got whisked away.

01:46:34.700 --> 01:46:35.780
The cops came and picked him up or something.

01:46:35.780 --> 01:46:37.420
I don't know.

01:46:37.420 --> 01:46:40.420
I mean, this guy got saved so fast.

01:46:40.500 --> 01:46:45.820
Look, it's insane to think that it takes a long time to get someone saved because if

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that's true, then no one's saved.

01:46:49.580 --> 01:46:52.380
I didn't it didn't take me a long time to get saved.

01:46:52.380 --> 01:46:56.940
I didn't have to sit here and have someone just read the entire Bible to me.

01:46:56.940 --> 01:47:00.060
I didn't it doesn't take years and years or whatever.

01:47:00.060 --> 01:47:01.460
Oh, well, they have to repent of their sins.

01:47:01.460 --> 01:47:03.460
They'd be willing to repent of their sins.

01:47:03.460 --> 01:47:05.140
You just don't understand repent.

01:47:05.140 --> 01:47:09.940
Well, OK, what sin did the woman at the well repent of?

01:47:09.940 --> 01:47:13.420
Did she say, OK, fine, I'm not going to live with this guy anymore?

01:47:13.420 --> 01:47:15.980
For all I know, she went back to him.

01:47:15.980 --> 01:47:19.020
I mean, there's nothing in the story that indicates that she didn't go back to the guy

01:47:19.020 --> 01:47:23.180
she called husband, even though she wasn't her husband, and drop him like a bad habit

01:47:23.180 --> 01:47:25.460
to get another one.

01:47:25.460 --> 01:47:26.580
There's nothing in the story.

01:47:26.580 --> 01:47:29.820
I mean, the Philippian jailer, what did he repent of?

01:47:29.820 --> 01:47:34.580
He puts them back in jail.

01:47:34.580 --> 01:47:36.220
What did he do?

01:47:36.220 --> 01:47:38.620
I mean, you have name in the Syrian.

01:47:38.660 --> 01:47:43.060
As soon as he gets saved, he says, oh, by the way, I'm going to go back home and still

01:47:43.060 --> 01:47:44.060
be in false religion.

01:47:44.060 --> 01:47:45.060
Is that OK?

01:47:47.980 --> 01:47:49.540
What what did he repent of?

01:47:50.900 --> 01:47:53.660
I mean, what are these people repenting of?

01:47:53.660 --> 01:47:56.940
We don't see any example of people repenting of their sins to get saved.

01:47:56.940 --> 01:47:58.340
Now, I'm not saying no one did.

01:47:58.340 --> 01:48:00.020
I'm not saying some people didn't get right.

01:48:00.020 --> 01:48:04.980
I'm not saying that some genuine conversions don't also couple someone turning their life

01:48:04.980 --> 01:48:06.460
over and making a big change.

01:48:06.460 --> 01:48:07.740
I hope that they do.

01:48:07.780 --> 01:48:08.900
But let me tell you something.

01:48:08.900 --> 01:48:14.180
Salvation is a free gift by faith and soul winning is the only way someone gets saved.

01:48:14.180 --> 01:48:15.580
And it's always going to be quick.

01:48:15.580 --> 01:48:17.220
And it's always going to be a quick prayer.

01:48:17.220 --> 01:48:20.140
I don't believe anybody that prayed a long prayer got saved.

01:48:21.180 --> 01:48:25.740
If someone had to pray a 30 or 45 minute prayer to get saved, they probably didn't have the

01:48:25.740 --> 01:48:30.380
right gospel because they thought they had to repent of every single one of their sins.

01:48:30.380 --> 01:48:33.060
So like when I was seven, I stole a toothbrush.

01:48:33.060 --> 01:48:35.540
And when I was eight, I hit my brother in the face.

01:48:35.540 --> 01:48:37.380
And when I was nine, I did this.

01:48:37.380 --> 01:48:39.500
And please forgive me of all my sins.

01:48:39.500 --> 01:48:43.020
It's like that you didn't get saved because it wasn't repenting of your sins.

01:48:43.020 --> 01:48:44.060
It was believing in Jesus.

01:48:44.060 --> 01:48:45.060
It saved you anyways.

01:48:46.220 --> 01:48:48.420
How long does that take like that?

01:48:49.500 --> 01:48:50.900
Stacey Shipplett's a liar.

01:48:52.340 --> 01:48:55.020
And you know what? He's trying to cut down the real fruit trees.

01:48:56.380 --> 01:49:00.860
He's wicked. And, you know, we shouldn't we shouldn't be afraid to call those kind of

01:49:00.860 --> 01:49:05.180
people out. Someone that's within range, someone that's attacking soul winning.

01:49:05.420 --> 01:49:07.340
This guy is cutting down the fruit trees.

01:49:07.340 --> 01:49:12.020
You know, we should go after them hard because that is not going to win us the battle.

01:49:13.340 --> 01:49:15.940
And, you know, again, we shouldn't cut down the fruit trees.

01:49:15.940 --> 01:49:17.460
We shouldn't want to destroy fruit trees.

01:49:17.460 --> 01:49:23.300
And there's churches that are soul winning that, you know, attack me or say evil things

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or do stupid things. You know, my prayer is always like, well, God, I pray that you would

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still just, you know, help them to get right or, you know, do whatever is necessary to

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get them on the right, you know, pace again or whatever.

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But I'm telling you, these guys preach a false gospel.

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I'm like, God, just destroy it right now.

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Burn it to the ground.

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Get rid of them. Wipe them out.

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It's a different kind of prayer.

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There's a prayer that you're calling to repentance and there's a prayer to destruction.

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And let me tell you something.

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I'm praying for destruction for people like Stacey Shipplett, their churches.

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You know, other churches that are just frenemies, you know, it's like, hey, I hope they

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just get right. I hope that the Lord can turn them around.

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I'll still call them out.

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Well, hey, you need to get this right.

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But at the end of the day, like, hey, you know, it's all about the fruit.

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That's what we should be about.

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Should be about the fruit, because without the fruit, it's meaningless anyways.

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We're not going to really last.

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We got to fight the Lord's battles.

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You know, we shouldn't be afraid of death.

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We shouldn't be afraid of these things.

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We need some men that are just not afraid.

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You want to be part of Stavis Baptist Church?

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Stop being afraid.

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Skid all in to the things of God and become a disciple.

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Let's go to prayer.

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Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for the example that you've given us through your

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son, through his sacrifice.

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Thank you for your willingness to sacrifice your son for us, the love that you have for

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us. I pray that we would have a deep appreciation for the things that you've done

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for us and the example that you set, that we too would count the cost that we too could

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be willing to lay down our lives to be disciple.

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I pray that you would help us to get an earnest zeal for the lost, for those that are

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dying, for those that are perishing, that we would want them to be saved, that we would

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be willing to lay down whatever is getting in the way of us getting them saved.

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I pray that we wouldn't be faint hearted, that we're willing to call people out, that

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we're willing to chop down the non-fruit bearing trees, that we're willing to go to

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the battle. And we know that you would always give us the victory because we're on your

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side. Jesus, let me pray.

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Amen.

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All right, for our last song, let's go to song number 244.

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Song number 244,

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Amazing Grace, song 244.

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Let's all sing that out together.

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Once was lost, but now am found.

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Was blind, but now I see.

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Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

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And grace my fears be he.

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How precious did that grace appear,

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The hour I first believed.

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Through many dangers, foils, and spares,

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I have already come.

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Tis grace that taught me, save the score,

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And grace will be me own.

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When within years and thousand years,

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Christ shining at the sun,

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We've no less days to sing our praise,

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Than when we first begun.

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Great singing, everybody. You were all dismissed.